Return Of The Marauders
Disclaimers: Harry Potter doesn't belong to me, the story belongs to me, everything else belongs to J.K. Rowling and Warner brothers
Warnings: For this chapter, Harry unloads everything that he and Neville are feeling as lets Deloris Umbridge and Percy have it finally. This Chapter includes 1/3 of the venting in The Order Of The Phoenix, as well. As the D.A. is born that year and he says his feelings, regarding his bonds to Moody and Remus. As well as being able to come into his own as he tells Minerva and Severus the truth.
In how he feels about them, and before they do a tour of the castle for the Dursleys and the Grangers, as the quartet and Draco get their bonds into place. Before the school term starts as Fudge also fires Umbridge before the events of the first book even begin now, for the quartet and the twins as they start.
Chapter 45: Exploring Hogwarts And The Training Lessons
"Yeah exactly right now in truth, but this resulted in a chance to finish what Regulus wanted, we finish what he started. But sneaking into the dorms, not happening after Ginny destroyed the trunk in looking for the diary, though Ron. I mean this, if you're serving the headmaster, do that you're facing vandalism for destruction of personal and school property." I said and he paled, realizing I didn't trust him anymore at that remark and her with him.
"And again, just because you're my best friends doesn't mean you got the right to tell me what to do, she is my betrothed. And my love life is none of your business, I love her and she is my girlfriend, so get the message and back the heck off, you two. Or I'm taking it to your parents, is that clear." I said and the duo nodded, shaking at the warning then.
"I'd rather have her with Harry then a little jerk of a tosser trying to show off to our parents and us at the moment and honestly. Just because you are her big brother, it doesn't give you the right to but in and again. After we nearly lose her that year, why are you so determined to keep them apart?" Fred asked and he swallowed hard at that.
"Their love life is none of our business, get the memo, and but out." Tonks said, crossing her arms and Charlie nodded in agreement to that. "Fred and Dora are right Ron, her love life is none of our business, just our parents and Sirius. With him going on his mission, mum would say take a step back and cool things down with him gone anyway."
"As would dad, Remus and Kingsley, it's a parents prerogative to worry about their child, but the only siblings, not the one a year older, but the oldest of the family. Bill and me, Fred and George, we get a say in advice, however you don't. But that attitude is not tolerated in our eyes here." he said and Bill nodded sternly to that as he looked at us.
As Ginny wrapped her arms around me and I rested my head against her's as I closed my eyes as the twins crossed their arms. "We're saying the same thing you two, stay out of this or so help me god, I find out what he said. And I'm telling mom that you're being this cruel to her when her love life is not your business." George said to him sternly then.
"Mum, dad, we'll take care of this when she starts school right now, but he's stuck on her being the baby, but honestly and I don't have to the words. She's been breaking into our shed to get to our broomsticks to fly, but I can watch as he takes her on a practice fly. Where the firebolt is concerned." Fred said and Molly nodded to him gently at that.
"That's fine, in flight training, if she is planning on joining the team in her second year, could you three keep an eye on that?" she asked and I nodded. "I wouldn't let her on it if I didn't know it wasn't safe, mum." I said and she smiled at the remark then. "I appreciate that and you're the one I want for her." she said and I nodded smiling to her.
"Love you too, mum." I said and she smiled and gave me a hug and I tightened my arms around her. "You can call us mum and dad if you want son." Arthur said and Ginny smiled in delight, that was the big step, us this close that early helped. "Alright you two, before this turns into a fight as he still in the very early stages though they are betrothed."
"Young man, her choices in boyfriends is none of your business, but she chose him this soon and they're together. So stay out of this, your father, older brothers, the quartet, and I have say here regarding this. But her love life is none of your concern, we're at war right now, so just enjoy it while it lasts." Molly said sternly and I nodded to that remark.
As Ginny looked into my eyes softly and I pressed my forward to her's. "Look I may have been your friend first Ron, but you don't get it, neither of you ever did. What do you have that I want, huh, what exactly, if not for that blasted rat of yours." I said and Ron paled at that remark as Molly and Dan crossed their arms at the remark sternly at that.
