Chapter V: The Tasks

When Emmett came out of the fireplace soot flew everywhere.

"Is everyone alright?" he asked.

"Yes. Where are we?" asked Ron.

It was dark inside and out.

"One of the stores, but which one I do not know," said Emmett

"Ouch," said Hermione. "Something hit me."

"Sorry, that was me," said Ron. "Here, take my hand."

She put her hand out and Ron grabbed it,

"Lumos," said Emmett. The store lit up.

They looked around and what they saw wasn't pretty. Jars of heads and eyes were about, dead animals hanging on the walls and also some torture devices of some sort.

"I don't like this, I don't like this at all," said Hermione.

"Where are we?" asked Ron.

"The Dark Arts Store," said Emmett. "Come on let's go.

The hurried towards the door and quickly left.

"Glad we're out of there," said Ron. "Where do we go now?"

"Hogwarts," said Emmett. "In the dungeons there's a secret room where we can hide in."

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"How much further?" asked Ron.

"10 more meters," said Emmett.

"So Emmett how did you know about this hiding place?" asked Hermione.

"I came across it while hiding from the Death Eaters," said Emmett. "Ah here it is."

"I don't see anything," said Ron.

"Not yet." Emmett placed his hand on the wall to the third brick on the right. The wall began to move and opened a door to a room.

"It may look small but it will get bigger once we get in," said Emmett. He picked up his bag and went in. "We should all rest before Lucius and Severus comes."

He pulled out some blankets from this bag and handed it to them.

While Ron and Hermione were asleep Emmett started to write a letter.

. . . once you get to the dungeons go about 100 meters to your right. Third brick on your right.

E.L.M

"Now all I need to do is to send it," said Emmett, "but where will I get a time turner?

He got up and left them asleep, he returned an hour and a half later. He mixed the sand with the powder and then lit a fire but before he sent the letter he remembered something. He needed an item that was bought around that day. Looking at Hermione and remembered about her hairpins. He slowly got up and went to her. Reaching towards her hair and he pulled out a hairpin. He stuck the hairpin in the mixture and mixed it.

"Majour." And he tossed the letter into the flames.

"What was that?" asked Hermione

Emmett jumped up a little and then looked at her.

"It was for Lucius and the others, so they would know where to find us," said Emmett.

Hermione then looked into the fire. When she saw it flared her eyes then moved to Emmett.

"You know you could have told us that you were alive without giving your identity away instead of telling Ron and I that you were dead.."

"You're still angry about that? Weren't you listening when we told you why," said Emmett.

"But you didn't have to tell us that you were dead."

"Yes I had to."

"Why?"

"After the Voldemort sent the Death Eaters to go and kill me, I set up and explosion in Gryffindor Tower so he and everyone would believe that I was dead. Only a few knew that I was alive. If Voldemort knew that I was still alive you couldn't imagine the pain that he would put me through to extract the secrets of time travel. Can you imagine him having that type of knowledge? He could destroy the world with it," said Emmett. "You should go back to bed. We have a long day ahead."

Hermione laid back down and closed her eyes, as for Emmett he sat by the fire just staring at it.

-8:00am 1996-

"Oh man that was close," said Severus. He pulled his hood off and closed the door.

"Emmett, we're back," said Lucius. "Emmett where are you?"

"He left," said a voice.

They walked into the room with the fireplace and they saw someone.

"Remus what do you mean that he left?" asked Severus.

"He found a time turner and he left with Hermione and Ron."

"How do we find him?" asked Lucius.

"He said something about sending a note to you," he said, "and to look by the fireplace."

Snape looked puzzled at first and then he walked over by the fireplace and began to look around.

"Severus what are you doing?" asked Lucius.

"Looking for the note that Emmett sent us."

And then he saw it. A piece of parchment covered in soot.

"I never saw that there before."

"What does it say?" asked Lucius.

"To travel to Hogsmeade and meet him in the dungeons at Hogwarts," said Severus.

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The fire was going out and Emmett cast a spell to keep it going. He then went over to Ron and Hermione to wake them up.

"Ron, Hermione wake up, it's morning," said Emmett.

"Uhhhhh . . . . what time is it?" asked Ron.

"A quarter after eight."

Ron looked around.

"It's great to be back at Hogwarts. It seems like I was here yesterday"

"You were here yesterday," said Emmett.

Ron looked at Emmett and then at Hermione. Hermione was nodding her head to agree with Emmett.

"There are two of you here like there are two of me here. The other me is the Emmett Brown from 1976, the other me that helps the other you get back to 1996."

Ron looks at Hermione.

"Where you ever this confused?" he asked.

"Only in the beginning, but you'll understand."

"Ahem."

They looked towards the door and saw Severus and Lucius.

