DISCLAIMER: I do not own Harry Potter, he belongs to J.K Rowling and if you are reading this and think any different then St. Mungo's should be your next port of call.

Chapter 6: Where Does All The Time Go

31st July 1982

"Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Harry, Happy Birthday to you." The two Marauders sung to Harry with Remus being a lot better at singing than Sirius who still after months of unbearable singing every day still hadn't improved.

Harry was delighted and blew out the two candles in one go and was clapping his hands and banging the table with his hands chanting:

"Me want prewsnts, Uncle Padfooh, Uncle Moony pwease. Me want prewsnts" Harry pleaded in an almost girlie whine to his "Uncles" as receiving presents was his favourite time.

"Harry we have been through this, your presents are coming can't you wait just a little while?" Sirius mock chided the small child with a huge grin plastered across his face who reminded him so much of James already when he still such a tender age.

"No, No, No, No, me want prewsnts now, NOW, NOW, NOW!" Harry by the end was shouting at the top of his lungs while the puppy dog look that neither Sirius nor Remus could refuse especially being that it was his birthday came across his cute chubby cheeks as he looked at his two "Uncles" pleadingly.

Sirius and Remus gave each other an exasperated look knowing that Harry would not budge on his demands and with it being his birthday they decided that he could have what he wanted though on any other day they would not of given in. Both men were now looking at each other with the same thought running through their head, "you go get the presents, no you, no you." Finally Sirius started to sing one of the latest songs that he had heard on the telly, Video Killed The Radio Star and after three lines Remus couldn't bear it no more.

"OK Padfoot I'll go, no need to stoop to desperate measures, a please Moony would of sufficed!" Moony told his friend with a grimace on his face, no matter how good Sirius was at some things, he would never ever be a good singer.

Remus then proceeded to go to the wardrobe in his room where the sack of presents that was Harry's were placed. It had ended up in Moony's wardrobe after Sirius insisted that since Remus had brought the presents he should keep them in his room. Remus had argued that he only brought the presents could if Sirius had the chance he would buy the child the most inappropriate of things like a slingshot which he mentioned the day before Remus went to the muggle town to buy the presents. Another reason Sirius had mentioned was that his wardrobe was fuller and he didn't have the room as his shoes were kept in the bottom of the wardrobe and he didn't want them to be scuffed. "What a tart!" Remus had thought to himself at the time and snickered to himself as he made his way to open the wardrobe.

A loud flash and a tremendous "BOOM" seemed to rock the house to its foundations but as Sirius was rolling on the floor watched by a curious Harry who decided to emulate his Godfather and was by now rolling on the floor in laughter making Sirius nearly wet himself laughing.

A loud curse of "SIRIUS BLACK I WILL KILL YOU, YOU, YOU…" echoed through the house as Remus came storming down stairs with Harry's sack of presents clinging to the front of him protecting himself from view. With a lazy flick of the hand Sirius cast a banishing charm and the stack of presents went flying to an empty corner leaving Remus exposed.

Sirius and Harry stopped rolling round on the floor and looked at what Remus had become.

"Moony funny, funny, funny, funny." Harry chorused as hr looked at what had happened to Remus who had fury etched across his now changed features.

Remus now looked like a women with shoulder length blond hair, what looked like a wonder bra on his chest and he was wearing a tight T-shirt that accentuated his new figure. It bore the slogan "Because I'm worth it". Apart from that he was wearing tight Muggle jeans and high heeled shoes. Perhaps the funniest thing was his face that now looked a disfigured twist between a man and a woman.

With a quick "Expelliarmus" the wand that was now in Remus's hand flew swiftly to Sirius and with a quick wave of his wand and a muttered "Preoccupo" Remus was now unable to do any wandless magic.

If Harry weren't in between him and Sirius, Remus would have lunged at his friend there and then. Sirius, who still had tears in his eyes whipped out a muggle camera that Remus had brought on his first trip to the town and took a few pictures quickly then saying.

"Don't just stand their all day Moony old buddy, if we put you out in the garden you could be our scarecrow so get moving, or would you look better as a water feature." Sirius quipped, the glint of revenge still in his eye.

Remus now knew what the prank was all about; it was to get Remus back for what he had done to him at Christmas. Their had been some minor pranks since then and looking back Remus had thought he had got off lightly but if it was one thing Remus knew, Sirius could hold a grudge.

Harry now in Sirius arms as he walked over to Remus to give him his wand back and undo the spells couldn't resist poking Remus in all the body parts that had changed and squealed every time he was successful.

Once Sirius had undid the spells on Remus who thankfully became a man once more, all three sat down and summoning the sack, Remus started to get out all of the wrapped presents that came from his second visit to the main town on the island. They decided that it was not worth a trip to Diagon Alley and they would only go for something special which both of them new was code for Harry's first broomstick which they decided to buy for him when he was big enough to ride safely.

Just because Remus didn't visit Diagon Alley didn't mean that Harry lost out, he got many new presents eagerly ripping off the wrapping paper in what must have been world record time. Harry got new toys, a couple of colouring books and about 10,000 colouring pens and pencils seeing that Harry seemed to eat them. He got more children's books, about ten sets of clothes that would last him through to next year.

