Sorry for the late update, but I went to BISMUN (Bath International Schools Model United Nations) last weekend. It was really fun and I met some people from other countries including America, Germany, Russia and the Czech Repiblic! I got really behind on schoolwork (not to mention sleep! :L) so I've been catching up with it all, and this sort of fell down on the priority list :L

Temperamental and Experimental

'Well, you see, we were-'

'What happened was this, right, we-'

'I was trying to help-'

All three children started to explain what had happened, while their parents glanced at each other, then back to their children, with an exasperated air about them.

'Enough,' their mother eventually said, when she had heard enough. 'We take you to ministry for the luncheon and you disappear off! What made you go to the Department of Mysteries? You know it's dangerous, we've told you enough times! But no, you just had to go and see for yourselves, and got sent back in time! And now we've had to come back as well to make sure you stay out of trouble!'

'You didn't have to come back, we can take care of ourselves!' James replied, indignantly.

'Maybe you can, maybe you can't, but the question still stands: what were you doing in the Department of Mysteries?' Their mother replied. Her younger self was staring at her shocked. I really marry Harry? she thought. I look old in the future! And I've put on weight!

'It was James' fault!' James' face darkened as his sister said this. 'He dragged me and Al down there, insisting it would be 'fun' and 'harmless', and look what happened! He found some time turners that, of course, being James, he just had to touch, and we got sent back here! Incidentally, why are we on a beach, when after using a time turner you stay in the same place but are just in a different time?' She pondered this last part out loud.

'I don't know! Maybe they were temperamental! Or experimental! But this is the exact reason why you don't go playing in the Department of Mysteries! It's called that for a reason!' Their mother was clearly the disciplinary figure in the family, as their father just simply watched, occasionally looking like he wanted to interject, but he was never able to interrupt his wife when she was in one of her tempers.

'All right, why don't we all just calm down now,' Mrs Weasley said. She and the rest of the Weasley's had been watching this exchange, slightly fearfully as they knew what Ginny could be like if she really got into one of her rants. 'This isn't helping the situation at all. Why don't we all head back to the Burrow and have a cup of tea and some cake. You're all looking a bit peaky.'

She looked at her future daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren with a slightly strange look on her face, then waved her wand and the blankets the Weasley's had been sitting on a few moments before magically shook themselves free of sand and folded in mid-air, before packing themselves in hampers, along with their food and drinks. They all, past and future family members' trudged up the small hill and round the corner until they were hidden from view and able to safely apparate back to the Burrow. James and Albus both had an apparition license, so Lily anxiously ran away from her parents to do side-along apparition with her brothers.

Once back at the Burrow they all went into the kitchen. Mrs Weasley waved her wand once more and the tea pot started to boil, while some cake sliced itself. James went to grab a piece of cake but stopped short slightly when he saw the look his mother gave him.

'But I'm hungry!' He insisted.

'Well you wouldn't be if you had stayed at the luncheon and eaten there, would you?' She replied, with gritted teeth.

James' hand retreated, while his father smirked.

'Now, lets try to get to the bottom of this. You were at the Ministry…' Mrs Weasley prompted.

'We were at the annual luncheon thing at the Ministry. They have it every year to honour dad for defeating the Dark Lord,' James explained. 'It's really dull and boring, so I like to try to liven things up a bit-'

'That's an understatement,' scoffed Lily. 'Last year he set off 300 firecrackers and replaced all the biscuits with canary creams! People were randomly bursting into feathers half way through dad's speech!'

James looked faintly proud of himself, before continuing.

'Anyway, as I was saying, it was boring, as usual, and I wanted to know what it was like in the Department of Mysteries since you told us what happened when you went in there.' He didn't seem to know if he should look at his parents, or his soon-to-be parents. 'It wasn't easy, let me tell you! They've got a whole new bunch of security down there! When we got there we didn't really know what way to go so we were just wandering around, then we came across this room and there was a whole bunch of time turners just lying on the table. I went to investigate and must have done something wrong because, next thing I know, we're back here,' he finished simply. 'How did you know we'd left?' He added, looking at his parents.

'Some of the aurors on my team saw you leave and told us. We wondered what you were up to,' he said. 'We saw what happened, and after sending a patronus to let Ron, Hermione and the aurors know what happened, we followed.'

'So now you're back as well, have you got any idea how to sort this mess out?' Lily asked.

Thanks to animegirl03, Annabella Prinx and arabelletrix for favouriting, and thanks to andru71, Becca loves monkeys, simdone and Annabella Prinx (again!) for author alerting me! I appreciate it :) xx