A Memory in Time

Chapter 1: A Change in Times

Time can be a very dangerous thing to mess with, going to the future, or the past. Make one little mistake and the entire world could be ruined, not just your own life. Make one little mistake and everyone could die. Yes, time is a VERY dangerous thing to mess with, and a boy named Harry Potter is just about to find out how dangerous it can really be.

It was nearing seven O'clock AM and Mr. Weasley would soon be arriving to get Harry from the Dursleys. Both Harry and Ron were going to take their aparation test. Remus would have liked to have gone with Harry too but he had important things to do for the Order.

Harry paced his room counting down the minuets until he would be leaving Number Four Privit Dr. It was one week from Harry's birthday and one month since he left Hogwarts. All of the students left one week early because of Dumbledore's death

Harry only came back to his aunt and uncle's house this year out of respect for Professor Dumbledore's wishes. He personally would have liked to have eaten 20 lbs. of vomit flavored beans over coming here again.

However, to Harry's immense surprise he found that coming back was semi helpful. Harry had been planning for the past month what he was going to do and how he was going to convince Ron and Hermione not to come with him. That this was something that he had to do himself. But the more he thought about what he was going to say he realized that there would be no talking the two of them out of coming with him. They would follow him anywhere.

Harry could not let that happen though. Hermione and Ron both had full lives to live and needed to back to school. If Harry's plans worked out properly, he to would be going back to school. Harry was really starting to have hope of this too, but six years was a long time and anything could happen.

Some where there was a loud crack that woke Harry from his thoughts. He poked his head out of his room and saw that the crack had startled the Dursleys too, because they were out of their rooms and were staring angrily at Harry. Harry was sure that they blamed him for the noise.

Uncle Vernon and Harry raced to the stairs, but Harry being the smaller one, won. He did take his time answering the door though. He had to use caution in case it was not who he was expecting. When he got the bottom of the steps he took his wand out and slowly poked his head around the corner.

Mr. Weasley was standing in the living room of Number Four Privit Drive and the Dursleys snuck back upstairs.

"Hi Mr. Weasley!" Harry said happily as he came around the corner, wand still out.

Mr. Weasley surveyed Harry before responding. He looked thinner then the last time they had seen each other at the train station, but well taken care of. The order members who were still stationed out side of the house had informed the rest of the order that Harry had spent almost the entire month inside of his room working on things. All they heard was pages rustle and Harry's quill scratching on parchment. They also said that Harry had been writing frequent letters to other people as well as his friends. They did not know whom the letters were addressed to but he got replies from who ever he was sending them to. This greatly puzzled them because they had no idea who he was talking to. The entire order was happy that he was talking to someone though. They were not sure how he was going to react after watching Dumbledore's death, but he seems to be doing well.

"Hi Harry, all ready to go?" Mr. Weasley finally spoke.

"Yeah, I've been ready for a month now!" Harry said as a huge grin came upon his face. Harry dashed back upstairs grabbed his trunk, sent Headwig on to the Burrow, and came downstairs with in fifteen min.

"Mr. Weasley how will we be getting to the Ministry?" Harry asked.

"I hope you don't mind, but side-along-apparation."

"Not at all," Harry said as Mr. Weasly vanished his trunk and bird cadge to the burrow.

"Ok ready to go Harry?" Mr. Weasley said as he stuck out his arm.

"Oy, boy. Do not come back next year. Or, ever again. Understand?" Uncle Vernon decided to make an appearance.

"I don't plan on it! Good-Bye!" Harry said as he grabbed Mr. Weasley's arm and appareted to the ministry. They went strait to Mr. Weasley's new office, which he got when he got the raise back at Christmas.

"I already got your visitors badge and Ron should be flooing in any moment. Your apparation test will be at 8:30 am in one hour." Mr. Weasley informed Harry.

'Great' Harry thought 'I'm going to have to be quick then.'

"OK, May I please use the restroom?" Harry asked.

"Yeah sure, it's three doors to the right on the other side of the hall. Big sign cannot miss it. Want me to show you?" Mr. Weasley replied.

"NO! No, thanks though. I think I can find it."

Harry left Mr. Weasley's office but instead of going to the right, he turned left toward the elevator. He pressed the third floor button, and when his ride was finally over he was in luck because no one was in the hallway when Harry stepped off the elevator. Harry walked swiftly towards the Department of Mysteries and stepped through the first door. As soon as the door was shut the room started to spin like it did the last time Harry was there. However, this time Harry was prepared. For the past month, he had been pretending that he was a curious schoolboy who had to do a report on time turners. Harry had been writing the ministry asking questions about then until one day he got a good answer. The particular question that got him the good answer was: how far back can you go with a time turner? The answer was what he was looking for. The ministry person replied that you should only go back seven hours with a normal time turner or else it wouldn't be safe, but the ministry had just developed a new time turner that can go back up to ten years. They had just finished it and would soon be letting people know about it. The ministry person had told Harry all he needed to know.

