Ch 2
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"So let me understand. This is the future?"
"Quite right Remus. Somehow you have managed to create a link between a large gap of time." Dumbledore answered with an amused look on his face. "Exactly how you did it is a mystery to me but perhaps..you could enlighten us?" The amused look had spread to his eyes, where a noticable gleam stood out.
"I was trying to create a new magical tool. Something that could be used to travel short distances in time, back or forth." Remus said quietly, his head drooping.
"Why did you wish to attempt this?"
"Because of the course load. I had so many classes. Couldn't we all use a bit more time in life?"
"Indeed we could Mr. Lupin."
'But if it didnt work, then how did I get here? Shouldn't I still be in the past?" His attention moved to his older self, who cleared his throat.
"Because we both used the time turner at the exact same moment, you to come here, me to go back a few hours."
"Time turner?"
"Yes, your invention, while not quite the same, is similar to one we now have which allows wizards to move through small periods of time. When we used it at the same time, it seemed to have pulled the weaker device and it's user foreward, while using me as a sort of becon for your arrival. We found you here in the hospital wing. I was in the bed next to you having Madame Pomphrey care for several wounds." It clicked in the younger mans head what he meant.
"I didn't transform too did I?"
'"No, it was not the full moon in the period of time you were, you just missed it when you arrived here" A sigh of relief escaped Remus's lips and made his older self smile.
"Now Mr. Lupin, the question is, how do you get back to your time correct?" Seeing him nod, Dumbledore continued. "Im afraid that you wont be able to by any existing means. Do you know what a rubber band is?"
"No."
"Well it is a muggle invention. Quite amusing actually but it is a circular band that stretches and bends. I believe that the two of you have been caught in a sort of time rubber band, which right now is pulled tight. Soon it will release and time will snap back into place, you in your own and Remus here. Do you understand?"
"So this is a cosmic time snap and we're waiting for the band to come back and reform?"
"Yes actually."
"Ah..."
"The important thing is to make sure you don't change your future while you are here." His older self said. "It could be dangerous if you knew certain things or facts about your coming life. Some if you found out, you would try and change." There was a pause as the older Lupin cleared his throat and shifted uncomfortably in his seat. "It's important that we try not to alter your past while you're here in your...my future." The young man before him nodded.
"So what do I do then?"
"For now we planned on enrolling you here so you wouldn't fall behind in your studies. You wont be attending classes with the rest of the students but will have a private tutor."
"So no one is going to know I'm even here aside from you, and this tutor? Who is it? A teacher?"
"No, it is going to be one of our best students here. Her name is Hermione Granger."
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