Harry couldn't believe how lucky he was. Mr. Wolfe was nice, and more importantly he finally knew he wasn't alone in the world as he thought!

Kaede was really nice too.

He did find it odd that Mr. Wolfe used a fake name though.

Then, shortly before he turned ten, Kaede convinced Remus to let her go see someone named Sirius Black. It would only be a day, but for someone who was stuck with a magic-hating aunt like Petunia, it was a lifetime.

They came back rather upset and angry over something, but they wouldn't say what.

All Harry knew was that they were getting another dog who could play with Wolfie and Pochi.

He had seen Remus turn into Wolfie once, though Kaede stayed close by the entire time. Wolfie was like a big furry puppy, though one who was bigger than most dogs he had ever seen.

Two days ago...

Kaede had heard countless tales of Padfoot, Wormtail and Prongs. So hearing that Padfoot was still alive, she wanted to see the man for herself, if only to prove he was indeed the one who sold out Prong and Lily to the dark lord.

So Remus reluctantly took Kaede to Azkaban.

What she found out through her vectors had them both pissed.

Sirius Black was innocent!

"What do we do dad?" asked Kaede when they were on shore.

"I'll tell you what we're going to do. We're going to pull a fast one on Dumbledore and the Ministry," said Remus, his old Marauder self coming out.

So Kaede and Remus found an old mutt, one not long for this world anyway. They went back to Azkaban and left the dog in the cell while Sirius snuck out in his Padfoot form. Then Kaede made it look like their 'dog' had ripped Sirius Black apart.

There was a reason why animagi had to be put into special cells. The cells were warded and came with a special tag that alerted the lone Auror on the island of an escape attempt. It also came with a special marker that would tell the Ministry where to find the animal in question.

Sirius was an illegal animagus. So when they broke him out, no one was any the wiser aside from a small note that he had 'died' in his cell in the paper the next morning.

Because Sirius had named Harry his heir, no one thought anything of the fact that the will was never read, as Harry was still too young.

"How did you know?" asked Sirius later, practically devouring the food Remus put before him.

"Kaede."

"Who?"

"Me," said the girl with her dog in her lap. Pochi was eagerly awaiting Sirius to drop anything, as the children had a habit of doing during meals. With how hungry Sirius was, there wasn't much chance of that.

Sirius stared for two point one seconds before he went back to his food. Pink hair wasn't that weird...his cousin's kid Nymphadora loved changing her hair pink.

(Elsewhere in Hogwarts a certain Metamorph swore vengeance when someone spoke about her behind her back and caused her prank potion to explode in her face. She never did find the culprit.)

"So when did you get a kid?"

"I found Kaede while trying to get a job in Japan. Coincidentally since we did spring you from the prison, you are so paying for the bills in the house. Living in Surrey isn't cheap for someone with a part time job you know," said Remus.

If Sirius paid the bills, then Remus could pay off the house that much faster.

"Why doesn't he just take the house where that squib lady lives with her cats after we finally get rid of her?"

Remus had been planning to remove Arabella Figg for months. The woman was becoming far too interested in why Harry kept coming over to his house after school instead of his aunts, likely on Dumbledore's orders.

Fortunately it wouldn't be too hard because of the fact Arabella had too many cats in the house. People around the neighborhood already complained about the smell in the house more than they did about the fact Remus' home was a bright garish pink.

Something Sirius planned to ask about the moment he had filled up.

Finally an hour later, Sirius got the basic details from Remus about how he had discovered Kaede and adopted her, Moony's odd behavior, and why the house was currently the most eye-catching thing on the entire block.

"Damn Remus...sounds like Prongs' luck rubbed off on you!" said Sirius wide eyed.

"That was one of the first things I thought too," snorted Remus.

"So what exactly is a Diclonius and vectors?" asked Sirius.

Remus removed Kaede's puppy ears (she loved that trick) and Sirius stared for a few seconds at the horns. Her hair was held back in a simple pony tail that was braided with multiple ribbons.

"As far as we and the Japanese Ministry can tell, females born with these horns and the distinct coloring are called Diclonius. They are mostly muggleborns who's magic seems to have been changed by a virus transmitted by the 'hands' that they all have called Vectors. Now from what I have been able to learn, Diclonius are natural predators, ones that are so strong that they literally dominate other predatory species."

"Like?"