"Severus, Lucius you made it," said Emmett.

"In one piece," said Lucius.

"What do you mean? What happened?"

"We almost got caught in Diagon Alley," said Severus. "And then we got attack at your manor."

"Remus, where is he?"

"He's dead," said Lucius. "Matson got freed and killed him. When we got back he turned into Remus. Before we were going to leave that was when the Death Eaters came."

"Did you grab the floo powder mix?"

"Dumped it all in my pocket," said Severus.

"Oh thank God," said Emmett. "If you would have left it they would have been able to follow you."

"Well it's a good thing I didn't," said Severus.

Ron stretch his long arms and his stomach started to growl.

"Oh man, I'm hungry," he said.

"We all are," said Emmett.

"We should go to the kitchen and eat," said Hermione.

"That sounds great," said Severus. "Lucius, Emmett and I hadn't had a decent meal in years."

They all started to leave the room but they stopped when Emmett said, "Wait a minute. We can't all leave."

"And why not?" asked Severus.

"Think about it. It's Sunday 8: 22 am. Everyone is out of bed and heading to the Great Hall for breakfast," said Emmett. " If we all go we are bound to get caught."

"Fine then, I'll go," said Severus.

"That wouldn't be a great idea," said Hermione. "Harry, Ron and I know what you and Lucius looks like, so that wouldn't work either."

"But we can go," said Ron pointing to himself and Hermione. "If we run into anyone they would think that it's us, I mean our other."

"That could work but what ever you do you must not run into yourself," said Emmett. "The effects would cause great damage."

He went over to his bag and pulled out an old piece of parchment.

"I believe you know what to do with it," he said.

"Thank you," said Hermione look confused and she took it.

"Bring back a lot of bacon," said Severus and they left.

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"So Hermione what's with the parchment?" asked Ron.

"I'm not sure," she said. She unrolled it and was amazed on what she saw. "Ron, Ron stop. Look."

"It's James' map," said Ron.

"Yeah, uh oh. We got company."

On the map they saw a dot with the name Emmett Brown and following that dot were three others but they didn't have a name.

"That can't be Emmett, we left him in the dungeons," said Hermione.

"And plus he wouldn't be wondering the halls with strangers," said Ron. He quickly looked around. "Come on let's hide in this room."

They quickly got into the room and closed the door three-fourths of the way and waited.

"So Emmett, what are we going to do after breakfast?" asked Harry.

"Go back to the library of course," replied Emmett.

They hold their breaths when they saw Emmett and the ones who were accompanying him.

"Look, it's us," said Hermione.

"Emmett do we have to?" asked Ron.

"Yes Ron we do," said Emmett

"But I want to go to Hogsmeade," he protested and they were gone.

Ron and Hermione opened the door and walked out.

"Wow, that was weird," said Ron.

"I wonder why we didn't see ourselves on the map?" said Hermione.

"Dunno, come on lets hurry to the kitchen before anyone else comes," said Ron.

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"So Emmett after breakfast what are you going to do?" asked Lucius.

"Well first I need a book from the library and-."

"Which one?"

"The one called "Mysterious Spells and Charms," he replied.

"Emmett you're not thinking-you better not use that spell on me," said Severus.

They heard some footsteps and they quitted down but they were glad that it was Ron and Hermione.

"Oh man it feels good to be stuff," said Severus.

"I don't think I can move," said Lucius.

"Well you better," said Emmett. "You and Severus are going to be . . . ahem borrowing some potion ingredients from Matson."

"For what purpose?"

"Polyjuice Potion and Primeous Draft," he answered.

"Polyjuice? But that will take a month to brew," said Ron.

"Well it did," said Severus.

"Over the years Severus modify the potion so it would take shorter," said Emmett.

"So when they are getting the ingredients what are we going to do?" asked Hermione.

"You and I will be in the library looking for a book call "Mysterious Spells and Charms" while Ron goes and gets a Primeous plant."

"Uh Emmett could you enlighten me and tell me what a Primeous plant looks like," said Ron.

"Oh Ron how could you forget," said Hermione. "Just remember that they're short with long shiny green leaves."

"That's easy, I can remember that," said Ron.

And they left.

-Dungeons-

"Is the close clear?" asked Lucius

"Yeah, come on," said Severus.

They entered Matson's classroom.

"Lucius, go to Matson's privet storage and look for the Primeous Draft ingredients," said Snape.

"Sure thing."

Snape went over to the student's cupboard and began to look for the Polyjuice ingredients.

"Hey Severus any luck with your ingredients?" asked Lucius.

"No, all I could find was Shredded skin of boomslang and some lacewing flies," said Severus. "Oh I did found some leeches for you."

