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Summary: Someone is messing with the timeline, why are they doing it and what has it got to do with Harry's parents?
Authors note: Thank you to the following people who reviewed this story it made me really happy to see so many people were enjoying my story: Demonic Saiyajin, Lady Lana, CapriceAnn Hedican-Kocur, sunsetdreams1328, Carolina, pig, wowser, suz and Little House Girl. A couple of issues in my reviews I will try to explain now: I've tried to explain in this chapter why James is being horrible to Lily and why Sirius and Remus didn't attack Peter as they should have done. If you have any more questions about any more issues in my story please feel free to email me about them or tell me in your review and I will try to explain my reasoning behind it. Also I started this story before the fifth book came out so some things may not be exactly the same as how J K Rowling has written them. I do also have another version of how Lily and James got together called Love is the Greatest Magic of All where James and Lily don't hate each other. One more thing before I go if you'd like to be added to the mail list about when new chapter's are posted for this story please tell me in your review thanks. Anyway that's all from me I hope you enjoy this chapter and please remember to review it once you have read it thank you.
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"James isn't as dumb as we think he is guys," Sirius said as he came bounding through the portrait hole after dinner that night.
The common room was empty, as most people had decided to study in the library or were still at dinner, the group had decided to meet up at this time for this reason. They knew that James would be at dinner and then was going to fly around on the quidditch pitch for a while and that Lily was going to be in the library for the remainder of the night. Sirius smirked at the others, as they looked at him looks of confusion written across their faces.
"Ok Si explain," Remus said peering over the top of a book he had open on his lap when he could no longer stand the smug atmosphere that was surrounding Sirius.
"Come on Remi you were at dinner with us didn't you see James start to realise he has feelings for Lily?" Sirius replied as he threw himself into one of the spare armchairs.
"No Si all I saw was you have a go at the rat," Remus replied through clenched teeth as he thought about their once former friend who'd deceived them all.
"That wasn't all I would have done to him if Dumbledore hadn't given us that potion. Do you know it won't allow me to hurt the little rat, it binded me to the chair when I tried to get up and beat him to a pulp at dinner? It wouldn't even let me shout at him, I did find a way around it though it doesn't stop me shouting at him if it's about anything that is going on now," Sirius said looking very happy about this fact as Remus also got a smirk on his face.
"Yeah we did notice that at dinner," Megan laughed "and thank you for sticking up for me".
"That's ok Meg, the little rat deserved it," Sirius said shrugging the thank you off, the others in the room noticed the pink tinge to his cheeks though and smirked knowingly at each other.
"So back to James at dinner then," Sparks said trying to get the others back on track as Sirius and Remus had almost identical looks on their faces which could only mean one thing, revenge.
"Oh yeah well I asked James if there was anyone he'd stick up for and he got this look of confusion and denial on his face as he stared unseeingly at the back of Lily's head," Sirius shrugged.
"He thought of Lily?" Megan said a small smile appearing on her lips which was quickly replaced by one of pain as she thought of the friend she was sacrificing to save the future.
Sirius looked at Megan and realised what she was thinking immediately, he quickly pulled her on to his lap and hugged her. He felt Megan bury her face in his shoulder and whisper that one question he couldn't answer, why? He nodded at the others to continue with the meeting as he started to gently stroke her hair knowing he couldn't give her any comfort by answering that question.
"It might not have been Lily though," Sparks argued bringing him firmly back to the matter in hand.
"It was," Sirius stated flatly daring anyone to argue that point.
"But it doesn't mean he's in love with her yet it doesn't mean he even fancy's her," Sparks pointed out quietly.
"No but it means even though he was always being horrible to her he does like her in some way if he wants to protect her, he just never realised it and is finally starting to," Remus replied calmly.
The others nodded at this as they thought about what Remus had said and saw the logic behind his words. They were all thinking along the same lines thinking about the behaviour of boys when they liked someone and were horrible to them in order to gain their attention. Could that be why James was always being so horrible to Lily, he wanted her attention but he didn't realise why?
"Well that will make what we have to do easier if James isn't being such an idiot anymore," Megan muttered.
"I didn't say he wouldn't be an idiot anymore about it Meg I just said he was starting to realise how he felt," Remus said to her as she raised her face from Sirius' shoulder however she didn't make any attempt to move off his lap.
"How are we going to stop James from being a complete idiot then and realise how he feels about Lily?" Megan asked quietly looking at the others.
"Well if James is already starting to realise it'll make our plan go smother," Sparks answered.
"What plan though? What are we going to do?" Megan asked.
Everyone thought about this question for a while and then crazy ideas started to reverberate from them.
"Lock her up," Sirius offered.
"You going to try and lock Lily up somewhere?" Megan laughed thinking of her best friend's reaction to this.
"Probably not," Sirius said also thinking about what Lily would do to him if he did.
"Save her from falling off something?" Sparks offered.
"Not a good idea if they start fighting James might push her off or Lily might jump," Sirius said as the others nodded at the truth of this.
"Save her life somehow?" Megan offered.
"To dangerous Dumbledore will kill us if something went wrong with that plan," Harry said from his chair.
"Uh help her with her homework?" Sparks offered shrugging apologetically.
"To small need something more… oh James you're my hero…style," Sirius said giving a very good impression of Lily, which caused the others to laugh.
"Well," Harry ventured "since dad started to realise how he felt about mum when you asked him about someone he doesn't like other people to be horrible to why can't we do something to do with that?"
"Hmm…" Sirius said nodding "that could work Harry".
"But who could we get to pick on Lily?" Sparks asked.
"How about Snape?" Harry said looking at the group.
"Snivellus," Remus and Sirius said simultaneously "perfect".
"Anything else Harry?" Sparks asked him.
"Well if we tell Snape mum said something about him then…" Harry broke off unsure whether he should say anymore.
"Snivellus will get very pissed off and have a go at Lily then if we make sure James is near at the time he can do his night in shining armour thing and help her and hopefully finish realising his true feeling for her," Sirius finished for him.
"When should this happen though because we have to make sure Snape hears the rumour and that James is there when he turns on Lily? We should also probably hide Lil's wand or she'll hex Snape so badly he won't be able to walk before James even gets up!" Sparks pointed out.
"If we tell someone to tell him the rumour that will take care of Snivellus," Remus said.
"Also," Megan ventured "if you get someone to tell him at Friday lunchtime we all sit by the lake in the afternoon and as long as you two and James are near you should see it, which will take care of James".
"Well that's sorted then he'll save Lily on Friday," Remus said.
"Yeah so we'll just have to keep working on the pair of them till then," Sirius said smiling.
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From the other side of the room hidden under a chair someone watched. Well, well, well, they thought, the best-laid plans can be destroyed and this one isn't a best-laid one at all.