When he got home he saw a very worried Lily and James.
"Harry, your home! We were so worried!" Lily sobbed. James yelled at him.
"HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO US!!!!? WE HAD NO IDEA WHERE YOU WERE!! YOU COULD AT LEAST TELL US WHERE YOU WERE! OR CALLED! YOU ARE AN HOUR LATE! GO TO YOUR ROOM!"
Harry went up to his room with his head down. He had not meant to worry
his parents. All he had wanted to do was give Hermione a good time, but
even his parents couldn't get rid of the feeling that he had left over from his
date. He lay down on his bed and looked through the photo album that
Hermione had given him. They were all wizards' pictures. He sighed. He
loved Hermione so much and hoped she felt the same way. He now thought
that he couldn't live without her. Harry fell asleep thinking about her.
The next morning he woke up very happy. He walked downstairs for
breakfast; he had forgotten what his parents had said the night before. He
walked into the kitchen practically floating.
"Have a good time?" Sirius asked him.
"The best." He replied smiling.
"So how did she like it? Where did you take her? What were you doing that caused you to be so late?"
"Whoa one question at a time. I think she liked it." Then he went into full detail of the whole night with Hermione.
"Wow, you did a very good job, you will never have a hard time keeping a girl." Remus commented. Harry blushed.
"So what prank should we pull on dad?" Harry asked as he grinned evilly.
They spent the next half hour talking about what they could do to James.
When James cam down he gave Harry a stern look.
"Look dad, I'm sorry it was Hermione's and I two month anniversary and.." "Two months!?! I thought you just started going out?"
"No, we just didn't kiss in front of teachers until I asked her to the dance."
Harry said giving Sirius a side-ways look. Sirius looked embarrassed; he did not know that Harry knew that he had told his parents.
"I'm surprised that he didn't find out about us earlier. He saw us walking
through the halls ways holding hands. I guess that Padfoot here just isn't as
smart as he used to be." Sirius smacked Harry upside the head. That's
when Lily came down.
"Giving my son the since he needs?"
"No I am smacking him for insulting me." Sirius grumbled. "I am just as intelligent as I always was."
"It is not just you Sirius; everyone in this room is going senile!" Harry ran
out of the room to avoid several blows to the head. He waved his wand and
changed into a swimsuit. He went out to the pool and started to do swim
laps. Most of the time Harry liked to run but he was not sure if it was a good
idea with Voldemort after him. When he was on hi fiftieth lap he felt
something pull at his ankle. He tried to surface but could not. No matter
how hard he tried he could not get himself up to the surface. He opened his
eyes underwater to see what was pulling on him as he looked down he saw.
I really could leave you there...
Nevermind.
Peter Pettigew with his wand out using a spell to keep Harry down. Because
he could not get to the top he made as much noise as he could hoping he
would get someone's attention. For awhile it did not seem to be working but
finally there was a splash of someone getting into the pool. Harry did not
even see who it was before he passed out.
James stared at his child passed out on the bed. Then he looked to someone
who used to be his best friend. He felt hate boiling inside of him. A person
he had trusted so much, had done this to his son. James felt that Harry had
enough pain in his life without having this happening to him. James
remembered all those years of school, all the adventures that they had had
together. When had Peter turned on his best friends? Because of Peter
Harry had no parents for thirteen years. The thirteen years he had needed
them the most. Then he heard Harry groan and blink his eyes. James
hurried over to his son. Lily was at the store and she had dragged Sirius and Remus with him.
"Harry are you ok?" He asked. Harry looked up and saw his fathers face.
"Dad, what happened, Wormtail.."?
James pained to hear the old nickname for Peter, the one he and Sirius had given to him.
"It's okay now Harry. I heard you in the water and dived in. I brought you
up to the surface and before he could dissaperate I caught Peter and tied him
up, I will alert the ministry soon, but I wanted to make sure that you were ok
first." James explained. Harry looked over at Peter. He had an identical
look of hate on his face that James had. Just then they heard people
entering the house. James used magic to call Sirius and Remus upstairs to
Harry's bedroom. They walked in with grins on their faces that changed as
soon as they saw Peter.
"What is...that doing here?" Sirius spat. Remus looked too mad to speak.
"Trying to drown my son."
Sirius looked at Harry on the bed and hurried over to him.
"Are you ok, Harry? How did this happen?"
Harry tried to sit up to explain what happened but Sirius pushed him back down.
"You need to rest. Does your head hurt? Is there anything I can get? Does it hurt anywhere? Lean forward I want to feel your forehead." Harry laughed.
"I am just fine Sirius, please let me sit up. I just ran out of breath for awhile I am just fine now."
Remus meanwhile rounded on Peter as he woke up. Peter looked around
wildly. He looked terrified of James; because it still had not reached
Voldemort that he was alive. This was strange because there had been a
newspaper article about it, but still people were still very surprised to see Lily
or James.
"J-James, Prongs m-my o-old friend. It i-is nice t-to see you again." He
stuttered. Then he looked to Remus and Sirius.
"Mooney, Padfoot!"
"Don't-you-dare Peter! Don't you dare call us all by our nicknames. You have no right to call us by the names that we used when we were friends." Remus yelled at Peter.
James was shaking in fury.
"You traitor! You tried to kill your best friends! We trusted you, and you
ratted us out, you bastard!" James yelled at him. Sirius was not in the room
anymore he had gone to get Dumbledore and the ministry. Then Peter
looked at Harry.
"I saved your life Harry you owe me, let me go!"
James was even madder now.
"How dare you address my son? The one you almost killed. The only reason
you saved his life was because of ancient magic, you had too! The only
reason that you are alive today is because of Harry! Because he has a bigger
heart then anyone in this room." James was still shaking. Then Sirius came
back with a bunch of people. Unfortunately for Harry they had brought
dementors. He had a terrified look on his face and ran into the secret
passageway to get away from the pain in his head. This did not help James' mood.
"Idiots! Why did you bring them! Harry can't handle being around them!
He was tortured with them! And you bring them into his room!"
The group looked apologetic.
"We are sorry Mr. Potter we forgot." One of them muttered and sent the
dementors away. They handcuffed Peter and took him away. James went
over to where the secret passageway was and tried to coax Harry out. But
Harry refused; he just sat on the floor shaking in fright. James sighed there
was no hope. He went to go get Lily to see if she could get Harry out. By
now Lily had been told everything that had happened. She couldn't get
Harry to come out either. For two days straight Harry sat in the passageway
not leaving his spot on the floor. He wouldn't eat anything. James had to
force him to drink. Finally Lily owled Hermione to come help. In the letter
she explained everything that had happened to Harry and what he was
doing. As soon as she got the letter Hermione apperated to Harry's house.
She ran up to Harry's room where his parents were still trying to get him out.
"Mr. Potter I owled Ron as well so he will be here shortly." Hermione told James just as Ron came into the room.
"Hermione, where is he, we have to help him!" Ron practically screamed. "Why are you so anxious Ron? We will get him out." Ron looked embarrassed.
"Well awhile back Harry and I cast a spell on each other. I can feel his emotions and feelings and he can feel mine. That is why I have been so down the last couple of days but I did not realize what was happening until I got your owl so I came here at once!"
Hermione gave him a calculating look.
"And why was I not included in this?" She asked sourly.
"Because you and Harry are dating and we thought that if you ever had a fight or anything that you two wouldn't want to feel each others emotions so the spell is just between Harry and I." Ron explained.
Lily and James had heard the whole conversation and were pleased that Harry had such a good friend. The two decided to approach Harry together. They walked over to the secret passageway.
"Hey mate! How are you? Hermione and I were just going to go play a game of Quiddich in the backyard; we would love for you to come join us!" Ron tried with a hopeful look on his face. It didn't work Harry had the same blank look on his face.
"Harry don't you want to go for a drive in your car? We could go to an amusement park and ride the roller-coasters there is one pretty close to here." Hermione to tried. Again nothing happened. Ron and Hermione tried several more ideas when Hermione walked over to Harry and kissed him passionately on the lips. Harry felt a warm sensation growing in him. He reached forward and kissed her back. Ron to now felt a lot better then he had before because Harry was.
"Way to go Hermione! You did it!" Ron shouted. Harry looked up at him. "Hermione did what?" He asked.
