Hey everyone,
So this will be the last chapter that will be hard for me to write for multiple reasons and after that it will be back to a few lighter topics such as Harry's revelation as the time-traveled grandson and Secondary heir to the throne before everyone goes back to finding a new room and continues reading the first book.
Now, I will be honest, this arc of 4 chapters has skipped over a few characters: Merden and Adeline as well as Lindilwen. The reason for me skipping the first two is because their actions will be summarized next chapter, yet I have a bigger reason why I am skipping Lindilwen; namely her part deserves a chapter of its own.
However while I do believe this, do I think I can get more out of this story if I were to have this whole thing with Lindilwen get stretched out over multiple chapters and have it become part of the story itself as the story goes on – which it is supposed to be as it will play an important role the longer Hari remains in the new present time.
Okay, on with it,

Venquine1990
PS. Inspiration comes from Leonette, check out their stories.

In The Gardens
Neville's POV

It has been so long since I saw an actual proper Greenhouse as the Carrows were firmly against those of Pureblood to lower themselves to menial tasks like Gardening and Cooking. Because of this do I almost feel like a little girl in a cloths store for the first time in her life when the king shows me the Royal Green Houses.
Plants like the ones I raised at home, like the ones I got to raise under Professor Sprout, a few looking like ones I only ever got to read about and even ones I never got to find in even the rarest of tomes that my gran used to buy me for either my birthday or Christmas and all of it has been arranged with disordered beauty.
I take a deep breath as I stand in the stone entrance of the Greenhouses, which are actually surrounded by a protective dome of magic and stone pillars instead of glass like the Greenhouses at Hogwarts and then the king says: "I know that glass blocks dangerous level of sunlight, but our wards are basically set to do the same thing.
Plus, we have Earth, Wind and Water Elves taking care of these grounds along with several others across the kingdom on a daily basis, just like you saw at the Garden." Here I smile and then ask: "Would any of them be willing to take on an apprentice? I – I feel like I'm home again for the first time in a long while."

This seems to worry and amuse the king and I sigh as I say: "Hogwarts got taken over by High and Mighty Upstart Purebloods and it became forbidden for anyone other than Muggleborns to work in the Greenhouses. Actually, if it had been up to them, working in the Greenhouses was the only thing Muggleborns would be allowed to do."
The king looks shocked and I sigh as I say: "I can't tell you much about your grandson, Sire, not without spoiling the upcoming books. I can, however, tell you what my last schoolyear was like." The man nods and then motions for something, making me look up and see an Elf with long flowing hair and bright eyes move over.
The Elf bows and the king says: "Show this young man around your garden and test his skills. I will be around as he will be able to tell me what we must do to prevent the other world from becoming too dangerous to ever return back to." The Elf bows again and then motions me over to a small bit on the South Eastern corner.

I follow the elegant being, his looks making me ask: "Water elf, right?" And the Elf smiles at me before he asks: "What can you tell me of this plant?" And I look at a large round looking plant that has block-shaped leafs that are small and sun orange colored at the base and larger and turning more green further down the tip.
"An Andres plant. On Earth it is known to grow in the very bottom parts of the planet, such as the southern parts of South America, Africa and the very bottom of Australia. There have been rumors that the plant had been found in Antartica, yet this was proven wrong as the plant that had been found there was the Colross flower.
The Andres plants required three cups of water per day, preferably divided over the course of half an hour to an hour and usually flourishes when near daisies, hyacinths and trees coming from the African Plains. It prefers being slightly covered by the leafs of another tree, yet this is not required for it to grow to full bloom."

The elf seems shocked at my knowledge and I smile at him before he suddenly motions another Elf, this one as lean as he looks, yet with muscles slightly less hidden under its cloths and he seems to say something in Elven to the sturdier looking Elf, who nods and moves away. Then the king clears his throat and says:
"My friend, please just let our young student work on whatever plants you believe he can handle. I would like to hear all about the dangers that could come to threaten the other world." The elf bows and then smiles at me as he motions for the Andres Plant, making me widen my eyes, before I send him a large smile.
I then focus back on the gorgeous bit of flora and after a few minutes, do I suddenly hear a throat being cleared, making me turn red, yet instead of showing it, do I sigh and say: "Like I said, there had been a change in staff in my final year and the change had been ordered by Voldemort himself. And it hadn't been the only change he demanded.
He had conquered the Ministry and set another person, one under his control through Imperius Curse in the seat of the Minister and used the man to bring out all kinds of laws and orders. And because the Ministry had been considered fallen, did barely anyone feel brave enough to really argue against the changes, regardless of what they were.

