Author's Note: Okay so the beginning of this chapter is kind of weird with the joke and everything but the... important part is the later parts of the chapter.

Fyi, next chapter will be the last chapter for this part.

Reviewers' Corner:

Anna – Thing about being a writer is, that you have to plan a little for the future, you see? I feel that if I did that it would mess the storyline up majorly (sp?). Although, it might not, but…

Chadfanaticgrl – Hehe. Did I hurry enough?

Avadne – Aw. That's a shame (that you won't be able to read it for a while). Hm, make persons? The Polyjuice potion. Hm. Hehe.

StarzInHerEyes – Omfg. "I know Harry wouldn't be born, but so what?" What are you saying? LoL. You are literally wishing that the main character in the real books wouldn't exist, which would mean that the Dark Lord would take over the world and probably kill James and Hermione just for the pleasure or whatever anyway.

Monkeystarz – Updated for you (and all the other people, of course)

MissDitzy – Hehe, tihi. Yeah I know, Harry with blonde hair, that was horrible by me to do, wasn't it? LoL.

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Chapter 11 – Father and Son

"We need to go through the plan", James said solemnly.It was Friday afternoon and almost two weeks later. James had called to a meeting in their (okay not James's anymore) dormitory to put the final touches to their upcoming Snivelly-prank. He, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Harry and Ron did all sit spread around the room.

"Yes sir", Peter joked.

Harry had discovered that Peter wasn't quite as stupid as he had seemed. Neither was he evil… yet. Instead, Harry had begun to almost… see the little boy as a friend, but he forced himself not to. Peter Pettigrew has killed my parents. Or will kill, to be more exact.

"Moony", James continued, "you are our secretary and I take it you have the list of everything that is needed?"

"Of course", Remus said and pulled a parchment out from his bag. "I solemnly swear I am going to prank Snivelly", he said and tapped it twice with his wand. Immediately, letters and sketches appeared on the parchment.

"We have four different tasks", James said. "I and Sirius have arranged them to different persons."

"The interesting thing about this idea", Sirius said, "is that it is psychological and takes time. I might. And not everything in it includes magic."

"Thanks to my Head Boy knowledge", James continued, "we know the password to the Slytherin common room." He lowered his voice, as if they weren't alone in the room. "Dark Mark. This is very important for everyone to remember."

They all nodded. Dark Mark.

"We have four different tasks", he continued. "Read them out, Moony, will you?"

Remus nodded. "First thing: Switch Snivelly's shoelaces against pink ones tonight while all the Slytherins are asleep."

"Won't he realize they are the wrong colour?" Ron interrupted,

"Of course, we'll take care of his ordinary ones and make sure he can't magic the new ones away", Sirius said. "And he can't really go out without shoelaces, can he?"

"Second thing:", Remus continued, "Turn his head pink with an un-removable hair dye magically when he exits the Slytherin common room to head for breakfast."

"Third thing: Perform a spell which makes his tie change colour exactly at 10:00 AM. Then Snivelly should be up. In case it changes colour before he gets dressed; it might ruin the whole prank."

"Fourth thing: Make the words 'Think Pink' appear on the back of his robes. Preferably at the same time as his hair changes colour. That's it."

"Two of us shall enter the Slytherin Common Room tonight to take care of the first and third task. Two more will be available for guarding; one outside the common room and the other one outside the dormitory", James said. "The other two will perform the spells in the morning; they wait outside the Slytherin common room."

"I suggest", Sirius said slowly, "that I and Remus enter the Slytherin Common Room. Peter and Ron can be guards. And you, Prongs, and you, Harry, can take care of his hair and the writing."

They all agreed.

"Prank Patrol adjourns!"

At approximate half past six the following morning, Harry appeared outside the Head Boy and Girl dormitory.

"Quaffle Passing", he said and the portrait swung aside, allowing him to enter, which he did.

The room was completely empty, but soon Lily appeared out of her bedroom in a dressing gown.

"Hey", she said, sounding slightly surprised. "Um… how did you get in?"