"Pulled you out of your trans, nothing was working so Hermione kissed you and it worked!" As soon as he said trans Harry got the glazed look back on his face, remembering what had happened a couple of days ago. "Oh no you don't mate." Ron said and grabbed Harry's arms and pulled him up.
"You are going to leave this passageway."
Harry reluctantly followed Ron out. Lily and James were so happy to see him standing up. They ran over to him and gave him huge hugs trying to comfort him. Harry looked over to Ron and Hermione.
"So are we going to do all those things you promised that we would?"
Ron looked nervous at those words. Harry smiled.
"I was just kidding, Ron lighten up!" Ron gave a sigh of relief.
"Mum can they stay until we go back to school?" Harry asked her giving her a pleading smile.
"Of course dear, that would be great, you two better get your things and
permission from you parents." She said to Ron and Hermione. They nodded
and disapperated. Just as they left Harry got an owl. The seal on the
envelope was that of the National Quiddich Team. He opened it and read:
Dear Mr. Potter, We are delighted that you have joined our team with your two friends. We would like to inform you that training will begin this summer. The only Quiddich Pitch that we could get was in California, in the United States. You are to take a muggle transport called an airplane there are your tickets enclosed. There is also a muggle and magical passport for entering the United States. We will give you more information via. Owl Post when the date is closer. Training will be for a month.
Yours truly, Jay Muller, Quiddich couch and coordinator
Harry was very excited when he looked at the tickets. He would be flying first class on August 1. He ran to go show his father the letter. James was even more excited.
"But won't you have to miss a lot of school to go play Quiddich? I mean where will you find the time for studying and such?" Harry rolled his eyes and looked at his father.
"Oh right I forgot, time is nothing to you!" James said feeling stupid. Harry suddenly felt a great leap of excitement; Ron must have received his letter. "That's ok I know that you are to old to think clearly about these things!" Harry said with an evil smile on his face. James was going to take a swat at him when Harry darted away.
"I'm just to fast for you old man!" He teased as he left the room. James was very grumpy I am not old! He thought to himself, I haven't even reached forty yet! He went to find Sirius and Remus to plan their revenge on Harry for calling them old. But they didn't plan on Harry to start thinking of pranks to pull on them.
The next day at the Potter house had a lot of whispering between the two groups, evil grins, and laughs. Both groups tried to get Lily to help them, but she refused to help at all, she didn't want to get in on the pranks because she didn't want anything to happen to her. That evening Harry, Ron, and Hermione struck. They changed the old Marauders things around. They
replaced things like their toothpaste and after shave into their own 'special'
products. Each was unique to its victim. The next morning was very
eventful. Harry, Ron, and Hermione took out their camera's and started
taking pictures. Sirius had grown a very long beard, much longer then
Dumbledore's. But unlike Dumbledore's it was bright orange as was his now
very long hair. Remus' teeth were now like vampires and glowing green.
This matched his green fur that was covering his arms and legs. But James
was by far the funniest. His hair had turned white. He had wrinkles on his
face. He had shrunk a full two inches and his knees kept giving out, so he had to walk with a cane. Harry made sure that he got a lot of pictures of him. All three of them were in a fury. They knew that the other three were going to get them, but not this soon or hard. Harry, Ron, and Hermione's sides hurt from laughing so hard. Lily to could barely contain her giggles. The 'young' Marauders slapped hands for a job well done. That night though the old Marauders were ready to get their revenge. Because they expected it, Harry, Ron, and Hermione created doubles of them and placed them in their beds. They all went to an entirely different part of the house and slept. When they went to check on how there doubles were doing they couldn't help laughing. The old Marauders had done a good job. They had dyed rainbow colored hair and warts. Their eyes were glowing pink, and their ears were pointy and covered in hair. But it did not matter because it was not them. They made their doubles disappear and went downstairs. They laughed at the looks on James', Sirius', and Remus' faces. They had done their best work on theses kids and here they were looking perfectly normal.
"How did you do that?" James asked.
"Yeah those spells don't have a reverse effect!" Sirius complained.
"Not only don't you get caught pranks don't work on you!" Remus said angrily.
The trio just grinned evilly.
"To bad we have to go back to Hogwarts tomorrow. It is a shame you don't
have time to plan another prank on us." Harry said with mock sadness.
They spent the day playing Quiddich and playing around. That night Harry,
Ron, and Hermione put doubles in their rooms. They also put another
version of them in the rooms they had spent the night before because they
thought that maybe James had found where they had slept. They slept
soundly that night. They went and got rid of their doubles and triples before
they left for the train station. Sirius was taking them because he had to go
back to Hogwarts too and decided not to apperate. Surprisingly there was
nothing wrong with their doubles or triples. They had expected for there to
be serious damage done to them. They pushed it out of their minds. They
went to Sirius' room to wake him up. They were about to pour water on him
when he sat up and started spraying water at them. They were soaked!
Sirius was laughing really hard at the looks on their face. Ron waved his
wand and they were all dry again. They told Sirius to hurry up that they
needed to be at the station in an hour if they were going to catch the train
back. They hurried around the house for about ten minutes and then they
left. Getting into the car Lily had tears in her eyes.
"Mum, it's ok I am only going to be gone for a couple of weeks and then I will be back here with you!" Harry said in an exasperated voice as he gave her a hug good-bye. James was driving them to the station. As they got out of the car to get onto the platform Harry called out "And don't you dare touch my car dad, because I will know!" They heaved their trunks up on the train and found an empty compartment. Ron groaned.
"Did either one of you finish your homework over the vacation? Because certain teachers gave us tons of work to do and I didn't have time to finish it." Ron said giving Sirius a look.
"Ron you know perfectly well we have all the time in the world to finish that homework when we get back to Hogwarts!" Hermione said stating the obvious. Harry nodded in agreement. Then Sarah came into the compartment.
"There you are I have been looking everywhere for you three!" Ron didn't even respond he just went over and gave her a long passionate kiss. Harry took the hint and started kissing Hermione in the same manner. Sirius looked around.
"Really you two couples need to get a room!" he said and was about to leave when he bumped into Malfoy going out of the compartment. Malfoy gave him a nasty look.
"Ah Mr. Malfoy I don't believe that you have any business in this room so I will have to ask you to leave."
Malfoy scoffed and left. Sirius went back into the compartment. He was not pleased to see the couples still making out.
"Lets play a game of exploding snap!" He suggested. They stopped kissing
to play, which was what Sirius had wanted. They played for the remaining
part of the ride. They went up to the castle and settled back in. They did
not have long, however, before Harry started working them hard for the
Quiddich Cup. They practiced and practiced.
When the day of game you could feel the tension. There were several fights
between Gryffindors and Slythrines. When the game began there were roars
from the crowd. Colin Creevy was commentating. It was the easiest game
that Gryffindor had had all year. Harry caught the snitch in three minutes before anyone could even score. So they won the Quiddich Cup. Three fourths of the school were very happy. There was a huge party that night in the Common Room. This time McGonnagal didn't even try to stop it. During the party, Harry decided to talk to Ginny.
"Ginny, you do know that after next year you will be Quiddich Captain." Harry said. Ginny had a look of shock on her face, she had never thought about that.
"Well I think we should select the team this year and have them train with us next year so we will get the Quiddich Cup even after I have left." All Ginny could do was nod.
"Good, I am glad that you agreed." Then he left to go talk to Ron and Hermione. They decided to make their announcement tonight for the entire Gryffindor House. Harry stood up on a table and called for silence in the room. Everyone looked at him with respect.
"I would like to tell you all something that Ron, Hermione, and myself have
been keeping secret for quite sometime now. We thought it would be best if
our fellow Gryffindors to know first. Next year the three of us will be joining
England's National Quiddich team." Everyone started cheering. The rest of
the night was spent congratulating the three of them. By four in the morning
everyone had gone to bed. The next couple of weeks were spent studying
for finals. Of course Harry, Ron, and Hermione had plenty on time to study.
No one had actually seen them study for a long time. That was because
when they did study it was always in The Chamber of Secrets. Harry had
made a recording for Ron and Hermione so they could get into the Chamber
without him. In the mean time they used this study time to pull pranks on
people, mostly Slythrines. They had gone as easy as signs taped on peoples
backs saying 'kick me' or something similar to that to elaborate spells put on
people. This lightened up the mood around the castle. People were
beginning to wonder who these pranksters were. They started referring to
them as the marauders because every time they pulled a prank they would
leave a message and sign it the marauders. Soon the exams started.
