A/N: Ho, sorry for te grammar and spelling errors, i just realized that I didn't finish the chapter a few minutes before I decided to post it. So this is the replacement chapter for yesterday, explanation in A/N of MR2 Ch1.

So same notes in apply here. Also, Hydrus' marauder's name is Leo. Anyone want to comment on the irony? No? Go ahead. Anyways. His name is Hydrus Sirius Black, AKA following Black naming tradition for firstborns of first name of star name, middle name, star name after the father, last name Black (duh). Leo is also a star name, but it means lion, and Hydrus is anything but, though Sirius is. I might make Hydrus have an animagus form, but I don't know if it will be a lion. Yes, he is powerful. No, her is not dumbledore's level or perfect in any way. You'll notice that most of the underage characters, when they do something powerful, they get glowing violet eyes. I know a lot of fanfics have glowing eyes means they o something powerful, magci saturating teh air, its a cliche, i know. But I like it. Also, I know this will get confusing, but the dark lady is NOT Bellatrix Black (not lestrange. Having your spouse in azkaban is a valid reason for divorce, even in the wizarding world). I know canon has her with violet eyes, but iit's not her. The Dark lady does have violet eyes, so when she is channeled though her followers, they show her most discerning trait. In canon, she does not have violet eyes, but mundane brown eyes don't look cool glowing, Hydrus (harry) already has a trademark (unnoficially) on glowing green eyes in HP fanon, amber eyes would make everyone think werewolf becuase that's a discerning trait in the canon universe. And no other color would look that cool. So violet it is.

If you can answer any of the following questions accurately, you will get part 1 of the prequel (it is about a chapter's length, but since it doesn't have that many spoilers, I will be posting it in a few weeks.) More than one question, I send you part 2, which is the biggest spoiler ever, it tells of who the dark lady is and how she came to be that, also how she seems to know everything. She'llll be just as powerful a a sane, non horcruxed Tom Riddle (considering Slughorn said a horcrux sl=plits the soul in half every time, Voldemort at the height of his power in book had only 0.78125% of his soul, and therefore magical power, and when he duelled dumbledore in the ministry, he had 1.5625%. Wow.)

Question 1: Who is the Dark Lady? 9yes, she most certaintly is a canon character you have to be an idiot not to know)

Question 2: What happened to Tom Riddle? (you'lll notice that unlike dumbledore, hydrus and nymphadora know for sure that voldemort is gone, but tom riddle is very much alive, he will appear in chapter 4, probs, I don't have a sure grip on the plot).

Question 3: How was Hydrus rescued from the Dursleys, and why did he even go there considering Sirius isn't in Azkaban.

Question 4: Sirius Black is engaged. To whom?

Question 5: Just how useful will the Weasley twins be?

Also, I knoww made the marauders a more in-depth organization. That was on purpose. In this fanon universe, James Potter did not start teh marauders, there are more than 4 members, and the map is just a rrough draft tehy threw out. Hydrus has a mini copy of the real deal (which is way cooler). Also, Ravenclaw Draco Malfoy will be a way better character than canon draco, because that one was just a little daddy's boy coward who couldn't do anything himself and gave Slytherin a bad name.

The next morning was an interesting breakfast, to say the least. THe Gryffindors, up seeing the boy-who-lived sitting at the head of the Slytherin table with the Princess of Slytherin herself, Nymphadora Black, looking to all the school like a perfect little pureblood prince. And then when a girl came to sit next to him and addressed him as Black, amongst the Gryffindors all hell broke loose. Mostly in the form of a second year who fancied himself the heir of Gryffindor.h was ranting and raving about the boy-who-lived not lenoging with the treacherous slytherins, until a minute later, Gred and Forge Weasley hit him with a half a dozen silencing charms. The hufflepuffs adopted s wait and see attitude, hoping that the boy-who-lied would keep tah title in the snake pit, and not become the boy-who-survived-a-killing-curse-thrown-by-a-dark-lord-but-not-slytherin-house. They were right, of course. The house had learned not to cross the metamorph daughter of House Black by the time she had spent three weeks in the house. Who would want to cross a girl whose eyes glow violet and who can cast the strongest stinging hex in the house by the thor week in school? The ravenclaws were too exasperated to care. They had barely gotten any sleep over Draco Malfoy ranting about how he deserved to be a Slytherin, if even a Weasley could get into the house.

The Weasley in Slytherin house wasn't even as miserable as he expected. The Princess of Slytherin was holding court on the first year's end of the table, and she actually wasn't even that evil. Sure when Marcus Flint tried to feel her up he shrieked from the force of her stinging hex. But she was also treated like an older sister by the boy-who-lived, so she couldn't be that bad, could she? And when talking to him, she made her hair the same color as his. Now all he had to do was wait on his first letter from his mother. And it came all too soon. Upon seeing the erratic Errol, Ron slunk down lower into his chair. He tried to climb down under the table when he saw the red envelope the owl was carrying. Upon reaching him, iit exploded with Molly Prewett Wealsey's infamou banshee voice.

