Chapter 2
When they all woke up the next morning it was to the smell of bacon, eggs, hash browns, french toast and waffles. All sitting on the table. Eliza was sitting at one head of the table. Harry walked to the other head and sat. Ginny sat to his right with Ron to his left. Hermoine beside Ron with James, Lily and Peter next. On the other side of the table was Sirius, Luna, Neville, and Remus sitting beside Ginny. After breakfast the new comers sent the others on their way to get ready for class. The group then began their morning exercises. When Magonagall walked in she saw everyone but the new professors meditating, the professors were sparring. Clearing her throat to get everyones attention. They all stopped what they were doing and looked at the professor.
" You were not at breakfast and so I have come to deliver your schedules. You two have Defense Against the Dark Arts seventh year Newts first thing. Good luck." With that Magonagall walked swiftly out. packing their begs and heading to class the group walked quickly and in comfortable silence. When they got to their class room it was to see everyone already awaiting their arrival.
" Well finally." a voice sneered from the back of the crowd.
" Five points Mr. Malfoy." Harry stated in a clear voice.
Ushering everyone into the room they closed and locked the door. Walking to the front of the class they turned. Harry surveyed the number of students a good thirty some. Eliza simply sat on what was later identified as a dueling stage. Harry then turned and jumped onto the stage.
" Alright listen up because I am only going to say this once. You use any degrading terms in this room such as mudblood. five points will be taken off. Double for each repeated offence. I will not go into detail about what we are going to do only that we will be learning about curses so far and how they can be used in battle. I will tell you now I do not care what side of this war you chose, I will tell you that if you come after me and mine you will not survive the experiance." Harry said staring at each student in turn.
" Any questions?" Eliza asked the class in a low voice " Mr. Longbottom?"
" How did you get those scars, his on his forehead and yours on your left cheek?" Frank asked
" We will tell you when we study the unforgivables wich will be in a couple of minutes. Can any body tell us one of the unforgivables?" Eliza asked the class " Mr. Black"
" The Imperio Curse." Sirius said in a whisper
" Yes. The Imperio is painless. When under it you fell nothing but bliss and ignorance. You could be ordered to kill your best friend adn if you didn't have a powerful will you would. However you can fight it unlike the other two. Next? Miss. Prewett"
" The Cruciatus Curse." Nevilles mom spoke of the same curse that would one day drive her insane. Looking at Neville, Harry saw a pale faced fourth year who watched as Mad-Eye preformed it on a spider.
" Yes." Harry spoke " The pain curse. Imagine the worst pain you can, multiply it by the highest number that comes to mind and put it in a test tube. That is as close as you can come to knowing what is feels like without really knowing by experiance." He looked around nad even most Slytherins except for Malfoy and Bellatrix were pale face and shaken. " Next? Mr. West" Harry said reffering to Ron
" The Killing Curse" Ron spoke looking right into Harry's eyes
" Yes. The Killing Curse is the fastest and most terrible way to die. There is no pain, no burning sensation just blackness. There is no way to block it except for an ancient way. The same way that me and my sister survived." Harry whispered but his voice carried in the silent room.
" How?" Lily asked tears running down her face a slit tremor to her voice.
Harry explained what happened that night. How Voldermort came and killed their parents. How Eliza was in the arms of their dad when he died, how Eliza weakened him when he tried to kill her. He told the class of Voldermort coming up the stairs and killing his mom when she woouldn't move aside. Harry told of Voldermort turning his wand on Harry and beign weakened to the point were he fled. When Harry was done explaining the bell rang startling the class. Most females had tears running down their face for what they had to indure in a short amount of time.
" How did you survive?" Rudolphus Lestrange asked from his seat, none of the class had moved.
" By a parents love. Eliza was protected by her fathers love and Harry by his mothers. Love is the greatest ancient power." Lily spoke from her seat at the front of the room
" Yes Lily. Our parents love is the greatest power we own." Harry spoke well Eliza turned the lights back up opened the curtains and unlocked the door.
