Summary: Harry endures another summer, but something in his dreams is calling him out. What is there left to do other than follow your dreams? Harry will find out how far they will take him and save him.
Disclaimer: Characters belong to J.K. Rowling.
In Dreams
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"Well I thought that since they had kept so much distance from each other at the feast that they weren't on good terms." Hermione explained that night in the common, Harry and Ron had been unable to find her that afternoon so that had to wait after dinner. "Though I have heard that name before, Carlyle, what did Dumbledore say her first name was that night at Grimmauld Place?"
"Adhara." Ron said shortly, Harry looked at him questioningly. "I dunno, I remembered because it was an odd name."
"Yes, anyway, I know I've read that name before, I just can't think of where." Hermione stared hard into the fire. "It was a few years ago I think, I don't know, I'll go to the library tomorrow after Transfiguration."
"We can help if you need it." Ron suggested.
"No, I think I might know where to start off." She sighed. "Well no use worrying about it now, I think I'll turn in now though."
"Yea m-me to-o." Ron said through a yawn and made his way up the stairs with Harry behind him.
Harry found that unlike the dreamless luxury of last night he would not be so lucky this night.
"Come on, you can do better than that!" And then the second jet of red light hit him and he fell with a small smile still playing on his lips.
Harry could hear Lupin telling him that Sirius was gone but he could barely hear his former professor now. Sound seemed to be leaving his ears and the world appeared dark. He stood planted in the spot for what seemed like ages. He could feel that the presence of people was long gone. Harry walked a few paces not knowing where his feet would lead him. Suddenly a low hum emitted from somewhere on his right, he turned to face a pale green light that looked as if it were slowly inching towards the heavens.
The light would move up two inches and get brighter but then move back an inch and get lighter. With a sudden burst of heat the light that was no more than a wand tip wide expanded to about the base of a large cauldron and went up, never faltering, to the heavens. The light looked as if it was pointing to a star.
It was then that Harry noticed he was not alone, there was a person on the other side of the light, hidden by a hood.
"Hello?" He questioned slowly. "Who are you and where are we?" He yelled. The figure slowly walked toward him and stopped when the figure was less than a foot from Harry. Harry, whether it was a trick of the dream or her was that scared, found himself unable to move planted in the same spot.
The stranger lowered their hood but such a blinding light was shining off of this person that Harry could not see the face. "The question my dear boy," said a kind quiet voice, "is not where, but when?" The light subsided and he found himself face to face with none other than Dumbledore.
"Yes Mister Potter, when. As you learned in your fifth year: not all things can be remedied in the present some things have gone too deep for forward motion in time to heal them."
"Sir?"
"Time-travel Harry, it has been in man's interest for centuries. Can we change the past without destroying our future? This I do not believe, but who deserves a lifetime of sadness and strife? No one as genuinely good as yourself Harry, as I discussed at the end of last year you have accomplished and experienced more than most full grown wizards." Dumbledore held his hand in the green light and pulled something out. It looked like a vial but instead of liquid, it was filled with sand. He held out the vial for Harry to take and on closer inspection it was made out of glass and had spidery writing that was written in silver metal and was held on a shiny green thread.
"One turn should do it Harry." With a wink Dumbledore was gone along with the green light and he was back in the Department of Mysteries watching Sirius fall but on closer inspection Harry noticed his lips formed one word before disappearing behind the veil: 'soon'.
Harry jolted up from his sleep catching the attention of Ron in the bed next to him.
"What is it Harry?" Ron asked concernedly. Harry's only answer to this was the frantic checking of his bedding but slowly he reached inside the pocket in his pants that seemed to have a heavy feeling and he removed it. In his hands he held the vial that he had seen in his dream.
"Harry? You look pale, maybe you should go see Dumbledore..." Ron suggested.
"Yeah, I think I should, you and Hermione might want to come." Said Harry who was feeling a little worse off having actually produced something from his pocket that had been in his dream. Both headed to the common room where Hermione was sitting.
"Honestly, I know our first class starts at eleven but do you have to be this late? It's ten and I've already been to the library." She lowered her voice. "Professor Carlyle was on the animagus list, that's why I've read her name before."
"Hermione that's not important right now, we have to go see Dumbledore." Harry did not explain anymore and just headed through the portrait hole. Harry walked quickly down the corridors and stopped in front of the gargoyles he took in a sharp breath but could not think of a candy to guess.
"Sugar quills?" Hermione guessed. The gargoyle was still inanimate.
"Canary Creams." Ron said with a laugh and the gargoyle jumped to life and out of the way. "Well I'll be." Ron said in awe. Harry and Hermione wasted no time and went up the stairs that lead to their Headmasters office.
"Professor!" Harry started.
"Yes Harry I know, I know, I do have a lot of explaining to do." He said with his eyes twinkling. "I rarely visit dreams but that was beyond my control, for your sake Harry I would not ask the details because they are most difficult to understand. But Harry there is something in the past that you must conquer before you can accomplish what you need to in the future." He said knowingly.
"Harry, what's he talking about?" Ron asked from his left, Harry had forgot that they do not know that he had to kill Voldemort, or be killed.
With a huge sigh Harry launched into explanation. "He's talking about the prophecy that was made about me when I was a baby. Since Voldemort marked me as an equal eventually, for one of us to be able to live, one of us has to die by the others hand." By the end of this very short explanation Hermione was in tears and Ron looked chalk white under all of his freckles.
"We're going with him to the past, right?" Ron queried gathering up as much courage as he could.
"That is up to Harry." He said with his eyes twinkling.
