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Khari, I'm only translating it.
A wonderful summer
Harry only needed about five minutes to become good friends with his father; just as everyone had told him, they were nearly the same, not only physically, but also in the way they acted. His father didn't ask many questions about how it came he had a cousin, which proved that Mrs. Potter was right in the fact that her son never listened. He also didn't ask why Harry was there, although Harry supposed it was because his parents had told him not to.
"So, Harry, you're going to attend Hogwarts with me this term?" Asked James when they were in his room.
"Yes, at least for this term." He answered. "Maybe longer."
"Then you have to get into Gryffindor with my friends and me!" He cried happily. "You should see us... we play wonderful pranks on the Slytherins."
"Tell me about your friends, who and how are they?"
"Well, they're wonderful. There's Sirius Black, he's my best friend. He's a prankster, just as me, and he's a very good quidditch player, we've known each other since we were young. Then there's Remus Lupin, he's a very good friend too; he also loves pranks, but he doesn't play quidditch, he prefers to study. Even though he studies a lot, he's always there when you need him. And then there's Peter Pettigrew" Harry grimaced in disgust. "He isn't good in quidditch and he's not very good in his studies either, but he's always there when you need him and he's always ready to help when we want to play a prank on the Slytherins. The four of us together are called the Marauders. And then, there's Lily..."
"Lily?" Smiled Harry.
"Lily Evans... she... she's my girlfriend." Said James, blushing lightly, which made Harry smile.
"Tell me about her." He said. "How is she?"
"She's unique, she's smart, honest, generous, sweet..."
"And beautiful?"
"Yes, gorgeous. She has long red hair that falls around her like burning flames, her skin is as pale as porcelain and she has beautiful eyes, big and green as emeralds. And her smile... what a smile! She's able to make anyone happy with it."
"I want to meet her." Said Harry in a soft voice.
"You'll like her, you'll see." Nodded James. "Tell me about your friends."
"Sure... I have two best friends..."
A sound by the door drew their attention. Thinking that it might be Sky, his mother's cat, James got up to open it. He was very surprised when instead of the cat he expected, he saw a grass green coloured redgby pup. Before he had the chance to look at it more carefully, it flew past him and landed on Harry's legs.
"Saïl! What's the matter? You missed me?" Said Harry while he rubbed his small pet under the jaw, who was moving his wings in delight.
"You have a redgby!" Cried James. "Whoa, I have only seen them in a book about Care of Magical Creatures... they're very rare and valuable."
"I know."
"How comes you have one?"
"One of the brothers of my best friend gave it to me for my birthday." Said Harry with a smile. "Don't think I've had him for long; they gave him to me yesterday."
"It's beautiful!" Said James, while he looked closer at it. "That family must really care about you for them to give you something like this."
"Yes, they are like my second family." He smiled while remembering about the Weasleys. "It will be a long time till I see them again... Maybe I won't be able to see them again." He added, thinking about Lord Voldemort.
"Oh, come on... don't feel sad! You'll see them again. Come on... tell me about your friends, you said you had two."
"Yes, I have two, a boy and a girl. His name is Ron, he's tall and a redhead, he's a great friend, you can always depend on him. He's the sixth of seven siblings, and he feels like he always has to compete with them because each one has done great things at school. The oldest is Bill, he was Head Boy, then Charlie was quidditch captain; Percy was Head Boy too and the twins, even if they are very mischievous, get good marks and everyone likes them. Oh and Ginny, the youngest, she's the first in her class."
"Well, it seems he has a lot to do to match them."
"Well, he's also very good. He's the best chess player in the whole school, and there's not been anyone better in many years. He even managed to win against the deputy-headmistress in a giant game! He also received Special Awards for Services to the School with me in our second year, something that they have only given to one other person."
"Oh, then he has done more than his brothers!" Said James amazed. "What about your other friend?"
"Her name is Hermione Granger. She's very smart and I'm sure she will be a prefect this year; she has always been the first in our class. The only bad thing is that she's very firm about keeping school rules. She doesn't like to break them, although, she's the first one to do so when it's important or because Ron and I are about to go on one of our adventures... but after that, we have to listen to her lectures... but oh well, she's a good girl."
"You like her?" Said James mischievously.
"Hermione? No! I only see her as a good friend. Ron is the one who likes her, even if he doesn't want to admit it."
"Well, I would like to meet them sometime." Said James.
"I have a picture if you want to see it."
"Yes, yes... let me see."
