Another Year
The Realizations of Erin Parker
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"Uhm, James?"
"Yeah Remus?"
"In the history of Hogwarts, how many times have you heard of an exchange student?"
"I, uh, you know, never." James gave a sharp look at Sirius who was thinking along the same thought process he was. "You don't think they could be in His league do you? I mean it's a bit weird that they show up now and not earlier this week."
"Yeah, but don't look too suspicious, it could make 'em mad and if we need to make 'em mad I reckon we should do it all in one, you know?" Sirius said while picking a piece of grass apart.
"Yeah, hey where's Pete?" Remus questioned when he noticed their third friend gone.
"It is close to lunch I suppose." James said standing up. "Remember, we don't know anything yet." He finished giving them a knowing look.
The three headed to lunch discussing in whisper ways to figure out whether or not their suspicions were true or not. They finally arrived at their table and sat next to Peter who happened to sit across from the three new people.
"Hey James I saved you guys seats!" Peter said as they sat down.
"Thanks Pete," James said while grabbing a roll. Sirius was busy helping himself to potatoes but Remus was looking at Ben who seemed to be throwing a nasty look at Peter but when he noticed Remus' glance he turned to Dan and began talking. Sirius noticed that Remus was not eating and gave him a questioning glance and Remus just mouthed 'later'.
"So when is the first Hogsmeade visit?" Erin asked them.
"How do you know about those?" James asked smoothly.
"D-Dumbledore told us...when we arrived." Ben blurted out.
"Oh, right before Halloween." Peter said through a mouth of chicken.
"So where'd you guys transfer from?" Remus said breaking the silence.
"Well we were actually home schooled, together." Dan said slowly. Erin nodded at this and so did Ben.
"That's interesting." Sirius stated unbelieving.
"Potter, who're these people." A girl with bright red hair asked followed by a girl who looked strangely familiar.
"Oh," James started slowly, "This is Dan Matthews, Erin Parker, and Ben Story."
"Nice to meet you, I'm Lily Evans and this is Alexis Carlyle." At the last name Ron's jaw dropped and did not go unnoticed by Remus who was watching them carefully. Harry quickly kicked him under the table and he covered it with a small cough. Amazingly enough Alexis looked like their Professor down to a T the only difference was the difference in hair, instead of the huge curly hair the their professor had she had the same color of wavy hair.
"Well, we've got to get to the library," Hermione started, "you know, loads to do." With that she had taken both Harry and Ron out of the hall.
"It's...Saturday..." Sirius said slowly. Both Lily and Alexis had left after the three new teens had left.
"I suppose none of you saw the face that Ben made?"
"I did." Peter said solemnly.
"Maybe they're after Alexis, you know?" Sirius said quickly.
"Maybe but Sirius you have to be calm about this." Remus replied.
Peter looked at the three questioningly. "About what?"
"Alexis Carlyle is Professor Carlyle's older sister."
"Well, yeah, but Hermione even I could have figured that out." Ron said while flipping through papers.
"Well then Ronald I suppose you know how she died?" Ron shook his head.
"It's in all the books about you Harry, your mum was pregnant with you and this was before they went into hiding obviously. But she was ambushed and Alexis got her enough time to apparate and then was killed while dueling Death Eaters. She was actually killed by Bellatrix, which is maybe why Professor Carlyle was so happy about her capture.
"But while we were in the Great Hall you can't tell me you missed all of the people? We saw Neville's parents; they both had Head badges. The Bones', the Prewett's and others of the like, I mean these were the people who put dents and problems in Voldemort's plans." Hermione said very quickly.
"You suppose that they have anything to do with Polaris?" Harry asked.
"Possibly. But you do realize who else we saw." The two were silent for a moment waiting for an answer. "Mundungus Fletcher, Marlene McKinnon, Emmeline Vance, Benjy Fenwick, and tons more. Basically every person in there was either a supporter or a person trying to stop them."
"I reckon that they must have something to do with Polaris, but what are we supposed to do, bring them to the future." Ron said nervously.
"I don't think so Ron, but maybe we're suppose to bring something back to the future...from them." Hermione deduced.
"Well first off, we need to be less suspicious, we can't forget that Remus is mad smart." Harry added knowingly.
"Right, so just act as if you don't know anything, alright?" Hermione asked.
"Right." The two agreed.
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"So you don't think that they're exchange students?" Peter deduced while they were sitting under a tree on the lawn.
"Right." Sirius answered. "Hey Dorcas! Any news?" He shouted at a pretty girl with black hair as she walked past.
"Noffing, it's a downright shame, ye know? But to crack that stuff is mad difficult." She replied.
"Thanks!" Remus yelled at her retreating back.
"What was that about?" James asked his two best friends.
"She was checking out some background information on some Slytherins that we think are Death Eaters, you were in Dumbledore's office." Remus explained.
"Oh, so is Dorcas going to be an Auror?" James questioned.
"Yea, I'd imagine so, her parents were the first people killed by Voldemort and she's really good at Defense." Sirius replied and the other three boys nodded in agreement. Sirius looked to the main door where he saw Erin, Dan and Ben coming out of.
"Oi! Come 'ere!" He yelled.
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"Looks like Sirius wants us to come and join them." Ron said slowly. But neither Harry nor Hermione was paying attention.
"H-Erin, I saw those people in a picture Mad-Eye showed me last summer, Fabian Prewett, Dedalus Diggle, Elphias Doge, and Dorcas Meadowes, Moody said Voldemort killed her himself." Sure enough there on the lawn was a group of fifth through seventh year, Ravenclaws, Hufflepuffs, and Gryffindors.
"My word," Hermione breathed.
"Hey! I've seen pictures of him before, he's my uncle...or would've been." Ron said while pointing at Fabian.
"Don't point Ron!" Hermione hissed quickly, then her voice softened. "Sorry about that though."
"Well I never knew him."
"What're you doing?" A voice said behind them causing the three to jump. They turned to see Remus with his brow furrowed.
"Looking at the different emblems on the uniform." Ron said slowly. "I was pointing to him because his is the same as ours."
"Yeah, Fabian is in his seventh year, you might want to move on though because you look suspicious." And true enough the group that they were observing was now looking at the three of them with questioning glances. Elphias even had his hand in his robes as if reaching for something.
"That lot'll be killing Death Eaters soon." Remus said nonchalantly but putting a lot of emphasis on Death Eaters. "Here we are." He commented while steering them towards a table where the other Marauders were seated.
"Moony have you read the Prophet today?" Sirius asked gesturing to a paper on the table.
"No, I've been meaning to but I haven't had the chance, why?"
"Oh it's interesting, all those crazy astronomers are gabbing on and on about Polaris." At this Harry, Ron and Hermione's eyes widened considerably but went unnoticed by the Marauders. "They were talking about how it's tilting or something, I don't know but you're interesting in that...stuff." He finished lamely.
"Yeah," Harry started, "so are we."
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Disclaimer- i do not own, therefore i am not rich. Thanks JK Rowling.
Sorry for the short chapter! But I wanted to give you something before I left for vacation, I'll try and update soon after I get back which is the 9th of August.
volleypickle16 and vache...thank you!Aj of gryffindor- I hope that's a good thing.
Spottery- it's not slash, and I will try so hard not to abandon this, it will get slower once school starts, so I apologize for that!
Much love, Jimithang