A/N--I only just realized I hate these and hardly ever read them...so, sorry for the delay, please enjoy
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Chapter 10
Lily Evens...Lily Evens...Lily Evens. The name echoed in Harry's mind. Lily Evens, soon to be Lily Potter, the woman who gave her own life for him. His mother.
Suddenly Harry felf a sharp kick on his ankel.
"It's very nice to meet you," he heard Hermione say, covering up his yelp, " I'm Harmony, and that dolt over there is my brother Henry."
Harry gave a half grimace, half smile, hoping he hadn't already made a bad impression, what with the staring and now yelping for no apparent reason.
Luckily, it seemed he hadn't, for Lily smiled widley down at him, and laughed, " Pleasure," she said.
" And this," continued Hermione, " is Ryan, and his sister, Jenni,"
" Are you twins as well?" Lily asked.
" No," replied Ginny quickly, glancing over at Ron, who was currently trying to swallow a mouthful of food without choking," I'm a year younger, but we were, um, all taught on the same level at our old school."
" Yes, Durmstrang, wasn't it?" Lily asked.
" Umhuph ans rught" answered Ron, still trying to swallow.
Lily made a face, as if trying to decided what he just had said, and whether or not to laugh at how he said it.
" You'll have to excuse him," Harry said, before she could make up her mind, his mouth suddenly working on its own," we're still working on table manners with that one. But by the end of the year you might actually be able to understand him when he tries to say something with a half chewed physant in this mouth."
Lily chuckled, "Well it is a useful talent to have. I could put it one my job aplications, 'skilled it decifering gibberish'. I'd have to be hired with that language skill."
Harry felt his heart sore. She seemed to really like them, and not in the pathetic sort of way, like some people would have. He laughed along with Hermione and Ginny.
" It's not all that funny." Ron grumbled.
" Yes it is, " chuckled Ginny.
" Sorry mate," Harry shrugged, " thought you knew no one could understand you when you talked like that."
Lily smiled and checked her watch and sighed, " I should go." she said, " Like I said, I'm headgirl, and the headgirl and boy are suppose to set all of the passwords for the common rooms at the start of the year, but I thought I'd get a headstart before he could come up with some obserdity or other, and it be unable to be replace. Still can't figure out how he managed it." She mumbled as an after thought.
" Who's headboy then?" asked Hermione, throwing a glance at Harry.
" James Potter," Lily sneered, and Harry felt a tug on his mouth. Obviously they hadn't gotten together yet. Sirius and Remus had said it happened in their last year, but not exactly when.
" But take it from me, " Lily continued, " don't take any advice from him. If you need any help with anything at all, ask me. You can never be to careful with Potter and his...gang of misfits." She rolled her eyes, " But don't get me started on those four, Potter's been bothering me since we met on the train first year. He's just so..." She trailed off, " But never mind, " she shook her head, " Look, I might not be back to show you how to get to the tower, but you can just follow the prefects along with the first years, and they'll show you the most direct route to the common room from here."
" That sounds great." Said Ginny, trying to hide a smile. Harry had to hide one himself. He remembered the way the prefects took them first year, and their were about 3 other faster ways to get to the Gryffindor common room.
" Well, I suppose I'll see you all later then." Lily said.
" Yes, I expect we'll all be in the same classes, won't we." said Hermione.
" The core classes yes, I don't know about the extra classes however." Lily replied, glancing over her shoulder. She groaned, " I've really got to go," she said, " We'll talk more later. See you.". And with a smile and a wave, she was gone, her red hair bouncing as she nearly ran out the great hall.
" In a bit of a hurry is she?" Ron asked, grinning as he watched her weave her way around a pack of Hufflepuffs.
" You never told me how much your parents loved each other, Harry, " Ginny said, laughing, " I could practically feel her love for James just from the way she talked about him."
" Yeah, I guess I forgot to mention Mum hates Dad at the moment." Harry shrugged, relived at the end result of their meeting, " But Sirius did say they got togeather in their seventh year."
" Honestly, " said Hermione, anxiously glancing around them, " Keep your voices down all of you. Someone might overhear us."
" Who could overhear us?" Ron asked, " We'd see them first. "
" Not necissarily, " continued Hermione, " remember who has Ha- Henry's cloak in this time, not to mention-"
" The MAP!" Chorused Ron and Harry at the same time. They looked at each other trying to figure out how they could have been so stupid as to have overlooked this.
" Map?" Ginny asked," Oh, you mean that one you used in the DA meetings, that told where everyone was in the castel?"
