The Return Of The Marauders Part I: Harry Potter And The Sorceror's Stone
Warnings: From here on and forward, Harry's title for Sirius changes, as he becomes his father, as the years they spent together now change things now. As he and Harry start acting like father and son, as year 5 changes things further as he's now acting like a real father here. To him as he and Harry developed a bond that would take his place with James as the years go by now.
Disclaimers: Harry Potter doesn't belong to me, the story belongs to me, everything else belongs to J.K. Rowling and Warner brothers.
Chapter 11: Flying Practice, Seeker And The Midnight Duel
"Aw crud I missed one here, the dementors." I said and they froze up. "So we got to get those things out of control of Azkaban, send an envoy to the wolves, and another to the Giants in Hagrid's mother's tribe, but that's all three bases here that need to be covered." I said and Dumbledore nodded. "Indeed right now, but we had an escape once, who's not to say we won't have another and the things don't show forgiveness, and can't distinguish their target to a non."
"So indeed, I agree with you right now, so 1) is the wolves, 2) is we get get those things out of control of Azkaban and finally, we send a convoy, a messenger. Now to see your mother's tribe, Hagrid, but we got in total, four years worth of work to accomplish leading into his possible return." he said and we nodded. "As leader of the Junior Order, I'm making it my priority, we're all ready by the time we have them attempting interference." I said and he nodded to me then.
"You the junior order, us the senior order, we're doing what we can to protect you and you to your own peers, so we don't take chances here now in truth. And on your safety, no matter how many times someone wants you to get reckless, you won't do it." he said and I nodded to that. "Yeah and I've changed here, but life changed for the better." I said and he nodded. "Yes and we've never so proud of you right now." Minerva said to me gently and I smiled at her.
"Yeah, but I'm offering a hand in friendship here, but the werewolves and the giants, are two of the ones we need to get on our side, before all hades break loose." I said to them and she nodded in agreement. "Good point, and this way, you can be normal at the moment, but this is why you're such a good leader honey, you see the good. The good in everyone even when others can't see it themselves here." Andy said and I nodded as she ran her hand through my hair.
"This is what I missed most, being around my parents friends and being normal, you're the mother I wanted in truth, though Aunt Petunia and I fixed it. I miss this contact with my mother." I said and she nodded as she looked into my eyes and pressed her forehead to mine, and I buried my head into her shoulder. "I know I miss her too, but you're not alone anymore baby, going to be okay." she said and I nodded softly as I relaxed and Mione and Ron smiled softly then.
"Just got a message back from Dora, she sent this to you." Mad-eye added and he passed me a letter at that as I saw us and Ron, Draco, Mione, the others as a single group. "Hey baby brother, how is your first week shaping out, I'm doing fine in training right now, but it's a bit nuts since the year started. I spoke to Charlie, and he's busy in training at the Romanian Dragon compound, with everyone in our class scattered all over."
"We're ready for you to call us back when you're ready, just send the word and we come home immediately, though good here. It's my counterpart, she's like the wise guy in your class no matter what happens he can't stop making things explode. And it results in me dropping things here, hopefully we can get it under control before we come home, but otherwise, it's going fine, write back soon guys, I love you."
"Your sister and cousin, Dora." the message read out to us and we all smiled. "That bad Professor?" I asked and he nodded with a chuckle. "Worse, she's my top student right now, but it's turning into a mad house at the academy with her class in training, son." he said and Mione started laughing at that. "Yeah that sounds like big sister alright, but there we go, you're my adoptive parents now." I said and Ted and Andy nodded smiling gently at that remark.
"And students, we're keeping the reckless stunts in flying out of the equation and I mean that." Minerva said and we all nodded and I looked at Zach, who looked down and they nodded sternly. "We're not doing that again, so try and you're the one getting in trouble again, for the fourth time in one day." I said and Minerva and Madam Hooch nodded sternly in agreement to that remark. "Did the reason also show up here?" Minerva asked and I nodded to her then.
"Yes, but I've got my robes on the bench next to me, Professor." Neville said to her and she nodded. "Let me take a wild guess, but you forgot you weren't wearing your robes right now, and the smoke went red?" Oliver asked and we nodded to him. "That was my ticket to getting on the team in the last one, but this one was a fast training match, before you chose me, as your new seeker." I said to him and he nodded smiling gently at that remark then gently.
"Yes and you're even better then we thought in that training match, going up against a 3rd year even better, but that was excellent little brother." Angelina said to me smiling then. "Hard to believe it's been three days and already the week is going by this quickly, as we're all completely settled in right now, and our classes. They're all getting more interesting now that we spent the summer mastering the basics here now." I said and they nodded gently to that opinion.
"Well flying training after lunch, Potter." Madam Hooch said and we nodded, as we finished our homework for that day, ate lunch and we assembled outside just outside of the school and in front of the pitch. "Good afternoon class." she said and we said it in unison. "Good Afternoon Madam Hooch." we said together as she said it to Mandy. "Afternoon Amanda, Afternoon." she said as she got her gloves on, as I knew the old broomsticks were splintering by this point then.
