I own the books - several copies of them - but not the rights to them. I receive no profit from this, it's something I do in my free time. I will be leaving some of the book in, and everything that I add as well, which will be considerably more as the books progress. All quotes that belong to JK Rowling and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Once everyone was settled into their seats, Hermione reached into her pocket and pulled out a small beaded bag. Upon seeing the bag, both Aurora and Ron gave it twin looks of disgust.
"Why do you still have that blasted thing?" Ron scowled. Everyone in the room looked at the bag more closely then. It was a rather pretty bag, the girls thought, nothing to be getting up in arms about.
"What's wrong with it? It's just a bag," Sirius asked, confused and curious about these people from the future.
"It's nothing Padfoot, you'll just learn more about it in the seventh book," Aurora said looking at her godfather. It was the first time she had actually looked at him since they arrived, Sirius noticed and what he saw in her eyes made him sad and worried about what his goddaughter could have seen for her to have eyes that looked like that.
"You know my nickname?" He decided to ask instead, knowing now wasn't the time to get into things with her about her past - future - this time travel thing had him a little unsure on tenses.
"Of course I do. I know lots of things about you guys," she replied, her eyes twinkling mischievously as she looked from him, to Prongs, then to Lily and back again.
"Ro," Hermione interrupted, pulling a book out of the bag that started this discussion in the first place, "they will learn all of our secrets too. And as a matter of fact Ronald," she turned to the red head beside her, "the extension charm on this bag, while not difficult was very time consuming and I would prefer to not have to cast all the charms on another bag again, and the ones for sale in Diagon Alley are really not up to par."
Neville reached over and grabbed the book from Hermione, startling her out of her rant and said, "Who would like to read first?"
Remus summoned the book to himself, "I will," he said while opening it
Before he could start Fred looked around the room at each person, "There are going to be some things in these that don't make people look good. To make things easier on everyone we can have the room restrict magic usage if you would like or we can trust people. But the first hint of cursing people and we will lock up your wands. Are we understood?" Aurora just beamed up at Fred, clutching her necklace in one hand and her boyfriend's hand in the other. Everyone looked a little startled and just nodded their heads in agreement.
Remus cleared his throat and read the title, "Aurora Potter and the Philosopher's Stone."
Dumbledore sent the girl a look, what was she doing with his friend's stone. Did something happen to Nicolas and Pernelle?
"Chapter 1: The Girl Who Lived:" McGonagall began.
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
"You're very welcome," Fabian and Gideon Prewitt said at the same time, causing all the time travelers to turn and look at Fred with a wry smile on their faces.
They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
"What does that mean?" Kingsley said, leaning forward in his chair, sure that he's not going to like the answer.
"Anything not like them," Ron started,
"Especially magic," Aurora finished.
Lily looked like she had finally remembered where she had heard the name Dursley before and looked to her daughter, "I'm not gonna like this at all am I?" The only answer that she received was a sad head shake from Aurora.
Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large mustache.
"Here Mr. Weasley," Hermione said with a smile, levitating a notebook and fountain pen to him before he could ask what drills were. "Write down any questions that you have and I'll answer them during a non reading time." Seeing the confused look on his face about the items in his hands she continued, "These are a notebook, which is lined paper, to help keep everything condensed, and a fountain pen, it's like a quill that holds a larger supply of ink that can last for several months normally before needing to be refilled. When it does finally run out you replace the ink cartridge inside it instead of dipping it in an inkwell."
Arthur nodded enthusiastically and wrote down 'Drills?'
spying on the neighbors.
"Yes that does sound like Petunia," Lily sighed, shooting a small glance over at Severus and saw a slight uptick to his jaw before he schooled his face again.
The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere.
"Sounds like your mother describing you," Barty said to Regulus, causing the Slytherin to glare at the Ravenclaw, before nodding with a laugh.
found out about the Potters.
"Why does it matter to them, the Potters are great people," Peter asked. He loved James, and thought that Charlus and Dorea were some of the best parents a person could ask for. They doted on James, but they also loved him and Remus and took in Sirius as if he was their own child as well.
