(A/N) Hope you enjoyed last chapter 'cos you have a new one. It's just a shame I can't type as fast as you guys can read. I'm going to get a job in the next couple of days so i can buy myself a laptop. While I have the job it will slow my updates because I plan on getting it out've the way as quickly as possible. But after that I can update so much quicker since no-one will touch my laptop and I won't have to wait ages for a computer to be free.

Enjoy.

The next morning what was left of the Bones family apparated at the Potter home. Amelia and a nervous Susan walked down with very different expressions.

Amelia couldn't wait to see her daughters reaction to Sirius Black. She was, naturally, grinning madly at the thought and couldn't wait to see him mess her around. She had demanded he didn't terrify her though or she'd force feed him Buckbeaks poop. He didn't look happy at the thought of eating poop. Especially a Hippogriffs mess.

Susan was worried. Her aunt had a freaky grin on her face which suggested a trick. But this wasn't, it couldn't be. A massive mansion stood in front of her, obviously a lords house. She was hoping desperately the lord was kind and friendly. She was almost begging, inwardly, that this wasn't a meeting to set up a marriage contract.

Sirius was sitting on a chair that was stuck to the wall just above the door with a sinister grin on his face, holding a transfigured balloon filled with near-freezing water. Harry and Hermione walked in and nodded to him... they couldn't wait to see him prank Susan. They knew that Susan was a shy person from Hufflepuff house and were eager to befriend her and help boost her confidence. A small joke couldn't hurt.

They decided they wanted to befriend people from each house. They didn't have the usual house preduices only preduices against those that were preduiced. They had a good few people that were going to be invited over before the last week of the holidays was out.

Susan Bones from Hufflepuff, Luna Lovegood and Padma Patil from Ravenclaw, Daphne Greengrass and Tracey Davis from Slytherin. Gryffindors were open but only to those that could live with being around the 'slimey snakes'. Maybe Harry could use some of his power over Hogwarts to get them their own private dorm's.

Fourth year overall looked like it was going to be an okay one. They'd break all ties with the Weasley Family except Fred and George. They were hoping to gain a lot more friends. The two youngest Weasley's were likely to get themselves in a twist, but really; who cared?

Harry opened the door and stood back so the two new residents to his house could enter. Amelia and Susan came through the door and were met with a cold water bomb from Sirius. They did the natural thing; they screamed, loudly. Harry, with Hermione wrapped in his arms in front of him, was chuckling at his godfather.

Sirius jumped to the ground, using a wandless levitation charm to prevent getting either of his legs broken again. He laughing his usual, bark-like laugh at the girls.

Susan screamed at him. Sirius commented dryly. "Damn, I knew I looked good but that hasn't happened in a while."

"You... your Sirius Black! Auntie don't let him hurt me!" she cried out.

Sirius did his best scotsman impression. "ooh aye lass. I ain't gonna be killin' yeh jus' yet alrigh'?"

She screamed at him when he came close, towering over her. Then she noticed Harry and Hermione behind Sirius laughing quietly. "You two!" She screeched. "You put him up to this?" She forgot about Sirius momentarily. Sirius came dangerously close to Susan, nodding to Amelia. "Rarrr" He quietly growled in her ear. She screamed and tripped over. Sirius began laughing again.

"So... what up with this?" Susan asked. "He." she pointed at Sirius. "Is supposed to be a mass-murderer what he actually is, is a mass-clown."

Sirius barked a laugh again. "Too true. I'd say I'm sorry for messing with you, but I'm not really." He grinned.

Harry intervened. "Good morning Susan. Sorry for my juvenile godfather, he loves playing jokes. Welcome to Potter Manor seat to the Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Potter." He grinned. "Great! Now the formalities are over I can be me again."

Susan smiled shyly. "Hello Mr. Potter. Thanks for hav-"

"It's just Harry, Susan. It's good to see you." He smiled warmly.

She clasped her hand in front of her; she was nervous. "Thanks Harry. How was your summer? And isn't Hermione a muggle-born?"

He smiled again, his arms tightening slightly round Hermione. "My summer was pretty bad until my relatives left and Hermione came round to say 'Hi' and well... let's just say the rest was highly interesting. Hermione and her parents are staying round because me and Hermione are together. I got emancipated and became the Head of... ugh I hate saying the full bloomin' name. I'm the Head of The Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Potter. Quite a mouthful." He grinned rakishly causing Susan to blush lightly.

"So you are a lord now? Cool. My family has the same status as your's in the hierarchy. We don't have a Head of Family, the position's for the men." She grumbled good-naturedly. "Otherwise Auntie here would be Head of Family."

Sirius looked at Amelia who was caught in the act of looking at him, they both looked away a red tinge appearing on their cheeks. They talked about that later.

The rest of the week went by happily. Sirius played more pranks on them, until Amelia finally drank a hair-loss potion and wasn't happy. In fact she gave him a massive wedgie... he was sore three days afterwards. Harry and Hermione became quick friends with Susan; she had, with their help, gained much confidence.

