Chapter 18
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Harry look around the hall. "Where are we?" whispered Hermione, behind him.
"I don't know," Harry shrugged. Ron had got up too.
"Hey, are we in Hogwarts? What are we doing here?"
Just then, footsteps and voices came from the staircases.
"He could be anywhere by now. I mean the castle is big, you know," said a bossy sort of female voice, coming down the stairs.
"Well, it isn't my fault. Sirius left the dormitory room opened. He got out, somehow," said the second voice. It was a boy's voice. The female voice sighed.
"Fine, let's check the dungeons and then the Great Hall." The two voices belonged to two people who just came down from the stairs. The bossy voice belonged to a girl who was tall, medium-size, and with long brown hair. The other voice belonged to a boy who was slightly smaller than her. He had tidy, light brown hair and was skinny. The two, however, seemed to not notice them because they went straight down the dungeons with the boy complaining,
"What if Professor Bennett sees us?"
"Oh, Remus, what is she going to do? Besides, we are watching out for Severus and his stupid friends. If they bother us, I'll just make sure to hit Wilkes right on the nose." And she made a gesture in the air. With that, they disappeared to the dungeons. Harry and Ron looked at each other. Just then, a voice behind them spoke,
"There you are! I have been looking all over for you. I already told Maria and Peter to meet us at the library. I don't know where Remus, Lily, Annie, and Sirius are. But I'm sure we can look for them." Harry turned around. He saw a tall, dirty blonde haired girl stood in front him. He was sure he had only seen her once, and that was at a picture in his album.
"Are you talking to me?" he asked.
"James Potter, I am not falling for that one again!" exclaimed the girl. "Come on, whoa, did you just shrink a little bit or what?"
For a long time, Harry and the girl looked at each other as if they were just seeing each other now. Just then another voice spoke. This time it was coming from the doors.
"…And that's when I took the quaffle from him like this…Lily, you have to look…"
"As much as I want to talk about quidditch, James. But can we please talk about something else? How about Charms?"
Harry, as if expecting what will come next, shifted to the side of the blonde girl and caught a glimpse of the couple that just walked in. It was a tall, red-haired girl who looked annoyed by the boy next to her. That very moment, Harry knew who the boy was. Standing next to the red-haired girl was an exact replica of him, only taller. The blonde girl turned around to see who he was gaping at, and became stunned. She was now looking at Harry to the other boy, back to Harry and to the other boy. She then began pointing,
"You! And you!" she seemed like she couldn't find the right words to say.
"Hey, Sam! What's wrong?" said the girl. She was looking at her friend and approached her with worried eyes. She stopped abruptly and looked at Harry. Her eyes widened and her face became pale.
"James," she whispered, "can you come here for a moment?" The boy named James approached her with a curious look. James looked at her and then to Harry.
"Blimey," he muttered. Harry felt tears trying to come out of his eyes, but he forced them back.
"Well, he's not anywhere near the dungeons," the same bossy voice was back.
"Where could he be? Poor Lester, he's probably out there somewhere, hurt and alone," said the boy with her. She rolled her eyes. She caught a glimpse of the crowd.
"What are you all doing here?"
BANG! A loud noise came from behind a door, which opened. Standing there, looking amused and proud of himself was a dark-haired, tall, and handsome boy. He was laughing very hard that he almost fell on the ground. He walked toward them.
"Sirius, what did you just do?" said the brown-haired girl, sternly and with narrowed eyes.
"Well, my dear Annie," said Sirius, putting an arm around the girl, "let's just say Filch is going to have a fit when he sees the thing that I did down there."
"Padfoot, you are crazy," said James, looking almost as proud as his best friend.
"So what are we all doing here?" said Sirius, looking around them all.
"I was just asking the same thing," said Annie.
"Well, I always knew that we had a lot in common, Annie-"
"Not now, Sirius."
"Would someone please tell us what is going on?" asked the light-brown haired boy impatiently.
"Well, Remus, this boy look like James, here. See?" replied Sam, the blonde girl. The young Remus looked at Harry and then at James. His eyes widened.
"Whoa, who are you?" he asked, still looking at Harry.
"We're from the future," said Hermione, who finally had the courage to speak. Everyone, including Ron and Harry, looked at her.
"F-from where? The future? What are you talking about?" asked Sam, looking at her as if she was crazy.
"I-it's true," said Ron. Everyone was silent for a moment. At last, Sirius spoke,
"All right, whoever put us through this joke come out now. This is not funny anymore," he looked around the hall as if expecting to see someone emerging from the corners of the hall. "No one?"
"It's not a joke," muttered Harry, finally. "It's true, we are from the future. We came here from a mirror. That is, we went through a mirror to get here. I know it doesn't make sense." He added because everyone was looking at him uneasily.
"So if you're from the future, what's your name and why do you look like James?" asked Annie.
"My name is Harry Potter, and these are my friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley," he said pointing at Ron and Hermione.
"Hey, I'm Sirius Black," he grinned.
"I'm Remus Lupin," he said, stretched out his hand for a handshake.
"Briana Sullivan, but you can call me, Annie," she winked.
"Samantha Aberton, but you can call me, Sam," she beamed. They all looked and Lily and James.
Lily hesitated and then said, "My name is Lily Evans."
"Your last name is Potter, too? Does that mean were cousins or something?" asked James.
"Er, not really. Actually, you're my father," muttered Harry, looking up at him. James looked stunned.
"How could I have a son when I'm only fifteen? I mean wouldn't I have to be married? And to whom?" he said, looking very confused. They were again silent for a moment. But this time is was Briana, who spoke,
"I think this can be explain somewhere else, and I think I know just the room to be in." She led the way to the second floor corridor and to an empty room. "All right, explain in here."
Harry was about to launch into the story about how his life when Hermione interrupted him, "Harry, you can't. The mirror must have been a time-turner. You can't tell them what happened. It will change the future."
"But, Hermione, they already saw us. I think that really messed up the future a great deal. We should at least tell them the truth."
"But, Harry-" However, Harry ignored her and started to tell them about how he thought it all started.
"It all started with this dark wizard called Lord Voldemort-"
"He's in your time too? He's getting really powerful right now and he's after us," said Annie, mournfully.
"After you?" asked Harry.
"That doesn't matter right now. Why don't you get on with the story?" said Sirius, sitting down next to him. Harry looked at his parents. It was awkward for him. Lily was sitting on James's lap and he was stroking her hair.
"Well, first of all, my parents are James and Lily Potter, them," pointed Harry. They looked at James and Lily.
"Well, that's not very surprising!" exclaimed Sirius. "Prongs, I knew you would marry her." He said as he slapped James on the back. Harry continued his story. Then it led to the death of his parents. He couldn't possibly tell them their fate. But they're looking at me, he thought, I at least should tell them something.
"Then what happened, Harry?" Sam said, looking at him with sadness on her face. She knew what was to go on, of course. She felt it. She saw it. "You know, I don't think we should know all the details of the future. I mean we can just hear the general idea."
"Er, the general idea?" asked Remus thoughtfully. He was pacing around the room.
"Yeah, you know, what basically happens to us. Like…let's start with James and Lily. They are your parents right?" she said to him.
"Right, well, you see that's what I don't want to tell you," he said quietly. Ron shifted nervously at his side. Before he can say anything else, the door burst opened. Two figures were standing there, one girl and one boy. The girl was a tall, dark haired girl, and the boy was chubby, small, and round-faced.
"There you all are! What are you all doing here for?" asked the girl.
"You all left us at the library," said the boy, hands in his pocket.
This is part one. Wait for the second part later. That's all!
