AU Post OotP. Harry, Ron, and Hermione's seventh year. New student comes into the story, and is the same age as Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Time travel fic, multiple pairings. HPGW, HGRL, JPLE, SBOC, eventually.
Chapter 1:
Introductions, Dueling, and Detention
"Hermione, could you please help me with this potions essay?" pleaded Ron.
"No. How are you ever going to learn if I keep letting you copy mine?" Hermione said defiantly.
"I don't think he cares too much about learning, Hermione," said Ginny.
"Just imagine how Snape would react if he saw two identical papers," Harry piped in.
Julia Madden laughed. "You would probably copy her name by accident, too." Ron shot her a death glare.
"Why do we seventh years get so much work?" Harry wondered aloud. Ron and Julia nodded.
"I think learning is refreshing, and a good education opens so many new doors," Hermione said briskly.
"I'm going to be an Auror, which means I'm going to get good grades, which means I'm going to study!" Julia said, with a more determined voice than before.
"I've never seen you so determined, Jules," Ginny said.
"I wish Snape knew what it felt like to be a student," Ron said.
"I think Snape has been a student, considering he went to this school," said Hermione.
"I can't imagine Snape as a child," Harry said.
They were headed to dinner, when they saw a door they had never seen before. "Have any of you seen that door before," Ginny asked. They just shook their heads. They stood there for a few moments until their curiosity got the better of them. Harry reached for the knob, turned it, and went inside. In an instant, he was gone. Ron had run to go get help. Hermione, Julia, and Ginny followed Harry inside.
"Where the hell are we?" yelled Julia.
"Julia!" Hermione yelled in surprise. "Watch your language!"
Suddenly, they hit ground and there was a big "oof!" as they hit the floor. All of them were knocked unconscious.
"Where the heck are we now?" Julia asked.
"Of course! We're in the hospital wing!" Harry said. "I've been here so many times, of course I recognize it!"
"Thank you for bringing them here you four!" Madam Pomfrey said. "Do you think they were dueling in the hallway? Well, never mind, I don't know who they are so please fetch Professor Dumbledore for me."
A few minutes later, Professor Dumbledore came striding in. "What's the matter, Poppy? Oh, I see. So you don't know who any of them are?" The nurse shook her head sadly.
"Uh, Headmaster, would you mind if we talk to you privately for a few minutes?" Harry said.
"Of course, James."
"Wait. My name is Harry Potter, sir, not James. Where are we and what time is it?"
"We're in the hospital wing, and it's October 3rd, 1977. It's also a Tuesday," he said, smiling.
"1977! How is that possible?" Harry said, shocked.
"It seems the only possible answer is that you came back in time," Dumbledore said simply.
"Whoa!" Julia and Ginny said.
After talking for a while, they decided on a story. They were all transfers from a smaller school in England. There names were Harry Princeton, Ginny Wesley, Hermione Gavin, and Julia Maddex. Since Dumbledore was looking for a way for them to get home and Ginny had such good grades, they decided Ginny could be a seventh year student also. In about an hour, they left the hospital wing. Since they were all hungry, they went down to dinner and saw it looked like they remembered it. The only different part was the students. Their thoughts were interrupted by someone yelling, "Hey, new kids, over here!"
They raced over looking relieved. James, Remus, Sirius, Peter, and Lily were all smiling at them.
"Hey Prongs, its your twin!" Sirius said gleefully looking at Harry. "You guys got names?" he asked interestedly.
"I'm Julia Maddex; these people are Harry Princeton, Hermione Gavin, and Ginny Wesley."
"And I'm Sirius Black," he said smoothly. "This is James Potter, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, and Lily Pott- I mean Evans," he said, smirking at Lily, who started glaring at Sirius.
"Shove off Black. I do not like James Potter. In fact, I despise him. Well anyway, I'm the Head girl and James is the Head boy, so if you need anything, just ask."
"Well, we were already sorted and need to find Gryffindor Tower," Hermione lied quickly, because she knew exactly where everything was.
