"Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezes,'' read James off the sign.
The Marauders and Harry stood in front of the twins' shop mesmerized by the signs and things they saw through the window. They had managed to get away from Lupin at a bookstore, where he got into an argumentive discussion about vampires. Something about whether holy water worked or not.
"School lunch-box: everything in it is guaranteed to make you sick and cure you, allowing you to get out of class and do the important things that need to be done.'' Remus read.
"Send exploding jellybeans to the people whom you love oh-so-dearly. Caution: The makers are not responsible for the harm that will most likely come from this candy. Thank You.'' Harry read.
"Why didn't we ever think about opening a joke shop? We pull enough pranks, we know what everyone really wants in a good prank so why don't we open up a joke shop?'' asked James.
"Because we're going to become famous Aurors and save the world from certain doom,'' Remus replied, still looking in the window with glazed over eyes.
"Yes even though we're probably the cause of it. Now, are we going in or what?'' asked a rather impatient Sirius.
Striding ahead of the others Harry opened the door and walked in. He only had a few seconds to take in all the shelves, which decorated the brightly colored place, before a huge, ground-shaking explosion occurred. Causing many of the other customers in the shop to jump.
"Nothing to worry about, just an experiment in progress, please continue shopping you dear people. And remember twenty percent off Canary Creams,'' George said from his place on top of the cashier stand, which he had jumped on top of to get his attention.
"That's George.'' Harry told the Marauders who had come in and stood besides him.
"Oy! Harry mate is that you?'' George shouted as he squinted in their direction, "Fred C'mere! Harry's here!''
"WHAT!'' yelled a voice that came from an unseen back room.
Shacking his head George jumped down from his place on the counter and walked towards Harry, while he yelled back to Fred, "HARRY'S HERE!''
"HARRY?'' yelled back Fred.
"YES! NOW GET OUT HERE!'' George replied.
Upon reaching Harry, George said, "I think he's fried his brain this time. Between you and me we've been trying to make a time-stop. You know allowing someone ample time to get away from the scene of a crime before you get caught by a teacher. Not a lot of time maybe about thirty seconds or so, but so far we have about two seconds. I doubt we'll reach our goal the Ministry has been—''
"HARRY!'' yelled Fred, who was wearing a white lab coat or what was supposed to be a white lab coat, it was covered with black soot, and goggles on top of his soot covered face.
"Nice of you to visit mate!'' said Fred who was still yelling but not as load as before.
"No need to yell, we can all hear you.'' George said.
"Oh sorry about that. That last explosion was a little to close.'' Said Fred with a shrug.
"Hey Harry aren't you supposed to be in school?'' George asked as the thought just dawned on him.
"Yeah, but I got the day off to come get them their school supplies.'' Harry replied.
"Who?'' Fred and George asked at the same time, Fred a little lauder then George.
For the first time they both looked at the people standing around Harry and let out identical gasp of shock. Fred took a step back and rubbed his eyes just in case that explosion did more damage then he thought.
"Lupin…'' said George while raising one hand to about the height Lupin was now and bringing it down to the height that the younger Lupin that stood before him.
"S-Sirius—'' Fred said when he realized there was nothing wrong with his eyes.
"Is dead.'' George finished for him.
"Harry look-alike…''
"Don't understand…''
"Brain going to implode…''
"Why don't I understan—''
Before George could finish Harry said, "It's rather complicated but the main idea here is that the three of them, Sirius, Remus and my dad, got sent forward in time and are now going to go to school with me.''
"Oh, well that helps. The world makes sense once again.'' George said.
"But for how long'' asked Fred who was currently eyeing the Marauders.
"Well it's an honor having you, our inspiration, in our store. This calls for food.'' George stated.
Taking out his wand Fred pulled up some chairs and an already set table before them.
"Hey! Everyone were closing for an hour so get!'' yelled George as he took a seat at the table and pored himself some tea.
It took the angry and grumbling customers about five minuets to leave.
"So—'' started Fred.
"Tell us more about—'' George put in.
"How you got visitation rights.'' Finished Fred.
