A/N hey dudes and dudettes, thanx alot for all the reviews for my last chapter and I hope u enjoy this one.
Discoveries
The pillow was inches from Peter's face when Harry paused. He closed his eyes and dropped the pillow.
Who was he kidding he couldn't do this.
Harry rubbed his eyes suddenly wondering what time it was. He glanced down to his watch automatically but soon remembered that it had stopped working 3 weeks ago.
Harry just shook his head and walked out of the dormitory, down the stairs into the common room.
As he entered he looked around and found it was empty apart from a sleeping figure on the couch in front of the now glowing embers of the fire.
Harry stepped forward and looked down at his mother. She was so beautiful.
He turned and curled up on the nearest chair and stared into the fire, thinking.
He thought about this whole situation.
He thought about Hermione.
He thought about Ron.
And most of all, he thought about his parents.
This was his chance to meet them, get to know them. He smiled to himself.
'What are you smiling at?' came a voice, making Harry jump. He looked around to see Lily now sat up looking at him, smiling also.
'Nothing in particular really.'
'So...Harry Parker, who are you?'
Harry gave her a look that said he didn't know what she meant.
'Well,' she continued, 'You just appear, with explanation. What about you're parents?'
'My parents died when I was young,' said Harry with the very strange feeling at saying this as he was talking to his mother right now.
'Oh, I'm sorry.' A slight blush appearing on her cheeks.
Harry just smiled at her, 'It's ok.'
At that moment Hermione walked down the girls stairs, still in her pyjamas with her hair swept up on the top of her head.
'Oh Harry I thought I heard your voice, hey Lily.' She joined them.
'Harry was just talking about his parents,' said Lily, 'How did they die?'
Hermione looked sideways at Harry, 'Erm...they were murdered, by a dark wizard.'
'Oh I know, all this Lord Voldemort buisiness is really getting horrible,' replied Lily shaking her head. Harry and Hermione jumped at his name.
He was still in power in this time, in fact he was at the height of his power. They hadnt only travelled back in time 21 years but they had travelled back in time to when Voldemort was at his worst.
Harry, Hermione and Lily talked for another half hour before the common room started to fill up and their stomachs began to rumble so when they were joined by James, Sirius and Em they made their way down to the Great Hall.
They were all sat around the Gryfindor table eating happily when James stood up and climbed on his chair. Everyone in the hall went silent much like they do when Dumbledore stands to speak. Harry looked sidewards to Lily with a confused look on his face.
'He does this every year, considers himself the next Dumbledore,' she said smiling, 'it's usually welcome back kinda stuff, hints of some pranks, that kinda stuff.'
Harry nodded and turned his gaze back to his father, who cleared his throat loudly.
'Well fellow students,' he started in an accent that was very much like Dumbledore's, 'I would like to welcome you all back and I hope you had an enjoyable summer. Now this year I have a more personal request to make to one particular student. Lily Evans.' Lily, who had been eating and not paying much attention to James, looked up suddenly, her hand which was holding her fork hovering an inch from her mouth.
'Lily,' continued James, 'Will you come out with me on a date to Hogsmede this weekend?'
Lily looked horrified though there was a slight grin on her face. She stood up and climbed on her chair, took James' hand, looked him in the yes and said...
'No!' Lily said blankly and jumped down from the chair and started walking towards the door. James' mouth dropped open and everyone else in the hall seemed as shocked as he was that someone had rejected James Potter. Then Lily paused and turned around.
'Only joking,' she said grinning. A huge smile appeared on his face and he jumped down from his seat and ran towards her. When they met he hugged her close to him.
'That was just nasty,' he whispered in her ear, still smiling.
'Well, someone has to keep you in check,' she grinned, winking.
At the Gryfindor table Harry watched his parents, as they arranged their first date. Hermione took hold of his hand under the table and smiled at him, knowing what he was feeling.
One week later
'Hey Remus, what'cha up to?' came Sirius' voice quite loudly from across the common room.
Remus looked up and gestured to the mountains of parchment scattered around with various homework assignments on them.
'Well,' said Sirius,' homework's boring. Let's do something else.'
Remus looked at him impatiently, 'No I have loads to do. Go and find James.'
'He's gone off with Lily somewhere. They're getting really close. I wish I had that.'
'You do have that,' replied Remus, 'remember Em..your girlfriend?' A large stupid grin spread across Sirius' face.
'Oh yeah.'
'Why don't you go and find her and leave me alone.'
'She's gone into Hogsmede shopping,' said Sirus as he picked up a pile of Remus' homework from the chair beside him and put it on the floor before sitting down on the now unoccupied seat. Remus opened his mouth to protest but changed his mind, deciding it wouldn't do any good.
