Chapter 5
Keara was busy poking her nose into every nook and cranny of the spacious room. According to Devlynn this was normal behavior for her. Everyone was positive that Devlynn would have tried convincing you that pigs could fly without magic if he thought for a second that you might believe him. He also said that Dumbledore had a soft spot for his sister's curiosity and always put her in a different set of rooms whenever she visited, which was very often, so that she wouldn't get too bored. She was quite pretty actually. The kind of girl who'd make you look twice and Sirius definitely looked twice. Actually he found himself looking quite a bit more than twice. Whenever she happened to catch him looking at her, he'd quickly pretend to be looking at something near her and comment on it in hopes that she wouldn't notice that it had really been her that he was looking at. Sirius looked away for the last time and looked at James and Harry. It looked as though James was getting along with Harry really well. He was glad about that, but they still needed to explain what they had done to the rest of them. Not all of them knew.
"Ron and Harry know," Sirius mused aloud, but quietly to no one in particular. "I assume that Hermione has found out from Ron, since she was at the hospital wing with him earlier when Harry was in there. Harry and James let it slip to Devlynn after Quidditch," Sirius began laughing hysterically (causing quite a few strange looks to be cast his way) as he thought about what James had told him about Harry's Quidditch practice that James had filled in for. "I would have paid to see James play today. He can't play Seeker worth jack shit. It's probably the only position in Quidditch that he can't manage and his son just happens to play that position. Of course when James gets on the field he goes and plays CHASER!" Sirius broke off as another fit a laugher hit him. "All the looks he must have gotten from the rest of the team!" Sirius collected himself enough to keep going. "Oh. Yeah. Where was I? Dev definitely told Keara. They might as well be joined at the hip, they're that close. Well I don't mean physically thank god! That'd just be sick. They're obviously related. I think Diablo, Ginny, Psi, and Zeta are the only ones who don't know who we are. Although, none of them really know what we were doing here, or how we got here though. Hey Prongs! Mightn't you be forgetting to do something?"
"Er." Apparently explaining things had slipped his mind.
Keara jumped up from where she had been laying down reading and was suddenly sitting Indian style halfway across the room in front of James as if it were story hour. "OH! That's Right! You haven't explained anything yet."
"Explain?" James' eyes clouded with confusion.
"Damn she moves fast!" Sirius stared. He swore that her movement had only been distinguishable by a blur. "She was just lying there happy as a clam."
Sirius was cut off by a low chuckle off to one side. He looked over to see Diablo sprawled next to him. "Wonder who came up with that."
"With what?" Sirius looked confused. He wasn't quite sure as to what Diablo was talking about.
"Happy as a clam. How do they know clams are happy? Maybe they're all really miserable. Now wouldn't that be interesting," Diablo smiled a mischievous smile
"Ummm. yeah."
"Her moods reminded me of a rollercoaster."
"What's a rollercoaster?"
"A Muggle ride that goes up and down a lot," Diablo replied actually knowing the answer for once. "She often goes from being completely calm to excessively hyper in less than a heartbeat. Or visa versa," Diablo smiled again noticing Sirius' slight blush at being caught watching Keara.
Keara glanced over her shoulder at the two, "I heard that."
"And?"
"Nothing just thought I should let you know. I felt I should give you warning. I'd sick Dev on you if you told Sirius anything about me that I wouldn't want him to know. Oh, and I'm surprised that you knew what a rollercoaster was. Usually you don't know what the Muggle stuff you talk about actually are."
"Oh? You mean like your nickname Bubbles?" Diablo grinned wickedly.
Keara growled sounding very much like her animagus form would do so.
"You might wanna be careful there, Di. You don't want a panther at your throat," Zeta warned as he remembered it happening before.
"Bubbles," taunted Diablo.
Keara lunged toward him eyes flashing. Diablo smirked as he watched Devlynn grab her around the waist mid-leap and haul her to the floor a safe distance away from him.
