"Are you sure you're ready, Harry?" Hermione asked for what seemed like the thousandth time.
Harry resisted rolling his eyes, "Yes, Hermione. It's not supposed to be this way! Everything's screwed up and I'm going to fix it! Ron and Draco are coming with me for obvious reasons but you need to stay here with Viktor. If things work out as planned none of this will have happened and we may not be with the ones we love anymore."
Harry felt extremely guilty about this part of the plan. In order for everything to work he needed to go back in time. But by doing that he was jeopardizing everyone's happiness. "You need to spend every moment you have with your own children."
Hermione had tears in her eyes but she nodded. She wrapped her arms around the man before letting go and watching him walk off into the distance. Who knew if she'd ever see Harry James Potter again?
~oOo~
When Harry returned to Hogwarts he went straight to the Chamber of Secrets. That was where he was meeting with Ron and Draco. Dumbledore had given them the spell and wished them luck. He just hoped everything worked put all right.
"Took you long enough." Draco sneered without his usual malice.
Harry just grinned and shrugged, when he had learned the truth about him and the blonde menace it made a lot of sense. Now he just had to make sure he didn't screw anything up.
"Ready to go, Harry?" Ron said gently. He knew how hard this was on his best friend and husband.
Harry nodded taking a deep breath and taking Draco and Ron's hands. While he was chanting he felt the world melt away into darkness.
~oOo~
"Will James Potter, Lily Evens, Lucius Malfoy, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Severus Snape please report to the seventh floor corridor. Professor Dumbledore will meet you all there." McGonagall announced in her stern Scottish brogue.
James and Sirius glanced at each other, they hadn't done any pranks recently, especially on the Slytherin's. Remus just quietly and casually grabbed his things and headed out, he was closely followed by the other two Marauders, Lily, Lucius, and Severus.
When they finally made it to the seventh floor corridor Dumbledore wasn't alone. There was a man with raven hair and green eyes, but round spectacles made them hard to see, a blonde man who reminded the group of Lucius, and a tall red head with blue eyes.
They were surprised to see the man with green eyes holding the hand of the red head. Lily thought it was absolutely adorable while the boys blushed. James cleared his throat, "You wanted to see us Headmaster?"
Dumbledore's eyes twinkled, "Ah, yes of course. I need you all to be open minded for a moment and wait here."
They all raised their eyebrows in question but they didn't move while the man with green eyes walked past the wall in front of them three times. At first they thought he was barmy, until a door appeared.
When they all entered the room it was very cozy. It was all done in light blues and creams with couches and arm chairs everywhere. Sirius sat with Remus while Lily sat with Severus, leaving the only available space next to Lucius. James took the spot blushing slightly.
In the light they noticed that all of the strangers had scars everywhere. But the green-eyed man had the most, not to mention the fact that his eyes were extremely haunted.
"Excuse me, Headmaster?" Lily asked gently, "But what is going on here?"
The Headmaster just motioned for the green-eyed man to talk. "I needed you all here. You see, I'm from the future and everything is not how it should be."
Sirius' eyes narrowed, "How do we know you're telling the truth?"
The green eyed man grinned, "Sirius Orion Black, oldest son of Walburga and Orion Black. You're what? Sixteen now?" When he received a nod he continued, "So this past year you ran away from home, causing your mother to blast you off of the Black family tapestry. You ran to James Charlus Potter's home where his parents Dorea Potter nee Black and Charlus Potter took you in like another son."
The shocked look on the two boys faces were priceless so the man continued on, "You two and Remus John Lupin are also known as the Marauders with Peter Pettigrew." He shot an apologetic glance at Remus before continuing. "Remus is a werewolf which is why the tree of you decided to become animagi. James is a stang which is why his nick name is Prongs, Sirius is a grim which is why his nickname is Padfoot, and Peter is a rat which is why he is Worm tail. Remus' nickname is pretty self explanatory, Moony."
The three stared at the man in shock while Lily, Lucius, and Severus still looked unconvinced. This time the blonde man grinned.
"Lucius Abraxas Malfoy, only child of Abraxas Malfoy and Abril Malfoy nee Rosier. Not many people know that you've had a standing marriage contract with Narcissa Malfoy that only you can break. You're seventeen now and are about to make the biggest mistake of your life. The only other thing I can think of is that Abraxas is pushing very hard to get you to take the dark mark and you are actually thinking about it. It's also your worst fear to turn into your father and let your children down."
Lucius' jaw dropped at that and he blushed slightly. The red headed man took this as his que and he rounded on Lily, "You are Lily Lyra Evens, you are the youngest daughter to Rose Evens nee Smith and Ralph Evens. Your older sister Petunia has just married a rather obese muggle man named Vernon. She never invited you to the wedding as she sees you as 'a freak'. You know she's just jealous as you and Severus found a letter from Dumbledore to Petunia about how she couldn't come to Hogwarts as she had no magic."