" Alright kitties time to go. Shoo out out." Eliza called from the back of the room a smirk playing on her lips.
For the rest of the day the twins taught DADA. By the end of the day they were to tired to carry on. Walking doen to their rooms they collapsed ontop of each other just inside the portrait hole. When the others got back with the Maruaders and Lily they say the twins laying on the floor.
" Doggy Pile!" Sirius yelled jumping on the two. James, Remus, Ron, and Neville followed him down. The girls then piled on top of the boys. Everyone laughed when a pup came running out from Eliza's bedroom and jumped onto Lily who was on the top. Peter was laughing at the group.
" Come here Mystic" Eliza called to her small black pomeranian
" You have a dog here." Lily gasped " I thought you weren't allowed?"
" Well I just bought it so that is that. We aslo have two owls, one toad, and two cats." Eliza told the Marauders. With that all the animals came out except for Trevor, Nevilles toad, who was in an aquariam in the sitting room. Eliza stood walked towards the small kitchen and pulled out food for all the animals. She also began to pull out pots and pans. The other females began to rise and help. Lily even stood and began to chop up vegetables.
" Aren't we eating in the Great Hall?" James asked
" If you and your friends wish to but we will be eating in our rooms. We don't like all the stares." Harry said watching the women joke and swap stories
" Guys?" James asked after the boys nodded their consent James spoke " We'll stay Evans will stay to right Evans?"
" What Potter?" Lily asked
" You'll stay and eat with us." James stated instead of asked
" Fine if I have too." Lily answered James
After the food was made they sat down in the same order as the previous day. When they were about half way throught their meal Dumbledore walked in and grinned at the site in fornt of him. Coughing to get their attention the table ful of people turned. When they saw who it was they were surprised to see the headmaster.
" So this is where ten of my students and two of my teachers went to. There were rumors that you had all gone into the Forbidden Forest. Of course I knew that not to be true."
" Yeah that handy map on your desk does wonders hey professor." Ron said with a small smile on his face
" ..."
"Don't worry professor your students are whole. We aren't going to do anything to them."
" Yes, though you never know about what they would do to one and another escpecially Lily and James. They seem to have an unique animostity. Reminds me of Eliza and Charlie when they first met. Always at each..."
" Okay thank you Luna for that enlightening talk." Harry spoke " I have no wishes to know about my sister and what she did."
" Oh Harry she told us girls everything, like the one time.." Ginny was cut off when Harry clamped his hand around her mouth to shut her up.
" Now Harry that isn't very nice. You shouldn't.. Oh that probably hurt." Hermoine laughed as Ginny bit Harry's hand. Eliza expanded the table and Dumbledore took a seat on her left side well the right was left open.
" So professor been to the muggle world likely?" Eliza asked
" Oh yes I came across this muggle band named ' Hey City Rollers' (sp) they were quite intresting." Dumbledore answered
" Really I listen to other things." with a wave of her wand music began to play.
After eating and dishes they moved into the living room. Dumbledore summoned another chair and they all talked.Eliza had gottne quite bored of sitting around. She stood and began to dance to the beat of the music with Harry. The others soon joined them on the dance floor. By the time the feast was done in the Great Hall Dumbledore and laughed so hard. The Marauders asked Dumbledore if they could move in to the new comers rooms. Dumbledore asked Harry and Eliza along with their friends if that was okay. They agreed and the Marauders ( even James') and Lily's thing appeared in their rooms. They were so exicted that they hugged everyone and thanked them. When they went to bed that night Lily thoughts strayed to James.
He had changed a lot over the summer. She read in the Prophet that his father had been killed by deatheaters and his mother had been taken by them. As of know they still hadn't found her and by the sounds of things they probably wouldn't. She had seen a underlaying saddness like that that was in the two new professors. She felt an urge to make the saddness in all their eyes go away. She decided that if James was to ask her out she would say yes.
