This story is based off of Harry Potter written by J.K Rowling

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A majority of this chapter is Hermione reading a certain story word for word, feel free to skip those parts if you have already read it.

"- normal speech

'- Parseltongue

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After we finish lunch i get up to throw the trash away when i remember something i forgot to do earlier in the greenhouse.

I throw away the trash and turn to tom, "i'll meet you in the office, get the book off the bookcase and get comfortable on the couch, i have to get one more thing from the greenhouse."

He nods and i give him a kiss on the forehead as i walk by, once i get inside the greenhouse i start walking towards the back where the Mandrake is located, i don't want to deal with any form of screaming or screeching right now so all i do when i reach the section is pick off a Mandrake leaf from a newly matured plant.

I then proceed to place the leaf in my mouth and use a sticking charm to keep the leaf attached to the roof of my mouth, alright first step towards Animagus transformation complete, now i have to keep it there for a month starting today and then i can start the second step which won't be till around June 18th give or take a day.

I head inside and upstairs to the office where i find everyone in their portrait and tom sitting on the couch with a throw blanket.

I walk up and ruffle his hair, "did demi head out?"

He nods, "yea he used the window we always leave open for nagini and akasha, he will come back tomarrow though."

I chuckle, "well i don't think he will stay away for long anyway" i sit next to him and pull him into my side, he then hands me The Tales of Beedle the Bard and i turn to the page where The Tale of the Three Brothers begins, "everyone listening?"

Once i have confirmed everyone is listening i begin reading, "There were once three brothers who were traveling along a lonely, winding road at twilight. In time, the brothers reached a river too deep to wade through and too dangerous to swim across. However, these brothers were learned in the magical arts, and so they simply waved their wands and made a bridge appear across the treacherous water. They were halfway across it when they found their path blocked by a hooded figure. And Death spoke to them. He was angry that he had been cheated out of three new victims, for travelers usually drowned in the river.-"

Ignotus interrupted, "now for the record, death may or may not have been angry, i don't know, but he was for sure fucking with us or at least overreacting because i'm pretty sure only a few people had ever died in that river, locals did not choose that river to swim in and travelers were usually smart enough to choose a different route or turn back once they saw the river."

Antioch nods, "i always did think death was a drama queen."

Tom and i giggle, drama queen it is, i continue, "But Death was cunning. He pretended to congratulate the three brothers upon their magic, and said that each had earned a prize for having been clever enough to evade him. So the oldest brother, who was a combative man, asked for a wand more powerful than any in existence: a wand that must always win duels for it's owner, a wand worthy of a wizard who had conquered Death! So death crossed to an elder tree on the banks of the river, fashioned a wand from a branch that hung there, and gave it to the oldest brother.-"

Antioch says, "alright first things first, i asked for a wand that can beat anyone else's, a wand particularly helpful in duels and a wand that can only be wielded by a wizard that stands a chance against death, so really how powerful the elder wand is depends on the skill and knowledge of the wizard, the wand only gives you a boost, and that would not be enough for a very unskilled wizard to win against a skilled one."

"And he just kind of pulled it out of a pocket in his robe" Cadmus added helpfully.

I nod, that does make sense, i continue reading, "Then the second brother, who was an arrogant man, decided that he wanted to humiliate Death still further, and asked for the power to recall others from Death. So Death picked up a stone from the riverbank and gave it to the second brother, and told him that the stone would have the power to bring back the dead.-"

"Alright" Cadmus just shakes his head, "i asked for something that allows me to talk to the dead, it does not bring anyone back to life, and i thought it could be useful, i wouldn't exactly say i was arrogant, everything else is pretty much accurate" he says with a shrug.

Seeing that nobody had anything else to add i continue reading, "And then Death asked the third and youngest brother what he would like. The youngest brother was the humblest and also the wisest of the brothers, and he did not trust Death. So he asked for something that would enable him to go forth from that place without being followed by death. And Death, most unwillingly, handed over his own Cloak of Invisibility.-"

Antioch scoffs, "humble indeed, out of the three of us, Cadmus is the humblest" then he tilts his head, "although wisest is true enough."

