Sirius didn't even wait for the spinning to stop, nor take in the mostly yellow room and multiple beds with badgers on them as he turned and was still shouting loud enough to break decibels, "Moony! Moony, I'm getting one, and you are going to try it!"

"Yes, because the first thing I wanted to hear after all that was you trying to crash into a garden with Voldemort on your ass next," Remus sighed, but there was a look of defeat already in place as he sat up from the headboard in his face.

"It's going to be brilliant!" Sirius kept rhapsodizing like he had all agreement as he got up from the middle of the floor as grandly as possible. "Think we can kick the others out into the common room, bet I can transfigure one of those beds into a bike-"

A pillow whacked him in the side of the head, he didn't know who from, but he shut his trap and immediately saw Remus looked mortified now. "Sorry! Sorry!" He truly meant it, even if he'd forgotten for a moment because James wasn't on his back anymore but he was now painfully aware of the dancing images in his head just looking at Remus. "I'm trying, honestly!"

"Just because they know now doesn't mean you can say shit like that Sirius, it's the limit," Remus insisted anyways as he rubbed at his cheeks like that would hide the color. Sirius nodded like a bobble head and mimed locking his mouth with a key, even crossing his hands behind his back.

James fell off the bed laughing at the display even as he affirmed, "keep it in your pants Pads!"

"And to answer, no we won't," Alice told him firmly, even if they could have gone back into the common room where she would have liked to, but Regulus had quickly tried the door as his brother's mouth kept going and it still wouldn't open. Lily had summoned the book to her and was very obviously ruffling the pages on another bed.

"Oh like you haven't wanted to do the same thing a dozen times," Sirius accused as he sat on the floor to try and indicate no further involvement on his part.

"Bloody saints, the both of them," James sided with Sirius on that one, crawling back up on the bed so they could see his eye roll. "Bet they haven't so much as fantasized about slipping off during this."

"That's all you know," Alice told him with a very uncharacteristic flush as she sat beside Frank at the foot of Lily's bed.

Frank went very still, as if he hoped when he stopped breathing nobody would look twice at him.

Lily just watched for a few moments before turning back to the book with a muttered, "I don't want to know."

"I want to know-" Sirius tried to correct, before Remus popped him on the back of the head.

Sirius pouted and tipped his head all the way back to frown up at him, dangling his hair to the ground almost, exposing the hickey once more for all to see. "You never said their love life was off limits," he huffed as Remus sat beside him still bright red but looking mildly less like he was going to strangle him now.

"Like I'm ever going to pass up a chance to scold you," Remus rolled his eyes. "Relax Padfoot, not like it's a deal breaker, I knew what I was getting into with you. Just, you know, make a filter in your head. Even a tiny, pathetic, little one for the existence of the common room for my sanity, please?"

James was now hanging off the bed upside down and watching in further amusement as Sirius looked deeply contemplative like he was really trying to put one up right now. Padfoot opened his mouth-

"Yes, that includes the dorms," Remus said without looking away from the book. "James and Peter don't want to hear that either."

"Seconded," James promised even if he was still suppressing laughter for the display. He wished they'd told him from the beginning, this was hysterical to watch Sirius actually try to keep a lid on anything!

"Thirded," Peter muttered from across the room.

Sirius closed his mouth and muttered something for himself before articulating, "you're killing me Moony."

"You're usually pretty subtle actually," Remus told him nonchalantly. "You'll figure it out."

"I've never cared if anyone knew before," Sirius informed him primly. "I care a great deal that the castle knows full well if I'm off limits, so are you."

Remus' color had only just gone back to normal before it inflamed as red as ever, but he reached over and took Sirius' hand, who beamed and finally shut his trap, turning back to the book too, as did everyone when Lily finally got over her shock of the chapter title and said quietly, "Fallen Warrior."

Whatever cheer the Marauders had induced from their slight squabble instantly died as they looked around carefully once more.

"Can't be Hagrid, he was in Gryffindor," James whispered.

"I don't know if we can rule out anyone, a Weasley's statistically most likely," Frank said uneasily. "This could easily be the room of whoever's been impacted by the death. A kid of someone," he paused with a blank look as his thought ended with no good explanation for any Order members.

