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Disclaimer: You know the routine by now! But if you feel the need for a disclaimer look at chapters 1 or 2. Plus we kinda use a line from 'She's all that', you know the film, you'll know the line.
A/N: C.Moony and S.Prongs (split personality S.Padfoot) proudly present this fic! Sorry it took so long to update but writers block is such a bitch and tons of college work doesn't help! OK, first of all a HUGE THANKYOU to our reviewers, you guys rock! WAHOO!!!!!!!! We are on the favourites list of two members (THANKYOU SO MUCH!).
So, here we are at chapter 5 and we feel as if we've all been through so much together. I mean you can not time travel, meet the dead and witness Sirius without his clothes and not bond! So we're just going to say hi, how are you all? (You know you could always answer in a review, hint, hint!). Ok, sorry that was wrong and sneaky but what do you expect we are mischievous, we are Marauders!
Read the author note at the bottom when you are finished, it is a life and death situation for this fic!
Chapter 5- The cure for boredom
Harry walked down the corridor, aware that he was receiving many curious stares. 'Great!' he groaned inwardly. 'It's the same, no matter what year I'm in.' Trying desperately to ignore them, he sped up slightly, moving closer to Ginny.
"Why are they all staring?" She whispered this, but apparently not quiet enough.
"Well, you have to admit, it is kind of weird to have two new students in the middle of the school year." Remus turned around from watching Sirius trip Peter down the corridor.
"And a Potter, after all. You see, your cousin is an institution in this place. All the boys want to be him, all the girls want to nail him." Sirius received a smack up side the head from Lily at this comment but James smiled, quite flattered. Soon they stopped outside Gryffindor tower.
"What's up toots?" The Fat lady looked liked she was torn between huffing or blushing. Sirius gave another cheeky grin as Remus rolled his eye, and uttered the password. The portrait swung forward and Harry could have sworn that she had winked at Sirius. The eight of them climbed through the portrait hole (James had to stop and pull Peter through as he got stuck). On entering the common room a sudden silence fell over the room.
"Told you, institution." Remus whispered to Harry, but apparently not quite enough. Lily gave him a fiery glare; he just grinned in return. Whispering broke out, making Harry feel even more uncomfortable. Ginny must have too, because he could have sworn she was clutching the back of his robes.
"Don't worry," Lily smiled kindly in an attempt to reassure them. "It's just we hardly ever get new students, they're just curious."
"Yeah, it'll blow over in a couple days." Jennifer offered. Ginny's grip began to loosen.
Sirius began to make his way over to a nearby couch. Two third years had been gossiping quietly, but as soon as they saw Sirius heading in their direction they scampered. Harry was unsure whether it was because they were embarrassed or scared that he'd pelt them with dungbombs, or something equally marauderish. Stretching out, he put his feet on Remus who had sat beside him. This earned a hard shove, sending him sprawled on the carpet. The others laughed, as Remus remained the picture of innocence.
"Why Padfoot! What are you doing on the floor?" Remus was looking positively astonished. "You know, I'm used to girls falling at my feet, but Paddy, I never knew you felt that way!" Sirius scowled and stood up, rubbing his sore behind and sticking his tongue out at Remus. James stood next to Harry, and spoke for the first time since breakfast.
"Maybe we should introduce you to some people, before you get stampeded by a mad crowd of curious Gryffindors. I can see them all goggling at you two." This comment caused Ginny's grip to tighten once again. She had never been good at making friends. She was just way too shy with strangers, but if you knew her you had a hard time trying to shut her up. Harry realised her discomfort and turned, giving her what he hoped was a reassuring smile. She seemed to relax, if only a little bit.
Sirius, having heard this comment, jumped on a nearby table, then began to speak in an incredibly loud voice. The whole common room stopped what they were doing.
"Attention please. As you may have noticed, another Potter has joined the ranks!" Harry felt himself blush as dozens of eyes stared in his direction. "This devilishly attractive young fifth year is Harry Potter, cousin to your very own Quidditch Captain." A group of girls in the corner began to giggle, causing Sirius to squeal in a high pitched, mocking voice. Remus, Peter (A/N: die Wormy, die!) and Jennifer smirked as Sirius received several glares.
