Disclaimer: I'm not even going to say it!
Oops! I forgot to put in Neville in the sorting, but everyone knows he is in Gryffindor!
(I never liked Seamus Finnigan but he does exist as Patrick. )
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Chapter 6: The prowlers
"Well, a smart girl, brave, chivalrous, but also smart and well mannered. Raven claw or Gryffindor? I will let you decide!" The hat said in her ear.
"What ever house Harry Potter is going to be in!"
"Young love is so sweet!" The hat sighed.
"GRYFFINDOR!"
She went and took a seat across from Seamus, next to Romulus and put her foot next to Seamus to save a place for Harry.
A few more names were called and they knew they were getting closer to Harry's sorting.
Twins, Patil, Padama. Patil, Pavarti. A young girl named, Paz, Adrienne. 4 kids were called: Pettigrew, Fern, Pettigrew Calvin, Pettigrew, Gina, and Pettigrew, Alexander.
"WHAT!" Sirius screamed from the mirror but luckily it was drained out by the applause from the Gryffindors (which is their house by the way).
"Potter, Harry!" Mcgonagall said and she sounded Just as worried at the sound of Potter as Black.
Harry walked up to the stool and put on the hat.
"They explained what I must do, just don't move when I call Slytherin." The hat said.
"SLYTHERIN!"
The hall gasped, in history, no Potter had ever been out of Gryffindor. Soon they got over the shock and the Slytherin table clapped.
"NO! Wait, Ravenclaw!" The hat said and the ravenclaw table clapped.
"NO! Hufflepuff!" It yelled and the hufflepuff table clapped.
"NO! Slytherin!" It said and Mcgonagall looked extremely angry.
'JUST MAKE UP YOUR MIND ALREADY!!!!!" She screamed and it echoed through the hall.
"FINE! GRYFFINDOR!" It said and everyone laughed and clapped as Harry stood on the stool with the hat on the floor next to him, he bowed, jumped off the stool and ran to the Gryffindor table before Mcgonagall could give him detention.
He took the seat across from Lilac, She felt him put his foot with hers and she gave a flirty smile.
After a lot more students were sorted, Professor Dumbledore stood up.
"Welcome to Hogwarts, I am professor Dumbledore, another year is already upon us. Just a few announcements before we dig in. To all our old students who may need a reminder and our new students" he looked at Seamus and Harry "The forbidden forest is off limits and so is Hogsmeade to second year and first years. And the 2nd door on the left on the third floor is off limits to anyone who doesn't wish to die a most painful death. That is all and you may all tuck in"
Gasps were heard around the hall as food filled up the dishes on the table.
"How can you eat so much and stay so thin Seamus?" Neville asked and Romulus put the mirror on the table so they could see a large pile of food on Seamus's plate.
"He is outside a lot and plays Qudditch a lot!" Harry answered for him.
"I don't think he needs or wants you to answer for him, Potter! Anyway, how would you know?" the one boy with read hair said.
"I did want him to answer actually Weasley! And he would know because I have lived with him and Romulus since we were one!" Seamus replied and all the Gryffindor first years some from the hufflepuff table next to them some other Gryffindors close by heard.
"BUSTED!" They all said and even Ron laughed.
"Sorry if I insulted you, Harry!" He said with a sheepish grin.
"It is all right, Ron" Harry said and Seamus had finally seen the mirror on the table.
"Put that thing away Rom! I don't feel like our parents watch everything we do!" He said and Romulus looked at them in the mirror before sighing.
"Good bye dad!" He said and they saw his face and contact with them disappear.
"Better" Romulus said and put it back in his pocket.
"Are we starting you-know-what tonight?" Seamus whispered so only Harry, Lilac and Romulus could hear them.
"Fine with me! Sure! Start what?" Were the replies that came from them.
"I will tell you later, can Lilac do it with us? Do you want to?" Harry said and they nodded.
"Of course I will" Lilac said.
"Ok, so 5:30 it is!" Seamus said and they all nodded before tucking into the food again.
"First years follow me!" said the Gryffindor perfects and they followed them out the hall.
Everyone awed the moving paintings and scenery as they headed towards the fat lady.
By the time everything had been explained and the lectures of where girls go and boys go etc, it was 5 and they had a ½ hour to get unpacked.
When they got up to the dorm room, they opened the door to find a larger than normal room with 10 beds in.
"It says names of all the boys on this list, Calvin Pettigrew, Alexander Pettigrew, Dean Thomas, Patrick Finnigan, Neville Longbottom, Ronald Weasley, Seamus Black, Romulus Lupin, Harry Potter." Seamus said
"Here!" Chorused the other eight who had all collapsed onto a bed, Ron nearest to the door, then Neville next to him, Patrick, then Dean, Romulus had a bed next to Harry's, then came another one next to a window which must have been for him. Then Alexander and lastly came Calvin.
"We have a ½ hour to get ready/rest/unpack." Romulus said looking at his watch.
Meanwhile, the girls entered their dorm and it was about the same size as the boys and Lavender read the list on the door.
