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"Hermione?" Harry called from the drawing room.
"Yes Harry?" she Hermione called back.
"Remind me again why all 6 of our children are being shipped off tonight?" harry snickered as he walked into the kitchen where Hermione was making tea.
"They are all going on sleepovers to their friends' houses because today is Dora's birthday, so were having her and Remus over for our very own slumber party!" Hermione grinned.
"Aren't we a bit old for birthday parties?" Harry snorted.
"No! I've got all the things we need; mattresses on the floor, blankets, pillows, chocolate, popcorn, crisps, butter beer, and fire whiskey for later." Hermione smiled.
"I don't see why we can't stay!" James groaned as he walked in dragging a backpack behind him.
"I thought you were excited to go to Elijah's!" Hermione sniggered.
"I am! It's just…. You all sound like you are going to have fun without us!" James complained.
"I'm sure Uncle Fred will make sure you have lots of fun of your own!" Harry beamed and James matched his smile.
"So, just before I shove them all in the floo….. Who's going where?" Harry asked for the hundredth time.
"James is going to Fred and Katie's. Sirius is going to George and Angelina's. Lily is going to Luna and Neville's. Clarissa, Louisa and Aurora are going to Charlie's." Hermione told him as patiently as she could.
"It's good Charlie found that nice house, is he sure he'll be ok with 5 babies…. On his own!" Harry laughed.
"Hope so!" Hermione winked.
"And what are Remus and Dora doing with their brood?" Harry questioned.
"Teddy's going to Bill and Fleur's. Isobel is going to Seamus and Lavender's. Maiya is going to Dean and Alicia's." Hermione explained
"Ok, got it. Now all of you into the floo. James, I can only take two little ones so will you floo to Charlie's with me and bring Clarissa please." Harry instructed.
"Sure I like Uncle Charlie's new house!" James agreed as he picked up his baby sister.
"I'll get the door Harry!" Hermione called as she ran to open the door.
Dora and Remus practically jumped on top of Hermione and she staggered back a little and hugged them back.
"Happy Birthday Dora!" Hermione beamed.
"Thanks Sis. How's the lovely Harry?" Dora snickered.
"He's wonderful!" Harry grinned as he came out of the living room to greet his friends. "Hey Dora, Hey Remus."
"Hi Harry, which room are we in?" Remus asked.
"Go through to the living room. The portraits aren't there though. They've gone to Hogwarts to have tea with the Fat Lady." Harry chuckled.
"Has the fat lady ever forgiven Sirius for ripping her portrait?" Hermione questioned.
"Doubt it! She was in a state for months!" Harry laughed.
Once everyone was comfortable in and in their sleeping bags, did the party begin. Hermione brought the food and drinks in and they began talking about years at Hogwarts.
"Well, in my first year we got 150 points deducted for helping get Hagrid's dragon safely off to Charlie. I don't think a single Gryffindor talked to us for weeks!" Harry chortled.
"Oh it wasn't funny Harry! Percy Weasley was scarlet for months! Do you remember Polyjuice potion in our second year?" Hermione scolded.
"Of course! We sat in the girl's bathroom for weeks and no one knew because no one wanted to go in thanks to Myrtle." Harry snickered.
"You went in the girl's bathroom!" Dora snorted.
"It was Hermione's idea! She was the one making the potion!" Harry complained.
"Third year was our best though! Remus, you were the only decent teacher and it was the first year we actually learnt something in DADA."
"Thanks Hermione." Remus blushed.
"Nah, third year was awful! No offence Moony, your teaching was great… but those Dementors! The Slytherin's never let me live that down!" Harry groaned.
"What happened with the dementors?" Tonks asked in confusion.
"I fainted twice! Once on the train, but I'd never seen them before and was completely unprepared…. And once on my broom. I fell 50 feet!" Harry muttered. "Fourth year was ok…. The tournament was awful, but at least I only had to do one task… that dragon was nasty though!"
