part twenty (yay!!)
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wow, this is going places.
hehehe, i'm sorry its a bit late, i've been writing "how the Snape stole christmas." parody of the grinch, the ORIGINAL ANIMATION! not the rubbishy jim carrey one. its such a cool song, that i just HAD to rewrite it.... It'll be up on Halutirius sometime next week, once i've illustrated it.
hehehe "he's as cuddly as a cactus.. as charming as an eel...." fits Snape doesnt it... hehehehehe
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Sirius was woken from his reverie by the voice of his Godson, "Harry?"
"Sirius... The cellar!" Harry waited for his godfather to scramble over the slippery stone rubble towards him.
"What cellar?"
"The one my dad worked in," Harry muttered quickly "Its down here, i can't open the door."
"Its not even Enchanted." Sirius said quietly, grabbing hold of the bronze handle, pulling as hard as he could, the wood creaked under his effort, Harry bent down and found a bit of twisted iron, and as soon as Sirius had lifted if up a few millimetres, Harry shoved the iron bar between the door and the floor.
"WHa?" Sirius asked,
"Muggle trick, called crowbarring." Harry explained as he put all of his weight on pushing down the end of the bar, "If i push this end, it'll lever the door up, and because its a longer lever this end from the pivot, you need less effort, see."
"Never did understand Muggle Physics." Sirius muttered, helping Harry push down on the bar.
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"Hermione, what are you doing?" Ron asked, as Hermione hastily rolled up a scroll's worth of parchment.
"Revision guides, as written by the wizards who write the NEWTS. I found a mistake in the Charms revision guide, i was explaining it to them."
"Herm, the NEWTS arent till next year!"
"Always good to revise early." Hermione muttered, "Might have some catastrophe to deal with between now and then, and then who'll be sorry they didnt start revising early."
Ron mumbled something that contained the words "lunacy" and "completely mindless" before slumping down into an armchair by the window. "its raining." He mumbled.
"Is today your day of pointing out the obvious?" Parvati Patil said snappily as she passed him
"Probably." Ron said quietly, "I wonder what Harry's thinking about, he has a Quidditch game in a week, hes already missed practise all last week."
"I think, we should just leave him alone, unless he talks about it." Hermione said wisely.
"Fancy a game of exploding snap?" Dean Thomas had slipped into the chair opposite Ron.
Ron grinned, and watched Dean deal out the cards.
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"Okay, on the count of three, jump on it." Sirius said, groaning at the weight of the trapdoor.
"One.. two... three."
Harry jumped on the crowbar, and landed on the floor with a thud as the trapdoor lew off its inges and landed across the grass somewhere in one of the overgrown rose bushes.
"Good work." Sirius nodded, looking down into the murky hole. "Typical, no stairs."
"Lumos" harry muttered, pointing his wand down into the darkness, "I'm going down."
"Harry?" Sirius started.
"Yeah?"
"Harry you dont have to... you know... if you dont want to..."
"Sirius. I'm going down there, you're coming with me, i want to know whats down there, i've hardly got anything to go by from my parents, and this could be what i'm looking for. I dont care if its nothing, its still something... I dont know them, Sirius, and if my dad has some of his stuff down there, then i feel closer to them, you see?"
Sirius nodded, watching as Harry hoisted himself down into the darkness, he heard a splash, and a "bloody hell, its wet down here." Sirius roled his eyes and half slipped half jumped through the trapdoor. He landed with a thud on the wet stone floor.
"You alright?" Harry asked, offering a hand,
"Yeah, its a bit er... soggy." Sirius sniffed the air, "Mildew, great."
Harry trudged over to the small desk in a dryer corner of the cellar, a half burnt candle sat on the top, with various pieces of parchment stuffed into the drawers.
"Sirius... look..." Harry pulled out a clump of pieces of parchment, tied together with string, on the front sheet, "Marauders Momentous Moments" Was scribbled in what looked like very rushed writing.
Harry sat down on the corner of the desk, and untying the string he started to read the postscript.
**FLASHBACK**
"James, what are you doing down there?" Lily shouted down to the trapdoor, where a cry of laughter could be heard echoing up to the ground floor.