"Pavarti Patil, Lavender Brown, Hermione granger, Lilac Kales, Fern Pettigrew, Gina Pettigrew, Paz Adrienne, Aimee Reynolds, Robin Catalina and Darlene Gorge."
"Present!" All of them called and started getting ready to go out.
"So, who out of the boys do you like?" Aimee asked Lilac as they unpacked.
Before she replied, Lavender spoke: "I fancy Ron, did you see how well he took Seamus dissing him!" She sighed and it started the discussion of who likes whom between all the girls.
"I Think that Calvin is cute please don't say anything Fern!" Darlene said.
"Don't worry, I like Neville!" She gushed.
"Dean is nice!" Adrienne said bashfully.
"Who do you like Hermione?" Robin asked after Hermione settled down with a book.
"I don't have time for pathetic things like that and if you must know, the least immature one there is Harry!" she sighed and went back to reading.
Lilac felt her face go into an automatic smile and blush which Aimee saw.
"Fine, but if you aren't careful, Lilac is going to get to him first, I can see her blushing!" She giggled.
"He is so polite! And sweet! And funny and as bonus's he seemed to like Lilac today and he is attractive." Robin said and Hermione seemed annoyed.
"He obviously likes me, he smiled at me." Hermione sighed.
"No, he smiled at Lilac behind you!" Pavarti grinned at Hermione.
"I am not going to argue with you! I know he is totally keen on me." She sighed.
"Whatever!" Lilac said.
Soon All the girls had unpacked and were going to the common room where Lilac meet Harry while the other girls sat down in groups or talked to the other boys.
They left the common room with an engorgio charm on the invisibility charm on the cloak so it covered all 4 of them and made their way to the 7th floor.
They got to any empty class and Seamus took something out his pocket while Romulus cast the charm on the door so it wouldn't open.
Seamus enlarged the object and it turned out to be a book.
"Listen Lila, do you know what an animagus is?" Harry asked and she shook her head.
It is a person that can change into an animal at will. We are going to try to become animagus like our fathers, Wolf, dog and stag. Do you want to do it with us?" He asked and she nodded again.
"What form do you want to be?" He asked eagerly and she shrugged.
"Hey Harry, it says here that it decides for you what form suits you best!" Seamus said.
"Ok, so I don't have to decide, I guess," she shrugged.
"So you don't think it's dangerous?"
"I am a Gryffindor, and a prankster, why would I be scared of danger?"
"I don't know!" Harry said and hugged her and whispered in her ear "That is what I love about you!" and kissed the back of her neck, which made her shiver.
"Whoa, it took our parents 3 years but it can take us less than a month with the new advanced method they have here." Seamus grinned.
"Excellent!" Harry said rubbing his hands together.
"You look like a mad professor when you do that, for future reference." Seamus said.
"MWAHAHAHAHAHA" Harry laughed.
"If I didn't know you, I would say you were one, with the messy hair, strange eyes and being so short."
"Hey, don't forget I also have all those features!" Lilac protested.
"You may be short and have the eyes but your hair doesn't stand up." Seamus laughed but fell silent as she took off her blue headband. (Not literally a headband, one of those things they use to keep their hair out of their face in ballet)
The back of her hair stood up exactly the same way Harry's did. She put the headband back on and her hair went down again.
"Told you!" She stuck her tongue out at Seamus.
"Let's get to work shall we?" Romulus said, distracting Seamus away from the tears of laughter forming in his eyes.
"We first must start practicing the incantation, or at least learning it!" Remus said and then read out the book.
"Uno siesta un poco poco liefd, nono, Nona." {One (Spanish) sleep (Spanish) cafeteria cafeteria (Spanish) love (Latin), grandpa (Italian) grandma (Italian)}
[Don't laugh, I don't speak different languages but from what I know I got it together]
We must say it 3 times around a cauldron of a potion we make and then drink it. After any amount of times a day you will transform into your animal." He finished and he started brewing the potion.
"I need chopped daisy roots, you do that Seamus, powdered scarab beetles, Harry that is your job, Lilac, get me Hazelwood essence and frog spleen."
They all did their jobs and eventually after ¾ of an hour, the potion was done and in the 15 minutes settling period, they learned the incantation and were ready.
They all held hands and stood around the potion "Uno siesta un poco poco liefd, nono, Nona. Uno siesta un poco poco liefd, nono, Nona. Uno siesta un poco poco liefd, nono, Nona"
The potion glowed red and Romulus put it in 4 vials. They held them up.
"Cheers!" They said and gulped it down. It tasted of strawberries and cream and as soon as he had finished it, Harry felt himself start to shake and fell on the floor out cold.
He woke up and tried to stand but couldn't get on two legs, so he got on 4 instead. He looked at his hands and to his joy he had paws instead.
He ran over to the big mirror and saw his reflection was a wolf, a wolf with spiky silver fur all over its body, large green eyes and a long tail.
He turned around and saw 1 other animal lying on the floor with two passed out humans.
