A/N: I know that your all going to kill me, BUT I made Peter non-evil and an actual character in the story. I think that he was nice and good at one point. He was just weak. So when Voldemort came after him he just wasn't brave enough to say no. THEN he turned evil. 'cause he really is evil now. Thank you to all who reviewed! This part is a little longer. I had camp this weekend so I had to take time away from writing my precious story.
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Disclaimer: I own the plot and the characters you don't recognize. The rest belongs to J.K. Rowling.
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The Dog slowly advanced on the terrified group. "Nice doggy," James whispered. The Marauders were slowly backing up, but Lily stood rooted to the spot, whimpering softly. The dog growled again and Lily jumped.
"Oh god!" Lily said with a definite note of panic in her voice. "We're all going to die!"
"No, we're not Lil," James said firmly "We'll be OK." The dog barked VERY loudly causing everyone to jump in surprise. Lily started to cry.
In a shaky, broken voice she managed to talk. "My cousin, B-Brian, was killed by a- a rabid dog when I was s-s-seven. I watched it ha- happen. He-he was ripped a-apart. I- I had nightmares for y-years" Lily let out another heart wrenching sob as James pulled her into a hug and steered her towards the wall where the rest of the group was trying to hide from the dog.
They all heard footsteps running towards the infirmary. The dog let out another of series barks, almost like it was trying to talk to whoever was coming.
James looked at the dog and then at the door. "Sirius! the invisibility cloak. Put it on" Sirius looked at James, confused, then a light bulb went on in his head. He pulled the cloak from his pocket and flung it around everyone, minus Harry, who was sitting on the bed, looking at the dog as if it had hypnotized him.
The door burst open and a disheveled looking Dumbledore came in. He looked around the room, assesing the situation. "What is going on Mr. Potter?" James, not thinking, flung the invisibility cloak off himself, leaving Remus, Sirius and Peter still covered. But Lily refused to let go of James.
"Sir! the dog! It's the Grim!!! It's going to kill us!!" Dumbledore looked at James with shock. "What are you doing here, Mr. Potter?" He asked as he took out his wand and tapped the dog, whispering something that nobody heard. The dog disappeared The whole room looked at the spot where the dog had been in utter astonishment.
Harry was the first to be able to talk. "What did you do, Sir?" The Professor smiled. "It was your security system. It was made to warn me when someone other then Madam Pomfrey or my self entered the room."
James turned a faint pink. "I'm sorry, Sir. It's just that I couldn't wait to meet Harry. Please don't blame Harry or Lily. It was my idea."
Professor Dumbledore smiled again, an amused spark in his eyes. "It's all right James. Now what were you all talking about before my dog interrupted you?"
This caused James to crack up again and Lily smiled through her tears. Professor Dumbledore looked at them oddly. "I'm sure I missed something"
"Yes, Sir, you did"
"Well, if you two could leave. I need to talk to Harry ALONE"
"Yes, Sir" James gave Dumbldore a mock salute and left, pulling Lily behind him. The rest of the group followed them silently out the door.
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Lily and the Marauders entered the Gryffindor common room out of breath, after they had a near miss with Filch. They all sat in front of the fire. It was silent for a few moments until Sirius spoke up.
"So why do you think that Harry has security on him?" Sirius asked, voicing everyone's thoughts.
"I don't know Padfoot. But I'm going to find out" James said with determination.
"I'll help."
"So will I!"
They all looked at Peter.
"Count me in" he answered to the unasked question.
James smiled. "Okay. We'll start tomorrow"
They all agreed and made their way wearily up to bed.
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"So, what were you talking about?" Dumbledore asked
"I'm not really sure"
"Okay. I think that I shall go back to bed and leave you to do the same."
"Good night, Sir"
"Good night, Harry"
Harry pulled the covers over him as Professor Dumbledore turned out the light and closed the door.
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~"Harry! You have to save us. Only you can do it" Harry turned around trying to find the source of the voice. "My precious boy. Only you can defeat Voldemort." Harry recognized his mother's voice from all the times he'd heard it. "Mum!" Harry called into the swirling green fog, "Where are you? I need your help."
"No Harry. I can't help you. You have to do it on your own. But remember the power of love. It is your greatest weapon." And with those words the world seemed to explode around Harry~
Harry sat up in bed sweating. "What was that about?" Harry thought to himself. "What did Mum mean by love being my greatest weapon?" Harry laid back in bed, thoughts swirling in his mind.