Harry took out the locket he had received the night before and gave it to James, who opened it and looked at the three fourteen-year-old teens. One of them was Harry, so the other one had to be Ron, while the girl had to be Hermione. The three of them were smiling and waving their hands, but a moment later, Ron and Hermione started what looked like to be an argument, which Harry attempted to stop and then he soon left, leaving the picture and his friends, who were still arguing.
"It seems they argue a lot." Said James as he looked at the picture. "Are they always like this?"
"Nearly always. At first, you try to get them to stop, but after a while, you grow tired of it and leave them on their own." He said calmly.
James gave him the locket back and he seemed to be about to say something else when a sound by his window distracted him. He went to see who it was and motioned to whoever it was down there to come up to his room. Then he turned around and smiled at Harry.
"We've a visitor." He told him smiling. "Get ready to meet Mr. Sirius Black."
He hadn't even finished saying those words when someone knocked on his bedroom's door and opened it without waiting for an answer. A fifteen-year- old boy appeared; he had black hair, big blue eyes, and a large smile on his face. Before they could say anything, he ran to James and jumped on him, ruffling his hair.
"James! I'm so happy to see you in one piece! I thought your parents were going to kill you for that prank we pulled on Mrs. Hockins! Did your father lecture you? Because you should have seen my mother, she looked like she was about to burst!"
"No, thanks to a visitor, they didn't say much." Said James while he tried to keep his glasses on his nose.
"Visitor? What visitor?" Said Sirius taking his glasses.
"The one that stands behind you, Black, and give me back those glasses!"
"Here you go." He said giving him the glasses and turning around. "James, there's a copy of you in the room!" Cried Sirius.
"It's not a copy, idiot! It's my cousin!"
"Your cousin?"
"Hello, my name's Harry Potter." Said Harry smiling sticking out his hand.
"Oh, sorry. I'm Sirius Black." The other boy said while shaking his hand. "The grand Sirius Black!"
"Come on, Sirius, don't start." Said James rolling off the bed.
"Don't start what?" He asked, raising an eyebrow. "Say Harry, how long will you stay here?"
"All this term, maybe even longer. So this year I'm coming to Hogwarts with you."
"Wonderful! Do you like playing pranks?"
"Of course, what a question."
Harry walked out of James' room and went to pick up something in his own room. When he came back a few minutes later (followed by Saïl) he was carrying a box that didn't seem to be very big.
"Look at this." He said opening the box. "They are all pranks."
"Wow! There are a lot!" cried James while looking inside the box.
"I've never seen anything like this one, nor this one, nor this. Erm, then again, I've never seen any of these." Said Sirius. "Where did you get them?"
"They were a birthday present." He smiled. "I have friends who wants to open a joke's shop once they are out of school, so they have been experimenting with these. I don't even know what most of them are."
"Hey, look! Cream cookies!" Said Sirius picking one up and starting to eat it.
"Noo!" Shouted Harry, trying to warn him.
Too late. Harry's cry only startled him and he ate the cream quickly. Harry and James heard a small puff and where Sirius had been standing, there was now a big canary. James couldn't help but start laughing at seeing that, same as Harry. A few seconds later, all the feathers fell on the floor and Sirius appeared again, who, after the shock, had started to laugh too.
"I'm sorry," said Harry, still laughing, "I tried to warn you, because I had seen these before, but you were too fast."
"What are they?" Asked James as he looked at one of the cookies.
"They are Canary Creams, my friends had already made them last year and they filled the school with them."
"God... these pranks are wonderful!" Said Sirius. "Imagine all the things we can do to Snape with them. Can you imagine that, James?"
"Yes..." Said James in a dreaming voice.
"Snape?" Asked Harry with a raised eyebrow, the idea seemed to interest him.
"He's a damn Slytherin, a real bastard. He's always trying to find a way to get us expelled." Said Sirius with a shudder. "That's why he and his friends are our main objective."
"Well... that sounds really interesting." Said Harry. "I hope you don't mind if I join you."
"Of course not!" Said James.
"Wonderful! Another Marauder!" Cried Sirius.
The days passed, and Harry had a lot of fun with James and Sirius arranging things for school and playing pranks, but they always reserved Harry's pranks for when they would be able to use them on Snape. That summer was the second summer in which Harry didn't go to Diagon Alley, (his grandparents went to get his things for him) but he really didn't mind.