When Amelia and Susan found out about the Animagi potion, Susan was eager to take the potion with Harry and Hermione; but was unfortunately shot down because school was approaching. Amelia understood the Potters' need not to be registered in case Voldemort ever returned and with two encounters with Voldemort under Harry's belt the possibility of him coming back was rising.

Sirius had great fun pranking and being pranked by Harry and Hermione and sometimes Amelia and Susan. On one occasion Sirius had been hung from his ankle and, since he didn't wake, they brought him over to his bathroom and filled it with cold water and ice cube and dropped him in it. He squealed like a frightened pig, much to the couples amusement.

He never picked on Dan and Emma because they "couldn't do anything back" as he had put it, so it was a great suprise to him when he found out that muggles had pranking items to. They had placed something called 'stinkbombs' in his bed along with itching powder. He wasn't a happy mutt the next day.

He got Harry and Hermione back when he used an enlargement charm on their feet, stopping when their feet were triple their normal size. They wore clown shoes for the rest of the day. Just to make Sirius happy.

Sirius had gone to Hogsmede when the news came out that he was innocent and had been re-instated as Lord Black. At Hogsmede he had brought the whole Zonko shop and was in the process of getting a Zonko's in Diagon Alley. Needless to say the kids were happy and the parents unimpressed with Sirius's immaturity. The magical children praised Sirius and the Weasley twins were hailing him. It had been highly amusing for Sirius when the two red heads had bowed to him on the street. They were all over him for idea's when he revealed he was 'Padfoot' from the infamous Marauders. They both came out with their noses transfigured into carrots and a T-shirt saying 'Pranked by a Marauder' both were grinning crazily.

Sirius had also gone and collected all of Harry, Hermione and Susan's stuff for school. Hermione hadn't even touched the books and had focused on learning more from the Potter library.

However today was the day before school came. Harry and Hermione were preparing to take the Animagus potion, both were very excited about their forms. They had decided that a wolf was definitely the most likely and couldn't wait to try it out.

The group made their way towards the potions lab for Harry and Hermione to take the potion. Sirius was eager to give the new Marauders their nicknames. The pair themselves were rather nervous but understood to relax and let the potion do the work and afterwards they should be able to change at will. Well they needed to form their animagus form in their mind and will themselves into the form, apart from that they were set after taking the potion.

"Well this should be interesting." Sirius commented, when the two teens took their potions. They were very nervous about all of this but were looking forward to it as well. Sirius looked at Susan and Amelia. "You two ought to leave, they might be a dangerous animal." The Bones' nodded and left through the door. Sirius turned to his godson and his wife. "Let's go to the transformation room."

Apparently Sirius knew more about this house than he is letting on. Harry spoke while holding Hermiones hand and walking towards the 'transformation room'. "What is this room for? Besides the obvious 'transformation' bit?"

Sirius scratched his head. "I left my family in fifth year to live with the Potters, who were kind enough to take me in. Remus lived in an area that was filled with muggles so he moved here with his parents. The Lord and Lady of the time were Charles and Elizabeth Potter, were very sympatheic to Remus and built a room adjacent to the potions lab to keep him in during his problamatic time of the month. You might think it was rather dangerous putting Remus near potions and it was, however Liz had made a calming potion for Remus with potentcy like you wouldn't believe and it worked. Remus never went crazy in there."

"What about the room itself? Was it warded and strong enough to hold a werewolf?" Hermione asked, curious about the room. The trio stopped at a door.

"Naturally" Sirius replied, opening the door; grunting with the effort. "This place could and still can hold anything short of a full-grown Hungarian Horntail which is a breed of dragon." He walked inside, with them following. "I'm going to transform into Padfoot and hope to god that you two are the same size as I am so I can keep you in check." He transformed and a massive black dog replaced the man.

They nodded and downed their potions. They felt like their body was melting and growing in some area's while lessening in others; they remembered the Marauders' words from their book on the transformation.

'Be calm and let the potion do it's job. Fighting against the sensation will harm your body and possibly have dangerous side-effects.'

Neither were willing to risk any side-effects so they relaxed into their new forms. Harry quickly realised he had four paws and a tail, he began checking himself over making sure he still had all the right bits.

Hermione was much the same and only slightly smaller than Harry but that was natural; the height of the person the same affect on the creature. She, however, was trying to twist her body so she could see her back end to gain an idea of what she was. She saw fluffy legs and tail. White, black, grey were the colours that made up her fur.

The potion wore off and the pair climbed to their feet. Sirius transformed back into his human self, grinning madly. "Want to know what you two are?"

The nodded vigorously, eager to know their forms. "Hermione was right about you two. You're both wolves. Grey wolves, usually found in Canada if I'm not mistaken. Almost the same height as me in Padfoot form. You both still have the characteristics of your human formed. For example you both have the same eyes." He looked at Harry. "You don't seem to have the usual glasses marks round your eyes like Mcgonagall does. I'm not sure why so don't ask. I'm going to show you your forms okay?" They nodded.

