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Chapter 4- The Exit of a Lifetime
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Harry woke up the next morning to what sounded distinctly like a war cry, and putting on his glasses and turning to his right, he realized it was one. Remus Lupin was lying in his bed, on his back, pinned down by Padfoot, who was repeatedly pummeling him with pillow shots. Harry saw his father then sneak up behind Sirius, wind up, and land a direct hit on Sirius, causing him to fall to the floor and get double-teamed by Moony and Prongs. Harry was up as quick as a cat, running over to them, pillow in hand, and began swinging wildly at his dad and Remus, bravely defending Sirius.
About twenty minutes later all four lie, out of breath and sweaty in the middle of the common room, where the pillow fight had carried to. They were all just catching their breaths. Sirius was the first to speak.
"So, how about breakfast?"
"Smashing good idea my good man, simply smashing." James replies with a mock snobbish accent. All four get up and head good naturedly to the Great Hall, unsure of what to expect there.
Entering the hall, Dumbledore, sitting at the Gryffindor table, calls them over.
"Good morning all, you look like, well like a tornado came through the dorms last night."
"One did Albus, known as Sirius."
"Ahh yes, well, anyways, sit, eat, we have a little issue to deal with, but first, eat eat eat."
As the four men and one student gobbled down one helping after another, and talked animatedly, a snowly owl flew into the hall, and landed right next to Harry.
"Hedwig!"
The owl held out it's leg, that had a note tied to it, which Harry immeadiatly untied. Hedwig took a sip of his pumpkin juice, nipped him on the ear, then flew off to, to Harry didn't know where, the owlery, or her cage in Surrey. Harry opened the letter and read it aloud.
Harry,
The Cannons are tied for second to last place! But, the real reason I wrote is I just got the news, Dumbledore wrote mum yesterday, said you couldn't come this year, he wouldn't say why. Well, I'm going to Diagon Alley August 26, hope to see you then, and good luck with the muggles.
-Ron
Harry looked up from the note to Dumbledore, disappointment in his eyes, but in Dumbledore's eyes he detected a glint of mischief.
"Why can't I go to Ron's this summer?"
"Well Harry, with your father back, and with the Voldemort threat, I've decided it would be best for all of you if you two stayed here for the remainder of the summer. Sirius, Remus, you can stay too."
"Really?"
"Yes, Harry, really, plus, I think it would be an excellent time for you to practice your Quidditch skills." Dumbledore, finishing the sentence with a twinkle in his eyes. "Now, Harry, we need to get your things from the Dursley's. I daresay you've told your father about them (James face went from happy to an extremely angry look just from Dumbledore mentioning the Dursley's) and he would like to accompny you when you go retreive your things.
"Yes Albus, I would like to go with Harry to the Dursley's, but first we'll need an hour to, er..., plan."
"Ok, I'll be in my office with a portkey when your ready."
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Harry and his father stood in Dumbledore's office, almost ready to go, waiting for the past headmaster's pictures to finish talking to James. When he was finally done chatting with them, he walked over to Harry and Albus.
"Ready to...er, go get Harry's stuff."
Albus handed James a portkey to return to Hogwarts, then another, which when Harry and James grabbed, they instantly disappeared.
Harry stood in front of the front door of 4 Privet Road, sneaking a quick look at his dad, who was hiding in the shrubbery next to the house. A few seconds after Harry rang the doorbell, a rumbling sounded from inside, and Vernon Dursley opened the front door, and Harry could see Petunia straining to see who was at the door from the kitchen.
"YOU! Where have you been! We had to cook our own breakfast this morning! There are chores that need to be done! Get the hell in here, NOW!"
"No, I don't think I will Uncle Vernon."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!?!"
Harry, calm as ever, replied evenly. "You heard me, I will not do any chores for you, but I will come in that house, only to get my things though."
"LIKE HELL YOU WILL!" Harry cut him off though.
"Remember when you told me that you were my only living relatives Uncle Vernon, well, you lied."
"Unfortunatly, I DID NO SUCH THING!"
"Oh yea, well, whose this."
Harry stepped aside on the porch, and Vernon, Petunia and Dudley, who both heard the commotion and came to the door to see what was going on, gasped, and Petunia shreiked a cry that rivaled a banshee wail. For standing next to Harry, was his father. Vernon was the first to speak.
"Bu...but...but your...your dead!"
"I assure I am very much alive, Vernon. Hello Vernon, Petunia, and this beached whale must be Dudley."