He went over to the animal and saw it was also a wolf, he couldn't see it's eyes but he saw it had black spiky fur almost like his. He bent down and licked its face, it dizzily opened its eyes, which grew wide when he saw Harry, he immediately recognized those blue eyes, it was Seamus.
Seamus must have also recognized Harry because he barked and ran around the room playfully. Romulus moved and Harry put his cold wet nose against his cheek, which made him sit up.
"Glad you two have your forms, come on, wake Lilac, we have to get back to the dorm before we get caught." He said as he rushed over and emptied the cauldron.
Harry took his human form and woke up Lilac. "You two go back to the dorms, me and Harry are going to have some fun in the forest!" Seamus said and Romulus put the cauldron in his pocket and threw the invisibility cloak over Lilac and himself.
"Don't be back too late!" Romulus whispered as the two wolves reached the entrance hall and went outside into the grounds.
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"Good morning Romulus!" Sirius greeted him in the mirror the next morning when almost everyone had gone to breakfast but He had just gotten dressed and Harry was still sleeping along with Seamus.
"Morning Uncle S!" Romulus greeted back.
"Where is everyone?" Sirius asked.
"Our 6 roommates have gone to breakfast while Harry and Seamus are still sleeping."
"6 roommates! Wow! Are you sure they are still sleeping, let me see!" Sirius said and Romulus walked over to Seamus's bed where he was lying with one arm over the side of the bed and his blanket over his waist and down.
"And Harry?" He asked and Romulus walked over to Harry's bed and pulled back the curtains.
He was sprawled across the bed in red boxers and hadn't even moved the covers.
"Lazy things!" Sirius said and Seamus groaned from his bed, which made Romulus jump.
"I see you have finally woken up!" Romulus said as Sirius grinned at him.
"We only got back at 4 last night!" Harry said from behind in his bed.
"My head!" Seamus moaned and Harry laughed.
"That is what usually happens when you run head first into a tree in the dark!" And Romulus laughed but before Sirius could ask, Lilac rushed into the room.
"No early morning lessons today!" She said excitedly and threw them each a schedule.
"YAY!" Seamus said as he flopped back into bed.
"Good morning, I'm going back to sleep!" Harry said.
"Can we take the potion now Romulus?" She asked and Sirius looked confused.
"What potion?" Sirius asked as Romulus chopped up daisy roots and Lilac started to grind scarab beetles.
"You will see soon!" Said Romulus said excitedly and Lilac suddenly stopped grinding.
She walked over to Harry's bed and planted a kiss on his cheek.
"Ok...what was that for?" Seamus asked nervously.
"No reason!" She said casually.
"Can I have one, it is only fair!" Seamus asked her jokingly.
"Maybe another time, you have to ask Harry first." She grinned.
"Why Romulus asked obviously thinking that she was teasing them.
"No reason." She said not looking up but blushing.
"I will ask now, hold on. Harry?" Seamus asked sitting up again with a grin plastered to his face.
"Yes Seamus"
"Can Lilac kiss me?" Seamus said and Harry nodded.
"Just once!" He said sleepily and Lilac went over to Seamus and kissed his cheek, which made him blush furiously.
"What about Rommie?" he giggled.
"Whatever." He replied.
She kissed Romulus on his cheek and he also blushed.
"That is so kind of you, and by the way Seamus, you and Harry still have to take the potion again to make sure that is the right form for you!" Romulus said as Lilac finished grinding the scarab.
"Ok!" He replied and went back to sleep.
"That was weird, and what form do you mean?" Sirius asked.
"He means our Ani-"Lilac said but Romulus cut her off.
"Your animagus form?" Sirius asked surprised but before they said anything, a loud yawn came from Harry's bed and a silver wolf leapt out of it.
"Gees like! Already?" Sirius asked as the wolf leant against Romulus's legs and he patted it.
"Last night, already, unfortunately only Harry's and Seamus's worked" and a black wolf pounced on the silver one playfully.
"Why are they both wolves?" Sirius asked disappointed.
"It chooses for you, but now that I read it, after the second day you become your true form." Romulus said as he read out a book and Lilac did an ageing charm on the potion so it was ready in time.
"It's ready," She said and the two wolves wrestling transformed back into Harry and Seamus.
They all held hands again and stood around the potion "Uno siesta un poco poco liefd, nono, Nona. Uno siesta un poco poco liefd, nono, Nona. Uno siesta un poco poco liefd, nono, Nona"
Romulus put the mirror standing up so Sirius could see and they drank the potion again.
Everyone passed out and Seamus woke first, he was a little black puppy and tried to run around but slipped and fell flat.
Next Lilac woke up and she was a tiny red fox who ran around with Seamus but also fell.
Romulus woke up a tiny blue/white wolf puppy with wide brown eyes that stood out against his soft fur.
Harry woke the same size as them but was a little black stag. He tried to stand but slipped.
He transformed back into human form and was followed by everyone.
"That is useless for now!" He sighed.
"Did you expect to become adult animals straight away? The more you transform, the bigger you become." Sirius laughed.
