A/N: Most characters and the main plot belongs to J.K Rowling.

Harry walked into the Great Hall the next day, quite early, he didn't want to be in the centre of everything he knew would be said today, especially in the Daily Prophet. He knew that all his titles would be revealed. But the first page would be Sirius' trial. He knew he would occupy a good part of it too. He hadn't just shown up Lucius Malfoy, he had announced that he was politically one of the most powerful people in Britain, especially when you considered his fame. He didn't especially like his fame, but it was useful to have that sort of thing from time to time, it could get you out of certain situations.

He reached his table, the post hadn't arrived yet. He was hoping to be able to eat quickly, and leave the Hall before it did. He hadn't even waited for Hermione today, but he had said that he wouldn't the previous night. Once he gave her his reasoning, she understood. Neville was already there, so he waved to the boy, who began approaching him. Harry hadn't had the time to talk to him and explain the previous day's events.

"Hiya Harry, you're up early" Neville noted with interest, it wasn't very often that he was early, but it happened occasionally.

"Well it's been known to happen, besides today, I want to get out of here as quickly as possible, you'll find out soon enough." Harry responded to his confused look at his last statement.

At that point, Hermione decided that it was her turn to walk into the Great Hall, and she walked over to the two boys "Good morning you two, didn't think I'd see you here at this time Harry, would have thought you'd have left by now."

"Well, I was about to leave when Neville came over, so I thought I'd stay for a bit. Besides, thinking about it, I might as well get rid of the shock of everybody now, it'll make it easier than everyone looking at me throughout the day." Harry shrugged, he hadn't thought of it that way until then, it made sense to get rid of the shock earlier rather than later he thought.

Hermione agreed, and Neville was still as lost as before, he guessed that it had something to do with Sirius Black's trial, but he didn't see how Harry fit into it. Neville returned to his table and Harry and Hermione continued talking. As the time went, the Great Hall began to fill up. Harry was starting to get rather nervous, but he knew his new plan was the best way to look at this. Time seemed to go in slow-motion compared to normal, and Harry felt like he was becoming mad.

About 30 minutes after Neville had left, the owl began to flood in. At this point Harry's nervousness peaked. The people who received the Daily prophet, looked at the front page, and whispers, or more like rather loud whispering, broke out all through the Great Hall, whether it was people talking about it, or explaining the story to the muggle borns. But that wasn't the only thing whispered. A lit of people were looking at Harry in shock, Harry had guessed that they had seen the article in the Daily prophet. Hermione had also received hers, it was later than the rest for some reason, and she looked at the first page. On it was 2 main stories. On the top, there was a picture of Sirius Black, looking young and healthy, like he did the day of his trial.

Sirius Black: Innocent !

Yesterday, during the trial of the suspected murderer of thirteen people and one Peter Pettigrew, Lord Black was questioned under Veritaserum, and revealed some startling truths. First of all, we have learnt that he had not in fact received a trial when he was first imprisoned, they had assumed that he was the Potters secret keeper because that was what had been let out, and because they had found a finger belonging to one of his childhood friend, Peter Pettigrew.

It was announced that, Sirius Black wasn't actually the secret keeper to the late Potters. Under Veritaserum, it was announced that Peter Pettigrew was actually said secret keeper. It was a plan to trick the ex-Dark Lord. It was originally going to be Lord Black, but they changed at the last minute, and made it Mr Pettigrew. Little did they know, Mr Pettigrew was, in fact, a Death Eater undercover. He gave up said secret less than a week after it had been given to him.

It has also been announced that it wasn't Lord Black who killed the 13 muggles the night he was arrested, it was actually the Potters' traitor, Mr Pettigrew. It is said that he had an animagus form (learn more about animagus' on page 5), in the shape of a garden rat, and that he used this animagus form to escape. It's said that he shouted out about Lord Black betraying the Potters, then blew up the street, killing the 13 muggles and then, he cut off his finger to fake his own death, and frame Lord Black for the killing. Afterwards, Lord Black was taken into Ministry holding cells for a day, and then sent straight to Azkaban without a trial. There was nothing else major to report on this case

Beneath it, was a picture of Harry, walking down the stairs while he went to confront Lucius Malfoy. Harry was wondering if they had included everything or just the fact that he was a Lord of 2 houses and Heir to another.

