The Maurauders and the Rebels
"We will be arriving at Hogwarts in approximately five minutes. Get your small luggage ready, the rest of your luggage will be brought to your respected living quarters." The conductor's voice said through the speaker.
Since the scene two hours ago, Hermione had gotten over the fact that Ally had told her huge secret and that Matt had kissed her, even if it was only for ten seconds and Draco had gotten over the fact that the girls messed with his hair. They had ended up singing Muggle songs together and also finding out they made good harmony.
Ally fixed up her backpack and put it on, "I can't believe we're almost there! The last time I was there was the beginning of last summer when we went to get our dad. We never stayed long, only for week or so that was it. No one ever knew we were there."
The train suddenly jerked to a stop and the gang stood up. The boys ran ahead, talking about Quidditch and whatnot, Draco receiving weird looks from the professors. Ginny and Pansy shook their heads, embarrassed of their brothers and went on talking about being the only girls in their families.
Hermione stayed behind with Allison, talking about how everybody knew her.
"Really, the teachers don't even talk to me like that?" Hermione asked after Professor Sprout went, "Allison, sweetie, I'm so glad you're here!"
"Well, I'm related to a few people here. I know we have new teacher replacements, and five new extra subs." Allison said.
"So, who are the replacements and subs? I know my mom and my brother, Percy are." Ginny's voice said. They looked in the direction of her voice and saw Ginny with Pansy, listening along to their conversation.
"Well, the replacements are my Uncle Remus for DADA, Uncle Sirius for CMC, my cousin Ollie is teaching Flying Class, and the subs are my cousins Jesse, Matt, and Chris, and their former band mates, Frankie and Greg, who I am also related to in some way." Allison explained.
"Wait, did you say Jesse, Matt, Chris, Frankie, Greg, and former band mates?" Pansy asked.
"Yeah, I did say-" Allison began but was interrupted by…
"Hey Munchkin, guess who?" a deep voice said behind them. They turned around and had to look up, finally saw five bright faces all smiling down at them with one hundred watt smiles plastered on their faces.
Allison smiled back at them and was engulfed into a full group hug by the five boys behind them. Ginny, Pansy, and Hermione's jaw dropped to the ground.
Allison turned to them and said, "Haven't your parents taught you not to stare?"
The girls closed the mouths and we're introduced to each member formally. They were all walking into the Great Hall when Matt came running out going, "You guys better come in now or- Hey guys!"
"Sup Matt?" a brown haired boy a little bit older than the others said to Matt.
"Hey Frankie. We gotta go, Uncle Al's getting really pissed, okay maybe not him, but Dad is." Matt said as the others ran after him and into the great hall.
"Well, now that the rest are here," Dumbledore said, "I'd like to say a few words. We will be having a few balls and dances this year, the Halloween dance, the Winter Festival, the spring concert, and the Farewell Ball for the seventh years. Now, you know that we'll need a band to perform for all four dances, and you know we're low on the money. Can anybody volunteer a friend for the entertainment for the events?" Dumbledore asked.
Snape raised his hand, "Uh… I can volunteer the kids, as in Ally, Matt, Draco, Pansy, Hermione, Harry, Ron, and Ginny. I've heard them sing and they are really good." He sat back down and looked over at the eight kids.
The girls began to blush profoundly and the boys were biting their lips trying not to laugh out loud at the pink-faced girls.
"That's wonderful!" Dumbledore said, "Well, are you willing to do it?"
"Well… yeah, I guess. What about you guys?" Draco said.
"Yeah!" Ally said.
"It will be fun!" Matt commented.
"Another little spontaneous spin on my life would be kind of fun." Hermione added.
"It'll be a great experience." Pansy said, nodding.
"Cool!" Harry and Ron exclaimed.
"Great! Then, you'll pick the songs, do the choreography, and pick out your costumes right?" Snape asked.
They nodded and he smiled at them. Harry's, Ron's, Ginny's, and Hermione's eyes widened in surprise.
The feast began a few minutes; the teachers were involved in their own conversations that they didn't happen to notice the kids arguing heatedly about the songs they were going to sing and other things.
