Disclaimer- I own everything! Well, except for Harry, Hermione, Ron, Lupin, Sirius, James, Lily, Dumbledore, Hogwarts, McGonagall, the word muggle (that would be awesome if I did though), and the world of Harry Potter and all its characters, events and ideas. Except for all of that, I own it all.

A/N- Yeah, kind of short last chapter. I will make this one longer. I hope all goes well. I tried to make this one different. In all of the ones I had read, Dumbledore seemed to keep Harry in the dark about his parents return for as long as possible. I wanted to change that, for Harry's sake.

P.S.- If you have not noticed, I hate going into extreme detail about stuff. Bear with me. And when I do this across the page, oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo it means meanwhile.

Chapter 5

Settling In

The entire class was shocked at Professor Lupin's sudden departure from class. Only the seven people in the back of the class knew why.

"Why didn't Dumbledore tell Professor Lupin about it?" Hermione asked. They just shrugged.

"Maybe he did not have time, with the full moon last night and all," Ron suggested. James, Sirius, Remus, and Lily's jaws dropped to the ground.

"You- you know?" Remus asked. Harry, Hermione, and Ron nodded.

"We figured out in third year, when you, or he, or whatever was our teacher. It was a bad night," Ron said.

"What happened?" Lily asked.

"Well, we were chasing-" Ron said, but fell a sharp pain in the side of his leg. Hermione kicked him very hard. She gave him a evil look.

"No," she mouthed out.

"Is there something you are not telling us?" Sirius asked. The three exchanged guilty glances.

"We are not at liberty to discuss that," Hermione said professionally. The Marauders looked offended.

"Well, apparently, it involves us if you are not allowed to talk about it. Tell us before I have to hex you," James said, grabbing hold of his wand. Hermione's face grew very worried. Lily gave James a look.

"Potter, don't you hex them. They are just on Dumbledore's orders," Lily said.

"But Evans, don't you want to know what they are desperately trying to keep us from knowing?" James asked.

"No, Dumbledore has our best interests at heart, and I am going to leave it at that," Lily said.

"Fine, you do not have to find out, Evans, but I do. What went on that night?" James asked them. Hermione quickly pulled out a book to avoid them.

"Umm, James, Lily is right, we can't tell. It could mess with the future, possibility Harry's existence," Ron said slowly. James did not want to give it up, but from the glares he was given from Lily, Remus, and Hermione, he shut his mouth.

"So, Dumbledore said we were infamous here. Did our Marauder mischief make a lasting impression on Hogwarts?" Sirius asked proudly. Harry and Ron shared another awkward glance.

"Umm, well, for that and other things," Harry said. Sirius and James rolled their eyes.

"That is exactly what Dumbledore said. Does this tie into that night where you found out about Moony?" Sirius asked. Ron and Harry nodded. Sirius and James moaned.

"What can be so damn important that Dumbledore won't tell us?" Sirius asked. Harry immediately drew his attention elsewhere. He did not want to lie directly to Sirius and his dad.

"Just give it up, Padfoot," Remus said.

"Moony, you want to know as badly as we do," Sirius said grinning.

"If I did, it would only be for mild entertainment, but finding out our future could drastically change it," Remus explained. Sirius grunted in agreement.

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"Albus, why didn't you tell me?"Professor Lupinasked, pacing in the headmaster's office.

"I wanted to Remus, but it happened late last night, and it was a full moon. You were unreachable," Dumbledore explained. (A/N: yes, I know that would mean that past Remus would have transformed too, but since in their time, the full moon was on a different day, he did not transform)

"Why didn't you tell me this morning?" he asked.

"You were not at breakfast, and I did not weather you were still in the Shrieking Shack or had already made your way up to the castle. I did not anticipate on you having our new arrivals today," Dumbledore said.

"Why am I and Sirius, James, and Lily are here?" Remus asked.

"You do not recall this happening?" Dumbledore asked. Remus shook his head. "Well, there was a mishap with a broken time turner. Apparently it broke and sent you twenty years in to the future," Dumbledore said. Remus gave a big sigh.

"I never thought I would see Sirius, Lily, and James again," Remus said. "Seeing them, brought back so many memories."

"Yes, as it will for all of us. If I may suggest, you should return to your class now. You have some work to catch up on with your students," Dumbledore said. Remus left the office and made his way into the class.

