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It was a lovely, August evening, and the Potter Manor was busier than usual. It was the night before the 'big day', and the final preparations were being made.
"... and you'll be getting up at six o'clock sharp, Lily, so that you can spend the entire morning getting ready." Molly Weasley spoke. She was running through the entire schedule for tomorrow, yet again. "Oh, and the guests should start arriving around one in the afternoon, and it should take about half-an-hour to an hour to get them all seated... so the ceremony –"
"Grandma," Lily Potter said loudly, cutting her grandmother off. "Don't worry about tomorrow. Nothing will go wrong. You and Mum have planned everything out. Perfectly, I'll add."
"Yes, yes, but –"
Lily gave her grandmother a reassuring smile. "Grandma... Stop worrying."
Molly suddenly pulled Lily into a tight hug. "You've grown so fast... I remember when you were just a little toddler, trailing along behind Harry, pulling on his pants." Molly told her with a laugh, releasing Lily from her hug. "You best be heading upstairs for bed. You have a long, and important, day ahead of you tomorrow, Lily. Good night."
"Good night, grandma." Lily said, and with that, she left the kitchen.
Lily took the elevator of the Potter manor up to the top floor; all of their bedrooms – aside from Harry's and Ginny's, as they had a whole floor to themselves – were located on the top, along with their game rooms and one of the smaller libraries.
The elevator doors opened at the top floor and Lily stepped out. She walked down the hallway and stopped at the double doors to the library. There was talking coming from within.
Lily opened the door and entered the library. Her brothers and cousins, aside from Victoire and Dominique, along with their friends were all crowded around on the mahogany tables. They all seemed to be arguing over something.
"What is going on?" Lily spoke, making her presence known. They all turned to look at her.
"Lily!" Rose Weasley said with a tone of urgency. "Oh my, thank Merlin."
"What's wrong?" Lily asked curiously.
Rose gestured furiously to James, Fred, and Louis and exclaimed, "They "found" a Time-Turner."
"You took it from Dad's office." Lily said. She had her hands on her hips and her eyes were narrowed at James, Fred and Louis.
James snorted. "And what makes you think that?"
"Time-Turner's are hard to come across." Molly Weasley II put in. "They are extremely rare. Most of them were destroyed during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries in 1996..."
"... Which means you took it from Dad's office, James." Lily finished.
"C'mon, Lils, we just wanna try it out. That's it." James said. He looked over at Fred, who was standing beside him. "Right, Fred, Louis?"
"Yeah, no ham in it," Fred nodded his head, as did Louis.
Lily held out her hand and simply said, "James, if you hand over the Time-Turner I won't tell Dad and Mum. Same goes for you Fred, Louis. I won't tell Uncle George and Bill and Aunt Angelina and Fleur."
James and Fred glanced at one another and began whispering to one another, debating whether they should agree or not. After a minute or two, James looked over to Lily and replied, "No. Sorry, no can do, Lily."
"James!" Lily exclaimed, annoyed.
At the same time, Roxanne shouted, "Fred!"
"Louis!" Lucy shouted at Louis, seeing as how Victoire and Dominique currently were not in the room to do so.
And with that... all hell broke loose.
Roxanne launched herself at James, reaching for the Time-Turner. James quickly dodged, throwing the Time-Turner over to Fred, who threw it over to Louis – the three of them began running around the library, attempting to avoid everyone who was trying to get the Time-Turner off of them.
"Be careful! Be careful!" Rose was shouting over the loud madness which was taking place. "Don't break it!"
"Oh come on, we aren't going to break it." James rolled his eyes.
"James, just hand it over!" Albus practically snapped at James.
James shook his head while grinning at Albus. "Sorry, Al, I already said no."
Albus moved quickly and launched himself into James' back, attempting to grab the Time-Turner out of James' hands. Fred and Louis quickly moved to go help James.
"Get off!" James managed to knock Albus off his back, but, as he did so, he lost his own balance and slammed into Fred and Louis. They all tumbled to the ground.
CRACK!
The Time-Turner shattered into pieces.
Everyone stared at it.
"It... broke." Hugo broke the silence.
"You idiots!" Rose suddenly shouted as she began moving towards the doorway. "We have to get out of here! Quickly!"
"What's going on in here?"
Lily looked over to the doorway to see Teddy, Victoire and Dominique. They came into the library.
"No, no!" Rose was shaking her head. "We have –"
They were all engulfed in a bright, white light... and when it was gone... so were they.
Okay, so that's the first chapter for Making A Change: Philosopher's Stone. Hope you liked it!