A/N: Well I am not all to surprised that there aren't any reviews for the latest chapter. Though I do hope that reviews start coming in more in volume or I might direct my attention more to my novels than to my fan fiction.
I would like to also state something that I should have back in chapter one. This story has been adopted to a Harry Potter fan fiction from events that take place in a novel that I am writing. The main character in my novel goes through similar worlds that Harry is finding himself in. That is how I am able to write the chapters as quickly or slowly as I want since I already have an understanding of the worlds. The biggest challenge for me is altering it to fit Harry Potter universe instead of the one I created. Also all sequels to this story are ones I have loosely altered from ones I am using in my novels.
Oh well enough about me here is Chapter Ten and if you want to find out more about what happens than you really need to REVIEW!
Recap
Harry hit the button and a large blue water like vortex opened in front of him. "Goodbye I love all of you." Harry hesitated for a moment and then jumped into the vortex and vanished. The vortex closed a moment after he went through.
Chapter Ten: Three World Trip (Part One)
Flying through the vortex was like being pulled by a Portkey except that the feeling was all around Harry, instead of the tugging behind the navel like from a Portkey. Another difference that Harry felt was that the vortex was like a tunnel made of pure water. Though he knew it wasn't water, but as he flowed through it he did feel like he was sliding down a long tunnel.
Seconds later a vortex opened inside the Room of Requirements and Harry was hurled out of it. Harry landed with a thud on the floor as the vortex behind him closed. Harry quickly looked around and found that the room was empty and dark. He began thinking about where he left from and then used his mind to see if he was still in the same room.
Instantly responding to his mind the room made a magical light appear on the ceiling that lit up the room. Harry breath a sigh of relief as he looked around the empty room once more. "Well I know which room I am in, but which world am I on now?" Harry looked down at the timer in his hand and seen it had reset it now read. "01:31:32" Harry looked at it a moment. "Great if this isn't my world then I am only stuck her for a little over an hour and a half."
A/N: Confused, well let me explain. The 01 on the time timer is the hours, 31 on it are the minutes, and 32 is the seconds. If there is a number before the 01, which later there will be then that is days.
Harry pulled out his wand, knowing since he was at Hogwarts that he could use it even if he was on his own planet. "Tempus". A grayish white cloud of smoke appeared in front of him that read. "October 31, 1995 5:00 pm"
Harry just stared at the date and time that the spell showed. He knew that the time was right, but the date was wrong. How could it be October 31, 1995 when he left the other world on July 3, 1996? "I thought I only went to different dimensions not through time."
A/N: For those of you who might be confused at this point let me explain a bit. No Harry didn't go through time so to speak. In fact he did go to another planet, but this one rotates at a different rate than our Earth. What that means is it takes longer for a year to pass than on our Earth so to Harry he is in the past (his past) but to this world it is the present.
Harry remembering that he was in the Room of Requirements needed a book on dimensional travel. Harry looked as a book appeared in from of him. He quickly began looking through it for an answer. After several minutes of searching his eyes fell on to an incantation.
Harry pulled out his wand. "Accro Tempus!" A silvery cloud of smoke appeared in from of Harry that read. "October 31, 1978 5:13 pm"
Harry couldn't believe it when he read the date in the smoke. It was worse than he thought. Not only had he went back in time, but he went back eighteen years! "How is this possible? This can't be right this has to be some type of mistake. I have to find Hermione she will know how to figure this all out."
Harry quickly pulled out the Marauder's Map, and felt happy that he had been given it once again on the other world. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." the blank parchment began to change and slowly turned into a map revealing all that was around him. "Now then where is she?"
Harry began scanning the map and could believe that he seen. He spotted the names James Potter, Lily Evans, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew. Seeing Peter's name made Harry feel even angrier that him than he was to start with. "How can they be here? How can they be alive?" Harry's eyes widened as he seen where the name James Potter was. His name showed him inside the same room that Harry was in for a moment and then it vanished. Harry looked over the map again thinking his eyes were playing tricks on him as he seen James' name now out in the corridor. "I must be losing my mind."
Harry scanned the corridor that had James' name and knew he was standing not far from the door to the Room of Requirements. Harry then seen Dumbledore walking out in the hallway. "That's it I will talk with Dumbledore. He will be able to help me I know he will." Harry folded up the map and then muttered "mischief managed" and the parchment returned to being blank.
Harry placed the map in his pocket and then placed his invisibility cloak over himself. He made his way out of the room and began to follow behind Dumbledore. Harry decided he would follow him to his office and then reveal himself.
