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Chapter XIII: Some news, Good and Bad
It was a cold windy day for the first week of November. In the library Harry and the others were continuing their research for a way home.
"Let's face it," said Harry. "The answer that we want won't be in books about time theory." He sat his book down and began to rub his eyes.
"But there has to be something in these book," said Emmett.
"Ugh . . . but Emmett I'm tired of looking in books," said Harry. "So tired that I have a headache."
"Yeah I'm tired too. We've been reading books and throwing books in Flickwick's fireplace for one week straight. We defiantly need a break," suggested Ron. "Why don't we go to Hogsmeade and have some butterbeer."
"Mmmm, I sure could use a mug of that," said Emmett.
"Great and you're payin'," said Ron.
Emmett looked at him weird.
"Hey Harry and I have no money but I promise you that when we get to the future I will pay you back," said Ron. "And better yet it will be with interest."
So with that they went to their common rooms to get their scarves and gloves and then they left.
Pushing the doors opened of the Three Broomsticks, Harry and the others went in.
"You guys can go find a table while I get the drinks," said Emmett
"I hope that we can," said Harry. "It's more crowed than before." And then they left.
"Hello Emmett, how can I help you?" asked Madam Rosmerta.
"Four butterbeers. Mugs please," said Emmett.
He grabbed the mugs and went to find the others.
"Here you are," said Emmett. "Sorry that it took me so long. I couldn't find you." he passed the drinks out to everyone.
"Ah I'm in heaven now," said Ron as he took a sip.
"Hey Ron look, Honeydukes just got a new shipment in," said Harry pointed at a flier. "You want to check it out?"
"Sure," said Ron.
"Whoa wait a minute," said Emmett. "What are you going to do there? You don't have any money."
"Oh we're just going to look," said Ron.
Once they finished their mugs they hurried off.
"Those two are really silly," said Emmett.
"They sure are," said Hermione.
When they finished their butterbeer they left and began to walk around. They soon stopped at a store that were selling dress robes.
"Come on Emmett, let's go in," said Hermione. "I want to check out some dress robes since this is the last Hogsmeade trip before the ball."
"Okay but I'll have to meet you inside. I first need to buy something."
"Okay." and she went inside.
Inside was full with last minute buyers. Hermione began to look around. She squeezed her way towards a rack with long silky dress. She flipped through the robes but she stopped when she found a nice violet one. She grabbed it and headed over to the fitting room. Once she had it on she went out to find a mirror. The dress fits her like a glove. It went down to her ankles and flared out just a little. Beads were sewn in and the sleeves were long and see through.
"Man I look good," said Hermione.
"Of course you do."
She turned around and saw Emmett.
"Hi Emmett?" asked Hermione. "Have you had the chance to look at some dress robes?"
"Yes," said Emmett. " Are you going to buy that?"
"I wish, but don't have enough galleons," said Hermione.
She then headed back to the fitting room.
"Hey Emmett, can you put this back on the rack for me?" asked Hermione.
Just then the dress was flung over the door.
"Sure."
Emmett started to put it away but he stopped and looked at it.
"Hermione really wants it. I know, I can buy it for her," said Emmett to himself.
He grabbed the robe that he liked and quickly went to an open cash register.
"The total for both is 24 Galleons," said the cashier.
"Here you go and do you deliver?"
"Yes."
"Great, I would like this dress to be delivered." He hold up the violet one."
"Just put the name to who it's for and the destination." She gave him a form and a quill
Emmett began to write Hermione's name but he stopped when he heard his name being called. He turned around and saw Hermione.
"Hi Hermione," said Emmett.
"Can I see the dress robe that you're buying?" asked Hermione.
"No, I what it to be a surprise," he said.
"Well it's getting too hot in here. I'll wait for you out side." She left.
He quickly finished writing her name down and gave it to the cashier.
"Please deliver this dress in three weeks," said Emmett.
And he left. After walking 20 minute they decided to go to Honeydukes and get Harry and Ron. When they got to the story they were outside
"Are you ready to go?" asked Harry.
