Summary: Severus Snape was the bravest man Harry ever knew. What would of happened had Severus been sorted into Gryffindor instead. What if he only loved Lily like a sister and became friends with the Marauders.

Marauder Era, Gryffindor!Severus, Slytherin!Peter

Pairings: Sirius x Severus x Remus and James x Lily

Warnings: Homosexuality, Mentions of Abuse, Peter-Bashing, and M rated smut later on

Thanks to everyone who followed and added this story to their favorites. Here is part 8 and 9 of my story What If.

Disclaimer: These characters to not belong to me and never will, if they did Severus would still be alive and the Dark Lord would have been victorious. These people belong to J.K Rowling, a brilliant woman.

Authors note: I have no beta so sorry for any grammar mistakes, no matter how many times I go over this I won't be able to catch all my mistakes.

What If

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Part 8: Second Year- March and April

The Marauders had to watch their backs; everywhere they went a Slytherine was waiting for them. It seemed Lucius had recruited almost every single snake he could in order to get back at them. The month of March was hell on Earth, no matter where they went something bad always had to happen to them. First occurrence happened in Transfigurations, which they had with the Slytherine, which included Peter, Crabble, Goyle, Mulciber and Avery. The green and sliver housed students had openly glared and sneered at them the whole time, and no one had it as bad as little Severus did. They were practically bullying the poor Gryffindor, sending flying notes that brought tears to the raven-haired boys eyes. The worst of them called Severus a whore and a perfect little cocksucker; disgusting doodles that magically moved were portraying in vivid detail what those words entailed. The horrible part was that when Professor McGonagall had confiscated the parchment after the seventh note was caught, sent by a snickering Peter. However instead of finding some crude words and doodles, McGonagall was the answers to the test they were currently taking. Upset and disappointed, McGonagall scolded Severus quite harshly before deducting twenty points from Gryffindor. The Slytherine had laughed their asses off.

More occurrences, each more vulgar and demeaning were directed at Severus. Sure some of them targeted others like Lily or the three other Gryffindors, but the brunt of the cruel jokes were directed at Severus. Everyone hated how sad the littlest Gryffindor looked, the whole of the scarlet and gold house were feeling the depressing air around the once bouncy ravenette. Because of this war between the two rival houses kicked up more violently then before. Where as it had always been a mutual hatred between Gryffindor and Slytherine, it was mostly kept to snide remarks. Now however was different, one of their own was hurting and the lions will be damned if they didn't get retribution against those evil snakes. Pranks and cruel jokes were thrown like snowballs during a snowball fight between the two houses, but unlike a snowball fight this was anything but friendly. Each side intended to hurt the other, to make the other pay for what they felt was a blow to their house pride.

Severus was to be protected and always be around five or more Gryffindors. The Marauders usually stuck together, but in some cases they couldn't all be together, so others would fill in those roles. The Sixth and Fourth years were taking this the most seriously of them all, the Fifth and Seventh years too busy with their upcoming exams, although not too busy not to have a go at the snakes once in awhile. The Fourth and Sixth years, being quite experienced, were able to pull off some amazing feats. That was quite useful against Malfoy and his band of Sixth year cronies. For now each side was equal in their war, a stalemate if sorts, each side rather die than give up. House points for both houses were dwindling so much that Huffelpuff was now in the lead for the House cup, not that many snakes or lions cared. It was power that the house of red and green were fighting over, what mattered most to them was to get the other side to crack. However with the amount of over inflated pride each side was known to carry, the end didn't seem to be in the immediate future.

Halfway through March and the war seemed to only get worse, although the professors remained blissfully unaware of this. Severus one day was found crying in an empty bathroom, tied and blindfolded. It had been the one time that the smallest Marauder had been on his own, telling his friends that he had forgotten his books in their potions class. Since they had just come from there and it was only a little ways back, the other Gryffindors thought nothing of letting the ravenette go on his own. Besides all they Slytherine had left first and were well ahead of them so nothing bad could go wrong. How miserably wrong they were. Apparently they had for an instant forgotten that the Dungeons were Slytherine territory and there were bound to be more of those snakes slithering about. Apparently between were the Marauders waited patiently and Professor Slughorn's classroom dungeon, five sixth years snakes, with Malfoy at the head, ambushed Severus and dragged him into the nearest concealed place, a bathroom. What transpired was pure agony.

