Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. if i did i would be doing something else.

The vase

Sirius and Remus have gone to James' house for the summer, and play catch with a vase belonging to Mrs Potter.

Harry has gone to Rons house for the summer holidays. He is going into 6th year. They find a vase that none of the family like and start to hope it would break "by accident".

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"It's the first of august. Lets go out and play Quidditch" suggested James.

"You would suggest that, wouldn't you prongs?" said Remus

"What? I'm bored"

"Prongs, what the hell is that?!" said Sirius

James looked at what Sirius was referring to.

"Oh that" looking at the horrid vase that somebody had given his mother as a Christmas present "just a vase"

"Its ugly" added Remus as he came into the room.

Sirius suddenly grinned in his maniac way, picked the vase up and yelled "CATCH"

James caught the vase before it hit the floor. "Close Padfoot" he said as he threw it to Remus.

They carried on throwing it, hoping it would break then Sirius said

"I know, lets make this more interesting. Lets get further and further away from each other with each catch"

So they did that, but still the vase refused to break.

Mrs Potter came home just in time to see James throw the vase at Remus.

"James!" she shouted "What on earth do you think you are doing? Stop that nonsense at once and come and help me with all the groceries"

"Aww, but-"

"No buts!"

James followed his mother out side, giving death glares to his two best friends, who were shaking with silent laughter in the corner of the room.

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20 YEARS LATER

(A/N: It was Harry's birthday the day before, but Harry had been unable to get to the Burrow until earlier in the day, the first day of August.)

Harry and Ron were walking back up to the stairs to get something, when Harry noticed something that had definitely not been there last time he had been there.

"Hey Ron" he called "Where did that come from?"

"I dunno" said Ron "it was a Christmas or birthday present from some relative or another. Nobody really likes it, but mum doesn't want to offend anybody if they come over"

He (Ron) picked it up and looked at it. He turned to Harry. Threw it and yelled "CATCH"

He caught it and threw it back.

Before long they were tossing the vase to and fro, hoping it would break "by accident", when Remus came through the door. He was smiling, and unknown to the two boys, not about to tell them off.

REMUS' POV

The two boys looked like a deer trapped in headlights. Which Remus found quite funny considering James' animagus, and Harry's patronus. It was also funny because he knew exactly what they had been doing.

They were still frozen.

"You might want to put that vase down Harry" Remus said calmly

"We…er… we were just… err" spluttered Ron

"I know what you were doing. James and Sirius were caught doing just the same thing 20 years ago. They were 16 as well"

"What, they were throwing a vase around -"

"Hoping that it would accidentally break. Yeah, it was a vase belonging to your grandmother. James got caught by her, throwing it at me." Remus said "she wasn't very happy with him"

Harry laughed

"It was lucky you got caught by me, and I didn't catch you throwing it" he said with a wink, and walked back out to the garden.

Some things never change. Harry is more like James than he realises.

HARRY AND RONS POV

Harry gave out a low whistle as Remus shut the door.

"I thought we'd had it" said Ron

"And me. Weird though, isn't it?" Harry said

"Whats weird?"

"That me and dad do the same thing when we are both at the same age"

"Yeah. I suppose it is weird"

A/N good? bad? Fantastic? dreadful? tell me what you think.