As she turned to look at us. "Welcome to your first flying lesson, well what are you waiting for, move up to your broom." she said and went to position next to the school brooms. "Put your right hand up over the broom and say up." she said and we did it. "Up!" we said together and mine jumped into my hand immediately and Zach looked at me in shock. "Whoa." I said and Mione tried to keep from laughing as her's immediately leaped into her hand then gently.
"With feeling." Madam Hooch said, and the next growl at his broom caused another blow to the face. "Up!" Ron snapped and it leaped up handle first and smacked him in the face. "Ahh." he said as he covered his nose as Mione, Neville and I started laughing. "I think that means there's no need to yell at me, human, chill." Dean said as the six of us started laughing as he looked at us bemused as she shook her head at that remark then as he answered that.
"Shut up Dean and all of you, cool it." he said as we tried to pull it together. "With her on one side of me and you on the other, you knew I was finding this funny, after that aggravated tone you gave it." I said to him and he nodded. "Yes and twice in two time-lines really is too much here, but again, shut up already." he said and Neville and Dean tried to control their own laughter as Draco said it to him at that remark with a playful smile then gently.
"Well at least it was to the face and not the..., you know." Draco said to him and he nodded. "Indeed, and your father also took it to the face Potter, after he started showing off to your mother, and it smacked him to get him to stop being a show off right now." Madam Hooch said and Mione started laughing. "Uncle James, rein it in already, you don't have to keep showing off to the girls here." Neville said through his own laughter at that remark and I nodded to that.
"Issues in being 11, he wanted her to like him and she wasn't giving him a glance till his ego deflated." I said and she nodded. "Indeed, but you're nothing like him at this age now and all of you pull yourselves together, shall we?" she said and we all nodded as we reined in our laughter at that response. "Alright now that you got a firm grip on your broom, I want you to mount it, and grip it tight, so you don't be sliding off the end." she said and we did so then gently.
"Now, when I blow my whistle, you kick off from the ground, hard. Keep your brooms steady, rise a few feet, and then come straight back down by leaning forward slightly. On my whistle..., three, two..." she said and blew her whistle, before I saw Neville's get a little erratic. "Mr. Longbottom." she said as she tried to keep him from going up too high, before the rest of us were murmuring at that as she said it quickly at that remark then.
"Mr. Longbottom..., Mr. Longbottom." she said as I shouted out his name. "Neville, pull up." I snapped at him just as it went for mad fly as I yanked my wand. "Arresto momentum!" I snapped and the broom froze, as she went up to get him then. "Nice thinking Mr. Potter, and 10 points to Gryffindor, for protecting a friend from a serious injury." she said as we all sighed in relief as I patted my brother on the shoulder and he looked at me with a grateful smile then.
"Madam Hooch, with these brooms so old and after that visual aid, I took the liberty, now, to donate to the school some new ones." I said and she nodded. "What do we have Potter?" she asked and I explained that. "I chose Cleansweep 7's, with us just starting out as beginners." I said and she nodded. "Very good, for beginners that's the best broom before you get the next one up." she said and we nodded as I unloaded the 40 brooms and we started again.
And this time it went without a hitch as we took it carefully. "If anyone wants to run a test on seeker training, now is good time to do it, cubs." she said and we nodded. "So Malfoy, Potter, want to go it now?" Zach asked with a smirk and I crossed my arms. "I don't know think so Zach, we're not having this turned into the deputy headmistress seeing what is going on and this being taken to the wrong conclusion, besides I made seeker, after the championship last summer."
"Like I said, you're as bad as they are, out of jealousy, Draco and I are the best seekers in the school our age, why do we need to show off?" I asked and she nodded. "And at least no one on Gryffindor had to buy their way in, they got in pure talent." Mione said to that, crossing her and he looked at her. "Say it and you're being put in detention for a month, Zacharias." Madam Hooch said with a stern growl at that remark and I nodded as the Aurors were watching us then.
"How stupid can you be Zach, are you forgetting we're not alone here?" I asked him sternly and the Aurors nodded in stern agreement to that. "And does the concept of political suicide mean anything to you?" Mione added to that as our adult guardians were waiting for him to make a move. "Make a move I dare you, I did just insult your pride, go ahead, you know you want to?" she said and I watched his eyes flashing angrily and I nodded as Draco and Ron got ready then.
"Anyone have the guts here to actually do this with the faculty and order listening to the entire conversation?" Draco asked and we all nodded sternly then. "Doesn't look like it, if this was you, you'd sick Argus on us, but him, he's going to try and get us in trouble, but us Lions are way better then he thinks." Ron said and he nodded. "And I shed one skin and I'm a lion, not a Cobra anymore." he said to that and she gripped his hand and he squeezed hers gently.
