Chapter 1:Time Warps
In which the Author blatantly ignores the canon

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, December 28th 1972

"Potter, I swear you have to be the most arrogant person I've ever met! I've said it before and I'll say it again, I wouldn't go out with you if you were the last man on earth!"

"C'mon Evans you don't mean that, besides it's just one date."

"One date with you would be torture, plus you call me by my surname when you ask me out. My name is Lily!"

"Well Lily will you go to Hogsmeade with me?"

"No."

The students of Hogwarts were enjoying their free show when it was interrupted by six owls. Two gray letters landed in front of the dueling duo, two more landed in the laps of Slytherins, another in the loaded breakfast of a dark haired Gryffindor, and the last landed in the outstretched hand of the amused headmaster. The aforementioned six looked down at their letters with looks of confusion annoyance, or pleasant surprise. Simultaneously they were all opened and the same message read by all. Then there was a flash of blue light and they were all gone.

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The Riddle House, Little Hangleton, December 28th 1994

Voldemort stalked around the drawing room of his father's old house hissing in fury, over the Potter boy again. He escaped again! He wasn't supposed to get away to blab. He turned and paced the other way. On the other hand no one but that fool Dumbledore believed him, so maybe this will work to my advantage. he plopped down in the chair facing the fire; it was the same chair he had killed the old muggle in, the one his father had sat in, terrified, when he was murdered. He was starting to form a plan when the owl flew in. Outside the house, a flickering blue light could be seen moments later.

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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, December 28th 1996
The whole of Hogwarts was look at head table wondering what had just happened. In the middle of dinner Albus Dumbledore had disappeared in a blue streak of what looked like lightening. The hall erupted with sound. Students were speculating, whispering, questioning, shouting across tables, rumours already flying. An unearthly screeching silenced them all as two owls flew into the hall, moving the attention to the recipients of the letters, a girl with flaming red hair and a steel eyed ferret boy. Cautiously they opened their post and vanished, without a trace.

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Number 12 Grimmauld Place London, December 28th 1996
Kreacher crept into the room where Sirius once slept, looking for anything the bad master may not have binned in his purge of the old house. Bending over to check under the bed a letter dropped on his head. Shuffling toward it to pick it up the old house elf muttered, "What is this? An old letter the blood traitor brat saved. Kreacher hopes…" He opened it and with a yelp was surrounded by a blue pillar of light and was gone.

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Floo Network Headquarters, December 28 1996, 6:00 On The Dot
Ten fireplaces roared to life mystifying the workers. Particularly since nothing came out of them except ten charred letters, an illegible message written on them in blood red ink.

Adding to the odd circumstances, 6 of them had been out of use and deemed unsafe since the mid 70's.