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Lily and James potter looked exactly like their namesakes. James was cursed with the famous Potter hair, and was given his mothers hazel eyes. His twin, Lily had their mother's fiery red hair and the temper to match. Her bright emerald eyes matched her father's.
Many people would tell them that they looked just like the original lily and James, but looks were probably as far as it went. Lily had dragged James with her into all sorts of trouble. James had been the good little angel growing up. Lily was the troublesome prankster. She had made it her goal to corrupt her brother. This both succeeded and failed. While she HAD managed to get James in on pranks (he was rather brilliant at planning) James had managed to calm her personality a bit. This change was beneficial for both.
Albus Severus, on the other hand, was the Potter who wasn't much like his namesakes at all. He was a slytherin, yes, but the similarities just about stopped there. He was rubbish at potions, for one. James was good at that.
Albus liked arithmancy, and experimenting with some objects he found in the attic at Grimmauld Place. Hey, he was a 7th year, he would be careful! And it wasn't exactly dark magic...
Al also had a way of getting himself into difficult situations. And he usually dragged poor Scorpious Malfoy with him. But thats what are best friends for, right?

A/N I couldn't come up with a good transition so bear with me


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Lily and James had snuck into their dads study before. However, this time was different. They knew all of the portraits in the study . They were portraits of all sorts of people, but all of them moved. A portrait starts moving when a person dies, if they have the right enchantments. (there are some other ways to do it, but we won't go into that now)
The different thing about this visit to the study was a new portrait. A portrait they had never met. A portrait that didn't move.

The fact that the new portrait didn't move meant that either the people were still alive, or that they hadn't had the correct enchantments placed on them and their portraits.
The latter was probably more likely, as the portrait was obviously quite old.
The portrait was of two teenaged girls, who were quite obviously of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black.
One was platinum blonde, with black and a few colored streaks in her other had the same dark, curly hair that Bellatrix or Sirius had, only much better maintained than Bellatrix. They were both grinning mischievously, which was very out of the ordinary for purebloods, especially in a portrait that looked centuries old. There was something very odd about both girls... But they couldn't pinpoint what exactly it was.

Lily turned to James.

"I wonder who they are," she commented.
" Do you recognize them?"

James shook his head. Then he grinned.
" I know someone who does, though!"

James ran to the other end of the room. He stood in front of a portrait of a man who seemed to be in his early 20s, also a member of the noble and most ancient etc.

" Anything I can do for you, James?" he asked.

" As a matter of fact, you can Regulus. Who are the girls in the picture over there, on dad's desk?" James asked.

Regulus grinned evilly.
" Those are Saphrina and Polaris Black. Cousins of mine. Everyone in the family loved them, even Walburga and Sirius. Odd girls though. Always disappearing, re-appearing. Getting in trouble. They were wanted criminals for a while, back in your dad's third year. Illegal time travel, and for being death eaters. Polaris got them caught, she could be rather reckless when her temper got up. Shipped off to azkaban, though the rumor is that they've escaped. Sightings all over the place. They probably did, an owl dropped the portrait off about a week ago."

By now Lily had wandered over to them.

" But if they're still alive, then why does their portrait look centuries old?"

" Well, they were arrested for illegal time travel, weren't they?"

" It's possible to go that far back in time?" asked an astounded James.

Regulus grinned again.
" These are the Black sisters. They can figure out how to do just about anything. There are 'sightings' of them all over wizarding history books. I remember them from when I was in school. Saphrina was in Slytherin with me. Your Potter grandparents had Polaris in Gryffindor with them. They were friends with Voldemort. Why? They most likely went to school with him, too. That's why the ministry finally arrested them on charges of being death eaters. The time travel didn't help."

"I wonder why they would leave their portrait here..." Lily walked over to it.
" Hey Jamie, come here, look at this! Look at the necklace Alya is wearing."
It was indeed a strange necklace.
It was silver, with a small, flat-ish looking hourglass in the middle. The hourglass was surrounded by silver rings, of varying sizes, all tilted at different angles.

James leaned closer to get a better view (the glasses weren't for looks)
James's hand bumped the picture frame. Lily was pointing to the necklace. Due to the frame moving, they both touched it at the same time. The world seemed to freeze. The study was growing dimmer. All of a sudden, the world seemed to grow boiling hot, then freezing cold. It was rather dark, and they couldn't feel solid ground beneath their feet. Lily and James clung to each other, both terrified. Suddenly there was a sensation of falling, the air warmed to a cool temperature one usually associated with being inside something made of stone. They could feel floor beneath their feet. Lily and James saw a light moving up ahead, and quick footsteps. Lily hugged James tightly, and he returned it. What was going to happen to them now? Where had all the Potterish curiosity led them this time?

Regulus watched from his place on the wall, as the children disappeared.

" To answer your question, Lily, they left their portrait here so that you two would find it."

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Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 12:13 AM