"Anyways, unlike his cousin, is young Potter single?" Sirius had now jumped off the table and was holding a microphone he had just transfigured from an empty butterbeer bottle he had kicked off the table. Not knowing what to do, Harry just shrugged, making a mental note to hex Sirius and hex him bad!
"Well, that's not a no ladies." Harry could have sworn he heard even more giggling and was that a wolf-whistle? Fortunately for Harry, Sirius' attention was drawn away from him. Unfortunately, it seemed that Ginny was his next victim.
"Ah, Virginia, darling!" Ginny began to turn the colour of her hair; she was burning brighter than the tips of Ron's ears when he had worn those awful maroon dress robes to the Yule ball. (A/N: bless Ron! All hail the Ron). As she tried to hide behind Harry and Remus, Sirius grabbed her wrist, bringing her forward and spinning her in a circle.
"This radiant flower is Ginny Weasley. Now boys, I know you all want to know if this beautiful, young lady is single." Harry was sure that there were several whistles this time. James decided it was time to save the poor girl, thus Sirius received another smack on the head.
"Sirius, that's enough. The poor girl can't get any redder!" James whispered in a hushed tone. Sirius agreed grudgingly, after all, he loved playing up to an audience. As Sirius began to sulk on the couch, James turned to the rest of the common room, still having their apt attention.
"OK, show's over." Harry was amazed that everyone listened to his Dad, straight away. James now turned back to Ginny, who as of yet had still not returned to her natural colour.
"Sorry about him. He is mentally unhinged. Why don't I introduce you to some of your year? I promise I won't yell it to the whole common room." Nodding slightly, Ginny began to turn back to normal. With a smile, James led Harry and Ginny over to the chessboards, where four students were huddled.
"Bryan, you great oaf! You just moved your queen right into that!"
"Shut up, Mary! And mind your own business, you nosy Hippogriff!" A boy and a girl sat squabbling loudly, oblivious to the newcomers. They were obviously related; both had sandy hair, grey eyes and both were glaring at each other particularly hard at this moment. They broke out of their staring match, when the other chess player looked up and spotted James.
"Hi James. What can we do for you?" The others looked slightly startled, but just sat there in silence, waiting.
"Alright Tom? Just thought I'd introduce you to my friends, here. And I wondered if you would show them to their dorms."
"Sure thing captain." Tom mock saluted, causing James to chuckle.
"Thanks. See ya later." He spoke to Harry and Ginny, before returning to the couch and pulling Lily on to his lap. Harry smiled, before turning his attention back to the new group. Tom looked very familiar to Harry, and he was trying to place it as Tom began to speak.
"Hi, I'm Tom Wood. You're Harry and Ginny, right?" (A/N: Sorry we couldn't resist putting a Wood in this story, in this case it's Oliver's uncle). Without waiting for an answer, Tom continued to introduce his friends. "This is Catherine Turner." He pointed to a short girl with curly brown hair, who was curled up in an armchair, a book on her lap. She said 'hi', but wasn't able to continue as Tom began to talk once again.
"She's a complete bookworm! And she likes to boss us about. She's quite loud for being so short!"
"Oh, how charming! I am sitting right here, you know!" Ignoring her comment, Tom continued. "And these two fighting idiots are Mary and Bryan Connor. They're twins, if you couldn't guess. All they seem to do is fight!"
"You're one to talk, big mouth!" Mary scowled in Tom's direction. "You're the one who bosses us about! You aint Quidditch Captain yet you know!"
Rolling her eyes, Catherine stood up and closed her book. Turning to Ginny she smiled.
"Why don't I show you the dorm. It'll get you away from the mad Irish girl and the Scottish boy on a power trip!" Ginny gave a weak smile and released Harry's robe, which she only just realised that she had been clutching.
"It was nice meeting you, Harry." Catherine said as she led Ginny up the stairs. Mary quickly followed. The boys shrugged and decided to show Harry to his dorm, for lack of a better thing to do. Tom muttered all the way about how he wasn't on a power trip.
James watched Harry until he disappeared. Lily caught his gaze and looked at him questioningly. He sighed, deciding for once to stick to the truth.
"It's just a bit of a shock, Harry turning up here." Lily nodded encouragingly, so James continued. "I don't know. The resemblance is uncanny, maybe I'm a little overwhelmed." Kissing him gently on the lips, Lily snuggled closer to James, resting her head in the crook of his neck.
