Summery: What would happen if Harry Potter went
back in time? Not to be a student but to teach? This story is going to be about Harry, at 19, going
back in time to his parents 7th year and teaching Defense Against
the Dark Arts (DADA). What
secrets would be found out? Find out all this and more.
"Well yes, there is."
"What is it?"
"How in the world did you get your hair to do that?" James
exclaimed, "My hair doesn't obey a thing I do and yet yours looks awesome
everyday. How?"
Taylor burst out laughing at what James had said, and Harry
turned toward her and smiled. He adopted a look of disappointment and, shaking
his head, said, "Eavesdropping, Taylor? I thought you were better than that."
She pretended to cry, "I'm…I'm…not sorry Harry," she grinned,
"You have got to admit it is funny though, I mean you two are identical except
for the eyes and the hair, and now he is asking about the hair. Pretty soon he
will be asking how do I change my eye color, which I know a potion for, and how
do I fix my eye sight so I don't have to wear my glasses," Harry shifted in his
seat when she said that and she looked at him, "What's wrong?"
"He wouldn't really need to change his eyesight."
"What do you mean?" she said looking at him with fake
suspicion.
"I mean I am as blind as a bat if I don't wear my contacts."
Taylor laughed, and both James and Harry looked at her with
cross expressions on their faces. That just caused her to laugh harder. It was
Harry who finally said something. He said, "What?"
"Well, first things first Harry, the more I find out about you
the more I find that you and James are similar. I would suspect you two were
twins if Harry wasn't 19 and James wasn't 17. You two should really get
together and see what else you have in common! Secondly Harry, are you going to
answer James' question about your hair?"
Harry grinned and turned back to James, "I just had it cut at a
muggle place. They can fix anything, but as for your hair… I would leave it as
it is."
James looked confused at that and he voiced his confusion,
"Why?"
"Well your hair gives you a certain characteristic, if you
change it you might change as well. I would just leave it if I were you,"
Taylor noticed a group of girls that had just came in and were coming towards
Harry. She nudged him and pointed at the girls. He rose quickly and said to
James, "Thanks Taylor. I have to go for a minute. Good luck James and remember
what I told you."
Harry winked at James, and hurried off and away from the
girls. Taylor and James watched for a while. Taylor shook her head and James
asked her, "Is he always like that?"
She smiled, "Apparently, apparently."
James thanked her and walked back to the Gryffindor table.
Taylor shook her head once again and said to herself, "Spitting images. They
are spitting images."
It wasn't long before Harry was back in the room and James was
watching the Slytherin table intently with the other Marauders. Snape had just
walked in and was smugly walking over to his favorite spot. He had just taken a
bit of his food when he started sneezing and wheezing. He was gasping for some
water but then he yelled, loud and clear, "POTTER!!! BLACK!!! I WILL GET YOU
FOR THIS!" and he started sneezing again.
Everyone burst out laughing at the sight of Snape, except for
the other Slytherins and McGonnagal. She shrieked, "Potter, Black, come to my
office and we will discuss your punishment for this prank."
Sirius was gapping like a fish and claiming that he didn't
even have a part in this, for once, and James just followed her silently. Harry
looked at them in concern and walked over to McGonnagal. He said, sounding very
disappointed, "Minerva, I am shocked that you would jump to conclusions like
that. You didn't even look at another person before you went over to them.
Isn't it possible that maybe it was someone else who performed this prank?"
"Harry, do you even know these boys? They perform practically
all the pranks that take place in the school. How do you know they weren't the
ones that played this immature prank?" she said, thinking that she had finally
gotten the upper hand with Harry, which practically never happened.
Harry grinned and said, "I know for a fact that they couldn't
have played this prank. Sirius was in his common room doing an essay for charms
and he couldn't have done it—"
"Well what about James, then?" she interrupted.
"Just hold on and let me continue," McGonnagal blushed at that
and Harry continued, "James couldn't possibly have because he was talking to me
about something in DADA, and I escorted him back to his common room. So neither
of them could have done it and you should look to someone else to put at fault.
Well don't just stand there looking like a gapping fish Minerva, go look for
someone else to blame," he smiled, "I would suggest looking for someone in the
other three houses, considering that you just out ruled the most likely in
Gryffindor. Now I need to talk to these two in my office, so if you would
excuse us."
The three of them walked around the stunned McGonnagal. Harry
walking with a calm ease, and James and Sirius walking in shocked muteness.
Instead of going to Harry's office, like he said, he took them past his office
to the stone nymph that was just down the hall. The nymph smiled and tried to
flirt with the three of them. Harry just shook his head in silent amusement and
said the password. The two boys, who had just recently melted from their
previous shock, slumped into a new one. Harry walked into the doorway that the
nymph had revealed, not thinking twice. Harry noticed that James and Sirius weren't following him, so he turned
and looked at them. He smiled in a way that reminded Sirius of James, and said,
with laughter evident in his voice, "Are you coming or not? I don't have all
year."
The two boys nodded and quickly walked into the unknown room.
