The quartet meet Lily and the Marauders

The Quartet Meet Lily And The Marauder's
Chapter Five: Potions, And the Marauder's, And The Quartet Reveal Them selves.


It had been two days since the quartet had arrived in 1978. They had gone with Hagrid to get everything they needed from Diagon ally. They each got a new trunk, their new books, new quills and parchment, and new cauldrons.

They were all measured for four sets of Hogwarts robes each, they already had one set each that they had arrived in. Hedwig was bought a new cage for when they travelled around.

They had enjoyed and had a laugh in muggle London. They had all bought enough clothes and underwear to last the year. They each bought a pair of muggle trainers and formal shoes for special school functions. They even bought new bags for school. Hermione and Ginny also brought some make up. They all purchased shampoo and other necessary toiletries.

It was Wednesday Morning and they had potions. They figured professor Floom couldn't be half as bad as Snape was in their time. They were all in for a nasty surprise.

They had been given their new time tables the day before. It was seven and lessons started at nine. Ron was currently dragging Harry's blanket from him to drive him out of his bed. Harry was cursing at Ron colourfully.

Sirius was in the same situation with James. It was an unknowing case of father like son syndrome. Sirius grumbled "Merlin you two don't only just look like your twins you also share the same stubborn refusal to get up of a morning. It's save to say neither of you are morning people." Both Harry and James snorted as Sirius pointed out the obvious.

"Get up you lazy bloody git" Ron growled. "This has been going on without fail each morning for nearly seven years" Sirius added clearly exasperated. "Same right here, almost seven years of having to practically hound Harry out of his bed" Ron added just as exasperated.

Ron suddenly grinned evilly "Harry mate word of warning if you don't get your ass out of this bed and into the shower in the next five minutes I will be forced to call on Gin and get her to remove you from your bed" Ron said in a tone that left no room for argument he clearly wasn't kidding.

Sirius sighed "Ok James I'm sure Lily won't be pleased that she will have to come and kick your ass out of your bed, I'll just go and get her shall I?" Sirius threatened.

Harry and James suddenly bolted out of their beds wide awake at the thought of the fiery tempered red heads waking them up. A forceful wake up call from Ginny Weasley and Lily Evans never tends to end well for Harry and James Potter they had discovered that the previous morning. Both Ginny and Lily had cast a charm that had drenched both boys in their beds with ice cold water.

Ron and Sirius sniggered at the memory, as they pass each of the glaring Potter men their glasses. But Harry and James blanched at the mere memory of that ice cold water hitting their sleep addled brains.

Harry swore the girls could have gave him and James permanent damage after being woken up like that. James was in liberty to agree with him.

But unknown by the others even the Marauder's and the rest of the quartet had not been clued in on the plan of revenge both Harry and James had come up with for Ginny and Lily.

Harry had come up with the idea of messing around with the girls whilst they were sleeping. They were going to leave Hermione and Alice out of this seeing as they was innocent and had nothing to do with what happened to them.

That was all Ginny and Lily, and pay back was going to be well given good and proper. The girls would wake up and not realise what had happened, as the charm they were going to use would not reveal it's self to either of the red haired girls until someone directly told the person on the receiving end that something was a miss.

James looked over at Harry and gave him a discreet wink which Harry returned just as mischievously. They were so like it was unreal. Only Harry knew the reason for this. James just presumed it was one of those strange and unexplained coincidences

Harry slowly got out of his bed and went to his new trunk at the bottom of his bed. James followed suit, after a few minutes of rummaging around in their trunks both boys headed to the showers with their towels, tooth brushes, tooth paste, shampoo and shower gel.

Half an hour later both Harry and James were both finishing straightening out their robes and ties. Harry fastened his shoes laces while James looked for his own shoes, which he found under his bed a few moments later.

Once they had done that, the real entertainment started, Harry and James both tried to tame their identical black unruly hair. Harry fought the urge to glare menacingly at the culprit he inherited his wild hair from, who was currently standing next to him in the large full sized mirror.

Harry growled when his hair refused to behave it's self. "Ah fuck it I’ve had it, it's refused to behave it's self since I can remember" Harry said in disgust. James sighed "Tell me about it I've got the same problem.”

