Chapter 3: Welcome to Hogwarts

It was the 1st of september on Thursday and that meant he would be going to Hogwarts for his first year. This meant that he would be getting sorted into one of the four houses. Currently at the burrow it was very stressful but at Jewel's house it was much calmer but nonetheless stressful but hilarious.

"I swear if he keeps sleeping I'm going to kill him." Perla muttered from the kitchen.

"Sorry it's not happening." Harry chuckled from up the

stairs.

"Harry It's 9:30 and the train leaves at 11:00 sharp." Perla scolded him with a frown of annoyance not anger.

"I hate it when you pick up that frown and voice that says I'm not angry I'm just disappointed." Harry complained as he began descending down the stairs.

"It is not disappointment, it is an annoyance." Perla corrected him.

"Fine Jewel." Harry caved in.

"Oh before we leave don't forget to use your element flash and I have a pendant with the marauder rune." Jewel told Harry while giving him the chain with the pendant.

"What does it do?" Harry asked while looking down at it.

"Well it was your mothers. The code for it is, Marauder HQ. It will take you to the home of the marauders if you say those words. It's not on this planet in fact I don't think it's on the universe. Your parents made it with their friends." She explained to Harry before flipping the final pancake of the stack she was making for them both.

"Thank you." Harry said with so much sadness it broke her heart.

"No problem Harry, also there are instructions and letters the marauders made to the second generation of them."

Jewel said to Harry.

"Don't forget the Firewhiskey you promised me yesterday." Harry reminded her with a smirk.

"I hoped you would forget it." Perla said with a hint of amusement and annoyance.

"Never."

Perla served him his plate of eggs and pancakes and bacon then turned and went into a hidden room. The room was behind a painting of a meadow. When she came out she gave him a bottle of Firewhiskey and poured him a drink.

What Harry felt next was a feeling he couldn't describe. The feel was of a good sensation in his throat instead of a burning. The taste was even greater to him and he immediately grabbed the bottle and took an even bigger shot.

"Really are James Potter's son. He could never get enough of that stuff. I guess it's just the Potters." Perla said with a sigh and rested her head on her hands as her elbows were on the table.

"I know." Harry said after finishing a shot of Firewhiskey.

"Does it even burn your throat?" She asked, raising her head up a little bit.

"No, not really it just feels good." Harry responded after the question.

"Alright if I'm going to be raising a child I really should be responsible. Harry no more Firewhiskey." Jewel scolded with her signature scowl.

"Fine." Harry said as he took one final gulp of Whiskey then put the glass down.

"Finally I thought you would never stop." she said with relief

"Probably wouldn't have." he said with a grin.

"I know. I do want to give you the main Marauder's map as the second was lost to Filch. This is the map of Hogwarts; it shows everybody there and their names. It will show passageways and passwords and you can edit it. If I added Messrs Jewel it would update on all the others. I'm a marauder but I did not put my name there." Jewel said while pulling the map out of her pocket.

"How do you use it?" Harry asked

"You tap it with your wand and say 'I solemnly swear I'm up to no good' then to close it you say with your wand on it 'Mischief managed'." Perla said while demonstrating it.

Harry tested this out then edited the map with Messrs Jewel and Messrs Black Claw. He put Jewel as it was Perla's Marauder name and he put Black Claw because he took an animagus potion and he found out he was a cross between a jaguar and a leopard. The other reason was because he was white instead of yellowish tan and had black paws.

Harry quickly figured out that because of his Metamorphmagus ability he was able to change the appearance of his leopard into looking like a small white cat. Since he was already white he could just change his size and look like a white cat. Before bed he would practice becoming a Jaguar mixed with a leopard as it was his animagus form. From all the practice he was getting and the amount of running he was doing he was already as tall as Perla's desk which was about 3'5 feet tall.

A normal leopard or jaguar would not be that tall but as he was human and animagus are bigger than the regular animal plus the mix made him taller. When the month ended and went into September first, he was beginning to start getting large muscles from running, and his animagus form was getting as big as it normally would without metamorphing into being taller.

"Harry, you don't have to put my name there." Perla said but was beginning to get really happy because he clearly loved her as a motherly figure.

"I know but you were also a marauder." Harry said justifying his reason.

"Thank you Harry. Now get dressed and make sure everything is packed. I had a Potter house-elf take back your father's invisibility cloak. The cloak is folded on your bed." Jewel instructed pointing to the stairs when he finished eating.

"Alright see you downstairs in a bit." Harry called as he ran upstairs.

