"We'll get to that in a second," Lupin said. "When I was seven I was bitten by a werewolf. My family thought for sure that I would never be able to come to Hogwarts, or any other school for that matter, and then Dumbledore became Headmaster. He said that as long as we took certain precautions there was no reason why I couldn't come to Hogwarts. So I came and made two of the most marvelous friends almost as soon as we got on the train. As we sat down at the Gryffindor table we met Peter Pettigrew and we befriended him hesitatingly. All was well until the full moon came. I couldn't tell my new friends so I made up a story about my mother being sick. I thought they all bought the story, but a few days before the third full moon of the school year. Kate and Lily came up to me, when no one was within hearing distance even with magic, and asked if I was brought somewhere where I could transform and there weren't any people for me to bite. The way she asked me it would have been impossible for anyone to understand what we were talking about. I told her how I would go to the shrieking shack and transform there. You see because the Whomping Willow and the tunnel underneath it to the shrieking shack were put there for me so that I could transform. Everyone thought that the shack was haunted by violent spirits but it was in fact just me biting and scratching myself because there was no one else around to bite. For just about three years no one else figured out my secret but then James and Sirius figured it out. When they did, they did something that amazes me to this day. They became animagi because animals have nothing to fear from a werewolf bite. It took them the better part of three years to manage it, but finally at the end of our fifth year they managed it. Of course Pettigrew needed all the help he could get from James and Sirius. Hey James you want to do it now?"
"Sure," James said stretching his legs out and putting his hands behind his head. "I suppose we should answer their question now. A few months into our first year the four of us found that we loved to perform pranks and other such things. So we did without anyone, we'll everyone besides Kate and Lily they always know everything, ever quite figuring out that it was us. As the years went by we became bolder and started to let everyone know that it was us pulling the pranks. Not too long after we became animagi we got bored just sitting around the shrieking shack so we decided to go exploring. Lucky for us and everyone else Sirius transformed into a huge black dog and I transformed into a stag, animals large enough to control a werewolf. God we were stupid, thinking we could just run around and no one would get hurt. Lucky for us no one did, though there were a lot of near misses. Anyway in our explorations we found all the secret passages around Hogwarts and Hogsmeade. So we made a map containing all the information we had discovered, giving ourselves nicknames, Sirius is Padfoot, Lupin is Moony, Pettigrew is Wormtail (he transformed into a rat, how appropriate) and I am Prongs."
"You're the marauders?!!" Fred and George cried out shocked.
"Yep," Sirius said grinning.
"So your turn Padfoot, those three don't know anything," Lupin said looking over at Sirius.
"Oh alright. In our seventh year after many arguments and fights and other nasty things like blackmail dates, Kate finally got sick of it all and with a little help from Moony and I, locked Lily and James in a broom closet. She didn't let them out for three hours. She thought by then that they would have resolved their issues and be making out or something. How very wrong we were. It took until Christmas for them to actually get together, damn mistletoe. We did not need to see that. So we made watches much like your clock. It had a hand for Lily and a hand for James. Then there were 'times' with class and common room and snogging and hallways even outside. Now the beautiful part of our genius was that if they were in the common room snogging, the hands on the clock would double so that one Lily and one James hand would be on common room and the other set would be on snogging so that we could avoid that nastiness as much as possible."
"You what," Lily demanded outraged.
"Now now Lils it's not polite to interrupt my story. Should we now?" Sirius asked Kate. Kate nodded in response. "Right around May the five of us were sitting in the Great Hall when some stupid Slytherins decided to start a fight. We obliged them. Some things just can not be ignored. After we had cursed them to oblivion and back we turned to see Dumbledore and McGonnagall standing there looking like fish out of water. Then McGonnagall ordered us out of the Great Hall and into Dumbledore's office. As we were walking we all realized that we had changed into these white clothes. This was the first time we had changed clothes, but it wasn't the first time we had managed to change. People said that we would glow white if we were extremely angry or in danger for any reason. Dumbledore was waiting when we walked in. He had this huge leather bound book on his desk. He was mumbling things under his breath and looking over the same pages again and again as we watched fearful of what was going to happen for the fight we had gotten in. Then we found out how wrong we were. Apparently we were the White Knights, the greatest witches and wizards ever. It was sort of prophesied, never really did understand how it wasn't a prophecy and yet was a future prediction, that when the world would truly need them five witches and/or wizards would fight and their true power could not be conquered and how they were more powerful together than when they were apart. Dumbledore said he would keep who we were a secret, apparently only a few people actually knew about this non-prophecy, that we would serve detention at seven the next day. After taking our N.E.W.T.s we decided that we wanted to become aurors, so we applied and the day of graduation we walked in much the same way that we did in first year. We received our certificates and sat down again, they then called out the names of the best students in each house for them to receive an award. Gryffindor was the only house with five; apparently we were all with-in points of each other. Then the heads of the departments or jobs that everyone applied for stepped forward and announced who had been accepted. When they called out our names and we stood and walked up the stage in complete unison, accepting our badges everyone in the rooms jaws dropped. As our hands had touched the badges we had started to glow again. And still no one knew what we were. As we