James before Harry

(Disclaimer: If I owned any of these characters then I can assure you people would not know about them. These belong to the brilliant mind of Joan Kathleen Rowling.)

(Authors note: my first fic. Please review with constructive criticism. Thank you for reading : )

James Potter ran thru the wall after his parents. He had been waiting for today for 11 years.

Hogwarts: Where boys become men, where people make best friends and Fall in love.

All his life he had listened to his parents stories. He had imagined what people he would meet. He asked himself questions: where will they come from, will they like me, will they be like me.

This day was all he wanted for all those years.

He wanted to make friends. He wanted to have fun.

"Now James, we need to talk," his mother said in her most worried tone. "your father and I love you and we'll miss you. Write us twice a week and don't forget to do your homework."

James rolled his eyes he should have known.

"and remember we'll be proud of you whatever house your in," she began to cry.

"Son," his father said gruffly (he was very emotional. James hoped he wouldn't cry.) "I've got a little present for you" he said taking a brown paper package out of his pocket. "Should be useful."

James wondered what it was. He began to open it. Inside was a silver cloak. He wondered what it was. He examined it and to his great surprise his right hand disappeared. He yelled. Then it dawned on him. He gasped "it's an invisibility cloak."

"Yup, it's been passed down in the generations for 200 years," he said proudly.

James couldn't wait to try it out. Oh the pranks he could pull. He hugged his parents. He would miss them. "Goodbye, I have to get a seat, the train's leaving in 5 minutes," he hugged the one more time. He walked towards the train and waved back.

Most of the compartments were already full but he found one with only a pudgy boy about his own age near the front. He asked "hey can I sit here?"

The boy in a mousy voice replied "sure,"

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Peter Pettigrew walked to the barrier for platform 9 ¾. He tried to be calm but looked like he was about to throw up.

To his surprise he walked straight into the wall. "Ow!" he yelled.

He looked up and scolded himself mentally. This was barrier 8 and 9 not 9 and 10. He walked thru the correct barrier and found himself looking at a scarlet steam engine.

His parents were on a business trip 9they worked for the ministry). They were talking to the small wizarding community a few miles off the coast of Bermuda (to muggles it looked like a trash dump.)

They had said goodbye to him before and shown him how to call the night bus to take him to Hogwarts.

He looked timidly at the huge steam engine before him. He climbed into the train and found an empty compartment near the front.

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Remus Lupin just stood on the platform in awe. He had thought since he was 7 that this day wouldn't come.

He was going to school.

Last month when his letter came he couldn't understand. Dumbledore had written a letter to his father saying that "special arrangements had been made" to accommodate him and that "other students need not know".

He hoped that the special arrangements were a little better than the concrete basement at home.

After a while he heard a scream, waking up from his trance he climbed aboard. He searched for an empty compartment but couldn't find one. He found one near the front with a rather fat boy and a boy with jet black hair and glasses. Maybe they would accept him.

"Um, can I … sit hear?"

"Sure" the boy with black hair said.

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Sirius Black stood there. On the train, Finally away from his parents.

His family was evil. All he wanted was to be shunned from his family so he would know he wasn't like them.

He looked for some people that his parents would probably hate. He wasn't disappointed. Close to the front he found a compartment full of what his parents would call "mudbloods and blood traitors," he smiled.

"Could I sit here?"

"Sure" a boy with dark hair and glasses said shrugging.

"I'm Sirius Black"

"Peter Pettigrew"

"Remus Lupin"

"James Potter, this is going to be a great seven years, eh"

Everyone smiled and nodded.

James casually looked thru the door's window. His jaw dropped a girl about there age walked by. She had the reddest hair he had ever seen. She turned her head. Wow! Those eyes! They were like beautiful almond shaped emeralds that shined in the sunlight that was glistening through the windows.

It was love at first sight.

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