"No... nothing Lils." James grinned, as he quickly wrote a title for the collection of papers he had sorted out. "Postscript- I dont know who's going to pick these up next, but whoever does, warn Paddy that i have serious blackmail material here, Moony- if you're reading this- leave it alone! You're not supposed to read this, you have your own copy, read that instead. Wormtail- say hi to your mum for me, tell her the cake was delicious. Harry, you're upstairs right now, pointing at everything and calling them "Pah-fuuf" do you know how infuriating Sirius can be? i'm spending time trying to teach you to say daddy, and he comes along, five seconds later you're saying his name instead. this isnt funny by the way, so stop laughing. Anyway, waht i'm trying to write here is that this is a collection of the best moments i've had during Hogwarts, as i might not be here to retell them, if Voldemort indeed catches up with me, as its rumoured he will. Enjoy. Let these papers be immortal."
James smiled, and pushed the papers into a drawer before climbing up the stairs.
"You've got that grin on your face, what're you planning now?" Lily asked, smiling at her husband.
"Just some memoirs, best times i've had up until now." James picked up Harry from the pram, "Hey Harry, how's you?"
"Pah-fuuf!" Harry grinned widely, tugging James' glasses.
"No, i'm not pah-fuuf, pah-fuuf will be round later. I'm daddy, yeah? can you say that? da-ddeee."
"You're fighting a losing battle there, Prongsy." Sirius climbed out of the fireplace. "'Ello Harry! How's our little marauder this fine morning?"
"Sirius, dont you have to be...?"
"Nope, they blew up the headquarters remember, i dunno how i'm supposed to work when theres nowhere to actually work in." Sirius grinned at Harry, who was waving and shouting out "Pah-fuuf!" "Plus, i like visiting here, and i wanted to see how Harry's vocabulary was getting along."
"Well, he's now up to Mamma, no, ray-bow, Moony, and thanks to yourself, Pah-fuuf." Lily counted on her fingers, "Hes doing pretty well, dont you think?!"
"Well, thats impressive." Sirius nodded, accepting a cup of tea from Lily, "Edea'll be round in a minute, she went to see if Remus was okay."
"You still think that Remus..." James frowned slightly at his friend.
"I dont know." Sirius shook his head dejectedly, "It could be anybody, then again it could be nobody. I even tried to pin it on Eddie, but she doesnt know half of what goes on, what we plan, so how could she spy?"
"You pinned it on Edea?!" James almost dropped Harry, "Jeezus. She throw one of her rages at you?"
"Hyper-rage." Sirius nodded, "You hear that Harry?" Sirius took Harry from James and sat down in a chair, "Edea's not pleased with ol' Pah-fuuf. Pah-fuuf's in trouble now, Edeas gonna castrate pah-fuuf."
"SIRIUS!" Lily said shocked,
"D...da.."Harry gurgled,
James jumped and knelt down at eye-height with his son.. "Go on! Daddy! say it... da-ddee!!"
"Day-ah." Harry laughed, clapping his hands together. James looked defeated.
"Yeah!" Sirius nodded, "Thats right, dayah's gonna murder pah-fuuf."
The fireplace turned green and a figure tumbled out, covered in twig leaves and soot.
"pah-fuuf!" Harry pointed at the figure who coughed a few times and stood up.
"Nope, t'is me." Edea pulled her cloak off and rolled it up, keeping the dirt off Lily's clean floor.
"DAY-ah!" Harry grinned.
Edea raised an eyebrow, "Er... thats right. James, he can say our names, why dont you teach him yours now?"
James rolled his eyes, "Take it out on pah-fuuf. Its his fault."
"Pah-fuuf, feel ashamed." Edea turned to Sirius who was tickling his Godson.
"I am shamed."
"Hows Remus?" Lily asked, sitting own with Edea at the table.
"I wouldn't know." Edea shrugged, "He wasn't there, house was deserted, charms still in place, he charmed it so nobody can enter it but himself, he's not in the vicinity."
"He wasn't there?" James sounded worried, "No note, nothing?"
"Nothing."
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Sirius let out a laugh as he pulled out a few fake wands from the pencil pot. "We had such a good time with these in the ministry offices."
"Can i take these home, back to Hogwarts?" Harry asked.
"Of course you can!" Sirius nodded, "Everything here, is yours." He pulled a large carpet bag out from one of the shelves, "Put what you want in here, in fact clear out the lot, then you can sort through it back at school, yeah?"
Harry nodded and proceeded to clear the cellar of anything that looked interesting.
TBC