They were amazed to find a bedroom clad in their common room's colors, and not
only that but to see Harry sit down in a recliner that faced the large picture
window. Harry spun it so it faced them, and he had such a look of bliss on his
face as he settled onto his room. The only odd thing about the room was that it
was void of material items. It was nearly empty. The two boys were so
interested in the room that they almost didn't see Harry gesturing for them to
sit down in the two high back chairs that had just appeared in front of him.
Once again he smiled a simply charming smile, spread his arms out wide, and
said, "Welcome to my humble abyss."
James was shocked to find out that this was where Harry slept
and he so freely gave the two of them the password into the room. He grinned a
marauder's smile and said, "This is your room? I thought you were going to take
us to your office."
"Well I was but…"
Sirius picked up on that quickly and said in the same fashion,
"But what? And why did you vouch for us? Especially me."
Harry sighed, "Right
now the other teachers here trust me about as much as they trust you. I have a
guess why but I am going to keep that from myself for now. You two are probably thinking that I am
crazy—giving you the direction to my room and the password, but I just felt
that it would be more informal if we talked here. As for why I vouched for you.
Well I was telling the truth, wasn't I? Sirius, you were in your common room
finishing writing your charms essay, "Sirius nodded, "and James, you were talking
to me correct?" and James nodded, a little hesitant, "So I was just telling the
truth. The odd thing about the truth is that sometimes people believe it less
than they do if you tell a lie. But sometimes it helps to tell the truth to
someone," Harry looked a little sad at what he had just said.
And James had picked up on that. He finally spoke up and
coaxed, "Harry, you do know you can tell us anything, right? So why don't you
get what ever it is off your chest. You will feel better."
Harry had such a sad expression on his face and such a serious
one. He just shook his head and said, "Fine, but I don't think it is what you
wanted me to tell you, James, or what you wanted to find out."
Harry paused and didn't continue until Sirius had impatiently
said, "Well? Are you going to finish anytime today? I still want to get to
Hom—" The rest of what he was going to say was cut off by James putting his
hand over Sirius' mouth.
Harry doubled over laughing at that. He was still smiling when
he said, "You still want to go into town? I won't say a word. As for me
finishing, I think I will cut to the chase. Nobody knows I am here except for
one person. Not my friends, not my godfather, not even my co-workers at the
Ministry. I wish I could have told my godfather I where I was going, but my
mentor told me not to tell a single soul. Oh I know all the people at the
school know I am here but no one knows where I am from. Even who and what I am.
But enough about that, we should talk about that prank. Didn't it go great? I
mean everyone, even Taylor, was laughing!"
The two boys started talking eagerly after the mention of
pranks, but one thought lingered in both their minds. 'What did he mean by
who or what he was, doesn't Dumbledore know about him? I thought he knew
everything. How did a nineteen year old keep that sort of stuff from a powerful
old mage…"
Sirius was worried. Not worried about if he was going to make
it to work on time, no, but worried about his only godson. The one he had swore
to protect no matter what. It wasn't as though Harry had disappeared from the
face of the earth, he had even left a note explaining things, but he hadn't
even mentioned this to any one. He just left a note and was gone. The only odd
thing about the note that Harry had left was that it had mentioned going on
hiding from the remaining Death Eaters. Harry had never even hid from
Voldemort, so why would he hide from Voldemort's supporters? That was the
question Sirius was meaning to ask Albus, as he rushed to get to Hogwarts. It
didn't take him long to reach his destination and an even shorter time to reach
Dumbledore's office. He barged in without knocking and said, crazily, "Where
the hell is he Albus? Where is my godson?"
Albus looked nonplussed as he said, "Sit down and calm down
Sirius. I know where he is. And you must understand that he is perfectly safe."
Sirius sat down and visibly tensed. "Where is he Albus? Just
tell me where he is. I have got to know. It is killing me not to know," Sirius
pleaded with Albus.
"I wish I could tell you, but even if I did you couldn't go
there. So it doesn't do you any good to know," Albus said with a twinkle in his
eye. He knew that Sirius wasn't going to stop at anything in order to see
Harry.
"It does do me some good. It gives me some sanity. What
worries me is that he didn't even hide from Voldemort, Albus. Voldemort.
And now he is hiding from the remaining Death Eaters. I know, Albus, I
know, that he is powerful enough to protect himself from anyone, and he
would never hide from anyone who is a threat to him or his friends. This just isn't the way he is. It just
doesn't fit his personality. Where is he, Albus? Where the hell is he?" and
with that Sirius broke down.
"Sirius, Sirius. Listen
to me Sirius! Harry is here. He is safe and he is here. But you can't see him.
Even I can't see him," Albus shook his head sadly.
Sirius didn't understand. "What do you mean he is here,
but I can't see him? What do you mean that you can't even see him? Tell me
Albus, tell me now!"
"Calm down. I am getting there. Do you remember a teacher? A
teacher named Harry Larson? The one that James and you adored?" Sirius nodded,
looking confused, "That is Harry. Harry is at Hogwarts, in the year 1978. It
was the perfect opportunity for Harry to get to know his parents. I had to give
him that opportunity."
