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The Lost Marauder

Chapter 10 - Family and Revenge

It had been barely been a week but Harry and Sirius had easily settled into life at Hogwarts. They had soon became good friends with the other Gryffindor boys. James, Remus and Peter.

James was instantly popular. He had an air of importance about him, but he turned out to be extremely loyal to his friends. He was particularly brave and had this rather annoying habit of messing up his hair so it always looked like he had just dismounted his broom.

Remus was quiet, smart and hard working, he was almost always very pale and tired looking and always seemed nervous but once they boys got to know him he came out of his shell a bit and seemed much more outspoken.

Peter was also quiet and quite immature, he seemed look up to the other boys and try to please them. He wasn't extremely brave or smart and he was more of a follower than a leader but James and Sirius seemed to take to him as exactly that, their most loyal follower. In Harry's opinion, he sometimes seemed like sort of pet.

Lily Evans however continued to shun them after James and Sirius's comments to Snape who she still sat with and talked too despite them being in different houses. James, Sirius and Harry still disliked 'Snivellus' as they still called him, Peter immediately stated he hated Snivellus the second the other boys explained what had happened on the train while Remus tried to be indifferent. Though that didn't last long as he soon found himself on the end of the greasy haired boys sneering comments as well.

"How the hell are we supposed to find our way to these stupid classrooms when the stairs keep changing?" Sirius complained as he and Harry ventured onto the staircase that had just clicked into place in front of them.

"Maybe its their version of initiation?" Harry suggested

"Its just plain stupid" Sirius rolled his eyes as they stepped off the stairs, they were heading down to the dungeons after nipping back to the common room after lunch to pick up their potions books which they had forgotten.

"We need to…" Sirius started as they stepped into one of the more shadowy corridors in the dungeons

But what they needed to do Harry never found out as someone had grabbed Sirius's shoulder.

"Look who it isn't" A high pitched voice cackled from behind Sirius. Harry glared at the black haired girl behind his brother

"Go away." Harry told her bravely

"Shut up you little brat" the girl smirked her messy hair and dark eyes glistened in the light from the single torch on the wall.

"Leave him Bella." A stern voice came from a little further down the corridor

"Its not like I'm doing anything to the traitor Cissy, we're just talking." Bella told the girl who had just stepped out of the shadows, he long black hair had streaks of silver and a prefects badge was placed carefully on her Slytherin robes, she certainly seemed more grown up than Bella but she was still glaring at Sirius with equal loathing. "I wanted to see what our little cousin's been up to all these years."

"That's none of your business." Sirius told her simply the nerves were evident in his voice.

"Your father will be most displeased to hear what you've become." Bella hissed

Sirius paled at the mention of his father, bad memories flooded his mind as he stared into the deep black eyes of Cissy who was opposite him. Bella dug her fingernails into his shoulder and he whimpered a little before willing up all of his courage and spinning to face her.

"What I've become?" Sirius asked nervously "I'm what I have always been. I'm everything that he's not." Sirius stated shaking off Bella's hand and hurrying away from the dungeons

Harry stared at the two older girls.

"And who are you to take the noble name of Black?" Bella asked turning her attention to Harry

"His true brother." Harry told her glaring at her "Sirius's dad was a horrible man…"

"You little brat you know nothing of the Black family!" Bella screeched slapping Harry across the face, her fingernails digging into his skin. "Sirius is the horrible one."

"I think Sirius is the only Black who isn't horrible." Harry told her bravely before quickly running after Sirius.

Harry had no idea where to look for Sirius so he just kept wandering down the corridors and decided to try to find his way back towards the common room. He wiped a trickle of blood from his face as he passed an empty classroom, a muffled sob stopped him in his paces and he walked back a few steps and glanced in through the crack of the door. Sirius was in the room, he was sobbing. Harry watched as he brother grabbed a chair and flung it at the wall, it broke into several pieces as he sunk to his knees.

"Siri?" Harry asked stepping into the classroom warily

"Just go away Harry." Sirius told Harry not looking up at the younger boy

"No." Harry told him defiantly and Sirius stared up at him

"What did they do to you?" He hissed staring the bleeding scratches on his face.

"Nothing." Harry told Sirius sitting down next to him "You ok?"

"Yeah." Sirius muttered "The last five years I've avoided anyone from my family but here, here there's no escape."

"I know." Harry comforted him

"Your Lucky." Sirius looked up at his brother "There's no trace of your relatives. You don't have to see them again."

"I don't know about that." Harry shrugged "They have to be out there somewhere."

"Yeah." Sirius sighed

"Neither of us can really run from the past forever can we?" Harry started wisely

"No I guess not." Sirius nodded "Especially not with Bellatrix and Narcissa lurking about."

"You just have to learn to ignore them, think of Mum and Dad, Fabien and Gideon, Molly, Me. We're your family now and always." Harry told Sirius

"Can we prank them?" Sirius asked as he wiped at his tears and a small smile crept onto his face.

"Hell yes!" Harry beamed "That Bellatrix is evil! Look at my face!"

