HARRY POTTER
TIME TRAVELER

Summary – Harry opens a book in the Restricted Section and it transports him 21 years into the future, where he meets up with the future Ron and Hermione and their son, Eddie. Harry also meets Lily Potter, Harry's very spunky and caring future teenage daughter with a hot temper and a bit of an attitude. Harry wants to know about his future, but he feels that Ron, Hermione, Lily, and Eddie are keeping something from him; some very deep, dark secrets.

Disclaimer – I do not own Harry Potter, the characters, or the Harry Potter world. They all belong to the fabulous J.K. Rowling. However, while I do not own their names, the characters and the personality traits of Lily Potter, Eddie Weasley, Daris Malfoy, Christof Nott, as well as Asher Lazard and Robyn Andrews all belong to me.

Chapter 22- Childhood Flashbacks:

Eddie stood there for several moments; but it felt more like hours to him. The only sound that could be heard throughout Gryffindor Tower as the sound of Lily banging violently on the doors of the fifth year boys' dormitories as she yelled loudly for Harry to open the door. He knew there would be no use in talking with Lily right now; she was dead set on trying to get to Harry to open the door for her so that she could talk to him. Eddie knew that Lily would comfort Harry and tell him that Eddie was a moron who could not have said more untruthful things and that her feelings for him could never be matched to her feelings for her future father.

This infuriated Eddie; it broke his heart at the same time.

He stared up at the staircase. But, Lily never came back down to apologize to him or to tell him that she did not mean the things that she had said. She just continued to bang violently on the doors of the fifth year boy's dormitories, calling for Harry; demanding that he open the door for her. Eddie sighed and shook his head, running his hand through his bushy red locks. Without Lily noticing or hearing him, he quietly left through the Portrait Hole with his head hung and hands buried deep within his pockets. As he walked away from the Fat Lady, who was demanding to know what all the commotion and yelling was about, Eddie could feel a lump growing in his throat. He tried to swallow it away.

"Why the bloody hell do I feel like I'm about to cry?" Eddie asked himself out loud, rubbing his eyes with his fists so that no tears would betray his feelings.

'Well, maybe it's because you found out that your best friend things so low of you…you may have lost her trust forever, you git!' Eddie thought to himself. He kicked at the stone floor of the corridor and silently hated himself. He could not explain how or why, but he had never felt so miserable in his entire life. He felt like someone had plunged their hand into his chest, ripped out his heart, and then stomped on it as he watched helplessly.

Eddie did not understand why he was taking this so hard. Lily had only said that she loved Harry, her future father, more than she had ever loved him. Why should that hurt him so much? Harry was her future father; Lily had every right to love him more than Eddie. Eddie was, after all, just a friend.

'But, you're not just any friend,' Eddie thought. 'You're her best friend. And she is your best friend.' They were closer than most siblings were to each other. They both knew everything there was to know about each other.

Lily and Eddie had been friends since…well…there is not a time in his life where Eddie could remember not being friends with Lily. She was only a few months older than him and they were thrown together at birth and had grown up together. And from the moment that they were thrown together, they had always been there for each other.

Eddie gave a lop-sided grin as he remembered that Quidditch match, back in their third year where he and Lily really stuck their necks out for each other….

"Alright," started Dominic Stongbold, a seventh year Gryffindor and captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. There was a time-out and he had his entire team in huddle, giving his team a prep talk about the current Quidditch against Slytherin. It was in the middle of the game, the score was tied 130-130.

"This is ridiculous! We have practiced night and day for this match and the score should not be this close!" Dominic nearly angrily, causing everyone flinch, except Eddie who simply rolled his eyes. "Ed, roll your eyes at me again and see if I don't throw you off of this time. And don't let that Quaffle pass you again, understood?" Dominic rounded on the Chasers.

"You guys need to quit hogging the Quaffle," he snapped. "There is this amazing technique that I would love you guys to try. It's called passing. Believe it or not, it works so start passing! My fellow Beater, good work, but let's really beat the crap out of these slimey Slytherins."

