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Chapter Three
Godfather and son were silent as they made their way through Hogwarts halls attracting curious stares from Hogwarts students. Harry deduced that it was the weekend because of the student's casual dress. When he had been talking to Madame Morphy she had mentioned that the students had arrived the day before. He wondered how long it would take to find a way back to their time. To his knowledge time turners could only take you backwards in time.
Teddy's thoughts were taking a slightly different path, a more depressing one. Now that he had seen his father, talked to him, he didn't want to go back, he couldn't. Harry, Grandma and even Ginny were great parents to him but this was his chance to know his real ones. Well one. He wasn't all that sure how he would be able to meet his mum. But now that Harry was here with him he would be made to go back to where he had no true parents. He felt like running away. Back to the infirmary. Back to his father. But he couldn't because suddenly he was looking up at a large gargoyle statue.
"Lemon drops," Harry said a small smile tugging at his lips. It had been twelve years since he had to use a sweets name to get past the gargoyle. Ruffling Teddy's dull brown hair he slung his arm around his Godson's tense shoulders. Bracing himself he started up the curving staircase. Teddy tried his best not to drag his feet as he made his way up the stairs but he didn't do a very good job. They stopped in front of a large door but before either could knock a voice called out.
"Welcome gentlemen." The door swung inwards revealing a large circular office filled with silver trinkets and spinning gadgets. Teddy took in the array of unusual knick-knacks with wide eyes. Headmistress McGonagall's office was nothing like this. With a soft smile Harry tugged his dazed Godson into the room towards the white haired, smiling wizard who sat behind a desk in front of them. Harry felt his chest tighten and his eyes moisten as the sight of Albus Dumbledore breathing. The familiar twinkling blue eyes studied him and Teddy over half-moon spectacles.
"Headmaster," greeted Harry as he lowered himself into a seat. Teddy just nodded. He was slightly awed to be in the presence of this great wizard who he had heard so many amazing stories about.
"Now, I must admit I'm rather curious as to what you two are doing here," Dumbledore started.
"Well you see, young Teddy here decided to meddle with something he shouldn't and has sent us through time." Dumbledore's eyebrows rose in surprise before a knowing look spread across his face.
"How far back have you been sent?" Teddy cringed back into his chair feeling his face heat up with guilt.
"Um around thirty years give or take," Harry answered as Teddy shrunk further down into his seat his brown hair starting to shift to the maroon of the chair he was sitting on. This didn't go unnoticed by Dumbledore.
"So would I be off by saying you are closer related to one James Potter?" Dumbledore stated.
"I'm James Potter's son," affirmed Harry.
"And you young man," he inquired fixing his bright blue eyes on Teddy's small form.
"Remus Lupin's, sir," mumbled Teddy. This seemed to both surprise and please the Headmaster.
"Well you boys seemed to have gotten into quite a fix." Harry just nodded feeling uncomfortably like he was sixteen-years-old again. "Now I believe I have some knowledge of how to get you back but I will have to do some research first. So for now Teddy we can say you're having a trial run at the school. What year are you in in your time?"
"I just finished my first year. I'm Gryffindor," Teddy replied straightening up.
"Very good, very good. Then you shall be staying in the Tower and attending classes with second year. The password is ferocia," Teddy smiled happily at this announcement. He would be able to see his dad again!
"What about me Headmaster?" questioned Harry.
"Albus, please." Harry smiled and nodded. "It just so happens that my Flying Instructor has a bad case of the scrofungulus, the poor thing, and will be out for the rest of the week. Would you mine filling the position?"
"No of course not, Head-Albus," Harry replied happy not to be stuck doing nothing but brooding of the nearness of his young father for the entire week.
"Well I'm glad that's settled. So what would you like to be known as?" Dumbledore inquired.
They both considered before Harry broke the silence. "I'll be known as Harry Dorian," Harry offered.
"Dorian?" Teddy mused.
"It's a name of a show Hermione's made me watch. It's muggle so it shouldn't cause any questions," Harry explained.
"Oh," Teddy responded. "I'm…what was I again?" he asked.
"Rein," Harry reminded. "Teddy Rein."
"Ok then that's settled," Dumbledore smiled. "Now what can you tell me about the future?" Dumbledore asked with a completely serious face.
"What?" Harry choked out in surprise as Teddy frowned at Dumbledore in confusion.
"I'm joking," the Headmaster chuckled taking in their identical expressions of disbelief. Everyone was always taking him so seriously; it was nice to play with them sometimes. "I think that will be all for now. Oh actually because of your striking resemblance to your father we should probably change a few of your features, Harry," Dumbledore suggested.
"Of course," Harry agreed before quickly changing his hair to a chocolate brown and making his eyes a pale bluey-green. Sadly no charms worked on his scar so he would just have to keep his fringe hanging over it.
"Well done. Now you may help Teddy settle into his new sleeping space. We'll meet again at dinner."
"Right, thank-you," said Harry as he stood to leave.
"Yeah, thanks," grinned Teddy jumping up to follow his Godfather out.
"You better settle on one look while we're here," Harry recommended once they were alone, walking down the hallway.
"Yeah I guess," Teddy responded, halting. After a minute of concentration he added some different tones of brown to his hair and made it slightly shorter and scruffier, though he kept his eye colour the same brown. He also kept his height and general features the same they had been in the infirmary so that Remus, Sirius and James wouldn't be able to pick up on any of the differences. "How about this?"
"Perfect," Harry assured. "Is this what you were going to make yourself look like in all the plans you made when you decided to send yourself through time?" asked Harry.
