A/N This is a completely new story of mine. It will turn into a series. It takes place in the times of MWPP/L, but Harry is in it. Confused? Read on, and you'll find out what's going on. Wow it's ages since I wrote a story with Harry in it, so, sorry if it's bad, because I find it really hard to write about Harry, Ron and Hermione. Both Lily & co and Harry & co are in their sixth year.
When Lily Met Harry
by
Little Witch
CHAPTER ONE - Back to the Past
Harry Potter sat in the stifling History of Magic Classroom, half listening to Binns papery voice. Next to him sat his two best friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. Ron's head was on the desk, his mouth half open. He suppressed a laugh, and poked Hermione on her shoulder.
"What?" she said, sounding half annoyed. Unlike some people, she actually wanted to learn.
"Look," Harry replied, pointing at Ron.
"Aah, he looks positively cute like that." she said.
"Miss Granger, Mr Potter? Is there something that you would like to share with the class?" Binns asked.
"No Professor," Harry said, trying to keep his laughter under control, but didn't manage it.
"What do you find so funny?" the Professor asked.
"That," Harry said pointing at Ron, who woke up suddenly and shouted, 'I smell fire!'
"Well! I have never been so angry in my life," said Binns not looking angry at all, "all three of you will have a detention, including you Miss Granger. Please go to your head of house after the lesson and they will sort your detention out for you."
They groaned. Great. A detention at the end of the year. Just what they needed.
At the end of the lesson, they went to see Professor McGonagall.
"I am very ashamed of you three. Especially you Miss Granger, I would have thought you would have known better," Hermione looked down at the floor. "Hagrid has told me that he needs someone to help him do something in the forest. You shall assist him at 10 o' clock tonight."
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About eighteen years earlier, in the same History of Magic classroom, in the middle of winter, sixteen year old Lily Evans sat listening to Binns drone. Her two best friends Rose Barlow and Heather Cooper sat to her left, and her boyfriend James Potter sat to her right. The bell rang which pulled the class out of it's trance and Sirius Black, James best friend leapt out of his seat and screamed 'YES!!'.
"Sirius Black, is there a reason that you just jumped out of your seat and screamed yes?" Professor Binns asked.
"Um, maybe?" Sirius replied.
"Is it because you don't like my lessons and find them incredibly boring?" Binns asked. Much as Sirius wanted to say yes, he managed to restrain himself.
"No, it's not that, it's just that it's so cold in here and the common room has a nice warm fire and I'm just so cold?" Sirius said, hoping that this sounded like an equitable answer.
"Well, if that's the case, I shall not give you a detention, you just have to write me a 500 word essay on the importance of decorum in my classroom by tomorrow." Binns said, and glided through the blackboard.
"Great. I have to write a 500 essay on decorum. Hang on a minute, what is decorum?" he asked.
"Decorum," Heather said, "is something you don't have."
"Oh. Is it food? I don't have any food." Sirius said.
"No stupid. Decorum means good behaviour." Rose explained.
"Oh." Sirius didn't look any happier, "Why couldn't it have been a type of food. I wouldn't have minded writing about it then."
"You are so immature!" Heather exclaimed.
"But food is so nice! I love food." he told a very scared looking first year.
"Come on, I think we ought to go before he starts singing about food." said James.
"How could he sing about food? There's no song about food." said Rose.
"Yes there is! I'll sing it for you if you like," said Sirius.
"We'll pass thanks." Lily said under her breath, but Sirius hadn't heard her.
"Food, glorious food! Cold jelly and custard! While we're in the mood, food glorious food!" Sirius sang.
"Oh my god." said James.
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"Hello Hagrid!" Harry called. Even though it was a detention, Harry was glad that it was with Hagrid.
"How are yeh Harry?" Hagrid asked, "bin' causing trouble again 'ave yeh?"
"Something like that." Harry said. Hagrid laughed.
"Yeh know, yeh looked so much like yeh Father then it was unreal." Hagrid said, "alrigh' then, tonight yeh are goin' teh be helpin' me catch some Kelpies. They are over runnin' the forest, becomin' a real problem. Now, you three are goin' teh have teh go and search on yer' own, I 'ave business teh attend teh of me own."
Harry, Ron and Hermione went into the forest armed only with a large net for catching the Kelpies.
Two hours later, when they had caught quite a few Kelpies, they decided that they should have a rest. They found a clearing that seemed to be bathed in light, and sat down on the ground. Unfortunately, as it was the middle of the night, they soon fell asleep.
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"So, what are you doing later?" Lily asked James.
"Well, it's a full moon, so we're going to be with Remus." James replied.
"Oh, yes of course, I forgot." Lily said, wrinkling up her nose.
"You look so cute when you do that." James said.
"Really?" Lily said, and she began wrinkling up her nose over and over again.
"Okay, now you just look like a rabbit." James said laughing.
"Oh." Lily said, looking disappointed, and James kissed her. They were interrupted by Sirius clearing his throat loudly.
"Sorry to interrupt Prongs, but we need to go." Sirius said, not looking very sorry at all.
