Harry Potter

Marauders In 1997

Chapter Nine: Secrets, Senses, Suga Lips

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Authors Note!

I thought I'd get this up pretty soon! And I got so many great reviews and my chapter was already half way done... and all I had for homework is biology... lots of biology.. eek I just remembered I have a test tomorrow! Ahh so I should probably dash! If I fail I'm blaiming all of you, AH YOU KNOW I'M KIDDING! I adore my faithful reviewers!

p.s. Sorry to my beta whom I resently rediscovered I had, lol! I wanted to get this chapter up today, and with time difference I didn't see that possible, but I promise if you still wanna correct my horrid spelling, I'd love to continue to send you my stuff!

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"You're not going to be able to hear anything," Lily stared as James continued to press his ear against the door. "I think Remus has put another silencing charm on it."

"Lily you're evil," James glared over at her. "You had to convince Sirius to boot me out, now I have no idea what they're talking about."

"It serves you right, you kept something from them, the have every right to keep something from you." Sam told him, she was painting her nails with a pink polish she had conveniently found in her bedside drawn.

James groaned, "Let it go already, it's not gonna happen again… unless I want payback." James sneered, "But the payback won't be on them it'll be on you."

"Oh you're so frightening, nothing you keep from us can stay secret for long, we'll eventually find out what they're talking about behind the door." Lily teased James, "Girls have a way of finding out everything."

"You didn't find out about the letter, " James spat. He knew they had no excuse to that comeback, he was a genius.

"Yes we did, just today when you told us." Sam laughed, "See we find things out one way or another."

"Whatever," James accepted defeat. "They'll tell me soon enough, but I have a feeling it's somehow about me.."

"Everything's not about you, Potter." Lily sneered at him, "So why don't you grow up and get over it." Sam stopped her friend, "Actually Lily, I think it's about you and Potter."

They both gazed at her. James spoke up first, "So you think maybe Lily's excuse to make Sirius tell her what he told me somehow worked in Sirius' advantage?"

"Yea, that way neither of you would hear his news so he could figure out if he should tell you or not. And by the way he talked about it, I think it was something really important." Sam looked at both of them, "These people know something about us that we don't even know yet."

Lily nodded, "That makes sense… what do you think they know?" Sam shook her head, "The only way we find out is by asking."

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"You aren't serious… and don't make a joke out of it! You really heard them say that… James and Lily, married?" Remus shook his head in disbelief.

"Dead serious, I heard them whispering about it. They said it like two times, James and Lily are Harry's parents." Sirius muttered excitedly.

"That's unbelievable… yet at the same time it is believable." Remus said his head still shaking slowly. "James and Lily, no matter how many times I say it, it just won't sound right."

"But isn't it the best thing, the funniest thing! They hate each other, and in the future they're getting married!" Sirius let out a bark-like laugh.

"Well as far as we know, they hate each other." Peter spoke up. "How do we know they're not in that room snogging each other?"

Remus and Sirius looked at each other. Sirius jumped up and ran for the door, he tore it open and made to run in but a yelp stopped him. Slowly he looked down to see his foot over James' face.

Remus came up behind Sirius as he removed his foot from James' face. "Listening in were you?" Remus cocked an eyebrow. "Naughty, naughty."

James sat up and rubbed his reddened nose. "No, I was leaning against the door talking with Sam and Lily."

"Talking were you… not snogging?" Sirius questions wiggling his eyebrows. Lily jumped up off the bed and stormed over the Sirius.

"OK what were you talking about! You're not planning to get me to snog James are you? Cause if you are, I won't kiss him!" Lily roared, Sirius was known to come up with schemes to hook the rivals up.

"Lily clam down, we weren't planning anything. We were just talking… besides we should all get to sleep. Here," Remus handed the girls each a ring. "Wear this when you leave, Harry says."

"I thought it was Simon says?" Sam giggled. The boys rolled there eyes and Sirius helped James to his feet.

"So you really weren't snogging?" Sirius whined, desperately wanting to know if they were keeping a secret relationship.

"If we were, I might just choose not to tell you," James grinned maliciously as he exited the girl's room, sending a wink over his shoulder to Lily, making Sirius jump up and down.

"Night Suga Lips," James whispered to Lily as he disappeared into the boy's room. Lily grimaced and plastered a gob on her face. "Night, Ego Face." Lily shut the door on a confused Sirius and got ready for bed, grumbling as Sam asked before the lights went out if she and James really did have a secret relationship.

