Dwelling In The Past
By: Sailoranime
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Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter an do not claim to do so. I am getting nothing out of writing this story. And if you DO sue me, my sister and Aunt are both Lawyers. *grin*
AN: Okay, There was something wrong with the chapter, so I'm reposting it. BTW, the reason my comouter kept restarting was because I had the blaster worm virus. It only affects a few systems, including XP, which it what my new computer is. Anyway, I fixed it so I'm okay now. I thought something was wrong with the computer, I had no idea it was a virus. Anyway, it's really weird because I go it as soon as I connected to the internet, and after that I kept getting these little countdown things and my computer would restart every 10 minutes or so. Anyway, if something like this is happening to you, you probably have that virus.
I've also fixed the Little Lupin problem. Little Lupin wil usually be referred to as Remus, and Big Lupin will only be mentioned clearly so you can tell which one I'm talking about. ^_^
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Quote of the chapter:
" Devil's Snare, Devil's Snare... It likes the dark and damp-"
" So light a fire!" Harry choked.
" Yes, of course, but there's no wood!" Hermione cried, wringing her hands.
" HAVE YOU GONE MAD?" Ron bellowed, " ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT?"
Harry Potter And the Sorcerer's Stone, Page 278
AN: Hermione sometimes has trouble proving she's not a dunderhead as Snape says in the first book on page 137.
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Sirius, James, and Peter walked into Honeydukes, but Remus didn't follow. Sirius turned around with a grin.
" If you like the outside you'll love the inside. I mean, I know you haven't been here before, but most of the time the inside of the building is better than the outside."
" I know... I'm just... I don't know." Remus said shrugging. Once inside Harry noticed that this Honeydukes was quite different from the Honeydukes he knew. There were no sherbert balls or cockroach clusters, and there was a number of sweets that Harry had never even heard of, some that he knew were no longer made, and some that looked as if they should never had been made. Remus looked as surprised as he did.
" Ooh... look these are new." James said, thrusting a chocolate frog into Remus's hand. "The frogs are okay... but they got these excellent trading cards of famous wizards. They've only got Merlin, Circe, the Four Founders, and Morgana so far. Usually you get Morgana or Circe. I suppose it's their way of making the other super rare until they add more wizards."
" Dumbledore should be on these." Remus said quietly.
" Yeah, I guess he should," Sirius said in a desperate attempt to break the awkward silence that had followed Remus's comment.
" No, I'm serious. Do you think anybody else would have let me come to school despite my... situation?" Remus insisted.
" No probably not... but Dumbldore's good like that." James said.
" Yeah, a bit nuts if you ask me, but still great." Sirius added with a grin.
" Yeah, I guess he is a bit nuts." Remus answered with a grin of his own.
" Remus is right, though. They should put Dumbledore in these... Us too. I can just imagine it. 'The Marauders Four: Consisting of James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. They currently hold the record for most detentions and points taken off. Famous for sending Howlers to every member of the Ministry of Magic.' I should make it a personal goal to get myself on one of these cards." James said.
" Yeah... right. Come on, let's go pay for this stuff." Sirius answered, pointing to the pile of sweets Peter was carrying for them.
" Damn... line's too long..." Sirius frowned and turned to James with a malicious glint in his eyes. " Any ideas?" James nodded. He took out the invisibility cloak from somewhere under his robes, and the other three formed a sort of wall around him so he could put the cloak on without anyone seeing. After a few seconds the marauders parted and James was nowhere to be seen. Harry looked around for any hint of his father but found none. Sirius, Remus and Peter all went to stand at the end of the line. Harry, still looking for his father, was startled when he heard a voice that he was sure was his father yell.
" Gods, I got Slytherin!" Harry looked towards the source of the voice and saw a startled looking 4th year over by the chocolate frogs. Then he understood. For a second the only thing that was heard was muttering from the people in line, then they all rushed to the boy to look at what Harry guessed was one of the rarest cards. Sirius and the others ran to the owner and paid quickly before all the other people came back. After paying, they all went outside to find James standing there laughing.
" Did you see that? They almost trampled me! I'm lucky I got away!" James said, exhilirated.
" That," Remus began, " was bloody brilliant."
" I agree. Let's go to the Three Broomsticks." The others nodded their agreement, even though Remus didn't really know too much about the Three Broomsticks. Maybe it was a shop for Quidditch supplies?
