A/N – Sorry for the long update time. I'm going to try and update this more often. I will also try and go along with GOF, but if I don't please don't get mad at me! LOL.

Chapter Summary – Moony, Padfoot and Pronglet are off to see a Quiditch Game!

Fic Summary – the little family try to enjoy a summer.

A Fammily Summer

Chapter 3

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. -- William Shakespeare

"Okay," Sirius looked over his companions, "Are we ready then?" he asked.

"Yeah, can we go now?" Harry asked.

"I think we can go now, we have a seven o'clock appointment with a shoe," Remus said.

"Right then, let's lock up and then we can go, we have two hours any road," Sirius said and with that he and Remus went throughout the house locking up and setting protective charms over those area's that were most vulnerable. However, these area's were slightly out of place and Harry chalked it up to their time as pranksters at Hogwarts.

Thirty minutes later, the three were ready and with their luggage they locked the front door, Remus set another charm and off they went. They took the little dirt road that led from Remus' cottage. They walked through a glen with a little brook running through it and they took the little foot bridge over it. After another mile or two they came upon a little used road but it was paved.

"So, is Ron or Hermione going to be there?" Harry asked as they walked on.

"Somehow, Arthur got tickets; he's taking the whole family and Hermione. She's spending time with Ginny, you'll see them tomorrow," Remus said.

"Cool," Harry nodded. They continued on and in another hour they arrived at a knoll.

This knoll was surrounded by Weeping Willow trees and rare purple flowers riveted the area. Harry saw that at the top of this knoll was a stage of sorts (though smaller and not at all made for a theatre) and at this stage was a pudgy little man. He apparently was from the Ministry and his job was to activate the portkey, in this case, a horseshoe.

"Are ya'll ready then?" he asked.

"Yeah, we have an appointment at seven," Sirius said.

"Only a few more moments it seems," the man said. Another group came up then and they took the portkey because their appointment was for ten minutes from seven. Then it was their turn.

"Moony," Harry said.

"Yes?"

"I've never used a portkey before," Harry looked only slightly worried.

"Never used a portkey? Oh it's easy!" Sirius laughed.

"Just touch the horseshoe and when its time it will take you to your destination. Sirius take hold, do we have everything?" Remus asked.

"Yeah," Sirius said. Remus counted down the seconds and at that moment, Harry felt as if his innards were being pulled out from his belly button. He became dizzy as he felt himself lift off the ground and wind swirled all around him. He didn't know how long it took them to get to the outskirts of the Quiditch camp site. But in a short amount of time they came to a stop and Harry stumbled over himself and fell to the ground.

"Well, there's a first time for everything," Remus said, picking Harry up and setting him on his feet.

"What was your first time like?" Harry asked.

"Poor Remy!" Sirius started, "He was sick that evening, not from it being the full moon or anything. We still don't know how he got sick. But we needed to get to Diagon alley and Prongs' Mum needed to go to work. So, she decided to take us along…"

"Oh?" Harry was slightly curious.

"And so, the ride made me really doozy and I threw up all over Mrs. Prongs – Er—I mean, Mrs. Potter…" Remus finished.

"Yeah, but she cleaned it up and had us take you to St. Mungo's and they decided to keep him over night, we stayed, of course," Sirius said.

"Of course," Harry agreed.

This all transpired as they walked away from the hill top where the visitor's arrived and soon they came to the camp ground and the main office. This office was managed by muggles. There was a Wizard there to swipe the muggles memories if anything out of turn was said. Really, muggles could be so noisy.

Either way, Remus handled the muggle money and the Muggle quite well. He never said anything that pertained to Magic or Wizards and Witches. He counted out the money fast and quickly and then they were directed to their camping spot.

The spot they had was nearly in the middle. They were in-between the Irish supporters and the Bulgarian's. It was only slightly weird with people asking them what side they chose to cheer for. Their only answer was that they weren't sure yet and only wanted a nice family outing.

"Oh! Sirius, don't look now but I think someone is checking you out," Harry snickered. Sirius looked at him and then at a group of ladies who were ogling at him, or at Remus, who was bent over in order to get the fire going. Sirius gave them a charming smile and the girls sighed and giggled at him.