He snorted and said “Lily claims its looks sexy like this, I tend to disagree I find it to be a major pain in the arse. It's my fathers fault I've got hair like this I inherited it from him and he inherited it from his father. All Potter men have this hair it's like a family trade mark." James grumbled irritably.

Sirius and the others sniggered at the looks of disgust on both agonised boy’s faces. Ron was the only other person in the room who knew why Harry had hair like he did. The culprit he had inherited it from was standing beside him currently complaining of the same problem.

They made their way down the stair case; they were met half way by Hermione and Ginny just as they were coming down the stairs leading from the girls dormitories.

Lily was waiting by the bottom of the stairs in the common room for them to walk down to the great hall for breakfast. Lily walked up to James and was instantly pulled into his arms for a brief good morning kiss.

They pulled away after a few moments and walked hand in hand and lead the rest of their group (that now consisted of nine members) out of the portrait hole. James sent Harry an evil and sneaky smile only he caught, he returned it.

When they reached the great hall the entire student population started to whisper including the Slytherin's. They were all still trying to come to term with the fact that one of the new transfer students looked unnaturally like the liked the head boy.

Everyone had at least one explanation as to why Harry and James looked so much a like. One of those crazy assumptions was that James's parents or Dumbledore had had a clone made of the head boy. Or that they were twins, no one ever came close to the truth; none of them would have ever imagined that they were in fact father and son.

The quartet and the Marauder's and Lily took their seats at the Gryffindor table. James sat next to Harry; Ron was to Harry's left while Sirius was to James's left. Remus sat opposite Harry, Lily sat opposite James while Peter sat opposite Sirius and Hermione was opposite Ron and Ginny sat next to Hermione.

Peter turned the others as they started to fill their plates full of buttered toast; bacon scrabbled or fried eggs and sausages. "Hey you guys have you heard what the latest rumour is around here about James and Harry?" Peter asked while trying to not laugh.

"Oh for Merlin sake what are the gossip junkies prattling on about now?" James asked exasperated. Peter snorted "Get this. Harry is James's clone that was arranged by his parents and Dumbledore" Peter told them laughing.

Both Harry and James made the mistake of taking a drink of their pumpkin juice when Peter had reveal what had been said about the two of them. Both Harry and James choked on their pumpkin juice while the others laughed at the absurdity of the whole thing. Sirius slapped James on the back; Ron did the same to Harry.

Harry croaked "I think far too many muggle born or half blood students have been watching too much science fiction over the summer holidays." The ones who under stood what he meant laughed. Sirius looked at James strangely until James surprised everyone by answering correctly.

"Sirius science fiction is a gene of muggle entertainment it is based on scientific topics that are based on things that never happened or are not possible in reality. You can read about science fiction or watch it. Star wars for example which I read over the summer holidays it is a brilliant piece of fiction, but it is not possible for anything thing that happens in the book to actually happen in real life."

Hermione asked "You read muggle books?" James smiled "Well I didn't earn the highest marks in the whole school by sitting on my arse doing jack shit. Besides just because I'm a pure blood and part of a large pure blood family it doesn't mean that said family holds sick grudges or ill will towards muggles.”

He added “Do you really think I would have a girl friend that is only of half blood if I did have a problem with none or only part magical folk Hermione?" Hermione replied "No I'm sorry to make it sound like you did, it's just your the second person of a pure blooded family I've met that isn't biased about where peoples blood comes from. The only other family who I know that shares the same view as you is the Weasley's."

James smiled at her "No offence taken, it's understandable that you should think that way after the way you've been treated since you've entered the wizarding world."

Ginny asked "So if you've got the highest marks who is second and third in the school?" James replied "The top six with the highest marks in the whole school goes like this. I'm first Remus is second, Sirius is third Lily is fourth Malfoy is fifth and Snivellus is sixth."

Harry grinned "Well I'm willing to bet anything that Ginny and Hermione will take their places by the end of the year" Harry stated confidently.

Lily asked "Why what position did they come in your previous school?" Harry replied "Hermione was first I was second, Ginny was third our enemy since first year was fourth, a girl who we didn't know very well came fifth and Ron was sixth."