"It could be dangerous-"
"Harry who are you talking to?" Hermione said trying to muster up a smile.
"Right, ok, then yes they're coming. But how are you going to cover our absence up?"
"Well Harry, the way that time travel works, you will appear here." He gestured to where they stood. "About five minutes after you disappear so I think I will go the restroom and then help myself to a sherbet lemon and great you back. But for you, depending on how long it takes you to figure certain things out, it could take anywhere from a few months to an entire school year." Hermione looked like she was the only one really following along.
"What are we looking for?" Ron asked slowly.
"Polaris holds a secret in the past that is not attainable in the present. It is imperative that you see how this secret affects the life of many."
"How will we get back?"
"I imagine you will be able to come to my office and I will help you from there." He answered with a smile.
"When and where will we be going?" Harry asked the question that had been plaguing his mind since he woke from his dream.
"You will remain in Hogwarts and you will arrive in my office, I do believe I have no visitors and it will be the year 1976." The twinkling in his eyes seemed to grow more. "Harry and Ron I must change your appearance a little because of the relatives that you have might raise a few questions, Hermione you should be fine." Harry and Ron nodded while Dumbledore pointed his wands on them.
Ron went first and his hair turned blonde and his freckles disappeared, leaving him slightly pale.
"If I were shorter...I would be a Malfoy." Harry sniggered at this but it wasn't entirely true because his face was mainly the same shape and his eyes were still brown, still funny nonetheless. But Harry stopped laughing when the wand turned on him.
He could not feel any major change except for his head was tingling so he looked around in the glass that was behind him and looked at his reflection. His hair that was black was now light brown and his eyes were no longer green but dark blue and skin was less pale than he normally was. He heard a small noise beside him.
"Well this will take a bit of getting use to." Hermione said in disbelief.
"Well, you three must leave immediately because if I do remember correctly Professor McGonagall will be in my office shortly and that would be most awkward if she saw you materialize out of nothing. One turn should suffice Harry." He said making a small motion with his hand. Hermione looped the necklace around the three of them and turned the vial.
"And Harry," Dumbledore said while they started to fade away. "Make sure you question the 'old crowd'." Harry opened his mouth to speak but found himself unable to as the office around him fizzled into a slightly less cluttered office with a twenty year younger Professor Dumbledore.
"Welcome, to 1976."
"Uhhh." Was what Ron got out at the announcement of the year and that seemed to be thing describing how the three of them felt at that moment.
"Now, I realize your appearance has changed but we still need to change your names, as some of them are familiar." His eyes flickering to Harry but mostly on Ron who had many relatives. "Even Miss Granger's name must change. Mr. Weasley you will be Ben Story, Miss Granger you shall be Erin Parker and Mr. Potter will be Dan Matthews, is that alright with everyone?" The three nodded. "Alright, then I ask that you stick to these names and I press that you tell no one of happenings in the future. The password to Gryffindor tower is Merlin. You are dismissed, it's a Saturday here so you all can go outside and make friends with your new classmates. Good luck."
The three walked out of Dumbledore's office in silence. And made there way onto the grounds where most of the student population was sitting, running, or chatting.
"So we're here, what're we suppose to find?" Ron asked slowly.
"I don't know, something about Polaris." Harry answered staring around.
"Sorry about that." A boy said after knocking Ron off his feet. The boy actually looked basically exactly like the normal Harry would. Harry and Hermione stared at the boy with open mouths. "I'm James Potter, who're you three?"
Harry could not respond he was talking with his dead father, is that even possible? "I'm Erin Parker, this is Dan Matthews and this is Ben Story. We transferred here. We're in Gryffindor."
"Excellent! Oi Padfoot, Moony, Wormtail! Over here!" He shouted over the chatting students. A moment later three boys walked over, one was very handsome with long black hair and blue eyes who seemed to gather the attention of many females when he walked. The boy next to him looked very out of place as he was quite a few inches shorter had blonde hair, light blues eyes, and a little chubby. The last boy trailing behind was also very handsome with light brown hair, hazel eyes, but unlike the first boy he did not hold the same confidence.
"Alright this is Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, and Remus Lupin. Guys this is Erin Parker, Dan Matthews, and Ben Story," the other three boys chorused a small nice to meet you.
Harry knew that this was going to be a test, he could not cry at the fact that he was talking to the younger versions of two people who had left his life or scream at the younger version of his parents' traitor. Hermione seemed to notice his dilemma and spoke for him again.
"Nice to meet you."
"What year are you guys in?" He asked looking at Ron.
"Um, sixth and in Gyffindor." Ron said with a half smile.
"Great! So're we. Six beds in the room will make it a bit crowded." Sirius said laughing.
"So we'll see you later." Hermione said dragging the other two away.
"Those kids are kinda weird." James said watching their retreating backs.
"It's probably because they're in new environment that is unfamiliar, or the shock of Hogwarts size is a factor." Remus added not lifting his head from his book.
"Wow Moony, that's just, wow." Sirius said shaking his head and Peter sniggered behind him.
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"Harry what's up?" Ron said as they entered the abandoned classroom.
"It's so weird, I mean, they're dead, but they're here and he betrayed them and they don't know. And there is nothing I'm allowed to do."
"Harry we'll figure something out, I mean while your back here you can get to know them." Ron suggested and Hermione nodded fervently.
"This is so much like a dream."
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Thank you A.J. of Gryffindor for reviewing my story and I hope you like this chapter! If there are any new readers I would appreciate if you reviewed too because that's how I know whether or not to continue with the story or not!
Much love, Jimithang