Introduction
Hi. My name’s James Potter. I’m a fifteen year old wizard, yes that’s right a wizard. I come from a long line of wizards and witches, traceable back to 1600. Not that that matters. I know plenty of brilliant witches and wizards who thought they were muggles until they got their Hogwarts letters, or people from old magical families who are squibs.
Today will be my first day back at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. I’ll be starting my fifth year there. It’s my home away from home. I love it there.
Me and my best friends, Sirius, Remus and Peter have so much fun. We’re always getting into trouble; sneaking off to the kitchens and ‘stealing’ the food; setting off dungbombs outside the Slytherin common room; sneaking round school at the dead of night; making as much noise and mess as we can, just to annoy the caretaker. It’s great fun.
I have about the best set of friends anyone could ever wish for. We all have code names, which though it sounds kinda corny, can actually come in handy sometimes. There’s Padfoot - Sirius Black, my best friend. He’s quite tall, with a powerful athletic build. He has shaggy black hair cut quite roughly, and dark glinting eyes.
We’ve known each other forever. We live in the same village and went to the same schools. Our parents are also great friends so we’re practically always together. He’s totally solid, he’d stand by me and the others through anything, always there to fight our battles with us, even if we don’t need it. He’s a pants secret keeper though. No that’s unfair, he can gossip a bit but I know that he’d take real secrets to the grave with him. He’s loyal and well, the best friend anyone could wish for really.
Moony - Remus Lupin. He’s quite small really. He’s not overly short or skinny, he just doesn’t have a very solid shape. He has sandy coloured hair and grey eyes.
Me and Sirius met him on the train on our first day. He was really quiet and pale, we thought that he was just naturally that way. Not so, he’s as bad as Sirius and me sometimes. Of course we didn’t know his secret then. We found it out in our first year. He’s a werewolf. Sounds shocking at first though it isn’t. He’s only a ‘monster’ once a month for a few hours, though he says that’s plenty long enough. He’s the most serious out of us all, very cleaver, and quick, always keen to learn new things. He’s about the most trust worthy of us all. He’s so loyal, friendly to everyone, and keen to give people second chances. However if you upset him, boy does he come down hard! He’s no pushover.
Then there’s Wormtail - Peter Pettigrew. He’s quite short and a bit too plump. His mum treated him too often with sweets and fatty foods. He’s got mousy brown hair and pale uninteresting eyes.
He’s...well, he’s different to the rest of us. He’s shy, overly shy. he sometimes jokes that he should have been in Hufflepuff. I think he should’ve. He’s so shy it’s almost kills him meeting new people or having any attention drawn to him - that’s why it’s odd he goes along with a lot of the stuff Sirius Remus and I do. Also although he tries hard, really hard he never seems to get very far. He’s a really nice guy, but well, I dunno, sometimes he’s a bit too clingy. Nothing nasty in it at all. He just seems to really like hanging with us. We don’t mind - he can be a real laugh sometimes, and can think of some really good things to do, then attempts to chicken out at the last minute.
Last of all there’s me, Prongs. I’m tall, lanky have boring messy black hair and boring brown eyes.
The reason why we all have nicknames is because we decided to turn into Animagi so that we could be with Remus during his transformation. Sounds nice doesn’t it? When we managed to calm Remus down we used to prowl the school, making mischief wherever we could. I turned into a stag, hence the name Prongs - antlers, Sirius a big black dog with shaggy hair - Padfoot, Peter; Wormtail, a fat grey rat - which he assures us is cool because he’s really small and can do things we cant. And Remus is Moony, because of the moon.
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