Ginny shook her head "Actually I'm willing to bet you and Hermione will take their places seeing as you've always got slightly higher marks then me. You did after all get two extra owls then I did and one less then Hermione."

After breakfast was over they all walked up to potions Sirius warned them "Word of advice Floom is a biased prick towards the other three houses, he is the head of Slytherin house. He will take house points from Gryffindor without thinking twice about it for the smallest and pettiest of things."

Harry and the others snorted "Not to worry we are used to it. Our potions master at our previous school gave us shit all the time" Ron told them. Ginny added "Besides Harry's dad went to school with their previous potions master, they were child hood enemies. Every thing Harry's father ever did to him during their years at school the potions master has used against Harry"

James said clearly disgusted "Your previous potions master made your life hell because of what your father did to him when they were students?" Harry nodded "Just because I'm my fathers son he could see my father I suppose every time he would look at me and took his revenge and school grudge out on me" Harry told them.

When they reached the dungeons they each took a seat near to each other in the back row, out of the firing range of Floom. Harry and the other members of the quartet nearly cracked up when they saw the name of the potion they were being asked to create. It was none other then the memory of choice potion. The exact same potion they had been creating back in 1997 before they ended up stuck in 1979.

Harry presumed Dumbledore had informed all of the staff of their predicament and had told the potions master especially what they had been brewing when the prank that put them in this time line happened.

Harry was betting that the git found out they were Gryffindor's and decided to rub their predicament in their faces by making the potion that was responsible for their current problems.

‘The sadist bastard. I think I know where Snape got his inspiration from and who is role model was’ Harry silently fumed.

Professor Floom sneered "Students and apology for students I believe we've have got four new members added to our numbers this year. Miss Granger, Miss Weasley, Mr Weasley and of course Hogwarts very own head boy’s clone Mr Parker."

The Slytherin's sniggered at this. James silently fumed while Harry merely raised a single brow in amusement. If only he knew how much danger he was in of suffering the same fiery fate the future Hogwarts potions master had for entire week. That incident earning Harry his Quartet nick name Flames.

Floom would only push him so far before he pounced. He would bide his time. The quartet knew Floom was currently and unknowingly working his way towards the same fate that befell the future potions master. They could hardly wait. Floom had no idea what sort of enemy he was making in Harry. It was gonna be sweet form their vantage point.

Harry commented "Well professor as the head boy’s clone I'm sure you shouldn’t have no trouble keeping track of everyone’s beloved head boy" Harry drawled his voice dripping with sarcasm. The Gryffindor’s had to stifle their laughter. Floom silently raged he from that very second knew that the Parker kid could and would hold his own against him. And that didn't bode well with Garret Floom.

Floom snapped "Ten points from Gryffindor for answering back and back chatting a professor." Harry merely shrugged and saluted the mortified potions master.

Floom turned on his heel and started to discuss the potion they would be brewing while thinking ‘The Parker kid is going to be sorry he ever crossed me’ Or so he thought, only he had no idea what was a head of him or to come over the next school term. He was going to wish he had never crossed Harry James Parker A.K.A Potter.

After potions was over Harry and the others made their way to transfiguration. James turned to Harry and laughed "Holy shit Harry I can't believe you just did that. You do realise you've just earned yourself a load of shit from Floom like I have to put up with every lesson?"

Ron asked "Why do you have to put with shit from Floom?" Sirius shook his head "Because James out smarted the bastard just like Harry has just done. And James was only in his third year when he did it" Sirius laughed.

Ginny giggled "Not to worry Harry can hold his own. Our previous potions master was worse then that. Let’s just say the potions master came off worse, Harry tortured him for a whole week and no one ever found out Harry had even lifted a finger."

Ron sniggered at the memory "Let’s just say it was hilarious and earned Harry his nick name and would have made him a legend if anyone ever found out who brought the infamous potions master to his knees."

James asked "What is your nickname?" Harry smirked while the others sniggered. "Flames" was Harry's reply. Remus asked "Why do I get the impression whatever you did to get that name didn't turn out well for your potions master?"

Hermione giggled "Well it's save to say it was not good for his health or for the skin on his backside." James and the others stopped in their tracks after hearing that.