McGonnagal had them turn pigs into desks sort-of like what she had done for them in their first year. Points were given for the quality of wood on the desk and taken away if the surface was still a hairy. Harry was adding filing cabinets to his when McGonnagal walked past.
"Good Potter, Weasley, Granger, I am glad to see that you devote some of your time studying instead just pulling pranks and playing Quiddich." The
trio looked stunned. They hadn't known that she knew they were the one
pulling the pranks. For DADA they had to perform a Protrnus and answered
some questions on a test. For the extra credit you had to name at least
three pranks preformed by Sirius to Snape while they were in school. History
of Magic was just as boring as always and consisted of many questions about
the Warlock's Convention of 1709. In Herblogy they had to keep a dieing
magical plant from dieing. Care of Magical Creatures was easy; all they had
to do was write a six-inch summery on the Snidget. In Divination they had
to read their partners mind. Before the test Harry and Ron talked about
what they would be thinking about so that they could pass, even though they
were not supposed to know what the test was about. Charms was pretty
easy as well. They had to charm a piece of parchment to talk to a person
that wrote on it. All three of them had experience with that so they did just
fine. Potions was the hardest. They had to make the draught of the Living
death potion and test it on a mouse. The mouse had to still be breathing and
not dead. Neville had come up with a very weak potion that only kept the
mouse asleep for a half hour. Malfoy had killed his mouse, but Snape
overlooked it. Finally exams were over. The weather seemed to be
celebrating as well because it was beautiful out. Students could be seen
sitting around outside looking at the lake. Harry had Penny bring them their
lunch outside. The three friends sat outside for hours talking about the last
six years of school.
"I can't believe that we will soon be seventh years." Hermione said with a dreamy look on her face.
"It seems like yesterday that I was just meeting you on the train. Remember the dirt on your nose Ron? Or that spell you tried to turn Scabbers yellow with!"
They all burst out laughing.
"Well, well what do we have here? Were you laughing about how little time you have to live, Potter?" Malfoy had come up on them. Harry felt anger come over him. Before he knew it Malfoy was swelling. Not like Aunt Marge but like he was having an allergic reaction to something. They all laughed again at Malfoy's puffed up face. Hermione pulled out a camera and snapped a few pictures. Malfoy ran to the hospital wing.
"Harry how did you to that without a wand?" Ron demanded.
"I don't know." Harry said lazily. "When ever I get angry I loose control of my powers. I set a snake on Dudley, blew up Aunt Marge, and turned my father's skin red. I don't do anything but get mad and 'pow' something bad happens when to the person I am mad at."
Hermione had a look as though she just realized something.
"Oh no, Ron we are headed to the Library. Which one are we going to Hermione? The Chamber one or the public one?"
"The Chamber, now I have figured something out."
Ron and Harry rolled their eyes as they headed to the girls bathroom. Hermione headed straight to the library there and Ron and Harry sat down to a game of chess. After an hour of flipping through books Hermione said something.
"I found it!" She yelled.
"Good now Ron can stop beating me a wizards chess." Harry said and walked over to her with Ron right behind him.
"Harry you are the Lanoitome!" She said dramatically. Harry and Ron just gave each other blank looks.
"Honestly you two you need to read more!" They waited they knew that Hermione would explain.
"There is a their ways until they defeat that lord for good. But you are different from the other ones. Look here read this section. Harry looked down to read:
The only true whole prophecy about you! There is one every time a Dark Lord appears. They stay with Lanoitome will have several qualities that the others do not. Whenever they show great emotion something will happen. Sometimes it won't affect them but other times it could save their lives. They will show great power in their studies. He/she will also hold one common gift with the evil lord. The real Lanoitome is meant to defeat the darkest lord that ever existed. But he/she will not do this by himself. He will have to great friends that equally powerful but in different then his/hers. They are the Redaer and the other is the Lacigol. Together they are meant to face the evil.
"Wow!" Harry breathed. "Well it all fits. Hermione you most be the Redaer and Ron you must be the Lacigol."
"How did you know which was which?" Ron asked.
"Look at the names. The Lanoitome is emotional backward. The Redaer is
reader backwards and the Lacigol is logical backwards. Hermione reads
more then anyone I know and Ron I have never seen anyone beat you at
chess so you are very logical." Harry finished.
"S-should we tell Dumbledore?" Hermione wondered.
"Not yet, I think we should get more information on everything, let's tell him next year when we begin school." Ron said.
"I agree with Ron, that is a good time to tell him and it gives us time to do our own research." Harry said. Hermione nodded.
The next morning Ron got a howler.
"What did I do wrong?" he asked.
"Open it and see." Hermione said. He did. Mrs. Weasley's voice boomed over the great hall. "RONALD WEASLEY HOW DARE YOU NOT TELL US ABOUT MAKING THE NATIONAL QUIDDICH TEAM! YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD US BEFORE YOU TOLD THE GRYFFINDOR HOUSE! BUT NO WE HAD TO HEAR IT SECOND HAND THROUGH GINNY! WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT THIS WHEN YOU GET HOME!"
The hall broke out in whispers; Ron Weasley was going to play for England! Ron looked confused.
"She sent me a howler about that? That seems kind-of stupid if you ask me."
Dumbledore took this chance to stand up.
"Yes everyone Ronald Weasley will be playing Quiddich for England as will Harry Potter and Hermione Granger."
The hall broke out again. They were going to have three national Quiddich
players at there school at their school next year, everyone was very excited.
Harry rolled his eyes. The last couple of weeks were people always asking
them if they were playing on the team. So the trio spent most of their time
in the Chamber of Secrets to avoid people. On of the rare times that they
were in the hallways Sirius popped out on them.
"Harry, Ron, Hermione Dumbledore wants to see you three." He told them. The followed him Dumbledore's office.
"Kit-Kat bars."
They got onto the walking staircase and knocked on the door. When they came into the room Dumbledore smiled.
"Ah come in! Take a seat." They all sat down.
"I would like to discuss a couple of issues with you three. First is the
problem with the Head boy. See both Harry and Ron are the best choices,
you got the same grades on your exams. Usually when this happens we ask
the sorting hat. We did. The problem is that it wants you both to be Head
Boy. We have never had this happen in the history of Hogwarts. Every
other time one has been slightly better then the other but that is not true in
this case. We think we would like you both to be Head boy if you think that
the two of you can handle working together." Harry and Ron had huge grins
on their faces. The spoke the same words at the same time.
"We would love to be co-head boys Professor we will work together really well." They looked at each other and laughed.
"Ok then next issue. I have received a letter from the National Quiddich team. They want you to be able to use your magic this summer for the camp. You are to sign a form to say that you will use your magic properly and not blow any big things up." He had a twinkle in his eye. They all nodded and signed their names.
"The next order of business is that I got another letter regarding you three. The magical college that you will be attending, William's School of Magic, has seen your final exams scores. They wish to send a professor from the college to teach you college level classes for the next term. If all goes well you will go into College as juniors instead of freshman. I want to know if you think that you will have time to do this."
Looking at the boys faces Hermione spoke. "We would love to, as for time that is not a problem for us."
"Well that is all I need to talk to you about. The good-bye feast is about to start so let's go join the rest of the school for tonight." They walked to the great hall. The feast was wonderful as usual. Before they knew they were back on the Hogwarts Express. The journey seemed very short to the three friends. Harry looked at his two best friends before they left.
"I will see you in a month! And I miss you already Hermione!" Then he gave her a long kiss. Ron looked at Harry with a mock hurt voice said "What Harry you don't miss me already! Where's my kiss?"
"Right there!" Harry pointed to Sarah. Ron smiled and kissed her. They walked off to find their parents. James had brought Harry's car for him to drive.
"I thought I told you not to touch my car!" Harry teased. About half-way on the drive home Harry turned down the radio.
"What did you decided how horrible that music is!" James said.
"No I wanted to ask you a question."
"Shoot."
"When is Sirius' birthday?"
"It is two weeks, why?"
"Because I want to get him something."
"What?"
"It is a surprise."
"Even for me?"
