By: Sailoranime
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Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. This is written for my enjoyment and the enjoyment of others only.
AN: Yes, I realize this took while, like a week or so, but I had to write a few more things, you know. I can't abandon all my other work. This is dedicated to my 200th reviewer! After reviews stopped coming for chapter 8, I thought 'I'll wait until I get 200 reviews before I write chapter 9!' I thought it was a brilliant tactic for procastination. After all, it could take weeks for someone else to stumble on to the story, but alas, the next day my 200th review came. It's not a bad thing. I just wish I had had a longer break. ^_^
Full Summary: After Sirius's death in OotP, Lupin uses the Pensieve to let Harry see his memories of the Marauders. Includes Marauder adventures, some James/Lily fluff, James and Lily's wedding, and Harry's birth. Will be about 12 chapters long. 10 memories in total. Eventually, Harry and Lupin learn to er... interact better and become something of a family. No slash.
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Slowly, the noise from the cheering crowd faded, and suddenly, they were in a bathroom. Alone. It took Harry a minute to realize the Marauders were probably under the invisibility cloak. Harry looked around. From the colors, it looked like it was the Slytherin's bathroom. How odd.
" Do you hear something?" asked a panicky voice harry recognized. Wormtail. Then came another voice.
" Stop being so jumpy, Wormtail. I've found it." Remus whispered. Peter made a noise of disbelief as the sound of a wand tapping on brick was heard, and the bricks shrunk, falling into a neat 1/2 foot tall pile of stacked bricks in the same order they would have been if they were still their normal size. Harry heard soft footsteps going into the tunnel and followed.
" Where does this lead?" Harry asked. Lupin yawned.
" The gryffindor bathroom. The main Bathrooms are all connected. The tower, dungeons, and every other house is connected too. Nobody has ever found where, though. I suspect Dumbledore knows, though. Can you imagine if the Slytherins had access to Gryffindor tower. Since the bathrooms are smaller, and outside the actual house, which means you still need a password to get in there, it was easier to find the connection. We looked in every spot the old journals from other troublemakers said, but neither of them were right. In the end, we asked a house elf if the rumors were actually true. They were very happy to tell us to tap the special brick and we'd find it. They didn't tell us which special brick, though."
"Why would the houses and bathrooms be connected?" Harry asked with a frown, straining his ears for the sound of the two boy's footsteps.
"Well, if someone, somehow managed to attack the school and get inside one of the towers or dormitories, everyone in there could just go to one of the other houses and hide there. The tunnel would open automatically, and then close after they were inside, keeping the enemy out. They're all connected to the Great Hall too. The castle would open the tunnel to what it believes to be safest destination."
" What it believes to be safest destination? That castle thinks?" Harry asked in shock.
" Something like that. I guess you could say it's a live. Its instinct is to keep the inhabitants safe, and it will do everything it can to succeed in its goal. For example, the stairs move, right? But have you ever noticed that when you really need to get somewhere, it'll even create shortcuts that weren't even possible before? It sense things. One death eater came here once, can't remember his name, after the fall of Voldemort. He had come under the pretense of wanting to confess to Dumbledore about being a death eater, and becoming a spy and turning his wand in to Dumbledore.
"The front doors refused to let him in, and he was not pleased. Took out his wand and tried to force his way in. Tried everything he could. Dumbledore finally came down, I hear, but the doors refused to let him out. He finally convinced them, and they opened just in time for Dumbledore to see the Death Eater disappear. I'm not sure what happened, but apparently, the wand had been a portkey. The Death Eater was to give Dumbledore the wand seconds before it was scheduled to activate. The fool had been holding his wand, trying to open the doors when it activated instead, and he was transported to some sort of lair where no less than 50 Death Eaters were waiting for Dumbledore to appear. He was dead in a second."
" They thought he was Dumbledore?" Harry asked, confused. Lupin nodded.
" They attacked as soon as they saw him, I suppose. Better that way, I think. He died quickly. If he hadn't been killed like that, they would have tortured him for failing. And eventually killed him." he shuddered slightly, and Harry realized it was probably best if he asked no more questions.
They had been walking for a couple of minutes when Harry saw the end of the tunnel, and they both made it out right after the other two. Harry saw James and Sirius waiting as Remus and Peter took off the invisibility cloak.
"So you found it, Moony?" Sirius asked with a grin. Remus rolled his eyes.
" Nah. Padfoot. I'm still stuck over there." he answered sarcastically.
" Looks like some Slytherin rubbed off on you. You were obviously there too long." James retorted. Remus just rolled his eyes.
" Did you guys find the brick we're supposed to tap in this bathroom?" he asked. Sirius grinned.
" No, that's why you're still stuck behind the wall." Remus just shook his head in exasperation.
" Forget it... Do you guys have the stuff?"
" Yeah, it's right here." James answered, lifting a bag of what looked like cans from the floor.
