Author's Note: Chapter 2 coming right at you! And James has already made two friends, I mean come on! It's only the second chapter! btw all characters, etc, belong to JK Rowling! I am not writing to make a profit or anything! I don't wanna be sued !

Chapter 2: Voldemort

Both Sirius and Peter had agreed to see James off and also hang around Leaky Cauldron. Before getting there though, they all agreed that they'd take a few detours. Their first and 'minor' stop they decided to take was to Florean Fortescue's Ice-Cream Parlour.

"Do you have a favorite Quidditch team?" said James reaching over the counter for his ice cream. "Vratsa Vultures are always great to watch!"

"Bulgaria, huh?" Sirius smirked, "I agree, they're really good to watch."

Peter seemed to enjoy just listening in on the conversation, but whenever he was asked to speak he would just say 'I don't know' so they quite asking him very many questions. At certain times Peter would gasps with delight whenever either James or Sirius said or did something quite spectacular. The two seemed to have quite a bit in common, they both liked to make trouble, they were both brave, they both enjoyed Quidditch, and it seemed like they wanted to impress others.

At one point James and Sirius decided to play several small and minor tricks on inanimate objects in the store Apothecary, the place where you could buy potions ingredients. They ended up being chased out of the store by the owner for accidentally setting fire to one of the ingredients. A number of kids their age who saw what had happened found it rather funny, and the trio laughed along with them.

By the time they had reached Leaky Cauldron their clothes were all distinctly messed up and each of them had their share of charcoal smudges all over their faces. Several passing people stared, pointed, laughed, and even avoided crossing near them, but they didn't mind at all. They were having the time of their lives and they weren't going to let anyone ruin it for them, everyone except for James's mother, Mrs. Potter.

"James!" she said in surprised, "What happened to you? Oh and who are these two?"

"Uh… Hi mum. This is Peter Pettigrew and Sirius Black, I met them while in Diagon Alley." James said rumpling his hair as usual.

"It's nice to meet the both of you. You didn't happen meet up with anyone dangerous did you?" She asked him, her face up in worry.

"If my cousin, Bellatrix, counts then yes."

Mrs. Potter gave a sigh of relief. She was obviously worried about her son, and James was beginning to feel rather embarrassed.

"Well, you seem to be perfectly fine here. I'll go on ahead first so that you three can say your good byes. James you don't mind traveling by floo powder again do you, dear?" Mrs. Potter said nicely to them, ignoring the blunt expression on James's face. She then turned to Sirius and Peter, "I guess I'll see you two at King's Cross. Oh, and James, I've already brought all your things home so you don't need to worry about them!"

She pulled out her wand; waved it a bit and the three-charcoaled faces were cleaned away, and with a loud crack she had disappeared from sight. Peter's mouth remained hanging and he stared at the place where Mrs. Potter had just disappeared. Sirius and James had once again engaged themselves in another conversion.

"Your mum really cares about yah, mate." Sirius said smiling, "I wish I had a mother like that."

"You're mother is just as cool as you are James!" it was the first thing Peter had said in a while, and it startled both Sirius and James to hear his voice again. Peter had a sort of twinkle in his eye when he smiled at Sirius, but when James met eyes with Peter, that painful emptiness in his heart crawled back.

"Um… James?" said Peter looking quite worried and distressed

"You look quite pale." Sirius said taking a closer look at him. James sighed heavily and shook his head. Why did that feeling come back to him again? He tried all this time to forget about it, but it still continued to haunt him.

"It—It's nothing, honest." James lied shuffling his feet. Obviously the two didn't believe a word he said since they were still looking at him with great worry. "Believe me, I just got a chill. It's nothing serious."

BEEP BEEP BEEP. Peter blinked and others stared at him. It was completely obvious that the sound was coming from him since there was a flashing light on his shirt that went along with beeping noise. Sirius tried to keep from laughing while James pretended to be inspecting his wand. Peter flushed.

"It's my mum." Said Peter trying to cover the blinking light. "I—I have to get going."

"Alright." Sirius said giving a charming smile, which made a group of girls nearby squeal with delight. "See you on the train."