"A badger who fell to earth and became a snake, you need to understand, you let the sins control you it could destroy you." I said and said it sternly. "I've also got my Papa wolf here, and with him my father, you think I want to prove I never learned anything from them, dad said to stay out of trouble. And I plan to do just that now, but keep trying to get us, Draco, Millie, Tracy and Daphne in trouble and you're only making it worse for yourself in the eyes of the faculty."
"But I'm saying this the way my real father would, but show me a man that resorts to violence and I'll show you a man that's out of good ideas. You know what they mean by that?" I asked and he swallowed hard. "What they mean is you respond to violence by getting violent yourself, and you never learned anything at all. In what this could be called in the book series on the first movie, is defeat the anger in your enemy and he is no longer your enemy now."
"For anger is the true enemy." I said and she and Kingsley both smiled proudly at that remark then as she answered that remark. "And take another 10, for not rising to the bait, that's what I'm referring to right now, live and learn, and last one's mistake is learned now here. But that's very good in ignoring a said bully in trying to get you in trouble, I'm very proud of you, Potter." Madam Hooch said to me and I nodded and Mione smiled at me at that response gently.
"Just why do you keep calling Black your father?" he said in shock and she and Kingsley crossed their arms. "I've been calling him that all summer long, because he adopted me, and is about to start raising me himself now in truth, but though my godfather, my father named him my guardian if anything. And I mean anything happened to him and my mother, but I'm not explaining my family life to you, if you're this bigoted against us muggle raised and born."
"Repeated insults and attempts to start a fight, you want to see a true master of their tempers?" I asked and he swallowed hard. "I think not, and we all got the point there, but again, try it and you're getting detention for a month, young man." Sirius said as he came out in time to hear that. "Just three days and nothing you say to him or us, is enough to cause a repeat of our problems with Draco, I don't care if you're getting more annoyed by the minute here."
"That we never take the bait, but we're not turning this into a repeater of my father's quartet and Severus, so that's enough right now." I said with a growl and he swallowed hard. "Never mind, let's keep going right now, Mam, what's next?" I asked and she smiled gently at that. "Harry, as you're the expert flyer in training, why not do a fast run on that seeker practice." she said and I nodded as she pulled a few golf balls and I got on my broom and kicked off then.
As I got ready for my training session right then, as she chucked the first one as far as possible, and I zoomed after it then and caught it, as she threw another and I caught that, as one by one each ball was tossed, and I caught everyone, as the last one ended up in front of Minerva's class as she saw me catch it. As I came down and with the entire pile in a pouch and she called out to me. "Potter?!" she said and I turned and looked at her gently at that as she said it then.
"Come with me please." she said and I nodded as went with her gently as she lead me to the Defense class then. "Wait here please." she said and I nodded, as she went into the room. "Professor Quirrell, excuse me, could I borrow Wood for a moment?" she asked and he said it gently. "Yes, of course." he said and I nodded, as I knew we were about to fake this for the rest of the year then, as she lead Oliver out and said it to me gently at that remark.
"Potter this is Oliver Wood, Wood, I have found you a seeker." she said and he smiled. "First training test and never missed a single one?" he asked and he nodded. "Not at all, the last one was a Sloth grip just outside my window, and he caught in seconds of a near collision." she said and he nodded. "I'd be honored to have him as a member of my team." he said and she nodded as she looked at me gently at that remark as she said it then.
"I want to hear you're training hard Potter, your father would be proud, he was always a very good quidditch player himself." she said and I nodded as later that night after school let out for the evening, I heard the conversation between Nearly Headless Nick and one of the ghosts that were haunting the castle then. "Have you heard, Harry Potter is the new Gryffindor seeker, I always knew he would do well." he said and hid a smile as I came out of study hall.
And with Ron at that. "Seeker, but first years never make the house teams, you must be the youngest quidditch player..." he started to say and I finished that. "In a century, according to Professor Mcgonagall." I said to him and he smiled. "Hey good work Harry, Oliver just told us." he said and I nodded. "Fred and George are on the team too: they're beaters." he said and I nodded then. "We're not doing that conversation again guys." I said and they nodded to me then.
"Come on, we need to show you something." he said and I nodded as they lead me to the trophy case as Mione caught up with us, and he pointed to the team trophy then. "I don't believe it, dad was a seeker." I said smiling at that. "I knew he was a quidditch player, but I never knew that being a seeker ran in the family." I said and she smiled at that. "I know, but come on right now, time to get upstairs right now." she said smiling at that and I nodded as we left.
"So getting nervous here right now in this case Potter, you're one to talk about confidence." we heard and she nodded. "Trouble cubs?" we heard and I sighed in relief as I turned to see Severus behind us and Zach quickly ran for it at that remark and he nodded sternly at that response. "Attempted set up here Professor, he's at it again, after your reprimands during dueling practice." I said and he nodded as he and Remus crossed their arms then gently at that.
"Now this really reminds me of what you and James constantly going at it when we were their age, Severus." he said and he nodded. "And I thought Jim was bad, before his ego deflated, this is worse, Remus." he said and he nodded in agreement. "Well we buried the hatchet finally, to end it in both age groups and now a Hufflepuff turned Slytherin is now trying to start something between us and him and Blaise finally." I said and she, Ron and Draco crossed their arms.