"Okay," James said, "see you later." he said to Lily, kissing her again. She watched as Sirius and James walked over to a secluded corner of the common room and disappeared under James' invisibility cloak.
James, Sirius and Peter awkwardly climbed out of the portrait hole, Sirius muttering something about 'they need to get a bigger hole'. They hurried towards the front doors, and out into the grounds. They arrived at the whomping willow, and transformed into their animal counterparts. Peter the rat (too true!) scurried under the whipping branches of the willow, and pressed a knot. The tree froze, and a large hole appeared. Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs disappeared into it.
They reached the end of the tunnel to find that Remus was just about to transform. His back went rigid, and his face lengthened. A few moments later, a werewolf stood amidst the Stag, Dog and Rat.
In a silent agreement, they decided that they should explore the forest tonight.
When Harry woke up, it was still dark. He looked at his watch. It said 3.30 am. Something was different. It was very, very cold, and there was frost on the trees surrounding them. When he had fallen asleep last night, it had been summer. Now it looked like it was winter. He shook Ron and Hermione awake, and asked them what they thought.
"Maybe we slept through the whole of the summer holidays," was Ron's suggestion, and although it seemed like this had happened, it was very unlikely that it had happened. Hermione's theory seemed to make much more sense.
"It's probably typical English weather," she said, "one moment it's sunny, and the next it's snowing."
Although this was much more sensible than Ron's answer, Harry still didn't think that this was very likely. He knew that English weather was temperamental, but he didn't think that the weather would change that drastically. It reminded him of a Muggle book he'd read when he was younger called The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. The part when Lucy pushes through the coats and steps out into another realm, covered with snow, whereas before it had been sunny.
"It could be the English weather, but it doesn't feel right," Harry said.
"Well, I think we should get back to the castle. We'll soon find out what's going on" Hermione said.
Harry and Ron agreed, and so they lit their wands and set off in the direction of the castle.
Five minutes later, they had made considerable progress, and were nearing the edge of the forest when Harry stopped, causing Hermione and Ron to bump into him.
"What's wrong?" Ron asked.
"I heard something," Harry replied.
"It was probably just Hagrid." Hermione said.
"No, it sounded like more than one pair of feet." Harry said.
Then, a howl rang through the night sending chills down their spines. A large wolf bounded through the trees in front of them followed by a stag and a dog.
"Oh. My. God." Harry said. Ron went pale, and Hermione just stood there opening and closing her mouth looking like a fish.
The werewolf's eyes gleamed greedily, and it ran towards them. The three stood rooted to the spot unable to move.
The large dog ran in front of the werewolf and pounced on them, knocking them over and out of the werewolves way. The dog then rounded on the werewolf and helped the stag to drag it away from them.
The dog and the stag dragged the werewolf back to the whomping willow and pushed it down the passage. They then hurried back to where the three teenagers lay. Obviously the force of the dog pouncing on them had knocked them out. Prongs and Padoot transformed back into humans. They didn't know where Peter was, and they didn't really care. They assumed he had got lost.
James and Sirius now bent over the three unconcious teenagers.
"Do you think they'll be alright?" James asked.
"Yeah, I'm sure they'll be fine." Sirius replied.
"Who are they anyway? I don't recognise them, yet they're wearing the school robes." James said, looking confused.
"I don't know," Sirius said looking thoughtful, "but don't you think that this one looks like you?" he said pointing at Harry.
"Yeah, I s'pose." said James.
Ten minutes later, they still hadn't come round.
"Do you think that we should fetch Madam Pomfrey?" James asked.
"No! If we do, she'll ask us what we were doing out here, and how they came to be like this. Then we'll have to tell her about being animagi. What I suggest we do, is go and fetch your girlfriend and her two gorgeous best friends." Sirius said.
"Sirius, now is not the time to be having hormonal urges, but it is a good idea. I'll go and fetch them, and you stay here with these three." James replied, and he ran off towards the castle.
About five minutes later he was creeping up the stairs to the sixth year girls dorms. He pushed the door open gently and quietly walked over to Lily's bed.
"Lily, wake up." he whispered. It didn't work. James had heard of a Muggle fairy tale about a princess who had been asleep for 100 years, and then a prince came and kissed her and she woke up. He decided to see if fairy tales told the truth even though she was not a princess and he was not a prince.
He leant over her and gently kissed her on the lips. This worked.
"James? Is that you? What do you want?" she asked sleepily.
"Put some clothes on and then I'll tell you. Which are Heather's and Rose's beds?" he said.
"Those two," Lily pointed out, "you're not going to wake them up the way you woke me up are you?" she asked.
"No, I was thinking of chucking water all over them." James said.
He didn't do this, but roughly shook them awake, and told them to get dressed.
"What's going on?" Heather asked as they walked down to the common room. James explained it to them as they made their way down to the forest.
"So why have you woken us up, I mean it's not like we're nurses or anything." Rose said.
"I don't know. It was Sirius' idea. I think that he just wanted to see you Heather." James said teasingly.
