Chapter Six: Time will tell
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A/N: Well, for the people who actually read my story, here is another chapter.
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Ron bounced into the dungeons for the first lesson of the day.
Ron bounced into his seat.
Ron bounced in his seat while taking notes on 'hyperactive potions'.
Hermione and Harry stared.
Snape came over to Ron's table, which he shared with Harry and Hermione, and said softly to the bouncing Ron, "What is the matter, Mr. Weasley?"
Ron said nothing. He was too busy humming "Oh Happy Days" to himself.
"Twenty points from Gryffindor for failing to regard a teacher," Snape snarled, "And fifteen for disrupting the class. Oh, and another twenty off because Mr. Potter and Ms. Granger have not attempted to stop your ridiculous behaviour."
Snape walked away, sat at his desk again.
Harry glared.
"What was that for????? I was in a state of shock. Since when does Ron come bouncing down to the dungeons to have double Potions with the Slytherins?????"
Hermione whispered in his ear, "Since he kissed Melanie, I guess."
Harry stifled a shout of disbelief.
"How can you tell?"
Hermione rolled her eyes.
"For one, when he came bouncing into the dungeons as if he'd just won a million galleons, I knew something was up. Then, I realised that he reeked of Melanie's expensive perfume. So he'd been with her.
And then I saw that he had failed to wipe off all of the lipstick marks on his lips.
So her lips had been on his.
And when two people's lips touch, that is called a kiss, Harry." Hermione finished with a superior tone to her voice.
"Yes, I know what a kiss is, I'm not retarded. But I just don't get how you can be so observant."
"Girls are just so much more intelligent than boys, they notice more." Hermione sniffed.
"Potter! Weasley! Granger! Back to work!" Snape spat.
Ron's bouncy mood was squashed quickly as the rest of the double lesson stretched out in front of him.
"Okay. What kind of hair do you want?" Lily asked.
Lily and James were seated in the Room of Requirement, and Lily was busy trying to change James's appearance, so that they could go out in public, and not be noticed.
James looked sulky.
"I don't wanna change myself. I like how I look now!"
Lily sighed.
"Okay. If you're not going to be co operative, I'll just change you myself. Stay still." Lily aimed her wand at James's head.
"NO! I'm not going to sit still while you jab a wand at my head!"
Lily sighed again.
"Have it your own way then."
Lily waved her wand, and an invisible force held James's body still.
"HEY! This is too weird! Let go!" James tried to twist in his seat, but his limbs were not his to control.
Lily grinned.
"Okay. Ready? Well, it you're not, I don't care."
She gave her wand a complicated little wave, and James's hair turned light brown.
With another flick, his eyes mellowed to a light tone of brown.
And with a final flick, James shrank a little, which didn't really matter, because he was originally tall for his age.
Lily put down her wand to look at the new James.
"Not bad."
"Whaddaya mean not bad!" James hollered, "I look like a bloody idiot!"
Lily rolled her eyes.
"Are you going to be quiet while I fix myself up?" she asked.
"NO I AM NOT!" James yelled.
"Very well." Lily picked up her wand, and sent a silencing charm in James's direction.
He appeared to be ranting and raving, but no sound came out of his mouth.
"Ah. That's an improvement!" Lily smiled at the furious yet silent James.
She left James tied to the chair while she changed her own appearance.
First, she changed her hair colour to blonde.
Then, she made her eyes a bright blue, instead of a startling emerald colour.
Next, she made herself grow a little. Not too much, just enough to ensure that she would be taller than James.
She wished she had a mirror, and one appeared in front of her.
Lily looked into the mirror, and a pretty blonde girl gazed back.
She twirled away to the mirror, and went to sit on James's lap.
James stared at the new Lily.
Lily flicked her wand, and both the silencing charm and the body freezing charm were removed.
"Well, what do you think???" she asked James.
"Not bad." James grumbled.
"Don't I even get a 'good' or a 'fantastic'?" Lily pretended to pout.
"Oh alright. You look very nice. But can't you make me just a little bit better looking?" James whined.
Lily grinned at him.
"Nope."
"Please?"
"Nope."
"Please????????????????????????????????????????????????????????"
"Nope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Ah, stuff you." James said, "Let's go out, shall we?"
He offered his arm to Lily, who giggled.
"Okay then. But remember, we can only go out at meal times, and when other students are out of class. No wandering about the corridors during class time. And..."
"Yeah, yeah." James yawned, "Cut the crap. Let's go out and find our weirdo future son guy!"
Lily and James walked out of the Room of Requirement, and were soon lost in the other students.
"That," Ron said, "Was the shittiest Potions lesson ever."
Hermione looked disapprovingly at him, and replied, "Maybe that's only because you were too busy being a human bouncy ball to listen to what Snape asked you to do. That's why he deducted those thirty points just now."
"Aw, Hermione! You can't be glad that Gryffindor lost points, can you?" said Harry.
"Well, I'm not glad that Gryffindor lost points. But Ron, you really should have been listening, not thinking about kissing Melanie!"
At these words, Ron's ears started to glow red.
"Ah, um, I, er, how, um..." Ron stuttered.
Hermione and Harry laughed, watching him become more and more embarrassed.
"Don't worry Ron." Harry patted his arm, "I think that it's really sweet! Getting your first kiss at the age of seventeen!"
Ron pretended to cuff Harry around the head, before heading down to get lunch.
Harry, Hermione and Ron were busy laughing and talking, and didn't notice a couple walking down the corridor.