"Yup," he puffed out his chest like a proud pigeon, "Still got it," he said.

"Sirius, don't even think it," Remus muttered as he finally got the fire started.

"Why, Mr. Moony, whatever do you mean?" Sirius asked, feigning hurt.

"Remember the last time you tried to pick up a girl?"

"Er – no…"

"Exactly, you gave her some stupid pick up line and she gave the bat-bogy hex instead," Remus replied. Harry snickered.

"So?"

"So, let's have fun and not worry about girls," Remus said.

"Sure thing, boss," Sirius gave a solute.

"Thank you," Remus smiled a little.

Sirius and Harry finished putting up the tent while Remus made a small snack. It was nice to just be together and to hear some of the stories that his father and uncle had to tell him. Sirius loved to tell stories and he loved to exaggerate them. A lot!

"Okay, Peter, you know what you have to do?" James asked the youngest of the group. They decided that since Peter's animagus form was much, much smaller than their own, that he would have an easier time of freaking the girls out in the dormitory.

Currently, the boy's were quite bored (Except for Remus who was trying to do his homework) – they sat in the common room putting pranks together and basically jut hanging out.

"Yeah, I transform and go into the girls dorm,"

"Right, but not Lily's. Go into the first years – that way she won't think we were behind it," James said.

"Good idea," Sirius agreed.

Peter transformed into a rat, called Wormtail, and made his way up the stairs to the girls dorm. It took a while and the special charm that the teachers had put on the stairs did not activate. The Marauder's figured that was just for male humans, not for male rodents of an unusual size.

"Quick, look busy and as innocent as possible," James said. Both he and Sirius attacked their homework and Remus just rolled his eyes at them. Though secretly he rather liked the idea, he just didn't want to tell them because it would inflate their ego just a little bit more.

Apparently, it took Wormtail a while to climb up the stairs. Twenty minutes to be exact and both James and Sirius were running out of patience for their homework. However, they persevered and finished their charms essay. Remus took it from them to look over.

It was when he was explaining the difference between Furunculous charm and the Imperturbable Charm when the screaming started. James and Sirius snickered while Remus flinched at the sounds of the first year girls screaming in dismay when they saw the rat (well, that was what the boys imagined). The girls ran from the room and down to the common room. Still screaming.

This brought Lily and the older girls from their dorm room where they had decided to hang out and do their own homework.

"What is going on here?" she asked.

"There's a rat in the dorm!" on of the girls said, her name was Lori.

"Oh?"

"Yes!" the girls yelled in unison. No one noticed the rat that slid down the rail and then hid in Sirius' shoes that he had taken off. Meanwhile, Remus, James and Sirius had taken an interest in the situation.

"What happened?" Remus asked.

"We were talking about classes and stuff, girl stuff," Lori started.

"And then we heard this squeaking and then we saw the hugest rat in the history of the world!" Stephanie, another first year, waved her hands in the air.

"Why don't we go find this rat and get rid of it?" Lily suggested.

"We won't have to touch the dirty thing, will we?" one of the girls asked.

"No, don't worry, you don't have to touch it," Lily smiled.

"All right then," Lori said. The girls followed Lily up with the older Gryffindor girls following.

Sirius and James snickered as they went, and then Peter poked his whiskers out to make sure the coast was clear.

"That was evil, that was," Remus said.

"Yeah, but it was funny," James replied.

"It was evil," Remus deadpanned.

"Remmy! You have to admit that it was pretty funny," Sirius grinned.

"Yeah, but then Lily came back down and hit James for snickering and accused us of the prank," Remus mock-glared at his friend.

"Yes, she did at that, but since she couldn't prove anything…"

"That is the second rule of pranking, Harry" Remus turned to his nephew.

"Never get caught in a prank. If you are caught in a prank, always own up and never tell on the other members…"

"An actual Marauder rule. We never ever tattled someone else out on a prank, even if it was a group effort," Sirius said.

"But aren't you tattling now?" Harry asked.

