This is my first fanfic, about the next-gen of course ;) I really wanted to do a time travel fic, so here it is! I hope you enjoy the "adventures" of the new Potters and Weasleys.
Chapter 1 – Never Look Through a Time Hole
'Oh, I am going to miss this place,' Victoire sighed as she leant back against the beech tree by the lake at Hogwarts. For a minute, she just sat there and gazed over the grounds, before James decided to speak.
'Look, I know it's your last day and everything, but I'm sure there are compensations to leaving school,' he assured her with a small smirk.
'Like what?' she asked him.
'Like being able to see Teddy every day,' he replied with a small laugh. Victoire responded by trying to whack him round the head with her wand, but he ducked out of the way.
'Would you two please stop fighting?' Rose demanded. 'I thought we all came out here to relax in the sunshine, not to watch you two fight.'
'Rose's right,' said Albus immediately. 'I bet you haven't even packed yet, have you, James?'
'Yes I have!' said James indignantly. 'I've been packed for weeks, I've been so looking forward to seeing my baby sister again…'
Albus gave a derisive snort, but all the other Weasleys completely ignored this exchange. It was too hot to do much else.
'Hello everyone!' called a voice from the entrance to the castle. It was Fred, accompanied by Dominique and Lucy.
'Hi Fred!' shouted James. 'How was detention on the last day?'
'I've had worse,' he shrugged in reply. 'Honestly, we weren't even responsible! Some teachers just immediately blame us!'
'Oh well, that's just the way life is,' Lucy sighed.
'Guess what we found, on the way back from detention?' Dominique added. It seemed that she had been bursting to say this since they'd left the castle.
'What? Two Hufflepuffs in a broom closet again?' Victoire suggested, and Fred and James cringed at the memory.
'No, nothing like that. Come on, we'll show you,' Dominique replied, and turned back towards the school. Reluctantly, the others followed her into the cool darkness of the Entrance Hall.
'We don't actually know what it is, but I did wonder if Rose or Al had come across it in a book,' Lucy was saying as they went down a corridor on the ground floor, near to the Hufflepuff common room. Finally, they stopped outside a corridor that only they knew about, one hidden behind a tapestry, and Lucy and Dominique pulled it open. In the middle of the corridor was an odd, glistening body that kept swirling about.
'What on earth - ?' Rose began, but she couldn't think of anything else to say.
'Ah, so you don't know what it is either,' Fred sighed. 'Oh well. We should just explore it anyway.'
'No Fred!' exclaimed Molly. 'You don't know what it is! It could be dangerous!'
'There's only one way to find out, isn't there?' said James, and he walked towards the substance. Suddenly, he stopped, and stared down at the ground.
'What's wrong?' asked Molly.
James bent down, and then stood up a second later. He was holding a piece of parchment in his hands.
'That wasn't there earlier…' said Lucy. 'Does it have a name on it?'
'Yeah, it does,' said James. 'Megan Jones… September 21st… 1992!'
'1992?' Rose repeated. 'Wow, that's been here a long time!'
'It doesn't look old,' Albus pointed out, frowning.
Then, all of a sudden, a completely new voice reached their ears.
'Megan, come on, or we'll be late for Potions!'
'I know, I know, it's just…I can't find my Potions homework. My bag was open, it must have fallen out somewhere… ah, and Snape's going to kill me! I'll have to back track… if I'm really late, tell him where I've gone, won't you? Thanks Susan.'
The voices vanished, and they all looked each other, slightly horrified looks on their faces.
'1992? Snape? Susan? Megan?' said Rose, eyes narrowed.
'Could that really be the past?' whispered Victoire, looking slightly faint.
'I say we go through and find out,' said James, and Fred nodded.
'No! What if someone sees us?' Molly hissed.
'We won't be long,' Lucy assured her. 'We just want to have a look.'
'There's no harm in looking,' added Dominique.
They all looked at each other, and everyone except Molly nodded. Even Rose, who was almost as cautious as Molly, looked eager to explore.
James went through first, followed by Fred, Dominique, Lucy, Victoire, Albus, Rose and finally Molly. The inside of the glittering thing was like a warped vortex, but they weren't walking through it for very long. Soon, they emerged out the other side, in the same corridor they had just left. But it did feel different. It was slightly darker, and not as dusty.
'The past smells different,' said Lucy as she breathed in deeply.
All the others looked at her in bewilderment.
'Right, you've seen 1992, so let's go back to 2018, shall we?' Molly was begging by now.
Before any of the others could protest, the tapestry flung open, and three people stood framed in the entrance to the corridor. Albus's mouth fell open.
'Would you look at this, Fred, Lee,' said one of them.
'Indeed, George,' said another, nodding solemnly, though they all knew he wasn't being serious. 'Looks like we're not the only ones who are late to class.'
Fred turned to his cousins, and swore under his breath.
'You have got to be joking.'
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