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Chapter 5

Sirius and James were in the middle of a record-breaking pillow-fight in the new dormitory that Ron had shown them when they heard a very loud knock on their door. Panting slightly, Sirius opened said door to reveal the slightly peeved faces of Hermione and Ron.

"Would you keep it down? Some of us are trying to sleep!" Hermione said grouchily.

"Sorry babe, but we got no pyjamas." Sirius replied obnoxiously.

"My name is Hermione. Use it." Hermione glared at him. "I am nobody's babe."

James, now standing next to Sirius, looked between Ron and Hermione.

"Really?" he asked sounding a little put out. "Are you sure?"

Hermione glared.

"I thought you were Ronniekin's babe."

Ron now joined in the glaring.

"Oi, Remus!" Sirius shouted although Remus was standing barely 5 metres behind him. "What do you think? Is Hermione here Ron's babe?"

"Er," Remus looked a little nervous.

"Of course she is." James cut in.

Ron was bright red by now.

"Leave her alone you annoying git!" he said crossly. "And cut out the noise!"

Ron and Hermione marched off towards their respective dormitories leaving Sirius and James slightly aghast.

"Did you hear that?" James asked nobody in particular.

"I heard that." Sirius said.

"What did you hear?" James queried. "Because I'm sure I heard incorrectly."

"I heard two tried teenagers telling you to shut up and let them get some sleep." Remus said before Sirius could answer James.

"We still don't have panamas." Sirius pointed out.

"I'm sure Dumbledore will take care of that soon." Remus sighed. "In the meantime, it won't hurt you to sleep in your robes for one night."

Sirius and James grudgingly obliged.

***

Harry walked into the dorm that he shared with Ron and the other Gryffindor 6th years a few minutes later. Thinking (and hoping) that everyone was asleep already; he sat down on the edge of his bed, thinking about what Professor Lupin had just told him. Sirius, James and Remus had somehow managed to travel through time, and would be staying at Hogwarts for a while. Better yet, or worse still, depending on how you looked at it, they would be sharing most of their classes with Harry and his friends.

"Harry?"

Harry jumped at the sound of Ron's voice.

"Are you ok?" Ron asked sounding concerned.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Harry replied. "I thought you were asleep."

"Your dad and Sirius and Remus were making quite a racket up until a couple of minutes ago." Ron sounded annoyed. "Hermione and I went in to shut them up and, well, let's just say that Sirius and James are a little rude. That's putting it nicely, by the way."

"Oh. Well, um, goodnight then."

"G'night."

***

The next morning, Ron and Hermione steered Harry down to breakfast early, hoping to avoid the Marauders until Harry was a little less in shock, so they were a little annoyed to see that Remus, James and Sirius were already sitting at the Gryffindor table, making a lot of noise. Ron and Hermione sent frustrated looks their way before sitting at the opposite end of the table with Harry.

"Why are we sitting all the way down here?" Harry asked glancing up at James and the others.

"Because they're up there." Hermione told him gruffly.

"My point." said Harry.

"Think about it Harry." Hermione said slowly. "They're from the past. If we were to talk to them, we'd probably let something slip about their futures, and that could stuff everything up! You know how dangerous time travel is."

"Professor Lupin told me last night that it won't matter what we tell them, because they'll just forget it when they go back. He says he doesn't remember any of this, but he knows that the three of them did disappear for a while when they were that age. That means this isn't just a mistake - it's meant to happen."

Ron seemed to accept this, but Hermione still looked somewhat sceptical. She didn't have a chance to argue though, as Dumbledore called for silence. The Great Hall had filled up while they had been talking.

"As some of you may have noticed already, we have three new students in our midst." Dumbledore said, gesturing towards James, Sirius and Remus. "Jack, Orion and Paul are exchange students, and they will be staying at Hogwarts for a while. I expect you will all treat them with respect as you do each other."

Ron nudged Harry as Dumbledore finished speaking. "Check out Snape's face!"

Harry looked up at Snape to see him glaring at James and Sirius.

"That glare's worse than the one he usually reserves for you mate!" Ron said with a laugh.

When the Marauders had finished stuffing their faces, they went in search of Harry. They found him quickly, of course.

"Hi Harry." James said in a low voice.

"Err, hi."

James laughed. "Did I scare you yesterday? Ha. You scared me too."

Harry was speechless.

"So," Sirius said quietly, so as not to be heard by the students who were sitting near them. "You're Pronglet, huh?"

Harry blushed slightly. "Um, I guess so."

"Tell, me," Sirius said, taking a seat next to Harry. "Who's the lucky lady?"

James blanched. "Siri- err, I mean, Orion!"

Sirius looked innocently at James and batted his eyelashes. "Yes Jacky?"

James glared. "I don't think we really need to know who -"

"But of course we do!" Sirius said happily. "Harry, who's your mother?"

Remus thought Harry looked a little sad as he answered, "Lily Potter."

"Lily Potter?" Sirius repeated, noticing Harry's eyes for the first time. "As in, Lily used-to-be-called-Evans Potter?"

Harry nodded and Sirius winked at James.

"Knew you had it in you mate."

James looked triumphant. Remus, however, simply rolled his eyes and went to sit next to Hermione.

"Sorry about last night. They can be a bit, well, over-enthusiastic." he said apologetically.

"That's ok." Hermione said, perfectly willing to forgive Harry's father and godfather. "I'm assuming you have the same classes as us?"

Remus nodded.

"We'd better get to potions then."

"Right, who's teaching?" Remus asked.

"Professor Snape."

"Oh no." Remus exclaimed. "James and Sirius are not going to like that."

***

The group of 6 sat in potions a short while later. The Marauders had found everything that they would need (books, clothes, quills, etc.) in their dormitories when they'd returned from breakfast. Since the potions textbook had changed somewhat since their own time, they sat flicking through it while they waited for Snape to arrive.

When Snape did arrive, he began to lecture the class on the importance of maintaining an even temperature underneath their cauldrons, completely ignoring his new students. Not at all to their surprise, Harry, Ron and Hermione saw that Sirius and James were not paying the slightest bit of attention to Snape. They had their heads together and were whispering to each other. Remus, too, looked as though he was paying more attention to James and Sirius than to Snape, though he wasn't joining in their conversation.

Suddenly, James grinned and nodded to Sirius, and the next moment, the three of them looked like the perfect students: Parchment and quills out, taking notes.

Harry saw Snape send a suspicious glance towards the group of studious boys. If he didn't know better, he would have said that he looked a little nervous.

A few minutes later, Snape's nose began to look a little larger than it had been. Harry dismissed it as a trick of the light until another few minutes later. By that time, Snape's nose was at least three times bigger that it had started, and Snape had noticed it. He looked furiously at James, Sirius and Remus, who were all concentrating very hard on their potions books.

"20 points from Gryffindor and a detention, courtesy of your lovely swelling charm Orion. Class dismissed." With that, Snape swept out of the classroom, staggering under the weight of his gigantic nose.

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