"Password", Harry said. "Um… is James here?"

"Check his dormitory", she said and pointed.

"Thanks", Harry said and headed over there.

"I doubt he's up yet, though. I mean," – she checked her watch – "half past six?"

"Um… I'll see", Harry said.

Lily shrugged and went back into her room. Harry knocked on the door to his father's dormitory, but got no answer, so he opened.

Empty.

"Er… James?" he called.

A groan was heard from another room; probably his bathroom.

"We should go", Harry said.

"I know", James's voice could now be heard. "Just a minute…"

Five minutes to be more exact.

"What are you doing in there?!" Harry said impatiently.

"Just getting myself presentable", James replied as he came out. "Let's go – oh, wait…"

He went over to his wardrobe, opened it and started routing about into it; obviously searching for it. It took a while, but after a minute or two, he was back from the wardrobe with an "Aha!" He was holding a piece of fabric… a very familiar piece of fabric indeed. James looked at Harry somewhat uncertainly before opening his mouth to speak, but Harry was faster.

"Invisibility cloak", he said.

"That's right." James seemed slightly relieved. "How did you know?"

"I have one myself", Harry said.

"Here, with you?"

"No", Harry answered quickly "I lent it out to a friend of mine."

"Okay. Let's go then, shall we?"

Harry nodded and the two boys left the Head Boy and Girl common room. They walked in silence to the corridor where the entrance to the Slytherin common room was, suited far down in the dungeons. Harry shivered with cold, there were no windows as they were under ground and the only light came from torches along the walls.

"Let's hope he hasn't left yet then", Harry said.

"He should be… delayed by his shoelaces or whatever", James said.

"You're probably right."

They hid behind a statue, both covered by the invisibility cloak. And so they… waited, waited, waited and waited…James had seated himself down on the floor long ago and had almost fallen asleep when the portrait covering the hole to the Slytherin common room swung aside and a boy with long, greasy hair stepped out. Harry caught a glimpse of his pink shoelaces and had to force himself not to burst into laughter.

"James!" Harry mouthed and waved frantically to his dad, who took no notice.

So Harry took his wand out of his sleeve, pointed it at Snape and muttered a spell he had learned just the night before. Not laughing immediately became even harder when Snape's hair turned into a bright cerise colour. There were still no letters there, though. And Snape was just rounding the corner…

Harry walked over to his dad and roused him. "Snape left", he informed.

"What?"

"You slept. I changed his hair."

"When?"

"Right now."

"Then what are you waiting for? FOLLOW HIM! Where did he go?" James practically yelled as he threw the invisibility cloak off him.

Harry sprinted off after Snape, James following close behind. They turned around the corner at which Snape had disappeared just seconds ago, and did just see him turning around the next corner. This time James took the lead and sprinted over there. When he got to the corner, he took his wand out of his sleeve, stuck his head (and hand) out and muttered something.

"Bingo", he said as he turned around to face Harry again. "I'll just drop this thing" – he eyed the cloak – "then we'll go for breakfast, okay?"

"Sure."

James laughed slightly as they headed off towards the Head Boy and Girl common room. "This has to be one of the best pranks ever", he said. "I wonder if he noticed the shoelaces."

"Perhaps he's colour-blind?" Harry suggested.

James chuckled. "Oh yeah! That'd be so great… he never notices! Ha!"

"I don't think he is, though."

"Nah, me neither. Quaffle Passing."

The portrait swung aside and the two boys stepped inside the Head Boy and Girl common room.

"Just a sec", James said and disappeared into his dormitory. He appeared back ten seconds later, but his reaction was… unexpected.

He pulled his wand and pointed it at Harry. "Who are you?"

Harry, surprised by the sudden erm, mood-change, was startled. "Um, what do you mean?"

"Where's Harry?"

"I'm Harry", Harry said dumbly.

"Think I'm blind or something? You're not Harry."

