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Solaria- Another chapter.
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Rising Stars
Disclaimer: don't own any of the HP character and never will.
It was still dark outside when James opened his eyes the next morning. James lay there for a moment just relaxing in the early morning.
A slight rustling in the space to the right of his bed let him know that he wasn't the only one in the dorm that was awake. Opening his curtain James rolled out of bed to see who it was.
At a glance James didn't see anyone but a shift in the light drew his attention to the window sill. Sitting there starting out into the empty Hogwarts grounds was Sirius.
"Hey."
Startled Sirius turned quickly almost falling off the sill. Catching himself he stared at James.
"What are you doing up?"
"I should ask the same of you. After all you were up before me." James walked over to sit on the floor under the sill and propped up his elbow on it.
"I was enjoying my last night of living."
"Huh?" James looked up at him questionably.
"I'm a Gryffindor."
"I thought that was what you wanted to be?"
"It was… it is. But my mother's going to kill me."
"How would she know now?"
"My dear cousin Bella. I bet you she owled my mother the second she got out of the Great Hall."
"Well, there's nothing you can do about it now." James got up and stretched before walking over and opening his trunk. "Now find that Gryffindor bravery that got you here and come over here and help me. We have to find all the stuff for the prank today."
The rest of the dorm was awoken an hour later to a loud explosion and loud laughter.
"What in the world?" James looked up to see Remus poking his head out of his bed hangings.
"Don't' look at me. It's this prats fault." James exclaimed pointing at Sirius who had wandered over to his trunk.
"What are you doing?" The other two boys asked watching Sirius pull practically everything out of his trunk and piled it around him.
"You'll see soon enough." Sirius said mysteriously. "Ah hah. Got it." He pulled a dark package out of his trunk and wrapped it up in a spare cloak. "Are you two coming?"
"Give us a minute to get changed."
"Where are you three rushing off too?" Aaron yawned from the bed on the left of the door.
"Of you'll see." Sirius swept out of the room dramatically.
James and Remus looked at each other before James went to the door to call to the dark boy. "Hey are you planning to go to class without you books and in your night clothes?"
Dumbledore was always used to being the 1st one to enter the Great Hall in the morning, especially on the 1st day of classes. Dumbledore loved to watch the students wander in. The little 1st years being herded in groups by the upperclassmen. The other students greeting their friends and sitting down to eat and finish off their last minute summer homework.
But this morning was different than others. Dumbledore enter the hall to an unusual sight. The normally empty hall actually had an occupant. Not just one person either, three in fact.
Dumbledore just stood in the doorway and blinked. Shaking off the shock the headmaster walked into the hall and stopped by the three students.
As he got closer he recognized two of the three students. The one with the light brown hair was Remus Lupin, the poor boy. The other two looked remarkably similar but the one closer to the door was unmistakably that rogue Black boy, Sirius.
"Well you boys are up early." The heads of the three boys jerked up startled.
"Oh, Headmaster, we were just so excited that we all woke up early. So we decided to come down."
"Yes, we were hoping for an early breakfast."
"James remembered the way down here."
James Potter. That was who the final boy was. Dumbledore could see his relation to William Potter now. As a student he accidentally turned his desk into a pig. Dumbledore chucked at the memory.
"You have an impressive memory Mr. Potter. Even a few of the upperclassmen have slight problems finding their way though these halls."
"Thank you but was also had some help from a portrait somewhere around the 4th floor."
"One of the stairs shifted." Sirius imputed.
"Yes, they have a tendency to do that."
At that moment the doors opened to let in a group of Ravenclaws.
"Well my boys have a good day."
"You too Headmaster." The three boys chorused after him.
The three boys glanced at each other and turned back to their breakfasts.
James looked up again as the doors to the Great Hall opened once again. Looking around at the four house tables he turned to Sirius and Remus.
"Okay nearly everyone's here. There's only one or two seats left at every table."