"You're not the only one." Lily whispered this more to herself.
"I don't get you guys," Sirius piped up after a moment of silence. "I mean, yeah he looks like Jimbo here but hey, they are related! Maybe I can slightly understand why Prongs is kinda overwhelmed but I don't get why you are, Lil."
"Me neither," Lily spoke softly. "Me neither."
Half an hour later the Marauders, Lily and Jennifer were still sat in their corner of the Gryffindor common room.
"I'm bored!" Sirius whined loudly, catching the attention of half of the common room.
"Read or something then." Jennifer suggested.
"Nah." Sirius exclaimed lazily.
"Chess?" Remus offered but Sirius shook his head.
"Nah."
"Exploding snap?" James put in.
"Nah."
"Gobstones?" Peter piped up.
"Nah." Silence fell on the group and Sirius began to fidget. "I'm still bored!" He proclaimed loudly.
"For Merlin's sake do your homework or something, we don't care, just shut up!" James was easily getting annoyed.
"Nah." Sirius yawned but did shut up, well only for a few minutes. "But I'm still bored!" This caused James to gently lift Lily off his lap, stand up and launch himself at Sirius. The whole common room stopped what they were doing to watch the two friends, Sirius was half laughing, half screaming while James was trying to sound pissed off as he aimed punches at Sirius, but kept letting out small laughs.
"Quidditch?" Lily spoke loudly over the muffled cursing and laughing of James and Sirius, they stopped still, both growing huge grins.
"Quidditch!" They chorused, leaping up and dusting themselves off.
"We could always ask Harry and Ginny if they wanna come, I mean they haven't seen the Quidditch pitch and everyone knows a Potter without Quidditch is like Snape without the grease, unheard of!" Remus closed the book he had been reading and stood up. This made James think, he'd never thought to ask Harry about Quidditch before, although he was certain Remus was wrong about one thing, he knew they'd already seen the Quidditch pitch.
"OK, I'll go ask Harry, one of you girls can ask Ginny." James made his way up the stairs to the boys' dormitories. Stopping outside the fifth year's dorm he knocked on the door. The door swung open to reveal what seemed to be a star struck Bryan at the sight of the James Potter in his doorway. 'Weird' Harry thought to himself.
"Hey, Bryan isn't it?" Bryan nodded quickly. "Can I speak to Harry for a minute?" Bryan nodded quickly again and held the door wide open for James. Harry was sat on a bed and James noted sadly the fact he didn't really have many possessions with him, well not of his own.
"Hey Captain." Tom looked up from 'Quidditch throughout the ages' momentarily.
"Hey Tom." James then turned to Harry who was looking curiously at him. "Um Harry, we were wondering if you wanted to come and play Quidditch with us?" To James' own delight, Harry's eyes lit up at the word Quidditch.
"Sure!" Harry couldn't contain his delight at having the chance of playing Quidditch with his Dad.
The two reached the common room in time to see Sirius overtake Jennifer on the stairs to the girls' dormitories. A few seconds later there was a short scream followed by a chorus of giggles and Sirius descended the stairs carrying a struggling Ginny over one shoulder.
"You… moron…! Put… me… down!" Each of these words was said with a hard punch to Sirius' back, as Ginny continued to struggle. Harry was quite shocked, he had heard that Ginny had the worst Weasley temper of the bunch, but he had thought that Ron had been kidding. Ginny was still muttering unrepeatable things as Sirius finally released her and staggered over to the couch. Rubbing his back, he gave an astonished look.
"Didn't realize someone so small could punch so hard! Must be that red- headed temper." Now Sirius gave a cheeky grin. "Gosh, and I thought Lil was just PMSing." This comment earned him a swift kick to the shin, sending him sprawled on the couch.
"OW! Lily what the hell was that for!"
"Sorry, red-headed temper I guess." She smiled very sweetly.
"Sirius!" James interrupted. "I know I told one of the girls to get Ginny, but I didn't mean you. I think you deserved those punches."
"Nice, by the way." Remus congratulated Ginny, who was now over her anger and just very embarrassed that she had just assaulted an innocent, but convicted murderer.
After they managed to drag Sirius up from the couch, they started to make their way outside. Harry hung at the back with Ginny, thinking she might want someone to talk too.
"So, how you doing?"
