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"Have a seat, Miss Mathur," Dumbledore said.

"Call me Aamaya, please, professor," she replied.

He nodded and said, "So, what is it then?"

Aamaya took a deep breath and started, "I haven't lost my memory. I remember everything about where I'm from. The only thing I've no idea about is how and why I got here!" She waited to see his reaction to this.

His face was impassive, it gave nothing away.

"I assume there is a reason you lied to your new friends?" he asked.

She nodded.

"I'm from the future," she blurted out.

Finally, his face showed some surprise.

"From a world, where all of you are supposed to be fictional characters!" she blurted out again. "A world in which you people are part of a book series, a fictional book series, and magic is just a part of our imagination!" It felt good, not to hide things any more.

"Book series, you say? Well, I would like to know more about these books," he said.

She gave a wry chuckle and started with her narration.

"Hmm, a very interesting story, I must say," he said.

"Very!" she replied sarcastically.

"You certainly have a point there, we could not only save the Potters, but many others due to this knowledge. But wouldn't it be more prudent to leave things as it is, seeing that it would ultimately lead to Voldemort's demise?" he asked.

"And where do I fit in all of this?" she asked. "I agree that changing things would be highly dangerous. But what if the process has already started? Why would I be here otherwise?" she asked.

He looked at her with raised eyebrows.

"What? Call me optimistic but I've always believed everything happens for a reason. And it has turned out to be like that for me in most cases!" she said.

He was thinking about her words while she continued, "We won't be changing much. One thing has already changed. We know when Voldemort is going to attack the Potters. The only thing that we've to take care of is that his horcruxes are destroyed before he attacks them."

"The horcruxes being.." Dumbledore started.

"Riddle's diary, Slytherin's locket, Hufflepuff's cup, Raveclaw's diadem, Gaunt's ring, Voldemort's snake-Nagini and Harry himself. Out of which we don't need to worry about the snake and Harry as those two haven't been turned into horcruxes yet. So basically we've only five;

"Riddle's diary, probably with Lucius Malfoy; Slytherin's locket in Grimmauld Place with Kreacher; Hufflepuff's cup at Gringotts in Lestranges' vault; Ravenclaw's diadem here at Hogwarts in the Room of Requirement; and Gaunt's ring in Gaunt's shack," she finished.

"If we go with this, we have to ensure that nothing is altered at all and everything happens as it should have," he said.

"That's why I didn't tell them anything. Because for this to work, Voldemort has to attack the Potters on Halloween, and for that to happen, Pettigrew has to be the secret keeper. We've to make sure that he doesn't get suspicious. And once they find out about Pettigrew's betrayal, it'll be very difficult for them to act normal in front of him. So I thought it would be better that they didn't know anything at all."

"I see you've all of it planned out," Dumbledore said with the trademark twinkle in his eyes.

"Well, I had lots of time to think about it," Aamaya replied.

"Good, now you can help me in finding out these objects and destroying them," he said.

"Me?" she stammered, "B-but I can't, I'm just a muggle!"

"If you were a muggle then you wouldn't have been able to see Fawkes, besides the fact that a dozen instruments in this room would have started screeching due to the presence of a muggle. You are as much a witch as I am the headmaster of Hogwarts," he said.

Aamaya's jaw hit the floor. "B-but, I-I can't be a witch! All these years, I would've known, I would've felt something, right?" she finished lamely.

"And did you never feel anything was odd, different about you? Never experienced any forms of wish fulfillment? 'Everything happens for a reason'? You said you have had some experiences with that. What if the reason was your magic?"

"Not all forms of accidental magic are noticeable at first. Though I've to say that your magic appears to be more subdued than what is normal. But it is there."

Aamaya was dumbstruck. Was it really possible? She, a witch?

Suddenly, things began to make sense. All those incidents, small in themselves but when combined made her a bit uneasy. She always felt something was off with her. And at other times, when out of nowhere her wishes used to come true. She always thought she was simply lucky. Was it really possible, that she was a witch after all?

Dumbledore smiled kindly at the surprised girl sitting in front of him and said," You need a wand, my dear."

Her eyes became huge. "A wand? M-my wand? My own wand?"

"I'll let Remus or Sirius know so that they can take you to Ollivanders. I would have taken you myself, but I think you would be more inconspicuous if you went with either of them," he said and got up holding a hand out for her. She took it and they apparated back to Godric's Hollow.

Aamaya was still in a daze when they entered the cottage. Dumbledore explained to Lily that due to her memory loss, Aamaya had forgotten all about her magical abilities and thus needed to learn them again. Lily happily agreed to help her relearn and promised to send her with either Remus or Sirius to Ollivanders for a new wand.

She closed the door and turned around to find Aamaya still in a daze. When she went and sat down near her, Aamaya looked up to her and exclaimed, "I'm a witch!"

Lily smiled and shook her head fondly. This was the same reaction that she had when she had got her Hogwarts' letter 9 years ago.

A/N: OK people, from next week, I might not be able to follow my weekly update schedule for some weeks. I'll try my best though.

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