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The next morning came too early in Sirius' view. "Ugh!"
"It's bad enough that Dumbledore caught us but now we're going to be late for breakfast," Peter said as he pulled on his robes.
"Come on, Wormtail. We're not late," Remus joked.
"I'm hungry. And I don't want to miss Harry getting sorted" Sirius whined.
"What time is it?" James asked sleepily.
"Five minutes to breakfast," Peter replied as he walked out the door
The three remaining boys looked at each other and started tearing up the room trying to get ready.
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Five minutes later, three very mismatched boys came bounding down the stairs from the fifth year dorm and ran out the portrait hole leaving a very disgruntled Fat Lady behind to complain about boys that have no manners.
They arrived out of breath just as Dumbledore stood up. "I know you all want to get onto your breakfast. But I have a very important announcement. We have a transfer student. Please welcome, Harry Granger"
Harry came out from a little room just off the great hall. It was the same room that all the champions had gone into the year before. People started to whisper, each asking if he or she knew anything about the new kid.
Professor McGonagall brought out the sorting hat. Harry looked around at the hall. "It feels just like first year," Harry thought. He stepped up to the stool and placed the sorting hat on his head, blocking out the view of the Great Hall.
"Well Mr. Potter. Taking a little stroll through time are we?" The sorting hat whispered in his ear. Harry was startled. How did it know that he was from a different time? "Well I see that you're here to protect Lily and James. I saw it in them when they first put me on that they were very special. I suppose that I will go with my earlier decision, or is it later? Oh never mind."
"GRYFFINDOR!!!"
it called out to the Great Hall. The Gryffindor table cheered and clapped. Harry made his way over to where James, Sirius, Remus and Peter were sitting. Lily was sitting a little way down the table with some other girls, one of which was definitely a Weasley.
"Hi guys," Harry greeted them as he sat in the seat between Remus and Sirius.
Harry looked around as everyone else started to eat. Harry heard a giggle and looked down the table where a group of girls were looking at him and giggling.
"Umm.. Remus, are people looking at me?" he whispered to the boy beside him. Remus looked around and a smile began to tug at the corners of his mouth. "They are indeed Harry my boy"
"Indeed what?" Peter asked as he looked at them from across the table. Remus succumbed to the smile that had been threatening to appear on his face. Grinning broadly, Remus answered "People, girls in particular, are staring at Harry." Sirius and James grinned also.
"Ah... Young love."
"Shut up, Sirius"
"Harry, you wound me."
"Okay, you two, break it up," Remus cut in, quietly laughing at them.
"So Harry, what do you think about Quiditch?" James asked as he buttered a muffin. Harry's face broke into a gigantic smile "I love it! I play Seeker. I even got to go to the world cup last year," Harry answered enthusiastically.
James smiled back at Harry. "I play Chaser and so does Lily. Sirius here plays Beater and Remus does commentary" James explained. "You said that you play Seeker?" Remus questioned.
"Yeah. Why?" Harry asked as he looked at the four boys. Realization dawned on James. "Miles is gone so we don't have a seeker for the 1-2 match" Remus nodded, his smile growing wider. James turned to Harry.
"Harry. Ever since our first year, I won't go into the details of why at the moment, but we and the year above us has held a Quidditch match on October 30th. But the problem is that our Seeker, Miles Gill, moved to Spain last year. Sooo we have to find a new one," James finished with a big grin. Harry looked at James, then Remus and finally Sirius.
"You guys want ME to be your seeker?" Harry asked, his voice coming out slightly squeaky. They all nodded wearing identical grins of mischief.
"But I haven't played in over a year!"
"That's okay Harry. No one else in our year plays Seeker at all"
"I don't know. I-"
The bell sounded, interrupting Harry in the middle of rejecting them.
"Saved by the bell, Harry," Remus said smiling slightly. Harry smiled back at Remus.
"Lets go guys!! We have Care of Magical Creatures next," Sirius said loudly, trying to get the image of Harry smiling exactly like James out of his mind.
Harry looked around the Great Hall, "I have to find Professor Dumbledore. He still has my stuff." Harry spotted him still seated at the staff table.