Peter smiled, waved to the both of them, and walked away. Sirius looked away from Peter to see James staring at him with absolute amazement. Sirius was quite surprised by this and nearly fell over.

"Y—yes?"

"How do you do that?" James asked him, his eyes gleaming.

"Do what?"

Sirius apparently had no clue what he had just done, and he cocked his left eyebrow up. James, on the other hand, crossed his arms.

"How do you make them squeal like that?" James said again his eyes narrowing in suspicion. James knew there had to be some kind of secret to it, there just had to be! James had never seen girls swoon like that before in his life! Was it because he looked so mature? Was it Sirius's hair? His eyes? Clothes?

"You mean… those group of girl over there?" Sirius said pointing to them, once again making them squeal.

James was left without anything to say; he just continued to stare in awe at how good Sirius was with this kind of predicament. He wasn't even trying! James glanced back at the group of girls who were now talking amongst themselves and giggling like crazy. You would have thought that they were on something by the way they jumped up and down, squealed, and clapped their hands.

"Don't mind them." Sirius sighed.

"How can I not?" James replied looking at girls one by one.

Sirius shrugged his shoulders.

"Hey Sirius, you wanna come over my house? I'd love to show you my Quidditch collection!" James said tearing his eyes away from the ladies.

"I'd like that." Sirius nodded, "Anywhere if it gets me away from home."

James cocked his head in a puzzled manner, but Sirius shook his hands in a motion to forget about it. James took his word for it and they left Leaky Cauldron to set off for James's house.

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For the last week of August Sirius and James spent most of their days together, either at the Potter residence or Diagon Alley. The Potters welcomed Sirius quite well the first time he came and he fit in quite well since he would come and stop by for lunch every day that week. Mrs. Potter asked him if his parents minded him coming over so often, but Sirius merely smiled at her and said, "Don't worry about my parents, they're fine."

On the last day, August 31st, Sirius brought all of his stuff that he need for Hogwarts and spent the night there. James and Sirius were becoming extremely great friends with one another and everyone who saw them together could tell, always laughing, playing pranks, wasting there time at the Quidditch shop, and often times reading books at the house.

"Hear this James!" Sirius exclaimed reading through the book Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander, "A werewolf turns into a murderous beast every full moon! It would be exciting to meet one don't ya think?"

"Exciting, but we'd probably be running for our lives!" James laughed. "I think fighting a dragon would be more exciting."

"Which kind? They have…ten different species of dragon." Sirius said looking through it, "Knowing you, mate, you'd probably go for the Hungarian Horntail and say 'Come and get me!' am I right?"

"You know me all too well."

They continued to look through their schoolbooks when Mrs. Potter rushed in. Both Sirius and James were quite startled by this and they rammed their heads into one another. When they looked at her, Mrs. Potter was as pale as snow.

"Hey… mum, you alright?" James asked walking over to her, still rubbing his head. "You look horrible!"

"Stay inside today, both of you." Mrs. Potter panted, "I'm so glad you didn't go to Diagon Alley yet."

"Why, did something happen?" Sirius asked his voice seeming quite concerned.

"There's been another attack," she began, her face in pure horror, "fifteen muggles were found near Leaky Cauldron, dead."

"Fifteen!?" James yelled out, "Did they find who did it?"

"My parents were talking about him yesterday, they called him Voldemort." Sirius told them.

"Voldemort?" James repeated. "Where does that ring a bell?"

"You two don't go saying his name out in the open, understand?" Mrs. Potter exclaimed, "I'm quite sure many people are frightened right now! If you go out there saying it like you do now, people would want to avoid you for sure!"

James and Sirius looked at each other. Who ever this mystery man was, he was causing much havoc and chaos in the Wizarding World as well as the Muggle World. Mrs. Potter left the room silently leaving the boys to wonder; even so, they didn't feel like talking about it. They had a lot on their minds, but James felt as though something extremely heavy had dropped on to his heart. Why was it that this Voldemort character made him feel scared and almost frightened of his name? James didn't want to be afraid of a name like this, nor did he want to tell Sirius about his feeling. He decided to keep it to himself.