Harry was walking in front, so he smashed into the guy.
"Oh my god! I'm sorry!" Harry gasped.
The boy and the girl looked at him.
James said, "Oh my god! It's the weirdo so..."
"Shut up." Lily said.
To Harry, she said, "Hi! Sorry about that. Ja....son is such an idiot."
"Yeah, I am." James admitted.
Ron laughed.
James grinned at him.
"What's your name then?"
"Err...Ron. Ron Weasley."
"Hi. I'm.....Jason?"
James looked at Lily questioningly, who nodded.
"And who are you?" James asked Harry.
"Harry. Harry Potter."
"Ah. And who's your friend?" Lily asked, indicating Hermione.
"I'm Hermione." said Hermione, speaking up.
'Well, I'm...Linda. Nice to meet you. Do you mind if we join you for lunch?"
"Yay! Food!" James said happily.
Hermione said, "Shouldn't you be sitting at your house table?"
"Crap!" Lily thought, "I'm going a bit too fast for my liking here."
She thought fast.
"We're visiting students. Dumbledore let us come and stay here for a while."
Hermione's brow furrowed.
"I'll bet that Dumbledore doesn't do that very often?"
"No, he doesn't. But we're the exception." Lily said, feeling slightly flustered.
Hermione shrugged.
"Okay then. Just so long as Dumbledore approves."
Lily nodded appreciatively.
"Yes, of course. Shall we go?"
"Yes! I'm starving." Harry and Ron and James said in unison.
Hermione and Lily rolled their eyes, muttered 'boys!' under their breath, and led the way down to the Hall for lunch.
Dumbledore watched the group walk down the stairs, and felt sad. ::::
"I will have to tell Harry some time," he thought, "But there can be a little time allowed until then."
Dumbledore walked slowly back up to his office, and consulted the portraits.
"What do you think?" He asked them quietly.
Several portraits muttered glumly.
Dumbledore sighed.
"Well, it's good that they're friends, but Harry will have to know sometime. What do you think, Phineas?"
Phineas Nigellus drawled, "Why tell him at all? If the boy is friends with them, what's the problem? Just let him go, I say, but then when Potter and Evans return to the past, let him suffer."
The other portraits glared at Phineas.
Dilys Derwent snarled, "Oh yes. And you would know ALL about suffering, wouldn't you, Phineas? You with your easy and lazy life."
No, no Dumbledore. Let Harry befriend them, do, but you must let him know. You will have to tell him sooner or later."
All of the portraits nodded in agreement, except Phineas, who scowled.
"Fine then. Reject my advice...."
Harry, Ron and Hermione were planning to take the "exchange students" to Hogsmeade.
Ron looked ecstatic.
"We can go to Honeydukes! I REALLY need some of those sherbet balls, and a few sugar quills, and..."
Ron proceeded to tell them all exactly what he wanted to get at Honeydukes, which turned out to be approximately half the shop.
"Ron?" Hermione said, closing her eyes and leaning towards his ear.
"What, Hermione?"
"SHUT UP!" Hermione yelled right in his ear.
Ron leapt away from her, and hid behind James.
"Bloody hell! What was that for?"
Hermione smiled sweetly.
"What was what for???"
"That friggin busting of my bloody friggin eardrum!"
Hermione smiled sweetly.
"What did I do?"
"YOU FRIGGIN KILLED MY FG EARDRUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Mr. Weasley?" Professor McGonagall appeared behind him.
Ron turned into a human beetroot.
"Oh....um....Professor! Didn't see you there."
"I gathered that, Mr. Weasley. Twenty points from Gryffindor for shouting such vulgar language in the school corridor for everyone to hear."
She walked away.
Lily, James, Ron and Hermione stood in silence for a second, and then burst out laughing.
Ron looked a bit dazed, but then he snapped out of it.
"Now, where was I? Ah, yes. I need a bit of that nice Honeycomb chocolate stuff, and some fudge, and..."
Hermione sighed irritably.
While Lily and James were putting up a good show of being happy, they also felt a bit sad, because their future son couldn't know who they were.
No-one seemed to notice their under-the-surface mood, except Hermione.
"Hey, are you guys alright?" Hermione asked them eventually.
Lily put up her best smile, and said, "Yes, yes, we're fine. Just a bit tired, that's all."
Hermione still looked uncertain, but she replied, "Okay then. Do you want to go and have a rest then?"
Lily considered, and was about to say no, but then she figured that she would have a breakdown if she stayed with her future son much longer, so she said,
"Yes, I think that would be best. And...um...today was fun. Thanks." Lily smiled at everyone and departed.
James gave them all a wave, and followed Lily.
When they were safely back in the Room of Requirement, Lily conjured up a couple of beds, and before she could do anything else, James was in one of them, and snoring.
Lily smiled softly.
"Okay then. Sleep. I have a feeling that we'll need all of our energy to keep our acts up."
Lily addressed the sleeping James.
As if in reply, James gave a snort, and said, "NO! Not that kind! I need the really smelly ones. Not the ones with flowers! I want that hat! Thank you! NO! Not the raccoon! Just the pineapples. Thank you!"
Lily grinned at the sleep talking James, and slipped into a pair of pyjamas and crawled under the sheets of her own bed.
She wondered what would happen next.
"I have no idea how we're expected to break Harry the news," she thought to herself, "But I won't worry about that now. Time will tell, I guess. Time will tell."
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