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first off I felt guilty giving two fillers in a row soooo I put this up too. Now this chapter is gonna launch us into kinda a AU but it is something I have wanted to see happen since I read book 3 the very first time all of those years ago. I hope you like it and it isn't too weird for you. Let me know your thoughts because I haven't written what this leads to yet even though I have a clear path. So your reviews very well could alter the story, let me know if you think I should stick with this track. I do have an alternate chapter for this one if no one like this but I have really wanted to write this angle forever. I hope you are as interested to see what happens as I am. Happy Reading All. And seriously especially on this chapter...REVIEW!

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Surprise at the platform

Chapter Twelve

"Harry c'mon we are going to miss the train and Hermione is going to throttle us. You know the head girl's friends cannot be late." Ginny urged Harry as he was tugging his trunk morosely behind him.

For one of the first times he did not want to leave home. He loved the burrow and his new room. He loved having someone to call mum and dad. He didn't want to see the walls where so many people died and he had faced Voldemort only a few short weeks ago. They passed into the platform easily and started their tearful goodbyes with the parents. After all, this was officially all of their last year, and when they came home for summer Harry and Ginny would be getting married an moving out. Ginny held Harry's hand and pulled him to an empty compartment where they stowed Pig, Crookshanks, Arnold and Ginny's new owl Lemeric. Harry had not been able to face replacing Hedwig and didn't really have anyone to write outside of school that he couldn't use Ginny's owl for anyways.

Harry sat with his back to the window and Ginny was leaned back into his arms when Neville and Luna came rattling into the carriage.

"Hey, do you mind if we share with you? There are a lot more students on here than normal." Luna said brightly. Harry smiled and motioned to the seat across from them.

"I am pretty sure you are two of our best friends not to mention maid of honor and a groomsman at our wedding. You don't have to ask permission to sit with us." He replied airily.

"Well you know, we thought you might want some alone time seeing as you are going to be getting very little of that very soon." Neville said easily smiling at Harry.

It was impossible not to notice how he seemed so much more self assured now. There was no doubt he had come into his inner Gryffindor at the battle and during last school year and he had embraced it. They continued in a nice banter through the entire ride to Hogwarts even after being joined by Ron and Hermione their trip was uneventful to say the least. Harry in particular thought that this trip might just have been the best one yet.

Meanwhile back on the platform…

Arthur was trying to shepherd his crying wife away from the stationary train knowing that it would soon be departing the station. He smiled as Harry called out of the door one last, "Love you, mum, dad!" and slowly pulled his own head in as the train began to move. Molly cried harder so he stopped to console her when he saw an odd flicker at his right back in the corner. He was pretty certain he had just seen Harry leave on the train but that looked suspiciously like him disappearing under the invisibility cloak he so loved.

"Molly, wait here for me." He said as he strolled over to the wall placing his hand about Harry shoulder height out into the invisible air in front of him. He felt it as his hand made contact with Harry's shoulder, he smiled bemused.

"Harry, son, I know you aren't thrilled to be going back to school and I don't know how you managed this one but we need to get you either on that train or to Hogwarts. " the response that he received sent shockwaves through him and rooted him to the spot.

"Arthur, I am not Harry. I am James. I don't know what is going on but I think myself and Lily may have overturned our time turner and went a few years to far. We obviously have some questions for you though if we could meet, say at the cottage and talk for a bit." A very familiar voice said from right in front of him. He stuttered incomprehensibly,

"No, we can't go to the cottage. Uhm come to the burrow. I think that would be best. Let me just go get Molly and we will meet you there."

Molly was pouring a very confused looking Lily tea and James was sitting beside her already sipping his.

"I can't believe how much he looks like you!" she gushed at her 20 year old husband. "He is so big!" James smiled excitedly at her.

"He seems to have your eyes still. Does he play quidditch for a house team yet? I think in our haste with the turner we got over zealous. We meant to see him go off to his first year. We appear to be at what? His fifth or sixth? Why weren't we there with him. I heard him call out to us, that's why my head accidentally popped out, I almost answered. I really didn't see us." He asked to the room at large. Molly looked at them sadly, it was Arthur who answered after sitting across from them at the table.

"I don't think you understand. Harry is in his seventh year, well, technically I guess his eighth. It will take some explaining which we surely will do." He assured them.

"He doesn't look like a seventh year. He is still scrawnier even that I was." James said looking quizzicly at Arthur.

"Well, he is 18 just turned 18 actually, though you know his birthday of course. And you would be surprised the muscles that boy has hidden under those robes. I know Ginny has developed an appreciation for them this summer." He muttered darkly as Molly giggled and Lily squealed,

"Are they dating? Does Ginny like me?" It was Molly who took over.

"Well, actually Harry proposed to her as a birthday present to himself. They are getting married the Saturday after school gets out this summer, impatient little gits. Don't know where they get it from." She smiled knowingly to the couple across from her as Arthur started speaking again.