Lord Harry Potter

Yesterday, during the trial of Sirius Black, it was announced by the Boy-Who-Lived himself, that he was already Lord to not only the House of Potter, but also the House of Peverell, the family believed to have been the creators of the mythical Deathly Hallows, but he is also the Heir to the House of Black, thanks to his Godfather, the current Lord Black. It was surprising to everyone at the court, but not more surprising to us as it was for one Lord Malfoy, whose family was thought to have been the next in line for the Black fortune.

Not only did Lord Potter take that away from Lord Malfoy, but he also embarrassed Lord Malfoy during the trial. It seemed that Lord Malfoy was doing everything in his power to try and convince the public to keep Lord Black in prison, and Lord Potter shot him down, stating that Lord Black didn't actually receive a trial on the first time around, which was Lord Malfoy's reason for keeping him in there. No statement has been released on Lord Malfoy's part about the trial, but he was seen leaving the Ministry of Magic yesterday, in quite a heavy state of rage, or so it was described to us.

Harry was shocked that they hadn't mentioned just how much power his position gave him, he was glad, that was sure, it laid down less focus on him, but he was sure many of the pure blood, and probably most of the half-bloods would know what that meant. Many people were looking his way, so he decided it was time to make his way out. Hermione seemed to understand his intentions, and got up with him. They made their way out rather quickly, in silence. But they didn't notice a certain blond Slytherin and his two goons following them.

They had just walked out, and began to walk up the stairs. "Oi, Potter !" Harry turned around and saw Draco Malfoy. He wasn't really in the mood to talk to the blond boy, so just turned around, and started walking again. The next second, he felt himself duck out of reflex while pulling Hermione down with him. Mere seconds later, a bolt of purple light pass over their heads, one which Harry instantly realised was the tripping jinx. He flicked his wrist, and aimed his withdrawn wand at Malfoy.

"Good morning Heir Malfoy, do you really believe it wise to attack someone of my status ?" Harry cringed at the use of his fame and Lordships, but he knew it was the sort of thing that would work with Malfoy.

"Shut up Potter, the Black Lordship is my right by blood, you filthy half-blood ! Expelliarmus !" Harry lazily cast away Malfoy's spell, not even knowing how he'd done it, but that wasn't a question for now. He wasn't ready surprised Draco knew the disarming spell, he was brought up in the wizarding world, in a prominent family no less, so that meant that he would have to know basic spells to defend himself. When Harry deflected the spell, Malfoy seemed to stumble as if he wasn't quite sure of himself anymore. He knew that deflecting a spell wasn't something one learnt until much later on, and yet Potter had managed really early. Nonetheless, he had to prove his worth, Potter had most likely just gotten lucky, so he sent more spells at him, he believed himself quite fast, but Harry seemed to fail to budge, he just sent the spells away, or he would just conjure a shield up.

At this point, people had begun to pour out of the Great Hall to get to their classes, and some looked up at the two boys in confusion, while others understood the young Malfoy's intentions, however, they saw straight away that he did not stand a chance against the Boy-Who-Lived, he was much more advanced, and more powerful. It surprised them when they saw him deflect a spell, even Professor McGonagall was shocked as she walked out the Great Hall to see what the commission was about. She quickly recovered, and walked towards the two fighting first years.

"Mr Potter, Mr Malfoy ! Detention the both of you, and 50 points from your houses ! Go to my office, NOW !" Professor McGonagall said with a little anger pouring out, but there was still some awe at Harry's display of advanced magic, she would be surprised if all the seventh years could deflect a spell yet.

"But Professor, Harry didn't fire a single spell, he was only defending himself" Hermione said in Harry's defence.

