A/N I'm so sorry about not updating this story. My only excuse is school. It's rather busy this year. This is a nice, long chapter to hold you over for a little while. If you need anything else to read while you are waiting, go check out some of my one-shots.
The Grandsters were very happy that their prank against the Weasley twins had been successful. They knew that not very many people,if any, could say that they had pranked the twins, and they were very proud to be among of the few who had done so. They were both eager to see what the other pranking groups were going to come up with. This time it was the twins turn to prank and they could chose who they wanted to prank.
That night at dinner, the twins were busy quietly planning their prank. They wanted to do something even better than what the Grandsters had done, which would be slightly difficult, according to Fred. They had also decided to try pranking the Marauders, probably would be a bit difficult since the Marauders were grand pranksters themselves and would be on the lookout. Suddenly their mother interrupted their planning.
"Lily," said Molly quietly, "do any other major things happen in the next few years? Other than what you've already told us." She added.
Everyone from the past, and even a few of the ones from the future, looked up from their dinner. They all knew that there had to be more things that they hadn't been told. No one knew whether they wanted to find out or not, but the wanting to find out half of their minds was starting to win within all of them.
"Yeah," said Bill. "Gabby here said I had scars in the future. Do you know where they came from?"
"Gabby," Lily muttered. This had been something she had wished she could avoid, but it looked like it wasn't a possibility. She had forgotten that Gabby had mentioned it when they first met.
"I never heard about that," said Molly looking frightened. She had a vague feeling she had heard this mentioned already, but it had gone out of her mind with the excitement of all of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
"I didn't want you to worry, mum," said Bill sighing, "I am an adult."
"You're still my child," returned Molly. Bill just groaned. His mother was always treating him like a kid, even though he no longer lived at home. He wondered if it would ever change when he got married or became a parent.
Lily smiled at her grandmother's reaction. Molly was still the same in her time, very protective of her family.
"I do know the story. Are you sure you want to hear now?" Lily asked.
Bill nodded. At least if he knew, he wouldn't be as worried was his logic.
"Well," began Lily, "Death Eaters managed to get into Hogwarts."
Molly let out a gasp. "How in the world did that happen?"
"A pair of vanishing cabinets," said Gideon. "One was in Hogwarts, the other in Borgin and Burkes."
"I thought the Hogwart's cabinet broke when Peeves dropped it on top of Filch's office," said Harry.
"What?" asked Sirius.
"I was dragged into Filch's office for dripping mud in the Great Hall after a Quidditch practice in Second Year. Right before that I had been talking with Nick and he managed to persuade Peeves to drop the vanishing cabinet, although I didn't know what it was at the time, on top of his office and allowing me to get away without detention since Filch decided that writing up Peeve's crime was more important than mine," explained Harry.
"But it's impossible to get out of Filch's office without detention," said Remus.
"Not for me," said Harry. "I do many impossible things."
"Yeah, and you involve us as well," said Ron sarcastically.
"All right, let's get back on track," said Charlie. He really wanted to find out more about the impossible things Harry had done, but he knew that now wasn't the time for that. "Maybe I could ask him later this evening," thought Charlie.
"I'm not exactly sure how they work, but they were made as a set and one could travel between them. So on that June evening, Dumbledore and Dad were out on a mission . . ."
"Wait, shouldn't Albus be here to hear this?" asked Arthur.
"Probably," said John. "This story contains information he would really like to have."
"Someone go Floo him," said Molly.
"I'll do it," said Gabby.
"Are you sure you can do it?" teased John.
"I'm not an idiot like you are," retorted Gabby. She walked over to the fireplace and threw a handful of Floo powder in. "Dumbleore's office!" she called. Her head felt like it was spinning around for a few moments and when it cleared she was looking into Professor Dumbledore's office. "Professor Dumbldore!" she called. Thankfully he was in. Dumbledore came around the corner and saw her. "Hello, Miss Lupin. What do you need?" he inquired.
"Lily's telling the Weasleys a story about one of the Hogwarts battles. I think you should be there to hear it."
"More like, you should hear this because it contains your death," she thought.
"Very well, Miss Lupin. I shall be there presently. Shall I get Professor McGonagall as well?"
Gabby turned her head for a moment. "Oi! Lily! Should Minnie come?"
Lily groaned. She never was able to get either of the twins to call Headmistress McGonagall by her title. "Yes Gabby. Headmistress," she stressed the word Headmistress, "McGonagall should come as well."
