Harry, Ron and Hermione quickly and quietly walked to the front of the
Great Hall, where the Sorting Hat stood on a stool. The Great Hall went
quiet as they stood in front of everyone so that they could be seen.
Dumbledore stood up and smiled, his arms stretched out wide.
"Good morning everyone, last night, these three students transferred here and before we do anything, we need to put them into their houses, please do everything you can to make them feel welcome, so . . . Miss Granger, will you please put on the Sorting Hat"
Hermione quickly sidled up to the Hat and put it on. After a few minutes of silence, there was a huge shout of . . .
"GRYFFINDOR!" Everyone on the Gryffindor table cheered loudly. Hermione quickly walked over and sat down.
"Mr. Weasel" Ron walked over to the Sorting Hat and crammed it onto his head. Almost instantly it yelled.
"GRYFFINDOR!" Once again, the Gryffindor table burst into applause and cheers.
"And last, but not least, Mr. Poor" Harry picked up the Sorting Hat and put it on his head. Like last time, it fell past his eyes. The Sorting Hat was whispering in his ear.
"Ah, young Mr. Potter, I see you accidentally went back in time with a time- turner, along with Mr. Weasley and Miss Granger. Like I said four years ago, you could do well in Slytherin, it's all here in your head and Slytherin would be the best house to help you"
Harry started whispering frantically "Please no! Not Slytherin! Put me in Gryffindor! That's the house where I belong!"
The Sorting Hat heard this and sighed "Alright then, if not Slytherin, it had better be . . . "GRYFFINDOR!" As the Hat shouted the last word, Harry sighed with relief. He was in the house where he belonged along with his two best friends. Now he could try to spend more time with his dad and his three best friends, heck, he could even try making friends with Lily too.
He walked over to the Gryffindor table, shaking hands with James, Sirius, Remus, Peter and even Lily. Two girls that Harry didn't know shook his hand too. "Well done you three, Congratulations! We have three new Gryffindors amongst us!" All the Slytherins were glaring at them "And I hope you all will do your best to make them feel welcome"
"Somehow I don't think the Slytherins will be welcoming us!" Harry whispered to Ron and Hermione and they started laughing.
"Now that that's over, let breakfast begin!"
Almost instantly, food appeared out of nowhere. Sirius and James grabbed hold of anything they could get hold of and started stuffing their faces. Harry pulled a face.
"How can you guys eat so much?"
"Well, we're growing boys and we need to eat!" Sirius said, gulping down some pumpkin juice and taking a huge chunk out of some toast. Hermione looked down at her toast and pushed it away from her.
"They've put me off my food now" She moaned. Ron laughed.
"Hey, I just realized something! We need a new Seeker and our next match is on Saturday!" James exclaimed. Ron and Hermione started grinning.
"You need a new Seeker huh? Well, what a coincidence! You're looking right at one!"
"Huh? Who?" questioned Sirius.
"Harry of course! In our old school, he was a Seeker and he didn't lose a single match!"
James, Sirius, Remus and Peter looked at Harry uncertainly.
"Are you sure?" James said, looking doubtful "I mean, no offense"
"Hey, how about after we finish lessons, Harry shows you what he's made of! I tell you, he's bloody brilliant!" Ron exclaimed. Harry blushed.
"Ron, I'm not that good!" It was Hermione who spoke up next.
"Harry, stop trying to be modest! You're good and you know it! I bet you'd make the team!"
Harry blushed, if possible, even redder than before.
"Alright then, after lessons, we'll see what you're made of" James said, smiling.
"Cool!"
"Hey Lily, are you gonna come and watch me?" James asked, turning to the red-head next to him. Lily glared at him.
"I will go down to watch, but only to see what Harry's like, I'm not watching you! You're just a big-head" Lily said and turned around to talk to her friends.
"Well, I'm insulted!" James said, pretending to look offended. Harry smirked.
"You like her, don't you?" James looked at him, taken aback.
"How did you know?"
"It's sort of obvious" Ron said, grinning "Don't worry, Harry was the same with Cho"
"I was NOT! And I did not fancy her!"
"Oh yeah! So, that's why you asked her to the ball in our fourth year and you got all tongue-tied, was it?" Harry stared at him.
"How did you know that?" Ron grinned.
"I have my ways! Let's just say, it's good that I have a sister"
"Y-You got Ginny to spy on me!" Harry said looking outraged "Your sister! The one who fancies me?!" Ron's smile faded.
