Disclosure: You know the drill. I do not own Harry Potter or any characters associated with the books, yada yada yada. Yep that about covers it.
A/n: My brain is buzzing. That's what I get for going to bed at five, then waking up at six. A little sleep deprived, don't you think? Well here is the next fixed chapter. Yah. Well on with the story!
"Now off with you lot." Harry said, happy that the first class was over.
Chapter Fifth"Sirius, do you have to out eat us at every meal? It's not fun to watch." Remus said, while watching Sirius stuff a whole potato in his mouth.
"I ota Ingra ot et oy.." Sirius mumbled through his mouth full of food, managing to spray his friends with the food in his mouth.
"Sirius!"
"Padfoot!"
"Come on, this is disgusting!"
"Thanks you guys! What a waist of perfectly good food." Sirius said unhappily, somehow finding it their fault that he had lost all the food in his mouth when he tried to talk to them. James shook his head at his best mate.
"Sirius, clearly the idea of manners escapes you."
Harry laughed as he listened to their conversation. Five weeks had passed since Harry had arrived. It was lunchtime. It was nice not having to worry about saving the world for once. Here in the past the only thing he had to worry about was what the Marauders would try to do to him next. The four boys had seemed to make it their goal to try and prank Harry. After their first attempted, they started taking their pranks more seriously. On their second attempt, they placed a charm on Harry's classroom door that made it so he could not enter it with out a password. But unbeknownst to the four troublemakers, Harry had been following them with the Marauders map at the time and had heard the password. The prank that followed that involved green jell-o, (A/n: what can I say, I love using that stuff in stories!) Dungbombs, and owl feathers. Needless to say, Harry's being used to being suddenly under attack came in handy. A quick protigo (probably spelling that wrong. It's the shield charm) and the prank backfired onto the boys. Much to James chagrin since Lily Evens saw it happen.
Harry looked at the other side of the Gryffindor table to see his mum. It was funny seeing his dad be so embarrassed in front of his mum. He remembered countless times where he had done the same in front of Cho Chang when he fancied her. It made him happy to see this connection between him and the father he never knew.
Well it was time to go prepare for his next class. Harry stood up and headed towards the doorway. Right before he reached it, the door burst open. Standing in the doorway was a small figure in a dark cloak. Whoever it was, was holding up a wand.
I could end it here. I should. Nah. I'm not that mean. Beside that hurricane would kill me.
Everyone in the great hall looked up at the intruder. Professors stood up, ready to deal with any possible trouble. Everybody above fifth year pulled out his or her wands. Yet the stranger didn't notice. The strange person had their whole attention fixed on Harry. Slowly, the person lowered their wand and started to walk towards him. Harry was about to pull out his wand when he saw a flash of red. Harry froze. The students looked at him curiously. They had never seen anything get to their Defense Professor, yet this stranger seemed to terrify him. The stranger was now only inches away from Harry, staring at him for what seemed forever, when suddenly the stranger slapped him across the face. The sound of the slap echoed across the Great Hall.
"You great bloody prat!" the stranger said pulling down the hood of her cloak, reveling a stunning redhead. "How dare you leave without telling anyone? Do you relies how worried we've all been? No you wouldn't think of that! Mum's been beside herself with worry! Then there's Hermione. Think of how much stress you put on her! To do that to a pregnant women. Ron's not only had to deal with Hermione, but also all the reporters trying to find you! Merlin knows how tempted I am to hex you right now!" The girl screeched in one breath.
"Ginny," Harry said, getting over the shock of seeing her in the past. "How'd you find me, how'd you get here any way?"
"That's so typical of you. Ignore everything I just said and ask me a question. How do you think I got here? By flying? He told me where you where. After some …convincing of course." Ginny said, with a satisfied smile.
"You wouldn't." he said shacking his head at her.
"And why not? He was the reason you left after all. I swear, sometimes I wonder if he's gone senile. Besides, it's been a while since I've had the chance to perform the batboogy hex." She said with a proud smile. Suddenly she frowned again.
"You look ridicules!" Then, before Harry could stop her, she muttered a spell that returned Harry's normal appearance.
Harry heard gasps and shouts around him and he knew why. He now looked almost identical to another person in the room.
Harry covered his face with his hands and groaned.
"Ginny. Look around." He mumbled.
Confused, Ginny glanced around the room. Her eyes landed on James Potter.
"Oop's."
The hall was almost completely silent. The only sound heard was the echo from Ginny's 'oops' bouncing around the Great hall. Harry covered his face with shacking hands. Why couldn't Ginny ask questions first, hex later? How was he supposed to teach when he looked almost identical to one of the students? Better yet, how was he supposed to explain to Dumbledore why he had changed his appearance in the first place? Sighing, Harry looked up at Ginny.
Ginny had covered her mouth with her hand and her eyes were wide. Her other hand clutched at her stomach, giving her the appearance of someone about to be sick. To anyone else, Ginny may have looked like she felt bad, but Harry new better. He could see the amusement in her eyes. Ginny had covered her mouth to hide her smile and she was shaking from silent laughter.
'At least she is enjoying this.' Harry thought.
Turning away from Ginny, Harry looked up at Dumbledore. The Headmaster seemed quite amused by the whole thing.
"It seems that there are some details about yourself that you have yet to share with us Professor Porter." The older man said.
Harry could only nod.
"Well, why don't you and your guest partake of this lovely meal. We can discus this after words." With that said, Dumbledore returned to his meal.
Ginny smiled sweetly at Harry and walked up to the heads table to sit in a chair next to his. Shaking his head, Harry followed.
James stared at his Professor. He looked just like him! And why had Porter and that strange woman looked at him after she had lifted the concelment charm? Siriusseemed to be sharing his thoughts.
"Did you see that Prongs!" Sirius exclaimed. "He looks just like you, only smarter!" James shot a glare at Sirius. Leave it to him to turn this somehow into an insult.
"Why do you think he changed his looks?" Peter asked nervously.
"I dunno. Maybe he's in hiding." Sirius said, growing excited at the posibilities.
"Well if so, it looks like he was found." Remus said calmly. "Though he doesn't seem too happy about it."
The other boys looked up and realized that it was true. While the red haired woman looked very happy and content, their Professor looked highly annoyed. Then, much to the Marauders amusement, the girl, for she didn't look any older then them, leaned over and pinched Porter's cheek like he was some cute little boy. Their Professor whacked away her hand and started to whisper to her. The girl started whispering back. The boys were surprised when both started laughing loudly.
A/n: I would normally stop here, but I'll continue on for a little.
Ginny looked up from her meal and saw Harry glare at her.
"Ooh, is Harry upset that he couldn't hide from Ginny?" Ginny said, pinching Harry's cheek in the process. Harry whacked her hand away. "Goodness, no need to get all snarky on me."
"Why is it that you seem to… wait! Did you say earlier that Hermione is pregnant?" Reality finally seeting in.
"Yes I did. How observant you are. I thought you would remember some time to night." Harry ignored her remark, excited that something good had happened for his friends.
"That's great. How are they doing?" As much as Harry liked being in the past with his parents, he missed his best friends.
"Let's just say that the thing Hermione has been craving is corned beef. Ron is not fairing to well." Both had started laughing.
"Well, we better go get ready for my next class." Harry said standing up. Ginny gave him a curious look.
"Your next class?"
"Our visit to Dumbledore will have to wait. I can't just leave my class alone in my classroom, now can I." Harry said shrugging. A slow, evil smile grew on Ginny's face.
"This is going to be fun." She said, glancing over at the Marauders.
'This is going to be a long day, that's what.' Harry thought as Ginny lead him out of the Great Hall.