"Your heart's desire is to be seen as the best of your brothers, but mine, mine is to have my family back, so tell me: what is more important?" I asked and he swallowed hard at that. "You want to be seen by the rest of the world, but what all of you have that I don't is the thing standing in front of you, a family, I'm an orphan, don't you get that yet."
"You want money and fame, but you have everything you want already, start taking that for granted and you're going to regret that for the rest of your life." I said and the Weasleys nodded sternly. "There, that's exactly our point, what you want are material posessions, but the true treasure is your family, never take it for granted now."
"Friends and family, take it for granted and once gone you'll regret it for the rest of your life, remember that, Ronald." Arthur said, crossing his arms as I went on then sternly. "You understand why you and Percy sold out or just barely sold out at the time?" I asked and Ron swallowed hard at the remark and I have a nod as I said it firmly to him.
"Like him, you want what he wants: money, being seen passed your brothers, what about the fact if Harry exposed the rat to us. Would you blame him for that, Neville replaces you as his best friend and we give the badge to Oliver Wood instead. So what are you going to do make him pay by acting like a death eater Slytherin at the moment."
"And till it destroys both of you, Harry is doing things that not many can, least of which is getting us in seeing passed the lies and the truth was in reverse all this time. Would you just be angry till that sin causes you to self destruct, Percy: the badge. You: the money and fame?" Arthur asked, looking between the duo, before I looked at Mione sternly.
"You're both crazy jealous and you want your desires, time to spend less time on yourselves." he said sternly as I said it. "As for wanting to be the best at everything is a real problem here. I shatter records and you are jealous I am just like my mother was the best at everything she did, you jealous?" I asked and Mione paled at that remark.
"You jealous that if I really put my mind to it, I can best your scores in every class we take?" I asked and she swallowed at that. "What's the deal, don't want to share the lime light with anyone else, your trust in adults is the reason we were in that mess. Think about it, you just think about grades, but what if he came back, you think about that."
"What if, to save anyone in the school from attempted murder, I got to utilize all of my gifts, from my connection to him, to mum's gifts in every class. Would you get jealous that instead of you getting all the praise, my scores are now O's in every class. Would you let your pride get in the way." I asked her and she looked at the faculty, shaking.
"Yes I would say she is at the moment, son, but in the words of the girl cadet on that tv show, 'The great Lilly Evans/Potter, you think a day goes by in this place. Where I don't hear your name, you gotten the highest score in every class I been in. Won every away I ever been up for, they been comparing me to you from the day I walked in the door.'."
"And I just can never seem to measure up in their eyes.'." Vernon said sternly and Minerva crossed her arms at that rant. "So that's it young lady, for the first time in your life, you're not automatically the best and brightest at everything you do. Well get over it, there are more important things at stake." Sarah said in disgust at the attitude then.
"Friend of the family like Alice was, Sarah?" I asked and she nodded. "Yes and seeing you at this age I see everything that your made parents as children, honey. I'm just relieved I got you back, baby." she said and I smiled as she rested her hand on my shoulder. "Missed you too, Aunt Sarah." I said and she smiled at the title as the quartet smiled.
"How many adoptive aunts and uncles does he have with you guys?" Dudley asked and they smiled. "As the magical family?" Remus asked and he nodded. "Four each of both genders son, but the Marauders and me in the men and Sarah, Alice, Andy and Cissy just got added to the list." Severus said and Dudley nodded to the remark as Vernon nodded.
"And that remark of doing the spell wrong, Sirius tells me your secret and you are trying to get me to drop Arithmacy. What does that look like to Professor Mcgonagall, does it look like you are looking out for me, or does it look like. You're jealous that I'm doing well?" I asked and she paled at that remark and Minerva nodded sternly in agreement.
"Want to run it on a test drive, right now, you use the book, the official text, I use Severus's potions book. And we'll see which of us is better, he's a potions prodigy, so I get my training directly from him so let's see it now. And for the record, I was paying attention, taking notes on everything he said." I said and she swallowed hard at that.
"Good idea, Harry, I knew you were listening, but Ron wasn't when you were the one taking notes in class. That first week on the first day, so to test that example, the potion is the draught of living death, your mother and I. We experimented in this one repeatedly and we perfected the enhancements." Severus said and I nodded gently to him then.
