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Chapter VI: Potions Class

The next day Harry, Hermione, and Ron quickly ate breakfast and went to the library. They sat their bags on a table and began looking for books on time traveling.

"So Harry how's life as a Slytherin?" asked Ron.

"It's okay I guess. I would rather be in Gryffindor. So how are my parents?" asked Harry.

"They're cool," he answered. "You know I'm still sorry about your robes. Haven't you figured out how you're going to get them back to black?" He pulled out a book looked at its cover and then put it back.

"No. I don't know what to do although yesterday this guy was going to help me, but Malfoy pushed him away. I think he said his name was Brown."

"Ah yes him. Emmett Brown. I swear he's a genius. He reminds me of Hermione back in year one."

Hermione came by flipping though some pages and stopped to look at him.

"Who reminds you of me?"

"Oh Emmett he's really nice, but he keeps talking to me. It was like we became friends as soon as I said hi to him," said Ron. "But the thing is he talks about are things that don't interests me."

"You mean thinks that you don't know," said Hermione.

Ron rolled his eyes and agreed.

"Every year Emmett's been over booking his classes that he's been using a time turner, like you did back in year three."

"Wow he must be a very dedicated person," said Harry.

"Must be," said Hermione. She closed the book that she was looking at and placed it back. "Well I can't find any of the books. I wonder what had happened to them."

She walks up to Madam Pince and Harry and Ron followed.

"Excuse me Madam Pince, we were looking for some time traveling books but we can't seem to find them," said Hermione.

"Oh I'm sorry to tell you but they have been checked out," she answered.

"By who?"

She opened her sign off book and found the name.

"E. Brown. He signed them out yesterday. If you want to find him, he's always in here after class."

"Thanks."

They went back towards their bags and head out of the library.

"What are we going to do now?" asked Ron.

"Well we can't wait for him to return them. You just have to ask if we can borrow them," Hermione told him.

"If I must," he said. "Well I'll see you all later."

They waved good bye and went to their class.

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Double Potion class was about to start for the Gryffindors and the Slytherins, and Ron waited quietly for Harry to come. The classroom seemed quite different. Most of the Gryffindors still wouldn't speak, and the unique colors that the Slytherins were displaying.

"I sure wish Harry would hurry up. I really feel unconformable in this class," said Ron to himself.

"Hiya Ronny. Why are you sitting all alone? Why don't you come over here and sit with us," said Sirius.

"No thank you Sirius. I'm waiting for Harry," replied Ron.

"Why? He's in the house that made us speak backwards," said Sirius.

"Yeah so what he's still my friend, and if it wasn't for my friends I wouldn't be able to give you the Ingles spell," said Ron.

"I guess you have a point. Well if you change you mind you know were to find me," said Sirius and then he left to join his friends.

Class was about to start and Harry was still not there. Just then Ron heard someone taking a seat next to him. He looked up and saw Emmett.

"Emmett please don't. I'm saving this seat," said Ron.

"But there's no where else to sit," said Emmett.

"There's an open seat next to Lily," Ron pointed out.

"She said that she's saving that seat for Harry Parker," said Emmett.

At that moment Harry walked in. He saw someone sitting next to Ron and there was only one seat open for him, the one next to Lily.

"Harry, come sit next to me," called Lily.

Ron turned to look at Harry taking a seat next to Lily, and then he turned around and put his head on the desk.

"Welcome to Potions Class. For the two new students my name is Professor Matson. The potion that we will be brewing will take at least a month. Any guess to what potion I am talking about?"

Snape's hand went up and he answered, "The Polyjuice Potion."

"That's correct 10 points to Slytherin. Now does anyone know what the Polyjuice Potion does?"

Harry and Ron's hand shot up.

"Mr. Parker," Professor Matson called on.

"Properly brewed the Polyjuice Potion allows the drinker to transform himself temporarily into the physical form of another," replied Harry.

"Good work, 10 points to Slytherin, " said Professor Matson. " Now the person that you're sitting next to will be your partner and next month you'll transform into them. All the ingredients that you will need are in the student store-cupboard, and the instructions are in your text book on page 135. Now off to work."

Harry looked at Lily and she smiled at him.

"I have to turn into my mother. I hope that this doesn't scar me for life," said Harry to himself

"So Harry, how do you like it here?" asked Lily.

"It reminds me a lot of my old school," said Harry.

"Do you have a special someone over in Ireland?" asked Lily.

"No, not really," said Harry.

Lily's eyes brighten up and she smiled, then she and began to brew the potion.