And trust me, the changes, orders and laws were horrifying. Muggleborns had to register themselves and prove in front of a court of others that they deserved to have magic. If they couldn't they were send to Azkaban for stealing magic. To make matters worse, was it Dolores Umbridge who was part of the court judging the Muggleborns."
Here I shake my head, feeling the tears of concern and pain that I felt for all those months and fighting them back as I say: "She cared nothing for any of the people that were brought before her. She kept Dementors in the waiting area and in the courtroom and send people of all ages, even kids of four years and younger, to Azkaban."
This shocks both the King and the two Elves that are now working alongside me and I show a very small smirk as I then say: "Then one day she got a taste of her own medicine and a lot of Muggleborns had gotten freed before they could be send to Azkaban. Rumors were that it was Harry, Ron and Hermione who did it."

This makes the three Elves smile and then, while hating that I have to do this, do I tell them the rest. Of the Carrows and their forms of Detention, of Dumbledore's Army and how it kept up resistance, of Snape and how he had become Headmaster and of everything other than the Final Battle, all the while focusing on the Andres Plant.
The three Elves move around me as they listen, the Water and Earth Elf helping me with the Andres plant as well as other plants that are planted around the Andres Plant and the Earth Elf also helps the King with a small seat made of leafs and dirt, yet the man seems not to care for this as he has only ears for my tale.
And the fact that someone my good friend is related to is so attentive to my tale and the way that his face shows his fear, concern and pain as he hears of the horrors that was my final year makes everything I have been through feel both like something worthy of greatness as well as lessens the pain I myself have felt for all this time.
And just like I have heard so many times from other members of Dumbledore's Army while I tried staying strong for them and my friends, does it really indeed feel very relieving and emotionally rewarding to share my pain and so, the more I speak of the Carrows and their kind of Hogwarts, the more I start to smile peacefully.

Around The Castle
Ginny's POV

"I can't believe this. The King said Luna, Collin and I would be guarded, yet I can barely spot him, even with how often I had to watch out for danger all year. I guess this is what Harry would have felt like had he been told ahead of time that he needed to be guarded." Goes through my head as we progress through the castle.
For most part we have just moved ourselves to the outer edges of the castle and then started walking the rooms and hallways located in the outer walls of the castle, this mostly because it feels as if we are outside, yet also protected by powerful stone walls, something that feels much better here than it has all throughout our last year.
"This feels like Hogwarts had felt until Voldemort took over." Goes through my mind and then Collin snaps another picture of a gorgeous drapery that shows a maiden in a long, gorgeous dress with long flowing golden hair, yet while the woman is dancing a gorgeous dance, do I feel confused by the frying pan in her hand.

Then again, there had been other draperies and paintings of people that had held one thing or another that had both amazed and confused me and Collin had taken a picture of them all as well as pictures of the outside country whenever we got either a floor higher or at another end of the castle and each time he would grin widely.
Personally I am very, very glad to see my hyperactive friend smile like that again for the first time in over a year as it had been a very near miss for him on whether or not he could come to Hogwarts, yet luckily enough his entry to court had been shortly after the crazily rumored attack on Umbridge by Harry, Ron and Hermione.
Because of this had his entry to the castle just been accepted on a technicality, yet the Carrows had definitely worked their hardest to break both him and his little brother and while I have no doubt that he is missing Dennis at this very moment, can I not help but just feel selfishly glad that he has been allowed to come back with us.

"You and Harry really are losing your future together." Luna suddenly tells me and I sigh as this had been something I had noticed myself as well after we got here and the whole thing with the flower that had been given to Harry had left me feel conflicted as it had left me hopeful, yet also worried for whether or not it would come to me.
"Do you think I can find someone like him here?" I ask my longest and closest friend and the girl smiles at me as she says: "If you keep close to home, it will happen twice." Before she lets out a gasp of awe and shock at seeing the countryside from where we are, yet her words concern and confuse me more than they usually do.
Yes, over the course of the last year Luna has definitely been getting more periods of time where she would make comments like this and as the year went on, more and more others in Dumbledore's Army came to trust in her sudden statements and believe in her wisdom, yet they still were left confused just as often.

I then look from her to Collin to the outside and think: "Keep it close to home? Does that mean I should keep an eye on all those who came with us? But I have been friends with all of them for so long. Could those feelings of friendship really change into feelings of love and romance? And could that actually happen – twice?"
This makes me tilt my head as I had often heard about witches and wizards who sought more than one partner in life, yet mum had never really had a lot of good words to say about people like that and more often than not believed that the person just betrayed one of his partners with the other, even if they had officially bonded.
This makes me feel worried about what mum will say when I let her know about this, but then I shake my head and think: "I don't even know who these two people will be. Plus, not all of Luna's statements had always come true to the full extend. Some of them just came partially true. I guess I better just wait and see."