Dumbledore was walking back to his office when he felt a presence behind him. He stopped walking and turned around. "Ok Mr. Potter you can come out now, I know you're there."
Harry couldn't believe it not only did Dumbledore know he was following him, but he also knew who he was. Harry began to think how was that possible when he see James Potter pop out from under his own invisibility cloak. Harry breathed a sigh of relief when he realized that Dumbledore hadn't meant him after all.
Dumbledore looked at James with a twinkling in his eyes. "So Mr. Potter would you care to explain why you are following me?"
James just looked at Dumbledore for a moment knowing there was no point in lying he looked at the floor. "I was...a" James stammered at first trying to figure out what to say. Taking a long breath he tried again. "I wasn't following you sir exactly. I was following a strange boy that appeared out of no where."
Dumbledore's eyes twinkled as he looked at James. James began to think that Dumbledore didn't believe his story even though it was the truth. Harry on the other hand could barely stand as his legs began to feel weak. James had seen him after all, and that meant that James had been inside the room of requirements when he arrived.
Dumbledore smiled as he looked at James and then the very spot where Harry stood frozen. "Oh yes Mr. Potter I see what you mean. Might I ask that our young friend also remove his cloak so we may see who we are talking to."
Harry knowing he was caught slowly removed his cloak and rolled it up. He was nervous as he stuck his cloak inside his pocket.
Dumbledore smiled as he looked at Harry. "That's better. Now then Mr. Potter I believe you are to be in your common room getting ready for the Halloween festival tonight. I will take our guest up to my office and we can talk there."
James was going to complain but decided that he would find out later who the boy was that looked so much like him. Dumbledore turned and motioned for Harry to follow him as he made his way to his office.
Dumbledore's Office
Dumbledore's office was pretty much like Harry remember it. Though the items he had broken out of rage at the end of his fifth year were in tact. When Dumbledore sat down at his desk he pulled out a sack from it. Dumbledore slowly opened the sack and pulled a lemon drop out as he motioned for Harry to sit. "Lemon drop?" Dumbledore asked as he held the sack out a bit for Harry.
Harry sat down and looked at the sack. "No thank you."
Dumbledore put the sack back in his desk and looked at Harry his eyes twinkling. "Now maybe you will explain to me who you are and where you came from."
Harry looked at him for a moment thinking about what to say but decided the truth would be best. "Harry Potter."
Dumbledore's eyes widened as he looked at the boy again. Clearly Dumbledore could see the resemblance to James Potter. Harry looked almost like him all except for the scar and those eyes. Those emerald green eyes weren't like any that a potter would have. Then it struck him who's eyes they looked like. "Tell me Harry are you from the future? You look like you could be James Potter and Lily Evans son."
Harry was a bit shocked that Dumbledore could pick up on who is parents were, but then again he always had a way of knowing things. "No Professor I am not from your future, though your right about who my parents are."
Gryffindor Common Room
James returned to the Gryffindor common room like Dumbledore had instructed but he still couldn't get the vision of that boy out of his head.
James had been in the Room of Requirements sitting in the dark thinking about Lily. He needed to be alone to think about just how to ask her to the Halloween festival without making her hate him more.
He was about to leave the room and had already put on his invisibility cloak when a bright blue light appeared in the room. He watched as a boy flew out of the light and landed on the floor. He then watched as the boy made a light appear on the ceiling.
He even watched as the boy made the time and date appear. Then he watched as a book appeared and the boy again made the time and date appear only it was different this time. He then watched as the boy pulled out a map and used it. A map that him and his friends had just got done making a few days before or at least a map very similar to it.
James didn't know what to think especially after the boy was spotted in the hallway and removed an invisibility cloak just like James' cloak. James thought to himself 'I wonder if that boy was a future me? No why would I come back in time? Maybe I came back to help myself get lily to go out with me.'
Dumbledore's Office
Dumbledore just stared at Harry for a moment thinking. "If your not from the future then where are you from?"
Harry looked at Dumbledore knowing that the truth would sound bizarre but he had no choice but to tell him the truth. "I know this is going to sound crazy, but hear me out. I am from an alternate dimension. On my dimension James and Lily were already married and had me before I was some how sent to another dimension."
Dumbledore's eyes widened with surprise. "Your from another dimension. How is that possible? How many have you been to so far?"
Harry just smiled as he pulled out his timer. "I have been to two worlds so far I think. I am not sure how I initially started my journey. However on the last planet I came from I was given this timer. With it I am hoping to get back home."
