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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 everyone who reviewed my last chapter you know who you are. Well here is the next chapter which I hope you all enjoy and remember to please review it once you've read it I like to know what people think of my story. Also if I do spell anything incorrectly please mention it and I will change it, with that in mind I dedicate this chapter to Little House Girl who pointed out my incorrect spelling of "Snivellus" as "Snivelous".

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"What does he mean Mega we'll have to keep working on them?" Sparks asked the next morning as they headed towards their Charms classroom "please tell me we don't have to try and point out Potter's good points to Lily".

"I think we're meant to try Sparks yes," Megan laughed as she saw the look on her friends face.

"But…but she'll kill us Mega, she hates him! Can't we just leave her alone and not say anything?" Sparks begged as Megan started to laugh harder at the look of utter terror on her friend's face "stop laughing Mega it's not funny".

"It's the look on your face," Megan managed to utter before she started laughing again.

"Mega stop, you know she's going to go mad, she's already lost her temper with you once this week do you want her to do it again?" Sparks said loudly over Megan's laughter.

"No I don't want her to be mad at me again," Megan said seriously thinking carefully about what Sparks had just said, she didn't want to make Lily angry again but she knew she had to in order to help her. Everything was so confusing now she shouldn't have to worry about things like this, she just wanted to enjoy the little time she had with Lily again but things kept getting in the way of it. All she wanted was to see her best friend laugh and smile again, to talk like they used. Was that too much to ask, she wondered?

"We have to try and point out James' good points to Lil yes, but not enough that it'll make her mad," Megan replied as these thoughts continued to swirl around her head her memory showing her pictures from the past which were still too painful for her to think about.

"Make who mad?" A voice from behind them said making them both jump around in surprise.

"It doesn't matter Lil," Megan said to Lily as she looked up into her best friend's face and sharply poked a dumbstruck Sparks in the side who was standing there with her mouth open in surprise.

"What's up guys why are we stood in the centre of the corridor stopping other people from getting an education?" A fourth girl said; as she appeared beside them her long blonde pony tail swinging behind her.

"Don't know Tara just found them like this a minute ago," Lily answered shrugging her shoulders.

"Come on move aside some of us are in a hurry," Tara said as she pushed past the other three and walked determinedly towards their classroom, the other three turned and smiled at each other and then with a quick shrug followed in her footsteps.

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"What happened to your cushion Remi? Where'd it go?" Sirius asked as they sat in their Charms classroom later that day.

Remus looked down at the cushion he'd been trying to enchant to dance around the table and noticed there was nothing left on his table but a small pile of ashes.

"Other things on my mind Si," Remus said as he wandered up to the corner to get another cushion.

"What's up with him?" James said nodding towards Remus' back with a puzzled expression on his face "he doesn't usually burn things."

"He must just be having a bad day," Sirius said giving a fake laugh in order to ease the worry that was etched into James face.

James still didn't look placated though so Sirius decided now would be a good time to change the subject he didn't want James to start questioning Remus and cause Remus to let something slip which he shouldn't. Sirius knew he probably wouldn't but Remus had enough on his mind as it was. Remus had a tendency to worry and Sirius knew it.

"So James," Sirius paused thoughtfully trying to think of a way to start the conversation which he knew he had to broach with James without causing him to fly off the handle "erm… are you ok about me seeing Meg now?"

James ripped his attention from Remus to look at Sirius. He hadn't been expecting this question at all but he could tell by the look in Sirius' eyes that his approval in this matter was important to his friend. If he was being truthful he wasn't sure how he felt he just knew he was glad it wasn't Evans Sirius was seeing. He wasn't sure why but for some reason the thought of that made him feel sick and there was another feeling there when he thought of it that he couldn't name. These thoughts confused him he hated Evans so why did the thought of her dating Sirius make him feel this way? Why?

"Yeah I'm fine about it," James said, Sirius was his best friend and he wanted him to be happy and if it was Megan that made him happy then so be it these things happened he supposed "I'm just glad it's not Evans," he said as an after thought.

"Why?" Sirius asked as he studied James expression for any hints that he was starting to realise his feelings for her.

