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Elite - 4 - Marauders meet … Gryffie's heir?
When he awoke an hour later he was starving.
"So," he began as he walked into the kitchen where James was reviewing a file for work at the kitchen table. "You wouldn't happen to have anything to eat, would you?" he asked as he sat down across from James.
James grinned widely, trust a teenage boy to think with his stomach, something normal at last. "Yeah, what'd you like?"
Harry smiled, "I don't know if you have it, but if you do I wouldn't mind a cheese sandwich on wheat."
James's smile faded, "Uh, I think we do. But I can't cook."
Harry laughed, "I can. I could even make you something if you want. Although, I don't know how putting a piece of cheese between two slices of bread is cooking." he said as he stood up, although a little too quickly and wavered.
James just about put an arm out to steady him before he caught himself and walked over to the fridge (magical) and pulled out cheese, bread and a few other things that he liked on a sandwich.
He put it together before James noticed that he was spending more time on a sandwich than Lily did. But that was before he saw him add the Tabasco sauce, olives and - was that anchovies? He quickly decided that he was glad he hadn't offered to make the sandwich for the teen as it might have made him hurl.
Harry cut the sandwich in half diagonally before brining it over on a plate and grabbing a cup of water. He bit into it with relish. "Want half?" he asked as he swallowed his first bite.
James looked at the sandwich, "Uh, no thanks." he said.
Harry laughed at the look on James's face. "No problem. My girlfriend made me a sandwich like this or rather her brothers dared her to make it and dared me to eat it. I liked it so I practically forced her to remember what all she put into it. She thought me mad." he said laughing. "But on the bright side, in less than a week everyone had learned not to steal my sandwich!" he said before he bit down again.
James had to laugh at that as well, and waited for Harry to finish eating. Although they were interrupted.
"Prongs! The famous Padfoot has entered the house!" Sirius yelled out as he came into the kitchen.
"Hey Padfoot, meet Harry Gryffin." James said as Harry looked at the two of them with mild amusement.
Sirius smiled as he grabbed the sandwich half from Harry's plate, "Sirius Black, maybe you've heard of me. I'm the most famous Auror at the Ministry."
Harry laughed, "Oh really? Well, Mad-eye might have something to say about that!"
James grinned, "He's got you there Padfoot." he said as Sirius bit into Harry's sandwich and after seeing Harry assemble it he waited on baited breath to see what would happen next. After all, he was a Marauder.
James and Harry roared with laughter as Sirius went green as soon as he tasted the contents of the sandwich. He dropped the sandwich back onto his plate before he ran for the sink and puked.
He wiped his face of any emotion when Sirius turned and glared at him after he rinsed his mouth out with water, even if James could see a twinkle of laughter within the depths of his eyes.
"What in the name of Merlin did you put in that sandwich?"
Harry looked at him innocently, "It was just a normal sandwich. Why? Didn't you like it?" he asked as he picked the sandwich up and took a large bite out of it just to prove his point and he honestly enjoyed it. He could really taste the anchovies and the Tabasco sauce. "Umm!" he sighed through the bite.
Sirius looked at him as though he were mad. "You're mad. James, are you sure he's alright in the head?"
Harry grinned through chewing and James just laughed.
"Guess you've finally learned not to steal someone's sandwich!" James said through a completely straight face.
Harry swallowed just as he noticed Sirius move his wand-hand. He jumped up and had Sirius pinned with his wand-hand behind his back in less than a second.
"Hey!" Sirius objected as the scene from earlier in the morning repeated itself and James couldn't help but notice that Harry had to be at least 75 awake, considering what had happened that morning.
"Harry, let him go." James said.
"Give me a good reason why I should let someone go who was going to curse me?" he demanded as his training became evident to himself as he recounted the many times that he had given his opponent his freedom too early in the exercise. Heck, even Loki had yelled at him for that and Loki never yelled.
"Because if you don't-" another voice said from behind him. "You are going to make an angry werewolf even angrier." Remus Lupin said as he stepped through the back door. He had his wand out and pointed at him from across the room. He hadn't even reacted much, he had just come in as Harry pinned his friend and responded accordingly.
