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A/N: This entire story has been edited! I wrote it two years ago, and I saw some spots where I could improve things. I hope you enjoy it!
Chapter 11: Back to the Future
"This is it, Prongs, we're done for!" yelped Sirius. James was speechless. Remus was looking pale and tired. Peter looked as if he were about to faint. The headmaster had conjured up four squashy arm chairs in front of his desk. They sat down, and Dumbledore spoke.
"I heard a very interesting story from Severus yesterday," said Dumbledore. Sirius looked down at his feet and shifted guiltily in his seat.
"It was my fault, Professor," said Sirius quietly.
"That's what I heard from Severus. Do you have any idea of how dangerous it was, telling Severus about that entrance in the Whomping Willow?" asked Dumbledore.
"Yes, sir. I wasn't thinking, sir," replied Sirius.
"Not only did you put Severus in danger, but you put yourself, James, and Peter in danger. And Remus. Severus saw Remus in his werewolf state. Now he is one of the few that know about Remus's secret. And I am wondering, how in the world did you boys ever find out about it?"
"Remus didn't tell us," said Sirius.
"Yes, Professor, they figured it out," replied Remus.
"Your cleverness has gotten you four into a lot of trouble," said Dumbledore, sternly. "I hope you understand how serious the situation is."
"Yes, sir," they replied.
"Sir, has Severus told anyone else about it?" asked Remus.
"No, Mister Lupin, Severus has been sworn to secrecy," replied Dumbledore. "Now, each of you will be serving detentions for two weeks."
"That's all?" piped up Peter, not believing his ears.
"Yes, Mister Pettigrew, unless you would like further punishment," replied Dumbledore, smiling.
"Oh, no, sir," said Peter, who was turning very red.
"But Professor, why aren't you expelling me?" asked Sirius. "I mean..."
"I understand, Mister Black. I am not expelling you because I believe in second chances."
"Thank you, Professor," said Sirius, looking very grateful.
"You're welcome, Sirius," said Dumbledore. "Ah, now, you boys must be hungry. Go on to breakfast. And will you please do me a favor?"
"Yes, sir," they replied.
"Will you please send up the Beauxbatons students?"
"Yes, sir," they replied again in unison.
"Thank you. Well, off you go, then!" They walked out of Dumbledore's office.
"Man, we were really lucky," said Sirius.
"Yeah. It's a good thing Dumbledore believes in second chances," said James. They all walked down to the Great Hall silently after that, stunned about their luck. They saw the Beauxbatons students, sitting down and talking.
"Hey, Daniel, Dumbledore wants all of you to go up to his office," said James.
"Oh, thanks, James," said Harry. They got up, and made their way to Dumbledore's office.
"I wonder what he wants us for..." said Ron.
"Yeah, me too," said Harry.
"Are we in trouble?" asked Neville.
"No, I don't think so..." said Hermione.
"Erm...we might be..." said Fred, grinning.
"Oh, great," said Draco.
"We, er, put a Canary Cream in Filch's dessert yesterday," said George, who was stifling his laughter.
"It was really cool, though," said Fred. Hermione gave them a disapproving look.
"Oh, but it was wrong, very, very wrong indeed." added George quickly.
"But why does he want all of us?" asked Draco.
"Maybe it's about something else," said Neville.
When they had reached Dumbledore's office, Dumbledore was waiting outside for them, smiling.
"Good morning!" exclaimed Dumbledore. "I have wonderful news." They all looked at each other, and breathed a sigh of relief.
"I received the new Time-Turner in the post this morning." said Dumbledore cheerfully. But they didn't respond the way he expected them to. "What's the matter?"
"Sorry, Professor," said Hermione. "It's just that, well, we'll miss being here."
"I understand, Miss Granger," said Dumbledore sympathetically. "But you cannot stay here. You belong in the future. What would happen to our futures without all of you? You can all come to my office tomorrow morning to get home. For now, enjoy your stay. You are excused."
"Thank you, Professor," they replied in unison, and they left his office.
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They found James and his friends still sitting in the Great Hall waiting for them.
"Hey! What happened?" asked James.
"We, er, have to leave tomorrow," said Harry, not looking at James.
"WHAT?" exclaimed Sirius.
"You can't leave!" cried Remus.
"Sorry," said Harry sadly.
"Well then, we'll just have to spend the whole day together," said Sirius.
"So, did you and Lily patch things up?" asked Harry.