Finally, Dominic rounded on Lily, who was watching the sign with curious, wide-eyes. "You, Potter, you catch that Snitch or…or…or you die trying!" Lily did not say or do anything except give Dominic a firm nod through narrowed eyes; as though she were determined to catch the Snitch no matter what…even if she did die trying.

"Don't say stuff like that to her," hissed Eddie angrily, glaring at Dominic, obviously worried about Lily. Eddie knew that she really would try and catch the Snitch or die trying and the fact that Dominic was reinforcing this behavior concerned him. Dominic took a leaf out of Eddie's book and rolled his eyes at the annoying thirteen year old.

"Your wife will be fine, Weasley," said Dominic dryly, though no one heard him except Eddie, who blushed scarlet. "Alright, Gryffindors, let's do this!" They all mounted their brooms and rose into the air steadily. Lily began squinting and searching around for any sign of the Snitch. She was hovering not far from the Gryffindor goal posts, Eddie close behind her, guarding the posts.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a Bludger came soaring towards Lily. Lily, who was too busy and to set on searching and finding the Snitch in another direction, had not noticed it. Eddie, who was close behind her, did notice.

"Lily! Look out!" shouted Eddie, pointing to the Bludger headed in her direction; aimed directly at her head. Eddie knew that Dominic or Jasmine would not be able to reach her in time to knock it out of the way with the bats. And Lily had not heard Eddie's warning over the loud screaming cheers of the rest of the Hogwarts students. Eddie's eyes widened and, without knowing why and without really thinking about it, he soared in front of her, blocking her from the Bludger.

"Eddie, what are you doing?" shouted Lily, angrily, not realizing what Eddie actually was doing" "Get back in front of the goal posts!" As soon as these words came out of Lily's mouth, Eddie had placed himself in front of her and the Bludger hit him with such force that it sent him flying off of his broomstick.

As Eddie plunged to the ground, Lily gasped in horror. Lily forgot all about the Snitch, all about the match, all about magic and the fact that Hermione or one of the other professors could just say a spell to slow Eddie down before he hit the ground. Her mind went completely blank and nothing mattered to her anymore. All that was important to her now was getting Eddie before he touched that ground. Without thinking, her mind completely blank and seeing red, Lily went into a dangerous dive after him.

"Go! Go! Go!" Lily urged her broom. Her Firebolt seemed to listen to her because she had managed to reach Eddie. Lily took one hand off the broomstick and grabbed tightly on to Eddie's flapping arm.

When she had a fairly secure hold on Eddie, she pulled into a sudden upward swerve, flying towards the clouds, pulling her best friend up away from the ground. Lily was using every bit of strength she had in her tiny frame to keep her hold on him. It was quite difficult as Eddie was so much taller, heavier, and stronger than she was. But, the thought of having him injured or dead put the adrenaline in her veins to keep holding on. Finally, Eddie who had somewhat regained his composure, was able to swing his leg over and sat on the broom behind Lily. As soon as Eddie was securely behind her on the broomstick, Lily caught a glimpse of gold at the other end of the field. Malfoy, Slytherin's Seeker, was too busy laughing and pointing at Eddie to notice it. Lily grinned mischievously and leaned forward on her broom.

"Hold on, Eddie," she whispered to her friend, who put his hands firmly on her shoulders.

"Lily, what-"

Lily leaned against her broomstick so that her chest was pressed against the wooden handle. The two of them sped forward at top speed and Eddie realized that Lily had seen the Snitch and was going directly towards it. Malfoy stopped laughing for a moment to realize what she was doing and immediately went after her. It was not long before the two were neck in neck for the Snitch. Malfoy, clearly frustrated at not being able to out-fly Lily, reached over and tried to knock her off of her broomstick. Thankfully Eddie was behind her, otherwise she would have fallen, but he caught her just in time.

