A/N: This fanfic starts just after chapter 10 and Harry overhearing about Sirius being his godfather, at the lunchtime Christmas feast.
The Italics at the start are straight from my copy of The Prisoner of Azkaban, which belongs, obviously to J.K. Rowling, one of the awesomest authors. Any characters/places you don't recognise are mine (Like Alexis Potter), everything else is hers. Hope you like!
p.s. At the Christmas lunch at Hogwarts, the trio are the only students, the rest are staff, the two other students that are in the book were never there in this story, just so you know. X) Enjoy!
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The Great Hall, Hogwarts.
Christmas Day
1993
Harry POV:
As Harry was helping himself to roast potatoes, the doors of the Great Hall opened again. It was Professor Trelawney, gliding towards them as though on wheels. She had put on a green sequined dress in honour of the occasion, making her look more than ever like a glittering, oversized dragonfly.
'Sybill, this is a pleasant surprise!' said Dumbledore, standing up.
'I have been crystal gazing, Headmaster,' said Professor Trelawney, in her mistiest, most far away voice, 'and to my astonishment, I saw myself abandoning my solitary luncheon and coming to join you. Who am I to refuse the promptings of fate? I at once hastened from my tower, and do I beg you to forgive my lateness…'
'Certainly, certainly,' said Dumbledore, his eyes twinkling, 'Let me draw you up a chair – '
And he did indeed draw a chair in mid-air with his wand, which revolved for a few seconds before falling with a thud between Professors Snape and McGonagall. Professor Trelawney, however, did not sit down; her enormous eyes had been roving around the table, and she suddenly uttered a sort of soft scream.
'I dare not, Headmaster! If I join the table, we shall be thirteen! Nothing could be more unlucky! Never forget that when thirteen dine together, the first to rise shall be the first to die!'
'We'll risk it, Sybill,' said Professor McGonagall impatiently. 'DO sit down, the turkey's getting cold.'
Professor Trelawney hesitated, then lowered herself into the empty chair, eyes shut and mouth clenched tight, as though expecting a thunder bolt to hit the table. Professor McGonagall poked a large spoon into the nearest tureen.
'Tripe, Sybill?'
Professor Trelawney ignored her. Eyes open again, she looked around once more and said, 'But where is dear Professor Lupin?'
'I'm afraid the poor fellow is ill again,' said Dumbledore, indicating that everybody should start serving themselves. 'Most unfortunate that –' Dumbledore trailed off as a bright light filled the Great Hall.
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The Great Hall, Hogwarts.
Christmas Day
2021
Alexis POV:
'JAMES! FRED!'
The shout echoed the empty halls of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as an irate young woman stormed through the deserted entrance hall. Her high heels clicked on the stone floors as she walked purposefully into the nearly vacant Great Hall.
'Boys!' Her shout caused the pair of teens in the corner of the hall to jump and hide whatever they had been discussing into one of their cloaks. They turned around to face the livid face of Alexis Potter.
'Yes, my darling sister?' The shorter of the two teens said. His name was James Sirius Potter, eldest son of Harry and Ginny Potter, third generation Marauder and co-head of the pranksters at Hogwarts alongside his cousin Fred George Weasely, eldest and only son of George and Angelina Weasely, who spoke just after him. 'Is there something you wanted, my dearest cousin?'
Alexis stopped a few feet from the duo. Standing at 5'9" Alexis was a spitting image of her father, but female. Slight, but muscled with medium breasts and a confident posture, she had her father's dark, messy hair. At this moment it was pulled up into curly and messy bun, with her mother's auburn tints lighting up in the sun. Alexis has her grandmother's bright green eyes with a sea-green-blue circle around each iris, surrounded by dark purple glasses, she had inherited her father's awful eyesight. Her glasses sat upon her average nose above red luscious lips. The only noticeable difference was that Alexis didn't have her father's lightning bolt scar on her forehead, but it's not like she didn't have any scars of her own, they just weren't as noticeable.
Looking at the pair, standing in blue jeans, a black scoop-neck t-shirt and red high heels, with her black cloak in her hands, she looked intimidating. The boys put on identical grins, trying not to look guilty. Having lived with the two boys, Alexis could see through their façade's.
'What, exactly were you two doing?' Alexis demanded. 'You know we need to be going so that we can get to the Burrow on time!'
'We weren't doing anything!' At Alexis' raised eyebrow James amended his statement. 'Well, nothing too bad. Really! It's not even that illegal!'
As Alexis looked like she was going to start lecturing them, a calm voice sounded form the doorway. 'What's not that illegal?' Turning around Alexis smiled, seeing Teddy Lupin walking leisurely across the Hall to the three of them.