"Oh shut up!" Heather said while the others started laughing.
Finally they got to the spot where they had left Sirius and the three strangers. Unfortunately, Peter had found Sirius.
"They still haven't woken up then?" James asked.
"No, not that I haven't tried to wake them up. I shone a light into their eyes, and I've even tried hitting them." Sirius replied.
"Oh, have you tried this?" James asked, and sprayed them with water from the end of his wand. This didn't work.
"You know," Lily said with her hands on her hips, "sometimes you are so stupid, even if you are cute." she knelt down next to Harry and pointed her wand at him. "Enervate." she said.
Harry groaned and his eyelashes fluttered.
"Hello? Are you alright?" Lily asked with concern leaning over him.
Harry opened his eyes and found himsef staring up into the face of his mother.
He fainted.
"Oh well done Tigger. Your face scared him so much that he fainted again." Sirius said.
"Oh be quiet! Let's leave him and try to wake up the other two." Lily said, and the other's nodded in agreement.
Heather pointed her wand at Ron, and James at Hermione. Slowly they woke up.
"Hello? Are you alright?" James asked.
"What? Yes I'm fine," the boy said, and he sat up. "where's Hermione?"
"Who's Hermione?" James asked.
"You don't know who Hermione is? Have you got amnesia or something Harry?" Ron said.
"Harry? Who's Harry?" James said, looking positively bewildered.
"Yes, that confirms it. You've got amnesia." Ron said. Just then Hermione sat up.
"Where are we?" she asked, "and who are you?"
"Harry, what have you done to your eyes?" Ron said, "they're brown."
"Listen. I am not called Harry, and my eyes have always been this colour." James said sounding exasperated.
"I ask again. Who are you?" Hermione said.
"Oh, sorry," James grinned, "I'm James Potter and these are Lily Evans, Heather Cooper, Rose Barlow, Peter Pettigrew and Sirius Black."
Ron and Hermione stared at them all, their eyes wide and their mouths open like fishes.
"What's wrong?" Lily asked kindly, "you look like you've seen a ghost."
"Did he just say that you were called Lily Evans?" Hermione said, her voice barely a whisper.
"And they're Peter Pettigrew, James Potter and Sirius Black?" Ron asked in the same sort of whispery voice."
Lily nodded. "Why? Have you heard of us?"
"What are your names?" Sirius said not giving them a chance to answer Lily's question.
"I'm Hermione Granger and this is Ron Weasley."
"Where's Harry?" Hermione asked, "is he okay?"
"Is Harry the other boy?" Lily asked.
Hermione and Ron nodded.
"Well, Lily tried to wake him up using the enervate spell, but he took one look at her and fainted again." Sirius said.
"No wonder." Ron said, "if you people are really who you said you are, then it's no wonder he fainted."
"Would you mind explaining?" Sirius asked.
"What's the date?" Hermione asked.
"It's the second of December 1977." Sirius replied.
"Oh my god! 1977! When I went to sleep yesterday it was 1996!" Ron exclaimed.
"Sorry, but we don't really understand," Heather said.
"I'm not sure if I understand either," Hermione said, "but the way I see it, we've been transported back in time. Last night, we were doing a detention with Hagrid in the Forbidden Forest, and we were so tired, we decided to have a rest. I suppose we must have fallen asleep, and then when we woke up, Harry noticed that the weather was wrong. It had been the summer when we went to sleep, but now it was much colder and seemed like winter. We put it down to typical British weather, and decided to make our way back to the castle but on the way there we met a werewolf, and the rest you know."
"So you're from the future?" Rose asked.
"Well yes, I suppose" Ron said, "hang on a minute, that werewolf woudn't happen to be Professor Lupin would it?"
"Professor Lupin!" Lily shreiked, and fell about laughing.
"The werewolf is Remus Lupin, yes, but why did you call him a Professor? And how do you know that he's a werewolf?" Sirius asked.
"Because he's a Professor in our time," Hermione said.
"He's a Professor! What does he teach?" Heather asked.
"Defence Against the Dark Arts."
"Oh I'd hate to be a teacher." Heather said.
Ron then began to look at her closely.
"What did you say your last name was again?" he asked Heather.
"Cooper, why?" Heather said, looking nervous.
"Well you're a Professor too. Professor Cooper who teaches Astronomy." Ron said.
"Really? I'm a Professor? Of Astronomy? I've always been useless at Astronomy, why would I teach it?"
"Well if it's any consolation, you're a pretty bad teacher. You once told us that the Earth was at the centre of the universe."
Heather laughed. "Even though the Astronomy teacher tells us constantly that Copernicus proved that the Earth is not at the centre of the universe, I beg to differ. Does any other planet have as much power as the Earth? I think not." Heather was just about to get into a long speech about the power of the human race when Sirius interrupted her.
"Yes, yes Heather we know your views already, but I want to talk to Ron and Hermione. Do you know me in your time?"
Ron looked at Hermione, a questioning look in his eyes. Should they tell Sirius about his future? In a silent agreement, they decided not to.