As I felt something run it's head against my leg and looked down to see Mrs. Norris also sitting there gently and hid a smile. "Hey girl, but like I said, it's a case I didn't start it, but every time he tries to, we got you heading off a fight before it gets worse here." I said and they and Minerva nodded. "The near fight in the great hall, before I came to deflect it, before it ended up in flying practice earlier?" she asked and I nodded to her gently at that question gently.
"That would be it alright, but with Draco part of our group, that ended it and now Zach is picking up his bad habits now, of never leaving us alone here." I said to her and she nodded. "Cub, young man, you keep it up and we catch you out of bed, you're in a three week time out after 3 days, now that's enough of this already." Madam Pomphrey said to this and she, Severus, Flitwick and Pomona all nodded in stern agreement to that remark then gently at that news.
"With school out for the rest of the day it's almost dinner time here, but tries that again, and tell us immediately or we got her watching and listening to the entire conversation." Severus said to me and I nodded as we ended it at that remark and headed for our dormitory at that as Draco turned to me, Neville, Ron and Mione at that. "Does this remind you of anything, mate." Draco said in annoyance, and she and Ron nodded as he answered him in annoyance at this.
"Yeah like you never leaving us alone, before we made that change, now he's taking up your bad habits here right now, but here it comes, the Wizard's duel." Ron said and I nodded as Mione took my hand as she answered that remark then gently. "Incoming boys, here he comes again." she said and I said it with a growl. "Blast it, can't he take a hint, that's enough of this already." I said and she nodded sternly. "I doubt it, he's worse then I am." Draco said to me gently.
"Here we go again, we're not doing that again, as one of us goes, we all do, so stick together and put it on lighting our way through the hall." she said sighing and I smiled. "Idea right now, we turn this into the bait and switch they used on us." I said softly to her. "Zach we're not doing this all year in you trying to get us in trouble now that's enough of this already right now, you're in Slytherin, and that's final." I said sternly and he got in my face at that remark then.
"What's that, not wanting to be left without your pride, as a pride is like a flock or troop?" he said and I said it sternly at that. "You're not so confident when you don't have those go'fers do everything for you, Zach, what's the problem, sick of being ignored, or is it, you're sick of being in Slytherin. After three days and want to transfer to your house of loyalty when we all hate show offs here?" I asked and he said it with a growl at that as Mrs. Norris sat there waiting.
"I'm not doing this with you all year Zach, you've been trying their patience all week and now this, how many different ways do we got to say it right now. I will not allow you to get me in trouble and by provoking me here, so that's enough of this, want to pick a fight do it with a member your own house. Now leave us alone, but go ahead, go cry to daddy, you're as much a daddy's boy as he used to be, so grow up and be a man now." I said sternly and that did it then.
"Alright you want to show off fine, Wizard's duel: in the trophy room midnight, you can pick a second." he said and I looked between the trio. "Ron, Draco's second, you?" I asked him and he looked between Blaise to Malcolm and said it. "Blaise, get ready to lose." he said and I smirked. "I'm counting on it." I said and he and the duo left at that. "We got company." she told me and I nodded. "Mew?" she asked with a questioning tone and I nodded to her at that remark.
"I think that means, what was that all about?" Ron said and she gave a confirming mew to answer that remark then. "You been sitting here all this time, girl?" I asked and she gave me a mew, as I crouched in front of her and she gave me a purr, running my hand through her fur and she rubbed her head against my hand then purring at that as she said it to me. "Not doing anything to break the rules, kitten?" she asked me with a mew and I nodded as I answered her.
"No, he's trying to get me in trouble with you guys, but no go, I turned the tables right now." I said to her as she gave me a gentle mew. "Once was enough, we're not doing that again, I know some people have a problem with your owner, well I'm not one of them, we know what needs to be changed and where. So with that right now, it's a case of standing there listening to the entire conversation to know what's going on here right now, and with that in mind."
"Girl were you in the hall, when we made said change, and started this over again?" I asked and she gave me a mew. "So you remember that night, we ended up in the corridor, and went into Fluffy's quarters?" I asked and she gave me a second mew. "Well everyone that knew this is really carrying our memories of those 2.5 years, the kitten's 10 month old mind is back in his 8 month old body again." I said to her and she gave a gentle mew in response to that news.
As she pressed her forehead to mine, and I heard a chuckle from the quartet at that response. "Yeah I will, I understand, not going through the level of problems you remember as a result of the last time here, but I'm a 10 month old kitten and I'm back in my 8 month old body again. As to that, I have those memories and they're being used to make a better life for us, as we make a deeper bond, as I see you for you and not like that." I said and she mewed then.
"All of you 10 months in 8 month old bodies?" she asked gently with a meow and they all nodded. "Aside from twin kittens, they're a year old and trapped back in their 10 month old bodies again, girl kittens, my mate and her playmate, are back in their 7 month old bodies again." I said and she nodded. "Living your lives in the kennel over again, so fix mistakes between you and kitten of former green house and adult kitten of green house." she said and I nodded to her.