"Yes." Harry turned the radio up again. James sighed, teenagers, he thought. Lily was so happy about Harry being back home. She had missed him so much. Harry, Ron and Hermione had decided to spend the whole month they were home with their parents. This was because this was their last summer and wanted to spend it with their parents.
"Mum, Dad I am going to be gone for the day. I want to go get Sirius' birthday present."
"Where are you going and when are you going to be back." James demanded. Harry had to tell his parents where he was at all time since spring break.
"Hogsmeade, and at the latest eight tonight, but I should be back earlier then that."
"Ok."
Harry apperated to Hogsmeade. He felt bad he had told his parents that he would be here, but he was really going to visit Hagrid. He went up to the castle and knocked on Hagrid's door. Hagrid opened it.
"'Arry what are you doing 'ere?"
"I wanted to talk to you about something."
"Come on in, I will make some tea."
"Hagrid remember when you took me from my parents house when I was a baby?"
"'O course I do, how could I forget?"
"Well I was wondering what you did with Sirius' bike." Hagrid's face light up. "I still have it, it is in the shed behind my house. It is still in great shape! Why do you ask?"
"I want to give it to him for his birthday."
"That is a great idea 'Arry, he will love it!" They walked back to the shed. Harry went over to the bike that was covered in a cloth.
"Do you think that I can fly it home?"
"Sure you can, it is pretty good shape, but don't forget to make yourself invisible."
"Of course, thank you Hagrid! I better go if I want to get home by the time I said I would be."
"Bye 'Arry!"
Harry made great time on the motorcycle. He reached home an hour before he said that he would be home. He apperated up to his room and grabbed his invisibility cloak and hung it over the motorcycle, then he hid it in his room. He spent the next week just spending time with his parents. They talked a lot about everything. Harry gave them more detail on what had happened to him during the years. He talked his parents into having a party for Sirius. They invited a ton of people from when they were in school. Finally the big day came. Harry loved the look on Sirius' face when he saw all the people who came to his party. Since Sirius was an adult he didn't get many real gifts just things like gift certificates and pictures from his school days. Harry had disappeared for a short while. Sirius was wondering where he was when Harry came downstairs. He brought a large box in front of Sirius. "Happy Birthday Sirius! I hope you like this present." Sirius knew that if it was from Harry that he would love it. He looked at it and wondered what Harry could get him that was so big. When he opened the package he was in complete shock!
"My motorcycle! Where did you get it Harry? I thought it was long gone after I gave it away to Hagrid that night!"
"And that is where I got it, from Hagrid. I went and saw him he has had it all these years."
Sirius was very pleased. "Thank You Harry, this is the best present ever!" He went and gave Harry a big hug. Lily took a camera put at one of the tables of the two of them hugging. James too was in shock. He was also a little bit jealous of Sirius. After all Harry was, his son and Harry had never given him anything like that. Why didn't Harry do things like that for him?
James had been there for Harry when he almost drowned and when he was
in the hospital. He realized that when Sirius had first seen Harry after he got
hurt he started asking questions making sure that Harry was ok. He felt
Harry's forehead and such when James hadn't even thought of that! James
went to his study and closed the door. Harry noticed this and headed
towards the study. The door was locked so he used the secret passageway
to get in there. He watched James for a couple of minutes and then entered the study.
"Dad what's wrong? I thought that you would enjoy seeing all your old friends." "Oh hi Harry. I just have some work to do that's right. I really need to get this work done." James said in a tone less voice. Harry knew that he was lying and his feelings were hurt. He thought that his father could tell him what was wrong. Harry pushed it out of his mind for awhile and went to enjoy the party. He liked meeting his parents' old school friends. He went over to where Sirius and Remus were.
"Oh there you are Harry, why don't you go get your photo album of the pranks you have pulled, I want to show Gary here that the Marauders are still at Hogwarts. Harry smiled and ran upstairs. Within a couple seconds he
came back down with a big black book. They group with Sirius thought some
of the little pranks were the best but when Harry got to the pictures of the
Slythrines the group went numb with laughter. Harry preformed a couple
charms and enlarged the pictures and put them in a place where everyone could see them. Underneath Harry had glowing words saying "Harry's
Prank". Gary looked at him and asked him the question that everyone else wanted to know. "How did you get away with doing magic over the summer, when I was Hogwarts you got expelled for doing that." Everyone in the room nodded in agreement. "Well it is because Jay Muller wanted me to be able to use magic while I am training." Harry said. All the men knew who Jay Muller was and most of the women did too. Then Ken, another friend of Sirius' spoke up. "The Jay Muller of England's team? "
"Yep, he said that during training that he wanted all of the team to be able to use their magic. Dumbledore agreed as long as I didn't blow anything to big up." Harry enjoyed the affect of his words. They all asked Harry tons of questions for the rest of the night. Sirius was really proud of Harry for making it and followed him around for the rest of night to show him off to all his friends. Harry was like the son that Sirius never had. Harry forgot completely about James for the rest of the night. Harry got to bed very late that night. It was three in the morning when the party finally died down. Harry slept wonderfully. Sirius had spent the night because the party had gone so late. James was not happy to see Sirius that morning at the breakfast table. Sirius looked up at him.
"Hey James! Where were you? You missed all the fun. Harry told everyone about his pranks and playing Quiddich! He really livened up the party! It wouldn't be the same without him. He most defiantly your son." James just nodded and told the house-elf what he wanted for breakfast.
"James what is wrong?" Sirius asked. He hadn't seen James this mad for a long time.
"Nothing."
"Your lying James Potter. I have known you since we were seven. I can tell when you are upset and you are not happy right now." James blew up.
"YOU ARE ALWAYS WITH HARRY! HE SEEMS TO LIKE YOU SO MUCH MORE THEN ME! HE TELLS YOU EVERYTHING BEFORE HE TELLS ME! HE GETS YOU WONDERFUL THOUGHTFUL GIFTS! HE SHOULD JUST MOVE IN WITH YOU! HE THINKS THAT YOU ARE HIS FATHER AND I AM NOT!"
Sirius was taken aback. He had never thought of the fact that Harry went to him first.
"James the only reason he comes to me first to me is an old habit. He finds it easier to write a letter to me then to just talk to you. It is hard for him to just say straight out." Sirius explained to James. This just made James madder. Sirius also thought that he knew Harry better. Sirius knew his friend's temper. James would soon begin to get violent. Sirius was not going to let that happen.
"James the only reason I relate so well to Harry is because he is so much like you. When I thought you were dead it pained me to look or talk to me. He is your spit and image with a little Lily in him. His facial expressions, his voice, his hair. He reminds me so much of you. He even likes mischief as much as you do. No one could ever mistake him for anyone's son but your own. I just happened to meet him first it is not your fault."
James began to calm down. Sirius always knew how to make him feel better.
"I'm sorry Padfoot." He muttered. Sirius smiled at the sound of his old nickname.
"Nothing at all Prongs think nothing of it." Sirius gave him a manly hug. Harry came into the kitchen right at that moment.
"Awww Kodiak moment." Harry snapped a picture with the camera that he now carried with him at all times. They blushed and separated.
Lily came into the kitchen she was really pale. James went over to her.
"Honey what is wrong?"
"P-petunia and Vernon!"
"What did they do to you? I will kill them if they hurt you!"
"No that's the problem! They were killed. Dudley was at a friends house
spending the night and Voldemort came and..and.." Lily couldn't say
anymore. She didn't need to everyone in the room bowed their heads. No
one really liked the Dursleys but they hadn't wanted them dead (despite
James' threats). The funeral for them was the next day. Harry wore his best
black robes forgetting that it was a muggle funeral. Lily and James did the
same. The muggles that were there were horrified at the clothes that the
Potter's wearing. They thought it was very inappropriate for them to wear
such things to a funeral. Harry's 'Aunt' Marge was angry that they had
come. She looked at Lily with disgust. (Vernon told her that they had really
been in comas these last thirteen years when they came out and took Harry
away.) "Why are you here?" She spat at Lily. Lily looked hurt.
"She was my sister. Even though we had our differences that didn't make
her anything less then that. I have to right to come pay my respects to my
sister." James glared at Marge and put his arm around her shoulders and led
her away with Harry following behind them. Harry looked behind him. He
would never have to deal with the Dursleys again. He however was wrong.