"Um, well we sort of know you." Ron said.
"What do you mean? You either know me, or you don't." Sirius said.
"Well, we know you through Harry. You're his Godfather you see." Hermione said.
"Really? I'm his Godfather, cool!" Sirius said.
"What about me? Do you know me in your time?" Peter asked.
Again, Ron shot Hermione another look. This time they decided to pretend they didn't know him.
"No, we don't know you."
"Hang on a minute, there's still one thing I don't understand," James said, "why did that Harry boy faint when he saw Lily?"
"Well, it's like this Prongs," Ron began, but Sirius cut him off.
"Hang on a minute, how did you know his nickname?"
"Oh three years ago, when we were in our third year, Harry had to fight a load of dementors and he saw a big stag come out of his wand in his patronus. And Sirius had already told us that you were animagi." Ron said without thinking. Hermione shot him a look that plainly said, 'SHUT UP'.
"And we also know that you are a dog called Padfoot and he's a rat called Wormtail and that you call Professor Lupin Moony. And yes before you ask, we do have the Marauders Map." Hermione said.
"Back to James question, why did he faint when he saw me?" Lily asked.
"Well..." Hermione said, "he thinks you're dead."
"What! Why would he think that?" Lily asked.
"Well, it's kind of hard to explain," Ron said desparately.
"Give it a go." Sirius said.
"Okay, here goes," Hermione said, "you Lily, and you James are Harry's parents. In 1980, you were killed by a wizard called Voldemort. Harry survived and went to live with his Aunt and Uncle and then six years ago, he got his Hogwarts letter and came here. No one knows why Voldemort killed you, or why Harry survived, except Dumbledore and he won't tell Harry."
"You mean we're his parents! That's not possible. We can't be!" Lily said.
"Ca't you see the resemblance between James and Harry? And Harry has your eyes." Ron told Lily.
"And you said that Harry went to live with his Aunt and Uncle? Wait a minute...that wouldn't be Petunia and Vernon would it?" Lily said.
"Yep." Hermione said.
"Oh no. What are they like? Have you ever met them? Do they have any children?"
"They are really horrible. Up until his first year at Hogwarts they kept Harry locked in a broom cupboard under the stairs. I met them two years ago, and they have one son. Dudley, who looks like a big fat pink whale." said Ron.
"Trust my sister to name her child Dudley." Lily muttered.
"Well what about you? You named your child Harry!" Sirius said.
"Whatever. Anyway why did Harry go to Petunia's? What about Sirius or Remus or Peter? Why couldn't they have looked after him?" Lily said.
"Well that brings us to another matter. It concerns Sirius and Peter but I don't think we should be the ones to tell you. If we did, then we'd probably be playing with fate and everything will be different when we go back to our time." Ron said.
Hermione and Ron looked as though they wanted to tell them about Sirius and Peter's fate, but they knew that if they did, the whole world would change when they got back. At that moment, they heard a noise behind where they were all sitting and saw that Harry was awake again.
"I think that we'd better go and talk to him first, then we'll introduce you." Hermione said.
Lily, James, Sirius, Heather, Rose and Peter nodded. Ron and Hermione went and sat down next to Harry.
"Hello. What are we doing here? Who are those people?" Harry pointed at Lily, James, Sirius, Heather, Rose and Peter whose backs were turned.
"Okay, this is going to sound weird, but we've travelled back in time, and the year is 1977. Those people over there are your parents, Sirius, Wormtail and two of their friends." Hermione said in a rush.
"No really, who are they?" Harry said a disbeleiving look on his face.
"They're exactly who we've said they are. It's true. We've told them all about you and how Lily and James died, but we haven't told them about how Peter betrays them and how Sirius goes to Azkaban. We thought that if we did, we would be playing with fate, your Mum and Dad wouldn't use Peter as they're secret keeper, and then they wouldn't die and everything would be different." Ron said.
Harry didn't say anything.
"You're serious aren't you." Harry said.
"No, I'm not Sirius, he is," Ron said pointing at Sirius.
"Don't be stupid Ron! Anyway, can I meet them? My parents I mean," Harry said.
"Of course, but don't act strange. Call them Lily and James, and don't act weird towards Peter or anything. Oh yes, Lupin's here as well, but as tonight's a full moon, he's a werewolf. When we meet him we shouldn't call him Professor, the other's seem to find the fact that he's a Professor hilarious." Ron said.
"And Heather, the blonde one is Professor Cooper, the Astronomy teacher," Hermione said.
Armed with all this information, Harry walked over to where his parents and their friends stood. Ron and Hermione walked after him.
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A/N I hope that this wasn't too stupid. Hopefully the next part will be up soon, that is, if you like it. Just so you know, Heather and Rose are characters out of a story I am in the process of writing. Hopefully I should be able to get that up soon also. Did you know that the first Harry Potter book is being read on the radio today? It is on radio 2. I am listening to it at the moment. It has been going from about one o' clock earlier, and now it is on the part when Harry is doing his detention in the forest and he is talking to Firenze.