Dumbledore looked at Harry and then at the timer. "May I?"
Harry was a bit hesitant at first, but seeing as it was Dumbledore decided to allow it. Harry handed him the timer.
Dumbledore looks down at the timer with great interest and read. "01:00:56" He turns his attention back to Harry as he hands the timer back to him. "So it is counting down and when it hits zero then what happens?"
Harry takes the timer and glances at it's current time before placing it back in his pocket. "When it reaches zero a vortex will open for me to go to the next world, and hopefully the last one I need to go to."
Gryffindor Common Room
James sat in silence as he continued to think about all he had seen. Just then Sirius and Remus came bursting into the room.
Remus seeing James being quiet and looking a bit shaken made his way over to his friend. "Hey James what's wrong?"
James looked around to see that they were alone in the room and then began telling them all that he had seen. After he finished the three friends just sat there in silence. Remus then looked at them with an idea flaring in his eyes. "It couldn't have been our map James cause I have it here. Which I think it is a good time to find out who our guest really is."
Remus pulled out the map he had and laid it out on the table. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." The blank parchment began to change and instantly it became a map. James and Sirius got close as their eyes went to Dumbledore's office. There they seen Dumbledore sitting at his desk and in front of him they seen Harry's name. There eyes widened as Sirius said allowed. "Who is Harry Potter?"
Dumbledore's Office
Dumbledore looked at Harry with renewed interest. "That is a very interesting story Mr. Potter, but I have to ask that you do not share this with any of the other students here at Hogwarts. I would not want any of them trying to figure out how to travel to alternate dimensions."
Harry just smiled as he thought about what had happened to get him here. "Actually professor you have nothing to worry about. You see I am not here because of magic. In fact this timer and the vortex it creates was designed based on a muggle theory. So you can see professor there is no way any of the students could try and do as I do."
Dumbledore stood up from his desk and walked over to one of the many shelves in his room. "I guess you are right, but I would feel better if you didn't mention anything about it. When it is time for you to leave I think that it would be best if you did so where no one could see you leave." Dumbledore glanced at Harry as he spoke, and then turned his attention back to the shelf in front of him. He pulled a necklace off the shelf with a long gold chain. He then turned to Harry again as he sat back down. "This is a shield of honor that I received many years ago. I want you to have it Harry, as I will place a charm on it for you. A charm that will instantly make any version of myself know that you are honest and trustworthy. That way if you encounter more worlds with me on it, my alter selves will know you for who you are."
Harry watched as Dumbledore muttered an old incantation in a language he didn't understand. Dumbledore then handed him the necklace. "Put it on Harry and then I will know you no matter, which dimension you meet me on."
Harry did as Dumbledore said and put the necklace on. Once in place Harry felt a warm sensation come over him. Dumbledore's eyes shined brightly as he looked at Harry and smiled. "Now then Mr. Potter might I suggest we go to the great hall for the feast before you must leave us."
Gryffindor Common Room
James was in shock from finding out that the boy wasn't him that he seen. It was actually someone different, but yet so much like him. "I have to find out who this Harry is. I have to know how he got our map and my cloak!"
Remus looked at the map and then at James. "Then I suggest we hurry to the great hall. It would seem that Dumbledore is taking Harry there now."
Sirius looked at the map and then at Remus. "Great I am starving so we can kill two birds with one spell so to speak."
The three friends stood up to leave for the great hall when James stopped. "Where's Peter he should go with us."
Sirius just grinned as he looked at James. "Sorry buddy I forgot to tell ya. Pete got himself into a bit of trouble with Professor McGonagall after class. She made him stay there and clean up the mess he made."
Remus just looked at Sirius as he began laughing, and then James began laughing as well. The three marauders made their way to the great hall.
Great Hall
In the Great Hall Harry found that there were already a lot of students piling in to eat as he and Dumbledore made their way in. Dumbledore made his way towards the staff table followed by Harry. "Harry way don't you go and eat I am sure you can find a place at the Gryffindor table to sit." Harry looked at him amazed and Dumbledore just gave him a wink as he continued towards the staff table.
Harry walked over and sat at the end of the Gryffindor table and began to fill his plate with food. Not long after he had finished getting his food James, Remus, and Sirius joined him at the table.
James looked at Harry with awe. "Hello I am James Potter and these are my friends Remus Lupin and Sirius Black and you are?"
Remus and Sirius both looked at James wondering what he was up to since they already knew who the boy was.