"How'd you find that out?"
"I have my ways!" Harry said and started to grin. Hermione rolled her eyes.
"You two! You act like brothers! It's scary!"
"I wish we were! I'm an only child, it looks like that's how it's gonna stay, unless my parents miraculously come back to life"
Ron put on a sympathetic smile.
"Don't worry; you can be my temporary brother if you want"
Harry smiled.
"Okay then, cool!"
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After breakfast, the Marauders, Harry, Ron and Hermione made their way out and to the Gryffindor tower, but on their way, they saw a bunch of Slytherins surrounding something, but no one could make out what. There was one Slytherin that Harry, Ron and Hermione made out and that was Lucius Malfoy. It looked like he was the leader of the group.
"Come on Weasley, cough up the dough, or are you that poor?" All of the Slytherins laughed. Harry and Hermione looked cautiously over at Ron, who looked furious. He stormed over to the Slytherins.
"Ron! NO!" Hermione yelled.
"Oi! What do you think you're doing?!" Ron shouted. All the Slytherins turned to look at Ron.
"Oh, it's Weasel, what do you want?"
"Leave him alone!" Ron yelled. He could see red hair and freckles and also glasses. It was definitely Arthur Weasley and from what Ron could tell, he'd been beaten up pretty bad.
"And what if we don't? What'll you do about it then Weasel?"
Ron pulled his wand out and pointed it straight at Lucius.
"I'm warning you! Leave him alone!" Ron's voice was quivering with rage.
Lucius merely smiled and turned to see Arthur standing up. He pulled out his wand and muttered something. Arthur went flying back into a wall. Ron immediately lost it; he pointed his wand at Malfoy and aimed.
"Expelliarmus!" he cried and with that, Malfoy went flying back with his wand landing in Ron's hand.
"Ron! Stop it!" But Ron was taking no notice.
"Rictusempra!" he yelled, aiming his attack at Malfoy, who was only just recovering from the previous spell. Arthur stood up and quickly ran over to the Marauders, who were just standing there, looking shocked. Harry, who thought Ron might need some help, stood next to him and took out his wand also.
"Harry! Don't you dare start too! We're gonna lose points from Gryffindor before we even start the day!" Hermione said, looking alarmed.
"Don't pick on people just because of how much money they've got! It just goes to show how low you Slytherins really are!" Harry told them. Immediately, he knew that he'd hit a nerve because they all turned to glare at him.
"Harry! Ron! STOP IT!" Hermione cried.
"What's going on here?!" Everyone turned to see a younger looking Professor McGonagall.
"These Slytherins!" Ron said, pointing at the group in front of them "were beating up Da- uh, I mean this boy here because of how much money he had!"
Professor McGonagall looked at Arthur, then glanced over at Lucius Malfoy.
"And who attacked Mr. Malfoy?" she questioned.
"I did" Ron said. McGonagall looked at him, taken aback "He was beating him up, I felt that someone had to do something about it, so I stepped in"
McGonagall nodded. "Even though you were sticking up for another student, I'm afraid that ten points will have to be taken from Gryffindor for attacking another student and twenty points will be taken from Slytherin and detention for Mr. Malfoy. Now will all of you please get to your classes" and with that, she walked off.
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While walking to Transfiguration, Arthur Weasley thanked Ron.
"No problem! I used to get that all the time because our family isn't exactly the richest in the world, I hate to see it happen to anyone else" Arthur smiled.
Harry and James were talking about Quidditch.
"Yeah, so I'm a Chaser, everyone says that I'm the best that the school's ever seen"
"Somehow I can believe that" and James grinned.
"Something tells me that you and I are gonna get along just fine" He said and ruffled Harry's hair. Harry grinned.
"If what your mate says is true, that you've never lost a match as Seeker and I'm the best Chaser that's ever played at Hogwarts, then the Quidditch cup is in the bag!" James smiled.
"Well, there is one little detail that he forgot" Harry said, smiling knowingly.
"Really, what's that?"
"I made the Quidditch team in my first year in school" James' jaw dropped.
"You're kidding!" he said, looking astonished.
"No"
James turned around to Sirius, Remus, Peter, Arthur and Lily.
"Did you guys hear that? Harry made the Quidditch team in his first year at his school!" Everyone's jaw dropped when they heard this information.