The four boys, with Harry and Lupin following, walked quietly to the Three Broomsticks. Harry couldn't help but marvel the relationship the marauders had had. Sirius and his father were obviously best friends, but Sirius and Remus were best friends too. Peter, although quiet, was still a part of the group, and he seemed to have his own moments of brilliance, however scarce they were. When they arrived at the Three Broomsticks Peter held the door open for the others and they all chose a booth at the back.
Harry and Lupin both sat on opposite sides of the booth while James went to order the Butterbeers. Harry looked around until his eyes fell on something in the booth across from theirs. His mother. Lupin seemed to notice her at around the same time as Harry, because he was looking the same way. James came back with the Butterbeers and Harry noticed he had started messing up his hair. He handed a Butterbeer to each of them and looked around. His eyes fell on Lily's dark red hair. He looked puzzled for a second. He turned to Sirius.
" Hey, who's that girl? The redhead?" he asked. Sirius shrugged.
" I don't know." he answered.
" Lily Evans." Peter put in helpfully. James stared at him.
" Do you know her?" Peter shook his head.
" No... I know who she is though... she's only in most of our classes. She's been in them since our first year." James frowned.
" I never noticed her."
" You wouldn't." Remus said, snickering.
" What's that supposed to mean?" James asked with a raised eyebrow.
" I think he means you're too self absorbed." Sirius answered.
"... and clueless." Remus added.
" She's the one you accidentally hexed in DADA once, Sirius." Peter answered.
" Guess that makes me self absorbed too, I don't even remember apologizing to the poor girl."
" That's because you didn't. You made her robes burt into flames and complained because you got detention." Remus said.
" Oy, now I remember!" James exclaimed, still not taking his eyes off of her, " That was her?" Peter nodded.
" You interested in her, James?" Sirius asked with a raised eyebrow. " Something tells me the James Potter charm won't work on her."
" Wanna bet?" James asked challengingly.
" Sure. 5 galleons."
" Okay, then." James got up and walked over to where Lily and her friends were. He messed up his hair and spoke loudly enough for the others to hear.
" Hello, Evans." he said in a pleasant tone, all signs of mischief gone from his face.
" Hullo." she answered, sounding a bit surpised. " Did you need something?" James shook his head.
" I just have a small question. How did you manage to slip a love potion into my butterbeer, because I'm very suddenly in love." he grinned at her in a charming manner that did not seem to affect her. She was, however, blushing slightly.
" I did no such thing, James Potter!" she stormed, her cheeks still lightly flushed. James seemed taken aback, but recovered rather quickly.
" Well, then why does my heart suddenly yearn to be with you?"
" Well, I think any desire you might have to be with me may very well be coming from another part of your anatomy, Potter." James blushed slightly at this.
" If that's the way you want it, Evans, I won't care." he answered boldly. She looked shocked for a moment. She seemed to recover rather quickly, however.
" How dare you?" she yelled and slapped him. Hard. Harry stared at his mother as she stormed out of the place. He had to admit, his mother had style. James still looked shocked, as did most of the people who had heard. James returned to his seat with the marauders, who were unsuccesfully trying to contain their laughter.
" Clearly, she's not into guys." he muttered darkly.
" Or did it occur to you that maybe she's just not interested in you?" Sirius asked, holding out his palm. James glared at him and took five galleons out of his pocket. Sirius took them.
" Ah... thank you very much. Actually, I think the day you have a kid with that girl will be the day you get on those chocolate frog cards." Sirius grinned. James scowled.
" Actually, now that I think about it," Sirius continued, " any kid you two have together deserves to be on a chocolate frog card."
" We're NOT having any kids together."
" Yeah, didn't she just tell you something like that a few minutes ago? Really, James, you're slow."
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AN: I know... I know... it's stupid to have re-uploaded the chapter JUST for that comment about Harry deserving to be on chocolate frog cards, but I really wanted to get that in. By the way, the MArauder Mayhem guild is now open! If you're a neopets member, please check it out. And if you're not, then sign up and check it out either way. ^_^ Even if you don't want to join, just let me know what you think or give me ideas. If you want to suggest a fanfiction we can link, let me know. ^_^ Anyway, it's under the account 'sailor_melody' Thank you, everyone. * hands out pancakes* Anyway, remember to please review.