" It's also the map that has all the names on it." Harry sputtered out. He groaned, " How could we have overlooked this!"
Hermione laughed.
"Oy!" Ron said, eyeing Hermione, " It's not funny."
" Yes, it is," Hermione said, grinning ear to ear," honestly, if I'd known you two would have taken it this hard, I would have waited until later when I had a camera!"
" Why?" Harry asked, warily.
" Because, " Hermione answered, " don't you remember what Professor Lupin said in our 3rd year?" Ron and Harry stared at her blankly. She rolled her eyes, " Filch confiscated the map, remember?"
The convorsation inside the shrieking shake came back to Harry. He exhaled deeply, " Well that's a relief."
" Wait," said Ginny, " What's the map got to do with..."
" They created it," Harry explained, " You know the names on it? Moony, Wormtalil, Padfoot, and Prongs? That's them."
" Oh," Ginny's face flooded with understanding, and Harry couldn't help but admire the sparkle that entered her brown eyes,[(Em- yyyeaahhh... I have no idea :) " It makes sense to. You know, Moony because...and Wormtail...what about Prongs though? What was-"
" A stag," answered Harry quietly, with pride, " like my patronus''
Ginny smiled, " Really?"
Harry nodded, " Yeah, Sirius said..he said it looked exactly like him."
" Shhhh!!!" Hermione shushed, " Quiet!"
" We just went over this," Ron rolled his eyes, " No one is going to over hear us."
" Well excuse me, " Hermione huffed, " I just thought you might like to know that- "
"Hello there you lot!"
Harry froze. He recognized the voice instantly. Slowly he looked up in to the handsome face of his 17 year old godfather.
"Sirius Black's the name," Sirius said, casually shaking a piece of hair out of his face, "And yes," he winked at Ginny, " that seriously is my real name."
" That jokes really old, mate." James Potter walked up and joined the group, " You seriously need a new one."
Sirius rolled his eyes.
James nodded his head in the direction of the transfer students, " James Potter, quidditch captian, and your one and only headboy."
Harry stared up at the all to familair face of his father. Everyone was right, of cource, Harry was the spitting image of James, forgetting Lily's eyes. They seemed to be around the same hight, and the only real obvious difference were their noses. Of cource at the moment Harry had strait blond hair.
"Henry." Harry said weakly, still staring up in at the two faces, not quite believing they were actually there. It was as if he'd stepped in to one of the pictures in his scrapbook.
" I'm Harmony." said Hermione, throughing Harry a glance, she stuck out her hand, " It's nice to meet the two of you."
Sirius and James looked at each other, then back at her outstetched hand."Pleasure," they said in unison both taking her hand at the same time and shaking it.
" And who might you be?" Sirius asked, his gaze fized on Ginny and his voice lowered into a deep tone.
Ginny stared up at him, an amused smile on her face. She giggled as he waggled his eyebrows.
" She's my sister, that's who she is!" Ron growled,
" Whoa! No need to get offensive mate." Sirius backed away a step, holding up his hands.
James rolled his eyes, " Sorry about that," he said, " We're still trying to teach him how to be civilized."
" It's alright," Hermione said, " He over reacts sometimes." Ron opened his mouth to retort, but Hermione elbowed him in the stomach, " That's Jenni,"she contiuned," and this is Ryan."
James nodded, " You two are twins right?" he asked Harry.
"Yeah." said Harry.
"Thought so," James said, '' You both look exactly alike."
"James, you ready?"
Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew joined the end of the table. Harry felt a lump form in his throat as he saw how health his old Professor looked compared to the last few times he'd seen him.
"This is Remus and Peter," introduced Sirius, pointing to each in turn, " the final two of our four."
"Four what ?" asked Remus.
Sirius shrugged, " I dunno. Roommates?"
" Are we going up to the tower now?" Peter asked anxiously. Rage filled Harry at the sound of his squeek of a voice, and he quietly reminded himself that this Peter hadn't done anything...yet. And anyway, Peter was dead in his time.
" Just about Wormy," answed James. He eyed the other four. " You lot about done here? We'd be glad to, uh, show you the way to the common room. Right Pads?"
"What?" asked Sirius, looking up from Ginny. " Oh, yeah sure."
Harry glanced at Ron, who shrugged as if saying, 'may as well, what 's the worst that could happen.'
"Yeah, alright." said Harry, standing up from the table, " Lead the way."
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A/N-- I know, two chapters in one night...honestly it was suppose to be only one chapter, but I can't get my computer to work right. Review please! You know the drill...it means a lot, really encourages, etc, etc.