"I am sorry for that disruption, I had something urgent to take care of," he said, returning to the classroom, carefully avoiding the group of students in the back of the room. "Today, we will review what you have previously learned from the previous years here. Now, by a show of hands, who here is in the D.A.?" he asked the class. Half the students hands shot up. After fifth year, Dumbledore made the DA and official club. "Excellent. Well, I would like everyone to pick a partner and practice jinxes and their counter curses. You may begin." he ordered.

"Wow, it is weird seeing myself up there," young Remus said.

"Yeah, very odd," James said. "You look older. Hey Evanson, want to partner with me?" James asked hopefully.

Lily ignored him. "Randy, do you want to partner up with me?" she asked. Before Remus had a chance to respond, she got up from her seat and dragged him to en empty spot in the room to practice.

"Fine, be that way. Hey, Sir- Orion, want to partner up with me?" James asked. He was asking no one. Sirius partnered up with a pretty Ravenclaw girl, who had been eyeing him the whole class. Ron and Hermione went out on their own to practice. "Ok, that leaves you and me Harry," James said. Harry was rather excited to be working with his dad.

"Umm, Jake, do you want to go first, or should I?" Harry asked. James shrugged.

"You can, I don't care," he said. He was paying more attention to the red haired girl behind Harry, who was practicing with young Remus. Harry and James exchanged giving each other the Jelly-Legs curse, Leg-Locker Curse, and others like that. Professor Lupin watched all of them perform. He smiled when he saw James miss a spell because Lily laughed. "Impressive," James said, after finishing the last of them.

"Thanks," Harry said.

"Ok, class is done for the day. Homework, I want a foot long essay on the most commonly used defenses against dark arts," Professor Lupin said while the class exited. Everybody groaned.

"Moony, you are a hard teacher in the future. We need to soften you up now so we can prevent this," Sirius said.

"Harry, can I see you for a moment?" Professor Lupin asked before he left.

"Yeah. I will catch up with you guys in a minute," Harry said as his friends left the classroom.

"Hello, Harry," he said from behind his desk. "Interesting day so far."

"You could say that," Harry said.

"I just wanted to ask how much have you told them," Professor Lupin said.

"Well, my dad knows he is my dad, I think the younger you is the only one to figure out who my mom is, and they do not know they died. None of them," Harry said. Professor Lupin nodded.

"Thank you. The headmaster did not tell me what they were informed on. You better move along to their next class," Professor Lupin said. Harry nodded. He ran off to met his friends at Hagrid's hut, for Care of Magical Creatures.

By the time Harry left the classroom, the six of them were already at his hut. Hagrid stepped out of his hut to greet them.

"Good morning' 'Arry, Hermione, Ron," Hagrid boomed. The marauders snickered.

"I'm not Harry, Hagrid," James said smiling. Hagrid walked away from his hut door to get a better look.

"Blimey! I fergot! Dumbledore said sumtin this morning 'bout this, but I fergot. You and Harry look identical, 'cept the eyes," Hagrid said. "So, James, how did you get here?" Hagrid asked. The six of them hushed him.

"Hagrid, this is Jake Porter, Orion Brown, Randy Lucas, and Lucy Evanson," Hermione said slowly. Hagrid understood.

"I'm sorry. Where's Harry?" Hagrid asked.

"I'm here," Harry said, running up to them just in time for class to begin. He was the last to arrive. Thankfully, all the Slytherins dropped Care of Magical Creatures after their fifth year, so it was mainly build up of Gryffindors, with some Hufflepuffs, and a couple Ravenclaws.

"Hello, Harry. Just talking with Jake here," Hagrid said, giving him a big wink. "Alright, today we will be learning about the characteristics and attitude of phoenixes." The lesson went by pretty quick. After that, they were done with their lessons for the day, except Lily and Hermione, who had to take Arithmancy. The guys sat around the common room and talked about Quidditch, except for Remus, who pulled out a book.

"Is that all you do, Moony, is read?" Sirius asked.

"Well, when it comes to acoversation I am not interested in, I will read a book," Remus said.

"How can you not like quidditch?" James asked. "It has always bothered me that you don't like it." Remus was about to respond when Lily and Hermione came in to the common room, with a huge stack of books.

"Hey guys," they said, dropping the books on the floor.

"What is with all the books?" James asked. Lily rolled her eyes.

"For our homework. If you did not notice, we received a lot today," Lily said. "We checked out some books from the library and got a few extras for guys like you who do not think about homework."

