(Note this chapter was edited by www.fanfiction.net/~polkat on 5/1/2004. Go and read/review some of her stories. They are excellent, and far better then mine.)

Chapter 10

Harry's room. He's asleep. Suddenly the phone rings, waking him up. Harry looks around; he was not aware he had a phone. Nevertheless it is still ringing. He answers it.

Harry: Hello?

Lupin: (v.o) Harry, you didn't fall asleep, did you?

Harry looks at his watch.

Harry: Uh Professor. Lupin, uh no. No, don't be silly.

Lupin: (v.o) Listen, this is very important, I forgot my video camera, could you stop by my place and pick it up from my old office on your way to Hogsmeade?

Harry: Um, yeah, I'm on my way.

Cut to outside Hogsmeade village. Harry skateboards [well, why not?] down into the town car park. Inside the parking lot is a big white van marked with the words "Prof. R Lupin Enterprises". An owl, HEDWIG, is sitting by it. Harry goes towards her.

Harry: Hedwig! There you are, haven't seen you for months; I knew something like this would happen when Lupin asked if he could "borrow you for a day." Hey Hedwig, where's Lupin, girl, huh?

The doors of the van open, and smoke comes out. It's followed by a DeLorean sports car, reversing back out of the van and into the parking lot. The license plate reads "OUTATIME. PROF REMUS J LUPIN" Lupin then gets out of the car. He's a young man, aged 37, and has short, greying hair. He's wearing a radiation suit and looks very much your typical wild scientist.

Harry: Professor Lupin?

Lupin: Harry, you made it!

Harry: Yeah! Look professor about my owl-

Lupin: Welcome to my latest experiment. It's the one I've been waiting for all my life.

Harry: Um, well it's a DeLorean, right? I didn't know you knew how to drive-

Lupin: Bare with me, Harry, all of your questions will be answered. Roll tape....

Harry: OK.

Lupin: ......and we'll proceed.

Harry: Professor, is that a de......

Lupin: Never mind that now, never mind that now.

Harry: All right, I'm ready.

Harry starts filming Lupin.

Lupin: Good evening, I'm Professor Remus J. Lupin. I'm standing on the parking lot of Hogsmeade Wizarding Village. Its Saturday morning, October 26th 1998, 1.18am and this is temporal experiment number one. C'mon, Hedwig.

During the following Hedwig flys into the DeLorean. She has a clock attached around her neck.

Lupin: Hey, hey girl, get in there, in you go, sit down, put your seatbelt on, that's it!

Harry: Whoa, whoa, whoa, OK. That's my bird Professor, be careful huh?

Lupin: Please note that Hedwig's clock is in complete synchronisation with my control watch. Got it?

Both clocks - the one in Lupin's hands and the one around Hedwig's neck - say 1.19.

Harry: Right, check, Professor.

Lupin: Good. Have a good trip Hedgehog, watch your head.

Harry: Her name is Hedwig.

Lupin: Oh, of course, Sorry Hedwig.

Lupin shuts the car door and gets out a remote control for the car. Amongst other things it has a digital speedometer on it.

Harry: You have this thing hooked up to the car?

Lupin: Watch this.

Harry: Yeah, OK, got it.

He starts filming. The car starts driving itself - it is being controlled from the remote!

Harry: Jesus! I mean.er. by Merlin!

Harry turns to Lupin, inadvertently filming him.

Lupin: Not me, the car, the car!

Harry films the car.

Lupin: If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit! Watch this, watch this.

Lupin lets go of the lever. The car heads towards him and Harry. Then as it hits 88 miles per hour, it lets off a blue glow and disappears, leaving behind two fire trails which almost hit the feet of Lupin and Harry. The licence plate falls off the car and spins around on the ground. Harry stares on in shock, as Lupin excitedly leaps about.

Lupin: Ha, what did I tell you, 88 miles per hour! The temporal displacement occurred at exactly 1.20am and zero seconds!

Harry picks up the OUTATIME plate.

Harry: Hot, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, Professor, you disintegrated Hedwig! That was my owl! I liked my owl!

Lupin: Calm down, Harry, I didn't disintegrate anything. The molecular structure of Hedwig and the car are completely intact.

Harry: Where the hell are they?

Lupin: The appropriate question is, when the hell are they! Hedwig has just become the world's first time traveller! I sent her into the future. 1 minute into the future to be exact. And at exactly 1.21am we should catch up with her and the time machine.

Harry: Wait a minute, wait a minute, are you telling me that you built a time machine...... out of a DeLorean? Couldn't you have just used a Time- Turner?

Lupin: No! The way I see it, if you're going to build a time machine why not do it with some style. Besides, time turners don't work the way we need them too, in this particular fanbase we can change time not just complete things besides the stainless steal thingy-

Lupin checks his watch.

Lupin: Look out!

The DeLorean reappears, steaming. Lupin walks over and touches it.

Harry: What, what is it hot?

Lupin: It's cold, damn cold. (Opens the door) Ha, ha, ha, Hedwig, you little devil. Hedwig's clock is exactly one minute behind mine, it's still ticking.

Lupin's clock says 1.22, Hedwig's clock says 1.21. Lupin unbuckles Hedwig's seatbelt and the bird flys happily into the van.

Harry: She's alright!

Lupin: She's fine, and she's completely unaware that anything happened. As far as she's concerned the trip was instantaneous. That's why Hedwig's watch is exactly one minute behind mine. She skipped over that minute to instantly arrive at this moment in time. Come here, I'll show you how it works. First, you turn the time circuits on.