Teddy was attractive, to say the least. The young man had inherited his mother's metamorphagus powers, so if he wanted he could look however he wanted, but Teddy prefers to keep his natural looks of a lanky but strong body, standing at 6'1". As an Auror he was tanned with a straight nose and his father's amber eyes. The only change to his appearance that he makes is his hair colour, which he keeps a vibrant turquoise. Teddy also walks with a self-confidence that only some people can have and he also has an aura that quite obviously says "Don't mess with me". As he made his way over he adjusted the ties to the dark blue cloak he was wearing over his button-down navy blue dress shirt, white singlet and blue jeans. Teddy sat down on a bench next to Alexis and took her hand. 'Hello, love.' He said with a smile.
'Hey,' Alexis replied and bent down for a quick kiss. They broke apart to James and Fred making retching noises. Alexis' glare and frown returned.
'So, guys, what's illegal?' Teddy asked again, pulling Alexis down into the seat next to him without letting go of her hand.
'Nothing, we swear, Teddy!' said Fred (AN: rhyming, yea!), while James nodded beside him.
'Right then, if it's not illegal than it doesn't matter if I take it then?' Alexis asked, holding her hand that wasn't holding Teddy's out to the boys in a clear signal.
James and Fred looked at each other and then down to their pockets. The two were nearly inseparable, like twins. And like twins, they wear similar clothes. As Christmas Lunch at the Burrow had an unofficial dress code of nice casual both boys were wearing dark jeans and nice t-shirts, James' being red with a lion on it and Fred's being blue with a broomstick on it. The two also had on nice travelling cloaks over their clothes and form one of the pockets in his cloak, James pulled out a small golden chain and on the end of that chain was a small glass hourglass. As the hourglass sparkled in the midday sun, you could see inscribed runes on the gold circle that encased it. He gingerly placed in in Alexis' outstretched hand and quickly drew back his hand, unsure of what was to happen.
Alexis looked at the object in her hand and the colour drained form her face. She looked from her hand to Teddy, who was also focused on the object there. He blinked and shook himself before looking up at James, who was fidgeting nervously at their reactions. 'Do you know what this is?' Teddy asked.
James shook his head and shrugged, 'It looked cool, so I swiped it.'
Alexis rolled her eyes, only James would say that. Professor McGonagall, Minnie he calls her, says that James II is his grandfather incarnated. Alexis agrees. A prankster through and through, James II had always had a light in his hazel eyes that just cried trouble. He had dark brown shaggy hair that always seemed windswept. The only clear difference in appearance between James II and his namesake was the face that James II didn't need glasses, they both played chaser and were obsessed with a pretty red-headed young woman, but that was the curse of the Potter males, Alexis inwardly remarked. But turning slightly to see Fred's reaction to James' answer, she saw what she was expecting – calm acceptance. Fred seemed very cool with the fact that James had just given away their stolen device. Fred II looked very like his namesake as well, but with a slightly darker skin tone that he had gotten from his mother.
Glancing down at the small glass hourglass in her palm, Alexis did some very quick thinking. If she told the boys what it was that they had stolen, they might be tempted to keep it and mess with fate. If she just told them it was valuable, like a lot of the things they managed to get their hands on, they would forget about it in a few hours, with the party going on at the Burrow. With a start, Alexis looked down at the delicate silver watch that her parents had gotten her for her 17th Birthday. Even though the tradition was to get a boy a watch on their 17th, Alexis was very glad for this present, it had saved her life on a few occasions. It said that they still had nearly an hour before they needed to be at Grandma Molly and Grandpa Arthur's house. Seeing the curious looks on the boy's faces, Alexis made a decision.
'Alright, I'll humor you two,' Alexis said, pulling her hand gently from Teddy's she held up the hourglass by the golden chain it was attached to. 'This, boys, is a Time-turner - A very rare object, nowadays, seeing as Dad and Aunt Hermione destroyed most of the other Time-turners at the Department of Mysteries Fiasco.' Alexis paused, thinking, 'Where did you swipe it from, anyways?'
'Uh…nowhere?' James stuttered, at the same time that Fred announced, 'Uncle Harry's study.'
'Harry's study? In Grimmauld Place?' Teddy asked incredulously, 'Why were you in there? What have you two been smoking?'
'One question at a time, love. You know that they can't think too hard with their tiny brains, so first question: Why were you in Dad's study?'
No-one could answer that because just then the huge double doors to the great hall swung open and several figures on broomsticks flew in, screaming but not slowing down in time to avoid crashing into the four figures inside. As Alexis was crashed into, she lost her grip on the Time-turner and it fell to the floor and broke with a crash. There was a pause, where all time seemed to stop and then a white light enveloped the group and then everything went black.
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