"Whatever," James said. Lily rolled her eyes. Hermione started on her Arithmancy homework, and the guys played a few games of Exploding Snap before heading down for dinner. James and Harry got a few stares, and were constantly having to tell people they were cousins, not brothers. Something was unnerving Lily through out dinner, but most of them brushed it off, thinking she was nervous about homework or something, being that is the type of person she is.

The evening was not good for Sirius, James, Harry, and Ron because Lily and Hermione were making sure they did their homework. Hermione was the first to get tired and go to bed. As soon as she was gone, Harry and Ron went into their dormitories, abandoning their homework. Only the four marauders were left in the common room.

"I will come meet you guys in a second," James called up after them.

"Oh no you won't Potter, Porter, whatever. You will finish your homework," Lily demanded. "And that goes for you too, Sirius."

"How come you are not ordering Re-Randy to?" Sirius asked.

"Because I trust him to do it with out someone forcing him to," Lily said.

"Fine," James said. He went to the pile of books and pulled out The Rise And Fall Of The Dark Arts from it to do his Defense Against the Dark Arts essay.

"You have to put that back. Hermione says we can't read that book," Lily said.

"So what. I am sick and tired of everyone not telling us what is going on. If she does not want us to read it, it must mean that it will tell us," James said. Sirius became very excited.

"Lets read it. What we need to know is probably near the end, the most recent," Sirius suggested. Remus and Lily protested about it, but they were ignored.

"Potter, if you read that, I will have to hex you," Lily said, pulling out her wand.

"That still won't erase what I find out," James said smiling. James handed Sirius the book to search through. Sirius started at the back pagesof the book.

"Sirius, stop now!" Remus said. Once again, he was ignored. After a couple of minutes, he stopped turning the pages.

"Hey Prongs, your name is in here!" Sirius said. Everyone became silent.

"Really?" James asked curiously. The other two stopped their effort to take the book away.

"Yeah, and you won't believe who else is in here," Sirius said grinning. James sat on the couch next to him, and glanced at the page. Only one thing popped out to him.

Lily Potter.

"Hey, Lils, you and I get married," James said smiling. Lily looked as if she was going to faint.

"That is absurd. Why would I marry a toerag like you?" Lily snapped.

"Well, it says, James Potter and his wife Lily Potter," James read.

"There must be another Lily," she said half heartedly. She knew she didn't believe it herself.

"How many other Lily's do you know?" James asked. Lily could not come up with a comeback. She did not say anything, and barely thought to think it, but she was happy that they were together.

"Guys, we should put that book away before we find anything else out," Remus said.

"No way," Sirius said.

"Ok, Padfoot, what else does it say," James asked, getting back to the book. Sirius and James read silently for a few minutes. Their expressions of excitement quickly turned to sadness and confusion.

"Are you sure this book is right?" James asked, after finishing the last few pages of the book.

"Well, it was published and it was in the Hogwarts library," Sirius said.

"What does it say?" Lily asked quietly. James and Sirius hesitated for a second. They handed Lily and Remus the book.

On Halloween Night in 1981, The Dark Lord found James Potter, and his wife Lily Potter after they had been in hiding for a week. James Potter went after the Dark Lord so Lily and their one year old son, Harry Potter could escaped. James Potter was killed by the Dark Lord in his valiant effort. The Dark Lord went after Harry next. When the Dark Lord aimed the Killing Curse at Harry, Lily Potter died to protect her son and took the curse for him. With both older Potters dead, the Dark Lord went for Harry. He aimed the killing curse at him, but the spell rebounded and ended up killing the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord and his followers, Death Eaters, disbanded that night. Harry Potter is the only known survivor of the killing curse.

"I'm…dead?" Lily asked softly. She sat herself down in the armchair.

"Hey, I think we are forgetting something else very important," Sirius said. Lily rolled her eyes.

"What is it?" she asked. Sirius gave a small smile.

"We know who Harry's mum is now," he said. Just then, footsteps came down the spiral staircases.

"You guys coming up to bed? We have potions tomorrow," Harry asked sleepily. All eyes were on him. "Is something wrong?"

"No, we're coming," James said. Harry nodded and went upstairs. The four marauders looked watched Harry go upstairs, now knowing why he always looked sad, no matter how much he was smiling.

A/N: I am sorry if I got sloppy and lazy. It was late at night. Please RR