"Show me the time room!" Harry said aloud, immediately the doors stopped spinning, and one door opened. Harry stepped thought ad knew he had the right room. On the far side of the room where the time turners. He walked over and started to examine them. Half of them were the normal time turners, Harry knew this because he recognized them, the other half looked different but still had the same knob that your turn to go through time. He carefully levitated one of the new ones and brought it to him with his wand.

Once he had it safely in his pocket and nothing happened he turned and ran into the big circular room. Again the doors started to spin.

"Show me the exit!" Harry yelled as he had done in his fifth year at hogwarts. The right door flew open and Harry ran towards the elevator. During the three minuet ride up to Mr. Weasley's floor Harry's mind was reeling with what had just happened.

'I can't believe I just pulled it of! That was unusually easy and I wonder why there weren't any people down there! Not the I'm complaining, but…'

But Harry never got to finish his trail of thought because the elevator stopped and he had to get off. He ran to Mr. Weasley's office earning him a few suspicious looks from passer-byes. When he got to his destination he found that Ron was also there.

"Harry, what took you so long? I thought you had fallen in or some thing. I was about to came in and look for you!" Mr. Weasley said.

"Hi ya Harry, how are you?" Ron said from behind his dad.

"Sorry Mr. Weasley, I just got a little nervous about taking the test. Hi Ron I've been good, how 'bout you?" Harry replied.

"Great!"

"Ok, boys, ready to go? We have twenty min. to get down there and we don't want to be late." Mr. Weasley interjected.

Both boys nodded and followed him out the door and back to the elevator. It just so happens the apparation test was to be on the third floor so Harry was a little bit nervous about going back down there. Luckily for him his nerves where misinterpreted as being for the apparaton test and he was a little relived by that.

An hour later both boys went home to the burrow legally aloud to do apparation. They spent the rest of the day celebrating and preparing for the wedding that would be taking place next Friday, right before Harry's birthday. Infact the whole family spent the next week celebrating the wedding and preparing for it. The whole Burrow was a wreck with decorations still waiting to be put up. The kitchen was the worst of it though. Every one was helping with the cooking and there were ingredients thrown all over the kitchen.

Hermione arrived Thursday from her travels with her family. This year she went to Italy. She was also going to be going back to her family the Monday after Harry's Birthday. Harry wasn't going to have a huge party, Infact he wasn't going to have a party at all and no gifts. He had already told his friends this, and reluctantly they all agreed to comply with his wishes.

On Friday, July 30th, everyone staying at the burrow woke before the sun even thought about coming into the sky. Fleur was busy in her room getting dressed. What seemed like a fairly simple task to Harry, involved the help of Mrs. Weasley, Tonks, Hermione, and Ginny (who has finally warmed a little towards Fleur).

All the men (with the exception of Bill) went out to the yard to begin to set up before even taking a shower. The women told them that they needed the bathroom. Bill was a nervous wreck up in his room.

"Ron, watch where you levitating that thing!" Harry said in a mock angry tone as a chair almost hit him in the head for the second time.

"Sorry mate" Ron said laughing as Harry ducked a third time as Ron purposely swung the chair at him again.

"Come now boys, settle down, Fred George DO NOT put stink pellets under the people's chairs, I'm going to go and check up on bill." Mr. Weasley left the group and headed inside the house.

Now I don't know exactly how it happened so don't even bother asking but the Burrow was ready for the ceremony with an hour to spare. Every one started to show up a half an hour before and Fleur and Bill were married with out a hitch.

The after party was a hit. Everyone was dancing and there was a lot of drinking. Over all every had more fun than they had had in a long time, not to mention the biggest head ache of their life.

Saturday morning when Harry woke up around 9 am, after five hours of sleep, there was a ministry owl waiting by his bed. At first he was a little scared thinking that the ministry had found out that it was him that had taken the deluxe time turner, but when he opened the letter he let out a sigh of relief.

Dear Mr. Potter,

Today is your 17th birthday. You are now considered to be of age in the wizarding community. As such you are now aloud to do magic out of school. Please take caution and realize what is at stake here. Make sure not to reveal our secret to the muggles. Take care of yourself.

Best wishes,

Denise Cambage

Head of misuse of underage magic department.

This letter made Harry very happy. It was the last thing that he needed for his plans . . . in fact his plans were to be set in motion tonight.

Harry got out of bed and pulled out his trunk. From inside he pilled out a rather large duffel bag. He then started to go through his clothes. When he was finished he had three pairs of jeans, ten t-shirts, three sweat shirts, and three pairs or wizard robes: one winter cloak, one school, one dress, plus the rest of his school uniform.

The next thing that Harry did was go through his books. He picked out several that had to do with the Dark Arts and protecting himself, including one very good one on occulemcy and Legimus. All of the books he had picked out were put into the duffel bag as well. Then he picked out his favorite pictures. Several of the trio at Hogwarts and then the photo album Hagrid had given him in his first year. He also had pictures from Grimmauld Place of the marauders when they were at Hogwarts. All of the pictures he had picked out he put in his bag.

When Harry had finished packing his things from his trunk he had just enough room left for her money bag and some food to tide her over until she was set up in her new "time zone." By the time he had the duffel bag zipped and safely hidden under his bed it was ten in the morning and Ron was starting to stir.