"You're joking, right Harry?" Sirius exclaimed. Harry shook his head.
"It's all true!" Hermione piped up. Harry smiled at his best female friend.
"Yeah, I tell you, I've never seen such flying!" Ron said, sounding happy.
"Ron, will you stop it!" Harry said, feeling himself go hot in the face.
"Harry, you shouldn't be embarrassed about it" Hermione told him.
"I'm not! Just quit going on about it, please!"
While in Transfiguration, Harry seated himself next to James and Remus. Ron seated himself next to Arthur and Hermione. Hermione sat next to Peter and Ron.
"Today, we will be learning how to transform mice into goblets" McGonagall told them. Harry, Ron and Hermione looked at each other in amazement. This was exactly the same thing that she taught them in their first week.
"Now, tap on it and one, two, three, then say 'Fereverto'" McGonagall said, transforming her mouse into a perfect goblet "Now get into pairs and begin"
Sirius paired with Harry. James paired with Remus. Peter paired with Lily. Arthur paired with Molly and Hermione paired with Ron.
Ron found himself struggling and also found himself under pressure by Hermione's stare.
"Fereverto!" he cried, but to no avail, the mouse remained the same.
Hermione sighed and gave him an exasperated look.
"Ron, you're acting like you did when we were once in Charms!"
"I-can't-get-this-bloody-thing-to-work!" he said through gritted teeth, while flicking his wand at the mouse. Hermione grabbed hold of his arm and stopped him.
"If I have to teach you, then so be it! First off, you're saying it wrong! It's Fer-ever-to, not Fereverto" Everyone turned to look at Hermione who was explaining to Ron.
"You do it then if you're so clever! Go on!"
"Ron, I don't think that's a good idea to encourage her, remember in Charms when-"
"He knows Harry!" Hermione said. She was silent for a moment, before tapping the mouse three times and saying 'Fereverto', almost instantly, the mouse turned into a perfect goblet. Everyone turned to stare at her perfect goblet.
"Congratulations Miss Granger! Ten points to Gryffindor!" McGonagall said, sounding happy. Ron pulled a face and started to sulk.
"Well Ron, you did encourage her and-"
"Shut up Harry!" Ron snapped.
Harry did and didn't talk to him for the rest of the lessons, knowing that Ron was in such a foul mood. Ron only started talking to him when they were making their way to the Quidditch pitch.
"Good morning everyone, last night, these three students transferred here and before we do anything, we need to put them into their houses, please do everything you can to make them feel welcome, so . . . Miss Granger, will you please put on the Sorting Hat"
Hermione quickly sidled up to the Hat and put it on. After a few minutes of silence, there was a huge shout of . . .
"GRYFFINDOR!" Everyone on the Gryffindor table cheered loudly. Hermione quickly walked over and sat down.
"Mr. Weasel" Ron walked over to the Sorting Hat and crammed it onto his head. Almost instantly it yelled.
"GRYFFINDOR!" Once again, the Gryffindor table burst into applause and cheers.
"And last, but not least, Mr. Poor" Harry picked up the Sorting Hat and put it on his head. Like last time, it fell past his eyes. The Sorting Hat was whispering in his ear.
"Ah, young Mr. Potter, I see you accidentally went back in time with a time- turner, along with Mr. Weasley and Miss Granger. Like I said four years ago, you could do well in Slytherin, it's all here in your head and Slytherin would be the best house to help you"
Harry started whispering frantically "Please no! Not Slytherin! Put me in Gryffindor! That's the house where I belong!"
The Sorting Hat heard this and sighed "Alright then, if not Slytherin, it had better be . . . "GRYFFINDOR!" As the Hat shouted the last word, Harry sighed with relief. He was in the house where he belonged along with his two best friends. Now he could try to spend more time with his dad and his three best friends, heck, he could even try making friends with Lily too.
He walked over to the Gryffindor table, shaking hands with James, Sirius, Remus, Peter and even Lily. Two girls that Harry didn't know shook his hand too. "Well done you three, Congratulations! We have three new Gryffindors amongst us!" All the Slytherins were glaring at them "And I hope you all will do your best to make them feel welcome"
"Somehow I don't think the Slytherins will be welcoming us!" Harry whispered to Ron and Hermione and they started laughing.
"Now that that's over, let breakfast begin!"
Almost instantly, food appeared out of nowhere. Sirius and James grabbed hold of anything they could get hold of and started stuffing their faces. Harry pulled a face.