"Oh my god! We have 10 minutes till the fire works go off in the hall! Lets go!" Lilac said and they picked up the mirror and Harry and Seamus quickly got dressed and they rushed down stairs with a minute to spare.
They sat down and Romulus put the mirror on the table between him and Harry.
Suddenly, there was an explosion and fire works wrote something in the sky. It said:
"The heirs of messrs moony, padfoot, and prongs warn you: THE NEXT GENERATION OF MARAUDERS HAS RETURNED TO HOGWARTS WITH ANOTHER MEMBER!"
They saw Mcgonagall faint; Snape's lip face went into a terrified look, the Weasley twins and some other students cheered.
The message disappeared and Mcgonagall recovered and looked straight at the boys who carried on eating. When she wasn't looking Harry picked up the mirror.
"Sirius, it is greatly appreciated if you don't tell my mom about the message in the sky and my dad about the other thing."
"I won't tell, don't worry!" He smiled.
While the rest of the school went up to lessons and Sirius had to go to his work as an auror, the Gryffindor first years mostly went up to their dorms while Seamus, Harry, Romulus and Lilac went to sit by the lake under a beech tree.
"Where do we go first Rommie?" Seamus asked.
"Double Transfiguration, lunch, then double History of magic, then dinner, then you-know-where!" Romulus grinned.
"I can't wait!" He grinned.
"Me neither, but shouldn't we have our nicknames yet?" Romulus asked.
"What should we name you??" Romulus asked.
"Foxy?" Harry suggested.
"Foxy is wonderful, what about you Romulus?" She gushed.
"Well, he is a wolf, anything for wolf?" Harry said.
"Moonbeam?" Lilac suggested.
"Ooh, I like." Romulus said.
"Moonbeam it is! What about Seamus?" Harry asked.
"Well, I can't think of anything for black, and we obviously can't call him that!" Romulus said.
"Snuffles?" Harry said.
"Snuffles, yes! It is perfect! Now what about Harry?" Seamus said loudly.
"Sleek?" Lilac said.
"Sleek, I love it! Now what about a group name rather than neo marauders?"
"Prowlers?" Romulus suggested.
"Hmm...Moonbeam, Foxy, Snuffles and Sleek are the prowlers, nice, very nice!" Seamus said as he tested it.
"Perfect!" Romulus said.
"We have 10 minutes and we have got to be in transfiguration, I have an idea, lets make this a peaceful lesson and earn Gryffindor some points so we are not hated when we lose them, ok?" Harry begged.
"Ok, come on, let's go!" Romulus said as they stood up and walked to the castle.
They got to class with 2 minutes to spare and Mcgonagall started the lesson.
"Here, you will learn the art of changing objects to suit your needs." She said and transfigured her desk into a pig and back.
They all soon realized that they weren't going to be transforming furniture into animals any time soon when Mcgonagall gave them each a needle to turn into a match.
Mcgonagall awarded Gryffindor 10 points when Harry transfigured his into a match and left to run an errand near the end of the lesson.
Lila tapped her own and it was still silver, but when Seamus struck it against the desk, it caught fire and set the hem of Romulus's robe on fire, Harry extinguished it before Mcgonagall came in and the bell rang.
They packed up and went to lunch before going to History of magic. After listening for 5 minutes, they got bored and passed notes:
Foxy: do something to liven up the lesson, I'm bored stiff.
Snuffles: I was waiting for someone to ask that, watch the board.
As professor Binns wrote down homework, it rubbed itself off magically and the students cheered.
No told Binns until Hermione Granger put her hand up.
"Yes miss Ranger?" He said and the students sniggered.
"Black is using a spell to clean the board as you write sir!" She said and he looked to Seamus.
"He didn't sir! I did!" Harry said.
"I did," Romulus stood up and said.
"Don't take credit for my work!" Lilac snapped and the class all started shouting that they did it until after 15 minutes, he got so irritated that he sent the whole grade away an hour early.
As they walked out, people thanked Harry, Seamus, Romulus and Lilac and gave Hermione dirty looks.
After dinner, everyone else went to the common room while the prowlers went to the boys dorm room where Lilac and Harry pulled back the curtains of his bed and were having a 'tickling war' while Romulus read and Seamus jumped on his bed.
Romulus felt the mirror grow hot in his pocket and he took it out to find Sirius smiling at him.
"Hello again Romulus! How was first day?" He smiled.
"Fine, except Seamus set my robes on fire in transfiguration" He said.
"How did that happen?" Sirius asked giggling.
"I don't really know, he struck Lilac's needle and dropped it on me!" Romulus sighed.
"Well, I hate to interrupt but James and Lily want to speak to Harry." He sighed and his face moved out the way and the image of James and Lily appeared with Remus sitting on the couch reading.
"Hold on, I will give the mirror to him." He said and walked over to the bed, he got the surprise of his life to find the two...
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The prowlers? Lame, but I will edit if I get anything better than the names I got. I get the feeling Seamus wont want to be called Snuffles for long!!!
Cliffhanger, I'm evil!!! REVIEW!!!
