AN: Okay... I have to clear something up and I'm sorry if I sound rude but I just find this funny as hell. Where in the (insert F bomb) did you get the idea this was a slash! I mean damn people it says no slash in the summary! And there have been no boy on boy action! Hell! They even have girlfriends! I mean seriously read the effin' story and you'll see it's just not there!
Okay, now that that's out of my system let me apologize for the long wait. It's just the Fall Play in school has been going on and I'm staying after school til ten o'clock at night. I have no free time, and all the free time I get I use for sleep. But it's over now out last show was last night and it was incredible. So, hopefully I'll get some of my stories updated now.
Hog's Head
The Marauder's were still having no luck with going back home, they tried, or rather Dumbledore tried. They weren't in too much of a rush, James still wanted to talk to Harry more, get to know him. He didn't show it too often, but the fact that he wouldn't be present in his only son's life was killing him inside. Sirius seemed to be suppressing the fact that he would get thrown in Azkaban, either that or he was in denial, same went for Remus.
But despite the fact they were in no rush to get home, the time just kept dragging on in Umbridge's class. Lucky for the Marauder's though, they ended up in the same defense class as Fred and George Weasley, with them all being seventh year Gryffindors and all, it wasn't a shock. But for Umbridge it was hell, the boys were getting more and more detentions everyday and teaching one another more and more things that the Marauder's would certainly bring back to their own time. Or they hoped they'd be able too.
Although defense class was fun, even with Umbridge, James still wasn't too happy with the fact Harry was still getting horrible scars across his hand. Not only that he was missing Quidditch practices, he was sure he didn't need it being his son and all, but the seeker can't miss practice!
"Oi! James!" Sirius cried as he walked down the hallway away from some seventh year girls he was flirting with. "Excuse me, ladies." He said to them very coolly as he walked away briskly to his friend. "Need to talk to you, mate!"
This was one of the few times during the week they didn't see one another, Sirius was taking an extra Potions class, much against Snape's wishes. During that class Sirius had actually called him Snivellus and cast an itching charm on him. Snape had given him detention, one month, and 50 points from Gryffindor. But lucky for him Dumbledore saw it as an unfair punishment for some harmless jokes, so it was lowered to one week and 10 points from Gryffindor. This made Sirius remarkably happy.
"What about?" James asked turning to Sirius. "Can't be late for Arithmancy, Professor Vector would kill me."
"Won't take long, just gotta tell you that Hermione wants to talk to all of us after class, so pass the message onto Rem when you see him in class okay? I'll go find Peter, I think he has this period off." Sirius said and walked away to find him.
"Won't you be late then?" James asked with a smirk and laughed.
Sirius threw his head back and laughed as well. "I have Snape this period; I think I can be late."
Ron and Hermione met with the foursome after school in the boy's dorm room. The four of them really had no idea why there were there, all they knew it there was no Harry and they weren't to tell Harry anything about their meeting there. He had another detention; even though the detentions were getting less frequent he still got them every now and then. And now was one of the times given to him by Snape, possibly just as payback now that James and Sirius were here.
Hermione just finished sound proofing the room real quick; she said they couldn't let anyone eaves drop on them now.
"So what's all this about?" Remus asked suspiciously. "And why can't Harry know?"
"Okay look, we all know that Umbridge is doing us no good in the Defense Against the Dark Arts department." She began. "Well, Ron and I had this idea –"
"It was your idea." Ron said interrupting her and shrugging. "I just went along with it."
"Alright, well my idea then, I had this idea that maybe Harry could teach us defense. He's the one with the most experience even if he denies it, and he know spells that even seventh years don't know. I'm sure that since all of you have obviously dabbled in your fair share of magic and dark arts that you don't need much more but I'm sure Harry would appreciate you being there. And he could use some help. He actually mentioned you, Remus, when I bought up the idea. He thought I was talking about you, so I guess in a way he could have been right."
"You want to make sort of an extra class, where we could learn the spells Umbridge isn't teaching us." James asked making sure he got it correct.
"That's it," Hermione said with a small smile. "We'd be working on the Patronus charm, Expelliarmus, you know things like that. And some more difficult ones, it's just we all know Voldemort-" Ron shuddered. "Oh please, Ron! We all know he's back, and we have to know how to protect ourselves."
Sirius nodded. "Sounds good, I'd be more then happy to be a member of your little group. Especially since you all would be breaking the rules, which is needless to say a great time! It always makes things more exciting."
