Chapter 9: Travels in time

If things could get worse between the boys and Hermione in the weeks following Snape's change it did, Danny who found it highly amusing every time the woman now screamed when she looked into a potion got angry glares from Hermione for his antics in class.

Of course Danny exacerbated the problem by making sure that the spell worked for drinks as well, it meant that when she went to drink her tea in the morning she saw his face or a glass of water between glasses or something much stronger when she needed a pick me up. Snape had taken to travelling the corridors more often and taking out her venegence on the rest of the school, at the moment it was give and take as to whether the woman was worse or better than Filch.

Of course only people in the room when Danny had done it knew the whole truth though most knew that Danny had some how managed to changed the potions mistress into a baby in the middle of class, of course the Slytherin's with a couple of noticeable exceptions hated Danny for it which made him happier rather than sad about the circumstances behind the curse.

It was now nearing the end of November and Christmas spirit was in full swing for the boys as they prepared for their first Christmas as triplets which was what the magic that Danny had worked that night had done for them. Danny liked company as his parents had told the others which was the reason behind splitting himself in three essentially, the fact that he loved Draco before the spell more like a brother and a compatriot who had shared in a similar abandonment had helped to make the decision for him in the end. The fact that he did not regret the decision escaped no one's notice.

The same could be said for the other Potter's who seemed to be as close if not closer to Danny as they had ever been since his return to Earth anyway, the family was starting to move as a family unit again the meddling of the old man had not destroyed the bonds of the family. Even now it was an extended family with the rest of the gods with one noticeable exception supporting and welcoming the new comers to the fold.

Father and son had bonded as well, something that Zeus was more than a little jealous of but something he welcomed as well. To see his son look as happy as he was at the moment was something to rejoice the two of them were as meant to be in life again, nothing was so sweet than to see James and Danny work together the way they did usually according to Hera.

As they sat in their dorms together the three boys were talking about the previous day when the door to the rooms opened to emit Hermione who looked rather worried about something, she looked at the three of them talking before plumping herself down in one of the chairs next to Danny's.

"I think their might be something in the castle." Hermione said to them.

"Hermione of course there is something in the castle they call them Human's and elves." Draco said with a grin on his face.

"No you idiot I heard something earlier saying that it wanted to kill." Hermione said.

"Well that would most probably be the potions mistress, I here she's a Danny away from a melt down." Draco said the other two snorted with laughter.

"It was more like a funny hissing noise than it was human." Hermione said.

Danny sat forward looked at her for a moment before negating the idea and sat back down it was foolish to think that they would try something so soon after the last failed attempt to bring him back to life, Danny looked perplexed and Tom picked up on it before the others did.

:Danny you look like your thinking something about this.: Tom said.

"I was but I don't think they would do something so soon after a failed attempt to bring him back." Danny said allowed for Hermione's benefit she looked confused for a moment before getting that they had been speaking in private through their link.

"Its rude to do that you know." Hermione snapped.

"Well in case you haven't noticed but people sometimes wish to be heard by certain others without being heard by the rest of the company." Tom snapped back.

"Enough, do you think you could recollect what you heard in its original format." Danny said to her she nodded and did just that Danny was not all that shocked but the other two were.

"Well it would explain the hissing you heard." Draco said.

"You're damned right there." Tom said.

"What the hell do you mean by that?" Hermione said.

"You're a parselmouth Hermione you can talk with snakes its something I can do as a god without evening thinking but with humans its natural and a dark art well its considered that nonsense to me I am afraid the Snake language is beautiful." Danny said.

"That is what that was but what would be big enough in the castle to kill as a Snake." Hermione stated.

"The magical world as numerous man killing sized snakes and serpents, if you consider the fact that Dragons are classified as serpents its rare, but for something like that to be here at Hogwarts it would have to be small or small enough to not be caught in the castle while moving about." Danny said.

"But how would they get something like that into the castle." Hermione asked.

"They might not have to you know, I think it's possible that the thing could have been here already." Danny said.

"What the hell do you mean by that?" Draco asked.

"Well Slytherin hid something in this castle a thousand years ago and we all know that he loved snakes." Danny said.

"Well there is only one way to find out for sure and that's go ask him about it." Tom said.

"I always did like that time in time." Danny said.

"Can I come?" Hermione asked.

"No," Tom and Draco said together.

"Alright you can come but if you start asking stupid questions about his life I will kill you." Danny said she couldn't tell whether he was joking or not about that statement.

