Potters through time

Chapter one: Crashing the patrol

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To everyone's surprise, James Potter, the newly appointed Head Boy, although the very fact that HE was the Head boy was a shock all by itself, had volunteered to do the every prefects bane, so called nocturne rounds, all year long, and, as if that wasn't shocking enough, he agreed to do them with whomever that gets the patrol.

And now, the very first night, he was lucky, for his partner was non other than one of his best friends, Remus Lupin. And that of course meant that the other half of their little gang, consisted of Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew, decided to follow them, and bobby trap anything they could. Of course the bobby traps were not anything dangerous, just little pranks that would simply humiliate the unwary victims. And, to avoid detection of any member of staff that they could run into, although there was not much chance for that happening, they were covered by James' invisibility cloak.

They were going thru the lover western part of the castle, thru the dungeon, and, to Sirius' endless misery, way on the other side of the castle from Slytherin quarters, when something very unusual happened, and in a place such as Hogwarts, very little is considered unusual. All of the torches had suddenly gone out, and there was some quick turquoise flash on the far out part of the hallway, which instead of ending just a dozen feet away from them, now spread a few dozen of hundreds of feet from the spot they were standing on.

James turned around uncomfortably, and addressed the direction he expected Sirius and Peter were. "Uh, Pads, is it just me, or the north-to-west corridor just appeared two and a half months early, followed with some serious light effects?"

Sirius and Peter meanwhile appeared, seemingly out of thin air, to the left of Remus and James, and whey out of James' gaze. The fact that Sirius didn't immediately start chewing off James for using that cursed shortening of his nickname, only showed the surprise and worry of usually mischievous young man.

They took their wands out, and proceeded down the corridor. Peter wanted to turn back, but James insisted that he, as a head boy, and Remus, as a perfect and his patrol mate, had to investigate, and that naturally meant that Sirius was going as well, so Peter really didn't have much choice. Still, he stayed as far behind as he could.

As they neared the spot where the turquoise flash came from, they were suddenly aware of voices coming from one of the chambers up ahead. They exchanged worried looks, and proceeded even more carefully and slowly. As they neared the door that housed the muffled voices, suddenly one of the voices stopped being muffled and became extremely agitated, and chilly.

"Lily, what kind of bloody mess did one of imbecilic ideas concocted in that overflatted red head of yours make now. When will you start bloody thinking" still, as irritated as the speaker was, he obviously controlled his temper superbly, for he spoke in a tone a bit lover then normal, but still crystal clear, and unwavering.

As he heard the voice insult Lily, James threw all the caution into the wind and barged in. He knew that there was only one Lily in school at present time, and the flock of rich red hair, only proved him to be correct to assume that the said Lily was indeed Lily Evans, the love of his life, and the current Head Girl.

The speaker, a tall, lean boy with black ponytail, was standing with his back to them, facing Lily, and obviously fuming even more. It was obvious that Lily had just finished saying something, which Marauders didn't hear, but the black-haired boy obviously did. He was responding in even frostier voice. "Don't feign innocence with me. I'm neither one of the professors nor one of your worshipers. All the worshiping of those fools must have softened what little brain you had. You know as well as I do, that there is no chance one of these two could've come up with that. Jimmy would never think about any such idea, and Rems doesn't have initiative for it…" Marauders just then noticed two other individuals in the chamber. Of one, because of the speaker, they could only notice a top of head, with uncombed black hair, and a glint under his forefead, but the other one was visible. He was as tall as lily, give or take an inch, had a bizarre mix of red and black hair, which stuck out in some spiky hairstyle, a pair of glasses were perched high up on his nose, and, although they couldn't see his face well, his profile seemed familiar. Of course, James didn't pay attention to any of it. His whole concentration was upon boy who dared insult Lily!

"Don't you dare treat her like that!" He practically roared at the boy's back, and to his surprise, a moment later found himself in an air-tight bubble, and the boys response, that he made over his shoulder, was slightly muted, but he still could hear it clear enough. "I'll treat my sister however I please".

Then, the boy with bizarre hair gasped in shock, upon seeing them (the Marauders), but quickly collected himself, stepped up to the speaker, and whispered quietly to him. He turned around, and in process revealed the third boy, as well as gave the Marauders a better view of Lily, which showed them that James was gravely wrong; nothing but the eyes was anything like Lily Evans' on that face. Yet, her face, and the face of the tallest boy which was exactly like hers, except the eyes and the fact that the boy wore round glasses, did have an uncanny similarity to one other face in that chamber. James'.

The speaker boy, took one look at them, did a double take, and then closed his eyes, and took a deep, calming breath. When he opened his eyes once more, he shot a quick, meaningful glare to the Lily girl, and gave a nod to the boy with bizarre hair towards the Marauders, and whispered something, then nodded the top of his head towards the third boy, the one with James' face. The red-black haired boy nodded yes, and they parted. The black hair to the third boy, and started whispering to the taller boy, which made the latter one's chocolate eyes to widen to the size of teacups, and the other one towards the Marauders, and, after a moment's take, the Lily girl followed him.

"The Marauders I presume?" and not even waiting for an answer, he proceeded: "Glad to see all of you so youthful…" his face spread itself into James' infamous lopsided grin at that weird statement. "…I'm Remus Potter, your namesake uncle Remus, the tall one is my elder brother, and shares your name as well as your face grandpa, the broody one is my younger brother, whom except the name and the love for his hair shares nothing else with you uncle Sirius, and this wonderful lady by my side is our beloved sister Lily." He finished with a smirk, at their shock.

After a moment of dead silence, three voices suddenly shouted in shock, at the same time:

"Grandpa?"

"Uncle Sirius?"

"Uncle Remus?"