A/N hi ppl, sorry about the long wait, I've been away on holiday, for some reason I thought I told you this in my last post but apparently I didnt, must be going mad.

Anyway, I hope you like my next chapter

Seeing the Bright Side

This revelation seemed to bring Hermione back to her senses and she managed to calm down the now frantic Harry.
'We need to think of a plan.'
So between them they spent the next few hours deciding what they were going to do, though using the phrase 'between them' as lightly as possible as Harry struggled to concentrate on anything. Eventually they decided that they were going to have to find a way to become Hogwarts students so that they could then search the library and use every magical resourse possible to find a way home because they figured what better place was there for finding information than at Hogwarts?. The question was how were they just going to go to school.
This was solved by a simple letter forged (magically of course to make it look real) by Hermione.
It read..
Dear Professer Dumbledore,
I am hugely sorry for this but I need to ask of you a favour. Two of my students, Hermione Granger and Harry Parker, who are currently supposed to be attending my own school, The American Institute for Wizardry and Witchcraft are in need of some help. Due to sad circumtances and for their own personal safety I feel it is necessary for them to be transferred to Hogwarts. I am terribly sorry for the inconvenience and for the lack of further information but I do not feel it safe to write any further details in a letter.
I apologise for the short notice but as I am sure you are aware these are dangerous times and I feel that they will be safest in your care.
Also it would be greatly appreciated to keep the reasons for their transfer a secret.
Yours sincerley
Deleria Fishwrath
Headmistress

Hermione handed the letter to Harry who read it and smiled.
'This should work, he said, 'only, why am I Parker?'
'Well, it's ok for me to keep my last name because my parents are muggles and there is no-one in my family who were at Hogwarts before me but if your Dad is here then it might look a little wierd to have two Potters,' she explained rationally. Her initail panic seemed to have disappeared now that they had a plan and, although it might be impossible, she was confident that they would discover a way home soon and if worst came to worst they always had Dumbledore.

They spent the rest of their trip as they usually would and it wasn't until he felt that they were getting close to Hogwarts that Harry started to feel nervous.
He was going to meet his parents.

When the train stopped Harry and Hermione found a carriage that only had one girl in who looked in their year.
'Hi, I'm Em Hawkins,' she said brightly, 'who are you? How come I haven't seen you here before? I'm sure I would have recognised you.'
Em was a pretty girl whose hair fell just past her shoulders in loose natural curls at the ends and dark brown eyes.
Hermione smiled innocently, 'Hi, I'm Hermione Granger and this is Harry Po...Parker. We've just transferred from America, that's why we've never met.' Hermione smiled what she hoped was naturally and hoped the girl wouldn't ask any more questions.
'Oh right, that explains it, well I suppose you'll have to be sorted.' Em said this in a natural tone but Hermione glanced sideways at Harry, they hadn't thought of this.
'What house are you in,'asked Harry, suddenly curious about this girl.
'Gryfindor. Hope you to are too.'
Hermione laughed a little,'Me too.'
Just then the carriage door flung open and in stepped a gorgeous red-headed girl who looked a bit out of breath.

Harry stiffened in his seat.
'Phew, just made it,' she gasped,' had to sort out some lost 1st years, being Head-Girl is tiring me out already.'
'Don't mess, Lily, you know you love it really.'
Lily grinned widely, 'So who is this?'

Em introduced Harry and Hermione and Lily shook both of their hands.
Harry smiled widely at his mother as she took his hand and she then tilted her head to the side and lowered her eyes..
'You know you look just like James,' she said simply.
Hermione, realising that if they actually were who they were pretending to be would have no idea who 'James' was so she asked, as naturally as she could who he was.
'The boy who's in love with Lily,' said Em laughing, and nudging her friend.
'He's not in love with me,' Lily said trying to sound stern but a large grin had appeared on her face, 'Ok, maybe he is.' They all started laughing.

'Hey Harry, what's with the scar?' asked Em, 'Never seen one like it.'

Thats because no-one has ever had one before, thought Harry.

'Car accident,' he replied simply and the topic was dropped. It was then that they arrived at Hogwarts.

