This is the first proper chapter to this story, tell me if you think I should change a few things where it doesn't flow.

What if the Potters had a second child in Ginny's year and they were never killed.What if Lupin and Tonks were a year apart in age and had married around the same time Lily and James had and they had a daughter two years above Ron, Harry and Hermione and best friends and classmates with Fred and George.What if Harry, his sister Willow, and Emily were raised together by all the Marauders.When Hermione choose to become friends with the Weasley twins, Draco Malfoy, Emily Lupin and Lee Jordan, and her twin was best friends with Ron and Harry her whole school life plays out differently.

Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN HARRY POTTER thatremains with the Goddess Jo Rowling

The morning was quiet at the Marauder Manor with James and Lily asleep in their room, Tonks and Remus asleep in theirs, Sirius asleep in his, and three very awake kids downstairs in the garden planning a way to wake everyone up, the kids were; 13-year-old Emilia (Emily) .T. Lupin, 11-year-old Harry .J. Potter, and 10 year old Willow .L. Potter. The two families and Sirius were going to Diagon Alley to get school supplies for Emily and Harry who would be starting their third and first years respectively at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

The children had been raised by three Marauders and hated the fourth, it was more than obvious that this had worn off on Emily, having had more detentions than any other student in one year since the Marauders. Her and her closest friends, the Weasley twins and Lee Jordan, were the new Marauders and McGonagall saw parts of her dad and uncles in Emily and she never held back on a prank. She had her long bright purple hair in a waist-length braid, she was wearing a short sleeved tee shirt that was bright red, she got it in a Muggle shop last summer, and a pair of black skinny jeans which were ripped at the knees, her dad didn't like her wearing them but sometimes she was so much like her mum that it was scary, her fashion sense was the same as her mother for the most part, her black shiny boots, and her usual jewellery, a rough cut red tourmalinependant that her grandmother had given her before she'd passed away and an amethyst bracelet that she'd got on her 13th birthday.

Harry seemed to be almost opposite, he never tried to find trouble but with the help of Emily, whom he looked up to like a sister, he could quickly be persuaded to pull off a prank, he had a talent for trouble finding him, however, especially when he would end up grounded for doing stupid things that wound up injuring him or Emily. His messy hair was untamed, his glasses were once again broken in the middle, and he wore an old checked button up shirt and ripped jeans (torn a lot worse than Emily's) with muddy trainers.

Willow was very much like her mother, never getting caught for doing pranks and only sometimes getting into trouble, she is difficult to persuade to help, but if someone has done something to her then she can pull a prank worthy of the Marauders. She is very curious, this is what lands her in trouble more often than not. Sirius often treats Willow like a daughter since she had always reminded him of his own daughters who had died and he is the only one that can get Willow to pull off pranks. She had her medium-length red hair in a high ponytail making it only shoulder-length, she had on a short white dress with a blue fairy on and a light silver jacket with flat silver pumps. She was very girly unlike her cousin.

When the clock in the kitchen struck 7:00 the three kids leaped up from the dry grass of the garden and woke up the adults, Willow waking Sirius, Harry waking his parents, and Emily waking her parents. When the clock reached 8:30 Sirius came downstairs very begrudgingly, looking at everyone around the table smiling, apart from Remus who looked just as annoyed at being woken up on a Saturday, Sirius grabbed a large cup of black coffee to help him try and wake up. Once the coffee was drunk, breakfast was eaten, and pots were washed, the group apparated to Diagon Alley, Harry, and Emily both needed to go to Ollivander's due to Emily needing her wand fixed and everyone at home had said no, and Harry needing his first very own wand.

It was only two days before Emily and Harry were to board the Hogwarts Express to return to Hogwarts and Emily needed her wand repairing, she had all of her school supply's but she had broken her wand hitting her boyfriend with it after they had all been messing around and playing Quidditch at Marauder Manor so was taking it to Ollivander's to get it repaired in time for school. Emily lost her concentration and walked into a girl with bushy brown hair who was obviously no older than a first year, a girl with pixie-cut brown hair that was much less bushy stood next to the other girl,"Sorry, I didn't see ya, I was off in my own world!" Emily spoke with a light heartedness in her voice as she helped the girl to her feet, the girl looked at Emily unsure, the girl's brown eyes meeting Emily's powerful, unblinking autumn leaf red eyes, the girl seemed to cower away ever so slightly until a caring smile crossed Emily's lips like a smile that would be worn by a big sister. The girl shook Emily's hand before asking Emily where she would find Ollivander's. Emily shook away a thought that for a fleeting second these two girls looked familiar to her, but she couldn't place it."I'm heading there, c'mon I'll show you where it is, I'm Emily by the way, this is Harry," Emily grabbed the girls hand lightly and walked slowly with the girl towards Ollivander's wand shop.

