Keep it Secret, Keep it safe
By
MrsPadfootProngs
Chapter Two
Dream Team meet the Marauders
DISCLAIMER – Nope not mine
AUTHOR NOTE – Wow that was a response I was not expecting, I'm glad you liked it so much which is why I updated as fast as I did. Hope you like this chapter as much as you did the other chapter. Warning long chapter ahead though I'm not quite show how that occurred.
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x0xsnowPrincessx0x – I called them the Dream team because they've always been referred to as that or the trio in fics and pictures I've seen and read so I thought I'd give it a go and called them that, it's easier then their names. I'm glad you like the story.
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Tanydwr – I can't even tell you why I made Harry Qudditch captain and Ron head boy it was late and I was tired and I wanted Ron to have as big a job as Harry and somehow it came out like that. You'll have to read on and tell me what you think of this chapter; hopefully it's how people would want it. I haven't read your story yet but it's on the top of my things to do list.
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"That was a great practice James, the Slytherins and the Ravenclaws and the Hufflepuffs won't know what hit them, you'll beat them to the ground" Peter Pettigrew announced eagerly as he and his best friend James Potter waited in the entrance hall
"I know" James replied with a smile that was bordering on being smug. Even after all this time he still loved being praised and Peter with his eager ways was always good at piling the compliments on
"You're the best captain we've had for years," Peter continued seeing the reply as an indication to carry on. This time James's smile did turn smug and he turned to look at his smaller friend. He felt sorry for Peter. The boy was 17 and he still looked about 14. Shorter than his three friends and round it seemed unfair almost that he should be left out while the others were able to do pretty much whatever they wanted. He had straight blond hair that was cut short and pale blue eyes that darted round in a nervous way, exactly like the Rat his animal form had taken. It wasn't that he wasn't attractive he just paled against his friends.
"Perhaps" was James's reply, he had only just gotten with Lily Evans the girl he had been chasing since he was 13 and now that he had her he had to be careful to keep his arrogance under control something that was hard when Peter continually stroked his already large ego.
"You are" Peter said nodding his head as he shifted his bag further up his shoulder "We haven't lost a game since you were put in charge last year" James shrugged his broad shoulders and ran a casual hand through his messy black hair.
"It's a good team that the reason" he remarked absently his hazel eyes scanning the hall lazily they suddenly brightened as he saw the people he had been waiting for "Here's the other two finally I thought they'd never get here" he lifted an arm and casually waved as his other two best friends. Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, the pair were walking side by side obviously talking about something funny if the grins on their faces were any indication to go by.
"Alright Prongs?" Sirius called out to him grinning at him "I hear you had a good practice as per usual, it would be bigger news if you bloody had a bad one" James nodded his head and gave his best friend a half smile
"I did have yet another good one but with my skills what did you expect?" he replied cockily then a look of shame covered his face briefly "Well the team had a great practice though that's no surprise is it, their as good as I am" he amended he gave them a slight suspicious look "Where have the pair of you been? There was only Wormtail cheering today and I swear we were meant to meet up 10 minutes ago" he commented glancing at the gold watch on his wrist Sirius and Remus glanced at the smaller boy standing by James's side then shrugged glancing at each other before looking back at James
"I don't know where Sirius was but I was in the library" Remus commented lightly "NEWTS are coming up and we have to study, even the pair of you need to study" Sirius snorted and shook his head shooting an amused look at James, Remus had been going on about the importance of studying for their NEWTS since the beginning of the sixth year. It was becoming his favourite topic.
"I'll pass with my eyes closed so why on earth would I need to waste my time and study?" he demanded running a hand through his short black hair
"So you can beat Snape perhaps?" Remus suggested rolling his eyes as he spoke, he was extremely used to both Sirius and James over confidence where their work was concerned and he had to hit them with their biggest fear every time they needed to study "You'd never live it down if the slime ball actually beat you in anything. He'd be even more unbearable then usual" Sirius looked thoughtful for a second then shrugged.
"I don't need to study" he clarified again looking at Remus "But if it gets you off my back about it then perhaps I'll crack open a book and scan through tonight. Happy?" he asked and Remus grinned at him
"You'll be thanking me when you come top of the year" he remarked dryly. James grinned at them both placing his hands on his hips
"The pair of you are like a married couple," he stated with a laugh "Always arguing about things like that. Remus looking after you Sirius making sure you're ok and everything and Sirius being overly protective of Remmie all the time it makes me laugh" Remus looked offended at the comment
"I think you'll find your talking about yourself and Lily James oh sorry was that yourself and snookums, or was it cherry lips the other day, she like that when you big soft teddy bear calls her that doesn't she?" he remarked calmly amber eyes glittering in amusement sometimes it paid to be best friends with both members of a relationship, James flushed cursing himself as he did he had no idea that Remus had overheard his names for Lily.