"Close enough." Remus took out his wand and pointed it at a glass at the end of the Ravenclaw table. James copied his action bout pointed it at the end of Gryffindor. Sirius reached down to pick up the package he had wrapped in his spare robe. As one James and Remus whispered a spell and Sirius unwrapped his package plunging the Hall into pure darkness.
There was two seconds for everyone to take in the shock before a loud explosion and a blast of color drew everyone's attention tot eh front. Everyone in the hall watched in shock as flares of Yellow, Red, Blue, and Green Exploded in front of their respective tables.
All the students watched the light show in awe. They were still staring at where the lights were when the darkness vanished.
After a moment of silence Dumbledore stood up.
"Well that is one way to start off the year with a bang." That earned a laugh from various students around the hall. "Though I must request that no more fireworks be set off inside the building."
"Surely those that were responsible should fess up and be punished." The light haired man at the end of the table call to Dumbledore.
"Oh, Clune. There was no harm done." Dumbledore turned his eye onto three specific boys at the Gryffindor table.
When James caught the Headmaster's eyes he put on his most innocent face.
Now I believe you all have classes to get to. Off you all go.
James and Remus got up with the rest of the student body. Sirius ducked under the table to join the other two boys. Throwing his arms around them he grinned.
"That was brilliant. Now what should we do next?"
"We have Transfiguration." Remus pointed to the schedule they got.
"No. I mean prankwise."
"Quite I think Dumbledore's on to us."
"That doesn't mean anything."
"He's not dumb. We were the only ones here to set it up."
"Come on, you two can't be afraid of detention."
"No, but I'd rather not be expelled anytime soon." James replied rolling his eyes.
"Oh." Sirius fell silent and followed James and Remus into the Tranfiguration classroom. Taking the last three seats at the far right of the classroom in the center row.
James took his seat between the other two and turned to pay attention to the class.
As soon as the bell rung for class to start the front door flung open to revel the frantic Transfiguration teacher.
"Hello students. Sorry I'm late. I was making final adjustments to the syllabus. My name is Professor Matlark. As you may or may not know I'm here to take over for Professor Dumbledore. So I guess that would make us both new."
Shifting through his mass of papers he pulled out a long scroll and proceeded to take attendance. James listened intently as Matlark went through everything they would be going though that year.
At the end of class all the first year Gryffindors exited talking excitably about what they were going to be able to do that year.
As a large group they all made their way toward the potions lab. James ended up walking next to the red head girl, Lily. Remus was walking slightly behind them discussing with Alyssa about the use of Transfiguration for everyday purposes.
Sirius was walking on the other side of James digging in his bag for something.
The three boys and two girls took seat around the same pod and started to take out their text books and other materials out.
James looked at all the others once he was done getting his things out. Lily had an almost identical kit to him. Sirius's things were all marked with what James assumed to be the Black seal. Turning toward the final two he raised his eyebrow when he noticed their items weren't inlaid with silver as the others were.
Alyssa caught him looking at her things. "My dad couldn't afford silver." She said quickly.
Remus turned and looked at her things. "It's alright. My parent thought it would be a waste of money.
"Well then you can use my scale." Sirius said pushing it closer toward them. "Silver is more accurate than the bronze ones."
James looked at Remus who was closer to Sirius. His eyes had gotten a slightly frightened look to it.
"No, it's alright." Remus responded turning toward Alyssa.
"I insist. That's what friends do." Sirius pushed his scale into Remus's hand. James watched as Remus jumped as if shocked.
"Don't." Remus almost growled,.
"What?" Sirius asked with a questioning look on his face.
"Nothing, just static." Remus said holding his hand under the table. "I'll just use mine. You'll get behind if we have to share scales."
"If you're sure." Sirius pulled his scale back to him.
Done with yet another chapter. Hope you all enjoyed it.
If any of you are wondering this fic will follow what we knew from cannon until the 6th book. It may include some HBP but probably not a lot because I had the basic story for this fic in my head before it came out.
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Yah. Yah. I'm tired too. Thanks to everyone who reviewed. Stay tunned for the next chapter…
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