Once Gabby had turned back to the fireplace, Fred and George looked at each other and grinned. Remus and Sirius grinned as well. "Looks like kids are still calling her that," mused Sirius.
"You're the one who started it," said Remus.
The twins looked up. "So you call her that too?" they asked.
"Yep," said Sirius, "Watch me."
Gabby had just arrived from Floo calling the professors. Once McGonagall entered the room Sirius called, "Oi!" Minnie!"
McGonagall turned towards Sirius, her lips were tight, as if she were trying to surpress a smile. "Mr. Black, are you asking for detention?"
"You can't give me detention since I'm no longer a student."
"He's right, Minerva," said Remus.
McGonagall groaned. She was never going to get away from students calling her that name. The Weasley twins called her that for now, and she'd bet the Gryffindor Quidditch team that some of these time traveler children called her that in the future.
"So, what brings us here?" asked Dumbledore.
"There's something that I think you all should know," said Lily. "At least, all of the older people should here this. Drew, Dora, Jean, can the three of you go back to the room you were in earlier?"
"But Aunt Lily . . ."
"Theadora!"
"Don't call me that!" shouted Dora. Her hair turned from its usual light blue to flaming red, which even though that was her natural color, was proof that she was angry. Her nose also became slightly hooked. Tonks looked taken aback. This girl had an even stronger reaction to being called by her full name than either she or Gabby, who had had a rather strong reaction. John looked at his grandmother. "Werewolf genes plus Veela genes plus metamorphmagus genes equals someone you really don't want to get angry."
Tonks nodded. It seemed as if she had finally met someone who also didn't like her full name. Pity it had to be her own granddaughter.
"Now," said Lily sternly.
Dora stuck her tongue out and together she, Drew, and Jean exited. It was obvious that they didn't want to leave, but thankfully they left without any more complaint.
Lily took a deep breath. It was finally time for her to begin. "As they already know, there was an incident involving Death Eaters at Hogwarts . . ."
Dumbledore and Minerva both gasped. "Death Eaters at Hogwarts?" interrupted McGonagall in an extremely nervous voice.
Lily nodded. "Yes, they entered the school through a pair of vanishing cabinets. The evening that they arrived both Professor Dumbledore and Dad, that's Harry, were out on a mission."
"Do you know what?" inquired Dumbldore. He had a feeling that he may have discovered yet another Horcrux, but he wasn't certain.
"He hasn't told me much, but he said that you found a locket in a cave."
Dumbledore nodded. So there was at least one more still out there.
"So, the Death Eaters arrived while you two were out and when you arrived in Hogsmeade, the Dark Mark was above the Astronomy Tower."
Molly let out a shriek and everyone else from the past gasped. They all knew what that Mark meant since they had all seen it at least once. Some of them had seen it many times and it also mean ill.
"Excuse me," said Ginny, "but what year is this?"
Lily felt extremely awkward being addressed this way by her mother but quickly gathered herself. "June of 1997. It's the end of Dad's sixth year.
"Dumbledore was rather weak because of a potion he needed to drink in order to get at the locket."
Everyone stared at the Headmaster. None of them could every picture him being weak. Lily dreaded having to tell them exactly how their beloved Headmaster died. At least they already knew that part.
"So, the two of them grabbed brooms from Madam Rosmerta and flew into the Tower. There they met with some trouble. Draco Malfoy showed up . . ."
"The same Draco Malfoy who is now related to me through my daughter?" asked Ron.
"The same, but he changed Uncle Ron, he really did. You two aren't exactly friends, but you are at least on cordiel terms.
"Back to the story, Mr. Draco showed up and disarmed Dumbledore, but right before that happened, Dumbledore placed a bodybind spell on Harry who was hidden under his Invisibility Cloak."
"You have an Invisibility Cloak?" shouted the twins.
"No wonder you seem to find your way around," said Fred.
"Lucky," moaned George, "just think of all the pranks we could have pulled if we had one."
Molly glared at her sons and gestured to Lily to continue. She wanted Lily to finish sometime this evening.
"Draco had been ordered by Voldemort . . ."
At this nearly everyone in the room flinched. Harry rolled his eyes and Lily looked shocked to see that her mother, who had always seemed so brave to her, was among the people who flinched at the mention of Voldemort's name.
"As I was starting to say, Draco had been ordered to kill Dumbldore . . . "
"What?" shouted McGonagall.
"Can I please continue, you'll understand in a minute," said Lily.
"Sorry about that," said McGonagall.
"Draco had been ordered to kill Dumbledore in order to pay for his father's mistakes. Dumbledore didn't want Draco to become a killer, so he tried to reason with him. Before he could however, Snape showed up."