"We are not wearing LEATHER!" Allison shouted at Draco.
"But you'll look CUTE!" He retorted with a wicked grin.
"You are perverted!" Hermione said.
"You really haven't noticed that, have you?" Pansy asked her. Hermione rolled her eyes and went back to piling her mashed potatoes into a volcano.
"Well, I think that idea of full house color outfits are cute." Ginny said.
"Wait, wait, wait, blue would go with denim jeans and yellow with a light khaki, but where are we going to find red and green pants?" Harry asked.
"Go ask Santa and his elves." Allison answered sarcastically. Ron had stood up and went to get his broom when they said, "She was kidding!"
Ron blushed furiously and sat back down and started cutting his steak.
"We'll just decide when we have to. Now, we are definitely not going to sing rap, rock, and hip-hop songs at all four balls. Sure we can have some but not the whole time!" Hermione said loudly.
They finished their main course and the desert came.
"Well, we're not singing pop and R&B songs the whole time either!" Matt retorted as he took a slice of strawberry cheesecake.
"Uncle Albus will probably think up of a theme so we have to have mixed songs!" Ally added as she took a bite from her slice of Chocolate Crème Pie.
"Bu, I dink wap songs are da besht andyweyz." Draco said after eating a spoonful of French Vanilla ice cream.
"Whaeba, Maffoy!" Ron said with strawberry shortcake in his mouth.
"You guys are rude!" Harry said after swallowing some Jell-O.
The deserts suddenly disappeared and Dumbledore stood up, "The feast has ended. I would like to meet the eight kids in my office please."
The teachers stood up and went off in their different ways to their classrooms. The kids followed Dumbledore to his office.
The elderly man stopped in front of the gargoyle, "Password?"
"Vitameatavegamin!" he said to the gargoyle. Hermione and Ally sniggered in the background as they entered the warm office.
Ally whistled as she entered through the door. A soft phoenix song was heard as a bright crimson phoenix flew towards her.
She sat down in between Hermione and Harry on a deep crimson colored couch in Dumbledore's office.
"Hey Fawkes!" Ally said as she stroked the phoenix lovingly. It cawed and nuzzled its head against her arm. She laughed.
"Last time I saw you, you were croaking your last." Matt laughed out to the handsome, teenage phoenix.
"On to business, your dad says you two have been experiencing some unusual magic. Is that true?" The headmaster asked his great-grand niece and nephew. They nodded.
"Like what may I ask?" He asked them.
"Well, lately, I've been able to control my powers more than before. Um… I've been able to cast spells without saying a word and not using a wand. The power is like in me and my index finger of my wand hand acts as my wand. Something that I always thought was totally something natural was one of my powers, you know, the fact that I have real quick reflexes and the fact that I can sense any trouble or anything, I mean like have premonitions of what's going to happen. That just kicked in a couple of weeks ago so it's not that clear yet. I can see some things but not exactly what's going to happen. Oh yeah," Ally said as she got another premonition, "make sure you keep a watch on Ron the whole time, he's going to spike the drinks with Weasley Wizard Wheezes Hair Syrup. It makes your hair a different color. Whoa, did I just say that, cuz I didn't know Fred and George made that without owling me. They are so going to get it."
"Matt?" Dumbledore turned to his nephew.
"I've been able to talk to my owl, I've been able to tell what anybody was thinking, and I've been able to know anything even if nobody's told me about it, so it's like the future." Matt answered.
"Well, I was wondering if you would like to, would the eight of you like to share a dorm together?" Dumbledore asked.
"Okay… I mean it would bring Slytherin and Gryffindor together." Hermione said. The others nodded.
"Alright, we've had it ready just in case." He turned to his fireplace.
"Severus?" Ally and Matt's dad's head appeared in the fireplace.
"Yes, Albus?" He answered.
"Will you take the kids to the dorm?" he asked.
"Of course," the hooked nosed man said as he entered the room through his fireplace. He dusted off his robes.
"Let's go, children." He said firmly. Ally stood up carefully and let Fawkes fly back to his perch before leaving with her dad and the rest of the kids.
"Your luggage has been brought up there already by the house-elves." He explained as they exited the old man's office.
