"so," Sirius said nonchalantly "you guys like quidditch?" he was trying to break the silence. He hated silence.
James' attention snapped to Sirius. "Yeah!" he said grinning. It was his whole life. "You like the Chudley Canons?"
"Of course the rest of the England teams are rubbish," he replied without thinking "though the wasps' new beater is pretty good, I think his name is Bagman.
"Oh yeah, bagman. An old family friend," James said thinking about the other day; when Bagman had been over for dinner and he and James started a food fight.
"Wow you really know him!" Sirius yelled as the train started moving. "My family has never let me meet anyone who's not pureblood."
"I like quiddich to," peter said trying to make friends. James and Sirius glared at him he had interrupted there heated discussion.
There was a small cough from the corner of the compartment. They all looked at Remus reading a book or at least he had been before the yelling about sports made him snap out of his reading.
"Sorry" they all said a little regretfully realizing how loud they had been.
"Your excused, just keep the noise down."
Another silence had fallen over them. "So you see that redhead who walked by before?" Sirius asked trying to make some judgments.
"Yeah," James said in what he hoped was a bored voice.
"Be fun to pull some pranks on her, eh?"
"yeah defiantly, What did you have in mind?" James asked mildly.
"well my cousin Andromeda was showing me this one spell, You see you make something fly and it's really easy; what if we levitated her bed in a few days," he proposed excitedly.
"Awesome!" James and peter exclaimed.
And so they began to plot this prank and others quiet little Remus still in his book
The train came to a halt. The four boys took there belongings and got off the train. A course voice was yelling "Firs' Years, this way firs' years!" they turned to see what must have been the biggest man ever. He was more than a story tall and had long shaggy hair and a long shaggy beard. The big man led about 40 first years to about 12 row boats. "Four to a boat, no more"
The four boys sat down in the nearest boat. After all the students sat down (some looking for oars) the boats magically set off.
As the boats rounded a corner the big man yelled "And after this turn y'll get y'r firs' look a' 'ogwarts. They waited impatiently for the boats to turn. At last the saw a huge beautiful castle with many towers and lighted windows.
All that James could think was 'this is my new home'.