Chapter 2: Return From the Honeymoon

It's been two weeks since Harry and Ginny's wedding. The two had slipped out during the reception and were nowhere to be seen since that day.

At Ron and Hermione's house in Lancaster,

Ron was reading the Prophet as Hermione came down the stairs. She had been busy the night before getting a head start on lesson plans. The first thing she saw when she got to the kitchen was the front page of the Prophet.

BOY-WHO-LIVED WEDS YOUNGEST WEASLEY

There was a picture of Harry and Ginny underneath from the wedding

"It's about time the Prophet discovered." Hermione said catching Ron's attention.

Ron turned the Prophet back to the front page and looked at the picture.

"Yeah. Colin told them a week after it happened. I'm not sure how Harry feels about still being referred to as the Boy-who-lived." Ron said.

Suddenly, a snowy-white owl flew into the kitchen and dropped a scroll on Ron's head.

"Headwig!" Ron exclaimed.

"It's from Harry." Hermione stated as she grabbed the scroll and unwrapped it.

Proteus Place

"Proteus Place?" Ron read in confusion.

"They're back." Hermione exclaimed tearing up the letter so that nobody would know what it said.

She ran to the fireplace, and threw in the floo powder. Grabbing Ron, she yelled the directions and the two vanished in green flames.

Suddenly, they were stopped by a barrier.

"Someone's not taking any chances." Hermione observed as the barrier lifted.

The two found themselves in a mansion. Ginny was standing in the middle of the living room looking amused at the clueless look her brother had on his face.

"When did you get back?" Ron asked his sister.

"Thirty minutes ago." Ginny answered. "And hello to you too."

"Why didn't you call?" Ron demanded.

"I don't recall YOU calling on YOUR honeymoon to Venice." Ginny teased.

"Where did you go?" Hermione asked.

"Catch!" a voice called from above.

The Weasleys looked up and caught two boxes that came from the balcony. Harry was leaning against the railing with a grin on his face.

"You have to open them to find out." Harry teased.

The two opened their gifts. Hermione got a book, Hawaiian Magic and Rituals: What's Real, and What's Myth. Ron got a Hawaiian shirt that was red and white.

"Interesting shirt." Ron observed.

"You think THAT'S interesting." Ginny said. "We had it custom made for you."

She pulled on the tag on the back of the shirt. The shirt transformed into a t-shirt. The front said: My sister and brother-in-law went to Hawaii. There was an image of a hula girl. On the back just above an image of a pouting redhead: And all I got was this lousy shirt.

The quartet laughed at it.

"We also got the whole trip on tape." Harry added.

"Well, not the WHOLE trip." Ginny reminded him.

"I'll pretend I didn't hear that." Ron told Ginny.

0000

In Diagon Alley,

The quartet was walking along the streets of the hidden alley. Ron was wearing his new shirt underneath his robes. Harry and Ginny were in disguise as Hunter and Gwen Jarter.

"Let's go drop off the twins' present." Ginny suggested as she held up a bag.

The Golden Group walked into Weasley's Wizards Wheezes. The shop was busy with customers and there was no bell to let the twins know that they had more guests. Ginny smiled at her husband and pulled out something from the bag. She placed it on the floor next to the door and then a sign that she made that said: NOT FOR SALE.

"Hello." George said. "Welcome to Weasley's Wizard's Wheezes. I'm George Weasley. Co-founder of this wonderful establishment. How may I help you?"

"Hi." Harry teased. "I'm Hunter Jarter and this is my lovely wife, Gwen."

"Are you new to the area?" George asked.

"No. I've know you since before I can remember." Ginny said. "During my wedding rehearsal, you turned Percy's, Charlie's, and Bill's dress robes to ballet tutus. Not to mention you yelled 'Save it for the honeymoon' while my husband and I were kissing during the wedding ceremony."

"Ginny? Harry?" George asked.

Harry and Ginny took off their disguises as Ron and Hermione stepped from an aisle.