"Why Si? Why? You have to ask because she's Evans!" James laughed as he automatically responded to this question "why would anyone want to date Evans Si? She's Evans".

"She's not bad looking James she's quite pretty," Sirius responded calmly as he watched James face turn red.

"Pretty," James spluttered anger that he couldn't explain pumping through him "Si how can you call Evan's pretty look at her she's horrible".

James looked over at Evans then and wondered what was wrong with Sirius. She wasn't pretty she was horrible, she was Evans. How could Sirius say something like that? First he starts dating one of her friends and now he's calling that pretty, what's wrong with him, James wondered? That curly curtain of red her, those eyes the colour of summer grass, the freckles dotting her nose how could Sirius think that pretty? But you do so why shouldn't he, a small voice in the back of his head pointed out. James nearly fell off his chair as this realisation hit him, he thought Evans was pretty. He wasn't feeling anger towards Sirius because he thought she was pretty but because he James Potter thought it too. No, James thought angrily, she's Evans I hate her. So you still think she's pretty, the voice replied again. So what if I do nothing has changed, James told it angrily. Ah but it has, it replied, it has and in James' heart of hearts he knew it was telling the truth.

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"Why is he looking at me like that?" Lily raged to Megan as she continued to glare at Potter who had been staring at her with the same glazed expression on his dumb face for the past quarter of an hour. It was starting to unnerve her he wasn't doing anything he was just staring at her unblinkingly it was as if he didn't even see her.

"Who Lil?" Megan asked as she watched her cushion continue to lead Lily's in a tango across the desk.

"Potter Meg Potter," Lily screeched as her cushion started to wrestle Megan's onto the table which still continued to try and tango unaware of anything else.

Megan looked over at the boys table and saw James staring at Lily unseeingly. She smirked at Sirius then who gave her a quick thumbs up before he turned back to his own cushion which was doing a very weird version of the twist.

"Maybe he likes you Lil," Megan said calmly as she waited for the explosion these words would cause.

"Ugh Meg that's sick how could you even say something like that? I think I'm going to be sick," Lily screeched glaring at Megan who was trying very hard not to laugh at the look of utter disgust on her friends face, if only you knew Lil, if only you knew, she thought.

"You could do worse Lil, I'm sure he has some good points," Megan uttered quietly thinking that if she was going to do this she might as well go the whole way before Lily killed her.

"Good points what good points?" Lily asked loudly looking at Megan with a mixture of anger and disbelief.

"Well…"Megan said, "he's…"

"You can't think of any can you?" Lily said her eyes narrowed in suspicion.

Megan looked at her friend her mind going completely blank she couldn't think of even one good point as she looked into Lily's face. What am I going to do, she thought desperately? Why can't I think of any? I've known him for nearly twenty years and I can't think of one good point, what is wrong with me?

"He's kind of cute Lil," the girl called Tara ventured as she looked at Megan's blank expression.

She'd been following the conversation avidly as she'd been enchanting her cushion. She didn't know why Megan had suddenly decided to take the direct approach about the Lily and James problem but she knew she had to try and help her if they were ever going to stop Lily and James arguing. Also she wanted to be able to tell her friends that she and Remus were engaged, she was sick of all the arguing and the resulting secrets it caused.

"Cute? Him?" Lily asked bewildered at the fact that Tara who was usually so quiet and sensible could think Potter was cute. She was astonished that Tara had even said this she wasn't exactly known for expressing her opinions.

"Yeah Lily look at him," Tara said quietly looking at James.

"What his hair that always looks like he's slept on it, his fake, toothy grin, or maybe those evil eyes? Which part is cute Tara?" Lily shuddered disgusted as she looked at the boy that was still staring at her.

"He's a nice guy Lil he supports his friends," Tara tried again.

"Yeah right course he does they're just as bad as he is," Lily said crossing her arms stubbornly. She was determined there was nothing good about Potter and no one was going to change her mind about this, she knew Potter was a complete idiot and she was sick of listening to people trying to point out his good points why couldn't they accept that he had none. I've had enough of this conversation, she thought and before either of her friends could say another word she got up and left the classroom, whacking James in the head with her bag as she left after all this was all his fault after all.