Recap

They were still in Dumbledore's office when the time came for them to leave. Harry stood up and hit the button on the timer. "Until next we meet Albus!" Harry watched as Tonks jumped into the vortex after giving Dumbledore a hug. Then he waved to Albus and jumped into the bluish watery vortex.

Chapter Twenty-One: Half Breed World

Dumbledore sat in his office looking at his watch as the bluish watery vortex appeared before his desk.

Tonks come through the vortex still with the same appearance she had when she was called Linda. After she got through then Harry came bounding through with the same appearance he had when he was called Ludwig.

Dumbledore stood up as the two came through the vortex, and watched as it closed behind them. "Right on time, but I must say you two look a bit different than I had imagined."

Tonks looked at Harry for a moment and then at Dumbledore. "Sir? You were expecting us?"

Dumbledore smiled as he motioned for them to sit down in the chairs that he conjured up behind them. "Quite right Miss Tonks is it?"

Tonks was a bit shocked that he knew her name, but nothing so far about this world seemed right for some reason. Tonks screwed up her face for a moment and reverted back to her normal appearance that Harry knew well. "Yes professor I would be Tonks, but how did you know that we were coming? We didn't even know where we would wind up at."

Dumbledore smiled as his eyes twinkled. "I will try and explain it all to you soon Miss Tonks, but first is your friend truly Mr. Potter?"

Harry looked at Dumbledore for a moment wondering why he didn't know him. Then he realized that he still had long silver hair and silver eyes. Harry screwed up his face for a moment and then reverted to the messy black haired boy with emerald green eyes. "Yes sir, I am Harry Potter."

Dumbledore smiled even broader as his eyes twinkled even more. "Very good, yes this is very good."

"Sir, could you please tell us how you knew we would be coming here? You seemed to know exactly when we would appear." Asked Harry as he looked at Dumbledore with a look of bewilderment on his face.

Dumbledore smiled as his eyes twinkled radiantly. "I suppose that I should explain now that I know that you are who you are. I knew that you were coming because of a prophecy that I have read." Dumbledore paused as he seen the shocked expressions on Tonks' and Harry's faces.

"What prophecy is this professor? I only have heard the one prophecy pertaining to me." Asked Harry as he looked at Dumbledore.

"It doesn't have a name." Said Dumbledore as he began. "I have grown to call it the prophecy of darkness and time, but no one knows what it was really called. Actually its name is not important. What is important is the fact that the two of you have come to prevent the darkness from taking over. We have been awaiting the wolf and panthers arrival for some time."

Tonks looked at Harry a bit confused and then looked at Dumbledore. "Sir, I think you are mistaken. Harry and I do not know anything about a wolf or a panther. Are you sure that it is us that the prophecy spoke of?"

Dumbledore looked at them for a moment. "Miss Granger feels that it will be you two that the prophecy spoke of."

Tonks got a sad expression on her face as she thought about what happened to Hermione on the other world.

Harry saw this and placed an arm on her shoulder. "Its ok Tonks I know it must be weird but soon you will get use to it."

Dumbledore looked at them with a confused expression on his face. "Did I say something wrong?"

Harry looked at the professor for a moment. "No sir, it is just the last world we were on Hermione Granger was killed, and it takes getting use to that each world has an alternate for people we know."

Dumbledore's eyes lit up as he looked at them. "A different world? I thought you two came from the future, like Miss Granger had."

Tonks and Harry exchanged weird confused looks and then looked at Dumbledore. Harry pulled out his necklace and showed it to Dumbledore. After a few seconds of gold light, everything went back to normal, and Dumbledore looked at them worriedly. "Now I understand, and I must say that this is a bit disappointing. If you are not the two from the prophecy then all might be lost."

Harry looked at Dumbledore with blazing green eyes. "Look Albus we might not be the Harry and Tonks of this world, or this wolf or panther you speak of. However that doesn't mean we can't help. We have been through a lot over the past few weeks and we know how to handle yourselves."

Just then there came a knock to the door, and Dumbledore looked at it for a moment. "Come in Miss Granger I have been expecting you."

