If you're happy to have another chapter so soon, thank Mother Nature and my violin teacher. Mother Nature because she made it cloudy and she made it thunder so I couldn't go swimming today (school gets out really early in Athens, GA, USA). My violin teacher because she wanted me to have TWO rehearsals today because of my recital next week so I couldn't do anything that took a definite amount of time (if I had gone outside, played with my cat, watched a movie, etc. I would have been later. This way, I could open and close as I pleased). Sorry if I'm boring you.

Oh yeah, I'm not J.K. Rowling, but you probably already figured that out.

ON WITH THE STORY!

"What are our grandparents doing here?" Lily repeated with a little more force.

"We're not sure," Al answered.

"Isn't it a bit weird? You know, us just standing here? Shouldn't we be talking to them? Or at least figuring out what to do?" Roxanne pointed out.

"Yeah. We were trying to come up with something, but we couldn't agree what to do," Rose recapped.

"Should we write to Uncle Harry?" Fred asked.

"Thank you," Rose said. "I suggested that a few minutes ago, but they," she gestured toward Al and James, "didn't agree with me."

"Excuse me, but remind me why my friends and I are just supposed to be standing over there while you talk about us?" The cousins jumped. Sirius had sneaked up on them before asking his question.

"Um…well, you see…," Lily stuttered as she tried to come up with a suitable answer.

"Oh crap!" Fred exclaimed suddenly. "I completely forgot. I have to send Uncle Percy an owl." He shot a significant look at his cousins and sister, hoping to Merlin that they would get it. "You know he and Aunt Audrey like to keep up with what's happening around here."

"What are you – Oh! Yeah, you know how weird they get when they don't get updates on everything we do around here," Al said.

Boys, you'd think they could be a bit more subtle, but no; I had to get these idiots for cousins, Rose thought, as Fred ran to the owlery to write to the best person he could think of to contact: Percy.

"What is going on?" Lily Evans paced as Sirius went to talk to the strangers. "Who are they anyway? Have you three ever seen them before?"

"Lily, you have repeating those same questions for the past five minutes," Remus said.

"They had Gryffindor robes, but I've never met them," Lily continued, ignoring the werewolf.

"Did you see the first two guys? They look just like me, exactly like me!" James had never been so confused without food in his system in his entire life. (Or with food in his system, for that matter.)

"No, the second one has green eyes," Peter remarked.

"Close enough," was James's reply.

"Why were they so surprised to see us? I would say they looked like they'd seen a ghost, but if they go to Hogwarts, then that wouldn't shock them, would it?" Remus inquired.

Peter watched as last boy with the camera ran off up the corridor before asking, "What do you think that mist did?"

"I don't know, Peter."

"Hey, Lily," James said, making Lily look up. "I just realized where I recognized – what's his name? – Al's eyes. They look just like yours."

"Plenty of people have green eyes, Potter." Lily continued her pacing.

"Doesn't it seem weird that the one who looks exactly like – eye color and everything – also has the name James Potter?" James was trying to keep his voice calm. Trying, not succeeding.

"How do you know about the last name?" asked Peter, who had been not been concentrating much on the strangers.

"Didn't you hear what Rose was yelling? 'James Potter get your cowardly butt out here,' is what she said."

"Oh, right."

A moment later, Sirius came bounding back to them. "We're going to breakfast, and then they want to talk to us."

"I think we should go see Madam Pomfrey like we were going to earlier," Lily said. "For all we know, these people could be figments of our imagination brought on by that mist."

"You imagine boys who look just like me, but with your eyes, Lily?" James inquired hopefully.

"In your dreams, Potter." Lily rolled her eyes.

"Apparently," Remus added, "also in his hallucinations."

"So, wait, are we going to breakfast or the hospital wing first?" Peter asked, completely confused.

"Breakfast," Sirius and James answered together.

Lily and Remus rolled their eyes in unison.

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