Sorry this chapter is a few hundred words shorter than the others. Hope I didn't mess up James too much.

Marauders

Hail the adult James!

If you are indeed an adult, you better not be a safety-obsessed, law-abiding, stuck up loser or I will be very disappointed in you indeed! Actually, the very idea of me being an adult is…unpleasant. I take your existence as a personal insult unless you are still a pranking expert, a terrifying enemy (Snape should know, ha!) and the hilarious joker that I am.

And of course, my respects to your honorable accomplices, the Marauders. I'm sure your pack is still intact. Sirius here tells me to send his 'regards' to his own future self since he is too bored to write a letter himself. He is currently testing the Muggle Studies Professor for 'cheek-tolerability' and I must say she has survived so far.

I don't know what about "my young Hogwarts years", as the Professor puts it, might fascinate you. The only things here that do fascinate me are our secret animagus training sessions…You must be able to turn into an animal now! I won't bother wondering what the animal is though; I will probably find out soon enough. The idea of all the fun I will have on full moons along with Remus, Sirius and Peter! You probably think of those days with nostalgia, I bet!

But then again, you probably have a super awesome job as an auror, and no exams to bother with to boot!

Though, the sad part of adult life is that…are you married? I can only think of one person actually worth the thought and sadly she is currently sitting next to the greasy Snivellus on the other side of the room. Though I'm not quite sure if marriage is such a good idea, she is currently glaring at me. It's not my fault if her slimy Slytherin friend ruins the scenery!

I do hope that you still play Quiditch, or else what's the point of life? I'm not sure which one is a better career, an auror or a seeker? I guess they need an auror more, what with Old Voldy gaining power. We might even get to prank a dark lord! That must be much cooler than pranking boring school teachers. Ok so Dumbledore isn't really boring; to be fair he was a good sport about it.

I don't think I have much more to say. Remus seems to be writing an essay! Though I think I prefer to compare my letter with Sirius' blank page. The only people who can actually force him into submission are Dumbledore and McGonagall. Maybe he is still afraid he'll be resorted? As if!

James Potter the Great

January 27, 1973

Harry smiled despite himself. So maybe his father was really as arrogant as his mother had described. A pranking expert, was he?

Wait a second! The Marauders! The Marauders' Map!

Fred and George absolutely had to hear this.

Harry got up from the bed, where he was lying, and got the map.

"I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good" he said, pointing his wand at the map.

As the lines formed, the green letters at the top of the map appeared. "Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs…" The Marauders then must be James, Lupin, Black and Peter Pettigrew! He didn't know which was which but he could definitely ask Lupin then! They had become animagi! His dad was an animagus!

The realization suddenly hit him. If their 'training sessions' were secret…did anyone know that Sirius Black was an animagus? Lupin might know; he was with them. Or perhaps they never succeeded?

His mind turned to Dumbledore and Snape's conversation, the night they had slept in the Great Hall. What about what Snape had implied? That someone helped Black from inside Hogwarts? If Lupin were friends with Black…then…

He shook his head. So what if they were friends once? His own father was his best friend! Black had betrayed all of them. It's not like Snape's own loyalties were very clear. He had contemplated joining Voldemort!

His thoughts were interrupted as Ron came into the room.

"Harry, mate, you alright? How did detention with Snape go?"

"I didn't go."

"What?" Ron stared at him, as if in awe of his insanity.

"I went, but he wasn't there, so I came back up." He explained.

"Snape never misses detentions. He is going to get you."

"Well it's not my fault; I knocked three times and I also went inside and checked. He really wasn't there and I'm not dumb enough to go looking for him."

"Well maybe you got lucky or something. Have you had dinner? I'm starving! Hermione worked me to bits!"

"I'm not hungry. You guys go and eat."

"Sure? Alright, then."

When Ron was gone, Harry went back to staring at the map: the ingenius work of his own father with his friends! He watched Ron's dot join Hermione's and go towards the Great Hall, He watched Lupin's dot walking around in his office, and there was Snape's, moving towards him. Snape hated Lupin and that was obvious to everyone, so why would he pay him a visit?

Probably some teacher thing…

He was about to fold the map and hide its contents when his own name caught his attention. His name was not alone in the dormitory on the map, even though he saw no one in the brightly lit room. Harry's breath caught. How could this be?

The dot only a few steps away from him read: Peter Pettigrew.

Just then another owl came in.

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