Ten minutes later, Harry, Ron, and Hermione stood assembled in Gryffindor common room. Hermione and Ron were both clad in their pajamas, Hermione rubbing her eyes with one hand, Ron just staring around uncomprehending and bleary-eyed, having been woken up from a sound sleep by Harry. Harry however was wearing very rumpled school robes, as he had been finishing some last minute homework when Sirius, James, Lily, Remus, and Miranda had burst into the common room because of their spell.

"I told you!" Harry hissed. "I told you they were here!"

Ron and Hermione could only gawk at Sirius, James, Lily, Remus, and Miranda with amazement and confusion, while the five stared back at them.

Hermione finally broke the silence. "What are you doing here?"

"Lily cast a spell for us to time travel." Remus explained.

"Only because you four persuaded me!" Lily protested. "Besides, I blame Sirius!"

"What did I do?" Sirius exclaimed, highly affronted. "Why does everyone always blame me?"

"Well, Pads, you do tend to cause trouble." James replied, simply.

"So do you!"

"Point taken, but we're not talking about me here, are we?"

"Sirius, the whole thing was your idea!" Lily snapped.

"Yeah, sure, throw my words back in my face, like always! Real nice, Lily! You know you're not a princess yourself?"

"And you are a princess? Pads, is there something you should tell me?" James teased.

Slowly, Hermione raised her hand in the air, but no one seemed to notice her.

"Yes, I do throw your words back in your face, because you usually say stupid things, but in this case I am throwing your actions back in your face! You were the one begging me to cast the spell!" Lily exclaimed.

"An unfounded lie! I, Sirius Black, do not beg. Cajole, sure, blackmail, most definitely, coerce, well, on a good day, but certainly not beg."

"Uh, uh, what about that time when Snivellus hexed your books so that whenever you opened them—" James contradicted him.

"I didn't beg!"

"Yes, you did, you begged Lily to remove the charm because—"

"No, it was a very manly appeal for help."

"Sure, so very manly." James snorted.

"Shut up!"

"Or the time on your sixteenth birthday when James turned you into—" Miranda began.

Lily dissolved into laughter. "Oh, I forgot about that! He made the pret—"

"No, I just beat Prongs up until he took off the curse that time!" Sirius interrupted, blushing furiously, before Lily could reveal exactly what happened on his sixteenth birthday.

Hermione began to wave her hand and bounce a bit on the balls of her slippered feet.

"You beat me in a physical fight?" James echoed derisively. "Sure, Padfoot, whatever delusions make you sleep at night. You begged me for so long to remove the spell that McGonagall ordered me to or else I would have gotten detention. Again. And I already had one scheduled with her for that night on top of it."

"Come to think of it, you didn't even remove it when McGonagall asked you, did you?" Remus, despite all of his efforts, had been drawn into the argument.

"Oh, that's right! I took the detention instead!"

"Because you're a horrible friend." Sirius grumbled, crossing his arms over his chest and looking immensely cross.

"Aw, come off it, Pads, it wore off at the stroke of midnight."

"See, Harry, do you see what a horrible friend your father was?" Sirius griped, whirling around to face Harry, and pointing in James' direction.

"Er, I don't think I understand what you're all talking about." Harry responded tentatively, watching the exchange wide-eyed.

"But it was funny!" James protested. "Incredibly funny, actually. You know I'm not a horrible friend; it was all in good fun. Admit it Padfoot, you thought it was funny a few days later when you thought back on it and saw the pictures. After you had time to get over your anger at public humiliation, of course."

"NO!" Sirius retorted, but a smile was playing on his lips.

"Um," Hermione began hesitantly, still waving her hand in the air, jostling for attention against the argument. "Can someone—can someone please—" She began, a little louder.

All arguing ceased as the five turned to face Hermione, Ron, and Harry. Hermione, startled at suddenly commanding everyone's attention, shifted from foot to foot uncomfortably.

Sirius and James stared at her as if they had never seen anyone quite like her before.

"Prongs, why is she raising her hand?" Sirius asked in a rather loud sort of whisper, elbowing James in the ribs.

"I haven't a clue, mate." James whispered back, equally bemused. Aloud, he said to Hermione, "We're not in class. You don't need to raise your hand, just burst right into the conversation."

Hermione looked vaguely scandalized, but nodded nonetheless and lowered her hand. "Well, what I wanted to uh, ask, was if someone could please explain all this, explain what exactlyis going on here."

Harry and Ron nodded in agreement.

Finally. Harry thought excitedly. Answers.

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