Oops! I forgot to put in Neville in the sorting, but everyone knows he is in Gryffindor!
(I never liked Seamus Finnigan but he does exist as Patrick. )
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Chapter 6: The prowlers
"Well, a smart girl, brave, chivalrous, but also smart and well mannered. Raven claw or Gryffindor? I will let you decide!" The hat said in her ear.
"What ever house Harry Potter is going to be in!"
"Young love is so sweet!" The hat sighed.
"GRYFFINDOR!"
She went and took a seat across from Seamus, next to Romulus and put her foot next to Seamus to save a place for Harry.
A few more names were called and they knew they were getting closer to Harry's sorting.
Twins, Patil, Padama. Patil, Pavarti. A young girl named, Paz, Adrienne. 4 kids were called: Pettigrew, Fern, Pettigrew Calvin, Pettigrew, Gina, and Pettigrew, Alexander.
"WHAT!" Sirius screamed from the mirror but luckily it was drained out by the applause from the Gryffindors (which is their house by the way).
"Potter, Harry!" Mcgonagall said and she sounded Just as worried at the sound of Potter as Black.
Harry walked up to the stool and put on the hat.
"They explained what I must do, just don't move when I call Slytherin." The hat said.
"SLYTHERIN!"
The hall gasped, in history, no Potter had ever been out of Gryffindor. Soon they got over the shock and the Slytherin table clapped.
"NO! Wait, Ravenclaw!" The hat said and the ravenclaw table clapped.
"NO! Hufflepuff!" It yelled and the hufflepuff table clapped.
"NO! Slytherin!" It said and Mcgonagall looked extremely angry.
'JUST MAKE UP YOUR MIND ALREADY!!!!!" She screamed and it echoed through the hall.
"FINE! GRYFFINDOR!" It said and everyone laughed and clapped as Harry stood on the stool with the hat on the floor next to him, he bowed, jumped off the stool and ran to the Gryffindor table before Mcgonagall could give him detention.
He took the seat across from Lilac, She felt him put his foot with hers and she gave a flirty smile.
After a lot more students were sorted, Professor Dumbledore stood up.
"Welcome to Hogwarts, I am professor Dumbledore, another year is already upon us. Just a few announcements before we dig in. To all our old students who may need a reminder and our new students" he looked at Seamus and Harry "The forbidden forest is off limits and so is Hogsmeade to second year and first years. And the 2nd door on the left on the third floor is off limits to anyone who doesn't wish to die a most painful death. That is all and you may all tuck in"
Gasps were heard around the hall as food filled up the dishes on the table.
"How can you eat so much and stay so thin Seamus?" Neville asked and Romulus put the mirror on the table so they could see a large pile of food on Seamus's plate.
"He is outside a lot and plays Qudditch a lot!" Harry answered for him.
"I don't think he needs or wants you to answer for him, Potter! Anyway, how would you know?" the one boy with read hair said.
"I did want him to answer actually Weasley! And he would know because I have lived with him and Romulus since we were one!" Seamus replied and all the Gryffindor first years some from the hufflepuff table next to them some other Gryffindors close by heard.
"BUSTED!" They all said and even Ron laughed.
"Sorry if I insulted you, Harry!" He said with a sheepish grin.
"It is all right, Ron" Harry said and Seamus had finally seen the mirror on the table.
"Put that thing away Rom! I don't feel like our parents watch everything we do!" He said and Romulus looked at them in the mirror before sighing.
"Good bye dad!" He said and they saw his face and contact with them disappear.
"Better" Romulus said and put it back in his pocket.
"Are we starting you-know-what tonight?" Seamus whispered so only Harry, Lilac and Romulus could hear them.
"Fine with me! Sure! Start what?" Were the replies that came from them.
"I will tell you later, can Lilac do it with us? Do you want to?" Harry said and they nodded.
"Of course I will" Lilac said.
"Ok, so 5:30 it is!" Seamus said and they all nodded before tucking into the food again.
"First years follow me!" said the Gryffindor perfects and they followed them out the hall.
Everyone awed the moving paintings and scenery as they headed towards the fat lady.
By the time everything had been explained and the lectures of where girls go and boys go etc, it was 5 and they had a ½ hour to get unpacked.
When they got up to the dorm room, they opened the door to find a larger than normal room with 10 beds in.
"It says names of all the boys on this list, Calvin Pettigrew, Alexander Pettigrew, Dean Thomas, Patrick Finnigan, Neville Longbottom, Ronald Weasley, Seamus Black, Romulus Lupin, Harry Potter." Seamus said
"Here!" Chorused the other eight who had all collapsed onto a bed, Ron nearest to the door, then Neville next to him, Patrick, then Dean, Romulus had a bed next to Harry's, then came another one next to a window which must have been for him. Then Alexander and lastly came Calvin.
"We have a ½ hour to get ready/rest/unpack." Romulus said looking at his watch.
Meanwhile, the girls entered their dorm and it was about the same size as the boys and Lavender read the list on the door.