"Sorry Harry…" Sirius started

"You know I've had worse. No biggie." Harry shrugged "Stand up and fight for what's right. that's my motto."

"Since when have you had a motto?" Sirius laughed as Harry helped him up

"Since just now." Harry smiled "Shall we just skip class then?"

"Looks like we're already doing it!" Sirius pointed out and Harry shrugged

"How about we plan some revenge?" Harry suggested

"I have a few of those hair colour changing pastilles left." Sirius suggested

"We could put them in their dinner!" Harry suggested

"Only one problem, we can just walk over to the Slytherin table." Sirius pointed out

"Surely there are kitchens to prepare the food." Harry suggested reasonably "It doesn't cook itself then appear on the tables."

"Yeah but where are they?" Sirius asked

"Dunno, I vote we find them!" Harry beamed

"And slip these into the Slytherins pumpkin juice?" Sirius added holding out a small bag of hair colour changing pastilles

"My thoughts exactly!" Harry grinned "lets go!"

The two boys hurried out of the abandoned classroom and headed down the corridor.

"Where would I be if I was a kitchen?" Sirius muttered to himself

"In an insane asylum." Harry responded and Sirius hit him round the head "Ow!"

"So have you got any brilliant plans then genius?" Sirius rolled his eyes

"Ask a painting." Harry told Sirius simply

"Smarty pants." Sirius stuck his tongue out "But good idea…"

"Excuse me!" Harry said turning towards the nearest painting where a small fat man was waving his sword at a little white horse which seemed to be galloping away from him.

"Ah how may I help you my young steed!" the man asked bowing deeply to Harry which caused his visor to fall over his face.

"Could you tell us where the kitchens are please?" Harry asked

"Indeed young sir, what is your name?" the painting asked

"I'm Harry and this is my Brother Sirius." Harry introduced his brother

"Well my young sir's it is nice to make you acquaintance not many students talk to us paintings you know!" The man said "I'm Sir Cadagan."

"Nice to meet you sir." Harry smiled politely

"So where are the kitchens?" Sirius interrupted

"Ah patience is a virtue young solider!" Sir Cadagan told Sirius wisely "Follow me and I shall lead you on the quest to your destination!"

"You could have picked one that was less loopy!" Sirius muttered

"Your loopy but I still picked you as my brother!" Harry responded sticking out his tongue at Sirius

"And your sane?" Sirius asked raising an eyebrow cheekily

"No, follow that painting!" Harry laughed and the two boys set off down the corridor after Sir Cadagan who was hopping between pictures blowing his trumpet irritating all the other pictures, many of which where shaking their fists at him.

Harry and Sirius were panting by the time the reached a long corridor which a large portrait of fruit on the wall.

"and here our quest ends my brave fellows! Just tickle the pear and you'll have reached you destination!" Sir Cadagan bowed

"Thank you sir" Harry nodded as Sirius followed Sir Cadagan's advice and tickled the pear.

"No problem my dear charges! Now I shall be on my way! If you even need help don't be afraid to call on Sir Cadagan!" He bowed the visor clicking shut and a lot off muffled swearing came from his closed helmet as he bumped into the frame of the painting he was in.

"Loony" Sirius muttered as he stepped into the kitchen Harry hot on his heels

"Hello young sirs how can we help you?" A small squeaky voice asked as the painting closed

Harry's eyes were wide with shock and fear as he took in the small creature in front of him with its long spindly fingers and big tennis ball like eyes. He'd never seen a house elf before although Sirius had.

"We were wondering if you could do us a favour?" Sirius asked the small elf

"Cassey is here to serve all the young Hogwarts masters and mistresses." She bowed deeply

"Would you like food?" another elf asked appearing from behind Cassey with a tray of cakes and pastries

"Well I wont say no!" Sirius beamed taking a pastry "Thanks."

"Wispy is more than happy to serve you sir" the elf bowed

"What is this favour you ask?" Cassey asked

"We want to pull a prank on the Slytherins." Harry told them getting over the shock of these small creatures

"A prank young sirs?" Wispy asked

"Will you keep it quiet?" Sirius asked suspiciously

"Of course young sir, if you ask us to do something and to keep it a secret we are bound by out laws to keep it that way!" Cassey bowed

"Great!" Sirius smiled "Its simple really, just slip these in the Slytherins pumpkin juice jugs!"

"It is done young sir's" Wispy bowed taking the package and leaving the two boys with Cassey.

"Thank you very much" Harry told the little elf "Your cooking is very delicious."

"No problem sir's, I is glad you like it! Students rarely come down and trust us with there games or thank us for the food, it is an honour to meet you both." Cassey smiled "What rae your names young sir's?"

"I'm Sirius, This is Harry." Sirius introduced them to the little elf

"Well Master Sirius and Master Harry it has been lovely meeting you, I hope you continued to enjoy the food and I also hope that your prank goes well!" Cassey smiled "I must get back to preparing the meal!"

"Thanks again Cassey!" Harry smiled as the elf scuttled off.

"What are they?" Harry muttered to Sirius as they left the kitchens

"House elves, here to please their masters." Sirius told Harry "They aren't all that pleasant. Kreacher, the elf at my parents house was horrid, he always lurked in corners and lived solely to lick my mother's shoes!"

