A/N and here is the revised version of chapter 4! Tell me if you find anything else wrong with it.

Harry POV

Sticking his hands in his pockets, he strolled down to the quidditch pitch. Having already stashed his broom in a tapestry early in the day, he only had to go get it. Walking over to the portrait of a gaggle of pretty young witches, he smiled and waved at them. "Can I have my broom?" The tallest one with long flowing black hair wiggled her eyebrows sugestively. "Only if you join us" she said coily. "I cant enter paintings you know that. Wish I could though." Harry knew the only way to get them to open was flattery. They giggled and swung open. Reaching inside he grabbed his Firebolt. "Thanks Ladies" winking at them, he turned and walked towards the pitch. "Come visit!" They called after him, causing a smirk to spread across his face. He loved the portraits. They were hilarious.

His mind shifted to more seriouse matters as he took the path he knew so well to get to the pitch. How would they get back to their time? Would anyone find out that they were from the future? Would his parents find out? Would he be able to change it and make sure they don't die? Would they find out they were animaguses? What if they slipped up, like Ginny did today, and their covers were blown?

"Mr. Richardson?"

A stern voice shook him from his thoughts. Hoisting the broom higher on his shoulder he nodded and grinned at his professor. "The one and only."

"Now you wanted to show me your broom? May I, see it?" Holding her hand out tentivly, Macgonagall gasped when Harry dropped the broom into her hands. "Oh my goodess! So finely made!" Shifting the broom form one hand to another, she grinned excitedly, and Harry could almost imagine her jumping up and down with joy. "Let me see how fast it goes."

Mounting the broom, Harry sped into the cool, crisp night. Power thrummed at his fingertips and his broom turned with ease, at touches as light as a feather. He KNEW he was going fast, the blur that was the stands told him that. A whistle shattered the tranquil silence of the pitch, and Harry reluctantly dipped down and swung over to where Professor Macgonagall was. He wasnt quite ready to get off yet, so he hovered above his professors head, making her look up.

"Now THAT is a fast broom Potter!"

James POV

"Hey where's Harry?" Ginny and Ron squirmed, while Hermione just looked guilty. "No where!" they choursed. "Well if he's no where why isnt he here?" Sirius countered. "Because he's no where!" Ginny responded cheerily, her eyes flickering to the window facing the quidditch pitch. Giving her a strange look, James's next sentence was cut off when Lily flopped down next to Ginny, Dorcas next to Ron, and Gracie next to him. "Sup big bro." Grinning he threw his arm around her shoulder. "Hey little sis"

"Hey Tails!" Remus, Sirius and Peter sang. "Moony, Padfoot, Wormtail." Nodding at each of them in turn, Gracie survayed the group sitting on the couch. "Hey were missing Harry. Where did he disapear to?" "They wont tell us" Sirius whined. "It's not fair! Lily-Flower did they tell you?" James held back a laugh when he saw the look of horror spread across Lily's face. "What did you just call me?" she snapped. "I called you Lily-Flower!" Sirius stated, oblivious to the fact that a yelling match was fastly aproaching. Closing her eyes, Lily took a deep breath and slowly opened her eyes, flashing them a pained smile. "Lily-Flower?" She asked weakly. "Um ok whatever but no he didn't tell us."

James was shocked. Lily didn't get mad for Sirius caling her Lily-Flower? What the heck? Who died and made Lily civil when she was talking to us? Why did she end up even sitting next to us? Liy must have seen the confusion flash through his eyes, because she offered him a hesitant smile. The only person who saw this exchange was Gracie, who grinned to herself. Lily would fall in love with her brother, she had to.

"Um I think im turning in, what about you guys?" James said hastily, standing up and brushing imaginary pieces of dirt of his pants. "Yeah im beat" Sirius added, yawning. "Me too." Remus stood and started towards the dorm. "I'm not tired." Peter said, settling down in his chair. James gritted his teeth. Peter could be so stupid sometimes. "Come on Pete."

"But im not tired!"

"I don't care just cme up with us!" Grabbing his friends arm James hauled Peter up the stair. "G'night!" He called over his should, attemting to ignoor the looks of confusion plastered across the girls faces.

"Alright get the map Padfoot, I'll get the cloak, we need to find out where Harry is." Digging through his trunk, he fished out the invisability cloak and tossed it on his bed. Sirius passed James the map, and the four mauraders crowded around it. "I Solemly Swear I am Up To No Good." Ink bloomed across the cover of the map, just as footsteps began to come up the stairs. "Crap!" Sirius swore, shoving the map under his bed. The door flung open revealing…Gracie. A very angry looking Gracie.