Hermione Granger walked in and froze in her tracks. "Harry! I thought I would never see you again!" Hermione said as she ran over embracing Harry into a tight hug.

Tonks just looked at her for a moment and then smiled. "Hello Hermione."

Hermione turned to see the younger version of Tonks sitting there. "Tonks? Oh Tonks it is great to see you here too." Hermione said as she gave Tonks a strong hug as well.

Dumbledore cleared his throat gaining everyone's attention. "Miss Granger has come here from the year 1996. She has been here since last year, and still has not found a way to get back to her own time. Though I suspect that it is because the prophecy has yet to be fulfilled."

Hermione looked at Dumbledore for a moment before speaking. "Yes, but now that Harry and Tonks are here the prophecy can be fulfilled."

Tonks gave Harry a worried look, but it was Dumbledore that spoke first. "Miss Granger I am afraid that this Mr. Potter and Miss Tonks here are not the wolf and panther."

Hermione looked at them for a moment and then at Dumbledore. "Professor with all due respect, I have analyzed that prophecy inside and out. These two have to be the wolf and panther, there is no other explanations as to how else they might be."

Dumbledore looked at Hermione for a moment and then spoke in a hushed tone. "Miss Granger I am sure that you are right about whom the wolf and panther are. However this Harry and Tonks are not from our future. They are in fact from another dimension, and as such they cannot be the wolf and panther of legend."

Hermione dropped to her knees and began to cry. "If that is so then all is lost!"

Harry jumped to his feet a bit more enraged than he should have been. "Would both of you quit saying that! Just because we are not some wolf or panther that you want doesn't mean that we can't help you. Though you must tell us what the problem is or else we wont be able to help you."

Tonks looked at Harry with a concerned look on her face. "Harry maybe you should see how long we are here for, before we go telling them that we can help them. That is unless you wish to be trapped here on this world, and we still don't know if it is your world or not."

Harry looked at her for a moment and mentally scolded himself for not looking at the timer. "You're right Tonks, I almost forgot about that. I would say this is not my world since we seem to be in the past. The vortex takes us to different worlds, not through time." Harry said as he pulled out the timer and read how long they had. "02:4:53:16" Harry looked at Tonks and smiled. "No worries we have two days and almost five hours before the next vortex. We will help them as much as we can before we leave."

Hermione looked at them with a confused look on her face. "What do you mean you have to leave in about two and a half days?"

Harry and Tonks took a several minutes to explain everything to Hermione. All about how they traveled and how they ended up on this world.

After they finished Harry looked at Hermione. "Now maybe you could tell us what has happened here, and what you are doing in this year. By the way what year is it?"

Dumbledore looked at Harry for a moment. "It is the year 1976, but things of this time are different from what you may remember of your history."

Harry looked at Dumbledore for a moment and grinned an evil grin. "You would be amazed at how many different versions of history I have seen on the worlds I been too."

Hermione looked at the weird smile that Harry had and couldn't quite figure out why it scared her but it did. "Harry you said that some of the worlds you have been too have been altered by you being there. Well when I came to this time in May of 75, I was hoping not to change anything. However things started to happen when I came to school, and the timeline, as I know it has been altered badly. I have already begun to find that things are changing, and the main point is that Voldemort has changed his plans from what they were. In my past he still had some power, but nothing like he does now. He has managed to get the half-breeds of the world to full him now. This has forced the ministry to enact the Half-Breed Law that normally failed to be passed in my timeline. Goblins, giants, and other half-breeds are being forced to register with the ministry and are being told what they can and cannot do with their lives."

Tonks and Harry's faces drooped at the statement. Harry looked at her with caring eyes. "What has happened to Remus? Did they force him to register as well?"

Hermione had her head down looking at the floor now. However she could not speak so Dumbledore decided too. "The ministry tried to get Mr. Lupin to register, but since he is here at Hogwarts he falls under my protection. I have taken full protection over him, but the ministry is still trying to get me to hand him over to them."

Hermione looked up with tears in her eyes. "Harry you have to help us. I couldn't live without Remus in my life. Not after the year we have spent together, not now that I know how much I love him."