The day before he had to go to Hogwarts, he drew a bit away from all the activity he had been taking part until then. He started remembering the other years. Usually, by the last day of the holidays, Ron and Hermione were already with him so they would be able to take the Express together. The idea that that year that wouldn't happen made him sad and he was pretty out of it for the whole day, which worried Mr. and Mrs. Potter, James, and Sirius. They became even more worried when he went to bed early.
'I miss them.' Thought Harry while he lay on his bed.
That's when a sudden thought came to him and he started to look through his clothes for the locket the twins had given him for his birthday. It was a good to try it out. Once he had it in his hands, he tried to calm down and opened it. Carefully, he brushed his finger against Ron's name and his heart began to beat faster as he waited.
The locked started to shine brightly and a few seconds later, an image started to appear, slowly; the features of the red-haired boy he knew so well started to form.
"HARRY!!" Cried the image.
"Hey, Ron." Said Harry in a low voice to his friend.
"It's about time you called us! We were starting to think something had happened to you!"
"Shhhhhh! Don't talk so loud or they will hear you." He lectured.
"Sorry. How are you doing, Harry?"
"I'm fine, don't worry about me. My grandparents and my father are great and I'm having lots of fun with my father."
"Give it here, Ron! I want to talk to Harry!" A voice said from behind Ron; there was a small struggle and then Hermione's face appeared. "Harry! I'm so glad you're okay!"
"Hello, Hermione, how are you doing?"
"Very good! You know what? They made me a prefect!"
"Congratulations, I'm very happy for you. You should be happy."
"I'm very happy." She smiled. "Harry, Ron and I have to ask you for a small favour."
"What? I'll try to do it, but from here, there's not much I can do."
"I want you to remember and tell us all the pranks you've played with the Marauders so we can play them on Malfoy."
"Hermione! Are you sure you're alright?" Said Harry in a scared voice.
"Of course I'm alright."
"But, you're asking me about pranks."
"Well." said Hermione, blushing a bit. "This year you're not going to be here. and well, I thought this term might be a bit boring and. well. I'm sure you understand."
"Yes, I understand. Don't worry, I'll tell you everything."
"Thanks! We should go to bed now; we have to get up early tomorrow. Good night, Harry."
"Good night, Ron, Hermione." With that, Harry closed the locket and went to bed feeling better then before.
To be continued...
A/N: Thanks for all reviews and thanks to Vinnie, my wonderful beta-reader ^.^
A wonderful summer
Harry only needed about five minutes to become good friends with his father; just as everyone had told him, they were nearly the same, not only physically, but also in the way they acted. His father didn't ask many questions about how it came he had a cousin, which proved that Mrs. Potter was right in the fact that her son never listened. He also didn't ask why Harry was there, although Harry supposed it was because his parents had told him not to.
"So, Harry, you're going to attend Hogwarts with me this term?" Asked James when they were in his room.
"Yes, at least for this term." He answered. "Maybe longer."
"Then you have to get into Gryffindor with my friends and me!" He cried happily. "You should see us... we play wonderful pranks on the Slytherins."
"Tell me about your friends, who and how are they?"
"Well, they're wonderful. There's Sirius Black, he's my best friend. He's a prankster, just as me, and he's a very good quidditch player, we've known each other since we were young. Then there's Remus Lupin, he's a very good friend too; he also loves pranks, but he doesn't play quidditch, he prefers to study. Even though he studies a lot, he's always there when you need him. And then there's Peter Pettigrew" Harry grimaced in disgust. "He isn't good in quidditch and he's not very good in his studies either, but he's always there when you need him and he's always ready to help when we want to play a prank on the Slytherins. The four of us together are called the Marauders. And then, there's Lily..."
"Lily?" Smiled Harry.
"Lily Evans... she... she's my girlfriend." Said James, blushing lightly, which made Harry smile.
"Tell me about her." He said. "How is she?"
"She's unique, she's smart, honest, generous, sweet..."
"And beautiful?"
"Yes, gorgeous. She has long red hair that falls around her like burning flames, her skin is as pale as porcelain and she has beautiful eyes, big and green as emeralds. And her smile... what a smile! She's able to make anyone happy with it."
"I want to meet her." Said Harry in a soft voice.
"You'll like her, you'll see." Nodded James. "Tell me about your friends."
"Sure... I have two best friends..."
A sound by the door drew their attention. Thinking that it might be Sky, his mother's cat, James got up to open it. He was very surprised when instead of the cat he expected, he saw a grass green coloured redgby pup. Before he had the chance to look at it more carefully, it flew past him and landed on Harry's legs.