"Hello Severus," Lucius purred, a predatory gleam shinning in his mercury colored eyes. The youngest of them all looked up from the spot on the floor were he had landed when they had roughly pushed him in. Severus winced as he tried to move but found that his leg was twisted in an awkward angle and was mostly broken.

"Malfoy," Severus spat, though it didn't sound as threatening as he had planned it to be. The five other Sixth years snickered while Lucius looked anything but pleased.

"Amusing," he drawled. "However we don't have long. I am sure you know why we dragged you here." Severus glared hateful, but his small build and inability to move hardly made the boy any more threatening to the six teens that were four years his senior.

"Incarcerous," Lucius hisses, sending a rope out of the tip of his wand. The Sixth years watch in excitement as Severus is tied up, becoming even more so when the boy starts to panic and scream.

"That's no use, we already put up a silencing charm around the area. No one's coming to save you," one of the Sixth years sneered.

"Now why don't we have our fun," Lucius states, licking his lips. "But before we start, there is one more thing that needs to be done to complete this delisious picture. Obscuro." With that spell a blindfold was conjured and wrapped around Severus's watery onyx eyes. Given the go ahead from their leader, the other Sixth years raised their wands and aimed it at the bound but still struggling Gryffindor. Different flashes of light and intense pain was the last thing Severus saw before he blacked out.

Security around Severus was doubled, no tripled, and the Marauders were incrediably upset and angry about what had happened to one of their own. Sirius and Remus had taken matters into their own hand and had recruited some Seventh, Sixth and Fifth years to plan a raid on the Slytherine common room. There they were going to find those responsible and then some and teach them what happened when the snakes went after one of their lions. James and Lily, the redhead beyond livid about what happened to her best friend, were leading the charge with Fourth years and below to ransack the snakes hide holes, the dungeons, with whatever grafetti they could. This plan was going to be a double blow to the snakes and the lions were all to eager for retribution to give a damn about the concequences.

This double plan was carried out on the last day of March. It all started innocently enough, the four houses awoke and had breakfast in the Great Hall. The professors were talking amongst themselves, never knowing what planned brewed in the minds of all the lions of scarlet and gold. There were no classes that day because it was Saturday and everyone planned on chilling that day, especially the Slytherine, who would be hiding out in their dungeons. Around mid-day was when the first part of the plan started and all Fifth years and above followed Sirius and Remus, who were leading the rest to the unknown location of the Slytherine dorms with a piece of old parchment in their hands. The plan was held off from being done the day after the attack on Severus, because they two second year Gryffindors had to put the finishing touches on a special map they nicknamed the Marauder's Map. No one but the Marauders knew what was on that map, but the others could only guess that it showed them how to get into the Slytherine common rooms.

Under a Disillusionment Charm and a Notice-Me-Not Charm the Gryffindors finally stumbled upon what was suppose to be the Slytherine common room entrance.

"Well how do we get in?" one Gryffindor hisses quietly.

"We wait for someone to walk out," Sirius stated as if it were obvious. Having no other alternatives, the other higher yeared Gryffindors decided to wait with the two second years until some unexpecting Slytherine decided to leave. They didn't have to wait long, and with Lady Luck on their side a small first year walked out. Two Seventh years ambushed the first year, who gave out a surprised squeak before one of the two Seventh years cast a Silencio on the child, preventing him from making any noises. With the common room door opened, the Gryffindors charged in one by one, none of the Slytherines noticing anything until spells were hurled their way. Curses and hexes such as the Furnunculus Curse and Bat-Bogey Hex were fired with such speed and precision it was no wonder that one of the Slytherine were able to dodge in time. With the element of surprise no longer in use, the few Slytherine who weren't hit were now fighting back with their own curses and hexes.

Down in the dungeons, James and Lily were leading the rebellion against the snakes in their own way with their band of warriors. Graffetti made of paint issued from their wands wrote the most crude and hurtful of meassages on the walls. Filibuster fireworks were set loose to do them most damage. Half an hour later, the group of Gryffindors believed that they had done a marvoulous job and quickly left in different directions. Their plan to not get caught was to first use the Deletrius spell on each others wand to get rid of any evidence and them split up and move in different directions and come up with an alibi for their superiors who were most likey still fighting off Slytherines. That way when they were questioned, their wands gave nothing away and they could safetly get their mates out of trouble. It was the perfect plan and the Marauders prided themselves on coming up with it. Hurt one of their own and there was going to be hell to pay.

