The Marauder's
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When they arrived at the Potter household, everyone was sitting in the living room. James, Remus, and Sirius were no longer wearing frilly dresses. However, there was still a little bit of mascara and eyeliner on Sirius. But, no one had or was going to point it out. There were groups talking about different things. Sirius and Regulus seemed to have made up and were making up for all the years they had wanted nothing to do with each other. Now they were sitting on the couch and laughing. Tonks, Ginny, and Lily were talking about their husbands and all the ridiculous things they had done for love. Ginny and Tonks agreed that Harry and Remus had had the same idea. Both of which were ridiculous. Lily was now explaining all the things James had done at Hogwart's to try to get her attention. All three were laughing. Then James, Ted, Remus, and Lily were playing the muggle board game Monopoly. Lily was winning by a landslide. It seemed James and Remus had never played it before, but Ted had.
Everyone looked up as they heard the familiar crack. Ginny immediately recognized Fred and stood up, abruptly. She, unknowingly, copied Ron's earlier actions and ran to her brother. "Fred!" The two were grinning and hugging. A bell went off and Ginny let go. "That's the chicken, I'll be back in a second." Fred watched her go and noticed she was wiping her eyes. He hoped it was out of happiness for seeing him.
Harry looked around at everyone in the room and smiled. It was a dream come true. Right then, Lily stood up and ran to her grandmother. "Grandma, I beat Grandpa Prongs and Uncle Moony." Lily grinned and said "Nice job! Too bad Uncle Padfoot didn't play, I'm sure you would have beaten him too." Sirius looked up at his name and said "Padfoot doesn't loose to kids." Then he caught Lily's glare, and winced. "No offense, Lil's." The adults smirked as Sirius waited nervously for Lily to accept his apology. When she did, he relaxed. The adults thought it was quite funny to see Sirius be put in his place by a nine-year old girl.
Meanwhile, Fred was looking back and forth between James, Remus, and Sirius. "Nooo. No! No. Really?!" He turned to Harry, who had heard his words and was smirking. "I was living in a house with two marauders and YOU NEVER THOUGHT TO TELL ME!?" The three marauders raised their heads as they heard the name of their group. Harry kept smirking and said "I thought you would have figured it out." Fred didn't hear him, though, as he was already going around shaking his idols hands. His face made it seem like he'd rather be kissing their feet then shaking their hands.
First he went to Remus as he was standing right next to him. "Professor Lupin! Or should I be calling you Professor Moony?! It makes so much sense!" Remus just had an expression of shock on his face. Sure, he had known that the twin's idolized the Marauder's, but he didn't think his ex-student would act like this. Then Fred moved onto James. He was shaking his hand as he said "Prongs? I get Moony, but where does Prongs come from?" The Marauder smirked and then transformed into his animagus form. Fred jumped backwards "Right. Okaaay. You could have just said that. But, it makes sense now." When Fred moved onto Sirius, James turned back to human form, still wearing a smirk. "Wow. Padfoot, I was living in your house. How come you never told me." Sirius shrugged. "I was sort fo distracted by the Order and Voldemort. And. I didn't know you knew about the Marauder's. I just assumed Harry had gotten the map himself." Fred nodded and turned to Harry. "No offense Harry, but you're not one to one to go through Filch's stuff." Harry turned red a little, remembering the time he had gone through the caretaker's QwikiSpell course.
Then Fred turned to Harry and said "What about Wormtail, who was he?" Harry, Remus, and Sirius all growled. Harry said "He was a dirt, rotten rat of a Death Eater." Fred nodded, but still wanted to know who was. When Harry went to leave, Remus explained. "He was Peter Pettigrew, he betrayed the Potter's to Voldemort." Fred's eyes widened. He knew who Peter Pettigrew was, but had never made the connection that he was a Marauder.
Harry had watched Ron and Hermione start to introduce Fabian and Gideon. He smiled and then left to go check on Ginny. He entered the kitchen and leaned and the counter. "Hey Gin!" She dropped the heavy pot of water she had been carrying and spun around, pointed her wand at Harry. He raised his arms in surrender. "Sorry!" She dropped her outstretched wand-arm and said. "Geez, Harry! Don't do that. You're too silent." She turned back to the mess of water next to the upside-down pot on the floor. She picked the pot up and put it on the counter. Then she vanished the water and refilled the pot. She put it on the stove and got it boiling. She then turned back to Harry as he started talking again.
Harry was snacking on the chips Ginny had put on the counter a few minutes before he had come in. she smack his hand away and waved her finger in front of his face. "Just wait a few minutes. He frowned playfully and then said "Fiiine." Then he remembered what he had come in to say. "Hey, have you heard from your Mum recently?" She nodded. "Oh yeah. She sent an owl a few minutes ago saying she was the pick the kid's up. She said they'd be here in an hour or so." Harry nodded and then said "Did you see what my Mum, Lily, and Tonks did?" She shook her head with an intrigued expression. Harry took out his phone and showed her the picture. She started laughing and said "You better keep that!" Harry smiled and said "Oh, I plan on it." Then he picked up the bowls of chip and dip and said "I'll bring these out." Ginny smirked and said "You just want to eat them." Harry shrugged and ate another. She pushed him out of the kitchen and said "Go. I've got to finish up dinner."
Harry left and went to the living room, setting the chips and dip on the coffee table. It seemed Lily, James, Sirius, and Remus were playing Monopoly. Ted had taken Lily's seat and was now catching up with his daughter. Lily had taken Sirius' spot and was introducing herself to Regulus. Harry grinned and turned to Fred, Fabian, and Gideon. "Did you all figure out how you're going to surprise everyone?" The three nodded and Fabian spoke. "We decided on the simplest plan. Everyone who wants in on the surprise will go to the dining room before everyone gets here. We'll wait there and when everyone comes in for dinner…" She raised his arms simulating an explosion "BAM!" Harry nodded in agreement. It seemed like a nice harmless plan. Then Fred turned to everyone and said "So, whose in?"
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