Hey! The revision of the prologue went well and it seems like I'm on a roll as I'm still powering through and have improved (hopefully) this chapter as well.

Ps. I also spelling/grammar checked my old authors notes because I couldn't help it. They were just so bad.

7/5/2020 (British date just to let my American readers know)

So here is the first chapter, the one before was the prologue. I hope you like it. The names in bold are the first generation characters with the same name as the third gens.

1977

Everything was a blur. The shapes of people and things moved around him. James tightened his hold on his brother and cousins slightly, the reality of what he'd just done hitting him a little. He didn't want to get someone lost in time. Suddenly his surroundings shifted in to focus. He looked around the room and cursed, they were in the Headmaster's office. That was not ideal, of all the places to…appear it had to be here. The office looked very different to how it looked in his time. Gone were Professor McGonagall's pictures of her and her friends and family, gone was the tartan armchair in one corner, the large painting of Professor Dumbledore behind the headmistress' desk was also absent. She must not be headmistress yet. Instead, strangle objects and contraptions littered every surface, a perch sat on the desk where a red and orange phoenix slept. Fawkes! He remembered learning about him in History of Magic, Dumbledore must be Headmaster. As he studied the office he notice with a start four boys crowded round the door, too engrossed in what they were doing to notice them. Wait what were they doing?

"Put the bucket on top of the door Moony. It's only plastic. It won't hurt Dumbles" said a tall boy with messy black hair and glasses. He looked just like him!

Next to him Teddy had frozen at the word "Moony" and was starring at the sandy haired boy in disbelief. Teddy's hair had also changed back to its natural colour. That was Teddy's dad's nickname James noted in shock. Surely it couldn't be. But he'd grown up hearing stories about the Marauders and this did line up with what his dad and Minnie had told him about them.

"I know it won't hurt him Prongs it's just you're head boy and I'm a prefect. We should be setting an example! Not booby trapping the Headmaster's office with Muggle pranks!" said the sandy haired boy.

Moony, Prongs oh my god. He had to stop himself from gasping as he heard his grandfather's name, he'd spent his childhood idolising him. But they couldn't be. There was no way they had gone back that far.

"Oh come on Moony they're only muggle pranks. Me and Jamesie won't be able to set everything up in time and Wormtail is useless, he can't even blow up a whoopee cushion." said a slightly arrogant looking boy. He had neatly styled black hair and wore a battered muggle leather jacket.

James was shocked and also a little excited as he heard the boy that looked like him being called James, there was no denying it now, somehow he and his family had travelled back to the time of his grandfather. He felt excitement spur through him as he stared at his grandfather, it was like looking in a mirror, right down to the ever present mischievous twinkle in their eyes. Almost afraid to hear the answer he then said "Are you James Potter?"

"Yeah" said the messy black hair boy, Prongs.

"Whoa, you look just like Prongs" said the boy who had called Wormtail useless. Sirius Black he realised. He turned to James "Do you have a twin Prongs?"

James didn't have time to answer before Moony got out his wand and pointed it at the time travellers. "Who are you? How did you get in here? Are you death eaters?"

The other Marauders took their wands out too.

"We are not death eaters" said James "We're from the future! I'm James-"

He was pulled back by Albus and Teddy – whose hair was still its natural sandy colour. A pair of hands grabbed him before he could move, it was Teddy. He whispered "they can't know who we are, it might ruin the future."

"Okay," James whispered back reluctantly. He understood why it was necessary but he really wanted the chance to speak to his Grandfather as his Grandfather. He then said so everyone could hear "Hi, nice to meet you! I am James Sir-Simon Porter and this-" There was a burst of noise and four new people appeared in the room.

Let me know what you think about the revised chapter!

7/5/2020

So that's the first chapter. I hope you liked it. Please REVIEW.

31/3/13 or if you're American 3/31/13 : I've changed some bits in this chapter that I didn't like. I'd love to hear your thoughts xx