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Marauders year 2 at Hogwarts! Enjoy!

Riley sighed. An entire month of being grounded, with no contact from Sirius, James, Remus, or Peter, and not being allowed to do magic outside of school. All things considered, Riley was beyond elated to be invited to the Lupin residence and the Potter mansion for the remainder of vacation. Remus' father was coming to Apparate her over on Saturday, and she already had her trunk packed with everything she needed for her second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Being as nervous as she was, Riley went over her checklist for the millionth time in her head, looking through her trunk.

Wand, robes, books, broomstick, cauldron, potion supplies, guitar, Muggle clothes for breaks and weekends, pajamas, toothbrush, notebooks, and owl. Got it all, Riley thought. Mr. Lupin was coming tomorrow, and Riley was incredibly nervous. What if they didn't like her? What if she forgot something?

"Calm down, Riley," she told herself, "and stop with the 'what ifs'. You know that's only going to make you more nervous. Just read a book or something, you crazy person."

Yes, Riley Stevens talked to herself, but only when she didn't have the Marauders or Lily to talk to. It had been a long summer, with old, fat Buster(the dog) and her parents as company. She had Amber, too, but she was usually out hunting or sleeping, and Riley wasn't too fond of the dead frogs, mice, and other small creatures she found sometimes.

CRACK!

Riley screamed, whirling around and holding up a pillow. There she John Lupin, pocketing his wand and smiling nervously at her.

"Sorry I scared you, it's just James and Sirius are about to blow up the house and Remus begged me to come see if you could come early. If I remember correctly, he said 'You need to get Riley over here, I need another sane person in this house to take care of those two!' Apparently you're labeled as sane," he said, with a wolfish grin.

"Poor Remy. I'll ask my parents if I can go early, they're eating lunch. They probably won't mind and I'm dying to see the others," replied Riley, before running into the kitchen were Joanne and Marcus Stevens sat at the table, eating sandwiches.

"Riley, what was that noise? Not more accidental magic, I hope," said her dad, noticing her presence. She had told her parents about the turning-Sirius-purple-on-his-birthday-and-accidentally-breaking-the-window incident, but she shook her head.

"It's stopped, Dad. No, It was Remus' dad, he wants to know if I can leave early, apparently Remus is dying over alone with Sirius and James. Can I go?" the two parents exchanged looks, before standing and pulling Riley into a hug.

"Yes, you can go. Promise to write, okay?" said Joanne.

"I promise, Mum. Bye, I'll miss you," whispered Riley.

"See you soon, Ri-bear," Marcus said. Riley smiled, waved goodbye, and picked up her trunk, guitar case, and owl cage, took, Mr. Lupin's arm, and allowed herself to be swept miles away through Apparition. She immediately regretted it, experiencing the feeling of being sucked through a very small tube, twisting and turning until it all suddenly stopped, and Riley crashed to the floor.

"Riley!" four male voices yelled as she made contact with the ground. Riley looked up to see the concerned voices of Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and James Potter. Her face broke into a wide smile and she swept them all into a group hug.

"Hey guys, how was your summer?" she asked, voice muffled from the many heads in her face.

"You smack face-first into the floor and your first reaction is to hug us and ask us about our summer?" Sirius asked incredulously. Riley departed from the hug and nodded her head.

"Yup," she said, looking incredibly windswept from the Apparition. Sirius let out his bark-like laugh, before eyeing Riley's luggage.

"You brought your gootur!" he shouted happily. Riley cocked her head in confusion, before realizing what he said and her eyes widened and she shook her head frantically.

"No, no I will NOT play my guitar for you just so you can dance around like idiots!" she said.

"PLEAAAAAAAAASSSEEE!" whined Sirius and James. They were bouncing on the balls of their feet, and looked very excited. It would occupy the boys and keep them from destroying anything… Riley sighed in resignation.

"Fine, but only four songs, then we'll go outside, okay?" she said. The boys nodded, and she led them into the living room, sat on the couch, and pulled out her guitar.

"Rip the earth in two, with your mind. Seal the urge which ensues with brass wires. I never meant you any harm, your tears feel warm as they fall on my forearm. Close my eyes for a while. Force from the world a patient smile. How can you say that your truth is better than ours? Shoulder to shoulder, now brother, we carry no arms. The blind man sleeps in the doorway, his home. If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy, I could have won," Riley sighed, rolling her eyes. Sirius and James were doing ballet, wearing the pink tutus they had somehow retrieved from the depths of her trunk.