"Get the ingredients and everything else, we're doing it in here, scholastic test before you start school now." Minerva said and we nodded as she created two cauldrons and we went to his office and grabbed the equipment. Opening the book, I saw his instructions and nodded and got to work, working carefully, I saw the effect was changing color.
And magnifying with every adjustment as I saw her getting frustrated that her potion had not reached the effect of mine had then as Dumbledore checked his watch and Severus nodded. "Alright time is up, let's see." he said as he dropped a feather in her's and it just sat there and he nodded "75%." he said and and then checked mine and did it again.
And to my shock, the feather disintegrated at that and he nodded smiling. "Full score, plus another 50 for experimentation, so 150% passing grade, nicely done." he said and I nodded. "My mother was a potions prodigy, she taught me everything at the lab in my house, but potions is the only thing you can get away with on break when under age."
"So I can train you in potions during the summer." he said and I nodded. "Whoa, what did your perfections just do to cause that exactly Sev?" Dan asked and he smiled. "Added side effects there was a slight bit of opium in there, mix it with the alcohol. And three other ingredients and that's the result here, powdered root of asphodel to an infusion."
"And of wormwood, is the text based model, but my perfections on the recipe, Dan, it just made it beyond strong. This is good, but trust me the version that's in the book is for sedative properties. But my version is like that drug used in voodoo, we use in the government as a type of lethal injection." he said and they nodded in shock to the news.
"So take yours and that could kill you within minutes?!" Emma said in amazement and he nodded to her. "To put this in your terms, I'm a pharmecist, passing potions off to Poppy, she's the nurse here at school. The one your daughter just did was to help in case of an M.I.C, with an injury serious enough the doctors had to sedate to do surgery here."
"Harry's on the other hand, if you studied on the secret agent touch, say James Bond, this one was meant to simulate someone in a case of cardiac arrest. But the tossers that used it were unspeakables and we created a version off of it. But mine, mine was to act like a more deadly version to that, say for executions in your time, at the moment."
"It's perfect, so perfect in fact, that just one drop would kill everyone in the room." he said and they nodded in amazement. "Just several adjustments that you and Lilly put in there and it's so perfect it could kill someone if they took it?" Vernon repeated and he nodded to him. "Yes, this was why I said be careful." he said and they all nodded gently.
"Yes and that just made it clear, he really focuses his mind, he's going to break his mother's scores when she was here." Dumbledore said in pride and Remus and Severus smiled in satisfaction that I had her gifts then. "Just wait till Slughorn sees this in year six after five years of this, and young lady, that is no reason to get jealous here now."
"The headmaster, Minerva and I have been trying to determine who gave him, Riddle, that information, I knew what the headmaster wanted. As a result, so I left my potions book in the cupboard, I knew Harry would grab it, and use it. I knew Harry would use this to get into potions by using my tutelage, whether he knew it or not at the time."
"But to us, this is no excuse for getting jealous, you're jealous he's actually beating your skills in potions finally. I am the halfblood Prince, my mother's maiden name was Prince and I am a halfblood, so as his mother's best friend, that did it. I decided to help him along and he's excelling in every class now." he said sternly and she looked down.
"That you want the lime light, always in the lime light and screw anyone else's feelings, what about you buying rumors that have her in a cruel light. Sure you're smart, but that attitude is you sold out." I said and Emma nodded to that. "Young lady he is right, your attitude is saying selfish, you want to prove you're best, but to me and your mother."
"Sure you're smart, but like Percy, you sold out." Dan said and she paled at that remark, as I said it then. "What if I knew that, like Severus, Draco turned double agent, you're ticked I got Slughorn's eye on me and you're jealous. You're jealous I'm doing great in class, with Severus's notes and to him, to him, he's satisfied I'm putting in the effort."
"That I got my mother's skill in potions, I'm the best at defensive spells, non verbal ones, charms and every class you normally were seen as the best, in basic. To them, they're seeing me close to matching the headmaster's skill and the clock is ticking. I prevent two murders and both are connected to my theory, Draco, and then I catch you cheating."
