The quartet meet Lily and the Marauders

The Quartet Meet Lily And The Marauder's
Chapter Twelve: Confession Time Part Five


Everyone was still shook up from the last memory and wondered where they were and in which member of the quartets memory. They were unknowingly in one of Ron's favourite memories where Malfoy was publicly humiliated.

They noticed they were in the entrance hall leading into the great hall. They watched and listened as Malfoy was waving a news paper in an older looking Ron's face. "Damn Weasley you call that a house? And your mother looks like she could do with losing quite a lot of weight; she is on the fat side isn't she?" Ron tried to get near Malfoy but Harry had to hold him back while Hermione dealt with Ginny who looked ready to curse Malfoy.

Harry sneered "Why don't you shit twice and die Malfoy? Come on Ron lets go to dinner he's not worth the bother." Malfoy smirked "Oh yeah tell me Potter seeing as you were staying with them this summer, is their mother really that fat or is it just the picture?"

Harry and Hermione had to hold back Ron and Ginny who both looked murderous. James and the other almost chocked on their laughter when Harry had taunted Malfoy. "Tell me Malfoy does your mother always look like that, you know like she has got shit under her nose? Or did she just look at you and suddenly remember the colossal sized mistake she made when she helped conceive you?"

Malfoy growled "Don't you fucking dare insult my mother Potter.” Harry glared “Well Keep you’re over sized fat fucking mouth shut Malfoy." Harry growled in return. Harry turned back to the others ready to lead them into the great hall for dinner when- BANG many people screamed.

Harry felt something white and hot graze the side of his face. He quickly searched his pocket for his wand but before he could even get a grip on it there was another even louder BANG, and a growl that echoed throughout the entire entrance hall.

"OH NO YOU DON'T LADDIE, DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT." Harry quickly turned around to see Professor Moody limping down the marble staircase. His wand was out and was pointing straight at a pure white ferret, which was quivering on the cold stone-flagged floor where Malfoy had been standing only moments before.

James and Sirius along with Remus howled with laughter while Peter and Lily shook silently over come by their mirth. Everyone else in the hall way were silent the only one who was moving was Moody. He turned to look at Harry with his normal eye; his glass magical eye was observing something behind himself.

"Did he get you" Moody growled, his voice was low and gravely. "No" was Harry's reply "He missed" he added. "LEAVE IT!" Moody growled. "Leave-what?" Harry asked bewildered, what had he done that he had not realised he had been doing. "No not you-him!" Moody growled gesturing over his shoulder at Crabbe, who was froze about to have picked up the white ferret. It seems that was what Moody had been observing with his magical glass eye while he had used his human eye to observe Harry.

He turned his gaze towards Crabbe, Goyle and the ferret, which gave a terrified squeak and quickly tried to scramble away to the dungeons. "I don't think so!" Moody roared. He pointed his wand at the ferret that was quickly trying to scurry away to safety to his godfather Snape.

Soon Moody had the ferret bouncing up and down in the air. He growled in-between the ferret’s squeaks of pain as its little legs flayed out behind it. "I don't like bloody cowards who insist on turning his wand on a wizard when his back his turned. That is a scummy and rotten stinking thing to do."

The ferret continued to squeal in pain as he was lifted ten feet then twenty feet in the air each time hitting the floor then bouncing back up even higher then before. "Never do that again-"

Moody was cut off when the shocked voice of an older looking Minerva McGonagall gasped "What on Earth are you doing Alistair?" Moody replied casually "Oh just teaching Minerva." McGonagall made the rest of the way down the stair case her arms full of books. "Teach- Alistair Moody that better not be a student you are using as the test subject" Minerva shirked horrified.

James and the others were by now lying on the floor rolling around in peals of laughter. Moody replied "Yep" Minerva dropped her books and looked on horrified. He added "Just teaching him a lesson-" Moody was cut off again as Minerva continued to shriek "We do not use transfiguration as a punishment tactic. We give out detentions or remove house points, and as a last resort take them to their head of house or expel them. I'm presuming Albus must have already informed you of this Alistair" Minerva asked irritably.

She quickly took out her wand and pointed it at the trembling ferret, with a loud crack the ferret disappeared and was replaced once again with Malfoy. Whose white blond hair was disarray around his now very pink face. His eyes were glistening with agony and humiliation.

Moody replied to Minerva’s last question unconcernedly "Yeah he might of mentioned it some where a long the way." James and the others were holding their sides gasping for breath as they convulsed in silent laughter.

Malfoy muttered something scathingly at Moody, with only the words my father being distinguishable. Moody turned and walked towards Malfoy having heard the mentioning of the senior Malfoy. His wooden leg clunked and echoed around the entire hall way.

"Oh yeah well, I know your father of old boy... you tell him from me that Moody is keeping and extra close eye on his son. Now I'm presuming your head of house is Snape?” Malfoy replied resentfully “Yes" Moody growled "Ah yes, indeed another old friend, I've been looking forward to having a chat with old Snape"

He seized Malfoy by the upper arm and growled "Come along you" as he marched Malfoy down to the dungeons. Minerva sighed wearily and picked up her books again with a wave of her wand.

"Don't talk to me" Ron said to Harry, Hermione and Ginny once they were all seated in the great hall at the Gryffindor table. Hermione asked in surprise "Why not?" Ron sighed "Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Malfoy the incredible bouncing ferret" Ron replied. He had his eyes closed and there was an uplifted expression on his face.

Ginny sighed and grinned happily "Yeah bro me to, that's what pleasant sweet dreams are made of" Ginny commented dreamily. Harry and Hermione laughed. James and the others by now were standing and wiping way their tears of mirth.

