⚠THIS CHAPTER HAS PARTS OF THE SERIES IN IT! ALL RIGHTS TO J.K ROWLING⚠

James's P.O.V

We were all gathered around the pensive again to watch Harry's 3rd year memories. Harry said this year was probably one of the easiest. We slowly entered Harry's memories. We watched as Harry opened his birthday presents from his best friends. Then Harry walked downstairs and grabbed a piece of toast to eat. None of the Dursleys paid any attention to him which I believed Harry enjoyed. He looked up at the TV Screen.

"...the public is warned that Black is armed and extremely dangerous. A special hot line has been set up, and any sighting of Black should be reported immediately."

"Oi!" I yelled and Lily hit me on the arm. "Ow what was that for?" I asked. "Shush James and watch!" Lily answered.

"No need to tell us he's no good," snorted Uncle Vernon, staring over the top of his newspaper at the prisoner. "Look at the state of him, the filthy layabout! Look at his hair!" He shot a nasty look sideways at Harry, whose untidy hair had always been a source of great annoyance to Uncle Vernon.

Sirius growled dangerously and I was debating whether to shout at Dursley or keep it in. I kept it in anyways. When Dursley was talking about this Aunt Marge I felt sorry for Harry who kept stuttering. I guessed that he and this Aunt Marge hadn't had a great history. I was proud of Harry as he asked Dursley to sign his Hogsmeade Permission Note. I narrowed my eyes and knew it wouldn't end well when Dursley said he would monitor his behaviour and see. Sirius and I hated how Harry pretended to go to this Muggle school and say he was beaten by a cane!

"You mustn't blame yourself for the way the boy's turned out, Vernon," she said over lunch on the third day. "If there's something rotten on the inside, there's nothing anyone can do about it."Harry tried to concentrate on his food, but his hands shook and his face was starting to burn with anger. Aunt Marge reached for her glass of wine. "It's one of the basic rules of breeding," she said. "You see it all the time with dogs. If there's something wrong with the bitch, there'll be something wrong with the pup --" At that moment, the wineglass Aunt Marge was holding exploded in her hand. Shards of glass flew in every direction and Aunt Marge sputtered and blinked, her great ruddy face dripping.

I howled with laughter and Harry grinned at me hinting that there would be more later. Hermione was shaking her head in disgust and the twins were grinning from ear to ear. (A/N Although George didn't have 2 ears but never mind that!) We watched how Harry calmed himself down each day by thinking of his broomstick servicing car kit and I made a mental note to thank Hermione later. The last day when they were having dinner I sensed something was going to happen. Marge woman started talking about how Dudley was a good sized boy and would grow up to be like his father. She insulted Harry saying he was skinny and unhealthy. "THAT'S BECAUSE THE STUPID DURSLEY'S HAVEN'T FED HIM ENOUGH" I raged. I thought Lily would shout at me but she didn't. Instead she looked at Harry.

"It all comes down to blood, as I was saying the other day. Bad blood will out. Now, I'm saying nothing against your family, Petunia" -- she patted Aunt Petunia's bony hand with her shovel-like one "but your sister was a bad egg. They turn up in the best families. Then she ran off with a wastrel and here's the result right in front of us." Harry was staring at his plate, a funny ringing in his ears. "This Potter," said Aunt Marge loudly, seizing the brandy bottle and splashing more into her glass and over the tablecloth, "you never told me what he did?" "He -- didn't work," said Uncle Vernon, with half a glance at Harry. "Unemployed." "As I expected!" said Aunt Marge, taking a huge swig of brandy and wiping her chin on her sleeve. "A no-account, good-for-nothing, lazy scrounger who --" "He was not," said Harry suddenly. The table went very quiet. Harry was shaking all over.

Lily let out a mangled sob and rushed over to hug Harry. I looked at him sadly, thanking him for standing up for us and he smiled in return. The Weasley's plus Sirius looked like they were ready to kill Marge Woman any minute.

"You, boy," he snarled at Harry. "Go to bed, go on --" "No, Vernon," hiccuped Aunt Marge, holding up a hand, her tiny bloodshot eyes fixed on Harry's. "Go on, boy, go on. Proud of your parents, are you? They go and get themselves killed in a car crash (drunk, I expect) --"

"STUPID IDIOTS" I roared and Sirius yelled "BLOODY IDIOTS!"

"They didn't die in a car crash!" said Harry, who found himself on his feet. "They died in a car crash, you nasty little liar, and left you to be a burden on their decent, hardworking relatives!" screamed Aunt Marge, swelling with fury. "You are an insolent, ungrateful little --" But Aunt Marge suddenly stopped speaking. For a moment, it looked as though words had failed her. She seemed to be swelling with inexpressible anger -- but the swelling didn't stop. Her great red face started to expand, her tiny eyes bulged, and her mouth stretched too tightly for speech -- next second, several buttons had just burst from her tweed jacket and pinged off the walls -- she was inflating like a monstrous balloon, her stomach bursting free of her tweed waistband, each of her fingers blowing up like a salami... "MARGE!" yelled Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia together as Aunt Marge's whole body began to rise off her chair toward the ceiling.

We all laughed including Lily and Hermione as they probably noted that this Marge Woman deserved everything Harry did to her. Dursley was running with her dog 'Ripper' attached to his leg! We saw as Harry ran. Ginny moaned as said "Stupid Harry! What if you got caught?" Then we saw Sirius. Well in his animagus form. "There's Sirius" Harry joked "Making his grand entrance! Nearly scared me to death!" Sirius laughed and patted Harry on the back. Sirius was about to strangle the Memory Minister Fudge any minute now and we were all relieved to see Harry back with the Weasleys. On the Hogwarts express I cried "Moony!" As we saw Moony sleeping in a compartment.

