AN: Thanks for all the great reviews so far, nice to hear. Someone mentioned grammar problemes and I'm sure they will be there, I'm not a native English speaker so I do have some issues with grammar structure, but I hope to improve while I'm writing, it's one of the main reasons I'm doing it after all.
I'm studying at the university at the moment, so updates will be as often as I can, but I won't abandon the story. Most likely it will be 1-2 weeks between each chapter of about 4-5000 words.
Chapter 1: Dursley, Hermione and Weasley's
Pain was the first thing he felt when his senses returned. A blinding pain where his limbs were on fire, knives went through his entire body and he was barely able to stay conscious through it all. It felt like it continued for an eternity, but it reality it couldn't have been more then 4-5 minutes which was too much even that. At last it subsided, but was instead replaced by dizziness that forced him to close his eyes. Half an hour later he finally felt okay, so he started looking around to see where he was.
The pain was expected since others had tried the device out to a smaller degree, but the amount seemed to be affected by how far back you went because no one reported anything like this. It had something to do with merging with your old self which caused a violent reaction. Looking around he saw he was in his small bedroom on Private Drive with Hedwig in her cage at the window and his school stuff on the floor, so at least he was back.
The question was when, looking over at his books it showed those from first year, so it had to be between his visit to Diagon Alley and his first year at Hogwarts, so they actually managed their goal. Time travel to this degree had never been done or at least never reported, so they weren't sure about the math of it all, but it seemed to have worked brilliantly.
"Should have known though, Daphne is rarely wrong about anything." Harry muttered to himself while putting his clothes on. It was 6am so he had an hour or so before the Dursley got up, a quick wandless spell showed the date to be September 1st, so he had a lot to do if he was to get on the train.
A visit to Gringotts to claim his Lord Potter title needed to be done to prevent Dumbledore from any manipulations. Also, Daphne had threatened him if she didn't get her ring back and it was in the Potter vault at the moment. Speaking of his lovely wife, he had to try his and Daphne's bond, he was already aware that it wasn't as strong as before, but that was expected, their old selfs had never even met. After a few minutes of searching he found it though, it was still there, but apparently the distance was too long at the moment because he couldn't send anything to her.
He went downstairs and started preparing breakfast, it was his last day at Dursley, so he might as well do it to prevent a fight, and he was hungry too. Half an hour later when he had finished eating his bacon and egg with toast they arrived, Petunia and the two pigs. He stood up and said. "Food is on the table, I'll be leaving for school now."
They just gave him a nasty glare and he walked out of the room and upstairs, after packing his things and sending Hedwig of to Hogwarts he apparated to King's Cross and left his things in a box there. Then he walked over to the pay phone and called the police.
"Hello, I think you should send a car to investigate Private Drive 4, I think they are abusing their nephew. He is very thin and I hear rumors that he lives in a cupboard under the stairs." He said and cut the call off before he heard any questions. Let's see them get out of that one, and why on earth did I never do that last time. Revenge is sweet.
Making sure he wasn't seen he apparated over to Diagon Alley and went up the stairs to Gringotts. Inside he looked around and walked up to the closest goblin. "Hello, my name is Harry Potter and I would like to talk with a manager about my family account and title if possible." He tried to be as polite as possible since goblins liked to cause problems if you acted disrespectful. He wished Daphne was here though, she was better at handling them then he was, she even managed to have them open the Lestrange vault after all.
He was shown into an office of Griphook who he recognized all too well by now. The goblin walked in just a minute later and sat on the other side of the desk. "My name is Griphook and I'm the manager of your accounts , what can Gringotts do for you?"
"As the last member of the Noble House of Potter I request my family ring and title, as well as access to all my vaults." Harry said and hoped this wouldn't take too long, he was starting to have some time issues.
"Of course , sign this document and then follow me." Griphook answered and pulled out a thick document of about 70 pages, Harry had read it last time so he didn't bothered now. "You do know this will make you emancipated with all the legal consequenses?" Griphook continued.
"Yeah I know, it's sort of the point." Harry answered smiling at the goblin while he signed and he swore he received one in return, but you could never be sure about them.
The ride down to his Main Vault was fast and fun as always, Daphne called him a big child sometimes which he couldn't really deny. He walked inside and put his Lord Potter ring on and it adjusted itself right away and glowed red for a moment showing him as a true heir of the House. He quickly got some money and picked up the beautiful diamond engagement ring for his wife as well.
