Lucas looks down at his watch and sees it's really close to seven thirty. Lucas can also feel his stomach telling him that he's hungry.

"Hey, I'm heading down to breakfast. Want to come?" Lucas asks, standing up. Charlie looks down at all his homework that he has to finish and looks up to Lucas and apologises, "Sorry, I've got to catch up with homework." Lucas shrugs while putting on his backpack. He then slowly walks out of the Gryffindor common room.

No matter how many times Lucas walks through the hallways, he couldn't help but have a sheepish grin on his face. Tucked away in Lucas's pocket is the Marauder's Map. James had given it to Lucas when he was in his first year of Hogwarts. Since then, Lucas hasn't let it out of his sight. McGonagall would confiscate it if she found out that he had it and knows that Snape would gladly take it from him with or without cause.

Once in the Great Hall, Lucas walks over to the Gryffindor table and plops down next to his best friend Amerens Ridley. He notices that her hair today is coloured a light blue. Lucas always sees Amerens with different coloured hair that to be truthful, he didn't know Amerens's natural hair colour. Amerens is a metamorphagus, making it possible for her to change how she looks.

"Smooth," Lucas comments. Amerens smiles at Lucas and brushes some of her hair out of her face.

"Thanks," she thanks. "I didn't want to go too overboard like other days." They both laugh as they recall when Amerens had decided to have rainbow colour hair. Let's just go with that it didn't end well in Snape's class. Just then, Lucas hears a familiar chirp. He looks up to see his sister's owl Godric flying down towards him with an envelope in his mouth. Godric flies down to Lucas's shoulder and perches on it. Lucas takes the envelope from Godric and in returns gives Godric a small bite of Lucas's bacon.

"There you go boy. Wait for me in the owlry?" Lucas asks, petting Godric on the head. Godric nods and flies of to wait for Lucas in the owlry.

"I still can't believe that that owl understand you," Amerens comments. Lucas since he was young seemed to be able to connect automatically with owls. He tried doing it with other animals, but it only worked with owls and sometimes dogs depending on their breed. Lucas is also an animigus like the rest of the Marauders. Sirius taught him despite him being underage and unofficial. Lucas's animigus form is a small red fox.

Lucas opens up the envelope and two letters come out. He notices one is in scribbly handwriting which he assumes was written by his young nephew Harry. The other note he knows is from him sister. Lucas opens up the one written by Harry and sees it's a short letter and a drawing.

Dear Lucas,

I drew this for school.

Love,

Harry

The drawing Harry had drawn was Lucas flying on a broomstick playing Quidditch. Lucas smiles to himself knowing how hard Harry must've worked on it. The picture is pretty impressive for a four year old. He slides the picture into his backpack and folds open the one from his sister.

Dear Lucas,

Thanks for checking in on me squirt, but you don't have to worry about me. Harry is doing pretty well, but he is really missing you. Some bad news is that the store I worked at got shut down and I got fired. Good news is that I'm teaching at Hogwarts next year for Charms. About your question about Sirius, he's still a hunted fugitive. The ministry is working extra hard to try and capture him, but so far they haven't tracked him to the base. Keep your eyes open Lucas, there's rumours spreading about a follower of Voldemort continuing what he had started.

On a happier note, Harry was requesting some candy from Hogsmeade. Please do me a favour and be a good uncle and not send him too much. I really miss you and can't wait to see you during the summer. Keep writing to me squirt!

Take care,

Lily

Lucas smiles uncontrollably. Lucas wants to be the cool uncle to Harry, but then again, he also is Harry's only uncle. Lucas remembers how angry Lily had gotten when Lucas had come home with bags of candy from Honeydukes. Sometimes Lucas forgets that Lily is his sister and not his mum.

"What so funny?" Amerens asks. Lucas shows her the last part of the letter and she too gives a soft laugh. "You've got quite the sister," Amerens complimented.

"You can say that again," Lucas says, taking a sip of pumpkin juice. He grabs some food onto his plate and starts eating it slowly. Tomorrow is Saturday and Lucas's first big chance at Quidditch again.

When Lucas was in his second year, he had tried out and barely made it. He played chaser. In his third and fourth year though he had made it to be seeker, but now he was back again at chaser. He had a bad fall towards the end of his fourth year and McGonagall had thought it better if Lucas played as chaser to avoid more injuries. Lucas spent more than enough time in the infirmary from Quidditch.

Lucas is about to take a bite of bacon when his Slytherin friend Lachlan comes sprinting up to him. Lucas notices that Lachlan's usual brushed hair is all tangled and sweaty.

"Jeez, breakfast doesn't end for a long time," Lucas says. Lachlan looks down at himself and shrugs.

"Dude, I was just down by the lake when I saw someone moving through the trees. I went to check it out, but I couldn't get a good view. I've got no clue who it was, but dude it was crazy!" Lachlan quickly explains. The Gryffindors, excluding Amerens, all look at Lachlan with a look of disgust.

"Seriously?" Lucas asks. Lachlan just nods at him. Lucas facepalms himself as he remembers Lily's letter. Somewhere outside of Hogwarts is a follower of Voldemort.