"Harry! How can you say fourth year was ok? You almost died!" Hermione hissed.
"Hermione, I almost died every year!" Harry sniggered.
"It's not funny Harry! I really thought you'd die!" Hermione growled.
Harry pouted and hugged his wife.
"No one can kill me, I'm Harry Potter!" Harry teased and everyone laughed.
"Try me Potter!" Hermione grinned.
"Your fifth year was eventful, wasn't it?" Dora continued.
"Oh yes…. Very eventful!" Hermione sighed as she remembered.
"Hey, it wasn't so bad! We got Moony back!" Harry uttered.
"Touching Harry, but leading a group of friends to fight some death eaters wasn't your finest move!" Remus snorted.
"I thought he had Sirius!" Harry hissed.
"I told you I was going!" Remus mumbled.
"Like you'd have stayed! And besides they all wanted to come." Harry told Remus in a you-know-I'll-win-so-don't-even-bother tone.
Remus sighed in defeat and punched Harry's shoulder.
"Let's not forget how awesome we were! We beat the Death Eaters!" Dora reminded them.
"Yeah we were pretty awesome, weren't we?" Harry agreed.
"You were incredible Harry! For Merlin's sake, you reversed death!" Hermione beamed.
Harry smiled sheepishly.
"What about your 6th year? You were incredible! You had so much hanging over you and never once would anyone suspect it! You discovered, research, found and destroyed Horcruxes and still managed to get Gryffindor the Quidditch Cup!" Remus added.
"Yeah, it was a pretty successful year. Even with Remus insisting on doing everything at a ridiculously slow pace!" Harry snickered.
"Hey! I was trying to keep things balanced. I was doing it for the greater good!" Remus complained
"I know Remus. I was only joking. I love you really!" Harry grinned.
"And as for our last year." Hermione sighed. "What can we say about it?"
Everyone was silent.
"At least we know that the future is safe for our children." Dora uttered.
"Yeah, well. Now we've sorted through mine and Mione's years at Hogwarts, why don't you fill us in Remus?" Harry suggested.
"Yeah, I want to know all about the Marauders." Dora agreed.
"Well, our first year was… great fun to be honest. The best fun ever! I'd never been allowed friends before, because of my condition, but when I met James and Sirius… it was wonderful. We did get into mischief though. Once Sirius got inside a suit of armour. James put a silencing charm on it and I charmed it to make it easier to walk in. Flitwick was so startled when he came into class and Sirius jumped out from behind the door." Remus laughed.
"Why am I not surprised it was Sirius in the armour?" Hermione chortled.
"Yes it does seem to be Sirius' sort of thing." Dora smirked.
"Not at all! In second year James primed a bucket full of flour to fall on McGonagall and the song Ghostbusters to play loudly when she walked into Transfiguration!" Remus smiled.
"Oh wow! I bet Minerva was pleased about that!" Hermione giggled.
"I'm surprised Dad wasn't hung!" Harry exclaimed.
"Were you the good boy Remus?" Dora asked.
"Not even close!" Remus sniggered. "In third year I put a charm on the door out of the Slytherin common room so that anyone who walked out of it ,which they all did to get to breakfast, would have their robes changed into a pink leotard and tutu and they'd have to pirouette wherever they went!"
"Well done Moony!" Harry cheered. "You'll have to give me the spell, I'm sure Jamesie will love it!"
"No way Harry! It sounds a great prank but at least wait until he's outgrown the mischief age." Hermione pleaded.
"Oh Mione, he'll never outgrow it!" Dora chuckled. "How many detention's did you Marauders have Remus?"
"One thousand seven hundred and eighty four!" Remus beamed.
"How I only got a thousand!" Dora whined.
"Remus! Dora! If Mum knew Dora you'd be toast!" Hermione gasped.
"This is so unfair! I only ever got….. Hang on a minute…. One thousand and forty! Ha-ha! I beat you Dora!" Harry declared.
