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Chapter Three

The Headmaster

"We were showing the exchange students to you, Professor." Peter was nodding furiously from behind James' back.

"Let's go and snog in the library!"

"Pardon Mr. Pettigrew, I didn't quite catch that?" the twinkle in Dumbledore's eyes was blinding.

"I accidentally cast the repeat-a-phrase charm on him," James laughed sheepishly, "I was aiming at one of the new students. He sidestepped it and it hit Peter. I want to know how he sidestepped it. His back was to me."

By now the Pack was in the office smirking at he frustrated looks the Marauders were sending their way.

"Messirs Potter, Black, Lupin, and Pettigrew I thank you for escorting our new students to me. I'd completely forgotten about them arriving tonight. It would be best if you went back to your dormitory now."

"Of course, Professor." Remus gestured, "After you Prongs"

"Why thank you Moony"

The Marauders left grumbling to themselves about impossibilities.

"Now who are you? What school are you exchanging from and why was I not informed you were coming?" the twinkle was gone from his eyes.

"In order we are Cyrus Canis, Audrey Canis, Anna Lupis, Antoine Draconis, and I am Jay Weston. We're from Loxley Academy and our Headmaster had told us that he'd owled you. So I don't know why you weren't informed of our arrival." Jay cocked his head to the side, "That's all the questions right?"

A tapping at the window caught their attention. An owl stood on the ledge waiting impatiently to be let in.

"Maybe that's the letter that'll explain us," Antoine spoke up, "Our Headmaster always was… a bit scatterbrained."

Rising Dumbledore opened the window allowing the snowy owl entrance. Settling on his desk the owl extended her leg to allow the thick envelope to be removed. Once her burden had been removed she flew to Jay's shoulder nipping his ear gently.

Opening the envelope, Dumbledore perused the contents. "It says here one of you is a werewolf, bitten last year; however it doesn't say which one."

"That would be me," Jay stepped forward slightly.

"How are you around other werewolves?"

"Well, every full moon after I was bitten I've spent it locked up with another werewolf and we didn't have any problems."

"He's a very well-mannered wolf. He even wipes his paws before entering the house." Anna ruffled his hair.

"Hey watch it!" Jay clapped his hands to his hair. "It took me forever to tame my hair this morning"

"You are saying that during some of the full moons he was allowed to wander unchecked in populated areas?" Dumbledore questioned.

"He was perfectly fine. I was there as well as an animagus. He never left our sight." Anna said indignantly. "Besides we don't live in a populated area. Where we're from it just our families and two others."

"We have a schedule we use. The werewolves are only allowed out every third full moon. All other times they're locked up tight," Audrey shrugged, "We know which full moons we're allowed to go out on."

"Our families are very accommodating" Antoine smiled. "And Jay I was the one who tamed that hair of yours for you this morning."

"Well your marks are all here. So I don't see why you shouldn't be sorted." Dumbledore smiled, the twinkle was back with a vengeance.

"What do we have to do?" Audrey moved surreptitiously in front of Jay.

"Just put the Sorting Hat on and it will do the work for you," Dumbledore removed a battered old hat from the shelf beside his desk.

Cyrus was pushed forward. He put the hat on and waited.

/Hmmm…what have we here. Another Black/

/Yep! So Hat where are you going to send me/

/Slytherin would do nicely for you yet I see you've already been sorted, in the future. Hmmm… I see I choose correctly in the future./

"Gryffindor!"

Cyrus pulled the hat off, plopping it on his sister's head.

/Another one. Hmmm…/

/Hurry up and put her in Gryffindor. I'm getting bored./

/Prongs that was very rude. Apologize to the nice hat./

/Fine. Sorry./

/Two minds! One is that of James Potter! Yes I see./

"Gryffindor!"

"Together we stand!" Audrey shouted tossing the hat. It landed on Antoine's perfectly groomed hair.

/A Malfoy! Well then I know where you belong./

/No! Do not put me in Slytherin. My father's in that house./

/Hmmm…Not Slytherin eh? You were in Slytherin in the future./

/That's because my father expected me to be in Slytherin. I demanded to be put in Slytherin. I don't want to be judged evil because of what House I was placed in/

/Good Luck/

"Gryffindor!"