Moody seemed the least likely, paranoid as he was, probably struck down any Death Eater's within range before Dung had squealed. It had never been mentioned if he had any surviving family to even mourn him. Tonks, Kingsley, and Mundungus were the only people whom they didn't know much of their backstory, but even a brief look around showed nobody's personal effects. The room was in fact bare of photos or even school trunks, as blank as if they were all coming for the start of term.

Lily cleared her throat several times before forcing herself to read in the long silence, as if already in attendance of another wake. Harry had so many people who cared about him in this future, had shown up and risked their life to get him to a safe house. Who had died in the process that the boy would blame himself for?

It wasn't Hagrid, he and Harry were safe with the Tonks parents, but parental fear only made Remus squirm uncomfortably for the idea it had been her. She was a bright young auror who had the slight insanity issue of deciding she loved him, she'd already beaten death once by getting very badly hurt the last time she'd fought Bellatrix, had fate been so cruel and done her in this time? He squeezed Sirius' hand, not at all appreciating this trend of everybody he ever seemed to care about in the future dying, or him abandoning them like he had Harry. It was a minor miracle he'd even shown up as far as he was concerned.

Harry got a trip back to the Burrow and an update from Molly and Ginny, nobody yet knew, because Harry was the first one to make it there. Sirius squeezed his hand back while they waited in dead air. If it had been Moony...Remus was already having enough problems, he didn't need the added one of supposedly failing at this task!

They all breathed a slight sigh of relief, the Marauders loudest of all it was not him or George, only to frown in concern for one of the twins getting such an unforgiving injury. Losing a part of your body like that, your ear! It was so gruesome, they felt lucky again and again to even be alive hearing of these grave horrors.

"I'm going to kill Snape," Sirius hissed for them alone, "he's the reason those ruddy Death Eater's knew about this," he recalled.

"But who's his spy this time," Remus grimly reminded, convincing Sirius to close his mouth again for that vital detail.

Professor Lupin actually lectured Harry for a time on his actions during that fight, causing Lily and James to exchange the briefest of smiles at this kid. He held his own defending his actions, but they could tell, Remus had gotten through to him.

It was not Kingsley, nor Hermione, as they appeared next and passed Professor Lupin's test, and they all breathed again, Harry would be lost without Hermione.

Sirius needn't have been so quiet in his rage, the fiery redhead herself said several lovely curses in between finding out it had been Snape to do the deed of nearly killing George with his own signature spell. She didn't stop long enough to let anything else through, she needed to have a good long talk with Severus, but the actions of his future piling up would only fan the flames she wished to keep a lid on until he looked her in the eye again.

It was not Arthur or Fred, who returned only to hear the horrid news and cause a ruckus for this family's gaining another suffering.

The twins reunited even caused small smiles in the room for their little joke, but the dwindling number only made the echoing words of the book with nobody else's lively chatter as usual grow. Was the wedding going to be off for the coming couple? Had Mundungus died while Moody fought off half a dozen Death Eaters at once? Tonks or Ron, both of whom had been in plenty of dangerous scraps before this, was it finally their last?

Padfoot outright laughed when he found out it wasn't Harry's best mate or Moony's future betrothed, and James shook his head fondly as he still hung off the bed watching the two. Remus's reaction to the news was a little odd though, both in the future where he harshly greeted his wife and in here where he watched Sirius with an oddly anxious look. He considered for a moment asking what that had been, but Lily hadn't even noticed, and he did not want to be the one to break the noiseless wall when he too wanted to know who should be warned in their future next.

It was Alastor Moody. Bill and Fleur arrived to deliver the news, and the story. They all sat in the longest silence yet as this sank in. They hadn't a very good history with the lunatic, his house attacking them all, plus his entire time in Harry's fourth year had actually been some Death Eater in disguise who would get Alice and Frank worse than killed.

The Order had a moment of silence for him as well, but still no one spoke up as Harry reflected on this loss. He wanted to be an Auror himself, he watched as Tonks cried for her tutor in the job. A Fallen Warrior indeed.

Harry stepped out into the garden with his friends and soon found another person known to them all in an even more distant way than hearing of their future. Ollivander was being held captive by Voldemort, tortured for his failures of Voldemort's defeat from Harry's wand. Truly, nobody was safe.

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Moody does not have a confirmed house, but the location arguably could have been him or Tonks who is canonically Hufflepuff. I personally like the idea so was Mad-Eye as the idea the entire Order was in Gryffindor annoys me.