"Us, too girl." Ron said to her and she gave an understanding meow to us at that news. "Well kitten that was in yellow house got moved to green house, and is jealous all the adult cats are paying this much attention to me, but I'm alpha of a kitten version of the alpha's own pack." I said and she gave a mew. "He's trying to get me in trouble with you for being out of bounds here, so I just turned the tables on him, but I'm checking Fluffy's quarter's, the door later."
"So a fast training lesson in what not to do, you're always on watch waiting for trouble girl, but with you just sitting there hearing the entire conversation now. You know I didn't instigate this, it's a trap." I said to her and she gave a confirming mew to that. "You know if I didn't know any better, you seemed more human than a real cat, human intelligence, you're like Minerva." I said to her and she gave a second mew as Mione hid a chuckle at that as I said it to her.
As I nodded as I said it to her gently. "You're not a real cat are you, you're an animagus?" I asked and she gave me a mew and I started laughing. "This is why he gave you the name Mrs. Norris, you're an animagus, you're his girlfriend?" I asked and she gave me a second mew. "Yeah okay, you better go report in, I'm not doing that a second time, in us getting caught out of bounds for the second time in two time-lines, he's not thinking straight out of jealousy here."
"Go report into Filch and the faculty, it's a trap." I said and she gave a meow and quickly ran to alert Filch at that as I left the hall and went to tell Kingsley. "Severus, you got a massive case of jealousy here, that's close to a nervous breakdown and self destruction right now." I said and he put the quill down at that. "He came after you, after we deflected it?" he said and I nodded as Minerva, Kingsley, Remus, Dumbledore, and quintet all stood up at that remark.
"We got trouble." I said and he nodded. "What happened here?" Remus asked and as he, Severus and Kingsley crossed their arms. "Wizard's duel, that ends up at the Fluffy's bedroom." I said and they all nodded. "Which of you instigated it this time?" Minerva asked and I shook my head as I explained that to her. "We didn't, bait and switch, he's trying to get us in trouble for being out of bed and bounds, like the last time, but if he never learned anything before."
"So why start now, as I turned this around, the cat was standing right behind him and I sent her to Filch, before coming to you." I said and she smiled at that as they, Flitwick and Professor Sprout nodded in relief. "The cat was right behind him?" she repeated and I nodded. "And like you would be in case you wanted to eavesdrop on said conversation to know what this is and know I never started it, he did, and before it starts the blame game." I said and she nodded gently.
"Indeed, and to say this now, I don't care who started it, I'm ending it, now that's enough of this back and forth between you cubs." she said and Dumbledore nodded in stern agreement to that. "I don't believe this, just as we end this between us and Severus, before ending it in the kids now and now it starts another. Between our cubs and a Hufflepuff turned Slytherin and now he's getting jealous, we're spending so much time on Harry right now, Minerva."
"But if this is not a repeater between us and Severus, only it's a Hufflepuff turned Slytherin, then nothing is right now here in truth." Remus said and she nodded. "I call this a good reason to see this as he's acting like the little brat that caused the healer's son to crack." Severus said sternly and she nodded in agreement. "That's your favorite muggle tv show, only in your generation, if it came out when you were 25?" she said to him and he nodded to her gently.
"That was season two of said book series based said show, but the healer's son is like Harry, he never needed to show off with us, he just be's himself with us. But some little swine of a cadet got so jealous he got him in trouble by not listening to reason, and the ending results are he took a year off, and then. Now, came back after his own stress levels caused him to crack, graduation jitters." he said to her and she nodded sternly at that news as he said it sternly at that.
"I'm not having it with him, but cub clearly needs a weekend off, we're sending him home for the weekend if we catch him out of bed right now." she said and he nodded in agreement, as he, Madam Pomphrey, Flitwick and Pomona exchanged irritated looks. "Well thankfully I turned the tables, and Mrs. Norris was right behind him." I told her and she nodded. "Indeed, and she told me what you had in mind, Potter." we heard as Filch came to join us at that remark
"I'm using what we never took the time to learn in the last one to use it for this one, but 2.5 years are slightly matched here, the rest is make it up as you go." I said and he nodded to me. "Then stay out of trouble, as the cat is acting like your furry nanny here." Severus said to me and I nodded as Remus took over at that. "I think she's happy I'm not acting like everyone else, and acting like I am her kitten now, but preteen boy and girl cat." I said to him at that he nodded.
"Right, to a girl cat, she raised her boy kitten from birth, and acts like they belong to her, and it's the same for said boy cat and preteen girl." Minerva said and I nodded. "May not have been from birth but same difference." she said with a mew in response as she rubbed her head against my leg and Filch shook head. smiling "Yeah now you got a problem, Mr. Filch, were you in the great hall when I revealed his powers were left in me?" I asked and he nodded to me gently.