"You guys were going to do something without me?"

James let out a sigh of relief, running his hand through his hair. "Because it involves our roommate, not yours." Arching her eyebrow she plopped down on his bed. "May I remind you who figured out the spell to create the map, and found a majority of the secret passages? I have the right to come with you." Giving her an annoyed look, James groaned angrily. "Come on Tails, really?" "I'm a Maurader at heart to, not a Lioness."

Well that settled it then. Whipping the map back out, the five quickly crowded around it, pouring over the contents. They searched every inch of the castle before Remus cried out "I found him! I think…." Remus looked confused as he peered at the tiny moving dot that was flying around the quidditch pitch. "It doesn't say Harry Richardson, It says Harry Potter."

They slowly turned to James, who gulped nervously. "I honestly don't know him" he stated, pulling at his hair. "Can we just go and figure out why he's flying around the pitch, with Macgonagal watching him?"

Enlarging the cloak, the five of them slipped under it, and strode down the stairs. Crouching down to hide their feet. Thankfully, only Ron, Ginny, and Hermione were left. James had the urge to just stop and listen to their conversation, that they would figure out eveything if they did. Shaking his head, he led them through the portrait hole, opening it as little as possible to get out.

They crept through the corridors in silence, swiftly leaning against tapistrys to open secret passages and moving as quickly as possible. They finally made it to the pitch. Without warning, Gracie yanked the cloak off of them, and stuffed it in her pocket. "What are you doing?" James hissed, grasping at the folds of the cloak. "Theres no one anywhere near here, except for Macgonagal, and shes up in the stands. Its dark, we can put it on once we need to get over there."

Leaving no room for argument, Gracie turned to the sky, searching for a dark silloute that would be Harry. Giving Sirius an exasperated look, James turned to the sky to. He couldn't find anyone! Once or twice he thought he saw a figure, but then it would blur again. The sound of a whistle shattered the silence of the pitch, and Gracie quickly threw the cloak over them. A dark figure finally appeared and flew down towards Macgonagall. The five crept towards the two people, one hovering off the ground, the other looking up at the hovering figure.

"Now THAT is a fast broom Potter!" Professor Macgongall said excitedly. Potter? Remus mouthed, confusion etched across his face. Harry let out a laugh. "I can't use it though Professor. Its way faster then the modern broom. What broom can I use?"

"I'll arrange something" Macgonagall said crisply. "It shouldn't be too hard to get one of the newest models for you."

"Oh Ginny plays quidditch too, shes a chaser." James could almost picture the excitement on Professor Macgonagals face. "Oh this year we'll have a good team! We might win! It Miss Weasley's broom a Firebolt?" The boy on the broom shook his head, hair flicking back and forth. "No ma'am. Her's is a cleansweep 7 I think." James could almost imagine his Professor's face fall. "Her's will probably be fine then. Keep an eye out for tryouts. Now come on I will walk you back to the common room." Hearing Harry sigh discontentidly, he dropped of his broom and hoist it over his should.

"Well whats up with that?" Gracie whispered. "How come it was so fast?" Remus shrugged. "Who knows? What do you think Pete?" The small mousy boy shrugged, inspecting his hands shakily. "I don't know maybe they're time travelers." The group exchanged a look and burst out laughing. "Yeah right. Come on we have to get back to the common room."

Ginny POV

"Ok so we're here, now wheres Harry?" Ron, Hermione and I all sat in the room of Requirement, waiting for Harry to arrive. "He was going to see if he could still use his broom right? I wish I could have gone." Sighing, I propped my chin up on my hand.

The door creaked open and a disgruntled looking Harry slipped into the room. "Its not my fault im late." He snapped. "Macgonagall wanted to walk me back to the common room." I chuckled, of course she would want to walk him back.

He dropped down into the last armchair and groaned. "How are we going to keep this up? Ginny slipped up this morning by calling Ron Ron Weasley, Macgonagal keeps calling me Potter, its only a matter of time before somebody hears us slip up! Hermione when I did something wrong, which was on a daily basis, you call me Harry James Potter! If you say that, we're all screwed! And when I see Peter I don't really want to talk to him but Ron, you cant totally ignoor him when he's trying to talk to you." Ron grumbled something about 'But hes evil' and I sighed. "No Ron, he's not. Not yet anyway. He hasn't become a Death Eater yet." My eyes lit up. "We can save him! We can stop him from ever becoming a Death Eater then James and Lily wont die!"

