Leila Potter
"You-you're Harry's aunt?" asked Ginny, shocked. From the looks of it, everyone was, save for her parents, Bill and Tonks, who had hear about Leila from her husband.
"Leila," said Bill warmly as he stood, the sun hitting his recently scarred face.
"Bill!" cried Leila as she moved to hug him. "Last time I saw you, you were just a wee lad anxious to go to Hogwarts to have 'adventures,'" she grinned. "Speaking of adventures, I heard you got into one a year or so back," she said, pointing to Bill's scars. Everyone looked worried, how he got those scars was a sensitive subject for Bill, even with his friends and family.
Bill, however, laughed. "Werewolf," he replied. "Fenrir Greyback attacked me the night Dumbledore died at Hogwarts. Don't worry, it wasn't a full moon," he said, answering the older woman's silent question.
"That's a relief. Don't need another werewolf running around. Remus is grouchy enough around the full moon as it is." She lowered her voice to a loud whisper. "In fact, he gets so grouchy that James, Sirius and Peter couldn't help but compare it to a woman's PMS. Henceforth, the term, Remmy's time of the month." Remus glared as everyone broke out into laughter. Finally the ice had been broken.
"I'll thank you, Leila," he glared yet again, "not to mock me in order to make everyone laugh. Or to use hated nicknames." He then broke into a smile and laughed, the marauder in him not allowing Remus to stay mad at a joke for long.
"Oh, Remus, dear. If I wanted to make people laugh, I'd do this." With that mysterious statement, Leila waved her wand seemingly at no one and all of a sudden Remus disappeared.
"Where did he go?" gasped Tonks, a little anxious for her husband.
"Leila Ann Potter, put me down this bloody minute!" growled Remus. Everyone looked up to where they heard the voice to see Remus glued to the ceiling of the Weasley's living room. Everyone laughed at the surprise of seeing such a refined and quiet man stuck to a building and swearing.
"And that's how you entertain, people," declared Leila with a flourish and a mock bow. She let down her old friend gently and sat herself on the floor, legs crossed. "Am I right, when I say people probably have some questions for me?" she smiled, a laugh in her eyes. Fred and George nodded vigorously. "You two look like you have some questions. And Molly," she turned to the motherly woman, "they look just like Fabian and Gideon." Molly smiled a little tearfully in response and nodded her agreement.
"All right, twins, lay your worst on me," grinned Leila, arms wide open. Remus sat himself down by his wife, muttering something about how this should be interesting.
"Well-"
"To start-"
"Did you know the-"
"Marauders?" they chorused together, insanely curious about this woman who appeared to be related to Harry, whom they knew the father was a Marauder.
Leila smiled mischievously. "Everyone knew the Marauders, boys. The better question is, did I know the Marauders well? Personally? And the answer is yes. So well, that certain people cough Bella cough spread rumours that I was sleeping with all the Marauders. Which is very nasty because one is Peter and James is my cousin. You will find that there are always those sick, perverted people out there," she said, glowering. Her expression quickly cleared up and she continued. "Which," she turned to Remus thoughtfully, "we seemed to have a lot of in our year and surrounding years. Do you not agree, Remus?"
"I do agree, Leila. But what I found more disturbing was Pettigrew's enormous love of cheese," he smiled.
"Yeah, that, my friend, was nasty." Leila wrinkled her nose at the thought of all that cheese. "Any more questions?" she recommenced.
Charlie spoke up. "Did you pull any pranks at Hogwarts?" he grinned, glancing at Remus and Tonks.
"Of course I did!" she cried. "I seem to remember a special prank that I helped pull with James," she glanced mischievously at Remus. "Would you like to hear it?" A round of yes's chorused through the room. "Or how about, I show you," she said and everyone looked at her, confused.
Remus explained, "Leila, in the second half of 7th year, created a spell that allows the castor to show a memory as if on a screen, instead of say, in a pensieve. A very clever invention if I do say so myself. Also quite useful," he reflected. "Leila, how about you show them what we mean."
Leila smiled, put her wand to her forehead and drew out what Harry knew to be the strand of a memory. She let it linger in the air and she muttered an incantation. The incantation allowed the memory to shift and stretch into a large rectangle, almost like a television screen with a glowing silver border. "This is my memory of that special prank. I was told that students were still talking about it the year after, much to Minnie's displeasure." Leila grinned the famous Potter grin. The same grin that Harry often wore when he was excessively happy.
"And now, for your viewing pleasure, starring James and Leila Potter, April 1978!"
Still short chapters, but this chapter has been edited from errors.
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