A blush once again rose on his cheeks and he tried to make it as unnoticeable as possible and casually as possible said, "Who do we have here, Messrs. Potter, black, Lupin, and Pettigrew" he ended with his least favorite.
"morning Harry, Ginny, Draco sent us to tell you to come to breakfast" James said noting that the two seemed to look flushed and uncomfortable and smiled, he believed that he and the marauders had some matchmaking to attend to.
"oh he did, did he" Harry said, somewhat annoyed at Draco for having his future father and godfather and all that come and interrupt 'something' well what could have been something had they not come in.
"So how did the attack go" Remus asked.
"How did you know about that?" Ginny asked, wondering how they knew that they were there and hoped that it was not because the daily prophet had issued another one of their articles.
"We put two and two together" Sirius said.
"aah, ever the investigators" Harry said, knowing full well just how much of investigators the four were, hell they had a detailed map of the entire school that had they had made and dubbed the 'marauders map'.
The four smiled shyly at this and then began to look around with nothing better to do.
"Well shall we go to breakfast then?" Harry asked.
They all nodded their heads, "I'll be down in a minute" Ginny said as she still needed to get dressed.
The four marauders and Harry left, and Ginny was left alone with her thoughts.
She was thinking about the previous moment with Harry, 'what did it mean?' she asked herself silently.
Her head answered her, 'It means he likes you'
'Pfft'
'You just wait and see' her mind challenged her. But Ginny had no more time to converse with her head she needed to get to breakfast, she had classes later.
Harry and the marauders headed down to breakfast, they were all talking of quidditch and other miscellaneous topics before they reached the doors to the great hall.
"Well I guess I should go to the staff table then, I will see you later this afternoon for class are ready." Harry said simply before leaving them to go and join Draco at the staff table.
On his way down the hallway that led to the staffs entrance doors, he met up with Ginny. They both abruptly stopped walking and stared at each other for a few seconds caught up in an awkward silence, before they both blushed and silently agreed that they were just going to momentarily forget what happened, but they both did not want to forget.
They walked together through the staff doors and took their seats next to Draco, who was currently talking with professor sprout about mindless topics such as various tree roots and other dull topics that could lull a baby to sleep.
As Harry and Ginny started on their breakfasts, the owls came through the high windows carrying the morning mail in their various sized beaks.
Down at the Gryffindor table, James had just received his mail which consisted of a regular letter from his parents and the daily prophet.
He put the letter away for now he would read it later and folded open the paper.
ATTACK ON DIAGON ALLEY!
Ministry officials and Aurors arrived late last night to a disheveled diagon alley, while the Aurors were too late to help in the chaos some one was. Through interviews with various witnesses we have come across information that while the Aurors were not available at least three other mystery people were, " I saw a women fighting four or so death eaters single-handedly and she looked well qualified," says one, " a man whom was fighting a great deal of death eaters saved my child from one before returning to battle once again" said another. While we do not know who these people were we are deeply thankful that they turned up if it were not for them many more would have perished or been injured. (See more on page 8)
James sat somewhat amazed that it had only been his three professors fighting; he knew that it was them, for that only made sense. He showed the headline to his fellow marauders who seemed just as amazed.
Lily Evans was seated a few seats down from the marauders, reading the headline for herself she could not believe how brave her professors were, she as well knew it was them if you thought about it, it was obvious they left via apparition right before Dumbledore made his small statement to the students. She wondered to herself if she would ever be so brave and fearless.
Her thoughts some how wondered to James, they had been doing so a lot lately on their own accord that was. She could not help but think that he had changed since last year he was not the same overly arrogant bullying toe rag, but she could not bring herself to say that he was a handsome talented great person either, in fact she did not know how she felt about James potter all she knew was that when she was around him she felt safe and protected.
Up at the staff table, Draco had just received the paper and started laughing at the front page story on the mystery saviors.
"What's so funny Draco" Harry asked.
