"Hey, Hermione, could you please help me with this essay?" Ron pleaded, his dark brown eyes attempting an innocent look of stupidity, and only managing a look of plain idiocy.
"No, Ron...." Harry heard the start of Hermione's sentence but didn't wait around to hear the end of it, instead he got up and walked up the his room. He'd found something earlier that day, something very familiar, and he was dying to try it out.
He rummaged through his trunk, strewing clothes in every direction. Upon finding what it was he was looking for, he sat slowly on his bed. "Now, how do you work these things again?" He looked down at the time turner, twisting it around a bit. After turning over a fair few times, he suddenly felt a familiar flying sensation, like he was zooming backwards at an amazingly fast pace. Objects blurred and colors whizzed past him. After a while, he felt the bed beneath him again and he waited for his head to stop spinning.
Upon looking around, Harry noticed that he was still in the dorm room. 'Well then, can't have traveled very far then, can I?' He muttered to himself. But before he could stand he noticed that his clothes were no longer strewn around the room. 'Maybe I just went back a few days... Wait, where are Seamus' posters? And who's broom is THAT?' He looked around the room, realizing that it was not, in fact, the room he shared with Ron, Seamus, Dean and Neville. Upon hearing voices he turned realizing only too late that he was in plain view and didn't have time to hide.
"Oh, Hi James, weren't you in the library with Lily?" Harry sat, dumbstruck staring at the two boys standing before him. They looked familiar, only his thoughts were so scrambled that he couldn't put names to the faces. And why had they called him James? The second boy stepped forward and waved a hand in Harry's face. "Hello? Anyone home?"
Harry blinked a few times before realizing he was looking at a 16 yr old Sirius Black, accompanied by a 16 Yr old Remus Lupin. "Sirius? Remus?" He looked at them in utter disbelief. The two boys looked at him like he was going crazy.
"No, James, it's me Lucius, and I'm sure you know Severus over here." Sirius mocked motioning to himself and Remus. "Of course it's us, are you alright?" It suddenly dawned on Harry what was going on. How many times had he turned the damn thing? He jumped up from the bed and pelted out the door. Sirius and Remus followed.
"Yo, James, where are you going?" Remus yelled at him as he ran down the corridor that led toward the library. Harry looked back to see how close behind him they were and ran straight into someone coming out of the library. He looked down and thought for a second that he was looking into a mirror.
Harry scrambled for the time turner as James looked up at him in shock. "Hey, who.. what.. where.." And just as Harry managed to pull the time turner out of his pocket, Sirius and Remus charged at them grabbing each of them by the collar before a familiar flying sensation, followed by a sudden blur told Harry that he had just mad a very big mistake.
The four boys landed with a light thud onto the ground just outside the library. Harry sat up and looked around, spotting Pansy Parkinson, he realized they were sitting in the middle of an open corridor, and shoved them all into a nearby hidden passage.
The three marauders sat and stared at Harry like he was some sort of exotic bug. It was James who spoke first. "Who are you?" He didn't take his eyes of Harry; Harry felt that telling them a lie would simply complicate things, so he told them the truth.
"I'm Harry." Honestly, it sounded pathetic, but how else could he explain what was going on? "And you're in the future." The three boys just stared at Harry blankly.
"Right, so you're Harry. That doesn't explain why you look so much like James. Did you make a polyjuice potion? Is this some big elaborate prank?" Sirius almost seemed to be interrogating Harry, until his eyes lit up and he added, "Well, if it is a prank, it's a bloody good one." He laughed and elbowed Remus, who agreed. "So, is it?" Sirius had turned again to Harry, and was looking expectantly for Harry to tell him it was all a joke.
Harry sighed and shook his head slowly. "No, Sirius, it's not a joke. I'm Harry Potter, James was my dad and you're in the future. I go to Hogwarts now." They all stared at him again. It was James who looked the most worried though.
"What do you mean by I 'was' your dad?" He looked at Harry and Harry looked back, before he could say anything back, they all covered their eyes as someone pulled open the tapestry that was hiding the corridor they were sitting in letting a large amount of bright light stream in. Harry looked up to see Fred and George standing in front of him.
"Heya, Harry. What are you upto?" Fred asked. They looked behind him. "And who are they?" George pointed to James, Sirius and Remus. Harry let his head fall into his hands and signed.
"Come on, let's go back to the common room and I'll explain all this." They headed back to the common room via a bunch of secret passages accompanied by Fred and George and headed up to the boy's dorm.
Right,
so disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot. And Sirius! No, I'm kidding. They're Jk's.
Another thing, I know it all doesn't fit, and its stupid, but this is what came out at the time, warning, it'll probably never be finished.
Sami Lee
