Background Information/ Summary: During the summer before their Fifth Year at Hogwarts, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Severus Snape, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Albus Dumbledore are all stuck in the kitchen of 12 Grimmuald Place with a book titled Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, but while reading the book scenes of their lives in Alternate Universes are shown such as: All muggle realm, If Harry was sorted in Slytherin, or Evil Weasleys.
The Dementors never came for Harry because he left the night before they came. Ron and the rest of the Weasleys didn't come that summer but the elder Weasleys would make a visit or two for the Order.
For the chapters of the actual story, I will not put them up but I will put up the last sentence and/or paragraph so you know how it ended.
In the Black ancestral home, Grimmauld Place, Harry and Hermione came downstairs to the kitchen (which was only remotely cozy place in the whole house) for breakfast with Sirius. Hermione started the tea while Harry pulled out some toast and eggs.
He knew better then to give Sirius or Hermione any food to cook. While Hermione might not burn the food or start a fire like Sirius, her food looked okay but ended up with no flavor. She admitted none of the women in the Granger could cook (including her mother) but the men, especially her father and uncles, were great cooks. She questioned (jokingly) if Harry wasn't a second cousin once removed.
Sirius on the other hand never dealt with food before because he was dependent on the house-elf, Kreacher. Sirius came into the kitchen in a sleepy daze with black bags under his eyes probably from the lack of sleep from the reoccurring nightmares of Azkaban and Harry wasn't far from him with the nightmares of Cedric and the Graveyard.
Harry fried some eggs and toasted the bread which Hermione buttered and Sirius poured tea for the three of them and they headed to the table with the food and ate in silence.
During breakfast Sirius received a letter that said Dumbledore was not having an Order meeting but he and Severus Snape, Remus Lupin and a guest were coming over at noon. So, Sirius headed up to feed Buckbeack before they came and Harry and Hermione went to the library so Hermione can look at some books and Harry can finish his summer homework.
Harry sat down at a table and pulled out his potions homework. He had to explain the properties and uses of hellebore. While Harry started on his summer homework which Hermione already got done, she looked through the library which was massive. She soon saw the books were alphabetized by title. She knew it was impossible because no one inhabited this house when all books about Harry were published by just for kicks Hermione looked.
"Oh Merlin!" Hermione said as she picked the book up and she ran to Harry. Startled he looked up to her with confusion plainly on his face.
"What is it, Hermione?" Harry asked putting down his quill. She handed him the book. He looked curiously at the title and paled.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Hermione took the book from Harry and opened the inside flap and read the summary…if there was one. Hermione nearly growled in frustration. She moved onto the next page, passed the title to see a series of Harry Potter books including Sorcerer's Stone (Year One at Hogwarts), Chamber of Secrets (Year Two at Hogwarts), Prisoner of Azkaban (Year Three), Goblet of Fire (Year Four), Order of the Phoenix (Year Five), and the Half-Blood Prince (Year Six).
"We should take this to Sirius, after all it was in his library," Hermione said. She closed the book wondering why the name J.K. Rowling sounded so familiar. Harry followed her down to the kitchen. They knew Sirius would be there because it was almost noon so he would start setting the table for lunch and the four guests. They hurried down the creaky old steps down to the kitchen and stormed into it not expecting to see the guests.
"Sirius!" Hermione and Harry called out at the same time and stopped their run at the sight of Headmaster Dumbledore, Professor Snape, Lupin, and Draco Malfoy.
Hermione and Harry glance questionably at Draco. But Hermione was not going to be deterred from her task. "Hey, Malfoy! Okay, onto something more important (no offense), Sirius why do you have this book?"
Anything to ruin the tense atmosphere, he started with, "Hermione, I swear I was a teenage boy. Find one that doesn't have that - actually don't that's just weird - "
"Sirius! I wasn't talking about your porn collection," Hermione said without blushing. "I was talking about this." She shoved the large book in his arms. "And gross!" Hermione shivered. She looked queasily at Draco and Harry.
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," Sirius read out loud.
"Of course, there is a book of the precious Potter," Snape sneered.
"No, well, yeah, but Professor, look inside. It has a book for every year Harry was in Hogwarts. Not that unusual but it has a book for fifth and sixth year and I'm betting that's for Harry's seventh year. And look at the copyright date, I didn't but, I'm also betting it doesn't say 1995 or any year before that," Hermione said.