Back in the Slytherine common room, the Slytherine numberes were dwindeling, but unfortunately some Gryffindors had been hit by either the Confundus Charm or the Conjunctivitus Curse. Neither spell were quite nice, living the target confused or their eyes in serious pain. Sirius and Remus, despite being the youngest were doing exceptionally well and were holding their own. Of course it also helped that they were damn pissed and the need for revenge was coursing through their veins. Remus was doing the best and his anger far exceeded Sirius's, although it could be sumed up to the fact that the full moon was only two days away and the inner werewolf was having an affect on him. It was during a particularly nasty Hair Loss Curse that hit a decending Lucius Malfoy that the battelfield turned bloody. Apparently all the commontion downstairs brought those in their rooms out of hiding. Those to have come down were Malfoy, Regulus, Wilkes, Rosier and a whole bunch of Sixth and Seventh years. Pettigrew, Crabble, Goyle, Mucliber and Avery were already on the floor, having passed out from the pain of the Furnunculus Curse.

A now bald Malfoy lead the remaining Slytherine into the fray. Beyond pissed, the Malfoy heir was holding back and a deadly round of Bat-Bogey Hexes showed it. Sirius and Regulus were in a spectacular duel, curses and countercurses flying from their wands faster than the trained eye could see. Remus was dealing with a very stir crazy bald heir while the rest delt with whoever got in their way. The war raged on and on until each side were down to their last men. Regulus fell to Sirius's combination of Expelliarmus and Incarcerous, while Lucius went down by the hands of Remus and two Seventh years who decided to help out. Every single Slytherine was down for the count and the Gryffindors rejoiced.

"That's what you get for messing with Severus," Sirius and Remus sneer. Lucius glares at the two scarlet and gold clad second years, but because he had been hit by an Incarcerous and Silencio spell, that was the best thing he could do to show his animosity towards them. Feeling victorious, the Gryffindors all left, carrying their wounded out and whooping loudly. They felt on top of the world, nothing could ruin this moment.

April came the next morning and already the atmosphere was tense when the Gryffindors arrived in the Great Hall. The normally chatty air was silent, the professors, showing either expressions of anger, disbelief and disappointment. Headmaster Dumbeldore seemed to have lost the twinkle in his blue eyes and suddenly looked older that he normally would. The Slytherine table was full of sneering faces, but that wasn't uncommon, what was uncommon was the presence of some many pureblood parent. Mr. and Mrs. Malfoy were there, along with Mr. and Mrs. Avery, Mucliber, Wilkes, and Rosier. Walburga and Orion Black were there as well, and Sirius felt a sense of fear when his parents glared at him with the most hatred he had ever received. Peter and his cronies sat smugly, absorbing their parents concerns and ideals as if they were a moldy sponge. It made the Marauders and every Gryffindor sick to their stomachs, but they knew better than to voice their thoughts now.

Once every one was seated, Dumbeldore arose and ordered everyone to listen, as he had something important to announce.

"Yesterday it had been reported that our own Hogwart's house of Gryffindor had done a terrible deed upon the house of Slytherine. Two events have occurred which can not be ingnored. The attack by several Fifth years and up lead by Sirius Black and Remus Lupin on the Slytherine house common room and the crude grafetti and firworks in the dungeons, done by our resident Gryffindor Fourth years and below, lead by James Potter and Lily Evans. These are serious crimes and have very serious consequences. The punishment for such a thing is expulsion…" Dumbeldore paused, waiting out the cheers of the Slytherines and the nodded agreements of the parents. "However," Dumbeldore continued, much to the annoyance of those who were previously cheering. "I can not expel the whole of Gryffindor, we'd be left with no Gryffindor house until the first years decide to populate it next year. Instead I will leave the Gryffindor Head of House, Minerva McGonagall to decide their fate."

Dumbeldore conculded his speech by sitting down and turning attentive ears to Minerva McGonagall, who rose just as Albus sat.

"Thank you Headmaster for your choose words. As Albus had stated I will be incharge of the the Gryffindors punishment. However before I do that, I would like to met with James, Sirius, Remus and Lily in my office to discuse why they did this. The parents of our esteemed Slytherine, please consult with Horace about any issues you may have with anything," Minerva stated. Once done, McGonagall becond for the four Marauders to follow her. They did, reluctantly while shooting a confused Severus a reassuring smile that looked more like a grimace in the onyx eyed boys perspective. How had they found out about what they'd done? Everyone swore to secercy, and no one was dumb or desperate enough to betray them, so how? There plan had been fool proof, or atleast in their eyes it had been. What did they do wrong? These questions were spiraling in the Marasuder's and every Gryffindors mind.