"J...James, how...how are you, I'm sure you'll be taking go...good little Harry, I'll go get his things."
"No need Vernon, Harry's told me about you three, and before we do get his things and leave, I beleive you three need a lesson in manners. DETANIA!"
Ropes immeadiatly shot out of James' wand and wrapped themselves around Petunia. "Arachnia!" Next, about one hundred little harmless, but she didn't know that, spiders shot out of his wand, and started crawling all over her, making her scream like she's never wailed before. After putting a silencing charm on Petunia so she could enjoy her spider bath in peace, James moved onto Dudley.
"Harry, any curses you'd like to put on Dudley?"
"Dad, I can't, remember, it's the summer. But, could you do this for me?"
Harry whispered for a few seconds to his dad. James then shot, in rapid sucession, specific hexes, and charms at Dudley. When the smoke cleared Dudley was lying on the ground, in the full body freeze, a large chocalate cake lied mere inches in front of his face, yet he couldn't reach it. Also, Dudley's skin went grey, his ears grew wider, and before Harry knew it, a hippopotamus was lying in the full body freeze where Dudley once was.
"You made him a hippo Dad?"
"Not exactly Harry."
The hippo then spoke. "What happened to me?!!!"
"I simply made him look like the animal his body most closely resembles."
"Huh, I woulda sworn he'd become a beached whale."
The Potter's then turned to Vernon, looking horrified at what happened to his family, and yet at the same time enraged at his nephew and brother in law.
"Your ruddy magic won't hurt me!"
"Oh, is that so, are you sure about that?"
"BLOODY SURE! Now release my wife and child this instant before I get psyical!"
"I'll do no such thing, Accio Vernon!"
Vernon Dursley immeadiatly came flying at James, who sidestepped him, and Vernon went flying into the wall, hitting it, then falling down on his back uncoincess, with pieces of plaster falling from the ceiling onto him.
"Detania!"
Ropes once again shot out of James wand, and tied themselves around Vernon, then pulled him up to the ceiling, so he's hanging from it.
"Enerverate!"
As Vernon slowly woke up, James started transfiguring things left and right, from grandfather clock's, to chairs, and other pieces of furniture into animals. Harry and James walked upstairs, as parrots flew circles around Vernon taunting him, flamingo's walked over Dudley and Petunia, and a monkey hung onto, and swung on Vernon.
"Ahhh, my invisibility cloak, well, use it mischeavously Harry, and oh yes, I beleive this belongs to you now too, Remus told me to give it to you." Said James as he pulled out the Marauder's Map."
"Thanks dad, but will all that be permanent?"
"Nahhh, all the hexes and curses will where off in twenty four hours, and the animals will go out into the wild then."
James then pulled out a muggle quarter from his pocket, then, when Harry, who had a hand on all his belongings touched it, he felt the familiar pulling on his navel, and then, as quick as it began, it ended, and Harry, James, and all of Harry's belongings were in a hall near the Gryffindor common room, in front of a giant tapestry with Godric Gryffindor on it, and standing next to them was Albus Dumbledore.
"Welcome back, I hope you two had....fun." Dumbledore said with a twinkle in his eye. "Behind this tapestry is where you two will be staying for the summer, with Sirius and Remus, and where the three minus Harry will be staying during the school year. The password is Pheonix Feathers, now I'll leave you two to unpack." And with that Albus walked away. James then spoke.
"Pheonix Feathers."
The Godric on the tapestry winked at them upon hearing those two words, then James and Harry walked right through it. They ended up inside a good sized, white, ovalur, high, high ceilinged room. The oppisite wall was a full window, giving a beautiful view from the outside, yet it was magical, and looked just like the wall from the outside. There was a staircase going around the side of the wall, leading up to a balcony where there were four doors, one saying "Padfoot" on it, on with "Moony", one with "Prongs", and the fourth door had no name on it. Sitting in the center of the room were Sirius and Remus, playing exploding snap, and acting like a couple of school kids. Sirius looked up and saw them first.
"Welcome back, I hope you two had fun."
"Oh we did, you should have seen some of the things Dad did to them. Ahh Sirius, why isn't my name on a door?"
Sirius looked at him with a glint of mischeaf in his eyes. "Well, since your so quick to notice your name isn't on a door, I'm sure you also noticed that the other doors are marked with our Marauder's names. And you know all our Marauder names are after our Animangi form. Well Harry, it's time for you to become a Marauder, and to be one, you need a nickname."
