Harry POV
Most of the Ministry people were awake and I knew this was trouble. The broken time turner had been on the floor when me, Ron, Hermione and Ginny decided that we should go and see where they were, but I was not expecting this. I was expecting like sometime after the war was over, not the beginning of it. By the looks of it, the others were thinking the same way.
"Ah, Mr. Potter, I think you and your friends should join me at the ministry to discuss the time-travel of you ah…children." Umbridge said in that girlish tone that Harry had nightmares about hearing again.
We had no choice probably, and solving this diplomatically was best, and Hermione seemed to agree with me. Ron and Ginny on the other hand, this was going to be a longer day then I already thought.
Teddy POV
I can't believe I really said that. The rest of the people cleared the room, and Tonks was about to leave too, but Sirius stopped her before going into the other room with the rest.
Well I had to get this awkward conversation over with right?
"You're my what?" Remus asked in complete shock.
"Son" I reply nervously. I remember back to the days when I first graduated Hogwarts. Harry was telling me about my parents and in a joke he said: 'if for some reason you find yourself like 25 years in the past I would make sure he knew you weren't a werewolf. It was his worst fear.' Then I think, might as well right?
"Who is not a werewolf." I added.
He looked at me with the weirdest expression on his face. He looks relieved and at the same time, still upset with himself.
"Really?" He asked hopefully.
"Yes. My name is Teddy Remus Lupin, son of Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks." I said.
They looked at each other than at me, totally bewildered.
This was going to be fun.
James POV
"So Uncle Perce, what are you doing here?" I asked casually. Hey, someone had to break the tension.
"Well after what happened, Kingsley asked if I wanted to come see my kids, and the rest of you because he knew where you were." He said nervously back.
"Of course he knew." Dom said. "Where else would we go? I mean we could have gone to the Burrow, and then gave Grandmum a heart attack and Granddad for that matter. Or Shell Cottage where no one is at the moment. So why not Headquarters?"
"Headquarters?" He asked.
"Of the Order of the Phoenix" Lucy said brightly. "Fidelius Charm, people that would fight for our safety, Ministry has no access to it. It's perfect."
"Plus there is Dumbledore who can come and help us." Molly added.
Percy smiled at the two. His daughters probably what he was thinking.
"So Uncle Percy, I hear a rumor form my dad that you were a prat this year, going to make up because of us?" Fred asked beside me. Smooth Fred, real smooth.
"They wouldn't care.." He mumbled.
"They do in the future." Lily said. "Your my Uncle Percy and I see you at every family dinner all summer holiday long."
"Yeah you play chess with me, when no one else does, even when I kick your butt." Hugo said smiling.
"You always help me find new books to read when mum is busy" Rose said smiling.
"And you give us a chance to prank you!" Fred and I yelled pleased with ourselves.
"Really?" Uncle Percy said smiling weakly.
"Yes dad." Molly said. "This is our family. Though from what I heard, some might need more persuasion then others."
"Like my dad?" Roxy said smiling. "Maybe mentioning this to mum is a good idea, that will whip him into shape."
All of a sudden Vic came in muttering – and I think it was in French- under her breath.
"Whats with you?" Louis asked her.
"He told them, about the Final Battle." She said.
Great. Nice going Teddy, now this whole house will be depressed. Sirius was looking at her strangely almost guessing what she meant. The rest of us were at a loss for words. Now what?
"I told him! I said don't mention Uncle Harry practically raised you, it would lead to questions! I pleaded with him to shut up! But no they were having a touching moment about how he isn't a werewolf and how he loves them and it was sweet and everything until-" Vic was cut off by Dom.
"Until he told them that half of the Order was dead by the end of the war?"
"What!" Sirius roared.
They all looked at him worriedly, now what?
Ginny POV
What Harry was thinking when he willingly went to the ministry with Fudge and Umbridge I will never know. That's the scary part though because I usually can tell what Harry is thinking, but now only Hermione seems to know what he is on about.
Right now I am sitting in Fudge's office while Fudge and Hermione argue about ministry rules on time travel, and I was so bored it wasn't even funny. I wanted to make sure my kids were safe, but having McGonagall mutter 'London' to us before we left made me at least calm.
Umbridge was staring at Harry with the utmost anger and Harry was doing the same rubbing his scared hand. Hermione though continued the argument with Fudge, even quoting ministry laws baffling him. Why couldn't an Auror or Head of Law Enforcement come here? Listen to her and reason with the minister…?