"Fine." The she bit her lip. "I miss Ron though." Harry nodded; he had been too busy to think about it, too overwhelmed. But now he thought about it, he did miss Ron and Hermione.
"It's OK. Dumbledore will figure out a way for us to get home." Harry secretly hoped that it took him a while. Ginny seemed to read his mind.
"At least you get to spend some time with your parents. They really seem to have taken to you." Harry smiled.
"I think Sirius has taken quite a liking to you." Ginny blushed at this, causing Harry to grin even more. Ginny liked to see Harry smile; it had been a while. As they approached the pitch Harry sighed.
"I wish I had my Firebolt." Remus had been walking close by and frowned.
"What's a Firebolt?"
"Oh! Just my broom." 'Yeah one that won't be available for about fifteen years' Harry thought to himself.
"Never heard of it! Is it French?" Sirius inquired, eyes beaming at the prospect of a new broom. Harry and Ginny exchanged looks, before Harry spoke.
"Uh, yeah. Very exclusive. My godfather brought it me." Harry smiled at Sirius, causing James to figure something out. "Unfortunately I left it at…at home." James watched Harry's expression and spoke before thinking.
"Don't worry, you can use mine." This comment caused all his friends' eyes to open wide and Sirius started to open and close his mouth like a fish. James never let anyone near his broom! Remus was the first to recover and knew that James must have a reason to let Harry ride his prize possession.
"So Harry. What position do you play?" Before he could answer, Ginny started to speak.
"Harry is the best seeker I've ever seen! He was the youngest player on the house team for 100 years. He holds the record for the fastest catch of the snitch ever in school history! And he…" She seemed to only just realize what she was saying, and of course turned bright red.
"Woah, mini- Potter's got himself… um, some Quidditch skill." Sirius was going to say fan, but stopped as he realised how red Ginny had gone, (see even Sirius has mercy).
James seemed to have an extremely proud grin, that only Lily noticed. But it was weird, you could almost say it was paternal. Lily thought this over as she and Ginny sat in the stands with Peter (ugh), Jennifer had decided to rough it out with the boys. There was more to this than met the eyes, and she was going to find out what it was.
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Disclaimer: You know the routine by now! But if you feel the need for a disclaimer look at chapters 1 or 2. Plus we kinda use a line from 'She's all that', you know the film, you'll know the line.
A/N: C.Moony and S.Prongs (split personality S.Padfoot) proudly present this fic! Sorry it took so long to update but writers block is such a bitch and tons of college work doesn't help! OK, first of all a HUGE THANKYOU to our reviewers, you guys rock! WAHOO!!!!!!!! We are on the favourites list of two members (THANKYOU SO MUCH!).
So, here we are at chapter 5 and we feel as if we've all been through so much together. I mean you can not time travel, meet the dead and witness Sirius without his clothes and not bond! So we're just going to say hi, how are you all? (You know you could always answer in a review, hint, hint!). Ok, sorry that was wrong and sneaky but what do you expect we are mischievous, we are Marauders!
Read the author note at the bottom when you are finished, it is a life and death situation for this fic!
Chapter 5- The cure for boredom
Harry walked down the corridor, aware that he was receiving many curious stares. 'Great!' he groaned inwardly. 'It's the same, no matter what year I'm in.' Trying desperately to ignore them, he sped up slightly, moving closer to Ginny.
"Why are they all staring?" She whispered this, but apparently not quiet enough.
"Well, you have to admit, it is kind of weird to have two new students in the middle of the school year." Remus turned around from watching Sirius trip Peter down the corridor.
"And a Potter, after all. You see, your cousin is an institution in this place. All the boys want to be him, all the girls want to nail him." Sirius received a smack up side the head from Lily at this comment but James smiled, quite flattered. Soon they stopped outside Gryffindor tower.
"What's up toots?" The Fat lady looked liked she was torn between huffing or blushing. Sirius gave another cheeky grin as Remus rolled his eye, and uttered the password. The portrait swung forward and Harry could have sworn that she had winked at Sirius. The eight of them climbed through the portrait hole (James had to stop and pull Peter through as he got stuck). On entering the common room a sudden silence fell over the room.
