After having a delicious supper made by Kreacher, the trio was back in Harry's room.
"you pick next memory Ron" Harry said opening the box of vials.
Ron looked at the box thoughfully. He wanted to see a memory with less romance or stuff like that coz with all honesty he wasn't really a romantic sort of boy. The most romantic thing he said to Hermione was the floating ball thing back on their camping days.
He finally made a choice and picked a vial labeled THE DAY I BECAME "WE" and Harry immediately recognized Remus' writing.
He poured the memory in the pensieve and all three again dove in the nothingness and landed in one of the compartments of Hogwarts Express.
They saw a boy with light brown hair and green eyes staring out of the window. He might have been of eleven and starting his first year but there was no enthusiasm in his eyes. He waved his mother and father standing on the station with a sad smile and they waved back with a worried smile and disappeared hand in hand before the train even left the station. Through the window, Harry could see Mrs. Black, very much alive settling down Sirius' curly hair as if it can tame them for longer. From her love for Sirius Harry was sure it was their first year since he knew that after being sorted in Gryffindor, Mrs. Black in a way disowned Sirius.
He also saw his father and grandparents. It was obvious from the glasses and messy hair that the boy being hugged and kissed multiple times by a really beautiful women was his father. He thought of locating Pettigrew too but he couldn't see any bald head at all and was bought back to the memory as the whistle of the train blew and everybody boarded the train.
Soon the train was moving slowly, leaving behind the magical platform.
The trio turned with a start as they heard the door of the compartment sliding. There stood a small boy with mousy brown hair and blue eyes.
"m-mind if I..I sit here?" he asked the brown haired boy to which he quietly nodded and turned back his attention to the country view outside the window.
The brown haired pale little boy took his seat next to the other window.
"are you expecting someone else or I can have a seat here…everywhere else is full" Sirius said coming in before either of the earlier occupants could nod in agreement. He sat down next to the brown haired guy.
And soon the last occupant came in, James Potter as Harry could easy recognize him. He didn't say anything, just came in and sat.
"hey, I am James Potter" he said putting out his hand towards Sirius since other two were looking outside and not paying any attention to anyone else in the compartment.
"Sirius Black" Sirius said taking and shaking his hand.
"what year?" James asked
"first" Sirius said.
"same here…and you are?" James asked Remus turned to look at the two black haired boys getting along as if they have known each other since forever.
"Remus Lupin" the light brown haired boy said.
The trio was wide eyed as the boy didn't resemble his older self at all, other than the color of hair after you exclude they couple of greys and his green eyes. This boy was extremely handsome but just as quite as ever.
"first year?" Sirius asked giving his hand to Lupin to shake.
Lupin took the hand hesitantly and nodded.
"don't be scared, I don't bite" Sirius joked shaking his hand to which James gave a good laugh.
"is it your first year too?" James asked the little boy next to him who laughed silently so that he doesn't draws any attention towards himself.
He nodded, his mousy brown hair falling over his eyes "Peter…Peter Pettigrew" he said.
And there was gasp this time from the trio as Peter looked so young and fresh. His innocent face didn't hold any signs of any sort of betrayal he can do. He looked a bit scared and maybe felt a bit inferior compared to all the other boys specially with James and Sirius.
"so are you excited to go to Hogwarts?" James asked to the other three in general.
"totally" Sirius said with a mischievous grin.
The way James smiled back clearly showed that he has started taking a liking of this boy.
"a bit…I am just afraid about the sorting" Peter said timidly.
"whats there to be scared about? You get what you deserve, what you are capable of" this time Remus said.
Harry and Ron sniggered at this as it reminded them of Hermione as she too was too bookish and know it all type on their first train ride and Remus' comment clearly told that he has gone through the books more than once. She smacked both the boys on arm playfully before looking back at the scene.
"I am capable of nothing" Pettigrew said in a low embarrassed tone.
"what house do you think you will be in?" James asked Remus.