"It's my sister," Lily said sadly. "She hates magic, hates that I have magic and she doesn't." The marauder's nodded at her, and Alice reached over Frank and the side of their loveseat to reach out and grab Lily's hand for a quick squeeze. She knew how much the topic of Petunia Evans hurt Lily.
pretended she didn't have a sister,
"So it's gotten even worse then," Lily said.
Aurora nodded and added, "Unfortunately when you introduce her and Uncle Vernon to dad in two weeks it gets much worse than it is now, and I think that's what causes the final split on her end. You still tried, but you know how Aunt Petunia can be."
because her sister and her good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be.
"James is not good for nothing," Sirius yelled out.
At his outburst, Remus finally snapped. "Will you all be quiet for one minute. I've not even got through the first page, at this rate it'll be next year before we even finish the chapter." Seeing the snickering faces of his friends and Lily, Alice and Marlene, he sighed, "You were doing it on purpose."
"Well it's just so funny when you lose your temper Moony," Ginny added.
The Dursleys shuddered to think what the neighbors would say if the Potters arrived in the street. The Dursleys knew that the Potters had a small daughter but they had never even seen her. This girl was another good reason for keeping the Potters away; they didn't want Dudley mixing with a child like that.
"What if I don't want my daughter mixing with their son," James mumbled, the only ones to hear him were Lily and Remus.
"Little tyke," chortled Mr. Dursley as he left the house. He got into his car and backed out of number four's drive.
"That is not how you discipline children," Molly said.
It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar — a cat reading a map.
"Minnie!" All the Marauder's yelled.
"What are you doing there Minerva?" Augusta asked her long time friend.
"I have no idea. And how many times do I have to tell you to not call me Minnie," McGonagall said glaring at the Marauder's.
"Only once more Professor Minnie," Aurora said, before her father could. James just beamed at his daughter while the Professor's looked scared that there was another one, apparently just like her father, yet McGonagall's lips twitched a little bit, fighting off a smile.
no, looking at the sign; cats couldn't read maps or signs.
"Idiot muggle," Lucius sneared.
People in cloaks.
"What's wrong with cloaks?" Amos asked.
"Muggle's stopped wearing cloaks years ago," Ted replied.
"In terms of fashion and technology, the wizarding world is several hundred years behind," Andromeda added. The blood purists in the room looked at her with disdain, while Narcissa just turned her nose up at her older sister.
owl after owl sped overhead.
"Why are so many owls being seen. They are usually much more discrete, even when sending letters in the middle of the day," Pandora asked.
"You'll find out shortly," Aurora replied.
walk across the road
"Wait, Moony, did that just say that he walked?" Aurora asked.
"Yes it does," he replied, looking at Aurora strangely.
to buy himself a bun from the bakery.
"Oh that makes more sense," Aurora sighed in relief, it would really be the end of the world if Uncle Vernon actually did any exercise, worse than Voldemort coming back again.
"The Potters, that's right, that's what I heard —"
" — yes, their daughter, Aurora —"
Mr. Dursley stopped dead.
"Would've made life easier," Aurora said.
"Man can you imagine," Fred nodded back.
"Fred!" Molly scolded, "We do not speak that way of others."
Potter wasn't such an unusual name.
"Yes it is, the only Potter's left are James and his parents," Marlene said.
"It's a very common last name in the Muggle world," Lily said.
James just nodded, "It is. It's why the Wizengamot tried to have us removed from the Sacred Twenty-Eight. Said it was too Muggle."
He was sure there were lots of people called Potter who had a daughter called Aurora. Come to think of it, he wasn't even sure his niece was called Aurora.
He'd never even seen the girl. It might have been Amanda. Or Alice.
"He didn't know your name?" Lily asked, shocked.
Aurora just shrugged, she still wasn't sure her uncle knew her name.
but all the same, those people in cloaks…
James just wrapped an arm around Lily and hugged her to him when he noticed the tears forming in her eyes. Severus looked longingly at her for a moment before remembering who he was sitting next to, and that he had made his choice.
"Sorry," he grunted,
"He apologized?" Aurora whispered to her couch mates, shocked.
And the old man hugged Mr. Dursley around the middle and walked off.