"Ginny no" Hermione started

"That's perfect!" Harry threw in.

Turing to face him, Hermione's face grew red with anger. "Haryr you know the rules about time. You cant change anything big! It would warp the whole future!"

"Yeah." Harry said coldy. "My parents wouldnt die. I would actually get to live with them!" Hermione shrank under his gaze and averted her eyes. "But then what if we never meet each other." She said softly. "You would meet Ron, his parents were in the Order, and they're pureblood, but I would just be some muggleborn that liked to read books."

I walked over and pulled Hermione into a hug. 'Don't be silly. Of course we would still be friends. Why wouldn't we?" She shrugged her shoulders and broke free of my grasp. "Im fine, just being stupid. I guess we could try to stop him. But we should probably get back now." Giving me a small smile she turned on her heel and strode over to the door. "You guys coming?"

o.O.o

James POV

"Ok where are they?" the Mauraders stood up and looked around the dorm. "Harry should be back here by now, and Ron never left!" Sirius flung himself onto Remus's bed. "I don't know mate" he drawled. "Maybe they went to find a broom closet." Remus snorted. "That's doubtful. Why are you on my bed anyway. Don't you have your own?"

"Yeah but your bed is more comfety."

"Comfety?"

"Got a problem with how I say my words?"

"No I have a problem with the fact that your on my bed."

The young werewolf shoved Sirius of the bed, resulting in him being pulled off the bed as well. Sirius had latched himself to Remus and Remus's sheets, so him bed as now officially, 'un-made'. "Thank Sirius." Remus snapped, pushing himself off the ground. "No problem mate."

Harry and Ron burst through the door laughing. "Did you see her face?" Ron choked out, before the two of them collapsed in a fit of laughter. "What did you guys do?' Sirius asked, sliding down beside the two of them. "Lily-yell-Ginny-Hermione-'Wandering around after curfew" James nodded knowingly. "So you guys came back, and Lily was sitting there, so she started yelling at Ginny and Hermione because they were out after curfew? And she didn't yell at you guys?" The two boys shook their heads, attempting to stand up so they could go to their beds. "That's brilliant!" James cried, a grin spreading across his face. "How did you do it? Where were you guys?"

"Dissillusion Charm" Harry commented in an offhand voice, avoiding Ron's eyes and James's last question, just in case he started laughing. "Yeah but you can still see outlines of people with dissillusion charms." Remus stated, rasing his eyebrow at the two boys. "If you get good enough it can make you invisible." Ron said collapsing on his bed. Harry followed suit and reached up to pull the hangings around his bed closed. "Hey wait" James said, "Harry, how did you get that scar?" The green-eyes boy froze, pain flickering across his face as he quickly glanced around the room.

"Um.. When my parents were killed, the person who killed them tried to kill me but he couldn't. L-I mean my mom died for me" his voice broke but he quickly recovered. "She placed a charm on me. Love. So Avada Kadavera backfire and weakened the killer." He refused to meet James's eye, or anyone's really. "They're best friend betrayed them." Harry sounded so, pitiful. Tears were welling up in his eyes as he looked back up at James, then yanked the hangings shut. "G'night." He called.

James looked over to Ron, who also averted his eyes from James's gaze and glared at Peter before also pulling his hangings shut. "Night guys."

James looked at Peter, then Remus, the Sirius. They all had the same look of confusion plastered across their faces. What. The. HECK? James mouthed.

Lily POV

"What are you guys doing out late?" Lily asked, anger boiling inside her. She had just recived a letter from her sister, and it wasn't very nice, so she wasn't in the greatest of moods. Ginny and Hermione looked around wildley, obviously surprised. "Where did they GO?" Ginny muttered. Lily stood up and strode over to the two girls. "I really hoped that the new people WOULDN'T be prankers and people that got in trouble a lot." Lily snarled. "NO no we're not Lily we're not calm down! We don't usually wander around after hours, this is a one time thing I promise!" Hermione pleaded. "Don't give us detention please!"