Emily took hold of Harry's hand as to not lose him in the crowd and they entered the old wand shop. Inside the two young girls were looking rather unsure how to proceed, Emily smiled to herself remembering George, Fred and herself in the same boat three years ago. Emily came over to them both, looking rather intimidating in her choice of dress, before speaking,"Hey, it's okay if you're worried, but you don't need to be, if you want, Harry can go first and show you what you need to do."The two girls looked at each other before nodding enthusiastically. Ollivander looked at Emily with pale grey eyes before speaking in his silky voice,"Miss Lupin, Ebony, 11 inch, double core, dragon heart string and phoenix feather. Incredibly powerful and exceptionally rare, quite like yourself," Emily smiled,"Spot on as always Mr Ollivander. However I have broken my wand, I was hoping you'd repair it for me?" Ollivander shook his head and took the wand, repairing it in a heartbeat. Emily hated how her whole family refused to repair it so she had to pay 1 sickle to get it repaired because it was such a simple spell that had to be done. Emily's family all knew the spell but refused to perform it. Harry stepped forward slowly after Emily was done,"I wondered when I'd be seeing you here, Mr Potter. Seems only yesterday your mother, father, uncles, and aunt were in here buying their first wands." The two girls sat watching as Emily tucked her wand into her belt where Bill Weasley had made a dragon hide holder for it. Harry tested a pile of wands and seemed to be getting nowhere,"Tricky customer…" Ollivander mumbled causing Emily and Harry to share a look, that was never said by Ollivander – he had a wand for everyone and always knew which one would suite."I wonder…" He grabbed a box covered in a thick layer of dust before cautiously taking the wand out, as Harry tested the wand, a sort of firework flowed from the end,"Curious. Very curious." Emily furrowed her brows as Harry asked,"What's curious?" Ollivander met the young boy's eyes,"I remember every wand I've ever sold and it just so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather resides in your wand gave another, just one other. It's the wand containing that feather which gave you that scar."Half an hour after they entered, Emily and Harry left Ollivander's Wand Shop with the two girls and waved at them as they went their separate ways. Emily told the girls to come find her on the train to Hogwarts. She knew how terrifying that train ride can be, especially if you are slightly different.

Harry and Emily slowly walked their way back to their families past Quality Quidditch Supplies where Harry pressed his head up against the glass to see the latest broom, the new Nimbus 2000, the fastest broom in the world. It was Sirius who came over to see where the two Quidditch lovers had gotten to, it didn't take him long to find them looking at the Nimbus 2000 on display. He smirked, they were so much like Tonks and James in their love for Quidditch and flying, yet they both seemed a lot like him in the way that they didn't know the meaning of the word 'safety'. He took the two kids into the shop and there they saw Draco Malfoy, Sirius glared at his cousin's husband and at his cousin, Sirius had never liked them but Draco didn't see blood purity and status, he just saw people and those who were wrong and didn't deserve and those who were good and got what they should. Draco saw his 'cousins' in the shop but he couldn't exactly run over to them due to the way that his parents worked.

Emily smiled at Draco, a look that could easily be missed by everyone else. Sirius took the two kids to get a better look of the broom, Draco watched as Emily and Harry practically ran to the new Nimbus 2000, he looked at his parents who were also looking at Emily and Harry,"May I go and look, Father?" Draco asked curiouslyand cautiously, Lucius glared at him as if Draco had just suggested mass murder. Draco hung his head and looked back at Emily, she had dropped her arm over Harry's shoulder and was laughing with him and Sirius. Draco had often found himself feeling jealous of this family as they were always happy and laughing with each other. Emily often felt strange when she saw how other families – like the Malfoy's – could work in the way they did where they weren't smiling and laughing all the time or how they were always judging people based on their blood.

Sirius left the shop with two very happy kids, each had a Nimbus 2000, and Emily was on the Gryffindor Quidditch team as a chaser so the broom would come in very useful in the taking down of Slytherin. Remus rolled his eyes as the three came back over to the rest of them, whereas James and Tonks looked jealous, Lily looked like she might cry at the idea of the two kids being on the fastest brooms in the world but they all had known that Sirius would've gotten them the broom's, no matter what. The worrying part was that the two kids both had the same sense of self-preservation as Sirius, which wasn't much. Willow was also stood looking slightly jealous at her brother and cousin, though just at the fact that they each got a cool gift because she didn't really like Quidditch.

The group headed home getting ready for Hogwarts which meant that they needed to pack their trunks to go in two days time, Harry had gotten his letter on his birthday. Two days before they would return to Hogwarts and Harry would be starting his first year. Willow would be joining them in Harry's second year. On the way home Sirius asked Emily quietly who the two girls she was talking with at Ollivander's were, she responded,"I thought I recognized them from somewhere but I guess I might have seen them around before, it was in their eyes. Why?" Sirius just kept looking forward, a distant look in his eyes as he took Emily's hand,"Uncle Padfoot?" She whispered, he just looked at her with sad eyes and before they knew it, were home. Emily and Harry headed upstairs to pack with Willows help as the adults seemed to go into a deep conversation about something that the kids didn't know about.

In her room, Emily put on a random record and began humming along to the songs as she packed her trunk. Emily packed her clothes quite quickly but her trunk still had a lot of room, making her smile, she grabbed out a couple of different records (ABBA, Big Country, Spandau Ballet, Runrig, Meat Loaf, and some others,) she wrapped each sleeve in different items of clothing in order to protect them before getting Sirius to putting protection charms on them. Heading over to the bookshelves, Emily scoured each shelf grabbing down the books she needed for that year along with a few of her favourite books (Snow Cloud Stallion, Alice in Wonderland, and Matilda). As she packed the books, Emily was careful to keep them flat, she grabbed her favourite cloak from her wardrobe, it was gorgeous with a galaxy print on it that shifted so the stars lined up with what were above her at that moment. She placed the cloak carefully on top of the books just as Harry came in. "What if the hat puts me in Slytherin?" His voice trembled and Emily couldn't help but reach over,"Then that's where you belong but being Slytherindoesn't mean that you're evil, it means that you're ambitious, see us Gryffindor's are stupid, we'll do something just to prove we can, Slytherin's do something for a reason, because of their endgame. They eat an entire pizza to stop hunger, we eat an entire pizza just because we're dared to." Harry couldn't help but giggle as Emily spoke while still collecting more things for her trunk. Finally packed, she slammed the lid down before locking the straps.

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