Sirius used picture-conveying Legilimency on both of them so they could get what they look like. After five minutes of them studying the image he removed the two wolves from their heads.

"I imagine you could do it again if you want. Try and change again." At his order, Harry and Hermione closed their eyes and pictured their wolf form and willed themselves to change. The same melting sensation overtook them and they were on four paws again.

They saw Sirius standing over them, he motioned them over. He began stroking the soft fur, running his fingers over their back, scratching gently. "Can you two understand me?" He asked softly. The wolves nuzzled eachother then licked Sirius's face. Wiping his face of the wolf-spit. "I'll take that as a yes. C'mon let's go and show Am and Susan." He walked with the two wolves to the door and opened it. Together the trio moved through the potions lab, through the halls and into the living room.

Am and Susan squealed at the sight of the two wolves led by Sirius. The Marauder grinned. "I give you... The Lord and Lady Potter in mutt form."

Swapping their form back to their human self they scowled at Sirius and were struck by the same idea. "Let's have some fun!" Sirius grinned at Harry's suggestion and transformed. Harry and Hermione concentrated for a second and followed his example. Before they could play Susan came over and scratched behind their ears. Both wolves were enjoying themselves very much and arched further into her hands. She realised their enjoyment and began teasing, slowly lifting her hand higher and higher.

Wolf-Harry growled and attempted to stand on two feet. He accomplished it but quickly fell with a yelp. Susan giggled at Harry, she knew it was him because the same startling green eyes he had in human-form were with him.

Hermione didn't try what Harry did and tried a different tactic. She laid down on the carpet and put her paws over her muzzle and whined. Susan couldn't resist and went over to begin scratching again. Harry followed her example and curled up beside his wife and whined with her.

Padfoot barked to gain their attention and made head motions towards the door. The wolves got up and followed the large black dog. Amelia and Susan followed them to watch them play. The black dog led them to the front door and realised they were being followed. Padfoot whined and scratched the door conveying his need to get outside.

Amelia and Susan had a great time watching the dog and wolves play fight and chase eachother around. It was highly amusing to watch Sirius chase his tail, trying and failing to catch it in his jaws. The spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing near the pool, occasionally dipping in, and lounging on benches in the sun. Hermione was against Sirius jumping into the pool as a dog, but it didn't stop him; when he did he found a gyser of ice cold water spurt upwards. Needless to say he got soaked and was unhappy for a while with everyone laughing at his mis-fortune.

A loud thunderclap startled them and the rain began falling heavily; they forgot they had wards around the house against the weather and ran inside. They all went to their rooms, changed and came back down to rest in front of the fire. Sirius ran into the storeroom under the mansion and grabbed a box which he transfigured into a TV so they could watch it for a while.

Sirius, Amelia and Susan only knew what a TV was because of Hermione and her parents, who had been quiet recently, who had told them about TV. Sirius, Am and Susan couldn't be blamed for their ignorance... they were purebloods after all, idiocy comes naturally with some people when shown new things.

They sat and ate a small plate of fish and chips the elves had made for them while watching the bad TV shows. Sirius had been talking about previous pranks, causing laughter to echo throughout the room and had been contempleting his godson's and Hermione's animagus forms and nicknames for them. He thought he finally had it. "Hey you two!" he called across the lounge. "Come with me I have your nicknames ready!" Eager to learn their nicknames Harry and Hermione rushed to follow him out the room.

In the hall, Sirius turned to face the two teens. "Welcome to the Marauders... Tails and Claws." He smiled at their names. "Harry is Claws or Pronglet, Hermione is Tails. Now to increase the knowledge a bit..." He began to explain the Marauder tradition of welcoming people back at the start-of-tern feast. He also informed them of the Marauder code. It was, simply put, to get back at anyone who hurt you, fellow Marauders and your friends.

Sirius grinned. "Give them hell from the previous-generation of Marauders. For Moony, Padfoot and Prongs. Let the new age begin! Claws/ Pronglet and Tails. I can't wait to hear Moony's shocked voice that new Marauders are around."

Harry looked at Sirius oddly. "Don't people know who Prongs is?" Sirius shook his head. "Good. I'll give old Snape hell." Sirius looked like christmas had come early, learning from the Marauder Guide was a plus to their ideas...

Later that night they packed and prepared everything in their new trunks.

(A/N) I can't describe animals very well but go here: . to see what I'm trying to show.

Hope you enjoyed the animagus transformation, I described it as best as I could; but I'm not a hardcore fan and don't learn everything.

To B. Oots, Oh and Dumbles isn't getting a trial per say. He gets taken in by the Wizengamot and immediatly given a warning and a magically-binding restraining order to keep him away from Harry UNLESS Harry has his magical guardian (Sirius) with him.

NOTE: next chapter will have Molly, Ron and Ginny bashing. ALSO the story will slow down soon because I'm going to get a job and buy a laptop so I can update faster. During my work days I intent to spend as many hours as I can working so I can get the laptop quicker.

Don't worry it shouldn't happen for a while. Loopy.