"Regarding Cormac, so what does this look like to them, but that you are a teacher's pet, insufferable know it all?" I said sternly to her, spitting out the names everyone else called her by, including Severus. "Sirius and the Professors suggested I take that class and Ancient Runes, look at it from their point of view, I signed up for four classes here."
"But the study load is not as immense as yours is, now tell me, just what this looks like to them when I also take that class and you're trying to get me to drop it?" I asked and Minerva nodded sternly in agreement to my remark. "Yes, he's reading our thoughts highly clear in that area, we can teach him to be the best after the headmaster."
"He prevented two murders in a three month basis, he's putting in the work load, using my knowledge in potions, that knowledge I passed on to him and with me, Lilly. To me, I am happy he's actually showing he wants to be seen as more then the Boy Who Lived. But a potions prodigy, a highly skilled prodigy in every class we give him now."
"To me, this is fine, but then he catches you cheating in the try outs when it's Miss Bell's turn at the captain position, and your reputation is nothing after that. As Minerva and I contact Dan and tell him we caught you cheating?" Severus said sternly and she swallowed hard at the remark, realizing nothing changed the way we all saw this.
"He's right young lady, they both are, for the first time since he started school after he just demonstrated his skill in flying. And proven that he could withstand a chance encounter with the dark arts and come out of it alive. He's decided to set aside his title and want to be seen as more then the Boy who lived, but a potions prodigy now."
"Defense prodigy, charms, transfiguration, he's topping his parents scores when they were in school. And then, in year three his scores are jumping his mother's scores, as he and your scores are even now, but then you try to discourage him in mid term. And into dropping the class or both, and it looks like to me you want the lime light."
"And to hades with his emotions, his choices are his own, and Ginny and I have been there for him more then either of you have all term. And I'm acting like the grandmother he wants now, to the point, if I have to take away that time turner. Well then so be it right now, after Sirius told me the truth, Peter was a death eater and an animagus."
"You're jealous she's stealing him away from you, is only tearing apart the fabric of your relationship. Fortunately with us forestalling both of those by us catching him this soon, we got 2.5 years to deal with that. But leave him be, he wants to be with Sirius and Ginny and I will not tolerate that attitude." she said and they nodded silently to that.
"So catching him now prevented the boys from sharing a dorm room with an escaped death eater?" Vernon asked and the faculty nodded. "Yes and it also gets the truth out sooner then year three." Minerva said and he nodded. "Albus, is there a way to block the side effects of Riddle's soul from hijacking us, if these things mess with a person."
"Their personality?" Vernon asked and he nodded. "There is, but we can weaken the connection slightly, but we destroy the one in him too soon. That could get him killed as Tom is determined to destroy him no matter what the moment. But while Peter sold them out and now he's arrested, and with him, Barty Junior, at the moment here now."
"Severus was let go, because he switched sides, and just before Tom killed your sister at the time, Petunia. Had it on good authority now that he was no longer a death eater, as there are things I can show you. But before we do that, you need to see the trial, regarding Barty, so you know why, as you see Severus's is directly after that."
"Aside from two encounters with Riddle everything is quiet, we just change names in persona, but Severus is now Quirrell and Hagrid and Ginny are now Riddle himself. Harry gets to the stone long before Riddle figures out how to use the mirror now. But unexpected injuries in training are normal when as a teenage witch or wizard."
"And when you got a penchant for trouble." Dumbledore said and I said it for the three of us at that. "And we don't go looking for trouble, the trouble finds us every school year, but every time something happens. And it always lands us, Neville and Draco in the middle of it, it's the same thing, year after year." I said and they and the quartet nodded.
"After three years of this, or in the case of, if something happens to a member of my team and I find the reason why. The professor is going to say that the way I just said it, why is it..." I said and Minerva exchanged annoyed looks with Severus. "Why is it that when something happens, it's always you three?" she asked and Ron answered that.
"Trust me Professor, we been asking ourselves that question for three years now, then again it just made it clear. The troll, the stone, the basilisk and diary and then we get the truth that the truth was in reverse all this time." he said and they nodded. "We better update Muggle Studies, say the last 50 years instead of the previous 150 now finally."