went up to our dorms that night and for the last time, Dumbledore stopped us. He asked us to join a secret society that he had formed to fight Voldemort, who was steadily gaining more power every day. We all agreed immediately, knowing deep inside that this is what we were supposed to do. More than a year and a half later James and Lily were married and Lily was six months pregnant. We were sitting around at headquarters, not a week earlier we had fought against Voldemort face to face, well face to face until Kate came in, and he claimed to be immortal. So we were trying to find out how. Kate kept mumbling 'that it couldn't be as simple as a stone, we had no idea what she was talking about but we looked through the books anyway. Suddenly Dumbledore came into the room looking very worried about something. He told us, Frank and Alice Longbottom had been 'summoned' too, that there was a prophecy, concerning one of the babies. The baby, a boy, would be the one to defeat Voldemort. However we couldn't know which one till they were born. Three months later there were two boys, born with-in a day of each other. Born at the end of July. We still didn't know which baby it was. We only knew one thing the parents of the baby would die. In order for the baby to fight Voldemort and be marked as his equal, his parents would have had to have been killed because there was no way that they would let Voldemort near their baby. They took the babies home and everything was fine. Then one day death eaters stormed Potter Manor. We fought them off and Lily and James moved to a new house, but again the same thing happened. And it was happening to the Longbottoms as well. It happened twice more after that, someone was giving the location of the families to Voldemort that meant that someone was betraying Lily and James and the order, So Dumbledore decided that the best thing to do would be to hide them completely using a secret keeper. Lily and James moved to Gordric's Hollow a muggle village. And chose a secret keeper. They wanted me to do it, and I was going to, but then I came up with what I thought was a brilliant plan. We would use Pettigrew instead. Because Voldemort knew that James would want me to be their secret keeper so he would attack me. But if they were to choose someone else Voldemort wouldn't know who it was and wouldn't be able to find them. Lily and James were hesitant but agreed. Kate thought this was a good idea except she didn't want Pettigrew to be the one. She didn't trust him. But before we could argue about it Kate got 'summoned' and had to leave. So because we didn't see much choice, Kate couldn't do it, she was already a cornerstone and Dumbledore already had enough to do, and we thought that Moony was the one betraying us, Lily and James made Pettigrew their secret keeper."
"Sorry Moony it just seemed to fit at the time," James interrupted Sirius to apologize.
"It's Okay Prongs."
"Anywho everything was fine for the next couple of weeks, it was already the middle of October, However Halloween night I had arranged to check on Pettigrew and make sure he was still okay. He wasn't there and I remembered what Kate said about not trusting him so I raced off to check on Lily and James. After seeing what I did and telling Hagrid to take Harry to the Dursley's because he would be safe there I went after Pettigrew. On the way there I came across Moony. None of us had seen Kate since she had to go see Dumbledore. So Moony went to find Dumbledore and I continued after Pettigrew. When I finally caught up with him he started screaming that I had betrayed lily and James blah… blah… blah. Then he cut off his finger, blew up the street behind us and transformed. I started laughing at the irony of it all. Then Crouch showed up and without even a hearing I was thrown into Azkaban. For twelve years I was locked up there. I would transform whenever the dementors got to be too much. I broke out when I saw, in a newspaper, that Pettigrew was going to be at Hogwarts with Harry. The rest of that part of that story I'll leave up to Harry. Skip ahead to the Department of Mysteries, when I dropped through the veil something weird happened and I got transported God knows where and my memory was erased. It took until the beginning of June for me to get it all back. As soon as I remembered I started back here. I figured that my name still wasn't cleared so I couldn't apparate or anything else the ministry could detect so I had to travel as a dog."
James gave Sirius an apologetic smile as he cringed. Lily smiled as well as Kate laid her head on his shoulder.
"My turn then," Kate said sitting up with a small grimace. "In case you haven't figured it out yet I am the heir of all magic, the princess of the Enchanted Forest, leader of the white knights I am also the highest person on the Wizengamot. This means I deal with the type of stuff from the trial but I can't make up any laws or things like that. That's the Minister of Magic's job. The night I was 'summoned' Dumbledore told me I had to find something at this place, I don't remember where or what, sixteen years is a long time. But when I got there I stepped into an open field and was sucked into a vortex. Most vortexes are created so that they capture people based off of what they're thinking. Before it was finished I saw that evil house-elf of your evil family," Kate said looking accusingly at Sirius. "Someone sent him to get me out of the way. Sixteen years passed as if it were just a day, I knew it was longer because time passes differently in a vortex, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get out. Something very specific needed to happen for me to get out. I was 'released' the night Dumbledore died, apparently the something specific was Harry needing me to help him. As long as Harry had Dumbledore he didn't need me to help him. It looks like he'll get all of us instead."
"So I have been arguing with the leader of the white knights about the safety of my family?" Molly asked smiling at the irony of it all.
"You what?" Lily asked with a raised eyebrow.
"She's been telling me I didn't know what I was doing etc. "Kate replied with an amused look.
"We are in the presence of greatness…" Fred stated
"And you knew and you didn't ell us." George accused rounding on Harry.
"Not until the end of third year. Besides I forgot that you two didn't know," Harry shot back.
"What?" Lily and James asked looking rather confused.
"I think its Harry's turn to explain what he's been up to the last few years," Kate said with a raised eyebrow.
"Do I have too?" Harry asked grimacing.
"Yes," Kate, Lily, James, Sirius, and Lupin demanded.