"Pavarti Patil, Lavender Brown, Hermione granger, Lilac Kales, Fern Pettigrew, Gina Pettigrew, Paz Adrienne, Aimee Reynolds, Robin Catalina and Darlene Gorge."
"Present!" All of them called and started getting ready to go out.
"So, who out of the boys do you like?" Aimee asked Lilac as they unpacked.
Before she replied, Lavender spoke: "I fancy Ron, did you see how well he took Seamus dissing him!" She sighed and it started the discussion of who likes whom between all the girls.
"I Think that Calvin is cute please don't say anything Fern!" Darlene said.
"Don't worry, I like Neville!" She gushed.
"Dean is nice!" Adrienne said bashfully.
"Who do you like Hermione?" Robin asked after Hermione settled down with a book.
"I don't have time for pathetic things like that and if you must know, the least immature one there is Harry!" she sighed and went back to reading.
Lilac felt her face go into an automatic smile and blush which Aimee saw.
"Fine, but if you aren't careful, Lilac is going to get to him first, I can see her blushing!" She giggled.
"He is so polite! And sweet! And funny and as bonus's he seemed to like Lilac today and he is attractive." Robin said and Hermione seemed annoyed.
"He obviously likes me, he smiled at me." Hermione sighed.
"No, he smiled at Lilac behind you!" Pavarti grinned at Hermione.
"I am not going to argue with you! I know he is totally keen on me." She sighed.
"Whatever!" Lilac said.
Soon All the girls had unpacked and were going to the common room where Lilac meet Harry while the other girls sat down in groups or talked to the other boys.
They left the common room with an engorgio charm on the invisibility charm on the cloak so it covered all 4 of them and made their way to the 7th floor.
They got to any empty class and Seamus took something out his pocket while Romulus cast the charm on the door so it wouldn't open.
Seamus enlarged the object and it turned out to be a book.
"Listen Lila, do you know what an animagus is?" Harry asked and she shook her head.
It is a person that can change into an animal at will. We are going to try to become animagus like our fathers, Wolf, dog and stag. Do you want to do it with us?" He asked and she nodded again.
"What form do you want to be?" He asked eagerly and she shrugged.
"Hey Harry, it says here that it decides for you what form suits you best!" Seamus said.
"Ok, so I don't have to decide, I guess," she shrugged.
"So you don't think it's dangerous?"
"I am a Gryffindor, and a prankster, why would I be scared of danger?"
"I don't know!" Harry said and hugged her and whispered in her ear "That is what I love about you!" and kissed the back of her neck, which made her shiver.
"Whoa, it took our parents 3 years but it can take us less than a month with the new advanced method they have here." Seamus grinned.
"Excellent!" Harry said rubbing his hands together.
"You look like a mad professor when you do that, for future reference." Seamus said.
"MWAHAHAHAHAHA" Harry laughed.
"If I didn't know you, I would say you were one, with the messy hair, strange eyes and being so short."
"Hey, don't forget I also have all those features!" Lilac protested.
"You may be short and have the eyes but your hair doesn't stand up." Seamus laughed but fell silent as she took off her blue headband. (Not literally a headband, one of those things they use to keep their hair out of their face in ballet)
The back of her hair stood up exactly the same way Harry's did. She put the headband back on and her hair went down again.
"Told you!" She stuck her tongue out at Seamus.
"Let's get to work shall we?" Romulus said, distracting Seamus away from the tears of laughter forming in his eyes.
"We first must start practicing the incantation, or at least learning it!" Remus said and then read out the book.
"Uno siesta un poco poco liefd, nono, Nona." {One (Spanish) sleep (Spanish) cafeteria cafeteria (Spanish) love (Latin), grandpa (Italian) grandma (Italian)}
[Don't laugh, I don't speak different languages but from what I know I got it together]
We must say it 3 times around a cauldron of a potion we make and then drink it. After any amount of times a day you will transform into your animal." He finished and he started brewing the potion.
"I need chopped daisy roots, you do that Seamus, powdered scarab beetles, Harry that is your job, Lilac, get me Hazelwood essence and frog spleen."
They all did their jobs and eventually after ¾ of an hour, the potion was done and in the 15 minutes settling period, they learned the incantation and were ready.
They all held hands and stood around the potion "Uno siesta un poco poco liefd, nono, Nona. Uno siesta un poco poco liefd, nono, Nona. Uno siesta un poco poco liefd, nono, Nona"
The potion glowed red and Romulus put it in 4 vials. They held them up.
"Cheers!" They said and gulped it down. It tasted of strawberries and cream and as soon as he had finished it, Harry felt himself start to shake and fell on the floor out cold.
He woke up and tried to stand but couldn't get on two legs, so he got on 4 instead. He looked at his hands and to his joy he had paws instead.
He ran over to the big mirror and saw his reflection was a wolf, a wolf with spiky silver fur all over its body, large green eyes and a long tail.
He turned around and saw 1 other animal lying on the floor with two passed out humans.