"Mind your own business, Weasley," snapped Malfoy, furious that Eddie had prevented him from knocking Lily off of her broomstick. Eddie narrowed his eyes at Malfoy.

"Lily is my business!" shouted Eddie. "If you mess with Lily, you mess with me." Eddie took a leaf out of Malfoy's book and tried to punch him in the gut. While Eddie did not succeed on getting him off of the broom, he managed to make Malfoy swerve and slow down just enough so that Lily could inch forward. Without Eddie and Malfoy noticing, she reached out her hand and didn't pull it in until the Snitch was safe in her fist.

"Great job, Lils!" Eddie shouted, as they landed and both jumped off the broom. He shook her shoulder roughly, but playfully and she grinned. Asher and Robby, followed by the rest of the Gryffindors, raced out on to the field and carried, Lily, Eddie, Wood, and the rest of the team on their shoulders as they celebrated.

It was several minutes before Lily and Eddie were taken off of the shoulders of their fellow Gryffindors and were walking back to the locker rooms to change back into their school robes. It was only at this time that Lily knew that they would be able to talk, as there would no doubt be a huge celebration waiting for them in the Gryffindor Common Room. This would be their only chance to talk, and Lily took it, grinning up at her best friend.

"Eddie?"

"What's up?"

"I…erm…I…thanks for taking that Bludger for me," said Lily, grinning though feeling a bit awkward. She was never very good at apologizing or thanking people for serious things; like practically saving her life. But, to her immense relief, Eddie did not make it awkward for her. That was one of the reasons he was her best friend. He knew that this type of situation was awkward for Lily and he did not rub it in her face. Eddie just had this miraculous way of understanding her, as he simply just grinned back.

"It was no sweat Lils," said Eddie, patting her on the back, a bit roughly. "Thanks for saving me when I fell. That would have been a painful night in the hospital wing."

"Well, I needed to improve on my dive anyway," said Lily in a light causal tone, shrugging as though it were nothing. Eddie laughed and shook his head.

"You know, Lils," started Eddie, "it really is amazing of how much of a team we are."

"Yeah, we really are," said Lily grinning with a firm nod of her head. "Though I think that oath we made a long time ago may have something to do with it."

"I don't doubt it," said Eddie. The two of them finally reached the locker rooms and stood in front of their respective doors. Before going inside, Eddie smiled down at Lily and held out his hand towards her. "Friends for life?"

"Always," said Lily, holding out her own hand. And they performed their best friend hand shake.

'Of course…the oath,' Eddie thought to himself, shaking his head with an amused smile on his face. It was such a naïve thought; an oath that had been made based on innocent and pure love and friendship at a tender age when all seemed possible. It was a time when there was nothing that could break their spirits. Eddie could remember when he and Lily made that oath. It was like it was only yesterday and the memory felt more like an ache to him, but he could not help but reminiscing. He and Lily were six years old and they were playing tag in the backyard during one of Lily's many stays at the Windum…

A small little girl tackled a little boy, a bit tall for his age, to the floor. At a first glance, a person may think that they were fighting, but they both busted out with fits of laughter as they lay on the muddy ground.

The little girl stood up quickly and bushed a piece of golden blonde hair out of her startling emerald green eyes. As harsh as it sounds, without those golden locks, which were tied in high pigtails, one would think that she was not a girl at all; she was wearing a baggy pair of shorts that reached past her knees and was tightly belted; as they were way too big on her and her black T-shirt was worn very loosely, making her look tinier than she already was. But, despite her clothes, the little girl was covered from head to toe in mud. The little boy's warm chestnut eyes were also dancing with laughter. You could not tell by the mud covering his face, but, he had a little patch of freckles on his cheeks and nose and bushy, fiery red hair.

"TAG!" the little girl screamed at the top of her lungs, practically punching the little boy on the shoulder. "YOU'RE IT!" With that, the little girl, squealing with laughter, dashed into the woods behind the house. The little boy, rubbing his upper arm, where the little girl had punched him, followed her shouting, "I'M GONNA GET YOU!"