"Your turn Anna." Antoine handed the battered old hat to her.

/A half-wolf! It is an honor to sort one such as yourself./

"Gryffindor!"

"Ah. You always leave me till last. It's rather refreshing." Jay took the proffered hat placing it on his head.

/Can I go with my friends and the other werewolf./

If a hat could blink the Sorting Hat would have.

/You are rather straight forward. However you must consider that you'd do well in Slytherin-/

/No way will I go into Slytherin! I don't like manipulating people. I would rather use my cunning in a game of Quidditch or the planning of a good prank./

/Well then no need to be so pushy./

/One other thing. Could you please not tell the Headmaster or anyone else for that matter that we're from the future. Thank you./

"Gryffindor!"

"Five new Gryffindors. Your things will be arriving early in the morning. It would be very impolite to wake your dorm mates up at this hour. Therefore you will have a guest room for the night." Snapping his fingers twice he summoned a house elf. "Linky can you take these ladies to the blue guest room and these gentlemen to the green guest room. They'll be staying there the night only."

Bobbing her head in agreement Linky led them to their rooms.

"How the hell did they know we were about to prank them?" Sirius questioned.

"The only thing they did was mark Padfoot. Do you think that mark symbolizes them as a group?" James turned to Remus, "What do you think Moony?"

"I think we should go to sleep. The full moon is in a few days," he yawned, "we can talk about this in the morning."

Antoine woke to the sun shining in his eyes. He was confused momentarily. Jumping up he gathered his things and entered the bathroom wanting his morning shower before his friends woke and demanded he get out. Rushing out of the shower he bumped into Jay, knocking him to the floor.

"Sorry Jay!" he moved to his trunk and began digging through it searching for the right outfit.

Shaking his head at his roommate's eccentric behavior he entered the shower. After carefully washing his long hair Jay smeared a salve on his numerous scars including the curse scar he received from Voldemort as a baby. The salve was a mild healing potion. He used it to keep his numerous scars unnoticeable and the curse scar from splitting open too often.

"Damn it Jay get out! It's my turn!" Cyrus shouted pounding on the door.

"Give me a minute. I'm almost done!"

He exited the bathroom wearing his clothes for the day.

"What took you so long Jay?" Antoine questioned, trying to choose which robe to wear.

"You know about my salve right?"

"Nope."

"Well I use it on my scars. Even the one Voldemort gave me as a baby. The salve prevent it from splitting open too often." Jay plopped down on a bed. "If it weren't for the salve I would've only taken fifteen minutes."

The two lapsed into silence waiting for their friend to finish so they could collect the girls and go down for breakfast.

"How do I look?" Cyrus' cheerful voice broke the silence.

Antoine looked up and promptly fell over laughing.

"Well the salve and pranking Cyrus." Jay murmured, louder he said, "You look wonderful. Let's go get the girls and breakfast."

Bouncing ahead of them Cyrus had fox ears, green and purple hair, and pink polka dotted skin. Anna and Audrey had a hard time keeping a straight face when they saw him.

"Which of you…?" Anna gestured to Cyrus.

"The skin and hair was me. I'm guessing he did something to annoy Antoine for the ears. I put potions in his shampoo and body wash."

"He laughed at my hair so I hexed him." Antoine shrugged.

"You had yet to brush your hair. Right?" Anna smiled as her boyfriend nodded his head.

Laughter reached their ears when Cyrus entered the Great Hall for breakfast.

"Jay what are they laughing at?" Cyrus whined.

"Have you looked in a mirror lately?" Audrey laughed.

Anna handed the small hand mirror she carried everywhere.

The Marauders were dragging themselves to breakfast half asleep when they heard a girl scream. They ran into the entrance hall where the scream had originated. They found the Pack laughing at Cyrus. As they Marauders got closer they too started to laugh.

The stern voice of Professor McGonagall cut through their mirth. "Who did this? Which of you four did this to the poor boy?" her gaze was glued to the Marauders.