Thirty minutes later he arrived back at King's Cross, he had spent some time talking to Griphook about restricting account access to him and his "future" wife, this had caused some funny looks but surprisingly no commented about his young age, as long as the goblins got their money they couldn't care less. They also talked about investments, Harry let the goblins handle them, but made sure they bought Grunnings so he could fire his Uncle if the police didn't take care of their job or was stopped by the ever interfering old man.
He saw the Weasley family coming towards him so he quickly walked through the barrier to the platform before they reached him. He had no interest whatsoever of talking to them, except maybe the twins but that could be taken care of later. Instead he walked onto the train and reached an empty compartment where he would meet Daphne when she arrived. The bond was getting stronger so she must be closer than before.
After just a few minutes he saw a girl with bushy hair open the compartment door and he took a quick breath when he saw Hermione standing there. He had missed his best friend so much and now he couldn't even act like he knew her, he wasn't even sure she would like him and Daphne, they had changed a lot during the past years and with Hermione's respect for authority figures it could be a problem. He would try his best to give her a friend at least since he knew It was something she longed for at this time.
"Hello, I'm Hermione Granger, can I sit here." She said in her usual bossy voice but he could see how nervous and insecure she was.
"Hello Hermione, I'm Harry Potter, please sit down." He replied and saw her eyes first widen at his name and then joy and happiness from his response. She sat down on the other side and they started to talk about the school and books in general, she did most of the talking though, but he was happy to listen. Just as the train was set to leave the door opened again and Daphne came inside. She saw him and smiled brightly and he did the same, then she looked over at Hermione and "introduced" herself.
5 hours earlier
Daphne woke up much the same way as Harry did, in a good amount of pain and some confusion. Unlike her beloved husband she slept in a large bed in the Greengrass Mansion, a building with 7 bedrooms among other things. As soon as she managed to focus herself she went up and downstairs to check the date. Her mother was already up preparing food to the rest of the family, when Daphne walked inside she said her usual good morning, but Daphne failed to respond. She was still overwhelmed over to be back in her old home, it had been destroyed during the war last time so it was an experience.
"Daphne, are you there?" Her mother asked for the third time. Daphne snapped out of her thoughts and responded. "Yes mother, just thinking, I need to talk to you and father when he wakes up, it's important."
She got a funny look at that, but didn't care, the question at the moment was how to explain everything to her parents. The reason they had decided to tell them was her father's political influence as a Wizengamot member, but also since they wanted Harry to visit during the holidays and getting the engagement taken care off for legal support.
How to explain time travel, the death of their youngest daughter and her being married was a difficult one though. Her father arrived a few minutes later with her little sister following. Her sister, it was Astoria, that she was back finally hit her when she saw her beautiful little sister grinning up to her. How she had missed her during the past years, she didn't care if it looked weird, she walked up to her and gave her a big hug for almost 20 seconds before letting go.
"Relax Daph, you're only going to school, it's not like we will never see each other again." Astoria said with a small smile. Daphne managed not to wince at the last part and merely said. "Of course not sis, just felt like giving you a hug." She saw her parents' exchange a look, Daphne wasn't normally one for physical contact.
After they had finished eaten Astoria went back upstairs on her mother's command and they both turned to Daphne. "Maybe you should sit down, this won't be easy to hear for you." She began, her father Jack frowned, but did as she said.
"What I'm about to tell you is 100% true, so please hear me out before saying anything. I'm your daughter, but I have travelled back 13 year from the future to save a lot of people from dying because of a second war against Voldemort." She saw the shocked and skeptical looks, but continued on, they had promised to keep quiet. "He will rise in my 4th year with the support of his Death Eaters, the war will last three years before Harry Potter manages to defeat him again for good, but at the cost of many lives along the way. One of the deaths was Astoria." She finished with tears in her eyes, it was not an easy topic to talk about.
Her parents kept quiet for a few seconds to process it all, but then her father said. "That's nothing to joke about, so I sure hope you're telling the truth, but do you have any proof?, and from what I know time travel isn't possible." His voice was calm, but demanding. It was obvious he was used to getting sensitive information, and he rarely showed any sign of raising his voice.
"I'm going to answer the second question first, when I finished school after the war I started to work as an Unspeakable and during an assignment in Greece we found a device with the possibility to send people further back. I decided it was worth the chance going back to save people and getting rid of Voldemort earlier." She didn't say we because she had to sell this part before moving on to Harry.