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"Harry, your home! We were so worried!" Lily sobbed. James yelled at him.
"HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO US!!!!? WE HAD NO IDEA WHERE YOU WERE!! YOU COULD AT LEAST TELL US WHERE YOU WERE! OR CALLED! YOU ARE AN HOUR LATE! GO TO YOUR ROOM!"
Harry went up to his room with his head down. He had not meant to worry
his parents. All he had wanted to do was give Hermione a good time, but
even his parents couldn't get rid of the feeling that he had left over from his
date. He lay down on his bed and looked through the photo album that
Hermione had given him. They were all wizards' pictures. He sighed. He
loved Hermione so much and hoped she felt the same way. He now thought
that he couldn't live without her. Harry fell asleep thinking about her.
The next morning he woke up very happy. He walked downstairs for
breakfast; he had forgotten what his parents had said the night before. He
walked into the kitchen practically floating.
"Have a good time?" Sirius asked him.
"The best." He replied smiling.
"So how did she like it? Where did you take her? What were you doing that caused you to be so late?"
"Whoa one question at a time. I think she liked it." Then he went into full detail of the whole night with Hermione.
"Wow, you did a very good job, you will never have a hard time keeping a girl." Remus commented. Harry blushed.
"So what prank should we pull on dad?" Harry asked as he grinned evilly.
They spent the next half hour talking about what they could do to James.
When James cam down he gave Harry a stern look.
"Look dad, I'm sorry it was Hermione's and I two month anniversary and.." "Two months!?! I thought you just started going out?"
"No, we just didn't kiss in front of teachers until I asked her to the dance."
Harry said giving Sirius a side-ways look. Sirius looked embarrassed; he did not know that Harry knew that he had told his parents.
"I'm surprised that he didn't find out about us earlier. He saw us walking
through the halls ways holding hands. I guess that Padfoot here just isn't as
smart as he used to be." Sirius smacked Harry upside the head. That's
when Lily came down.
"Giving my son the since he needs?"
"No I am smacking him for insulting me." Sirius grumbled. "I am just as intelligent as I always was."
"It is not just you Sirius; everyone in this room is going senile!" Harry ran
out of the room to avoid several blows to the head. He waved his wand and
changed into a swimsuit. He went out to the pool and started to do swim
laps. Most of the time Harry liked to run but he was not sure if it was a good
idea with Voldemort after him. When he was on hi fiftieth lap he felt
something pull at his ankle. He tried to surface but could not. No matter
how hard he tried he could not get himself up to the surface. He opened his
eyes underwater to see what was pulling on him as he looked down he saw.
I really could leave you there...
Nevermind.
Peter Pettigew with his wand out using a spell to keep Harry down. Because
he could not get to the top he made as much noise as he could hoping he
would get someone's attention. For awhile it did not seem to be working but
finally there was a splash of someone getting into the pool. Harry did not
even see who it was before he passed out.
James stared at his child passed out on the bed. Then he looked to someone
who used to be his best friend. He felt hate boiling inside of him. A person
he had trusted so much, had done this to his son. James felt that Harry had
enough pain in his life without having this happening to him. James
remembered all those years of school, all the adventures that they had had
together. When had Peter turned on his best friends? Because of Peter
Harry had no parents for thirteen years. The thirteen years he had needed
them the most. Then he heard Harry groan and blink his eyes. James
hurried over to his son. Lily was at the store and she had dragged Sirius and Remus with him.
"Harry are you ok?" He asked. Harry looked up and saw his fathers face.
"Dad, what happened, Wormtail.."?
James pained to hear the old nickname for Peter, the one he and Sirius had given to him.
"It's okay now Harry. I heard you in the water and dived in. I brought you
up to the surface and before he could dissaperate I caught Peter and tied him
up, I will alert the ministry soon, but I wanted to make sure that you were ok
first." James explained. Harry looked over at Peter. He had an identical
look of hate on his face that James had. Just then they heard people
entering the house. James used magic to call Sirius and Remus upstairs to
Harry's bedroom. They walked in with grins on their faces that changed as
soon as they saw Peter.
"What is...that doing here?" Sirius spat. Remus looked too mad to speak.
"Trying to drown my son."
Sirius looked at Harry on the bed and hurried over to him.
"Are you ok, Harry? How did this happen?"
Harry tried to sit up to explain what happened but Sirius pushed him back down.
"You need to rest. Does your head hurt? Is there anything I can get? Does it hurt anywhere? Lean forward I want to feel your forehead." Harry laughed.
"I am just fine Sirius, please let me sit up. I just ran out of breath for awhile I am just fine now."
Remus meanwhile rounded on Peter as he woke up. Peter looked around
wildly. He looked terrified of James; because it still had not reached
Voldemort that he was alive. This was strange because there had been a
newspaper article about it, but still people were still very surprised to see Lily
or James.
"J-James, Prongs m-my o-old friend. It i-is nice t-to see you again." He
stuttered. Then he looked to Remus and Sirius.
"Mooney, Padfoot!"
"Don't-you-dare Peter! Don't you dare call us all by our nicknames. You have no right to call us by the names that we used when we were friends." Remus yelled at Peter.
James was shaking in fury.
"You traitor! You tried to kill your best friends! We trusted you, and you
ratted us out, you bastard!" James yelled at him. Sirius was not in the room
anymore he had gone to get Dumbledore and the ministry. Then Peter
looked at Harry.
"I saved your life Harry you owe me, let me go!"
James was even madder now.
"How dare you address my son? The one you almost killed. The only reason
you saved his life was because of ancient magic, you had too! The only
reason that you are alive today is because of Harry! Because he has a bigger
heart then anyone in this room." James was still shaking. Then Sirius came
back with a bunch of people. Unfortunately for Harry they had brought
dementors. He had a terrified look on his face and ran into the secret
passageway to get away from the pain in his head. This did not help James' mood.
"Idiots! Why did you bring them! Harry can't handle being around them!
He was tortured with them! And you bring them into his room!"
The group looked apologetic.
"We are sorry Mr. Potter we forgot." One of them muttered and sent the
dementors away. They handcuffed Peter and took him away. James went
over to where the secret passageway was and tried to coax Harry out. But
Harry refused; he just sat on the floor shaking in fright. James sighed there
was no hope. He went to go get Lily to see if she could get Harry out. By
now Lily had been told everything that had happened. She couldn't get
Harry to come out either. For two days straight Harry sat in the passageway
not leaving his spot on the floor. He wouldn't eat anything. James had to
force him to drink. Finally Lily owled Hermione to come help. In the letter
she explained everything that had happened to Harry and what he was
doing. As soon as she got the letter Hermione apperated to Harry's house.
She ran up to Harry's room where his parents were still trying to get him out.
"Mr. Potter I owled Ron as well so he will be here shortly." Hermione told James just as Ron came into the room.
"Hermione, where is he, we have to help him!" Ron practically screamed. "Why are you so anxious Ron? We will get him out." Ron looked embarrassed.
"Well awhile back Harry and I cast a spell on each other. I can feel his emotions and feelings and he can feel mine. That is why I have been so down the last couple of days but I did not realize what was happening until I got your owl so I came here at once!"
Hermione gave him a calculating look.
"And why was I not included in this?" She asked sourly.
"Because you and Harry are dating and we thought that if you ever had a fight or anything that you two wouldn't want to feel each others emotions so the spell is just between Harry and I." Ron explained.
Lily and James had heard the whole conversation and were pleased that Harry had such a good friend. The two decided to approach Harry together. They walked over to the secret passageway.
"Hey mate! How are you? Hermione and I were just going to go play a game of Quiddich in the backyard; we would love for you to come join us!" Ron tried with a hopeful look on his face. It didn't work Harry had the same blank look on his face.
"Harry don't you want to go for a drive in your car? We could go to an amusement park and ride the roller-coasters there is one pretty close to here." Hermione to tried. Again nothing happened. Ron and Hermione tried several more ideas when Hermione walked over to Harry and kissed him passionately on the lips. Harry felt a warm sensation growing in him. He reached forward and kissed her back. Ron to now felt a lot better then he had before because Harry was.
"Way to go Hermione! You did it!" Ron shouted. Harry looked up at him. "Hermione did what?" He asked.