"How can you guys eat so much?"
"Well, we're growing boys and we need to eat!" Sirius said, gulping down some pumpkin juice and taking a huge chunk out of some toast. Hermione looked down at her toast and pushed it away from her.
"They've put me off my food now" She moaned. Ron laughed.
"Hey, I just realized something! We need a new Seeker and our next match is on Saturday!" James exclaimed. Ron and Hermione started grinning.
"You need a new Seeker huh? Well, what a coincidence! You're looking right at one!"
"Huh? Who?" questioned Sirius.
"Harry of course! In our old school, he was a Seeker and he didn't lose a single match!"
James, Sirius, Remus and Peter looked at Harry uncertainly.
"Are you sure?" James said, looking doubtful "I mean, no offense"
"Hey, how about after we finish lessons, Harry shows you what he's made of! I tell you, he's bloody brilliant!" Ron exclaimed. Harry blushed.
"Ron, I'm not that good!" It was Hermione who spoke up next.
"Harry, stop trying to be modest! You're good and you know it! I bet you'd make the team!"
Harry blushed, if possible, even redder than before.
"Alright then, after lessons, we'll see what you're made of" James said, smiling.
"Cool!"
"Hey Lily, are you gonna come and watch me?" James asked, turning to the red-head next to him. Lily glared at him.
"I will go down to watch, but only to see what Harry's like, I'm not watching you! You're just a big-head" Lily said and turned around to talk to her friends.
"Well, I'm insulted!" James said, pretending to look offended. Harry smirked.
"You like her, don't you?" James looked at him, taken aback.
"How did you know?"
"It's sort of obvious" Ron said, grinning "Don't worry, Harry was the same with Cho"
"I was NOT! And I did not fancy her!"
"Oh yeah! So, that's why you asked her to the ball in our fourth year and you got all tongue-tied, was it?" Harry stared at him.
"How did you know that?" Ron grinned.
"I have my ways! Let's just say, it's good that I have a sister"
"Y-You got Ginny to spy on me!" Harry said looking outraged "Your sister! The one who fancies me?!" Ron's smile faded.
"How'd you find that out?"
"I have my ways!" Harry said and started to grin. Hermione rolled her eyes.
"You two! You act like brothers! It's scary!"
"I wish we were! I'm an only child, it looks like that's how it's gonna stay, unless my parents miraculously come back to life"
Ron put on a sympathetic smile.
"Don't worry; you can be my temporary brother if you want"
Harry smiled.
"Okay then, cool!"
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After breakfast, the Marauders, Harry, Ron and Hermione made their way out and to the Gryffindor tower, but on their way, they saw a bunch of Slytherins surrounding something, but no one could make out what. There was one Slytherin that Harry, Ron and Hermione made out and that was Lucius Malfoy. It looked like he was the leader of the group.
"Come on Weasley, cough up the dough, or are you that poor?" All of the Slytherins laughed. Harry and Hermione looked cautiously over at Ron, who looked furious. He stormed over to the Slytherins.
"Ron! NO!" Hermione yelled.
"Oi! What do you think you're doing?!" Ron shouted. All the Slytherins turned to look at Ron.
"Oh, it's Weasel, what do you want?"
"Leave him alone!" Ron yelled. He could see red hair and freckles and also glasses. It was definitely Arthur Weasley and from what Ron could tell, he'd been beaten up pretty bad.
"And what if we don't? What'll you do about it then Weasel?"
Ron pulled his wand out and pointed it straight at Lucius.
"I'm warning you! Leave him alone!" Ron's voice was quivering with rage.
Lucius merely smiled and turned to see Arthur standing up. He pulled out his wand and muttered something. Arthur went flying back into a wall. Ron immediately lost it; he pointed his wand at Malfoy and aimed.
"Expelliarmus!" he cried and with that, Malfoy went flying back with his wand landing in Ron's hand.
"Ron! Stop it!" But Ron was taking no notice.
"Rictusempra!" he yelled, aiming his attack at Malfoy, who was only just recovering from the previous spell. Arthur stood up and quickly ran over to the Marauders, who were just standing there, looking shocked. Harry, who thought Ron might need some help, stood next to him and took out his wand also.
"Harry! Don't you dare start too! We're gonna lose points from Gryffindor before we even start the day!" Hermione said, looking alarmed.
