A/N Hey there people. Hope you all are well… Well here's the next update, I hope you all enjoy it.

We left of:

"Doing what, exactly? And I told you to stop calling me Gin-Gin, you prick," she retaliated.

They both gave a silent sigh of relief that they had been holding. Maybe now they could go back to ….uh … whatever kind of relationship they had held before all this.

"The 'Hermione look'. You really need to stop hanging out with her; she's being a bad influence on you." He teased.

"Why I never... Harry James Potter, she is as much, if not more, your friend then mine. Just why are you talking that way about her?" She pointed an accusatory finger at him, "Just wait until I tell her what you said."

Chapter 9

He shook his head, "You can't tell her."

"And why not?" She smiled at him almost teasing him.

"Well," he made a show of thinking it through then he shocked his head, "I can't come up with anything remotely good, but when I do I'll tell you."

"Fine, I'll give you an extension on coming up with a good excuse to save yourself from Miss Granger's wrath, But only a week and nothing more than that."

Harry gave a small movement with his head to indicate that he understood her.

It was great fun to tease each other like they were. It had been much too long since they were able to do so, and even then it had never been quite like this.

Ginny's mind got back on track, "Harry, I think we need to ask for some help."

He frowned, "We just did, but Dumbledore couldn't help us. Who else could we ask for help? McGonagall?"

"No she'll probably think you're trying to trick her or something."

"Hagrid?" Harry put in.

"As much as I love Hagrid, he won't be able to help us. We need somebody that could help us discover how in fact we got here."

Harry gave a small nod of understanding.

"Maybe, Flit…," She shook her head at that suggestion.

"Damn Gin, there's no one else," Harry said, throwing up his hands in frustration.

Ginny stood quietly and stared into his emerald eyes; daring him to come up with the same name or names as she had. He blinked once, twice and then it came to him. But the idea was a bit out there even for the Weasley twin's youngest and only sister.

Laughter pour out of him, it took a minute to get him self under control just enough to speak.

"The Marauders?" he asked, shaking his head humorously dismissing the idea at once.

"Why not?" Ginny asked.

The smile that had made itself known on his face, slowly transformed into a frown.

"Why not? Gin, do you really think they are going to believe us?"

"We'll just prove to them that it's true." Harry gave an incredulous look.

"And how exactly are we going to prove to them that we aren't Lily and James? We look like them to everyone but ourselves."

"I know that but we don't know enough about your parents to play their roles in history," She raised her hand to stop him before he interrupted her, "I know they haven't notice yet, but we haven't spent too much time in their presence for them to notice any changes in personality. Also, from what Lupin told us about the relationship that the Marauders share, they are going to take notice sooner or later."

"Maybe they won't." Harry replied trying to sound hopeful.

"Are you telling me that you wouldn't notice if I took over Hermione's body?" She questioned him.

"'course I would. I mean I'm pretty sure that I could tell that it was you and not her, given a little time."

He then added in his mind, ' It's very hard to miss the Weasley temper even without the red hair as a dead-give-away.'

"Exactly! You have known Hermione for so long. Hell, you know her even better her parents. It's the way a friendship works. Well not all friendships, but where best mates are concerned it does." Unknown to her was that that was not the only reason Harry would be able to tell.

"Okay, say I agree that we should tell them. How are they going to help us?" He asked.

Before she could answer, sound filled the hall they were currently standing in. Laughter and friendly conversations were coming from different groups of students. This signaled the end of breakfast and the beginning of the intermediate period before the first class of the day.

Ginny gave a nerves chuckle when a few girls walked by and greeted them. Waving at a few more people that seemed to know them, from the corner of her mouth she whispered, "We can't skip classes. So we'll go to class and after that we'll tell the Marauders. Then we will figure this out and get back to our time."

Harry nodded his head will waving at a couple of prefects.

"Sounds good, but first we need to find out what our first class is."

They made their way to the seventh floor and into the Gryffindor's Common Room. They, fortunately, got cut a break when the Marauders came down the stars from the boys' dormitories with James' books and a bit of toast for them to eat before class.

"We thought that since you can't take care of each others eating habits we'd do it for you," Remus said, handing Lily (Ginny) toast with a bit of Jam in it and James (Harry) toast with honey smothered on top. They each said their thanks to the young wolf sincerely grateful because they both had forgotten about that basic need.

"It's best if we started to make our way to class, we don't want to be late. McGonagall hates it when we're late. She did say that next time we were late she'd turn Padfoot into a clock." Said Remus.

"Hey, she didn't say that. She said that she'd turn one of us into a clock. How do you know it won't be you?" Sirius asked smirking at them, "Or maybe Peter, here. Yeah Wormtail will make a great clock. Maybe one of those grandfather clocks… but I guess that a watch will work better if we wanted to carry it with us."

The boys waited for Ginny to go to the girls' seventh year dormitory to pick up Lily's Transfiguration book. Ginny was also lucky enough to find that Lily kept her schedule along with a daily planner. She took Lily's Charms, Potions, and Ancient Ruin books for the rest of the lessons of the day.

The group dash through the corridors and secret passages to make it to their first class of the day.

When they walked through the door leading to Transfiguration, Ginny and Harry stopped at the site before them. Snape, their not-likable (for lack of a better word) professor, was in this class… joy.

The class included students from all four houses. At the front left hand side of the room the Ravenclaw's filled two rows. The next two rows were of Slytherin. On the right side the first two seats were unoccupied but the next two rows sat Hufflepuff's. Behind theses seats, sat two girls one from Hufflepuff and one from Gryffindor they intentionally leaving an open seat between them.

Sirius apparently knew it was for him because he moved forward and filled the empty seat.

Remus and Peter took the next two seats behind the three, leaving the front two seats for the Head students.

As Ginny and Harry took their seats, Professor McGonagall entered the classroom. She crossed to the front of the class and started her lecture on human transfiguration.

The class had to take notes and practice the incantation they learnt that day. Harry was the first to accomplish the task, follow closely by Sirius and Ginny. Throughout the room students were examining their paws, claws or, in Harry's case, hoof.

Ginny raise her left hand that she had transform into a reddish paw. "What do you think?"

"It looks like a feline paw." He shrugged.

"How can you tell?" She kept on examining it, "Try elongating your nails," He suggested.

Throughout the entire day, Ginny and Harry had little time to discuss how they were going to tell the Marauders about their real identities.

For Harry, it was frustrating not to be able to tell his future Godfather and Lupin about Peter's betrayal. But he knew, even though he wanted to ignore that little voice in his mind, that to do such a think could endanger the future. I mustn't mess with time, was his mantra. It helped to lessen his guilt of letting the scum play the friend to the other two.

During lunch Ginny and Harry had agree to tell Peter as well. It would be for the best, otherwise they would have to explain why they wouldn't be including one fourth of the Marauders and that would bring up other questions about the future. Before heading for the next class, Ginny asked them to meet Harry and her in the seventh year boys' dormitory.

When everyone had gathered Ginny spoke, "We have to," she looked at Harry, "tell you something."

She turn back to Remus and Sirius, trying to ignore Peter. "It's really important."

A/N Thankz to the few that read and review. I have said it: it's great to have some input from other fans. Constructive criticism rockz!

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Bratski, it's great to know that you like it. I truly hope you continue reading it.J

Fooboo27, I appreciate that you pointed out for me. I seriously have a problem with writing things in a rush and not looking back at them… as you see for your self so thank you.

Petroleumjellydotone, a big thanks to you for your help as beta for this story. You rock!