A/N: Shorty chap. Read stuff at the end…. It's important.

Chapter 16: Joke Shops and Crazy Teenagers

"JAMES!" Simon exclaimed loudly, "IT'S ZONKO'S!" He pointed his finger toward the joke shop and started jumping up and down excitedly.

He and James had separated from the other three, Fred and George had wondered off, claiming on going to find things for the party. Tommy, well, he went to the book store, Simon and James were NOT about to spend time in Hogsmeade in a book store. Plus they might have to do things...like read...or look at books… It was a thought to shudder over.

"LET'S GO!" James grinned and ran in Zonko's, Simon at his heals.

"Wow!" Simon let out a deep sigh of happiness as he looked around his favorite shop. "There is so much more then before!" James nodded in agreement, his hands quickly filling up with everything he could find. Simon started to copycat him, only he picked up twice as much.

"I get to go first!" James announced, stepping up to the counter, and then dumping his pile on to it.

"Awww" Simon said in mock disappointment. "Hurry up, I'm sinking!" He shouted dramatically.

"I wish there more kids like you two." The clerk sighed. At their puzzled looks he continued. "Ever sense that new shop opened up, business has been slower then before, everyone wants to go to the new joke shop." The clerk said as he continued to calculate everything James bought.

A few minutes later James and Simon had everything they had bought in several (very stuffed) bags. They were still standing near counter, though. "What do you want to do now, Prongs?"

"Hum…. What do you say, Padfoot, to a nice butterbeer?"

The clerk chuckled, "You remind me of a few kids that used to come in here all the time," James and Simon gave each other a quick glance. "But I hope you don't turn out like them," His face seemed to darken, "Dead and a you-know-who supporter, they grew up to be."

"Uh… we gotta go!" James grabbed Simon's wrist and pulled him out the door, leaving a very confused clerk.

"What was he goin' on about?" Sirius asked, taking a small sip of butterbeer. They were in the most secluded part of the Three Broomsticks. They need to talk in private.

"I think that was Mr. Kcan…"

"No way!" Mr. Kcan was the owner of Zonko's, back in their time they knew him very well, Mr. Kcan was always giving the Marauders new products to try or a help pranking idea.

"So I guess that means that we remind him of ourselves?"

"I thought he had remembering problems!" Sirius shrieked, causing a few people to glance over at them. "But he said dead and Voldemort supporter…that's not us."

James didn't say anything. He let his mind drift to the second night they had been here, he and Harry did some 'bonding' where Harry had told him everything about the Marauder's lives that he knew. He remembered what Harry had said about that night the best.

"The night you died was when it all fell apart, Sirius was framed, by Pettigrew. I guess it was because of his family, that's why it was so easy to believe, that was the night the entire Wizarding World thought that Sirius was a death eater…"

"Prongs?...PRONGS!" Sirius screamed in his ear. James jumped, making Sirius laugh. "Dude, I was callin' your name for like a minute, where'd you go?"

"Oh, uh...nothing…" James couldn't bear to tell Sirius, he knew he died fighting ageist Voldemort, James didn't want him to find that people thought, and some still did, that he was a death eater, one who was the reason for his death, at that.

Sirius stared at James, he knew James was avoiding something; he wasn't his best friend for nothing. He knew, also, that James didn't want to talk about it, so he let it drop. "We should find Moony and the others." James nodded, he was still quiet. They got up, grabbed their bags, and left.

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"George, look at these!" Fred threw a pack of wrapped paper plates at George. They were in a muggle party store, and were having a little too much fun.

"What is it?" George tilted his head sideways, holding the plates, they had a big red dog on them and writing across the top saying "CLIFFORD"

"It's prefect!" Fred grinned, already moving toward the cups. "Look! She can be Ron's girlfriend!" He threw a pack of cups over to George.

George saw it, and nearly fell over laughing. Oh, wait, he did, fall over, the muggles gave him weird looks. It's wasn't everyday that you saw a red head dressed in weird clothing, clutching Clifford plates and Dora the Explorer cups, in a party store.

"Streamers!" Fred ran over to where randomly colored streamers were located. "Humm..." he rubbed his chin, trying to look Serious, " Blue, Green, ohh! PINK!" By this time George was standing next to him, helping, kind of.

"Orange, Yellow, gold… eww! Silver!"

Fred shook his head, "Can't have Silver and green, but LOOK, black, I always thought Ronnykins belonged in Hufflepuff." Fred and George went into another laughing fit.

A few minutes, and many laughs, later they walked out with bulging bags, laughing like crazy.

"Were are we supposed to meet those other guys?" Fred asked.

"No idea…" They shrugged, and Apparated back to Hogsmeade.

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Remus walked into Hog's Library, he couldn't help but fell like a bookworm, but he was so excited! There were so many book that he wanted to read the next in the series, he was waiting for them all summer, but he was twenty years in the future now. Remus had to hide a grin, all the books! He spent a while looking at every book sold there, then, with a huge stack of books, he went up to the upstairs room. He didn't know if anyone else came up here, besides the owners of course, because there was never anyone else there.

The room had always reminded Remus of the common room; a fire place, comfy chairs, just an all around nice room. It was also the best place to get away from the other Marauders, and read. And that was exactly what Remus was going to do. He sat down and opened the first book in his pile, and began to read. It wasn't long until he was lost in the world of literature.

OK, this is an Author's Note, if you didn't already know that. I just wanted to say thanks for sticking with me, and that chap. 17 might come out a little late, I reread the first chapter, and I don't really like it, I can't blame myself, it was my first chapter ever, after all. So the next time I update it will be a much better chapter 1. Later I'm going to update all the other chapters, mostly the being ones because they suck, but oh, well. The first chapter just really needs a change, so that's what I'm going to give it, I hope you review when I'm done with it, kus I really want to know what you guys think, or if you hate it, that works to. Anything! Please! PLEASE REVIEW!