Author's note: Hello! We're back! Well like we promised, it hasn't been ages since the last time we updated. For those of you that may have wondered, in this chapter we have…the entrance of the plot!!!! Enjoy!

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Entering the potions classroom, the eight of them found seats towards the back of the classroom.

"How on earth could they make Snivellus a professor?" James asked with a look of shock as Snape entered the classroom.

"Easily." Said Hermione. "Dumbledore trusts him."

"What do you mean, trusts him? Why wouldn't he? He never did anything wrong." Lily said glaring at James and Sirius.

"Good morning class," Snape said with his usual, monotonous voice. The class just looked at him. "Today we will be working on Shrinking Solutions. The instructions are on the board." With a flick of his wrist, in perfect handwriting, a complete list of ingredients and an exact instructions guide appeared on the board behind his desk. "You may begin." The entire potions class set to work, with the exceptions of James and Sirius who were just sitting there, staring.

"James! Sirius!" whispered Lily. "Why aren't you doing what the professor said?"

"'Why aren't you doing what the professor said?'" Sirius mocked. "And take orders from a slimy, grease ball of a git like him?" He finished, loudly enough so Snape would hear him.

"Sirius!" Shrieked Hermione. "He's a professor…"

"Not one of your old mates!" Finished Ron.

"Snape was never one of our good mates!" Sirius shouted.

"What is causing all this commotion? Potter! Explain!" Snape asked angrily, as he strode over to where Harry and the others were sitting.

"It wasn't me!" James and Harry exclaimed in unison. Snape appeared to be confused for a moment before looking more closely at the two who had spoken. It was a long while before anything was said. Sirius, with a mischievous smirk on his face, was the first to speak up.

"Hey James, look at that! Old Snivellus still refuses to wash his hair." Gasps of surprise seemed to go around the room. Even the Slytherins had stopped their potion-making to watch the scene with anxious anticipation. Snape's cold demeanor turned into a mix between anger and anxiety as he turned to face the speaker.

"What, was that name you called me?"

"Snivellus." Sirius answered confidently. It seemed as though Snape had only just then remembered where he had seen these people before. Taking a better look at the 5 new students in front of him his face paled as though he had seen a ghost.

"Class dismissed. Everyone go to you common rooms at once and stay there." As the class gathered their things, Snape added, "You eight, stay put while I go get the headmaster." With that, Snape left the class, robes bellowing behind him, and the rest of the class emptied at, most of the students getting a good look at the group that had caused their early release.

When everyone was gone, the four marauders broke into hysterics. Lily, on the other hand, was not so pleased.

"Sirius!" She hissed at him "Look what you've done! Now he's gone to get the headmaster! He's always wanted power and now he has it! You could have really done it this time! Who knows what the headmaster of this time is like?" Seeming to fully realize her words, the marauders seemed to tense up in waiting for the headmaster to arrive. In a moment, they heard someone coming into the classroom and the marauders and Lily turned to look at the new arrival. Realizing who had walked through the door, a great weight was lifted off their shoulders. It was none other than their own beloved headmaster…

"Professor Dumbledore!" The five of them shouted in unison. Dumbledore looked up and was, Harry noticed, somewhat surprised, but that look was soon replaced by his usual calm exterior as he put up his hand to stop anything that they were going to say.

"It's alright." He began, now in front of the group. "Professor Snape has informed me of what he knows. And now I would like to ask for your account of how you arrived here. From both perspectives." He finished, glancing at Harry, Ron, and Hermione as well. As always, Dumbledore's calm nature relaxed the group as they realized that they were not in fact in trouble. It was Lily that spoke up first.

"Well, after you, I mean the you in our time, sent James and I back to our dorms the night that we saw the Mirror of Erised, we told Remus and the others about it and they wanted to see for themselves." She began.

"So the next night, we all got under-ow" Peter stopped suddenly as Sirius kicked him under the table.

"We all got under the prefect's noses, and snuck off to the 3rd floor." James finished, flashing a glance in Peter and Sirius's direction. "I don't really know how we ended up here. All I know is that when we got into the mirror room, it felt like we were traveling by floo powder and the next thing we knew we were here." Dumbledore stood, listening intently, and when James finished his story he looked to the others, who all nodded in agreement. Taking this in, He turned to Ron, Harry, and Hermione to tell their end of the story.

"Well, we were in Divinations one day, and Harry started wondering about the mirror again." Hermione began looking towards Harry.

"I know you told me not to go near it, but I hadn't really planned on going at first. I was just curious about what happened to it after, after that night with Quirrell and the Sorcerer's Stone. I probably wouldn't have thought about it much more after that but in Care of Magical Creatures Hagrid mentioned my parents seeing it, and I just had to see them again." Harry explained, an apologetic look in his eyes. "I wouldn't have known where to go, but Hermione saw it in Professor Lupin's office."

At the mention of Professor Lupin, Sirius snorted again but was quickly kicked by James.

"So that night, we snuck out and went to the mirror, when we were in there we heard something and thought it was filch so we decided to go back so that we wouldn't get caught and that's when we ran into them" Ron concluded. Dumbledore sat for a few moments letting the two sides sink in. After a moment he looked up again.

"Can you tell me exactly what you were feeling when you went back to the mirror that night?" Dumbledore asked, his attention on James and Lily. The two thought for a moment.

"Urgency." James answered. "The night before, Remus had said something that got us to thinking that something happened in the future that would harm him. I think we felt a need to make sure that he was alright." He finished. Dumbledore looked to Lily. She nodded her head.

"That's right, Remus mentioned that maybe seeing Harry was our greatest desire because somehow we knew it would never happen. That's why we thought something would happen to him. Now we know that it's us that something happens to." Lily added. Dumbledore was silent for another minute. It was Harry who spoke up next.

"Do you know what happened professor?" He asked Dumbledore looking hopeful. Dumbledore looked up and studied both Harry and his parents. Finally, he appeared to smile.

"It would appear, that the combined power of you and your parents desire to see each other, and the fact that you were both standing by the mirror at the same time somehow made it possible for your parents, along with the rest of you," He said, motioning to the other 3 marauders. "to travel to your time." He paused here. His eyes seemed to twinkle with amusement. "If only," he began, "there was a pair of socks, that desperately desired to find their way to me." He finished, winking at Harry and causing him to smile.

"Is there any way for us to get back?" Peter asked.

"One cannot be sure of many things," Dumbledore told him. "It seems certain that the 5 of you were brought here for a reason. It would also stand to reason that when completed, you will be able to get back. Until that time, all we can do is carry on with our lives." He finished. "Now, I believe you all should be getting along to class, as I am sure you know, Professor Lupin will want to know what has happened to his students." He told them fixing his gaze on Remus. "Off you go."

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