It was only a few moments of running when the little girl skidded to a halt and looked around for somewhere to hide. She looked up and saw a branch within her reach. The tree would be easily to climb once she hoisted herself up and Eddie would never think to look for her up in a tree. Hermione had forbidden her to climb trees but the little girl was not one for listening. So, she jumped up and grabbed the thick, rough branch, using all of her strength to lift herself up, now hiding behind the green leaves and branches. She could not help resisting giggling gat her own brilliance.

While the little girl was hiding in the tree, the little boy, whom the girl referred to as Eddie dashed through the woods, looking frantically for his best friend. Even though it was only a few minutes, he felt like had had searched for a long time; long and hard and his legs and feet were beginning to feel heavy; as though someone had tied two bricks to his ankles. Breathing heavy and sweat coming down his brow, Eddie sat himself underneath a shady tree, sighed, and closed his eyes for a minute. The summer heat was beginning to make him feel hot and sleepy and he would have liked nothing more than to lie down and take a nap right there.

But, that nap would never happen for Eddie's peace was severely disturbed. It first started like a whisper in the hot summer wind, but the more he listened, the closer it came unti; the sound was right at his feet; a hissing, rattling sound. His eyes burst open and he looked around frantically at his muddy sneakers. There, coming towards him, was a large, slithering snake. Eddie gasped and pulled his legs up towards chest, wrapping his arms around them. Frantically and breathing hard, he looked up to see if he could reach any branches above so that he could climb up the tree and out of harm's way; away from the venomous snake fangs.

No; there was absolutely no chance of him being able to reach any of those branches. Even if he could, the tree was so feeble that it would not be able to hold the weight of a mere six year old boy. Panicking, he looked at the snake with widened eyes that were full of fear and terror. The snake continued to slowly slither towards him, as though teasing him before he took the deadly blow. Eddie was too terrified to move; which proved extremely beneficial because if he did, the snake would surely strike. There was nothing left for him to do but scream.

The little girl sat impatiently in the tree for what felt like a century to her. Her legs continued to swing impatiently and she sighed heavily, wondering if Eddie would ever actually find her or if it would end up with her having to find him. She folded her arms loosely across her chest and began to hum to a soft tune to herself. It was not much, but it felt soothing and comforting to her as her impatience and frustration grew. But, her humming was soon interrupted by a petrifying scream; Eddie's scream.

"Eddie?" the little girl shouted towards the threes, hoping that maybe Eddie would be able to hear her. Without thinking, even though she was a good ten or twelve feet above the ground, she jumped out of the tree without hesitation. When her legs hit the ground below, her ears were filled with a sickening crunch as she felt a sharp, excruciating pain in her ankle. The little girl yelled out in pain as she felt her ankle crunch beneath her and watched it immediately begin to swell. Clutching on to it tightly, she heard Eddie's scream again and knew that she had to ignore the pain that was building tremendously in her ankle. She leaned against the tree for support and managed to pull herself up. Her ankle continued to scream and protest in pain as she limped towards the sound of Eddie's voice.

"EDDIE?" the little girl shouted, praying and hoping that he would be able to hear her. "EDDIE? WHERE ARE YOU?"

"LILY?" Eddie voice shouted. She could hear the relief in his tone. "SNAKE! SNAKE!"

Lily's eyes widened and she gasped out loud. Ignoring the pains in her ankle, she limped as fast as she possibly could towards the sound of the Eddie's panicky voice. They continued to scream for each other's name, as though playing Marco Polo, and Lily continued to limp in agony towards the sound of his voice.

Finally, she saw him in the distance, leaning against a tree with a look of terror in his eyes. He had his arms were grip-locked around his legs, which were pressed tightly against his chest. There was a large, green snake that seemed to be circling around his feet, as though a predator hunting for its prey, about ready to strike. Lily limped forward and Eddie's desperate eyes found her.