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"This is the worst day of my life," said Ron to himself. "I will refuse to turn into a geek."

"So Ron thanks for letting me sit next to you," said Emmett. "Usually I sit by myself."

"I wonder why?"

"What did you say?" asked Emmett.

"Nothing. So how are your classes?"

"Great. I'm so lucky to have replaced my old time turner. If not I wouldn't know how I would be able to attend to all of my classes. You know traveling back in time is very dangerous. I have read that once you traveled in time you have to make sure that you don't run into your self. If so you could unravel time it self; because some travelers have gone mad and ended up killing themselves. But I have also read that if you do meet yourself and you don't know that it's you then it wouldn't matter. Also in theory if you traveled far back in time, like in years, you need to make sure that you don't change the course of history," said Emmett.

"Uh . . . so Emmett you really know a lot about time traveling," said Ron.

"Well I would have to, to know how to work my time turner," replied Emmett. "You see as I have just said time in very dangerous to mess with. One false move you can alter history for the worse. Like the Grandfather Effect. Let's say you went back and killed your grandfather. Your own father wouldn't be born, and you will disappear out of existence. But the time turner can only take you back by hours and not years so we don't have to worry about that."

"But what happened if I wanted to go back and change something small, like a mistake that one of my parents did?"

"That is still bad. Then the space-time continuum would be alter and when you return to your time it would be completely different," said Emmett.

"I never thought about that. You know my friends and I are interested in time traveling and Madam Pince told us that you have checked out all the books."

"Yes I have. If you are asking to borrow them, well you can't. I'm not done reading them," said Emmett.

"Oh well can you at lest meet us in the library after class with your books?" asked Ron.

"I guess."

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Harry was feeling very unconformable. It wasn't that he was sitting next to his mum, or working with her. It was that she was sitting so close to him, staring at him, and was trying to touch him.

"So um Lily w-why is it that hardly any of the Gryffindors are speaking?" asked Harry.

"It's because the Backward potion hasn't worn off yet and Lucius Malfoy has been making some threats. He told some of them that if they used the Ingles spell then he would change their sex," replied Lily.

"Is there really a spell that can do that?" asked Harry.

"Yes in the restricted section," said Lily.

Harry had notice that they need some more ingredients that he hopped out of his seat and ran to the student store-cupboard. Ron followed him.

"So how is it working with your mum?" asked Ron.

"Creepy. She is sitting too close to me that I'm about to fall out of my seat. Did you ask Emmett about his books?"

"Yes I have and . . ."

"And what? What's wrong?"

"He won't let us borrow them, but I have asked him to meet us in the library after class. Who knows we might persuade him to change his mind."

"That's great."

"I told him to meet us in the library after this class," said Ron.

"When class is over you go to the library with him and I'll go find Hermione."

"Okay then, I got to go," Ron said.

Ron left and when Harry grabbed his ingredients, he went back to Lily. He handed her the fluxweed and some lacewing flies and she put them into the cauldron.

"So when next month comes, what are you going to do when you're me?" asked Lily.

"Uh nothing I'm just going to sit right here and wait till the potion wears off," said Harry.

"Oh come on. You have to do something," said Lily. "How about going over to James and his friends and mess around with their minds. Huh?"

"Well . . . uh."

But before he could answer the question Professor Matson ended the class early.

"Think about Harry. It could be fun," said Lily. "See you later."

"Bye."

He hurried out of the class and went to find Hermione. He soon spotted her coming out of her Ancient Ruins class.

"Harry what are you doing here? I thought we were going to meet up in the library?" she asked.

"Matson dismissed us early and I wanted to tell you that we're meeting Emmett."

"Why?"

"We need to persuade him in giving us his book. Come on Ron is there waiting for us with him."

So they quickly left. When they arrived at the library they saw Ron listening to Emmett while he was talking. Ron was so delightful in seeing his friends that he got up and gave them each a hug.

"Oh thank God you came. He was driving me nuts about some plant and something else, but I'm glad that you are here to change the subject." He quit giving them hugs and brought them to the table. "Emmett you've met Hermione yesterday and this is my other friend Harry Parker."

"It's nice to meet you," said Harry.

"Like wise. Oh I see you still haven't change your robes," said Emmett.

Yes that's right. You were going to tell me yesterday, but Lucius pushed you away. I am sorry about that," said Harry.

"That's okay. I'm getting use to that. Well if you want your robes to be black again you must washed them in urine and squid ink."

"You got to be joking. That's so nasty," replied Harry.

"With the type of spell they used, that is the only way," said Emmett.

