It had been about two weeks since Harry defeated Voldemort. Harry and Hermione continued to stay at the burrow. Hermione had plans to go to Australia next week. She missed her parents. Harry, Ginny, Hermione and Ron were walking through Hogsmead to get to Hogwarts. They were going to talk to Headmistress McGonagall about their education. Ginny and Ron did absolutely nothing but sulk the entire way there. Sure they were excited about Voldemort's downfall. But they missed their older brother more. Harry, Hermione and the rest of family barely saw either of them. They came down for meals three times a day but no other times. One time just to see what he did, Harry put on his invisibility cloak and followed Ron to his room after breakfast. It turned out to be a lot less interesting then he expected. All Ron did was cut pictures of the Chudley Cannons quidditch team out of Quidditch Today magazine. Then he used a permanent sticking charm and stuck it on his wall. Whenever someone would try to talk to either of them, they would just shrug and walk away. Ginny would fly on Harry's Firebolt from dusk until dawn. She would only get off for meals. They were the closest to Fred besides George. Who had cut himself off from the family entirely. Once they made a trip down to the store. George just had Verity help them. The last they had heard Angelina Johnson was spending a lot of time with him. Ron and Ginny would see the family just not talk to them. Hermione and Harry were upset as well but they had other ways of dealing with it. Hermione spent a lot of time with Mr. Weasley. He would ask her questions about the muggle world. A few times she accompanied him to work at the ministry. Where Kingsley was now the minister. Harry would spend hours on end with Mrs. Weasley. He would cook and even converse different witch weekly magazines with her. The truth was that he still felt like Fred's death was his fault. Along with Remus and Tonks deaths. Teddy was now living with his grandmother. Harry and all the inhabitants in the Burrow were overcome with grief. But that was all about to change. With a certain amount of coaxing, Hermione managed to get Ron and Ginny out of the house and to Hogwarts.

"I don't see why we couldn't just apperate right into the headmaster's study." Wheezed Ron as they walked up the hill to the front gate.

"I can't believe that even after all these years you have never read Hogwarts: a History," Exclaimed Hermione "you cannot apperate or disapperate within the boundaries of the castle." She repeated for what felt like the hundredth time.

"Well I knew that," said Ron indignantly "but I didn't know that that rule still applied. You know I thought that it was just to keep Voldemort out." They walked through the front doors of Hogwarts.

"You really don't pay attention do you?" asked Ginny glaring at Ron "they had that rule even before Voldy came back. And they even had it here when the Carrows were in charge."

"But that could have been because they didn't want parents coming. Besides he is for sure gone now," Exclaimed Ron "and the reason that they had that rule before, was because Dumbledore knew that he wasn't dead."

"Yeah but that didn't stop him from coming here….uhhhh Twice." said Ginny putting up two fingers.

"Yeah but Harry stopped him twice," said Ron now it was Ron's turn to put up two fingers. "And that's irrelevant. You know because he is dead now. It could be like those two years never happened."

"Right," Said Ginny sarcastically "you can pretend that that year ever happened, but you don't have the metal scars that it brought with it. That was the scariest year of my life"

"Wait," said Harry stopping dead in his tracks and looked at her. "You're not still having nightmares are you?"

"I'll put it this way," said Ginny not quite meeting his eyes. "Ever since my first year at Hogwarts, the word nightmare has a whole new meaning. And they have only gotten worse since Fred started coming into them" Ron and Hermione stopped but Ginny started walking again.

"I had no idea that she still had nightmares." Said Ron looking at his sister's back like he had never seen her before.

"I knew." Said Hermione staring at the ground guiltily.

"You knew that my baby sister was having nightmares about my dead brother?" said Ron in a fury.

"She didn't want me to tell anyone. She only told me because one night she woke up crying," said Hermione "she said that she didn't want to cause a fuss. And she's not a baby. If you would look up and see here for what she is you would have found that out ages ago." They walked in silence until they got to the gargoyles, where Ginny was leaning up against the wall.

"I don't know the password." Said Ginny almost bored like.

'oh here," Said Harry 'Candy Apple." Behind the gargoyles a moving staircase appeared.

"Alright so before we go in,' said Hermione "we need you guys to stop focusing on the bad times we had here and think about the good times."

"Yeah," said Harry smiling "like when I hid under my cloak and threw snow balls at Malfoy." Ron cracked a smile. He hadn't smiled since before the final battle.

"Yeah that was funny." He said but his smile immediately disappeared "you know who else liked pranks? Fred did." There was an awkward silence.

"What about..." said Hermione trying to think about something to say "when Lockhart thought that he as more famous than Harry? That incompetent fraud." Ron started to smile but then frowned.

"You know who else thought Lockhart was incompetent fraud?" said Ron as Ginny rolled her eyes. "I did. And you know who my brother is? Fred."

"Well if you trace everything to a different point it will lead back to Fred!" said Harry "let's just go up and Talk to McGonagall." They walked up the stairs to her office. They knocked on her door. There was no answer. They walked in. There was a note on her desk. It read: I had some Urgent Business to attend to. I will be there later than expected. I choose to leave you alone in my office because I dare say that you have proven yourself trustworthy these last few months. Just keep Weasley in line if he needs it. TRY NOT TO BREAK ANYTHING! Headmistress McGonagall. "Alright so-" began Harry before a crashing noise met his ears. Ron had leant against a table that decided it couldn't take his weight. It came crashing down. All of the fragile glass objects shattered upon impact with the stone floor. All except one curious object. It was hanging off one of the upturned legs. It looked like a time tuner but it changed to different colors.

"I'm sorry!" said Ron looking down at the mess he made.

"Right and sorry makes it okay." Said Ginny rolling her eyes

"Two rules," said Harry "one keep Ron in line, and two don't break anything. And you managed to break both those rules."

"In my defense you didn't tell us the rules." Said Ron "and besides I can fix it. Reparo!" All the pieces flew back together and repaired themselves. It looked the same as when they walked in except that the time turner-like object was changing colors very rapidly.

"Hermione," said Harry nervously "is it just me or does that look like a time turner?" He pointed to the object.

"It does but we smashed the entire stock at the ministry in our fifth year," said Hermione "but this one is changing colors."

"And vibrating." Said Ginny suddenly and it had. The objects started shaking, then the table. Next the shelves and the walls started shaking. Not knowing what to do, the quartet started backing away until they had their backs against the wall. Eventually everything in the room was shaking. The group was huddled together. Then it all stopped.

"ha." Said Ron he walked over to the table and began to each down towards the object.

"Ron don't-" said Hermione but it was too late. Ron had touched the mysterious object. There was a blinding flash of white light and they were gone.