The Heart Wants What It Wants

"Mysterious thing, Time. Powerful, and when meddled with, dangerous."

That was something Albus Dumbledore said a very long time ago. And he was about to be proven right once more. In fact, no one really knew how time worked, or time travel for that matter. This was especially the case when you find yourself travelling through time with a broken Time-Turner. Where, or more precisely, when will you end up?

Some people say that this depends on you. The Time-Sand listens to your deepest heart's desires, even to those so deep down, you didn't even realize they existed. This, of course, made deciding when to go quite difficult, keeping in mind that there were eighteen kids' hearts to consider. Not an easy task at all! But Time-Sand wouldn't be Time-Sand if it weren't able to find a solution that was still quite fitting.

Therefore, our time-travellers found themselves in a place not that unknown at the second glance. Even though it seemed to be a lot darker and much dustier than they remembered. Well, alt least, they realized that something went very, very wrong. After all, this didn't seem to be a good place to end up because of a more or less intentional journey through time.

And things weren't about to get any better. Their arrival couldn't possibly remain unnoticed, since they all tumbled to the floor of a dark room with a loud thud.

"James Sirius Potter, I'm going to kill you!" That or something similar could be heard from nearly everyone of the group, after they finally managed to disentangle themselves from each other.

Victoire Weasley even started shouting at said person in French, something she had inherited from her mother. And like you might have guessed by now, this was not a good sign at all. Vitoire was very, very angry. "James Sirus Potter, tu es un idiot. Incroyable ! As-tu même remarqué à quel point tu es stupide? Tu aurais pu nous tuer tous. Tu te rends compte? Tu es vraiment le plus grand idiot de tous les temps."

(James Sirius Potter, you're such an idiot. Unbelievable! Do you even notice how stupid you are? You could have killed us all. Do you realize that? You really are the greatest idiot ever.)

And that was just the beginning of it. She went on and on, James Sirius becoming smaller and smaller in the progress. Luckily for him, she was soon disrupted by a man entering the room. He was wearing a long, purple robe and had a white, very long beard. Now, he was looking at them with his blue eyes which were framed by half-moon spectacles. But that wasn't the strangest thing about the man. No, he seemed not the slightest bit surprised about them standing in this uninviting hallway.

"There you are", he said, "I already expected you."

This left all of the time-travellers a little astonished. But in the end, Teddy broke the heavy silence with a very deep question. "What?"

"Welcome to Number 12, Grimmauld Place. We are currently in the year 1995."

"But…but…how did you know that we…?", James Sirius was asking now.

"Ah, I have my ways, young man. Now, follow me! I'm sure you want to meet the rest of us. You actually arrived during one of the meetings of the Order of the Phoenix. Of course, you know about that, don't you? No one else knows that you're coming. This will be quite a surprise!", the old man, who now could definitely be recognized as Dumbledore, exclaimed with a spark of joy in his eyes. He didn't seem even a bit worried, much in contrast to his young companions.

"By the way, what year are you from exactly?", Dumbledore asked on their way down to the meeting room, trying to lighten the mood.

"2015", Teddy answered nervously. It didn't work.

And the nervousness wasn't unnecessary either. As soon as they entered the room, there were countless wands pointing at them. How are you not supposed to be nervous in a situation like this?

"Ah, put away your wands. That's a very unfriendly way to welcome our guests", Dumbledore said. "Molly, you better call down the kids. This is going to be very exciting."

This left not just the time-travellers very dumbfounded, but the Order members as well. Nonetheless, Molly left the room to call down the children.

As soon as Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Fred and George arrived downstairs, the situation became even more awkward. The time-travellers were now facing their parent, but a much younger version of them. How was that even possible? Now you might say, "Well, that's how time travel works." But the children from the future weren't quite ready to accept that just yet. Therefore, the first few minutes consisted of staring competitions between both parties. Neither one of them was able to really understand what was going on.

So, disturbing the silence, Dumbledore raised his voice, "Well, sit down, sit down! May I introduce you to our visitors from the future?"

"But…How do you know they are not Deatheaters?", Sirius Black asked the obvious question.

"Mr Black, just trust me with this. I think I know quite well who we can trust. And those are just children, are they not? Now…"

He was again disrupted by a bad-tempered Alastor Moody who wasn't ready to let the matter slip so easily. "But Dumbledore! They could be…!", he tried to reason with the old man, but was, of course, unsuccessful.

"But they aren't. I'm quite certain. They came a long way from 2015 just to visit us, so be nice!"

"Actually, it was an accident", James Sirius interrupted.

"How's that? How did you and up here then, young man"

"Well…" James wasn't quite sure what to say.

"Are we even allowed to talk about this. I mean, future and such?", Teddy interfered.

But Dumbledore, always one step ahead of everyone else, didn't see the tiniest problem with that. "Oh, that's not a problem at all. You're parents can just obliviate us when they come to pick you up."

"How do you know this will happen?", Professor McGonegall now asked a very legitimate question.

"Minerva, you above all must know, that I know quite a lot of things!" With this statement Dumbledore's eyes sparkled even more.

"Alright, go ahead. Tell them!", Teddy directed at James.

Said person didn't seem so sure of himself anymore and was therefore quite unsure where to look. Finally, he began to explain: "Well, it was my father's birthday, so everyone came over and we played some Quidditch in the garden. And then…"

"Go on! Tell them what happened!", Victoire interrupted, still quite furious.

"Well, I kind of sneaked into my dad's office, even though I wasn't allowed to, and found a Time-Turner. I wanted to show it to the others, but they didn't seem as excited as I was. Still don't get that to be honest." This earned him some very angry looks from most of his friends. "They tried to grab it from me and then I kind of dropped it and the Time-Turner broke. And then, all of a sudden, we were here. Don't even know how that's possible. We weren't anywhere near Number 12, Grimmauld Place in the first place."

"Well, Time-Turners a mysterious things indeed", Dumbledore explained.

And that was the moment, in which time stand still for a while, for Teddy Lupin fully registered that his dead parents where standing in the same room. A quite shocking observation, leaving him more than just a little dumbfounded. Time was a mysterious thing after all.

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PS: The title is a line from "The Heart Wants What It Wants" by Selena Gomez.
PPS: All characters belong to J.K. Rowling!