The four Gryffindors finally entered the Gryffindor Head of Houses office, where McGonagall conjured up four chairs for them to sit in. They did so without a word, waiting silently while McGonagall got her barings together.

"Would anyone of you like to tell me what they hell happened?" Minerva gritted out. None of them said anything and the transfiguration professor sighed.

"I guess we will have to do this the hard way," McGonagall stated, taking out a small vile with a liquid resembling water in it.

"Normally Veritaserum is forbidden to be used on a student, but the Headmaster has made an exception for it to be used to find the cause of what had happened to the Slytherines. It was all quite ingeniously planned, having everyone in different places, having alibi's and all that. When we first got wind of what happened from a terrified first year Slytherine about what had taken place, we rushed there only to find the students bound or knocked out. The little Slytherine didn't know who did it, but I had an idea. I called in a random Gryffindor student and questioned him. As you may have guessed he said he had no idea what I was talking about and stated that he had an alibi for when the attack took place. To verify the students claims I called in that student and with further questioning they were both left off. Gryffindor after Gryffindor, no matter what year told me the same story, that they didn't know and that they had an alibi. When I reported this to the Headmaster, he told we to speak to Horace about getting some Veritaserum from him, a very strong potion that has the drinker tell the truth to any question asked. Now when I called back the first student I interrorgated, I slipped this into his drink that I so nicely gave him, and when I asked him the same questions as last time, I got different answers. The whole of Gryffindor was in one the raid of the Slytherine common room and the dungeon attack. He even spilled the beans on who comissioned these attacks. Now I will be asking you to either tell me the truth or I'll take the potion. If you choose neither than I will be forced to make you drink it and after, expel you."

The four Marauders sat there the entire time, listening with a sinking feeling welling up in their chest. Now that they understood how they were found out and how their plan came undone at the seams. With no other options, the best seemed to just come clean and tell the truth.

"Alright, we did it," James finally spoke. Lily gave her friend an encouraging smile, which seemed to loosen his nerves some. Professor McGonagall regarded them with a look than none of them were able to place, but it made them feel sick.

"Why?" McGonagall asked. Minerva already knew that they had done it, but the verbal confession only added validity to the story the Gryffindor boy had told under the influence of the truth potion. The reason why had not been explained. The Gryffindor boy had just known that it had something to do with Severus. He hadn't really needed a reason for giving those 'nasty evil snakes what they deserved' as he had so nicely stated. She knew her Gryffindor wouldn't have done something this big unprovoked, not that that made any differene, surely not. However she would like to know that she hadn't taught barbarians who just attacked for sport. She would be very pissed if the answer was because they felt like going snake hunting.

"We did it because of what they did to Severus," Lily stated at once. That question had brought back the fire in Lily once she remembered how broken her best friend had looked, bound, blindfolded and crying. She hadn't seen Severus react that way to her voice since the time she had walked in on the after affects of a particularly gruesome beating by his father. It had been from that day forward that Lily had promised herself that she would do everything in her power to prevent Severus from going into one of his relapses. She had failed however on that fateful day and it still made her boil with rage whenever she thought back to what those pitiful excuses for human beings had done to someone as sweet as Severus. How could she just sit back while those vile demons walked away scott free. No, when James and Sirius came up with this plan, she and Remus had been all for it. She would never regret her actions, the only thing she regretted was not going with Remus and Sirius to deal some damage of her own. However she had another part to play and she had played it well. Every rude and degrading thing she could think of was sprayed onto the dungeon walls with bright red paint. It was her brilliant idea to place a Permanent Sticking Charm on the messages. It would take more than a simple spell or two to get rid of those words and Lily hoped that they never came down.

"What happened to Severus?" McGonagall asked immediately. The four Marauder quickly went into a full blown description of what had happened to Severus a few weeks ago. Minerva listen with a tight lipped frown, eyes narrowing at the horrific display of inhumanity to one so small and fragile. Out of all her Gryffindors, Minerva adored Severus. He was kind and gentle, brilliant minded and compassionate about his studies; a model Gryffindor if she had ever taught one. To hear about what had happened to Severus made her blood boil. As much as she wished to agree and congradulate them on a job well done, she was a teacher and as such couldn't go picking sides. She could however bring this up with the Headmaster and Horace, and debate on a suitable punishment for both sides.

