Destiny- The First Year

Chapter 9: Prongs, Hooves, Raindrop and Wagtail

Several months passed and The New Marauders had pulled several more pranks including automatically exploding water bombs in the entrance hall, which had been particularly successful in giving snape his first shower ever!

It was the last day before the Christmas holidays and the Griffindors were enjoying their final lesson of the day- Defence Against the Dark Arts. Sirius was finishing off his lesson in which he was simply summarising what they had done so far, when the bell rang. The class filed out excitedly all except Harry and Charlie.

"Sirius?" Harry asked innocently

"Yes Harry?" Sirius replied as he collected up some parchment off his desk.

"Could you help us with something?" Harry asked

"What is it?" Sirius asked curiously

"Could Ron and Hermione come back to Pranksters Palace with us over Christmas?" Charlie asked nervously

"If they want to," Sirius shrugged "why do you need my help with that?"

"That's not exactly what we want help with." Charlie said

"Yeah, we've decide that we'd like to give Ron and Hermione an extra special Christmas present!" Harry told Sirius

"What's that then?" Sirius asked confused

"Well, we'd like them to learn to become animagi! Then they can be real marauders like us!" Harry smiled

"Well I'm not sure..." Sirius began

"Please Sirius! You let us!" Harry begged

"Well, okay then!" Sirius smiled

"Thanks!" Charlie grinned

"Okay you two you better get to Griffindor tower!" Sirius smiled "see you both tomorrow!"

"Bye!" Charlie smiled as she followed Harry out of the classroom.

The next day Harry, Charlie, Ron and Hermione headed down to Sirius's office ready to Floo back to Pranksters Palace.

Sirius went first followed by Harry who removed his glasses first, then Charlie who was followed by Ron and Finally Hermione (who had never used Floo powder before) and Remus brought up the rear.

Harry was dusting himself of at the other end when Ron stepped out of the fireplace behind him.

"Wow!" Ron said excitedly as he looked around the living room in ore "this place is huge!"

When everybody was there Harry and Charlie took Ron and Hermione on a tour of the house (or technically a tour of as much of the house as they could see before lunch) while Sirius and Remus took Harry and Ron's suitcases to Harry's Room and Charlie and Hermione's suitcases to Charlie's room/

Harry and Charlie showed Ron and Hermione the main living rooms first, The kitchen (where they were attacked by several over exited house elves!) The smaller Living room (They had arrived in the biggest one) Harry and Charlie's bedrooms, The Marauders Room ("woah!" Ron said excitedly as he spotted the food cupboard "this is great! I wish I had one!") The library and finally they went outside to see the Quidditch Pitch and the field where Charlie's ponies Moonlight and Thunder were waiting patiently at the gate for Charlie to come and say hello their coats glittering with the recent snowfall.

After a while they all went back inside for dinner provided by the house elves before doing some more exploring.

The next few days passed in pretty much the same way. In the morning, Harry and Ron would sneak outside onto the Quidditch pitch to fly Harry's nimbus 2000 and Sirius's comet 260. Sometimes they would practice chasing and keeping and other time they would let a snitch out and they would try to catch it (Harry always won at this!).

While Harry and Ron played on the Quidditch pitch Charlie and Hermione looked after Moonlight and Thunder and enjoyed rides, (one on Moonlight, one in thunders cart) over the snow covered landscape around the house, especially through the wood and round the small lake which had frozen over.

They would all come inside for dinner before exploring the house in the afternoon. Occasionally they would skate on the lake or have a snowball fight outside during the afternoons too.

Finally it was Christmas Eve and Harry and Charlie had everything planned for their surprise the next day.

On Christmas morning, they all rushed down stairs to open their presents. They Chatted away cheerfully in the small living room watching the fairies (Christmas decorations) dancing around the tree. Harry was ripping the paper off a new pair of expensive seeker gloves from Sirius and adding them to his pile of Quidditch equipment, he had already been given. Charlie and Hermione were admiring a huge moving picture of Charlie riding Moonlight by the lake with Pranksters palace and the nearby woods in the background. Ron was eating a chocolate frog and watching Harry, who was now playing with a new snitch with his initials engraved into it.

Finally, it was time for the big surprise. Harry and Charlie lead Ron and Hermione into one of the larger empty rooms of the house.

Harry turned to Ron and Hermione and smiled

"We though since we are the new marauders you two should learn the one of marauders oldest traits – Animagi!" He informed them excitedly

"But isn't that illegal?" Hermione said wide-eyed

"So? Does it really matter? Its really useful!" Charlie said

"Sirius and Remus will do the charms and stuff as they are really complicated!" Harry told them "are you in?"

"Yeah!" Ron said excitedly

"Well..." Hermione said thoughtfully

"Please Hermione!" Charlie begged

"Okay then I'm in to!" Hermione said nervously

"What about you two?" Ron asked

"Us?" Charlie asked, "we've been animagi since we were eight! Look!"

She promptly turned into Hooves and back again, Harry followed her example and transformed into prongs too.

"Cool!" Ron smiled

"Isn't it dangerous?" Hermione asked

"Stop worrying Hermione you'll be fine!" Charlie grinned "come on!"

So they spent Christmas afternoon helping Ron and Hermione become animagi. By the end of the afternoon, a red setter and a brown otter were sat patiently waiting their instructions.

"So you two need names!" Charlie grinned as Hermione and Ron transformed back to themselves. "I'm Hooves and Harry is Prongs Jr, His dad was Prongs, Sirius is Padfoot (she indicated Sirius who transformed into Padfoot and back) and Remus is moony because he's a werewolf. (This caused Hermione and Ron to look quite scared) A HARMLESS werewolf! So any ideas"

"Erm something to do with water?" Hermione offered "how about Raindrop?"

"I like it!" Charlie smiled "and you Ron?"

"Um Dunno" Ron said

"What about something like pawprint?" Hermione asked

"Nah doesn't sound right and it's really similar to Sirius's name! What about wagtail?" Harry suggested

"Yeah sounds good!" Ron agreed

"Okay all done!" Charlie grinned

"Well not all actually!" came Sirius's voice

"We have decided, Sirius and me that is, to pass down two more things you are going to need to be proper marauders!" Remus told them

"Here you go!" Sirius said as he put the two things in Harry's hands "the marauders map and Harry's dad's old invisibility cloak!" Sirius told them

"To use the map you have to tap it with your wand and say I solemnly swear I am up to no good! It will show you a map of the whole if Hogwarts!" Remus informed them "to close it just tap it with your wand again and say mischief managed!"

"Thanks!" Harry said excitedly

"We should plan a prank for straight after we get back to school!" Charlie said excitedly

"Defiantly!" Harry agreed

The rest of the evening was given over to a mega snowball fight. They all came back inside to sit by the fire and dry off before bed Harry, Charlie, Ron and Hermione decide to start planning the prank the next day, they all sipped their Hot chocolate before going their separate ways to bed!

A/n I am sooooooo sorry this took so long to get up! I haven't been aloud on the internet for a week because I kind of doubled the phone bill! Oops!