Eliza stood in the door way to her mothers bedroom and looked at her mom. In just three years she would give her life for her son and James' for his daughter. She hoped they would get together soon and have time to be a normal couple. When night turned to day she walked into the kitchenette and prepared a meal, then started to work on her exercise. When everyone else was awake they sat at the table and began to eat and talk.
When they were done Harry, Ron, and Neville did the dishes and they all left for classes. The Marauders headed towards potions with Lily.
" so what do you think about the new professors?" Remus asked
" They are defintly differenet. I woke to go the bathroom last night and they were sitting in on the floor in the halls just talking." Peter told his friends
" I think Ron hates you Wormtail." James told his friend
" That is avote of confidence eh Prongs." Sirius said
" That's right Padfoot. What do you say Mooney, I give confidence to my friends and take none for myself?" James asked his friend
" Sure Prongs sure." Remus answered his friend
" What is with the weird nicknames?" Lily asked
" Umm... our favorite animals Wormtail's is a rat, mine a stag and Sirius' is a dog." James answered to quickly for it to not be suspicious
" And Remus. Nice try James but not good enough." Lily told him
" You just called Prongs James. She just called you James." Sirius jumped up and down
" You.. you just called me wow. Hey Lil's go out with me?" James asked prepared to be turned down
" Sure next Hogmeade weakend." Lily answered walking ahead of the Marauders.
" What"
"..."
" Wow"
"..umm"
When their class mates saw the four boys they were amazed for the first time since they could remember the four of them were silent. Lily went on to Potions and sat with Alice. Alice had been dating Frank Longbottom for about a year so far. Lily knew that Frank was going to propose to Alice soon. He ahd gotten Lily's advice on the ring over summer holidays. When Lily had seen one that she thought Alice would like se had sent the picture to Frank. On the train ride Frank showed the ring to Lily. At that moment Lily knew that Frank would be perfect for Alice.
" I just said yes to James Potter Alice. Do you think I'm crazy?" Lily asked
" You did what. Of course your not crazy Lily. I could tell that you have liked James for a while even last year. You just denied it. You will be so good together." Alice squealed in excitement for her friend.
" Thanks Alice." Lily said a smile on her face.
The bell rang and the Marauders were still not in the room. Professor Slughorn began talking when the door opened and Remus walked in closly followed by his friends. He motioned for his friends to take a seat and he walked to the front of the room. He pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket and handed it to the professor. Eliza and Harry had seen that they weren't class (MM) and had gone to ask what the problem was. Sirius told them what Lily had said the new professors had laughed and given Remus a note excusing their absenence. When Remus took his seat James and Sirius were staring at Lily as if they could tell if she was under a spell of some sort. Remus hit them upside the head and they began their potion. They were to start in the Polyjuice potion. Hermoine, Ron, Neville, Luna, and Ginny (last two said they were in seventh) where doing it well keeping up a steady stream of talking. Hermone seemed to be doing most of the work and Ron was passing her all the ingrediants nad keeping an eye on the others to make sure they didn't mess up.
After class was done they headed to charms. The new comers walked into the the room and took seats closer to the teacher because Hermoine liked to hear and see all of what the professor did. She took notes and helped her friends. They all knew that that night was the full moon which would mean Remus and his friends would be going for a stroll. The Marauders mean while were planning the next prank.
" It should be on the new guys. They seem like the kind that can laugh at themselves. Or maybe Snivellious." Sirius told the group in a low whisper.
" I say on the teachers. Mainly Dumbledore."James said
" I like that we could make it so everytime he talks it is backwords or scrambled." Peter said
" Good idea Peter."Remus said and started to write down all the spell work involved. However to the rets of the school it looked liek charms notes.
When the prank was all planned out the Marauders high fived and did the practical charms work/. the Marauders newbies and Lily were some of the few who had been able to make the spell actually work.