'Why don't you go and find Harry or Hermione?'
'They're in the library, I think they've got something going on between them because they seem to be there all the time and they won't give anyone a reason why. I think they're making out behind the bookcases.'
Remus shook his head, 'I don't think so, but they are there an awful lot of the time, you think they're up to something?'
Sirius shrugged. 'I dunno, we still don't know very much about them, they're so secretive.'
'Well, something is not right, they're hiding something and I'm going to find out what it is.'
Meanwhile in the library
'Dammit,' exclaimed Hermione rather loudly slamming down the book she was looking at and making several students around her look up angrily. Harry jumped at the sudden noise.
'I can't find it, there's nothing in any of these bloody books about going FORWARD in time. We're never going to get home.' She closed her eyes and let her head fall into her hands.
Harry closed the book he had been failing to find anything and looked at her. 'Maybe we should tell Dumbledore,' he suggested.
Hermione looked up, 'No,' she said firmly, 'we can't. We'll get in serious trouble Harry and it might all be for nothing if he doesn't know how to send us back.'
Harry shrugged in agreement and turned back to his book.
Little did they know that they were being watched!
'So that's what they're hiding,' said Lily turning to James, 'Thats a BIG secret.'
'What do we do?' asked her boyfriend.
'We should tell Dumbledore, he needs to know.' James nodded and they set off towards the headmaster's office.
10 minutes later
'Cockroach Clusters,' said James as they approached the gargoyle that guards Dumbedore's office. It sprung to life and they entered the large round room.
'Well, hello,' cried Dumbledore as the entered, 'and what brings my head students to my pressence?'
'Well Professer,' said Lily. 'We have something to tell you.' She explained everything that they had just heard clearly and quickly.
When she had finished Dumbledore looked at the pair of them in return and he couldn't help thinking how much they had grown up as well as grown together, he'd always knew they would end up together, they had always had the spark between them, they had both just been too blind to see it.
He cleared his throat...
'I know,' he said.
Lily's head shot up,'WHAT! You...you...you know? How could you know and not do anything, how could you KNOW?'
'Ok Miss Evans sit back down and I'll explain everything.' Lily took her seat next to James who hadn't said anything, he was starting to get the feeling that Dumbledore knew something important that he had no intention of telling them.
'Well, I don't think you two will know this and it's a bit difficult to explain but you know that the people in pictures can move between other paintings of themselves, well they can also move through time to their own portraits in the future.' He looked at the couple who were looking a bit confused. 'Well, as you can imagine in most situations the people within the pictures are forbidden to tell people about the future in case they try and change it but this was an exception and I was told almost immediately.'
Lily opened her mouth to speak then closed it again, unsure of what to say.
It was James who spoke, 'So, why haven't you told them, you surely have to do something about it?'
Dumbledore nodded, 'You're quite right James, but they have a lesson to learn here. They are currently searching the school library for a way back to the future. Now I know that there is no way in there for them to do that. The only way for them to get back to their time is to come to me, they need to learn this lesson.'
James and Lily looked at each other in amazement and silently got up to leave with out another word.
'Erm...and I trust that you will keep this a secret and not even mention this to them,' said Dumbledore, as they moved towards the door. The both nodded and left the room.
Lily and James walked out of the headmaster's office in dead silence from shock.
'I can't believe he knew,' Lily said finally. Since they had left Dumbledore's room they had been wandering aimlessly and now they found themselves outside by the lake, it was just getting dark but they didn't seem to notice as they sat down by the water.
'There's something he's not telling us,' said James matter-of-factly.
Lily narrowed her eyebrows, 'What makes you think that?'
'I dunno, its just, he seemed like he was hiding something, did you notice he never made eye contact with either of us?' Lily shook her head, 'I don't know, what do you think we should do?'
'Well,' she said, 'I don't think we should do anything, Dumbledore told us not to say anything and I think he knows best.'
James agreed and then they headed back up to the castle hand in hand, fully intending to keep the secret.
A/N Review Responses
SpicySugar - as much as Im sure u wud love for me to keep calling you supa dupa reviewer, i do also think it wud b a gud idea to kno your actual name, I'm Hayley btw.
I kno u sed it wud b gd for him to kill Peter and I hav to say I completely agree that 1 less rat running about wud b good, Im afraid I cudnt do it. It wud change too much and Hermione would never speak to Harry ever again and we cant b having that can we ;) anyway, hope u liked this chapter xxx
Serendipity9 - as you can see I went with your advice of not killing Peter as much as I want to, tho I will let u in on a secret that there is going to be another death very soon...