Ignotus smirks, "ah, thank you dear brother, it is accurate in what i asked for, but that is not the reason why. None of us trusted Death, you don't have to be smart to see that trusting him is a bad idea, i asked to not be followed by Death simply because i didn't want to be stopped every time i crossed a damn river or something similar."

Cadmus nods in support, "you would think he had better things to do then bother us for constructing a bridge that any other wizard could have made, i'm sure enough people die everyday to keep him busy."

Tom and I nod, you would think so but like they said earlier, he is definitely a drama queen, i continue reading, "Then Death stood aside and allowed the three brothers to continue on their way, and they did so, talking with wonder of the adventure they had had, and admiring Death's gifts. In due course the brothers separated, each for his own destination. The first brother traveled on for a week or more, and reaching a distant village, sought out a fellow wizard with whom he had a quarrel. Naturally, with the Elder Wand as his weapon, he could not fail to win the deul that followed. Leaving his enemy dead upon the floor, the oldest brother proceeded to an inn, where he boasted loudly of the powerful wand he had snatched from Death himself, and of how it made him invincible. That very night, another wizard crept upon the oldest brother as he lay, wine-sodden, upon his bed. The thief took the wand and, for good measure, slit the oldest brother's throat. And so Death took the first brother for his own.-"

Antioch simply sighs, "well, there isn't that much wrong with this version."

Ignotus nods, "you did tend to boast after beating someone."

Antioch nods in agreement, "right, although i didn't have a quarrel with him, i did know him and he never did like me, never knew why" Cadmus snorted but Antioch ignores him, "anyway, he challenged me to a duel and it ended with my opponent being disarmed, nobody died, and it wasn't some random thief it was the person i beat in the duel, i'm sure he would have slit my throat with or without the wand, otherwise it is accurate."

I look to Tom, "want to finish off the story?"

He nods and begins reading, very well for an 8 year old, where i left off, "Meanwhile, the second brother journeyed to his own home, where he lived alone. Here he took out the stone that had the power to recall the dead, and turned it thrice in his hand. To his amazement and his delight, the figure of the girl he had once hoped to marry, before her untimely death, appeared at once before him. Yet she was sad and cold, separated from him as by a veil. Though she had returned to the mortal world, she did not truly belong there and suffered. Finally the second brother, driven mad with hopeless longing, killed himself so as truly to join her. And so Death took the second brother for his own" Tom stops reading and looks up at Cadmus with questioning eyes.

Cadmus releases a sad sigh and gives a sad smile, "that is probably the most accurate part of this whole story, the only part is about the stone not bringing people back from the dead, i was only able to talk to her."

Ignotus nods sadly, "she was a good match for you, i can see how only being able to talk would hurt."

Antioch frowns, "which is why you probably shouldn't have used it, talking with her was probably amazing, but it left you wanting more, things you can't have because you can't do anything more than talk."

I nod and ruffle Tom's hair, he continues reading, "But though Death searched for the third brother for many years, he was never able to find him. It was only when he had attained a great age that the youngest brother finally took off the Cloak of Invisibility and gave it to his son. And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life."

Ignotus nods, "that's pretty much it, even though i'm sure i could have live at least a little bit longer, i decided i was old enough, and i figured Death was getting more than a little cranky."

Antioch tilts his head, "it is very weird to see how stories can get changed over time, even if it's the tiniest amount, though some of those parts were more than a little bit different."

Tom looks at Ignotus with a questioning expression, "if you died when you were older than why are you young in your portrait?"

He just smiles, "because we were this age when we created the portraits, and even though we created them before we died, we hold all of the memories from our living moments even after creation."

Salazar continues for him in a lecture voice i often heard from professor Snape, "when a portrait is created it is merely like any other muggle painting, after the death of the wizard the portrait then becomes animated, like we are now."