"Close call, you eejit!" Devlynn hissed. "Are you trying to get yourself killed?!"
"Diablo stop picking fights with Keara. You know you wouldn't be able to win it. She'd go for your throat as soon as she changed," Zeta commented.
"I could too win! A panther is nothing compared to a dragon!" Diablo pouted.
Zeta snorted, "yeah a dragon the size of a rooster. I think she could take you."
"I'm smart enough to end it before you'd be able to transform," Keara added primly while glaring daggers at him and struggling to get free of her brother's grasp.
"That's enough!" Hemione stood in between the two. "We have other stuff more important to talk about than your petty daily arguments."
"At least while she's here, Diablo's unlikely to get Howlers every day now. He's got her here to yell at him instead rather than sending a Howler," Psi giggled which made Keara smile. She had a soft spot for the first year and enjoyed mothering him from time to time since he no longer had a mother of his own. Diablo simply glared not happy about being reminded that every day Keara wasn't at the castle he received a Howler from her about something or another.
"Dev you can let her go now. She's safe. It's Diablo I'd worry about now," Ron pointed out.
Devlynn let his sister go and cast a warning glance at Diablo. "He won't try anything."
"Good. Now, would one of you please explain why you are here?" Hermione guided everyone back onto the important topic.
"Oh, right. That explanation," James blushed having completely forgotten all about it while he had been getting to know his son. "Well, I'm James Potter, Harry's dad. That's Sirius Black, my best friend, Remus Lupin, my other best friend, and that's Lily Evans, my girlfriend and Harry's mother. Yeah, I realize that Lils and I are supposed to be dead."
"How did you find that out?" Hermione asked casting a suspicious glance at Harry.
"I didn't tell him! I don't know how he found out. I didn't even know that he knew!" Harry said defensively.
"I overheard some first-years talking about Harry and what happened when I was in the library earlier. Well, anyway. We came from the past. We found a spell in one of the books in my family's library that would send us to the future and into another dimension so that we wouldn't be expected. We thought it'd be fun to prank McGonagall so we decided to give it a try and wudduyaknow it worked," James grinned.
"I'm also Harry's godfather, but Prongs over there forgot to mention that. The twit. Well, we also thought Dumbledore might enjoy seeing us again. We never thought we'd see Snape here still so that is just going to make the trip that much better. It's always a perk to get a chance to get the best of Sevvy," Sirius grinned maniacally.
James went back to chatting with Harry now that things had been explained to everyone.
"Uh, Sirius?" Sirius looked up at the sound of Keara's voice calling him. "You've got yourself a problem." She was bent over what looked like to be the Marauder's Map again quite clam apparently having gotten over her homicidal urge towards Diablo. "Your older version is here as well," she pointed to a dot on the map labeled Sirius Black who happened to be sitting in Dumbledore's office at the moment. He got up and leaned down over her shoulder to look at the map, leaning much closer to her than was actually necessary.
Devlynn watched Sirius Black with narrowed eyes. He knew Keara could take care of herself perfectly well, but that never seemed to stop him from feeling protective of her. She was his little sister. Okay so she was older than him, but she was still much smaller. Sirius looked up meeting Devlynn's gaze for a few seconds and then back at the map leaning slightly closer to Keara and whispering something in her ear that Dev noticed made her blush. He was going to have to keep a close watch on Black. He didn't trust him anywhere within yelling distance of his sister, but he couldn't do anything about it now without seeming like an overbearing prick. Sirius stayed close to her and grinned to himself. Devlynn need never know that what he had whispered to Keara was about Dev, himself. He knew Dev would ask what he had said, but he had a feeling that she would give him a run for his money first, but for the time being Dev could only sit back and watch.
"You did WHAT to Malfoy!?" Keara and Sirius' heads jerked up from looking at the map and instead looked at Harry whose sudden outburst at Prongs had startled everyone. Sirius assumed that whoever Malfoy was, his guess would be Lucius' spawn, he was probably a twit and deserved whatever James had done to him.
