A/N: Short, but hopefully sweet. I can also tell that the next two chapters will be fairly short. It's annoying (to me, at any rate), but it's necessary to set up the events of futures chapters.

I'm starting the next chapter now, so I may it up tomorrow.

Also, this chapter leaps around a lot in the time line, but it should be fairly easy to tell when is when.

Enjoy!

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The Rise and Fall of Harry Potter and the Wizards From Mars

Chapter VI: Lady Potter

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Seamus Finnigan wondered, for the thousandth time, how he had gotten so old. When he graduated, he never imagined living much past 25. Now, he was nearly three times that age, with a daughter and grand daughter.

His grand daughter was staying with him for the Christmas holidays. Seamus sat in his chair by the fire watching her work on her home work. She must have gotten that work ethic from her father's side, he thought.

"Grandpa," she said, bringing him out of his musings, "you were friends with Harry Potter weren't you?"

"My dear, one day you'll learn that everybody was friends with Harry Potter."

"I know, but you really were, weren't you? Please tell me. I want to put something interesting in my report for Binns. Something nobody else'll know."

"Binns? The History of Magic professor? Merlin, I'm old enough to be in the history books," he said with a sigh. "Ok, then, what do you want to know? How about the time he killed a basilisk?"

"Grandpa, everyone knows about that. Haven't you visited Hogwarts lately? They have plaques everywhere he did something. 'An on March 19, 1997, Harry Potter wanked here.'"

Seamus chuckled. The Harry he knew would have hexed every last sign out of existence if he heard about it.

"Ok, what do you want to know?"

"I don't know. Tell me something about the band."

"I'm not sure there's much I can tell you that would be appropriate for your essay. We weren't much more than a band of drunken idiots who happen to get popular."

He didn't like talking that part of his life. Too many bad memories. But he knew his grand daughter would give up. That, she got from the Finnigans.

"Oh alright. I'll try and come up with something."

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"Look alive, Finnigan," Harry called, starting on a milk float. "We're on in five."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. How many of those things have you had today?"

"Only three."

"Merlin, I've created a monster."

"Relax, how much harm could these things cause."

"With a nutter like you? I'd rather not think about it."

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"Contrary , to what they say now, Harry Potter was not always revered. There times when he was hated by all."

"Like when," his grand daughter asked, a bit incredulously.

"Well, once he started the band, the wizarding world was very outspoken against him."

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With only two years to go before the earth was supposed to die, Harry, Tonks and the Wizards From Mars found themselves in the flat that Harry on Tonks shared. Surrounding them were several stacks of newspapers.

"Here's one that compares us to an old muggle band called CCR," Ron said, looking at one of the newspapers. "It says, 'while Harry Potter and the Wizards From Mars are not the most talented performers, like CCR, they have the ability to make people want to sing along."

"Who's CCR," Seamus asked.

"I think it's an old muggle band. I'll ask Dud when he gets back."

"Where is he?"

"On vacation with Jackie."

Tonks, who was the only one who knew Jackie, said, "I didn't know they were going on vacation."

"Neither did Dud, until Jackie pack their bags and told him they were going on vacation. I think they're somewhere in the pacific."

Picking up another newspaper, Harry continued, "And here's one from the Prophet." According to today's article, we are 'a menace to wizarding secrecy and should be hauled away from aurors immediately. Speaking of which, what the aurors planning on doing with us Tonks?"

"Nothing. You haven't broken any laws, so they can't doing anything. Just be careful, they're doing their best to find a reason to arrest you."

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"Why did they want to arrest you?"

"Well think of how it must have looked to them. We were coming dangerously close to revealing ourselves to the muggles. They were more strict about their laws in those days?

"Besides, I don't think they really understood what we were trying to do. To them, we were even less than a band of drunken idiots who happened to get popular."

"So, everyone hated you, grandpa?"

"No, not everyone. The papers, to be sure. The wizarding ones, anyway. And the ministry. But everyone else, they loved us."

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"Listen Harry, you may want to lay off those things. Especially tonight. They've got witches out there and we may need to do some fast oblivating."

"This is a switch. Weren't you the one who started passing them out? Anyways, it's not our problem. We just have to act shocked if someone starts shooting off spells.

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Seamus always watched the audience when they were on stage. Harry was the popular one, so he knew he could look around without anyone noticing them.

It amused him to see their reaction when Harry came on stage. Girls and even a few boys screamed and tried to catch his eye. Some of them went as far as to stand on chairs, until people pulled them down.

Even Seamus had to admit Harry looked good.

"If only you were a lady, Potter," he'd whisper.

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"If only you were a lady, Potter," he whispered.

"What was that, grandpa?"

"Hmm? Oh, nothing. Get back to your school work."

TO BE CONTINUED...

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A/N: As always, please read and review!