Harry and Hermione climbed out of the carriages and spotted Professer McGonagal stood in a crowd of first years.
Hermione took Harry's hand and they pushed their way through the other students.
'Professer,' Hermione said when they made it to her, 'I'm Hermione Granger and this is Harry Parker,'
It feels strange introducing myself to someone who has been teaching me for 6 years she thought.
She then handed McGonagal the letter and they held their breaths hoping that she would believe it.

'Ok, you two will need to be sorted, go inside with these first years and wait.'
Harry and Hermione followed her instuctions and a few minutes later they were stood outside the Great Hall waiting to be sorted again both of them appreciating fully exactly how strange this situation was.

They walked into the hall and as they did Harry skimmed the Gryfindor table for any signs of his father but he couldn't see him.
'Harry Parker,' McGonagal called and Harry stepped forward and put the hat on.
'Gryfindor!' It shouted immediately and Harry proceeded to the table and sat next to a boy with curly blonde hair who gave Harry an enormous smile when he sat down.
'Hermione Granger,' called McGonagal and Hermione stepped forward.
She put then hat on her head and it called Gryfindor loudly.
She grinned and took her seat next to Harry, 'That was a surprise,' she muttered sarcastically, still smiling.

The rest of the sorting went as usual and Dumbledore made his speech before they all started eating, as he sat down he caught eyes with Harry and nodded, letting him know that Mc Gonagal had informed him of the situation.
Harry looked up and down the Gryfindor table but he could see no sign of James or any of the other marauders.
He mentioned this to Hermione but she just shrugged her shoulders. She seemed in deep conversation with Em, the girl from the carriage.

When the feast was over Harry and Hermione stood up with the rest of the students and were pushed along with the crowd towards the doorway.

They left the Great Hall and made their way to the Gryfindor common room. Harry and Hermione lagged behind everyone else as Hermione was telling him that she would get up tomorrow morning and go to the library.
When they arrived at the common room there seemed to be a party going on and there was a huge banner with the words
Marauders last year - we know you're all gonna miss us!

People were dancing all around and on the table stood...James Potter.
He seemed to be grinning at someone who was stood on the floor in front of the table but there were too many people around for Harry to see who. Then he watched as his father leaned forward and lifted Lily up onto the table and toward him, her attempts to resist were failing but she didn't look like she was too bothered.
He was trying to get her to dance and she struggled for and moment before she then gave up and took his hand.

Glancing around the room Harry saw Sirius Black sat on the sofa making out with a girl he recognised as Em. He had heard that his godfather was a womaniser at Hogwarts but seeing him in action brought a smile to Harry's face.

Remus was moving between the crowds laughing and joking. Harry couldn't remember seeing him so happy, he looked alot younger and it made him feel sad to know that this handsome, young man would soon be so worn and tired. To Harry's disgust, Peter Pettigrew was stood by the food table looking on at everyone else.

Lily, then glanced over to Harry and Hermione, whispered something to James and they jumped off the table and walked over.
Lily introduced them and James immediately started asking questions.
'So...Harry, you play Quidditch?'
Harry was immediately enthusiastic, 'Yeah, I was seeker before I came here, I started at the youngest age my school had had in a century.'
James was amazed and the were soon in a deep conversation.

Lily turned to Hermione, 'So is he your boyfriend?' she asked in a low tone.
Hermione giggled and said that they were just friends. At this Lily raised her eyebrows and grinned, giving Hermione a 'yeah right' look.
'Really!' Hermione said in reply to the look and Lily just smiled.

'Come on,' Lily said after they'd been talking for a while, 'I'll introduce you to a few people.'
She took Hermione's hand and lead her up to where Sirius and Em were still making out on the couch.
'You know Em right? And this is her highly irratating boyfriend, Sirius Black.'
Sirius and Em broke apart and a very young looking Sirius Black stood up and put his arm around Lily, 'You don't have to introduce me so nicely Lil,' he said grinning. 'Hi,' He said to Hermione,'What's up?'