"So let me get this straight. Harry Potter, my godson, was my
DADA teacher in 1978? And he was sent there by you?" Albus nodded, "Whose idea
was that, to send him there? Or should I say then? And is there any possibility
for me to go back too?"
"It was my idea. He didn't even know about it until the day he
went. As for you going it would be immensely difficult to do, I don't know if
it would be worth the trouble."
"I want to see him. He is in a place that he knows, in a time
that is foreign to him. He needs me! It would be worth any trouble for me to go
back. Please let me go."
Albus smiled and said, "I never said I wouldn't let you go, I
was just saying that it wouldn't be easy and it might not be worth the trouble.
But I am willing to bet that you would find a way to get there with or without
me. Am I right?"
Sirius nodded sheepishly. Albus laughed and continued, "As I
was saying I will let you go, but we need a Time Turner and a charm…" He
continued mainly talking to himself when Sirius interrupted.
"A Time Turner and a charm, sir? I have a Time Turner at my
house, don't ask why, but what is the charm for?"
Albus looked at him, "You have a Time Turner? Good, good. That
is one less thing to worry about. The charm, Sirius, is so you only have to
turn it to go back a year instead of turning it to go back an hour. It saves on
turns. Why don't you go get the Time Turner and anything you might need from
your home and meet me here in an hour or two?"
"Good idea sir. I will be back in a bit."
(or should I say the past?)
Harry was still talking to James and Sirius when Hedwig flew
into the room. For once, since he had arrived, she had a letter attached to her
leg. Harry looked confused at the letter. He took it and mumbled a quick thanks
to Hedwig. The large, white owl flew over and landed on James' shoulder. He
looked confusedly at the bird and petted her. Sirius joined him in petting the
bird. Harry whistled sharply and Hedwig flew to his out stretched arm. Harry
hadn't even opened the letter before he walked over to his desk and put it into
his top drawer, promising himself that he would look at it later. He grinned at
James and Sirius as he petted Hedwig. He looked at the bird before he started
to tell about Hedwig, "Her name is Hedwig. I have owned her since I was eleven.
A wonderful man bought her as a birthday gift for me. She was the first
birthday gift I ever got, and…"
(2 hours later than before)
Dumbledore smiled as Sirius rushed into his office later that
day. Sirius was fumbling with all his stuff as he tried to get into the head master's
office. He looked up eagerly, "So can I go now? Please? I want to see Harry as
soon as I possible can!"
Dumbledore laughed, "Just hold on Sirius. We have a few things
we need to discuss before I can perform the charm and let you go. First off,
why don't you have a seat?"
If there had been a musical chairs competition in that office
at that moment, no body would have been able to sit down faster than Sirius. He
was practically jumping up and down in his seat like a 5 year old on their birthday.
"So, " he cried out, "What do I need to know? Come on, tell me so I can go!"
"Well you couldn't possibly go by the name Sirius
Black, when there is already one there. You will go by the name Ryan White. You
need to remember not to acknowledge anyone if they call you Sirius. Also, you
can't change into Padfoot. Another thing is—"
Sirius interjected with hearing that comment, "What? Why can't
I?"
"Because we can't possible have two large, black,
grim-look-a-likes. It is going to be
hard enough convincing everyone that Ryan White and Sirius Black are two
different people, even with the age gap. But it will be near impossible if they
both can change into the same dog. You know that, Sirius. It would be too confusing.
As I was saying, before I was interrupted, you can't change the past. I know
how hard it is but you cannot change the past. I know you don't want the bad
things that happened to happen, but you have to. I am sorry but this is too
important for you not to listen to me. You need to promise me this. Do you
understand? Promise me," Dumbledore still had that twinkle in his eye
but his expression was grim, this was something he didn't want to tell Sirius
but he had to. To many things could go wrong if Sirius to anyone anything. It
didn't take long for Sirius to answer, and so solemn that anyone would believe him,
"I swear on James and Lily's grave."
Dumbledore smiled, "Well with that part over we can get on to
another part. Wait I almost forgot this. I need you to wait one or two days
when you get there, before you go into Howarts, just because I want you to send
a letter to Harry explaining who you are and when to expect you. That will also
give him some time to think up a reason why you are coming."
Sirius looked a little
put out at that, he obviously had a big event planned for his arrival. But he
reluctantly agreed. Dumbledore looked concerned but then he smiled. "Now Sirius
I know you will have fun, but we need to talk of other matters. Now the charm
isn't that hard, but it has a lot of steps…"
A/N: I am sooooooo sorry
about the wait, but school sucks. Thank goodness I don't have school again
until September. Well I have some unfortunate news. I have to stay at my
grandma's for more than two weeks, without the internet or a computer mind you,
so I won't be able to post a new chapter until after I get back. (Not that that
is any different than the normal wait, but I thought I would warn you.) I am
sorry about this but imagine what I have to go through. No internet *shudders*.
I will try to make up the wait with a long part but I don't want to jinx
anything. Remember that I don't own anything except what you don't know. Please
review!
Thanks to every one who reviewed
and a really special thanks (and a box of chocolate frogs) to all the people
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