It hit me then. During our dreadful year with Harry on the run and me, Neville and Luna running Dumbledore's army, me and Susan became pretty good friends like most of Dumbledore's army, we all had people to get revenge for. I remembered she wanted to get revenge for her Aunt Amelia Bones…head of Magical Law Enforcement…when Fudge was here…
"Minister?" I say speaking up. Hermione stops mid-sentence, Umbridge stops staring at Harry, Harry looks at me and Ron looks up from his muttering. "Maybe we should talk to Head of Magical Law Enforcement? Amelia Bones? No offense but it is her job to deal with Magical law day in and out. Maybe she knows about the time-travel codes?"
That's when Fudge looks pissed, Umbridge on the verge of losing it, Hermione impressed and relieved, Harry amused and Ron laughing quietly.
"Of course." Fudge says through gritted teeth. It was fun to anger him.
Dominique POV
Teddy, bless him, just screwed up everything. Sirius looked raving and I had no clue what to do about it.
"Who?" he says angrily.
Uncle Percy looks scared, and not trusting of someone who is supposed to be a convicted murderer, he instinctively starts to talk, in a way to protect us….Oh Uncle Percy….
"Don't you dare start on them you murderous traitor." Uncle Percy spits out.
"Uncle Percy!" Roxanne yells. "Sirius is innocent-"
"The ministry-"
"The ministry and Crouch himself were a bunch of morons who didn't give him a trial to be found guilty or innocent." I say darkly.
Uncle Percy stops dead in his tracks to speak.
"Didn't give him a trial?" He chokes out.
"Nope." James says. "it's a shame too because all he had to do was show them the lack of a dark mark, or his memories. Dumbledore could have provided the pensieve. The ministry is so stupid."
"Got that right." Fred said grinning and him and James grinned at each other and I made a mental note to stay clear of them for the next couple of days.
"Oh they will never want me back now" Uncle Percy said now face in his hands.
"You're the only normal one in our family." I say thickly. "You have the Chosen One Harry Potter, and Head Auror, and Uncle Ron who is second in command. Aunt Hermione is the Head of Magical Law Enforcement. Aunt Ginny played for the Holyhead Harpies. Aunt Angelina played Quidditch for a bit too. Uncle George runs the most successful shop in Brittian, Uncle Charlie deals with Dragons, Mums part Veela and Dad is a Curse Breaker. On top of all that they are all War heroes, and get tons of attention, they all have huge tempers and star trouble and argue. You are the only calm, collected, normal one. It feels good sometimes to get away from the chaos of the rest of the family."
He looks up, a little better looking now. "Really?"
"Now stop it!" Roxy laughs.
"I still want to know who dies." Sirius grumbles.
"Go ask Teddy!" Vic yells, the Vic who had been muttering to herself the whole entire time. "He seems eager to tell everyone of the future!"
Sirius immediately runs into the other room and we all get up worried and rush in there.
"Teddy Vic is on the verge of losing it. Want to control your girlfriend?" I ask sweetly.
"She is your sister." He snaps back.
"And again, since when am I the sisterly binding type. You're her beloved Teddy, the Teddy that she has loved since she was 7." I snap back.
"What happened to no sisterly bonding?" He quirks an eyebrow.
"I will hex you." I warn him.
"Like you set the guy on fire the other day?" He asks nervously. I smile and he quickly goes to control Vic, and then she starts yelling at him in French.
"Lovely couple." I mutter.
Tonks and Remus start to talk quietly with Sirius trying to keep him calm which was starting to look tricky. James and Fred pulled Louis over, most likely starting to plan their next prank. Molly and Lucy pulled Uncle Percy to the side to talk to him. The younger ones argued amongst themselves, mostly Al and Rose disagreeing. I turned to Roxy.
"What now?" I asked at a loss.
"Hopefully someone can come get us." She says worry in her voice.
"They know some stuff now. They will want to know more."
"I know, but Dom, I think he needed to tell his parents." She says softly.
"I know. Vic though is just freaking out probably because she knows how much this will hurt him later." I say, knowing my sister very well indeed, even without the sisterly bonding.
And on that grim note, I watched as people talked and yelled and thought, 'How the hell do we get out of this mess?'
A/N I had to rewrite this to get it perfect. I have a problem of doing next generation time-travel and bringing in Harry and the trio plus Ginny in and then focusing the story about them. I wanted the kids to have more of a part in this.
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