"Okay . . . now that we have solved that problem let's moved to why we are here," said Hermione. "Emmett your books can we please borrow them?"

"Like I told Ron, I'm not done reading them so no."

"Can't you check them out an other time?" asked Ron

"Why do you need these books so badly?" Emmett asked. "These books are going to be here all year and so will you."

"We are not going to be here all year. At least I don't want to be," said Ron.

"What are you talking about?" asked Emmett.

"I'm trying to say is that we're from . . ."

Hermione quickly covered his mouth and pulled him and Harry away from Emmett.

"Ron you can't just tell him that we're from the future. We will be altering his life and maybe Lavender's life," said Hermione.

"How Lavender isn't even born yet?" asked Ron.

"Exactly she's not born yet, but with us interfering in her father's life could change the Lavender that we know, or worse to have her not be born."

"But Hermione you should hear him talk; he knows a lot of theories and facts about time traveling that you do not know," clarified Ron.

"I think we should risk it," said Harry. "You even said so yourself that we need to talk to someone."

"I know. Okay we will tell him, but only him. We can't let anyone else know about us. But it won't be easy to convince him that we're from the future," said Hermione.

They went back to the table and they all look at Emmett.

"What? What's wrong?" he asked.

"Emmett we need to trust you with a big secret," said Harry.

"You can trust me. I have no one else to talk to."

Harry took a deep breath and looked at his friends.

"Emmett we are from the future."

Emmett looked at each of them and didn't say a word.

"He's telling you the truth," said Ron. "We came from the year 1996."

"So you're saying that you're from the future and that you have traveled back 20 years?" he asked. "That is such a lie. Ron I told you in Potions that the time turner can only take you back by hours and not years."

"I know, but here we are, the first time travelers to travel back this far and we need your help," said Ron

"Do you actual want me to believe you? I know that the Slytherins like to play jokes on me and all but I would never expect you," said Emmett. He got up started to leave but Hermione grabbed his arm.

"He's telling you the truth. We don't know how we got here and we don't know how to get back. Can you please help us?" she asked.

"If you are from the future then prove it."

"Okay them," said Harry. "James and his friends are called the Marauders."

"Everyone here knows that," said Emmett. "You must have over heard it."

"Okay then, James has an Invisibility Cloak."

"Does he? He probably told Ron and he told you."

"Remus is a werewolf. The reason why the Whomping Willow was planted was because of him."

"Dumbledore would never enroll a werewolf into school," said Emmett. "The parents wouldn't send their children to a place with a werewolf would be running around."

"That's why the Whomping Willow was planted, so he would be running around," cried Harry.

"Harry calm," said Hermione. "If we are going to prove that we're from the future than we must talk about him and not about James."

"Okay then you can give it a try."

"So the year is 1976. Let's see . . . Ah I know. You don't know how to swim and one year you almost drown in the lake out by your house. Your sister came just in time to pull you out," said Hermione.

Emmett just looked at her big eye for a very long time, then he finally said something.

"How did you know that?"

"I know someone that's really close to you, and she told me that. Am I right?"

"Yes. That just happened last month. No one knows about that; not even my cousin Lucy. You really are from the future."

"Yes and we really need your help," said Ron.

"What can I do to help?" he asked

"Time travel, how does it work?" asked Harry.

"The only known way to travel in time is to use the time turner," said Emmett.

"But we didn't us a time turner, before we traveled to this time we first floo to Diagon Alley. When we got back to my parent's house, that is when we notice we were in this time," said Ron.

"But that is impossible; you had to use a time turner. You just had to," said Emmett.

"Wait a minute, Ron, before we went to Diagon Alley you pulled out a broken time turner out of the floo powder," said Harry.

"You did! Now that's interesting. What did the time turner look like? Was there still sand in the hour glass?" asked Emmett.

"I can't remember. Besides why does it matter?" asked Ron.

"I've read in one of my books "The Theory of Time Travel". They talk traveling further back than an hour and about mixing the sand in the time turner with another element. They said that when mixed the traveler could go anywhere and any time. Maybe that element is floo powder," said Emmett.

"Yeah but what if the time turner was already empty before it went into the floo powder?" asked Ron.

"Well then that theory can be thrown out of the window and we're back with zero," said Emmett.

"I guess we have nothing to lose," said Hermione. "And we must begin testing this theory at once. So Emmett can we use your time turner?"

"No. I just bought this one. Once you've taken one apart you can't make it work ever again," said Emmett.

"So I guess we need to buy one. When is the trip to Hogsmeade?" asked Hermione.

"At the end of this month," he answered.