"I don't understand what you're talking abo-" Harry interrupted himself abruptly as he with the corner of his eye caught a glimpse of his reflection in the big mirror on the wall. "Shit", he cursed as he saw that his blond hair had been replaced by his usual dark mop of messy hair, and the light eyes were now sparkling emerald green behind a pair of glasses. "Bloody hell", he continued. "I-"

"Mind telling me what's going on?" James said as he almost pointed his wand into Harry's mouth.

"Well", Harry said but soon trailed off. Should he tell the truth or just make up a lie? And in that case, what lie?

"Perhaps I should ask you in another way… why are you looking like me?!" James said.

Just then, the door burst open. James lowered his wand for a second, surprised by the sudden interrupt, and Harry turned around to face Lily and Hermione. Both girls just stopped, Lily looking utterly confused while Hermione's jaw just dropped.

"Harry?" she whispered.

"Who's he?" Lily asked James.

"I don't know!" James exclaimed. "Harry was like right there when I turned my back on him and then this fellow was here!"

Harry shifted his weight over to his right leg. Everyone was staring at him; Lily in fear, James in frustration and Hermione in shock.

"You forgot, didn't you?" she said quietly.

"It's been over a month", Harry replied.

James cleared his throat. "Erm, excuse me. Would you mind telling me and Lily what the hell is going on?"

"James don't curse", Lily said automatically.

"Lily dear", James said patiently, "I curse whenever it is appropriate. Don't you find this a quite proper moment for cursing?"

"Good point."

James turned back to Harry and Hermione.

"So what the hell is going on here?"

Harry looked at Hermione and Hermione looked at Harry.

"Would you excuse us for a moment?" Hermione said. "Harry and I, erm, need to talk."

"No-", James said but Lily interrupted him.

"You can go into my bedroom", she said and unlocked the door with a flick with her wand.

"Thanks", Hermione said, took Harry's hand and pulled him inside.

The door was closed behind them.

"I don't know what the hell happened!" Harry exclaimed. "I just forgot to take it. I didn't even realize I was changing back into my old self before my dad started yelling!"

"Calm down, Harry."

"What are we going to do?!" Harry exclaimed. "They have seen me! Dumbledore can't perform another memory spell… I mean he can't just do whatever he wants with his students' memories, can he? He's been cooperative enough when he cleaned the mess I created just by arriving here up. He'll be so mad at me for forgetting the potion…"

"Harry!" Hermione said. "Calm down."

"What?"

"Huh?"

"You look like you have a plan or something."

"Suppose… oh I don't know…"

"Tell me."

"Okay." Hermione sighed. "Suppose we tell them-"

"What? You've gone mental!"

"Let me finish! We tell them that you're their son. But nothing else."

"…"

"Dumbledore will never know. Your parents will never know about Peter's betrayal. It's not like you won't be born just because they know you will be… does that make sense?"

"No."

"Think about it, Harry. There's nothing else we can do. Memory spells are powerful magic, we can't do one on our own, can we?"

"I suppose you're right", Harry said slowly. "Shall we just go and… tell them, then?"

Hermione bit her lip and nodded. "Yeah. Come on."

"Wait!" Harry grabbed her arm.

"What, Harry?"

"Then they'll know you are from the future as well."

"That will explain some things to them. They have the right to know, you know…"

"Come on", Harry said and walked towards the door.

"What?!" James and Lily exclaimed in the same time.

"Ridiculous", James muttered. "From the future. Yeah right."

Harry bit his lip. He wondered if they'd… accept him as their son. If they didn't, he honestly didn't know what to do.

"Think about it, James", Hermione said quietly.

Silence fell. Harry stared down into the table, almost being… ashamed. James looked from Harry to Hermione and back again. Lily gazed at Harry, seeing his emerald eyes that were just like her own she began believing them, but… it couldn't be, could it? Hermione looked between Lily and James, trying to read what they were thinking, but with no success.

Lily was the one to break the silence. "Harry…? She said slowly.

Then she stepped up and flung her arms around him.

"Mum", he mumbled and hugged her back.

James looked at Hermione. She bit her lip, looking back at him. He understood, she knew that. And he gave her one last smile before he stepped up and joined in the family hug.