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(Harry's POV)

We made it to the Whomping Willow in just a few minutes, we learned from our third year in our time line and had Hermione mobilize the tree. We had made sure no one was watching and luckily it was still early enough that nobody was out and about yet besides us of course. We mad our way through the tunnel as quickly as possible and came out as expected in the Shrieking Shack.

I ignored the overall shabbiness of the building and found a couch and sat myself down Ginny, Hermione and Ron followed suite all finding their own place to sit.

We stay silent for what seemed like forever none of us really knowing what to say. In the end it was Ginny who spoke up.

"I think we should all read our letters to ourselves then go from there." She said looking both unsure and sure at t he same time.

We all nodded in agreement and opened our letters mine was just a page long but it seemed stocked full of information for me.

Mr. Potter I am sure you are confused and as I am also sure you have figured out what has happened I will explain it further for you. The Lake you and your friends entered could be considered a Time Lake of sorts which is how it ended up in the time room however it is not. The Lake has no name for I am it and I have no name, I simply read what your heart desires most and judge if you are worthy of what I do. You see similar to the Mirror of Erised I show you what you most desire but I also if I choose give you a way to get that . I cannot just give it to you though, no you must work for what you most desire.

In order for me to do so the Person or in this case persons who enter my lake must be of pure heart, and you and your friends have the purest hearts I have ever come across. Those death eaters couldn't come into my depths for the simple reason that their hearts are far from pure they are evil to the core and thus could not enter my depths.

You and your friends although vastly different in spirit all desire the same thing For Tom Riddle to be gone (Yes I know his true name), but not just that but to be happy and safe and whole, and you Mr. Potter are not whole. Although Molly Weasley has tried to fill that role for you, your mother she cannot be and the same with Sirius Black although he tries to be he cannot be your father the two of them can only hope to dull the pain of losing your parents.

I have not only given you a chance to save them but to make the world better, you can save all those who you lost or have yet to lose, yes had I not thrown you back you would lose so much more. I cannot on good conscious let that happen. Now you and your friends must decide how you are to proceed I cannot do that for you.

I can however tell you this my magic works differently each time it is activated. I have thrown you back in time and for you to better accomplish your goals I've made it appear to everyone but the four of you, that you have been here your whole lives. In this timeline you are the Identical twin brother to your father James, the scar on your forehead remains however because although I tried there is a darkness within it not by your doing but by another that is all I can tell you however. The story behind your scar in this time is that at the age of one you fell down the stairs in your home and obtained the scar.

Everything is the same however all the people who were here in this time is here I cannot change anything I can just place fake memories in those you encounter.

Your knowledge of the future remains because although I can place fake memories and alter others I cannot remove them it is not how my magic works.

Good luck and remember you can save many it is up to you how you do so.

I finished reading my letter and looked up at the others who all seemed to have finished with theirs as well.

"So I was right we were thrown back in time, and according to this I'm my dads twin brother." Hearing myself say that out loud was a bit weird. Well the whole situation is weird but if I freaked out about every weird thing that happened to me I probably would be insane.

"Harry," Hermione said looking up at me, "According to my letter it says we can save people we have lost or have yet to lose," I nodded I knew what she was going to say, "We can save your parents and Sirius and stop Pettigrew, in the letter it says it cannot change what is at this moment but we can change what will be. Pettigrew will betray your parents unless we can stop him and shed light on who he really is."

Hermione was always one step ahead of things and I knew she was right, "Well we need to get through this day right now my head is way too jumbled to even try to come up with a workable plan. One thing we need to do for sure is get Dumbledore to help us so that means we need to tell him." They all nodded in agreement, "I know who I am but what about you three?"

According to their letters Ginny was the twin sister to my mother which she seemed extremely excited about and Hermione was my adopted sister my parents in this time had had found her in an ally and took her in. And Ron was still a Weasley but as the younger brother of his father.

Once we knew the basics of each others back story we made a short term plan to come up with plans to accomplish what we were sent back to do.

One thing I couldn't get out of my mind was how was I pure of heart If I had so much anger in it for all I have been through.