"But I gave you all, I gave you all, I gave you all. Close my eyes for a while, force from the world a patient smile. But I gave you all, I gave you all, I gave you all. And you rip it from my hands and you swear it's all gone, and you rip out all I have just to say that you've won. You rip it from my hands and you swear it's all gone, and you rip out all I have just to say that you've won, you've won, well now you've won. But I gave you all, I gave you all, I gave you all," Riley strummed the final notes, and looked over at the boys. They looked very into their dance and she was sure they had full intentions of doing four songs. She sighed, and struck up a new tune.

3 songs later

"SHUT UP!" screamed Riley, over Sirius and James' loud protests of her not playing. They had managed to get Peter to dance with them and were doing a chorus line, kicking up their legs like idiots.

"Oh, come on, Riley, one more song!" whined Sirius.

"No, Sirius, I said four songs, and I meant four songs! Why don't we go outside?" she suggested.

"I WANNA DANCE!" screamed James.

"ME TOO!" Sirius yelled.

"WELL TOO FREAKING BAD!" Riley screamed back. Sirius lunged at her, but she simply hopped over a seat, and he went flying over the couch, head slamming into the wall, and falling to the floor. Riley looked over the back and smirked. Sirius was knocked out cold.

"You idiot,"

Mr. and Mrs. Potter and Mr. and Mrs. Lupin would not stop yammering. As soon as James' parents had arrived via Apparition, they had been in deep conversation with Remus' parents. It had been a half hour since they had gotten here, and the Marauders were antsy to leave. Remus and James looked at each other, and a silent agreement was made. Their parents had to shut up.

"MOM! DAD! STOP TALKING!" they yelled simultaneously. All four adults turned to look at the two young wizards who were scowling irritably.

"We. Need. To. Go. Stop. Doing. Your. Boring. Adult. Conversation," said James.

"BAGOSH!" Riley yelled, falling off the couch and landing on her butt.

"All right, all right, we'll go," said Mr. Potter, and they said goodbye to Mr. and Mrs. Lupin, and left through the Floo. The Marauders fell through the fire as one, landing on the other side in a dogpile.

"You five are more insane than Charlus was in his Hogwarts days. As soon ask you get yourself up, you can unpack and come eat lunch," said Mrs. Potter, walking around them into the kitchen.

"Gosh, James, you're so fat," groaned Riley, straining to remove herself from the tightly packed pile.

"Am not," scoffed James. Riley just rolled her eyes and bit James' shoulder. He screeched and rolled off the pile, leaving Riley free to get out.

"James, you scream like a girl," she said. James sighed, helped the others up, and showed them the rooms they would be staying in. The Potter residence was huge, the biggest house Riley had ever seen. Each of them had their own room, and Riley put down her trunk, guitar case, and owl cage, before running down the stairs with the others to go eat lunch. James' mom had set out turkey sandwiches, fruit punch, and treacle tart.

"So, guys, what are we going to do for our Welcoming Feast prank?" asked Riley, looking around at the others. They all shrugged. Riley sighed.

"Come on, surely one of you has ideas?"

"I do!" squeaked Peter, "We find a potion that turns the Slytherin's skin green, and their hair silver. Then we make them fly!"

"Not a bad idea, Peter, but maybe we could do that for everyone! We could have the Ravenclaws have blue skin and bronze hair, Hufflepuffs have yellow skin and black hair, and Gryffindors have red skin and gold hair! And everybody flies!" said Sirius, grinning widely, high fiving Peter.

"That's awesome! But how do we make that happen? Any ideas, Dad?" asked James. Mr. Potter looked up from his paper.

"Well, there is no potion I know of that can do something like that, but I know about something called a color transferring spell. You could take the color from everyone's ties and put them on their skin and hair, I think you would be able to do it," he said thoughtfully.

"But what about the first years? They arrive with black ties that have the Hogwarts crest on them," Riley pointed out.

"It doesn't have to be individually, it's an area spell. Take the color from one tie, and spread it to everyone," Mr. Potter said.

"Oh, that makes sense. But we can't practice it," said Remus.

"Go ahead! They say not to do magic, but the Ministry will just think it's us, and it's not like any Muggles can see us," The Marauders looked at each other with pure excitement, "I'll help you practice, we can go outside."

Charlus led the five 12 year olds out to the large field with some small Quidditch goalposts on either side, and Conjured four Hogwarts ties, each with the different House colors. Riley went first, pointing her wand at each boy.

"Hiatus summa!"

Two hours later, each Marauder could do the color transferring spell.

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