Hi! Just so you know what's going on… Consider this the same story line of the regular Harry Potter series with some slight changes… Instead of Lily and James having a boy named Harry that defeated the Dark Lord at the tender age of one, they had a girl named Jamie that defeated the Dark Lord at the tender age of one. Sirius Black was never convicted for the crime that Peter Pettigrew had committed, and instead, Pettigrew was the one that ended up in Azkaban (and escaped in the third year). Both Remus Lupin and Sirius Black went on to get married and have children around the same time Lily and James did.
Yet, something happened in the past that broke the remaining two Marauder's friendship around the time of James' death. What was it? Nobody seems to know except Moony and Padfoot.
Little do Sirius and Remus know that both their children have befriended James' and Lily's famous daughter, Jamie Potter while at school at Hogwarts. Sirius and Remus both gave their sons their own names. Sirius because he's full of himself enough to name his son after himself, and Remus because…well, Remus is a perfect name for a little werewolf, isn't it?
From their first year at Hogwarts together, Sirius, Remus, and Jamie have pieced together their parents' past through the photo album given to Jamie in her first year by Hagrid, the Marauder's Map, the fact that Remus and Mr. Lupin are werewolves, and that Sirius' father is an unregistered animagus of a black dog. Sirius and Remus know better than to tell their fathers that their closest friends are their worst enemy's son, and their dead friend's daughter.
But eventually their secret will have to come out, and Lupin and Black would have to reconcile, right?
And thus, I present to you the fifth year of the adventures of Sirius Black II, Remus Lupin II, and Jamie Potter.
I don't own anything, JKR does of course. )
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"Boo!"
The girl jumped a foot in the air.
"God dammit Sirius!" she whispered harshly.
"Shhh! Will you both please shut up!" Remus said. His face was half hidden in the darkness, his cool hazel eyes flickering dangerously.
Sirius and Jamie glared at each other, but returned to the piece of parchment Jamie currently held in her hand.
"How did you not notice us coming?" Sirius whispered.
"I was concentrating on Snape over there!" she pointed to the tiny black dot labeled Severus Snape as he entered a nearby corridor, moving further away from the trio.
Jamie pursed her lips.
"That was too close."
"But it was worth it!" Sirius said, holding up a make-shift bag made of a bed sheet, "Enough to last us for the next couple of days."
Jamie and Remus snickered. The bag was bulging with sweets knicked from the kitchens.
"Come on, let's get back before any other teachers decide to randomly roam the corridors at night."
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"You know, you guys didn't really have to stay…"
"Are you kidding me?! We've left you here the past four years over break! We can skip one break without our families," Sirius said to Jamie. He leaped onto Remus' bed and began jumping up and down on it.
Remus looked disapprovingly at Sirius as his neatly stacked books and papers flew everywhere.
"Yeah. It's not like we get to see you over the summer either, so this is only fair," Remus added with a warm smile.
Jamie sniffed a little. "I'm so touched boys."
Sirius let out a huge fake sob and jumped onto his two best friends and began howling.
"I love you guys!"
Jamie laughed as she was crushed by the boys' combined weight. Remus growled at the black haired boy and threatened to bite him. Sirius quickly got up.
"Now now Remus, you know what would happen if you bit me, full moon or not," Sirius said, in the mocking tone of their Head of House, Professor McGonnagol.
The three laughed and began throwing pillows at each other, which evolved into a full scale war.
Sirius Black and Remus Lupin had both given up their Christmas Break in order to spend it with their best friend, Jamie Potter. Jamie of course had no parents to return home to during the break, unless you considered her muggle aunt, uncle, and cousin Dudley a family.
As the first pillow ripped, and feathers flew about, Jamie sat down defeated onto Sirius' bed and let out a sigh. She threw herself back onto the unmade bed and stared thoughtfully at the ceiling, as Remus mended the pillow and made all the feathers disappear from the room with one swish of his wand.
"What do you think would happen if your parents ever found out about us?" Jamie asked, staring at one last feather as it drifted downward to land on her nose.
Sirius scrunched up his face. This wasn't an uncommon topic of conversation.
"I don't know. And I would actually prefer not to find out." He laid down next to Jamie, also consumed in thought.
"I would like to know. They can't do anything to stop us from being friends, no matter what may have happened in the past. Their past isn't our past," Remus said matter-of-factly.
"Yes, well, it certainly hasn't stopped them from keeping us away from each other. They have made their past our present," Sirius said.
"I don't see my father ever breaking a friendship with someone who knew he was a werewolf and still stuck by him. It's completely unreasonable. I don't know what I would do if I didn't have the two of you." Remus shook his head grimly.
Jamie sat up. Her green eyes looked forlornly out from behind her mass of short black hair.
"Whatever. It doesn't matter. The fact is that we've been through everything together, and have stuck together through thick and thin. And that's the way it's going to stay."
"Haha, yeah, I wouldn't quite call it 'through thick and thin'," Sirius snickered.
"Yeah, fighting giant chess boards, Voldemort, Basilisks, dragons, and killer mazes constitutes for a bit more than that, I'm afraid," Remus smiled despite himself.
Jamie looked guilty. "It's my fault."