Hermione grinned sheepishly and bit her bottom lip. "Yes, I'd have to admit, breaking the rules, it does sound exciting."
"You sound like Moony in first year, but we warped his mind, by second year he was coming up with some of our best pranks." Sirius said proudly putting an arm around Remus's shoulders.
"Yes, you destroyed my good nature." Remus said dully.
"No, I don't think we did." James said shaking his head. "You're still as good as ever."
"If not more good." Peter said with a smirk.
"So you're all willing to do it?" Ron asked them.
"Willing?" Remus asked with an eyebrow raised at Ron. "I think we're all more then willing."
"You're all the best!" Hermione grinned and suppressed the urge to hug them all, even Peter. "Trust me you won't be the only seventh years, I know Fred, George, Lee and Angelina are coming for sure. I think we're going to have a decent turnout."
"So, when are we meeting?" James asked.
"Oh I'm sorry I didn't tell you? Well we're meeting at Hog's Head," she began.
"Hog's Head?" Sirius asked disgusted and pulling a face. "That place is a bloody dump, why there?"
"Well it's secluded." She explained. "Less people to overhear us talking about it."
James nodded along with Sirius. "Makes sense, so when we go to Hogsmead next I assume?" He asked.
"You got it." She said with a smile, "just meet us there, I'm sure Harry'll say yes to it."
Remus's eyes widened and his mouth opened slightly in shock. "You mean you haven't even asked him yet?" He asked holding back a chuckle.
"He hasn't exactly given a straight answer yet." Ron said. "But we're sure he'll say yes, especially when he see's the amount of people he'll be helping out here."
"So that settles it, October fifth? I believe is the next trip? We'll see you there; right now however, Snape has detention duty in the trophy room and is therefore not watching his room. It's time for the Marauder's to maraud." James said flashing Hermione a smile that made her blush, no wonder Lily fell for him like she did.
"See ya later." Sirius said bouncing up from his bed and following James out of the room, Remus simply waved along with Peter.
"That's four more that are coming." Ron said as he got up from the bed, prepared to leave the dorm and wait in the common room for Harry.
"Good, and I'm sure he'll feel more comfortable with them there, especially James and Sirius." She replied and the two left the dorm room.
The Marauder's entered The Three Broomsticks October fifth and they saw Fred and George Weasley with Lee Jordan in the corner they were talking in hushed voices and Remus, with enhanced hearing, nodded that they were indeed going to go to Hog's Head as well. The four of them walked over and when they were just a few feet away they got noticed by the twins.
"Oi! Look it! It's Orion, James, John and Peter!" Fred cried.
"Thought you four might show up." George said with a smile.
"Has Harry, Hermione and Ron showed up anywhere yet?" Sirius asked as the four took their seats at the end of the table next to the twins.
"No, I haven't seen them." Lee answered. "But I'm in no rush to go there anyway, Hog's Head smells funny."
"You smell funny." Fred countered.
"Burn!" Sirius laughed and gave Fred a high five.
"He wasn't even making fun of you." Remus spoke up with a confused look.
George shrugged and motioned toward Lee. "But he does smell funny. In fact they both smell funny." He pointed toward his brother and Lee this time.
"You smell funny." George cried and pushed his brother off the chair.
Fred popped up and pushed George back. "No you do!"
"No you!"
"No you!
"You!
"You!"
"You!"
"Enough!" Remus yelled and stopped the two from fighting, "C'mon guys, I don't think this is the right time to draw too much attention to ourselves, especially with this sort of conversation."
"Don't be a stick up the ass, Johnny." James said and lightly pushed Remus on the shoulder.
"Look, I think maybe we should mosey on over to Hog's head now." Peter said looking down at his watch. "It's getting around that time."
James grabbed his wrist and looked at the watch on it. "Oh, man,you're right, let's go."
The seven of them walked down the street and on the way they happen to pass Zonko's joke shop. They stopped outside and looked at it longingly; they all exchanged looks and nodded. It wouldn't hurt to stop for a minute or two in everyone's favorite joke shop.
"We're late," Remus muttered as they walked in Hog's Head and saw that everyone else was already there.
"We are not late, just the last ones who are on time, everyone else was early." Sirius replied with a happy tone to his voice.
"Hi!" Fred said to the bartender as he walked up to the counter to order the butterbeers for everyone.
While he took care of that the Marauder's wandered over to Harry wearing grins. "So, excited?" James asked his son who was looking around at the crowd of people nervously and annoyed.
"Didn't quite know it'd be this many." He responded with a fake smile.
