Disclaimer: all the same, all the same...look prologue

A/N: It's the year 2030. Cedric Potter is a Hufflepuff, Terry MacMillan- a Gryffindor, Lily Potter - a Ravenclaw, and also Cedric's Twin, and Alice Finch-Fletchley is a Ravenclaw walking a very thin line between it and Slytherin. The four are best friends...Oh, and most of the ghosts are from the time of the Trio - Harry, Ron,

and Hermione...But sshhh...It's a secret..

Chapter 1 - Cedric & Terry

~~Cedric~~

- Oi, Cedric!

I start, and glance across the busy Great Hall to the Ravenclaw table. Lily, my twin sister, scrambles across the distance in the most undignified manner, to put it lightly, with a huge grin plastered across her face.

- What is it, Lil? Another prank?

Lily bristles. She was getting very uncomfortable by the minute, and I could swear I was correct.

- What prank?

- Oh, come on, sis, I know when you're... - I make a dramatic pause, to make sure she got the point. - Up to something...

Now she was really unsettled.

- Ced, you know I won't do anything-

Just at the time, there was an explosion at the Head Table. Most of the teachers dived under, which was quite a sight to see, I must admit. Still, I keep my face straight and disapproving, while the rest of the hall howl with laughter – you did not play with the teachers of Hogwarts and come out unscratched.

- stupid... - finishes she lamely.

It looked like Angelina Drake, the Head of the Ravenclaw House, shared my view completely. As I glared at my sister, to let her know I was angry with her, Professor Drake made her way to us, and I was compelled to save my twin from her wrath, which would pour down soon enough.

- Miss Potter, just how are you going to explain this mess?

Lily was looking completely baffled now. She was good when it came to jokes, but she was quite unable to hide the fact it was her and nobody else behind it.

-Erm...

- And don't look at me for help, - I warned her sternly. - You don't get with things like this unscratched, Lils. Understood?

She nodded her head, still being extremely baffled. She did understand. I cynically lifted my eyebrow. She usually understood things, but whether or no she used them, was another mystery. For the five years she spent here, Lily managed to put a record to detentions, and this was only a first day back, too.

Sure enough...

- Detention, Miss Potter, and ten points from Ravenclaw. I thought you learned something for the last five years.

I grin, and look up at the Head table, to check the reactions of the other teachers who were just emerging from their hide. Jessica Nirean, our Headmistress, looked amused as she climbed back to her seat. Professor Eric Gordon, the DADA teacher, was torn between amusement and anger - after all, Lils could have hurt someone - my sister was a favourite of the Head of Gryffindor, through the latter didn't show it. Kayla Edwards, the Astronomy Professor, just flicked the imaginable dust off her robe and turned to Ronald Darwin, who was a History of Magic Professor. Old Professor Binns's ghost finally passed away when I entered my first year, and Ron - he was just a couple of years older than us - was a far better teacher - we simply didn't have time for sleep during his lessons. And you never slept in Grania Farley's Transfiguration, her age and experience with the

subject notwithstanding. Professor Farley was also the Head of Hufflepuff.

Next to Professor Farley was an empty spot - the new Arithmancy teacher had yet to show up. Then there was Edward Grey - Potions Master and a Head of Slytherin. Everyone was slightly afraid of him, but he was nothing compared to Rachel Drake - the younger sister of Angelina Drake and a teacher of Divination. Rachel did have a Sight, but she'd taken it into her head to predict an "untimely" death to every Hufflepuff she met anywhere, including Professor Farley, who was becoming more irritated every time she did it.

- Well, well. First day back and already in trouble, are we, Potter? - asks a snide voice behind me.

- Sod off, Malfoy, - retort I, knowing without need to turn that it's Draco Malfoy, the Slytherin ghost. If the rumors I heard about him were true, he haven't changed at all for all those damned years he's been seen dead or alive.

- My, aren't we angry...

- Malfoy, you've been told to sod off, - says Ron Weasley, the Gryfindor ghost. He is soon joined by his close friends, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger. The Trio was in the residence of Gryffindor since their deaths, and all four of them looked like the seventeen-year-olds everyone knew and loved at their own time - well, with the exception of Malfoy, of course.

Draco glares at one of his arch-nemesis and glides importantly over to Slytherin table.

- Once you were dust, you'll stay in dust, - mutters Dean Thomas. He and his close friend, Seamus Finnegan, drift over to the trio and glare at the Slytherin table.

- Honestly, I thought he'd correct himself for all these years, - complains Hermione, as she and Harry drift through the ceiling, soon folllowed by Ron, Seamus and Dean.

- Hard time, Mr. Potter? - asks Ernie MacMillan. He and his wife Susan, both of Hufflepuff, now join us in the end of our table.

I sigh. - Ernie, was Malfoy as big of a prat as he shows himself to be? – ask I, knowing he and Draco were in one year.

- He was. Even worse than this. - Ernie chuckles. - Maybe these years as a ghost helped him a little...

- Hermione doesn't think so, - replies Susan.

~~Terry~~

I sat near the end of the Gryffindor table when the explosion happened. I only have to look around once to make sure in what my brains already processed – Lily Potter, again. Honestly, that girl is a lot of trouble sometimes. Looks like this time her brother isn't happy with her, too. I mean, if they weren't in different Houses, and of different gender, we all might actually mix them up.

They both are rather tall - about 6 feet, through Lily is slightly lower than Cedric, another plus for distinguishing the Twins. Both have blond hair, although Cedric's has steaks of black in them, and emerald green eyes - without spectacles, though. Cedric's hair are

a little bit too long for a guy, but some admit that way he even more resembles Lily, or Lily resembles him, whatever you like. I never really talked with them, but I find myself gravitating towards more quiet Cedric than an adventurous Lily. True, sometimes they both get in trouble, but...

Anyways.

The sky that is visible through the Great Hall's enchanted ceiling starts to get darker and darker, until it is illuminated with stars. I slowly get up, and sneak through the large doors. One of the rooms near the Hall is a perfect place to either stargaze or watch thunderstorms, and I enjoy both.

That is when I hear a low rumble. Something is approaching, and fast.

I barely notice that I'm not the only one to rush out to investigate the unusual. The twins both run for the exit, as does Rojer Finnegan who just stood up from Gryffindor table. I wasn't looking anywhere else, much less under my feet, so I was brought back to Earth - literally - by a proven method of colliding with someone coming from the direction of Ravenclaw.

Ouch.

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A/N: Just to give you an idea that it's NOT the same good ol' Hogwarts anymore

Staff at Hogwarts year 2030

Jessica Nirean - Headmistress, around 30 years old

Eric Gordon - Defense Against Dark Arts - Head of Gryffindor House - 25 years old

Angelina Drake - Charms - Head of Ravenclaw House - 25 years old

Grania Farley - Transfiguration - Head of Huflepuff House - 19 years old

Edward Grey - Potions - Head of Slytherin House - 20 years old

Kayla Edwards - Astronomy - 26 years old

Ronald Darwin - History of Magic - 18 years old

Rachel Drake - Divination - 24 years old

Yeah, I know they're kind of young to be teaching at Hogwarts the subjects they do, but there're reasons for that. You'll see.