"Yeah," said James, and a wide grin spread across his face.
"That's wonderful," said Hermione. "I'm sorry about turning you into a duck."
"Oh, don't worry, I deserved it!" said James, laughing.
"Ah, here comes Mrs. Potter now!" cried Sirius. Lily walked up to Sirius, waved her wand, and turned him into a duck.
"So, what have I missed?" asked Lily, as though there WASN'T a duck currently waddling on the Gryffindor table eating Harry's cornflakes.
"All of the Beauxbatons students are leaving," said Remus sadly, as he performed the counter-charm on Sirius. Sirius returned to his human form, sitting on the table. Sirius stood up to get out of Harry's cereal bowl.
"Oh no!" cried Lily. "You can't leave! Things won't be the same without you! Why do you have to go?"
"We have to go back because it was only a week-long student exchange...thing," Ron lied. The others nodded.
"It was cut short because we have to get back for...umm...Quidditch," said Harry. "We're all on the team. It was a student exchange program for only our Quidditch team," said Harry.
"Good one," Ron whispered.
"Well, let's go to the Common Room, and we can spend all afternoon together," said James.
"Anyone up for a game of Exploding Snap?" asked Remus.
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They finally made it up to the Common Room (after being pelted with grapes by Peeves), and they settled themselves on the comfy sofas. Peter had fallen asleep, while Fred and George went off to nick some food in the kitchens. Neville and Frank were playing a game of Gobstones, and both of them were covered in green goo. Hermione and Lily were sitting in front of the fire, reminiscing over the past week. Malfoy was out on the Quidditch field with the rest of the Gryffindor team, riding one of the school brooms. Meanwhile, Remus and Ron were playing exploding Snap, with Sirius doing the commentary.
"Oooh, I wouldn't do that if I were you..." said Sirius.
"Why not?" asked Ron as he moved his game piece. Then the piece exploded.
"That's why," replied Sirius. Ron wiped soot off his nose.
"Best three out of five?" Ron asked Remus sheepishly.
"Oh, alright..." said Remus. "Whoever wins is the supreme ruler of the world."
"Oh, bring it on," replied Ron.
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On the other side of the room, Harry and James were busy multiplying chocolate frogs.
"Can you believe we only started with one chocolate frog?" asked James, who was buried waist-deep in chocolate frogs.
"Wow, I think I'll be able to finish off my wizard card collection," said Harry. When they frog pile got up to their shoulders, they emerged from beneath the pile and jumped on top as though it were a pile of leaves.
"Do you reckon we should give them out now?" asked James.
"Nah, not yet," said Harry, and the two of them grinned. They hastily began shoving the chocolate into their mouths and compared wizard cards.
"Look, I got Godric Gryffindor..." said Harry, looking at the picture of the big, brawny man with long blond hair like a mane.
"Daniel! That's the rarest card of all!" exclaimed James. Then he opened another chocolate frog. "Wait a second...here's another one!" They both began opening as many of the chocolates as they could, and every single one of them revealed the Godric Gryffindor card.
"I don't believe it!" said Harry.
"The one card we started out with must have been a Gryffindor card!" said James.
"Brilliant!" said Harry, as he shoved another chocolate into his mouth.
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"Man, things will never be the same around here without you guys," said Sirius miserably. The boys were up in their dorm. He was sitting on an armchair, and when things got too quiet; he would throw chocolate frogs at people.
"Yeah. Thanks for everything, guys," said James, opening another chocolate frog.
"Hey, we should be thanking all of you," replied Harry.
"For what?" asked Remus.
"For slipping sleeping draught in our pumpkin juice!" replied Ron, making everyone laugh.
"So...you found out about that, huh?" asked Remus.
"Actually, it was Karen," said Ron.
"Does that girl know everything?" asked James.
"You have no idea..." said Harry, Ron, Draco and Neville.
James looked out the window. It was almost sunset.
"Er, sorry guys, we have to go," said Peter, who had finally woken up.
"Why?" asked Neville, who was rubbing his head. Sirius had tried to pass a chocolate frog to him, and it had hit him upside the head instead. ("Oops, sorry, Evan...")
"Detention," said James quickly. The others nodded.
"Aww...well, see you tomorrow," said Neville sadly, and began opening the chocolate frog that had beamed him seconds before.
"See you! Don't leave without saying goodbye!" said Sirius, and they walked out through the portrait hole.
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"Wake up!" cried James, who was jumping on Harry's bed.
