Disclaimer: -sigh- Must we go through this? None of it is mine, okay?
A/N: Once again, I must apologize for my lateness in this chapter... I don't have an excuse for you this time though, except I haven't had inspiration for it. So I must apologize, once again, for its patheticalynessish (I don't think that's a word...).
Oh, and the part with Hermione's payback... Yeah, you'll get to find out all about that in a fic that should be posted anywhere from a week to a month from now. All you have to know for now is that it involved the clock that likes to shoot bolts at people -evil grin-.
Fred and George slowly turned to stare at Harry, Ron, and Hermione. They looked surprised, angry, astonished, and annoyed- all at once. "You knew?!" Harry and Ron started looking around the room, but Hermione surprised everyone by answering the twins.
"Of course we knew!" She said. Ron stared at her, wondering if she had lost her mind. "They-" She pointed to Sirius and Remus. "Told us everything at the end of our third year. Of course that was mainly because we had the misfortune of being stuck inside the Shrieking Shack when Sirius tried to get Pettigrew."
She went on to explain why exactly Sirius wanted Pettigrew and how Remus showed up. Then she launched into her tale about how the two adults had told them about the map and all about the Marauders. She went on to briefly explain about when Lupin changed into a werewolf, the Patronus, and the Time-Turner. She finished with explaining about the letter Harry got on the train at the end of the year.
When she finished, Fred and George stared at her. "You mean you've known about this for a year and haven't told us!?" They cried.
Harry and Ron continued to stare around the room. Hermione snorted. "Well, I would've told you about it." She said. "But I thought that he-" She pointed to Ron. "Had already told you. Didn't you wonder where he had gotten Pig? And weren't you curious about what happened at the end of the year?"
Ron glared at her. "Now wait just one minute!" He said angrily. "You can't blame this on me! I just told them that we went to see Hagrid about Buckbeak and I chased Scabbers over the grounds. I wasn't about to tell them that I was hanging around with Sirius Black and a werewolf- no offense or anything, you two..." He looked anxiously at Sirius and Remus, who just smiled and told him to continue. "And I wasn't going to tell them where I really got Pig, so I just said that he sort of "attached" himself to me on the train."
"We always wondered how Pig managed to fly into the train in the first place..." George said, chuckling softly. "I mean, what type of person just opens up a window and lets a miniature owl fly into the Hogwarts Express?" The others, with the exception of Ron, started laughing again. Ron just turned a nice crimson color.
"So if you think about it, you should really be blaming Ron for not telling you who the Marauders were." Hermione said. "After all, not only was he the one most likely to tell you about it, he also knew that you wanted desperately to find them." Harry, Sirius, Remus, and Ron stared at her. Why did it seem like she wanted Fred and George to get angry at Ron...?
"Er, Hermione, what are you doing!?" Harry whispered to her. Hermione just grinned and mouthed Payback. Harry had to grin at that. Ron was going to regret that little trick he pulled on her...
She turned back to face Fred and George again and leaned in to whisper to them. "You can't just let him get away with not telling you! Just think about how much time you spent trying to come up with a way to figure out who the Marauders were! He could've saved you at least a year of plotting!"
Fred and George started to give their brother a murderous look. Ron gulped. This was not going to be good...