"Dad?" Ally said on the way to the dorm.
"Uh huh?" he answered.
"Promise me this one thing." Ally said, "Try not to be mean to your students this year. I really don't like them getting the wrong impression on you. You've always acted mean, but if you're going to get their attention, do try to be funny and sarcastic sometimes, it'll help. Professor Whitman always did that and she kept me wide awake during our Transfiguration lessons!"
"Alright, Ally, alright." Severus answered to his daughter. He smiled down at his top students, okay, maybe not all of them were on the top, but some of them were. Matt and Ally have been taught about Potions, Transfiguration, and Arithmancy all their lives. Matt obviously majoring in Potions like his father, and Ally in Arithmancy, just like her mother. They both shared the same knowledge in the other subjects but earned top honors in these three. Draco and Hermione were his best students in their year, followed closely by Pansy, Harry, and Ron, and Ginny was plainly top in her year.
They had been walking for a few minutes when they stopped in front of a picture of four boys and four girls probably in their seventh year in Hogwarts. The four girls were each wearing a cloak from a different house, the boys all from Gryffindor. The girls stood proudly with prefect badges, except for the girl with the Gryffindor cloak on, she was Head Girl. A boy with sandy hair wore a shiny prefects badge next to the boy with unruly jet-black hair wearing a Head Boy badge proudly.
Harry's mouth hung open as he stared at the boy with the Head Boy badge.
Suddenly he spoke, "James Potter, you look a lot like me, are you my nephew?" The picture said to Harry.
He gulped and shook his head, "I'm your son…"
"Who's your mum?" James asked Harry.
"Lily Evans-Potter, sir." Harry retorted. The picture of Lily raised her eyebrows in surprise and turned to James.
"God job, Potter, good job!" a boy that stood next to James said.
"Oh, shut your trap, Sirius!" the girl from Slytherin said, making Ron's mouth drop in shock.
"Why don't you, 'Cissa?" This time Draco mouth dropped, seeing his mother during her time at Hogwarts.
"Gosh, will you two ever stop fighting?" a young lady with light brown hair and gold rimmed glasses shouted at Narcissa and Sirius.
The sandy haired boy put his hand on the girl's shoulder, "Watch your temper, Judy." Hermione's jaw dropped down to the ground.
"Temper, my ass, Remus! I'm sick of their fighting!" Judy yelled at Remus.
"Hey! Judy cursed!" a plump boy next to Sirius said.
"Get over it, Pettigrew!" the girl from Ravenclaw said. "Shut your bloody trap cuz the next time you sleep you ain't gonna feel your mouth, Wormtail!"
"Whoa, you guys calm down!" Severus yelled at them, all the children staring, jaws fallen.
"Well, well, well, it's Snape. What are you doing here?" Sirius asked.
"Kids, these are the Marauders and the Rebels. The Marauders are…"
"James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew." Hermione said.
"Better known as Prongs, Moony, Padfoot, and Wormtail." Harry added.
"Right, and the Rebels are…"
"Lily Evans, Judy Thomas, Narcissa Whitewash, and Miranda McGonagall." Matt answered.
"Also known as Lils, Judes, Cissa, and Randa." Ally finished.
"How'd they know that?" Lily asked.
"We're your kids." Ally told them.
"What?" They all yelled.
"I'm Lily and James' son, Harry." Harry said.
"I'm Judy's daughter, Hermione." She said.
"I'm Narcissa's son, Draco." Draco informed them.
"I'm Miranda's daughter, Allison." Allison told the picture.
"I'm Miranda's son, Matthew." Matt said.
"Holy crap!" Sirius exclaimed.
"Can we just get our password?" Severus asked.
"Don't get your panties in a knot Snape!" James exclaimed.
"Fine, fine, your password?" Miranda asked.
"Uh…" everybody said as they thought for a sec.
"Crazy eights!" Ally shouted.
"Great!" everybody said.
"Crazy eights it is then!" Remus said. The portrait opened and they entered.
"The girls room is on your right as is the girls bathroom. The boys' on the right." He left them alone to discover their own room by themselves.