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Zeus watched in amusement as his sons opened a portal to some where they shouldn't be he could not blame them they were following the leads that they were being given, if they had been mortals it would have taken them months to connect the dots and cross the t's so to speak but Danny was no slouch and his hunch was possibly correct at this point even the king of the gods could not be sure time in the future panned out in normal time even for gods the future was as much a mystery to him as Danny's feelings for people in his life.

"Tell me he did not just do what I know he just did?" Hera said.

"Okay I will but I would be lying, his older he knows what his doing." Zeus said.

"Spend some time with the apes Zeus." Hera said the god was now a chimp noise and all and an extremely pissed chimp at that.

Now I know where he gets it from Zeus thought to himself as a chimp.

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Danny appeared on the lawn of Hogwarts well he thought that it was Hogwarts anyway the place looked completely different to the way it looked in his time, Danny saw some very odd looking people walking towards him and his brothers one with blonde hair male and another with black hair and male accompanied by two women.

"Who are you?" the lead male asked.

"My name is Danny this is Draco and this one is Tom." Danny said.

"How did you get here wearing such strange clothes?" Hufflepuff asked.

"Sorry I really can't tell you that." Danny said.

"We really only have one question and time is short." Tom said.

"Well what do you need to ask us?" Gryffindor asked.

"I need to know what snake you put in the castle to protect it." Danny asked Slytherin.

"How the hell do you know that?" Slytherin asked.

"No time to explain just answer the question it's important." Tom said.

"A basilisk." Gryffindor said.

"Now you three know this is against the rules get your but through that portal now." Hera's disembodied voice said making Danny jump as it came from behind him and was almost behind his ear.

"Gotta go the queen of the bitches is after my hide I broke a rule I wasn't meant to for a couple more years." Danny said.

"What rule is that?" Hufflepuff asked.

"The one about not using time travel they haven't forgiven me for my last mistake." Danny huffed as he stepped through the portal.

And thus the time turner was started work on, all in a days work for a god you know.

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Danny walked back into his room with a grim look of satisfaction plastered all over his face until he saw his furious mother staring at him, Lily looked just as angry Zeus looked bemused and James was trying hard not to laugh at the boys who looked like they had been found with their hands in the cookey jar that morning. Luckily the headmaster was not there Danny suspected that it would have been worse when they saw the look on the old mans face when he learned of their little jaunt to the tenth century ad.

"I have told you before that you are not allowed to use that power until your seventeen young men." Hera snarled at her son.

"How could you have been so stupid you could have changed history?" Lily said.

"In fairness I think the only thing that changed was the date of the creation of the time turner by a year and three days mum so not that bad a mistake really." Danny said Zeus slapped a hand to his head as James burst out laughing.

"I believe you said something like that when you sank the titanic son it didn't work that well last time." Zeus pointed out.

"I was three can you hold a mistake like that against me forever?" Danny said to his father.

"Me no your mother yes." Zeus said.

"You know most people would be happy to have two mothers me, I would be happy if they were not gods." Danny said the room dissolved in to laughter at this point.

"You three are in big trouble young man." Lily said to her sons.

"Hey we found out something about what is in the school, did any of you know that there is a basilisk in the school it was put here to protect it by the founders before Slytherin left the school." Danny said.

"You what." James said.

"How could they be so silly." Lily said.

"A good idea in the long run but who would want to control such a beast." Zeus said.

"Don't look at me I didn't create the damn species." Danny said.

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Hermione mean while was still standing in front of the founders she could not believe that the three of them had forgotten that she was still there in the tenth century, when I get back there I am going to kill my friends I cannot believe that they forgot about me. That thought was followed by a boy's exclamation.

"Why don't we get you settled into the school for the moment until we can find a way for you to get back to where you came from?" Ravenclaw said kindly.

Hermione followed the four of them back to the castle where she was put in what would be the head boys rooms in the future which was now at the moment in time she was in was just another room in the castle where people slept. Hermione was left to wonder how long she would be in the castle in this time frame before they realized that they had left her there.

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Danny sat on his bunk a couple of days later thinking about something he seemed to have forgotten about but didn't know what, he was doing his homework when Draco ran into the room almost laughing his head of with an expression of insane amusement and despair all rolled into one.

"You know that thing we forgot she wrote a message on the wall for us." Draco said dragging him into the lounge on the wall read a real simple message.

"I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT YOU FORGOT ME YOU GITS." Hermione's words were read out loud.

"Um someone should go rescue her." Danny said.

"We just did." Hera said angrily.

Hermione ran into the room from behind the god looking hysterically angry at them as Danny dissolves into laughter at the look on her face at that moment in time Danny didn't think he had ever seen something so funny in his whole life.

"You forgot me; I cannot believe you forgot me." Hermione said.