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Chapter Ten
The Day Where History Changed
Morning … 5:00 am
"Yes, let's do it," said Sirius, as the four Marauders Padfoot, Moony, Prongs, and Blacknight walked out of the Gryffindor common room for the headmaster's office. James reluctantly agreed to join the group, but he still held a grudge towards Harry, despite the fact that he new he was being childless. Peter had to go visit his sick mother on her deathbed apparently.
They stood at the panel where they had to know the password to get into his office. After spending about ten minutes saying different Wizard sweets and then tried couple Muggle candies - Mars bars finally worked as the winged Griffin started to swirl around to reveal the stairs. They all got on the steps and waited as it got them to Dumbledore's office door. They knocked on the door.
"Enter," spoke Dumbledore from within his office.
"Morning, headmaster. We need to ask for a favor," Remus started to say.
Albus listened to Remus talk, while the one student that he had never met before stared nervously at the carpet, and while James looked elsewhere as if he could careless, and also as Sirius looked anxious in anticipation.
"So Mr. Lupin, you wish for me to allow Mr. Gretel, an exchange student from Drumstrang, be allowed to visit this school for five days? May I ask why?" Albus asked slightly curious and yet suspicious about the whole ordeal.
"I'm sorry for the inconveniences sir, my headmaster had gave me a letter to send to you, but I lost it sir, you see I'm still knew at this apparation thing and lost track of it. My family and I are going to be moving here to London, and I wanted to see my options of schools that I wanted to attended to, or if I wanted to be home schooled." Harry lied, he wasn't good at occlemens, but he knew enough to put false information in his head as he could feel Albus probing in his mind.
"Very well then, I see no harm. Since you've already befriended the Marauders here I daresay you'll be sleeping in their dorm. Though if there are any problems, your visit here will be cut short Mr. Gretel, do I make myself clear?" Albus Dumbledor asked him without an ounce of twinkle in his eyes.
"Yes sir." Harry replied.
"You may go then, and enjoy yourself." Albus then smiled and dismissed the boys out of his office still curious about the boy whom called himself Aldrick Gretel.
Morning … 7:00 am – 10:30 am
Severus was glad he had long hair that hung in his face. It was a shield between himself and the world. He fantasized that he couldn't be hurt by something he couldn't see, and shutting out the world helped quell his fears. This is what he did when his father really lost it and came close to killing him.
That, combined with his knowledge of the Dark Arts (courtesy of his sinister father), made the boy a formidable foe. Young Snape gave as well as he got. Unfortunately for him, the Marauders could sense his weaknesses and would ruthlessly root them out for public display.
As long as his face was covered, he would be able to pull through. That was until Aldrick Gretel came into the picture. The guy was truly a nice guy, but sometimes he seemed kind of distance towards people. Why he wanted to befriend him was a puzzle to Severus, not that he didn't enjoy the company, but it was simply weird to actually say that he had a friend.
"Your such a bring downer. Why aren't you eating breakfast in the great hall?" Harry asked Severus as they he sat beside him outside on the stoned bench.
"Because I don't want to, It's my business where or where I don't want to eat Gretel." Severus snapped back at him.
"Excuse me for living, your majesty!" Harry said sarcastically as he sat Indian style on the stoned bench.
"You are excused I guess." Severus replied biting into his toast looking at the sunrise.
'Severus isn't really all that bad I guess. He just needs a change of attitude.' Harry thought as he also looked at the sunrise. It was rather nice, actually. Peaceful.
"Are you sure you want to come Gretel? The class is kind of boring, I can just catch up with you later." Snape said to Harry as they walked up the moving staircases.
"If you want me to get lost, then that's all you have to say Severus." Harry replied as he watched a group of girls whisper about how cute he looked and all that girly stuff.
"Hmm … if I didn't know any better, I would say that you were blushing." Severus teased as Harry's face gotten redder.
"Whatever." Harry replied as they walked threw the halls.