"Excuse me ma'am? They weren't the ones who pranked Cyrus. Antoine and I were the ones to do this." Jay gestured to himself and Antoine. "He'd made fun of us this morning so we decided to make a spectacle out of him. The potions I used should wear off by lunch."

"What exactly did he make fun of that would make you go to such extremes?" her glare was now turned on the Pack.

"I have a mild healing salve I use on my scars caused my… affliction. It also prevents my curse scar from splitting open at… inopportune moments." Jay explained.

"He laughed at my hair." Antoine said, "I only gave him the fox ears. He knows the counter charm."

"Perhaps Madam Pomfrey should look at your scars, Mr. Weston." McGonagall's voice softened.

"I've gone to St. Mungo's and the salve is all they could do for me." Jay bowed.

Gesturing for his friends to follow he walked over to the Gryffindor table and sat down.

"I'm going to have to get used to sitting with you guys." Antoine muttered.

"Why's that?" Sirius asked suspiciously.

"At Loxley we were all in the same House except Antoine who… well he was in our House's biggest rival. Heh… we hated him until he decided to pull his head out of his arse and realize he was human like the rest of us. We started to get along a bit better after he started to date Anna." Jay filled his plate. "It's kind of nice having him in the same House."

"So you're in which House?" Peter sat across from Anna.

"Well seeing as we're sitting at the Gryffindor table wearing Gryffindor robes I'd say we're in Slytherin," Antoine retorted sarcastically. "Right guys?"

The Pack made noncommittal noises as they dug into their breakfast. After cleaning his plate for the second time, Jay reached for thirds.

"How can you eat so much!" Peter asked incredulous. I can't each that much and you're so skinny!"

"Got to keep my energy levels up or I'll be as a wet noodle after the full moon." Jay shrugged, turning back to his plate.

"I can never eat much, before or after the full moon." Remus looked down at his own plate.

"Let's put it this way. If you don't eat everything on your plate and two goblets of juice I'll—"

"You'll what start a nasty rumor about him?" Sirius interrupted Audrey.

"No, I was going to threaten to set Anna on him, but the nasty rumor was a better idea. I never thought of that." Audrey retorted, "Less blood, too."

"They did the dame to me. Now I eat four helpings of food every meal. Unfortunately if I'm not active between full moons I get fat."

"I can try, I guess." Remus put more food on his plate.

"That's all you can do, try." Anna patted his arm. "We don't expect you to be able to eat four helpings right away. Jay only started the four helpings two moons ago."

"So what are we supposed to do around here?" Cyrus asked bouncing in his seat, "I'm bored."

"We could always plan a few pranks 'Rus. Except we don't know any good targets here." Anna sighed. "We have to scout out potential victims first."

"Why not choose someone and prank them? That's what we do." Sirius looked up from his breakfast.

"That's so unprofessional. You scout out your victims weaknesses then exploit them until they're so embarrassed they refuse to leave their common room for a week.." Antoine explained patiently.

"What if someone pranks you? How do you retaliate?" Remus asked leaning forwards.

"No one has successfully pranked us before. We always turn the prank around so it'll blow up in their faces. Kind of like what we did to you guys last night." Audrey explained, popping the last of her toast into her mouth.

"Let's go, we can practice our flying," Jay stood.

"Ah… no you can't." James looked apologetic.

"What? Why?" Cyrus asked, shocked.

"The Headmaster cancelled Quidditch this year because of V-Voldemort is on the rise and might attack during a game or practice. We can't go out and fly because the pitch is off limits. If we have a snowball fight we have to get a teacher to watch us." Remus explained looking forlorn.

"Dammit! Jay promised to show me the Wronski Feint!" Antoine groaned. "Think there's a way around this Jay?"

"Give me some time to think and I'll come up with something." He got up and left.

"Nice talking to you. Oh hey what's the password to the common room?" Anna asked standing.

"It's Lion's Den." Remus murmured.

Sorry about the long wait. Anyways thankies to all who've reviewd. Next chappie should be out sometime next week.