Chapter IV: Going Back
Everyone gathered around the window.
"Get what you can carry," said Emmett. "We leave now."
Severus gathered some of his potions, and Lucius started a fire.
"What are you doing?" asked Hermione.
"We need to leave and the only means of that would be to floo," said Lucius.
Emmett handed Hermione a bag of floo powder. She took it but then dropped it.
"Oh on Ron, we need to get him," she said.
"Where is he?" asked Remus.
"In the sleeping quarters where you left us," said Hermione.
"That building is a half a mile away. We can't go, we will get caught," said Remus to Emmett.
"We must get him," cried Hermione.
Emmett picked up the floo powder and handed it to Severus.
"Severus, you and the others go to my manor and wait for us there," said Emmett.
"No way, if you're not coming with us then neither am I," said Severus.
"Fine, Lucius, go with Peter and Remus."
"We're 'not leaving either," said Lucius.
Emmett smiled, he was proud that he had friends that would stick with them till the end. He opened the door and looked out. He saw that the close was cleared and they left.
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They were almost to the sleeping quarters when all of the sudden Emmett stopped.
"What is it?" asked Hermione.
"Something doesn't feel right," he said. "Why haven't we seen any Death Eaters?"
"Do you suppose they left?" asked Lucius. "Or were you just seeing things Remus?"
"I know what I saw and they are here," he said.
"What if this is a trap," said Peter. "The Death Eater from school knows everything remember? What if they came here to get Ron and Hermoine."
Emmett looked at her, "He's right. You should go to my manor, you would be safe there."
"No. I left him there and if anything would to happen to him I wouldn't be able to forgive myself."
There then was a bright white light and everything turned to morning. Everything was so bright that they couldn't see anything. The light started to fayed and they heard a scream, it was Ron. They started to run but the screams started too fayed as if he was at a place far, far away. When the building was in sight they could hear Ron no longer. Emmett looked to the sky and stopped dead in his tracks. He saw Hermione running past him and grabbed her.
"Hermione wait," said Emmett.
She pushed him off and kept running towards the building. She didn't care what he had to say. She wanted to see if Ron was all right, but the reason that Emmett told her to wait was above the building was a picture of a skull with a serpent, the Dark Mark.
Hermione entered the building and looked around. She saw Ron sitting in a corner. She ran to him and she could see that he was badly beaten.
"Oh Ron, I shouldn't have left you," said Hermione.
"Be-behind you," said Ron.
Hermione turned and saw a Death Eater pointing his wand at her.
"It's nice to see you again Miss Graves," said the Death Eater.
"What? B-but how?"
"Hermione." Emmett and the others came through the doors.
"Whoa jeez," said Remus and he and the others pointed their wands at the Death Eater.
"Put down your wands or I will kill her."
"There are five of us and only one of you, so you put down your wand," said Lucius.
"Think again."
Then Death Eaters sprang out of the shadows.
"Drop your wands or she will die."
They did what he said and then they were pushed towards Hermione and Ron.
"Leave us," said the head Death Eater and the other Death Eaters left them alone. "Well Voldemort will be glad to see the head of the resistance finally dead. I guess the all mighty Aegis ain't so mighty after all. I guess you're just a true worthless geek."
"Who are you?" asked Emmett
"Pity that you don't know I was your professor for six years."
"Impossible, all of the professors were given the Kiss."
"Not all of them." He removed his mask.
Peter, Severus, Lucius, Remus and Emmett all gasped when they saw who it was.
"Professor Matson!"
"But how did you pulled it off? I remembered dragging your body to the Hospital Wing," said Remus.
"I merely switched places with one of the students," said Matson. He looked at Remus and Peter. "You might be glad to know that James Potter is still alive, but without a soul."
"You son of a bitch!" cried Remus.
Matson laughed, "Yeah, Potter didn't die from the beam, it just injured him. That was when I gave him some Pollyjuice and placed him where I sat."
"But how did you kept him looking like you all that time?" asked Emmett.
"Remember Daisy? I killed her and turned into her and so every hour I would pour the potion down his throat," said Matson.
"You bastard!" cried Peter.
Matson laughed again. Peter out of rage went up to him and punched him right in the nose. Matson lost his balance and fell down. Peter got on top of him and just kept on punching him until he was unconscious. Peter got up. He whipped some blood off from his face and looked up, everyone was looking at him.
"Are you alright?" asked Severus.
"Yeah, I am okay."
"Good job Peter," said Remus.
Emmett bent down and checked Matson's vitals.
"He's still breathing. We better leave," he said.
Severus went over to the door and picked up their wands.
"His Death Eaters will return. If we want to leave we better do it now," said Severus.
Lucius went over to Ron and picked him up. Severus gave everyone their wands and Emmett lit a fire in the middle of the room. Emmett grabbed some floo powder and gave it to Lucius.
"Majour," said Lucius and he and Ron went in.
Remus soon left and followed by Hermione.
"Severus, you're next," said Emmett.
Severus left the door and grabbed some floo powder and left.
"Peter let's go," said Emmett.
Peter, who was still at Matson's body, went over to Emmett. He grabbed some floo powder but he soon dropped it. His eyes stood still and he exhaled like he was out of breath. He dropped to the ground and laid there without moving.
"Peter?" asked Emmett.
He heard someone laughing. He turned around and saw Matson getting up.
"Say good bye Brown," said Matson. "Avada-"
But Emmett said a quicker spell and he flung Matson to the wall. He went over to him and he was unconscious once more. He heard some Death Eaters coming so he quickly grabbed Matson and went over to the fire. He grabbed some floo powder and tossed it in. Grabbing Peter he then left.
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Everyone sat in their own place and morn over the loss of Peter. As for Matson he was given the leg-locker curse and was tied up in a chair.