"Gone?" Everyone said at the same time. His followers or the future followers that he was meant to mark in two days on Samhain were stunned that he could be defeated, while the others were all celebrating.
"But if he's gone, then why would there be another war with him," Sirius asked.
Aurora just nodded towards the book, her throat too clogged to answer.
he didn't approve of imagination.
"But imagination is the foundation of life," Fabian said.
"Where would humans be if not for imagination," Gideon continued.
The cat didn't move. It just gave him a stern look.
"Why are you there Professor?" Frank looked towards his favorite teacher.
"As this has yet to happen I do not currently have an answer for that Mr. Longbottom," she replied.
"Well I was just transported back several years," Neville laughed.
Was this normal cat behavior?
"Well it's normal Minnie behavior," Alice and Marlene said at the same time.
"You as well now girls?" McGonagall said, lips twitching at them.
"Now Minerva dear, it's a bit of harmless fun," Dumbledore said, eyes twinkling.
"Well, Ted," said the weatherman,
"That's your name dad!" Tonks yelled.
Ted just smiled down at his daughter, "Yes it is dear, but I am not a muggle newscaster."
a whisper about the Potters…
"He's figuring it out," Narcissa said. "If this man can then surely other muggle's can."
"Not really," Lily argued. "Vernon already knows about magic. As much as he wouldn't want to admit it, he knows it exists so part of him knows what all these things mean. Other muggles who don't know about the wizarding world wouldn't immediately jump to magic as the cause of everything going on. They would more than likely think it was something religious."
After all, they normally pretended she didn't have a sister.
James pulled Lily onto his lap to comfort her.
… her crowd."
"I hate that phrase," Aurora said.
"I know, it almost sounds like the Death Eaters when they are talking about Mudbloods," Hermione said. Everyone turned to stare at her when she said mudblood. "What I am one, I'm proud of it. My blood doesn't define me, in fact, my squib ancestor is actually a Rosier, who was abandoned for being a squib."
Lucius and Narcissa looked at the girl thoughtfully, while Lily looked at this girl - who was apparently such good friends with her daughter and embraced all the bad aspects of their world and turned them into something if not good, but something to work with - with such pride.
"Their daughter — she'd be about Dudley's age now, wouldn't she?"
"I suppose so," said Mrs. Dursley stiffly.
"What's her name again? Alice, isn't it?"
"Aurora. Nasty, freak, if you ask me."
"My daughter would have followed the Black tradition, while a boy would have a family name from Lily's side," James scowled.
"You would have named me Harry if I was a boy," Aurora said. "You did still follow mum's flower tradition for a girl though."
"I always wanted to name my daughter Jasmine," Lily smiled at her daughter, "And Harry is my favorite grandfather's name. Probably where I got my magic now that I think about it. He wasn't surprised when we told him I was a witch."
"He is," Hermione said. "I did Aurora's family tree, and was with her after her Gringotts inheritance test."
"Third book," Aurora said.
waiting for something.
Dumbledore looked thoughtful, could he be doing what he thinks he is going to do.
it couldn't affect them…
"Well now he went and jinxed it," Regulus said.
This man's name was Albus Dumbledore.
The Gryffindor's all cheered, only one person noticing the tight smile on Aurora's face. She wasn't sure what to think of her former headmaster any more. She understood to an extent why he had done things the way he chose, but some of his choices had caused her so much pain that could have been avoided if he had just shared a little bit of information.
She respected his position, but the man himself, she just wasn't sure on if she ever would again
Albus Dumbledore didn't seem to realize that he had just arrived in a street where everything from his name to his boots was unwelcome.
"I believe I just did not care."
He clicked it again — the next lamp flickered into darkness.
"Wicked," Peter said at the same time as Fabian and Gideon.
Ron pulled it out of his pocket and flicked it pulling the lights in the room into it. "Yes it is."
"Moony, we need one," James said to his friend as Ron flicked all the lights back on.
"No you do not Mr. Potter," McGonagall said, her eyes narrowed at Remus who looked thoughtful.
I'll bet that was Dedalus Diggle. He never had much sense."
"It was, Dad arrested him the next day," Fred said.
"You can't blame them," said Dumbledore gently. "We've had precious little to celebrate for eleven years."