"Hey! James! Cut it out!" said Harry, laughing. He took out the pillow from under his head and threw it at James.
"Ouch."
"Daniel! Get up! We'll miss breakfast!"
"All right, all right," said Harry, lifting his hands in surrender. "I'll meet you in the common room."
"Alright, but hurry! If we don't get down to breakfast soon, the Slytherins will nick all of the chocolate muffins!" cried James, as he bounded down the stairs toward the common room. Harry laughed.
He had been debating with himself all week about whether or not he should at least warn James about making Pettigrew his secret-keeper. But he thought about the consequences. So many things had gone wrong, and he didn't want to make things worse by altering the future. Everything could turn out perfectly, but, then again, everything could turn out horribly wrong. He decided that he didn't want to take that chance. He had lost so many dear friends already, and he couldn't afford to lose anymore.
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Dumbledore talked to Hermione in the hall, and told her to tell the others to meet outside his office at noon. It was a quarter to twelve when they decided to exchange their goodbyes.
"I'm going to miss you so much!" said Lily, hugging Hermione.
"I'll miss you too, Lily!"
"Please owl me!"
"I'll try," replied Hermione sadly.
"Bye, Frank!" cried Neville.
"See you, Evan! Good luck!" said Frank.
"I wish you the best of luck, Dan," said James as he gave him a big bear hug. Harry hugged him back tightly, and tried to fight back tears.
"Thanks," said Harry. "You too." Sirius looked at all of them happily, and yanked their collars.
"GROUP HUG!" he cried. Nobody complained. They said their last goodbyes, and decided that it was time to go.
"Bye everyone!" said Ron.
"BYE!" they exclaimed. Harry looked at his parents together, one last time, smiled, and turned away.
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They saw Dumbledore waiting for them outside his office, smiling. They smiled back feebly. He took a Time-Turner out of his pocket. It had an extremely long chain attached to it. He picked up the chain, and threw it around their necks.
"It was nice having you here," said Dumbledore jovially. "But I know I'll be seeing you again very soon." He turned the Time-Turner several times, and, soon enough, 1975 was gone.
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They woke up, lying on the floor in the middle of the corridor. There was a crowd surrounding them.
"Are you all right?" asked a voice. It was Dumbledore's. He smiled up at them.
"Yes, Professor," said Harry, getting up. He helped the rest of them up. Dumbledore turned to the students surrounding them.
"Don't worry, everybody, they're all right. And hurry! You don't want to be late for class!" Then he turned to Harry. "Are you sure all of you are all right? Do you need to go to the Hospital Wing?"
"No, Professor, it's alright," said George, rubbing his head.
"I'll take your word for it. Well, you should get to class. You don't want to be late now, do you?"
They turned around, and hurried off to their classes. People were constantly questioning them about what happened that morning. They just told the truth.
"Oh, well, we actually went back in time, to 1975, in fact, and we had to lie and say that we were a Quidditch team from Beauxbatons. We ended up doing a bit of matchmaking, and everything turned out fine in the end. And Hermione had to go to Divination!" Ron laughed at the unconvinced faces of the third-year Gryffindors. "It's all true, you know!" he called after them as they walked away.
At dinner, Draco walked up to their table, sat down, and began to eat. The Gryffindors gave him strange looks.
"What?" asked Malfoy. Then Ron elbowed him.
"Oh!" he cried, and his cheeks turned red. He made up an excuse. "I just want to make sure that, you know, what happened wasn't a dream."
"It wasn't," said George.
"Yeah, it all happened!" said Neville.
"Alright. Just wondering," said Draco, and he retreated to the Slytherin table looking quite embarrassed.
"Well, that was strange," said Fred.
"I agree," said Hermione. "You know, for a while, I thought Malfoy was starting to act...well...nice." Ron shivered.
"Is that possible?" he asked.
"Well, I guess some things never change," said Harry wisely.
THE END
Alright! They didn't get expelled! "It's a good thing Dumbledore believes in second chances..." :) Here's an inside scoop: In the last chapter, the Willow incident happened on a Friday. Although I didn't write the exact date, it was pretty accurate. You see, I did a bit of research on Full Moons, and I found out that there was indeed a Full Moon on FRIDAY, October 17th, 1975. Freaky, huh? Hehe. And don't worry, folks, there's another chapter after this. It's the Epilogue. Please write a review and tell me what you think! Thanks a bunch, and have a nice day! :)
A/N: This entire story has been edited! I wrote it two years ago, and I saw some spots where I could improve things. I hope you enjoy it!