"I don't know what you're crying about. Peter was the reason for all this," said Matson.
"Shut up," said Remus.
Lucius and Severus had to rush over to him to stop him from doing anything wrong.
"How did you know?" asked Emmett.
"Peter was the one working for me."
"You were the Death Eater at school?" said Severus
"I thought you were smart enough to figure it out when I unmask myself," said Matson. "But yes it was I and what I learned from Peter was grand. I knew that when you discovered about time travel it would have been the best weapon Voldemort would ever have. But I would never have guessed the downfall of him. So I knew then I must destroy Potter for ever letting that to have happen again."
"Well Matson now that we know what went wrong in the past we can go back and fix it," said Hermione.
"Why would you want to do such a thing?"
"This isn't supposed to be like this. Our world was never like this," said Hermione
"We never had to fight both You-Know-Who and the Muggles," said Ron.
"We are going back and we are going to stop you," said Hermione.
"Oh really? How are you going to get back there?" asked Matson.
Ron and Hermione looked at each other with blank expressions.
"Just as I though, you can't."
"Wait, they can," said a voice, it was Emmett.
"What do you mean? How can we?" asked Hermione.
"I bought you a locket , remember, and it should take us back, " he replied
"Did you say us?" asked Hermione.
"Yes us, I'm coming with you."
"So am I."
"And I."
"Count me in."
Ron and Hermione turned around to see Remus, Lucius and Severus volunteering to come.
"Then let's go," said Ron. He tried to get up but he just went right back down.
"We can't go until I get a time turner," said Emmett. He went over to the closet to grab a cloak.
"Where do you think you're doing?" asked Severus.
"Diagon Alley."
"You can stay here and pack. Lucius and I will retrieve the time turner," said Severus.
They grabbed their cloaks and left.
Soon Matson started to laugh and everyone stared at him in disgust.
"What is so funny?" asked Ron.
"Oh I was just wondering what on Earth would you do when you go back in time," said Matson.
"Try and stop you of course," said Ron.
"You are made of little brains," said Matson. "If you go back and try to stop me, two of your friends will die."
"What?"
"He's right," said Emmett. "He's the reason that Lily and James were together."
"That's right. If you interfere with any particular event to prevent me from kidnapping Evans then you could kiss Potter and fuzzball goodbye. Oops silly me, Potter is already gone."
Hermione went up to him and slapped his face.
"Ooh, I think I hit a nerve," said Matson. He moved his jaw a bit and then looked at Emmett. "You should leave the way things are. If you go back you could make things worse, you wouldn't want to disturb the time stream any further now would you?"
"I'm willing to take the risk," said Emmett.
"You're a fool. How do you know that this time is worse then the next? You only have their word on it," said Matson.
"I trust them," said Emmett. "Hermione, Ron you look after him while Remus and I go and pack." They left the room. You could hear their footsteps going up the stairs and then hearing a door slam shut.
Ron sat in his chair staring hard at Matson. Matson sat there very casual and whistling a low soft tone that sounded like a whisper. As for Hermione, she was in another room, an office room; it had a desk and two filing cabinets in a corner. She went to the desk and saw an old copy of the Daily Prophet. It was dated June 15, 1977. The headline read: VOLDEMORT ATTACK HOGWARTS. HUNDREDS ARE DEAD!
She picked it up and stuck it in her robe pocket, and then she went back to Ron.
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"You know," said Remus, "it's really good to see them again."
"Yeah, it sure is," said Emmett, he stuffed an old robe into a bag.
"But it's strange to look at them and see that they haven't changed while we aged 20 years," said Remus.
Emmett went to grab more robes from a chest but he paused when he saw something wrapped in an old cloth. He grabbed it and when he unwrap it, it turned out to be ahis old time turner. He shoved an old piece of parchment and a shinning silver gray cloak in his bag and he hurried out the room. Hurrying down the stairs he started to take two at a time. When he got to the last step his foot missed it. He couldn't grab anything quick enough and he fell forward.
"Emmett, are you alright?" asked Remus. He quickly went down the steps and helped him up.
"Yeah, I'm just fine," he said." I guess I'm just too excited."
They then went to the room that Ron and Hermione was waiting in.
"We heard a noise just a while ago. Are you alright?" asked Hermione when Emmett and Remus entered the room.
"Yes, everything is fine and look what I found." He held up the time turner.
"You found one," cried Hermione.
"What are we waiting for, lets go," said Ron.
"We can't leave Lucius and Severus behind," said Emmett.
"You guys go and I'll wait for them," said Remus.
"Are you sure?" asked Emmett.
"Positive."
So Emmett unscrewed the time turner and placed the sand in a bowl; he then added some floo powder.
"Hermione, can I please have the locket," said Emmett.
She took it off and handed it to him.
"When will it take us?" asked Hermione.
"The first week of November, I got it on the last trip to Hogsmeade before the ball," said Emmett. "So we will have 3 weeks."
"3 weeks to do what?" asked Ron. "You heard what Matson said. If we try to stop him then Harry and Hermione will be gone."
"Don't worry, just have faith, I'll think of something," said Emmett.
He lit the fireplace.
"Hogwarts or Hogsmeade?" asked Hermione.
"Hogsmeade," said Emmett. "We don't want to floo in a place in Hogwarts that would cause damage."
So Ron grabbed some of the mixture and left, Hermione went after him.
"Remus when Severus and Lucius come back tell them to floo to Hogsmeade," said Emmett.
"How will we find you?" asked Remus.
"I'll send a note. Look by the fireplace."
They shook hands but it ended in a hug.
"Be careful," said Remus.
Emmett grabbed some of the mixture and left.
