Title: Looking in Dad's Pensieve

Author: dragonriderhp

Summary: What would happen if Harry came across his Dad's old Pensieve? He would be able to see his Dad's life, that's what, and how he, Harry, came to live. Some romance with L/J, mostly General or Humor. HBP Spoilers!

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Looking in Dad's Pensieve

Chapter 7: Curiosity Killed the Chaser -- Part 1

Previously where we left Harry…

Smiling grimly, Harry stood and walked slowly over to the Pensieve. He poked the surface with his wand and watched as the Gryffindor Common Room came into view.

"Here goes. Let's hope Dad didn't mess up too bad."

And with that comment, Harry leaned forward and broke the surface with his head, sending him tumbling forward into the memory.

Harry readied himself to land on the cold, stone floor like usual, but was surprised as he landed on a plush couch.

He sat up, brushing off his arms.

Harry smiled as he looked around the familiar surroundings. He had landed on a plush red couch next to the fire of the Gryffindor Common Room.

He got up and stared over at the table next to a window. Three boys were seated, and one was standing looking out the glass.

Sirius glared at Remus over the chess table.

"Why do you always have to win?" Sirius said grumpily, propping his chin on his hands. His black hair fell gracefully over his eyes as he groaned.

"What is this, the 26th time he's checkmated you, I think?" Peter, who was sitting next to them, asked him. Sirius glared at him and Peter snickered.

Remus sighed. "You really need to practice!"

Sirius shrugged and began to clean up the pieces. Peter joined him, but Remus tilted back in his chair. He leaned over to James, who was staring out the window watching the rain.

"What's bugging you?" he asked him.

James turned around, his hair sticking out in all directions.

"Nothing."

"James, please. Shut up! There's something bugging you; it's really obvious. Tell us!" Remus replied.

James sighed, his hazel eyes looking tired. "It's – "

"Lilykins! Hi there, sweet flower!" Sirius jumped up in his seat just as a pretty red head walked over to their table.

Lily stared at Sirius in mild amusement. Her leaf green eyes (A/N: If you feel like clicking to see the color, here: http/ ) glittered as she smiled.

(A/N: I made up the Volunteer Committee…its like a club that puts together fun stuff for the school…including the V-Day Dance. You see, I couldn't make them Prefects since they're in 3rd year. P.S. The scene from chapter 5 was not during OWLs. It was set up like that for something else, but not important. And it was in December. Now its February (obviously) and throughout the year Lily seems to have almost forgotten the Slytherin Prank. Sorry if you were confused.)

"Right. Here you go, James. It's the plans for the Valentine's Day Dance. I'll talk to you at the Volunteer Committee meeting tomorrow," Lily said. She tucked a spare piece of light red hair behind her ears and turned away from the boys, her ponytail swinging behind her.

James watched after her, a glazed look in his eyes. He smiled slightly as he held the leaflet of paper limply in his hands.

Wow, Harry thought. I never really understood how much Dad liked Mum. I mean, I knew it was a lot. Obviously. But he's really stricken for her!

"Earth to Prongs!" Peter said, waving a hand in front of James' face. James shook his head and turned towards his friends.

"So what about Lily is bugging you?" Sirius asked, plopping his head onto his folded arms.

"It's just…" James sat in a chair. "She'll act like she hates my guts and is ready to murder me, and then she's sweet, and nice, and friendly, and perfect…and then she'll hate my guts again! And I think I'm getting whip-lash from all the times she's done this to me. Like just now, she's perfectly civil, but I bet later she'll be quarrelling with me again! I just wish I knew how she really felt about me…"

Sirius suddenly sat up. "Well that's easy!"

Everyone, including Harry, turned to him in surprise.

Sirius just grinned.

"Follow me, fellas!"

Sirius jumped up and began walking quickly to the boys' dormitories. The other three Marauders looked at each other before getting up and following him.

As they passed a table of girls, including Lily, James glanced at it nervously. He watched Lily as he walked by. She looked up and, seeing him, sneered. James looked away quickly before jumped up the stairs two at a time.

When all of the boys piled into the room, they were surprised to see Sirius standing in front of the bookshelf (Remus') yanking several out. Sprawled on Remus' bed were a few potions, some floating devices, and James' Invisibility Cloak.

"What on earth are you doing Padfoot?" Remus cried loudly.

Sirius just held a finger to his lips and scanned through the books, leaving some open to a specific page.

Harry walked over to the bed and looked at the device. It seemed to have a microphone and a mini camera located on it. He knew, however, that those were Muggle devices, and was wondering how they could possibly work. Suddenly Sirius began to speak.

"Okay! Everyone sit down, or I'll turn you into a toad!" Sirius snapped.

