The two opposing sides stared at each other, at a loss as of where to start. Suddenly Riley began fussing...then full on wailing. Harry's green eyes followed his mother's frustrated pacing as she tried to calm the babe for a good five minutes.

"Mrs. Potter?"

Lily breathed a heavy sigh turning to the brunette, called Hermione...her son's wife. "What?"

"Let Harry have a go...he has the touch," she offered nervously.

Lily looked to her husband in worry and he begged her with tired eyes to comply. Swallowing, she stepped over to the young man. "My arms are getting tired..."

Harry stuffed the last of his carrot in his mouth and wiped his hands on his jeans. He stood, gently taking the crying, child from her mother. He bounced Rielly a bit, whispering soothingly, "Now, now, what's all the fuss? I know, life is so hard...yeah I know."

Almost instantly, Rielly hiccuped into a coo. She smiled a gummy smile up at the gentle man, reaching a hand up to touch his cheek. He sat down cradling her securely as continued to eat.

James let his head fall to Lily's shoulder. "Thank you," he whimpered.

"How did you do that?" Lily pressed, slightly offended that her own child wouldn't calm down for her.

"It comes with the crown. Babies are hyperaware of magic and the power shifts in the auras around them. She was in the Hall when all the action happened and it sent her senses into shock. It wasn't until just now that her brain was able to catch up to emoting the distress she felt at the presence of such cold and dark magic. I, being the human ambassador for pure light, was able to calm her because my aura is warm and comforting. Your aura has been traumatized by today's events and need a little extra time to right itself. Children find me appealing...it's nothing you did or didn't do," Harry explained softly, reassuring his mother.

"I see..." she croaked.

"How did you get here?" Dumbledore finally asked suddenly. Once again, Draco snickered at his bluntness.

"We had just finished vanquishing Voldemort and thought we could finally find rest. But Merlin and The Lady had other plans. They explained Voldemort's connection to Morgana and that he was only gone from our time period and that they needed us to remove him from a parallel universe...one where our loved ones were alive, but we weren't. And then they just sent us here," the redhead explained clearly.

"Can you go back? Do you want to?" Snape asked.

"No and no," the ginger replied. "The Lady's motives for sending us here were more wholesome than Merlin's. Back...home we were the last of the Order and have a list of felonies a mile long. The war may have been over, but the fight was just beginning. There really was nothing to look forward to, unless you enjoy the life of a fugitive."

"I see...well best to figure out where our timelines started to differ then," Dumbledore continued.

"October 31, 1981," all nine strangers said together.

The old wizard explained. "How do you know that?"

"Because Harry isn't here and James and Lily are," Aurora Potter stated softly. "It was the night Peter betrayed us. The night Evangeline was kidnapped by Percival Cannon. The night Victoria was found a traitor by her family and supposedly executed. And the night I was taken and tortured for the cause...I assume that these things actually succeeded in taking our lives, because we aren't here either." Her sorrowful, hazel eyes found Severus. He swallowed under her concerned gaze.

"Are you saying that the timeline you are from that didn't happen?" James asked urgently.

"The 'execution' put me in a coma that lasted until two years ago," Victoria stated. "Aurora narrowly survived her own torture, but spent those years tending to me and searching for Evangeline. That monster had...she felt nothing after her enslavement, it has taken five years to get her back mentally and emotionally." Victoria looked over at Evangeline in worry. The blonde was gazing intently at the floor.

"Did our counterparts know you survived? You haven't mentioned them," Remus pointed out.

Evangeline shook her head, looking up with tear filled eyes. "Everyone thought Sirius had betrayed the Potters because I wasn't around to tell them the truth. He went to Azkaban for twelve years while that Rat hid in his true form. Remus was so heartbroken by the loss of losing all of his friends in one night he fell off the map. Severus may have had a notion, but he was too focused on the fact that Voldemort wasn't completely gone, he buried himself under facade of Snape the Bastard. By the time the three of us were well and reentering the fight...all three of them had died in battle..."

The three men stared in sadness at there soul mates. That was far worse than just having them die. Sirius, always the one to plunge head first into his emotions, stood and pulled Evangeline into a tight hug, kissing the top of her head. She was far too thin and frail in his arms. Aurora didn't give Severus time to follow the animagus' lead. She curled into his lap, letting his shocked arms encircle her. Remus decide to throw his reservations to the wind as he strolled up to Victoria, lifted her bridal style and then sat in her chair with the woman in his embrace. The inner wolf howled in approval as Victoria stared at him with disbelieving silver eyes.

Harry grinned. Well, that's taken care of.

"Why does it matter that we're here and you're not?" Lily asked, moving on from that touching display.

"My parents died protecting me. They sacrificed themselves so I would live and it was that undying love that allowed me to rebound the Killing Curse as an infant. It's where I got this scar. It's also what caused Voldemort to disappear the first time...so what happened here?" Harry asked