As they two made their way inside the classroom, they found themselves making it just in time before the bell rung.
Severus sat beside Harry at the back of the history class as Professor Binns was at the board writting about Wizard history and such, Severus had tried for the first 30 minutes to pay attention, but now found his attention wandering onto different more important things. Like Antonette Chariton, a small smile flickered across his face as he stared at her short wispy brown hair that fell just above her shoulders making her look breath taking even in her school uniform. He didn't know how long he had just sat there and stared at her.
'God she's beautiful' Severus thought.
'RING'
"Beautiful, isn't she?" Harry asked with a grin and his arms crossed.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Severus replied putting his book in his bag and heading out the door along with Harry.
"So, are you pretty good friends with her, Sev?" Harry asked him slyly.
"We barely talk to each other in class Aldrick, theirs nothing going on between us so drop it!" Severus snapped yet again at him, but Harry acted like he wasn't affected by Snape's tone in the least bit.
"What's her name?" Harry asked as they headed towards Snape's next class, which happened to be Potions.
"Antonette Chariton." Severus mumbled.
When Severus and Harry entered the class, he saw Lily already set up with all her ingredients ready, and her cauldron burning.
Harry looked around to see all the other spots were taken so he sat himself with her dragging Severus along with him.
"Hi," Harry said with a gentle smile as he sat down.
Lily looked excited at the fact that he chose to sit with her, but contained it quickly with a slightly harsh, "Hello," followed by, "How are you this morning?"
"Why bothering talking to her if she obviously doesn't want to be bothered if she has that kind of attitude?" Severus asked Harry ignoring Lily completely as if she didn't exist.
Lily rolled her eyes, "Good morning to you to Snape." she said without looking up.
"Good morning class. Just continue on the potions you were working on last day." Professor Slunghorn replied then sat down at his desk and graded tests.
Harry turned to Lily, "Will you help me?"
Severus rolled his at Harry's side and said, "As if Evans, can help."
Lily only scowled, as Severus acted totally oblivious to it, for just at that moment, Sirius had shown up, followed by Remus and James.
"So, do I add the Peeksfane, or the Attlescrow?" Harry asked, grabbing each ingredient as he said its name. Lily couldn't help but giggle at his total befuddlement.
"Here, give it to me. I'll fix it." She said in a much friendlier tone that she had used before.
She grasped the Attlescrow and poured a pinch of it into Harry's cauldron.
The potion turned a mesmerizing green, which shone brightly into both Lily's and Harry's eyes, making each of them a brighter green than before.
Lily looked at Harry with a smile. As uncomfortable as he was, he returned and astonishingly handsome smile.
"You like her don't you Aldrick?" Severus whispered to him as Lily had gone back to reading her book on what to do next on the potion.
"Shut it Severus, I do not." Harry whispered back at Severus rolling his eyes at him. Snape simply smirked back and attended back to their cauldron.
Morning … 10:50 am
"Hey Antonette!" Remus said to the sixth year Ravenclaw that he had talked to yesterday, she was wearing a denim jean skirt, a yellow blouse, and black sandals in the soon to be summer weather.
She had bluish-green eyes, and Long Wavy Reddish Brown hair today, which Remus could have sworn that she had short hair yesterday, that had went to her shoulders, oh well, who cares.
"Antonette!" Remus said coming up to her by the school water fountain sculptor along with her friends.
"Antonette? Oh, you must mean my twin sister… uhm… she's in class right now Remus. Sorry." Antonette's twin sister then went back to talk to her friends whom were giggling uncontrollably.
"Excuse me, uh, are you in Hufflepuff?" Remus asked her as he couldn't help but notice her little groupies whom were also wearing some sort of yellow or black colors, not their uniforms of course.
"What gave me away?" The girl said sarcastically rolling her eyes.
"Could I have your name then oh charming one so as to not get you confused with your sister?" Remus asked her sarcastically back at her.