I then pull away from the window and as we pass another corner, does our guard suddenly appear besides a chamber door and he says: "I'm truly sorry, My Ladies, my Lord, but this is as far as I am allowed to let you. After this room comes a corridor that allows entry only to he who wears the royal crown of the kingdom."
Here we all nod as we had encountered similar corridors, chambers and rooms a few times before, yet not in such overdone consistency that we felt as if we weren't allowed anywhere and then the guard smiles and says: "However, I am quite confident that this chamber will be one that will bring you ladies great enjoyment."
And when he opens the door, do I actually let a side of me out that I don't often let out because of having been raised alongside several rowdy boys and Luna and I let out high-pitched girlish screams as we see that the room is filled with the most gorgeous dress robes, dresses and other outfits I have ever seen, even at the Yule Ball.
"Perhaps it would please you to try one of these out for when the Queen makes her announcement?" The guard then asks as he shows us a playful smile and while part of me wonders if he has led us here on purpose, do I seriously not care for this idea as I dash into the room with my best friend, squealing as I look at all this beauty.

Collin's POV (Warning: Crazy short)

"That guard definitely knows how to bring out Ginny's female side. Though I can't help but wonder if Luna's right? Is her relationship with Harry really slipping? Could it be that the flower that Harry received in Lotelle won't go to Ginny when he releases it? And does that – does that mean – that I have a chance?"
Yet here I shake my head as I have given up on this crush of mine several years ago, only answering to its protective needs this last year as I felt that, a few times over the year, Ginny was letting her temper get ahead of her rationality, yet not once did I indulge myself in the desires I had been keeping hidden for years.
Yet the idea of seeing Ginny in one of those dresses feels like some of my fantasies come true, yet – how do I get it to come true without letting her know about how I feel?" And then, as if she can read my mind, does Luna ask: "Collin, could you help us pick colors here?" And I smile widely as I move into the room myself.

In Their Room
Arthur's POV

"There is just so much to talk about. Where does one begin?" I think to myself and just looking at the looks of those who had decided to join me – Molly, Bill, Charlie, Fleur and Percy – do I know that they are all worrying about the same thing and wondering the same question before Molly shocks me as she suddenly asks:
"Do you think we can save them? This time round, I mean?" And even though she seems too scared of her own dreams to properly voice them, is it obvious that she really doesn't need to as all of our sons and even Fleur know what she is talking about and Bill says: "Seeing as how we only changed one event so far, I'd say so."
And while the way that they all speak of this event without supplying the actual details really worries me, do I then sigh and say: "Listen everyone, I think we can all agree that, even if we go back to that world to defeat Voldemort, this world is now our home and we will work our hardest to find professions here."

Molly seems worried about this, yet my sons and daughter in law all nod in agreement and I say: "Then let also all agree that, even if our jobs make us stay in separate kingdoms, we spent at least one weekend a month all together and catch up." And this makes much happier faces nod at me in agreement before I sigh and say:
"I know that Ron, Ginny and the twins are not here right now, so I suggest we use this time to speak of what kept us apart and what troubled us over the years, especially the years that led to everything we have been through, so we can have lightened hearts and have the calm mentality that they will need from us later on."
To this Percy asks: "Does that include speaking of things one of us would want them to change?" And I nod and say: "Yes, but only voicing the desire. We will bring it up in depth when they join us." And Percy nods before Bill sighs and says: "If it's alright with everyone else, I'd like to go first." And we all nod as he says:

"I don't really have a whole lot to say about the last few years, but – that is mostly my own fault. I had forgotten that there was actually a year age difference between Ron and Ginny and while I had planned to see them both off – I – I don't even remember what made me have to give up on it, just that I couldn't make it.
No, the first time I heard anything of my family was when they came to me and I – I feel terrible about that. I mean, I had already spend 2 years working to have a formidable reputation and I was earning plenty of money I could easily take several days off a year. Sometimes my human chief even fought my goblin chief over them.
So why I didn't just take a few weeks off myself to take a Portkey home and be the big brother and eldest of the clan that I was born to be – I have no answers as to why I didn't do that. However, there is one thing I would like to get off my chest." And here he looks at the one person I was afraid he would look at as he says:

"Mum, I know I haven't been around as often as you would like to have me around, but – can you please accept that I am a 28 year old man with a wife and the experience to make my own decisions. Yes, I will make mistakes, any child, teen and adult will make them – but I'd like them to be my mistakes. Can you accept that?"
And the woman sighs as she says: "I – I think I can work on it. I do agree that your age and experience are quite outstanding, but – I want to ask in return that you will accept that, when we do go back to that world, I will worry as if you were still my eleven year old boy as that was your age when that horrible war ended."
Here Bill goes over to hug her and says: "I can more than accept that, mum. You lost your brothers in that war and we now know how that feels. Now we all have our brothers back and the others and I will do everything we can to stay safe, keep low from Death Eaters and protect those that we lost to their clutches."

