Tsk, tsk, I'm really disappointed by you people, I got only 7 reviews for chapter 6, while there are a lot more than 7 people on the alerts list! You better review!
This chapter is short because I was pissed, I had planned stuff to happen in Hogsmeade, but I guess it will have to wait for next chapter.
There is this new headmaster, Robert Giltcourt; there will be more things about him in the chapters to come.
It was a Hogsmeade weekend, and Albus, Lily and Scorpius had to talk with Dumbledore about going out.
"Patterson, Malrod, the headmaster has requested you presence in his office, he said he thinks muggle bubble gum is great" the old transfiguration teacher gave both Albus and Scorpius a stern look, making them gulp. Behind Professor McGonagall stood Lily Patterson, the redhead was grinning wildly at a girl from Hufflepuff that had just passed her.
They already knew her in the future- Albus and Lily, that is.
In the future Minerva McGonagall was still the same sharp, hard woman, but her look was always soft. James- their older brother- said that it's because she missed teaching and the students, and Albus and Lily couldn't come up with a better reason, so they decided to stick with that version. Because after she retired from being Hogwarts' headmistress, at the age of 150 and something (again, James's guess), she moved around the world, trying to her people in need, their father, Harry, said that she was always the one with a high sense of justice and loyalty, and that she always remained at Albus Dumbledore's side.
Well, the McGonagall of 1976 has the hard eyes, the neat and organized look but not as kind as she was – or is, in the future, although there was a little (or a lot depends who she's looking at), caring reflected in her eyes.
"Yes Professor McGonagall" Scorpius said as he nudged Albus. The two wolfed everything on their plate, well, Albus did, Scorpius just looked at him in disgust and pushed away his plate.
"See you later guys" Albus grinned as his chewing friends, "see ya!" James said while Remus waved, Peter used his fork to wave because his mouth was full, and Sirius…well…Sirius was being Sirius; he didn't notice the two leaving because he was chewing everything he could get his hands on.
…
"So what does Professor Dumbledore likes?" Albus said as he scratched his head, not sure what Professor McGonagall said before, because he was too busy trying to swallow the chunk of meat he had down his throat.
Lily rolled her eyes at her brother's idiotic behavior and expressed her annoyance by hitting his arm.
"Professor McGonagall said that 'Professor Dumbledore thinks that bubble gum is great'" Scorpius recited in McGonagall's sharp voice, making Lily and Albus looked at him in surprise. "Scorpius my friend…" Albus patted the blond's back.
"That was really weird" Lily smiled mischievously, making Scorpius make a funny face, and then catch the younger redhead in a hug and pulled her back to his chest. "Hey!!" Lily yelped, but her mouth was soon caught by Scorpius for a deep kiss.
Albus looked at the two in disgust, "Didn't I tell you to stop doing that! I'll take back the permission gave you!" he pulled the two apart and lectured his best mate.
"As much as I respect your opinion" Scorpius said, pulling his chin up and giving a smirk, "I don't think I need your permission to date MY girlfriend" he and Lily began kissing again.
Albus groaned; those two will never learn!! We already got sent back to the past because of them!!
He scowled, "okay, okay, just don't do that in front of me!" Albus pulled away his little sister and pushed her behind him, "it's still awkward!" he said quietly. Both Lily and Scorpius chuckled, "you know, I'm not a baby anymore, my fifteen!" she informed him happily, trying to get Albus out of his little 'big brother' mode he and James something got into when they saw Lily with other guys friends or boyfriends.
"But you are still my baby sister" Albus ruffled Lily's red hair, making Lily groan and slap Albus' hand away from her head. "Don't do that!" she growled, "it's already messy beyond control without the extra help."
The three finally reached the gargoyle.
"So…what is the password?" Albus asked while shrugging, he wondered how they were supposed to get in. Lily and Scorpius frowned, what was it?
"Didn't dad tell you something about this?" Lily asked her brother that shrugged again. "Not really, I think he was more worried about what the headmaster was going to tell him" Albus grinned proudly as he remembered the event: it was the first time the school owled his father to come to school, when they owled him before it was only to inform him of all the other times.
This time though, was a prank that is worth a golden trophy, in Professor Hedger's class, which was Herbology, he kind of set the…green house…on…fire…But it wasn't ALL of the green house, the Professor and Rose put out the fire before it could actually burn any…one.
So they owled Harry and asked him to come over, and the next day was the scariest day he had ever experienced in his all 17 years of living; first thing on the morning he got a…red huge envelope, that started SCREAMING at him, well, it was his mom doing the screaming actually, and he was sure he didn't want to be James or Harry when Ginny was in the house.