"Yeah," said Emmett and Hermione and they all began to walk back
to Hogwarts to do more research .
"Harry wait."
Harry stopped and turned to see Lily.
"Hi Lily."
"Uh- um . . . I was wonder, since uh . . . the dance is coming up and if you don't
have a date already I'm wondering if . . . um . . . you'll go with me," said Lily.
Harry was expecting this to happen but he didn't know how to react. He then turned his head at his friends and he saw Ron nodding his head and giving him thumbs up and then he saw Emmett shaking his head.
" Uh . . .Lily . . . I would uh . . ." said Harry.
"Great. Let's go and buy our dress robes," said Lily.
She then grabbed Harry's arm and they went off.
"Oh my God what has he gotten himself into?" said Emmett.
They then walked back to Hogwarts
On their way to Professor Flitwick's room they saw Peter snooping around.
"Hey Peter, what are you doing here?" asked Ron. "Why aren't you at Hogsmeade
with James?"
"I . . . I- uh needed to talk to Professor Flitwick about something,"
said Peter. "But he's not in his room.
"Try the staff room. All of the professors go there on their breaks," said Hermione
"Thank you," said Peter and then he left.
They quickly went into Professor Flitwick's room and closed the door
An Hour Later
"I just don't get it, why won't this work? We got to be missing something," said Emmett as a book came flying out of the fireplace.
"We've been through with this, we're not missing anything," said Ron.
"No, we are," cried Emmett and then he sat down.
Hermione then picked up the bowl of the powder and began playing with it with her wand.
"Come on Emmett. We can't give up," said Hermione.
"Fine," said Emmett, "Oh and Hermione could you quit playing with the powder."
"Sorry, I'm bored."
She gave the bowl to him and he picked up the book.
"Hogwarts." and he tossed the book in.
A few minutes later a book came flying back. When they looked at it they all notice that it was a different book. Emmett quickly went to it.
"I can't believe it," he said when he opened the book. "It worked, it actually worked.
"Who sent it back?" asked Ron.
"Professor Flitwick himself, on August 2nd 1991," said Emmett.
"How did you do it?" asked Hermione.
"I didn't do anything," said Emmett. "But you did. You were playing with the mixture with your wand. Maybe it needed the power of the wand to let it work. Let me try it again."
He then went and got another book and began to write the same thing as he did in the first book. He went back to the fireplace, called Hogwarts and tossed the book in. After a few minutes went by a different book came back. Emmett picked it up and opened it.
"It's still from August 2nd 1991," said Emmett. "Maybe it needs a different wand. Ron, may I use your wand?"
"Sure."
Emmett stirred the mixture with Ron's wand threw some into the fire and tossed a book in. Soon a book came back.
"We're getting closer," said Emmett. "August 31st 1993."
Just then Harry was coming into the room.
"Hey Peter try the staff room and if you still can't find Professor Flitwick then ask one of the Professors if they have seen him," said Harry right before he entered the room.
" Harry, was that Peter?" asked Ron.
"Yeah, he was looking for Professor Flitwick and I told him that he should look in the staff room or ask a teacher if they've seen him," said Harry.
"That's strange when we got to the room he was here looking for Flitwick and I told him the same thing," Hermione said.
" Maybe someone told him to look back here," said Harry. "
Any ways have you found a way home yet?"
"Well sort of. We manage to send two books to August 2nd 1991 and a book to August 31st 1993."
"Wicked."
"So Harry, did you get a dress robe?" asked Hermione.
"No money remember, besides none would fit me so I'm going to change one of my school robes into a dress robe that I like," said Harry.
"I can't believe that you're going with her to the dance," said Emmett.
"Don't worry Emmett I have this all planed out. At the dance I'm going to have Lily and James dancing their night away while I'm having a good time with you guys," said Harry.
"How are you going to do that?"
"You'll know when the time comes for it," said Harry. "Let's stop talking about that."
"Right, the reason how we got to the year 1991 and to 1993 is that we used Hermione and Ron's wand. And I'm wondering if I could use your wand," asked Emmett.
"Sure." He handed his wand to Emmett.