He went over to the animal and saw it was also a wolf, he couldn't see it's eyes but he saw it had black spiky fur almost like his. He bent down and licked its face, it dizzily opened its eyes, which grew wide when he saw Harry, he immediately recognized those blue eyes, it was Seamus.
Seamus must have also recognized Harry because he barked and ran around the room playfully. Romulus moved and Harry put his cold wet nose against his cheek, which made him sit up.
"Glad you two have your forms, come on, wake Lilac, we have to get back to the dorm before we get caught." He said as he rushed over and emptied the cauldron.
Harry took his human form and woke up Lilac. "You two go back to the dorms, me and Harry are going to have some fun in the forest!" Seamus said and Romulus put the cauldron in his pocket and threw the invisibility cloak over Lilac and himself.
"Don't be back too late!" Romulus whispered as the two wolves reached the entrance hall and went outside into the grounds.
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"Good morning Romulus!" Sirius greeted him in the mirror the next morning when almost everyone had gone to breakfast but He had just gotten dressed and Harry was still sleeping along with Seamus.
"Morning Uncle S!" Romulus greeted back.
"Where is everyone?" Sirius asked.
"Our 6 roommates have gone to breakfast while Harry and Seamus are still sleeping."
"6 roommates! Wow! Are you sure they are still sleeping, let me see!" Sirius said and Romulus walked over to Seamus's bed where he was lying with one arm over the side of the bed and his blanket over his waist and down.
"And Harry?" He asked and Romulus walked over to Harry's bed and pulled back the curtains.
He was sprawled across the bed in red boxers and hadn't even moved the covers.
"Lazy things!" Sirius said and Seamus groaned from his bed, which made Romulus jump.
"I see you have finally woken up!" Romulus said as Sirius grinned at him.
"We only got back at 4 last night!" Harry said from behind in his bed.
"My head!" Seamus moaned and Harry laughed.
"That is what usually happens when you run head first into a tree in the dark!" And Romulus laughed but before Sirius could ask, Lilac rushed into the room.
"No early morning lessons today!" She said excitedly and threw them each a schedule.
"YAY!" Seamus said as he flopped back into bed.
"Good morning, I'm going back to sleep!" Harry said.
"Can we take the potion now Romulus?" She asked and Sirius looked confused.
"What potion?" Sirius asked as Romulus chopped up daisy roots and Lilac started to grind scarab beetles.
"You will see soon!" Said Romulus said excitedly and Lilac suddenly stopped grinding.
She walked over to Harry's bed and planted a kiss on his cheek.
"Ok...what was that for?" Seamus asked nervously.
"No reason!" She said casually.
"Can I have one, it is only fair!" Seamus asked her jokingly.
"Maybe another time, you have to ask Harry first." She grinned.
"Why Romulus asked obviously thinking that she was teasing them.
"No reason." She said not looking up but blushing.
"I will ask now, hold on. Harry?" Seamus asked sitting up again with a grin plastered to his face.
"Yes Seamus"
"Can Lilac kiss me?" Seamus said and Harry nodded.
"Just once!" He said sleepily and Lilac went over to Seamus and kissed his cheek, which made him blush furiously.
"What about Rommie?" he giggled.
"Whatever." He replied.
She kissed Romulus on his cheek and he also blushed.
"That is so kind of you, and by the way Seamus, you and Harry still have to take the potion again to make sure that is the right form for you!" Romulus said as Lilac finished grinding the scarab.
"Ok!" He replied and went back to sleep.
"That was weird, and what form do you mean?" Sirius asked.
"He means our Ani-"Lilac said but Romulus cut her off.
"Your animagus form?" Sirius asked surprised but before they said anything, a loud yawn came from Harry's bed and a silver wolf leapt out of it.
"Gees like! Already?" Sirius asked as the wolf leant against Romulus's legs and he patted it.
"Last night, already, unfortunately only Harry's and Seamus's worked" and a black wolf pounced on the silver one playfully.
"Why are they both wolves?" Sirius asked disappointed.
"It chooses for you, but now that I read it, after the second day you become your true form." Romulus said as he read out a book and Lilac did an ageing charm on the potion so it was ready in time.
"It's ready," She said and the two wolves wrestling transformed back into Harry and Seamus.
They all held hands again and stood around the potion "Uno siesta un poco poco liefd, nono, Nona. Uno siesta un poco poco liefd, nono, Nona. Uno siesta un poco poco liefd, nono, Nona"
Romulus put the mirror standing up so Sirius could see and they drank the potion again.
Everyone passed out and Seamus woke first, he was a little black puppy and tried to run around but slipped and fell flat.
Next Lilac woke up and she was a tiny red fox who ran around with Seamus but also fell.
Romulus woke up a tiny blue/white wolf puppy with wide brown eyes that stood out against his soft fur.
Harry woke the same size as them but was a little black stag. He tried to stand but slipped.
He transformed back into human form and was followed by everyone.
"That is useless for now!" He sighed.
"Did you expect to become adult animals straight away? The more you transform, the bigger you become." Sirius laughed.