By: Sailoranime
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Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter an do not claim to do so. I am getting nothing out of writing this story. And if you DO sue me, my sister and Aunt are both Lawyers. *grin*
AN: Okay, There was something wrong with the chapter, so I'm reposting it. BTW, the reason my comouter kept restarting was because I had the blaster worm virus. It only affects a few systems, including XP, which it what my new computer is. Anyway, I fixed it so I'm okay now. I thought something was wrong with the computer, I had no idea it was a virus. Anyway, it's really weird because I go it as soon as I connected to the internet, and after that I kept getting these little countdown things and my computer would restart every 10 minutes or so. Anyway, if something like this is happening to you, you probably have that virus.
I've also fixed the Little Lupin problem. Little Lupin wil usually be referred to as Remus, and Big Lupin will only be mentioned clearly so you can tell which one I'm talking about. ^_^
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Quote of the chapter:
" Devil's Snare, Devil's Snare... It likes the dark and damp-"
" So light a fire!" Harry choked.
" Yes, of course, but there's no wood!" Hermione cried, wringing her hands.
" HAVE YOU GONE MAD?" Ron bellowed, " ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT?"
Harry Potter And the Sorcerer's Stone, Page 278
AN: Hermione sometimes has trouble proving she's not a dunderhead as Snape says in the first book on page 137.
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Sirius, James, and Peter walked into Honeydukes, but Remus didn't follow. Sirius turned around with a grin.
" If you like the outside you'll love the inside. I mean, I know you haven't been here before, but most of the time the inside of the building is better than the outside."
" I know... I'm just... I don't know." Remus said shrugging. Once inside Harry noticed that this Honeydukes was quite different from the Honeydukes he knew. There were no sherbert balls or cockroach clusters, and there was a number of sweets that Harry had never even heard of, some that he knew were no longer made, and some that looked as if they should never had been made. Remus looked as surprised as he did.
" Ooh... look these are new." James said, thrusting a chocolate frog into Remus's hand. "The frogs are okay... but they got these excellent trading cards of famous wizards. They've only got Merlin, Circe, the Four Founders, and Morgana so far. Usually you get Morgana or Circe. I suppose it's their way of making the other super rare until they add more wizards."
" Dumbledore should be on these." Remus said quietly.
" Yeah, I guess he should," Sirius said in a desperate attempt to break the awkward silence that had followed Remus's comment.
" No, I'm serious. Do you think anybody else would have let me come to school despite my... situation?" Remus insisted.
" No probably not... but Dumbldore's good like that." James said.
" Yeah, a bit nuts if you ask me, but still great." Sirius added with a grin.
" Yeah, I guess he is a bit nuts." Remus answered with a grin of his own.
" Remus is right, though. They should put Dumbledore in these... Us too. I can just imagine it. 'The Marauders Four: Consisting of James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. They currently hold the record for most detentions and points taken off. Famous for sending Howlers to every member of the Ministry of Magic.' I should make it a personal goal to get myself on one of these cards." James said.
" Yeah... right. Come on, let's go pay for this stuff." Sirius answered, pointing to the pile of sweets Peter was carrying for them.
" Damn... line's too long..." Sirius frowned and turned to James with a malicious glint in his eyes. " Any ideas?" James nodded. He took out the invisibility cloak from somewhere under his robes, and the other three formed a sort of wall around him so he could put the cloak on without anyone seeing. After a few seconds the marauders parted and James was nowhere to be seen. Harry looked around for any hint of his father but found none. Sirius, Remus and Peter all went to stand at the end of the line. Harry, still looking for his father, was startled when he heard a voice that he was sure was his father yell.
" Gods, I got Slytherin!" Harry looked towards the source of the voice and saw a startled looking 4th year over by the chocolate frogs. Then he understood. For a second the only thing that was heard was muttering from the people in line, then they all rushed to the boy to look at what Harry guessed was one of the rarest cards. Sirius and the others ran to the owner and paid quickly before all the other people came back. After paying, they all went outside to find James standing there laughing.
" Did you see that? They almost trampled me! I'm lucky I got away!" James said, exhilirated.
" That," Remus began, " was bloody brilliant."
" I agree. Let's go to the Three Broomsticks." The others nodded their agreement, even though Remus didn't really know too much about the Three Broomsticks. Maybe it was a shop for Quidditch supplies?
