A/N: Okay...I was hoping you guys would do the foreshadowing thing and try to figure out what I might do, but that didn't really happen. I think I scared the crap out of some of you with the contents of the last chapter...but fear not! As some of you who know me may already be aware, I tend to have several tricks up my sleeve. You didn't think I'd get all climatic on you in the third chapter, did you? Shame on you! Well, here's chapter four! Please read and review...and I promise to try not to scare you!

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More Than Yellowed Pages

Chapter Four

"Luna...seriously, calm down..." Harry whispered. Luna was sobbing rather loudly and catching very unnecessary attention from several of Harry's fellow Gryffindors. "We'll figure something out. I mean, if we know what happens, we have the ability to change it, right? It hasn't happened yet. Remember that."

"Yeah, Luna," nodded Hermione. "Everything will be fine. You'll see."

Luna wiped away a stray tear. "How is everything supposed to be fine?"

"We don't necessarily know how it will be fine, but it is you and Harry we're talking about here. If it were anybody else, I'm not sure...but I doubt Harry is going to let anything bad happen..." Ron agreed with Hermione.

"Yeah," Harry nodded. "I'm not going to let anything bad happen." He yawned, and glanced at the clock. "It's so late..." he frowned. "Luna, why don't you just stay in the girl's dormitories tonight, and I'll see you in the morning? I'm sure Dumbledore won't mind at all after tonight," he added.

She nodded. "I am tired..." she frowned.

Harry stared suspiciously at his father's dream journal on the nightstand next to his bed. There was still nothing written on the page except the date that had appeared there earlier that day. Harry shrugged, yawned, and wrapped himself in his blankets. It wasn't too long until he drifted off into a very eventful sleep.

"Lily, what do you think old Snape is up to? I bet he has his face buried in another Dark Arts book. He gives me the willies...want to go play with him?" It was Harry's father.

"Why don't we leave him be today, James? Besides, with Moony sick and all, we don't want to be off for too long..." His mother replied.

Harry could see them. They were young, alive, and in love. He watched closely as the day passed for them. It wasn't much different from his own experience at Hogwarts, right down to old Dumbledore. Harry smiled. He wished they could see them as clearly as he was watching them now...

"Wormtail, get a backbone! You can't let everyone push you around all the time, you know?" Harry turned red. He could see Wormtail, the man who would ultimately be responsible for his parents' deaths.

"I know Prongs. I'll keep that in mind..." he replied.

"Have you all forgotten to 'keep in mind' that we have a quiz in Defense Against the Dark Arts today? I'm not sure about you guys, but I'm going to head back to the castle for a little while. We have a few hours yet until Moony is...err...out of commission, and I say we get some studying in..." It was Sirius.

"Like you need it!" Lily laughed.

Sirius looked serious. "I think we all need it. With this whole Voldemort thing, I think we should all be extra careful, you know. I've heard some awful stories..."

Lily nodded. "When you say it that way, it does sound tempting," she agreed.

"Evans, Potter, the headmaster would like to see you..." It was McGonnagal...nearly thirty years younger, but it was her.

Harry gasped. What did Dumbledore want with his parents? He followed them down the hallway, to the entrance of Dumbledore's office.

"You think he found those dung bombs?" Harry's father whispered.

Lily smiled. "You didn't! Not to Dumbledore, James!"

"They were meant for Filch, but I think he may have stumbled on them..."

Slowly, they ascended the stairway that led into Dumbledore's office. Harry had seen this place many times before on his own, and it appeared to be exactly the same. Dumbledore looked no different to Harry than he usually did.

"James...Lily..." frowned Dumbledore. "I have terrible news. Would you please sit down?"

Uh-oh. Harry had heard this conversation before. Only a couple hours ago Dumbledore had started a conversation like that with Luna and him. He could tell the direction in which this was headed, and he didn't like it.

Dumbledore talked for what seemed to Harry like an hour or more. Finally, he heard Dumbledore say, "So you agree? Then, I shall be the secret keeper. At the end of this year, the charm shall take effect..."

"No!" objected his father. "No offense, headmaster, but I was thinking Sirius could do it? He's been my best friend since I was little, and I just wouldn't be comfortable placing such a weight on your shoulders..."

"All right, well then, I suppose I'll talk to Sirius, then..." Dumbledore sighed.

"But James! Wouldn't Sirius be the first person anyone would think of? Think about it. You two have known each other for quite a while. Your friendship is common knowledge. I don't even hear your name around school unless it has Sirius's name attached to it..."

"Good point. Moony, then?" he suggested.

"Too risky. I love him to death, but when he gets sick, what can he do?"

"What about Peter?" suggested Dumbledore, and Harry's ears reddened.

"Peter?" Lily tried it out. "It sounds almost crazy, Dumbledore. I love him to death as well. He's a Marauder and always will be...but he's practically a squib, and cracks even during the simplest of tests...would it be wise to...?"

"Why not? He would be the last person anyone would suspect because of his status." James nodded. "Think about it, Lily..."

"...All right," she sighed.

"No!" Harry screamed. He realized he was back in his bed. There was a cold sweat dripping down his body, and there was no light in the sky outside the window. He frowned. Ron was still sleeping, so it would have to wait until morning. The dream journal on his bedside was full of handwriting now. It wasn't his, but he recognized it from the Marauder's Map...it was his father's. "Weird..." he whispered.

"Harry, that is so cool...err...sort of," Ron smiled faintly. "I didn't mean it was cool as in cool, just neat..."

"That made no sense!" Hermione groaned. "So, Harry, the journal shows you the past while you are sleeping?" She waited, and he nodded. "So what you saw yesterday..."

"Was almost an exact repeat of the conversation Dumbledore had with Luna and I last night...excluding the mention of the charm that got my parents killed." He paused. "He better not even suggest it, because I won't even entertain the idea...."

Luna entered the room. "Entertain what idea?" she asked.

"The one that got my parents killed," Harry groaned. "I just watched the whole thing like it was on television last night while I was asleep..." he growled. "That was the stupidest idea I've ever heard of..."

Luna frowned deeply. "I have a better one, Harry. I was up most of last night thinking about it, actually, and I think it's a good one..." she admitted.

"What is it?" he asked eagerly.

"We just...we shouldn't see each other anymore, Harry. That's just it. If we aren't seeing each other, none of that will ever happen, right? You said yourself we could stop it from happening if we knew what it was, didn't you? Well, that's a way to stop it. We won't get married, or live in Godric's Hollow, or have that baby, and you won't die..."

Harry's face dropped. What? No! "Luna! No! That isn't the kind of solution I was talking about! We don't have to...I mean..." his mouth hung open. "You're serious?"

She nodded slowly. "Harry, I think I love you...and obviously in the future I do, too. But that is exactly why we can't see each other. Don't you see? It's too dangerous..."

"Luna..." Harry wrapped her in a hug. "I'm sorry about all of this..."

"Don't be sorry, Harry. Be happy." She smiled quickly and quietly left the Gryffindor common room.

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A/N: Here's to hoping you all liked this one! The fifth chapter should be up soon, so please read and review this one! Thanks a bundle!