Draco handed him the paper and Harry read as well, "honestly even in the past we make the front page" Harry said shaking his head, how he hated fame.
The three chuckled over this for a while but could not help but wonder at the same time why the Aurors had not been there sooner they should have been where they were.
"ahem, Harry, Ginny, Draco, I was wondering if you would not mind coming to my office after breakfast, I believe you have a free period I was wondering if you would care to explain what you know about yesterdays events"
"Why of course headmaster, we will see you then" Harry answered with a smile, he knew that Dumbledore was itching with curiosity and had every right to be. The others nodded their agreement at the headmaster and they all continued to eat there breakfasts.
The group arrived in the headmaster and had just gone through the regular beginning procedure that occur when you have a meeting with Albus Dumbledore, which consisted of him asking if you wanted a lemon drop and so on, they were now getting down to business.
"So would someone like to tell me how you knew of the attack?"
"um… well you see sir, myself and the utter peace of dung who calls himself a dark lord share a connection through my scar, therefore sometimes when I let my guard down and him his I can see what is happening with him, and it just so happened yesterday I saw him planning to attack diagon alley an hour before it happened." Harry said, trying his best not to blurt out to much information that could greatly effect the future in any which way.
"How is it you share such a connection with him"
"That is something that we can not say sir" Ginny butted in.
"Understandable, well can you answer me this how is it that you were able to apparate out of Hogwarts when it has never been done before?" Dumbledore said very curious as to the answer and hoping that he would be able to get it.
"well you see sir back in our time, I was said to be the one to rid the world of Voldemort and with that statement running over my head I went through much training and received some powers that have been quite an aid during certain times." Harry said hoping against hope that he had not said too much.
"So you can apparate out of Hogwarts, what else can you do?" he asked now just plain curious.
"Much but we can not tell you in due time you just might see though." Draco put forth knowing if Dumbledore knew much more than things could definitely change.
"Very well then, it would seem that you have a class quite soon and I don't believe you would want to be late."
"oh right about that sir, I was just wondering if it would be okay If I cast the imperious curse on the students" Harry said, with the silence that followed Harry thought about what he said and then added, "that did not come out right"
"What he means is professor that in order for the students to be able to stand a chance against such curses they need a little experience I assure you that no harm will come from it, we ourselves had to go through this when we were in fourth year so?" Ginny said quickly.
Dumbledore thought for a moment, "that is fine but just be careful it would not do us any good if our teachers wound up in Azkaban because of foolishness"
"Of course not professor, thank you and we will see you later" Draco said before leading the way out of the office.
They were walking down the corridor, when the marauders suddenly popped their heads round the corner.
"Um… Draco we were wondering if we could speak to you for a moment, we have a question about um… potions that we were wondering if you could help us out" Sirius said making the lie up as he went along.
"Oh well Harry is really better at all that than I am"
"Oh did I say potions I meant… girls" Sirius said thinking off the top of his head.
"Oh well then that is my area of expertise" Draco said smugly.
Harry and Ginny rolled their eyes and said that they would see Draco and Sirius later and headed down to the defense room.
"So what is it you really need?" Draco asked he saw straight through that lie.
"Well hold on here come in here" James said, leading the group into an empty classroom nearby.
"So what is the problem?"
"The problem is we know to young professors who are absolutely smitten with one another yet neither is making a move" Remus said.
"Funny I as well know to professors… oh you mean Harry and Ginny" Draco said realization burning in his mind.
The marauders smiled, "yes well we were wondering if we could interest you in helping get them together, trust us the world will be better for it." James said, all the while thinking some hope still lied in his situation with lily Evans.
Draco only had to think for about a second before agreeing he was sick of having the two of them walking on tip toes round each other, yes it was definitely time for the ice to be broken.
A.N. Well I have homework to complete so just a BIGGGGG ThANNNNNKKKKYYYOUUUE to all the reviewers they rock my eyelashes of the sockets!
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