Disclaimer: If you recognise it, I don't own it. J.K. Rowling does. Heather Cooper and Rose Barlow belong to me though. The plot also belong's to me.
When Lily Met Harry
by
Little Witch
CHAPTER ONE - Back to the Past
Harry Potter sat in the stifling History of Magic Classroom, half listening to Binns papery voice. Next to him sat his two best friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. Ron's head was on the desk, his mouth half open. He suppressed a laugh, and poked Hermione on her shoulder.
"What?" she said, sounding half annoyed. Unlike some people, she actually wanted to learn.
"Look," Harry replied, pointing at Ron.
"Aah, he looks positively cute like that." she said.
"Miss Granger, Mr Potter? Is there something that you would like to share with the class?" Binns asked.
"No Professor," Harry said, trying to keep his laughter under control, but didn't manage it.
"What do you find so funny?" the Professor asked.
"That," Harry said pointing at Ron, who woke up suddenly and shouted, 'I smell fire!'
"Well! I have never been so angry in my life," said Binns not looking angry at all, "all three of you will have a detention, including you Miss Granger. Please go to your head of house after the lesson and they will sort your detention out for you."
They groaned. Great. A detention at the end of the year. Just what they needed.
At the end of the lesson, they went to see Professor McGonagall.
"I am very ashamed of you three. Especially you Miss Granger, I would have thought you would have known better," Hermione looked down at the floor. "Hagrid has told me that he needs someone to help him do something in the forest. You shall assist him at 10 o' clock tonight."
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About eighteen years earlier, in the same History of Magic classroom, in the middle of winter, sixteen year old Lily Evans sat listening to Binns drone. Her two best friends Rose Barlow and Heather Cooper sat to her left, and her boyfriend James Potter sat to her right. The bell rang which pulled the class out of it's trance and Sirius Black, James best friend leapt out of his seat and screamed 'YES!!'.
"Sirius Black, is there a reason that you just jumped out of your seat and screamed yes?" Professor Binns asked.
"Um, maybe?" Sirius replied.
"Is it because you don't like my lessons and find them incredibly boring?" Binns asked. Much as Sirius wanted to say yes, he managed to restrain himself.
"No, it's not that, it's just that it's so cold in here and the common room has a nice warm fire and I'm just so cold?" Sirius said, hoping that this sounded like an equitable answer.
"Well, if that's the case, I shall not give you a detention, you just have to write me a 500 word essay on the importance of decorum in my classroom by tomorrow." Binns said, and glided through the blackboard.
"Great. I have to write a 500 essay on decorum. Hang on a minute, what is decorum?" he asked.
"Decorum," Heather said, "is something you don't have."
"Oh. Is it food? I don't have any food." Sirius said.
"No stupid. Decorum means good behaviour." Rose explained.
"Oh." Sirius didn't look any happier, "Why couldn't it have been a type of food. I wouldn't have minded writing about it then."
"You are so immature!" Heather exclaimed.
"But food is so nice! I love food." he told a very scared looking first year.
"Come on, I think we ought to go before he starts singing about food." said James.
"How could he sing about food? There's no song about food." said Rose.
"Yes there is! I'll sing it for you if you like," said Sirius.
"We'll pass thanks." Lily said under her breath, but Sirius hadn't heard her.
"Food, glorious food! Cold jelly and custard! While we're in the mood, food glorious food!" Sirius sang.
"Oh my god." said James.
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"Hello Hagrid!" Harry called. Even though it was a detention, Harry was glad that it was with Hagrid.
"How are yeh Harry?" Hagrid asked, "bin' causing trouble again 'ave yeh?"
"Something like that." Harry said. Hagrid laughed.
"Yeh know, yeh looked so much like yeh Father then it was unreal." Hagrid said, "alrigh' then, tonight yeh are goin' teh be helpin' me catch some Kelpies. They are over runnin' the forest, becomin' a real problem. Now, you three are goin' teh have teh go and search on yer' own, I 'ave business teh attend teh of me own."
Harry, Ron and Hermione went into the forest armed only with a large net for catching the Kelpies.
Two hours later, when they had caught quite a few Kelpies, they decided that they should have a rest. They found a clearing that seemed to be bathed in light, and sat down on the ground. Unfortunately, as it was the middle of the night, they soon fell asleep.
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"So, what are you doing later?" Lily asked James.
"Well, it's a full moon, so we're going to be with Remus." James replied.
"Oh, yes of course, I forgot." Lily said, wrinkling up her nose.
"You look so cute when you do that." James said.
"Really?" Lily said, and she began wrinkling up her nose over and over again.
"Okay, now you just look like a rabbit." James said laughing.
"Oh." Lily said, looking disappointed, and James kissed her. They were interrupted by Sirius clearing his throat loudly.
"Sorry to interrupt Prongs, but we need to go." Sirius said, not looking very sorry at all.
"Okay," James said, "see you later." he said to Lily, kissing her again. She watched as Sirius and James walked over to a secluded corner of the common room and disappeared under James' invisibility cloak.