Sirius sat up angrily and smacked her on the back of her head.
"Ouch. What the hell!" Jamie muttered.
"Say anything like that again and I'll take your head off. You know we wouldn't have stuck by you if you didn't mean something to us," Sirius' blue eyes pierced her angrily.
Remus nodded in agreement. "Plus, if any of you two became werewolves, whose fault do you think that would be?"
"Well, we love you enough to go out every full moon, risking that you could bite us, yes, but we know you wouldn't. Especially not with the Wolfsbane. And getting caught at night….well, whatever," Jamie shrugged.
"Exactly, and the same theory applies to you, Potter," Remus said.
Jamie rolled her eyes. "Okay, okay, fine. I get it."
"Good. So…who's up to sneaking some more food from the kitchens?" Sirius grinned devilishly.
"We just got stuff last night!" Jamie said incredulously.
"Yeah, well, Moony and I got hungry!" Sirius showed the empty bed sheet that he had tied together to make a bag.
Remus and Sirius cracked up laughing as Jamie muttered something about boys and their stomachs.
"Holy shit, it's snowing!" Jamie screeched suddenly.
"Ow, my ears…," Remus said, wincing.
"Well damn your wolf ears!" Jamie ignored Remus and scrambled to the window. "Oooh, let's take a walk down to Hogsmeade! It'll look so nice with the falling snow…," she said dreamily.
Sirius and Remus took a second to glance at each other.
"Cough…GIRL!…cough!" he hacked into the nearest pillow. Remus laughed.
"Fuck you Padfoot."
Sirius waved his hand towards his bed obligingly.
"Anytime. I just don't quite know how that would affect our friendship…"
Jamie made a face at Sirius as Remus continued to laugh.
"Come on guys, please? We can go get a Butterbeer, too," she made a face at the two that she knew they wouldn't be able to resist.
"Aaah! Those eyes! Make them go away!" Sirius hid his face in his hands.
"Actually, I wouldn't mind a Butterbeer in this weather," Remus said.
Sirius gasped. "Fine! Side with the girl." He turned away from the other two childishly and crossed his arms.
Jamie was already pulling on a hoodie over her t-shirt and jeans and was looking for her cloak. By the time Remus had put his cloak on, Sirius had found his as well and the trio made their way down the boys' dormitory stairs.
There were very few children that stayed at Hogwarts this year during break with the rumors of Voldemort's return the previous summer. Parents wanted to see their children home as often as possible.
The corridors were eerily quiet, and as they passed the Great Hall, they saw only one table set up in the center of the vast marble room.
"I s'pose we should let one of the teachers know where we're going," Remus said.
"Of course, Moony is the one to tell the teachers exactly what we're up to. Jeez Moony, haven't you learned anything over the past four years?" Sirius asked mockingly.
"Shut up Padfoot," Jamie said and the three headed towards the small group of teachers seated at the table.
"Good morning professors," she greeted the congregation with a small smile.
"Good morning Potter, Black, Lupin. Up to no good, I see." Professor McGonnagol peered at them over her spectacles.
"Why professor, whatever would make you feel as if we would do anything to break rules?" Sirius said in return, his voice sickly sweet. Remus and Jamie smiled at each other.
Professor McGonnagol gave them a withered look.
"We only wanted to ask if it was all right if we went down to Hogsmeade for a little while," Jamie asked politely.
"Of course. Don't do anything stupid."
"Of course not Professor," Remus said. Remus, as Head Boy and an excellent student, gave the three some sort of credit. Not that Sirius and Jamie weren't good students as well, they had earned the same grades as Remus, but hid their trouble making sides a bit more. Plus, Remus' 'condition' made him seem a bit more trustworthy to the teachers. Poor, sickly Moony. Right.
"Interesting how neither of you returned home for the holidays this year," Professor Dumbledore commented quietly, a small smile playing on his lips.
"Yes well, we couldn't leave the poor orphan here again for another year." Sirius slung an arm around Jamie's shoulders.
"Thanks Sirius." Jamie rolled her eyes. She noticed Professor Snape watching them closely, and her scar began to tingle.
"Yes, well, I'm sure your parents will approve of you enjoying the holidays with your friends," Dumbledore's eyes twinkled. Jamie knew that Dumbledore must know what happened all those years ago between their parents.
"I'm sure they would," Jamie returned the smile and the three waved good bye.
"He knows. He has to," Padfoot said immediately as they left through the great oak doors.
Remus nodded.
"What does Dumbledore not know?" Jamie's muffled words came out through her scarf as she rubbed her forehead.
Remus noticed.
"Very true. But can't we just go enjoy ourselves without having to worry about our idiotic parents, Voldemort, Death Eaters, or anything else for once?" Remus kicked a pile of snow angrily.
"Of course. Instead we should be worrying about snow down our backs," Sirius said.
"What?" Remus only had time to turn and face Sirius before he had thrown a snowball in his face.
"I'm going to fucking kill you!"
Remus took off down the path after Sirius as Jamie watched them go.
'Yeah. Eventually they would have to find out,' she thought to herself as snow continued to drift gently down to the ground and blanket the Hogwarts grounds in white.
As far as she was concerned, this is the happiest she ever cared to be.
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