Mommy, I'm Home!
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Chapter 4: A Natural Marauder
"Oh, Shit," Sirius whispered as McGonagall rounded the corner.
"Sirius Black, how DARE you use profanity in front of MY SON!" Lily yelled not seeing her head of house down the hall.
"Ms. Evans, kindly keep your voice down or I will be forced to give you a weeks worth of detention along with these... things," said a steaming McGonagall. And yes, she was literally steaming. Her hair was a bright red bob, the ends dancing gold flames, and a slight steam was coming out of her ears. Lily was trying to decide whether she should be laughing hysterically or be scared out of her mind, she chose fear. "Honestly, Ms. Evans. I thought better of you. I did not expect you to agree to help these three stay out of trouble. What were you going to tell me? You were tutoring them in charms? That you were up all night doing homework and they never left the common room? Did they blackmail you? Are you secretly one of them? Have you been helping them all along? I knew someone was. Why didn't I see it before? It makes... wait. Did you say son?"
"Ummm..." was all Lily could manage. She had never seen McGonagall lose her cool like that, and frankly it scared her like nothing had ever done in her life.
"Mommy," said Harry suddenly, drawing the full attention of a stunned McGonagall, "who's that funny looking lady that won't she shut up?"
"Harry Potter we do not use the term shut up," Lily scolded gently, "and that lady is Professor McGonagall."
"When, how, where?" was all McGonagall could manage.
"I was in the great hall this morning around five, and he came in, told me I was his mother. The next thing I remember is waking up in James's arms in front of Dumbledore's office along with Harry, Sirius, and Remus."
"Aha," said McGonagall coming back to her senses, "I knew you lot had something to do with my hair. If the boy came this morning then you still have no alibi. Glorious day! Ha Ha!" Then she went into some odd victory dance which had the Marauders exchanging worried glances, more for her mental health than there detention record.
Harry, though, had a plan. He remembered a few times when his daddy had done things to his mommy and how he had gotten out of trouble, so he would tell this McGoogle his story.
"Umm... Lady?" he asked.
"Yes?" the happy Professor asked in reply.
"I got here last night. I don't know how. I just wished and here I was. I landed in my daddy's room and he and Uncle Remus and Uncle Sirius stayed up with me all night. I got them up really early this morning 'cause I wanted to see my mommy, and when we got to the eating place I ran in before Daddy and them to Mommy real fast. Then she fell asleep, and Daddy took us here."
The smile slid off of Minerva's face slowly. She stood frozen her eyes glazed a bit. She couldn't argue with this, this was solid evidence. Oh, she hated fate. While she stood there in a daze, Sirius, Remus and especially James were looking down at Harry with more pride than seemed humanly possible, and Lily just sat there glaring at James.
Remus was the first to come out of the trance and cleared his throat, "Professor, we were on our way to see the Headmaster about all this when we ran into you. Is it alright if we proceed into his office?"
"What? Oh, oh, of course," said a still dazed McGonagall as she turned and headed down the corridor.
"Thanks for the password," James mumbled sarcastically at the professor's retreating form, but before his brothers in crime could laugh Lily rounded on him.
"How dare you teach our son to lie like that to an authority figure?" she screamed.
"Woo, Lils, calm down. It's not that big of a deal, besides how do you know he lied?"
"Because... because I just do!"
"And how do you 'just know'?"
"Because I'm his mother, and believe it or not mothers can tell when their son's lie. Some just choose to ignore it."
"Then why don't you be a good mom and ignore it?"
"Because then I wouldn't be a good mother! I would be letting my son grow up with no morals! I'd let him grow into you! And I am NOT going to see that happen, Potter!"
A silence fell over the group as James looked at Lily with pain written in his eyes. Sirius looked shocked, and Remus looked more alarmed than he had during McGonagall's tribal dance. Harry, however, was unaffected by this, he figured Mommy was going through what Uncle Sirius called "the time of the month". He looked around him, a bit bored.
"Uncle Remus?" he asked.
"Yes, Harry?"
"When we get into see Uncle Albus, are we gonna get lemon drops?" and at that moment the griffin jumped aside revealing the revolving stairs.
"My son," said James "is a genius."
"And we all know he didn't get it from your side of the family," said Lily as she grabbed Harry's hand and led him onto the staircase.