"So purebloods can learn more about being muggles as late 20th to early 21st century muggles now." I said and they nodded in agreement. "Harry there are several classes I suggest you take to prepare for your mission, Ancient Runes and Athrimacy. These two in addition to Magical Creatures and a 1.5 year regime in Divination now in year three."
"The truth is Sybil was the one that made the prophecy on you." Dumbledore said and I nodded. "I take it she was the oracle of Dephi in this case, she saw the future of things, and Severus overheard the conversation?" I asked and the trio nodded gently. "Four classes compared then every single one, but for you, this was to prepare for mission."
"And your career as an auror now, so with that in mind, once in year 6, you can drop the first two: Magical Creatures and Divination, astronomy, and History of Magic. And take the classes that prepare you for the mission as you also get the info needed. Professor Slughorn is the person I need your help with." he said and I nodded to him gently then.
"Sirius, Professor?" I asked and Sirius and Minerva nodded to him. "How many classes are in the extras with us learning apparition in year six?" I asked and he smiled. "There's seven, Mione was taking all of them until she dropped muggle studies and divination." Petunia said checking the story and we nodded as I answered him, but looked at Minerva.
"I'm going to need that information if something happens, but again enough fooling around and it's time to get serious here. I'm being who you want me to be, but I'm part of the peewee league, before I join up on the team in year two, so year 1 gets changed." I said and Minerva nodded to me smiling at the idea gently at that remark then.
"Years 2-6, I'm on the team after that, as those years, but though the year is crazy, I can pull it off, the peewee league is prep to get on the team. And as Oliver gets to see me in action in practice before he adds me to the team next. So 1) the peewee league helps with flight training and 2) that ends no first years on the middle school teams."
"As this is training for the real thing now, for every team captain, watching their youngest players in training games before it really starts." he said and the heads of house and Dumbledore nodded smiling at my idea as the board and ministry nodded in agreement. "Agreed we can do that now." he and Minerva said and I nodded to that remark.
"Alright before we do this tour, Rita, just one picture, of me and Ginny together, there is no further stories of this, but print everything exactly the way we said it. Mione is my sister, Ginny is my betrothed and that is it, understand." I said and she nodded to me as Ginny leaned her head against my shoulder as I held her and they snapped the shot.
"Alright, well come on, with us in our younger bodies, we can show you around the castle and grounds until the game. Said which in three hours, but for right now in this case, it's to help get you settled here as you learn our ways, come on." I said and they nodded as we lead them around the school then as the trio looked around at what they saw then.
"Whoa, this is amazing, so this is how you were training to control your powers at the Severus, you and Lilly?" Petunia asked and he nodded to her. "Yes and this was my classroom, as the potions teacher I was a chemistry in elements at the time." he said as he lead her to his classroom and they nodded as Vernon answered him then.
"Whatever these ingredients are that you put into your medical potions, I don't want to know, so potions and herbology are greenhouse tending and chemistry class. Astronomy class is I am guessing study of moons, planets constellations and such. While transfiguration is you doing magic acts in changing something in sizes here now."
"So technically, I had nothing to worry about here all this time, and though he is underage, as long as you give permission he can use magic?" he asked and Dumbledore nodded to him gently. "That's right Vernon, I'm arranging a set of summer training defense to prepare them for the next two years now as one D.A. teacher is a fraud."
"And the other is a death eater in disguise, so I have a group of order members willing to train the kids in defense for the next two years before Remus takes over. And with him Alastor and Severus now, although I don't doubt Deloris will try something. And when she does, she's getting fired and thrown out as Alastor takes year two a second time."
"But Remus, Severus and Alastor are my best defensive teachers, Remus was James's best friend next to Sirius." he said and they nodded to him. "Professor, you mind about doing a defensive club as that does the next two years every summer. And just exempting us from these two guys at the moment?" I asked and Mad-eye nodded to me.
"Yes, but this means you get it from me, Alastor and Remus for two years every summer, before the years starts now, so everything Lockhart is proclaiming about. You can let him have it by actually beating him at his own game now finally. As he's a criminal guilty of plaegerism." Scrimgeour said for him and I nodded as I turned back to the tour then.