"Ah, my four young wizards and witch." They all turned to see a girl –about twenty- with long, dirty brown hair and black eyes. She was wearing a tight black shirt and jeans. "I'm Gina Kedo." She grinned at them.
Chapter six: Nearly Headless Idiots
"Hello," Lily said pleasantly. "I'm Lily. This is Remus, Sirius, and James." She pointed to each boy as his name was said.
"Hiya Lily, boys" She nodded at them, smiling. "So-" She turned back to Lily, helping her up. "You're muggleborn aren't you?"
Lily nodded, "Yeah, the only one of us." She jerked her head at the three wizards, who were standing up. "Remus knows a lot about muggle, though, and he has a lot of common sense. These two –however- are complete idiots who are dumber then a Gnome."
"Lils!" James protested.
"Potter!" She snapped at him.
"Shh!" Gina put her finger to her mouth. "You can't speak your last names here." The four looked around. The street they had port-keyed into was empty, the shops and houses filling the sidewalks were all old and falling apart. Many were covered in police tape or spray paint, hardly something that life forms would be in.
"Why?" Sirius asked dumbly.
"You never know where a Death Eater might be." Gina replied. Lily and Remus nodded in agreement. "Come on, we're going to go to the apartment you'll be staying at." She turned around. The four exchanged glances; then followed her.
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"Wow, Prongs, look at this!" Sirius exclaimed as he flicked the light switch on and off, entranced by it. "No magic!"
"Honestly Bl-Sirius" Lily caught herself "It's a LIGHT!"
"But-but!" Sirius protested weakly, Lily glared at him.
"What's this?" James asked as he poked the TV screen.
Gina laughed, "That's called a Television, or TV."
"Oh… I think my dad's mentioned something like this before." James stared at the TV some more.
Remus –on the other hand- was inspecting the TV remote. He pressed the large red button that turned the TV on.
"AHHHHHH!" James leapt a few feet back, also falling over in the process. Sirius and Remus looked over at James, both started sniggering.
James looked up at the TV, there was a cartoon mouse running around a cartoon duck and some other creature James thought looked like a dog, but he wasn't really sure.
"Mickey Mouse!" Lily exclaimed happily.
"What?" The three wizards asked in unison.
"You're never heard of Mickey Mouse?" She questioned.
"You're going to have to watch these boys, Lily. You never know what they'll do." Gina giggled.
"You have no idea." Lily muttered sourly in response.
"Alright," Gina started, grabbing the young witch and wizard's attention. "Sit down on the beds; I've got to explain a few things to you guys." Sirius and James grumbled, but sat down on one of the two old beds, Lily and Remus sat on the edge of the other bed. "Now –under Dumbledore's orders- you four will need new last names." Sirius opened his mouth but Gina cut him off. "If any of your last names would be discovered, you-know-who could find –and kill- you immediately." Gina's eyes were full of seriousness as she said that. "Any magic you do cannot be in front of any muggles and your school will be full of them, as will any place around here. Some sources have revealed that you-know-who is on the look for both Sirius and James; I would not be surprised if he had a few spies set up around here."
"Question" Sirius raised his hand as if he was in class. "Voldemort's followers are older; none would be able to pass as kids at our new school; and the teachers wouldn't be able to figure enough out about us to get anywhere."
"What about Polyjuice Potion, Padfoot, that would work." James said as he leaned his elbows on his knees, his head resting on his palms.
"Not always; we could easily find a Death Eater if we saw someone taking a drink every hour; because if they didn't their cover would be blown." Lily told them in a teacher sounding voice.
"Lily's right, Voldemort might not try that, as it would be very risky." Remus stated in another professor voice.
"Thanks for agreeing with Lils, Professor Moony." Sirius chirped, Remus' face flushed with embarrassment.
"Don't call me Lils!" Lily snapped ignorantly.
"Alright, what should you guys have for last names?" Gina said, smiling at the actions of the four in front of her.
"But shouldn't we already have our names? I mean, we need to be registered and everything…" Lily said.
"Dumbledore knows a way around everything," Gina told them happily, "The roster will change your names after you four are decided, as will anything with your fake names already on it."