"Told you, institution." Remus whispered to Harry, but apparently not quite enough. Lily gave him a fiery glare; he just grinned in return. Whispering broke out, making Harry feel even more uncomfortable. Ginny must have too, because he could have sworn she was clutching the back of his robes.
"Don't worry," Lily smiled kindly in an attempt to reassure them. "It's just we hardly ever get new students, they're just curious."
"Yeah, it'll blow over in a couple days." Jennifer offered. Ginny's grip began to loosen.
Sirius began to make his way over to a nearby couch. Two third years had been gossiping quietly, but as soon as they saw Sirius heading in their direction they scampered. Harry was unsure whether it was because they were embarrassed or scared that he'd pelt them with dungbombs, or something equally marauderish. Stretching out, he put his feet on Remus who had sat beside him. This earned a hard shove, sending him sprawled on the carpet. The others laughed, as Remus remained the picture of innocence.
"Why Padfoot! What are you doing on the floor?" Remus was looking positively astonished. "You know, I'm used to girls falling at my feet, but Paddy, I never knew you felt that way!" Sirius scowled and stood up, rubbing his sore behind and sticking his tongue out at Remus. James stood next to Harry, and spoke for the first time since breakfast.
"Maybe we should introduce you to some people, before you get stampeded by a mad crowd of curious Gryffindors. I can see them all goggling at you two." This comment caused Ginny's grip to tighten once again. She had never been good at making friends. She was just way too shy with strangers, but if you knew her you had a hard time trying to shut her up. Harry realised her discomfort and turned, giving her what he hoped was a reassuring smile. She seemed to relax, if only a little bit.
Sirius, having heard this comment, jumped on a nearby table, then began to speak in an incredibly loud voice. The whole common room stopped what they were doing.
"Attention please. As you may have noticed, another Potter has joined the ranks!" Harry felt himself blush as dozens of eyes stared in his direction. "This devilishly attractive young fifth year is Harry Potter, cousin to your very own Quidditch Captain." A group of girls in the corner began to giggle, causing Sirius to squeal in a high pitched, mocking voice. Remus, Peter (A/N: die Wormy, die!) and Jennifer smirked as Sirius received several glares.
"Anyways, unlike his cousin, is young Potter single?" Sirius had now jumped off the table and was holding a microphone he had just transfigured from an empty butterbeer bottle he had kicked off the table. Not knowing what to do, Harry just shrugged, making a mental note to hex Sirius and hex him bad!
"Well, that's not a no ladies." Harry could have sworn he heard even more giggling and was that a wolf-whistle? Fortunately for Harry, Sirius' attention was drawn away from him. Unfortunately, it seemed that Ginny was his next victim.
"Ah, Virginia, darling!" Ginny began to turn the colour of her hair; she was burning brighter than the tips of Ron's ears when he had worn those awful maroon dress robes to the Yule ball. (A/N: bless Ron! All hail the Ron). As she tried to hide behind Harry and Remus, Sirius grabbed her wrist, bringing her forward and spinning her in a circle.
"This radiant flower is Ginny Weasley. Now boys, I know you all want to know if this beautiful, young lady is single." Harry was sure that there were several whistles this time. James decided it was time to save the poor girl, thus Sirius received another smack on the head.
"Sirius, that's enough. The poor girl can't get any redder!" James whispered in a hushed tone. Sirius agreed grudgingly, after all, he loved playing up to an audience. As Sirius began to sulk on the couch, James turned to the rest of the common room, still having their apt attention.
"OK, show's over." Harry was amazed that everyone listened to his Dad, straight away. James now turned back to Ginny, who as of yet had still not returned to her natural colour.
"Sorry about him. He is mentally unhinged. Why don't I introduce you to some of your year? I promise I won't yell it to the whole common room." Nodding slightly, Ginny began to turn back to normal. With a smile, James led Harry and Ginny over to the chessboards, where four students were huddled.
"Bryan, you great oaf! You just moved your queen right into that!"
"Shut up, Mary! And mind your own business, you nosy Hippogriff!" A boy and a girl sat squabbling loudly, oblivious to the newcomers. They were obviously related; both had sandy hair, grey eyes and both were glaring at each other particularly hard at this moment. They broke out of their staring match, when the other chess player looked up and spotted James.
"Hi James. What can we do for you?" The others looked slightly startled, but just sat there in silence, waiting.
