"So, this is - Hogwarts?" James stood on the lawn, looking around the entire school, the school's castle, the school's lake, the school's forbidden forest, everything, like a child opening a treasure.Sirius liked his expression now, and through James, he also had the feeling of stepping into a magic school.And these feelings didn't exist at first.He is used to hiding his emotions in the dark, with indifference on his face and indifference in his eyes. This is the only thing he has learned from his family - arrogance.

"Where should we go now?" James looked at him with a smile: "You are the master, come and entertain me."

Sirius couldn't hold back his laughter. With a straight face, he put his left arm across his chest and bowed pretendingly: "Okay, Your Highness Jimmy."

James' face changed rapidly, and finally fell on black, and he stabbed Sirius hard: "Don't call me that."

"Yes, Your Highness Jimmy." Sirius said lazily on purpose, and if James had to jump every time he heard the nickname, he would have to call it a few more times.

James rubbed his hair and said viciously, "Then lead the way, Princess Sissy."

"That's too much Jimmy!" Sirius yelled, tail up like a frizzy dog.

They laughed and rubbed each other's hair on the lawn, running wild, just like when they first met.

Finally, they lay side by side under the big tree by the lake. Sirius told James casually that there were giant squids in the lake. As he expected, James stared at the lake with wide eyes, completely helpless. Moved: "When will we see them?"

"I don't know." Sirius looked at James who was staring intently at the lake. The night wind was a bit cold, but he didn't care at all: "Maybe they fell asleep, do you want me to cast a curse down there and try?"

James frowned, and said with some regret, "No more." After a pause, he asked, "How are you, Sirius?"

"Didn't I tell you all in my letter?" Sirius said, he had no recollection of how many disrespectful expletives and bad complaints he'd written in his letter out of anger, shame or whatever, and he knew James didn't care about that, But when James stood in front of him, he realized that he had been destroying his image for the past six months.

"I want to hear it from your own mouth," insisted James Potter once.

Sirius opened his mouth. Just yesterday, many emotions were still accumulated in his chest. Sometimes he would worry that these emotions would explode in his chest, but now he found that there was nothing in his chest, and he was in a very bad mood. calm.

So all those emotions boiled down to one sentence: "That's a terrible sight, James."

"I even prepared tissues for you." Seeing the persistence in his friend's eyes, James turned his head and rubbed his hair and muttered, sometimes he couldn't understand Sirius, yes, they grew up together, nothing Stronger than their friendship, yet he had the feeling that, even in their closest moments, Sirius would draw a line between them as distance.James didn't know why, but he knew Sirius hadn't been frank.He often can't think of these, and he feels a little uneasy when he thinks of them.So I ignored it.

"You can keep it for yourself—is it snowing?" Sirius broke the subject abruptly, and together they watched the snowflakes fall from the sky.It really is snowing, Christmas snowflakes.

"Quick." Sirius thought of something, and pulled James up: "Come with me."

James didn't ask the reason, and ran quickly following Sirius obediently.

They ran, panting, into the castle, into the great hall, and Sirius pushed James almost behind the glowing Christmas tree, before he hid himself behind it.

James didn't know why, but could only look out through the cracks in the Christmas tree.Soon he saw several short people in red Christmas clothes and Santa hats appeared out of thin air. They all had eyes as big as teacups and big pointed ears. They didn't look very good. It looks easy to pinch, and they all carry big bulging white bags on their backs. They spread out, and with a flick of a finger, each Christmas tree is full of gifts, and the white bags look a little smaller.

James noticed that the hand held by Sirius was sweating. On the one hand, it was because of nervousness, and on the other hand, it was because Sirius' hand was very hot. He shrank his body, and only asked softly when the little men were far away. :"what is that?"

"House-elves," whispered Sirius, and it wasn't until he was sure the house-elves weren't coming back that he pulled James out of their hiding place, laughing, "First come, first served. These The gifts are all ours."

"Huh?" James said in surprise, "It's all ours? Won't they be traced?"

"Who cares about that?" Sirius said nonchalantly. "We can tear apart the presents and pick out the ones we like. We can rob this place and no one will know we did it."

"Plundering? I like this." James also smiled. It seems that there is no such thing as fear and fear in his heart. Even in Hogwarts, which is full of magical magic, as an ordinary person, he doesn't care about generosity. Invade somewhere, and go back with a rewarding experience.

Starting from the Christmas tree where they hid just now, they took out two sets of wizard chess and three kaleidoscopes. James tore open one of them, and the explosion sounded like a thunder that startled them all, but they were worried for a while. , After finding that no one came out, the two little villains laughed even more happily.James got two little white mice, originally there were five, but they ran away as soon as they hit the ground, and the two quickly covered one with their hands.James smirked and put the mice in the box, and Sirius knew what he was thinking without even thinking about it.