"Oh James gone a bit red I see all embarrassed now?" Sirius teased "Thinking of your red head lover has made you slightly hot under the collar perhaps?" he made a loud kissing sound that made Remus roll his eyes even as James spoke
"Yeah well at least I have a girlfriend" he replied raising his eyebrows in challenge. Remus groaned out loud at that comment, this was the most basic argument between the two of them and it always ended up the same way.
"Here we go again," he muttered fishing out a book from his bag and beginning to read it. Sirius bristled up on the spot at the comment
"I can get any girl I wanted" he huffed "if I wanted one. I just don't happen to want one at the moment they're too demanding by far and I have more important things to do then worry about pleasing another" James nodded a look of disbelief on his face.
"Of course that's the reason" he said his tone making it clear that he didn't believe a word of it "Are you sure you just haven't dated and shagged them all already?" Sirius looked offended for a second but seeing the teasing gleam in his friend's hazel eyes he stopped and instead laughed.
"Perhaps I have, perhaps I haven't. Sirius Black doesn't kiss and tell" was all he said causing both James and Remus to laugh at him.
"It's dinner time you know" Peter said at this point as his stomach gave a loud rumble "Shouldn't we continue this conversation at the dinner table perhaps?" the others looked at him then shrugged
"Fine by me" Remus remarked putting his book away again
"Always thinking with your stomach ay Wormtail?" Sirius commented with a smile, digging the small boy in his ribs. Peter shrugged moving slightly away from Sirius
"I just thought I'd remind you all that's all" James gave Sirius a warning look, the taller boy always had a way of making Peter feel bad even though he never meant it. Sirius was as fiercely loyal to Peter as he was to the other two but that didn't stop his making fun of him if Sirius felt the occasion was right.
"Glad you did mate" James said brightly rubbing his own stomach and clapping Peter on the shoulder with the other hand "I didn't realise how hungry I was until you spoke" Peter grinned up at him with the usual look of adoration and the 4 of them turned from where they had been standing in the main hall and began making there way to the great hall talking lightly about Qudditch as they went.
The doors behind them slammed open causing the 4 to jump, discontinue their conversation and turn round in shock. Three figures were standing at the door obviously having an argument with each other. They were covered in mud and their clothes were a mess as well ripped and torn in places. They hadn't seen the Marauders as they trudged into the hall. A tall red head closing the door behind them and shutting out the pouring rain and wind that had come in with them. They stopped in the hall and looked around them with anxious looks
"It looks the same you know" the other boy, the one with black hair, commented his tone uncertain "Does that mean it didn't work?"
"Doesn't mean a thing" the girl who was standing next to him remarked briskly "Perhaps the décor was the same as ours, we need to find out and find out soon we can't afford to meet anyone" James and Sirius turned to each other and frowned, each of them grabbing the other two and pulling them back into the shadow created by the main staircase. They placed their hands against their lips to show the others to be quiet and began listening again. This sounded extremely suspicious and if these people thought they were home free from whatever they wanted to be then they were soon going to find out that they were no where near that.
"This is not good" the redhead remarked nervously running a large hand through his red hair, which seemed slightly long "Not good at all, in fact I think it safe to say that if we succeeded in what we think we have then we are beyond screwed". The girl turned on him in a flash, her whole frame seemed to tense up in under a second, even though she was several inches smaller then the boy she suddenly seemed larger then them all
"And who fault is that?" she demanded her voice rising as she spoke "If you hadn't waved your arms around like a maniac every time you talk then you wouldn't have bashed into Harry's arm would you Ron and then Harry wouldn't have dropped it and we'd instead be exactly where we were meant to be and not here" the redhead called Ron stared at her in amazement for a second, his jaw hanging open before he closed it and began shouting back at her, his voice echoing round the entrance hall. The Marauders had forgotten lunch as they stared at the growing argument. They all agreed that watching an argument you had no part in was always a fun past time to do even though the conversation was beginning to sound remarkably strange and the more they listened to it the more nervous they were becoming were the three here death eaters or something?