"Lily...help…" he said desperately, almost pleadingly. Lily looked around frantically and saw an old, long tree branch. Thinking quick, she picked it up and slowly limped towards the deadly snake. Not knowing what else to do, Lily jabbed it with the stick and it turned and hissed furiously at her.

Lily screamed and jumped back in surprise as it turned its fangs back towards Eddie. Eddie began to cry uncontrollably as he tightly squeezed his eyes shut. Suddenly, anger flooded Lily's veins and, once again without thinking, she grabbed hold of the branch and used it to pick up the snake. It turned towards her, hissing furiously, but Lily simply glared at it and threw the branch, with the snake on it, as far away as he could from the scene. Eddie's eyes popped open with relief, though tears of terror began to slide down his cheeks.

"Gone?" he asked with a shaky breath.

"Snake's gone," said Lily simply as she sat down on the ground, catching her own breath and resting her throbbing ankle.

"Thank you," said Eddie, finally getting to his feet though his freckled legs were visibly shaking.

"Welcome," said Lily, smiling as she gingerly touched her ankle. Eddie, wiping the tears from his face, walked over to her.

"Your ankle's hurt" Eddie observed, looking at how Lily's was so swollen, red, and even a bit lumpy which were telltale signs that it was broken. She was still gingerly touching it and almost cradling it in her lap.

"I think I broked it," said Lily, the pain becoming all too much. Eddie just stared at the ankle, which he thought now looked more like a balloon. "Home? Your mummy and daddy are gonna be mad." Eddie nodded in agreement as he walked over to Lily and offered a hand so that she could get up. He could not seem to take his eyes off of Lily's elephant ankle and it began to worry him as she limped behind him through the forest and to the Windum. It only took a few minutes of limping for Lily to let out a small whimper of pain and fall to the ground, clutching on to the broken ankle.

"It still hurts too much?" asked Eddie, kneeling beside her and looking at her with concern all over his young features. Lily shook her head, her eyes squinted shut in pain.

"Get your daddy, he'll help," said Lily, patting her ankle gently.

"No, no, no!" said Eddie firmly. "A snake will bite you! I'll pick you up. You're small; I'm big."

"You'll drop me!"

"No, I won't," said Eddie as he carefully lifted her off the ground and carried her through the woods. Thankfully Eddie had spoken the truth; she was extremely small for her age at the time, and he was much taller than her.

"How dided you get your ankle hurt?" Eddie asked as he ducked a low branch, still holding Lily.

"I jumped out of tree that was a billion feet in the air," said Lily proudly, though clearly over exaggerating. Eddie looked at her astonished.

"Now why did you do that, dummy?" asked Eddie impatiently. Lily suddenly stopped looking proud and looked rather offended.

"I...I heard you scream," she whispered. "It made me scared." Eddie looked at her in shock for a moment. She had jumped out of a tree and broken her ankle; all because she had been worried about him. Eddie realized that he probably would have done the same for her and that this truly was his best and most loyal friend.

"House!" shouted Lily happily, pointing towards the Windum. Eddie smiled brightly.

"We did it!"

"Together!"

"Yeah, together!"

"Lily?"

"Yep?"

"Let's make an oath," suggested Eddie.

"What's an oath?" asked Lily, scrunching up her noise in confusion.

"I heard my daddy talking about it…like a promise," explained Eddie accurately.

"Oh," stated Lily. "What kind of oath?"

"That we will be best friends forever!"

"Yeah!" Lily said brightly. Eddie set her gently on the ground, with the Windum still in view, and sat across from her. Eddie raised his right hand and instructed Lily to do the same.

"I, Edward Ronald Weasley, oath that Lily Julia Potter will always be my best friend. I promise to make her laugh when she is crying, to protect her when she is in danger, and to be there for her when she needs me. This is my oath to you." Eddie looked at the palm of his hands then spit in it. Lily giggled.