"Well, I didn't think he was a friend of yours," James said in defense. "I figured that you would have better taste in friends."
"He isn't, but I find that hysterical!" Harry could hardly contain himself and accidentally fell off the couch he was laying on. He just barely missed Keara, but knocked Sirius into her and managed to hit his head on the floor and still continued to laugh while holding his head with one hand and his stomach with the other. James was leaning over the arm of the chair he was sitting in laughing down at Harry. Dev glared at Sirius for the hundredth time when he noticed that Sirius hadn't separated himself from his sister yet.
"Prongs, what'd you do now? And why the bloody hell didn't you let me help?" Sirius pouted indignantly.
"Well you weren't there. That's why."
"Err. Good point."
"Still what did you do to him?" Keara asked eagerly and watched as both Potters were violently attacked again with another fit of laughter.
"Who woulda thought that a Slytherin would ever wear pink boxers!" James could hardly get the sentence out of his mouth because he was laughing so hard.
"Malfoy wears pink boxers?!" Diablo stared at James with an open mouth making his face resemble that of a fish out of water. Both Keara and Sirius seemed to notice that fact and grinned at each other. Sirius conjured up a camera and Keara took the picture of Wide Mouth Bass Diablo. Keara conjured up a picture of an actual bass and attached it next to the picture of Diablo. Both she and Sirius laughed at the end result and spread it around the room drawing laughs from the others as well.
"Well, no, I don't think so, but a nice little charm I used made sure he did today." More gales of laughter broke out, but this time everyone else in the room joined in.
"That's not even the best of it!" Harry gasped, holding his aching stomach. "Crabbe. Goyle. Dad put 'em in. in. leotards an'. an." Harry broke off not being able to finish.
"TUTUS!!!" The laughter grew louder about the room as everyone mentally pictured the three Slytherins decked out in their pink attire and forced to walk all the way back to the dungeons. Harry only hoped that Creevy had gotten a few pictures.
Keara was busy poking her nose into every nook and cranny of the spacious room. According to Devlynn this was normal behavior for her. Everyone was positive that Devlynn would have tried convincing you that pigs could fly without magic if he thought for a second that you might believe him. He also said that Dumbledore had a soft spot for his sister's curiosity and always put her in a different set of rooms whenever she visited, which was very often, so that she wouldn't get too bored. She was quite pretty actually. The kind of girl who'd make you look twice and Sirius definitely looked twice. Actually he found himself looking quite a bit more than twice. Whenever she happened to catch him looking at her, he'd quickly pretend to be looking at something near her and comment on it in hopes that she wouldn't notice that it had really been her that he was looking at. Sirius looked away for the last time and looked at James and Harry. It looked as though James was getting along with Harry really well. He was glad about that, but they still needed to explain what they had done to the rest of them. Not all of them knew.
"Ron and Harry know," Sirius mused aloud, but quietly to no one in particular. "I assume that Hermione has found out from Ron, since she was at the hospital wing with him earlier when Harry was in there. Harry and James let it slip to Devlynn after Quidditch," Sirius began laughing hysterically (causing quite a few strange looks to be cast his way) as he thought about what James had told him about Harry's Quidditch practice that James had filled in for. "I would have paid to see James play today. He can't play Seeker worth jack shit. It's probably the only position in Quidditch that he can't manage and his son just happens to play that position. Of course when James gets on the field he goes and plays CHASER!" Sirius broke off as another fit a laugher hit him. "All the looks he must have gotten from the rest of the team!" Sirius collected himself enough to keep going. "Oh. Yeah. Where was I? Dev definitely told Keara. They might as well be joined at the hip, they're that close. Well I don't mean physically thank god! That'd just be sick. They're obviously related. I think Diablo, Ginny, Psi, and Zeta are the only ones who don't know who we are. Although, none of them really know what we were doing here, or how we got here though. Hey Prongs! Mightn't you be forgetting to do something?"
