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THE MEMORY
The familiar cool sensation drowned him as he closed his eyes and let
the memories carry him elsewhere.
When he opened his eyes he was in front of Great Hall among the
students at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry making
their way for breakfast on an early december morning. He took a look
at the grounds through the open corridor. The usually lush green
grounds were covered with a thin layer of snow shining like tiny
diamonds in the mild morning sunlight. He noticed the young boy making
his way from the Grand Staircase towards the hall, in the usual
uniform wrapping a gold and red Gryffindor scarf around his neck while
the breeze mopped his forehead with tufts light brown hair. Professor
Lupin or Remus as Harry now called him was about 16 and in his 6th
year. He followed him through the doors of the hall as the young Remus
made his way to the far end of the Gryffindor table away form the
prying eyes of the teachers. Harry turned towards the table as Remus
greeted the group he was almost scared to see himself siting next to
Remus it was when he looked into the amber eyes of James Potter that
he realized that he was looking at his father just a bit older than he
was now. He constantly kept on messing up his already messed up raven
black hair as he gazed lazily at the girl sitting a few places away
from them, Lily Evans with her bright ginger hair falling perfectly
over her shoulders and the way her bright green eyes twinkled when she
laughed had James undivided attention . She caught James staring as
she glanced at him from over the pile of books besides her and
suddenly blush. Harry was a bit flustered and a red in face turned his
attention to the recently arrived Sirius Black, his godfather looking
much different then Harry had remembered him. The young Sirius was
full of life his eyes twinkling with mischief and a broad grin on his
face as he smacked a parchment he was holding playfully on James head
"Hey Prongs, we have the final preparations to make for our little
gift you can admire Evans later." James slightly blushed but it was
soon drowned by the excitement on his face at the mention of the prank
they had been planning. The four Marauders excitement etched on their
faces bent their heads to look into the parchment which Remus
carefully laid out on the table. Then taking out his wand and taping
it on the parchment softly whispered " I solemnly swear that I'm up
to no good" and the parchment opened to show the entire castle and
grounds of Hogwarts with all the people in the castle as black dots
moving about labeled with their names. "The Marauders map" Harry
almost squealed in excitement as he recognized the map that was now
lying at the bottom of his trunk safe under the invisibility cloak.
Peter Pettigrew a stout and clumsy boy strained his neck to see the
map and listen to what Padfoot was saying " So Moony you will sneak
into Filch's Office and put 'this' in his pumpkin juice." He proudly
removed a vial of a shiny red potion. "Remember this one, Marauders"
he said with excitement bubbling in his grey eyes. "Merlin! you kept
that all long Padfoot" Moony and Prongs together exclaimed in
astonishment while Wormtail smirked looking at the potion remembering
how he ended up in the hospital wing when James,Sirius and Remus had
brewed the potion and tested it on him.
"And its your work Wormtail to get Filch to the Grand
Staircase so we can go forward with the rest of our prank. Moony you
join me behind the statue of Merwyn the Malicious as soon as you are
done with your task." Padfoot said. "The potion will take about 5
minutes to take affect so you have to hurry with Filch, Wormtail"
Prongs added. "And I will be behind the armor" Prongs announced to no
one in particular "Its about time we give Filch a welcoming present".
Moony looked at the map and saw Filch was moving towards his office
from the Hogwarts grounds, he was almost near the Entrance Hall. "Go
Moony, we can distract him for about 5 minutes so that gives you about
7 minutes to be done with it. Mischief Managed" Prongs whispered to
the Marauders Map as Moony ran with the others at his heels . As
they saw Filch walking towards the doors of the Entrance Hall James
cast a spell so that the snow turned into a solid layer of ice and
Filch was unable to walk on the slippery sheet of ice. Moony reached
Filch's office and with a flick of his wand and a soft incantation
filled the goblet on the desk with pumpkin juice. And carefully added
few drops of the potion into it. All this trouble they were taking
just to remind Filch that he should not mess with the Marauders. The
were given a detention by him last week even when it was not their
fault. They had just fired a few Disarming spells on Snivellius and
his puppets when they were trying to hex a 3rd year Hufflepuff girl
for fun. To teach them a bit of a lesson they used a levitation charm
on those thick skulled Slytherins. But as the greasy head Snvilleus
was Malfoy's lap dog Filch never punished him. This was just little
thank you from the Marauders to Filch for making them have a good time
cleaning the lavatory after classes that day and without magic. By the
time Moony reached where Padfoot had positioned himself behind the
statue of Merwyn the Malicious Filch had safely reached the Entrance
Hall and was making his way with quick steps to his office Wormtail
following him so he could get him to the hall as soon as he drained
out the goblet of pumpkin juice.
They emptied the flobberworm mucus and Troll bogeys they had got
from Zonko's in buckets and levitated them high up in the air. Moony
cast a spell to make them invisible to the passing students. Soon as
they saw Filch approaching with Wormtail behind him James threw a few
small crackers in the hallway to clear the students. As if this was a
common indication of a Marauders prank the students cleared the area
and stood in a semi circle to watch what would happen with curiosity.
As Filch came there standing right below the buckets and yelling at
the students asking who had caused such havoc early in the morning,
many dungbombs flew in his direction one landing strait on his head
and before he had time even to blink a slimy substance dropped on him
which was even more stinky. The slime that covered him made his legs
wobble and he had difficulty standing to add to his problems he
suddenly started sprouting short limbs all over his upper body. All
this happening in a split of a confused Filch let out a groan as he
slipped and fell. All the students roared with laughter. To add to the
fun James fired a hex at Filch's that made giant hat like mushrooms
grow on his slime covered head and countless small once covered the
rest of his body . At the sight of the baffled caretaker with many
short legs and hands and a thousand mushrooms growing on them combined
with slime Padfoot and Moony unable to contain themselves rolled on
the floor with laughter and that broke the levitation charm and the
buckets hovering above bounced of Filch's mushroom covered head
destroying his another almost failed attempt to get up from the puddle
of sticky slime about him. The laughter of the students grew louder as
more and more students gathered to see the caretaker in his struggle.
Seeing what was going around him even Harry was drowned in laughter
almost forgetting where he actually was...he felt a warm hand on
his back which took him whirling out of Sirius's Pensive back to
12 Grimmauld Place the recent headquarters of the Order where he was
staying with the Weasleys, Hermione, Remus and Sirius. Remus was
standing behind him apparently he had been the one to pull Harry out
of the memory his face had the same cheerful smile saying "Had fun,
Harry."Harry had never seen on his face before except when he Padfoot
and Harry talked about James and in the memories he had seen in the
pensive. Before him Sirius sat lazily on a chair, with a mischievous
grin on his face and winked at him. Harry looked around a moment as if
registering this moment to his memory, he wanted to treasure it as
such moments where hard to come by in the wake of the upcoming war.
And this was one of those special moments that he had spent with the
only family he had left in this world.
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