"Alright, that is enough. I will be taking this up with the Headmaster, please return to the common rooms dor now. I believe Severus is there, why don't you go keep him company? I am sure you have a lot of explaining to do." Professor McGonagall rises from her chair and so do the four Marauders. With soft muttered goodbyes, the four leave, heading in the direction of the common rooms were a confused and most likely demanding ravenette is waiting for them.

The rest of the day was spent in the common rooms, the four Marauders were bombarded with questions upon their entry. The most demanding had been from a small raven haired youth with big and watering onyx eyes. James, Sirius and Remus went to tell the other Gryffindor what happened while Lily pulled her best friend to the side and told him what they had done and why they had done it.

"Oh Lily, you idiot," Severus half screamed half sobbed, pushing the girl weakly away from him.

"Severus?" Lily questioned, reaching out a hand to touch a tear stained cheek.

"No," Severus moaned in dispair, slapping away her hand. Taken aback Lily watched in horror and guilt as Severus broke down crying, muttering 'you idiot' between sobs.

"Severus, what's wrong?"

"You. Stupid. Irresponsible. Idiot."

"Severus, now isn't that a bit rude," Lily scolded, not happy with Severus's randomly choosen words. "Tell me what's wrong, Severus." Lily grabbed Severus by the wrist, prying the boys hands from his face which he had been using to muffle his crys. The crys were so loud that the other Marauders had caught wind of it and were now leaving their audience to go see what was wrong with their friend.

"He started crying and calling me and idiot after I told him what we'd done. He hasn't told me why though," Lily told them.

"Think," Severus yelled through his sobs. The four Marauders looked at the sobbing mess with worried eyes.

"Will you please just tell us," Lily cooed softly. The three other Marauders also jumped in, giving their own comforting words, in hopes of calming the boy down enough to speak. The other outsider Gryffindors sensing that they were intruding in something personal all headed up stairs to their dormitiories. Once the five Marauders were alone, Severus seemed to have calmed down some.

"Now Severus, tell us what's wrong," Lily pleaded. It was killing her seeing her friend crying and not knowing what needed to be done to fix the problem.

"You're all idiots," Severus stated, glaring at them all with red buffy eyes. The four Marauders winced, "Now why do you think that Severus?" Lily didn't know how many more times she could ask this before she snapped. Being called an idiot wasn't really the answer she was looking for.

Severus stared at them with a look akin to disbelief, an expression that clearly read 'are you stupid or something'.

"You could have been expelled," Severus answered at last. The four Marauders stared at him with confused yet exasperated frown. Was that it? Was that the reason Severus had been crying and calling them idiots? Because they almost got expelled. It seemed quite silly.

"Well yeah, but it's not like you would get expelled. We made sure that you were kept entirely out of the loop, so you don't have to worry," Sirius stated, thinking that the ravenette would have been worried about him being expelled and having to explain to his abusive father how he got kicked out of a school made for their own kind.

"I know that you idiot, when they left out my name I knew I was in the clear, but that didn't mean you guess were. Idiots," Severus grumbled. The young boy seemed to have done a one eighty flip from crying and sobbing to being mad and grumpy. The four Marauders said nothing, they didn't know what to do or what to say to passify their upset friend. Severus gave an exhasperated sigh when no one seemed inclined to explaining anything more to him.

"You did realize that if you were expelled that you would be leaving me all alone with those Slytherines, right?" Severus asked slowly, as if he were talking to a small child that wasn't quite grasping a simple notion. It was with this sentence that realization hit home and four pairs of eyes widened in horror.

"Shit," James cursed. Lily didn't even scold him for inappropriate language as they all lunged forward to hug the grumpy ravenette. That seemed to do the trick as Severus relaxed in the embrace of his friends, soaking up their warmth greedily. They stayed like that for what seemed to be hours before they parted. When onyx eyes met green, hazel, blue and grey, all was forgiven. They hadn't bee expelled and Severus wasn't alone, and that was all that mattered for now.

Dinner was intresting enough. Professor McGonagall had did as she had stated and had talked to both Dumbeldore and the potions professor over what she had learned. Coming to a comprimse, the Gryffindor house would lose two hundred points while the Slytherine lose one hundred points. All Gryffindors, except Severus, were to have detention every week until school let out. Detention was also given to the six Sixth years who had been the ones to attack Severus, some Veritaserum on Lucius Malfoy had him confessing to who the other five were. These punishments instead of resloving any issues between the two houses only strenghtened it, not that the professors were aware of that fact. Horace Slughorn looked like hell, but who could blame him after having to deal with very powerful and angry pureblood guardians. Before the feast began Dumbeldore gave some words on how disappointed he was in them and that if anything more happened, he would not hold back on expelling anyone. With that happy note Dumbeldore sat back down, watching with his famous twinkeling eyes as the food magically appeared and everyone started eating.