When Harry arrived upstairs he arrived in his room that had Gryffindor colors even though he did not know if he was going to be in Gryffindor or not. When he reached his 4 poster bed he picked up his invisibility cloak and headed downstairs under his cloak. When he was half way down the hall he saw that Perla was in her room putting makeup on and getting ready to leave. Harry quickly rushed down the stairs quietly and when he arrived in the kitchen he went to the painting and opened it. He entered and stuffed his bag that had an undetectable extension charm on it then stuffed it with multiple bottles of Firewhiskey, Butterbeer and Tequila. Although he didn't know why he grabbed the Tequila he just did. There were so many bottles of alcohol that he thought she wouldn't realize it was missing.

He left the room then summoned his trunk then called," Perla I'm ready."

"Alright we can apparate to the apparition point in Kings Cross to get you on the train." Perla said as she began walking out into the entrance hall of the house that led to the door.

"Alright get ready to apparate." Perla said

"I will." he responded

Harry braced himself for side-along apparition. He closed his eyes then grabbed onto Perla who reached her hand out. He felt his lungs collapse as the air in his lungs left him then he felt himself land on solid ground.

"Not very fun." he said as he opened his eyes.

They walked into Kings Cross and grabbed a cart to put his luggage on. As they walked many people started to stare at Perla and then began whistling at her and cat calling.

"Thanks for putting on makeup." Harry said sarcastically while glaring at them.

"Oh sorry for wanting to look good when my cousin, who I am literally raising like my own child, is leaving for school." perla said with a hint of amusement in her voice as well as her face as her smile curved into a small smile.

They got to the divider of platform 9 and 10 then they both leaned against the wall and crossed into platform 9 ¾ with his luggage. As they approached the train they saw a sea of redheads in front. The Weasley matriarch saw them then walked over to them.

"What are you doing here Perla?" Molly asked

"I'm taking my cousin to Hogwarts express." Perla told her

"What's his name?" she asked

Jewel looked down at Harry who was only a head shorter than her as she wasn't very tall being 5'8 then looked back up and said," his name is Harry."

"H-Harry P-Potter?" Mrs. Weasley asked

"Yeah that's me." Harry told her

"Wait if you are his cousin does that mean your name is Perla Potter?" she asked Jewel

"That's right." Perla said

The two women continued talking, then they both sent the children onto the train where Harry found the Marauder compartment on the train and sat down with Ginny and the two Weasley twins, Fred and George. The train began to leave so they started waving at the two as Kings Cross slowly became smaller.

"Hey Ginny, George and Fred?" Harry asked

"Yeah." they all responded.

"Watch this. 'I solemnly swear I'm up to no good." Harry said as the compartment expanded and a voice was heard above.

"Welcome to the Marauder compartment, thank you for expanding it Black claw." A male voice that he believed was his father Prongs.

Fred and George's jaw dropped down so much it looked like it would hit the floor. Harry seeing this happen quickly snapped his finger to bring back their attention.

"How do you-"

"Know about-"

"The Marauders?" The twins said in unison at the end of their twin speak.

"Wait, how did you know?" Harry asked

"We found their map." Fred responded not even bothering with their twin speak.

"Oh so you found Padfoot's map since he got it confiscated by Filch." Harry said

"How did you know?" George asked

"I know about them because 3 of them were family and because I lived with one. I also have the founder Marauder's map." Harry explained

"Wait, there are more maps?" George asked

"You have three family members in the marauders?" Fred asked

"Yeah there are only two maps, the one you have is Padfoot's and mine is Prong's and Jewel's. The marauders were 4 at first then they became 7. Wormtail is that bastard trator Peter Pettigrew, Padfoot is my godfather Sirius Black who is innocent, Prongs is my dad, my mum never had a nickname but sometimes they called her Hedwig so I named my owl after her. Moony is Remus Lupin, Jewel is Perla Potter and Black Claw is me, Harry Potter." Harry explained the marauders off

If it was possible the twin's jaws dropped more and Ginny stared in shock. He was about to get their attention again when he smelt a scent that was familiar.

"Shit I smell Ron. Don't be shocked he is probably going to come here I'll keep him away." Harry said

When Harry saw that Ginny was about to ask a question he just put a finger up to his lip then transformed into the white and gold with black Leopard-Jaguar cross and just rested on the seat while Ginny slowly began stroking his fur. Harry started purring a soft trill of pleasure as the compartment door opened and Ronald Weasley came in.

"Hey can I si-" Ron said before being interrupted by a low growl and a standing leopard in the middle of the compartment pushing him away.

"AAHHHHHHHHH!" Ron screamed as he ran out the compartment.

As people nearby walked toward the compartment in curiosity people stared into the compartment before Harry let out a low but loud growl and bared his teeth. Everyone scattered away then ten minutes later a girl with bushy brown hair and buck teeth with a round faced boy came in.

"Have any of you seen Neville's toad?" the girl asked

Harry, still in his big cat form as he enjoyed being stroked and scratched behind his ear by Ginny raised his head then hopped onto the floor and in 2 seconds transformed back into a human then spoke.

