The Time Traveler

Summary: Harry travels through time and ends up in a crazy AU where Grindelwauld is a menace. His parents are alive, but on the brink of a divorce. Dumbledore is as cunning as ever. Can Harry save the world while in love with Hermione?

Chapter One: The Jungle

In exactly one hour I'm going to travel through time.

Don't know when I'm going to end up, or even where.

But I have to do this, because it's the only way to defeat Voldemort. I'm very determined. I have lots of willpower, enough to break the imperio. But I know when I'm fighting a hopeless battle, and the fight with Voldemort has gone on so long that I'm completely exhausted.

All my friends are dead. The order is scattered, and Voldemort has taken over Britain. International assistance is being refused – Voldemort made a deal with a few other countries. Egypt in particular.

So I looked at the time turner I'm holding. I was in my small apartment, the one that overlooks the dump yard. It's really unknown, no death eater ever found me here.

I press the right buttons, the ones Hermione told me about. With a shrunken trunk filled with everything I need, my firebolt and my wand, and a few playboy magazines stuck in a secret compartment of my trunk, I'm set. I work the time turner, and off I go! I felt a shrinking sensation, a whirling sensation and a contracting and expanding sensation all in my navel. And then: I drifted into unconsciousness.

When I woke up I looked around to see where I was. I was in a forest with green trees and bees and insects stinging at me. I swatted them away furiously and annoyed, I look around some more. The forest is extremely wild, no cow paths to show humans traveled here. I started to get scared, because I'm somewhere in an unknown place with danger all around me. Picking myself up I started to make my own path and walked through the forest using my wand to slash any underbrush in my way. The damn mosquitoes keep stinging me at my neck.

I don't know any charms to ward them off, and I'm not sure magic is particularly a good thing here because back home Voldemort could track me whenever I used magic so I used it really sparely. I use muggle techniques more. The sun is going down and its starting to get dark and I'm still not out the forest yet, goddamit.

I suddenly got an idea. I said, "Lavindicompus," a compass spell which points North. It was like an advanced version of "Point me" that I used in fourth year because this spell shows a virtual holographic map of the terrain. The map sprang up from my wand and I saw that I still had seventeen miles of forests to go through to get to farmland. Where the hell am I? The map expands to show the entire Earth and showed a bright red X, marking where I was: South America, in the Amazon Rainforest.

Well this may not be all that bad because I've heard the Amazon has some pretty fucked up magical creatures around, as well as cannibal tribes who could do magic too. Yup, this is going to be like a vacation for me. After Voldemort I can deal with anything.

Wait, I looked down at my body and suddenly noticed how small I am. What age was I? "Avaitofagus," I said and bright green numbers came from my wand to show my age: Ten years old.

Bloody hell!

"Harry, there you are!" shouted a voice from behind me. I looked around to see a red headed woman with green eyes barge through the forest, and behind her, was a man that looked almost exactly like me except with hazel eyes. It was my parents!

"Dad? Mom?" I said, utterly confused. They didn't notice.

"We've been searching for you for hours," said Lily, "Don't you ever scare us like that!" She started to hug me. I naturally tensed but then I relaxed. So this was an alternate dimension with my parents still alive. And we're in the Rainforest for some reason.

"I told you he'd be fine," said James, grinning. He patted my back as Lily glared at him. "You'll always be fine, Harry, you know why?"

I shook my head. Best to play it silent so they don't become aware of anything strange. I need to get more info about this world before I play an active role in it. I think I read a book about alternate dimensions once, or was that Hermione? Probably her, the bookworm. She's dead now. Serves her right, for loving books that much.

I miss her a lot. We were in love.

"Because you're a Potter!" James said.

Lily glared, "James!" she said, "I don't wantto hear a word about-"

"Lily, look!" James said, and pointed at the trees. I whipped my neck around and saw a gigantic purple yellow python coming right at us. She had red eyes and great white fangs. She was hissing: "Kill! Murder! Destroy!"

I answered almost unknowingly, "Stop!"

And then I froze, knowing I had broken my cover. I spoke parseltongue. The reason I could do it was because it was part of my soul now, so a simple body transfer wouldn't take that ability away. But right now I wished I didn't have it. My face turned red. The snake stopped, and blinked. She slid up to my side and said, "You speak the royal tongue?"

"I do," I said, deciding to act natural. "What's your name? My name's Harry, I'm a time traveler from another dimension and I'm here to save the world. What about you?"

"I am the queen of the forest," she said, "You interest me. I will not kill you, but I will come back. We can discuss your problems later. I think I know how to help you."

She turned and slid away through the forest, without even making a sound. I turned around to face my parents, noticing their surprised and afraid expressions. Playing it like a natural ten year old – which Hermione always said was my mental age – I said, "Wow, wasn't that cool! I never knew I could talk to snakes."

James turned to Lily, frowning, "Are you sure he's my son?"

Lily scowled at him, "James, how dare you-"

"No Potter has ever had parseltongue, Lily," James said quietly.

Lily shrugged her shoulders, "He looks just like you, James. I don't know why or how he got the ability but he's our son, so don't act like a stranger. Just accept it."

James nodded, "Harry, we need to go back to Hogwarts and see Dumbledore. He needs to hear about this."

I nodded; Dumbledore would be able to help me out if I told him everything. But he was very cunning and manipulative and I don't exactly trust cunning and manipulative old men.

"Let's apparate out," James said, and grabbed my hand. Lily grabbed my other hand. We were gone in a pop.

We reappeared on the front lawn of a white mansion. There was a marble fountain in front of it, and several house elves were trimming a garden nearby. This must be the Potter's home. Sweet. I'm rich.

But I'm worried too. What if somebody finds out my secret? What will happen to me then?

And I wanted to see the queen of snakes and talk with her too, but now I probably won't get that chance.

Suddenly from the air, a dozen pops echoed. A horde of black robed wizards swooped down on us from the air, on fast brooms. "James, it's Grindelwaulds' dark knights!" shouted Lily as she pulled out her wand. "We need to protect Harry."

James nodded, a determined expression on his face. "Apparition wards, I can feel them."

"How will we escape," asked Lily, a panicked expression clouding her smooth face.

"We'll need to fight," James said with an iron voice.

Grindelwauld's dark knights? Oh shit, where the hell did I end up…?

They start dueling, but I can see that they're clearly outmatched. Should I expose my powers and help them out? Can I risk it?

But they're my parents, so I have to. I just have to.

I pulled out my wand and let hell break loose, knowing this would expose me for who I really was… the only peer to the likes of Voldemort.