Hey everyone,
So, with this chapter I will be finishing up the Squad part, yet after this we will have two more chapters on the Gang and then we will move onto the final chapter of Prisoner of Azkaban. However, I am still debating on whether or not they will take a bit of a break or if they will dive straight into Goblet of Fire.
Oh well, have fun,

Venquine1990

Chapter 25
The Squad – Part 02

3rd of November 1993
Astronomy Tower
Jack Lupin's POV

"Hey, what are you two doing here?" I hear a curious voice behind me and when my brother and I look up we see Percy standing in the entrance to the Astronomy Tower where we have gone to do our annual duty and we turn back, my focus straight on the sun that shines overhead as we chorus: "Looking out for our families."
"What? How?" Percy asks and I answer: "I'm watching the reflection that comes from the sunbeams shining down on the grounds and through the windows." Before Eddy says: "And I'm using the power of the moon, which thanks to it being day is able to gather its ethereal power, to strengthen the ability of my twin as he does this."

"Your powers sure are amazing." Percy says as he comes to lean against one of the stone walls that are stationed between the banisters that, together, make the walls of the Astronomy tower before he says: "You know, my brothers are looking for you." And we hum as he looks at us again and asks: "You don't like pulling pranks?"
And I answer: "We do." And Eddy ends: "When we're off duty." This seems to confuse Percy and I turn to him as I say: "There is no stronger force in this Universe than the sun." And Eddy goes on and says: "And no power can be more terrifying than that of the mysterious moon at night." And the boy shudders as he hears this.
"We are the Squad's protectors. We keep them entertained, we keep them safe." We then chorus and Percy looks at us shocked before he sighs: "Man, I wish the twins were more like you." But here we send him a furious glare, making him meep in fright before we hiss: "Never wish to change those you love – ever."

The boy nods and then another pair of voices chorus: "Oh, there you guys are." And instantly we get evidence that Percy is not the only one who seems to want to change his loved ones as well as why he made this comment as the twins come to sit beside us and each of them wraps an arm around one of our shoulders as one of them says:
"Come on, let's have some fun." Before the other, who is on the right of Eddy who is on my right with the first twin on my left, says: "Yeah, heavens knows you can't have any fun with Bighead Boy Percy around." Yet my brother and I share a disbelieving look with each other before we forcefully shrug off the arms around our shoulders.
The twins look shocked and we get up off our seats as I say: "When you have learned the difference between fun and duty come find us." Before Eddy says: "Also, don't bother until you've learned what you can and cannot say in front of your family or about your loved ones, whether you mean it all in good fun or not."

And with that do we move to walk away, yet at the doorway do I turn around one last time and say: "We may have been a Squad instead of actually related, but my friends and I are closer than you and your older brother. Think on that." And with that do we leave the Astronomy Tower, me at least confident of one thing.
Jeremy is with his mother, Isaac is with his sister, Elena just left a Slytherin girl Harry's age at the lake, Rosaline seems to have just left Hogwarts for Hogsmeade, Irma is relaxing at the bottom of a gorgeous bath, Edena is having fun in the Hogwarts kitchens and Jeffrey is swinging from one hoop to another at the Quidditch Pitch.
All of them are perfectly happy with their free time and their younger selves as well as Eddy's and my own are all, in one way or another in contact with our families or others. And most importantly, both our present selves as well as our future selves are all in perfect health and most of them are also smiling in happy enjoyment with their tasks.

Prefect Bathroom
Irma's POV

There are so many ways that I can play with the water and the faucets in this incredible room and yet at the same time have various puddles of water allowed me to see small things, which is exactly why I am here. Now that our parents are back and that their attacker is on the run I feel the need to be sure that he won't hurt them again.
Because of that have I used my Elemental Power to have the plumbing of Hogwarts lead me to the largest bathroom the castle has before experimenting on all of the different faucets and finally I used 19 different faucets to create nineteen different puddles of water across the edge of the bathroom and then filled the tub all the way full.
After this I got completely undressed and used my elemental power to create a huge wall of water to cover the entranceway in order to ensure my privacy before getting down to the bottom of the bathtub and thanks to my control over water do I not drown even though I am utterly submerged and instead of that do my powers start to boost up.