"Here's the thing, you weren't with Harry and Ginny doesn't know you I am very sorry to say because you both sacrificed your lives to save Harry's when he was very young. I am so sorry." He said to them uncomfortably. Lily immediately began to cry softly and James patted her back.

"Lils, we knew this was a possibility. The only reason we even did this was to see if Harry had survived everything we are going through right now. We wanted to know we weren't hiding in vain. We want to know all about him. Please Arthur if we can never know him please tell us. We need to know what happened with Voldemort no details or dates though. We both know we have to face him and if we don't it could mean our son will die." Molly smiled sadly and started to tell them about Voldemort's attack.

"He is growing at a great rate now but it has taken years to get him there. I know she is your sister Lily but if I could get to her I would. Harry won't allow it of course. He is the sweetest boy. You know he just told Ginny he loved her for the first time a few months ago. It is the first time he had ever said it, ever to anyone. Or at least that he remembers. He watched some memories Sirius had stored for him a few weeks ago. He was so happy and so devastated at the same time. I think it was just as hard on him seeing Sirius and Remus though. You see he remembers them. As they recently passed. He was devastated with Sirius. I think it still upsets him. James you would have been so proud of your friend. He loved Harry so much. I think Harry thought of him as much of a father as he does you. They grew exceptionally close in a very short period. He only started calling us Mum and Dad this summer, I am so sorry you had to hear that." She looked forlornly at the couple and shook her head softly. Lily looked up and smiled at her for the first time.

"Molly, it is obvious you love him. I am glad he finally has someone in his life again who loves him like a mother should. I can' t believe Dumbledore gave him to Tunia and Vernon. Ridiculous. He loves you both and I am glad he has a family to love and take care of him. Thank you."

"James you should see that boy on a broom!" Arthur told him happily. "You should know, he made it on Gryffindor's house team as a seeker in first year. FIRST YEAR! He is amazing. And he loves to fly. In fact he proposed to Ginny on a twilight broom ride. Stole some of your moves though. He spelled it out in roses." James smiled as they continued to talk about his pride and joy, his son, Harry. They showed them his room and they looked through some of the things he left behind. They flipped through the photo albums he had laying on his bed and noticed that some of them seemed to have been taken out, and were presumably with him now at Hogwarts. Lily laid her head on his pillow and held some of his clothes closed to her face to smell his scent. They began to talk about the wedding.

"You know, you could come. If you can figure that time turner out that is." Arthur said with a twinkle in his eyes.

"We couldn't there's no way we wouldn't be recognized. Especially as Harry could be James' twin." Lily said softly. Molly got excited.

"No, you could! Kingsley is minister and all we have to do is clear it with him. All of the guests are friends we could put a note in the invitations letting them know it is a surprise for Harry. You don't understand, the whole wizarding world just wants to see him happy for once. Even those who don't know him. He would be so happy, so would Ginny. She has told me so many times she wished she could remember you and that she wished she knew you. He needs this. And you could bring baby Harry too. It isn't like he is old enough to get freaked out. Now our Harry might be a little traumatized by seeing his own self but he's great with babies. You should see him with little Teddy. He doesn't even make Ginny do all the nappy changes."

"Who is Teddy? Please tell me we don't have a grandson and those two are still in school?" James spluttered as Arthur and Molly laughed.

"No, No." Arthur said between breaths. "Infact the kids are waiting till after the wedding, we are quite proud of them. They are so funny to watch together they are trying so hard to behave, Ginny has a wild streak though and Harry, well he about like you were with Lily, James. If Ginny wants something she doesn't even have to ask and she has it. He is a mess, just like you were. Anyways, Teddy is actually Teddy Lupin. And Harry is his godfather. He is so serious about being there for that little boy, little man, as he calls him. I wish Remus could see them together. Teddy loves Harry so much. Sometimes when he is upset Dromeda brings him to Harry to handle because he normally calms down for him. Though he spoils him rotten and everytime he keeps him they fall asleep in bed or on the couch together. Poor Andromeda has a time with him when Harry isn't there, he either goes there or brings Teddy here three to four times a week." The two Potter's smiled to hear how great of a man their little baby was becoming. They decided to wait and do the next time turn in three days their time so they could explain everything to Sirius and Remus so they could come too.

"Should we bring Pete too?" James had asked. Molly looked panicked and Arthur replied calmly

"no, he and Harry do not get along at all, see he and Sirius and Lupin have a big falling out in a few years and Harry is definitely on their side. Peter would definitely not be welcomed by Harry." The couple took it in stride and nodded their heads as if they understood. They didn't talk about when or how they died, only that the only way that Harry would defeat Voldemort was if the future happened as it was supposed to. They vanished into air after James fiddled with the turner to go back to their own time and to their own little man. And Molly and Arthur looked at each other having just participated in a conversation they never thought they would have.

I hope you like it, let me know if you hate it, I really want to know.