Updated on 28th June 2015
Beta'd on 10th October 2015
Disclaimer: I am not JK Rowling
Here is the next revised chapter, I hope you like it. A bit of swearing in this chapter
Remus and Sirius from the future will have their name written normally, where as Remus and Sirius from the past will have their names in italics
They saw a wizard pointing his wand straight at them… He had black scruffy hair, glasses and hazel eyes… James Potter.
They saw a wizard pointing his wand straight at them… He had black scruffy hair, glasses and hazel eyes… James Potter.
"Who the hell are you?" James asked. His eyes were wide in shock behind his black square framed glasses.
Everyone stayed silent whilst they untangled themselves and then they awkwardly stood up. James lifted his wand a tad bit higher though it trembled slightly when he saw Harry.
"Dad put the wand down." Harry's voice was strained but his father did what he said immediately.
"Fucking hell." the older man walked back until he was against the wall. "I am finally going mad," he groaned.
"You're not going mad Prongs, don't tell me you don't recognise us either!" Sirius sat down beside his deceased friend with a look of mock hurt upon his face.
James was up like a bolt of lightning "This is too much to take in Pads. All of you come on in here; we would all love to hear this story," he said rather rushed and directed his arm towards the kitchen.
It was only just then that Harry realised that they weren't in Grimmauld Place anymore. Instead this place was light and massive. The corridor carried on like it went forever. "Sirius where are we? It looks familiar," Harry asked as they walked, a confused frown on his brow.
Sirius smirked "You, Pronglet, are in Potter Manor, your grand parents house. This is where the old Order of The Phoenix used to meet because the wards are impeccable."
Harry's eyes bulged out but he nodded anyway. Remus and Tonks couldn't help but snigger at the boy's reaction.
When they finally got there, every eye was on them. Watching them like hawks. The most noticeable ones were the green almond shaped eyes which were identical to Harry's own, those of Lily Potter. Harry bit his lip, not actually processing the thought that they had actually managed to go back in time. He could see his parents now for the first time in what was actually more or less forever.
His mind flooded with questions that he wanted to ask them, but he bit his tongue. He could ask questions later, right now he had to make everybody believe that he is the bundle which was lying in Lily's arms. He was brought out of his thoughts by a younger Sirius speaking.
"Who the hell are you?" He repeated James' question exactly, but with a whole lot more confusion. His forehead was made up of multiple rolls of frowning confusion. "And why do you look like me?" He pointed at Sirius and made a disgusted look at the older man's hair.
Sirius rolled his eyes with a bark of laughter; he saw the look his younger self made at his appearance. "I look like you because I am you, though of course from the future."
"Bullsh—" Sirius' words were cut off with a stern look from Lily who nodded her head down to the bundle in her arms.
"Give them a chance to explain themselves. If it is actually you I know your short tension span and you will explode," Lily helped with a cool raise of one of her ginger brows. She turned back to look at the group with a kind smile, which made Remus bite his lip. He hadn't seen her in a long time and it hurt; they were best friends after all.
"Ok we will give you a chance to prove yourselves. Tell us one thing that only we know," James challenged them with a smirk.
Sirius grinned back standing up. "Challenge accepted." He looked directly at the past marauders and said "My name is Sirius Black, as you all know I ran away from home when I was sixteen, but what only you know is that, that night I got so drunk the Knight Bus nearly ran me over." James laughed and nodded- his friend had told him about that part. Sirius sighed and continued "And I started snogging a girl at the back whilst I was actually on the Knight Bus." Sirius was speechless he had told no one he snogged a girl at the back of the Knight Bus ( which Sirius continued then to talk about) because he later found out that the woman was to be there DADA teacher for the year.
"He's telling the truth… I did do that." He finally said his voice suddenly becoming hoarse, though he had his signature smile on his face.
Tonks was the next to jump up "Hey, I'm Tonks, daughter of Andromeda and Ted Tonks. And when I was six you three," she pointed at Remus, Sirius and James who all had looks of utter embarrassment on their faces, they knew where this was going "Babysat me and I made you all dress up as fairy princesses… I think I've still got the photo somewhere." She grinned mischievously.