"Me" he repeated incredulity pointing at himself in the chest with his thumb "You're actually blaming me for this?" he snorted "It wasn't me Hermione, it was your fault to begin with, if you hadn't brought the blasted thing down then it wouldn't have happen" the girl Hermione whitened and opened her mouth to reply when the other boy spoke causing the other two to look at him
"Calm down guys" he said his voice surprisingly calm compared to the other two "If it was anyone who got us in this mess then it was me I shouldn't have done what I did, the best thing to do is to go and find Dumbledore, he'll know what to do, we'll have to be careful not to meet anyone before we find him, who knows what would happen"
"Harry mate it wasn't…" Harry cut Ron off mid sentence
"It was, let's forget about it what's done is done and there's nothing we can do about it" he turned to Hermione and frowned "What I can't get is how we got to the Qudditch field, you remember what happened last time right? It doesn't make sense we should have gone to exactly where we were" Hermione mirrored the frown. The Marauders shared a quick look of growing horror, what were they talking about?
"I thought that too" Hermione remarked slowly tapping her forefinger against her lower lip causing the Marauders to begin listening again "Dumbledore's the answer we'll find him and all our problems will be over" while they were talking Ron had slowly walked away looking round the hall with interest as if he was looking for anything that would show where they were, he was about to turn back and rejoin the conversation when his eyes fell on the Marauders who had been standing surprisingly still hidden in the shadows, they were frowning in suspicion at the three of them and from the tenseness of their bodies they had heard every word and had taken it in completely the wrong.
"Oh shit," Ron said loudly cutting across the quiet of the hall. Hermione and Harry broke off their conversation and turned to see what had caused Ron to swear, Harry whitened as he saw who was standing there glaring at him in confusion as he stepped out of the shadow and stood facing them, black hair sticking up in a messy array, hazel eyes sparkling angrily behind glasses while a head boy badge, similar to the one Ron wore glinted beneath the light on his black robe, once the other 2 came out they knew for sure.
"Dad" Harry whispered his eyes widening, they had gone back to the time period he was thinking of, back to when his father was alive and Sirius had been happy, the one place he had wanted to be was now the one place he wanted to be away from of the glares from the 3 facing them was any indication on their feelings towards them.
"Who are you?" James now demanded bringing himself up to his full height, taller than Harry but not Ron, and stepping forward to face the three so only a small amount of space separated them, his eyes moved from each of their faces in turn and Harry was suddenly extremely glad that the mud on his face hid some of his features, he could only see three of the Marauders. "Where have you come from?" James now asked distrustfully "Everyone's at dinner and they are no one about when I was outside, who would be stupid enough to be out in that?" he said indicating the rain that was lashing at the windows.
The three looked at each other helplessly they had not wanted an encounter so soon and they were simply not prepared trying desperately to communicate with their eyes they didn't notice the look the Marauders shared as they moved closer together, hands drifting closer to where there wands was. Peter had stayed behind in the shadows. This little reaction had convinced them they were dealing with Death eaters and with no teachers around they were going to have to deal with it all themselves.
"Speak up you were happy enough to scream the place down a moment ago or can't you think of a good enough excuse?" Sirius commented raising an eyebrow in an elegant manner at the three of them.
"You must have missed us" Harry replied calmly "We've been outside for a while now, the rain is only water so why should it bother us?" James frowned at the answer and went to reply with a comment about only idiots go into a rainstorm when Remus spoke
"Why are you wearing Gryffindor clothes?" he asked politely, coolness in his tone, the others Marauders glanced at the muddy clothes in surprised, James and Sirius shared another look as Remus continued still in the same tone of voice "I've never seen you and from the look of you I'd say you were in our year or at least the year below at a push"
"We've always been here" Hermione commented erasing any nervousness from her voice. She stood up to her full height and stared them all straight into their eyes looking at each of them, she had not faced people like Draco Malfoy on a regular basis without having something to show for it "You probably haven't seen us before that's all, perhaps you were too caught up in your own lives to notice us were pretty quiet" Ron gave her a quick look and shook his head slightly at her to indicate her mistake
"She means we've always been at a Hogwarts school" he corrected with a slight smile "We've transferred here, There's an American version of Hogwarts and we come from there to study here for a while, it's a bloody pain"
"An American version" Sirius replied in disbelief "I've never heard of an American version of the school have you Remus?" he asked looking at the blond boy at his side. Remus shook his head an openly suspicious look on his face
"No" he replied quietly "I've never heard of a school in America like this one" he commented, Harry, Ron and Hermione shared a quick look, this certainly wasn't going well. James took charge again
"You'll forgive us if we don't believe you won't you it seems to me that you're lying, I'm kinda thinking that perhaps you're a spy sent here to see what you can find out and since they are no teachers here and I'm the head boy I think it comes to me to do something about it" he said scornfully pulling his wand out and pointing it straight at Ron who had been standing in front of him, shielding Harry slightly from recognition. Peter gulped loudly from the shadows where he was still hiding and looked around to see if anyone was coming.