"RONALD BILIUS WEASLEY! SLYTHERIN?! I NEARLY HAD A HEART ATTACK! OF ALL THE FOUR HOUSES, GRYFFINDOR LIKE THE REST OF THE FAMILY WAS EXPECTED, HUFFLEPUFF WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD, RAVENCLAW WOULD HAVE ENSURED YOU HAVE GOOD GRADES, BUT SLYTHERIN?! nEXT THING WE KNOW, YOU COME BACK OVER THE SUMMER AND YOU HAVE A DARK MARK BRANDED ON YOUR ARM! YOUR WILL GO T O PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE IMMEDIATELY AND TRANSFER TO GRYFFINDOR, OR WORST CASE SCENARIO HUFFLEPUFF OR YOU WILL BE DISOWNED! AND HARRY JAMES POTTER, A SLYTHERIN? YOU DISHONOR YOUR PARENT'S MEMORIES BY BEING" whatever Hydrus was supposed to be, the hall didn't find out, because Harry sent a silent bombarda at the howler, cementing his reputation in Hogwarts.

He turned to Ron. "I assume you didn't want to keep listening to that?"

Minerva McGonagall was about to stand up and go tell Harry off for destruction of another student's property, but when Ron gave him such a heartfelt thank you, she was reminded of another student of hers, twenty years prior who had not had a classmate stop his howler. Minerva McGonagall decided, right there and then, that with a single redutco, Harry Potter had earned her respect, no matter how much Dumbledore would insist he was going dark in Slytherin house or some such nonsense.

Molly Prewett Wealsye had gained four houses worth of enemies with a single howler. The Slytherins were pissed that a woman who constantly complained about her poverty yet did not go out and get a job thought their house was not good enough for her son, a boy who was in favor with the Slytherin Princess, Nymphadora Black. The Ravenclaws were angry that such a woman thought that their house was not good enough for her son. The Hufflepuffs were at the 'worst case scenario hufflepuff' quote, and whereas some of them might have sided with Molly if she had politely asked her son to get a resorting, they were now firmly against her. And the Gryffindors were mad that this harpy thought that they had to stoop to taking in the children whose personality was so obviously better suited for another house, just to fill their ranks, they had plenty of Gryffindors, thank you very much and did not have to rely on resorts.

After breakfast, hydrus headed up to the old ward-weaving classroom, hoping he would be able to get the map. The creation of it and the knowledge of it's inner workings are what granted Sirius Black The Lady's mark. Usually one had to do a great service to the lady to be given the mark, the map being Sirius', Andromeda's being her political prowess, Narcissa's being a large amount of information on Voldemort's operations, as well as raising her son not to be a clone of Lucius, and letting him figure out that there was more to life than serving a dark lord who gave out cruciatus curses like Dumbledore gave out his potion laced lemon drops. Bellatrix had earned her mark by sneaking into azkaban and making every single death eater either die from starvation, freezing, or trying to escape and getting their soul succked out (they were very weak, so a legal level compulsion charm was undetectable and unfightable), while others like Garrick Ollivander had passed information about wands, Tom the barkeep of the leaky cauldron by letting small hints drop when necessary, or demeaning the reporting of the prophet, while Aberforth Dumbledore, surprisingly, begged Tom to arrange a meeting with this rumored new Dark Lady who was not a murdering megalomaniac but willing to stand against the defeater of Grindelwald, and gave all the information he had on his older brother, how to manipulate him, and how to get into his head, earning the mark and redirecting three curse-breakers, two warders, and a master potioneer, though he got punished by rewatching the death of his sister for a full day when he redirected Severus Snape, who The Lady barely managed to stop from betraying them (to whom, it really didn't matter). But Tracey had gotten the dragon mark, just like that. Even Flitwick, who had previously done the least before getting the mark, had to swear an oath and pass on an artifact hidden in the school, Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem, which was, in reality, part of the Pendragon Crown jewels, and that was only because his father had recommended him, his father being the Pendragon account manager, as well as the one who had first led The Lady to discover her heritage (not that he remembered her true form), as well as her first Goblin marked follower (although not the most powerful, that belonging to the old Goblin King's son, soon to be the King of the Goblin nation). As he was musing, Hydrus didn't realize that he had almost walked into the room he was supposed to meet Hogwarts' twin terrors in. Oh boy this would be fun. Fred and George Weasley were standing in front of him as soon as the door closed.

"And who,"

"Might you,"

"Be,"

"Oh mysterious"

"Ickle firstie?"