"No way! We're informing you of the ways of the Marauders!" Remus replied as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Riiiiighttttttt……" Harry shook his head.

"What else can we tell him?" Sirius asked Remus.

"It's my turn," Remus smirked.

Professor McGonagall was not a happy woman.

She walked into her office to see that everything had been turned bubblegum pink! It was most horrendous and she sighed as she found out that nothing she could do could transfigure it back to its original state.

A knock came to her door, she cringed as she waved the door open with her wand."Professor you wanted to…see….us….?" James stopped in his tracks as he looked at the room. Remus was behind him.

"Core blimey!" James swore.

"Professor? Are you all right?" Remus wanted to know.

"It's bubblegum pink," she said.

"Damn straight," James swore again and Remus hit him upside the head for it.

"Did you boys do this?" Professor McGonagall asked.

"No ma'am…but I think I know who did…" James said, he picked up a stray scarf. It was green and silver.

"Talked to any Slytherin's today, Ma'am?" Remus asked.

"And if I did?" she glared.

"Sorry, it could be just an innocent bystander," Remus shrugged.

"Er – anyway…" James poked his back into the room.

"This is scary, I do not want to go in," James shivered.

"I'll need to work on this, you boy's go on. Out talk can wait," Professor McGonagall said. Remus and James gave a bow and they were off. James still had the scarf.

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"So, who does this belong to, you figure?" Sirius asked.

"We don't know but we'll get them back," James said.

"Oh? And how do we do that?" Sirius didn't have any good ideas.

"We turn them into pink bubble gum!" Peter suggested.

"No way! We'd be put into Azkaban," James rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, and anyone who liked bubblegum and chewed said gum likes Slytherin's," Sirius said.

"Why don't we let them know that we know something that we aren't supposed to know but know so anyway?" Remus asked.

"I love your riddles, Remmy-kins!" Sirius said, all the while hugging his friend.

"Right, anyway, here is what we are going to do," Remus said and they started to plan.

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The next day, all the school knew that bubblegum pink was the new green. The Slytherin's had decided to dress in bubblegum pink robes, die their hair a darker pink and then going around inserting the word "Pink" intermittedly into their sentences.

"I can't bloody (pink) this!" Severus was saying.

"Yeah, who ever thought that (pink) this would happen," Goyle agreed.

"If we ever catch the (pink) gits who did this to us we will so kill them!"

This mantra was the basic conversation of all the Slytherin's of all the years. Lucius Malfoy was entirely pissed off and so he stalked the hallways for the rest of that week to find the culprits. Of course, he never did.

"Now…" McGonagall had her office back to normal. She closed the door while Malfoy stalked past.

"I think I know that you four…" at this she looked at Potter, Black, Lupin and Pettigrew, "Played that prank on the Slytherin's,"

"Well…I guess there's no way we can contest to that," Remus said.

"Yeah, we did it only because they trounced on our territory," Sirius glowered.

"Your territory?" McGonagall raised an eyebrow.

"Yes, your our head of house, and this is you office of which is sacred!" Peter said.

"Thank you for that ethical statement," she replied.

"Anyway, yes, we did it to show them a lesson," James put in.

"All right, I'll let this one go, but don't think it'll happen again,"

"Of course not Professor," the four look as innocent as possible.

McGonagall chased them out of her office with a stern warning to not play any pranks and gave them ten points each. Then the four went on their way.

"That was bloody brilliant!" James crowed. The rest had to agree.

"Yeah, those were the days," Sirius sighed.

"We got away with a lot of things," Remus said.

"Funny, I never can seem to get away with all that much," Harry muttered.

"It takes time and practice, we didn't get wise till second or third year," Remus said.

"Enough about old times, it's time for bed," Sirius said.

With that, they put out their fire and entered their tent. The silencing charm worked wonders and soon they were all asleep in their home away from home.

Spell Glossary –

The Furunculous Charm – any victim of the charm will be covered in boils.

Imperturbable Charm – a barrier charm that let's nothing and no one cross it.

a/n – Sorry for the bloody long update. Honest! I hope you all enjoy this!