By: Keara Jordan
Authors Note:You all know what belongs to JK Rowling. The plot is mine, Claire Howler, Sarah Skitters, Becky Screech, Carol Luna, Kelly Davis, Sam Sombes, Martyna Kia, Ciara Tate are mine. Them mottos, nicknames, and middle names, and curses are mine. Hope you enjoy it!
"So, Moony that's Dumbledore's newest plan. I've gone and told everyone it and this is my last stop, next I'll be going to Hogwarts to say hi to Harry, and you are coming too to talk to Dumbledore," Sirius said after he told Remus Dumbledore's newest plan against Voldemort.
Since that day when Voldemort had risen again things had been hectic. People were dying and the Dark Mark appeared once every two weeks or so. At the moment, Sirius was at Remus Lupins house discussing the Phenonix. The Phenonix is a group that Dumbledore had put together long ago to stop Voldemort and now it was up again. The member were Sirius, Arabella Figg, Remus, Mundungus Fletcher, Claire Howler, Sarah Skitters, Becky Screech, Carol Luna, Kelly Davis, Sam Sombes, Martyna Kia, Ciara Tate, and some other former Hogwarts students.
Sirius looked at the calendar and sighed. It was September 31, James's birthday, a month from James and Lily's death day, and two moths before Lily's birthday. Remus looked at the calendar and back at Sirius, "Padfoot, there was nothing you could do." Remus said. A clap of thunder came from the storm outside.
"I know but....some times it seems as though he'll just knock on the door and be there...." as Sirius said this there were three knocks at the door. Sirius and Remus shared a look and then Sirius turned into Snuffles.
Remus went to the door and slowly opened it. There was a man there, his black hair plastered to his face and head from the rain. His face was pale and he had glasses on with blue eyes beneath them that looked as though they used to hold a sparkle. "H..hello, I need a p..p..place to stay f..f.for the night....un...until morning. I'm...I'm looking for t..t..two family members." The man said.
"Sure come in," Remus said. Remus led the man inside and sat him in a chair by the large fire. Sirius, in dog form, brought the man a blanket in his mouth. The man stared at Sirius before taking the blanket.
"Thanks," the man said.
"No problem," said Remus sitting across from him. "So, you're looking for family members. Who are they maybe I know them and I could help."
"Thanks for the offer, yes I'm looking for two family members. One a young woman, and the other a baby boy. The woman has long red hair, some freckles, and bright green eyes. Her name is Lily Rose Evans, er...Potter. Lily Potter." the man said.
Remus stared at the man, he was talking about Lily. How'd he know Lily? "Yes I know Lily, she's dead. She died fourteen years ago."
"WHAT! NO!" The man shouted, he looked like he could cry. "Well...what about my son Harry Pot....hold a second, time out, stop the Express!" He stared at Remus and then looked down at Sirius.
Remus thought for a moment, the only person in the world to say 'hold a second, time out, stop the Express' was James Potter. No one ever said 'hold a second, time out, stop the Express' that was James Potter's trademark at school, well one of them.
"Oh, my god. Moony, Padfoot....what. You guys it's me....Prongs....James Potter." the man said.
Remus looked at him, "If you are James Potter, what's you middle name, my middle name, Sirius's middle name, your motto, my motto, Sirius's motto, and who is FireDragon and Little Marauder" Remus said this all very fast. So fast that only two people in the entire world would ever know what he had said. Those people were James Potter and Sirius Black. If this man was James Potter he'd give all the correct answers.
The man smirked and said also very fast, "Kelly, Rick, Lee, The rules were made by McGonagall to be broken by me, The moon is not full and so is my craving for trouble, My name is a star and so am I, Lily, and Harry." Remus stared open mouthed at the man.
The man grinned, "Maybe that was too fast for you. My middle name is Kelly, yours is Rick, Sirius's is Lee, my motto is 'The rules were made by McGonagall to be broken by me', yours is 'The moon is not full and so is my craving for trouble', Sirius's is 'My name is a star and so am I', my wife Lily is FireDragon, Sirius gave her that name in first year, and Little Marauder is my son Harry James Potter. Oh, Moony by the way I am James Potter."
"James...Oh my god...are you serious?" Remus said.