"As for proof, I can tell that the Unspeakable with the code name Green is really Nicholas Flamel and an old friend to you father, someone you have worked with at the ministry for over 15 years, but never mentioned at home. A false copy of his Philosopher Stone was placed in Vault 713 of Gringotts until 31st of July and is now located at Hogwarts. The real stone is still located in the Department of Mysteries, section 4." She said all this while looking at her father, he was the one that knew this, so he could verify it to her mother. His eyes widened while she talked, and then just turned to his wife and nodded slowly.
"I take it you believe me now." She said after finishing. Her parents both nodded before her mother promptly fainted. "Good thing in told you to sit down. Ennervate" She said waking her mother up again.
"I know this is a lot, but I do have one more announcement for you." Daphne said and this time she smirked because it was at least some good news. "My husband came back with me." She finished.
Jack smiled weakly at that, her mother gasped "Who is it?" Daphne smiled innocently. "Harry Potter of course." She answered with a wink, this was fun. There was another gasp, this time from both of them. Her mother gave her a hug and whispered congratulations at this while her father mostly stared in front of him. Not every day you hear these kind of news from his own child.
"What is your plan?" He asked after several minutes. Daphne shrugged and said. "We have a general idea, but we thought I would bring Harry here at Christmas for a more in depth talk about what we will do. There isn't anything before then we can't handle and it should give all of us some time to think things through and getting used to everything." Her parents gave a nod at this.
"That would probably be a good idea all considering." Jack replied. "Should give me and Lisa some time to recover." He laughed; it seemed he had recovered slightly already.
"There is one thing, we won't marry again until I'm 16, but we thought he could give me the engagement ring today to make sure we are legally protected against certain people, like Dumbledore." Her parents wasn't very fond of the old man, so it was an idea that was easier to sell then the rest. Especially considering it had happened once in the future.
"We will allow that, especially if it helps to protect both of you." Her mother said. Daphne smiled brightly at them and gave them both a hug, she had been afraid it wouldn't happen.
"We will come back here at Christmas then, and thank you for believing me, I know it's a lot to hear." Daphne finished the conversation before walking upstairs to get ready for the train. They arrived at King's Cross with only four minutes left and Daphne couldn't wait to see her Harry again. She gave her family a last hug with Astoria getting another long one. "See you in a few months." She said while walking on the train with her thing. Following the link she arrived at Harry's door at the first try, opening up she saw him and Hermione talking. He sure didn't waste any time she thought and walked inside.
"I'm Daphne, pleased to meet you." She said with a smile. I know she wanted to get to know Hermione properly this time around since it never really happened last time.
"Hello, I'm Hermione, and this is Harry." She replied while pointing at me. Daphne smirked slightly at being introduced to her husband, but turned around to him and said. "Already flirting with other girls love, I'm hurt." She said before sitting down next to him and giving him a quick kiss and then a hug. Harry felt their bond respond right away and it became much easier to connect with her. Hermione flushed slightly, but Harry wasn't sure if it was because of the comment or the display of affection between them.
"You're hopeless" Harry replied smiling. He leaned forward and whispered. "I got the emancipation and your ring without a problem, have you talked to your parents?" Daphne nodded and answered. "I gave them the general idea, time travel, married, and so on. They were shocked of course about several things, especially you actually, but they accepted the engagement at last. As soon as you give the ring to me we should both be protected from Dumbledore Also, we are visiting them at Christmas to talk things true. I gave them Flamel as proof." She whispered back so Hermione couldn't hear.
"Excellent." He said and then turned around to see Hermione's questioning eyes. He laughed because they reminded him so much of her when she wanted information, but was too afraid to ask. "Daphne and I know each other quite well, we are actually engaged." He answered and showed her the ring before putting it on Daphne's finger.
""I have to say, that was surely lacking as a proposal." Daphne replied while looking at her husband with disdain. He smiled back and sent over the link. Don't worry, I'll make it up to you later.
He turned back to Hermione who was watching them with wide eyes, clearly confused about a great many things. "Let me explain, I can't give you the full reason now, but I'm friend to her family and we have been in a relationship for a while. To protect her from several people who want to interfere and cause problems for us we have decided to get engaged this early. I'm emancipated and the Head of House for my family, her parents agreed with this. That's why we can and have gotten engaged this early. You will get the full reason when we are closer friends." She nodded in understanding and almost got tears in her eyes at the closer friends' part.
Just as he had finished speaking the door opened again, but this time the arrival wasn't nearly as welcome because there stood Ron Weasley. His awful behavior and jealous streak prevented them from continuing as friends last time and this time he wasn't inclined to try with such a hopeless case. He had realised that the difference between Ron and Draco was money, not attitude, therefore neither of them was worth his time that could be better spent with Hermione or Daphne, preferably Daphne and a broom closet. Damn she was beautiful, though with her being 11 now his thoughts were slightly disturbing.
