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Chapter 4

After receiving his Hogwarts letter, James was extremely excited and restless. He wanted to go to Diagon Alley to buy his things straight away but his mum was making him wait until the weekend AFTER next! He wanted to read all the necessary books so he could be better than everyone else.

He had only three weeks left of the summer holiday and had decided that he needed to do something, but what? He went to find Sirius, which wasn't hard as he was screaming his head off.

"Hey Sirius, do you want to go exploring?" he asked his friend who was poking bugs with sticks, mature or what!

Sirius looked up and replied, "yeah ok, I was getting bored of this anyway and we STILL haven't found that secret den that your parents are always on about!" And with that they set off straight away.

Not long after they left James' house Sirius began to feel bored and started to wish he had brought his stick so he could poke more bugs. James was looking the other way so Sirius ran into the trees to hide. He peered around a tree and saw (as well as heard) James looking for him.

"Sirius, Sirius? Where are you? Sirius please come out!" Sirius laughed silently and decided to wait a little while longer before coming out.

He stepped backwards to get a better view of where James was going. Suddenly he fell into a hole in the base of the tree.

"AGHHHHHHH!" Sirius yelled as he fell downwards.

"Sirius? Where are you? Are you ok? What happened?" asked James in quick succession trying to follow the screams.

"HELP JAMES! I'M IN A HOLE IN A TREE! PLEASE HELP ME!"

"Which tree? Where?" James asked whilst he frantically searched for his best friend.

"James! Follow my voice!" Sirius shouted as he rightened himself in the shadowy hole. He looked around and saw…nothing. 'What am I going to do if James can't find me?' he thought 'I won't be able to go to Hogwarts and I'll miss out on all the fun!' He quickly banished these thoughts from his head.

"Sirius, if you're not saying anything how am I meant to follow your voice? Shout or sing or something!" James yelled.

"Ok James, I'm down a hole, not deaf no need to shout. Um..THE HILLS ARE ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC!"

"Nice Siri, great song!" James muttered sarcastically as he looked around. He looked for a tree with a hole in the base. Unfortunately for James there were lots of trees with holes in the base. He had to find him, life without Sirius would be awful, Sirius was like a brother to him.

"Oh Sirius! Where are you?" he asked desperately.

"James! James! Over here!" Sirius yelled. James located where the cries were coming from and immediately rushed over to the tree and saw the hole and shouted, "Sirius! Are you in this tree?"

"Again! I am in a hole! Not deaf! And YES I AM IN THIS TREE!!!" Sirius shouted back. James looked around for something to help him retrieve Sirius from the pitch black hole. He saw some vines lying on the ground and threw them down, "Grab hold of this!" he shouted.

Sirius did as he was told whilst James, with all the strength he could muster, tied the vines to a root and hauled Sirius out of the hole.

Minutes later, although it felt like hours, Sirius had returned back to daylight and James was looking at him to see if he was hurt at all. Seeing James was looking Sirius looked up and said, "Thanks James, I don't know what I would do without you!"

James smiled and breathed a sigh of relief. For a moment there he had been scared that he had lost his bestest friend in the whole wide world.

They strolled up to Mulberry Cottage where Gemini was waiting for them.

"Find the den?" Edward Potter asked.

"Sirius fell in a hole!" laughed James.

"A hole hey? Not the hole by the big oak tree?" James' dad asked.

"Yes, that's the one! Why?" Sirius asked confused.

"HEY! SHIRLEY! THE BOYS FOUND THE DEN!"

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