"Of course, it would be the Marauders pleasure to help you on this noble quest," James said dramatically. Julia and Ginny giggled.
"Who are the Marauders?" Ginny asked.
"Us, of course. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs!" Sirius sung. This time, everyone laughed.
After dinner, the Marauders and Lily brought the new kids up to Gryffindor Tower. They told them stories of previous pranks they had pulled. Then, they all went to bed around midnight.
When they got to potions the next day, almost everyone was already paired up. James was with Sirius, Remus with Peter, and Harry paired with Lily. Hermione got paired with Ginny, and Julia was left partnerless. "Uh, professor, I don't have a partner….."
"Not to worry, my dear you can partner with-"
"Sorry I'm late Professor Slughorn, I was talking with professor McGonagall about-"
"Not to worry Severus, ah you can partner with Miss Maddex." Julia's jaw dropped and Sirius came up behind her and picked it up for her.
Once everyone had started working, Julia walked over to Snape and tried to be nice. "Hi…… uh Severus," she said and smiled at him. He looked so taken aback by someone being nice to him that he jumped up and almost smiled.
"So do you like potions Severus?" she asked. He just nodded. 'Okay, now how are we going to win the "Outstanding" grade for the term if he wouldn't even talk to me.'
At the end of class, he went around checking the potions everyone had made and had made his decision.
"And the winners are……… Miss Maddex and Mr. Snape!"
"Yay!" Julia yelled and jumped up and down. Everyone laughed. "Oh Severus, thank you, thank you, thank you!" Julia laughed at the expression on his face, which seemed happy, for once.
Defense Against the Dark Arts class was first the next morning.
"Class, we will be starting a new project, well, more like a contest. We are having a paired-dueling tournament!" Professor Scott said.
"Cool, I love dueling, this will be a piece of cake!" Julia said.
"I will pair you up in partners, and you will have to train to be able to cooperate to win a duel together," he said. The Marauder's kept on talking about the tournament while Lily and Hermione glared at them reproachfully. They only stopped when they heard their names, "Lily Evans and Harry Princeton, Ginny Wesley and James Potter, Hermione Gavin and Remus Lupin, Narcissa Black and Peter Pettigrew, Julia Maddex and Severus Snape, and Sirius Black and Bellatrix Black."
"Oh. My. God. You can NOT be serious," Sirius said.
"I refuse. Just fail me and put me out of my misery," Bellatrix said rudely.
"Kill me and put me out of my misery!" All the Gryffindors laughed and Sirius glared at them.
"No, see, you don't understand," Sirius said. "Putting me with her is like putting Dumbledore with Voldemort. I think you can tell who would be who."
Bellatrix glared at Sirius, who then ran and hid behind James. "Help, help, help! See professor, I'm too handsome to die!" Sirius squealed.
"My pairings are final, so just find a way to work with one another."
When class ended, everyone hurried out of the classroom and went down to lunch.
Sirius just kept poking his food, not eating it, hoping maybe if he starved himself, he might get out of this.
"My cousin. Of all the people I could have been paired with, I got my cousin. Though there is an upside to this," he said.
"Yeah, what?" Harry asked.
"At least I didn't get Snape," he said, snorting into his food.
"Ha ha, hilarious," Julia said. "Snape isn't terrible. He's probably pretty good at DADA but still how come the rest of you got good pairings?"
"Narcissa Black? Good? She scares the living daylights out of me!" Peter almost squeaked.
"Good point. What about the rest of you?"
"We are incredibly lucky?" James offered.
"Whatever. I'm going up to bed to see if I can go to sleep, wake up, and find out this was all a dream," Sirius said.
"Uhhh, Sirius, we have Charms next and-" Lily stopped talking when she realized that Sirius was already on his way up.
"Sirius, you slept through double charms!" Hermione said reproachfully.
"Who cares? I might have skipped it anyway," he said, depressed.
"Time for dinner!" Ginny said happily.
"How can you be so happy?" Sirius asked her.
"Uhhh…… I wasn't just paired with your cousin for dueling?" she said.