Sirius flipped a few pages and Hermione rung her hands nervously, hoping she was right. Sirius's grey eyes widened and he said, "Copyright date is 2007."
"And J.K. Rowling, the author's name is so familiar…Rowling…Rowling. Oh Merlin, I know who the author is," Hermione groaned. Albus looked on her with curious twinkling blue eyes.
"Oh, and who would that be Miss Granger?" he asked in his grandfatherly voice.
She sat at the table and held her head high by her elbows on the table and chin in hands. "My younger cousin, Jaclyn Kate Rowling; she's only a year younger but she has a little brother, Michael, which I told him night time stories of out years at Hogwarts. Of course, I sugar coated most of it for him but Jaclyn always had quite the imagination."
"Good going, Miss Granger," Snape sneered.
"Hey, I described you nicely which, not to be rude even though you are, you aren't nice. You make your own character sound better than yourself," Hermione bit out but then regretted it by covering her face with her hands. Dumbledore frowned but Black and Harry were grinning. Draco looked bored and Remus was quite entertained. But Snape was turning red.
Before Snape could say a thing, the doors in the kitchen doors and windows slammed shut and locked. Also, a note floated down onto the book which was lying innocently on the table.
Albus picked up the note and read, "Dear Harry, Sirius, Albus, Draco, Hermione, Severus, and Remus. I want you all to read this book. In this story, you will all learn a little something about each other. Whether it was originally added or not, you see at the end of all the chapters of what your lives are in alternate universe.
"There are millions of alternate universes. You can't go to any of them but you can see them. If you're wondering what an alternate universe consists of then think of it as your world with missing or changed events like: there was no magic, Harry wasn't The Boy Who Lived, someone got placed in a different house, or a person wasn't born at all. You will see this and more.
"Here I'll be generous and show you as you open to the first chapter there will be a blank page. One at a time put your faces to it like a pensive and you will see a descriptions and clips from the person's life. But during this process you will learn of your future.
"You can't change your future. Seeing the alternate universes is to show you not to think about the 'what if's' in life."
Albus finished and said, "It wasn't signed."
"Well I'm not doing anything today so let's begin. I wonder who they'll start with." Sirius reached for the book and filled the pages till he got to the blank one. Without a word, he smirked and put his head forward and his whole body was sucked into it. Harry reached for him and then Lupin.
"We're going to follow them aren't we?" Malfoy asked.
"Dang me and my good friend caring instincts," Hermione complained and leaned forward.
Albus sighed, Snape growled, and Draco huffed and they all leaned in.
Once they all stood straight the blackness surrounding them faded and soon they were all in a white room filled with a massive screen. Words appeared and said, "Hermione Granger. Magic does not exist."
The screen showed Hermione as eleven years old at the table eating breakfast. Words appeared again. "Now, she would have gotten her letter but it never came."
"Hermione, honey, are you done packing for California," a lady who looked like an older version of Hermione called out.
"Yes, Mum!" Hermione yelled.
Words appeared again. "Because of no Hogwarts letter, Hermione moved to California, America."
Hermione was now fifteen in a recording studio singing and her voice was beautiful. "I'm just a little bossy. I like it how I like it, when I like it and that's how it is," Hermione sang.
Hermione was eighteen and had a fine womanly figure and was back in England singing for her World Tour. Hermione sang, "You are the thunder and I am the lightning and I love the way you know who you are and to me it's exciting when you know it's meant to be."
The next scene was a magazine with Hermione on the front with…Draco Malfoy. The real Hermione screeched. Draco had his arms around Hermione in the picture and the caption said "Draco Malfoy, English Minister's son, is engaged to Hermione Granger, famous pop singer."
Another picture of them except Hermione was quite round and they looked about twenty. "Draco and Hermione Malfoy, soon expecting twins!"
"Twins! What am I? A Weasley?" the real Hermione shrieked.
They were pulled out of the book and Hermione looked flustered and passed the book to Harry, who was next to her. Sirius was at the head of the table with Dumbledore to his left and Hermione to his right. Harry was to Hermione's right and Lupin was to his right. Snape was to Dumbledore's left and Draco was to Snape's left.
Harry cleared his throat, and read, "Chapter one: The Dark Lord Ascending…"
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