Mischief In The Making

After meeting not one but three of his fathers good friends, rather, two good friends and one Judas,
Harry can't find it in himself to simply idly live through the next few years without being able to do as much as talk to them.

Reason obviously being one's currently a wanted criminal, and the other has vanished off to who knows where.

Alas, what more can man do but accept it.
That is, if man didn't have a friend who has decided to surrender their timepiece to them for a largely unrelated request for mankind....

....
These messers have personalities bigger than what can fit in their heads,
The skittles have attitudes sharper than the points of their own wands,
And the rest of the lot have enough opinions to put that of prophet to shame.

That is, Harry would have never expected that these stereotypical labels are somewhat hyperbolic. Rather,

All apply to all