James, Sirius and Peter awkwardly climbed out of the portrait hole, Sirius muttering something about 'they need to get a bigger hole'. They hurried towards the front doors, and out into the grounds. They arrived at the whomping willow, and transformed into their animal counterparts. Peter the rat (too true!) scurried under the whipping branches of the willow, and pressed a knot. The tree froze, and a large hole appeared. Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs disappeared into it.
They reached the end of the tunnel to find that Remus was just about to transform. His back went rigid, and his face lengthened. A few moments later, a werewolf stood amidst the Stag, Dog and Rat.
In a silent agreement, they decided that they should explore the forest tonight.
When Harry woke up, it was still dark. He looked at his watch. It said 3.30 am. Something was different. It was very, very cold, and there was frost on the trees surrounding them. When he had fallen asleep last night, it had been summer. Now it looked like it was winter. He shook Ron and Hermione awake, and asked them what they thought.
"Maybe we slept through the whole of the summer holidays," was Ron's suggestion, and although it seemed like this had happened, it was very unlikely that it had happened. Hermione's theory seemed to make much more sense.
"It's probably typical English weather," she said, "one moment it's sunny, and the next it's snowing."
Although this was much more sensible than Ron's answer, Harry still didn't think that this was very likely. He knew that English weather was temperamental, but he didn't think that the weather would change that drastically. It reminded him of a Muggle book he'd read when he was younger called The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. The part when Lucy pushes through the coats and steps out into another realm, covered with snow, whereas before it had been sunny.
"It could be the English weather, but it doesn't feel right," Harry said.
"Well, I think we should get back to the castle. We'll soon find out what's going on" Hermione said.
Harry and Ron agreed, and so they lit their wands and set off in the direction of the castle.
Five minutes later, they had made considerable progress, and were nearing the edge of the forest when Harry stopped, causing Hermione and Ron to bump into him.
"What's wrong?" Ron asked.
"I heard something," Harry replied.
"It was probably just Hagrid." Hermione said.
"No, it sounded like more than one pair of feet." Harry said.
Then, a howl rang through the night sending chills down their spines. A large wolf bounded through the trees in front of them followed by a stag and a dog.
"Oh. My. God." Harry said. Ron went pale, and Hermione just stood there opening and closing her mouth looking like a fish.
The werewolf's eyes gleamed greedily, and it ran towards them. The three stood rooted to the spot unable to move.
The large dog ran in front of the werewolf and pounced on them, knocking them over and out of the werewolves way. The dog then rounded on the werewolf and helped the stag to drag it away from them.
The dog and the stag dragged the werewolf back to the whomping willow and pushed it down the passage. They then hurried back to where the three teenagers lay. Obviously the force of the dog pouncing on them had knocked them out. Prongs and Padoot transformed back into humans. They didn't know where Peter was, and they didn't really care. They assumed he had got lost.
James and Sirius now bent over the three unconcious teenagers.
"Do you think they'll be alright?" James asked.
"Yeah, I'm sure they'll be fine." Sirius replied.
"Who are they anyway? I don't recognise them, yet they're wearing the school robes." James said, looking confused.
"I don't know," Sirius said looking thoughtful, "but don't you think that this one looks like you?" he said pointing at Harry.
"Yeah, I s'pose." said James.
Ten minutes later, they still hadn't come round.
"Do you think that we should fetch Madam Pomfrey?" James asked.
"No! If we do, she'll ask us what we were doing out here, and how they came to be like this. Then we'll have to tell her about being animagi. What I suggest we do, is go and fetch your girlfriend and her two gorgeous best friends." Sirius said.
"Sirius, now is not the time to be having hormonal urges, but it is a good idea. I'll go and fetch them, and you stay here with these three." James replied, and he ran off towards the castle.
About five minutes later he was creeping up the stairs to the sixth year girls dorms. He pushed the door open gently and quietly walked over to Lily's bed.
"Lily, wake up." he whispered. It didn't work. James had heard of a Muggle fairy tale about a princess who had been asleep for 100 years, and then a prince came and kissed her and she woke up. He decided to see if fairy tales told the truth even though she was not a princess and he was not a prince.
He leant over her and gently kissed her on the lips. This worked.
"James? Is that you? What do you want?" she asked sleepily.
"Put some clothes on and then I'll tell you. Which are Heather's and Rose's beds?" he said.
"Those two," Lily pointed out, "you're not going to wake them up the way you woke me up are you?" she asked.
"No, I was thinking of chucking water all over them." James said.
He didn't do this, but roughly shook them awake, and told them to get dressed.
"What's going on?" Heather asked as they walked down to the common room. James explained it to them as they made their way down to the forest.
"So why have you woken us up, I mean it's not like we're nurses or anything." Rose said.
"I don't know. It was Sirius' idea. I think that he just wanted to see you Heather." James said teasingly.
"Oh shut up!" Heather said while the others started laughing.
Finally they got to the spot where they had left Sirius and the three strangers. Unfortunately, Peter had found Sirius.