Chapter 11: Back to the Future
"This is it, Prongs, we're done for!" yelped Sirius. James was speechless. Remus was looking pale and tired. Peter looked as if he were about to faint. The headmaster had conjured up four squashy arm chairs in front of his desk. They sat down, and Dumbledore spoke.
"I heard a very interesting story from Severus yesterday," said Dumbledore. Sirius looked down at his feet and shifted guiltily in his seat.
"It was my fault, Professor," said Sirius quietly.
"That's what I heard from Severus. Do you have any idea of how dangerous it was, telling Severus about that entrance in the Whomping Willow?" asked Dumbledore.
"Yes, sir. I wasn't thinking, sir," replied Sirius.
"Not only did you put Severus in danger, but you put yourself, James, and Peter in danger. And Remus. Severus saw Remus in his werewolf state. Now he is one of the few that know about Remus's secret. And I am wondering, how in the world did you boys ever find out about it?"
"Remus didn't tell us," said Sirius.
"Yes, Professor, they figured it out," replied Remus.
"Your cleverness has gotten you four into a lot of trouble," said Dumbledore, sternly. "I hope you understand how serious the situation is."
"Yes, sir," they replied.
"Sir, has Severus told anyone else about it?" asked Remus.
"No, Mister Lupin, Severus has been sworn to secrecy," replied Dumbledore. "Now, each of you will be serving detentions for two weeks."
"That's all?" piped up Peter, not believing his ears.
"Yes, Mister Pettigrew, unless you would like further punishment," replied Dumbledore, smiling.
"Oh, no, sir," said Peter, who was turning very red.
"But Professor, why aren't you expelling me?" asked Sirius. "I mean..."
"I understand, Mister Black. I am not expelling you because I believe in second chances."
"Thank you, Professor," said Sirius, looking very grateful.
"You're welcome, Sirius," said Dumbledore. "Ah, now, you boys must be hungry. Go on to breakfast. And will you please do me a favor?"
"Yes, sir," they replied.
"Will you please send up the Beauxbatons students?"
"Yes, sir," they replied again in unison.
"Thank you. Well, off you go, then!" They walked out of Dumbledore's office.
"Man, we were really lucky," said Sirius.
"Yeah. It's a good thing Dumbledore believes in second chances," said James. They all walked down to the Great Hall silently after that, stunned about their luck. They saw the Beauxbatons students, sitting down and talking.
"Hey, Daniel, Dumbledore wants all of you to go up to his office," said James.
"Oh, thanks, James," said Harry. They got up, and made their way to Dumbledore's office.
"I wonder what he wants us for..." said Ron.
"Yeah, me too," said Harry.
"Are we in trouble?" asked Neville.
"No, I don't think so..." said Hermione.
"Erm...we might be..." said Fred, grinning.
"Oh, great," said Draco.
"We, er, put a Canary Cream in Filch's dessert yesterday," said George, who was stifling his laughter.
"It was really cool, though," said Fred. Hermione gave them a disapproving look.
"Oh, but it was wrong, very, very wrong indeed." added George quickly.
"But why does he want all of us?" asked Draco.
"Maybe it's about something else," said Neville.
When they had reached Dumbledore's office, Dumbledore was waiting outside for them, smiling.
"Good morning!" exclaimed Dumbledore. "I have wonderful news." They all looked at each other, and breathed a sigh of relief.
"I received the new Time-Turner in the post this morning." said Dumbledore cheerfully. But they didn't respond the way he expected them to. "What's the matter?"
"Sorry, Professor," said Hermione. "It's just that, well, we'll miss being here."
"I understand, Miss Granger," said Dumbledore sympathetically. "But you cannot stay here. You belong in the future. What would happen to our futures without all of you? You can all come to my office tomorrow morning to get home. For now, enjoy your stay. You are excused."
"Thank you, Professor," they replied in unison, and they left his office.
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They found James and his friends still sitting in the Great Hall waiting for them.
"Hey! What happened?" asked James.
"We, er, have to leave tomorrow," said Harry, not looking at James.
"WHAT?" exclaimed Sirius.
"You can't leave!" cried Remus.
"Sorry," said Harry sadly.
"Well then, we'll just have to spend the whole day together," said Sirius.
"So, did you and Lily patch things up?" asked Harry.