Harry turned and let Sirius go before either of them knew it and stood back on the balls of his feet, completely ready for anything they could throw at him.
Remus saw the look of apprehension on his face before he realized that he didn't even have a wand out. "Sirius?"
"Yes Moony?"
"Care to tell me why you were going to curse an unarmed teenager?"
"Like he's unarmed." Sirius said, gesturing as to how Harry stood.
"He is," Remus said before he lowered his wand and put it away.
Harry still looked from one wizard to the other, still completely on edge, just as Sirius put his wand down and James looked from one of his friends to the other before he burst out laughing.
Remus frowned at James, "What's so funny?"
"Here! Smell this vile concoction, Moony." Sirius said as he gave the sandwich to Remus, who sniffed it before he burst out laughing as well.
Harry looked in confusion as he relaxed his stance and stood normally.
"Do you really eat that?" Remus asked.
Harry nodded, "Yeah, for about two years now. Every chance I can make one I do."
The Marauders calmed down.
"Sorry about that Pup." Sirius said as he held out a hand. "Guess I overreacted. Thought Jamie was pranking me."
Harry frowned at "Pup" but figured it was normal for the three of them to give each other nicknames like that. "My name is Harry, not "pup"." he said as they shook hands.
Remus grinned, "So, James, what are we going to do today?" he asked as he sat down at the table, adjacent to where Harry had been sitting.
"Since Pup woke up, I thought we'd go to Diagon Alley." James said, ignoring Harry's protest. "Look." he said as he turned to him. "You need more clothes than what you have on. Heck, those are MY clothes."
"I don't have to go to Diagon Alley. My wallet….Merlin's Balls!" he groaned as he closed his eyes and banged his head against the wall. "My wallet?" he asked dejectedly even though he knew the probable answer.
"Sorry, didn't find anything."
"Bloody Hell." he groaned as he hid his head in his arms, which were propped up against the wall. "Why does this always happen to me!" he complained.
Sirius smiled, "You're a teenager, embrace the unpredictability of the situation and exploit it."
Harry glared at him, and James knew that whatever they said next would have to be devoid of their typical Marauder Mouth in order to avoid a teenage outburst of anger.
Sirius wisely kept his mouth shut other than to comment: "Well, we need to get there anyway. If nothing else, you need a wand."
"Fine, but I'm paying for it." he said.
"How?" James asked. "You just told me that…"
"I'm the heir of Godric Gryffindor." he said, in his world he had only just discovered that he was the heir of Gryffindor before he became a Journeyman (the level below Mage) and had discovered that he was filthy rich.
James looked at him in shock, "You're Gryffindor's heir?"
Harry nodded, "Yeah." he said quietly even as the two other Marauders drug their mouths off of the floor.
"Then you are definitely going to Gringotts." James said.
Harry nodded, "I guess I have to then." he said as he crossed the room, grabbed his sandwich and threw it away. He didn't like eating anything after too many people were around, it made him queasy to think about how many people could have poisoned him.
Remus noticed it and he also noticed when Harry turned back to them with his eyes and hair a matching green. "You're a metamorphagus?"
Harry smiled before he effortlessly changed his hair and eye color to a bright blue. "Are we ready?"
James nodded, "Yep. The kids are at magic-school and I've already done my chores."
"I thought that Lily didn't want you to use magic?" Remus asked.
"Moony, what Lily doesn't know about yet can't hurt me yet." James said.
Harry watched the exchange before his eyes, he settled on blue eyes and hair, and took in the differences. It was clear that Remus was a lot better off here than he was last time, if his blue robes were any judge as they looked new and Sirius wasn't a convict here but an Auror judging by his reflexes.
He looked at Remus, "Is it alright if I just apparate now?" he asked.
Remus looked at him, "You can apparate?"
Harry nodded, "When your parents are murdered by Voldemort you learn everything you can to keep it from happening to you."
Remus looked at him sadly before turning back to his two friends, "Are we going to have to leave you here?" he asked.
James shook his head, "No way. I've always wondered what Gryffie's vault looks like!" he said before the three friends all clasped hands with Harry and apparated to the arriving station at Gringotts.