"Urgh! Carry on Remus." Hermione groaned.
"In fourth year we began to go out at full moon and raid Honey dukes! Of course, I made sure that we left the right money… but having sweets at time when everyone else were still waiting for the Hogsmead weekend…. That was something that we'd often show off about. No one else could understand how we had a constant supply!" Remus chuckled.
"Talking of sweets and such, chuck us over some chocolate Mione!" Harry winked.
Hermione flicked her wand and a fleet on chocolate flew straight into Harry making him topple backwards.
"Whoops." Hermione laughed.
"Hey! You did that on purpose!" Harry complained as he threw a chocolate frog back at her.
"Children, children!" Remus grinned.
"Sorry Moony, on with the story." Harry sniggered.
"Well, in our fifth year, our pranks went up a notch. One of my favourite pranks had every member of Slytherin dancing on the table singing 'Gryffindor's rule almighty', the Hufflepuff's doing the Irish jig in Rabbit ears, and the Ravenclaw's lining up to do cartwheels down their table. It was great fun for us Gryffindor's as you could see the hate on the Slytherin's faces because, although they still were completely conscious of their actions, they had no control over their singing!" Remus chuckled.
"I wish I could have been there!" Dora sighed. "Sirius told me all about it! It must have been a great prank!"
"In our sixth year Sirius made the sorting hat shout out Death Eater instead of Slytherin, Library Addict instead of Ravenclaw, Cuddlekins instead of Hufflepuff, and Awesome Ninja's instead of Gryffindor!" Remus told them.
Everyone laughed.
"Good old Padfoot!" Harry snorted.
"What is a ninja?" Dora questioned.
"A ninja is a person skilled in ninjutsu, that's a martial art." Hermione explained.
"Oh!" Dora muttered. "What are martial arts?"
"They're a type of fighting that muggles learn for protection." Harry clarified.
"Our seventh year, leavers prank was the best ever though. We set of a fireworks display and at the end, 'The Marauder's would like to thank you all for a great seven years. Ravenclaw's keep nerding, Hufflepuff's keep loving and Slytherin's keep killing. As for Gryffindor's, PARTY ON!' was projected across the sky. It stayed like that for the last month. Then on the last day every Slytherin, was dressed in nothing but sparkly pink dresses, were hung up by their ankles and proceeded to sing 'The Marauders will live forever! The Marauders will rule forever! The Marauders will be legends forever!'" Remus finished.
"And they still are and forever will be legends!" Harry smiled. "What about you Dora? Tell us your top…. 5 pranks."
"Well, number 5 would have to be when I convinced Peeves to run through The Great Hall throwing dung bombs at the Slytherin's and Filch, who was running behind him. It was rather funny! Number 4, I'd say, would be when we made the Ravenclaw's pirouette madly whilst ice-skating. They were horrified when they then started doing the can-can with Flitwick! The whole school was laughing at them! For number 3 I'd choose when I put a spell on Minerva and Severus, at the leaver's ball, so they had to dance with each other! You should have seen Snape's face! Number 2 is when I had the hippogriffs run into The Great Hall and steal the Slytherin Quidditch player's right before their game. They flew off and dropped them into the lake! I think the giant squid was more than happy with the company! Number 1 is….. Well, there was a really snooty Slytherin girl called Macemoria Ogden, she had waist length silky blonde hair that she'd brush for hours. One day, the day of the ball actually, she woke up with shoulder length spiky green hair that stuck out like a lion's mane! Unfortunately for Macemoria, I had actually cut and dyed her hair, rather than using a charm, so there was no fixing it with a counter charm!" Dora giggled.
Everyone was in stitches!
"Nymphadora you are magnificent!" Remus declared.
"Why thank you Remus! I must admit, I do agree!" she chortled. "Now, let's crack open the fire whiskey and let the fun and games begin!"