"Put it down and stop being a fool" Ron commanded, on occasions Ron's voice could make any student behave and this was one of the times. James lowered his hand ever so slightly even though he had no intention on doing so, Ron hadn't sounded angry but there had been a hint in his voice that he might very soon become angry.
"This is stupid" Hermione said desperately looking between the two groups, dislike was already radiating from all the boys, Ron and Harry included.
"Place your wand down James before you hurt someone" Harry remarked coldly his own wand out and pointed directly at James, anger burning in his green eyes, no one not even his teenage father could get away with pointing a wand at his best friend without any retaliation. Instantly Sirius and Remus had theirs out pointing it directly at Harry whose eyes flickered to them though his wand never moved away from his father. Hermione with a sigh took hers out and pointed it at Sirius with a glare. The only ones who had no wand out were Ron and Peter who was hiding behind his friends a half scared half eager look on his face. Ron looked between them all and sighed
"This is beyond stupid" he said firmly taking charge, Hermione and Harry cast him a quick glance of confusion was this Ron speaking? "What are you going to do?" he asked talking directly to James, James turned his gaze from Harry and met Ron's eyes full on "Blast me and knock me out? Then what?" he asked "Harry will blast you because of what you did to me, you'll go down in a heap then Sirius or Remus will take Harry down because James is your best mate and you'll react instantly you'll turn to Hermione and stun her but not before she takes one of you down, one person will be left standing and he'll be left with a hell of a lot of unconscious bodies to look after, so lets all put the wands down together shall we? I'm not saying lets discuss it but who really wants a hall littered with bodies and medicine from the medical ward?" he said sensibly. They all turned to him the Marauders distrustfully; Harry and Hermione in complete astonishment Hermione place a hand on her hip and turned to him a smile coming over her lip
"So you can speak sense on occasions Ron, I'm impressed and amazed at that, you should do it more often it makes you sound intelligent for once" Ron turned and made a face at her
"Whatever" he replied. Harry sighed his rage subsiding and slowly, keeping his eyes locked with James, lowered his wand putting in casually back into the pocket of his robe noticing for the first time how muddy he actually was. Hermione followed suit leaving the Marauders as the only one with their wands out. After a quick glance between them Remus dropped his and eventually so did the other two leaving them all glaring at each other in dislike
"I want to know what's going on and I want to know now," James demanded roughly "If you don't tell me then you'll regret it and don't for a minute think I can't and won't take you down"
"Calm down James, I also would like to know what is going on here?" they all jumped and turned to see a younger version of Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall looking at them. McGonagall looked beyond annoyed at them all but Dumbledore seemed only interested in the trio "Would the three of you please accompany me to my office, I am under the impression that there is much for us to discuss with each other" he said pointing at the three mud covered student. They nodded and after a quick glance at the Marauders raced after him all three of them feeling a sense of relief.
"Professor Dumbledore will no doubt want to speak to you shortly about the scene we just witnessed" she said coldly "I'll not punish you until he has seen you, till then dinner is still on the table if you hurry you'll still make it" McGonagall remarked as she walked by them giving them a very cold look as she did so. The four boys nodded and entered the great hall in silence; once they were sitting down with food piled up in front of them James spoke
"There's something fishy about them they're lying and if it they were just out walking how did they get so muddy? I think we're right they're spies probably for Voldemort" he commented looking at his friends each in turn Sirius and Remus looked seriously at him while Peter shuddered at the mention of the name looking around him nervously as if he expected the dark wizard to appear "There's something more to them and I'm going to find out what It is if it's the last thing I do."
A/N – There you go chapter 2 complete as you can see there is conflict between them all. James and co don't believe their story because Remus knows there is no other Hogwarts… it's a mixed up world really. Please review but NO FLAMES ok. Thanks… don't forget I need a beta reader so please offer your services. I can't believe how long the bugger is!
NEXT CHAPTER – Dumbledore speaks to Harry, Ron and Hermione and it's round two of the Marauder vs. the Dream team dum, dum, dum.