"What exactly did you do to earn that name that involved the skin on your potion masters arse?" James asked trying to fight the full blown grin he and the other Marauder's were dieing to let out. Harry grinned "I will tell you to night in the dorms" was Harry's reply.

After everyone had finished their after noon classes and eaten the evening meal Harry lead the others up to the Gryffindor tower and gave the fat lady the pass word and headed straight for the boys dorms. Once everyone was seated on one of the seven beds and Hedwig was sitting on of the bed post on James's four poster bed while Lily stroked her. Harry told them how he became flames.

"Well" Harry had said "I ended up with the name Flames which my godfather gave to me after he had found out what I had done to his and my fathers child hood enemy. He wouldn't quit taking points from me or my friends for the pettiest of things. He would make a mockery of me in front of everyone in the class. I got sick of this so I studied how to create my own spells.”

Hw went on after a brief pause “I created a hex that would make a person fart and set their arses on fire when ever they would insult the caster of the spell. The only way the hex could be reversed is if the original caster removed it and uses the counter spell.”

He grinned evilly; clearly satisfied as he remembered “I let the potions master suffer for a week because he was far too stubborn to give into me and quite insulting me. No one not even him discovered I was the culprit. So that's how I became flames. I did it last year."

James and the Marauder's had tears of mirth streaming down their faces. Sirius and Remus had fallen of the bed as they convulsed with laughter after Harry had only mentioned what the hex did. Lily was gasping for breath through her laughter.

James said "Wow you really invented the spell yourself? That's ingenious we could use your talent. Are you the only one with a nickname or do the other three have them as well?" James asked.

Ron grinned and told them "No Harry isn't the only one who has a name because of something he has done we are known as the quartet so naturally we all have names assigned to us.” He added “I have the nickname scream which Harry's godfather gave to me after he found out I scared the shit out of two of our professors and made our enemy since first years literately piss his pants in fright."

Ron cackled in glee at the thought of Malfoy pissing his pants when he had met the large black panther scream that Ron turned into when he transformed.

Hermione shook her head at Ron knowing he wasn't kidding that's how he really earned his name. Even the thought of the sight of Malfoy pissing himself brought a smile to Hermione's face after all the times she was called a mudblood.

Hermione smiled "I'm called star. But it isn't because of what I've done; it's because of my personality and one of my much loved hobbies. I love to star gaze so Harry's fiancée gave me the name star" she told them.

Ginny smirked "I'm claws because of these" she held up her hand of long and beautiful French manicured nails. "I've got this habit of scratching anyone who pisses me off enough to be on the receiving end of these babies" she gestured to her long nails.

"I received the name after I clawed one of the girls in the year above me who tried to pick a fight with me but she came off a hell of a lot worse. Harry's fiancée had been amused when he found out what I'd done and thought me worthy of the name claws and named me that."

Sirius asked "How exactly did you scare the guy enough make him lose control of his bodily functions? No offence but your not someone who I would class as a terrifying, extremely gorgeous yes terrifying no."

Ron winked at Sirius playfully. He turned to the others and asked "Should we reveal one of our biggest secrets as long as they don't tell anyone?" Harry looked to the others and they nodded yes.

Harry cleared his throat and asked them "Can we trust all of you not to reveal what we are about to show and tell you? If anyone finds out about this I and the others will be in trouble as we are not registered."

James and the others had a feeling they knew what was about to happen. When Harry had mentioned they would not registered that had gave it away. They realised the quartet was just like the Marauder's.

James turned to the other members of the Marauder's and Lily and whispered "Should we trust them with our secret seeing as their trusting us with theirs? And I have a feeling that they are just like us and share the same kind of secret" They all agreed it was only fare, seeing as they were willing to reveal themselves so they would do the same in return.

James spoke up "We will reveal our secret to you four if you promise to keep our secret to yourself, and we will keep yours." Harry nodded he knew he was about to see his father in his Animagus form for the first time, and he was not about to pass up on this opportunity for anyone.

Harry said "Yes we will secure your secret if you do the same with our own." James grinned "You've got yourself a deal. But first tell me why you and the others have this secret. What is the reason for having it?"

