A/N: Happy 17th Birthday, James!

January 11, 2021

"Hurry up, James! You're taking longer than Victoire!" Teddy called from downstairs.

"He needs to make himself pretty for the ladies," sniggered Fred.

Upstairs, in his room, James rolled his eyes as he buttoned up his shirt. It was his seventeenth birthday and he was finally of age, as Fred had continuously complained. His three older cousins, Teddy, Louis and Fred had agreed to take him out for the first time and James was excited to say the least. Being seventeen made him feel invincible; he no longer had the trace on him, he was finally able to drink at pubs and he was recognised throughout the wizarding world as an adult. It exhilarated him.

He casually looked himself over in the mirror, and ran a hand through his messy black hair, making it stick up even more at the back, before giving himself a wink and heading downstairs, where his cousins were waiting for him. All three of them had smirks plastered on their faces and Teddy put him in a headlock as soon as he arrived and ruffled his hair.

"I thought he'd never come down," Louis grinned wickedly.

"Ow... gerroff me... Ted..." James protested.

"Aw, is your he ruining your hair, Jamie?" Fred teased in a high pitched voice, earning him a punch in the shoulder. Teddy eventually freed him and James straightened up and glared at him.

"Watch it, Lupin," he threatened half-heartedly. "I'm of age now, I can legally curse your eyebrows off."

Teddy cackled. "You'd really curse an Auror? Merlin, adulthood has made you even more of a prat than normal."

"Auror, or not, I can still take you in a fight," James challenged

"That was one time!" Teddy defended. "And Lily was restraining me."

Fred snickered and whispered in Louis' ear, "The only way he can win a fight, is if he gets help from his kid sister."

James turned on Fred, when Teddy put an arm on his shoulder and grinned at Fred. "Alright, that's enough. Leave him alone. It is his birthday, after all."

Puffing up his chest proudly, James ran a hand through his hair in an attempt to fix it. "Yes, it is. Now, are you prats going to take me out or what?"

Teddy gave a dramatic sigh and shook his head, already dreading the night ahead. He couldn't believe he got roped into taking two seventeen year olds and one eighteen year old to the Leaky Cauldron without some form of backup. He spared a look at Louis, who grinned mischievously and shook his head.

"Alright, you lot," Teddy began with a laugh. "Let's go show James how to have a good time."

A/N: I'm not sure if this fits in with when the students return to Hogwarts after Christmas, but I just had to write this scene! I just had to! Please read and review! xx