"probably Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw. Though I really wanna be in Gryffindor but I don't have any qualities to be in that house." Remus sighed
"what house will you be in?" Sirius asked James.
"Gryffindor" he said confidently.
"how come you are so sure?" Sirius asked back. His eyes showed the admiration he was starting to have for James Potter.
"there are many reasons and one will be that my mother always says that I have a good aptitude for calling trouble…and then escaping it in my very own way" James said.
"not as much trouble as me" Sirius said as if creating a mess was one of the best and highly skilled task in the world.
"really? What have you done that makes you think that?" James asked excitement to know his new friend more evident in his voice.
"just for an example I have made Lucius Malfoy, one of my parents' friend's son, give me a horse back ride throughout the house which includes going up the stairs and all the rooms of the house given the fact that he is one of a grouchy fellow and is in same year as us" Sirius said proudly "also I have added a potion that my mother uses for her wrinkles in one of my cousin's shampoo, causing her curly hair to straighten up like a stick and also making them hard to even comb down, she looked like a mess" Sirius added another incident.
James laughed brightly "I guess seeing your cousin face would have been an icing on the cake"
"oh it was…" Sirius said laughing.
"but that's not a right thing to do" Remus said softly.
"but no book says its wrong to experiment" James said on Sirius' behalf.
"have you never done anything nasty?" Sirius asked.
Remus shook his head "all I did out of line was escape with my father's telescope at night and watch and stars"
"you really should be in Ravenclaw by the way you talk" Sirius said.
"you didn't tell what house you wanna be in" James said looking at Sirius.
"my mum wants me to be in Slytherin like rest of my family, but I want to be in Gryffindor coz I think I am brave enough to take her anger on that"
"it will be nice right, if we all end up in Gryffindor, we can have soo much fun" James said.
"we?" Remus said, taken back by the gesture of being counted as a part of some group
"yeah we…we are friends right?" Sirius asked, confused as to why he would point out such a silly thing. Its obvious to him that they are friends now.
"friends? I've never had any" Remus said.
"never?" Sirius asked wide eye.
"yeah" Remus said shyly thinking that they would think of him differently now.
"that gives us one more reason to be friends then" James said "even I never had friends ever, not real ones atleast. They were always there for the treat or toys I had"
"even I never had any friends, just my little brother. But he is too fond of mum to rebel along with me or even take part in mischief with me" Sirius added.
"even I never had friends. My brothers always bullied me." Peter's squeaky voice said.
"great then we are all friends now." James smiled.
"lets get some hell down there in Hogwarts." Sirius winked.
"yeah it sounds too quiet for students of our age." James added with a smirk.
"I just hope we get sorted in same house." Peter said now hopeful that may be he too can have a place with people this strong and carefree.
Just then the trolley with all sweets came along.
"anything from the trolley dear boys?" asked the lady sweetly.
"yeah I'll have some peppermint toads." James said smiling "will you like something? My treat"
"licorice wand for me" Sirius said. "and you Remus?"
"I…chocolate frog?" he replied.
"and you" James said looking towards Peter.
"Bertie Bott"
James smiled and took the stuff from the lady and after paying all four newly formed friends ate their treats happily, talking about Hogwarts and how they can have fun there. Remus would occasionally talk about classes and subjects which James and Sirius would shrug off but Peter got a reason to admire Remus too, coz Remus may not be open and frank like James and Sirius and maybe neither that daring when it came to trouble but he was a really intelligent boy.
"we" Remus said quietly with a smile and the scene dissolved back and the trio was once again in Harry's room and the sky was dark now.
"we better head back" Hermione said seeing through the window.
"yeah its getting dark" Ron added.
"I had a great time" Harry smiled.
"me too" Hermione and Ron said.
And soon Ron and Hermione apparated back and Harry closed the box for the day and after keeping the box and memories back in his cupboard he lied down on the bed.
Now after knowing his father a bit more, he was able to understand more about him and was able to make out the similarities which others pointed out.
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