Chapter 02

Lucy ran down the stairs and then up through the castle to the great hall where she hoped to find someone to help her. Looking around frantically she saw three people that would be able to help. McGonagall, Neville, and teddy. She ran up to the teachers table ignoring the stares she was getting from the few students up this early on a Saturday.

"Lucy? What on earth is the matter?" McGonagall asked shocked. Lucy looked at the three of them.

"Its lily. She's gone!" she exclaimed quietly enough so the rest of the hall wouldn't hear.

"Gone? What do you mean gone?" McGonagall asked.

"I mean I woke up and she was there bending over something that I couldn't see for a long time and she disappeared." Lucy said frantically.

"She disappeared? Just like that? But it's imposable to disaperate within Hogwarts grounds." Neville said. Lucy turned to teddy; he looked to be deep in thought and hadn't said a thing.

"I think I know what happened." He finally said. "Neville can I use you fireplace? I need to make sure."

"Of course use away." Neville said. Teddy rushed off. "Now Lucy why don't you come with me," Neville said kindly. Lucy followed him to the grounds; they walked for sometime before Neville spoke. "Lucy, you said you don't know how she disappeared but can you think of any reason why?"

"What do you mean?" Lucy asked.

"I mean like was she acting strange yesterday? Did she have a reason to want to leave?" Neville asked.

"Well she came back to the common room last night and she seamed kind of upset and different." Lucy said still not fully understanding why this would help.

"What time did she come back?" Neville asked starting to get worried.

"Around 11ish I guess." Lucy said wonder why such information would help.

"What had she been doing?" Neville was now very worried.

"Getting some food from the kitchens." Lucy said staring at her adopted uncle. Why did he look so worried?

Indeed Neville's eyes had gone wide, he didn't know exactly what had happened but at least now he had a vague idea.

"Come on!" he said running back up to the castle and into his office where teddy had his head stuck in the fire.

"Hermione!" teddy had called into the fire. Hermione came rushing in from the other room all dressed up for work.

"Teddy! What a surprise, I'm just off to work do you think you could –"

"This is important." He cut her off. "I need you to look at lily's time-turner history and see if she's gone back like 38 years or so."

"Why?" Hermione asked.

"well Lucy said she suddenly disappeared and I think I know why, but please don't tell Harry and Ginny yet, I think I can stop her and bring her back before anyone else notices but I need those records." Teddy explained.

"Ok." Hermione said. "I'll get right on that. Do you want me to bring them to the office?"

"No actually I'm at Hogwarts right now if you could just floo them to Neville." Teddy said. Hermione nodded.

"Of course teddy." She said.

"Thank you." Teddy said pulling his head back. Coming back to the office he was shocked to see Neville standing there looking somber.

"I think I figured out what happened." He said.

"Me too." Teddy said. "Lucy, why don't you go enjoy breakfast and not tell any of the cousins what happened."

Lucy nodded and ran from the office.

"I think she traveled back in time to stop petunia from abusing Harry." Neville said as soon as the young red-haired Slytherin was gone.

"I think so too, that's why I was contacting Hermione," teddy said.

"That was my idea as well." Neville admitted.

"Well Hermione in the smartest witch of her age." Teddy said. "Hopefully we can stop lily. It could mess up the time space continuum."

"Well if I turns out that's what happened someone should follow her to make sure everything goes as planned." Neville said.

"I can go," teddy said.

"Are you sure? Maybe we ougta send someone who isn't so close to Harry." Neville said unsure of the plan.

"I'm a big boy I can handle this, the consequences of stopping this one little thing could be disastrous." Teddy said getting the cold focused mindset only an auror could achieve.

"Alright." Neville said.

The two waited a while in silence for Hermione's call.

Hermione had arrived at work a few minutes after teddy had called her.

"Mary, I need the reports on time turners." She had said the moment she saw the girl. Mary was a new employee working in Hermione's department since she was the head.

"Yes Mrs. Weasley." Mary said rushing off to get the records. Hermione waited for a moment until Mary did in fact return with time-turner records. "May I ask why you need these so urgently?"

"The auror department needs the information for a case they are working on." Hermione said. At least it was partly true. Teddy was in the auror department. Mary believed the lie instantly. The auror department did often need strange information to figure out their cases so it wasn't uncommon. Plus since Ron and Harry were aurors it wasn't uncommon for Hermione to be the first to get the message that the aurors needed the information.

Hermione scanned the results and was shocked when she got her niece Lily's. For she had indeed used the time turner to go back exactly 38 years.

Hermione was puzzled as to why the young girl would go back that many years; she was only 12 so it wouldn't be anything in her lifetime. Hermione tried to think of what had happened 38 years ago. Well she was 40 – not that she would admit that to anyone – and by October of that year she would have just turned two. October? 1981?

That's when it clicked. October 31st 1981 was the day lily and James potter were killed. Of course lily would want to go back in time to save her grandparents. But why now? Why not before? Well she had only gotten the time-turner a few months ago but why couldn't she have gone sooner?

Hermione jumped up from her chair and stuck her head in the fireplace.

"Neville! Teddy!" she called when she saw the two men talking on the other side of the room.

"Hermione!" teddy exclaimed falling out of his chair. Despite the situation Hermione and Neville had to laugh. The action was totally something tonks would have done.

"Hermione did you get the records?" Neville asked bringing them back to the task at hand.

"No I decided to drop in for a spot of tea." Hermione said sarcastically. "Yes I found the records."

"Good. What did you find out?" teddy asked now having pulled himself off the floor.

"Well I don't know how much you know but lily did in fact go back 38 years." Hermione said. Teddy and Neville exchanged knowing looks. "Did she go back to save Harry's parents?"

"Not exactly." Teddy said. "I don't have time to explain but I need to follow her so she doesn't end up making the biggest mistake of her life. Is there any way I could follow her?"

"Well I don't know any other way than to get a time-turner and go back yourself." Hermione said. "I know she went back exactly 38 years but its been hours, it will be hard to predict when you should arrive so you can stop her."

"Alright, do you have a time turner I could use?" teddy asked.

"Yes, just wait about a half hour and I can secure you one." Hermione said.

"Thank you Hermione." Teddy said.

"I'll come give it to you in a half hour." Hermione assured him pulling her head from the flames.

A/N ok so some of you are probably still wondering exactly what this story is about. And no the main point is not time travel. This will actually have a real plot I just haven't gotten to it yet. Please don't give up on the story; it isn't my usual boring time travel fic. It will have a plot. If you have any questions please review. I really do like reviews just like everybody else.

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