"Ha…let's think, maybe something Professor McGonagall said was then password?" Scorpius knocked on the beast's statue. Lily slapped his hand away from it, "that's not going to help us" she mocked. "So she said bubblegum… ri-" Albus repeated boringly, finding this stupid. But when he said bubblegum, the gargoyle came to life and jump out of the way to reveal a circular staircase.
Both Scorpius and Lily gasped and looked at Albus sharply, they had their fair…okay very fair share of troublemaking, but the two of them were never actually sent to the headmaster's office, only if they had knew there was a jumping gargoyle…
"Oh… I remember that" Albus said to them, his grin reaching his ears.
…
The three of them rushed up as the gargoyle jumped aside with the saying of the password. Their shoes clicking against the cold, hard stone as they tried to keep their cool.
The two Potters were rushed, they had to hear out the headmaster, more importantly, Dumbledore. What Professor McGonagall had told them did do them any good, but rather made them more worried and anxious. Well, it wasn't like the last person was so calm himself, once he heard the news the first thing he did was rush to the two Potters and asked them about it.
The three didn't talk as they raced up, not missing a step or a breath, they were rather athletic. They didn't knock as they burst in the headmaster's office, which was so not like they had remembered from their previous years at Hogwarts.
"Headmaster!" the youngest of the three called out as they came to halt, none of them panting too much.
"Please, young Mr. Lupin, there is no need to such formalities, you have already finished your time at Hogwarts" the headmaster said as he stood up.
"We didn't come to discuss the old times Robert," the oldest of the three growled unhappily, not quite happy with the new headmaster of Hogwarts.
"We want to hear what happed to the children!" the redheaded woman snapped before her husband could start fighting with the older headmaster, whom she had to admit, wasn't as concerned as she would like him to be.
"I believe we should wait until all the parents of the said children would arrive" the aging man offered as he sat back down.
"More, you mean more than-" the younger of all of the presents in the office yelped, but got rudely cut off by one of the portraits on the wall.
"Yes boy, it seems young Mr. Scorpius Malfoy had also disappeared along with the young Mr. and Ms. Potter" a snappy voice sneered at the three new people. The three of them rolled their eyes. "How good it is to hear you again, Snape" Harry snapped at the greasy man in the portrait next to Dumbledore's, which was hidden behind the headmaster's chair.
Even now, after more then 17 years, Harry wasn't sure why he named his son after Severus Snape, he remembered something about respecting his at the time, when the greasy man's portrait wasn't on the wall yet.
"Right Potter, and I am oh-so-delighted to see you as well…" Severus Snape remarked sarcastically from his portrait.
Harry was about to retort with another sarcastic remark, but Ginny snapped before he could open his mouth. "That's quite enough of your bickering, Professor, Harry" the red head growled as she paced to the headmaster's desk and sat down.
A thumping of a pair of feet heading up to the headmaster's office stopped Severus and Harry from saying anything, as everybody in the room, including the portraits, looked at the door expectably.
Like Harry, Ginny and Teddy, Draco Malfoy had also burst into the old office without knocking, he wasn't panting too hard either.
"Giltcourt! Where is Scor-" Draco Malfoy yelled at the headmaster, but stopped immediately when he saw the other three people in the headmaster's office. He raised one of his elegant eyebrows and growled, "What in the bloody name of Merlin are they doing here?" he directed the question to Snape more than to the current headmaster himself.
Robert Giltcourt sighed; no one gives him any respect these years.
"Malfoy too? Well it's about damn time, Malfoy!" Harry grunted in annoyance, Draco's handsome features twisted into a deeper frown. "Well, I guess not all of us can simply leave our positions at any given time!" the blond yelled back. Light chuckles stopped anyone from answering.
"Exactly like old times I see, please refine from using such language, Harry, Draco." An amused voice said.
"Robert, would you please more your chair so I could see our guests?" the same old, happy voice asked kindly from the wall behind Robert. Said man yelped and quickly moved out of the way. "Of course, Albus, of course" he said quickly.
"Thank you, Robert" Hogwarts' most respected headmaster thanked as he nodded at the current headmaster.
"Professor" Harry and Ginny greeted with a nod, Draco also sent a nod to Dumbledore, not exactly looking at the man, and not very comfortable around the old headmaster he had once tried to kill. Teddy smiled and greeted the portrait of the old man with a 'Hello'.
"Please, call me Albus, it's been more twenty years since I was the headmaster of Hogwarts, and since you were students of this great school" Dumbledore's eyes twinkle.
For a second, Harry couldn't help but grin at the old headmaster, he had missed looking at that old familiar face, but then remembered the matter in hand as Dumbledore's look turned serious.
"Draco," he (Dumbledore) said turning to the blond, who did his best to return the look. "I think we have to put fights from the past to after we solve this problem" he addressed Draco, who looked grimace before nodding in approval.