Then they got two long scarves, long enough to wrap five or six times around James' neck.It's just a pity that one is Hufflepuff and the other is Ravenclaw.Then there are singing picture frames, seeds that can grow unknown plants, various bracelet badges, ghost scream boxes... more and more wonderful things were taken out of the gift box and stuffed back, James couldn't think of it. There's nothing better than being inundated with presents on Christmas Eve.In the end Sirius and James wrapped all the candy poured out of the gift box in two scarves and carried it on their shoulders in a bundle.

"Let's escape the cat and the guards, and we'll go to the top of the castle," said Sirius. "I hope we succeed."

"Don't worry." James, an outsider, was more confident than Sirius: "Christmas is magical."

Yes.Christmas is magical.They didn't meet the guard, not even the ghost, they just almost ran into the cat, but the white mouse helped them a lot.

James and Sirius sat on the high observatory, watching the snowflakes falling from the high windows.

"Sirius, I can't wait to plunder all the joys of Hogwarts with you." James mumbled while chewing candy, waving his hands vigorously.It seemed that as soon as he stretched out his hand, all the most interesting things in the world would automatically jump into his hands.

Sirius smiled, and it seemed to him that Hogwarts had been in James' hands since the first step he took.

"Sirius, what about you? What do you want?" James turned his head and said, "What do you want at Hogwarts?"

I don't have anything I want at Hogwarts while you're away.Sirius said in his heart.

But he just smiled. "Want to leave Slytherin, I think."

"Speaking of Slytherin." James became more interested: "Is it really as bad as you say?"

Sirius frowned. He didn't take the initiative to know anyone in Slytherin, except his cousin Narcissa, who would show up at his table every morning on time, and Slytherin's senior prefect Malfoy would be there when he was punished. Came out on the second day of confinement.In fact, he didn't know anyone at Hogwarts, and he hadn't paid much attention to Longbottom since he discovered the Room of Requirement.A few times, he was reading in the library, and Frank would move towards him quietly, but when a Slytherin or Gryffindor student passed by, the other party quickly ran away.He has a cold and distrustful attitude towards anyone, known as the Black Kid at Hogwarts, and he doesn't show anything to be remembered except for lock-up, lock-up, and lock-up.Oh, except maybe looks and grades.

"Anyway, I don't like it." Sirius shook his head.

"What a pity." James murmured, putting his hands behind his head, "I'd love to see you join the Quidditch team."

Sirius said in surprise, "Slytherin's Quidditch? I don't want to do Slytherin credit."

"But Quidditch itself is not guilty." James persuaded without hope.

"No." Sirius refused: "Originally we agreed, you will be the Chaser and I will be the Seeker, so that we are the best partners. I don't believe that any of the fools in Slytherin can cooperate with me stand up."

"That's true." James nodded in agreement. "Slytherin will never find a better Chaser than me."

"You egomaniac." Sirius laughed and pelted him with candy until James picked it up and fought back.

With James, the second term went much faster than the first, and they played a game called "Finding the Hogwarts Secret Passage" together at night, and they learned to waltz in front of the statue so that the statue would move out of the passage , and although the statue was a demon, it looked like a monkey squatting there with wings, so the two laughed frequently.But they couldn't stay in the castle for long, Filch was too annoying.They often went to the Forbidden Forest, and soon learned how to pester Hagrid, the big man, to show them all kinds of mysterious creatures.James had gotten to the point where he could pass off as a Hufflepuff to Hagrid without blushing.Although he protested why he couldn't impersonate Gryffindor, Sirius happily refuted him: "It's a recognized fact that Slytherin and Gryffindor have a bad relationship, it's better to say that Hufflepuff is more reliable."

James will show Sirius the Muggle magic of "chemistry", how the flame on the alcohol lamp changes wonderfully, how the gas changes color, and how dry ice forms snowflakes.And Sirius would demonstrate every spell he had learned in class in front of James, just to see the joyous light in those eyes.

But in any case, wandering around Hogwarts for a long time is dangerous. James is an illegal trespasser, and he must prevent himself from being discovered by teachers or students in the school.They all learned how to use the day time to catch up on sleep at any time, and more nights they did nothing together, just hid in the room of responsiveness wrapped in a blanket and chatted until they fell asleep.

As the final exams approached, Sirius smiled less and less, and even talked less, and sometimes even James's efforts to cheer up the atmosphere were useless.The gloomy mood returned.

"I really don't understand, are you worried about the final exam?" James couldn't help asking one day.

"No, I just don't want to go home," said Sirius.

The effusive welcome letter from his parents had arrived long ago, and they couldn't wait to tell Sirius what a wonderful "show" he would be welcoming him when he came home, which was always Regulus's very own.Whenever Sirius realized that he was going to be pushed in front of various pure-blood relatives, sung in a chorus of pure-blood family glory, his head hurt.

But, no matter how annoying it is, summer vacation will always come, and it will not slow down.

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