The four boys, with Harry and Lupin following, walked quietly to the Three Broomsticks. Harry couldn't help but marvel the relationship the marauders had had. Sirius and his father were obviously best friends, but Sirius and Remus were best friends too. Peter, although quiet, was still a part of the group, and he seemed to have his own moments of brilliance, however scarce they were. When they arrived at the Three Broomsticks Peter held the door open for the others and they all chose a booth at the back.
Harry and Lupin both sat on opposite sides of the booth while James went to order the Butterbeers. Harry looked around until his eyes fell on something in the booth across from theirs. His mother. Lupin seemed to notice her at around the same time as Harry, because he was looking the same way. James came back with the Butterbeers and Harry noticed he had started messing up his hair. He handed a Butterbeer to each of them and looked around. His eyes fell on Lily's dark red hair. He looked puzzled for a second. He turned to Sirius.
" Hey, who's that girl? The redhead?" he asked. Sirius shrugged.
" I don't know." he answered.
" Lily Evans." Peter put in helpfully. James stared at him.
" Do you know her?" Peter shook his head.
" No... I know who she is though... she's only in most of our classes. She's been in them since our first year." James frowned.
" I never noticed her."
" You wouldn't." Remus said, snickering.
" What's that supposed to mean?" James asked with a raised eyebrow.
" I think he means you're too self absorbed." Sirius answered.
"... and clueless." Remus added.
" She's the one you accidentally hexed in DADA once, Sirius." Peter answered.
" Guess that makes me self absorbed too, I don't even remember apologizing to the poor girl."
" That's because you didn't. You made her robes burt into flames and complained because you got detention." Remus said.
" Oy, now I remember!" James exclaimed, still not taking his eyes off of her, " That was her?" Peter nodded.
" You interested in her, James?" Sirius asked with a raised eyebrow. " Something tells me the James Potter charm won't work on her."
" Wanna bet?" James asked challengingly.
" Sure. 5 galleons."
" Okay, then." James got up and walked over to where Lily and her friends were. He messed up his hair and spoke loudly enough for the others to hear.
" Hello, Evans." he said in a pleasant tone, all signs of mischief gone from his face.
" Hullo." she answered, sounding a bit surpised. " Did you need something?" James shook his head.
" I just have a small question. How did you manage to slip a love potion into my butterbeer, because I'm very suddenly in love." he grinned at her in a charming manner that did not seem to affect her. She was, however, blushing slightly.
" I did no such thing, James Potter!" she stormed, her cheeks still lightly flushed. James seemed taken aback, but recovered rather quickly.
" Well, then why does my heart suddenly yearn to be with you?"
" Well, I think any desire you might have to be with me may very well be coming from another part of your anatomy, Potter." James blushed slightly at this.
" If that's the way you want it, Evans, I won't care." he answered boldly. She looked shocked for a moment. She seemed to recover rather quickly, however.
" How dare you?" she yelled and slapped him. Hard. Harry stared at his mother as she stormed out of the place. He had to admit, his mother had style. James still looked shocked, as did most of the people who had heard. James returned to his seat with the marauders, who were unsuccesfully trying to contain their laughter.
" Clearly, she's not into guys." he muttered darkly.
" Or did it occur to you that maybe she's just not interested in you?" Sirius asked, holding out his palm. James glared at him and took five galleons out of his pocket. Sirius took them.
" Ah... thank you very much. Actually, I think the day you have a kid with that girl will be the day you get on those chocolate frog cards." Sirius grinned. James scowled.
" Actually, now that I think about it," Sirius continued, " any kid you two have together deserves to be on a chocolate frog card."
" We're NOT having any kids together."
" Yeah, didn't she just tell you something like that a few minutes ago? Really, James, you're slow."
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AN: I know... I know... it's stupid to have re-uploaded the chapter JUST for that comment about Harry deserving to be on chocolate frog cards, but I really wanted to get that in. By the way, the MArauder Mayhem guild is now open! If you're a neopets member, please check it out. And if you're not, then sign up and check it out either way. ^_^ Even if you don't want to join, just let me know what you think or give me ideas. If you want to suggest a fanfiction we can link, let me know. ^_^ Anyway, it's under the account 'sailor_melody' Thank you, everyone. * hands out pancakes* Anyway, remember to please review.