Dumbledore turned to Giltcourt, "now, Robert, if you please…"
"O-of course. Mr. Potter, Mr. Malfoy, we had not come here to fight over past matters," the headmaster didn't dare to call Draco and Harry by their first names like Dumbledore did, they were important people in the Ministry of Magic, so he just send them a stern look before continuing, "yesterday, right before the welcoming dinner had started, Ms. Weasley had some to me with the knowledge," he paused for a second before continuing.
"She informed me that on the way to Hogwarts, on the Hogwarts Express, Scorpius Malfoy and Albus and Lily Potter had disappeared from their compartment, leaving behind them nothing but sand." He paused again, waiting for someone to interrupt him, when no one did he smiled smugly to himself.
"R-"
"What do you reckon it is, Uncle Harry?" Teddy asked his godfather, right when Giltcourt started speaking again, making the headmaster frown at the people ignoring him.
Harry didn't respond immediately but simply shrugged.
Giltcourt coughed, asking people to pay attention back to him.
"As I was saying, young Rose Weasley is currently being escorted to my office for further explanation. I also requested one of our teachers to check on the compartment" he explained.
"Rosie is coming here?" Teddy asked, looking at his Aunt. Ginny made a face and shrugged as well.
Knocking on the old wooden door had caught everyone's attention next.
Albus' eyes twinkled, "oh my, I finally get to meet the daughter of Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley" he clapped his fragile hand together, making Harry and Ginny chuckle, "oh, is this her first time here?" Ginny asked, smiling.
Draco groaned.
"Gin, think about ours, I bet they've been a couple of dozen times" Harry grinned, he wasn't really sure if it was something to be proud of, but he kind of did, felt proud of his children, that is.
"Apparently it's in the genes" Teddy sent a smirk to Harry, who only returned the smirk.
Ginny, as the only one allowed to quiet those two down without being attacked, said "this better not be passes along to the next generation!" in a serious tone, although she didn't mean it, she also had her fun during her time in Hogwarts, and she had also shared the wonderful detentions with the various Professors (coughMcGonagallcoughSnapecough), fortunately, or unfortunately for some (or most), she had it in her genes as well.
"Come in" Giltcourt called, sitting down at his desk, trying his best not to block Albus from view.
"Professor Giltcourt, Professor Beans sent me up, something about yesterday?" a red headed girl walked into the old office, she had a neatly curled hair, which was flaming red, and her long face covered with freckles. She strode gracefully, with her head up high and a serious expression on her face, which quickly changed into a smile as soon as she spotted her relatives in the room.
"Uncle Harry, Aunt Ginny, Teddy…" her blue eyes scanned the room and spotted a certain annoyed blond. "Scorp- Mr. Malfoy…" she gulped and turned to the headmaster, but something else caught her eyes.
As she turned to the headmaster, a pair of blue twinkling eyes met her own blue curious eyes.
"Oooohhh… are you Albus Dumbledore?" she asked fascinated, as she sat down next to Ginny, who ruffled her hair.
"It's a pleasure to finally meet you Ms. Weasley, I would usually offer some lemon drops, but I can't in my correct state" Dumbledore smiled a sad smile as he plunged his hand into a pocket in his light blue robes and pulled out some of the yellow, sour sweets he liked so much and popped on into his mouth.
Rose smiled, "it's alright" she offered him a smile before rude coughing caught her attention.
"Please, Giltcourt, I want to find my son, today!" Draco stressed as he groaned the Weasley brat greet his old headmaster with such surprise and delight, a Weasley bookworm, he thought amusingly, but his expression was still hard.
"If you please, Ms. Weasley, tell us what you know" the current headmaster gestured her to talk, so Rose turned around as tried to ignore Draco, that scare the living soul out of her, not to mention she was the one to tell him his son was hanging around the Weasley and Potter kids he hated so much.
"Bloody hell…" she cursed silently, but some ears could hear her.
"Rosie, stop swearing and start talking" Teddy called at her, making her send him a desperate, puppy-eyed face, maybe he'll feel bad for her and help her out of this sticky situation.
When he didn't, she grunted and started.
"So, the Prefects meeting was finally over and I was on my way back to our compartment, because I promised that I'll come back as soon as it's over, when I heard a sound of yelling and screaming." She paused, letting the adults around her inhale sharply, well, most did. "As soon as I found the source, that turned out to be two compartments ahead of me, I quickly threw the door open to see…" air around her seemed to be getting darker as she made a dramatic pause again.
"Five second year trying to catch a chocolate frog, when I secured they weren't injuring anyone, I left them with a warning, 'the troll will eat you if you fight on the train…'" she said mysteriously.
Teddy couldn't help himself, he burst out into a round of snickering covered up with coughs, it didn't really work and he sounded like a dying chipmunk. Harry smiled as he patted his godson on the back.