" A brilliant stroke of luck that was, Peter," Sirius commented, " I can't believe Snivelly was actually stupid enough to not tell them to change the password to the restroom after you overheard it. But they'll change it as soon as they find what we've done!" The other laguhed too, and climbed into the passage. Once they were nside, Remus tapped one of the outside bricks, and the brick went back to their original size, covering the entrance again. Harry wondered what would have happened if he and Lupin had not made it in on time. Would they be able to go through it? The trip to the Slythrin bathroom was much faster, due to the fact that they were not longer being slowed down by having to stay under the invisibility cloak, plus the boys seemed in very much of a hurry to finish whatever it was they were going to do.
Remus had left the entrance to the slytherin side open, and nobody bothered to close it after they were all safely in the bathroom. James put a silencing charm around the room so whatever noise they made could not be heard outside. Sirius immediately took something out from the bag, which was a carton of eggs, shrunk so they would weigh less. He returned it to its normal side, and began throwing them around the room. Peter took out the cans and started opening them with his wand and handing them to James, who was messing with the taps. Remus closed the opening, smeared some egg, ketchup, and a number of other things on it, and opened the entrance back up. He closed it again, only to open it up again. Sirius stared at him.
"What are you doing?" he asked with a frown on his face. Remus looked irritated.
" Don't you think it will look odd if the whole wall is covered in stuff except for that small section. Dumbledore will know about the passage, he'll know it was us." Sirius nodded and went back to swinging something that looked like very much coleslaw at the walls and ceiling. Harry wondered where everything had come from. He wasn't even sure they had ketchup in the kitchens, let alone raw eggs and coleslaw.
Harry turned to James, who was putting cans of awful looking things under the taps, and amazingly enough, the taps seemed to be drinking it. 'The cans must be refilling themselves', thought Harry. Remus looked a little worried.
" Do we really want to pollute the water supply?" James shook his head.
" It's not that much. It'll just pour this stuff out for 10 minutes or so. It won't get into any of the other bathrooms."
Sirius looked at it with a disgusted look on his face. " What is that James?"
" Do you really want to know?"
" I don't know. You tell me."
James grinned. " Rotten turnip soups, brussel sprout puree... stuff like that."
Sirius made a gagging noise. Peter looked revolted. Remus looked amused.
" I think we're done." James said, looking around the room. " It'll only take a few minutes for them to clean up this mess with magic. Hopefully they won't find out about the taps until after they clean up. Maybe Snape will decide to take a shower for once, turn on the tap, and then jump in the tub without checking what comes out of it first." Sirius sniggered.
" I hope no one has time to clean up with magic so they'll make Filch clean. It'll be revenge for our last detention. " he said viciously. James nodded in agreement.
" If Filch cleans, he'll be using water from the taps, and they'll find out about the turnip soup and the other... oddities." Remus pointed out. James and Sirius both looked a little disappointed. But Sirius regain his composture quickly, walking to all of the tubs and making sure that there was no trace of the turnip soup or the other things that were supposed to pour out in there, and then picked up the invisiblity cloak, handing it to James.
" You close up after us and open the passge on the other side. It'll be easier that way." James nodded and put on the cloak. The others walked into the dark passage, their wands lighting the way, the only sign that James was still there was the opening closing, a muttered counterspell for the silencing charm, and the closing of a door before Harry had to catch up with the others.
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AN: Okay, first of all, I have one thing to say. Kindly refrain from biting my head off. ^_^ Yes, I believe most of you think James a seeker. Yes, I know he was playing with the snitch in OotP, and yes, I do remember Harry saying James had excellent reflexes. BUT, Quidditch is a sport. I think just about every sport needs to have players with good reflexes. Second, it is my fanfiction, and I chose to go with what J.K. said. After all, she wrote the books. And while the reviews were excellent, very many of you pointed out that James was a seeker. My answer: It doesn't matter. First of all, I'd have to rewrite chapter, which wouldn't make sense. Second of all, if I had made James a seeker, I would have gotten the same amount of corrections from the people who believe he was a chaser. In conclusion, re-write that chapter the way you want, if it makes you feel better. After all, there won't be, as far as I know, any more mention of his quidditch position. I'm not trying to be rude ro anything, in fact, I'm trying NOT to be rude. It just gave me lots of headaches and disinspired me, so I'm letting you know in hopes you'll understand.
With that said, let's move to more important issues, like Marauder Mayhem. The guild, on neopets.com under the account sailor_melody, is still open to anyone who is fan of the Marauders. I won't go into much detail because this isn't an advertising service or anything, but we offer links to our favorite Marauder fanfiction, fanart, contests, links to groups and mailing lists like 'Sirius Denail', and special events on the full moon. The full moon idea was actually from one of my reviewers, whoever it was, take a bow. ^_^ If you're interested, the URL is . Well, that's it.
Except for one more thing. I don't like my username much anymore, so I think I might change it. Maybe I'l become 'crazypsychowritergirl' or something. My friend suggested I just add something to it, like Sailoraime Siriusly mourning or Siriusly Mourning Sailoranime. I'm still not sure. Maybe I'll start liking it again... Anyway, any input on that appreciated. ^_^ actually, input on anything is appreciated. Anyway, bye, don't forget to review, and good night. * hands out popcorn* Mm... popcorn.
Just one last thing! The Dwelling spin off has been posted already. Now you can find out why Sirius was wearing a ski mask. ^_^