Chapter 6

"Severus? You got here later then usual..." Dumbledore asked as the potions master sat down at the staff table in the middle of breakfast.

"I had to deal with some of my students fighting." Severus replied unenthusiastically.

"Oh?" Dumbledore replied and Sirius sniffed the air.

"Did you just take an anti-hangover potion?"

Al was nervous about attending his first class at a wizard school. He'd gone to a muggle school but wasn't allowed to do magic or say that him and his dad were wizards. At times, he'd wished he could. He never told his dad but there were some kids that's life ambition appeared to be to get on his nerves.

Those 'bullies', liked to sneak up on him, call him names and ask where his mother was in not so nice ways. He would have given anything to be able to be able to do that bat bogey hex his father said his mother was famous for as that it didn't matter where at school he was, those bullies always had a tendency to find him.

Al's first class was charms with Professor Flitwick. From what Al had heard and seen of the small, old part-goblin, he seamed the type of person that would never be in a bad mood.

As Al, the other first year Gryffindors, and the first year Hufflepuffs entered the room, Al saw a sight that he found odd. Flitwick's desk was covered with books that he was standing on. In all the years Al went to school, he never had a teacher that would stand on their desk though Flitwick did have a valid reason to do so. If he didn't, nobody would be able to see him because of how short he was.

After roll call, Al was disappointed that they wouldn't be doing spells until around Halloween. According to the schedule, they had the class twice a week and to Al it seemed a little ridiculous that they would spend so much time just studying wand movement. Al had seen his dad do magic often enough to see that wand movements were either circles or straight lines which seemed simple enough.

However as Al soon learned, there were some slight differences he never noticed and that incorrect wand movements could result in anything from the spell not being strong enough to causing massive explosions. Flitwick reassured the class they wouldn't be learning any spells that were dangerously wand movement sensitive until their 6th and 7th years if they decide to continue to take the class.

After class had let out, Al saw Quirrel walking down the hallway wearing that turban he couldn't seem to part with after the start of August. As Al was walking past the teacher, Al had a creepy feeling that Quirrel was only paying attention to him as Quirrel eyed him before walking into one of Al's classmates only to walk into a suit of armor in the hallway moments later.

Harry waited impatiently outside the Room of Requirement. He hoped Ginny would come. Finally she showed up.

"Ginny?"

"Harry?"

They both ran up to each other and hugged and kissed each other, forgetting about the Room of Requirement.

"What is going on here Harry? One moment I'm in the afterlife holding our son James, trying to calm him down after he didn't like the face Sirius made while trying to be funny and next think I know, I'm laying in my old bedroom when I was 9... All I remember before I woke up was seeing this 'hole' appear beneath me and I got sucked in..." Ginny started saying once they stopped.

"Well, I think I remember Al said one of the runes looked a out of place..."

'It was.' Al butted into Harry's mind.

"So its not an accident that you and Al came back in time?" Ginny asked.

"Yes. After you and James died, I couldn't bare anything to happen to Al so I took him as far as I could from the front lines of the war and raised him while I found some way for both him and I to go back in time in a way that would allow me to be here without getting people too suspicious..." Harry continued to explain before being interrupted.

"Too suspicious? I would think getting 'cloned' would be very suspicious... I assume Sirius, Remus and Professor Dumbledore know the truth?" Ginny said a little shocked.

"Actually no. Nobody knows about the time travel. Except for the Sorting Hat." Harry corrected Ginny.

"How did you manage that? I mean Dumbledore is good at Legilimency and they would surely do tests to figure out who Al is unless... You did, didn't you?" Ginny said concerned.

"I've take every possible precaution. We were lucky that Al didn't need a potion to look like me but I knew they would take a sample of his blood and it would show you as his mother so I had to give him a potion that would make it show he has the same parents as I do, even if they did it the muggle way. In addition, I gave him a copy of the memories I had until I was 11 and using a spell, locked out any of his memories of the future to anyone trying to probe his mind who doesn't know about the time travel. And I almost forgot, I gave him a potion to make him about the same height as me." Harry explained.

"No wonder the hat placed you in Slytherin this time around... Not only do you have an ambitious plan to change history, but you are determined not to get caught. I just hope you know what you are doing... Already Ron doesn't like you because you are in Slytherin and unless you do something to gain their trust, I doubt the twins' joke shop will ever get off the ground..."

"I didn't want to be in Slytherin. The hat wanted to place me there the old time line and I managed to talk it out of it, however, I wasn't so lucky this time around... I just had to tell the stupid hat to not make the mistakes it made in the old time line." Harry complained.

"Actually, you being in Slytherin might be a good thing. Think about Harry. You no longer have a piece of Voldemort's soul inside of you. Therefore you no longer have a way of finding out what Voldemort is doing. Being in the snake pit would be the best thing. You can just find out what's going on with him from one your dormates. Its risky but worth a try." Ginny explained.

"Are sure the hat didn't want to put you into Slytherin?" Harry asked realizing Ginny's idea was the best solution to that problem.

"It wanted to put me in Ravenclaw because death changes you, assuming you were an adult when you died. Every adult I know that died was getting smarter. Processing new information becomes a lot easier after a while. Kids, they don't change in the afterlife. They remain mentally and emotionaly as they were when they died. James was still like a 3 year old when I left. I don't know what happened to him though because I was holding him when..." Ginny answered worried.

"Even if he didn't come back and/or went into nothingness, having you back, Ginny, is best accident in my life. I was so worried how Al would react if I wasn't able to marry you again and he ended up with a step dad and/or a step mom because I messed up somehow." Harry said, hoping Ginny wouldn't take it the wrong way.

"I know you wouldn't get married again if I choose someone else over you. You spent all that time alone with Hermione and nothing happened between the both of you. Your father and Sirius were amazed," Ginny said chuckling.

Harry started to chuckle before he realized there was something he wanted to ask. "Why are you at Hogwarts a year early? Just curious..."

"I don't know for sure. Dumbledore is completely mystified. All he told my parents is that school obviously felt I was read and the best way to find out why would be to allow me to attend. I think he might be using that student identifier thing he mentioned on me. It supposedly not only is able to tell if a student is impersonating someone else, but what the state of a student's magic is as well as their powers. He doesn't need for the student to be in the room with him. Just for them to be on campus..." Ginny answered disturbed. "Personally, I think me coming back in time might have confused the school as to my age and how much schooling I had and felt to send out a letter to be safe rather then sorry."

"Well, you coming back confused me. But at least we have each other even though we aren't both in Gryffindor this time around." Harry replied.

"I would have chosen Slytherin if Al wasn't here with us. I figured he was the only other person from the future until I got that note of yours Harry. I'm just glad you gave us a chance to correct our past mistakes."

They proceeded to hug and kiss each other when they heard the sound of someone clearing their throat and walking towards them, startling both Harry and Ginny.

Chapter End Notes:

There's chapter 6. Please, when reviewing my stories, please refer to the chapter by what I call it here rather then any email you get says its called. I know on FanFiction dot Net, it would say this is chapter 7 when realy its chapter 6.

Anyways, anyone care to guess who caught Harry and Ginny? The ones who I've told, please don't mention who it is in a review.

Anyways, reviews please and I still need betas for all my stories!

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