"Well then you know this, she sees me as her own kitten, so answer this, why would I just attack my cat for annoying me right now?" I asked and he nodded. "You wouldn't, but someone else would right now." he said and I nodded. "Well we can get along, but there's no need to antagonize you guys, I'm a member of the junior order and leader of it, and we're doing what you are in protecting everyone here right now in truth." I said and he nodded to me gently then.
"Indeed, after the last session, I know you're not the one that started this, but like they said though you look like your father, you're nothing like him at all. And instead I see your mother in you right now, but a fast catch of trying to prevent an injury in being out of bounds?" he said and I nodded and they nodded. "Issues in the magical security alarm here as he gets caught, as you're checking the door?" Remus asked me then gently as we exchanged looks then gently.
"I'm right, she's a full witch and animagus, she's either your wife or your girlfriend?" I asked and Filch nodded. "Yes, she's my wife, but she spends time like this so no one considers she's not a normal cat, and that's why she and I are like this together, she just likes to go cat at times." he said and I nodded. "I'm leader of the junior order, and I'm working at making sure nobody does anything stupid after our last one." I said and he nodded to me then gently.
"Well it's starting off better then it did in the last one." he said and I nodded. "We'll try to stay out of trouble, but can't make any promises, as you know, we don't go looking for trouble..." I said and he nodded. "The trouble finds you every year right now, we get that, but you and your friends keep this up, we're not going to make it to your seventh year here." he said and I nodded. "This is going to be a long year right now." Andy said and I nodded to that remark then.
"Yeah that's it exactly, but guess what's in that hallway in the trophy room, you knock one over and the others start coming down." I said and she nodded. "I know and I remember that, and we had that happening one too many times with your father and his trio, but this is too much after I had to investigate. In what made that noise and go look into it." Madam Pince said as she tried to keep from laughing and I nodded as I said to her as I looked between them.
"Case of the domino effect, if they're standing next to each other, and you knock one over and it hits it's counterpart and then starts a line in coming down. We see this all the time to know that you do this and someone of the next station up is going to wonder in what the blazes is going on in that hall and go look into it." I said and she nodded. "And we of your grandparents age group see this all the time in you and your parents age groups." Madam Pomphrey said to that.
"You were in school here at the same time my parents were going to school here?" I asked and she nodded. "I've been the mediwitch here for 25 years honey." she said and I nodded to her. "And to me, if your father didn't give me enough to worry about with the injuries from the games, it's you and your constant attempts to do the right thing, as a result of one injury or another in protection detail." she said and I nodded as Minerva hid a smile then gently.
"I take it dad and Severus had that happen and you guys caught them in the hall and red handed?" I asked and she nodded. "Yes and I was irritated enough already, but like I said, though your father and Sirius were the best students in school, we never had such a duo of trouble-makers till we get the twins here. But you're not like either of them, but this is going too far at the moment here, so if we have to we go to that hallway." she said and I nodded sternly then.
"Well you're going to know he saw her and then tried to run, after our domino comes down." I said and she nodded. "Our dominos." Severus said and I nodded. "The alarm gets set off by someone knocking him over, and he knocks over his friends, as he gets caught in the hall, we're in the next one over. And I double the power on that lock, as I tell Fluffy, that we're like you, and re-enforce the security." I said and they nodded to that as Kingsley smiled sternly.
"I think I trained you just a little too well, but don't over do it." he said and I nodded. "Well I'm making those protection spells as hard as possible to break through without an injury." I said and she and Severus nodded to me. "How stupid does he think we are, but he's got the arrogance of McClaggan right now, as he would, to reassure his pride now, in making sure his plan goes without a hitch here." Severus said to that news gently at that remark and I nodded.
"Tell me about it, Draco was trying to get us in trouble with you for being out of bounds, with Zach, he'd want to make sure we follow through here in truth. And on said challenge and be waiting for us, before the cat sees him, trips and hits those suits of armor, and the alarm goes off, as you have him surrounded." I said and they all nodded. "And this is why you're my star pupil, live and learn, and you're doing that admirably." he said and I nodded gently at that remark.
"When's the duel?" Emmeline asked me and I said it. "Midnight in the trophy room, but too late as I already sicced Filch and you on him, and we're in the next hall over dealing with re-enforcing the spells on the corridor door." I said and she nodded. "Okay, you deal with the spells on the door, and re-enforce security, but tell Fluffy, you're like us, not there to steal, but protect." Minerva said and we all nodded gently at that remark then as I said it to her gently then.
"I better get up there, I need to talk to him." I said and she nodded. "Off you go then." she said and I nodded as I headed for that hall and went to the door. "Alohomora." I said and it unlocked as I turned around. "Fluffy, easy boy, I'm like your master, protection of what you are guarding." I said and he turned his head and I nodded. "Yeah, I am alpha's puppy." I said and he nuzzled me in response then and I smiled as I ran my hand through his fur gently then.
