and the Dark Mark
By: Jetteamer
Letters
James was sleeping in his bed when John woke him up."Their here!"
"What are you talking about? Get off me!" John was shaking James now.
"I'm talking about our letters. You must have got in. No surprise though. There are two owls. I get my OWL scores."
The only thing John talked about for the entire summer was that he was getting his OWL's, ordinary wizarding levels. After so long it became irritating.
James got out of bed then dressed and went down for breakfast. When he got to the kitchen John was standing at the window with his specter specs on this face, zoomed to the max, he apparently had seen them when they were just ant's in the sky.
"James come look."
John thrust the specter specs into James's hands and sure enough two specs could be seen through them. John apparently let James barrow them just to be kind because a second later he dragged them out of his hands and put them back to his eyes.
James looked on the table. Apparently Jenny had over cooked this meal because there was enough food for two trolls. She had probably made a big meal because John's OWL's were coming and she always made a big meal when his owl came this James already knew. But the breakfast today was much larger.
James sate down and put some eggs and sausages onto his plate, as he sate there eating Damon came and sat down. He looked as surprised as James to see all the food but didn't do anything but fill his plate.
"Owl's coming I suppose?" Damon said in a falsely interested voice.
"Yes I there getting closer. I don't think I failed transfiguration…" John droned on about his different subjects and how he thought that he was going to fail. Then he went into a story about how he was going to not be excepted this year and that the owl was telling him he wouldn't come back this year because of his grades. In the end he screamed. Two owls came into the window. One landed in front of James another in front of John. Not paying any attention to James Owl she swooped over and helped John open his. This was harder then it seemed. James was already reading his by the time John had even opened his.
"When can we go to Diagon-alley Dad" James asked.
"Tomorrow should suit me. How about you Jenny?"
"Yes very fine. WOW. 5 OWL's!"
"Great job what'd you fail John."
"I can't believe it I failed Care of magical creatures! But at least I got an outstanding in Charms."
Jenny was now kissing her son and telling him to sit down and eat. James's book list consisted of the normal standard book of spells grade 1, for DADA, and standard book of potions grade 1 for potions. The Care of Magical Creatures class required Monsters of the Mesopotamia.
Damon apparently noticed James was being left out since he had had a special day too.
"What animal would you like I can get you an owl if you want. Toads went out of style a long time ago." He winked and went back to his eggs.
That day went by with out anything interesting happening besides half way through the day John screamed from his room. Then he ran down stairs.
"I just felt the Prefect badge in my envelope."
James's laughed because he thought John was stupid not to notice a heavy badge in his envelope. Jenny didn't seem to notice this lapse of brain waves and scurried around the table to see John's badge.
Damon came in and when he realized what had happened he whispered in James's ear, "How about we go to Diagon alley today and they can go tomorrow. Huh?"
James's nodded his head anything to get away from John and his precious badge. James went upstairs to retrieve his list, which he put in the back of his dresser with some other possessions. When he went back down the steps John had some polish and was now polishing his badge while Jenny was writing letters to people telling them the good news. When James walked by he notice names on the letters like Aunt's and Uncles of James.
"Ready?" Damon had come back and was waiting for him at the door.
"Yeah"
They walked out after Damon told Jenny were they were going and telling her that James would like to go with John, they said this right in front of John whom didn't notice. There was an odd mist hovering over the garden.
"Some of the Dementors are around now. They joined Vodemort."
"Why don't some people say his name? I saw it in the paper when they had a quote from the Minister."
"Some don't like to hear it because of how much they fear the name. I don't fear him. I think he is a great wizard." After seeing the horrified look on James's face, he added "But he did horrible things with his greatness."
When they got out of the walls around there house Damon Said "Grab onto my arm tightly,"
"Why?" This was a curios command and he wanted to be ready for something strange.
"We will apparate to the leaky Cauldrons."
Apparition was when a wizard disappears from one place and reappears in another. James clasps his dad's arm firmly.
"On the count of three. One... Two... Three…"
Then he was squeezed through a rubber tube. Up a pipe that was way too small for a grown man and a small man. The air sucked out of him. He thought he was about to pass out when thud he hit the hard ground.
James got up and looked around him. His dad hadn't fallen over but looked short of breath like James.
"That felt weird does it always feel that way?"
"Not most of the time when you do it." He said helping James to his feet.
The room around him was dark and eerie. Many wizards were at a bar in the center of the pub. They were drinking things like steaming yellow red whiskey, fire whisky, as James knew because his parents bought some last New Year's Eve. Many wizards were talking at a near by table and in a far corner a cackle of goblins were conversing with a shabby looking wizard.
"Come follow and stick close."
James and Damon walked toward what looked like the back door. Although when they opened it there was a few feet of standing space and then a brick wall. Damon hit a certain brick on the wall and an alley way became visible as the bricks rolled themselves away. Then just a James started getting excited about the bricks moving themselves. There was a whole street of wizarding shops.
"Let's get you a wand first. We can go to Olivanders, that's the best."
James and Damon walked on far a little while then when James looked up he saw a sign that said. Olivanders Wands. They went into the shop, which was cluttered with artifacts. Then there was a rolling sound.
An old man with a long nose that was very pale came sliding into view. He was on a long latter that could be rolled around the man shelf's in his store.
"Ahh Damon nice to see you and this must be James of heard all about you. Now, " He said pulling out a box. " Try this one."
James picked up the wand and turned to his father because he didn't know what to do exactly.
"You're supposed to wave it Potter."
A young boy had come into the shop with out them noticing. This boy was Severus Snape. He was jeering at James and laughing.
"You will what your turn Severus." Snapped Mr. Olivander.
James flicked it and flowers came from the tip.
"Nice one Potter." Severus said.
"I think that wand will do. I think you will be in trouble often at Hogwarts and mark my words you will be a great, great wizard. That want tells me that you have great power and that you will be curios."
Severus gave a laugh and went up to the counter and shoved James out of the way. James and his father went out to the streets where there was a crowd huddling around a man who seemed to be kneeling.
"Is that Blood?"
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