Harry replied "My fiancée is a werewolf so we decided to help him knowing his transformations must have been agony and lonely for him. We decided to keep him company so he would not have to bear his time as a werewolf on his own, my godfather who went to school with both my father and my fiancée. They were all best friends. He was the one who gave us the idea and he would join us each full moon, he is a large black dog when he transforms and is also unregistered. So we became unregistered Animagi."

James and the others were looking at him in shock. Their secrets and situations were the same and done for the same reason. Remus sighed "Well in that case the fact I'm a werewolf should not bother either of you. I and James, Sirius and Peter and Lily are in the same situation”

He paused before continuing. “I change into a werewolf each month like your fiancée does Harry. And James, Sirius and Peter join me as unregistered Animagi, and have done since our fifth year. They go under the names Prongs which is James's name. Moony this is my own nick name. Sirius goes under Padfoot and Peter is Wormtail.”

He nodded in Lily’s direction and said “Lily only started to join us since the middle of last year. She to is also an unregistered Animagus and goes under the name bright eyes, she was named by James."

Harry had to hide his surprise he had no idea his mother had been an unregistered Animagus and had joined his father and the others back in their sixth year. He most definitely had a bone to pick with his fiancée and godfather when he returned back to his own time for keeping that piece of information from him.

Hermione suggest "Why don't we all transform at the same time? Wouldn't it be best to reveal are animal forms together?" Hermione asked. They all nodded and prepared to transformed together. Ron commented before they transformed "This Sirius is how I made our enemy piss his pants in fright literately."

With in moments where once stood eight seventeen year olds, and one sixteen year old was instantly replaced with a verity of different animals. Prongs the stag, Flames the fox, Padfoot the large black bear sized dog, Scream the large black panther.

They were joined by Star the white snowy owl (an owl that resembles Hedwig a lot), Claws the large ginger cat, Bright eyes the large grey wolf and Wormtail the rat. Remus watched in awe as he took in all the Animagi especially the four new Animagi he had not seen until now.

Harry and the others instantly realised why James had named Lily bright eyes. Her green eyes became so much brighter when she was in the form of the wolf.

Sirius could definitely see why Ron had been able to scare that guy into pissing himself literately with fright. He was as large as he was. Plus the way he was staring at them with those blue eyes that seem to illuminate and he sat on his back legs with his tail bouncing on the carpet and swaying from side to side, it was very unnerving to watch. He also suspected Ron had growled or roared when he had dealt with the guy he scared into pissing his pants.

He could tell the others shared his point of view because of the way they were staring at him even in animal form. If he could have laughed at that moment he would have done. There was a fly flying around Screams head and he was following it trying to swatted at it with his paws and tail. He let out a low and frustrated growl.

Everyone transformed back into their human forms all except Sirius. They turned when they heard Wormtail A.K.A Peter let out of squeak. They ripped up with laughter when they saw the ginger cat Claws A.K.A Ginny she had him cornered before she started to chase him around the room.

They all roared with laughter when Sirius A.K.A Padfoot joined the fray, a cat chasing after a rat, while the cat was chased after by a dog. The irony of the situation was not lost of any of the nine teens three who were currently a dog a cat and a rat.

Wormtail scrambled under the bed closely followed by Claws who had Padfoot on her tail, he jumped over the bed as he was too large to go under the bed. Both Claws and Padfoot pounced at the same time both landing a few inches away from Wormtail. All three teens quickly transformed back into their human forms, they were sprawled out on the floor, howling with laughter.

Peter couldn't help but be glad he was not a real rat or Ginny a real cat or he would have been supper. Ginny had been thinking the same thing, relieved Sirius was not a real dog or she would have been mangled. She could hardly out run him; he was wickedly fast and incredibly flexible.

Remus asked "Would you all like to join us to night? As it is after all the full moon and I will have to go in a few hours to the shrieking shack to transform. I'm sure if you follow the others you should have no problem finding it."

Little did he know, that they were more then familiar with that shack then they would have liked. Harry and the others agreed. Harry couldn't wait to go on one of the famous adventures with his father and mother. He was even getting to go with his future godfather and fiancée.