First Year- Only The Beginning
Sirius Black
Today is Sirius Blacks first day going to Hogwarts, he can feel the excitement along with nervousness building up in his stomach.
Sirius get on the train, leaning to the right of him, from how heavy his trunk is, Hes waddling down the train hall looking for an empty seat. He ends up finding an empty compartment he rushes to sit in it. While Sirius is rushing to the compartment,his body collides with something or someone.
The person is slightly taller than Sirius and lets out a groan "Oi, can you watch where you're going?" the person asks, aggravated. He starts mumbling under his breath words Sirius cant seems to make out
Sirius look Infront of him finally getting a glance at the person that he had bumped into. It was a boy with light brown fluffy hair and scars going across every bit of his light freckled skin. The boy sits down in the compartment Sirius was going to sit in by himself.
He might as well take a seat by him since there is nowhere to sit. Though itll of awkward since they’d just bumped heads and its just the two of them in there with two other empty seats. Sirius puts his trunk in the luggage rack and take a seat.
"Sorry for bumping into you," Sirius says after a while of sitting there in silence. "It's alright," the boy says with a sigh.
Sirius sees the boy is wearing some old-looking sweater with holes in it and some worn-out jeans and the scars going across his skin are brutal. It seems there are scars everywhere the eye can see on his body. They almost look like the ones Sirius has, but they seem straighter, just lines going over his skin. Almost as if they were put there by claws. The boy looks at Sirius so he stops examining his clothes and then he looks away too.
"My name is Sirius Black," he says to make the space around me less quiet Sirius always does that. It's just a habit , Sirius's mother always tells him to shut his mouth, because of how much he talks. Sirius sticks out to shake his.
"Remus" the boy mumbles under his breath. "Huh?" Sirius asks wondering if he actually said something because of how quiet he was. Sirius puts his hand down at the lack of cooperation to indulge in a handshake.
"Remus,” He makes his voice a tad bit louder “my name is Remus, Lupin, Remus Lupin," he says more clearly . "Well, it's nice to meet you Remus Lupin" Sirius lips curl up into a smile, until two boys come up running in. Causing a commotion of noise.
He get a good look at them, one boy has tanned skin, dark eyes, curly black hair, his glasses are falling to the tip of his nose. He's wearing a red jumper and brown baggy pants. And a slightly shorter boy with dirty blond straight hair, blue eyes, with a plump figure and he's wearing blue jeans and a white jumper . Sirius smiles at the both of them
"Phew," the dark-haired one breathes, "A seat" he finishes his sentence. Trying to catch his breath.
The blonde-haired boy trying to catch his breath looks up "Oh" he realizes the two of them aren't the only ones in here "Sorry if we interrupted there's no else to sit." The one with glasses says "It's alright" Sirius shrugs.
"I'm James Potter and this is Peter Pettigrew," He says suggesting to the other boy Sirius’s mother has mentioned the Potters on some occasions , Says theyre pure blood and such.
"I'm Sirius Black" James Smiles "Nice to meet you". James sits next to Sirius and Peter sits next to Remus.
"What's your name?" Peter asks Remus "It's Remus Lupin," Remus says looking a bit aggravated "It's nice to meet you, Remus," James says "Yeah" Remus mumbles under his breath. Sirius wonders if Remus still mad because he had bumped into him.
"So What house do you guys think you'll get into?" James says
A lady with a trolly of sweets comes up to our compartment "Anything from the trolly dears?" Sirius thinks about it and if he buys the whole trolley, He could share it with Remus, James, And Peter. Sirius thinks thats the way for them to me him, so he'll do just that. Plus , Sirius thinks to him self. Remus does look a bit scrawny.
"I'll buy the whole trolley," Sirius says, getting his galleons from my trunk. "Oh, Okay that will be 12 galleons." he gives her 12 galleons and she gives him the trolly of sweets.
Sirius looks to the rest of the lot and All three of their jaws dropped. "Wow," Peter says . "That's sure is a lot of sweets" James says adjusting his glasses and Remus doesn't say anything but looks at the trolly in shock.
"Well dig in boys" Sirius says smiling and grabbing a chocolate frog. "Are you sure? " Peter asks furrowing his brows "You bought it" he adds . "Peter , I bought it to share with you guys" Sirius assures him genuinely, a smile across his face. Peters face softens and he lets a breath escape his mouth
"Why would you do that?" Remus questions, finally saying something. "Just eat the sweets, " He insists sitting back down next to James.
" Thanks for the sweets , mate" James says with a smile . "Its no problem" he says smiling back .
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A Few Hours Later
" I wonder what houses we will get into" Peter says excitedly basically jumping up and down "Yeah.." Sirius says with defeat knowing Hes going to get into Slytherin like the rest of his family.
And they aren't necessarily sunshine and rainbows . Sirius is going to end up being just like them and hell have no choice. His deep thoughts get interrupted by some old man starting to talk in front of everyone . He must be the headmaster .About and hour later Sirius gets called up to get sorted into my house " Sirius Black" he hears the headmaster say. Sirius walks up to the seat and the sorting hat gets placed on his head. Everyone in the family is in Slytherin , so its just set in stone for Sirius to be in Slytherin .