Lupin does so. Inside are three panels, each with a different LED display.

Lupin: This readout tells you where you're going, this one tells you where you are, this one tells you where you were. You input the destination time on this keypad. Say, you want to see the signing of the Declaration of Independence.....

Lupin types in July 4th 1776.

Lupin: .....or witness the birth or Christ.

Lupin types in December 25th 0000.

Lupin: Or if you just wanted to go to some massively plot manipulated but completely randomly selected date how about June 15th (surprised) 1996.

Lupin types in June 15th 1996 and then realises.

Lupin: Yes, of course, June 15th 1996!

Harry: What?

Lupin: That was the day Sirius Black died. I remember it vividly. I had just finished a duel, Death eaters were being rounded up.....Sirius was still fighting, and then BANG, he was gone. In a flash of light we were to never see your Godfather again in this timeline.

Harry: I remember...but, how.....how the hell did you make this 'thing'?

Lupin shows Harry a flashing panel at the rear end of the DeLorean's interior.

Lupin: This is what makes time travel possible. The flux capacitor.

Harry: The flux capacitor.

Lupin: It's taken me almost 2 years and my entire family fortune [AN: two galleons and a dozen beans which Lupin used to bribe the employees at B&Q] to realise the vision I had the day after Sirius' death. My God, has it been that long? Things have certainly changed around here. I remember when this was all farmland as far as the eye could see. Lucius Malfoy, owned all of this; how he'd hate to see all this now.

Harry: This is uh, this is heavy duty, Professor, this is great. Uh, does it run on regular unleaded petrol?

Lupin: Unfortunately no, it requires something with a little more kick - plutonium!

Harry: Uh, plutonium, wait a minute, are you telling me that this sucker's nuclear?

Lupin notices Harry has let the camera drop.

Lupin: Hey, hey, keep rolling, keep rolling there. No, no, no, no, this sucker's electrical. But I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity that I need.

Harry: Professor, you don't just walk into a store and ask for plutonium! Did you rip this off?

Lupin comes to Harry waving off the idea, and then:

Lupin: Of course, from a group of Libyan Nationalists. They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and in turn gave them a shiny bomb case full of used pinball machine parts!

Harry: Jesus.

Lupin: Let's get you into a radiation suit, we must prepare to reload.

A few minutes later, Lupin has put more plutonium into the DeLorean and Harry is in a radiation suit.

Lupin: Safe now, everything's lead lined. Don't you lose those tapes now; we'll need a record. Yep, yep. I almost forgot my luggage. Enough of Snape's potions to keep my transformations from causing any harm for a whole 3 months, as well a 2 pairs of socks and an invisibility cloak.

He puts a suitcase in the DeLorean.

Harry: The past, that's where you're going?

Lupin: That's right, 2 years into the past. I am going to show up at the department of mysteries, and save Sirius shortly before he falls through the black veil. All anyone will see is the veil being blown back as Sirius falls, and I drag him under the invisibility cloak. I will then bring him back to this timeline, find a cure for Lestrange's spell, and live happily ever after.

Harry: Uh, Professor.

Lupin: Huh?

Harry: Uh, look me up when you get there.

Lupin: Indeed I will. One last thing before I leave Harry.

Harry: Yes professor.

Lupin: You have to stop looking at pornography in the Mirror of Erised. I took a scouting trip into the future last week [even though I said earlier that Hedwig was the first time traveller which even then was ridiculous as Harry, you've been into the past before- David this makes no sense!], and I foresee that it will cause your mind great long-term damage.

Harry: Yes professor.

Lupin: Okay, roll em.

Harry starts filming.

Lupin: I, Professor Remus Lupin, am about to embark on an historic journey.

He stops and laughs stupidly to himself - a "how could I have forgotten?" laugh.

Lupin: What am I thinking of, I almost forgot to bring some extra plutonium. How did I ever expect to get back, one pellet, one trip! I must be out of my mind! Harry, remind me when I get back to engage in some After- dark arts with Tonks, okay.

Harry: Er, yes Professor.

Lupin: Because I am NOT gay.

Harry: Yes Professor. We all know that.

Hedwig starts squawking.

Lupin: What is it Hedgehog?

Harry: Don't you mean HEDWIG?

Lupin: Sorry, Hedwig even.

He looks to the entrance to the carpark. A blue and white van pulls in.

Lupin: Oh my God, they found me, I don't know how but they found me. Run for it, Harry!

Harry: Who, who?

Lupin: Who do you think, the Libyans!

Harry: Holy shit! Just like in the movie 'Back to the Future.' Professor this is getting spooky-

The two hide behind the van.

Lupin: I'll draw their fire!

He fires his pistol at them. It runs out of bullets.

Harry: Professor, wait!

Lupin throws his gun down. The Libyans shoot him with an assault rifle and he falls down on his back, dead.

Harry: No! Bastards!

The Libyans spot Harry and aim for him. Harry turns away, thinking it's the end. However the Libyan's gun is jammed, giving Harry enough time to get into the DeLorean - with the camera - and close the door. He drives off.

Libyan: Go! Go!

The Libyans start to chase Harry. The two vehicles travel around the cark park, getting faster and faster.

Harry: C'mon, more, dammit.

Without realising it, Harry turns on the time circuits.

Harry: Jeez. Holy shit.

He speeds up even more.

Harry: Let's see if you can do 90!

Harry gets up towards 90mph. Just before we hit 88 the camera pans over to the date on the destination panel - it's still June 15th 1996. The DeLorean then breaks through the time barrier