Rose simply ignored the two's outburst and reaction and continued with an annoyed tone. "AS I was saying… I left the compartment and walked a little more, trying my best not to be run over by anyone… those children got no respect" she muttered, Giltcourt joined her with his own muttering "tell me about it".
"Would you get to the point already? I don't care about your ride, we all ex-" Draco almost yelled, but Harry pulled out wand and pointed it on him, "you better lower your voice, Malfoy, this is my niece you're screaming at" the dark haired man growled, making the blond man growl back.
"Wow, got two words for you, patience and suspense." She said in a slightly amused voice.
"Firstly, you obviously have no patience, this could have being a really good story that you have just ruined and made me crumble it to dust. And secondly," he voice sounded more nervous now, "suspense is something I need to build up here so you won't …" the rest of the sentence just faded away as her voice became lower and quieter.
"What?" Harry and Draco both asked symmetrically, and then resumed to growl at each other.
Rose simply rolled her eyes in despair, asking god why she was the one to tell THE Draco Malfoy, a full-time member of the Malfoy Pureblood, got-to-be-Slytherin family (this was all one sentence), that his son Scorpius Malfoy, THE Scorpius Malfoy, the only one from the Malfoy family to be ever sorted into Gryffindor, that not only his son was even talking to his worst enemies children, but that they were best friends and that one particular daughter of his worst of the worst enemies was dating his dear son. SHE'S GOING TO DIE SO YOUNG!!
Rose decided to put her life on the line to get a chance to bring her friends back…from when ever they were.
"Basically, when I got to our compartment, Scorpius, Albus or Lily weren't there," she glanced at Draco Malfoy, and noticed a deep frown or his face. "What I did see was that there was sand and the floor and my purse was on a different side of the compartment from where I had left it," here Rose leaned closer to her aunt's ear so only she would hear her. "I'm guessing Scorp and Lils were snogging and Al threw my purse at them" she whispered, hoping no one besides Ginny heard her.
Ginny's eyes were wide, with both surprise and shock displayed in them, "NO??... Really? Wow… the three of us are going to have a serious talk when we get home" Ginny said in excitement.
"Rosie? What are you saying?" Harry eyed her, suspicious of what she whispered into Ginny's ear.
Rosie shrugged carelessly; "I know what happened to them…" all eyes looked at her in surprise.
"Of course not, dear, how can you know-" Giltcourt said, not trusting the seventh year girl.
"They've time traveled," she ignored him. "I had my time turner in my purse, and Albus" she growled, "had probably broken it when he threw my purse. The sand probably leaked out and something had caused it to react and take them to a different time." Rose explained.
"Is that all?" Draco asked sarcastically, she was definitely her mother's daughter.
Rose glanced at him, "that's a very brief explanation, but that the idea" she said, annoyed by his reaction.
Suddenly, all that Rose said registered in everybody's brains; TIME TRAVELED?
They all gasped, this is definitely not what they'd expected.
"What do you mean time traveled, Rosie?" .Ginny.
"Surely you don't mean-" .Giltcourt.
"What the hell?" .Draco.
"No way!" .Teddy.
"Oh, Merlin…" .Harry.
Rose sighed, great, now they wanted a detailed explanation, she was NOT going to give to them.
"What I mean is time travel, went back in time, traveled a few years back, from now backwards, any time given and possible" she said in a bored tone, what was so difficult to understand, her cousins and friend were now lost in time, that's the problem!
And then, is when the terror and horror yells had started, some of panic, some of shock, Rose didn't stay around to find out, she had simply left the room, slipping out quietly without any of the adults noticing her.
Albus and Severus, however, did notice what was going on.
"That certainly sound like a good explanation," Albus said to the greasy haired man portrait next to his. Severus, in return, nodded slightly. "Well, this is certainly going to be interesting." Albus's eyes twinkled again. At this Severus groaned, "I get to see another generation of Potters getting and causing trouble again, wonderful" he spit. "I must get someone to get me off of this wall, I have no desire to see this commotion or have anything to do with those brats" he mumbled to himself.
Well. That the seventh chapter.
This is really sad, because I really wanted some real action in this chapter, but because I got only 7 review for the last one, the action is going to be on a hold.
This chapter is unbelievably short, it was supposed to be longer, but unfortunately, I didn't feel like writing more than this.
People, it's really insulting to have about 56 alerts and 34 favorites and only 7 review per chapter. I know people review for chapter 5, but that was only 28 review out of the whole…
So I'm pissed, If you actually want someone to actually find out about them, come back to the past, or something like that, you better review, 'cause this story is made up in the second I write it, no plot line from before, no writing or planning, this is supposed to be something fun to do for other people to share with, and it's really disappointing that no one cares.
So people, REVIEW! I'm serious this time, I'm terribly annoyed by you!
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