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Chapter Four

Nothing had changed. The room looked exactly the same. If the candles and the runes weren't missing Harry wouldn't have even known that he was somewhere else.

"Is everyone ok?"

"I'm fine Harry." Replied Hermione. Though she was slightly more dishevelled than she had been when the trio had left their time she looked alright so Harry decided to take her word for it. Plus Hermione was smart enough to tell them if anything felt off because that could indicate that something had gone wrong.

"I'm good too mate. Do you think it worked alright?" said Ron.

Hermione took out her wand and casted a spell quickly. "Tempus," The time and date '7:30 AM 23/06/1976' was displayed in the air. "it worked."

"Today's the day that the day that the Hogwarts express leaves for kings cross, isn't it?" asked Harry.

"I think so." Ron guessed.

"Of course it is Ronald. Don't you remember anything?" Hermione exclaimed in an exasperated manner.

Ron rolled his eyes. "Harry didn't remember either!" He pointed out.

"That's not the point!"

Harry understood that arguing was like a sort of foreplay for his two best friends but now was really not the time. In fact the two knew nothing of timing. Their first kiss had been in middle of the wizarding world's biggest battle for goodness sake. Harry had had enough of it.

"Guys! Can you two stop arguing over such a stupid thing? We need to figure out what to do first. After you can argue and have as much kinky angry sex as you want!"

"Harry!" Hermione yelled indignantly as Ron's face turned scarlet and he began to splutter. "we do no such thing!"

"Sure," Harry said with a mischievous grin. He knew he was annoying 'Mione and embarrassing Ron, but he just couldn't resist. Also he knew for a fact that even though Ron and Hermione were not virgins they had never slept together. He loved teasing them about sex. Their reactions were just too amusing for him to stop. "now let's get back to reality."

"Har-" but before she could finish she was interrupted by Harry covering her mouth.

"Seriously , we need to figure out what to do now."

"You're right Harry. I think we should wait until breakfast has started and then go to Dumbledore's office. The students would be going straight to the train after breakfast so we would have enough time to talk to him and explain why we're here." Ron suggested. His face was finally back to its normal colour but the tips of his ears were still slightly red.

"Yeah, that's a good idea. Maybe we can get him to explain if there is anything different about this timeline than our own." Hermione said.

She was so proud of Ron. He had grown so much in the past two years. The war had a really big impact on him. One of the more positive impacts was that he had matured and used his brain more often. He was one of their most brilliant strategists during the war. Ron had lost a lot in the war but he still continued to live a happy life. He knew that's what his family would have wanted. For that, Hermione admired him.

"Great plan."

Shortly after Harry had told them of his idea to time travel they had decided that Dumbledore of the time they were travelling to needed to be informed. He was too powerful and knowledgeable to be fooled by their plan. Harry just hoped that his mentor would understand why they did this; that it wasn't just a stupid whim for Harry to try to be a hero. The trio thought that if they explained the situation that they were in to the man and answer a few of their questions Dumbledore would understand the necessity of the steps that they had taken to ensure a better future. It would be very bad for them if Dumbledore didn't know what they were doing and thought them death eaters or something similar. Dumbledore was a great and kind man but Harry knew that if he though them evil he would stop at nothing to stop them and guarantee the safety of his fellow wizards.


At around nine o'clock the trio made their way to Dumbledore's office. Walking through the halls was an emotional experience for the three. Great happiness and terrible sorrow joined in their chest to make up the world's most confusing emotion. The joy was for seeing Hogwarts whole again. To see the castle still standing, the portraits still gossiping and the stairs still moving. The joy was for knowing that they had a chance to preserve what they saw. To save live that may be lost.

The sadness was there too. The halls reminded them of the people they knew. The times they spent with them walking around the castle, laughing, talking and even crying. And that reminded them that the people they knew and loved were gone. They may save then in the new time physically but they would never be the humans that the trio personally knew. They wouldn't have suffered war or had the life experiences that ultimately made them who they were.

It was a sad thing but it was worth it. Harry could get to know Sirius before Azkaban and see him grow to be the man he was meant to be. He could meet his father and tell him to stop being an arrogant toe-rag and not to treat the Slytherins like shit and after James stopped being a git Harry could get to know him too. He so desperately wanted to meet the people that had sacrificed themselves for him but he knew that the people, who were in essence his mother and father, could not and would not behave as such. He still wanted a relationship of some form with them.

As Harry contemplated the meeting of the people he once used to know the three friends had reached Dumbledore's office. This caused him to snap out of his thoughts and focus on the present.

"Go on Harry, knock."

"Why do I have to knock? You do it." Harry argued, knowing how childish he sounded. He couldn't help it though; he was just a little too excited and nervous to be meeting the man who he had, in another life, considered a mentor, a grandfather and a friend.

In the middle of their spat a clear voice rang out.

"There's no need to argue. You don't have to knock if it causes you bother. Come in."

They turned around and found the grandfatherly face of Albus Dumbledore right behind them.


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