"Werewolves. Moony has completely accepted Kaede as his Alpha. So much so that she's turned him into her own personal lapdog and Pup was able to stay over during the full moon without him even snapping at him."

"Harry? You've seen Harry? How is he?" said Sirius, clinging to that news like a lifeline.

"He's doing much better. When we finally come out with our findings on Diclonius and their ability to control werewolves, I'm going to give Dumbledore a black eye for putting him with Petunia."

"Petunia? But she hated Lily!"

"I know. In exchange for becoming his magical guardian and dealing with anything from the magical world, she's agreed to actively help deflect any questions about why Harry spends so much time around my house."

Sirius looked ashamed of himself. He was supposed to take care of Harry after his best friend died.

"So how did you cover the fact you knew magic?"

"Muggleborn from Salem. I worked as a substitute teacher there for about a year after James died, until some idiot from home blew the fact I was a werewolf out of the water and raised a massive stink. I still have some friends over in America who would help cover up who I am."

"So... what does little Kaede like to do for fun?"

"Dog park," deadpanned Remus.

"Dog park?" Sirius perked up.

"Now Harry has a dog he can play fetch with instead of just borrowing Pochi. Of course he has a reasonable fear of English bull dogs after Marge chased him up the tree with Ripper... She hasn't come back since I came by to drag him over to our house after hearing she hated him," said Kaede.

Ripper refused to go anywhere near Surrey after he ran into Kaede. Then again, most animals with a nasty temper avoided her.

There was a knock on the door. Harry had at least learned to be polite, so he always knocked to check if Remus and Kaede were in.

Sirius immediately turned into Padfoot. He wasn't fit to be seen by his godson just yet, and Kaede said it would be less damaging if they gradually reintroduced the two.

"Sweet! A new dog!" said Harry. He would have hugged it, but he got a good whiff of it before he went too close. "Ugh! One that needs a bath!"

Remus had an idea. It was mean. It was evil. And it was something only a Marauder would consider after what they had just done.

"Harry, get the tub from the basement. Kaede, get the shampoo we use for Pochi."

"What are you getting dad?" asked Kaede, though she had a good idea what.

"That's going to be my surprise," cackled Remus.

Sirius was whining. The water was cold, the shampoo got in his eyes thanks to the enthusiastic work of two happy children, and to top it all off, Remus had put several girlie ribbons in his hair, likely from the same place he kept Kaede's usual ones.

Still, it was a good sign that his second best friend hadn't lost the Marauder spirit! Even if he did aim for Remus' rose bushes in retaliation.

If that wasn't enough, Sirius was put through the wringer as Harry threw sticks very far for him to retrieve. He avoided the lake mostly because Kaede told him not to get her ribbons muddy.

By the time they got home, Sirius flopped down on the doggy bed Remus had gotten for his new 'dog'. Remus took pity on him and put a blanket on him.

"Playing is hard, keeping up with two magical children...that's insane," said Remus wisely.

Harry and Kaede, age eleven...

It was finally time for the letters to go out. Harry had to be in Privet Drive just to insure that Dumbledore didn't notice he spent more time at Remus' house than his aunts, but the fact that he would be spending the rest of summer there kept her from making a fuss.

He grabbed the letter and ran across the street to the hot pink house. Mrs. Figg, the crazy cat lady down the road, had gotten evicted after they found she had been running the kitty equivalent of a puppy farm and selling cats in deplorable conditions.

Actually that was how he had gotten rid of Figg by calling it in. Because she didn't have magic (or a job...she was being paid by Dumbledore) she couldn't legally explain how she was getting money and still be able to handle that many cats. And because she was a squib, the aurors weren't called in to bail her out of jail.

So they cleared out her things, and put the house back on the market.

Sirius went into the realtor's office and bought it three days later with the promise to clean out the cat smell. Until they were busted, Petunia would have to live with having two wizards living on her street.

And by that time Sirius would have moved all the contents of the Black vault to a new one that the Ministry wouldn't think to check.

His new vault (with the entirety of the Black family fortune) was the Marauder vault. The only ones who had access to it were Remus and Sirius. And the kids once they were old enough. Harry was moving the Potter fortune bit-by-bit to the new vault, and the goblins would keep quiet about it because they didn't want Dumbledore or anyone else finding out what they had done.