"Pulled you out of your trans, nothing was working so Hermione kissed you and it worked!" As soon as he said trans Harry got the glazed look back on his face, remembering what had happened a couple of days ago. "Oh no you don't mate." Ron said and grabbed Harry's arms and pulled him up.
"You are going to leave this passageway."
Harry reluctantly followed Ron out. Lily and James were so happy to see him standing up. They ran over to him and gave him huge hugs trying to comfort him. Harry looked over to Ron and Hermione.
"So are we going to do all those things you promised that we would?"
Ron looked nervous at those words. Harry smiled.
"I was just kidding, Ron lighten up!" Ron gave a sigh of relief.
"Mum can they stay until we go back to school?" Harry asked her giving her a pleading smile.
"Of course dear, that would be great, you two better get your things and
permission from you parents." She said to Ron and Hermione. They nodded
and disapperated. Just as they left Harry got an owl. The seal on the
envelope was that of the National Quiddich Team. He opened it and read:
Dear Mr. Potter, We are delighted that you have joined our team with your two friends. We would like to inform you that training will begin this summer. The only Quiddich Pitch that we could get was in California, in the United States. You are to take a muggle transport called an airplane there are your tickets enclosed. There is also a muggle and magical passport for entering the United States. We will give you more information via. Owl Post when the date is closer. Training will be for a month.
Yours truly, Jay Muller, Quiddich couch and coordinator
Harry was very excited when he looked at the tickets. He would be flying first class on August 1. He ran to go show his father the letter. James was even more excited.
"But won't you have to miss a lot of school to go play Quiddich? I mean where will you find the time for studying and such?" Harry rolled his eyes and looked at his father.
"Oh right I forgot, time is nothing to you!" James said feeling stupid. Harry suddenly felt a great leap of excitement; Ron must have received his letter. "That's ok I know that you are to old to think clearly about these things!" Harry said with an evil smile on his face. James was going to take a swat at him when Harry darted away.
"I'm just to fast for you old man!" He teased as he left the room. James was very grumpy I am not old! He thought to himself, I haven't even reached forty yet! He went to find Sirius and Remus to plan their revenge on Harry for calling them old. But they didn't plan on Harry to start thinking of pranks to pull on them.
The next day at the Potter house had a lot of whispering between the two groups, evil grins, and laughs. Both groups tried to get Lily to help them, but she refused to help at all, she didn't want to get in on the pranks because she didn't want anything to happen to her. That evening Harry, Ron, and Hermione struck. They changed the old Marauders things around. They
replaced things like their toothpaste and after shave into their own 'special'
products. Each was unique to its victim. The next morning was very
eventful. Harry, Ron, and Hermione took out their camera's and started
taking pictures. Sirius had grown a very long beard, much longer then
Dumbledore's. But unlike Dumbledore's it was bright orange as was his now
very long hair. Remus' teeth were now like vampires and glowing green.
This matched his green fur that was covering his arms and legs. But James
was by far the funniest. His hair had turned white. He had wrinkles on his
face. He had shrunk a full two inches and his knees kept giving out, so he had to walk with a cane. Harry made sure that he got a lot of pictures of him. All three of them were in a fury. They knew that the other three were going to get them, but not this soon or hard. Harry, Ron, and Hermione's sides hurt from laughing so hard. Lily to could barely contain her giggles. The 'young' Marauders slapped hands for a job well done. That night though the old Marauders were ready to get their revenge. Because they expected it, Harry, Ron, and Hermione created doubles of them and placed them in their beds. They all went to an entirely different part of the house and slept. When they went to check on how there doubles were doing they couldn't help laughing. The old Marauders had done a good job. They had dyed rainbow colored hair and warts. Their eyes were glowing pink, and their ears were pointy and covered in hair. But it did not matter because it was not them. They made their doubles disappear and went downstairs. They laughed at the looks on James', Sirius', and Remus' faces. They had done their best work on theses kids and here they were looking perfectly normal.
"How did you do that?" James asked.
"Yeah those spells don't have a reverse effect!" Sirius complained.
"Not only don't you get caught pranks don't work on you!" Remus said angrily.
The trio just grinned evilly.
"To bad we have to go back to Hogwarts tomorrow. It is a shame you don't
have time to plan another prank on us." Harry said with mock sadness.
They spent the day playing Quiddich and playing around. That night Harry,
Ron, and Hermione put doubles in their rooms. They also put another
version of them in the rooms they had spent the night before because they
thought that maybe James had found where they had slept. They slept
soundly that night. They went and got rid of their doubles and triples before
they left for the train station. Sirius was taking them because he had to go
back to Hogwarts too and decided not to apperate. Surprisingly there was
nothing wrong with their doubles or triples. They had expected for there to
be serious damage done to them. They pushed it out of their minds. They
went to Sirius' room to wake him up. They were about to pour water on him
when he sat up and started spraying water at them. They were soaked!
Sirius was laughing really hard at the looks on their face. Ron waved his
wand and they were all dry again. They told Sirius to hurry up that they
needed to be at the station in an hour if they were going to catch the train
back. They hurried around the house for about ten minutes and then they
left. Getting into the car Lily had tears in her eyes.
"Mum, it's ok I am only going to be gone for a couple of weeks and then I will be back here with you!" Harry said in an exasperated voice as he gave her a hug good-bye. James was driving them to the station. As they got out of the car to get onto the platform Harry called out "And don't you dare touch my car dad, because I will know!" They heaved their trunks up on the train and found an empty compartment. Ron groaned.
"Did either one of you finish your homework over the vacation? Because certain teachers gave us tons of work to do and I didn't have time to finish it." Ron said giving Sirius a look.
"Ron you know perfectly well we have all the time in the world to finish that homework when we get back to Hogwarts!" Hermione said stating the obvious. Harry nodded in agreement. Then Sarah came into the compartment.
"There you are I have been looking everywhere for you three!" Ron didn't even respond he just went over and gave her a long passionate kiss. Harry took the hint and started kissing Hermione in the same manner. Sirius looked around.
"Really you two couples need to get a room!" he said and was about to leave when he bumped into Malfoy going out of the compartment. Malfoy gave him a nasty look.
"Ah Mr. Malfoy I don't believe that you have any business in this room so I will have to ask you to leave."
Malfoy scoffed and left. Sirius went back into the compartment. He was not pleased to see the couples still making out.
"Lets play a game of exploding snap!" He suggested. They stopped kissing
to play, which was what Sirius had wanted. They played for the remaining
part of the ride. They went up to the castle and settled back in. They did
not have long, however, before Harry started working them hard for the
Quiddich Cup. They practiced and practiced.
When the day of game you could feel the tension. There were several fights
between Gryffindors and Slythrines. When the game began there were roars
from the crowd. Colin Creevy was commentating. It was the easiest game
that Gryffindor had had all year. Harry caught the snitch in three minutes before anyone could even score. So they won the Quiddich Cup. Three fourths of the school were very happy. There was a huge party that night in the Common Room. This time McGonnagal didn't even try to stop it. During the party, Harry decided to talk to Ginny.
"Ginny, you do know that after next year you will be Quiddich Captain." Harry said. Ginny had a look of shock on her face, she had never thought about that.
"Well I think we should select the team this year and have them train with us next year so we will get the Quiddich Cup even after I have left." All Ginny could do was nod.
"Good, I am glad that you agreed." Then he left to go talk to Ron and Hermione. They decided to make their announcement tonight for the entire Gryffindor House. Harry stood up on a table and called for silence in the room. Everyone looked at him with respect.
"I would like to tell you all something that Ron, Hermione, and myself have
been keeping secret for quite sometime now. We thought it would be best if
our fellow Gryffindors to know first. Next year the three of us will be joining
England's National Quiddich team." Everyone started cheering. The rest of
the night was spent congratulating the three of them. By four in the morning
everyone had gone to bed. The next couple of weeks were spent studying
for finals. Of course Harry, Ron, and Hermione had plenty on time to study.
No one had actually seen them study for a long time. That was because
when they did study it was always in The Chamber of Secrets. Harry had
made a recording for Ron and Hermione so they could get into the Chamber
without him. In the mean time they used this study time to pull pranks on
people, mostly Slythrines. They had gone as easy as signs taped on peoples
backs saying 'kick me' or something similar to that to elaborate spells put on
people. This lightened up the mood around the castle. People were
beginning to wonder who these pranksters were. They started referring to
them as the marauders because every time they pulled a prank they would
leave a message and sign it the marauders. Soon the exams started.