"Yeah," said James, and a wide grin spread across his face.
"That's wonderful," said Hermione. "I'm sorry about turning you into a duck."
"Oh, don't worry, I deserved it!" said James, laughing.
"Ah, here comes Mrs. Potter now!" cried Sirius. Lily walked up to Sirius, waved her wand, and turned him into a duck.
"So, what have I missed?" asked Lily, as though there WASN'T a duck currently waddling on the Gryffindor table eating Harry's cornflakes.
"All of the Beauxbatons students are leaving," said Remus sadly, as he performed the counter-charm on Sirius. Sirius returned to his human form, sitting on the table. Sirius stood up to get out of Harry's cereal bowl.
"Oh no!" cried Lily. "You can't leave! Things won't be the same without you! Why do you have to go?"
"We have to go back because it was only a week-long student exchange...thing," Ron lied. The others nodded.
"It was cut short because we have to get back for...umm...Quidditch," said Harry. "We're all on the team. It was a student exchange program for only our Quidditch team," said Harry.
"Good one," Ron whispered.
"Well, let's go to the Common Room, and we can spend all afternoon together," said James.
"Anyone up for a game of Exploding Snap?" asked Remus.
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They finally made it up to the Common Room (after being pelted with grapes by Peeves), and they settled themselves on the comfy sofas. Peter had fallen asleep, while Fred and George went off to nick some food in the kitchens. Neville and Frank were playing a game of Gobstones, and both of them were covered in green goo. Hermione and Lily were sitting in front of the fire, reminiscing over the past week. Malfoy was out on the Quidditch field with the rest of the Gryffindor team, riding one of the school brooms. Meanwhile, Remus and Ron were playing exploding Snap, with Sirius doing the commentary.
"Oooh, I wouldn't do that if I were you..." said Sirius.
"Why not?" asked Ron as he moved his game piece. Then the piece exploded.
"That's why," replied Sirius. Ron wiped soot off his nose.
"Best three out of five?" Ron asked Remus sheepishly.
"Oh, alright..." said Remus. "Whoever wins is the supreme ruler of the world."
"Oh, bring it on," replied Ron.
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On the other side of the room, Harry and James were busy multiplying chocolate frogs.
"Can you believe we only started with one chocolate frog?" asked James, who was buried waist-deep in chocolate frogs.
"Wow, I think I'll be able to finish off my wizard card collection," said Harry. When they frog pile got up to their shoulders, they emerged from beneath the pile and jumped on top as though it were a pile of leaves.
"Do you reckon we should give them out now?" asked James.
"Nah, not yet," said Harry, and the two of them grinned. They hastily began shoving the chocolate into their mouths and compared wizard cards.
"Look, I got Godric Gryffindor..." said Harry, looking at the picture of the big, brawny man with long blond hair like a mane.
"Daniel! That's the rarest card of all!" exclaimed James. Then he opened another chocolate frog. "Wait a second...here's another one!" They both began opening as many of the chocolates as they could, and every single one of them revealed the Godric Gryffindor card.
"I don't believe it!" said Harry.
"The one card we started out with must have been a Gryffindor card!" said James.
"Brilliant!" said Harry, as he shoved another chocolate into his mouth.
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"Man, things will never be the same around here without you guys," said Sirius miserably. The boys were up in their dorm. He was sitting on an armchair, and when things got too quiet; he would throw chocolate frogs at people.
"Yeah. Thanks for everything, guys," said James, opening another chocolate frog.
"Hey, we should be thanking all of you," replied Harry.
"For what?" asked Remus.
"For slipping sleeping draught in our pumpkin juice!" replied Ron, making everyone laugh.
"So...you found out about that, huh?" asked Remus.
"Actually, it was Karen," said Ron.
"Does that girl know everything?" asked James.
"You have no idea..." said Harry, Ron, Draco and Neville.
James looked out the window. It was almost sunset.
"Er, sorry guys, we have to go," said Peter, who had finally woken up.
"Why?" asked Neville, who was rubbing his head. Sirius had tried to pass a chocolate frog to him, and it had hit him upside the head instead. ("Oops, sorry, Evan...")
"Detention," said James quickly. The others nodded.
"Aww...well, see you tomorrow," said Neville sadly, and began opening the chocolate frog that had beamed him seconds before.
"See you! Don't leave without saying goodbye!" said Sirius, and they walked out through the portrait hole.
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"Wake up!" cried James, who was jumping on Harry's bed.
