Short chapter, just to keep things moving a little. Plus I just want to enjoy everything a little before...well, leave me lovely comments and you may soon find out ;o)
Chapter Three.
"What the bloody hell are you talking about?" Sirius asked him, turning his head.
"Snowy owls are nomadic, idiot."
"Since when have you been into Care of-"
Harry gave a loud screech. Whilst James and Sirius had been talking, he had transformed again, thinking that he may as well become used to changing.
"Oh!" Sirius said, in a mock woman's voice. "I'm so proud! Hold me, James!"
"Get lost!" he replied, but they were both laughing as they watched Harry, in his Owl form, swooping down from the top of the stairs.
Harry swooped down in his owl form into the kitchen, where he saw Ginny sat at the table with Tonks. He landed neatly on the chair beside her, before transforming. She gave a shriek, not realising where he had came from.
"Harry! What the…"
"Ah, Ginny." James said as he and Sirius walked into the room. "Welcome back." He grinned at the look of shock on her face. "It's alright, Harry's an animagus."
"Since when?"
Harry looked at the other clock, one that told the time. "About fifteen minutes ago."
"Right, Prongs, we'd better be off." Sirius said briskly, also looking at the clock. "We were supposed to be there 5 minutes ago, and I know wolves can't tell the time but…"
"Yeah alright Padfoot. We're off." James walked around the table to kiss Harry's mum goodbye, before he and Sirius disappeared from the room, and those in the kitchen heard the door close, followed by a faint sound as the two of them disapparated.
"It's sort of sad how they still call each other that." Lily said, smiling softly, before joining them at the table, sitting opposite Ginny and Harry. "So how is everyone?"
"Oh, well George is brilliant, as I would have thought, now he's got Fred back. They've been winding up Ron something terrible." Ginny laughed. "They've restarted their joke business and everything. Mum's going nuts, she reckons someone's going to realise that Fred is supposed to be dead."
"I don't think they'd care much, to be honest." Harry said, grinning. "when I was thirteen, I heard Madame Rosmerta talking about how dad and Sirius would have given them a run for their money in the way of mischief."
"Fred and George didn't go around hanging people upside down because they didn't like them though, did they?" Lily said, but there was a small smile on her lips.
"I did it to Ron." Harry said. Ginny, Lily and Tonks all looked at him. "What? I did it once, not knowing what the spell was. And well. He found it funny, anyway…Mum, don't look at me like that…"
"I'm not looking at you like anything. Not in a bad way anyway." she laughed "I was thinking about how much you really are like James."
"Oh!" Harry said, remembering Snape's last memories. "I found out-" he stopped when Ginny stepped on his foot under the table. "-why Petunia hated me."
"Yeah, but lets not talk about that, eh?" Ginny said, looking at Harry from the corner of her eye. "Anyway, Harry, Hermione's given me her Beedle book for you to look at. That's where the story of the Hallows is, so she thought there might be something in there to help. I've put it upstairs for now."
"Thanks, I'll go see her later to thank her." he nodded.
"Right! Come on Teddy. Bedtime." Tonks got up, waving her wand to get rid of the scrawls in felt tip on the table. Ted had been drawing on some plain paper that had been left inside one of the photo albums.
"Mummy I don't want to!" He said, his hair changing swiftly through the different colours.
"Tough, it's time for you to go to bed." She picked him up from his chair with ease, knowing by now that it was the only way to do it when he didn't want to go, and left from the room.
"Poor kid." Lily sighed slightly. "Doesn't know about Remus yet. I suppose he's realised by now that he doesn't return til morning once a month, but he knows that Uncle James and Sirius go out too, and that they're normally back."
"Yeah and who's fault is that?" Harry said, laughing slightly as he looked at his mum.
"I know you let him stay up too, Harry." she grinned. "Don't worry, I won't tell."
"Ha ha. You know you're really hilarious. Like, I can't even explain it. How did I grow up without that."
"You sound just like your father." she laughed. "seems like the only bit of me you got are the eyes. And actually, Slughorn mentioned-"
"Ah, no." Harry said, cutting her off. "Actually, I was using another potions book when I was miraculously good at it."
"Newt textbook?" She said, a curious look in her eye.
"Yeah, what's it, um…advanced potions or something."
"It didn't happen to have anything written in it?" Harry nodded when she said this. "Did you know who's it was? Or was it blind allegiance to this potions…master?"
"Goodnight, Harry." Ginny said hurriedly, and kissed his cheek. "Mrs Potter." she smiled at Lily and nodded, before disappearing from the room.