The month of April went by suprisingly fast, though that was to be expected. After what had happened that March day had left security tighter than it had ever been. Filch and Mrs. Norris were prowling about more hungrily and the professors were keeping a closer watch on their students. This however didn't mean that the two houses weren't showing their open distain for one another, because they were, maybe even more than they normally wood. The whole attack had left the Slytherine even more nasty and crueler than usual, couple that with the fact that they were more cunning and cautious, they were still able to get in the usual jabs at Severus. Gryffindor wasn't going to take that lying down though, the protective shield of scarlet and gold around the petite boy did not stop, infact it seemed to have grown. There were only a few more days left until school let out and that only became more apparent as April gave way into May. With school ending on the sixth of June, the students of Hogwarts only had to get through about a month more before they all got to go home.

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Part 9: Second Year- May and June

May started out tense. Nobody had forgotten about what had happened at the end of March and probably nobody would. It was not a little prank that could be brushed aside, left in ones mind to gather dust and cobwebs. No, this event was life changing, or at least it was for the current students at Hogwarts. The Seventh years were lucky; they would be gone from this school in a month never to return. That however couldn't be said about the five Marauders who were only second years and had a couple more years to go. They had wished that Malfoy were a seventh year; at least he wouldn't be coming back the following year to torment them. The only hope they had that his stunt with Severus in the bathroom kept him from becoming Head Boy of Slytherine next year, or they were screwed. Other than those thought nothing exciting or relevant happened that was news worth. Everyone was still calming down now and focusing on their class tests. While not having to take their O.W.L's or N.E.W.T's yet, the Marauders were still subjected to end of the year test from their teachers. Professor Slughorn had been particularly cruel in his examination, to both parties, and it seemed that only perfect potions master Severus was able to get a O on his test.

With all the studying and testing, the hatred seemed to die down some. Not because the other side had forgiven the other, no, nothing as preposterous as that. It was just each side was so focused on studying that neither side had much chance to antagonize the other. That however didn't mean when June rolled around and the last of the testing was done that the open didn't return full force, because it did, maybe even stronger than ever. The last day of school finally sprung up and everybody was happy to leave that tense atmosphere for a nice two months long vacation at home. The Marauders had mixed feelings about leaving. Sure they didn't want to stay and do school work while being subjected to the vengeful glares of the green and silver students, but for Sirius and Severus, the prospect of going home looked like walking to their deaths. It was practically suicide and there was nothing either of them could do about it. James had offered Sirius a stay at his place and the blood traitor was more than willing to take the hazel-eyed boy on his offer. Lily had also been kind enough to offer her home, but Severus had to respectfully decline. The other Marauders didn't like that, especially since they knew what kind of home the raven came from. Severus however convinced them that if he didn't it would be much worse for him later on. He did however promise Lily that if things got rough that he would come to the safety of her and her parents.

The train ride was the same as ever and nothing of importance happened. Peter and his cronies came over and started shit, flirting with Severus and threatening the others. It wasn't a long chat because a Gryffindor perfect had told them off, adding detention for their first day back at Hogwarts next school year for antagonizing the Marauders. When the train stopped at Kings Cross, Remus was the first of the group to say goodbye and head off with him mother and father. James and Sirius then left, finding James's parents and most likely asking them if Sirius could spend the summer with them. By the giant grin on Sirius's face they had said yes. Walburga was a little ways off greeting Regulus like he was the most magnificent thing to have ever been born, while subtly glaring lasers at her firstborn. It seemed that she didn't care what happened to Sirius as she side apparated her second son out of there. Severus and Lily met up with the redheaded girls parents and all four of them made the trip back to Spinner's End. It was there Severus and Lily said goodbye, the redhead reminding Severus of his promise, before the raven-haired boy walked from Lily's house to his and through the door way to Hell.

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Authors note: Another chapter done, please review. The more reviews the faster I go. I will have the next chapter in about a week's time, maybe more, maybe less. Sorry I was so slow updating this chapter, but schoolwork, writer's block and pure laziness prevented me from getting it out to you sooner. I hope you all like it. I was wondering if I should do a whole chapter dedicated to each other the Marauders summer vacations, or just get on with third year? It all depends on what you guys, my loyal and wonderful readers request of me, so leave a review so I know what you want.