"Oh my god! We have 10 minutes till the fire works go off in the hall! Lets go!" Lilac said and they picked up the mirror and Harry and Seamus quickly got dressed and they rushed down stairs with a minute to spare.
They sat down and Romulus put the mirror on the table between him and Harry.
Suddenly, there was an explosion and fire works wrote something in the sky. It said:
"The heirs of messrs moony, padfoot, and prongs warn you: THE NEXT GENERATION OF MARAUDERS HAS RETURNED TO HOGWARTS WITH ANOTHER MEMBER!"
They saw Mcgonagall faint; Snape's lip face went into a terrified look, the Weasley twins and some other students cheered.
The message disappeared and Mcgonagall recovered and looked straight at the boys who carried on eating. When she wasn't looking Harry picked up the mirror.
"Sirius, it is greatly appreciated if you don't tell my mom about the message in the sky and my dad about the other thing."
"I won't tell, don't worry!" He smiled.
While the rest of the school went up to lessons and Sirius had to go to his work as an auror, the Gryffindor first years mostly went up to their dorms while Seamus, Harry, Romulus and Lilac went to sit by the lake under a beech tree.
"Where do we go first Rommie?" Seamus asked.
"Double Transfiguration, lunch, then double History of magic, then dinner, then you-know-where!" Romulus grinned.
"I can't wait!" He grinned.
"Me neither, but shouldn't we have our nicknames yet?" Romulus asked.
"What should we name you??" Romulus asked.
"Foxy?" Harry suggested.
"Foxy is wonderful, what about you Romulus?" She gushed.
"Well, he is a wolf, anything for wolf?" Harry said.
"Moonbeam?" Lilac suggested.
"Ooh, I like." Romulus said.
"Moonbeam it is! What about Seamus?" Harry asked.
"Well, I can't think of anything for black, and we obviously can't call him that!" Romulus said.
"Snuffles?" Harry said.
"Snuffles, yes! It is perfect! Now what about Harry?" Seamus said loudly.
"Sleek?" Lilac said.
"Sleek, I love it! Now what about a group name rather than neo marauders?"
"Prowlers?" Romulus suggested.
"Hmm...Moonbeam, Foxy, Snuffles and Sleek are the prowlers, nice, very nice!" Seamus said as he tested it.
"Perfect!" Romulus said.
"We have 10 minutes and we have got to be in transfiguration, I have an idea, lets make this a peaceful lesson and earn Gryffindor some points so we are not hated when we lose them, ok?" Harry begged.
"Ok, come on, let's go!" Romulus said as they stood up and walked to the castle.
They got to class with 2 minutes to spare and Mcgonagall started the lesson.
"Here, you will learn the art of changing objects to suit your needs." She said and transfigured her desk into a pig and back.
They all soon realized that they weren't going to be transforming furniture into animals any time soon when Mcgonagall gave them each a needle to turn into a match.
Mcgonagall awarded Gryffindor 10 points when Harry transfigured his into a match and left to run an errand near the end of the lesson.
Lila tapped her own and it was still silver, but when Seamus struck it against the desk, it caught fire and set the hem of Romulus's robe on fire, Harry extinguished it before Mcgonagall came in and the bell rang.
They packed up and went to lunch before going to History of magic. After listening for 5 minutes, they got bored and passed notes:
Foxy: do something to liven up the lesson, I'm bored stiff.
Snuffles: I was waiting for someone to ask that, watch the board.
As professor Binns wrote down homework, it rubbed itself off magically and the students cheered.
No told Binns until Hermione Granger put her hand up.
"Yes miss Ranger?" He said and the students sniggered.
"Black is using a spell to clean the board as you write sir!" She said and he looked to Seamus.
"He didn't sir! I did!" Harry said.
"I did," Romulus stood up and said.
"Don't take credit for my work!" Lilac snapped and the class all started shouting that they did it until after 15 minutes, he got so irritated that he sent the whole grade away an hour early.
As they walked out, people thanked Harry, Seamus, Romulus and Lilac and gave Hermione dirty looks.
After dinner, everyone else went to the common room while the prowlers went to the boys dorm room where Lilac and Harry pulled back the curtains of his bed and were having a 'tickling war' while Romulus read and Seamus jumped on his bed.
Romulus felt the mirror grow hot in his pocket and he took it out to find Sirius smiling at him.
"Hello again Romulus! How was first day?" He smiled.
"Fine, except Seamus set my robes on fire in transfiguration" He said.
"How did that happen?" Sirius asked giggling.
"I don't really know, he struck Lilac's needle and dropped it on me!" Romulus sighed.
"Well, I hate to interrupt but James and Lily want to speak to Harry." He sighed and his face moved out the way and the image of James and Lily appeared with Remus sitting on the couch reading.
"Hold on, I will give the mirror to him." He said and walked over to the bed, he got the surprise of his life to find the two...
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The prowlers? Lame, but I will edit if I get anything better than the names I got. I get the feeling Seamus wont want to be called Snuffles for long!!!
Cliffhanger, I'm evil!!! REVIEW!!!