"We can't be there yet," said Hermione, checking her watch. "So why're we stopping?" The train was getting slower and slower. As the noise of the pistons fell away, the wind and rain sounded louder than ever against the windows. The train came to a stop with a jolt, and distant thuds and bangs told them that luggage had fallen out of the racks. Then, without warning, all the lamps went out and they were plunged into total darkness. "What's going on?" said Ron's voice from behind Harry. "Ouch!" gasped Hermione. "Ron, that was my foot!" There was a squeaking sound, and Harry saw the dim black outline of Ron, wiping a patch clean on the window and peering out. "There's something moving out there," Ron said. "I think people are coming aboard..." "Quiet!" said a hoarse voice suddenly. Professor Lupin appeared to have woken up at last. Harry could hear movements in his corner.

"Moony to the rescue!" Sirius whooped but we were all sad that he wasn't with us.

Standing in the doorway, illuminated by the shivering flames in Lupin's hand, was a cloaked figure that towered to the ceiling. Its face was completely hidden beneath its hood. Harry's eyes darted downward, and what he saw made his stomach contract. There was a hand protruding from the cloak and it was glistening, grayish, slimy-looking, and scabbed, like something dead that had decayed in water....

"Dementor" Lily breathed. She started shaking and I held her whispering soothing words into her ears.

And then the thing beneath the hood, whatever it was, drew a long, slow, rattling breath, as though it were trying to suck something more than air from its surroundings. An intense cold swept over them all. Harry felt his own breath catch in his chest. The cold went deeper than his skin. It was inside his chest, it was inside his very heart... And then, from far away, he heard screaming, terrible, terrified, pleading screams. He wanted to help whoever it was, he tried to move his arms, but couldn't...a thick white fog was swirling around him, inside him --

"That's me who was screaming" Lily sobbed as I held her close. "That was me when Voldemort came to kill you." My heart was aching whenever Moody came into the memory. I wanted him back to be here with us to relive his memories that he had made for Harry. When the Fat Lady's portrait was ripped I looked at Padfoot. "Seriously?" "Sorry Prongs" Padfoot replied uncomfortably "I just wanted Peter to be dead and shredded." Harry shifted and said "That's been taken care of." Padfoot looked at Harry in disbelief.

***(Time Skip. 1537 words already)***

We were super excited that Harry had found the Marauders Map and I looked towards the twins mentally thanking them. They received the message and both nodded back. Lily was furious when they let Dementors on the Quidditch Pitch but soon realised that it wasn't anyones but the Dementors' fault. I prayed to god that someone would save Harry as he fell from his broom. Memory Harry looked lost and upset when he learnt his broom was smashed to bits by the Whomping Willow. We all gasped when Harry received a new Firebolt and I instantly knew it was Padfoot. As Harry learnt the Patronus with Moony I already knew that they had a close bond together as Moony was the only one who knew about his parents. Lily felt sorry for Hagrid as they found out Buckbeak had to be executed and was practically fuming every time she saw the Malfoy Boy. And when Hermione smacked him...

"Look at him blubber!" Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle had been standing just inside the castle doors, listening. "Have you ever seen anything quite as pathetic?" said Malfoy. "And he's supposed to be our teacher!" Harry and Ron both made furious moves toward Malfoy, but Hermione got there first -- SMACK! She had slapped Malfoy across the face with all the strength she could muster. Malfoy staggered. Harry, Ron, Crabbe, and Goyle stood flabbergasted as Hermione raised her hand again. "Don't you dare call Hagrid pathetic, you foul -- you evil --"

"YES, HERMIONE!" Ginny and Lily exclaimed and Hermione smiled sweetly at them. Sirius and I were jumping when the Quidditch Match happened. We were both snarling at how many fouls the Slytherins pulled.

And then he saw it. The Snitch was sparkling twenty feet above him. Harry put on a huge burst of speed, but suddenly, the Firebolt was slowing down -- Horrified, he looked around. Malfoy had thrown himself forward, grabbed hold of the Firebolt's tail, and was pulling it back. "Penalty! Penalty to Gryffindor! I've never seen such tactics." Madam Hooch screeched.

"You Bloody damn Malfoy" Sirius growled. As Harry grabbed the snitch I screamed "YES SON YES!" Then the memory moved onto Harry, Ron and Hermione going to Hagrid's. Then Sirius dragging Ron into the Shrieking Shack. Hermione and Harry made their way into the Shrieking Shack only to be told by Ron that Sirius was the Dog. Harry, who thought Sirius was the murderer of us, was breathing heavily.

"I thought you'd come and help your friend," he said hoarsely. His voice sounded as though he had long since lost the habit of using it. "Your father would have done the same for me. Brave of you not to run for a teacher. I'm grateful...it will make everything much easier.... There'll be only one murder here tonight,"

"Padfoot" I moan "Why do you make everything so dramatic?" Padfoot just smiles at me. We watch as Moony then Snivellus enters. Then Pettigrew turns back into himself. Moony becomes a wolf. Padfoot tries to hold him off. Harry tries to save Padfoot. Hermione and Harry end up saving Padfoot with a Time Turner and Hippogriff. When we leave the pensieve we all turn to stare at Harry. "You said that was your easiest year?" I ask. He nods. "God, what will happen next year?" Suddenly the door banged open and there stood Moony and a pink-bubblegum haired lady. 

A/N WOAH! 2126 words?! Well not all of them were mine but anyways... I have 1 shout out to give out today! It is one of my first readers of this book! 

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She has a story on her account but it's mostly for younger readers. Back on topic... I will hopefully upload the next chapter either tmrrow or Friday. If u enjoyed:

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