AN: This is the hardest chapter I have written. Be thankful that I wrote it so quickly. In the next chapter the couples will discuss the revelations. Be prepared for some fun.
It's My Life
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just want to live while I'm alive
"JUST WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING IN MY STUFF?" "Um, well when we were carrying it up Sirius here dropped his side and it fell and opened, we were putting the stuff back in when we saw the first page of your diary and we got curious. Don't hurt us." "Your curiosity is not an excuse James, you went through my stuff without permission." "I really am sorry, but how could you keep from us?" "Easily," Harry answered, "we didn't want you to know and you still will be obliviated when we leave. You can't change the future. Nothing can be different, as much as we might want it to be, but go ahead and keep looking. Now that you've started go ahead and look at our lives. You will not like what you see."
They did and saw articles on Dumbledore's death, all the missions the Bandits were on, and the day Sirius was proven free. On and on the pages went until they reached where the spot reserved for first day of seventh year was. Harry and Ria walked over to the group and took out the photo album. They let the marauders (minus Peter who left when he saw what he had done) look through them and explained certain ones. "Please we need to talk about all of this." "Yes we do James, but not right now, everyone needs to get used to this idea first." Just then Elizabeth yelled up the stairs for dinner.
"You kids okay?" Elizabeth asked them as they came down the stairs looking pale and shaky, "Peter left about an hour ago looking horrified and slightly ill, and now you all look as if some one had died." "They found out Elizabeth, they know who Harry and I are, and what happened in the future." "Oh, well then we should sit and talk about it, but first we need to eat, then we will discuss this revelation."
After dinner Elizabeth sat the teens down and tried to get them to begin talking to one another. Ria used Jalen to get Lily, Ron, and 'Mione over to the house since they were all needed. After the situation had been explained to Lily, Harry opened the conversation by telling the marauders to ask whatever they wanted. James replied, "We want to know everything. Tell us your life story from the time you were born until you came to be in the great hall."
Ria began "Don't interrupt me, you can ask questions after I'm done with the story. We were born to Lily and James Potter on July 31st 1980. Sirius was named our godfather, and we all lived in Godric's Hollow. Shortly after our births, a prophecy was made that stated:
The one with the power to vanquish the dark lord approaches
Born to those who have thrice defied him
Born as the seventh month dies
And the dark lord shall mark him as his equal
But he will have a power the dark lord knows not
And either must die at the hands of the other
For neither can live while the other survives
The one with the power to vanquish the dark lord approaches
Born as the seventh month dies
At the time this prophecy was heard two children fit the criteria. One was Harry and the other was Neville Longbottom. Of course Dumbledore had you go into hiding under the Fidelus Charm, this is where things go bad, you had decided originally to use Sirius as your secret keeper, but at the last minuet you changed your mind and choose Peter thinking that it would be a clever ruse. So you switched and let everyone else believe that Sirius was still the secret keeper. On October 31st 1981 Peter betrayed your location to Voldemort and he came to the Hollow. No one knows for sure what really happened; Harry and I hear parts of it when Dementors are close first you James told Lily to take us and run while you faced down Voldemort. Lily was unable to escape and Voldemort trapped her in the nursery. He told her to stand aside and let him kill us, but she refused and he killed her next. Then he turned his wand on Harry, he fired the killing curse and it rebounded off Harry and hit him, destroying his body and his powers, but he was still alive. Sirius and Hagrid were the first to arrive on the scene and Hagrid took us while Sirius went after the rat. When Pettigrew was cornered he yelled out for the street to here that Sirius betrayed Lily and James and then he fired a curse, cut off his own finger and transformed before scurrying off into the sewers. Sirius was arrest minuets later and sent to Azkaban without a trial. Meanwhile Dumbledore left us on the doorstep of Aunt Petunia's house where we spent 10 dark and difficult years before we found out we were magical. Our first year at Hogwarts was interesting it started off with (here insert book one-four). Fifth year everything changed. Fudge was refusing to believe Voldemort had returned and began dragging our names through the mud. Dumbledore, Harry, and I were portrayed as crazy, attention seeking, and liars. For a whole year nothing was being done by anyone except the Order of the Phoenix. At school we had a ministry appointed DADA who taught us nothing, therefore we started a secret group for the year. Everything was going well besides that until a Hogsmeade trip on May 5th when Tom made his move and managed to kidnap me. I was taken to his stronghold and-and…"
Harry had to take over here; "She was tortured for two months we couldn't get to her until July. He used her to lure the Order to the Department of Mysteries to get the prophecy. The Order went to the DOM and managed to get Ria without giving up the prophecy. Ria stayed unconscious until the 30th and when she awoke we were informed that all four of us were to be fully inducted into the Order, not partial like the year before. On our b-day Sirius and Remus gave us Snuffles and Edana and explained the sight spells to Arianna. We began our full training that day, before we had had extra lessons but nothing all consuming, and we officially got to move in with Remus and Sirius. Ron and 'Mione moved in as well. On August 20th Dumbledore was assassinated in Hogsmeade, Fawkes chose me as the new leader of the Order and Arianna as my second. That day Remus and Sirius officially named us the Bandits and we became a combat team. When school started we went, but none of us had regular classes. Instead different teachers and Order members came each day to continue our training. By Christmas holidays we were able to beat all our teachers and had begun to go on missions to draw Tom out of hiding and the Bandits are responsible for the arrest of 312 DE's and 20 of them are from the inner circle. On Christmas day we achieved our animagus forms. We continued on this way until September 1st 1997 when Tom attacked Hogwarts. I fought him and won. After the battle the grief the four of us felt made our magic unstable and sent us here to recuperate. Any questions?"
J: So you guys are a combat unit?
AP: Yes, do you want a demonstration?
S: That would be so cool!
HP: Whom do you want to see?
RL: The two best.
AP: So that would be you and me Harry. This time I will beat you.
HP: Highly unlikely sis.
At that Harry and Ria went into battle mode. They fought for 20 minuets before Harry made a slight stumble and Ria tripped him with a spell and held her sword to his neck.
AP: I win.
HP: So what do you guys think?
L: You two were amazing.
J: Wow Lily we have the two most powerful magical children since the founders. This is so awesome. I am so proud.
Here James and Lily both got up and hugged them both.
RL: Why do you refer to You-know-who as Tom?
RW: Before Voldemort was Voldemort he was Tom Marvolo Riddle. A half blood whose mother was a descendent of Slytherin.
S: Can we see you animagus forms?
AP: Sure.
A second later the marauders were staring at a beautiful phoenix, and huge dog, a gorgeous cat, and striking wolf. The phoenix flew over to Sirius and sang for him and the wolf went over to Remus and received a scratch behind the ears. After the transformations, Jalen flamed Ron and 'Mione home and Elizabeth sent the others up to bed.