"Er." Apparently explaining things had slipped his mind.
Keara jumped up from where she had been laying down reading and was suddenly sitting Indian style halfway across the room in front of James as if it were story hour. "OH! That's Right! You haven't explained anything yet."
"Explain?" James' eyes clouded with confusion.
"Damn she moves fast!" Sirius stared. He swore that her movement had only been distinguishable by a blur. "She was just lying there happy as a clam."
Sirius was cut off by a low chuckle off to one side. He looked over to see Diablo sprawled next to him. "Wonder who came up with that."
"With what?" Sirius looked confused. He wasn't quite sure as to what Diablo was talking about.
"Happy as a clam. How do they know clams are happy? Maybe they're all really miserable. Now wouldn't that be interesting," Diablo smiled a mischievous smile
"Ummm. yeah."
"Her moods reminded me of a rollercoaster."
"What's a rollercoaster?"
"A Muggle ride that goes up and down a lot," Diablo replied actually knowing the answer for once. "She often goes from being completely calm to excessively hyper in less than a heartbeat. Or visa versa," Diablo smiled again noticing Sirius' slight blush at being caught watching Keara.
Keara glanced over her shoulder at the two, "I heard that."
"And?"
"Nothing just thought I should let you know. I felt I should give you warning. I'd sick Dev on you if you told Sirius anything about me that I wouldn't want him to know. Oh, and I'm surprised that you knew what a rollercoaster was. Usually you don't know what the Muggle stuff you talk about actually are."
"Oh? You mean like your nickname Bubbles?" Diablo grinned wickedly.
Keara growled sounding very much like her animagus form would do so.
"You might wanna be careful there, Di. You don't want a panther at your throat," Zeta warned as he remembered it happening before.
"Bubbles," taunted Diablo.
Keara lunged toward him eyes flashing. Diablo smirked as he watched Devlynn grab her around the waist mid-leap and haul her to the floor a safe distance away from him.
"Close call, you eejit!" Devlynn hissed. "Are you trying to get yourself killed?!"
"Diablo stop picking fights with Keara. You know you wouldn't be able to win it. She'd go for your throat as soon as she changed," Zeta commented.
"I could too win! A panther is nothing compared to a dragon!" Diablo pouted.
Zeta snorted, "yeah a dragon the size of a rooster. I think she could take you."
"I'm smart enough to end it before you'd be able to transform," Keara added primly while glaring daggers at him and struggling to get free of her brother's grasp.
"That's enough!" Hemione stood in between the two. "We have other stuff more important to talk about than your petty daily arguments."
"At least while she's here, Diablo's unlikely to get Howlers every day now. He's got her here to yell at him instead rather than sending a Howler," Psi giggled which made Keara smile. She had a soft spot for the first year and enjoyed mothering him from time to time since he no longer had a mother of his own. Diablo simply glared not happy about being reminded that every day Keara wasn't at the castle he received a Howler from her about something or another.
"Dev you can let her go now. She's safe. It's Diablo I'd worry about now," Ron pointed out.
Devlynn let his sister go and cast a warning glance at Diablo. "He won't try anything."
"Good. Now, would one of you please explain why you are here?" Hermione guided everyone back onto the important topic.
"Oh, right. That explanation," James blushed having completely forgotten all about it while he had been getting to know his son. "Well, I'm James Potter, Harry's dad. That's Sirius Black, my best friend, Remus Lupin, my other best friend, and that's Lily Evans, my girlfriend and Harry's mother. Yeah, I realize that Lils and I are supposed to be dead."
"How did you find that out?" Hermione asked casting a suspicious glance at Harry.
"I didn't tell him! I don't know how he found out. I didn't even know that he knew!" Harry said defensively.
"I overheard some first-years talking about Harry and what happened when I was in the library earlier. Well, anyway. We came from the past. We found a spell in one of the books in my family's library that would send us to the future and into another dimension so that we wouldn't be expected. We thought it'd be fun to prank McGonagall so we decided to give it a try and wudduyaknow it worked," James grinned.