The sorting hat starts talking "Oh a Black I see, well hmm, shall i sort you in slytherin?" "No? hmm well i do see a very brave soul, "Gryffindor!!". Sirius Feels the color drain from hisface no, no ,no this cant be happening. Gryffindor, fucking hell, mothers going to be so angry. Dumbledore tells Sirius to get up and sit at the Gryffindor table . He has a million thoughts going through mind mind a minute .
sirius looks up to the chair and the next person going up is James. "Gryffindor!!" the hat yells. He see him thrill up with happiness. Sirius smiles at his excitement. At least Sirius will have him in the same house. They barely know eachother, but something inside Sirius black tells him theyre going to be great friends.
Peter goes up next and the hat sits on his head for a minute humming to itself “Peter Pettigrew eh?” The hat questions, and he can see Peter's leg bouncing up and down, and nervousness is painted over his face. “Hm, I see a lot of choices for you, Slytherin, no that wont do, huh, how about Ravenclaw, oh no, huffle puff? That doesnt fit" The grand hall all seems confused, as to why the sorting hat is stumped on Peter, The hat was so quick with everyone else. " but I do see a lot of Chivarly couroge, and a lot of determination, Gryffindor!" Sirius sees a smile go on to Peter's face and and he heads to The girffindor table.
Remus is up next and he goes to the chair with a blank face. It's hard to see what's going through his mind. "Gryffindor!!" the hat yells . His facial expressions doesn't even change and he walks over to the table and sits next to Sirius.
"I guess the gangs back together" James says and puts his hands together and smiles cheerily "What gang?" Remus scoffs.
"The four of us, in the same house, must be a coinkydink" Sirius says humorously. “Did you just say coinkydink? What are you four years old?” Remus asks me eyebrows furrowed.
“At heart. why,yes of course” Sirius say sticking his nose up with a smile.
“Well it's not a ‘coinkydink’ ” Remus says, his accent thick, and it's not an accent Sirius recognises.
“Yes, the four of us in the same house , it must be fate” Sirius says putting his hand on his shoulder.
"Ugh, look there is no us, I barely know any of you, its not fate" he says annoyed and shoves Sirius's hand off .
"Ouch Remus, whatever do you mean ?, the four of us are going to be best of buds." he sees James and Peter look at each other then look back at them .
Dinner pops up on to the table and Remus's Jaw drops not James not Peter's ,Remus, his parents must not use magic to transport their dinner to the table. He sees Sirius looking over to him and looks down and closes his mouth.
Sirius about to say something but then Three girls sit next to him. A red haired girl with pale skin and freckles over the bridge of her nose. The girl sits tense and her hands fiddle together on her lap. The other girl has short, brown hair that looks as if she cut it herself, her skin is lightly tanned. She marvels at the plates of food in front of her, her posture hangs lazily as she piles food onto her plate. Lastly And a girl with brown skin and tightly curled hair going to her shoulders, she looks to the girl with red Hair. She seems nervously on edge as she points her gaze around the room.
“Marlene!” Peter exclaims, the girl with short brown hair instantly un tenses at the sight of Peter. “pete! Hey we both got griffindor” she smiles ecstatically . “Yeah” peter smiles, she moves over to sit next to Peter,
“James hi” the girl waves to James who turns his gaze to her his face lights up in a smile before he looks behind her.
That's when Sirius sees James eyes widen as looks at the girl with red hair. The girl looks at him staring and furrows her brows. Sirius looks at Peter motioning him to stop James from staring at her too long. Peter catches on and elbows James "Pst, James , mate, you're staring" and James hums in question then snaps out of it. "I was?" James whispers "Yep" Peter forms his lips into a line. "Oh" he says in return and looks down to his plate.
Sirius can hear a whisper behind him and it's a boy with black hair and a big nose."Lily, psst Lily" the red haired girl turns around. "Sev, hi" . Lily must be her name. Sirius looks back over to James and he's looking at the boy talking to Lily.
"What are you looking at!" the boy hisses at James. "Hm? oh nothing" James looks back down to his food,and Lily and that boy keep talking.
After dinner Sirius’s follows the head boy to his common room, he can’t wonders what his parents will do with him when they finds out about his house placement. Sirius feels as if his heart is one beat away from jumping out from his chest into his hands.
“Quidditch Cup” the boy whispers to the painting, causing it to open “Now first years, that is our dorm password, you must not tell anybody out of Gryffindor it” He points, the first years all nod
They step into the common room, “now everyone has assigned dorms, the girl dorms are up the stairs to the left, and the boy's dorms are to the write, now first years, groups in the dorms are of four, here everyone gets a number to their dorms” The head boy says passing out little sheets of parchment around to first years.
Sirius's says four and then he looks to James and he shows his and it says four as well, Sirius lips turn up into a smile “hey Pete what number did you get?” James asks Peter leaning his head toward him, Peter shows his number, and it's a four too, they all smile ear to ear.
Sirius turns his head to look for Remus and can see him getting his number , and he looks down to it and instantly walks out of the room.
Confusion instantly floods his mind. What in the world?