PERSONALITY

History

James Potter, known as Prongs to some, Potter to most, especially Lily, why she won’t go out with him yet is anyone’s guess. He is the son of Fleamont and Euphemia Potter, and is their only child. James had a pretty great childhood if he was to say anything about it. He grew up in a loving home, and it was still that and he was extremely thankful for it as he had heard about some of what Sirius had gone through at the hands of his supposed family. But despite growing up in a good home James was not given everything on a silver platter. His parents instilled in him the meaning of hard work, family, and so much more. He also learned that there were consequences to any and all decisions one made in life.

Upon turning eleven James got the chance to attend Hogwarts. On the very first train ride to Hogwarts James, met his best friend and brother in all but blood, even though they are related somewhere down the line, one Sirius Black. He knew during that first train ride he would never be on his own again. Not that he minded being alone, but Sirius was a different sort of pureblood, and they had very similar views. They hit it off and also during that ride he met Lily for the first time and he was sure that he had made a complete arse of himself. Immediately asking her to go out with him. But then Snape had to stick his big nose and greasy hair in and things went down hill from there. From that moment on and other instances during his first year James would come to hate the Slytherin, and did anything that came to mind that would humiliate the other boy. Pranks and other things became the modus operandi for James as well as Sirius. And soon they came to be three with Remus joining them and a little later on Peter joined them at the behest of Remus. James would have preferred that Frank join them but the boy didn’t want to. They still became friends but nowhere as close as he was with Sirius and Remus. Peter, well that was another matter completely.

During his time as a student James quickly found that he was rather skilled in transfiguration, and McGonagall had even told him that he was a prodigy in this particular form of magic. But he was also rather skilled in other forms of magic. His weak point being potions and the like. In his second year James managed to become a chaser on the Gryffindor quidditch team. And has held the position since then. Of course, leading up his fifth-year things were rather interesting, pulling pranks, trying to get Lily to go out with him, and last but not least creating the Marauder’s Map, and becoming animagi with his friends so they could accompany Remus with his furry little problem, that happened once a month.

Now in his fifth year James is still trying to get Lily to go out with him. He just knows that she is the one for him. And with the current climate outside of Hogwarts was actually throwing himself into his studies for once, and not procrastinating as much, doing homework the day before worked out just fine for him. Things were changing and one thing he wanted to know for sure was, what was going on with Sirius. Something had changed and his friend was acting more mature, and James wanted to know why, and made it a priority along with that of trying to get Lily to go out with him at least once and then he also wanted to do well on his OWLs which was why he was procrastinating less and less.