Meanwhile Ron had worked up the courage to say something. "Hello, there is nowhere else to sit, mind if I sit here?" He asked with a small smile. Harry didn't believe him for a second, and he was just about to reply when Daphne sent him a thought that she would take care of it.
"Sure, come in, I'm Daphne Greengrass, and this is Hermione and Harry Potter." She introduced all of them, as expected Ron narrowed in on the Harry part and looked up at his forehead. Harry just smirked while inside he was a bit confused why she asked him to come in.
He sat down and all of them were quiet for a second before Ron asked. "Do you have the scar?" He used about as much tact as usual in other words.
"Yes, you want one as well?" Harry replied with a sweet smile. Daphne sniggered while Hermione seemed torn between being amused and scolding, probably afraid of losing the chance of being friends with him if she said something about it.
"What?, No, I just wanted to see it." Ron said confused, a look he had mastered during his past life. He was on a good track this time as well.
"Well, too bad for you, I'm not very fond of being stared at." He answered still with a smile on his face. Just wait, I'm going to hurt you badly for how you treated Hermione last time.
"Moving on, what House do you think you will be in?" Daphne asked and Harry could see what she was working at. Sneaky, in more ways then one. Hermione answered quickly. "I think I will be in Ravenclaw, but Gryffindor doesn't seem so bad, Dumbledore went there after all." Harry mentally groaned at this, mental note, get rid of the Dumbledore worship as soon as possible.
"I'm going to be Gryffindor, all of my family has been there." Ron said proudly . "It's the best House." Harry almost felt Daphne smiled before she answered.
"Slytherin probably, but Ravenclaw would work as well, seems like a fine House." She said and Harry got the message, Ravenclaw this time, and he agreed, neither Draco or Ron was there and they could work on their plans in peace. Ron frowned at what she said and said. "Why would you want to be in the snake House, we don't want them around, they're evil."
"We're engaged so I would actually prefer her to stay, also Slytherin seems like a good House, I think I'm going to be there or Ravenclaw as well." Harry said with a smirk. Ron looked like someone had killed his puppy, or stolen his food maybe.
"You can't be a snake, you're the Boy-who-lived, my best friend." The engaged part seemed to have gone over his head completely. Harry almost winced at the last part, how on earth could he be manipulated to have Ron as a friend last time, he was about as secretive as Snape was nice.
"First of all, no House is evil, it's the person who is. Secondly, I've talked to you for 5 minutes and you are in no way my best friend. You also managed to insult my beautiful girlfriend with your comment, so get out of here." Harry said, Ron stared at him for a few seconds before scowling and walking out muttering about getting back and regretting this.
"Hermione, try to get into the Ravenclaw House, I think you will feel much better then. Also, we might end up there as well." He said to her after the redhead had left. She still stared after Ron who she clearly hadn't liked that much, but then turned back to Harry and smiled. "I will try." She answered.
A few minutes Draco Malfoy turned up as well. When he came inside with his arrogant smile both Harry and Daphne had a hard time not hitting him with their best Crucio right away. He was going to die, there was no question about it considering how much he did for Voldemort last time, including being indirectly responsible for Hermione and Astoria's deaths. However, now wasn't the time, so both just watched him with a blank face when he started talking about "Showing him the right way" and not getting "Mixed up with the wrong crowd."
"If you're finished now you poor excuse for a human you can just disappear, we don't want a bigot here, especially not one as stupid as you." Daphne said coldly while Harry just confirmed his opinion with leaning against her and giving her a peck on the lips. Draco watched them with a rising blush. "You will regret this Potter, when my father hears about this." He said before storming outside.
Harry and Daphne watched each other for a moment before starting to laugh at the same time. When they finally stopped two minutes later Hermione stared at them like they were crazy. "I can't believe he just said that." Daphne gasping for air. Message received as "I didn't remember he used to say that all the time, that idiot."
After that all three of them talked about school, lessons and the sorting for a few hours and before they knew it they had arrived at Hogwarts. Stepping outside they were joined by Tracey Davis in the boot, a friend of Daphne from last time, so all three of them introduced themselves and talked pleasantly while moving towards Hogwarts. When they stepped out and walked inside the great entrance Harry smiled at Daphne. "Welcome home love, let's do this."
AN: Had an exam last week so it took a while to get this chapter finished. The next one should be up next week and it will include the sorting, Dumbledore and the first week of school. Review if you want, and take care until next time.
