AN: This is based off of a fic I wasn't very happy with and needed some work done on it, I hope you understand why I stopped writing that fic so soon as there were many flaws that needed to be fixed and I figured this would be the best way to do that. I understand if you want to tear out my insides and feed them to my gold fish, just please don't, I need my insides.
Disclaimer: I own nothing, Rowling however is rich and does own it. Please don't sue me.
At the age of 317 Harry Potter stood in his office with his wife, Hermione Granger, as she was very sick, Harry could have healed her but she insisted that now was her time. 'Time' Harry thought angrily 'always messing things up.' He decided he'd take things into his own hands. He found a spell that would send two people back to when they first met, but they would keep things like their memories, magical core, knowledge, abilities, things like that.
He asked her on a Friday night, they had just had a few Firewhiskeys and Harry thought now was the right time to ask her.
"Hermione, dear?" he asked with a smile.
"What is it Harry?" she asked sleepily.
"I have a very important question to ask you ok?"
"Just ask the question Harry," she said, quickly growing irritated with the conversation.
"Well… I was wondering... would you like to… maybe... go back in time?" Harry asked nervously.
Hermione shot up in her chair, now fully awake. "What do you mean Harry?" she asked.
"Well I found a spell that will send us back to when we first met, on the train." Harry said.
"Harry, what made you think of this? What part of 'this is my time' don't you understand? For some reason you can't seem to grasp the fact that people are supposed to die, just because you're more powerful than Merlin doesn't mean you can defy death forever." Hermione said irritably.
"I thought you'd want this, just imagine starting over. Saving all those people who shouldn't have died, stopping the war before it can begin, wouldn't that be wonderful?" Harry said hopefully.
Hermione seemed to think this over before nodding her head. "Yes, I suppose, saving everyone would be wonderful, we could finally see Fred again. He was always a good laugh. OK, I'll do it!"
Harry got a massive grin on his face before saying, "Ok, let's do it now!"
"Now?" Hermione asked.
"Of course. Why not? Nothing is keeping us here, and it's not like we can pack for it."
Hermione once again thought this over before agreeing, "OK," she said. "Do it."
After five minutes of chanting a spell and waving his wand about a flash of light enveloped Harry and Hermione.
Hermione had just opened the compartment door, Neville at her side, searching for the ever traveling Trevor.
"Oh! Hello Harry!" she says with fake surprise. "Neville and I were just looking for his toad Trevor."
"Why didn't you summon him?" he asked.
"Oh," she says "I hadn't thought of that." With that she took out her wand (She never could get the hang of wandless magic.) and summoned Trevor.
She sat down with Harry and Ron after Neville said thank you and left to find his friends.
"Hermione this is Ron Weasley," Harry said pointing at Ron "and Ron this is my friend Hermione Granger," pointing at Hermione this time.
"H-how did you summon him? You look like a 1st year" Ron stuttered.
"With my wand you dunderhead," Hermione said, venom lacing every word she spoke. Ron had tried to offer her and Harry to Voldemort in exchange for his life at the Battle of Hogwarts.
"1st years shouldn't be able to do that kind of magic, you shouldn't be able to wordlessly summon something, that's NEWT material. Kids can't do magic before school, there's Underage Restrictions."
"Underage Restrictions?" Harry said in mock confusion "I've never heard of such things, maybe it's because I'm muggle raised, but I was allowed to do magic to." He finished while waving his hand at the closed door, opening it.
Ron ran out of the compartment, screaming something about Merlin reincarnations. He wasn't far off, Harry and Hermione were decendants of the old coot.
Harry and Hermione mostly talked and played exploding snap. Occasionally sending tickling jinxes at each other. The train ride carried on in bliss until Malfoy showed up.
"I heard Potter was on the train," he said walking straight into the compartment.
"I heard Malfoy wants to be thrown off the train." Harry said, standing up.
"Oh! And he's with a mudblo-" he couldn't finish his sentence before he somehow got transfigured into a ferret and got thrown straight at a window. He was only just caught by a Ravenclaw Prefect, Penelope Clearwater I believe, before he fell from the train, looking into the compartment and only seeing first years, Penelope got a confused look on her face before transfiguring Malfoy back, except for the tail and ears, which, for an unknown reason, kept growing back.
Malfoy left muttering about how the Headmaster himself should've come to fix such a horrible wrong doing to the Malfoy house. Harry scoffed, the Potter family was much more prominent than the Malfoys yet Draco still looked down on him. It truly was a mystery.
The rest of the ride went smoothly and as the train stopped Ron returned to get his robes from his trunk, running away quickly after obtaining them, he was apparently scared of Harry and Hermione. It was fun watching him run like a scared child.
"Firs' years! Firs' years! Gather 'round firs' years!" Hagrid said as people started getting off the train.
"Right then! This way to the boats!" he says as he starts to walk away towards the boats.
Harry and Hermione get in a boat with Seamus and Dean. They talk a lot about what they think their favourite subjects will be, Harry says Transfiguration because of his metamorphmagus. Hermione says Charms because of all of the ones she invented herself, like the Intangibility Charm. Seamus said DADA and Dean said Potions.
"Yer can see the castle from 'ere" Hagrid called from his boat as they rounded a bend. Harry still gasped in awe every time he saw Hogwarts from here.
As Hagrid knocked on the castle door the students talked among themselves some speaking of classes, others what house they might be in, it was interesting to say the least.
Professor McGonagall opened the door and with her no nonsense attitude delivered her annual speech on the different houses and the like (AN: which I'm sure you've read too many times so I won't include it) while she led them to the Great Hall. Once in the Great Hall she told everyone to get in a line as she pulled out a stool and an old looking hat, The Sorting Hat.
"When I call your name I want you to sit on this stool while the hat sorts you" McGonagall said.
"Abbot, Hannah!" she shouted as she read from some parchment.
She went through the list until she reached Hermione.
Hermione walked from the stool with a perplexed look as she sat. It was a strange sorting to say the least.
"Potter, Harry!" McGonagall shouted and everyone was quiet.
Harry walked up to the stool with a strange look, he wasn't sure he would get the same result as Hermione.
When Harry put the hat on it took a minute before it said anything.
'umm… can you take down your mental shields please?' it asked awkwardly, 'I can't read your mind.'
"Oh!" Harry thought with a grin as he took his shields down, "Sorry about that,"
'Hmm…' the hat said 'You're tough, very tough, but I think I know what to do, '
"IT'LL HAVE TO BE…"
AN: I know I'm evil, I left out Hermione's result as well on purpose by the way.
I love cliff hangers.
Especially when I already know how it will turn out and I get to watch people pout.
Try and guess which house they go to. If you guess then tell me what kind of prize you want because it's gonna be really difficult to guess and I can't think of an appropriate prize.