"Don't remind me, let's just eat," Sirius said.
"Okay, but you know, we're kind of worried about you, Sirius," Lily said.
"Okay, I'll try to cheer up," Sirius said, then smiled.
When they were at dinner, Bellatrix kept glaring over at the Gryffindor table. No one noticed.
Within the next hour they were fast asleep.
The next morning, Hermione woke with a start, and realized something terrible. "Oh my gosh, I need to find Harry!" she said worriedly.
"Harry, Harry, I need to talk to you!" Hermione practically yelled.
"What's wrong Hermione?" Harry asked.
"I just realized something! Quick, do you have your Marauder's Map?" Hermione asked.
"Yeah, just let me get it out," Harry said, wondering what was up with the map.
"Harry, do you see anything odd about it?" Hermione asked anxiously.
"No, it's got you, me, Ginny, Juli-," Harry stopped. "Oh god, I didn't even realize that!" Harry said.
"We have got to get our hands on the Marauder's Map that the Marauders have, so we can put a Confundus Charm on it," Hermione said. "And for that we'll need-"
"Julia and Ginny," Harry finished, now with a determined grin on his face.
Later they found Julia and Ginny doing Transfiguration homework in the library.
"Hey guys, we need some help," Harry said. "Interested?"
"Of course we are Harry, just tell us what you want us to do, and we'll do it," Ginny said simply.
"Okay, here's the plan."
At midnight, Harry got up, but was trying very hard not to wake anyone else up. He grabbed the Marauder's Map from James's trunk after looking around a little. Then, he snuck down to the common room to meet Julia, Ginny, and Hermione. He handed it to Hermione, who was having a little trouble confunding the map.
"Oh, they are good!" Hermione said, frustrated.
Finally, the girls got it. Then, Julia and Ginny disillusioned themselves and snuck up to the boys' dormitory. They handed it to Harry, who put it back where it was before. Now, instead of Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Julia Madden, and Ginny Weasley, it read Harry Princeton, Hermione Gavin, Julia Maddex, and Ginny Wesley.
The next day, when they arrived at Defense Against the Dark Arts, they were starting on their projects. James was staring at Lily, who was working with Harry. 'She's so amazing,' he thought. 'Why couldn't I have been paired with Lily?' he thought bitterly. 'Oh well, Harry's nice and he probably doesn't like her anyway."
"James? James!" Ginny said loudly.
His head jerked up. "What? What? Oh, sorry Ginny," he said, grinning guiltily. "I wasn't paying attention."
"Class, I'm going to see Professor Dumbledore, so just keep working and try to use some nonverbal spells," Professor Scott said, leaving the room.
Meanwhile, Harry and Lily were working, probably more focused than James and Ginny.
"Harry, you have to try to disarm me!" Lily said. "Don't worry, just do it."
"Okay," Harry said, a little uneasy about disarming his mom. "Expelliarmous!" he said.
"Good, now we're getting somewhere.
Julia and Severus were working together silently, which was a miracle for Julia. She usually had trouble staying silent for a minute. Severus had mastered nonverbal spells, and Julia was muttering under her breath.
Hermione, who had also learned how to do completely silent spells, was disarming Remus. He was smart, but was still not as good as either Hermione or Severus, so he had to at least mouth the words. He was amazed at how good Hermione was at nonverbal spells.
"Sirius, do you want me to hex you, because I'm very tempted now!" Bellatrix shouted.
"And I'm not, Bella!" he taunted. Bellatrix then started chasing him around the room, screaming and shooting off spells.
"Oh, is little Sirius scared?" she asked in her awful baby voice.
"Oh, we'll see who's scared, Bella!" he yelled.
"Oh boy," James said. "It's Gryffindor Black vs. Slytherin Black: Dueling Edition," James said worriedly, though some kids laughed.
"Come back here, and live up to your pathetic house!" Bellatrix screamed.
"And like you are?" Sirius gave a short laugh. You aren't being very sneaky, and I doubt you could EVER be cunning! You know, I think you're very close to disgracing the family name, like me!" Sirius said, laughing.
