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chapter!
Chapter 1
Harry sat staring at the package in front of him. It had come in while he was
eating breakfast and had almost been dropped into his porridge. As soon as he had
seen who it was from he had jumped up and ran for his houses common room.
Hermione and Ron had yelled for him to tell them what was the matter but all he
yelled back was, "Snuffles!"
When they heard this they also jumped up, managing to knock over Neville in the
process. They apologized quickly and bolted out of the dining hall, hot on
Harry's heels. Everyone stared after them in confusion except one pair of
twinkling eyes. Professor Dumbledore.
~*~
"What is it?"
"It's," Harry opened the box and looked inside, "It's a necklace. Do you think it
does something?"
"You never know with Snuffles," Harry picked up the necklace and handed it to
Hermione, "What do you make of it 'Mione?" She took it from him and examined it
closely.
"It has some sort of language on it. It isn't anything I know though."
"That's a shock..." Hermione glared at Ron and he backed into his chair as much
as he could, "Just a joke 'Mione." She gave an indignant huff and went back to
examining the writing.
"Can you read it?" Harry looked a bit anxious now as he said this.
"Well, it looks as if it should say:
Ammesura intaminn, unt untaminn manhan...ceila intulra." As soon as Hermione was
done with the last word the fire in the fireplace grew in a flash and then died.
Everything shook. The three friends grabbed onto the arms of the chair they were
sitting in and held on for dear life. After a minute the shaking stopped. They
all looked at each other in surprise and then looked at the necklace that
Hermione still held.
"Next time we get something from Sirius, how 'bout we not read what's on it
hmmm?" Hermione and Ron nodded their heads looking a little shocked still.
"Why would he send us something like this? Does he even know what it does? It
could have blown up on us!"
"Ron, calm down. Maybe it was just some sort of joke. Once a Marauder, always a
Marauder."
"It doesn't seem like a joke."
"Are you saying, Harry, that this might have been sent by...by you-know-who?" It
had been two years since Lord Voldemort had risen. It was now Harry's sixth year
and he'd finally been made an official member of the Order, along with Ron and
Hermione. Ron still had a bit of trouble saying the dark lords' name still, though
he had been lectured many times by Hermione about it.
"No, no. Can't be. He doesn't know we call Sirius Snuffles. I'm saying that
perhaps Sirius has a plan for this, whatever it is." A bell was heard from
outside and all of them jumped, only to realize that it was the first class bell.
"Oh, we're going to be late for class. Come on." Hermione and Ron made their way
to the portrait hole but turned back around, finding that Harry hadn't followed.
"Coming Harry?" He had the necklace held up in front of him, his eyes locked on
it.
"I'll just put this upstairs and I'll meet you at class. You can go ahead without
me." They both nodded, though concern was obviously present in their eyes. As
soon at they were out of sight Harry stood up and made his way upstairs. He
reached the trunk at the end of his bed when everything shook like it had before.
He fell to one knee, grabbing onto his trunk with his hand. The shaking finally
stopped but before Harry could stand back up a wave of nausea swept over him, and
then everything went dark.
~*~
Hogwarts 1976:
"Hey James, if you move any slower we may have to get a new Seeker!"
"Just a sec. I forgot something in the dorms!"
"Try to hurry, you've been late for Quidditch practice twice this week."
"Don't worry, Padfoot. I'll be right down." James Potter ran up the stairs to his
dorm room. He was almost to his bed when he stopped in his tracks. There in the
middle of the room laid a boy with a trunk beside him. What made it even stranger
was that this boy seemed to be an exact replica of himself. He ran back out of
the dorms to shout down to Sirius to come up.
"What is it Prongs?"
"I'm not sure. Either I've just discovered my long lost twin or I'm having an out
of body experience. Will you just come up here?" Sirius hurried up the stairs
followed by the two remaining Marauders, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew. They
all stared in shock at they saw the boy on the floor.