It was time for Lily to turn bright red and look away and Severus flinched, as he knew what was coming. The green eyed man sighed when he looked at Severus, "Severus Tobias Snape, only son of Tobias Snape and Eileen Snape nee Prince." That received some gasps from the purebloods in the room. I won't say much because I won't tell anyone your secrets but you need to know that it's better to have someone by your side as you handle it all. I should know." He said with a sad smile as he lifted the red headed man's hand in his own.
"I grew up in a similar fashion and I am just now realizing that I didn't deserve any of it."
"Who are you?" Lucius asked carefully.
The man sighed and closed his eyes, "That's a difficult question to answer. Do you want my birth name, the person who I thought I was, or who I am now?"
"Why don't you work your way backward?" Lily suggested softly. She could tell that this was hard on the man and she'd do anything she could to ease his pain just a little bit.
"I am currently Harry James Weasley, husband to Ronald Bilius Weasley. Brother to Draco Malfoy-Zambini, Blaise Malfoy-Zambini, Ginny Weasley, Fred and George Weasley, Percy Weasley, Charlie Weasley, Bill Weasley, Fleur Weasley nee Delecour, Hermione Krum nee Granger, and Viktor Krum." He then focused solely on James.
"I knew myself to be Harry James Potter, son to Lily and James Potter." There were gasps at that and Lily and James looked disgusted. "I of course learned at the end of my seventh year at Hogwarts that this was not true."
The two teens looked relieved, "The who are you?" James asked, confused. "Because you look an awful lot like me."
Harry rolled his eyes, "That's because I was born Harry James Potter-Malfoy, son of James Potter-Malfoy and Lucius Potter-Malfoy, twin of Draco Lucius Potter-Malfoy."
Lucius blushed a bright red and looked down at his lap while James stared at the man with shock. "Then who are you?" Severus asked the blonde.
Draco rolled his eyes in a similar fashion to Harry, "That should be easy Severus. I used to be Draco Lucius Malfoy, son of Lucius Potter-Malfoy and James Potter-Malfoy, twin to Harry James Potter-Malfoy."
"The who are you now?" Lucius asked gently. He was meeting his future babies.
Draco's eyes softened, "I'm Draco Malfoy-Zambini, husband to Blaise Malfoy-Zambini, father to Adrian Charlus Malfoy-Potter, brother to Harry Weasley, Ron Weasley, and family."
"And I take it that you are Ron?" Remus asked with a smile on his face.
Ron grinned, "Right in one Remus. I'm Ronald Bilius Weasley, youngest son to Arthur and Molly Weasley, brother to Bill Weasley, Charlie Weasley, Percy Weasley, Fred and George Weasley, Ginny Weasley, and Hermione Krum nee Granger, husband to Harry Potter-Malfoy-Weasley. Though he only goes by Weasley now."
"What's so bad in the future that you had to come to the past?" Lily asked reasonably.
Harry sighed and sat next to Ron on a free sofa. "Nothing is how it is supposed to be. You see shortly after Mum-"
"Lucius." Draco interrupted causing the darker haired twin to mock glare at his brother.
"Fine then, shortly after 'Lucius' gave birth to us he had to divorce Dad-fine! James. He never actually got rid of the marriage contract between himself and Narcissa Black. She got angry that he just left her for a man so she enacted the contract not two weeks after he had given birth. James was heart broken and Lucius put on a mask so he wouldn't get even more hurt. They split Draco and I up, the one who looked more like James went with him to be the Potter heir and the one that looked like Lucius went to be the Malfoy heir."
Draco picked up the story from there, "At the same time Remus and Sirius were married and living well near Godric's Hallow, as were Lily and Severus Snape. Severus began spying for the light as he got a place in the Dark Lord's inner circle. He felt it was too dangerous for him to be married to Lily so he divorced her without a single thought to what she may want. His mask also went into place. So James and Lily bought a house together and decided that it was financially to their benefit to marry. They became James and Lily Potter parents to Harry James Potter."
This part Ron knew well so he continued, "On October the thirty-first of the same year Voldemort went after a child of a prophecy. It was a prophecy that could have been one of three boys born at the end of July. Including Draco, Harry, and Neville Longbottom, son of Alice and Frank Longbottom."
"Alice and Frank! Oh how wonderful!"
"Our lives are ruined because of some imbecilic Slytherin's and you think that's wonderful?!" James asked, he wasn't angry just frustrated and confused.
"I'm actually trying not to think about it." She said with a firm glare in the teens direction.
Lucius on the other hand had gone incredibly pale, "What happened?"
Harry's face softened at his mother's worried tone. "Voldemort thought that Draco was not a threat as he was the son of two of his 'most loyal' followers. Neville was a pureblood so obviously he wasn't a threat but just in case he sent Bellatrix and Rodolphus Lestrange to torture his family into insanity. Neville was forced to live with his grandmother Agusta Longbottom."
