A/N: Hey peoples! Guess what? I got the second part if my fic out! That's probably rather obvious as you are reading it right now so... yeah... Anyway, ff.net has a new chapter thinggy and it's really screwing me up.. Just when I thought I found out how to do this whole fanfiction thing it goes and changes on me.. I suppose it's for the better tho so.. *shrug* I'd like to thank all of you who reviewed, although if you want names I probably can't give you them.. even if it does make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside! You all know who you are, so thank you ever sooo much! *hugs* Also.. umm... I think this one is a little better than the last, I sure hope it is because I just realized I spelt Weasley wrong in the first part! Geez! What kind of a moron am I? Well, anyway, here it is.. ENJOY!
ANOTHER GOLDEN YEAR
Part 2
Harry, Ron and Hermione got to their feet, and brushed themselves off . They were just outside the north walls of what looked like Hogwarts .
'Where are we?' Harry asked, looking around .
'I'm not sure...' Hermione replied .
'That's a first!' Ron laughed, although Hermione didn't think it was very funny at all .
'It looks just like Hogwarts.' Harry stated, 'The castle walls are just like normal... and look-there's the Divination tower up there... the highest window..' He pointed .
Hermione nodded .
Ron was very silent, as if lost deep in thought . Finally he said, 'Harry? Hermione? What if we are... you know... back in the picture?'
Neither Harry nor Hermione got time to respond, the reason was that coming around the corner of the castle wall, they could hear voices .
Harry thought quickly and ducked behind a nearby bush . Hermione and Ron did not have his quick Quidditch reflexes, and where still standing in plain view when James Potter, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin and Lily turned the corner, all laughing at one of Sirius' jokes .
'Who are you?' asked Sirius, pointing to Ron .
'He's a Weasley isn't he?' said James, evidently very curious .
'No!' Squealed Hermione, 'His name is Robert......... Robert Dubois!'
'Ok.....' said Remus in a confused voice, 'and who exactly are you?'
'I'm Annette- or Annie....... Annie Dubois!' Hermione answered, though Harry could tell that Remus wasn't happy with her answer . Hermione, seeing that this was not what Remus had meant continued, 'We're from BeauxBatons, We're brother and sister .' Lupin seemed to think that this was a good enough answer . Ron, at the mention of being Hermione's brother, looked at her again with the "I wish Colin Creevy were here" expression . His expression softened with a hard look from Hermione, and he thought it best to play along .
'Yeah.' Ron agreed .
'We need to speak to Dumbledore.' said Hermione in her bossiest voice .
'Come on,' said Lily, ' follow me!'
They followed Lily up to the castle and into the passage to Dumbledore's office . Ron and Hermione stayed within a good distance from Lily, so that they could talk .
'Hermione!' Ron hissed, 'What do you think you're doing? Dumbledore will recognize us for sure! And he'll owl Madame Maxime to make sure we're ---- real!'
'Shut up Ron!' Hermione hissed back, 'Don't worry! I don't think Dumbledore will recognize us, he's only known us in the future . More likely he'll recognize us when we get back ...I'm more worried about Harry though . What if someone finds him?'
'Harry will be alright, he's hiding, remember?'
'Yeah, but what if someone did find him? He looks exactly like James! What would we say?' Hermione looked very anxious, '"Oh James! This is your son, he's exactly like you . But you'll never see him like this because you're dead! You were killed by the dark lord, who will be returning to power shortly! He will destroy your life and Sirius will be blamed for it! Pettigrew, meanwhile is a huge traitor!" do you think they'll swallow that?'
Ron laughed out loud .
Harry was alright . He was still hiding in the bush listening to James, Remus and Sirius talking (Pettigrew had left for supper and they had told him to save seats for them) .
'So tomorrow night?' asked Sirius .
'Yeah,' responded Remus, 'This'll be awesome! Wait till we see the look on his face!'
'Serves him right!' exclaimed Sirius, making violent motions in the air .
'Okay!' said James, as if making the final decision, 'Let's do it!'
What were they planning? And who were they planning it on? Harry wondered .
'Be at the Whomping Willow at midnight tomorrow night then!' James told them all, 'I'll owl our victim!'
And they all laughed . Harry secretly made note of the time, he was going to be there too!
'Thank you Lily!' exclaimed Dumbledore in his usual happy tone . 'Now, may I speak to these two alone?'
Hermione felt a horrible surge of fear run through her . He knew!
'Welcome to Hogwarts!' he began . Hermione felt very relieved . 'I am sure you have been here before though...' and he looked at them questioningly through his half-moon spectacles . Ron and Hermione both looked at each other, and gulped . They knew that they were in for some severe punishment, maybe they would even be expelled!
Hermione was sure that time traveling would get them in huge trouble, she had learned as much in third year . Ron felt his stomach to a back flip .
'Ah well! My memory is old and I have no clue!' he said with what Ron was sure was a wink, and the twinkle in his eyes growing very bright . He grinned ear to ear .
'You may sleep in the Gryffindor dorms as you know Lily already . I dare say you will meet some others as well!'
They left to the Great Hall along with Lily . She showed them around a bit, although they already knew where everything was .
Supper was excellent! The food was much the same as it was at Hogwarts in their day, as was the arrangement of the tables; Teachers at the front, and the houses in rows facing them . Hermione could spot many people who she knew in the future; Ron's parents, Bertha Jorkins and some people she had seen in the daily prophet, probably from the ministry .