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The sun rose brightly on Hogwarts. The clouds glowed a light orange as the rays hit them, sending an all out warm feeling around the castle.

Harry awoke looking around the room he found he must have overslept, all the beds around him were neatly made and empty. Everyone was down at breakfast. He got up slowly, swaying at he stood, he felt dizzy and sick. He took a quick shower, dressed, and headed down to the Great Hall.

He spotted Ron and Hermione sitting in there regular spots arguing about 'who knows what'. Ginny was sitting next to an open seat he figured was saved for him. He made his way for the table, but something caught his eye. Looking over at the Slytherin table, he saw James and Sirius talking to a confused looking Blaze.

He quickly made a sharp turn and headed in there direction. As he neared the table, he heard the two friends talking to Blaze.

"Who am I?"

"Who am I?"

He groaned as he understood what they were saying.

"You're… I don't remember, and you're I forgot… ahhh I'm so confused!" Blaze cried as James and Sirius continued to torment the Slytherin. If it had been Malfoy, Harry would have let them continue the show, but he felt some pity for Blaze. They were using there rings to confuse him to the point of total confusion.

"James, Sirius, leave him alone." Harry laughed and both of them jumped at the mention of there name.

"Oh, er Harry. Sorry we were ehh… yea sorry." James smiled lightly. "It's always fun to mess with a Slytherin you know that, right?"

Harry grinned, "Yea, but next time bug Crab, he's chalk full of stupidity." James and Sirius laughed. "Common, lets go, have you had breakfast yet?"

"Yea, three helpings," Sirius grinned. "Ginny finally told us to go entertain ourselves else where, so that's what we've been doing."

Harry laughed, that's why the group wasn't stopping them. "So do the rings work?" He asked looking at there fingers.

"Yea, like a charm!" James said admiring the ring on his finger. "Hermione's a smart one she is." He looked over at Sirius to see him too admiring his ring. But instead of wearing the ring on his finger, Sirius chose to wear it on a chain around his neck, calling it his leash.

The Great Hall doors opened to reveal who he recognized to be Lily and Sam, but everyone who didn't know of the secret of there rings saw them as someone completely different.

Both girls looked very tired, exhausted to be exact. They had great blue circles under there eyes, and there skin looked more pale than it had been the day before.

Harry looked back over at the Gryffindor table to see Hermione waving for him to return to there spots, she obviously needed to tell him something. He dragged Sirius and James back to the table and took his spot next to Ginny.

Hermione leaned in and the rest of the group followed her lead so they could not be heard by surrounding passer biers.

"I think we should plan to leave sometime soon tonight." She muttered looking around the group. "Unless someone thinks we should wait a while longer, but we really should get going."

No one spoke, but Peter looked around uneasily. Hermione caught his eye, "Is something wrong Peter?" He sighed inwardly.

"I'm not sure, I just have this strange feeling that we should maybe not go looking for the Horcruxes." He ignored the hard looks he was receiving. "I mean some of us could die, and half of us need to return back to our time."

Harry considered this, he'd been stupid to not realize it himself. If Lily or James were killed here they wouldn't be able to be reawakened. If his parents died there would be no Harry, he himself would never exist.

"Nah, don't listen to him." Harry looked up and met James' eyes. "We know how to take care of ourselves, if he's afraid, by all means he can stay behind, but I'm ready for an adventure!" Sirius and Remus roared in agreement.

Harry looked over at Hermione and Ron, was it worth the risk of losing his parents, parents he'd already lost once before. Was it worth the possibilities of losing one of them, and was it worth the risk of losing his own life?

He looked around the group, studying each and everyone's faces. Searching for a hint of fear, and ounce of uncertainty. He found nothing of the sort.

Sam waved her hand around to attract everyone's attention. "I'd just like to state that I have a feeling down in my gut that one of these 'Horcruxes', as you call them, is in this school.

Everyone turned to her, she smiled as she received the dumbfound looks. "I'm not sure exactly what it is, but it's a very strong feeling. Like one time when I was around six years old I had a pet gerbil named, Alfred. And after about a year I began to get this strange feeling, like the one I have now. It was a sort of gloomy feeling, a dark feeling, it was like I could tell he was about to die… and two days later he did."