"Just checking here, before bad dog tries this, we got a bad dog in the castle, he's after what you are guarding, but I'm a puppy version of your owner's alpha." I said and he gave me a gentle growl in response. "I know, but I ran the opening of your guard duty so many times, I know how to handle this, and you, before alpha added you, before alpha's alpha adds the last piece to the course." I said and he gave gentle whine and I nodded to him as I said it then.
"Be ready for an unexpected dropping in by me and my pack, my pack is me, and 3 other puppies: puppy 1 has red fur, puppy 2 your color fur. While puppy three has my tinge in fur, but we're all dressed in these furs, with a red patch on them." I said and he gave a gentle growl to me at that. "Yes that's it exactly, bad puppy, from green alpha's house is trying to get us in trouble, but we got the drop on him, and came here." I said and he gave a growl in response.
"I got to go, I'll see you tonight." I said and he gave a growl to me in response, as I ran my hand through his head fur and he gave me a whine in response, as I closed the door and then locked it and sighed in relief as I head back to the others. "Just spoke to him, he understands, we're not there to steal what he's guarding, we're there to protect it, and he understands the catch of unexpected dropping in after the alarms nearly wake up everyone in the castle here."
"Out of the noise." I said and the trio and our heads of houses and the headmaster all nodded. "Well that's a big relief right now, but said security could be easily circumvented by the unlocking charm right now. This time, he now has to work out how to get passed both that and the added security charm you put on that door." Ted said and Minerva nodded in agreement to that. "I know, but live and learn." I said and she smiled at that remark as she looked at me.
"Professor how long does this charm last, between attempts to get in there?" Ron asked and Dumbledore explained that to us. "Lasts about 6 weeks between tries, so the time your brother leaves the castle that Christmas, you're on Order business, in protecting the stone, and you're borrowing said cloak. You get caught you're going to get in trouble, as Severus knew his father used that cloak to sneak out at times." he said and Ron nodded to the news gently at that.
"And don't over do it, you're not putting more then a few drops on that door latch or the trap door handle." Mione said to me quickly and he nodded in stern agreement. "If this was dad, he'd nail a accidental vein to provide said charm, me, no more then a few drops of blood, and that's strong enough now here. That it would work, but he's killing unicorns in the forest, because I'm preventing him from getting the stone, those poor animals are, in truth here."
"Getting the worse end of this." I said and Dumbledore nodded gently at that. "I understand how you see this Harry, but to him he sees that as a necessary evil right now in truth here at the moment here. That it doesn't matter how severely we of the light side can see this, he's delved so far into the dark arts here now. He's passed redemption now at this point, we do what must be done to keep him from coming back for a few years." he said and I nodded to him gently.
As I shook my head. "Yep, side effect of when said professor knows said student's own parents better then you think, you better be ready to stay out of range. Or you get caught, by your parent's former rivals here." I said and he nodded and Severus crossed his arms. "And I catch you out of bed, you're in trouble young man, you know I'm on watch, and it's dangerous with the fact we got the devils in the walls here." he said and we all nodded to that remark then.
"Mione, where is that book you used right now, the one that lead us right to him?" I asked and she said it. "Modern Witches And Wizards, row 10, section 5." she said and we nodded. "Well he's not quite current as he's 665 years old." Ron said and I nodded. "True, but his knowledge worked well, and we needed it, as there is no way the stone can create a new body, just make him immortal." I said and Dumbledore nodded as he looked between us then gently at that.
"Be careful tonight Harry, young lady, boys." he said and the four of us nodded to him. "We will." I said and he nodded as I straightened and then turned slowly to Percy. "Percival Ignatius Weasley, so help me gods, you even try to get us in trouble you're facing expulsion here yourself, I mean that, just because you want that badge back, doesn't mean getting reckless till it kills you." Ron snapped sternly and he paled and we nodded as the twins nodded sternly then.
"I'll be right back." Fred said sternly and they nodded as he left to send a message to their parents and Percy went white and I nodded. "We had it with the attitude, but where changes are concerned, this is necessary for us to maintain the safety of our world, now knock it off Percy." I said sternly and he swallowed hard and Dumbledore nodded. "To keep him from coming back this year, we got to keep him from getting that stone." I said and she furthered that remark.
"To keep him from coming back next year we have to destroy that diary." she said and Ron said it with a low growl. "And to keep us safe from a repeater, I have to break the rules, and by using the map and the cloak so we can arrest Pettigrew, but were it not for you, holding it back all this time. The arrogant old fools would not even be in this mess, as we open their eyes to the truth, he's waiting in the wings to return." he said sternly and he swallowed hard at that.
"Crouch already said it, he doesn't want you on his team, if your arrogance is the reason, they had it in reverse here, but you're close now in truth here. To having your entire family kick you out till you swallow your pride right now." Mione said sternly and I nodded. "I am the leader of the junior order of the Phoenix, but your brothers and sister are my best friends and my mate, so grow up, she doesn't want you, she wants Oliver." I said and then said it sternly.
