“Perhaps I got caught on purpose so I could see the pair of you since it’s been 6 months since we’ve last seen each other” he said forcing amusement into his voice, he was fully aware of those pale eyes on him. He saw his father frown and his eyes flicked towards Stuart, when they saw him an unhappy look crossed the older mans face before it disappeared.

“Who are you trying to kid, I don’t think you would risk your reputations just to see us” James said, as far as he was concerned his son and the other three just hadn’t consider some external factor which led to their downfall.

“It more likely then us getting caught, we’re very good at what we do, the best even” Rhys replied, raising an eyebrow as he smiled slightly. The smile was quickly erased as Lily stepped forward and smacked his round the arm.

“This is not something to be proud of so get that cocky tone out of your voice, you’re in enough trouble as it is and James don’t encourage him”

“Don’t smack me again” Rhys said going pale and making his dark eyes look all the more dark, his eyes flickered to Stuart who shrunk back as if he had been stung, he knew that look well enough and he had no desire to visit it again anytime soon. The gaze settled on his mother who looked almost startled at the look before anger clouded her eyes.

“Don’t talk to me that way young man” Lily snapped it would take a great deal more than a glare from her own flesh and blood to stop her when she was in a temper. She noticed for the first time that Stuart was standing there and turned to him, her voice softening “Hello Sweetheart, you hurry on and we’ll see you before we leave” Stuart took a few steps back, nodding as he did his gaze on Rhys who was making little slitting motions across his neck making it clear what would happen if Stuart told anyone about this.

“Ok” he said nodding at Rhys to show that he understood his meaning, they didn’t get to say anything else as the door opened and they were ushered in by 2 house elves. Upon entering the room they found themselves confronted with Professor McGonagall, Snape, Filtwick and Sprout sitting on the table with Dumbledore in the middle telling them that this might be more serious then they expected.

“I think we all know why we are here so we can skip that part” Professor Dumbledore said his voice sounding grave though his eyes were twinkling “Please sit down” he conjured 8 chairs “I’m afraid you’ll have to stand boys”

“Good, well we’ve called you here today because…”

“Your sons are menaces who deserved Azkaban” Snape sneered his gaze on the original Marauders who glared back in dislike. The 4 boys and their parents rolled their eyes but remained silent as McGonagall spoke

“Your sons decided it would be rather amusing to pour a very advance potion which they shouldn’t have been able to make into the Slytherin pumpkin juice this morning resulting in everyone from that house being forced to walk around for the rest of the day with hair that changed colour every second and not even normal respectable colours either” she sniffed looking more offended by that then the prank.

All 4 fathers laughed before they could help themselves though they quickly tailed off at the glares they were receiving from their wives. The 4 boys were all studying the ground with smirks on themselves while Snape was muttering about Gryffindors and Marauder spawn 
“As you can guess we are not happy about this behaviour in our school. There have been several other pranks like this occurring and we believe it may be your sons responsible, while they have not cause any direct harm we feel that the people are growing bolder and less careful” McGonagall stopped and pushed her glasses up her nose “There are rumours about a prank book and nicknames and if it is these 4 then the punishment will be severe”

“So there’s rumours about a book and some nicknames, that’s fair enough but I hardly think one prank by our sons is enough to condemn them after all they were caught and you’ve said the others had no been caught” Remus said calmly looking slightly confused even though he knew about the book and had even seen his son’s masterpiece

“Who else could it be but the 4 of them” Snape demanded looking livid “There’s no one else who could think of something like that” he caught Remus’s eyes and gave him a nasty look “Then again it wouldn’t be surprising if your son turned bad with his…. Heritage” Remus growled deep in his throat as his fist clenched while Carys bolted out of her chair, livid at the slur made against one of her son

“Why you little piece of...” she grabbed her wands and lifted it up to curse the teacher when James grabbed her, pinning her arms to her side so she couldn’t do anything she may live to regret. He was sending death glares at the bastard who dared make a remark about his Nephew. Snape looked extremely pleased and spoke before Dumbledore could interfere.

“Control yourself woman or have you caught some disease off your husband, I heard rage and rabies are common, I was merely stating that with what your son is he may consider himself to be somewhat better then others though I can assure you he isn’t” Snape stated looking Michael up and down in disgust, the blond boy looked as livid as he mother but was somehow controlling himself and not commenting.

“How dare you…. I’ll rip you apart with my bare hands” Carys shrieked as she struggled to get out of her brother’s grip. James shot Remus a look begging for help but Remus was staring at Snape as if he wanted to kill him. The room was a riot with everyone shrieking until Dumbledore stood up and clapped his hands

“Severus I suggest you keep your comments to yourself unless you want to leave the meeting and have no say in anything” When Snape remained silent he spoke again “Take your seats again and Severus I suggest you apologize to both Michael and his parents” though his tone was mild it was clear that Dumbledore meant it.

“I apologize” he said in a way that made Carys go to rise from her chair again till Remus topped her. Snape amused gaze turned to hate as he looked at Michael before settling on Remus.

“I suggest we continue this discussion” McGonagall said rather coldly looking at her former student. Rhys, Daniel and Russell were all nudging Michael with their elbow trying to cheer him up without speaking.

“Look it couldn’t have been them” Sirius said speaking for the first time and dragging his gaze away from Snape who he had been staring at with the utmost loathing “Daniel is a prefect and all of them are on the Quidditch team add that with classes and studying when would they even find the time to operate a huge pranking organisation?”

“While we accept that it maybe unlikely we can not simply dismiss these claims either” McGonagall said sounding almost tired as if she expected something like this to occur

“I suggest we take a break” Dumbledore suddenly stated “I could do with a lemon sherbet, if you ladies would like to follow Minerva and Sprout then I believe they have something to show you” the 4 women got up and left as a glaring unit leaving just the men, Dumbledore swept out a second later with Filtwick leaving Snape in the room with the Marauders and their sons.