James laughed, "That sort of makes it sound like you sense one of use is going to die." Sam shook her head, "No it's not a dark feeling, it's an entirely different feeling… trust me, we should really search the school."

Remus looked at her awkwardly, "But that could take days, months, maybe even years. And after all the searching we could find nothing, and it would be a complete waste."

"Nu-uh," Ron disagreed. "The school will be easier to search than the wizarding world. In the school there's just rooms and a few secret passage ways every floor or so. In the real world, there's endlessness. We could spend our lives looking and never find a thing, you get what I mean?"

"So basically, according to Remus; searching the school could take years. And according to you; searching outside the school could take an entire lifespan… I don't know if I like either option." Sirius complained.

"Either way, if we just work at it I'm sure we can find Horcruxes faster than years of searching. I may take a while, but I'm confident with a group the size of ours we'll find them. And we'll find them fast." Harry encouraged the group, the last thing he needed was all of them going off thinking the journey would take there lives away.

Hermione nodded, "Harry's right, we're a huge group, we could even split up into smaller groups and increase our searching parties." She explained, "That way if one group found something, they could check it out while the other continued looking for more."

Lily shivered, "I'm not sure I like the idea of splitting into small groups while there's a bunch of mass murders roaming about, what happens if a group runs into a few, what if that group can't defend themselves?"

"We'll just arrange each group equally." Hermione explained. "Like in one group we'll have a leader… we'll have… just two groups. One leader will of course be, Harry. Then the second group can be lead by James."

Sirius groaned as James let out a "Score!"

"Why can't I lead the group, I'm ten times a better leader than Prongs-butt!" Sirius argued, "I think we should break into three groups!"

Harry considered, "I suppose that would be alright… he how does this sound… group one will be lead by myself. And Hermione, Ron, and Ginny will be in my group. Then James will lead a group of three, Peter, Sam and Lily."

The two girls let out a depressed sigh.

"Sorry, sorry… And then the last group lead by Sirius will have Remus and Neville… hmmm that reminds me!" Harry dashed off to the Ravenclaw table, and as quickly as he had gone, he reappeared with Luna by his side. "I forgot an important member of the group, everyone, this is Luna Lovegood."

The Marauders/Lily/Sam all waved. "Luna and I talked last night about this mission and she told me she would love to accompany us. So Luna you'll be in Sirius' group." Luna nodded faintly.

"Does this sound ok to everyone? If there are ever any problems you let us know and we'll fix it right up, but otherwise I think Harry's arranged the groups very fairly." Hermione stated looking around. Her eyes fell on Sirius' group, she felt uneasy about this group. She didn't know how Sirius and Remus faired in combat, but she'd seen Neville and Luna… uneasy didn't even seem to describe it.

Harry seemed to understand how Hermione felt when there eyes met. His eyes told all, Hermione understood. "I know what I'm doing, trust me." Did she really have a choice in the matter?

"Well I guess that settles it then," Ginny spoke after a long stretching silence. "Maybe we should get right to looking for the Horcruxes' then?" She glanced at Harry hoping what she'd said had been alright.

To her relief Harry nodded. "The sooner we find the Horcrux Sam suspects to be hiding in Hogwarts the sooner I can get out of this school…" Harry thought the last bit to himself, "… and get away from all the memories."

Ron seemed to notice the change of state in his friend. "Every thing alright, mate?" He whispered to Harry as James went to grab a muffin off Ginny's plate, only to be swatted in the hand.

"I'm just ready to get this over with," Harry replied faintly. Ron shook his head, "Don't say it like that, you're saying it like it's already over, like you're on your death bed right now."

Harry shrugged, "It's starting to feel like I already am. Everything's lined up, we find the Horcruxes, we destroy them, we find Voldemort…"

"We destroy him," Ron finished firmly. "Neither shall live while the other survives, that means you shall live, and Vollllll…He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named shall not." Ron's encouragement was slightly lightened when he shuddered on Voldemorts name.

Harry nodded none-the-less. He looked about the group, they all nodded. "Well if you're all ready to do this than I'm right there with you." Harry nodded firmly. He knew that the group knew the risks, the courage, the will power it would take to complete this journey. "Through better or worse?" Peter hesitated.

"Through better or worse," the group replied grabbing hands. Peter let out a sigh of defeat, he didn't have as much control over the group as he was told he'd be given.

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