"I hadn't really thought that far ahead," admitted Teddy. He'd known this conversation would come up sooner or later and with the corridor deserted and unlikely to be used by anyone anytime soon it was the perfect opportunity for Harry to ask.
"I have a pretty good idea but what in Godric's name possessed you to send yourself back in time?" he exclaimed. Teddy shrunk backwards.
"I just wanted-needed to meet them. Just once," he responded passionately.
"Listen Teddy I underst-"
"Exactly, you should understand!" accused Teddy angrily.
"I do." Teddy scoffed, hunching in on himself. "Teddy I do understand but coming back here could have very negative, far-reaching consequences. We might mess the time stream up and make it that neither of us are born and Voldemort never dies," Harry explained.
"I just wanted to meet them," Teddy sobbed.
"Oh Teddy," Harry sighed pulling his Godson into his arms as he cried. Harry ran his fingers through Teddy's silky hair soothingly like he used to when Teddy was younger. After a few minutes Teddy's tears trailed off into hiccups but he was still slow to pull out of his Godfather's comforting embrace.
"Let's head to our rooms to have lunch now, ok?" Harry suggested keeping his arm around Teddy's drooped shoulders.
"Can we? I mean…I want to go see him, please?" Teddy mumbled.
Harry squeezed his shoulders reassuringly. "We'll pop by the Infirmary on the way to our rooms." Teddy smiled and nodded in agreement, knowing that it wasn't just a 'pop in' since the Infirmary was on the opposite side of the castle to the guest rooms.
More students were out and about now and they were both attracting a lot more stares then they had this morning. Though they were both used to it and found it easy to ignore. Being the man-who-lived (which still made Harry cringe) and a metamorphous son of a werewolf were pretty unique. They soon arrived at the Infirmary to find all the beds empty.
"He was probably released and went back to the Tower," Harry stated. "I guess Madame Morphy isn't as strict as Promphy was."
"We know where the Tower is," Teddy pointed out as they exited the Infirmary.
"Teddy they might not even be there," Harry reminded.
"Can we please look?"
"Fine," Harry conceded.
As they made their way through made there way up to the Gryffindor common rooms trouble happened. They turned into a corridor where a disagreement between a Slytherin and some Gryffindor's had turned into a duel.
Teddy, who had been indrawn, thinking about what he'd love to do in the week he had with his dad, was caught of guard when an expelliarmus whizzed close by his head. He was immediately pulled backwards by Harry who already had his wand out.
Harry made quick work of disarming the three duellers easily and sending the small gathered crowd on their way. He was left with the a Slytherin who's face was starting to turn green and purple. Seventeen-year-old Severus Snape was glowering at his two opponents with a familiar scowl. The two Gryffindor's, who were to no surprise, one James Potter and Sirius Black, were just surprised to have had a their wands suddenly ripped out of their hands.
"I'm not even going to ask what this pathetic little squabble was about," Harry growled before turning to face Severus. "You should go get checked out at the Infirmary, here," he ordered handing back Severus's wand. Accepting his wand he strode off, scowl still firmly in place. After he was gone Harry handed back James and Sirius' wands.
Turning the corner to find his father and godfather ganging up on Severus, who'd been backed up against a wall had been quite confronting. It was as bad as Snape's pensieve memory he'd stumbled on back in his fifth year. This was almost worst because he had experienced first hand with his own eyes and ears.
Behind him Teddy was taking it pretty hard as well, though he wasn't concentrating on James or Sirius. He was staring at the two Gryffindor's standing behind and off to the side. His father. The other shorter male he guessed was Peter Pettigrew. The man he'd been told his whole life was a hero, was just standing there. A selfless, courage's Gryffindor, yet all he'd done was watch. He hadn't even tried to intervene in the unfair duel. Suddenly Heading straight to their rooms didn't seem to be such a bad idea. After a tense moment of silence Sirius noticed Teddy.
"Oh hey Ted's, so have you decided to join the wonderful world of Hogwarts?" he asked. Remus and Peter moved up to join the group. Harry tried his best not to glare at the blonde haired, watery-blue eyed boy who shifted nervously from foot to foot beside Remus.
"Not completely, I'm giving it a weeks trial," Teddy answered with a not-quite-there-smile.
"I'm sure you'll decide to stay on," Remus smiled.
"Of course he will," Sirius scoffed.
"Will make sure of it," James added slinging his arm around Sirius' shoulders. Noticing the glances Harry kept sending Peter, James stepped forward.
"Right you guys haven't met Wormtail yet have you?" he mused. "Harry, Teddy this is Peter. Peter we met Teddy this morning in the Infirmary-"
"Yeah while you were off in dreamland and we were starving ourselves to help a friend in need," sighed Sirius collapsing into James's arms with his forearm resting against his forehead.
"Hello," Harry nodded ignoring Sirius's dramatics.
"Hi," Teddy murmured looking at his feet.
"We were just heading to the Great Hall for lunch, would you like to join us?" Remus inquired.
"Sorry but we've already got plans. We'll see you at dinner though."
"Ok cool," Sirius shrugged.
"Yeah c'mon guys, I'm starving," Peter laughed softly.
"How can you be hungry you just ate half of our secret stash," Sirius exclaimed.
"This is Wormtail Pads," James reminded.
"See you tonight," Remus waved as the group moved off. Godson and Father smiled as they waited for them to turn the corner.
"You ok?" Harry asked, worried.
"Yeah, just hungry," Teddy sighed.
"Let's get to our rooms them," Harry suggested preparing himself for the questions Teddy was sure to ask once they reached the enclosed rooms.
