Hey everyone, what's up? My life kinda sucks right now. My grandmother passed away last weekend. I fly home on Thursday for the service.

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Harry, Ron and Ginny snuck down the halls under Harry's invisibility cloak to the Corridor of Time. Hermione had opted not to go and decided to stay and work on a paper due at the end of the week for Charms class. Ginny had to keep pulling the invisibility cloak down to cover her feet; it hadn't been made to cover three mostly grown people.

"I figured out how to make the door appear." Ginny said as they neared the hall with the disappearing golden door. "If you look closely at the wall, there is a stone that has slightly deeper grooves around it where the mortar holds them together. You have to trace the groove with your wand three times clockwise, halfway around counterclockwise, and twice more clockwise then a full counterclockwise go around."

"How'd you figure that out?" asked Ron.

"Hermione's not the only one who's smart. . . And I got bored." Ginny used her wand to trace around the stone and make the door appear.

Ron shrugged his shoulders and walked into the corridor to open door 28.

"Are you sure we wan to go through with this?" Ginny asked as they searched for the picture of Cadogan in the past.

"Of course Ginny!" Ron said. "Can you believe the looks on Fred and Georges faces when we become animagi?" Ginny nodded and sighed her consent.

"There they are!" exclaimed Harry in a whisper. He had been keeping an eye out for Sirius and his father. He grimaced at seeing Peter standing alongside them.

"Hiya Larry," whispered James. "Where's Harmony? I didn't see any of you at dinner. Where were you?"

Ron began to recite the fabricated story they had prepared. "Harmony's family decided they didn't want her to go to Hogwarts after all, she may visit from time to time though. As for dinner, we were there. Jenna waved but you didn't see us."

"Oh, sorry 'bout that. Next time just come on over. Alright, follow us!" Sirius said, before turning and somehow opening a hole in the wall behind him.

He, James, and Peter led the group through multiple hidden passages before finally, after Harry, Ron and Ginny felt thoroughly lost, Peter tapped his heels together three times and exclaimed: "There's no place like home!" James and Sirius sniggered even as a trapdoor appeared beneath Peter's feet.

James whispered aside to the here time travelers "Peter never had the pleasure of seeing The Wizard of Oz, Sirius and I watched it one summer when we ran way from my home to live as muggles for a day. Poor Pete has no idea why we laugh every time we make him say that password to open the trapdoor."

The room into which they entered was lit only by the light coming from everyone's wands. Dust clung to every surface and cobwebs hung down from the ceiling. There were no windows, the only way in or out of the room appeared to be the trapdoor in the ceiling.

"This is where we taught ourselves. There are a lot of funny memories in this room."

"Alright James, enough talking," Sirius said good naturedly. "The sooner they learn, the sooner we can all join Remus."

Peter spoke for the first time. His voice grated in Harry's ears. "But it takes more than one night to learn, Sirius, you know that. It took me almost a year."

"Yeah, and all you managed to become was a rat." James laughed.

"What I think he means is that the fewer full moons this takes, the sooner we can explore with dear old Moony again. Now, let's get this started." Said the impatient Sirius.

"Right, well, ladies first, so Jenna, I guess your up." James looked over at Harry, Ron, and Ginny. "Wow!" James pointed at Ron. "In this light you could pass for Arthur Weasley. He graduated a few years ago." Ron looked down and hid his face in the shadows.

"Okay people, let's do this." Sirius said. Peter leaned against the far wall and slid down it into a sitting position.

"Right-o Sirius. Now, Jenna, look inside yourself and think of the animal you thin represents you most. Not your favorite animal, but a symbolic one. Got one? Okay, now visualize it standing in front of you. Now, imagine yourself stepping forward into the animal in front of you. Now take its characteristics on as your own. Feel yourself melting and reforming. That's all it takes. It's simple in theory, but it takes a lot of mind power."

Ginny shut her eyes and clenched her fists. A pink blush seemed to appear on her cheeks and spread down her neck. Seconds later the pink crept past her sleeves down her arms. She opened her eyes.

"It's not working, I don't feel anything."

"What time is it Jenna?" Harry called out.

Ginny looked to her wrist to check her watch. Upon noticing the pink color of her skin she looked back up and grinned at Harry who was grinning back.

"That's a great start, Jenna." said Sirius.

"But how do I get rid of it?" Ginny asked, peering at her legs under her robes which had taken on the same hue.

"That's the easy part," said James "In the morning just go to the medical wing and say you woke up looking like that. Unless you wanna try again and see if you can make it disappear."

"I think I've had enough for tonight. That's a lot more tiring than it looks. How 'bout the others give it a try?"

"Okay, Sirius, you take Roy, I'll take Larry. Let's see what they can do." James led Harry over to a corner away from Sirius and Ron. "So you heard what I told Jenna, now you give it a go."

"Sure thing, piece of cake." Harry said. He closed his eyes and concentrated. It seemed logical to him that his animal would be a snake, what with all his dealings with Voldemort and all. His head itched so he brought his hind paw up to scratch it. Harry stopped mid-scratch . . . hind paw? He didn't have paws. Harry opened his eyes and looked into the astonished face of James Potter. He glanced down at his fur covered legs and fainted. James had to jump out of the way so that the large jaguar would not fall on him. Sirius, Ron, Ginny and Peter just stared.


That's it for now. I'll be back later.