When Emmett was done mixing the mixture with Harry's wand he threw the book into the fire. When a book came back Emmett was a little disappointed.
"July 31 1991," he read.
"July 31 you said?" asked Ron.
"Yes, why does that date mean anything to you?" asked Emmett.
"July 31 is Harry's birthday," said Ron.
They all looked at Harry.
"What did you do on your birthday in '91?" asked Emmett.
Harry was about to answer when he heard footsteps out side of the room.
"Hopes that's not Flitwick," said Ron. " We still need his room."
Harry went to the door and opened it. He saw no one.
"It was nobody," said Harry.
He was about to close the door when he heard the footsteps and faint voices.
"That was a close one."
"No kidding Lucius. We better make sure that we don't run into any more incidents like that."
Harry started to felt confused.
"That sounded a lot like Snape, and what was he and Malfoy doing around here?" he asked himself.
He closed the door and went back to the others.
"What's wrong Harry?" asked Hermione.
"That was Malfoy and Snape that we heard," said Harry.
After hearing that and the thought that Malfoy and Snape could have heard them, Emmett didn't want them to do any more testing until that night.
11:00
They all sat around the fireplace.
"Before we were interrupted the last book that came back was July 31st, 91. So Harry what did you do on your birthday?" asked Emmett.
"Well . . .that was when Hagrid told me that I was a wizard and he took me to Diagon Alley where I bought all of my schools supplies," said Harry.
"Like you wand," said Emmett.
"Yeah."
"Now that I think of it I bought my wand in August 31st 1993," said Ron. "What about you Hermione. Did you get your wand on August 2nd '91?"
"Yes, I think I did," said Hermione.
"So what does this mean?" asked Harry.
"I . . . I have no clue," said Ron. "What do you think Hermione?"
"I don't know its not like I read about it in a book and beside why do you always look to me for the answers?"
"Because you're the walking, talking dictionary, encyclopedia and a thesaurus all in one," said Harry.
"The what?" asked Ron.
"Not now Ron."
While they were arguing Emmett was siting and thinking.
"Harry bought his wand on July 31, 91 and the book came back on that same date. That's what happened when I used Ron and Hermione's wands. They came back on the same day that they bought their wands," said Emmett to himself. "Wait a minute that's it!"
said Emmett to himself."You guys, I got an idea," said Emmett.
He grabbed his wand and began to mix it with the floo powder. He got the book and began to write the instructions down. Before closing the book he placed something in it.
"Hogwarts," he said and he tossed the book into the fireplace.
A few minutes went by and a book came back.
"It's just as I thought," said Emmett when he opened the book.
"What is it?" asked Harry.
"Well when your wands were mixed into the floo powder the books came back on the day that you bought them. So I'm thinking when you buy something and when you mix it in with the floo powder you would be sent to the same day that you bought that item," said Emmett.
"But we can't be certain for sure," said Harry.
"That is why I used my wand," said Emmett. "The date on the book is July 23rd 1971."
"Whoa, wait a minute if you need something of a certain time then how did that books come back?" asked Ron.
"The only explanation that I can think of for the books that can back for your dates is that my work went public and everyone knows about time travel. So Flitwick saw the date in the book and got something that he bought on that day and that's how he sent it. For the book from '71 is that I put a quill that I bought today and I put it into the book. I wrote the same instructions but I told them to mix it with the quill," said Emmett.
"Your theory is still a little far fetch," said Ron.
"Okay then, do you know when your father bought the time turner?" asked Emmett.
"No . . . no wait a minute," said Ron. "I do. I over heard my dad talking to my mum the day we came he'd just bought a time turner."
"When did you hear that?" asked Harry.
"Remember when Charlie and Bill came to my room and asked for us to tell them a story. Well when I was heading back to my room I over heard my dad telling my mum that he just bought it that . . . day."
There was a huge silence after that.
"Oh my god, Emmett how are we going to go home? We don't have anything that comes close to 1996," said Harry.
"I . . . I don't know," he replied.
"Oh no we're never going home we're stuck here forever," moan Ron.
With nothing else to go on they went to bed.