"Desiree Chariton." She replied then turned back towards her friends ignoring Remus as he rolled his eyes and left.
"That was a bunch of wasted time that I wont get back." Remus muttered to himself.
"You know Moony, you should really stop talking to yourself, some people are actually starting to beginning to think that you need to go to St. Mongos, already in such an early age to." Sirius joked shoving a pumpkin paste in his mouth while James did the same on the other side of him as the stood in the middle of the corridors.
"Actually, I think our piers would think it was about time. Nobody can stand dealing with you guys for barely a minute without turning mental themselves." Remus commented as he headed towards the library.
"Did you hear that Padfoot? Moony just insulted us." James said trying to act hurt as he and Sirius kept in step with Remus.
"I did dear Prongs, I daresay somebody should get these knifes out of our backs." Sirius replied back.
Remus just rolled his eyes at the two jokesters.
"So … I haven't heard from Blacknight since we separated from Potions. What's he up to? He's going to miss our biggest prank on Malfoy tonight at dinner." Sirius replied as they walked inside the library.
"Yes, where is my dear son of mine?" James said sarcastically as the three of them sat a table in the back corner.
"Shut it James, don't say that out loud!" Remus hissed at him.
"Honestly James, if … Blacknight wants to be friends with Snivelly, then let him. Like Remus had said before, it will be somewhat easier on him if somewhere in the deep, deep, deep, debuts of Snape's heart, his friendship with Aldrick will last enough to know that he wont take a grudge against Harry cause of whom his blood line runs through." Sirius explained as James just shrugged it off.
"Whatever." James muttered back.
"You know what Moony, I think Prongs is jealous." Sirius exclaimed smirking at him.
"What?" James asked narrowing his eyes at Sirius.
"Here Blacknight came in a once in a life time opportunity to see us back in the day and all he has done so far is gone all goody, goody, with Snape. It must make James all envious in side. I can see it in his face! Look at him! His … I mean Aldrick, talking to our enemy instead of spending time with him. James here is just dying to get some attention from Blacknight." Sirius concluded as James picked up a rather huge book to throw at Sirius.
"What's going on here?" Lily asked in her usual Gryffindor uniform as she came in company with her other friends, Alice Grace along with her boyfriend Frank Longbottom and also Desiree Chariton.
Lily Evans had just came back from talking to Aldrick Gretel and Severus Snape whom wasn't actually being a pain with his pure blood antics, he was just being, normal for once. Aldrick Gretel seemed like a nice guy, he definitely didn't seem to care about bloodlines. There was just something about him that made her want to make sure she protected him with all cost, but that's just plain silly, she didn't even know the boy.
She had also bumped into the Chariton twins whom were obviously eyeing the two boys with uncertainty. Antonette though, seemed to have a great deal of interest on them, Lily didn't know which one, but it seemed more than just curiosity to her.
Lily, Alice, and Desiree actually had a final project to finish together before the end of the school year was over which was in two weeks, so they had headed to the library together as a group to finish their charm essay on how to make a temporary love potion and to revise it and of course Alice's boyfriend had to tag along. They still had an hour before their next class since they had a free period.
As soon as Desiree, Alice, Frank, and Lily were seated and without warning, James placed his lips upon Lily's. She broke away, smiling.
"Good use of your mouth, but this time use words." Lily said as James made his award-winning smile. Leave it to Lily to make James lose his temper.
"Oh, James... could you please find another place for your outlet of romantic feelings?" Remus asked him as the rest just smirked at James change of attitude.
"So who is this new kid that hangs around Snape?" Desiree asked the group.
"I'm tired of hearing about those two! Who cares!" James snapped at the group.
"Don't worry Dez James is just sore that the new kid isn't paying attention to him." Sirius replied as James actually threw the book hard at Sirius head.
"His name is Aldrick Gretel. I heard that he's just visiting for a few days." Remus replied smoothly as Desiree gave Remus a small smile in return.