"Accio toad." Harry spoke while holding his wand in the air.

The toad named Trevor flew into Harry's hands who gave him back to Neville who quickly thanked him.

"How did you do that? It's a 4th year spell and are you an animagus? How did you do that?" the girl asked

"Who are you?" Harry asked

"Hermione Granger, muggle-born." Hermione said

"Alright Hermione, first of all don't say muggle born after your name because if people like Malfoy hear you he will insult and discriminate against you. You can do anything if you have the nerve for it and yes I am an animagus." Harry answered.

"Oh I heard you Potter you really shouldn't talk to mudbloods and blood-traitors." Malfoy said from behind them with two crownies called crabbe and goyle.

Instead of responding he quickly turned back into a leopard and launched himself at Crabbe knocking him down. He then jumped off of Crabbe at incredible speed and tackled and scratched Malfoy's cheek. From all the commotion students began leaving their compartments to see the conflict. Goyle, seeing both of his friends falling down, pulled out his wand.

"LOCOMOTOR MORTIS!" Goyle screamed

Harry dodged the red beam of light coming from his wand and bit him in the arm. Goyle howled in pain as blood spurted from his arm as he was knocked to the ground. He fell onto the floor of the train hall with Harry's Leopard form on top of him, claws digging into his skin.

Harry looked around after finally taking the three people down in that battle. He just now realized that there was a large crowd of people walking and cowering away from the Leopard. Seeing all the frightened faces he let go of Goyle and transformed back into a human to the shock of everyone.

"He's part leopard!" a third year said

After that was said he stopped dead in his tracks and turned his head slightly and then looked up and spoke to them.

"If you think that Queen Victoria was a Leopard go ahead but maybe I am. What if I'm a lion?" Harry said before turning around.

There was a lot of murmuring in the crowd so to shock them into silence he turned back into a Leopard then used his metamorphing ability to look like a large muscular lion. He turned around and walked back into the compartment. After he left, everyone left and went into their compartment.

Hermione decided to go back into her own compartment while Neville stayed back with them. They all had fun for the rest of the trip where they bought everything from the lunch cart and played gobstones and Exploding snap. After a while Harry decided to shock everyone in the compartment.

"Ha! I won." Ginny said very happy about winning.

Harry was watching the game and got bored so he reached into his bag full of alcohol so he opened the bag and grabbed a bottle of Firewhiskey and began gulping it down.

"Harry, is that Firewhiskey?" Neville asked

"WAIT WHAT!" Ginny scolded as she looked over at Harry

"Um, yeah." Harry replied nervously

"And you drank it without me." Ginny scolded

"Look if you three were to arrive drunk in the great hall you would be in very bad trouble and detention. I would just get detention which I don't mind or nothing at all because I'm me and Perla would probably just praise me." Harry justified his decision.

"He has a good point Gin." Fred said

"That he does." George said

"Just let him drink away." Neville said

"Thank you." he said

Ginny just huffed so he decided to make her happy," Gin want butterbeer?" he asked as he pulled a bottle of butterbeer.

"I would love it." Ginny said with a smile so he gave everyone else it then went back to talking.

The train reached a stop at Hogsmeade Station where Harry helped Ginny get out. They made it out of the train where they heard a deep booming voice.

"Firs' years over 'ere. Firs' years over 'ere." he said

Harry, Ginny and Neville walked toward the giant 8 foot tall man with a large beard. All the first years went down to the boats where the three, Seamus Finnigin and Dean Thomas climbed onto a boat where they were magically carried in the boats to the boat house. After 10 minutes they reached the boat house and were led up to the great hall by Professor Mcgonagall who was explaining the history of Hogwarts and the houses.

After the hat sung and the sorting began Ginny, Neville, Hermione and Ron got sorted into Gryffindor.

"Potter, Harry." Mcgonagall said

Harry stepped up to the stool and placed the hat on his head where it said.

"GRYFFINDOR!"

"You are so much like your father Harry, a Gryffindor who gets drunk before the sorting ceremony his first year, was an animagus, so many things. By the way, I will contact your cousin." She said

"Shit."

"And uses a lot of profanity." she said

The entire hall burst into laughter as well as Harry at the situation and it was even more funny to him as he was drunk. He walked to the Gryffindor table and burst into even more laughter as he sat next to Ginny across from Neville. When he finally stopped laughing and the sorting had finished the feast started where he rested his head on Ginny's shoulder as he ate.

When the feast was over Dumbledore stood up and gave the start of term announcements and because of the recent problem said to not drink alcohol if you are under the age of 17. Harry being the absolute idiot he is told his friends he had loads more alcohol. They all went to sleep peacefully.