"Thanks," said Lucius. "Yeah I'm missing a lot of ingredients too. I still need some silver weed, silk from a glowworm, dragon's blood, eye of newt and were wolf's hair."

"He's the Potion's Master, he should have more ingredients," said Severus. "Now if I was the Potion's Master I would have more ingredients and some different ones instead of these boring ones."

They placed their ingredients in a bag and they left.

"So what are we going to do?" asked Lucius.

"I need to go to Hogsmeade and buy the rest," answered Severus.

He stopped and then pulled Lucius against the wall.

"What?"

"Shh, Peter is just down the hall," said Severus. "And that means only one thing; he's spying on Parker and his friends."

He looked back and saw Peter walking away.

"Come on, he's gone."

They slowly walked by Professor Flitwick's room. They stopped when they heard someone's voice.

"Hopes that's not Flitwick," said Ron. "We still need his room."

They heard footsteps coming.

"They're coming," said Lucius.

They ran and they stopped when they were around a corridor.

"It was nobody," said Harry, and he was closing the door.

"That was a close one."

"No kidding Lucius. We better make sure that we don't run into any more incidents like that."

And they continued to walk back to the dungeons.

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"So when we get to the library how are we getting the book?" asked Hermione. "If I can remember correctly "Mysterious Spells and Charms" is in the Restricted Section."

"With this." He pulled out the silvery gray cloak.

"The Invisibility Cloak!"

When they go to the library they quickly went underneath the cloak. The saw Madam Prince and slowly tried to move past her but she kept getting in the way. But with their luck a student came wanting her help. She left her post and Emmett and Hermione went to get the book.

"Oh my god," said Hermione. "How are we going to find it?"

The Restricted Section had shelves over shelves with books.

"It's like finding a needle in a haystack," said Hermione.

"Hermione, Hermione. Are you forgetting that you're a witch?" said Emmett. "We can just simply use the Summoning Charm."

He cast the spell but nothing happened.

"Just wait, it will come," he said.

They spent ten minutes waiting for the book to come. After Hermione convicted Emmett to give it up they began to look. Hermione took one side of the room and Emmett took the other side. After thirty minutes went by Hermione hollered to Emmett that she'd found it.

"Oh thank God," he said. He began to look through the pages.

"What spell are you looking for?" asked Hermione.

"Oh just a spell that will give us a disguise until the draft is ready," he answered.

He found the spell and quickly wrote it down. He put the book back and they went back under the cloak and left.

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Ron entered on of the greenhouses and he was trying to remember what Hermione told him.

"Okay, they're short with long shiny green leaves," he said he looked around and notice that all the plants were short and has green leaves.

"Oh boy, this will take a while," said Ron.

So he began to look. Some that he came across had leaves with holes, or brown

At one point he thought that he found it but the leaves didn't shine.

"This is hopeless," said Ron.

He was almost at the end of the greenhouse when he noticed a plant.

"Hey, this could be it."

The leaves were green, it shined but the leaves were shot and long.

"Ugh, everyone is probably waiting for me to bring the plant."

He heard footsteps and he quickly hid. It was Professor Sprout.

"Hello my little darlings," she said to the plants.

She picked up a watering can and began to water the plants.

Oh now where did I put those Primeous plants?" said Professor Sprout. "I need them for tomorrow's class."

She starts to look around."

"Oh yeah they're in the next greenhouse."

She sat the watering can down and went over to the next greenhouse. Ron got out of hiding and followed her. Sprout stopped when she reached the plants.

"Hum, they look a little bit wilted." She grabbed an umbrella and opened it. Casting a spell it began to rain. She left and Ron grabbed a plant.

Ron opened the door and saw two caldrons over two fires.

"Finally," said Severus. "We've been waiting for ever."

"Why are you wet?" asked Hermione.

"Professor Sprout made it rain in the greenhouse," said Ron. He handed Severus the plant and he started to break the branches and sticking them into one of the caldrons.

"So when will everything be ready?" asked Ron.

"I will tell you when we have all of the ingredients," said Severus and then he puts the rest of the plant in.

"Matson didn't have everything?"

"That's right."

"Strange, he should had the ingredients for the Polyjuice Potion. I remembered that we made it in class last month," said Ron.

"Well he doesn't," said Severus. He got up and grabbed his cloak.

"Where are you going?" asked Emmett.

"To Hogsmeade's Supply Store to get the rest of the ingredients."

"You might not want to go there right now," said Emmett.

"And why not?"

"Well. . . they had a little brake in early this morning and they're probably closed for inventory," said Emmett.

"What . . . did . . . you . . . DO?"

"I needed a time turner to send you the letter," said Emmett. "Just do what you can do to the potions and tomorrow you can go."