"They still haven't woken up then?" James asked.
"No, not that I haven't tried to wake them up. I shone a light into their eyes, and I've even tried hitting them." Sirius replied.
"Oh, have you tried this?" James asked, and sprayed them with water from the end of his wand. This didn't work.
"You know," Lily said with her hands on her hips, "sometimes you are so stupid, even if you are cute." she knelt down next to Harry and pointed her wand at him. "Enervate." she said.
Harry groaned and his eyelashes fluttered.
"Hello? Are you alright?" Lily asked with concern leaning over him.
Harry opened his eyes and found himsef staring up into the face of his mother.
He fainted.
"Oh well done Tigger. Your face scared him so much that he fainted again." Sirius said.
"Oh be quiet! Let's leave him and try to wake up the other two." Lily said, and the other's nodded in agreement.
Heather pointed her wand at Ron, and James at Hermione. Slowly they woke up.
"Hello? Are you alright?" James asked.
"What? Yes I'm fine," the boy said, and he sat up. "where's Hermione?"
"Who's Hermione?" James asked.
"You don't know who Hermione is? Have you got amnesia or something Harry?" Ron said.
"Harry? Who's Harry?" James said, looking positively bewildered.
"Yes, that confirms it. You've got amnesia." Ron said. Just then Hermione sat up.
"Where are we?" she asked, "and who are you?"
"Harry, what have you done to your eyes?" Ron said, "they're brown."
"Listen. I am not called Harry, and my eyes have always been this colour." James said sounding exasperated.
"I ask again. Who are you?" Hermione said.
"Oh, sorry," James grinned, "I'm James Potter and these are Lily Evans, Heather Cooper, Rose Barlow, Peter Pettigrew and Sirius Black."
Ron and Hermione stared at them all, their eyes wide and their mouths open like fishes.
"What's wrong?" Lily asked kindly, "you look like you've seen a ghost."
"Did he just say that you were called Lily Evans?" Hermione said, her voice barely a whisper.
"And they're Peter Pettigrew, James Potter and Sirius Black?" Ron asked in the same sort of whispery voice."
Lily nodded. "Why? Have you heard of us?"
"What are your names?" Sirius said not giving them a chance to answer Lily's question.
"I'm Hermione Granger and this is Ron Weasley."
"Where's Harry?" Hermione asked, "is he okay?"
"Is Harry the other boy?" Lily asked.
Hermione and Ron nodded.
"Well, Lily tried to wake him up using the enervate spell, but he took one look at her and fainted again." Sirius said.
"No wonder." Ron said, "if you people are really who you said you are, then it's no wonder he fainted."
"Would you mind explaining?" Sirius asked.
"What's the date?" Hermione asked.
"It's the second of December 1977." Sirius replied.
"Oh my god! 1977! When I went to sleep yesterday it was 1996!" Ron exclaimed.
"Sorry, but we don't really understand," Heather said.
"I'm not sure if I understand either," Hermione said, "but the way I see it, we've been transported back in time. Last night, we were doing a detention with Hagrid in the Forbidden Forest, and we were so tired, we decided to have a rest. I suppose we must have fallen asleep, and then when we woke up, Harry noticed that the weather was wrong. It had been the summer when we went to sleep, but now it was much colder and seemed like winter. We put it down to typical British weather, and decided to make our way back to the castle but on the way there we met a werewolf, and the rest you know."
"So you're from the future?" Rose asked.
"Well yes, I suppose" Ron said, "hang on a minute, that werewolf woudn't happen to be Professor Lupin would it?"
"Professor Lupin!" Lily shreiked, and fell about laughing.
"The werewolf is Remus Lupin, yes, but why did you call him a Professor? And how do you know that he's a werewolf?" Sirius asked.
"Because he's a Professor in our time," Hermione said.
"He's a Professor! What does he teach?" Heather asked.
"Defence Against the Dark Arts."
"Oh I'd hate to be a teacher." Heather said.
Ron then began to look at her closely.
"What did you say your last name was again?" he asked Heather.
"Cooper, why?" Heather said, looking nervous.
"Well you're a Professor too. Professor Cooper who teaches Astronomy." Ron said.
"Really? I'm a Professor? Of Astronomy? I've always been useless at Astronomy, why would I teach it?"
"Well if it's any consolation, you're a pretty bad teacher. You once told us that the Earth was at the centre of the universe."
Heather laughed. "Even though the Astronomy teacher tells us constantly that Copernicus proved that the Earth is not at the centre of the universe, I beg to differ. Does any other planet have as much power as the Earth? I think not." Heather was just about to get into a long speech about the power of the human race when Sirius interrupted her.
"Yes, yes Heather we know your views already, but I want to talk to Ron and Hermione. Do you know me in your time?"
Ron looked at Hermione, a questioning look in his eyes. Should they tell Sirius about his future? In a silent agreement, they decided not to.
"Um, well we sort of know you." Ron said.
"What do you mean? You either know me, or you don't." Sirius said.
"Well, we know you through Harry. You're his Godfather you see." Hermione said.