"Hey! James! Cut it out!" said Harry, laughing. He took out the pillow from under his head and threw it at James.
"Ouch."
"Daniel! Get up! We'll miss breakfast!"
"All right, all right," said Harry, lifting his hands in surrender. "I'll meet you in the common room."
"Alright, but hurry! If we don't get down to breakfast soon, the Slytherins will nick all of the chocolate muffins!" cried James, as he bounded down the stairs toward the common room. Harry laughed.
He had been debating with himself all week about whether or not he should at least warn James about making Pettigrew his secret-keeper. But he thought about the consequences. So many things had gone wrong, and he didn't want to make things worse by altering the future. Everything could turn out perfectly, but, then again, everything could turn out horribly wrong. He decided that he didn't want to take that chance. He had lost so many dear friends already, and he couldn't afford to lose anymore.
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Dumbledore talked to Hermione in the hall, and told her to tell the others to meet outside his office at noon. It was a quarter to twelve when they decided to exchange their goodbyes.
"I'm going to miss you so much!" said Lily, hugging Hermione.
"I'll miss you too, Lily!"
"Please owl me!"
"I'll try," replied Hermione sadly.
"Bye, Frank!" cried Neville.
"See you, Evan! Good luck!" said Frank.
"I wish you the best of luck, Dan," said James as he gave him a big bear hug. Harry hugged him back tightly, and tried to fight back tears.
"Thanks," said Harry. "You too." Sirius looked at all of them happily, and yanked their collars.
"GROUP HUG!" he cried. Nobody complained. They said their last goodbyes, and decided that it was time to go.
"Bye everyone!" said Ron.
"BYE!" they exclaimed. Harry looked at his parents together, one last time, smiled, and turned away.
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They saw Dumbledore waiting for them outside his office, smiling. They smiled back feebly. He took a Time-Turner out of his pocket. It had an extremely long chain attached to it. He picked up the chain, and threw it around their necks.
"It was nice having you here," said Dumbledore jovially. "But I know I'll be seeing you again very soon." He turned the Time-Turner several times, and, soon enough, 1975 was gone.
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They woke up, lying on the floor in the middle of the corridor. There was a crowd surrounding them.
"Are you all right?" asked a voice. It was Dumbledore's. He smiled up at them.
"Yes, Professor," said Harry, getting up. He helped the rest of them up. Dumbledore turned to the students surrounding them.
"Don't worry, everybody, they're all right. And hurry! You don't want to be late for class!" Then he turned to Harry. "Are you sure all of you are all right? Do you need to go to the Hospital Wing?"
"No, Professor, it's alright," said George, rubbing his head.
"I'll take your word for it. Well, you should get to class. You don't want to be late now, do you?"
They turned around, and hurried off to their classes. People were constantly questioning them about what happened that morning. They just told the truth.
"Oh, well, we actually went back in time, to 1975, in fact, and we had to lie and say that we were a Quidditch team from Beauxbatons. We ended up doing a bit of matchmaking, and everything turned out fine in the end. And Hermione had to go to Divination!" Ron laughed at the unconvinced faces of the third-year Gryffindors. "It's all true, you know!" he called after them as they walked away.
At dinner, Draco walked up to their table, sat down, and began to eat. The Gryffindors gave him strange looks.
"What?" asked Malfoy. Then Ron elbowed him.
"Oh!" he cried, and his cheeks turned red. He made up an excuse. "I just want to make sure that, you know, what happened wasn't a dream."
"It wasn't," said George.
"Yeah, it all happened!" said Neville.
"Alright. Just wondering," said Draco, and he retreated to the Slytherin table looking quite embarrassed.
"Well, that was strange," said Fred.
"I agree," said Hermione. "You know, for a while, I thought Malfoy was starting to act...well...nice." Ron shivered.
"Is that possible?" he asked.
"Well, I guess some things never change," said Harry wisely.
THE END
Alright! They didn't get expelled! "It's a good thing Dumbledore believes in second chances..." :) Here's an inside scoop: In the last chapter, the Willow incident happened on a Friday. Although I didn't write the exact date, it was pretty accurate. You see, I did a bit of research on Full Moons, and I found out that there was indeed a Full Moon on FRIDAY, October 17th, 1975. Freaky, huh? Hehe. And don't worry, folks, there's another chapter after this. It's the Epilogue. Please write a review and tell me what you think! Thanks a bunch, and have a nice day! :)