"Alright Tom? Just thought I'd introduce you to my friends, here. And I wondered if you would show them to their dorms."
"Sure thing captain." Tom mock saluted, causing James to chuckle.
"Thanks. See ya later." He spoke to Harry and Ginny, before returning to the couch and pulling Lily on to his lap. Harry smiled, before turning his attention back to the new group. Tom looked very familiar to Harry, and he was trying to place it as Tom began to speak.
"Hi, I'm Tom Wood. You're Harry and Ginny, right?" (A/N: Sorry we couldn't resist putting a Wood in this story, in this case it's Oliver's uncle). Without waiting for an answer, Tom continued to introduce his friends. "This is Catherine Turner." He pointed to a short girl with curly brown hair, who was curled up in an armchair, a book on her lap. She said 'hi', but wasn't able to continue as Tom began to talk once again.
"She's a complete bookworm! And she likes to boss us about. She's quite loud for being so short!"
"Oh, how charming! I am sitting right here, you know!" Ignoring her comment, Tom continued. "And these two fighting idiots are Mary and Bryan Connor. They're twins, if you couldn't guess. All they seem to do is fight!"
"You're one to talk, big mouth!" Mary scowled in Tom's direction. "You're the one who bosses us about! You aint Quidditch Captain yet you know!"
Rolling her eyes, Catherine stood up and closed her book. Turning to Ginny she smiled.
"Why don't I show you the dorm. It'll get you away from the mad Irish girl and the Scottish boy on a power trip!" Ginny gave a weak smile and released Harry's robe, which she only just realised that she had been clutching.
"It was nice meeting you, Harry." Catherine said as she led Ginny up the stairs. Mary quickly followed. The boys shrugged and decided to show Harry to his dorm, for lack of a better thing to do. Tom muttered all the way about how he wasn't on a power trip.
James watched Harry until he disappeared. Lily caught his gaze and looked at him questioningly. He sighed, deciding for once to stick to the truth.
"It's just a bit of a shock, Harry turning up here." Lily nodded encouragingly, so James continued. "I don't know. The resemblance is uncanny, maybe I'm a little overwhelmed." Kissing him gently on the lips, Lily snuggled closer to James, resting her head in the crook of his neck.
"You're not the only one." Lily whispered this more to herself.
"I don't get you guys," Sirius piped up after a moment of silence. "I mean, yeah he looks like Jimbo here but hey, they are related! Maybe I can slightly understand why Prongs is kinda overwhelmed but I don't get why you are, Lil."
"Me neither," Lily spoke softly. "Me neither."
Half an hour later the Marauders, Lily and Jennifer were still sat in their corner of the Gryffindor common room.
"I'm bored!" Sirius whined loudly, catching the attention of half of the common room.
"Read or something then." Jennifer suggested.
"Nah." Sirius exclaimed lazily.
"Chess?" Remus offered but Sirius shook his head.
"Nah."
"Exploding snap?" James put in.
"Nah."
"Gobstones?" Peter piped up.
"Nah." Silence fell on the group and Sirius began to fidget. "I'm still bored!" He proclaimed loudly.
"For Merlin's sake do your homework or something, we don't care, just shut up!" James was easily getting annoyed.
"Nah." Sirius yawned but did shut up, well only for a few minutes. "But I'm still bored!" This caused James to gently lift Lily off his lap, stand up and launch himself at Sirius. The whole common room stopped what they were doing to watch the two friends, Sirius was half laughing, half screaming while James was trying to sound pissed off as he aimed punches at Sirius, but kept letting out small laughs.
"Quidditch?" Lily spoke loudly over the muffled cursing and laughing of James and Sirius, they stopped still, both growing huge grins.
"Quidditch!" They chorused, leaping up and dusting themselves off.
"We could always ask Harry and Ginny if they wanna come, I mean they haven't seen the Quidditch pitch and everyone knows a Potter without Quidditch is like Snape without the grease, unheard of!" Remus closed the book he had been reading and stood up. This made James think, he'd never thought to ask Harry about Quidditch before, although he was certain Remus was wrong about one thing, he knew they'd already seen the Quidditch pitch.
"OK, I'll go ask Harry, one of you girls can ask Ginny." James made his way up the stairs to the boys' dormitories. Stopping outside the fifth year's dorm he knocked on the door. The door swung open to reveal what seemed to be a star struck Bryan at the sight of the James Potter in his doorway. 'Weird' Harry thought to himself.
