Another round of applause for all those who reviewed:

- James' Lily Flower (Yeah. I'm not good at writing stuff about Harry, but I'll get there eventually! Key word being eventually!!)

- Mera-Mera-Ookami (what's a good Marauders' era story without it?)

- LupinandHarry (Will James find out? That is a very good question indeed -evil laughter- … ignore me…)

- itsasouthernthing

- Piscesfairy

- Someone aka Me

And of course, same goes for all who story alerted/author alerted/author fav'ed/story fav'ed or anyone who reviewed and I missed.

Confession: I officially suck at math (well, that was obvious long before this as I still haven't memorized my multiplication tables, but hello! Calculators!!). Anyway, that fact's relevant to this story because I can't handle numbers and am therefore a blundering idiot when it comes to dates and times. It's now official: This takes place in November-ish of the Marauders' seventh year.

Here we go again…

BACK TO THE FUTURE

A Harry Potter Fanfic

By Yolapeoples

(I own nothing)

"Lily had to go and ruin all the fun!" said Sirius as the Marauders' and Harry made their way towards the Great Hall for lunch. It was still Harry's fourth day in the past, a chilly November Monday. This made the whole time travel thing even weirder since, well, it had been nearly summer.

As they continued to walk, Sirius just wouldn't shut up about Snape and Lily. Remus was doing his best to ignore it. Peter was listening intently. James… well, James was sort of out of it and was acting very distant, not paying attention to what was going on at all.

"Did you see the look on his face though? Snape, when he fell? Priceless!" continued Sirius. Harry just wanted Sirius to stop. He was being annoying.

"Would you just stop?" said James before Harry had the chance to say anything. Sirius looked taken aback. Remus looked at James and Sirius out of the corner of his eyes, pretending that he wasn't listening.

"What do you mean 'stop'?" asked Sirius incredulously as he stopped walking, stopping the whole group.

"Just stop. I'm going for a walk." said James as he turned to walk off to the left. The other boys watched him walk away.

"He seemed depressed." said Remus quietly, but understandingly.

"What was up with him?!" exclaimed Sirius arrogantly as he started to walk towards the Great Hall again, but Harry didn't move.

"You coming?" said Sirius to Harry. Harry just stared at the three boys in front of him. He shook his head.

"What's wrong with you?" he muttered to himself, before addressing Sirius louder, "I'm going for a walk too."

"Fine with me." Sirius walked away with Peter on his tail. Remus watched Harry walk away before continuing towards the Great Hall.

"This is so messed UP!" yelled Harry as he kicked the water. He had walked until he had reached the lake. He sat down against one of the trees and started to think out loud.

"I knew that Sirius hated Snape but this is weird! I mean, he just wouldn't shut up! And Remus wouldn't do anything to stop him! Even when Dad told him to stop, he wouldn't." Harry looked into the depths of the lake. "I'm just so confused…"

"You're Black's cousin, right?" came a voice from behind him. Harry spun around in surprise. There stood the redhead, Lily Evans.

"Um…yes?" said Harry, unsure of what to say. How much did she hear?!

"You were with them this morning, weren't you?"

"Yeah… uh… I'm sorry… about what happened"

Lily sighed, "They'll never change. They're both arrogant pricks, Black and Potter that is. I don't know if Remus deserved all that. He's really not all that bad, but I guess I was just frustrated about how he never even tries to stop them… wait. What am I telling you this for?" She looked at him quizzically.

"Harry." He extended his hand.

"Lily." She shook it.

"You know, he's not that bad." What are you saying? What are you doing? You're altering the time stream! yelled the rational part of his mind.

Lily blinked at him, "What do you mean?"

"Da- I mean James… uh… Potter?"

Lily sighed. "What would you know anyway?"

More than you know. "Well, um… I don't know. I mean, we were walking to the Great Hall and he seemed really depressed." Good going. Quote Remus. That'll work. Jeeze! You shouldn't even be talking to her!!

Lily blinked at him again, but seemed to absorb what he was saying.

"Well, maybe." She changed the topic, "So, what about you? What were you doing in our class?"

"Uh…" It struck Harry that he couldn't respond to this without lying, "Uh… I gotta go!" And he ran off.

Harry kept running. He looked behind him to make sure Lily wasn't following when he ran directly into...

"You?" said James.

"Uh…"

"What are you doing here?"

"Uh…"

James sighed. "You don't have to tell me. Come on." He motioned for Harry to follow him.

The rational part of Harry's brain was having a field day. Technically, this would be father-son bonding, wouldn't it? But then again, you don't even exist yet, let alone him knowing he has a son!

"Do you think she hates me?"

Harry decided to finally act his role as Sirius' cousin who knew nothing of Hogwarts or the Marauders. "That depends who 'she' is."

"Lily." As he said the name, James had a distant look in his eyes.

"Well, no." James snapped back to reality and looked at Harry.

Harry shrugged. "At least, I don't think so." And he ran off again.

WHY DO I KEEP RUNNING INTO MY PARENTS AND WHY DO THEY KEEP BRINGING UP WHETHER OR NOT THEY HATE EACH OTHER?? AREN'T I PROOF ENOUGH THAT THEY DON'T??

Harry finally made it into the Great Hall and spotted Remus. He went and sat down next to him, breathing hard as if he had just run a marathon (which in a way, he had).

"Harry?" asked Remus.

"Yes?" said Harry, a bit of annoyance in his voice.

"Nothing."

"Where's Sirius?"

Remus looked at him with one eyebrow raised.

"We're different than you expected, aren't we?" asked Remus.

"No… not really, I guess. I mean, I should have known what to expect. You… well, future you, told me."

Remus smiled as if he expected this of himself.

"Well, then what's wrong?"

"Oh, I don't know. It's just… well, Sirius is arrogant, Mum supposedly hates Dad and you're… well, you're different."

"Okay. I follow up until the part about me."

"I don't know! You're just different! I can't really explain it." tried Harry.

"Something big happens, doesn't it?"

Harry looked at Remus in surprise with a look that said, "You're good." Remus just shrugged.

"Moony?" came two voices simultaneously.

"Hello, Prongs, Padfoot." said Remus before he even turned around. Sirius and James looked at each other.

"Look, Prongs. I'm sorry okay. I acted like a downright git." said Sirius, becoming extremely interested in the floor.

"That's okay, Padfoot. It's mostly my fault anyway. Friends?"

Sirius smiled, "You got that right!"

James and Sirius laughed while Remus rolled his eyes.

"Well, Harry… um… I've gotta go. Stuff's happening tonight, so I guess I'll see you tomorrow." said Remus awkwardly as he got up. Harry understood immediately what he meant. James, Sirius and Harry watched Remus walk out of the Great Hall.

"Its tonight." said James.

"Yup." said Sirius as they both sat down. Sirius' eyes widened as he realized Harry was there. "Uh…" He looked urgently at James.

"Um…" said James.

Harry looked at their panic in confusion until he understood. They didn't know that Harry knew about Remus' being a werewolf. He decided to act stupid.

"Um what?" asked Harry.

"Nothing!" the boys said in unison.

"Okay." replied Harry happily. James and Sirius tried to hide their relief.

So, there it is! Chapter 4. I have no idea where this is going. I really don't. I hope it's somewhere good though! That's all I really have to say so tah-tah for now! :D - Yolapeoples

Post Scriptum: I'm afraid the whole Great Hall scene might've been cheesy, but the point was to show that they're all really good friends and that Sirius isn't a total jerk (I was afraid I was coming off like that). Please review!! (but no flamies/evil reviews please!!)