Harry walked over to Ron's bed and was about to shake him awake, when he thought of a better plan. He pulled out his wand and used the same spell he had used the previous year to wake Ron up.

"Arrrrgggggg!" Ron screamed as he went from horizontal to vertical in the span of 2 seconds. By the time Ron realized what had happened Harry was on the floor in a fit of laughter and was soon joined by Fred and George. Ginny was standing in the doorway of the room trying to keep her composure but you could tell her face was getting really red. Hermione didn't look pleased but she didn't look upset either, she had more of a neutral face on.

"HARRY! GET ME DOWN NOW!!!" Ron's face was as red as a tomato. Harry finally took pity on Ron and let him down. When he was safely on the ground he started to laugh a little too. Only then did Hermione join in.

"Sorry Ron, but I couldn't help it!" Harry apologized to his best friend with a look of innocence on his face that was forced.

"Well . . . since it is your birthday I guess I could forgive you . . . but JUST this once!" Ron said with a smile on his face. With that comment it suddenly seemed to dawn on every one what day it was and Harry was showered with 'Happy Birthdays' and things like that. When the group finished saying good morning to every one, especially Harry, they all headed down to the kitchen for a late breakfast.

Surprisingly they did not find Mrs. Weasley in the kitchen, but Remus and Tonks, who were both bent over a cup of coffee only to look up when the five teens entered.

"Happy Birthday Harry! You look more like your father every year." Remus greeted with a brotherly hug. "What are you guys going to be doing today?"

"Well . . ." Harry replied "what do you guys think about playing some Quiditch?" At this everyone perked up and was wide awake.

The group went out and divided into two teams. Fred was Beater/Chaser, Hermione was Keeper, and Harry was the Seeker for one team. On the team: George was Beater/Chaser, Ron was Keeper, and Ginny was the Seeker/Chaser.

The two teams played as many games as they could by lunch. The majority of the games were won by Harry's team (of course), but one or two were thrown so Ginny's team could win.

Lunch was served in the garden by a very happy, but tired, Mrs. Weasley. They 6 teens enjoyed all of their favorite sandwiches made to perfection.

After lunch Fred and George politely excused themselves to their joke shop and the remaining four took to sitting under a tree and reminiscing about the past. The four of them retold all of their favorite adventures from the previous years at Hogwarts. Ginny found out exactly what happened during the trio's first year, and both Ginny and Ron found out ALL of the details of the trio's third year. Then the conversation took a drastic turn to talk of their upcoming year, and how it would be their last together.

"Well, we could always get jobs first, just until we're ready to leave . . ." Ron suggested.

"I don't think I'll ever be ready to leave!" Hermione and Harry at the same time. At this the group broke down laughing.

"Dinner!" came the call from the house. The four got up from where they were sitting under a tree in the yard. Ron helped Hermione up and Harry helped Ginny and both girls blushed as they went into the house.

Dinner was a wide selection of Harry's favorite foods, and harry took some of each resulting in a very uncomfortable fullness. The crowd had a good time. Everyone who was close to Harry was there and it was a very enjoyable party.

The time passed much too quickly for Harry's liking and soon he found himself heading up to his room with Ron while the girls headed to theirs.

"Well, good-night Harry, and happy birthday." Ron said with a yawn.

"Thanks Ron, good-night." Harry said with a sad smile which Ron never saw for his eyes were already shut.

Harry quickly sprung into action. He put a silencing charm on his room and got out his duffel bag, made sure Ron was really asleep, and put a silencing charm on him too. He rummaged through his bag to make sure everything was still there, then he got out his invisibility cloak.

The next step was to tell everyone good-bye. He wrote letters to everyone telling them how much he will miss all of them and needlessly put not to worry about him. In Ginny's letter he confessed his undying love for her. In all of them he explained exactly what he was doing. He explained how he needed to go back to when it all started and work on changing the future. He told of how not to worry and that if everything worked right they wouldn't even notice he was gone for he would still be there form the past. He also left a little not to have Hermione explain it later. He signed the letters and charmed them to appear right by the person to which they addressed when they woke up. He took out his special time turner and prepared to leave, possible for good.

With one last look around he quietly lifted all of the silencing charms and left the security of his room. He treaded lightly through the house and towards the back door. He had to be very quiet because no matter how much sleep Remus had lost the previous night he was always a Very light sleeper. And although harry tried to keep quiet, it was in vain. Remus heard him, and Remus followed. As Harry ran outside so did Remus.

Harry ran out to the same tree that he was sitting under earlier to shrink and pocket his duffel bag. He then took the time turner and turned the dial so he would be going back to his 11TH birthday. With that he let go and started whirling into the past, completely unaware that he was being watched.

Remus stared in shock as he watched Harry pocket his duffel bag and turn the dial. At first he had no idea what Harry was doing, but then he recognized the object in Harry's hand.

"HARRY!!!" Remus tried calling out, but it was no use, Harry had disappeared.

A/N: lol, cliff hanger. This is my first fan fic so I really want it to be a good one. I know that will never happen with out your (the reader's) help, so R&R and let me know what I can change to make it better. Thank you so much and I hope u enjoy my story! Much luv, KAT.