AN: Wow! Thanks for the awesome response I've gotten from all the readers that have lead to 81 alerts, 24 reviews, 20 favourites, 2619 hits and 8 C2's. Phew, what a mouthful!

Anyways I thought I should repay you by ACTUALLY updating… I've had the most part of this chapter written (on scrap paper) for I dunno, a month but sort of forgot about it. Oops! Plus school has been extremely hectic as of late and I was studying very hard for my mid-year exams (it was a relief when I passed them all (to say the least)).

Well now it's school holidays and after exams I meant to get this up earlier but I happened to misplace my scribblings and only found them an hour ago. Sorry if the chapters short but I kind of had to end it off hereish otherwise the chapter wouldn't be up for another few days. Don't worry I'll keep writing with the next chapter… But if you want it up within the next week then please, please, PLEASE review! :-) Well that's enough of me and my babbling. Have fun with this teensy titbit of a chapter!

'James! JAMES!' Sirius yelled, shaking his friend's shoulders vigorously. 'Prongs, you sissy, wake-up!' With this remark he upended a conjured bucket of water on top of James.

James sat bolt upright, spluttering, before whacking Sirius on the arm. 'What'd you do that for, idiot?!'

'You bloody fainted on me!'

'But you didn't have to tip a whole bucket of water on top of me!'

'You wouldn't wake up!'

'Moron.'

'Sissy.'

'Numb-skull.'

'Dumb-ass!'

James coughed and smirked at that remark. 'Well I can't be that much of a dumb-ass coz I still manage to land Lily Evans and my kid ends up defeating the darkest wizard of all time…'

'Touché,' Sirius replied with a grin before turning back to Remus and Dumbledore who were still staring, dumbfounded, at the map.

Harry waited patiently for the Marauders to reply. Damn he thought as he sat, staring at the map. I shouldn't have told them so early! Now I've lost the only connection to my father… and the men who've willing played his part in my life…

Harry covered his face in his hands. Well I might as well try and fix this. He picked up his quill and nervously scribbled: 'Hello? Is anyone there?'

It took a few moments before an answer came, in Remus's handwriting.

'Sorry about that. Needless to say, your news cam as a surprise and James… well…'

'What happened?' Harry asked, his gut wrenching with dread and he feared the worst.

'He, uh, fainted.'

'Moony!' exclaimed James, hitting his friend on the back of his head. 'You weren't supposed to tell him!'

'He seems worried,' Sirius grinned after reading Harry's reply (What?!). He leaned in and spoke to the parchment. 'It's ok, he's fine now, well if you call throwing a hissy fit and physically abusing me and Remus fine. He wouldn't wake up for a while there, but don't worry, I sorted him out.'

'How?'

Sirius looked over at James, and evil look on his face, and James mouthed back: 'Don't you dare,' along with his best death glare.

'You know, the usual. A conjured bucket of water dumped over his head did the trick. He deserved it anyway for being such a sissy.'

As Harry read Sirius's words the first smile he'd had in months grew upon his face.

As he began to think over how much this connection had improved his mood and outlook on life a new message came through, and this time in was in the fine loopy scrawl of Albus Dumbledore.

'As you may have noticed Mr. Potter we have digressed from the original subject quite greatly. I am not sure about my companions here but I for one would like to know more about the progress of the war in the future.'

Harry sighed, his quill hovering about the map. 'I'm not sure to start… Maybe if you ask me questions and I answer them?'

Well, he thought as he waited for the first question to come through the connection of the two times. This is definitely going to take a while…

AN: Hope it wasn't too terrible for your liking! Please click the little review button if you want the next chapter up ASAP! Ciao!