"He does look like you," Peter squeaked in a shocked voice. They all moved closer
to him to get a better look.
"Yeah, except that scar. Do you see it James? It looks like a lightning bolt."
Sirius was holding back the unconscious boys' hair a bit to show everyone the scar
on his forehead.
"Odd. Wonder who he is." The boy then stirred a bit and they all backed up. His
eyelids fluttered open revealing emerald green eyes. He lay there for a moment
before his eyes widened and he shot up, looking around him in shock.
"Hermione?! Ron?! Where are you?! What-What happened?" He then noticed that he
had company and looked around. When his eyes landed on James his jaw dropped and
his eyes widened even more.
"Um...Hi, my name's James Potter?"
~*~
James Potter? Several thoughts were swimming through Harry's head at once. He
subdued them though, telling himself that this was not a good time to panic.
Clearing his throat he tried to speak in as steady a voice he possibly could.
"I-I'm Harry, Harry P-," He quickly thought up a name, "Pleeter."
"Er, nice to meet you Harry. Are you all right?"
"I think so." Harry then looked around the room at everyone else.
"Oh, these are my friends, the Marauders of Hogwarts. Sirius Black, Remus Lupin,
and Peter Pettigrew." James pointed to each of his friends in turn. When Harry
heard Peter's name his eyes shot to him. A hate filled him and all he wanted to
do was strangle the plump boy. But as soon as he looked in those eyes the hate
was gone, replaced by pity and sadness. He didn't look in any way harmful. In
fact he reminded Harry a bit of Neville. To hide the fact that he had been
staring at Peter he gave a nod and then nodded in greeting to everyone else. He
smiled a little at each of them and then turned his head back to James.
"How did you get here?" Before Harry could answer two students came running in. A
girl with bushy brown hair and a red headed boy.
"Harry! Something happened..." The girl stopped when she saw everyone in the
room. When her eyes landed on James and then on Harry her face went pale and she
fainted. The red head caught her before she fell, looking around him bewildered.
"I-I don't think we should open anything else from Snuffles anymore Harry." Harry
nodded his head gravely. He then got up from where he was sitting by his trunk
and helped the boy carry the girl over to a bed.
"Harry, is everything all right."
"Uh, yes just fine. Oh, this is my friend Ron W-Weldon and the girl who passed
out is my other friend Hermione Green," in a lower voice Harry spoke to Ron, "I
think we should go talk to Dumbledore." Ron nodded and then looked at Hermione.
"We should take Hermione to the hospital wing."
"Alright," Harry then rose his voice to address the rest of the group, "We need
to see your headmaster. Do you mind showing us the way, and where the hospital
wing is?"
"Sure," James smiled, "It'll give us an excuse to be late for Quidditch practice
this time."
~*~
James kept an eye on the strange students that they were leading. It was
puzziling how they could have just shown up, and why did Harry look so much like
him? That was a mystery in itself. Harry had said while they were walking that it
had just been a bad portkey, and they had all ended up in different places but he
felt that there was more to this story. The one named Ron was levitating his
friend Hermione in front of him. He looked worried and confused all at once. He
was staring at everything in sight as if it was all familiar yet foriegn to him.
"Is your school a lot like Hogwarts?" Ron jumped a bit out of his daze.
"Huh? Oh, yeah very much."
"What year are you guys in?"
"Sixth."
"We are too. So... You're all exchange students?"
"Yeah, that's right."
"Must be exciting...Here's the hospital wing." They left Hermione with Madame
Pompfrey after telling her what happened and then they left to go to Professor
Dumbledore's office. They finally reached the gargoyle.
"Oh crap, we don't know the password....uh, cauldron cakes." This didn't work so
everyone shouted out a suggestion.
"Chocolate frogs."
"Bertie Botts every flavor beans." Still didn't work.
"Fizzing Whizbees." The gargoyle jumped out of the way, revealing the winding
stairs.
