Specialis Revelio

Chapter One: Why We Don't Give Sirius A Time Turner

"That's it! Come with me the lot of you!" cried Professor Pandora White, waving her wand at both the laughing Marauders, and the grief stricken Lily Evans.

"But Professor... James was the one who threw the toad!" protested Lily.

"I'm sure you will have plenty of opportunity to discuss the unfairness of your situation to Professor McGonagall."

"But... But..."

James grinned and leaned over to Lily. "Stop arguing, Evans, it won't do any good. Trust me, I would know."

Lily didn't grace his statement with a response, instead following the teacher to McGonagall's office. James shrugged and then followed after her, with Lupin and Sirius at his heels.

Pushing them into the office, White said sternly, "Stay here, all of you, until I find Professor McGonagall. I doubt you'll win the House Cup this year."

As she left, James and Sirius took the opportunity to voice a few explicit swear words.

Sirius went over to McGonagall's desk and started rummaging through it, occasionally oh-ing and ah-ing at various items.

"Hey, Moony, where's Wormtail?" asked James, ignoring Lily.

"Dunno. I think he had to go do his essay – Slughorn gave him a five hundred word one."

"Good thing the man loves me – otherwise I'd be missing out on a guided tour of McGonagall's office," piped in Sirius.

"Last time I looked," said Lily, "you weren't in the Slugclub either."

"Stupid Slugclub's not worthy of me!" muttered Sirius, picking up a particularly shiny object. "Oh, sparkly!" Lily just rolled her eyes and James clapped with glee.

"That's a time turner that is!" said James. "Read about it in a book once when I was looking up, um..."

"You actually read a book, Potter?" laughed Lily.

"Yeah..."

"How far did you get into the book, Prongs?" asked Lupin.

"Um... five... maybe ten... chapters... pages... paragraphs... Something like that..."

"I thought so."

Sirius meanwhile began to flip the Time Turner in the air. "Maybe I should go to the future. I could be rich, and famous, and handsome... well, already got the last one covered."

Lily glared and casually pointed her wand at him. "Petrificus totalus!"

Sirius instantly froze and fell, the Time-turner still mid-air. Before any of them could do anything, or even realise what was about to happen, it fell down to earth and with a crash, broke.

The room instantly dissolved around them and they had the sensation that they were flying, very fast, forward. A blur of colors, shapes rushed past them. James tried to yell "Done it now, Evans!" but he couldn't hear his own voice. Then their feet hit solid ground...

The Hogwarts Express whistled as four red-heads, one boy with black raven hair, and one girl with flyaway brown, dashed on to the platform. The group then split up, with two redheads (Molly and Arthur Weasley) hugging and kissing the children goodbye.

"Be a good boy," said Molly, "don't go looking for trouble, and for god's sake, if you see a giant basilisk, run the other way and don't try and stab it, Harry! No talking to strange diaries, Ginny, and if I hear that you've been anywhere near giant chessboards, Ron... oh, and keep them out of trouble, Hermoine."

Arthur Weasley simply shook his head and said, "If you happen to hear about any giant snakes... just... let me know, will you? And Harry, look after Ginny." It was all very cheerful but to Harry, the last comment seemed more like a threat.

Ron tore himself from his mum's embrace. "Later, Mum!"

"Thanks for having me in the holidays, Mrs Weasley," said Harry.

"Not at all dear, not at all."

"Mum! The train's about to go."

"Oh, well, go on, all of you."

And with that the four Gryffindors hopped on the train. Ron and Hermoine went off to the Prefect's compartment while Harry and Ginny walked off in the other direction, hand in hand, to look for a spare compartment.

They quickly found one near the end of the train and put their bags away before settling down for the train ride.

An hour or so later, Ron and Hermoine returned to the carriage to catch Harry and Ginny in a tight embrace.

"Get off my sister!" yelled Ron, his face turning beetroot.

Harry turned round wearing an expression that suggested he'd just been hit by a Bludger, Ginny was furious, and Hermoine just looked thoroughly amused by it all.

"Ron... we've been through this!" yelled Ginny, exhasterated. "I'm dating Harry - as you've known from the second week of holidays. If you don't like it, I'll put a Bat Boogey hex on you, okay?"

Ron looked terrified by his sister and sunk down into the seat next to Harry, who pulled a chocolate frog out of his pocket and chucked it at his friend. He'd taken to carrying chocolate around, just for moments such as this. Professor Lupin appeared to have rubbed off on him.

"So," said Hermoine, forever the peacekeeper - except when she was fighting with Ron. "What are you two planning to do this year?"

"Quidditch," both Harry, Ron and Ginny said in unison. There appeared to be some confusion as to who 'you two' was.

"Well, I think we should concentrate on SPEW for a while. After all, there are plenty of house elves unaware of--"

"SHUT UP!" yelled Ron. Seeing Hermoine's fiery gaze turn on him, he quickly followed his own advice and shut up.

"Being Quidditch Captain's going to take up most of my spare time," said Harry, far more diplomatically.

"Does that mean I get special privledges?" asked Ginny.

Luckily, before another row could start, the compartment door opened and Neville and Luna walked in - Neville in all his standard confusion and Luna, same as always, with her raddish earings and glazed expression.

"Hello," she said, "I don't suppose any of you know who the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher is going to be. I heard he was going to be a vampire. I think I liked the werewolf better."

"It's Snape," said Harry bluntly.

"I definately liked the werewolf better," muttered Ron.

"But then, who's taking Potions? I do hope they're not strict," said Hermoine, intrigued by the news.

"His name's Slughorn."

A/N: Hi. Here's your authors. Yes, plural. There's two of us actually, the third member of the Trifecta will be... ahem... appearing later. For now, you can call us 'E' and 'R'. E's the compulsively organised one, and R's spontaneous and constantly telling herself to shut up. Just so you know. Anyway, we hope you like our fanfic so far. It's our first joint one. We love reviews, be kind! (E: 'But critiscism is good too.' R: 'Shut up! Share the love, people.')

Obviously this is set in the sixth book and we will be leaving the plot of the previous books totally intact (Though R is in denial of Sirius dying). If there are any errors, please feel free to let us know.

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