A sudden tiredness filled Lily to replace her anger and she slumped back on the couch. "I'm sorry" she whispered. "I just got a really bad letter from my sister and…" She broke off, hugging her arms around herself, feeling utterly lost. "Come on Lils, lets get back up in the dorm" Ginny said soothingly, unwinding her arms from her knees and leading her up the stairs. "Im sorry" Lily sobbed. "I-I don't even really know you guys and im just going to dump all my problems on you" Hermione rubbed her back and helped her up the stairs. "I feel like I've known you for longer than a few days." Hermione said softly. "It's ok."

"Oh Lily whats wrong!" Dorcas cried, running over to where her friend was standing, Gracie not far behind. "She got a letter from Petunia" Ginny said quietly, leading the crying girl over to her bed. "Oh Lily, Dorcas gathered her in her arms and rocked her back and forth. "What did it say?" Gracie asked soothingly. Lily shakily opened her hand and dropped a crinkled looking letter on her bed.

I don't want to write to you, because I have to use your freaky owl and send it to your freaky school, but Mother MADE me. Dad is sick, he has cancer. Im sure your stupid wizards have found a cure for cancer, but your not allowed to give it to use. You guys are selfish freaks who don't care about anyone but yourselves. I don't think you're my sister anymore. You have no right to see my father or my mother so don't come back to our house. Mom is probably going to rehab because she had a mental breakdown when she found out about Dad, and if you come see her I'll send you to the police. Im getting rid of all of your things, you don't live at this house anymore. You have no right to come back and I am in control of the household. If you do, you WILL face the consequesnces you freak. If you were really family, you would be with Dad right now. Freak.

Petunia

The blood drained from Hermione's face as she read it. "And Harry had to live with her for 15 years." She whispered, tears welling in her eyes. Handing the letter to Ginny, Hermione wrapped her arms around Lily, like Dorcas, and began to hum a tune she used to play to fall asleep at night.

Dah, dah,
Dah, dah,
Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah...

Dah, dah,
Dah, dah,
Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah...

Shipwreck in the sea of faces,
There's a dreamy world up there,
Dear friends in higher places,
Carry me away from here,
Travel light let the sun eclipse you,
'Cause your flight is about to leave,
And there's more to this brave adventure,
Than you'd ever believe,

Birdseye view, awake the stars 'cause they're all around you,
Wide eyes will always brighten the blue,
Chase your dreams, and remember me, sweet bravery,
'Cause after all those wings will take you, up so high,
So bid the forest a fond goodbye, as you brace the wind and,
Take to the sky,
Take to the sky,
Dah, dah,
Dah, dah,
Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah...

On the hills of lore and wonder,
There's a stormy world up there,
You can't whisper above the thunder,
But you can fly anywhere,
Purple burst of paper birds this,
Picture paints a thousand words,
So take a breath of myth and mystery,
And don't look back!

Birdseye view, awake the stars 'cause they're all around you,
Wide eyes will always brighten the blue,
Chase your dreams, and remember me, sweet bravery,
Because after all those wings will take you, up so high,
So bid the forest a fond goodbye, as you brace the wind and,
Take to the sky,

There's a realm above the trees,
Where the lost are finally found,
Touch your feathers to the breeze,
And leave the ground,

Birdseye view, awake the stars 'cause they're all around you,
Wide eyes will always brighten the blue,
Chase your dreams, and remember me, speak bravery,
Because after all those wings will take you, up so high,
So bid the forest a fond goodbye, as you brace the wind and,
Take to the sky,
Birdseye view, awake the stars 'cause they're all around you,
Wide eyes will always brighten the blue,
Chase your dreams, and remember me, sweet bravery,
Because after all those wings will take you, up, so high,
So bid the forest a fond goodbye, as you brace the wind and,
Take to the sky.

You, take to the sky.
Take to the sky.
Dah, dah,
Dah, dah,
Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah...
Dah, dah,
Dah, dah,
Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah...
You take to the sky...

Lily's breathing had slowed, and Dorcas layed her gently on her bed. Drawing the curtains they all tiptoed back to their beds. "You have a really pretty voice." Dorcas murmered. "Thanks" Hermione said dryly. "Im glad to know I can put it to use. I just feel so bad for her."

"Don't show it." Gracieadvised. "She hates looking weak. Comfort her in secret." Ginny and Hermione nodded and the girls climbed onto their beds. "Night." They choursed.

"G'night" Dorcas whispered softly.

Sorry for the slow updates. It snowed so I was playing out in the snow. I don't own Harry Potter or To The Sky. That goes to Rowling and Owl City. Update! I would love to hear from you!

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