Bold is bond speak

Italics are thoughts

Chapter 13

It was finally winter break I couldn't believe how long the last month and a half seemed to take. Over that time only a few note worthy things had happened.

The biggest, for the school at least, was Hufflepuff trouncing Ravenclaw 300 to 40 in the second match of the season. Ravenclaws could do nothing but hang their heads in shame because no one had lost against the Hufflepuffs in nearly twenty years. This was mainly due to the Hufflepuffs finding a good new seeker in Cedric Diggory.

One of the more important things in my opinion was my coming out prank as I like to call it. Now I had done some pranks before but this was my first big one to announce that I was here. It went like this, you see I had found this potion that when ingested would cause your skin to act like a mood ring after ten minutes and it lasted all day. So naturally I made a large batch and added it to the drinks for breakfast. Then twenty minutes into breakfast after everyone including teachers, except Dumbledore I'll get him one day though, had become various shades of color I had magical writing appear on the walls.

I had it write THE UNNAMED MARAUDER WOULD LIKE TO TELL EVERYONE THAT THEY ARE NOW THEIR OWN PERSONAL MOOD RING FOR THE REST OF THE DAY. A COLOR GUIDE CAN BE FOUND UNDER YOUR PLATES. THIS WAS DONE IN MEMORY OF PRONGS. This of course caused quite a stir as the students tried to figure out who the Marauders were and the teachers just looked a bit worried. Snape was so angry about what happened that I think he discovered the one true color black.

The last major thing that had happened was only a personal finding by me. I had discovered a new place on the seventh floor near a tapestry of some guy trying to teach trolls ballet. Anyway it was a very interesting room because it could change into anything I needed. So I decided to keep it secret for now so I had a place to practice my powers in private.

Other then these couple of things not much had happened.

As everyone left for break Malfoy and Weasley tried to taunt me about not having a family, however it didn't faze me and I just taunted them about being inept at magic. The twins were however very upset with Ron because he had decided to go over to Malfoy's for the holidays instead of spending time with his family at Hogwarts, their parents and Ginny had gone to Romania to visit their brother Charlie.

I was quite happy though because I was the only one in my year left which meant I could sneak out of the dorm much easier to explore and that's what I did both by myself and with the twins. On Christmas I was awoken by Hedwig.

"Merry Christmas Harry"

"Ugh Hedwig why did you wake me up"

"Because its Christmas silly even us owls celebrate it."

"Fine I'm up happy."

"Very now open your presents I want to see what you got and I want mine."

"Fine….wait I have presents." I quickly looked around and found a nice pile of presents on the floor at the end of my bed. They were quickly scooped up and placed on my bed. "Oh before I forget here's yours Hedwig." I reached into my drawer and pulled out a large plate filled with various meats.

"Thank you Harry yours is on your trunk." With that she started eating up the meat.

Looking on my trunk I found a small sprig of herbs that I recognized as one of the key ingredients for the animagus potion. Well that was thoughtful of her that's enough of it to make five batches of the potion. Plus it saves me the two hundred galleons it would have cost for me to that amount. I then turned my attention to the other gifts. The first I opened was from Hermione she had sent me a nice book on seeker moves, I had sent her a book on Occlumency telling her that it would help her do even better in school. Next was Neville's gift he had sent me a large pack of chocolate frogs, I couldn't help but laugh as I had sent him the same thing.

The twins gave me an assortment of Zonkos products; I gave them several muggle gags and a book on chemistry telling them how they could expand their pranking capabilities. I was surprised to see a package from Mrs. Weasley in it was a nicely knitted sweater; I made a mental note to send a thank you card. Hagrid sent me a wonderfully carved flute that sounded a lot like an owl. I smiled thinking about how he would love the forms for the adopt a dragon program that was at the reserve Charlie worked at, with the yearly payments I would send, Hagrid would get updates every month on the dragon and had the option to go and see it once a year. Then there was Ginny's gift which was a familiarly red colored hat that she had knit with a note saying I could now fit in with the Weasleys. My gift to her was a shirt that I had charmed to say I WAS RUN OVER BY HARRY POTTER and a large piece of Honeyduke's finest dark chocolate.