Sirius said his tone of voice clearly happy and awe filled "Holy shit you guys we've got the perfect weapon against Malfoy and Snape of our time line. That was sweet, it was classical."

The surroundings around them suddenly started to melt away once again to be replaced with another memory belonging to one of the members of the quartet. The next memory was of the Yule ball.

They saw Harry was with a pretty Indian girl dressed in robes of a light lemon colour. Ron had an identical girl on his arm dressed in lilac robes. She was obviously the twin sister to the girl on Harry's arm.

Harry was dressed in bottle green robes, while Ron was wearing robes in a horrible shade of Maroon. You could tell he had tried to use a sewn charm on the sleeves and collar where they were slightly frayed. He had not done a very good job.

Everyone’s jaw dropped when they saw Hermione walk in on the arm of an older looking boy. It was not her date that had James and Sirius long with even Lily drooling. Hermione had tamed her wild and bushy brown hair. It was now sleek and shiny and had been twisted into tight and neat knot at the back of her head. She was dressed in dress robes of Perry winkle blue. She was hardly recognisable, she looked extremely beautiful.

They spotted Ginny who was tempting to dance with Neville Longbottom and sniggered every time he stood on Ginny's feet and she would wince. She was dressed in robes of lemon. Her hair was long and was flowing down her back in soft bouncing curls.

Before the memory faded away they watched Harry dancing with his date in the middle of the great hall with three other couples. They discover the memory was set during the Triwizard torment. And the champions had to share a dance with their dates in front of the school.

It was obvious to James and Lily that their son was not a natural dancer. James knew he was responsible for that seeing as he was most certainly not a pro or a fan of dancing either.

The next memory was of Harry fighting a dragon. Lily and Peter kept covering their faces when the dragon would breath fire at Harry and Harry would swerve or rolled or even summer saluted to avoid getting a blast of the flames. They were relieved when it was over and Harry had out smart the dragon and swooped up one of the dragon’s large eggs. He luckily was not to badly harmed, he only had one minor burn on his arm.

They were surprised to see Harry and Ron making up after they had obviously had not been talking to each other. It was hard to believe Harry and Ron had ever fought they were such close friends practically brothers. They chuckled when Hermione started to cry with happiness and hug Harry and Ron who both hugged her back awkwardly, while Ginny silently laughed and mouthed ha ha ha at the boys who glared at her.

The memory they landed in next even gave Sirius and James the Wiggins. It was the resurrection of Voldemort. All five of the teens were glaring at the older Peter, even the younger Peter was glaring murderously at his older self.

They all watched terrified as the young boy who had been with Harry was killed by Peter for no reason at all except for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. They observed as Harry had been bound with invisible bindings over the grave of Thomas Riddle, Voldemort's father. Harry's shirt and robes had been shredded by a knife. He had then been cut deeply all over his arms and chest several times.

They watched their anger and horror growing by the mere second. Peter was standing by a large cauldron as he stared the contents. The younger Peter couldn't bear to watch so he walked and looked the other way and deeply wished he hadn't. For there wrapped up in a large black cloak was something lumpy.

Peter got a closer a look and promptly started to gag in revulsion. There in the cloak was a creature that was a cross between a human baby and a snake. Peter staggered from the repulsive and inhuman sight. He bent over doubled and started to violently dry heave.

The others turned to see what the matter with Peter was. "What the hells the matter with you" James asked. Peter was white as a sheet and numbly pointed to the now squirming cloak on the floor. James walked over to the cloak looked inside and promptly joined Peter and doubled over his stomach turning queasy in shock and horror.

All five off them were all soon dry heaving after seeing what was nested in the buddle of robes. They all managed to control their stomachs in time to see Peter place the snake like baby that was Voldemort into the cauldron. They watched in sick horror as Harry bled and Peter started to chant as Harry's blood spilt over the grave.

Lily had screamed in horror when Peter had cut off his own hand and inserted it into the cauldron. Peter had to be held up by Sirius and Remus when he nearly keeled over in horror. James held and kissed the top of Lily head as she hysterically sobbed in his arms. He tried to sooth her whispering gently in her ear.

All five teens nearly followed Peter's example and nearly keeled over when Voldemort stepped out of the cauldron fully grown. His skin was extremely pale and snake like. His fingers were unnaturally long and thin. His eyes were a horrible blood red, his nose was two slits like a snake, and his head was bawled.

They watched as Voldemort replaced Peter's hand with a steel hand that gleamed dangerously against the glow of the full moon. This was the first time Remus had ever been able to see the full moon without transforming since he was four years old. It was then they all noticed the circle of black robed figures with masks surrounding Harry, Voldemort and Peter.

Lily and Remus and the others were doubled over in grief when Harry screamed the most blood chilling and curdling scream they had ever heard, when Voldemort started to torture Harry with one of the unforgivable curses Harry howled every time Voldemort said ‘Curio’ They watched as his scar on his forehead started to bleed. They were sickened when the death eaters all started laughing.

Lily and James along with the others were relieved when Harry had escaped and finished duelling with Voldemort. They had been shocked when Harry's and Voldemort's wands had been stuck together when Harry and Voldemort had both tried to cast the killing curse at the same time. They had been stuck in a green force-field and watched as each of Voldemort's victims appear in a mist out of his wand and spoke to Harry.

They had been saddened when both Lily and James had appeared and told Harry how to get him and Cedric Diggory out of the grave yard and back to Hogwarts. They told him to hold on and not let go until they told him to. They had told Harry they loved him and were proud of him and to keep on living for them.

Harry had then pulled his wand away and broke the connection. He grabbed hold of the dead body of Cedric Diggory, and used the port key that had brought them there in the first place, before either Voldemort or any of the death eaters could get to them.