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Chapter 12: The Son and Daughters of the Trio

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"Hermione, did you find out anything?"

"Oh yes, I found out something."

"Well?"

"Oh my God, Harry, look at this." She handed the pictures to him, and he looked at them.

"Who are these people?"

"That's Julia," She said, pointing at the picture of the red head. She pointed to the raven-haired girl,

"That's Lily, and…" Harry's eyes widened in shock when he saw the next picture.

"That's Blake." Ron, who was looking over Harry's shoulder muttered,

"Bloody hell."

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"What's the matter, Lils?"

"Look." She pointed to the trio, and Julia and Blake saw they were looking at pictures.

"What about them?"

"Those aren't just normal pictures…" She gasped and stood up quickly, and Julia realized the same thing as Lily and stood up with her. Blake also stood up and followed as his sister and friend almost sprinted across the room. Lily screamed,

"What are you doing?!" Harry, Ron, and Hermione all looked up. The second-generation trio's fears were confirmed. The pictures showed their true identity. Harry and Ron both were glaring at Lily, Blake, and Julia, while Hermione had a smug smile on her face. Harry said,

"What the hell is up with this?" Lily was going to answer, but Hermione beat her to it.

"It's quite simple. Remember when we were thinking these three were from another time period? Well, they are. From the future. You know how I know? I found that time travel book under Lily's pillow. She dog-eared the page that gave the instructions for going back into the future."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. They are…" But Lily interrupted her.

"No! Don't say it." Hermione ignored Lily and said,

"These two are your son and daughter, Harry. And Ron, Julia is your daughter, so I'm assuming by the Weasley red hair." It was like a timer went off, the roots of Julia and Blake's hair turned back to their natural born color. Lily closed her eyes as Julia's skin lightened and her brother's hair changed slowly back to black, and again was messy like his dad's. When she opened her eyes, they were green again, and so were Blake's. It was almost creepy seeing those two with different color eyes. Not so much the color, but the brightness and the fact they were identical to Harry's eyes. Harry and Ron's jaws dropped. Harry looked at Blake and said,

"Oh my God, he looks just like me." Hermione, however, knew the spell would reverse when she revealed the effects of the spell. Lily fixed a glare on her mother, and said coldly,

"So now you know. Yes, it's true; we're from the future. Nineteen years to be exact. And yes, Blake and I are Harry's only son and daughter, and Julia is Ron's only daughter. It was by accident that we arrived here, and we seem to have messed a few things up by coming into the past, and so we tried to fix them." Ron cleared his throat and said,

"Um, Julia, who's your mother?"

"I probably shouldn't tell you."

"Why not?"

"Because there's been enough damage since Hermione can't frickin' leave things alone. We've probably caused a time paradox, and the future will be messed up, all because your friend can't keep her nose out of things."

"You can tell him, Jules, it won't make any difference."

"Ok. Fine. You end up marrying Lavender Brown, and having five kids with her. I'm the oldest and the only girl, then my brother Seth, then my twin brothers, Noah and Cole, then my littlest brother Ryan."

"I marry Lavender? Was I drunk?"

"No, you loved her, and were engaged for four months, or so I'm told."

"Who's your mother?" Hermione asked Lily and Blake, although she had an idea. Lily, with the same coldness in her voice as before, said,

"Look at me, Hermione, I look exactly like my mother, except I have my father's eyes and his hair color. I think you know exactly who she is." Harry looked closely at Lily, and he saw it.

"Hermione and I get married and have kids?"

"Yes. Just the two of us." Hermione then realized something.

"Then my reoccurring dream, you knew what that was about?" Lily nodded.

"You told me a few years ago about it. You've been dreaming about the day your mother-in-law and father-in-law died." Hermione's jaw dropped.

"Why, though?"

"I don't know, you don't know even nineteen years from now." Harry looked at Hermione in astonishment,

"You've been dreaming about the day my parents died?"

"I guess. I'd been having this reoccurring dream for the past two weeks, that I'd be in a fog, and hear someone screaming, pleading for mercy from Voldemort so he'd kill her instead of her…son." Hermione trailed off, she realized it made sense that she was dreaming of when Lily and James Potter died. It was exactly like Harry had always described when the dementors got too close. She needed to sit down. The second-generation trio left their parents in the state of shock they were in and went to Dumbledore's office. Dumbledore had the ingredients for them ready to go. Lily mixed them together and in an hour, set it to simmer for a week with plenty of fresh air it needed to mature. They didn't go back to the common room right away, they sat on the floor of Dumbledore's office, trying to go over what just happened within the last half hour before they brewed the potion. Dumbledore said,

"I couldn't help but notice your appearance is different than the last time I saw you. Somebody discover your identity?" Lily nodded.

"And I see that Julia, you're Ron's daughter, aren't you?" Julia nodded.

"And Blake and Beth are Harry's children." Blake nodded.

"My name isn't Beth. It's Lily." Dumbledore nodded knowingly.

"That's sounds like the name Harry would give his daughter. And I'm assuming that Blake bears some remembrance of James Potter in his name?" Blake nodded.

"My middle name is James."

"Why so depressed?"

"We failed to do what we set out to do."

"What was that?"

"When we arrived in the past, things weren't the way they were supposed to be. People weren't dating the people they were supposed to be. Ron and Hermione were going out with each other, and Harry and Ginny were going out with each other. But Harry and Hermione get together this year and then two years later they get married and have Lily and me. So we tried all we could to get them together, but they're too stubborn."

"Tell me, Blake, did you learn anything from this experience?"

"What?"

"Time is better left to run its course by itself, and never to be tampered with. Because once you do, the time continuum gets disarrayed. If you had stayed in your time, your parents would've ended up together like they should."

"But since we came back in time, we've threatened our own existence."

"True, but you have to sit back and watch for a while, see where things go before you take charge. Think about it. But now, I think it's time for you to go back to the Gryffindor common room. I'll call you back in a week and you can take the potion if things are the way they're supposed to be that you don't go forward in time and find out you don't exist. But let fate play with the situation a little." Lily, Blake, and Julia got up and left Dumbledore's office. They slowly walked back to the common room, not feeling much better. But Julia said on the way back,

"Hey, maybe things'll turn out the way they're supposed to anyways. I mean, your mum and dad know they'll end up together and my Dad knows he'll end up with my Mum." Blake and Lily didn't say anything, but they both hoped Julia was right.

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A/n: Here's another short chapter, I'm sorry these are the length that they are, this just felt like a good stopping place. Hope you enjoyed. So the secret is out. Please review!!