"Now, you say same thing, except use my name," explained Eddie. Lily shrugged and kept her right hand raised.

"I, Lily Julia Potter, oath that Edward Ronald Weasley will always be my best friend. I promise to make him laugh when he is crying, to protect him when he is in danger, and to be there for him when he needs me. This is my promise to you." Lily also looked at her palm, then, as Eddie had done, spit in it.

"Now what?"

Eddie held out his hand with his spit, Lily followed suite and held out her hand, and the two of them shared a spit handshake. From then on, the Spit Shake, as they called it, became their new best friend hand shake which they would always use as long as they were each other's best friend.

None of this matter anymore because now Eddie had lost his best friend in a matter of minutes and everything that they had shared, including that oath that they had made, went down the toilet. The thought of it made his blood boil and his teeth clench. The fifteen years of friendship was all gone; pushed and thrown away because of a boy Lily had only known for two months. The worst part was that it was the same boy who would one day grow into the man that would break Lily's heart; that would bring so much suffering into her young life.

No, that was a lie. The fact that Lily had chosen Harry over him, despite Harry's future actions was not what infuriated Eddie. What killed him the most was that he was the one that had comforted her when she was heartbroken over and in pain; he was the one who had been there for her and had supported her and protected her all of her life. In reality, her father had truly never been there for her; ever! Now, she goes and takes Harry's side and left him hanging out to dry in the dark, despite everything that they had been through together. The thought gave him the urge to kick something; he settled for the stone wall of the Hogwarts castle.

"I bloody hate him," muttered Eddie under his breath, kicking the wall again. "The bloody bastard; he turned my Lily against me!" His own words made him stop kicking the wall and pause for a minute. They had shocked him to the point where they made his stomach twist and turn into tight knots. "My Lily? Where did that come from? And since when was Lily ever considered mine?"

Eddie did not know where this sudden possession aspect of their friendship came from but it was not unwelcome. It felt almost right; like he was supposed to feel that strongly about Lily. However, what frightened Eddie was that he was thinking that it was possible that he was having feelings for Lily that he had never had before; feelings that ran stronger than friendship.

Tonight…at the Halloween Ball, when he had put his arms around her and danced with her on the stage, it had felt so right; so perfect. Now he could not help but think about what it would have been like to have kissed her during that dance. The thought of kissing Lily put a sort of puppy dog, goofy grin on his face, though deep down he knew that she never would have let him kiss her.

'Wait, why am I thinking of kissing Lily?' Eddie thought to himself. He groaned in frustration and began to painfully rub the bridge of his nose with his forefingers. He could not believe it; he had started to fall very hard for Lily Potter. Eddie knew he had broken some unwritten rule because he had fallen for his best friend. But, it did not really matter anymore because he did not even have a friendship with her anymore; forget a relationship.

The thought of losing Lily out of his life forever caused tears to sting at Eddie's eyes. It was not the fact that he would lose her as a potential girlfriend or the fact that she may never feel the same way about him; it was more of the fact that had lost the thing that he had treasured most about her; her friendship.

'Damn, if I hadn't lost my temper and said those words to Harry, none of this would have happened,' thought Eddie miserably. Well, it was too late now. All he could do was walk down the empty corridor, continuing to kick the wall as hot tears rolled down his cheeks. There is nothing else left to say. He had lost everything he had ever had with Lily; her trust, her love as a friend, but worst of all, her friendship.

Eddie is not sure what he would do without her? After all, she had helped him through so many things and hard times; they both helped each other. They were always there for each other; ever since Eddie had been born. He could not understand how she could just end fifteen years of friendship like that?

It was at this moment that Eddie realized that he could not live happily without Lily Potter in his life. It was not a question anymore. He needed her; it was as simple as that. And more importantly, he needed to get her back into his life; no matter what the costs…even if had to get past the famous Harry Potter.

Revised Chapter 23 will be up soon! Enjoy and please review!

Coming in Chapter 23 – There is a mysterious attack on a student.