Time Travel Sucks
Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, and Lily Evans were only five of the students staring at the boy with messy black hair and muggle clothing, who had been looking at the ground with his shoulders slumped since he walked in with Professor Dumbledore and up to the head table.
"May I have your attention please?" Dumbledore asked, not that he really needed to, as everyone in the great hall was looking at him. Except the black haired boy who was standing next to him.
"Thank you," Dumbledore said. "Jake here will be joining us this year after being home schooled for the past five years. Please make him feel welcome and at home. Now Jake will be sorted and we will continue our delicious feast."
After Dumbledore finished talking, he turned to see Professor McGonagall already bringing the stool and sorting hat from the adjoining room, and setting them down to the left of Dumbledore.
Dumbledore turned to the boy, Jake, placed a hand on his shoulder and whispered something to him. Jake nodded, never looking at Dumbledore, and after patting Jake's shoulder a few times, Dumbledore walked over to his spot at the head table, sat down and watched, along with everyone else in the hall, Jake get sorted into his house.
Jake sat on the stool, eyes still downcast, and McGonagall placed the sorting hat on his head.
Everyone watched as they saw the hat muttering something to Jake, and Jake's shoulders slumping even more.
After five minutes the hat called out "Gryffindor", and Jake pulled it off, handed it back to McGonagall, and sat at an empty seat at the Gryffindor table, which happened to be next to Lily Evans. He never once looked up from the floor.
Everyone was still staring at him as Jake started putting some chicken and vegetables on his plate, only to look away and finish their own meals when he started his.
After a few minutes, Lily heard a voice she had never heard before. It was deep and a little raspy.
"Could you pass the pumpkin juice please?" It was Jake. He was looking straight at her, and for the first time since he came in, she saw his face.
He had high cheek bones and a small nose, his jaw was a little on the square side. He had a weird lightning bolt shaped scar on his forehead. But what really made Lily stare at him for so long, was his eyes.
She had never seen such eyes. So much emotion behind them. So much in fact that Lily could only tell a few of them. But the one that stood the most was lost.
Lily found her self staring into those jade green eyes for a long while, before her mind registered what Jake had asked.
"Sure," She told him, grabbing the pitcher of pumpkin juice and handing it to him.
"Thanks," He said as he pored the juice into his goblet, before putting the pitcher down and start eating again.
"So," Lily says trying to break the silence between them. "I'm Lily Evans."
"Nice to meet you." Jake said, looking back up at her from his plate.
"Aren't you going to tell me your name?" Lily asked him.
"You already know it. Unless you weren't listening to Dumbledore, which I highly doubt." Evan if Lily didn't know it that was the longest sentence Jake had said all summer.
"But you introducing your self would be more formal." She told him.
"I'm not that big on formality." Jake told her.
Lily sighed. "How about I show you the castle tomorrow, seeing it's a Sunday?"
"That sounds good. Thanks." Jake said.
"And I'll show you the way to Gryffindor tower after dinner." Lily told him.
"Thanks again." Jake gave her a small smile that didn't reach his eyes before turning back to his plate.
Ten minutes later, Dumbledore dismissed the students to their dorms. Jake followed Lily as she told him about the castle, and Peeves.
"Here we are." She told him as they reached a portrait of a large lady in a pink dress.
"Hippogriff." She told the portrait, which opened and Jake followed Lily inside the hole and into the Gryffindor common room.
"Now I just need to find someone to show you to your dorm." Lily told him while looking around the room.
"What year are you Jake?" She asked him.
"Sixth," Jake told her.
"Okay," She muttered, still looking around the room. "Perfect."
"Remus," She called over a boy with sandy hair and brown eyes, who had just walked into the common room.
"Hey Lily," Remus said when he reached her.
"Hey, I need you to show Jake to his dorm. He's a sixth year, so he's bunking with you." Lily told him.
"Ok, follow me Jake." Remus told Jake.
Jake followed. When they came to the sixth year boys dorm room, Remus aloud Jake to walk in before him.
When Remus walked in, he saw that his best friends were already there.
"Hey Moony," A handsome black haired boy said when he saw them enter.
"Hey Sirius," Remus replied. "Jake, this is Sirius Black." Remus told Jake motioning at the one who had called Remus Moony. Jake nodded at him.
"And over there by the window, is James Potter," Remus said pointing at the other black haired boy in the room, who waved.
"And sitting on that bed is Peter Pettigrew."
"Hello," Jake told them. "Which is my bed?" He asked Remus.
"That one," He answered, pointing at the bed farthest form the door.
"Thanks." Jake told him, as he walked over to his bed.
Remus, James, Sirius, and Peter watched as Jake pulled out a tiny trunk from his pants pocket, set it on the floor, and waved his left hand over it, and the trunk getting bigger.
"How'd you do that?" James asked in shock.
"Do what?" Jake asked him.
"You just did wandless magic." Sirius said.
"Oh that," Jake said. "I don't have a wand so taught myself wand less magic."
"Why don't you have a wand?" Remus asked.
"I never got around to getting one." Jake told them.
It was silent as they changed into their pajamas and got into bed. James decided to break it.
"So Jake, why are you here? I mean, you've been home schooled this long, why now?" He asked Jake.
"I was at a friend's house one night." Jake started. "When I came back home later on, I saw the Dark Mark hovering over my house."
The other boys drew in a deep breath.
"I was afraid of what I would find, but I went in anyway. The inside of the house looked like a tornado hit it. I found my family's bloody body's in the living room." Harry took a deep breath before saying.
"They weren't my real family, I mean, they were, but not the one I was born into. They were my foster family. I've been sent to a lot of foster families since I was seven, so many I lost count. They were the only ones who didn't want to get rid of me. They were going to adopt me." Jake told them with a small smile.
Another round of silence pie.
"So Jake," Remus said after finishing his slice. "Which is your best subject?"
"Moooonnnnyyyy," Sirius whined. "Is there any way you can, I don't know, not talk about school for ten minutes?"
"Shut up, Sirius." Remus told him. "So, what's your best subject?" He asked Jake again.
"Probably Potions," Jake told him. "Carol, the lady who runs the children's home, told me I could be a master with a few more years of studying."
"Really?" Remus asked.
"Yeah. Carol was the one who taught me magic, before I came here." Jake was now sitting up in his bed facing the other boys.
"If you don't mind me asking, what happened to your birth parents?" James asked Jake.
Jake shrugged.
"Your guess is as good as mine. Carol said she opened the front door to get the morning paper one day, and there I was, a fifteen month old baby asleep on the doorstep." Jake told them.
"So, um, what do you think happened to them?" Sirius asked.
"I like to think they died." Jake told the horrorstruck boys.
"What? Why?" James asked.
"It's just easier to accept they died, then them not wanting me." Jake told them looking down at his blanket.
"Oh." The other boys said together.
"Do you have a last name?" Peter asked.
"No, I don't. Well, night guys." Jake said before lying back down and falling asleep a second later.
"Poor guy," Remus said.
"Yeah, I couldn't imagine living his life. I mean, so many foster families thatyou don't even know how many and the one that was going to adopt you was murdered by death eaters. And not even knowing what happened to your parents. It must be horrible." James said while the other boys nodded in agreement.
"I guess we should get some sleep. Night," Peter said. And one by one the four boys fell asleep.
Jake sighed and pulled his pillow over his head, waiting for the bliss that was sleeping. But it never came.
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A/N There you have it. Updates will most likely be few and far between. Please R&R!