"I see you made if your authority to find out about him Lupin." Desiree replied back as Alice looked between the two to see what Desiree was going by this.
"I'm Headboy Miss Chariton, that is my duty." Remus replied back.
"Hmm … Evans, I thought we were going to do our essay?" Desiree replied getting up from the table and walking towards the bookshelves. Alice gave Lily a look that said 'What was that about?' before she went after Desiree.
12:30 pm …
Harry heard from a little bird that a particular Marauder was upset with him, so Harry decided to spend lunch and the next period with the Marauders before going back to talking to Severus. Severus wanted some time alone anyway so all well ends well.
Harry enjoyed spending time with his father, and the younger Sirius and Remus. He found that it was kind of like spending time with Fred and George Weasley, there was always a prank waiting to be pulled. James seemed back to his normal self anyway, so that was always good. Peter still hadn't turned up yet which was getting the Marauders worried except for Harry.
Dinner …
"Before you eat I would like to announce that this Saturday we are going to have a summer ball to celebrate the almost ending of the school day. So you have five days to find a date my dear students, now please enjoy your dinner!" Professor Dumbledor finished as the sutudnets started to chatter about the dance.
Remus and Lily watched in amazement as Sirius and James shoveled enough food for three meals down their throats.
"I think I have lost my appetite." Lily pushed her plate away as Sirius reached for his seventh plate.
"Lily you can't just not eat desert!" Sirius exclaimed. "It's not dinner without desert!"
"You have obviously had far too much sugar today." Lily retorted.
"And what is desert without sugar?" James grabbed a tray of chocolate treats and took some before offering it to Remus.
The conversation continued good-naturedly until Lily put two and two together.
"James Potter what did you do!"
"Why Lily I don't know what you mean. You know I promised not to do anything that would interfere with Remus head duties." James said acting innocent.
"You know very well that that doesn't mean you haven't done anything!" she hissed through her teeth.
"Well James, Remus, I think that we have had enough. What do you say we go—" Sirus replied as he started to get out of his seat.
"No you don't Sirius Black! None of you are leaving this table until you tell me what is going on." The boys looked at each other and then back at Lily. The staring contest was interrupted when the Slytherins started to make a ruckus.
The Marauders struggled to keep a straight face while Harry and Severus, whom had finally came for dinner, could only stare as two white, furry stubs appeared through Luscious Malfoy's hair and began to elongate. As they grew, a pinkish center became evident underneath the fluffy fur.
All of a sudden Malfoy's hands flew from examining his head to his face as it started to twitch uncontrollably. With a startled cry and a widening of his eyes, Malfoy pulled his hands back and the others could see thin, white whiskers emerging from the skin around his nose. His nose was also taking on a pinkish tint and was twitching. Just as the two stubs on his head became recognizable as rabbit ears, Malfoy was forced to open his mouth as his two front teeth began to grow until they were halfway to his chin.
As Harry's godfather's laughter began filling the room along with the rest of the students, Harry couldn't help but brings his own hand to his face to hide his own smile as his new friend Severus glared at him.
"Sorry Sev, but you've got to admit that it's pretty funny." Harry replied grinning as Severus rolled his eyes and left to his table.
Harry took this chance and sat down with the Marauders while everybody else in the room was distracted.
"Hey guys, what's up?" He helped himself to stew and a biscuit. All of the Marauders were to busy laughing to answer.
"So, tell me more about yourself Evans, I've heard so much about you from Prongs." Harry said trying to get to know his mother more.
"You know, you don't have to make small talk with me. You can just ignore me and talk to those jokesters." Lily replied angrily.
"Who said I don't want to talk to you?" Harry asked her perplexed.
"Oh please, I can tell your edging to talk about the prank they just made. I would do it now because Professor McGonagall is on her way over here." Lily explained as McGonagall was indeed on her way towards the boys with a fuming expression on her face.