All three blushed as the Order room burst out laughing. "You failed to tell us that Black," one of the Prewett twins roared with laughter.
"Ok we believe you" Remus said with a pink blush still tingeing his cheeks, once the laughing had finally died down.
Tonks nudged Remus forward for his turn and he gave a big sigh; this was going to be a bombshell "I'm Remus Lupin, and I know that all of you think I'm the spy for Voldemort."
The room went silent and stared at him, Sirius, James and Lily looked extremely guilty.
"What! Is that true?" the past Remus asked, feeling betrayed.
The whole Order room looked down and gave silent nods; even Dumbledore lost the sparkle in his eye. How could he have thought that Remus Lupin, the most loyal person in the world, would betray them?
Despite him knowing that they thought he was the spy for two years now, it still hurt to think that his friends could have accused him of such things. He felt a pressure on his arm and he looked round to see that Tonks was squeezing the top of his arm with a reassuring smile on her face that he just had to return.
Sirius stepped in, his eyes a dark sad grey "We know now though who the real traitor is… And I apologise Remus, I'm sorry I thought it was you. I wish we believed you sooner." Sirius' eyes were downcast "We must only realise when it's too late."
Lily got up from her chair and gave the bundle in her arms to James. She pulled Remus down for a big hug whispering words of apologies into the werewolf's ears, silent tears running down her face.
"It's ok, I can see why you all thought it was me," Remus paused biting his lip. "Being a werewolf-"
"NOOOOOOOO!" Remus was cut off by everyone's yells and he jumped; the room was alive and the occupants were all shouting random things now, saying it had nothing to do with that. Sirius wolf whistled to get everyone to quiet down. When this was finally achieved, he spoke.
"It had nothing to do with that Moony at all, I knew it wasn't me; James wouldn't want to kill himself, Peter… Oh no, Peter that little rat." Sirius' eyes bulged out in realisation. How could Peter do this? "I thought he would be too scared to join Voldemort. That's why we all believed it was you Moony." He had never felt so dumb in the whole of his life.
The future Remus and Sirius started bursting out laughing; everyone, even Tonks and Harry gave them a confused look.
Wiping a tear of mirth from his eye Sirius finally said "You said the exact same things in our time as well, well except that you got to squash up against Tonks instead of Lily." Past Remus blushed cherry red and stopped laughing entirely. That just made the whole Order laugh again and him to blush even redder, face palming himself.
"Okay we believe you're from the future; no one knew about that except us and we would have tried to never tell you," James said smiling pleasantly.
"Oh you didn't need to; I worked it out for myself," Remus said remembering the night in the Shrieking Shack when he also realised Sirius wasn't the traitor.
"We need the last introduction, otherwise we will hang on a thread the whole time you're here," Lily smiled, looking at the older version of her son. Her smile then merged into an 'O' of shock.
Harry stepped forward and said in the most confident tone he could muster "I'm Harry Potter." The room went silent once again, this time though, it was a deathly silence. You could have heard a wand drop.
"Well, we should have known, you look like the double of your father." McGonagall said. She didn't smile but you could hear the tenderness behind her cool façade. "Except you have…"
Harry interrupted, "Your mother's eyes. If I had a galleon for every time someone said that I would be a millionaire." The whole room chuckled at that statement.
Harry smiled, for the first time in a long time he felt truly happy as his parents wrapped their arms around him.
That night the past Marauders (excluding Peter), Remus, Lily, Sirius, Tonks and Harry were all seated at the table talking about one particular rat.
"How could Wormtail do this to us? He's meant to be our friend," Lily whispered as though any octave higher would destroy the serenity. The question was rhetorical but Sirius answered it anyway.
"Because all he wanted to do is save his own behind," He growled viciously, glaring at the glass of fire whiskey in his hand.
They carried on talking for the rest of the night until they heard the door open and close in the distance. In walked Peter Pettigrew, his hair slightly damp from the rain outside.
"What have I missed?"
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