1 september 1975 james pov
james potter
1975, september 1
Well, james thought to himself, that could have gone better. he looked after regulus leaving from. he was still super cute, and james just wanted to poke those cheeks. james looked at sirius, his face had a mix between anger and sadness on it. like he was angry with his brother, but sad that he was leaving
“Well, that went well” peter clapped his hands together “who wants to the girls and sit with them?”
They all began walking down the hall trying to find “the girls”.
Also know as lily evans, the smarts girl in the whole school, who got the best grade, but was also the most kind human on the planet. she would answer anyones questions. she was also the girl that james used to have a massive crush on, but realized around last year, that he had just been holding up some sort of image people had of him. now he and lily where friends, but she would still make fun of the ways he used to ask her out.
Then there was mary macdonald, who was this badass girl, who was not afraid of talking back to teachers if she thought they where wrong. Mary had last year almost punched there DADA professor after he sayed that girl couldnt be anything other then just housewives. but at the same time mary could be smart, but not like book smart like lily. no mary was smart as in she always knew what people where feeling and thinking about at all times.kinda creepy if you ask james, sometimes it was super nice tho.
Last but not least there was marlene mckinnon, the best quidditch seeker that james had ever seen. she had been on the team since 2nd year, and james would eat his own shoe if when she grew up she did not go on to play professional quidditch. sirius, who would say he was the best quidditch player ever, would always ad that marlene was still better and then he came on the list of best. she also always knew all gossip in the whole of hogwarts. nothing gossip like got past marlene
they went down the long train looking into carges to see if they could see the three girls. they reached the last part of the train before they found them. peter slide open the door. peter had become great friends with the girls, better then the rest of them. tho remus and lily also liked to talk about books and study together from time to time.
“hello girls, how was your summer” james said as he sat down next to mary and gave her a quick side hug.
mary hugged him back, with a smile on her face “great, other then the worry of the OWL’S “ she said as she pulled out a little pice of paper “everyone ready to show what they got?”
Everyone in the carge pulled out the pisces of paper with the OWL’S out. sirius paper much more cruppeld then the others and not looking as good as the others
“merlin what did you do to that paper sirius” marlene said as she saw the paper.
“Well i dint really have time to fold it needley when i ran away did i” sirius said as he tried to flatten it on his leg. like that would help james thought to himself.
They all began talking about how they had done and what class they would have next year. james had done just fine and would be going into a most of his class’s from last year. he had only failed in Divination, and who cared about that anyway. he had only taken it because it sounded easy. he was still unsure how he had passed his history of magic class, as he often slept trough the class. it was not his fault that professor bines sounded so boring when he spoke.
Nobody, barley even remus and lily could stay awake in that class. and remus could only if it had not been a foolmoon in the last week or in the week coming up. if that was the case then remus would normally fall asleep on sirius lap. and sirius would be left trying not to move a muscle, as not to wake up remus.
James looked at sirius and remus now, and they where so clearly both in love, but nothing had been done about it yet. just like how remus would fall asleep on sirius, sirius would sometimes simply just take power naps on remus. and every time remus would blush as red as a tomato and would refuse to move until sirius woke up. james and peter shared a glance. this year they had decided over the summer, they where gonna get remus and sirius to confess there massive crush for each other.
Plan wolfstar was going to work this time. and if not they would simply lock them in a broom closet til they confessed. or made out. or shagged. honestly anything at this point, james thought as he looked at sirius, who was almost in remus lap, and the very blushing remus. how would they do this, him and peter had to plan more carefully. this needed to work because james could not last other year, of both of them whining to him about the other.
After a little while there was a knock on the door, the trolly lady coming by. after sirius had been disowned he no longer had that much money, but james parents where filthy rich and would gladly give some money to sirius. and to no one's surprise the thing that sirius most likes to spend his money on is remus.
Even when sirius was still living with his parents, he would spend so much money on remus. remus wanted chocolate, sirius would buy him a whole basket. remus wanted a new book, sirius would bye a 100 copies of it. it was kinda crazy how much money sirius liked to spend on remus. and even tho remus tired to say no, sirius would always insist on buying him anything he wanted. and yet they could not see the big crush’s they both had on eachother.
Remus might be called the smart on of there group, but sometimes he could be so stupid.
“So, is everyone looking forward to the sorting?” marlene said while she was laying with her head in lily’s lap and eating a little box of sweets she bought.
“Yeah, tho ehm sirius?” james said his head turning to where sirius was leaning up against remus half asleep.
“Yes, dear prongs?” sirius said not even opining his eyes or moving from remus shoulder.
“Do you know what house your little brother will be in?” james said as he took out a little lemon candy from the bag between him and peter.
“Slytherin i suspect, like the perfect son he is” sirius said only moving closer to remus.
“I don't know” remus said, making sirius and the rest of them look at him. “i only mean that he never seemed down right evil, just a little quiet” remus had this look in his eyes like he thought what words he picked in this thing was so important.
Which when speaking about sirius family, it really was. Sirius' mood when you talked about his family could go from the happiest of happy. to looking like he wanted to murder you, everybody in the room, and then himself. and james, after having heard stories about them, understood why that was.
But regulus had never really sounded mean when you heard about him from the stories. maybe because sirius would really only speak on his younger brother when he was drunk. but james could remember a time that sirius used to tell story after story about regulus. and he never look evil in those. just maybe kinda scared of there parents
“I mean, from what i have seen of his report cards, that i used to steal, he is not dumb” sirius said siting up a little.
James could see the little sadness in remus eyes when sirius pulled of his shoulder. honestly james thought as he shared a look with peter.
“why did you steal his report cards” mary said while holding up her cards from the game her and peter were playing.
“because i needed to know how my mother was going to react to it” sirius said as if it was the most normal thing to do. and for sirius is probably was. james, remus and peter all shared glances. them and only them knew what “going to react” truly meant. sure the girls knew sirius family were assholes. but they did not know the full story. not many people did
but the marauders knew that sirius meant, how bad was his mother going to hurt regulus. or often sirius who would take it for his brother. james’, as an only child, never truly understood siblings. and most of all not regulus and sirius. because it had changed a lot over the years.
when they had all first come to hogwarts, sirius would often talk about his younger brother. the first year it had been about how excited he was for “little reggie” to join hogwarts. maybe even gryffindor. the next year it had turned to story’s from regulus french school. then third year there was only a few times right after every break that he would talk about his brother. and then for the last two years it had only been when sirius was very drunk, that the tell’s of regulus would come out.
so yeah to say that sirius and regulus relationship was weird and confusing, for everyone, maybe even them. well it would not be a lie.
After a few more hours, of the train where in only a few things happened. peter beat everyone very much i card games. sirius fell asleep his head this time in remus lap. this made remus sit very still for almost an hour. lily also braided a little bit of sirius hair when he woke up. this also caused remus to blush like his face was on fire.
and as james stood on the platform, having just left the train, he could not wait for this year