"Aha! There you go Harry, Ron. The headmaster's office is just up there."
"Thanks. We'll be fine from here." The two boys quickly went up the stairs. The
Marauders looked at each other in confusion.
"Strange boys."
"Yeah, wonder what that was all about."
"Whatever it was, they were a bit nervous about it."
"Enough of this," said Sirius, "We need to get to practice Prongs, or have you
forgotten we're playing Ravenclaw in a week?"
"Alright. Are you coming too Moony, Wormtail?"
"Sure." The four friends walked off, forgetting their strange visitors for the
moment.
~*~
"Remind me again, Harry, why we needed an escort to places we already know?"
"Because, we're not supposed to know. Now, come on. I'm sure whatever's going on,
Professor Dumbledore can explain." They both reached the door and carefully
knocked. They heard a faint, 'come in', and so opened the door. In front of them
in a desk was a slightly younger Dumbledore and sitting in a chair in front of
him was none other than Sirius Black.
"Ah, there you are," said Sirius causing much confusion from Harry and Ron.
Sirius merely smiled and then turned back to Dumbledore, "These are two of the
students I was speaking of. Their portkey malfunctioned, I'm afraid. They were
supposed to show up in here at the same time as me."
"Yes, I see Professor Manning. But where is the third one that you spoke of, a
girl?"
"She's in the hospital wing. She...um, fainted," put in Harry quickly.
Dumbledore's gaze fell upon Harry then. His eyes seemed to bore into him, seeking
Harry's darkest secrets. Harry merely stared calmly back his gaze equally
searching, something that had taken much patients and skill to hewn. It had come
in handy many times when he wanted to keep his secrets, especially when he faced
Voldemort.
"You look very much like one of my students, James Potter. Any relation, Mr...?"
"Pleeter, Harry Pleeter and I'm afraid not. I have met him though, plus his
friends. This is my friend Ron Weldon, sir," Harry gestured to Ron, "And the girl
that is in the hospital wing is Hermione Green."
"Yes, I see. Professor Manning here was discussing your transfer to this school
and is applying for our Defense against the Dark Arts teaching position."
"Oh." That's all Harry could say as he looked at his godfather in confusion. The
look in his eyes told Harry that he would explain everything later so he kept
silent.
"Professor Manning, you will need to take the required tests and these two and
their friend will be sorted tomorrow. What year are they in?"
"Sixth year, all of them."
"Then everything seems to be in order. I'll let you take that test now, and you
two," Dumbledore looked at Ron and Harry once again, "may go see Ms. Green in the
hospital wing. Professor Manning will join you once he has finished."
"Thank you Professor." Harry and Ron then left the room to see how Hermione was.
~*~
"That boy, Harry. He's an...interesting young man. Are you sure he's only in
sixth year?" Dumbledore turned a questioning eye upon Professor Manning (Really
Sirius Black).
"Yes Professor Dumbledore. Why do you ask?"
"Oh, he just looked as if he had the weight of the world upon him. That's nothing
anyone should endure at such a young age."
"Well, Harry's an extraordinary boy. He's been through a lot." Dumbledore nodded
staring off in deep thought.
"Professor?"
"Yes?" Dumbledore jolted out of his musing.
"May we begin the test now?"
"Oh, yes. Of course." Dumbledore rose from his seat to get the materials, the
whole time trying to put thoughts of th new students behind him for the moment,
but failing.
Who were they?
A/N: How's that for my first chapter? Good, bad? Tell me please. Thank you for
reading and don't forget to review!
p.s. I know I told you that I would have my G/D crossover story Luckyducky7 but I
just had to write this first. Sorry! I'm still working on that other story
though! (I had the year that James was in 6th year as originally 1981 but changed it after a review *Thank you!* telling me that it was wrong. I have no idea why I put 1981. I should have seen that it was wrong but I guess I didn't. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll go bang my head against a wall somewhere. *Walks off looking for a wall to endure her hard head smashing against it*
