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Author Note: I KNOW about the surname mistake in the previous chapter but my computer is jacked up so I can't change it!

Thursday

In the distance Fred could hear whistling but he was too comfortable to wake up. Only when small jeers were added to the whistles and something began to tickle his neck did he dare to open his eyes. Through squinting eyes he realised he was in Hermione's bed and she was cuddled up in his arms, her head lying on his chest. Looking up he saw the marauders crowded around the bed catcalling and laughing. 'Christ!' he thought 'We're in a wee bit of a compromising position her'

Once Hermione had woken up and the marauders calmed down Fred tried to explain,

"It was cold in here and well…" he stammered before James broke him off,

"Yes of course! We must all have dirty minds mustn't we guys! I mean what do you think we're gonna think? When we wander in here to wish you a merry Christmas and find you making out on a bed?" Fred went red,

"What? Are you insane? We weren't making… god I can't even say it… Hermione with me?" he slumped onto one of the beds and started to mumble his face matching his hair as Sirius stood and wandered over to a shocked Hermione,

"Don't worry Hermy we'll save you from the big old Meany Freddie," Hermione jumped and looked up. 'Hermy why is that so familiar…' she wondered as an image of a lanky, short-hared teenager dancing with her under a glacier of Christmas decorations fell into her mind. Confused her head unfocused and the picture refused to leave until a word swam into view along side,

"Krum" she whispered to herself as the image died.

Half an hour later Fred and Hermione thought they had kicked the marauders successfully out of the hospital wing until,

"Erm Hermione," said a quiet voice turning they both saw Remus holding a hastily wrapped rectangle.

"Erm this is from us marauders… Christmas present, it's just small but hey we didn't have much notice of you coming here so…" he dropped the present in Hermione's hand and took off running calling over his shoulder "Ditto to you Fred,"

"You wanna open it Mine?" Fred asked as he jumped knee first onto a bed next to her,

"Dunno, do you think it's booby trapped?" she replied holding it at arms length "he ran away mighty quickly,"

"True. Quick I'll protect you, get behind me and I'll check it over," she laughed and crawled around the bed. Fred began to poke the object, shook it and held it up to his ear. He decided it was safe, but this was the marauders you couldn't be to careful. Bracing himself he peeled back one corner, and promptly threw off all the wrapping paper,

"Safe!" he said in triumph, as Hermione peeked around his side,

"My hero," she laughed and came to sit next to him. She carefully took the object out of his hands, but their hands brushed, they both blushed and looked away as Hermione turned over the rectangle to reveal a picture in a frame. She laughed and showed in to Fred, grinning up at them was an autographed pictured off the marauders,

"What does that say?" he leaned forward "To Fred and Hermione, our BIGGEST fans, hugs and kisses the Marauders! They're insane! Why would we want THIS!" Fred looked over at Hermione, whose face was still bent over the frame,

"Well they know we have to leave sooner of later don't they? Maybe it's their way of making sure we remember them."

"Yeah maybe," Fred said taking a closer look at the picture then reaching over into the bed side table of the bed, and taking out a carefully wrapped present,

"Merry Christmas," he said cheerfully handing it to her, with a kiss on the cheek, smiling she took it and dipped her hand into her robe pocket pulling out a present aswell,

"Ditto," they sat and opened their gifts, and both exploded in laughter laying in each of their left hand lay an identical Honeydukes tongue twister chocolate miracle bar.

"How thoughtful," they said simultaneously and the laughter started again.

"Hey 'mione, Freddo do you guys want to come over to Gryfindore tower?" turning they saw the marauders on the other side of the court yard

"Do they go anywhere alone," Fred whispered to Hermione, pleased when she laughed.

"Erm what's Gryfindore?" Hermione asked as they fell into stride with the others,

"Only the best and most wonderful house at Hogwarts!" said Sirius as he plucked a snowball out of a first year's hand and chucked it at the back of a burly 5th years Slytherine's head. "The house of the brave and courageous," he smirked as the 5th year tackled the kid.