Remus, Sirius and James were still suspicious of Ron and Hermione, but they made conversation with them at dinner . James turned out to be exactly like Harry in his personality as well as his looks, Ron took an immediate liking to him .
Sirius, on the other hand, was very like Ron in his personality, something which Ron despised . It wasn't that Ron hated himself, it was just that having someone sitting right beside you doing what seemed like reading your mind was very annoying . Ron felt as if there were bright neon letters directly above his head proclaiming his every thought to the world .
Hermione and Lily were having no trouble at all getting along . They weren't opposites, but they weren't at all the same either. Pettigrew was nice enough, but both Ron and Hermione avoided him, knowing the traitor he had become .
The next day was just as normal as their days at Hogwarts in the future . Some of the teachers were different, or younger but every thing ran as it usually did .
The most abnormal thing that happened that day was meeting everyone in their younger selves, Snape especially .
All of them were walking down the hall to potions, when they ran into him . He still had his hooked nose and greasy hair, there was no mistaking him . He was talking to another Slytherin boy, he was short but large with dirty blond hair, who reminded Ron of Goyle . Snape sneered at the new students in a way that reminded Ron of Malfoy, in the way he walked and his expression of immediate dislike .
He spoke, 'So potter, who are these? More arrogant gits to share your common room?' and he flung his hand in Ron and Hermione's general direction . 'I hope they aren't as dim-witted as you lot!'
An insult . Somehow Ron was not surprised .
'You should talk!' Sirius retorted, 'Look at the company you hold!' and gestured rudely towards the fat kid .
'At least my best friend isn't a WEREWOLF!' Snape sneered.
Everyone jumped at Snape, except for Remus, who had walked into the potions room staring at the floor .
The potions master came out to find bloody noses, black eyes and bruises . Almost everyone was sent to the hospital wing . Ron was quite happy despite his bruises because he had thrown a few well aimed punches at Snape . Ron considered this adequate repayment for the detention . It wasn't that bad, having Snape as a student, Ron was free to hurt him without Snape taking points from Gryffindor. James and Sirius recovered with a little help from young Madam Pomfrey, they were ready for that night's mischievous deeds .
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Harry walked crouched over in the bushes, his eyes not moving from the three figures who were Remus, Sirius and James .
Harry saw that they were talking but couldn't hear a thing except for Sirius' voice proclaiming things such as, 'He's gonna get it!' and 'We'll make him sorry he ever insulted you, Moony!' .
After Sirius had been hushed, he and Lupin hid in the passage under the Whomping Willow and waited . James waited above ground . Harry came out of the bushes and moved behind a tree just out of the murderous Willow's reach to get a better look . He wondered what they were planning. Soon enough he would know, across the yard, walking briskly came the silhouette of a young Snape, greasy haired and hooked nosed as ever before...or-after . So that was who the victim was!
Harry decided to stay and watch , he was still mad at Snape for the detention and wanted to see him get what he deserved .
'You are going to get it this time!' said the young Snape . It was really weird for Harry to see Snape as a boy his own age . He wondered about the other teachers and what they looked like, he imagined most of them who were teaching here at the time looked pretty much the same .
'I think you'll be the one to get it Snape!' restored James in a voice not unlike Harry's own .
'So you weren't kidding!' said Snape, probably wondering out loud, 'unless..........'
Snape paused, before taking out his wand, 'One on one?' he asked cautiously .
'Yep!' said James, as if Snape were talking to him about something much less important, Harry wouldn't have been surprised of he had started twiddling his thumbs .
'So Black's not here?' Snape asked, evidently still not trusting James .
'Nope!' responded James in the same air as before .
'And there are no tricks? No phoney wands or ambushes?'
'No....' said James, in the same tone, 'Would I ever do something like that?' He smiled cheesily .
Snape sneered at him, 'Take out your wand, already!'
James did so and they began to duel . It looked as though Snape were winning - but, unexpectedly James ran up to the trunk of the Whomping Willow, dodging its insane branches . Snape followed him, getting walloped by the tree's 'arms' . James opened the passage to the shrieking shack and jumped down . Snape cursed and muttered something which Harry only heard one word of, that one being 'trap!' . He hesitated then jumped after James, into the passage .
Harry suddenly understood! How easy it was! Harry couldn't see but he was sure that underground Black and Lupin would be waiting to catch Snape . They hadn't paused the Willow so that Snape wouldn't be able to get out (they would, however because they had the practice) . They would probably tie Snape up then leave him there for a while . He wouldn't be at school and it would all be blamed on him . Nobody would believe him when he told them about the Willow and the trap and everyone else would deny ever doing such a crazy thing . Harry was amazed at the sheer brilliance of it . He made a mental note to keep it in mind for Malfoy .
Harry heard a muffled cry which he was sure belonged to Snape and Remus and Sirius dashed out . James, however, did not . There was another cry and a thud, as if someone had hit the floor of the tunnel hard . There were other distressed sounds following, Snape had probably tackled James, but Harry didn't hear . The reason for this was that Remus and Sirius were running right at him!
A/N: OOPS! Did I mention that Snape, James, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Sirius, Peter, Lupin, Lily, Dumbledore and all the rest are J.K. Rowling's characters? I mentioned Goyle and Malfoy and Avery too, didn't I? Heheh... well, no one really cares about them . (Huge appology to all Draco and Lucius lovers, I only meant in this fanfic they don't really matter...)
Oh! And "Be a responsible reader and write a review!" lol, those things bug me so much... But write one anyway.. And I love constructive criticism, please tell me what's wrong so that the next one can be better!