Anger entered nearly everyone's eyes at this. They all knew that nothing good would come of this.
"Dumbledore pleaded with Snape, and Snape killed him."
"WHAT?" everyone shouted. Sirius was fuming. "I'll kill that greasy, slimy bastard!"
"Listen to me!" screached Lily, causing Remus and Sirius to jump slightly in their seats. This girl really did act like her grandmother in their opinion. "Dumbledore had ordered Snape to kill him because he knew that he would die soon because of a curse that had been on a ring he destroyed."
This time there was much confusion in the room. Dumbledore nodded slowly. So there were at least two Horcruxes out there.
"Dumbledore ordered Snape to kill him," said a very confused Remus.
"Yeah, I don't know the full story. You'll have to ask Dad when he gets here," said Lily. "If he gets here," she added as an afterthought.
"Okay, so Dumbledore's just died . . ." prompted Bill.
"Harry runs down the tower and runs into several Death Eaters. I think there were six or seven Death Eaters involved. Right prior to going out with Dumbledore, Harry had given Uncle Ron, Aunt Hermione, and mum his bottle of Felix Felicis, which he had won as a prize in Potions."
"But I'm rubbish at Potions!" protested Harry.
"Professor Slughorn didn't think so," said Lily.
"Ole Sluggy came back?" asked Sirius with a grin.
"Yeah, he came back because Dumbledore and Harry manged to get him to Snape became the Defense Professor.
So, when Harry came downstairs, he found Dumbledore's Army . . ."
"What?" asked Molly.
"Oh, I forgot to mention that earlier. Dumbledore's Army, also known as the DA, was a group that the Golden Trio, Harry, Ron, and Hermione, formed during their fifth year at Hogwarts."
"That would be this year," said Hermione.
"Duh," said Ron, earning a glare from his friend.
"It was formed because 'professor'" Lily made quotation marks with her fingers "Umbridge . . ."
Remus narrowed his eyes. The Ministry official was the one responsible for most of the anti-werewolf laws.
"Refused to let them practice magic in her classroom," Lily continued. "All they were learning was theory. So, the DA was formed. They had a communication system using coins with a Protean Charm on them that Aunt Hermione had made."
"But, but that's N.E.W.T. level!" said Bill.
"We don't call her the brightest witch of our year for nothing," said Harry, causing Hermione to blush.
"So, Harry had ordered the DA to contact each other if there was any sign of trouble. Also, several members of this Order were stationed near the castle ready for trouble. The battle had begun slightly before Harry and Dumbledore arrived. There was some fighting, but only one person died, a Death Eater. I don't know who though. Eventually Snape ordered everyone to retreat and they all, including Draco, ran out of the gates and Disapparated."
"So, how do this explain my scars?" asked Bill in a quiet voice.
"Well, Greyback was one of the Death Eaters there . . ."
Lily's voice trailed off.
"You mean I'm . . ." Bill gasped for breath. Remus' eyes narrowed in furry and all the Weasleys had a mixture of horror and anger on their faces.
"I'll take it from here Aunt Lily," said John, noticing that she was unable to continue. "Grandpa, you're not a werewolf. Greyback was in his human form when he attacked you."
"He truly is an animal," muttered Charlie.
"You're not a werewolf," repeated John, "but you rarely are at home on the night of a full moon. You and Grandma live near the ocean, so you often go and pace up and down the beach or swim for the night. You also like extremely rare meat" John figured that this was a better way to put it instead of raw meat.
"How, how bad are the scars?" asked Bill.
"Well, it's all we've ever know, so we don't care, but you aren't that recognizable from beforehand photos," said Gabby.
Charlie stared at his only older brother. He couldn't believe that his brother was barely recognizable from what he had always known. Bill gulped. It was a bit of a shock to find out exactly how bad it was, but at least none of his family minded. He had figured that they would care, but it was nice to know for certain.
"So, that was a bit of an adventure," said George, in an attempt to clear the atmosphere a bit. It worked. A few smiles showed on several people's faces and they all got up. "So, what's next?" asked Tonks.
"Clearing the table," said Molly, "and no, you are not allowed in the kitchen. Go play with your grandchildren or something like that." Molly began to levitate plates into the kitchen while laughter broke out around the table. "You better obey her Tonks," said Remus.
"Oh, shush," said Tonks, whacking him playfully on the arm. A moment later she jumped up, and after tripping over her stool, ran upstairs to find her grandchildren.