"But that's only four years from now," James said, looking to the future group for clarification.
"Yes," Aurora nodded. "He was defeated on October 31st, 1981 at 6:34 pm. This chapter is November 1st."
"A lemon drop. They're a kind of Muggle sweet I'm rather fond of."
"And that he puts calming potions in," Luna said airily.
Voldemort."
Several people flinched. Aurora rolled her eyes and flopped on Fred dramatically. Fred looked down at her lovingly while everyone else looked at her confused. "You're going to have to get over that, Ray had never been one to call him You-Know-Who. It is always Voldemort in her first year or she will sometimes call him Tom or Riddle after her second year."
Several people nodded, while Alastor looked at Dumbledore angrily, "Tom Riddle, the half-blood Slytherin 3 years ahead of me, is Voldemort."
The Voldemort followers in the room looked shocked. There is no way that their leader is a half-blood.
Dumbledore just nodded sadly at his friend.
I have never seen any reason to be frightened of saying Voldemort's name."
Flinch
Voldemort,
Flinch
was frightened of."
"You flatter me," said Dumbledore calmly. "Voldemort had powers I will never have."
Flinch.
"Only because you are too noble to use them," Alice said.
"Only because you're too — well —noble to use them."
Alice blushed and curled into Frank, hiding herself from the Professors.
About what finally stopped him?"
Aurora, knowing what is coming, crawled onto Fred's lap, tucking her head into his neck. He just wraps his arms around her, holding her close, and rubbing her back. He knows that she is going to have bad nightmares tonight.
Lily and James Potter are — are — that they're — dead."
"NO!" Sirius, Remus and Peter all shouted, standing up. James just nodded his head, the last puzzle piece as to why they were reading about the Dursleys in a book about his daughter finally making sense.
Severus seemed to almost curl in on himself. Even knowing he was sitting next to Lucius, he couldn't make himself not grieve. Lucius however knew that his friend and the boy he had helped mentor while he was in school was in pain, and knew that if it was Narcissa that he wouldn't be able to mask his feelings either, so he reached over and patted Severus on the back.
Marlene and Alice were in tears. Hugging Lily, who hadn't let go of James, who was being hugged by the other Marauder's.
Oh, Albus…"
"Always knew I was one of your favorites," James tried to joke, but fell flat when he looked over and saw his professors with tears in their eyes. For not only was he one of McGonagall's favorites, but Lily was one of Flitwick's favorites; and Sprout was a Hufflepuff and didn't want to see any of her students dead. Let alone two that had such promising lives ahead of them, and a child between them as well.
Dumbledore reached out and patted her on the shoulder. "I know… I know…" he said heavily.
he tried to kill the Potter's daughter, Aurora.
"No," Lily shouted. He can kill me. He can kill James. But that monster will not touch my baby!" James nodded in agreement with her, as well as all the mothers, and future mothers in the room.
Narcissa looked over to her future son, she would give anything for him, she knew that already, her and Lucius had been trying so long to have a child already, that she knew that when she did finally have one, there was nothing that she wouldn't do for him, even renounce the Dark Lord.
"Mum," Aurora said, looking at Lily with tears in her eyes. But she didn't know what else to say. What do you say to the woman who even at 17 was willing to sacrifice her life for her child, and in just 4 years would.
"We may never know."
Everyone turned to Aurora when she snorted at that. "Ro, behave," Draco said.
Aurora just stuck her tongue out at him and said, "Never."
They're the only family she has left now."
"No they're not," Amice said softly to Draco.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?" Lily yelled, pulling her wand on Dumbledore, sparks flying from the end of it. "YOU ARE NOT TO LEAVE MY CHILD WITH THOSE MAGIC HATING BIGOTS!"
Aurora, while agreeing with her mother, didn't want her to do anything she might regret, just held out her hand and summoned her mothers wand from her. The shock of that calmed her mother down but turned everyone's attention to her.
"Wandless, silent casting," Pandora said, sounding very similar to her daughter. "You must be very strong."
"She is," all the time travelers said together.
Aurora Potter come and live here!"
"Listen to her," Lily said.
I've written them a letter."
"A letter!"
every child in our world will know her name!"
