Chapter 4

AN/ sorry for the long wait and short chapter, I just write more when I am at school, there will be a much longer chapter in maybe two weeks, until then read and review.

"Tempus, "

The common room had not changed, even with the 21 years difference, except, there were different people who Harry did not know. "This is the common room, for Gryffindor. It is where anyone in Gryffindor, will catch up on homework or just hang out with friends and over there is the notice board, which will get more full with things like Hogsmeade weekends and quidditch tryouts then practices," said Remus, pointing to the unusually empty board, only with a list for people to sign up for quidditch that year.

"Which positions are open?" Harry asked nodding towards the board, with the hope that he can sign up.

"I think it is one chaser and beater. However, I think you will need to ask Sirius as I don't pay attention in quidditch much," he said walking over his three other friends. "Sirius, which quidditch positions are open this year?"

"Moony, are you finally following our advice and going for chaser this year?" he asked before turning around to the others and mock fainting.

"Don't be an idiot Padfoot, Harry wanted to know." making Harry's presence known. As Sirius turns to harry his face turns serious (no pun intended).

"It is a chaser and seeker this year." at this harry's face brightens. "You going to try out?" he asked noticing the older boys change in demeanour.

"Yeah, might give it a shot," he said trying not to sound too cocky but ended up with a smug grin.

"How long have you played for?" James asked.

"I've been playing since my first year," he said trying to sound as normal as possible. "You?" he asked trying not to give them any time to comprehend what he just said

"Since my second year. How good were your teams at your old school?"

"They were alright, I suppose. My team, since I joined, only lost one match, either I am really good or they are all rubbish." this earned a few chuckles.

"Well let's hope you are good, as Gryffindor has never had a good enough seeker, the game we do win is only from our chasers," James said smugly.

"Come on James, we both know that the only game Gryffindor wins, it is when the beaters are eliminating the competition." they continued this banter, which made Harry's head turn back and forth until it started to ache.

"Unfortunately, they always get in the stupidest arguments that only last five minutes but the quidditch ones will last about ten minutes." Harry turned and saw that Remus was talking behind him, smirking. He lost his smirk when the two he was talking about turned around and picked their new target.

"Moony,"

"You wound me,"

"All of our arguments are important," they finished in sync.

"Before we lose any more brain cells, I'm going to show Harry where he is sleeping so he can settle in."

With that, they both went up to the stairs that led up to the 7th year dormitories, when they saw the pair set off in a run to tackle the werewolf. When they reached the dorm, he was welcomed once again, where he had slept for the last 6 years in a different time.

He realised that he was going to be sleeping in the bed that was furthest away from the door. He was a little disappointed at this because he always slept near the door, even on the run, he was closest to the zip on the tent.

"Is something wrong?" noticing harry's disappointed face, Remus spoke up.

Sensing that Remus was looking at him weirdly he decided to wave it off. "It's nothing really." after seeing the other's sceptical look he continued " it just reminded me of home," he concluded sadly.

He saw his new trunk and decided to unpack. His father's friend sensed he wanted to be alone and went to join his friends in the common room.

As Remus descended the stairs, he realised, it would be near impossible to get away with the full moon now. He then realised he was lucky that he and the other marauders had until the end of the month to work it out.

"Guys, we have a problem." he started when he reached others.

"What is it?" asked James, concerned, the mother hen as the others would call him.

"How we going to do the full moon now?" he asked in a hushed voice, after looking around to make sure no one was listening in their conversation

"We can do it like we normally, you fake sick, and if anyone somehow notices we weren't in the dorm we can say we were planning a prank," concluded Peter.

"Yeah, but if we do that every full moon it will get suspicious especially when he realises that there is no prank," replied James.

"I say, we wait and see what he is like first, then decide, after all, he might be one of those people who go to sleep really early and we won't need to say anything, except that there is a bug going 'round," concluded Sirius.