Cadmus smiles sadly, "and we made our portraits at such a young age because in our time it was much more dangerous for muggles and wizards alike, much more fighting and more diseases made dieing young very common so wizards and witches had their portraits made sooner than they do now, or even durring Salazar's time, which can be seen because of how much older he was when he made his portrait in comparison to us."

Tom accepts the answers with a nod and sits to think over what's on his mind, i hope it isn't a gloomy topic.

I look over to the window we leave open for Ari to come in and out of when i hear a bird caw of some description, when i look to Ari's perch i see her resting there, so who's bird is outside?

i suppose it sounded like an owl, but there was also this familiar sound to it, like someone i knew had the same kind of owl, and i would hear that owls sounds often enough to remember a similar one.

Which means the person i'm thinking of is from my time, someone from hogwarts that would get mail fairly often and i would hear their owl.

This conclusion is very strange, strange because in a way, i didn't expect things from this time to remind me of things from my time even something as simple as similar owls. But who is it reminding me of?

I am answered as the owl finally reached the window and swooped in to land on the back of my desk chair, it was an eagle owl.

Just like Draco Malfoy's eagle owl... oh...

I wonder how he's doing.

I had decided that the most probable explanation for all the differences in my current time line in comparison to how everything was in my old time line, already things have happened differently here, which means all of the things i change and accomplish here does not effect the reality i came from, meaning no matter what happens here, voldemort will still exist and win there, that will never change.

So i wonder how the Draco i knew is doing, did he run away like he seemed to want to do, did he leave the death eaters? Maybe, maybe not, he might still be with them, too scared to leave and risk getting caught, too scared to leave his parents to the mercy of voldemort.

I know Draco and i didn't really get along all that well, but we grew up together, we were around eachother for the majority of every year since we were 11, and in the last 2 or so years we had reached an understanding, it is hard to work on group projects when your assigned partner hates you after all. And i'm positive that if we had met under different circumstances, if there had been no prejudice then we might have been able to start out as friends, best friends even.

There is nothing i can do about my time, but i can do plenty here, helping Tom and making him happy, giving this reality's Draco and Hermione a chance at friendship, maybe even help professor Snape, he didn't deserve that much suffering either.

I promise to give as many people as i can a fighting chance at everything we weren't able to accomplish or experience.

Snapping out of that train of thought i unrap myself from Tom and walk over to the patiently waiting owl. I untie the message from his talon and give him a few treats from the jar on my desk, he does not leave so i assume he is waiting for a reply.

I look at the wax seal on the letter and discover that it looks like Mathew's seal, i open it while walking over to Tom and i read it allowed for everyone's benefit, "Dear Hermione and Tom, i have been informed by Rio that we will have a normal day of work on monday with no pressing matters but on Tuesday we will be taking a portkey to Romania to complete the monthly check of the dragon reserve to make sure everything is running smoothly, we will be meeting at the office and we will be staying over night and taking a portkey back that afternoon, so don't forget to pack some clothes and any supplies you think we will need, it's up to you guys whether or not Tom comes along, just know that if you decide to Rio won't complain, my owl's name is Tully by the way, he's big but don't let that fool you, he's a softy. Your partner, Mathew Chaney."

I look at Tom and smile, "so? You want to go?"

Tom stares at me stunned, "you mean i can go? I get to see dragons? But i thought i wasn't allowed to go anywhere dangerous" his excitement doesn't diminish even as he waits for my answer.

"There will be plenty of other experienced wizards there to help handle the dragons if anything happens, it will be a safe as being around dragons can be" i smile and ruffle his hair, "besides this way you and me get a chance to try and see if Parseltongue works on anything other than snakes."

He is practically jumping around with all of his excitement, then he proceeds to go over to a book shelf and pull out a book only on the different dragon species, he sits back down on the couch to read.