"Really? I'm his Godfather, cool!" Sirius said.
"What about me? Do you know me in your time?" Peter asked.
Again, Ron shot Hermione another look. This time they decided to pretend they didn't know him.
"No, we don't know you."
"Hang on a minute, there's still one thing I don't understand," James said, "why did that Harry boy faint when he saw Lily?"
"Well, it's like this Prongs," Ron began, but Sirius cut him off.
"Hang on a minute, how did you know his nickname?"
"Oh three years ago, when we were in our third year, Harry had to fight a load of dementors and he saw a big stag come out of his wand in his patronus. And Sirius had already told us that you were animagi." Ron said without thinking. Hermione shot him a look that plainly said, 'SHUT UP'.
"And we also know that you are a dog called Padfoot and he's a rat called Wormtail and that you call Professor Lupin Moony. And yes before you ask, we do have the Marauders Map." Hermione said.
"Back to James question, why did he faint when he saw me?" Lily asked.
"Well..." Hermione said, "he thinks you're dead."
"What! Why would he think that?" Lily asked.
"Well, it's kind of hard to explain," Ron said desparately.
"Give it a go." Sirius said.
"Okay, here goes," Hermione said, "you Lily, and you James are Harry's parents. In 1980, you were killed by a wizard called Voldemort. Harry survived and went to live with his Aunt and Uncle and then six years ago, he got his Hogwarts letter and came here. No one knows why Voldemort killed you, or why Harry survived, except Dumbledore and he won't tell Harry."
"You mean we're his parents! That's not possible. We can't be!" Lily said.
"Ca't you see the resemblance between James and Harry? And Harry has your eyes." Ron told Lily.
"And you said that Harry went to live with his Aunt and Uncle? Wait a minute...that wouldn't be Petunia and Vernon would it?" Lily said.
"Yep." Hermione said.
"Oh no. What are they like? Have you ever met them? Do they have any children?"
"They are really horrible. Up until his first year at Hogwarts they kept Harry locked in a broom cupboard under the stairs. I met them two years ago, and they have one son. Dudley, who looks like a big fat pink whale." said Ron.
"Trust my sister to name her child Dudley." Lily muttered.
"Well what about you? You named your child Harry!" Sirius said.
"Whatever. Anyway why did Harry go to Petunia's? What about Sirius or Remus or Peter? Why couldn't they have looked after him?" Lily said.
"Well that brings us to another matter. It concerns Sirius and Peter but I don't think we should be the ones to tell you. If we did, then we'd probably be playing with fate and everything will be different when we go back to our time." Ron said.
Hermione and Ron looked as though they wanted to tell them about Sirius and Peter's fate, but they knew that if they did, the whole world would change when they got back. At that moment, they heard a noise behind where they were all sitting and saw that Harry was awake again.
"I think that we'd better go and talk to him first, then we'll introduce you." Hermione said.
Lily, James, Sirius, Heather, Rose and Peter nodded. Ron and Hermione went and sat down next to Harry.
"Hello. What are we doing here? Who are those people?" Harry pointed at Lily, James, Sirius, Heather, Rose and Peter whose backs were turned.
"Okay, this is going to sound weird, but we've travelled back in time, and the year is 1977. Those people over there are your parents, Sirius, Wormtail and two of their friends." Hermione said in a rush.
"No really, who are they?" Harry said a disbeleiving look on his face.
"They're exactly who we've said they are. It's true. We've told them all about you and how Lily and James died, but we haven't told them about how Peter betrays them and how Sirius goes to Azkaban. We thought that if we did, we would be playing with fate, your Mum and Dad wouldn't use Peter as they're secret keeper, and then they wouldn't die and everything would be different." Ron said.
Harry didn't say anything.
"You're serious aren't you." Harry said.
"No, I'm not Sirius, he is," Ron said pointing at Sirius.
"Don't be stupid Ron! Anyway, can I meet them? My parents I mean," Harry said.
"Of course, but don't act strange. Call them Lily and James, and don't act weird towards Peter or anything. Oh yes, Lupin's here as well, but as tonight's a full moon, he's a werewolf. When we meet him we shouldn't call him Professor, the other's seem to find the fact that he's a Professor hilarious." Ron said.
"And Heather, the blonde one is Professor Cooper, the Astronomy teacher," Hermione said.
Armed with all this information, Harry walked over to where his parents and their friends stood. Ron and Hermione walked after him.
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A/N I hope that this wasn't too stupid. Hopefully the next part will be up soon, that is, if you like it. Just so you know, Heather and Rose are characters out of a story I am in the process of writing. Hopefully I should be able to get that up soon also. Did you know that the first Harry Potter book is being read on the radio today? It is on radio 2. I am listening to it at the moment. It has been going from about one o' clock earlier, and now it is on the part when Harry is doing his detention in the forest and he is talking to Firenze.
Disclaimer: If you recognise it, I don't own it. J.K. Rowling does. Heather Cooper and Rose Barlow belong to me though. The plot also belong's to me.