Peter snorted, everyone turned to look at him he turned white, "Yeah did you see that tackle? It's a wonder he's not on the quidi… I'll stop talking now,"

"Erm anyway," said Remus weaving himself through his friends to get to Hermione and stand between her and Fred to 'speak to them easier'.

"There are four houses at Hogwarts, we eat, sleep and have classes with our houses. We earn and have points taken away, our houses are like our families. Slytherine is for the sly, Ravenclaw the smart, Hufflepuff the loyal and as Sirius said Gryfindore the brave to put it simply."

As they arrive in the tower and go through a secret passage, James scurries off to a red head in the corner who was reading. Sirius starts making eyes at a group of girls by the fire, Peter mumbles something about the dorms and they are left alone with Remus.

"So… hey Fred how old are you," Remus asks, "You've obviously graduated wherever you used to go,"

"Well Mme. Pomfrey says I'm about 19 years old…" suddenly the girls came swarming,

"Really? 19?"

"I saw you at the feast with the frizzy hared girl, right?"

"Did you know my name is Willow! So when we get married my name will be Willow Willow how silly is that?

"Aren't you the one who lost his memory?"

"Oh poor sweet-heart…"

Remus smiled 'Perfect' "Hey! Hermione!" He called over the noise "Let's go over to the bookcases," he looked down at her face to see her scowling at the group of girls hanging off Fred, 'Oh… maybe she does like him after all,'

"Pardon, Remus. What was that?" she called frowning,

"Bookcase." he repeated firmly, 'Even if I can't have her she doesn't need to see that,'

Ten minutes later looking rather ill, Fred walked over scowling, he sat down next to Hermione on the sofa next to her and put his head on her lap,

"I think I'm gonna need therapy," he said miserably fisting his hair, "They're like limpets, I couldn't escape! If Sirius hadn't taken pity on me… I don't even want to think about what might have happened. Why did they just attack me?" Hermione laughed coldly but didn't push him off her.

"Think about it Fred! To them you're this mysterious, older guy… and your not exactly unpleasant to look at are you?" she said in a monologue tone not looking up from her book. Fred went red and shot Remus a ha-ha-I'm-not-unpleasant-to-look-at-smirk but the marauder simply shrugged looking just as down as he had two minutes ago.

"Excuse me are you Hermione Willow?" said a brazen voice next to them. Fred and Hermione moved as one to look at the red hared girl that James had ditched them for, "Hi! I'm Lily Evans. James just told me you love books, would you like to go to the library with me tomorrow the one here is HUGE! But then Remus probably showed it to you already, he practically lives there!" Lily laughed and sat on the arm of the sofa as Hermione opened her mouth to speak she looked into Lily's eyes and the room began to spin and the world went black once again,

"I GIVE UP" Ron screamed for the umpteenth time in the small part of the lesson that had passed.

"Ronald, scream in my ear one more time and I'm going to poke your eyes out with my wand! We have gone over this a million times, just TRY and change my eye colour it's simple!" She grabbed Harry's shoulder and tugged him around so she could see his eyes, "Watch" she said to Ron she put her wand between his eyes and said the spell and waited for them to change colour. But they stayed defiantly green. Ron snickered, Hermione's eyes narrowed and she tried again, and again and again, outraged she too was on the point of screaming.

Suddenly Professor McGonagall walked up behind them.

"Having trouble Miss. Granger?" she asked worried that her star pupil couldn't grasp something so simple for her intelligence level.

"Yes Professor I can't change Harry's eyes!" McGonagall squinted at Harry and whipped out her wand and said the spell… and nothing happened.

"How peculiar!" she whispered.

Hermione shook her head to free the cobwebs and tried desperately to grab names out of the vision. 'Harry Potter, Ron… must be the Weasley and professor McGonagall… doesn't she work here?' Hermione looked up at Lily's eyes again 'Potter… Lily's eyes his surname oh my god,'

"Erm lily are you dating James," she asked smiling as Lily went red

"Oh no we're just good friends!"

Again I don't like this chapter. Review if you want, if you liked it or if you didn't beggars can't be choosers.