"I'll kill you, it's not like Mum will be sad about it!" Bellatrix said quietly, raising her wand.
"Expelliarmous!" James, Remus, Harry, and Julia shouted, pointing their wands at Bellatrix. She flew back and hit the wall behind her. Narcissa, her sister, ran over to her, and tried to wake her up.
"Detention for you six!" Professor Scott said angrily pointing at James, Remus, Sirius, Harry, Julia, and the newly awaken Bellatrix.
"What! Bellatrix was going to kill Sirius if we didn't do that!" James countered angrily.
"You still all have detention tonight, and I'm bringing you all to the Headmaster," he said. "The rest of you may go. Class dismissed!" he said, waking Bellatrix up. "Now, you six, come with me!"
The professor and the six students walked down to Dumbledore's office, got the gargoyle to move by saying the password, and went up to see Dumbledore.
"Headmaster, these students were attacking each other in class, well, it was these five against this one," he said, indicating Bellatrix.
"I see. May I ask why you were fighting?" Dumbledore asked.
"Well, you see-" Harry started.
"We were-" Remus added.
"She was attacking-" James said.
"She said she would kill him, and-" Julia started.
"There was screaming and-" Remus said.
"Bellatrix was shooting off spells everywhere-" Harry said accusingly.
"She said his mum hates him-" Julia started tearfully.
"Which is true, but-" Sirius started.
"You see, they're all against me!" Bellatrix finished.
Dumbledore looked slightly confused. "Well, what I got from all of that was that Sirius and Bellatrix had some kind of fight, and they were screaming and Bellatrix threatened to kill him and was shooting a lot of spells and then she made some comment about his mother, and then you five-"
"Four. Sirius didn't attack Bellatrix with the others, I just brought him because I knew he was involved."
"Okay, well, then you four attacked Bellatrix and now you're here," Dumbledore said simply. "So, as sorry as I am that I have to do this, I'm going to have to take twenty points from Gryffindor and twenty points from Slytherin.
"Okay, Professor Dumbledore," the Gryffindors said, looking down at their feet.
"I don't think that Slytherin should have as many points taken away, because it was only me from Slytherin. For them, there were five of them!" Bellatrix burst out.
"Miss Black, do you think you are stronger than those Gryffindors?" Dumbledore asked.
"Yes, of course!" she said loudly.
"Which means this fight had two equal forces, which means this fight was as much Slytherin's fault as it was Gryffindor's," Dumbledore finished. "Well, instead of reporting to Professor Scott for your detention, you will be reporting to me.
Bellatrix looked like someone had died.
"Ah, as I see spending your night with me and a bunch of Gryffindors isn't your idea of fun, is it Miss Black. Therefore, you have my permission to invite four Slytherins if they agree to come."
Bellatrix looked shocked. "Okay…… sir," she said uncertainly.
"You kids may go now," Dumbledore said.
When Bellatrix got back to the Slytherin Common room, she thought about what Dumbledore had said. 'Hmmm, where will I find four suckers who would be willing to hang out in detention with me, some Gryffindors, and Dumbledore?' she thought.
"Hey Bella!" Narcissa Black said.
"Hi Bellatrix," Severus said quietly.
'Found the suckers,' she thought, grinning.
"Hey guys. How would you guys like to help me torture some Gryffindors tonight?" she asked. "You see, I got detention tonight for what happened in class today, and Dumbledore said I could invite four people. Please come!" She gave them her best sad face, and waited.
"Okay," Regulus and Rodolphus said.
"Fine, but you owe me!" Narcissa told her sister.
"Fair enough," Bellatrix said.
"How about you? Please Severus!"
"Okay, cleaning things isn't too hard," he said, recognizing defeat.
"Thanks guys! You are the best!" she said and ran off.
The Gryffindors were walking to Dumbledore's office for their detention.
"I wonder who my idiot cousin invited," Sirius said curiously.
"Well, we can find out soon, our detention starts in three minutes," Remus said, walking up to Dumbledore, who was standing at the door to his office.