There was how ever one present that didn't say who it was from. As I carefully opened it an invisibility cloak fell out along with a note. Reading it I found that it said that the cloak had been my father's. I was however still very suspicious because I recognized the writing as the Headmasters and I wondered how he had come into possession of a family heirloom. Deciding to play it safe I cast an advanced detection spell on the cloak and found a monitoring/tracking charm and a charm to allow the caster to see who was under the cloak at all times. I quickly transferred the charms to a Knut that I then placed under the floorboard of Dean's bed.

Looking at the cloak I noticed that it was extremely well made and old, this caused me to frown. Wait, everything I've read about invisibility cloaks tells me they don't last more than 10 years but this one is way older than that. Why would that be hmm I guess I'll need to do some more in-depth research about these cloaks. Though until then I've got the perfect way to explore the castle even more. With a prize winning smile I put the cloak away for the moment and went to see if I could find the twins.

After a fun day of enchanting snowballs to attack Quirrell's turban, putting snow in Snape's chair and turning it invisible, and embarrassing Percy in front of some girl Ravenclaw Prefect, I found myself back in my room. Grabbing the cloak I decided a test run was needed so I snuck up to the twins' dorm room. Slipping in I found Fred and George discussing what there next prank would be. Smirking a little I went up to Fred and tapped him on the shoulder.

He turned quickly around and seeing no one asked "What did that?"

"What did what Fred?" George asked.

"Something tapped my shoulder" Fred said

At this moment I went behind George and flicked his ear.

"Hey! Something just flicked my ear!" George exclaimed

I continued on with this for about five minutes until I took pity on them and revealed myself.

"Hey guys." I said and they looked quite shocked at me.

"Harry was that you?" Fred asked while George said "Where did you get an Invisibility Cloak?"

"To answer your questions yes that was me and the cloak is a family heirloom." I responded

"Wicked!" Then nodding to themselves they turned and gave me the worst puppy dog eyes I've ever seen and said, "You'll let us borrow it sometimes right? You know in the name of the Marauder."

I just shook my head some and told them, "Yea I'll let you borrow it sometimes but two rules. First, never just take it you always have to ask. Second, never get caught with it if you do I'll convince the map that you two are evil and no longer deserve to use it. Got it."

They immediately stood up and saluted shouting "Sir, yes sir."

"Ok you buffoons settle down. By the way there's been something that's been bugging me for a while I was wondering if you could explain it to me."

"Sure Harry." George said

"Well I was wondering why your mom made it obvious she was going to Platform 9 3/4." I questioned.

"Ah you see Harry ever since Bill started coming to Hogwarts our mom has taken it upon herself to make sure any lost muggleborns can find the platform." Fred said.

"She does this by making a show of getting there and every year we at least help one person get there." George finished.

"Ah ok I was sort of worried it was some plot by Dumbledore because he seems unnaturally interested in me." I said.

"Nope nothing like that at all little Harry just our mom's motherly instincts in overdrive." Said George.

"Ok thanks for clearing that up. Well I'm off for a stroll around the castle see you later." I said.

"Ok see you Harry." They replied.

With their good bye I quickly threw back on my cloak and walked out the door. Hmm now were to first. The library would be a waste, don't fell like setting up a prank, oh I know I haven't looked around the fifth floor much yet. So with a destination in mind I set out.

As I walked around the fifth floor I noticed that there was a class room door open so I took a peek inside. In there I could see an ornate mirror with some odd language written on it.

Stepping closer I realize that it wasn't some other language but was in fact just a mirror image. Looking at it again I realized it said I SHOW NOT YOUR FACE BUT YOUR HEARTS DESIRE. It finally dawned on me that this was the famous Mirror of Erised. I wonder what my greatest desire is then. I calmly stepped in front of the mirror and was a little surprised at what I saw. My reflection showed an older me with Hedwig and three other indistinct shapes and standing next to me holding my hand was Ginny. I get the finding my familiars but what's Ginny doing there? Uh I'm just not going to think about it I'm sure I'll figure it out some day.

Yawning a little I figured it was time to head back and get some sleep. As I fell asleep I decided I would never go back to the mirror again because from what I had read it could be highly addicting.

Sorry about how long it took to update but my computer broke down so i was stuck. Anyway hope you enjoy and please review.