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Chapter 13: Polyjuice Potion

"Hey, Harry, where's Ron?" Hermione asked.

"He wasn't in the boys dormitory this morning," Harry said. "We did go for a talk with Dumbledore though."
"Why?" she asked, brushing her hair back behind her ears.

Quickly Harry told his friend what had happened the previous night, involving Harry's dream and his mother's disappearance. "She's gone now. Voldemort has her. Dumbledore made my father and I promise not to go after her. She'll live that way or so he says."

"Did Ron come back to the dormitory with you?" Hermione asked.

Harry halted. Sirius' words echoed in his ears: "can I speak to Ron for a quick moment?"

"I know where Ron is," Harry replied, "Sirius asked to speak to him. I came back here and straight to bed. I have a shrewd suspicion that Sirius and Ron have gone to get my mother. They didn't have to promise."

Hermione was silent for a while. "Maybe that was Dumbledore's intention?"

"I doubt it somehow," Harry growled, "My father has to know."

It was a Wednesday morning. Harry had Care of Magical Creatures followed by Herbology. He did not really care missing those subjects, so after breakfast, he made his way to the Room of Requirement under his invisibility cloak.

When he entered the room, James was pacing, a worried look on his face. He looked up as Harry entered. "Harry! Is Ron here?"

Harry shook his hair out of his eyes. "No. I gather Sirius has gone as well?"

James nodded. "Unfortunately."

"I feel bad about not doing anything, but if I can do anything to help them, and that is to stay alive and not get in trouble. If we could go without getting hurt and killed then we'd stand a good chance."

"Don't even think about it, Potter." Remus warned watching father and son.

"I have an idea," Harry explained.

"What is it?"

"Polyjuice Potion."

"Huh?" James asked, confused, "How can that help us save Lily, Sirius and Ron?"

Harry grinned, realising that James wasn't catching on. "Simple. Fred and George Weasley run a joke shop in Diagon Alley. If you can steal a full vial of Polyjuice Potion from Snape then we can ask them to be us. They will take our places here in our forms. We can take on their forms as the twins. We go to find the others and no one is the wiser. Who will suspect us as Harry and James Potter?"

James was smiling widely. "I never thought of doing that before."

His son held out his hand. "Do you want to?"

"If it saves Lily then, yes."

They shook hands.

"This isn't a good idea, James," Remus said, after Harry had gone.

"I was wondering when you'd say something like that." James retorted.

"Come on Prongs! It'll be dangerous! If you are killed everything will go wrong! The future will be destroyed."

James tapped his friend on the shoulder. "Which is why we're disguising ourselves as other people if they comply."

"I still think you'll die if you do this."

"It's my choice what I do. No one can change it for me." James returned.

"Harry!"

"What are you doing here?"

Harry smiled mischievously as he entered Fred and George's Joke Shop situated in Diagon Alley. He had used the Floo Network from Hogwarts to get him there. "I've come to ask you to do something for me...that is if you consent that is."

The twins traded looks and then said: "Whatever it is, Harry."

"Well, its this. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs and my mother have come from the past into this time. I told you last summer who they were, right?"

The twins nodded. They had been astonished to know that they had once been living with two of the Marauders. That had been during the wake of Harry's fifth year. And to know that they were in this time brought ideas into their heads....

"Voldemort has captured my mother. I can guess he will kill her but not until I go there with my father, James. Last night I had a dream about myself being wiped from history, and I told Dumbledore about it. He made James and I promise not to go after them but something else has come up that is making us break our vows," Harry explained, "Ron and Sirius went after them. My father and I want to follow them, but we can't not in our normal forms. This is where...."

Fred cut him off. "...we come in? You want George and I to be you and James while you masquerade as us?"

"If you wouldn't mind." Harry muttered.

"Of course we'll do it for you." George replied.

"But you have to act like I do. And James. One of you will have to go to classes as me; the other will have to remain with Remus and Peter in the Room of Requirement, which is where Dumbledore has placed them to hide until they can get back to their own time."

"When do you want us to come?" Fred asked.

"Now, if it's possible."

"Sure. Let's just close up shop."

With a grin, the twins raised their wands and then with a swish everything was put away. The door closed and the sign on the outside said 'closed'. Then they were ready.

"Floo Powder?" George questioned.

"Definitely." Harry took a lump of the powder, spread it on the fire place and shouted: "Hogwarts!"

He disappeared in a flash of green flames.

"Everyone clear with what is going on?"

The twins, James, Remus and Peter raised no objections to Harry's query, though James could see that Remus disapproved of the plan entirely. However he could not overrule them.

The twins, upon meeting the three remaining Marauders had expressed their delight in meeting them. James even told them some of the pranks he and his friends had pulled only days before being transported into the future. James was honoured at the attention his 'unique' ideas was giving.

While Harry had seen to the twins, James had slipped into the dungeon and retrieved a vial of Polyjuice Potion. It had been lucky that it had been there. Having never really used it before, James was excited to be trying something different. He admired his sons ideas.

"Got your hairs?" asked Harry.

They all nodded and placed it in the cups. Harry placed Fred's hair in his own cup and drank the potion in one go. It tasted disgusting but he waited patiently for the affects to begin.

Then he felt himself changing. He picked up a mirror and watched, entranced as his scar disappeared, and then his black hair. His face turned to Fred's, orange hair appeared, and faint freckles fell about his nose.

He looked to where Fred was sitting and saw himself staring back at him. Fred had the appearance of Harry. To his side sat James, identical as Harry in the twin-ness. George looked exactly like James now. Remus passed Fred and George glasses each. Harry and James were to keep theirs in case they needed them later on.

"Here," Remus said, handing each student a bottle full of Polyjuice Potion with the hairs added in. "Keep these close. Every hour drink them to maintain the potion. Just a sip will do."

Harry put the flask inside his robes carefully; James doing the same.

"Well, we're ready." James said.

"Good luck," Fred said.

Harry nodded his thanks and taking his invisibility cloak, he and James threw it over them and departed from the Room of Requirement.

"Are you sure we're going the right way?" Ron asked, suspiciously as they made their way into the Forest.

"Of course!" Sirius replied over his shoulder, "I've been in here loads of times!"

"I just don't like this place at all." Ron muttered, holding his wand above him so he could see where he was treading.

"It's brilliant in here! Just think of all the things that we've never seen before that live here!"

Ron rolled his eyes, not replying.

A twig snapped behind them.

"Was that you?" Sirius asked.

"No." Ron said.

"Duck!" Sirius fell to the earth, as did Ron. Two stunning spells shot over their heads.

"Death Eaters!" Ron heard the other say.

Sirius climbed to his feet and bellowed: "Expelliarmus!"

A wand shot out of no where.

"Run!" Sirius shouted.

Ron struggled to his feet and began to follow Sirius through the trees. Another stunning spell shot right behind them, but missed by inches.

"Where are we going?" Ron asked.

"As far away as possible!" replied Sirius.

He led them further into the darkness of the forest, Death Eaters in pursuit.

TBC

I'm not in the business of leaving many cliff-hangers but this counts as one though, doesn't it? I hope you all liked my efforts with this chapter! It's still got a long way to go!

Next Chapter: Harry and James encounter trouble; Ron and Sirius fight for survival; Lily dwells on the past; and Fred and George cause trouble at Hogwarts!