Ginny blushed.
to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?"
"I would trust Hagrid with my life," Aurora said.
a huge motorcycle fell out of the air and landed on the road in front of them.
"James. I want one," Sirius whimpered.
Young Sirius Black lent it to me.
"Yes it's mine." Sirius stood up and did a small jig. Regulus just smiled sadly at his older brother. He hadn't seen Sirius like this since before Sirius went to Hogwarts.
She fell asleep as we was flyin' over Bristol."
"But why did it take over 24 hours for someone to come and get you?" Andromeda asked.
Aurora just shrugged. That was something that she had never gotten answered, especially since what Hagrid just said wasn't correct, Sirius had gotten her out of the house, and was calling the Auror's when Hagrid arrived and told him that he was to take her to Hogwarts to be checked over, and that was close to midnight, but still on the 31st. She was dropped off at the Dursleys at almost 2am on the 2nd, 31 hours later.
Sirius had already been arrested when she was dropped off, and Frank and Alice had begun petitioning the Wizengamot for custody as her godmother right after the arrest. Then two days later they were tortured, and Augusta just let it go.
perfect map of the London Underground.
"That's rather helpful," Ted said.
an' poor little Aurora off ter live with Muggles —"
Remus reached over to grab James' arm at the reminder, and Sirius, who had been sitting on the floor at his feet since first hearing about his death, leaned into James even more.
He laid Aurora gently on the doorstep,
"You left a baby on a doorstep!" All the females in the room yelled at him.
"I was 15 months old," Aurora said. "Not a baby."
"That's even worse," Molly replied. "You could have woken up and walked away and no one would have ever known."
"I shall see you soon, I expect, Professor McGonagall," said Dumbledore, nodding to her. Professor McGonagall blew her nose in reply before apperating away.
Dumbledore looked at the child one more time and sighed, "I'm sorry Aurora, but I have no other choice." He then cast several spells on the sleeping child, a somber look upon his face.
"What did you just do to my child," James asked quietly. Everyone sitting near him moved away subtly. James was slow to anger, but when he was a quiet angry, that's when they knew there was trouble.
"I do not know as I have not done this yet," Dumbledore replied. Though he could guess what it was just based on the feel of the elder Aurora Potter what several of the spells were.
"Dad," Aurora said, getting her father's attention, "Some of it wasn't needed, but several of the spells that he cast were necessary if I was to live in the muggle world and go unnoticed. He locked my metamorph abilities, which would have caused a lot of problems for me if he hadn't. And he had to put some magic dampers on me."
"But those are so dangerous," Pandora exclaimed.
Aurora nodded, knowing Pandora had a point but that if Dumbledore hadn't put blocks on her magic things would have been much worse. To make her point, she slowly released her power that she kept contained.
Fred's hair stood up as if he had been electrocuted, Ron and Hermione smiled at their friend, it wasn't often that she really let go. Draco just chuckled, while Amice laughed at everyone's reactions. Neville mumbled under his breath, "Show off." while Luna stood and danced to a song only she could hear, yet made perfect sense with the feel of the magic coming off Aurora, while Ginny just went and sat by Aurora's legs, basking as if she was sun tanning on a beach somewhere.
James, Lily and Sirius were looking at Aurora in awe, Remus could feel his wolf reacting to the magic coming off this young woman. Peter was cowering, he had never felt this much magic come off a person before. The rest of the room felt the oppressive press of the magic, yet at the same time, it felt warm and comfortable.
This was a person who knew they were powerful, yet knew how to use that power not for gain but to help others.
Finally, Aurora pulled her magic back in. "That's why I needed blocks and suppression. There were only two other people near me, powerwise, while we were in school. Both of them are in this room." She nodded towards Neville then looked at the baby in Columba's arms. "And even then only Neville is really close."
Everyone looked even more curious now. "A lot will be explained in the third and fourth books," Neville said, trying to get back on track. "Let's finish this chapter though, I think we are almost done with it."
"To Aurora Potter — the girl who lived!"
"That's the end of the chapter," Remus said, holding the book out for the next person to take. Pandora took the book from him. "I will go next if you don't mind." Aurora just smiled at her, "That might be the best."