The train clunked along the track on the way to Hogwarts, as Sirius began to laugh again at one of his new friend, James', stories.

'I don't know, the cat was just on fire!' James laughed, wiping one of his eyes.

'Oh godric, James!' Sirius began to laugh even harder, but stopped as soon as the compartment door slid suddenly open to reveal a pale boy, who was holding 'Hogwarts: A History' in his hands. He also had 2 thin scars running down his face, which intrigued Sirius. He'd have to ask about that soon. The boy took a seat opposite Sirius and James, and looked out of the window with a great interest, watching the scenery fly by.

'Oh, sorry,' the boy spoke, 'Do you mind if I sit here? All the other compartments were full, plus some-one set off a dungbomb down the corridor—' he made a face and crinkled up his nose. 'Not nice.'

'It's fine,' James smiled. 'It's fine that you're here, as long as you're not as whiny as the girl who was here before you—'

'Or as greasy as her friend Snivellis, eugh!' Sirius interjected, cringing.

The boy seemed happy to have met some-one who seemed to want to talk to him, and he nodded.

'Anyway, what's your name?' Sirius asked.

'Remus… Remus Lupin.'

'Ah, nice to meet you, Remus.'

The train journey continued, and the boys conversed about many different things along the way.

'My parents, being the pureblood mania idiots that they are, named me after a STAR,' Sirius rolled his eyes dramatically as James grinned. 'I mean, you guys all get normal names, then I'm over here, with 'Sirius'. You will never know how many times I have heard the pun today…' Sirius said the word 'pun' with a certain menace and glared at James, who grinned even wider.

'Come on, don't be so serious, Sirius! I know it's your name, but—' James laughed, before being tackled by Sirius.

'Remus is a pretty weird name, too.' Remus noted thoughtfully.

'Remus Lupin… I have no idea why, but it reminds me of the moon, mate.'

Remus paled considerably at James' words, much to his two friend's confusion.

'Well—Well… I guess it does soundy quite 'moony'…' he gave Sirius and James an attempt at a smile.

'Yeah,' said James vaguely, obviously pondering something else, although Sirius had no idea what-so-ever what he was actually thinking.

The train clattered over more of the track, nearing Hogwarts more and more with every passing minute…

'That's the 10th time he's done that now!' James remarked out of the blue as they all snacked on the wide variety of sweets James had bought for them all to share.

'Who done what?' said Sirius blankly, which made James chuckle slightly.

'This kid has walked past our compartment 10 times now!' James said, gesturing to the door. 'There he goes again!'

A small, chubby boy, whose hair flopped into his face had hurried past again, a look of panic etched into his features.

'Perhaps we should see if he's okay? He's probably a first year, like us.' Remus said, and moved to get up.

He pulled open the door with one hand, and as the panicked supposed first year ran past again, he had a brief chat with him, before bringing him in.

'James, Sirius, this is Peter.'

The chubby boy named Peter nodded vigorously.

'Peter P-Pettigrew… nice to meet you both,' he spluttered quickly, causing James and Sirius to exchange looks.

'Peter's robes… have been turned pink.' Remus stated simply, as Peter nodded again, turning a bright pink, possibly similar to the shade his robes had unfortunately become.

And so, the Marauders' friendship was formed.