McGonnagal had them turn pigs into desks sort-of like what she had done for them in their first year. Points were given for the quality of wood on the desk and taken away if the surface was still a hairy. Harry was adding filing cabinets to his when McGonnagal walked past.
"Good Potter, Weasley, Granger, I am glad to see that you devote some of your time studying instead just pulling pranks and playing Quiddich." The
trio looked stunned. They hadn't known that she knew they were the one
pulling the pranks. For DADA they had to perform a Protrnus and answered
some questions on a test. For the extra credit you had to name at least
three pranks preformed by Sirius to Snape while they were in school. History
of Magic was just as boring as always and consisted of many questions about
the Warlock's Convention of 1709. In Herblogy they had to keep a dieing
magical plant from dieing. Care of Magical Creatures was easy; all they had
to do was write a six-inch summery on the Snidget. In Divination they had
to read their partners mind. Before the test Harry and Ron talked about
what they would be thinking about so that they could pass, even though they
were not supposed to know what the test was about. Charms was pretty
easy as well. They had to charm a piece of parchment to talk to a person
that wrote on it. All three of them had experience with that so they did just
fine. Potions was the hardest. They had to make the draught of the Living
death potion and test it on a mouse. The mouse had to still be breathing and
not dead. Neville had come up with a very weak potion that only kept the
mouse asleep for a half hour. Malfoy had killed his mouse, but Snape
overlooked it. Finally exams were over. The weather seemed to be
celebrating as well because it was beautiful out. Students could be seen
sitting around outside looking at the lake. Harry had Penny bring them their
lunch outside. The three friends sat outside for hours talking about the last
six years of school.
"I can't believe that we will soon be seventh years." Hermione said with a dreamy look on her face.
"It seems like yesterday that I was just meeting you on the train. Remember the dirt on your nose Ron? Or that spell you tried to turn Scabbers yellow with!"
They all burst out laughing.
"Well, well what do we have here? Were you laughing about how little time you have to live, Potter?" Malfoy had come up on them. Harry felt anger come over him. Before he knew it Malfoy was swelling. Not like Aunt Marge but like he was having an allergic reaction to something. They all laughed again at Malfoy's puffed up face. Hermione pulled out a camera and snapped a few pictures. Malfoy ran to the hospital wing.
"Harry how did you to that without a wand?" Ron demanded.
"I don't know." Harry said lazily. "When ever I get angry I loose control of my powers. I set a snake on Dudley, blew up Aunt Marge, and turned my father's skin red. I don't do anything but get mad and 'pow' something bad happens when to the person I am mad at."
Hermione had a look as though she just realized something.
"Oh no, Ron we are headed to the Library. Which one are we going to Hermione? The Chamber one or the public one?"
"The Chamber, now I have figured something out."
Ron and Harry rolled their eyes as they headed to the girls bathroom. Hermione headed straight to the library there and Ron and Harry sat down to a game of chess. After an hour of flipping through books Hermione said something.
"I found it!" She yelled.
"Good now Ron can stop beating me a wizards chess." Harry said and walked over to her with Ron right behind him.
"Harry you are the Lanoitome!" She said dramatically. Harry and Ron just gave each other blank looks.
"Honestly you two you need to read more!" They waited they knew that Hermione would explain.
"There is a their ways until they defeat that lord for good. But you are different from the other ones. Look here read this section. Harry looked down to read:
The only true whole prophecy about you! There is one every time a Dark Lord appears. They stay with Lanoitome will have several qualities that the others do not. Whenever they show great emotion something will happen. Sometimes it won't affect them but other times it could save their lives. They will show great power in their studies. He/she will also hold one common gift with the evil lord. The real Lanoitome is meant to defeat the darkest lord that ever existed. But he/she will not do this by himself. He will have to great friends that equally powerful but in different then his/hers. They are the Redaer and the other is the Lacigol. Together they are meant to face the evil.
"Wow!" Harry breathed. "Well it all fits. Hermione you most be the Redaer and Ron you must be the Lacigol."
"How did you know which was which?" Ron asked.
"Look at the names. The Lanoitome is emotional backward. The Redaer is
reader backwards and the Lacigol is logical backwards. Hermione reads
more then anyone I know and Ron I have never seen anyone beat you at
chess so you are very logical." Harry finished.
"S-should we tell Dumbledore?" Hermione wondered.
"Not yet, I think we should get more information on everything, let's tell him next year when we begin school." Ron said.
"I agree with Ron, that is a good time to tell him and it gives us time to do our own research." Harry said. Hermione nodded.
The next morning Ron got a howler.
"What did I do wrong?" he asked.
"Open it and see." Hermione said. He did. Mrs. Weasley's voice boomed over the great hall. "RONALD WEASLEY HOW DARE YOU NOT TELL US ABOUT MAKING THE NATIONAL QUIDDICH TEAM! YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD US BEFORE YOU TOLD THE GRYFFINDOR HOUSE! BUT NO WE HAD TO HEAR IT SECOND HAND THROUGH GINNY! WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT THIS WHEN YOU GET HOME!"
The hall broke out in whispers; Ron Weasley was going to play for England! Ron looked confused.
"She sent me a howler about that? That seems kind-of stupid if you ask me."
Dumbledore took this chance to stand up.
"Yes everyone Ronald Weasley will be playing Quiddich for England as will Harry Potter and Hermione Granger."
The hall broke out again. They were going to have three national Quiddich
players at there school at their school next year, everyone was very excited.
Harry rolled his eyes. The last couple of weeks were people always asking
them if they were playing on the team. So the trio spent most of their time
in the Chamber of Secrets to avoid people. On of the rare times that they
were in the hallways Sirius popped out on them.
"Harry, Ron, Hermione Dumbledore wants to see you three." He told them. The followed him Dumbledore's office.
"Kit-Kat bars."
They got onto the walking staircase and knocked on the door. When they came into the room Dumbledore smiled.
"Ah come in! Take a seat." They all sat down.
"I would like to discuss a couple of issues with you three. First is the
problem with the Head boy. See both Harry and Ron are the best choices,
you got the same grades on your exams. Usually when this happens we ask
the sorting hat. We did. The problem is that it wants you both to be Head
Boy. We have never had this happen in the history of Hogwarts. Every
other time one has been slightly better then the other but that is not true in
this case. We think we would like you both to be Head boy if you think that
the two of you can handle working together." Harry and Ron had huge grins
on their faces. The spoke the same words at the same time.
"We would love to be co-head boys Professor we will work together really well." They looked at each other and laughed.
"Ok then next issue. I have received a letter from the National Quiddich team. They want you to be able to use your magic this summer for the camp. You are to sign a form to say that you will use your magic properly and not blow any big things up." He had a twinkle in his eye. They all nodded and signed their names.
"The next order of business is that I got another letter regarding you three. The magical college that you will be attending, William's School of Magic, has seen your final exams scores. They wish to send a professor from the college to teach you college level classes for the next term. If all goes well you will go into College as juniors instead of freshman. I want to know if you think that you will have time to do this."
Looking at the boys faces Hermione spoke. "We would love to, as for time that is not a problem for us."
"Well that is all I need to talk to you about. The good-bye feast is about to start so let's go join the rest of the school for tonight." They walked to the great hall. The feast was wonderful as usual. Before they knew they were back on the Hogwarts Express. The journey seemed very short to the three friends. Harry looked at his two best friends before they left.
"I will see you in a month! And I miss you already Hermione!" Then he gave her a long kiss. Ron looked at Harry with a mock hurt voice said "What Harry you don't miss me already! Where's my kiss?"
"Right there!" Harry pointed to Sarah. Ron smiled and kissed her. They walked off to find their parents. James had brought Harry's car for him to drive.
"I thought I told you not to touch my car!" Harry teased. About half-way on the drive home Harry turned down the radio.
"What did you decided how horrible that music is!" James said.
"No I wanted to ask you a question."
"Shoot."
"When is Sirius' birthday?"
"It is two weeks, why?"
"Because I want to get him something."
"What?"
"It is a surprise."
"Even for me?"