The rest of the day went on quite smoothly, James and Sirius continued to look through books and by the end of it all, they had read every single book on their first year list except for A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot on which they refused to read. After reading pretty much all day, they decided to take a short break.

"At least we won't have to read these books while were at school." Sirius said before gulping down a glass of pumpkin juice. "It would be a disaster to have so much homework and having to read through them all."

James nodded and drank his glass.

"Hey Sirius…" James said looking down at his feet, "How much do you know about Voldemort?"

Sirius nearly choked on the glass of pumpkin juice and James had to grab a few tissues before he could continue.

"All I know is that he's a dark wizard who wants to destroy all muggle-borns, half-bloods, and muggles." Sirius said wiping his mouth, "I think it's a bogus plan though. You can't exactly kill off all the muggles."

"Yeah, that's true. Without muggles we would have died out." James added. He looked up at Sirius, his face rather serious and he seemed to be debating weather to say it or not. He swallowed, took a deep breath, and said, "You haven't really said much about your family, do you think I could meet them some time?"

"No. I don't think you can, you wouldn't like them anyway."

James looked up at Sirius with wonder; he didn't understand what Sirius was telling him. Surely his family wasn't that bad, what it? Sirius sighed and poured himself another glass of pumpkin juice.

"My mum and dad think that Voldemort's right, and they both favor my younger brother Regulas over me." Sirius said in a low voice. "They all think that Voldemort is doing the right thing. It's absurd!"

James didn't have enough courage to look Sirius straight in the face, and he looked out the window. The room became quite tense and silent after that, they just sat there drinking their pumpkin juice and thinking to themselves. It continued on like this until supper was served to them and all their worries were washed away by the grumble in their stomachs.

By the time supper was over, both James and Sirius had completely forgotten about all that they had talked about previously. Instead, they were now talking about Quidditch once again. The two of them were in James's room looking through papers and books all containing to the topic of Quidditch. It wasn't the only Quidditch related thing in the room, all four walls were covered in Quidditch posters, and it was quite apparent to all that James had a huge obsession with the sport.

"I wish I could get one of them Nimbus broom sticks." James sighed looking at and article in the paper 'The Daily Prophet' that said, "Newest of New!" it featured a rather slick looking broom that was marked 'Nimbus 1001'. Sirius looked over James's shoulder at what James was talking about and smirked, it was the greatest broom to date and every Quidditch fan would give anything to get it!

"Don't drool too much." Sirius said, "The text might smudge."

They both laughed in unison and continued to look through the Prophet. Mr. and Mrs. Potter entered the room while James and Sirius were testing a few small charms and they immediately had to stop. James had to explain to his parents that they weren't doing anything too rash, while Sirius was chuckling under his breath.

"You two should head to bed," Mr. Potter smiled looking at the two boys, "you need to be ready for the train. Remember, it leaves at exactly eleven o'clock!"

James kissed his parents goodnight and they left the room. He and Sirius quickly got changed in their sleepwear and put away all of their things. James then rushed toward the mattress that was set on the floor and lied down. Sirius stared and he seemed to hesitate quite a bit.

"Your not making me sleep on your bed, are you?" Sirius asked looking at James on the floor and the empty bed. "This is your house, not mine. You have a right to the bed!"

James didn't move he just merely snuggled up on the mattress on the ground. Sirius blinked.

"I've been wanting to sleep on the floor." James said cheerfully poking his head out of the blanket. "My mum doesn't want me to, and I've begged her a few times. With you here, I can make up the alibi to my mum. Your not going to take this privilege away from me, are you?"

Sirius laughed. James seemed rather convincing since Sirius jumped onto the bed and pulled the sheets on top of him.

"That was a pile of rubbish you just said, mate!" Sirius exclaimed. "I could tell!"

"Really now? Am I just that bad at acting?" James replied pulling the blanket over his head. "I thought it absolutely was fool proof."

"Unfortunately for you I am not a fool." Sirius said laughing. "G'nite to ya, James, stupid git."

"Yeah, good night."

TO BE CONTINUED

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