Besides... Sirius was finally taking his godfather responsibility well, seriously. That meant he was legally allowed to do crap like that.

"I got the letter!" said Harry excitedly.

"So did I!" said Kaede happily.

"Well I got one from Japan. Seems that the Diclonius gene really is transmitted to magicals. They've been having issues with the people who came after you because they keep trying to kidnap the girls only for the Ministry to get to them first."

The letter also spoke of an odd thing they had noticed...all the girls who had reached puberty were sterile. They didn't know whether it was a side effect or if it was the result of the vectors. They suggested Remus had Kaede tested once she hit that age just in case.

However there was something they had found when they infiltrated the people who were trying to capture these...Diclonius. According to their research, there was a 'Queen' who held a virus which could bring forth Diclonius who could have children. The others were just worker bees.

The thing that baffled the kidnappers was that the queen had gone missing and they knew she existed.

They were quite determined to find that girl.

"Well you know what this means don't you?" said Remus.

"What's that uncle Wolfie?" asked Harry.

Because Dumbledore would be on the lookout for Remus, he had told him to call him Uncle Wolfie instead. Kaede just called him dad. Sirius became Uncle Orion, a half-blood from Canada who was friends with Wolfe.

All Petunia had to do was lie if Dumbledore came round with a picture of them and avoid looking at him in the eyes. Plus Sirius had put a spell that would obscure their real faces for her just in case.

"Shopping!" squealed Kaede. She was a girl. She loved shopping. Especially since she could wear her functional dog ears over her horns instead of the ones that just sat on top of them.

She liked the disguised her dad came up with to hide the horns. At least it gave people a reason to look at her besides the pink hair and 'brown' eyes. He always let her pick what she would put over the horns, and since she had come from Japan she could say that it was cosplay.

"Shopping and we get to dress up uncle Orion," said Remus smirking.

Harry and Kaede cheered. Sirius didn't mind it when they dressed him up. The magicals remembered what he looked like after all. He just wished they didn't have such a fascination with ribbons.

"The more things change, the more they stay the same," said Sirius bored.

"Money first, then we'll get the supplies while you two go wander around. Avoid Knockturn until we're ready to get your wands," said Remus.

"Okay Dad/Uncle Wolfe!" said the two. Harry was wearing a headband that covered his hair and hid his scar quite effectively. He had developed a fascination for ribbons and had grown his hair out so Kaede could have fun tying them into his hair. It was fun seeing the new colors and shapes that came out of it.

One large sack of gold between them, and the adults went shopping for basic supplies.

Harry and Kaede went straight to the joke shop to see what they had in stock. They were actually rather disappointed.

"Dungbombs, really? Uncle Orion comes up with better stuff than this," said Harry.

"I know right? I mean what good are stink pellets when these people probably haven't even heard of slingshots?" said Kaede snorting.

"Do our ears deceive us?"

"Ickle firsties complaining about old pranks?"

Kaede and Harry turned to see a pair of grinning twins who had the same aura Sirius did when spiked Remus' coffee. Again. For the third time that week. Right before the werewolf hexed him and gave the kids a show.

"Nice ears," said twin one.

"And loving the hair color," said twin two. From what Kaede could tell, they were being honest.

"Thanks. Dad lets me wear stationary ones outside magical areas. It's a hobby I picked up in Japan," said Kaede.

"So why were you disappointed about the pranks?" asked twin one.

"Dull," said Kaede.

"Unoriginal," said Harry, causing the twins to grin as they figured out what they were doing.

"And totally uninspired," they finished.

"Uncle Wolfe comes up with better stuff to get back at Uncle Orion for slipping hot sauce in his coffee again," said Harry.

"Or things for me to hit that pig Dudley," agreed Kaede.

The twins grinned conspiratorially.

"Well we might have a few things the shops don't have..." said twin one.

"But getting the capital to make them would be difficult," said twin two.

"You two are pranksters?"

"Second gen Marauders, or so Mom calls us!" said twin one.

Seeing their eyes light up in recognition, they spoke in a low whisper in Japanese.

"We might be able to get you funding. But first dad would have to see how good your work is," said Kaede.

Seeing their grins light up, the twins and the two children cackled evilly.

In the castle, a certain cat animagus shuddered. Dear lord...she could sense the chaos that was about to return. She immediately went to stock up on whiskey and headache medication.