James laughed and clasped his hand on Harry's shoulder. "You'll do fine with all this, I'm sure of it."
"Really?" Harry asked with a doubtful smile.
"Well, you are my son, and needless to say I am pretty off the hook." James said as though that explained everything in the world and walked over to a chair along with the rest of his small group.
"Cheers," Fred said as he handed out the butterbeers to his fellow students. "Cough up everyone; I haven't got enough gold for all of these."
There were a few minutes of chatter while everyone was getting situated until Hermione raised her voice and tried to get everyone's attention. The talk died down until it was completely gone and all eyes were upon Hermione, although the eyes frequently darted over to Harry.
Hermione nervously began explaining why they were here; she often stuttered and looked at everyone with scared eyes. But as she went on in explaining her voice got stronger and more confident.
Some of the students asked questions during her speech and it seemed that this only encouraged her.
However some of the children asked about the tragic death of Cedric Diggory. The Marauder's, of course, were not there to witness that event but they sure heard about it enough. Harry seemed to get angry when that topic came up and who could blame him? It was inappropriate, even by Marauder standards.
Then all the accomplishments Harry had done over the years surfaced the basilisk story, the Patronus, the tournament, and the stone and of course much talk of Voldemort.
Through all this the Marauders stayed silent. They just listened to the conversation around them learning more of the time period, learning more of Harry and how he was viewed from the eyes of his peers. It was certainly a different story then what they had heard form Harry. But then the one odd girl spoke up in a dreamy and lost voice.
"Well that makes sense. After all, Cornelius Fudge has got his own private army."
"He's got a what?" James asked before Harry could say anything. To him this was just too ridiculous.
"Yes, he's got an army of Heliopaths." Luna Lovegood said solemnly.
Hermione was quick to shoot down that theory but Luna persisted that it was true. They continued to argue after Luna tried to explain what they were; to the Marauder's this girl was certainly... different.
But lucky after some yelling from both girls Ginny spoke up and interrupted them. They talked about where this could be held, once a week was a fine idea but where was the problem. It seemed Umbridge was everywhere, and not many professors would risk their job to help the students.
Then the idea of the list of names came about. It seemed the Weasley twins were more then happy to write their names down for this cause. But others were less willing. There were prefects here, Remus, being an ex-prefect, knew where they were coming from but also knew that this was something even a prefect could look over.
When the list was passed to the Marauder's they all signed gleefully. Harry also noticed they all put a small sign next to their name, when he took the list from them he noticed. A small hoof next to James's, a paw next to Sirius, a paw with claws with Remus and a small little rat claw next to Peter's.
When everyone had signed the twins and Lee stood up and said they had some more items they had to purchase. Everyone was a little frightened on exactly what they would be.
The Marauder's stayed after everyone left with Harry, Ron and Hermione to talk about the event that had just occurred. They left the Hog's Head after they were certain everyone had left.
"Well," said Hermione happily. "I think that went quite well."
"That Zacharias bloke's a wart." Ron said distastefully.
"He really, really, is." Sirius said. "Could I hex him? Please?"
"No, that would not be good." Hermione said scolding him. She explained how he overheard them talking at the Hufflepuff table and seemed like he wanted to come.
Ron began choking on his butterbeer when the subject of Ginny and her boyfriend came up in the conversation. "He's WHAT?" He cried out. "She's going out with – my sister's going – what'd you mean, Michael Corner?"
"You couldn't tell, mate?" Remus asked as though this information was the most obvious thing in the room. "I could smell them on one another so bad; they totally dig each other."
"WHAT! What do you mean all over each other?" Ron yelled out in the middle of the very quiet street
"They met at the Yule Ball," Hermione began explaining to Ron to try and calm him down. As she continued explaining it didn't seem to help Ron's outburst anymore then it would have been to tell him they suck face every chance they get.
"This conversation is too... in detail for me, I think I'll go find Zonko's and pick up another little gift for Umbridge." James said and glared at his fellow time travelers.
"Yeah, me too, we have to go find... yeah." Peter said and quickly left the group to go near James.
Remus nodded to them and followed his friends, no explanation needed on his part. Sirius however didn't seem to pick up on the hint. "I want to see what's happening." He said bluntly.
"Oh come on." James said and grabbed one of Sirius's arms while Remus grabbed the other one.
"But I want to know!"
"No you don't."
"But I do."
"Shut up!"
Harry smirked at the group of friends and then followed Ron down the street to try and calm him down about Ginny's dating life.
