Preface: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters, no matter how much I want to… :)! This is AU (Alternate Universe) Dumbledore didn't die. Umbridge doesn't exist (Be banished, evil toad!)! Yeah! Dramione (MY O.T.P.) is reality! Tragically, erasing the rest of the horrible deaths that occurred in the final book did not fit into my story, so I didn't. Sorry! Please enjoy my story! Also, please comment/review! I welcome all feedback and criticism!

Prologue-February 2013

"Hey, Alex," drawled Cam Zabini, "check it out." He said as he opened his palm and revealed a golden hourglass with the initials H.J.G engraved on the top. "I found it in your attic. Cool, right?"

Alex's dark brown eyes widened and he let out a low whisper. "We aren't allowed to go in the attic. Dad keeps Grandfather's dark artifacts up there. Mum wanted to get rid of them, but Dad insisted that we keep them because they have been in the family for centuries."

Cam rolled his blue eyes, "Stop mimicking Laura Molly. It's gotten old."

Alex let out a smirk and let out an annoying whine. "But it's so fun!"

Rolling his eyes again, Cam continued, "Let's go show everyone."

"You know, Victorie and Teddy, being the killjoys they are, will try to confine it and then they will tell on us like the perfect little snitches they are." warned Alex, still grinning like a Cheshire cat, regardless. "But who cares? I want to see it!" Cam smirked and handed it over to Alex, who inspected it and peered curiously at the initials on the top. "What do the initials stand for? They seem familiar."

"Who cares?" Cam shrugged before moving on to the next topic. "Come on, Alex. I want to show Rox and Freddy. Come on. Race ya!" Grinning like Slytherins, the two raced down the ancient staircase. Crashing into walls, each other, and just about everything there was in the house. They couldn't have announced their entrance into the family room better if they had screamed it into a microphone. By the time they had pushed and shoved their way in, all 12 of their assorted cousins and siblings were staring at them.

The oldest of the group, Teddy Lupin, shoved his way to the front with Victorie Weasley by his side. "What the bloody blazes," Teddy roared, eyes turning a fiery red to show his anger, "do you think you're doing?"

Younger only by a year, both Cam and Alex refused to show weakness. After all, they were Slytherins. Teddy and Victorie were lowly Gryffindorks, sorry, Gryffindors. "Nothing." They chorused innocently.

"What do you have behind your back then?" Teddy's suspicions having been aroused.

Removing the gold hourglass from behind his back, Alex smirked and said with a cocky expression, thanks to his father and godfather, "Do you mean this little thing?"

Teddy's eyes widened as looked at the object, certain he knew what it was, but not quite certain yet. He changed a look with his best friend Victorie and could see easily that she agreed with his decision to consult their parents and wait for help. After all, it could be extremely dangerous. So, doing only what anyone with a logical and rational brain that was completely sane and not a Slytherin, Teddy extended his hand and glared at the two as he slowly counted to five. "Hand it over. Or I come get it myself in five seconds."

Attempting to intimidate the young Slytherins, but Cam and Alex merely laughed and grinned as if played with dangerous, unknown, possibly dark artifacts was all fun and games. "Hey, Alex! Throw it to me!" called out Cam. Teddy felt the dimming realization that his life was ending as he watched the golden hourglass fly through the air in a clear arc. Cam, a beater, had no experience catching small objects fumbled and almost dropped it. Thankfully, managing to grab a hold of it as stumbled backward to catch it…when he tripped over his younger brother, the four year old, Nicolas "Nicky" Zabini. Teddy's heart stopped as he realized what it was: a time-turner. But they had been destroyed 17 years ago. His brain rationalized attempting to convince him that when the hourglass fell inevitably, it would be okay. But luck wasn't on his side as the fall jolted Cam and he dropped the hourglass. Causing the whole group to stare at it in horror as it fell in slow motion to the ground and shattered with an echoing crash.

"Oops." Cam said with a horribly guilty and suddenly fearful expression as the world went black and the 14 children disappeared in a flash of golden light.

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The once filled with the laugher of children and all that came with it, the formerly cheery family room was still and silent. Looking as though, it had never had anyone in it before except for the shattered remains of the golden time-turner that had been given to Hermione Jean Granger almost twenty years ago. The room would look this way for the next three hours until the children's parents arrived home assuming that the children were all okay since it was responsible Teddy and Victorie who had been babysitting, but instead of finding their well and happy children, the parents would find the remains of the time-turner and a dawning realization of horror.