Hydrys chuckled. " Hello fellow third generation marauder candidates." Fred and George both had equally large gaping mouths. "Oh, one Mister Padfoot has told me to pass on the message that he was looking for part-time inventors, preferably as a two-for one hire, he hates job interviews."

"Is mister Prongs your father?" Hydrus nodded to the one he thought was George.

"Does that make the lovely Miss Padfoot your mother?" the other twin (Hydrus was pretty sure it was Fred) asked. He stared at them for a moment, before exploding in laughter, doubling over and clutching his stomach.

"Oh… padfoot as my mother…" he calmed down after five or ten minutes of laughter and the twins staring at him incredulously, houg more like a questioning look as to whether or not he was insane. "Mum would go batshit insane, but then that's just the family curse. She does that."

Fred and George looked at him questioningly, before one of the twins (fred?) asked, "I think"

"We may have" continued the other twin (george?)

"Forgot to"

"Introduce ourselves."

"I'm Fred,"

"I thought I was Fred today?"

"No, you're George."

"Alright for now."

"Do you two even know which one of you is which?"

"Nope!" They chorused joyously. "That's what makes it so fun."

"Alright. This'll be all over the school in the next few hours anyways, so hello. I'm Hydrus Sirius Black, born Harry James Potter to James Potter and Lily Evans Potter, blood adopted as a son by Sirius Black, Bellatrix Black, and as a brother by," and his throat tightened. "Merlin's beard, I hate her damn secrecy wards, the Lady of House Pendragon."

"Now who was Prongs? And who's Padfoot? And Moony and Wormtail?" One of the twins had obviously been chosen as a spokesperson, the one who was going by George that day.

"Prongs was James Potter, Padfoot is Not-very-serious Black, Moony is Remus Lupin, and Wormtsil was stricken from the ranks of the marauders when he betrayed my first parents and finally got caught and sent to Azkaban years later. Now, there is a method to becoming official marauders. Are you willing to follow through?"

"And what might that be?" George asked, contemplative.

"Well, the Marauders are more than the creators of a map. The marauders are a group of extremely smart inventors who started with pranks, although Dad, Sirius, never finished. But the Marauders are a group of smart inventors who would never betray each other, especially considering some inventions or materials are often borderline illegal, and who always think for themselves. There's no leader, although you're welcome to follow one, just not blindly. Oh, and I should mention the Marauders code. No betraying each other, even when faced with the law. There's a list of official marauders enemies. Albus Dumbledore, Peter Pettigrew, and Tom Riddle, also known as Voldemort. The code says no following, helping, or being nice to enemies. Another part of the code is what belongs to one marauder, belongs to them all. Knowledge, inventions, money. So I think I heard you wanted a joke shop, no problems with funding. Now the part that might cause you to back out. There are also Marauder allies. House Black is an ally in all senses of the word. From money to sanctuary. There is also the Goblin Nation, and all the followers of The Lady. I can't tell you more about her without a secrecy oath. I haven't yet learned how to put up Secrecy wards."

The twins exchanged glances. Curiosity killed the cat George mind spoke to his twin.

But satisfaction brought it back. Fred answered

Are we really willing to join a group that regularly disregards laws in order to invent, make an enemy out of Dumbledore, and probably join a new Dark Lady, for funding, sanctuary with House Black or the Goblin Nation, and more magical knowledge?

Hell yes.

Of course.

"Were in" Maybe Bill's also in it, he works with the goblins, he has to know something.

Or Charlie. He said he's the adopted brother of Lady Pendragon, so dragons are in there somewhere.

Mum might even ditch Dumbledore if a descendant of Arthur Pendragon took up the crown.

Notice how he said Albus Dumbledore, not house Dumbledore? What do you bet Abe knows something?

Ollivander also has an ancestral alliance with House Pendragon and it'd be all over the news if he broke it.

The Slytherin Princess is also in on it, no doubt there. She's also Heiress of House Black.

Minister Crouch as well.

And his son. He was the only imperioused one to take veritaserum, memories of him admitting to being imperioused by Unspeakable Rookwood were all over those post war newspapers we found.

"Whoa" Hydrys gasped. "So it's true. Twins of the Prewett line were rumored to have mental communication, but you two are natural legilimens. That's extremely rare."

"What do you mean, Mr. Leo?"

"My point exactly. How did you know my marauder codename? Extremely powerful natural legilimens. Dumbledore tried to force his way through my shields yesterday and failed, yet you can read my mind in two seconds. Also, if you're not absolutely sure you're in, i'm obliviating you in 3, 2,"

"Nope, were sure. You just gave us more answers than mum gave us in years. No wonder we always won the betting pool of what hideously colored robes Dumbledore would wear the next day."

Hydrus sighed, and led the twins through the oath, making sure the wording had them be unable to disclose the secrets in the first place rather than die after disclosing them as most magical oaths had it work. All in a day's work.