Starting Anew

"L-Lily Evans?" Ginny was one that would often stutter when spoken to. She was just shy little Ginny, but right then she wouldn't have been stuttering if it weren't for the fact that she was talking face to face with Harry Potter's dead mother.

"That is what she said… now who are you?" Sirius was now cutting into the conversation, not taking time to realize that he could have introduced himself while he was getting over the fact that the strange new girl wasn't as dead as he had believed. Ginny had been staring at Lily, but was pulled out of her shocked reverie into a larger one as Sirius brought it to her attention that there were others in there as well.

"SIRIUS!!!" Sirius Black had stayed at her home quite a few times since her third year… a little over two years before. Even though he was much younger and more lively looking than the Sirius she knew, it wasn't hard for her to tell that it was him. This now meant that she was putting together what had happened. Here she was, in her compartment, with people she knew as mentors, legends, and respectful figures, yet they were only her age by appearance.

"Yes? Have we met? You don't look familiar or anything." The others stared at him in absolute disbelief, Lily resorting to backhanding him in the head, causing him to wince. "OW! What the hell was that for?!"

"You'll have to excuse him," a Harry look-alike that must have been James said. "He hasn't had his medication for the day. I'm James Potter, that's Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, and you seem to know Sirius… now who are you?" Ginny was still in shock, but she managed to get an answer out.

"Ginny. Ginny Weasley. I know who all of you are, but… well…" She bit her lip, remembering their Charms lesson on time turners.

'You are truly sent into the past,' Professor Flitwick had said. 'The slightest mistake may alter the future, so you are not to release any information on what will happen, for it could change the existence of your closest companions, or even yourself.'

"What's the matter?" Lily asked. Ginny decided to play along with the timeline. She would be a new student until able to talk to Dumbledore. At least, she hoped Dumbledore was headmaster… oh, what was it the Trio had said again? Oh… oh yeah! Professor Lupin had been able to come because Dumbledore was headmaster… So he had to be!

"Are you okay?" Remus asked, looking at her strangely as she had gotten a thoughtful, confused, and delighted look on her face that was quite strange as they were a weird combination all put together. Ginny suddenly snapped out of it.

"What? Oh, I'm fine… I don't remember what happened though. I…" Just as she was about to say more, the train skidded to an abrupt halt and all of them were thrown back and wound up in a rather confusing knot. Sirius, though, had ended up on top, and that was not exactly the best place for him to be.

"Ow! Geroff my foot!"

"Stop pulling my hair, James!"

"It's not me, it's Peter."

"No it's not, and you have my arm!"

"No I don't! Lily, let go of my head… where are my glasses?!"

"Sirius! Let us up!" Sirius sat on top of them, holding James's glasses in one hand and a chocolate frog in the other, munching away.

"No, I don't think I will. I rather prefer you this way."

"Are you insane?! Sirius, get off us!"

"Nuh uh," he replied, adorning a toddler voice. "You hit my head… wasn't vewy nice of you to do. Now, say sowwy and I might get up."

"Sirius! You deserved it!" Ginny, having been a ways away from them, had avoided the "pile of death" and was laughing her head off at them, from Lily's complaints to Sirius's attempts to draw out an apology. To her, it was absolutely hilarious. James then looked right at her, with a pleading look.

"Pweeeaaase?" he said, putting on his best puppy dog eyes which made Ginny laugh even harder, but she did as asked.

"Well!" she exclaimed, now attempting to hold in her laughter. "I'm off to the school. I don't know about you, but I'm starving. You can stay here though. I mean, I would understand if you're not hungry." She then grabbed a school robe and walked out of the compartment, waiting for the sound of Sirius jumping up after her at the thought of food. She didn't have to wait long before he passed her, running to the carriages and attempting to make one go faster than its usual trot.

As Sirius actually succeeded, the others quickly jumped into the carriage, hoping to get there and restrain Sirius from attacking the house elves of the kitchens for food, leaving everyone else with nothing… or at least just keeping him away from the Gryffindor table. Amazingly, they were actually able to do it, though, looking around, it appeared they had lost Ginny.

Meanwhile…

"Professor?" The old, wise, yet cheerful Dumbledore looked up from his desk as she spoke, looking the same as he had in her time… or was it would? Either way, he was no different.

"May I help you?" Ginny didn't really know what to say, so she decided to just get it out of her, as there was nothing better she could think of.

"Yes, sir. You see, I have this problem." Dumbledore nodded, listening with rapt attention and patience to wait for years. "I'm stuck… In the past." At this, Dumbledore's patience shrunk a little, getting confused, anxious, and yet having an underlying understanding of the situation.

"Which means?"

"Well, sir… That I'm from the future."

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Hey guys, long time no update :). Well, since ff.net was down, I was sitting on my lazy ass and making knew stories as well as other things… but one thing I did not do was to work on my stories. So, in order to make it up to you, I finished it quickly today. Thanks y'all :). C ya soon. Toodles!

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