A/N: Hello, earthlings! I have decided to relent and post this now, out of excitement! So enjoy, and remember, I don't own the Harry Potter series, but I do own a cell phone and a pair of scissors great for poking holes in my water bottle.

The Mini-Marauders: Book 1

Chapter 1

Hogwarts

"LEAH!" Mum yelled up the stairs. "Time to go!" I sighed, and shoved the last of my things into my trunk.

"Coming!" I called back, attempting to drag my trunk down the stairs, deteriorating miserably. My three best friends, Harry Potter, Teddy Lupin, and Jem Pettigrew heard the clamor I was making and rushed to help me.

"What did you pack in here? Your entire house?" Harry asked jokingly. I stuck my tongue out at him.

"No, just all that Zonko's from my birthday." I couldn't help but wear an evil grin.

"I know that grin. Whatever you guys have planned, I agree 100%," Dad said. Mom slapped him.

"Sirius! Don't tell her that!" she cried in exasperation.

"So you want me to lie, Joyce Black? I am offended." He put on a face of mock horror. James and Lily came into the sitting room, followed by Remus, Tonks, Peter, and Melissa. Yes, this is my life as the daughter of Sirius Black, pranking extraordinaire. Mum says we have a lot to live up to. Uncle Moony jokes that Teddy will have girls drop at his feet, because of his metamorphmagus abilities. Teddy says I'm the only girl for him. They all do, the liars. And they call me princess, I tell them to shut up.

"Hey guys," I start slowly, "We need nicknames, like our dads have. Teddy, uhhh," I am at a loss here.

"Sunny?" Harry joshed, referencing his dad's nickname, Moony.

"Rainy?" Jem quipped.

"What about… Morphy McMorphmuffin?" I suggested half heartedly.

"No," Teddy stated sternly. I glared at him.

"What about… Phoenix?" Jem asked.

"Yeah!" Harry yelled happily.

"Brilliant," I cheered.

"Ok, Jem, you should be Dragon!"

"Kay, but what about Harry?" Jem asked, sounding ecstatic.

"Butterfly!" Teddy laughed.

"No. Way." Harry growled menacingly.

"Ladybug?"

"Nope."

"Griffin?"

"Perfect!" I cried. "Now do me!"

"Princess, they all stated in unison.

"We need a ritual. Do you, Phoenix, agree to be loyal to the Mini-Marauders at all times?"

"I do," Teddy stated.

"Do you, Dragon, agree to be loyal to the Mini-Marauders at all times?"

"I do," Jem said proudly.

" Do you, Griffin, agree to be loyal to the Mini-Marauders at all times?"

"I do," Harry yelled.

"And I, Princess, do too. Princess!" I put my fist in the center.

"Phoenix!" Teddy yelled, repeating my action.

"No, Phoenix, you go last, 'cause your oldest. Harry's next."

I stood up and left our compartment to go change, when I passed two red-heads crouched over a map. Not just any map- Daddy's map.

"Hey, is that the Marauder's Map?" I asked, innocently, my big brown eyes wide with shock.

"Yeah," One of them said.

"Cool, can I see?!"

"I guess," the other began.

"but may we,"

"ask why?"

"That's my daddy's map!" I exclaimed.

"You know one of the Marauders?" This time it was their eyes that resembled dinner plates.

"All four, actually. And their sons."

"No way!"

"Yep!"

"Who're you, anyway?"

"Leah Black, Padfoot's daughter. But mini-Marauders call me Princess." Those irritating subconscious grins tugged at their lips.

"Why Princess,"

"Does this mean,"

"We're a part of your little group?" I nodded and led them to our compartment.

"That's Harry Potter, Prong's son, aka Griffin, Teddy Lupin, Moony's son, aka Phoenix, and Jem Pettigrew, Wormtail's son, aka Dragon. Now you need names!" I exclaimed happily. Four was becoming 6.

"Wait, whoa whoa whoa! Hold the phone! Who're they?" Harry asked accusingly.

"Fred and George Weasley. The ones McGonagall is always complaining about,"

"Ah, old Minnie," Fred and George sighed together.

"Anywho, I think that Fred should be Salamander, and George, you can be, ummmm…"

"Sphinx!" Jem yelled.

"Yeah," Teddy agreed.

I waited nervously as Berkers, Allany got sorted into Hufflepuff.

"Black, Leah!" Minnie called. I wobbled up to the hat and sat upon the stool.

Great courage, sly, beautiful, smart…where to put you?

"Gryffindor!" I couldn't help but scream. I waited happily with Fred and George for

"Lupin, Theodore!" I shot him a thumbs up. He smiled nervously back. The hat took ages to decide. It decided on Gryffindor. I leapt up and hugged him. He did that spinny thing that couples on TV do. We whispered until

"Pettigrew, Jeremiah!" was called.

"Go Phoenix!" I shouted happily. Almost instantaneously the hat yelled 'Gryffindor!' I hugged him, too. Right after Perks, Sally-Anne!" McGonagall called Harry. I winked at him. He nervously pushed his glasses up his nose.

"Gryffindor!" I was so excited that all of us were in the same house I ran up to the stool and hugged him right there.

"Awww…" Everyone chorused.

"That Lupin kid is cute," Lavender Brown said later that night in our dorm.

"Who, Teddy? Hah! No one stands a chance. C'mon, get real. Ever since we were little, they've called me Princess and said I'm the only girl for them," I replied, smirking.

A/N: Did you like it? Hate it? Please review! Also, I won't tell the whole Voldemort backstory, but let's just say that Merope wasn't able to conceive. I have the first part of chapter 2 written, and I'll continue ASAP!

Thanks for reading!

Grey Eyed