Chapter Two:
"Is that enough for you?" Nicole asked her son.
"Mommy, what about Hogwarts? I want to know everything!" Jimmy yelled.
"Fine, then you can help me with my chores, and I'll tell you the story," Nicole improvised.
"That's not fair!" Jimmy yelled, but agreed to it in the end.
"Let's get going then."
A young James was running around King's Cross Station. He had been separated from his mother, not that he really cared. He and his best friend Sirius were having plenty of fun with their game of tag.
"You'll never get me!" James yelled as he looked over his shoulder to see Sirius catching up to him. While James was looking behind him he had ran right into this elderly woman.
"Watch where you're going you little brat!" she scolded him.
"Sorry Ma'am," James said and started walking away when the woman began to talk again.
"Where are you parents?"
"Well my dad is at The Ministry of Magic, and I'm not sure where my mom is. Maybe she's already at Platform 9 ¾," James rambled on.
"Ministry of Magic? Platform 9 ¾? How much TV do you watch young man?" The woman questioned.
"What's a TV?" James asked.
"A child that doesn't know what a TV is? I've never heard of such a thing!" The woman fussed.
"A grown up that never heard of The Ministry of Magic? I'VE never heard of such a thing," James said.
"James?" Sirius called. He soon spotted his friend talking to an elderly woman.
"James! Over here mate!" Sirius yelled once more.
"Well I have to go, my friend is waiting," James said and began to walk away once more.
"Wait a minute, you're not going anywhere until we find your parents," the woman said.
"But-but!"
"But nothing, no child should wander around by themselves," the woman said, and grabbed James by the arm and pulled him along.
"But- but," James tried again.
"Let's go see the ticket officer," the lady said and pulled James over to a booth.
"Excuse me, but I found this child wandering by himself," the woman said to the man standing there.
"How old do you think I am? Four?" James said angrily.
"Shush," the woman said.
"Excuse me," a voice said behind him. James turned around to see not his mother, but a girl whom he didn't know.
"Excuse me," the girl said, she looked quite young, with her golden blonde hair.
"Yes," the woman turned around to face the stranger.
"I'm this boy's mother," the stranger said.
"You have to be kidding, you don't look much older than the boy," the woman said.
"Well, what can I say, I had him when I was young, and I have kept myself healthy. So if you would kindly release my child, I would be very grateful," the stranger finished.
The woman just stood there in shock as the young girl motioned for James to follow her.
"Come along sweetie. Why did you run off like that?" the girl lectured James, but he could see a smile on her face.
"Ma'am, you might want to watch how much TV that child watches!" the woman once she snapped out of her daze.
"I would if I knew what a TV was," the girl mumbled.
Once they were out of earshot, the girl said, "Hello, I'm Andromeda, Sirius's cousin. And NO I am nothing like my family either."
"Uh, Hello," James replied dumbly.
"How stupid can you get? Getting taken captive by some old hag?" Sirius asked his friend.
"I didn't mean to," James said. Normally it was the other way around, James scolding Sirius.
Andromeda, used to her cousin, just took the boys to the Platform, and let them free.
"You be good now, ya hear?" she said and walked away with a boy they didn't know.
"Let's see," James said as he and Sirius walked around the platform.
"There she is, talking to Mrs. Rocks," Sirius said pointing to two women, both of whom were pretty wrapped up in their conversation.
"Let' get this over with, I can't wait to see what kind of trouble we can cause at Hogwarts!" James said.
"Come on Felicia, let's check this one," Lily Evans said. She and her best friend were looking for a compartment aboard the Hogwarts Express.
"There's only a boy in here. Come on," Felicia answered and dragged Lily inside.
"Hello, I'm Felicia Rocks, and this is Lily Evans, can we sit with you?" Felicia said really quickly.
"Uh, sure," the boy said not really caring. He had grayish eyes, almost like a wolf's, and light brown hair. Normally, he would have been very attractive, had it not been for his pale, thin face. He looked as if he had been sick for quite a while, and hadn't slept in days.
"I'm Remus Lupin," the boy said shakily.
"Oh, hello," Felicia said, and began talking rapidly to Lily.
"Hey, Remus, do you know those two?" Felicia said pointing to a couple of boys, who were jumping up and down and looked as if they were singing. But, because the window was closed, they couldn't hear if they were.
Remus cautiously looked out the window, and to his horror, he did know them. He would recognize those two anywhere. James, with his unruly black hair, and Sirius with that ridiculous grin.
"No, I've never seen them before," he finally answered. But just at that moment, Felicia had opened the window, and yelled out, "What are you two doing?"
"Oh, hello, we haven't met, but I'm Sirius Black, and this is my friend James," The one with a goofy smile said.
"Remus! How nice to see you Ole Chap!" The one called "James" said.
"I thought you didn't know them," Lily said with a laugh.
"I tried," Remus mumbled glumly shaking his head.
"Remus Buddy! Can we join you?" Sirius yelled. It had begun to rain, and they were getting wet.
"N-" Remus started but Felicia had already said, "Sure! Hurry up!"
"Oh great. I sure hope you know what you're getting yourself into," Remus warned.
"They can't be that ba-" she had spoken too soon. The two boys opened the door and ran in, hastily closing the door behind him.
"Do I even want to know?" Lily asked looking at the smirks on the two boys' faces.
"No," James replied and took a seat, Sirius following suit.
'These are going to be a long seven years,' Lily thought to herself as the two boys began to plot something dreadful.
"Hey do you see those weird horse things?" James asked. He, Sirius and Remus had just gotten off the train and were looking at the carriages that take second year and up up to the castle.
"What horse things? " Remus asked.
"Carriages pulled by nothing how cool!" Sirius said.
"But their not pulled by nothing, there's weird horses there don't you see 'em?" James asked again.
"No," said Remus sounding very concerned.
"Hey, if he sees horses I believe him!" Sirius yelled, "If they're really there, go ride one."
"Fine I will!" James said and walked over to a carriage, careful not to be seen by anyone, and touched the hose. It looked at him with its cold eyes, and growled at him.
James ran away screaming. Sirius and Remus thought he had completely lost it and laughed hysterically.
"What was that about?" Lily asked.
"Uh, Well," James started, but was cut off by Sirius.
"Well, We told him to ride his "imaginary" horses, and he got scared and ran away."
"Are you serious?" Felicia asked having little fits of laughter.
"Of course I'm Sirius who else would I be?" Sirius asked stupidly.
"Haha, Now, let's go get into a boat before they leave without us!" Lily suggested.
"Oh no! We're too late!"