" Remember Seamus' first try in charms in first year Ron. Made the feather blow up and ash got on Harry." Hermoine laughed at the memory
" Yeah that was the same day we fought with the mountain troll and you got in trouble. By the way 'Moine ever tell you how sorry I was about that. We were your friends. If we weren't we wouldn't have run to your rescue. Eliza was funny. she had taken her school robe off when we took off running to get to you. she lent up tripping rolling jumping up and turning a corner and loosing her traction. Harry just stopped looked at her rolled his eyes and continued on." Ron said doubling over in laughter.
The students that were walking by passed and looked at the red head man crouched on the floor,with his friends leaning against walls. When they finally got to Transfiguration the bell was about to ring. Walking into class they took the seats that were at the front once again. After McGonagall got them on their way she walked along the rows. When she got to Hermoine she saw Hermoin, Ron, Neville, Luna, and Ginny the later three a table behind changing the table into a dog and back no problem. When the class was done she gave homework and let the class go. When the students got to the Great Hall it was to see that Harry and Eliza had the Great Hall tables off to the sides and had their sixth year classes duelling.
" Sir it's lunch can't we stop?" a sixth year asked
" Yeah Gilderoy needs to do his makeup." A sixth year Slytherin sneered at the Hufflepuff prettyboy.
" Five points, Mcnair." Harry snapped.
" Get out of here. When I mean that. I mean go change." Eliza spoke
After the class was gone from the Great Hall the professors moved the tables back with a wave of their hands. Sitting at their assigned seats at the Head table they quickly ate then left the Great Hall. Meanwhile inside the Hall the teachers started to dance. Sprout and Flitwik were doing the swing dance. Well the main focus was on professor's Dumbledore and McGonagall were doing the Tango up and down the aisles betweent the house tables. The Marauders were laughing. However no one was the laughing more then the two professors out side the Great Hall doors.
That night the Marauders went to sneak out only to find that there was a rather large group of people out side their room. Mooney had been gone since right after supper. Harry and Eliza wouldn't let him go without food. They had said that he had time for a quick meal.
" Lets go. Everyone hold onto me and I can get us to the Shriecking Shack quickly." Eliza said an impish smile in her face.
" How...?" Sirius asked
" Later. Come on Mooney's about to change." Harry said
After everyone grabbed a hold of Eliza she Fire Apparated them to just outside the door to Mooney's room. After everyone changed into their animal form they entered the room to see Mooney curled up. Padfoot walked over to Mooney and nudged him. Mooney looked at his friend and procured a howl. Ginny was in her fox form was running around Prongs feet, and Ron was chasing Wormtial. Wormtail scurried under the bed that Mooney was laying on. Prongs reared up and crashed down shaking the house. Harry in his Gryffin form so as that no one noticed his stag form flapped his wings and a ball appeared in the air. Ginny quit running and leaped for the ball. Half way through the air she changed back. Mooney jumped for her. Eliza in Phoenix form swooped down and snatched Ginny out of the air. Siiting her on the rafters Eliza changed back and sat with her.
" Well that was intresting." Ginny stated
" You okay Ginny. Mooney almost, hang on. Bad Mooney." Eliza said swatting at Mooney with a fly swatter as he jumped at them " Bite you clean in half. If somehting happened Harry wouldn't care who Mooney was he would have killed him."
" I know, just glad you were there to save my neck." Ginny smirked at Eliza.
Ginny turned back to Cannon and jumped of the rafter. Eliza followed suit and flew. Swooping down landing on Prongslette's back. Prongs came over an sniffed Cannon who had curled up around Prongslette paws. Padfoot jumped up and put his front paws on Prongslette back and sniffed both of the twins. Padfoot barked and jumped on to Prongs. As the night wore on the animals fell asleep until Phoenix Child was the only one sitting on the window ledge. When moring came on Mooney changed back into Remus and dressed and woke the others. He looked around at the floor and saw that it's surface was full of kids and one professor.
" Morning Mooney." A voice said form above
Remus looked up and saw Eliza laying on one of the rafters with a pillow under her head. " Morning Eliza." Remus said with a small smile.