His clapped his hands and bounced around after opening each of them and after Harry had opened around thirty presents Sirius and Remus grabbed one of his tiny hands in each of their own and led him to the back garden where his main present stood.

A gleaming black car awaited him. The car was just small enough for Harry to ride and could go speeds of up to fifteen miles per hour. This had cost Remus a whole £2000 but in their minds every penny was worth it seeing that they couldn't buy Harry a broomstick yet as they did not want to risk a visit to Diagon Alley again. The money was again well justified when Harry squealed with joy and ran over to the car bellowing "MINE, MINE, MINE" at full volume.

Sirius and Remus made their way casually to the car and put Harry in the seat the right way. They showed him how to operate the car properly but regretted standing in front of the car when only their sharp reflexes managed to get the pair out of the way in time. Harry was acting like a rampant child, driving around the garden shouted incomprehensible words every two seconds.

Sirius and Remus decided that they weren't going to get Harry to stop anytime soon from his rampage and both quickly went inside. The pair agreed one of them should keep watch on Harry so Remus grabbing a book from the bookshelf that adorned one corner of the living room, sat down outside.

It was a warm night even in the North of Scotland but after two hours of constant play, Remus and Sirius, who swapped "guard duty" as they put it every thirty minutes got tired of waiting for Harry to finish playing with his new toy. The Marauders finally caught up with Harry and managing to stop the car got the now pouting child out.

"Pwease Uncle Padfoot, a whittle more, pwease!" Harry asked his Godfather in his still developing speech but didn't wait for an answer and quickly tried jumping back in the car.

Remus was quickly on hand to pick the small child up and proceeded to carry the now squirming and wriggling child who was pretending to cry indoors. Sirius followed laughing at the attempts Harry was making to get out of Remus's grip knowing that there was no chance that Harry would.

Once Remus had sat Harry down, he locked the back doors preventing the child's escape but that did not deter Harry who went straight to the doors and continued his efforts to get back to his favourite toy. He continued this for five minutes pounding harder and harder. Then he started shouting open at the door in a loud voice while his "uncles" just laughed.

However on the third try they were astounded to hear the lock click and the door opening slightly allowing the now ecstatic child to make his bid for freedom. Remus jumped out of his chair and started to close the gap when he heard Sirius say:

"Accio Harry" The boy who had just started making his way through the slight crack in the door came flying to his Godfather who caught the boy easily and held him firmly as he wriggled to escape. After Remus had re-locked the doors with a more complex locking charm he turned to his friend.

"Padfoot, how many times have I told you not to summon Harry. You are not suppose to summon humans no matter what, apart from if they are in danger. Harry wasn't so what do you have to say for yourself?" Remus sternly told Sirius a glint in his eye as Sirius had been warned about this many times. Every "get Harry for me" that Remus had told Sirius for a while had just ended up with the man summoning the child. Until Remus decided to curse Sirius every time he did it.

Harry was laughing at his Godfather, understanding that Remus was mad at Sirius and Harry agreed, the man was stopping Harry from playing with his favourite toy.

Sirius though just grinned at his friend and with a concentrated thought the locking charm was undone and the back door opened again. "Well Remus I do have something to say." Sirius said in a sorry sounding tone. "Exsilium". With that Remus flew out of the back door as the banishing charm took affect and landed on the ground with a thud. "Accio" Remus's wand came flying to Sirius who just grinned more. With another wave of his wand he repeated the locking charm on the doors several times and after putting Harry down proceeded through the ground floor of the house repeated the procedure on all the windows and the front door.

Remus was by now aware of his situation and was sure that Sirius wouldn't let him back in until morning, he picked up his book which was thankfully more like a tomb and started reading. Although it was mid-July the island was near the edge of the Arctic Circle so it never got that warm and the nights though not freezing were cold. "I'll get that mutt back" was Remus's thought before he started to read his book.

Sirius gleefully sat down and saw Harry watching Remus. With a flick of his wand blackout blinds were created and Harry seeing that he couldn't watch Remus waddled over to the shelf and picking up a book and giving it to Sirius, Godfather and Godson sat down in the warm and began to read. It had been a very happy birthday.

AN

Another chapter gone. I know that was very short and the next chapter could be around the same length but I really want get the plot moving and get Harry older so he could have some input.

I hope to get this story to around 45,000 words by the time I go Skiing on Feb. 13 where I will unfortunately be unable to post for about ten days but I hope to leave you with a few chapters.

AFI-Boy: Yeah, I re-read the part and changed it. Thanks for pointing it out and this why I am wondering if I need a beta reader. What do you think my faithful reviewers/bosses?

If any of you know of any similar stories to mine please let me know, I love reading Sirius/Harry stories.

What do you think about Dumbledore? Good / Evil? It is still up in the air just like most of the plot so come on, ideas people!

Next chapter should hopefully be up on Saturday.

Cheers

Halstead