"Saïl! What's the matter? You missed me?" Said Harry while he rubbed his small pet under the jaw, who was moving his wings in delight.
"You have a redgby!" Cried James. "Whoa, I have only seen them in a book about Care of Magical Creatures... they're very rare and valuable."
"I know."
"How comes you have one?"
"One of the brothers of my best friend gave it to me for my birthday." Said Harry with a smile. "Don't think I've had him for long; they gave him to me yesterday."
"It's beautiful!" Said James, while he looked closer at it. "That family must really care about you for them to give you something like this."
"Yes, they are like my second family." He smiled while remembering about the Weasleys. "It will be a long time till I see them again... Maybe I won't be able to see them again." He added, thinking about Lord Voldemort.
"Oh, come on... don't feel sad! You'll see them again. Come on... tell me about your friends, you said you had two."
"Yes, I have two, a boy and a girl. His name is Ron, he's tall and a redhead, he's a great friend, you can always depend on him. He's the sixth of seven siblings, and he feels like he always has to compete with them because each one has done great things at school. The oldest is Bill, he was Head Boy, then Charlie was quidditch captain; Percy was Head Boy too and the twins, even if they are very mischievous, get good marks and everyone likes them. Oh and Ginny, the youngest, she's the first in her class."
"Well, it seems he has a lot to do to match them."
"Well, he's also very good. He's the best chess player in the whole school, and there's not been anyone better in many years. He even managed to win against the deputy-headmistress in a giant game! He also received Special Awards for Services to the School with me in our second year, something that they have only given to one other person."
"Oh, then he has done more than his brothers!" Said James amazed. "What about your other friend?"
"Her name is Hermione Granger. She's very smart and I'm sure she will be a prefect this year; she has always been the first in our class. The only bad thing is that she's very firm about keeping school rules. She doesn't like to break them, although, she's the first one to do so when it's important or because Ron and I are about to go on one of our adventures... but after that, we have to listen to her lectures... but oh well, she's a good girl."
"You like her?" Said James mischievously.
"Hermione? No! I only see her as a good friend. Ron is the one who likes her, even if he doesn't want to admit it."
"Well, I would like to meet them sometime." Said James.
"I have a picture if you want to see it."
"Yes, yes... let me see."
Harry took out the locket he had received the night before and gave it to James, who opened it and looked at the three fourteen-year-old teens. One of them was Harry, so the other one had to be Ron, while the girl had to be Hermione. The three of them were smiling and waving their hands, but a moment later, Ron and Hermione started what looked like to be an argument, which Harry attempted to stop and then he soon left, leaving the picture and his friends, who were still arguing.
"It seems they argue a lot." Said James as he looked at the picture. "Are they always like this?"
"Nearly always. At first, you try to get them to stop, but after a while, you grow tired of it and leave them on their own." He said calmly.
James gave him the locket back and he seemed to be about to say something else when a sound by his window distracted him. He went to see who it was and motioned to whoever it was down there to come up to his room. Then he turned around and smiled at Harry.
"We've a visitor." He told him smiling. "Get ready to meet Mr. Sirius Black."
He hadn't even finished saying those words when someone knocked on his bedroom's door and opened it without waiting for an answer. A fifteen-year- old boy appeared; he had black hair, big blue eyes, and a large smile on his face. Before they could say anything, he ran to James and jumped on him, ruffling his hair.
"James! I'm so happy to see you in one piece! I thought your parents were going to kill you for that prank we pulled on Mrs. Hockins! Did your father lecture you? Because you should have seen my mother, she looked like she was about to burst!"
"No, thanks to a visitor, they didn't say much." Said James while he tried to keep his glasses on his nose.
"Visitor? What visitor?" Said Sirius taking his glasses.
"The one that stands behind you, Black, and give me back those glasses!"
"Here you go." He said giving him the glasses and turning around. "James, there's a copy of you in the room!" Cried Sirius.
"It's not a copy, idiot! It's my cousin!"
"Your cousin?"
"Hello, my name's Harry Potter." Said Harry smiling sticking out his hand.
"Oh, sorry. I'm Sirius Black." The other boy said while shaking his hand. "The grand Sirius Black!"
"Come on, Sirius, don't start." Said James rolling off the bed.
"Don't start what?" He asked, raising an eyebrow. "Say Harry, how long will you stay here?"
"All this term, maybe even longer. So this year I'm coming to Hogwarts with you."
"Wonderful! Do you like playing pranks?"
"Of course, what a question."