"Hey, Bryan isn't it?" Bryan nodded quickly. "Can I speak to Harry for a minute?" Bryan nodded quickly again and held the door wide open for James. Harry was sat on a bed and James noted sadly the fact he didn't really have many possessions with him, well not of his own.
"Hey Captain." Tom looked up from 'Quidditch throughout the ages' momentarily.
"Hey Tom." James then turned to Harry who was looking curiously at him. "Um Harry, we were wondering if you wanted to come and play Quidditch with us?" To James' own delight, Harry's eyes lit up at the word Quidditch.
"Sure!" Harry couldn't contain his delight at having the chance of playing Quidditch with his Dad.
The two reached the common room in time to see Sirius overtake Jennifer on the stairs to the girls' dormitories. A few seconds later there was a short scream followed by a chorus of giggles and Sirius descended the stairs carrying a struggling Ginny over one shoulder.
"You… moron…! Put… me… down!" Each of these words was said with a hard punch to Sirius' back, as Ginny continued to struggle. Harry was quite shocked, he had heard that Ginny had the worst Weasley temper of the bunch, but he had thought that Ron had been kidding. Ginny was still muttering unrepeatable things as Sirius finally released her and staggered over to the couch. Rubbing his back, he gave an astonished look.
"Didn't realize someone so small could punch so hard! Must be that red- headed temper." Now Sirius gave a cheeky grin. "Gosh, and I thought Lil was just PMSing." This comment earned him a swift kick to the shin, sending him sprawled on the couch.
"OW! Lily what the hell was that for!"
"Sorry, red-headed temper I guess." She smiled very sweetly.
"Sirius!" James interrupted. "I know I told one of the girls to get Ginny, but I didn't mean you. I think you deserved those punches."
"Nice, by the way." Remus congratulated Ginny, who was now over her anger and just very embarrassed that she had just assaulted an innocent, but convicted murderer.
After they managed to drag Sirius up from the couch, they started to make their way outside. Harry hung at the back with Ginny, thinking she might want someone to talk too.
"So, how you doing?"
"Fine." The she bit her lip. "I miss Ron though." Harry nodded; he had been too busy to think about it, too overwhelmed. But now he thought about it, he did miss Ron and Hermione.
"It's OK. Dumbledore will figure out a way for us to get home." Harry secretly hoped that it took him a while. Ginny seemed to read his mind.
"At least you get to spend some time with your parents. They really seem to have taken to you." Harry smiled.
"I think Sirius has taken quite a liking to you." Ginny blushed at this, causing Harry to grin even more. Ginny liked to see Harry smile; it had been a while. As they approached the pitch Harry sighed.
"I wish I had my Firebolt." Remus had been walking close by and frowned.
"What's a Firebolt?"
"Oh! Just my broom." 'Yeah one that won't be available for about fifteen years' Harry thought to himself.
"Never heard of it! Is it French?" Sirius inquired, eyes beaming at the prospect of a new broom. Harry and Ginny exchanged looks, before Harry spoke.
"Uh, yeah. Very exclusive. My godfather brought it me." Harry smiled at Sirius, causing James to figure something out. "Unfortunately I left it at…at home." James watched Harry's expression and spoke before thinking.
"Don't worry, you can use mine." This comment caused all his friends' eyes to open wide and Sirius started to open and close his mouth like a fish. James never let anyone near his broom! Remus was the first to recover and knew that James must have a reason to let Harry ride his prize possession.
"So Harry. What position do you play?" Before he could answer, Ginny started to speak.
"Harry is the best seeker I've ever seen! He was the youngest player on the house team for 100 years. He holds the record for the fastest catch of the snitch ever in school history! And he…" She seemed to only just realize what she was saying, and of course turned bright red.
"Woah, mini- Potter's got himself… um, some Quidditch skill." Sirius was going to say fan, but stopped as he realised how red Ginny had gone, (see even Sirius has mercy).
James seemed to have an extremely proud grin, that only Lily noticed. But it was weird, you could almost say it was paternal. Lily thought this over as she and Ginny sat in the stands with Peter (ugh), Jennifer had decided to rough it out with the boys. There was more to this than met the eyes, and she was going to find out what it was.
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