Harry looked up at James and could feel all his emotions coming to surface about his father. "Nice to meet you I am Harry Potter." Harry paused as he looked at the three marauders and realized they weren't to shocked by his name. "But I guess you already knew that right?"
James felt his heart jump up his throat at Harry's comment. Remus just grinned as he looked at his friend. "Well James seems that Harry is as bright as you are. He even seen through your little introduction."
Harry just smiled as he continued to eat. James however wasn't satisfied. "I never seen you before Harry and I know the majority of my family."
Harry looked at James and now he felt like someone was tightening a grasp on his throat. "I a. well you see we are related, but I can't say how or how I know you."
James looked at Harry with a glare of concern. "You know me but yet I am not allowed to know you? Then tell me how did you get that map and cloak you used?"
Harry knew he could lie much more to them and seeing as he wasn't from their future he seen no point in lying anymore. "Meet me in the Room of Requirements after the meal and I will explain everything. Just be there before six thirty or you will miss me."
Harry finished a little more of his food and looked at his timer again. He had about twenty minutes left and knew he had to go. Harry stood up and made his way to the room of requirements.
Room of Requirements
Harry had summoned up a cushioned chair and a book entitled Dark Arts and ways to protect yourself by Alastor Moody. Harry was sitting in the chair reading the book when the door to the room swung open. He watched as James, Sirius, and Remus made their way into the room and towards him.
Harry closed the book and mutter "Reducio" shrinking the book and placing into his pocket as he stood up. "I was wondering if you would show up. I have to leave in about fifteen minutes, so we need to make this quick."
Harry used his mind to summon the three marauders chairs to sit in and then looked at them for a moment before beginning. "My full name is Harry James Potter." At this Harry seen James' eyes widen. "That's right James you are or rather will be my father in a few years. As for my mother well you know her as Lily Evans I believe." No one made a sound they just kept staring at Harry. "In three years on this very day Voldemort will find out the location that Dumbledore has hidden you and Lily James. He will come in and kill both of you and try to kill me also."
James can't remain quiet any longer as he hears this. "Why would Dumbledore hide us only to allow you-know-who to find and kill us?"
Harry's face showed little emotion as he looked at the three marauders. "I shouldn't be telling you any of this, but if I can prevent this from happening again I will. James you will select Sirius as your Secret-Keeper, however no will know that at the last minute Sirius begs you to change it to Peter Pettigrew. You will make the change without informing anyone about it. Peter then betrays you to Voldemort and that's how he finds out where you are!"
Sirius stands up and looks at Harry with rage in his eyes. "Pete would never betray James and Lily!"
Harry looks at him for a moment wishing that he was right. "That's where you are wrong Sirius that way of thinking is what got you lock away in Azkaban for twelve years for killing a large crowd of muggles and Peter Pettigrew. Only Peter never died and it was him who killed the muggles and framed you! Don't you see if all of you trust Peter with your lives then two of you will be die for you foolishness!"
Remus looked at Harry just wondering if him telling them the future was the best idea. "Harry why would you tell us all of this? If we change the future then it could cause a paradox if it prevents you from coming here now to tell us."
Harry now laughs as he looks at them. "That's the best part I am not from your future. I am from somewhere else, and it is there that I learned all about you. Professor Lupin I know all about your secret and being a werewolf. I know all about your map you made in fact Remus in my third year you gave it back to be after Professor Snape took it!"
Sirius looks at Harry in shock. "You mean sniveling Snivellus becomes your professor along with Remus while James and I die?"
Harry could help but think about all he had said and felt he was doing the right thing for this world's Harry. "That's exactly what I am saying! Snape becomes the most hated Potions Professor ever known and Professor Lupin becomes the best Defense the Dark Arts teacher we ever had."
Harry pulls out his timer and looks at it. "00:02:04" Harry looks from the timer towards the marauders. "I only have two minutes left before I leave, but remember this above all else James. No matter what think of what I told you never trust that rat Peter! I mean I know he is your friend now, but after the hell I been through I know he is nothing but the rat he changes into!"
The marauders didn't know what to think as they watched Harry in silence get ready to leave. Harry pressed the button on the timer and the blue vortex opened once more with a shimmering water look to it. "Good bye marauders and be true to your pranking natures!" with that Harry jumped into the vortex and vanished.
A/N: Well so much for only have 31 chapters. I didn't think this chapter would be this long, but since it is I have decided to break it into two parts sorry guys for the cliffhanger.