"Liar, he fired the first spell !" Malfoy countered, he threw a glare at Crabbe and Goyle, who quickly began nodding.

"Your wands, the both of you !" she said, showing both her hands, requesting the wands belonging to the two boys. Harry shrugged, he knew he wouldn't be in trouble, but Malfoy was hesitant, and instantly, she knew Miss Granger was correct. She quickly cast the last spells used by Harry's wand, and discovered several Protegos, and previous to that was a levitation spell. She motioned for Malfoy to give her his wand, and he did so reluctantly. She cast the spell, and discovered several types of hexes and jinxes. "Fifty points to Ravenclaw, sorry about that, and no need to attend detention Mr Potter, and an additional 25 points from Slytherin house for your dishonesty. Go to my office, I won't be long." She said with finality in her voice, so the students began to disperse. Malfoy sent Harry a glare that could kill, well if he had that power, and walked up towards the Transfiguration teacher's office.

Harry started walking towards the Charms classroom while talking to Hermione. "Yesterday, Padfoot and Moony agreed to come to my house this summer and train me, Dumbledore is also going to help." Hermione looked jealous at this, Harry knew that she wanted to be trained by someone like Dumbledore too, but he knew she wouldn't be able to come, her parents had allowed her to go over for one week during the whole holidays. Not because they were scared Harry would do anything to her, but because she was still their baby girl, and they wanted to keep her safe.

"Well I hope you learn a lot, maybe you could teach me a few odd and ends next year ?" she asked in an even tone to try and act as casual as normal, but her pleading eyes betrayed her.

"I'll see what I can do" Harry replied with a little chuckle at her enthusiasm. Little did they know, there were a certain pair of red-headed twins, who happened to be in the possession of a certain piece of parchment, who had heard all their conversion, and had looked at each other surprised, not because Harry Potter was going to be taught by Dumbledore, but because he knew two of their idols, two people who they worshipped. At that point they knew what had to be done, they had to find out more about them.

It was currently Mid-June, and the exams were about finished. At this moment, Harry was currently walking down a corridor on the second floor, he was thinking about plenty of things at the same time, he had a lot on his mind, he was currently working out what to do over the holidays, and at what frequency he would be doing each training. He was also thinking about his last end of year exam: History of Magic. He hadn't paid the least bit of attention to that class, particularly because the teacher was really boring, and he fell asleep just listening to him.

"Harry Potter ?" Harry heard, he wasn't sure if it was two voices, or just one. He turned around, and noticed the two red-headed troublemakers, the two rather more likeable people of the Weasleys. He had gotten on quite well with them the few times they'd spoken, they weren't necessarily long conversations, but they seemed to get on well together.

"Fred, George, what can I do for you ?" Harry asked with a bit of curiosity in his voice, but he was rather weary, he didn't want to be pranked right now, he had too much on his mind.

"Well, we just wanted to talk to you about a couple of people. Follow us." Harry shrugged, and decided to follow them, he wasn't late for anything. They led him into a girl's lavatory, which he found quite odd. He decided that he wasn't going to ask, and that he would just follow them. They stopped inside. It was quite an odd place, it didn't seem like it was used very often, Harry didn't know why.

"Well Harry, we just had a few questions to ask about a certain Padfoot and Moony." Fred and George said together.

This surprised Harry immensely, he hadn't thought that people would know Sirius and Remus' nicknames that they had in school, but he decided that he wouldn't lie, what's the worst that could come from it ? "What do you want to know about them ?" Harry asked.

"Well first of all, who are they ?" George asked, well at least he believed it was George. This surprised Harry, why would they ask about someone they didn't know about, where did they hear the names, and why did they believe he had something to do with them ?

"Why do you want to know about someone you don't even know ?"

"We have heard of them, were asking who they are in real life." The other twin asked. This got Harry really confused, how would these two have heard of them, they hadn't gone by those names in a decade, well until now that is because Sirius was actually free from Azkaban. Nor did it answer his question about how they thought he could tell them about them.