I'm not surprised, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them only has brief descriptions of each one. I walk over and give tom a kiss on the head, "i'll write back to Mathew and i'll let you know when dinner is ready."

I go over to my desk and pull out some parchment and a pen and write a quick reply back basically asking what time we are meeting on Tuesday, letting him know that i will be bringing some dragon tonic just in case and reassuring him that Tully is indeed adorable. I fold up the letter, melt some wax, and seal it with our family Signet ring.

I tie the reply onto Tully's talon and give him a few more treats before he leaves, he nips my finger gently and flies out the window and back to Mathew.

I look back towards Tom and giggle at his frantic reading, he is going to be out of his mind waiting until Tuesday.

I make my way downstairs and think of what i should make for dinner. Soup sounds good, maybe some chicken noodle soup, or maybe albondigas soup, i'm sure Tom would like either one, hm, lets stick with the mexican theme today and do albondigas soup.

And so i prepare dinner while Tom is busy reading up on dragons.

_Tom P.O.V_

I get up Tuesday morning wide awake and ready to go, Sunday was spent almost entirely reading about all the different dragons and eating meals with Mia, and Monday was a normal day of paper work for Mia and Mathew so i just continued reading and waited for our time to leave.

At noon we left the ministry as usual and Mia apparated us to the hog's head to see Aberforth and eat lunch, after we ordered and waited for our food i spent the time informing Aberforth about seeing dragons soon and how exciting it was going to be. He looked worried and asked if it was a good idea for me to go but Mia told him what she told me when i asked and he looked less worried but not all concern was gone.

But i know i'll be safe with Mia and besides, it's finally Tuesday and i can't wait anymore. Last night we packed so my bag of clothes and supplies is already inside mia's bottomless bag with her stuff, and i already have my clothes picked out for the day and since i don't have to be at the ministry for very long i don't have to wear the robe on top. it's just a pair of dark pants and a simple blue shirt with a jacket, i take my clothes and head to the bathroom for a quick bath, nagini chuckle hissing at me as i walk past, I fill up the tub and grab a bath bomb at random which happens to be lemongrass, i toss it in and take a quick 10 minutes no time for soaking.

After i get dressed, I holster my wand on my arm this time since i don't have a long robe to hide it on my thigh, i put on my jacket and go towards nagini so she can coil around me.

By the time i get to Mia's room she is already dressed in her work robes with her wand holstered on her thigh, even though she won't be at the ministry she will still be working so she can't just change clothes.

"Can we go yet?" I'm practically whining and she laughs while Akasha coils around her.

She walks to me and ruffles my hair, "lets go downstairs and eat breakfast first."

I go down the stairs as fast as she will let me and she pulls out bowls and cereal, i'm sure it's because she knows i am too impatient to wait for her to cook.

By the time we finish we have 45 min before the portkey is scheduled to take us.

Mia stands and looks at Salazar and the Peverell brothers, "bye you guys i will see you tomarrow around dinner time, keep an eye on the house while we are gone" she looks at salazar specifically, "see you at the office."

He nods and Mia grabs ahold of my hand, i wave goodbye right before we apparate straight to the office.

We are the first ones there so we sit and wait for Mathew who shows up around 15 minutes later, giving us around 30 minutes to wait for the portkey that will finally take us to the dragons.

Its such a long wait, i find myself counting the seconds while Mia and Mathew discuss what they have to inspect and take care of while they're there.

When Nora finally opens the door holding a necklace i nearly jump at her.

"Alright it's time to go, this necklace will take you directly inside the reservation and a worker there will meet you when you land" she hands the necklace to Mia, "the activation word is tickle."

She leaves and we all stand in a circle to ready ourselves, Mia holds it out infront of her and interlocks her free arm with mine tightly, Mathew and I grab ahold of the necklace and Mia says, "alright just hold on tight, don't let go" her grip on me tightens, "1. 2. 3. Tickle."

And we are spinning way faster than any apparation.