"White" Sirius said suddenly.
"What?" James and Remus said in union.
"Sirius White, kind of like Sirius Black, only different." He grinned.
"Whatever Padfoot." James shook his head, although he was grinning.
"Lily Arrow." Lily decided. "It's simple and easy to remember." She explained.
"So it is, Lils." James told her. "As of me, I shall me James De Mimsy-Porpington." James grinned and Sirius gave a loud snort before breaking down in laughs.
"Nearly Headless Nick!" He shrieked.
"Nearly Headless James" Remus corrected him calmly, although he managed to send Sirius into another fit of laughter.
"That might be a little weird, why not chose either Mimsy or Porpington?" Gina told James.
"Fine, Mimsy."
"You'll regret that later, James." Lily said, "You sound like a girl."
"Ohh, Arrow got you there, Prongs!" Sirius grinned.
"I still want to be Mimsy-Porpington!" James complained.
"Just let him have it, what Death Eater would know that it was Sir Nicolas' last name? Most people only know him as Nearly Headless Nick."
"Yes, he tells the Gryffindors his full name, but not many would remember it, a Death Eater knowing about Nick's full name is like a Gryffindor knowing the Bloody Baron's full name." Lily added to Remus' statement.
"Lord Baron MalBarringer the Fifth." James, Remus, Lily, and Gina all turned to Sirius in surprise. "What? My whole family as been in Slytherin of years; and they've mentioned him before!" Sirius explained.
"Guess our theory about Sir Nicolas is out, then." Lily sighed as she glanced helplessly at Remus.
"Not completely, Sirius is a special case." Remus grinned.
"Aww, Moony" Sirius whined.
"What about you, Remus?" Lily asked, ignoring Sirius, "What will your name be?"
"I don't know…" Remus paused as he let him mind wander. "How about Remus Armatura?"
"Armatura, what does that mean?" Lily questioned.
"Armor in Latin." Remus sighed, "It's one of the few Latin words I know."
"I think it's wonderful," Lily sighed. She said that an owl flew in through the one open window in the room and landed on Gina's shoulder, sticking out its leg. Gina took the letter and the owl flew away again through the window.
"Oh!" Gina suddenly exclaimed as she finished read the letter. "I'm sorry, but I have to leave," She grabbed a pen and paper and scribbled ten letters on it. "That's my number; I almost always answer it, and if I don't my owl will notify me and I call back. If you have any questions call me. Lily, you know how to use a phone, so I'll leave it up to you for the most part. Bye!" She waved and Apparited away before anyone could utter a word.
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Super short chap, yeah, sorry 'bout that. Next Chapter is going to skip ahead to the first day of school, and I didn't feel like including that in the chapter, as it's bound to be long. As I said with MTF –my other Marauder story- I've been writing a fic and kind of neglected these two, -also major neglect to my DC one, but I don't have anywhere to go with that one…- I haven't posted my other fic yet, but I will sometime –I think. Anyway I'm mostly on track now-a-days with my two fics, so hopefully it'll take less then a month to update next. .
Gi Xian- coursework sorri not writing for a while: Of course there will be! It would be a Marauder story without Pranks and stuff, can't say much though, because that might ruin my evil plans to distr- I mean my happy, skippy, wonderful, plans I have for later that are in no way involve the destruction of the Human Race –grin-
Padfoot's Sidekick: MP&P Learn something, oh my! Well, I should say anything that doesn't involves pranks, because we all know they know everything about pranks.
BakaIka: DAMN YOU HYPERLINKS! –Ahem- yeah, the title gives it away, but Jamesy-poo doesn't know that his story is being told to the whole world! MUHAHA! Luckily the DE and ol' Volde can't use internet, because then they'd know all about it! HA!
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Did you know that Volde likes Chocolate Snowballs, and he send Lucius and Drakey to get it for him? I do, because they came to my snowball stand! Hehe! And they wanted EXTRA Marshmallow, but I didn't give it to them because then I would have to make more, and I hate doing that? HAHA.
Alright, I was bored and starting making little stories in my head again at work, but it was all the Marshmallow's fault! It made me! It attacked my shoe and made it all sticky!