I feel this boost going through my whole body, strengthening my muscles, sharpening my senses and making my outer skin nerves tingle with an aura of sensitive awareness and when I am sure that the water has done it utmost work on me do I easily use it to move back up to the surface and out of the tub, dry as sand.

I then move over to the nineteen puddles, which I have sorted into pairs of two for each of my friends present and future selves as well as myself and my own present self and look at each of them one at a time. And the first thing I notice is that each of them have a dried out edge all around each of their respective puddles.
This worries me and I think: "There is indirect danger on the horizon. Pettigrew is going to try and get back at us for ruining his MMB plan." At this I squeeze my eyes closed tight to push down on the sense of fear that comes with this knowledge and instead of that do I focus on my need to see what else the Puddles can show me.
I focus back on the puddles in front of me and instantly the way that the puddles of Jeremy, Jason, Elena, Elisa, Edena and Iris are all rippling with different colors swirling through them, each of these colors making me know the ripples have to do with their families make me feel even worse about what is about to come.

"So not only is Pettigrew after our hides, three of my friends and their younger selves are about to have trouble settling in with their families. Can things get any worse?" And I focus on the puddles for Jack, Jason, Eddy and Edward, a relieved smile growing on my face as their puddles are perfectly calm and tranquil.
"There will nothing be happening to those four. They will just remain their usual selves and will have the easiest time settling into their new lives." And with that do I focus on the last nine puddles and these really make me happier than ever as they look as if a rainbow is shining across their surface; happy times yet to come.
And with that good news in mind do I think: "If I can just get the help of Jack, Eddy and their younger selves, I can further increase the happy times that Isaac, Joshua, Rosaline, Rosemary, little Irina and I, Jeffrey, Jessie and Harry have on their paths and that might make us better prepared against the dark times the others are facing."
And with these thoughts and my determination to see them become reality do I let the wall of water drop from covering the entrance to the bathroom and leave it, no one passing the hallway as I enter and I happily move through the castle, hoping to find the three groups that I oversaw and tell them what I was able to see.

Hogwarts Kitchen
Edena's POV

These House Elves sure are territorial, but nothing can keep a Fire Elemental from a furnace, let alone a whole four dozen set of stoves and I convinced them to let me have my fun by setting all of the fires they used for preparing the upcoming lunch meals to exactly the right heats and temperature, earning the little bugger's respects.
And while I had been dependent on my own flames during the years we were down under and the herbs and plants that Rosaline was able to grow within our little hideaway, do I now feel so much more free and able to let out my inner food lover as there are hundreds upon hundreds of different ingredients all around me.
And while I hate how sometimes the House Elves look at my own cooked meals as if I am doing everything wrong, do I still love the sound of the fire as it prickles under the pots and pans in front of me and the sound of the metal of said pots and pans heating up from the heat of my fire and finally the sound of food preparing itself.

"Mss. Weasley, what are you doing here?" I suddenly hear a voice asking and while focusing my skill on the pots in front of me to make sure I don't accidentally burn anything, do I turn to the portrait hole where Professor McGonagall is stood, but then the woman looks at where I am at and for some reason she starts to smile.
"Taking after your mother, I see." She then says, yet I tilt my head and the woman approaches me as she says: "Molly Weasley is known for three things, Mss. Weasley; her temper, her love for her family and her cooking skills. And so far, I can see that you take after her in at least two of those three aspects of her infamous character."
At this I smile and say: "It feels so much better to cook food upon a stove instead of using a plate of metal created out of the walls of our hideout and a single flame." And the woman sighs as I seem to remind her of what my life was like before Harry came to find us, we found the Time Sand and were send back in time.

"You have no idea how grateful I am for you and your friends to have come back in time, Mss. Weasley. The – the fact that I – that I have my – my most favorite and harshly missed students back in my life. I – I just have no words to describe how happy this makes me; how happy this makes all those who missed them all these years."
Yet I don't feel like accepting these words of gratitude just yet as instead I ask: "What do you think happened to them? In the timeline we came from, I mean?" And the woman seems to close up, making me raise an eyebrow at her as she doesn't even seem to want to think about the events in the future that led our journey back in time.
And while this makes me question her skills as head of House does she turn to my cooking and ask: "What are you making here anyway? This doesn't seem to be on the usual lunch menu." Yet I send her an unimpressed look and calmly say: "What I wonder is why a teen is more willing to talk of her own troubled past than an adult."