"Your parents are part of the order, your brothers and you're the only hold out, I'm working my behind off to make sure we all survive this here now in truth. And you're having a temper tantrum because we proved you're as bigoted as Smith is, I don't think so, keep it up and your parents are disowning you next." I said sternly and he paled at that remark as we ended the conference at that remark, and had dinner then, as we then headed back to our dorms then.
After using the reading room, we all finished off our homework in record time and then read a book, to pass the time, till we hit midnight then gently at that. "Time to go right now." she said and I nodded as we, Neville, and Ron left the room as I carefully looked around the corner to see Zach and Blaise. "Where are they, they should be here right now." Zach said and I saw the cat looked at me from the other corner, and I pointed at my eyes and then pointed at them.
And she gave mew and came out. "It's Filch's cat!" Blaise snapped and he nodded. "Run!" he snapped, before he tripped and slammed into our armor, that had been the first hexed by accident and he fell over and slammed into the others as they all started coming down at that, as the noise was loud enough. To wake up the entire castle. "Run!" Blaise shouted and they tried to take off, before Filch and Severus rounded the corner as Remus, Kingsley and Dedalus came out.
As the trio and I arrived at the door, and I unlocked it. "Fluffy, easy, it's me boy, it's me." I said and he gave a growl and relaxed and they all sighed in relief. "Fluffy move your paw, I need to do something." I said and he gave a growl and gently moved his leg and I gently cut my palm and then gripped the latch. That opened it and pulled it open, as I ran my hand across the part that was meant to be lifted and then hexed it to match the color of the wood then.
"Alright your hatch is ready and protected, just go back to sleep boy." I said and he gave a growl and I patted his middle head and he laid back down then, before I went back out, and then gripped the door handle, and we hexed the latch itself, so my blood blended in with the handle as we closed and locked the door and then headed back for the dorms. "Where have you four been?" the fat lady asked me and I said it gently at that question then as we relaxed then.
"Order business Amelia." I said to her and she nodded to me. "Pig snout." I said and she nodded as she opened up the door and we went in and I closed the door in relief. "We did it, it worked." Ron said and I nodded. "Yeah it worked, and he's now spending a weekend being sent home right now." she said and I nodded. "At least we get a weekend off of the attempts to start a fight here." Draco said and I nodded. "Waiting up for us?" I asked and he nodded to me.
As Minerva arrived right behind us. "Well it worked Harry, he triggered the alarm like you did, and we had them surrounded, he's being sent home for a week, next week. After this stunt, and Severus is going to be talking to his father about this right now." she said and I nodded. "Blaise and Malcolm?" she asked and she nodded. "Yeah them too, needless to say, their parents are not going to take it well, that your brother out witted him." she said and we nodded gently.
"Or that a half-blood, 5 blood traitors and a muggle-born out thought him and we just made a fool of him in front of the faculty." I said and she nodded. "Indeed, and did you get the charm up and running?" she asked and I nodded. "Marked both doors, but I never studied healing charms." she said and Madam Pomphrey nodded, as I unwrapped my hand and she swung her wand across it and it healed instantly and I nodded as she gave me a blood healing potion.
And I took it down in one gulp then and I felt my body healing from the loss of blood at that. "Get some sleep, we will see you in the morning." Andy said and we both nodded as we went to bed then. "Looks like he never considered we bailed and then rigged the alarm so we could handle this right now so fast." Ron said and I nodded. "What was all the noise about?" Seamus asked and I said it. "Attempted set up, wizard's duel." I said and he and Dean nodded to me.
"I take it we woke you up?" I asked and they all nodded. "You did, and the magical alarms went off in the process here." Dean said to me and I nodded. 'Well you know if it was anyone..." I said and he nodded. "Then it's you right now." Seamus said as the door opened at that. "Boys was that really necessary to wake up the entire castle from us to the Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws?" Sarah asked with a bemused smile as she had her arms crossed then gently.
"Attempted set up, we just turned the tables on Zach." Ron told her and she nodded. "Well we're not doing this every night now little brother and again, try to stay out of trouble here." she said and I nodded. "We know, but first this then quidditch on Friday after class lets out for the day." I said and she nodded. "Just try not to fly at another window, or playing chicken in practice in flying right at the deck." she said and I nodded as she went back to bed then and I nodded.
"Instead of what you read, in Draco setting us up for being caught out of bounds, I just turned the tables on Zach and Blaise and the cat was watching. And from the other end of the hallway, and hand/eye coordination just made clear, I wanted her to come out, as we were around the other corner now. Leading into the third floor, as I rigged door and latch, but Dumbledore wasn't kidding, we got a Cerberus in the castle here." I said and he nodded to me gently.
"Whatever that furball is guarding, it's got to be either dangerous or very powerful." Dean said and I nodded. "Or both, and I'm in on it's protection right now, the trio with me, as we're the leaders of the junior order of the phoenix, with the trio's sister, my girlfriend and her best friend right behind us." I said and they nodded. "Alright enough chatter down there, back to bed cubs." Oliver called out and we nodded and went to bed at that remark as we relaxed that remark.
With the next day being our