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Chapter Seven: Secrets Revealed

A week later, the twins, James, and Sirius were on the way to the dungeons for yet another of their detentions with Snape, all of them speculating on why Remus had been leaving them right after dinner for several days. Since he always managed to get to the dungeons at the same time as the other four, none of them had really noticed or cared the first couple of times.

Sure enough, as soon as they reached the steps to the dungeons, footsteps sounded behind them. The four of them turned to face an out-of-breath Remus.

"And once again, he arrives just in time to head down to the dungeons," Sirius said in a deep voice, trying to mimic the announcers on the WWN.

Remus rolled his eyes, and fell into step with the others as they continued down the stairs.

"So what've you been doing every evening?" James asked, going for the direct approach.

"Detention," Remus replied, purposely ignoring the real question James was asking as they entered the Potions classroom. Behind him, he could've sworn that one of the twins muttered something. He turned his head just in time to catch a burst of light come from George's wand and hit the door frame.

He shot them a curious look, but they just grinned at him. Shaking his head, but with a smile tugging at the corner of his mouth, he joined Sirius and James next to a pile of cauldrons.

"Did it work?" James hissed as the twins followed Remus over.

"Think so," Fred replied quietly.

"Did what work?" Remus was nearly wild with curiosity, though he was almost positive that he would disaprove.

"Well," George began, "Whenever a Slytherin walks through that door, they should get oatmeal dumped on them."

"I just hope it'll work on him." Sirius never had to say who he was. All of them knew that he was referring to Snape.

"Silence," Snape snapped from his desk, where he grading papers. All five Gryffindors thought it somehow ominous that Snape had pretty much ignored them every detention so far. James, Fred, and Sirius also thought that he had some sinister motive for only making them scrub cauldrons. George and Remus didn't bother. As long as they weren't disembowling anything, they didn't care.

Finally, the five Gryffindors finished and Snape dismissed them. When they got to the Common Room, George said, "Wait. Fred and I have something to show you."

Fred nodded reluctantly. "The secret to our sucess, you might say."

James, Sirius, and Remus exchanged a look. "We have something to show you as well," James said quietly.

The Weasleys stared at them. "You do?"

Sirius nodded. "The secret of our sucess back home."

"We might want to do this in the dormitory," Remus suggested, looking nervously at the stairs. "Anyone could come down and overhear."

James nodded. "Remus is right. Let's go."

The twins looked at each other, shrugged, and followed the time-travelers upstairs. Remus cast a Silencing Charm on the door under the amazed eyes of the other four. "What?" he asked, noticing the looks.

"We don't learn Silencing Charms until fifth year," George said slowly, still staring at Remus.

"Oh," Remus said awkwardly, fidgeting slighlty. "Well, I read ahead a bit, learned a couple of spells..."

There was silence for a few seconds, then James seemed to snap out of it. "Well," he said briskly. "Shall we get on with it?" He reached down and pulled something from under his bed. "Presenting...an Invisibility Cloak!" he said grandly, wrapping it around him.

George's jaw dropped and Fred nearly dropped the old piece of parchment that he had just removed from his trunk. "I don't believe it," George breathed.

"An invisibility cloak," Fred finished, staring at where James had just reappeared.

"So, what d'you have?" Sirius asked, after giving them a few moments to admire the cloak

Fred grinned and tapped the piece of parchment with his wand. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," he said.

James, Sirius, and Remus leaned forward as lines spread from the spot Fred had tapped. Curly writing at the top identified it as the Marauder's Map, created by Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs.

George smiled and patted the map as one might pat a faitful dog. "Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs," he sighed. "We owe them so much."

None of the time-travelers were paying any attention to George, to busy examing the labeled dots moving around. "Wow," James said finally. "This is...amazing."

"Do you know how complicated this must have been to make?" Remus asked admiringly.

"Who cares? It's brilliant no matter how many spells were used. I wonder who Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs were?"

Fred shook his head. "Dunno. We got it out of Filch's cabinet in our first year."

"Too bad," Sirius said, disappointed.

For the second time that night, all five boys were silent. Then Fred wiped the map and Remus lowered the Silencing Charm. One by one, they drifted off to sleep, unaware of the fact that Lee had been awake and had listened to the whole conversation.

He wasn't quite sure what he would do with the information, but he filed it away in case he ever found a way to use it. Smirking slightly, he rolled over and succumbed to sleep.

AN: -singing- Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me-ee... Happy Birthday to me!

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diamond004: Erm...I'd say that they got to the future September 4th (which I'm going to say was a Sunday), Snape got the Howler on the 5th (and he got the nice color-changing potion -whistles innocently-), so in this chapter it's the 12th. The full moon will be the 15th. And no, they won't be staying until next Easter...but they'll still meet Harry!

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