"I'm also Harry's godfather, but Prongs over there forgot to mention that. The twit. Well, we also thought Dumbledore might enjoy seeing us again. We never thought we'd see Snape here still so that is just going to make the trip that much better. It's always a perk to get a chance to get the best of Sevvy," Sirius grinned maniacally.
James went back to chatting with Harry now that things had been explained to everyone.
"Uh, Sirius?" Sirius looked up at the sound of Keara's voice calling him. "You've got yourself a problem." She was bent over what looked like to be the Marauder's Map again quite clam apparently having gotten over her homicidal urge towards Diablo. "Your older version is here as well," she pointed to a dot on the map labeled Sirius Black who happened to be sitting in Dumbledore's office at the moment. He got up and leaned down over her shoulder to look at the map, leaning much closer to her than was actually necessary.
Devlynn watched Sirius Black with narrowed eyes. He knew Keara could take care of herself perfectly well, but that never seemed to stop him from feeling protective of her. She was his little sister. Okay so she was older than him, but she was still much smaller. Sirius looked up meeting Devlynn's gaze for a few seconds and then back at the map leaning slightly closer to Keara and whispering something in her ear that Dev noticed made her blush. He was going to have to keep a close watch on Black. He didn't trust him anywhere within yelling distance of his sister, but he couldn't do anything about it now without seeming like an overbearing prick. Sirius stayed close to her and grinned to himself. Devlynn need never know that what he had whispered to Keara was about Dev, himself. He knew Dev would ask what he had said, but he had a feeling that she would give him a run for his money first, but for the time being Dev could only sit back and watch.
"You did WHAT to Malfoy!?" Keara and Sirius' heads jerked up from looking at the map and instead looked at Harry whose sudden outburst at Prongs had startled everyone. Sirius assumed that whoever Malfoy was, his guess would be Lucius' spawn, he was probably a twit and deserved whatever James had done to him.
"Well, I didn't think he was a friend of yours," James said in defense. "I figured that you would have better taste in friends."
"He isn't, but I find that hysterical!" Harry could hardly contain himself and accidentally fell off the couch he was laying on. He just barely missed Keara, but knocked Sirius into her and managed to hit his head on the floor and still continued to laugh while holding his head with one hand and his stomach with the other. James was leaning over the arm of the chair he was sitting in laughing down at Harry. Dev glared at Sirius for the hundredth time when he noticed that Sirius hadn't separated himself from his sister yet.
"Prongs, what'd you do now? And why the bloody hell didn't you let me help?" Sirius pouted indignantly.
"Well you weren't there. That's why."
"Err. Good point."
"Still what did you do to him?" Keara asked eagerly and watched as both Potters were violently attacked again with another fit of laughter.
"Who woulda thought that a Slytherin would ever wear pink boxers!" James could hardly get the sentence out of his mouth because he was laughing so hard.
"Malfoy wears pink boxers?!" Diablo stared at James with an open mouth making his face resemble that of a fish out of water. Both Keara and Sirius seemed to notice that fact and grinned at each other. Sirius conjured up a camera and Keara took the picture of Wide Mouth Bass Diablo. Keara conjured up a picture of an actual bass and attached it next to the picture of Diablo. Both she and Sirius laughed at the end result and spread it around the room drawing laughs from the others as well.
"Well, no, I don't think so, but a nice little charm I used made sure he did today." More gales of laughter broke out, but this time everyone else in the room joined in.
"That's not even the best of it!" Harry gasped, holding his aching stomach. "Crabbe. Goyle. Dad put 'em in. in. leotards an'. an." Harry broke off not being able to finish.
"TUTUS!!!" The laughter grew louder about the room as everyone mentally pictured the three Slytherins decked out in their pink attire and forced to walk all the way back to the dungeons. Harry only hoped that Creevy had gotten a few pictures.