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* About an hour later *
After about thirty-five minutes of talking, which could have gone longer because all the talk was about pranks, Lupin, who had guessed where they were came in and told them that it was time to go. On hearing this Fred and George got up and started putting random things from the shelves into a bag, which they gave to the Marauders and Harry. Then still unable to tear themselves away from their newfound friends they talked for about ten more minuets, while the older Lupin wondered around the shop reading the various signs and trying to suppress a smile. When it was really time to go Fred and George saw them to the door and said, "Make us proud dearies!''
While waiting for his turn with the floo powder Sirius said, "Now why can't there be more people like them?''
The older Lupin snorted and shook his head but did not say anything.
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*On the way to the dinning hall for dinner after they dropped their stuff off*
"O.k. first order of business after dinner is do Harry's work, pretend we're going to sleep, grab Harry's friend Ron and then we get to work.'' James told them as they made their way to dinner.
"Some how we're going to have to cast a spell that protects all the Gryffindors from getting hurt. We can't have them all mad at us after all if the teachers find out that it was us Gryffindors going to lose a lot of points.'' Said Remus as they neared the dinning hall.
"Yeah you're right,'' agreed Sirius, "we can cast a charm on the portal that protects them from the gnomes and doors, I guess, but I'm not promising anything with the toilets.''
"Sounds good to me,'' said Harry as they reached the dinning hall doors.
Walking to the Gryffindor table never seemed to take so long before, thought Harry. Well it's not very often when people in the past pop in to say hi either. Sirius and James seemed to love the attention or rather the attention of one very specific person. Snape.
James and Sirius were walking a few paces ahead of Harry and Remus, to the seats that Ron and Harmione had so clearly saved for them, when they turned to look at each other and nodded their heads.
Falling a little behind Sirius whispered over his shoulder to Harry and Remus, "Watch Snivellus you two, no matter what you may hear watch him.''
Upon hearing this Remus let out a groan.
Harry looked at Remus with a raised eyebrow. Over the summer Harry's dislike for Snap had pretty much turned to hate. After all if Snape hadn't made so many snide comments about Sirius doing nothing for the Order Sirius wouldn't have been so eager to go out and fight that night.
Turning his attention to where Snape sat Harry saw that he was looking at them as if he wanted to kill them….slowly….very slowly.
"Sirius!'' yelled James.
Out of the corner of his eye Harry could see that Sirius had stepped on James' robe and had tripped him but James had whipped out his leg and in turn tripped Sirius or that's what it looked like.
While all this had happened Sirius took out his wand really fast, with the hand that the teachers couldn't see because it was currently obscured by James' falling form, and whispered a quick spell under his breath pointing his wand at Snape.
While everyone's attention was currently on James and Sirius (no one saw the wand that Sirius had pulled out and replaced so fast) only Harry and Remus saw the change that Snape went through and burst out laughing. It was a good thing that no one had yet looked at Snape because everyone just assumed that they were laughing at Sirius and James.
Having accomplished their goal James and Sirius jumped up like nothing happened pretended to brush each other off and walked to their seat like nothing happened. Remus and Harry who were still laughing followed them and sat down.
"It wasn't that funny mate,'' said Ron.
Harry just shock his head and started laughing again.
Sirius gave out a bark of a cough that sounded like Snape and started loading his plate with food.
Turning their heads Ron and Harmione saw what the fuss was all about and by this time most of the school had noticed too and erupted with laughter, well almost everyone.
Harmione turned to the guys and was about to yell at them by the look on her face but didn't get a chance to because just then Snape jumped up with a roar of, "YOU!''
Now the whole school started laughing and a very few of the teachers too, though out sight.
Snape's robes had been turned pink and his greasy, black hair was no longer greasy or black but curly bleached blond. His face was powdered white and would had made him look like a ghost if it were not for the fact that he was wearing very red blush, very red lipstick to match and shocking dark blue jewel encrusted fake eye lashes. Two other teachers were also currently physically restraining him.
Over Snape's snarls and death threats Professor McGonagal managed to yell, "You Four my office now!''
"We just got here! You had your eye on us, we didn't do it!'' James yelled back over Snape.
"It wasn't us," agreed Sirius, "We weren't the ones to reveal that Snape is secretly a drag queen! I swear!''