Harry walked out of James' room and went to pick up something in his own room. When he came back a few minutes later (followed by Saïl) he was carrying a box that didn't seem to be very big.
"Look at this." He said opening the box. "They are all pranks."
"Wow! There are a lot!" cried James while looking inside the box.
"I've never seen anything like this one, nor this one, nor this. Erm, then again, I've never seen any of these." Said Sirius. "Where did you get them?"
"They were a birthday present." He smiled. "I have friends who wants to open a joke's shop once they are out of school, so they have been experimenting with these. I don't even know what most of them are."
"Hey, look! Cream cookies!" Said Sirius picking one up and starting to eat it.
"Noo!" Shouted Harry, trying to warn him.
Too late. Harry's cry only startled him and he ate the cream quickly. Harry and James heard a small puff and where Sirius had been standing, there was now a big canary. James couldn't help but start laughing at seeing that, same as Harry. A few seconds later, all the feathers fell on the floor and Sirius appeared again, who, after the shock, had started to laugh too.
"I'm sorry," said Harry, still laughing, "I tried to warn you, because I had seen these before, but you were too fast."
"What are they?" Asked James as he looked at one of the cookies.
"They are Canary Creams, my friends had already made them last year and they filled the school with them."
"God... these pranks are wonderful!" Said Sirius. "Imagine all the things we can do to Snape with them. Can you imagine that, James?"
"Yes..." Said James in a dreaming voice.
"Snape?" Asked Harry with a raised eyebrow, the idea seemed to interest him.
"He's a damn Slytherin, a real bastard. He's always trying to find a way to get us expelled." Said Sirius with a shudder. "That's why he and his friends are our main objective."
"Well... that sounds really interesting." Said Harry. "I hope you don't mind if I join you."
"Of course not!" Said James.
"Wonderful! Another Marauder!" Cried Sirius.
The days passed, and Harry had a lot of fun with James and Sirius arranging things for school and playing pranks, but they always reserved Harry's pranks for when they would be able to use them on Snape. That summer was the second summer in which Harry didn't go to Diagon Alley, (his grandparents went to get his things for him) but he really didn't mind.
The day before he had to go to Hogwarts, he drew a bit away from all the activity he had been taking part until then. He started remembering the other years. Usually, by the last day of the holidays, Ron and Hermione were already with him so they would be able to take the Express together. The idea that that year that wouldn't happen made him sad and he was pretty out of it for the whole day, which worried Mr. and Mrs. Potter, James, and Sirius. They became even more worried when he went to bed early.
'I miss them.' Thought Harry while he lay on his bed.
That's when a sudden thought came to him and he started to look through his clothes for the locket the twins had given him for his birthday. It was a good to try it out. Once he had it in his hands, he tried to calm down and opened it. Carefully, he brushed his finger against Ron's name and his heart began to beat faster as he waited.
The locked started to shine brightly and a few seconds later, an image started to appear, slowly; the features of the red-haired boy he knew so well started to form.
"HARRY!!" Cried the image.
"Hey, Ron." Said Harry in a low voice to his friend.
"It's about time you called us! We were starting to think something had happened to you!"
"Shhhhhh! Don't talk so loud or they will hear you." He lectured.
"Sorry. How are you doing, Harry?"
"I'm fine, don't worry about me. My grandparents and my father are great and I'm having lots of fun with my father."
"Give it here, Ron! I want to talk to Harry!" A voice said from behind Ron; there was a small struggle and then Hermione's face appeared. "Harry! I'm so glad you're okay!"
"Hello, Hermione, how are you doing?"
"Very good! You know what? They made me a prefect!"
"Congratulations, I'm very happy for you. You should be happy."
"I'm very happy." She smiled. "Harry, Ron and I have to ask you for a small favour."
"What? I'll try to do it, but from here, there's not much I can do."
"I want you to remember and tell us all the pranks you've played with the Marauders so we can play them on Malfoy."
"Hermione! Are you sure you're alright?" Said Harry in a scared voice.
"Of course I'm alright."
"But, you're asking me about pranks."
"Well." said Hermione, blushing a bit. "This year you're not going to be here. and well, I thought this term might be a bit boring and. well. I'm sure you understand."
"Yes, I understand. Don't worry, I'll tell you everything."
"Thanks! We should go to bed now; we have to get up early tomorrow. Good night, Harry."
"Good night, Ron, Hermione." With that, Harry closed the locket and went to bed feeling better then before.
To be continued...
A/N: Thanks for all reviews and thanks to Vinnie, my wonderful beta-reader ^.^