And while Charlie, Percy and Fleur all nod in agreement with the eldest of my sons, does Molly shed a few tears before Charlie takes a deep breath and says: "If everyone's okay with it, I would like to finally do something I have long since realized I should have done when I first started; explain the duties that I have at my profession."
And while this makes Molly bite her lower lip, do I myself smile as it's a little secret of mine that I did research into the profession myself when Minerva first told me about it being Charlie's dream after his Career Advice Meeting and while Molly goes to sit with me and Fleur joins Bill, does Charlie start and say:

"When I first started working at the Dragon Reserve, I only had one duty; eggs that had been neglected by their mothers and had been taken away by other handlers, to transport them to a special chamber and share the responsibility of looking after them with four other starter handlers until two days before hatching.
From there I got raised up to watching over the eggs as they hatched, raising a few of the younglings a few days a week, keeping an eye on the younglings as they interacted with each other, training them to be ferocious and get accepted by their own kind and finally moving them, in a cage, to where their specie lived.
I barely ever interacted with the larger groups and kinds, except for on two occasions; one was in Harry's first, yet I won't mention anything about it other than that it had been more than obviously raised by Hagrid as even Harry would not have gotten it as ferocious as it had been when we picked it up and during the Tournament.

Else, I never got in contact with large dragons simply because of one simple part of me that I have long since come to accept. As much as I know about Dragons and spells that can help calm and sooth – and if need be tranquilize – them, my magic just isn't strong enough to cast the required spells and get through their hides.
I am not magically strong enough for such a responsibility and so I demanded my chief that he never upgrade me to such a position and when I was needed at Hogwarts, I demanded that everyone else be Top Rank Spell Casters of the Dragon Reserve as I didn't feel confident enough to otherwise handle either situation."

The man then looks at Molly, who has wide eyes as she hears all this and he says: "I never went for a job I knew I couldn't handle, mum, I knew my limits as well as my passions and desires and I've always done my best to mix them together." And instantly the woman has her arms around him, tears streaming down her eyes.
Charlie himself has a huge smile on his own face and says: "I know I sometimes come home with burns and all, but they're usually from younglings that are ready to rejoin their specie. It's the only really dangerous aspect of my job and I always make sure to have plenty of potions against the burns ready at my home.
I take care of myself, mum, I really do." And while the woman keeps crying softly, does she nod silently, this making the smile on my second eldest growing tenfold, while the rest of us smile as we watch this coming of understanding happen between the two, the argument itself maybe not all that great, yet having always been there.

Then Percy sighs and wants to open his mouth, yet I shake my head and say: "Promise you will speak of the issues we have gathered over the years one at a time and we can get there. Don't expect Ron, the twins or Ginny to go easy on you as you abandoned them when you argued with me and I will protect you when I feel they go too far.
I'm not saying you don't deserve redemption or that you haven't already been punished, having been present when it happened, I'm just saying that I know the other kids, Ron and the twins especially and the twins are just who they are; the twins. Plus, you may not know it, but Ron really looked up to you all the way until the argument.
You left him alone more than you did any of us, so I will let him rage. In return, I think we best leave all the other problems that our family caused each other in regards to our escalating argument between us, can you agree on that Percy?" And while the young man looks down, does Molly suddenly speak up and say:

"Arthur, that is totally uncalled for. He came back to us. He apologized. He saw Fred get killed. Why can't –?" And then Percy proves me he is my son full and through as he says: "Because I deserve it. Because dad is right. Because I shouldn't have just expected the others to side with dad without talking to them myself.
I did that and with it I abandoned them and disregarded their rights as individuals. And because of that, do I deserve it if they have a go at me. Besides, seeing how so many others have been proven to have made mistakes even when we don't expect them, I'm sure I'll have some of my own mistakes pointed out as well."
And when Molly wants to speak up, does Percy interrupt her and say: "And that's good. That is why these books are here. To make us realize that we have made mistakes and help us learn from them. How else are Harry and his family supposed to be good leaders and how else are we supposed to save the other world from war?"

And while everyone smiles at the third of my sons, Bill and Charlie's smiles proving that this is the Percy they believe they grew up with and that they are happy to see returned after all these years, does Fleur then shock us straight out of our skins as she asks: "Is this a bad time to announce that I might be pregnant?"

And she renders us speechless.

Hey everyone,
Okay, so the whole thing with the Weasleys may not have been as elaborate as I had wanted or you guys expected, but I felt it would be best to just flesh Bill and Charlie out a little, have Percy acknowledge at least his first real mistake in regards to the family and that he might have made more before then.
The reason I did so is because we only have Diagon Alley before we get our first meeting with the Weasleys and I feel that is just a much better place to start pointing out the mistakes made by more than just Percy. And yes, I will be using this series to help certain characters redeem themselves, emphasizing the word some.
Okay see yah,

Venquine1990