Harry looked over to where his mum and Hermione were now talking to Sirius, he smiled to himself thinking how sereal this whole situation was.
It then got even more strange as Remus Lupin walked over and swung his arm loosely over James' shoulder.
'So Jamie-boy, you made a new friend?'
James smiled and introduced Harry. 'Nice to meet ya Harry, you know you to could be brothers. Apart from the eyes. Wierd huh!'
Harry smiled and nodded hoping that none of them would suspect something but hey, what are they gonna guess. That he is really James' son from the future who has accidently travelled back in time to have to come to school with is parents.
Harry felt a pang in his stomach. He wished Ron was here. He suddenly felt really tired.
'I think I'm gonna go to bed guys,' he said and with that he headed towards the dormitory stairs. As he did he caught Hermione's eye and she also excused herself from her new friends and followed him.

Once they were upstairs and alone they sat down on the bed that was now to be Harry's.
'So...hows my mum?' Harry asked smiling slightly.
'She's great, she's such a nice person though Sirius hasn't changed much except that it's noticable now the difference Azkaban made on him.'
Harry let out an involuntary sigh and felt tears welling up inhis eyes. As he did Hermione pulled him into a hug. 'It's gonna be ok, you know,' she said not letting go of him, 'We will find a way home but while we're here you should take advantage of the fact that you're parents are still alive.'

'I know, it's just gonna be so hard knowing how awful everything is going to turn out and not being able to do a damn thing about it.'

'I know, but by altering time we have no idea what the reprocussions could be, I know it's difficult but fate has thrown us into this situation for a reason and I think you should take advantage of that while you can, we have no idea how long we're gonna be here.'
They pulled apart and he looked at her, 'When did you become the calm one?' he asked, remembering the incident in their first year when she momentarily forgot she could conjure fire.
'When you needed me to be...'

That night Harry didn't sleep well. He was haunted by the dreams that he had been having since Ron died which were full of different senarios where he could have saved him but every morning Harry woke up in a cold sweat and was brought back to reality with thump.
This morning was no different than any of the others except it took him a moment to remember everything that had happened over the last day.
Harry didn't open his eyes while all these thoughts came flooding back to him, he was trying to fool himself that if he didn't open his eyes then he wouldn't have to face the cruel reality without Ron and away from the Hogwarts he had grown used to.
But Harry dragged himself out of bed, eventually, and glanced around the room to the others sleeping in the beds around him.

He walked to the one nearest him and pulled back the curtains to find a very young looking Sirius Black, asleep. Harry smiled to himself as he looked at the peron who in 6 years would become his godfather.

The lines around his eyes were gone and the dark bags under them were non-exsistent. He looked happy and this was the thing that bothered Harry the most. Sirius had no idea how his life was going to turn out.

Harry then moved to the next bed and pulled back the curtains and looked onto where Remus Lupin was lay. The physical affect of being a werewolf as starting to show on Remus even at this young age and Harry could tell that it wasn't just Remus' condition that had caused the premature grey in his hair. It was losing his best friends.

Harry shook his head and moved towards his father's bed.
People had told Harry often enough how much he looked like his dad but now stood looking at the father he had never known Harry was shocked at how true this was, a silent tear rolled down his cheek for the parent he'd never got to know, though he thought of Hermione's words the night before and was pleased he might finally get the chance.

Then, Harry turned to the final bed a look of pure hatred on his face. In that bed was the person who had ruined his life, who had destroyed his parents and who had been the reason Sirius had spent 13 years in prison. Peter Pettigrew.
The thought suddenly occured that he could stop all that happening. He could have his family back. If Peter died now it would solve everything! With this thought Harry picked up a pillow and moved it towards Peter's face...

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SpicySugar - you cant possibly be suprised about this new turn of events, it tells you it's gonna happen in the story summary. About whether they will be able to bring Ron back eventually I simply refuse to tell you or that would ruin the ending and you would stop reading and as you know YOU arent allowed to stop reading ;)

To be honest I don't know why I picked you to be my supa dupa reviewer :) it was totally random possibly cos you were my first reviewer. Anyway just dont forget to RR

Sweet Asian Angel - glad you liked it