The Marauders just looked at him blankly.

"I knew that wouldn't work. Anyway, tonight Lily and the rest of her friends are having a girls-only slumber party up in their dorm. What we need to do is get into that room!" Sirius said excitedly.

"I'm assuming you know how to do this?" James said nervously.

"Indeed…" Sirius trailed off, grinning. "First, we need to get past the stairs!"

Suddenly an easel appeared next to Sirius, and he smacked his wand onto it. A drawing a stairs formed on it.

"As we all know, through experience, the stairs only let up those of the female gender! So what we need to do is make ourselves either a) fool the stairs by making our gender unknown or b) use such a powerful spell and or potion that will allow us to be supposed females."

Remus was staring at Sirius in awe, while James and Peter were gazing at him in amazement.

"I have conducted research and discovered several 4-hour spells and potions that will allow us to appear as a female in order to get past the stairs."

"Hold on, Padfoot," Remus said. "Your logic makes sense, but that's some really powerful magic on those stairs! Do you think they will work?"

"Of course!" Sirius cried, leaping towards Remus while waving his wand around. "The potions combined will make a force so strong it will never be ceased!"

Sirius stood, wide eyed and panting, in front of Remus. Remus was pushed against the bed post staring in horror at Sirius.

"Ye-ye-yes sir!" Remus stammered.

Sirius suddenly smiled perkily and returned to his board.

James and Remus shared a look and smothered a snicker.

"Anywho, we will all take those potions. But, since those take a while to sink in, we have some more time to prepare. There is no way that all of us are going to be able to fit under the Invisibility Cloak without being shown or visible. So, we need to shrink ourselves and the Cloak. Now, before you say anything – " Sirius held up a finger to shush Peter – "I have tried this on several first years, and they work fine. We'll all take the potion, and then we'll do a simple shrinking spell to shrink the cloak."

Remus raised an eyebrow. "You've really thought this through…were you planning it?"

Sirius nodded and continued chipperly. "Then, we will climb up the stairs, invisible, small, and females, and when we get to the top, we will sneak in unaware when Lily goes to get her stuff, which will be "mysteriously missing". How will we not be heard, you ask? Why, by a sound spell, of which we will place on the Cloak! A very strong one, at that!"

"Any questions?"

James, Remus, and Peter stared, amazed, at Sirius. They suddenly burst out into applause. Sirius mock-bowed before he began to gather things on the bed.

"OH!" He shot up, making the others jump in surprise.

"I forgot this."

Sirius straightened, holding the device Harry had seen earlier. He had a wickedly malicious grin on his face.

"This will allow us to record everything we see and hear during the sleepover. There's a monitor, magical of course, set up in a secret compartment by my bed that will have all of the information saved. That way we can observe it later. So lets become girlies!"

Peter could no longer take it. He fell on the ground laughing, rolling around on the carpet. His face turned pink and he held his stomach as he laughed.

Everyone stared at him on the floor. Only moments later, Peter fell asleep, snoring loudly.

"Well, let's put him in his bed!" James said, grabbing his feet. Remus walked over and lifted Peter's arms, and together they dropped him on his bed.

"Okay, so first we need to shrink the cloak. Here's the spell: shrinfinnio. Let's all cast together, but pull away when I shout, okay?" Sirius said, pointing his wand at the cloak. Remus and James nodded, pulling out their wands.

"1…

"2…

"3!"

"SRINFINNIO!"

Jets of bright orange light flew out of everyone's wands.

"NOW!" Sirius cried, yanking away his own. Remus and James followed suit. Before them lay a small-child sized Invisibility Cloak.

"Ok, now for the hard part. Take these glasses," Sirius said, setting three tall glasses on the bedside table. He pulled four small cauldrons over to him and used a ladle to pour a small serving of each into every glass. He then pulled out his wand and whispered something before stirring it in the glasses. The potion turned white then faded to pink.

"Is everyone ready?"

Remus nodded, but James looked hesitant.

"Listen, mate," Remus said, clapping a hand on James' shoulder. "This is the only way you can find out what Lily is thinking about you!"

Determination crossed James' face and he nodded.

"Okay. Bon apatite!"

The three boys gripped the glasses and chugged the liquid. Once they had finished, they threw the glasses to the floor. They burst into many different pieces, but Harry's attention was on the Marauders.

He was now staring at three girls.

(to be continued...)

A/N: I know I'm evil! I'm sorry! But I really wanted to update for you guys, and I had to split the chapter up into two parts anyways. I promise I'm going to finish this one soon though! If it was confusing, please tell me, and I'll explain it during the next Part. Part 2 is coming soon, I promise! Please, please REVIEW though! I'll probably update sooner then! My reviews motivate me! Thanks!