"What about you?" James asked softly.
"Because Voldemort is a half blood and he thought Lily Evens was my mother he came after me. He had a man who was best friends with Dad. Peter Pettigrew became a Death Eater during winter holidays his seventh year. He became the Potter's secret keeper because Sirius thought that if he was the secret keeper it would have been obvious. He was right. It was a brilliant plan…but they should have used Remus. On October 31, 1981 Voldemort barged into our home in Godric's Hallow and killed James Potter with no remorse. Lily grabbed me and ran up to the nursery where she barded the door."
Harry couldn't continue on so Ron wrapped his arms around his husband's shoulders and continued on for him. "Voldemort knew Severus loved Lily, he just never knew they were married so when he got into the nursery he offered her life. She refused and stood in front of the killing curse effectively saving Harry. By dying to save a child that was not even hers she evoked a strange kind of magic. When Voldemort cast the killing curse at Harry it rebounded. Voldemort died that night but he had created what are called horcruxes."
Lucius was wide eyed. His baby had survived the killing curse! And James! His Jamie…dead. He felt hallow.
James saw Lucius' expression and wrapped his arms around the blonde. "It's ok, Luc. He's ok. He's right in front of us…and so is Draco. They're both ok."
Harry felt his heart warm as he watched his parents interact together, he snuck a glance at Draco and smirked.
"When were you gonna tell us you were with the Ice Prince of Slytherin?" Sirius asked jokingly.
"When you told me you finally got your head out of your arse and asked Moony out." James responded cooly making Remus blush and Sirius splutter.
"So what happened next?" Lily asked, she'd get the whole story out of them if it was the last thing she did.
This time Draco sighed, "So Voldemort really wasn't dead. He became a spirit looking for a way to come back. Dumbledore, because he thought Harry was biologically Lily's son, sent Harry to live with Petunia and Vernon Dursley."
"No!" She exclaimed causing Lucius to look at her in shock.
"What in Merlin's name-?"
"My sister hates magic!" She rounded on Dumbledore, "You should know better! Why didn't you check his birth records? They must have clearly stated that Lucius was his mother!"
Dumbledore blushed and shrugged, "I am an old man, Ms. Evens. I do make mistakes every once in a while."
"Anyway, he grew up not knowing he was magic and thinking his parents were drunkards who died in a car crash."
"That's not true!"
"What's wrong with these muggles?"
"Anyway." Harry stressed, "When I finally got to Hogwarts Voldemort had latched on to our Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor and slowly was eating away at his soul. Dumbledore knew Voldemort would go after Nicholas Flamel's Philosopher's Stone so he locked it up in the third floor corridor."
"Long story short, this idiot," Draco said motioning to his brother. "Went after it with that idiot," he said pointing to Ron. "And Hermione. Ron got knocked out by a giant chess game, Hermione helped Harry get to the end but eventually went back to Ron and Harry went on by himself."
Everyone in the room seemed incredibly pale at that. "So I went into the room and Professor Quirrel was there trying to get the stone. It was revealed that he had Voldemort on the back of his head and he threatened me a lot actually." Harry mused. "Anyway, I got the stone and he came after me. But because Lily had sacrificed herself for me every time he tried to touch me he burned. So I held onto him until he was dust."
Ron rolled his eyes, "And what he is neglecting to tell you is that three days in a magical coma after."
"Is there anything else we need to know?" Lily asked, wearily. She saw how pale Lucius got as he clung to James.
"Just that I had a meet up with Voldemort every year except three and six. In third year it was revealed that my Godfather Sirius Black was a prisoner of Azkaban." He saw there was about to be a riot so he finished quickly. "He was innocent of course. Peter set him up. Remus was DADA Professor that year so he helped us save Sirius and try to have Pettigrew locked up. Of course it didn't work and Sirius was still on the run." Harry sighed.
"In our sixth year a lot happened actually. I was coerced by Voldemort to kill Dumbledore to save my Mum and Dad, actually Narcissa and Mother, but you know I didn't know that, because Mother had failed his mission the year before and was in Azkaban." Draco and Harry winced as Lucius groaned and buried his face in James' shoulder. "So I invited a bunch of Death Eaters into the school and went up to kill Dumbledore…but I couldn't do it. It wasn't until later we learned that Sev-"
"You know what? You'll find out as we read. It's the end of the war. It's actually within the final battle." Harry said cutting his brother off.
Ron winced, "But you do need to know that in the mission Lucius was captured in Sirius was pushed through the veil by Bellatrix." Remus paled as he grasped for his best friends hand. "And that because his mate was dead Remus began to lose his strength so he married Nymphadora Tonks and had a son, Teddy Remus Lupin. Harry's his godfather."
No one said anything as Dumbledore pulled out a stack of papers and enchanted them. "They will read themselves aloud so we will not lose our voices." He said peering at the man over his half-moon spectacles.