Chapter 4- The Exit of a Lifetime
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Harry woke up the next morning to what sounded distinctly like a war cry, and putting on his glasses and turning to his right, he realized it was one. Remus Lupin was lying in his bed, on his back, pinned down by Padfoot, who was repeatedly pummeling him with pillow shots. Harry saw his father then sneak up behind Sirius, wind up, and land a direct hit on Sirius, causing him to fall to the floor and get double-teamed by Moony and Prongs. Harry was up as quick as a cat, running over to them, pillow in hand, and began swinging wildly at his dad and Remus, bravely defending Sirius.
About twenty minutes later all four lie, out of breath and sweaty in the middle of the common room, where the pillow fight had carried to. They were all just catching their breaths. Sirius was the first to speak.
"So, how about breakfast?"
"Smashing good idea my good man, simply smashing." James replies with a mock snobbish accent. All four get up and head good naturedly to the Great Hall, unsure of what to expect there.
Entering the hall, Dumbledore, sitting at the Gryffindor table, calls them over.
"Good morning all, you look like, well like a tornado came through the dorms last night."
"One did Albus, known as Sirius."
"Ahh yes, well, anyways, sit, eat, we have a little issue to deal with, but first, eat eat eat."
As the four men and one student gobbled down one helping after another, and talked animatedly, a snowly owl flew into the hall, and landed right next to Harry.
"Hedwig!"
The owl held out it's leg, that had a note tied to it, which Harry immeadiatly untied. Hedwig took a sip of his pumpkin juice, nipped him on the ear, then flew off to, to Harry didn't know where, the owlery, or her cage in Surrey. Harry opened the letter and read it aloud.
Harry,
The Cannons are tied for second to last place! But, the real reason I wrote is I just got the news, Dumbledore wrote mum yesterday, said you couldn't come this year, he wouldn't say why. Well, I'm going to Diagon Alley August 26, hope to see you then, and good luck with the muggles.
-Ron
Harry looked up from the note to Dumbledore, disappointment in his eyes, but in Dumbledore's eyes he detected a glint of mischief.
"Why can't I go to Ron's this summer?"
"Well Harry, with your father back, and with the Voldemort threat, I've decided it would be best for all of you if you two stayed here for the remainder of the summer. Sirius, Remus, you can stay too."
"Really?"
"Yes, Harry, really, plus, I think it would be an excellent time for you to practice your Quidditch skills." Dumbledore, finishing the sentence with a twinkle in his eyes. "Now, Harry, we need to get your things from the Dursley's. I daresay you've told your father about them (James face went from happy to an extremely angry look just from Dumbledore mentioning the Dursley's) and he would like to accompny you when you go retreive your things.
"Yes Albus, I would like to go with Harry to the Dursley's, but first we'll need an hour to, er..., plan."
"Ok, I'll be in my office with a portkey when your ready."
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Harry and his father stood in Dumbledore's office, almost ready to go, waiting for the past headmaster's pictures to finish talking to James. When he was finally done chatting with them, he walked over to Harry and Albus.
"Ready to...er, go get Harry's stuff."
Albus handed James a portkey to return to Hogwarts, then another, which when Harry and James grabbed, they instantly disappeared.
Harry stood in front of the front door of 4 Privet Road, sneaking a quick look at his dad, who was hiding in the shrubbery next to the house. A few seconds after Harry rang the doorbell, a rumbling sounded from inside, and Vernon Dursley opened the front door, and Harry could see Petunia straining to see who was at the door from the kitchen.
"YOU! Where have you been! We had to cook our own breakfast this morning! There are chores that need to be done! Get the hell in here, NOW!"
"No, I don't think I will Uncle Vernon."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!?!"
Harry, calm as ever, replied evenly. "You heard me, I will not do any chores for you, but I will come in that house, only to get my things though."
"LIKE HELL YOU WILL!" Harry cut him off though.
"Remember when you told me that you were my only living relatives Uncle Vernon, well, you lied."
"Unfortunatly, I DID NO SUCH THING!"
"Oh yea, well, whose this."
Harry stepped aside on the porch, and Vernon, Petunia and Dudley, who both heard the commotion and came to the door to see what was going on, gasped, and Petunia shreiked a cry that rivaled a banshee wail. For standing next to Harry, was his father. Vernon was the first to speak.
"Bu...but...but your...your dead!"
"I assure I am very much alive, Vernon. Hello Vernon, Petunia, and this beached whale must be Dudley."