"You guys go on ahead, I'll catch up in a minute," Harry called over his shoulder as he made his way over to Dumbledore.
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"I'm happy that Harry was sorted into Gryffindor, but.." James trailed of, a look of concern on his face.
"I know what you mean, Jamie-boy" Sirius said as they walked towards the Gryffindor common room.
"He's nice and all that... but he's REALLY weird. And why in the name of Merlin did he have SECURITY on him?" Remus said with exasperation.
"I wish I knew why he was here and what he's up to. I mean he didn't seem very surprised that we were visiting him in the middle of the night," Sirius said as they reached the portrait of the Fat Lady.
"Cornish Pixies" Peter gave the password. The portrait swung open and they all climbed through.
"Hey! You guys were talking to the new kid. Do you know anything about him?" asked Patrick Weasley, the Head Boy. "Sorry Patrick, that's strictly confidential" Remus said with a grin that he rarely showed to anyone other than the Marauders. Other kids started to crowd around them and all were asking about Harry. James rolled his eyes and stood up on a table.
"Okay People. When Harry gets here then you may ask him questions. We know about as much as you do," and with that James headed up to the dormitory with Remus, Peter and Sirius trailing behind him.
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"Professor Dumbledore! Professor can I talk to you?" Harry made his way through the crowd of students towards the headmaster. "Hello Mr. Granger. How may I help you?"
Harry smiled at the Headmaster. "Sir I didn't get a chance to ask about the classes like Care of Magical creatures. What am I taking?"
Professor Dumbledore looked confused for a moment. "Well Harry, I suppose that you can take the same classes that you took in your time."
Harry nodded. "Thank you. But what do I do for books?"
"What classes do you take? I can get them tomorrow."
"Thank you Sir. I take Divination and Care of Magical Creatures"
"All right, Harry. You get to your next class and I shall get you your books"
Harry beamed at the Professor and ran towards the castle lawn.
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"Where in my wand?" Peter asked as he searched under his bed.
"I don't know. Have any of you seen my cloak?"
"Sorry, Padfoot, haven't seen it"
"Sirius, you took my hat, where is it?"
"I didn't take it. Gus did"
"Did not!"
"Prongs, I need my book. You borrowed it last week, remember?"
"I put it on your bed, Moony"
"James, did you take my arithmacy book??"
"No, Gus, it's under your bed
"Come on guys, we're going to be late"
All six fifth year boys grabbed whatever they could find and ran to their respective class rooms.
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All the students were staring and whispering as the new kid came running up followed shortly by the Potter gang as it was sometimes called.
"Class settle down. Now Mr. Granger, I am Professor Kettleburn. We will be studying Bastils, a cross between a Basilisk and a special kind of magical snake called Listles. We will be working in groups of three. You will be trying to get the venom from their fangs. Does anyone know what the venom does?"
A hand shot up, reminding Harry of Hermione.
"Yes, Miss Dover."
A pretty girl with shoulder length black hair answered, "The venom is used to revive the recently dead."
"Thank you, Miss Dover. That is correct."
"That's Abby Dover, she's in Ravenclaw and she's a know-it-all," Sirius whispered to Harry.
"Now, please break into groups of three."
James, Harry and Remus went in a group and Peter, Sirius and a girl with long brown hair and hazel eyes that reminded Harry of Sirius, went in another.
"That's Arabella Figg, one of Lily's friends and Padfoot's girlfriend," Remus whispered to Harry as James smiled.
"Moony, you know that it's still an undeclared love."
"Just like you and Lily."
James hit Remus over the head just as the Professor approached them with a box.
"Here you are boys. Just use the spell on the paper I handed you to get the venom from the fangs and put it in this glass phial. And wear these gloves." He handed Remus the box, James three pairs of gloves and Harry a glass phial.
"Oh and class be careful that none of the venom gets on your hands. It can kill."
"Well that was nice of him to tell us," James said as he handed the each a pair of gloves.
Remus set the box down on the table that they all were standing around. He opened the lid with gloved hands.
Inside was a very large snake, glittering gold and silver with glowing white eyes. It turned it's head towards Harry letting out a hiss.
"Danger is lurking Harry Potter. Beware the coming darkness."
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A/N: I know that this chapter was boring. But it's just setting the scene for future parts. Please review.