"Nice, well I think they liked us." Harry commented as they climbed the stair case up to the second floor

"Well that's a good thing, remind me to stay on the right side of them that pastry was delicious!" Sirius grinned licking his lips

"You and your food." Harry shook his head "Its about time for transfiguration, maybe we should head up there, slug horn is already going to be annoyed with us and I don't fancy getting on McGonagall's wrong side."

"Yeah sure, plus I cant wait to tell the guys about the prank!" Sirius beamed "Lets just steer clear of any Slytherins particularly ones that are related to me." he added looking a bit worried

"You ok?" Harry asked as the walked

"Yeah, I will be once they all have pink hair." Sirius nodded with a weak smile.

They walked slowly down the corridor, luckily they came to a familiar corridor and found the stairs up to the third floor where the transfiguration classroom was located they were a few metres from the classroom when a hand fell on Sirius's shoulder causing him to jump and Harry to pull out his wand expecting to see Bellatrix or Narcissa.

"What do you think I am? A mass murder?" James's cheerful voice joked patting Sirius on the back.

"Sorry" Harry smiled putting his wand away as he saw the familiar faces of James, Remus and Peter behind Sirius.

"So where the hell have you guys been?" James asked as they headed down the corridor together

"We had something to do" Harry half lied "You'll see at dinner." he added with a wink

"What have you done?" Remus asked suspiciously as they entered the transfiguration classroom

"Is it exciting?" Peter asked almost dancing on the spot

"As Harry said, wait and see!" Sirius smiled as he took his seat next to Harry at the back of the classroom

The lesson on turning matches into needles passed quickly, Remus and Lily seemed to be the only two who had managed to produce anything needle like. Lily's was shiny and silver and a bit thinner but looked more like a silver twig while Remus's simply looked like he'd put it in a pencil sharpener and painted it grey. For the other students the most dramatic thing that had happened was Peter's match poking him in the eye and Sirius's and James's matches gaining vague points. Harry's had barely changed at all. Once the session had finished and their books were safely back in their bags the five boys headed out of the classroom.

"Harry and Sirius!" McGonagall called after them "could you please come back here a minute I need a word."

"You're in trouble!" James laughed "See you at dinner." he added as the five boys went their separate ways.

"Now boys would you like to explain how come you missed Potions?" McGonagall asked sternly

"I'm so sorry professor we got completely lost." Harry lied

"Yeah we think we ended up in the wrong part of the castle." Sirius added

"How then did you manage to get to my class on time?" McGonagall asked accusingly

"It took us about forty minutes to find somewhere we knew so we thought it would be more sensible just to head toward here." Harry shrugged "Sorry Professor it is just so confusing especially when the stairs move."

"Ok boys I will forgive you this once but you must try to attend all your lessons!" McGonagall sighed "If a staircase moves, wait for it to return!"

"We will do Professor." Sirius nodded solemnly

"Now you best head down to dinner, Don't make this a regular habit or you may find yourself in detention and points will be taken from Gryffindor." McGonagall shook her head

"Sorry Professor!" Harry smiled "Come on Siri!"

The boys hurried out the room before McGonagall could question them further.

"Lets see what's going on with the Slytherins!" Sirius said excitedly

The boys ran down to the great hall skidding round the corners and pushed the doors open to the sound of laughter. Three quarters of the pupils sat at the Slytherin table including Snape, Bellatrix, Narcissa and Lucius, were now supporting florescent pink hair. Some of the Slytherins were screaming incessantly others just looked horrified.

Harry and Sirius joined James, Remus and Peter at the Gryffindor table.

"I take it this is what you meant." James smirked "Nice one guys." He clapped Harry who was closest to him on the back.

"This is only the start" Sirius winked.

"You guys are going to be in a lot of trouble if anyone finds out." Remus pointed out

"Harmless fun Remy." Sirius replied simply

"Calm down please!" Dumbledore's familiar voice bellowed out over the heads of the students "If everyone can please take their seats! Including you Miss Black!" He shot at Bellatrix who looked like she was about to storm up and slap him. "I believe this seems to be the work of a Zonko's product, highly funny, totally harmless, I'm sure the effects can be removed once the meal is over by Professor Slughorn, now I don't know about you lot but I'm starving so if you could all just calm down and enjoy your meal, Fresh pumpkin juice will be provided for the Slytherin table." he tapped his wand on the table and four new jugs replaced the tainted ones on the Slytherin table. "Lets eat."

"Classic, Shame we don't have a camera!" James laughed as he tucked into his lasagne

"We need something more original next time" Sirius announced quietly between mouthfuls

"Just don't say I didn't tell you so when you end up in detention." Remus half smiled "Though it is kind of funny, that Lucius looks more like a girl than usual!" he added with a laugh which caused Peter to choke on his chicken. "Yes Peter I like a joke as much as the next guy." Remus rolled his eyes before turning back to his meal.

A/n I've been meaning to put this up for awhile but I just haven't gotten round to it! Thanks to my reviewers and I hope everyone enjoyed it!