"J...James, how...how are you, I'm sure you'll be taking go...good little Harry, I'll go get his things."
"No need Vernon, Harry's told me about you three, and before we do get his things and leave, I beleive you three need a lesson in manners. DETANIA!"
Ropes immeadiatly shot out of James' wand and wrapped themselves around Petunia. "Arachnia!" Next, about one hundred little harmless, but she didn't know that, spiders shot out of his wand, and started crawling all over her, making her scream like she's never wailed before. After putting a silencing charm on Petunia so she could enjoy her spider bath in peace, James moved onto Dudley.
"Harry, any curses you'd like to put on Dudley?"
"Dad, I can't, remember, it's the summer. But, could you do this for me?"
Harry whispered for a few seconds to his dad. James then shot, in rapid sucession, specific hexes, and charms at Dudley. When the smoke cleared Dudley was lying on the ground, in the full body freeze, a large chocalate cake lied mere inches in front of his face, yet he couldn't reach it. Also, Dudley's skin went grey, his ears grew wider, and before Harry knew it, a hippopotamus was lying in the full body freeze where Dudley once was.
"You made him a hippo Dad?"
"Not exactly Harry."
The hippo then spoke. "What happened to me?!!!"
"I simply made him look like the animal his body most closely resembles."
"Huh, I woulda sworn he'd become a beached whale."
The Potter's then turned to Vernon, looking horrified at what happened to his family, and yet at the same time enraged at his nephew and brother in law.
"Your ruddy magic won't hurt me!"
"Oh, is that so, are you sure about that?"
"BLOODY SURE! Now release my wife and child this instant before I get psyical!"
"I'll do no such thing, Accio Vernon!"
Vernon Dursley immeadiatly came flying at James, who sidestepped him, and Vernon went flying into the wall, hitting it, then falling down on his back uncoincess, with pieces of plaster falling from the ceiling onto him.
"Detania!"
Ropes once again shot out of James wand, and tied themselves around Vernon, then pulled him up to the ceiling, so he's hanging from it.
"Enerverate!"
As Vernon slowly woke up, James started transfiguring things left and right, from grandfather clock's, to chairs, and other pieces of furniture into animals. Harry and James walked upstairs, as parrots flew circles around Vernon taunting him, flamingo's walked over Dudley and Petunia, and a monkey hung onto, and swung on Vernon.
"Ahhh, my invisibility cloak, well, use it mischeavously Harry, and oh yes, I beleive this belongs to you now too, Remus told me to give it to you." Said James as he pulled out the Marauder's Map."
"Thanks dad, but will all that be permanent?"
"Nahhh, all the hexes and curses will where off in twenty four hours, and the animals will go out into the wild then."
James then pulled out a muggle quarter from his pocket, then, when Harry, who had a hand on all his belongings touched it, he felt the familiar pulling on his navel, and then, as quick as it began, it ended, and Harry, James, and all of Harry's belongings were in a hall near the Gryffindor common room, in front of a giant tapestry with Godric Gryffindor on it, and standing next to them was Albus Dumbledore.
"Welcome back, I hope you two had....fun." Dumbledore said with a twinkle in his eye. "Behind this tapestry is where you two will be staying for the summer, with Sirius and Remus, and where the three minus Harry will be staying during the school year. The password is Pheonix Feathers, now I'll leave you two to unpack." And with that Albus walked away. James then spoke.
"Pheonix Feathers."
The Godric on the tapestry winked at them upon hearing those two words, then James and Harry walked right through it. They ended up inside a good sized, white, ovalur, high, high ceilinged room. The oppisite wall was a full window, giving a beautiful view from the outside, yet it was magical, and looked just like the wall from the outside. There was a staircase going around the side of the wall, leading up to a balcony where there were four doors, one saying "Padfoot" on it, on with "Moony", one with "Prongs", and the fourth door had no name on it. Sitting in the center of the room were Sirius and Remus, playing exploding snap, and acting like a couple of school kids. Sirius looked up and saw them first.
"Welcome back, I hope you two had fun."
"Oh we did, you should have seen some of the things Dad did to them. Ahh Sirius, why isn't my name on a door?"
Sirius looked at him with a glint of mischeaf in his eyes. "Well, since your so quick to notice your name isn't on a door, I'm sure you also noticed that the other doors are marked with our Marauder's names. And you know all our Marauder names are after our Animangi form. Well Harry, it's time for you to become a Marauder, and to be one, you need a nickname."