"Hello students, how are you this evening?" Dumbledore asked politely.
"What'll we be cleaning tonight, Professor?" James asked.
"Tonight, you will not be cleaning, Mr. Potter," Dumbledore replied mysteriously. "Tonight, we will be trying something different."
"No cleaning? No lines?" Remus questioned, clearly surprised.
"That is correct, Mr. Lupin." He looked up. "Ah, here come the Slytherins."
The five Gryffindors turned around. Bellatrix came up to them, walking next to Narcissa, Regulus, Rodolphus, and Severus. "Oh god, no! My five least favorite people!" Sirius said loudly.
"Thank you for joining us, Miss Black, Miss Black, Mr. Black, Mr. Lestrange, and Mr. Snape. Come, we're going down to the great hall for the detention. The students followed until they reached the great hall and went inside. Almost by instinct, when Dumbledore told them to sit down, they sat down at their house tables. Dumbledore then waved his hand and said Vanisio! and all the house tables disappeared. All of the students fell down.
"Hey! Couldn't you have warned us in some way," James said, slightly annoyed and sore.
"I'm so sorry, I guess I should have warned you. Please forgive me. Right now though, we must get started on your detention. Please sit in a circle."
They then sat down and Dumbledore sat between Narcissa and Remus. "Well, first I thought we'd learn something about each of us. I'll start. My ideal Christmas gift would be a pair of wool socks and my full name is Albus Percival Wulfrid Brian Dumbledore," he said encouragingly. You next, Remus."
"Uhhh, okay, my favorite class is Defense Against the Dark Arts and someday I hope to teach it here at Hogwarts."
"Good, you next Mr. Potter."
"Okay, I want to be an Auror and I love Lily Evans!" James said.
They continued until the last person in the circle, Narcissa, went.
"Okay, everyone, we're going to stand up and do some trust exercises
"Or distrust exercises in this case," Julia said, glaring at the Slytherins. Harry, Sirius, and James sniggered.
"Now, I'll pair you up randomly, and that person will be your trust partner. James Potter, you will partner with Severus Snape, Remus Lupin with Rodolphus Lestrange, Harry Princeton with Regulus Black, Sirius Black with Bellatrix Black, and Julia Maddex with Narcissa Black."
The Gryffindors were gaping at Dumbledore, but not nearly as much as the Slytherins were.
Within minutes, they had started working. Even if they were working, no one watching would be able to tell. They were falling back into each other, but not doing such a good job with the catching part. Sirius kept letting Bellatrix fall to the ground. Then, each time, Bellatrix retaliated by kicking the back of his knees, making him buckle his knees and fall.
Meanwhile, no one else was doing any better. James and Severus were taking turns letting each other fall to the ground and laughing at the other.
Remus and Rodolphus were doing it, but grudgingly. They were glaring at each other the whole time, and every once in a while accidentally not catching each other.
Harry and Regulus were muttering phrases like "stupid Gryffindor" or "future death eaters" and regularly dropping the other.
Julia and Narcissa were pushing each other forward and making them fall on their faces. Eventually, they both just sat down with their backs against each other. Dumbledore came over and asked "Why aren't you trust exercising?"
"She won't cooperate," Narcissa said.
"And like you would?" Julia countered.
"Okay, now we are going to try something new: Julia, say something nice about Narcissa.
"You're joking, right?"
"Okay, Narcissa, say something nice about Julia."
"I'll die."
"Really! One of you, try it!"
"Okay," Julia said finally. "Narcissa, you have a wonderful trust partner," Julia said, smirking.
He then moved over to Sirius and Bellatrix.
"Sirius, say something nice about Bellatrix."
"Keep dreaming!"
"Bellatrix, say something nice about Sirius."
"Drop dead!" she shouted at Dumbledore.
"You are dismissed from detention," Dumbledore said.
Ten minutes after detention ended, James, Sirius, Remus, Harry, and Julia arrived in the common room and were so tired, they fell asleep right there on the couches.