And the woman looks at me shocked before I turn to her and say: "You might not like hearing it, but if you keep putting your head in the sand like that, how are your students supposed to believe that you will give them advice that is appropriate to their problems? Or do you only pretend to be an ostrich when it comes to war stories?"
The woman looks at me shocked and I say: "My role in the Squad; tell my friends like it is whether they like to hear it or not, help them develop there where they don't like to admit that they're lacking – and blow up on anyone who thinks they can say the wrong things to my family. Oh, and I'm also a decent cook. Like my mum, I guess."
And just because I say all this so loftily, do I just know I have thrown the woman off her game completely as she stumbles back, away from my stove before she says: "I – I will go let Molly know you inherited her talent. She'll be happy to hear that." Yet I ignore the scaredy cat as she turns around and leaves the kitchen.

Quidditch Pitch
Jeffrey's POV

"Wheee! Wooooh! Hahahahahahah!" I shout and laugh as I just swing from one super high goal ring to another, the wind that blows between them catching and launching me whenever I either land on one ring or when I swing to another and the feeling of this freedom, after two years of living underground is pure heaven.
"No wonder Harry always spoke of Quidditch with so much happy glee. Being up here is the absolute best. Heck, if I didn't have family, I wouldn't have gone down for hours. Hahahaha!" Goes through my mind as I fly from the far left hoop on the east side of the pitch to the far right one and then I decide that I am ready.

I catch the ring in my hands, swing from it enough to make a perfect upward spin and land with my feet on the inside of the ring before holding onto the inside of the ring by the side with one hand and focus my gaze on the other set of the rings which are on the other side of the Quidditch pitch and which shine in the sunlight.
I then crouch down as far as I can as well as stretch my free arm behind my back as far as I can before jumping straight up and forward with a powerful arc and while my own inner body strength allows me to get across a nice amount of distance do I then swing my arm forward with great strength, causing for a gust of wind to blow.
And the power of this wind allows me to actually make another jump mid-air, as if I am jumping onto something solid and this, together with the wind blowing into my back and widespread robes, allows me to make a couple of summersaults in the open sky before I actually reach the other side and land on the far left ring.

And instantly I hook my legs on the bottom of the ring and let myself fall, causing for my upper body to swing back and forth underneath the ring while I keep laughing in sheer delight, only to stop in shock when a male voice says: "Bloody Hell, you're Harry's brother, alright." And I look down at the ground in shock.
There I see Oliver standing, a huge crate under one of his arms and a broom in his other hand before he says: "You're as crazy with your stunts as he is. How did you do that anyway? I was sure I would have to break my neck getting on my broom and lifting up just fast enough to be able to catch you when you finished that first jump."
Yet I calmly smile at my brother's boyfriend and say: "I'm the Wind Elemental, remember?" And the guy smiles as he drops the box besides him and then says: "Alright then, care to test your Elemental powers against my Keeper skills?" At which I ask: "How?" And the lad pulls a large red ball out of the box as he says:
"Simple. I'll just fly in front of the hoops and you use your powers to throw the Quaffle at me from every angle you can imagine." This does indeed sound simple and the idea of training with my brother's boyfriend really excites me, so I happily use my power to jump down and say: "Okay, give me a broom." Making him smile.

Hey everyone,
So this chapter was actually shorter than the last, but that was partially because I want to add Harry to the Gang instead of the Squad and because I felt a little lost on what I could actually have people like Jack and Eddy do. As for why them, I love those funny guys, but I didn't feel like making them pseudo Weasley twins.
Next chapter will concern Jason, Joshua, Elisa and Rosemary and with them I will include the students in the Great Hall for Jason, the Grangers for Joshua, the Malfoys for Elisa and Frank and Alice for Rosemary. After that it will be John, Edward and their parents, Irina and Luna, Iris and Molly and Jessie and Harry.
This will be fun,

Venquine1990