"Did you bring us anything?" Fred asked as he walked up behind them.

"We did. We got you a motion detector for your store. That way, you can tell when someone comes and goes." Harry said

"It's not hard to make." Ginny continued. "Just take a tiki statue, or any type of statue, and then charm it to sound like someone."

"Even though I told Ginny that the person we charmed your gift to sound like may scare off the customers." Harry defended himself

"They have a sign that says ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK" Ginny argued.

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In the front of the store,

A six year old red headed girl triggered the motion sensor inside the tiki as she walked in next to a black haired girl and just in front of two men.

"I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death---if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach." The tiki said.

The two men pulled out their wands and looked around.

James Potter looked down and noticed the statue on the ground. He knelt down and waved his hand in front of it.

"I want a seven page paper on the effects of Wolfsbane." The tiki said in the voice of Severus Snape.

"That was rude." Megan said.

"But it would be a good prank." Sirius said. "Can you imagine just walking the halls then suddenly hear Snivellus' voice?"

"Sirius. You KNOW Lily and Spica don't want us calling him that in front of the kids."

"We won't tell." Vega swore.

"You made that thing sound like Snape?" Fred's voice came from the back.

The two girls made a break for the back of the store to see Fred. They loved this place, even if their mothers didn't.

"When did Fred and George get Tiki Snape?" Sirius asked.

"Had to be today." James said. "It wasn't here yesterday when we came in."

"HARRY!" Megan's voice came.

The two Marauders ran to the back of the store to see Megan hugging Harry as if there was no tomorrow. Harry had knelt down to Megan's level so he can return the hug.

"When did you get back?" Sirius asked.

"Earlier today." Ginny answered. "Like the store's greeter?"

"Scared Sirius half to death." James teased. "Good prank item."

"But I must ask." Sirius said. "Why HIM?"

"It was either that or…Tom." Harry said.

"Yeah." George said thinking about the options. "If it was Tom, we'd have aurors busting down the door."

"Why?" Vega asked.

"Long story." Everyone answered.

"Hanging around like this, people will think you're up to something." Snape's voice came from the Tiki up front.

"Oh no." Spica's voice came. "SIRIUS BLACK! DON'T YOU DARE DO SOMETHING YOU'LL REGRET!"

"THAT GOES DOUBLE FOR YOU, JAMES POTTER!" Lily yelled.

"I have an idea." Sirius said with a Marauder grin.

"Uh oh." Harry said knowing that look all too well.

Sirius pushed his best friend and Ginny into the stock room behind the counter. Suddenly, Lily and Spica came storming up the group.

"Where's Snape?" Lily demanded.

"That was the new greeter." Fred explained. "Like it?"

"You'll scare off customers." Spica said.

"Not after we make something similar and sell them. The whole, sounding like an enemy was one of our investors idea."

"Thank goodness." Lily sighed. Then, she became enraged again and turned to her son. "James Potter! You KNOW how I feel about you bringing Megan into this store unsupervised."

"But I'm with her." Harry teased knowing what Sirius' prank was.

"In a prank store, you and Sirius don't count as super…vision." Lily started before realizing that something was wrong. The eyes were the wrong color. Then, sarcastically, she said, "Very funny, Harry."

Everyone who knew about the last minute prank laughed as Harry moved his bangs from in front of his scar. James and Ginny emerged from the stock room also laughing. Spica crossed her arms with an impressed grin.

"You really had me going." Spica admitted. "If Lily hadn't realized it, I would have thought that Harry was James."

Ron took off his robe to reveal the t-shirt that revealed where his sister and his best friend/brother-in-law went.

"When did you get back?" Lily asked as she hugged her son.

"Earlier today." Harry answered. "C'mon guys. Why don't we go back to Potter Manor as I hand out presents."

"PRESENTS!" the two six year olds and the two Marauders cheered.

TBC

"So, you're what muggles call a "doctor"?" Megan asked her mother.

"That's right." Lily said.

"WHAT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT FOR?!" Ginny's voice came from a closed door.