"Yes." Harry turned the radio up again. James sighed, teenagers, he thought. Lily was so happy about Harry being back home. She had missed him so much. Harry, Ron and Hermione had decided to spend the whole month they were home with their parents. This was because this was their last summer and wanted to spend it with their parents.
"Mum, Dad I am going to be gone for the day. I want to go get Sirius' birthday present."
"Where are you going and when are you going to be back." James demanded. Harry had to tell his parents where he was at all time since spring break.
"Hogsmeade, and at the latest eight tonight, but I should be back earlier then that."
"Ok."
Harry apperated to Hogsmeade. He felt bad he had told his parents that he would be here, but he was really going to visit Hagrid. He went up to the castle and knocked on Hagrid's door. Hagrid opened it.
"'Arry what are you doing 'ere?"
"I wanted to talk to you about something."
"Come on in, I will make some tea."
"Hagrid remember when you took me from my parents house when I was a baby?"
"'O course I do, how could I forget?"
"Well I was wondering what you did with Sirius' bike." Hagrid's face light up. "I still have it, it is in the shed behind my house. It is still in great shape! Why do you ask?"
"I want to give it to him for his birthday."
"That is a great idea 'Arry, he will love it!" They walked back to the shed. Harry went over to the bike that was covered in a cloth.
"Do you think that I can fly it home?"
"Sure you can, it is pretty good shape, but don't forget to make yourself invisible."
"Of course, thank you Hagrid! I better go if I want to get home by the time I said I would be."
"Bye 'Arry!"
Harry made great time on the motorcycle. He reached home an hour before he said that he would be home. He apperated up to his room and grabbed his invisibility cloak and hung it over the motorcycle, then he hid it in his room. He spent the next week just spending time with his parents. They talked a lot about everything. Harry gave them more detail on what had happened to him during the years. He talked his parents into having a party for Sirius. They invited a ton of people from when they were in school. Finally the big day came. Harry loved the look on Sirius' face when he saw all the people who came to his party. Since Sirius was an adult he didn't get many real gifts just things like gift certificates and pictures from his school days. Harry had disappeared for a short while. Sirius was wondering where he was when Harry came downstairs. He brought a large box in front of Sirius. "Happy Birthday Sirius! I hope you like this present." Sirius knew that if it was from Harry that he would love it. He looked at it and wondered what Harry could get him that was so big. When he opened the package he was in complete shock!
"My motorcycle! Where did you get it Harry? I thought it was long gone after I gave it away to Hagrid that night!"
"And that is where I got it, from Hagrid. I went and saw him he has had it all these years."
Sirius was very pleased. "Thank You Harry, this is the best present ever!" He went and gave Harry a big hug. Lily took a camera put at one of the tables of the two of them hugging. James too was in shock. He was also a little bit jealous of Sirius. After all Harry was, his son and Harry had never given him anything like that. Why didn't Harry do things like that for him?
James had been there for Harry when he almost drowned and when he was
in the hospital. He realized that when Sirius had first seen Harry after he got
hurt he started asking questions making sure that Harry was ok. He felt
Harry's forehead and such when James hadn't even thought of that! James
went to his study and closed the door. Harry noticed this and headed
towards the study. The door was locked so he used the secret passageway
to get in there. He watched James for a couple of minutes and then entered the study.
"Dad what's wrong? I thought that you would enjoy seeing all your old friends." "Oh hi Harry. I just have some work to do that's right. I really need to get this work done." James said in a tone less voice. Harry knew that he was lying and his feelings were hurt. He thought that his father could tell him what was wrong. Harry pushed it out of his mind for awhile and went to enjoy the party. He liked meeting his parents' old school friends. He went over to where Sirius and Remus were.
"Oh there you are Harry, why don't you go get your photo album of the pranks you have pulled, I want to show Gary here that the Marauders are still at Hogwarts. Harry smiled and ran upstairs. Within a couple seconds he
came back down with a big black book. They group with Sirius thought some
of the little pranks were the best but when Harry got to the pictures of the
Slythrines the group went numb with laughter. Harry preformed a couple
charms and enlarged the pictures and put them in a place where everyone could see them. Underneath Harry had glowing words saying "Harry's
Prank". Gary looked at him and asked him the question that everyone else wanted to know. "How did you get away with doing magic over the summer, when I was Hogwarts you got expelled for doing that." Everyone in the room nodded in agreement. "Well it is because Jay Muller wanted me to be able to use magic while I am training." Harry said. All the men knew who Jay Muller was and most of the women did too. Then Ken, another friend of Sirius' spoke up. "The Jay Muller of England's team? "
"Yep, he said that during training that he wanted all of the team to be able to use their magic. Dumbledore agreed as long as I didn't blow anything to big up." Harry enjoyed the affect of his words. They all asked Harry tons of questions for the rest of the night. Sirius was really proud of Harry for making it and followed him around for the rest of night to show him off to all his friends. Harry was like the son that Sirius never had. Harry forgot completely about James for the rest of the night. Harry got to bed very late that night. It was three in the morning when the party finally died down. Harry slept wonderfully. Sirius had spent the night because the party had gone so late. James was not happy to see Sirius that morning at the breakfast table. Sirius looked up at him.
"Hey James! Where were you? You missed all the fun. Harry told everyone about his pranks and playing Quiddich! He really livened up the party! It wouldn't be the same without him. He most defiantly your son." James just nodded and told the house-elf what he wanted for breakfast.
"James what is wrong?" Sirius asked. He hadn't seen James this mad for a long time.
"Nothing."
"Your lying James Potter. I have known you since we were seven. I can tell when you are upset and you are not happy right now." James blew up.
"YOU ARE ALWAYS WITH HARRY! HE SEEMS TO LIKE YOU SO MUCH MORE THEN ME! HE TELLS YOU EVERYTHING BEFORE HE TELLS ME! HE GETS YOU WONDERFUL THOUGHTFUL GIFTS! HE SHOULD JUST MOVE IN WITH YOU! HE THINKS THAT YOU ARE HIS FATHER AND I AM NOT!"
Sirius was taken aback. He had never thought of the fact that Harry went to him first.
"James the only reason he comes to me first to me is an old habit. He finds it easier to write a letter to me then to just talk to you. It is hard for him to just say straight out." Sirius explained to James. This just made James madder. Sirius also thought that he knew Harry better. Sirius knew his friend's temper. James would soon begin to get violent. Sirius was not going to let that happen.
"James the only reason I relate so well to Harry is because he is so much like you. When I thought you were dead it pained me to look or talk to me. He is your spit and image with a little Lily in him. His facial expressions, his voice, his hair. He reminds me so much of you. He even likes mischief as much as you do. No one could ever mistake him for anyone's son but your own. I just happened to meet him first it is not your fault."
James began to calm down. Sirius always knew how to make him feel better.
"I'm sorry Padfoot." He muttered. Sirius smiled at the sound of his old nickname.
"Nothing at all Prongs think nothing of it." Sirius gave him a manly hug. Harry came into the kitchen right at that moment.
"Awww Kodiak moment." Harry snapped a picture with the camera that he now carried with him at all times. They blushed and separated.
Lily came into the kitchen she was really pale. James went over to her.
"Honey what is wrong?"
"P-petunia and Vernon!"
"What did they do to you? I will kill them if they hurt you!"
"No that's the problem! They were killed. Dudley was at a friends house
spending the night and Voldemort came and..and.." Lily couldn't say
anymore. She didn't need to everyone in the room bowed their heads. No
one really liked the Dursleys but they hadn't wanted them dead (despite
James' threats). The funeral for them was the next day. Harry wore his best
black robes forgetting that it was a muggle funeral. Lily and James did the
same. The muggles that were there were horrified at the clothes that the
Potter's wearing. They thought it was very inappropriate for them to wear
such things to a funeral. Harry's 'Aunt' Marge was angry that they had
come. She looked at Lily with disgust. (Vernon told her that they had really
been in comas these last thirteen years when they came out and took Harry
away.) "Why are you here?" She spat at Lily. Lily looked hurt.
"She was my sister. Even though we had our differences that didn't make
her anything less then that. I have to right to come pay my respects to my
sister." James glared at Marge and put his arm around her shoulders and led
her away with Harry following behind them. Harry looked behind him. He
would never have to deal with the Dursleys again. He however was wrong.
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