"No, that's Sirius over there," James replied pointing at the dog. The dog turned back into Sirius and ran over to hug James, Remus followed. After they all hugged Remus made some hot chocolate and they all sat down to talk.
"Ok, listen you guys tell me what I missed in our world while I was 'dead,' then I'll tell you why I'm not 'dead'" James said. "It's too bad Lily and Harry are dead."
"What you don't know!" Sirius exclaimed.
"Know what?" James replied.
"Bloody heck James, Harry's alive." Sirius said.
"WHAT HOW?" So, Sirius and Remus told him about Harry living with his Aunt and Uncle, Sirius in Azkaban, Harry at Hogwarts, Sirius breaking out of Azkaban, Remus teaching (which James found very funny), and of coarse Voldemort being back again.
"Now James before we go and do anything, how the heck are you alive?" Remus said.
"Well, you know on Halloween Voldemort came to my house to kill Harry and I. I told Lily to take Harry and go. She did so, and I was left to face Voldie. Apparently Volemort didn't want to kill me, said he wanted to save his energy for Harry. So he did this very old curse, where I'd be asleep until he said 'I wish James Potter was alive'. Now he thought he'd never need to say that right," James said. Remus and Sirius nodded.
"Well, he did. Last night he said it, and here I am. So for all the time I was 'dead' I was just in a deep sleep." James finished.
"What would make Voldemort wish you were alive?" Remus questioned.
"Remember that book my family had for centuries? The one where you can learn how to kill someone and receive all of their powers, or you can learn how to drain and absorb someone else's magical powers. At this present moment i'm the only living soul who knows where it is, naturally he wants it and knows I know where it is. So he wished I was alive again. Now I want to see Harry." James said.
All night the three Marauders sat trying to plan a way for James to see Harry, but for Harry not to see James. James wanted to know how Harry acts and what Harry was like before they met. Remus knew a good ghost charm that James could use. It would make James invisible and well ghost like. So he wouldn't be solid or visible to anyone. Everyone liked this plan, they'd use it and head to Hogwarts in the morning.
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In the morning James, Sirius, and Remus left one broomsticks to Hogwarts. James would stay under the ghost charm, Remus could roam around(He was supposed to be there anyway for Dumbledore), and Sirius would be in dog form. They arrived at Hogwarts at 7:00, just in time for breakfast. Remus preformed the charm on James, Sirius switched to dog form, and they went up to the castle. Remus left for Dumbledore's office and James and Sirius went into the Great Hall. Sirius and Remus put charms on each other so they could see James.
The Great Hall looked just like it did when James went to Hogwart, he and Sirius made their way over to a boy with red hair, and a girl with bushy brown hair. Sirius had told James these kids were Harry's best friends. The girl spotted Sirius first she nuddged the boy and motion for Sirius to come over.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" she asked. Sirius barked. "Harry right." Sirius nodded. "Ron, where's Harry?"
Ron looked up and thought for a moment, "In the common room sleeping probally, long Quidditch practice last night. Angelina is worse than Oliver Harry said. Anywho was real tired last night so I let him sleep in today, since it's Staurday an all." Hermione loaded up a plate with food and set it on the floor for Sirius, he barked in reply and ate it.
Five mintues later a figure ran up to them panting, "Ron, Hermione.....where's....where's...."
"Where's what Harry," Ron said. James stopped looking around and turned to look at Harry. Looks just like me he thought, wow so this is my son.
Harry looked around and wispered, "My cloak, mydad's invisitablity cloak. When I got dressed I took my robes out of my trunk and it wasn't there. It was gone I looked everywhere for it, and I haven't used it yet this year. Have you guys?"
"No, we haven't. Oh, Harry this is bad. That cloak was your dad's and if we didn't use it and leave it anywhere....it might have been stolen." Ron said.
"But, who knew? Who knows about it that would take it?" Hermione said.
"Snape," Harry and Ron said together.
"Someone other than him," she said in an annoyed voice. Sound like Lily, James thought.
"No one," Harry said. "It's me, you two, Dumbledore, Snape, Lupin, Sirius, and Crouch. But, Crouch can't he's well you know. I didn't, neither did you two, Sirius and knows how much it means to me so no, Dumbledore gave it to me, so Snape is the only one left. Unless you think someone has been going throught my trunk."
