"Well, Dumbledore should have informed me about that." Professor Tonks looked at the six of us. "Harry, do you know who these boys are?" He asked.
"No sir, I can't say that I do, but I can definitely say that Charles, Ben and Oliver are not their real names." Harry answered.
"What? I think I would know what my real name is. I've had it since birth!" Sirius exclaimed.
"So, what you're trying to tell me is that you're not really-"
"James, Remus and Sirius." James shouted.
"What?" The professor looked a bit taken back.
"What?" I asked quickly.
"Damn it Remus, out of everyone here you should know that we can't keep this up for the whole time." James exclaimed once more.
"Remus?" Hermione pointed towards me.
"James?" Harry pointed to James.
"Sirius?" Ron pointed to Sirius.
"BLACK, POTTER AND LUPIN!" Dumbledore shouted. Our heads shot towards the sound of his voice and soon we saw his figure rushing towards us.
"Yes." We all said in unison. Now, we've been in trouble before so Dumbledore's voice doesn't scare us any more, but this sounded different. As if he was beyond the point of our little pranks and our games. His voice was enough to scare those in Azkaban, he stood in front of us like he was about to shoot our kneecaps.
"What, er-"
"Don't try to talk your way out of this Lupin." He cut me off. I looked shocked. "You three." He pointed to Hermione, Ron and Harry. "Go back to your dorms now! And now you Professor Lupin, you must escort them back!" They quickly rushed off.
"Er, what have we done?" James asked.
"When, when did I say that you could tell them?" He asked calmly. "When did I say that you could tell anyone?"
"You, er, you didn't." I replied.
"So you understand what you have done?" Dumbledore asked.
"Yes." I replied.
"No." James and Sirius replied after me.
"You have just created a mess, that even I can't clean up." Dumbledore sighed. "Now, now they know. What you were sent here for is now unchangeable. You must go home." He waved his hand at us.
"What? You didn't even say what we were here for!" James replied.
"Well, it's not worth it now. I'll send you home in the morning. Go to your dorm and sleep." And with that Dumbledore walked away.
"Well, boys." I blew my cheeks out.
"I have a plan." James said.
"What-"
"-We can definitely figure out what is going on. Remember that little hut at Hogsmeade, we could stay there. Mooney, you could find out what he wanted us for and Sirius could come back to the castle as Padfoot." He ignored me and carried on talking.
"Yeah, the hut must obviously still be here." Sirius replied.
"One thing." I held up my hand. "What about when there is a full moon?" I asked. "Dumbledore had sorted it out for me, but if we're gonna go and hide in a hut then what I am I gonna do?"
"The Shrieking Shack. You use it back then, use it now. We will keep it clear as Padfoot and Prongs." James replied.
"Can I ask you a question Prongs?" I asked.
"Yea." He replied.
"Were you listening at all when Dumbledore was talking were you?"
"No, I wasn't. How else could I think of something that brilliant?" He asked.
"Ok, so we sleep and leave in the morning?" Sirius asked.
"No, we leave now, we shall get our things and go to the shack." James replied.
"What about the trio?" I asked.
"The Golden Trio!!" James exclaimed and added a roar at the end.
"So, the Marauders and the Golden Trio?" I asked.
"Yea, or does it sound too much?" James asked in reply.
"No, it's fine." I replied. By now we were back at our dorm and we were packing our bags in order to fulfill James' plan. "Dumbledore will find us."
"Did anyone else notice that Professor Lupin wasn't called something else. If Dumbledore wanted us to keep our identity a secret, why didn't old Lupin do the same?" Sirius asked, as if he had generally been thinking a lot about it.
"I, er, I don't know." I replied, then I thought about it. "He did call himself Tonks though, maybe it's part of a plan?" I suggested. "I dunno, but lets get going before old me remember that we leave tonight."
"Well, I have everything, do you two?" James asked.
"Yep." Sirius replied. I grabbed my cloak and folded it up in order to fit it in my bag.
"Yes." I answered.
"Well then. Off we go, the marauders on an epic journey to Hogsmeade, but perhaps we shall have to go to the bathroom first because I need the toilet." James done a deep voice.
"To the toilet!" Sirius shouted as he pointed and ran to the door, soon followed by James and then I decided to follow.