"Well, first of all, what makes you think that I know who they are ?"

"We heard you talking about them to Hermione, a little while ago" George asked, Harry didn't remember talking about them with their nicknames, not in public at least, but it definitely was possible.

"Well, Padfoot is actually my Godfather, Sirius Black, and Moony is my honorary uncle, Remus Lupin." The two twins were fully surprised at the fact that Harry was actually related to them, well in some sorts at least. They decided to see if they could find out more.

"What about Prongs and Wormtail then, do you know them too ?" As soon as 'Prongs' left Fred's mouth, Harry's eyes bulged. He definitely didn't know how they had heard that name, he had only heard it half a month ago, but when they said 'Wormtail', hate filled Harry's eyes, not at the twins, but at the man they had just mentioned. He tried to stay calm, he used some of the meditation techniques he had learnt in his Occlumency book, he hadn't managed much with it, but it was good to relax.

"Yeah, I've heard of them. Prongs was- Prongs was my dad." He hadn't even said who Wormtail was, and the twins were already apologising to him, but Harry said that it was okay, he knew they couldn't have known. They soon stopped apologising, and Harry continued. "Wormtail is the traitor, Peter Pettigrew. They were all named after their animagus forms" The twins looked at each other, nodded, and started digging through their pockets. A couple of seconds later, George pulled out a piece of parchment which looked like it had seen better days.

"What is it ?" was the only thing that he could ask, there was nothing else to ask, not really anyways.

"This Harry, is yours by right. If you would George" Fred said. George nodded, grabbed his wand, and pointed it at the old piece of parchment.

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good" he said. As soon as he finished that sentence, ink started tracing itself over the piece of parchment. Harry was fascinated by the thing, he had never seen something like it. He handed the piece of parchment to Harry, who looked at the front of it.

Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs, are proud to present

The Marauders Map

Harry was surprised that his dad and his friend would have created a simple map, so he opened it up, he felt his jaw drop at what he saw. Hundreds of little dots were spread across the whole thing, above them, there were names, and they were all names of students or teachers currently at Hogwarts. Harry couldn't believe it, they were all really smart, from what he'd been told, he had imagined them being rather lazy, and solely troublemakers, but that was entirely wrong.

"Where did you find this ?" Harry asked, it was the only thing that actually left his tongue, he had a million questions on his mind, long gone were the thoughts about training and the final school exam of the year. Right now, he had just discovered something that his father and his friends had created when they were still in school.

"Filch's office of course" one of them said "First year" the other finished, Harry didn't really care which was which at that moment. "But now, it's time it goes back to its actual owner." They said together.

"Th- Thanks guys, this means a lot to me" Harry said, he could feel his eyes getting wet, but had decided that he wasn't going to let them escape, but to people he barely knew.

"Well it was only right" George said.

"Well, good talking to you Harry, but we've got a prank to play on Snape, see you !" Harry nodded his head saying that he understood the leave, and just looked at the parchment.

One of them walked in again. "Oh, and if you want to turn it off in sorts, just point your wand and say 'Mischief Managed', otherwise anyone could read it. See you Harry !" One of the two said, and left. Harry quickly wiped his eyes, and decided it wasn't a good idea being caught in a girl's lavatory. He quickly looked at his dot on the map, and made sure there was nobody there. Surely enough, there wasn't, he said the incantation to turn off the map, and made his way out. Now he was heading off to Ravenclaw tower, he had something to show Hermione.

A/N: Thank you for the replies, and especially the patience, I've done the most important of the exams, but still got more to come, I hope that you've had a good week. I haven't really found the time to write much the past few days, between catching up with friends and working, there wasn't much free time.

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Sorry if I used the movie events in chapter 12, I didn't see much trouble in it really, I know some of the events change and all, but the end result is the same, so I didn't think it would matter much.

No don't worry, I haven't abandoned this story, I've just got a lot of stuff to do for the foreseeable future, should be back to everyday uploads around June time I reckon.