"Well, Harry we'll look for it today. Now sit down and eat. By the way someone is behind you." Ron said.
Harry spun around and saw Sirius, "What are you doing here?" Sirius barked. "We'll talk later, right?" Sirius nodded. Lavender Brown came over.
"Oh, Harry is this you're dog?" She squealed.
"Er...yeah, he is." Harry said.
"What's his name?" Lavender asked.
"His name is....er..it's.....Polaris. Yeah it's Polaris, after the north star." Harry said.
"That's so cute," Lavender replied she walked away.
"Is that ok, calling you Polaris?" Harry asked. Sirius nodded and Harry sat down between Ron and Hermione for breakfast. Sirius roamed around, getting attantion from girls everywhere and loving it. James stayed behind Harry and listened to him talk aout who the DADA teacher would be and when they'd be coming. "Ok, stop new topic. Something that's not school related, or real serious, something different." Harry suggested.
"Ok," Ron said. "What will happen to us this year? Something big happens every year and us three are caught in the middle of it. Maybe this year there will be a vampire who will suck out our blood and we'll become vamps."
The three of them laughed. "Yeah ok, Ron." Harry said. "Hmmm....maybe Malfoy will get turned into a ferret permenently." They laughed again.
"I think that'll be a miracle, mate." Ron said. Hermione nodded.
"Maybe we'll...have a nice normal year for once." Hermione said hopefully.
Ron laughed, "Hermione we are Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, something is bound to happen to us good or bad." Hermione rolled her eyes. "Come on let's go do something." They got up and left with James at their heals. None of them noticed a white/blonde colored fox watching them. (Authors note-foxes are sly *hint* *hint*)
The three of them went up to the common room and went up to Harry and Ron's dorm. The three of them looked everywhere for the cloak. "Where is that stupid thing?" Ron shouted after a half an hour of searching.
"Thanks for trying you guys," Harry said.
"Don't worry Harry we'll find it." Hermione said. She left to go to her own dorm.
"Hey, Ron. I was listening to Dean and Seamus last night and was wondering who do you like?" Harry said.
Ron blushed. "Who do you like Harry?"
Harry thought for a moment, last year he liked Cho Chang. But this year, well he had been looking at Ginny differently. She no longer blushed when she saw him, and she could have a normal conversation with him. She also held herself differently, like she was more confident than before. Hary wanted to tell Ron but didn't know how he'd take his best friend and little sister.
"Ron, I knda, sorta, in a way like, Ginny." Harry said. He perpared for Ron to lash out at him, but it didn't come. On the contrary Ron was smiling.
"Really, Harry. Well that's ok, you're a great guy you deserve her, she deserves you. You'd be great together!"
"Good, thanks Ron. Now who do you like?"
Ron turned bright red, "I like.....H...H...Hermione." Ron turned even redder than his hair.
Harry laughed, "I knew it, I knew you liked her! Oh, you'd be great together, just great!"
"But does she like me back?"
"Ask her out and find out."
"Only if you do to Ginny."
"Deal."
"Deal."
"Let's go play chess, or Quidditch."
"Quidditch." Harry grabbed his Firebolt, and Ron grabbed his Cleensweep 7. The two of them headed down to the feild with James following, they saw Sirius at the entrance and he followed them to the feild. The boys mounted their brooms and flew around looking for the snitch. Harry tried the Wronski Feint, and it worked. Ron tried it and messed up. The two of them joked about it and did impression of Malfoy on a broom.
James bent down next to Sirius, "You never said Harry could play Quidditch better than me!" Sirius looked around and transformed back.
"Well, I knew you wouldn't believe me if I told you so I let you ifgure it out for your self." Sirius replied.
James nodded as harry and Ron came down. "Hey, Ron listen I'm heading in now ok."
"Why, you never miss a chance to play Quidditch."
"Did you forget? Sirius said he had something important to tell me at 6:30 in the Defense Against the Dark Arts Room. Is still can't believe we don't have a teacher but hey it gets us outta class. "
"Right then mate. I'll see you later." Ron flew back up and Harry walked toward the castle.
"Prong, should I tell Harry about you or what do I tell him? He's just like you he'll want to know now."
Author's Note:Ok, hoped you liked this, if I get two good reviews I'll continue. Thanks all! ~Keara Jordan