"Don't pick on people just because of how much money they've got! It just goes to show how low you Slytherins really are!" Harry told them. Immediately, he knew that he'd hit a nerve because they all turned to glare at him.
"Harry! Ron! STOP IT!" Hermione cried.
"What's going on here?!" Everyone turned to see a younger looking Professor McGonagall.
"These Slytherins!" Ron said, pointing at the group in front of them "were beating up Da- uh, I mean this boy here because of how much money he had!"
Professor McGonagall looked at Arthur, then glanced over at Lucius Malfoy.
"And who attacked Mr. Malfoy?" she questioned.
"I did" Ron said. McGonagall looked at him, taken aback "He was beating him up, I felt that someone had to do something about it, so I stepped in"
McGonagall nodded. "Even though you were sticking up for another student, I'm afraid that ten points will have to be taken from Gryffindor for attacking another student and twenty points will be taken from Slytherin and detention for Mr. Malfoy. Now will all of you please get to your classes" and with that, she walked off.
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While walking to Transfiguration, Arthur Weasley thanked Ron.
"No problem! I used to get that all the time because our family isn't exactly the richest in the world, I hate to see it happen to anyone else" Arthur smiled.
Harry and James were talking about Quidditch.
"Yeah, so I'm a Chaser, everyone says that I'm the best that the school's ever seen"
"Somehow I can believe that" and James grinned.
"Something tells me that you and I are gonna get along just fine" He said and ruffled Harry's hair. Harry grinned.
"If what your mate says is true, that you've never lost a match as Seeker and I'm the best Chaser that's ever played at Hogwarts, then the Quidditch cup is in the bag!" James smiled.
"Well, there is one little detail that he forgot" Harry said, smiling knowingly.
"Really, what's that?"
"I made the Quidditch team in my first year in school" James' jaw dropped.
"You're kidding!" he said, looking astonished.
"No"
James turned around to Sirius, Remus, Peter, Arthur and Lily.
"Did you guys hear that? Harry made the Quidditch team in his first year at his school!" Everyone's jaw dropped when they heard this information.
"You're joking, right Harry?" Sirius exclaimed. Harry shook his head.
"It's all true!" Hermione piped up. Harry smiled at his best female friend.
"Yeah, I tell you, I've never seen such flying!" Ron said, sounding happy.
"Ron, will you stop it!" Harry said, feeling himself go hot in the face.
"Harry, you shouldn't be embarrassed about it" Hermione told him.
"I'm not! Just quit going on about it, please!"
While in Transfiguration, Harry seated himself next to James and Remus. Ron seated himself next to Arthur and Hermione. Hermione sat next to Peter and Ron.
"Today, we will be learning how to transform mice into goblets" McGonagall told them. Harry, Ron and Hermione looked at each other in amazement. This was exactly the same thing that she taught them in their first week.
"Now, tap on it and one, two, three, then say 'Fereverto'" McGonagall said, transforming her mouse into a perfect goblet "Now get into pairs and begin"
Sirius paired with Harry. James paired with Remus. Peter paired with Lily. Arthur paired with Molly and Hermione paired with Ron.
Ron found himself struggling and also found himself under pressure by Hermione's stare.
"Fereverto!" he cried, but to no avail, the mouse remained the same.
Hermione sighed and gave him an exasperated look.
"Ron, you're acting like you did when we were once in Charms!"
"I-can't-get-this-bloody-thing-to-work!" he said through gritted teeth, while flicking his wand at the mouse. Hermione grabbed hold of his arm and stopped him.
"If I have to teach you, then so be it! First off, you're saying it wrong! It's Fer-ever-to, not Fereverto" Everyone turned to look at Hermione who was explaining to Ron.
"You do it then if you're so clever! Go on!"
"Ron, I don't think that's a good idea to encourage her, remember in Charms when-"
"He knows Harry!" Hermione said. She was silent for a moment, before tapping the mouse three times and saying 'Fereverto', almost instantly, the mouse turned into a perfect goblet. Everyone turned to stare at her perfect goblet.
"Congratulations Miss Granger! Ten points to Gryffindor!" McGonagall said, sounding happy. Ron pulled a face and started to sulk.
"Well Ron, you did encourage her and-"
"Shut up Harry!" Ron snapped.
Harry did and didn't talk to him for the rest of the lessons, knowing that Ron was in such a foul mood. Ron only started talking to him when they were making their way to the Quidditch pitch.