Harry looked at Hermione a bit shocked at first, but then could tell that she had changed from the Hermione of his world. "Hermione we will do whatever it takes to help you, but I don't know how to stop the ministry from enforcing this law."

Tonks looked at Harry for a moment with a slight feeling that she could not place and then looked at Hermione. "Hermione I know what you mean, I have lost a lot of people I cared for. Harry and I will do what we can to help you. Though it would be best if we knew why Voldemort changed his plans and recruited the half-breeds early in this timeline."

Hermione looked down at the floor again and looked as if she was beside herself with grief. "I think it has everything to do with me being here. I have been helping Professor Dumbledore for the past year by telling him bits of information from the future. Things that I know I shouldn't have but I felt the need too. About when Voldemort and his Death Eaters would attack and who the Death Eaters are under their masks. I think this has aroused the interest of Voldemort as to who I really am. I also think that he found out about how I felt about Remus, and that's why he has taken the measures to separate us, so we cannot be together."

Harry looked at Hermione for a moment and then that scary grin, almost evil, came back to his face. "Then we will just have to put an end to old Voldemort here and now then wont we! That way if he is out of power, he will not be able to command his forces and there will be no need for the law anymore."

Dumbledore looked almost scared as he looked at Harry's face. Even Tonks was beside herself as she seen the expression on his face. Hermione however just smiled glad that someone was going to help and stop the ministry from ruining the only love she had ever felt.

"Mr. Potter I am not sure if that would be a wise course of action. Even at our best we are no match for Voldemort." Said Dumbledore in a shaky voice.

Harry looked at him with a glare of determination in his eyes. "Sir, I know it doesn't seem like a logical way of handling things, but I have never been one to look for the logic in things. That was normally Hermione's place, but seeing as it is her that is in need, I have no choice but to act. I know that Voldemort fears you professor, which is why he has never staged an attack on this school. However I also know that other versions of him have decided to attack the school and have lost! All we need to do is set up the perfect ambush for him, and take him out once and for all. That will save my parents of this world and a lot of other lives on this planet as well."

Everyone sat quietly thinking about what Harry had said, and then Hermione spoke up breaking the silence. "You said that you are leaving in two days, so we will set it up and execute it within a day maybe a day and a half. I know that the Snape of this time is still following the Dark Lord, so that means we can be sure that he will find out what we are up too."

Dumbledore just looked at her confusedly for a moment. "Why would we want Voldemort to know what we are up too?"

Hermione smiled a crooked grin. "He wont know all that is planned, but I want him to know that I will be in Hogsmeade alone. That will bait him into attacking to get his hands on me. All you have to do is make sure that the ambush is successful and we will be able to take down Voldemort once and for all! He is not as powerful right now as he is in my time. Though he does have more followers now then he should, his overall power is still lacking."

Harry looked at Hermione and smiled. "That's true and with us having the Marauders and my mother on our side we can't lose. Though I don't think we should include Peter into the plans. That rat faced bastard deserves to die for what he would do even if he hasn't done it yet."

"Mr. Potter I will not have that type of language being used in my office." Said Dumbledore with half a smirk on his face.

Harry and Tonks decided it would be best to take on the appearances they had when they first arrived. They didn't want to let anyone else know who they were or where they were from. They also informed Hermione and Dumbledore of their name change while they were here. They then made their way to the Gryffindor common room to talk to the Marauders, minus Peter, and Lily Evans.

Hermione ran into the common room and threw her arms around a younger Remus Lupin (15 year old). "I have great news, I have found us help in solving our problem."

Remus just looked at Hermione for a moment. "What type of help?"

Just then Harry and Tonks walked into the room and everyone just stared at them. Hermione pulled herself away from Remus and stood beside them. This is Ludwig and Linda. They are friends of mine from home. They have come here to help us put an end to Voldemort once and for all.

Sirius looked at Linda and smiled as he walked over to kiss her hand. "Hello darling."

Linda (Tonks) just blushed as she looked at him. "Hello Mr. Black." She said semi-coldly trying to show that she was not interested in him that way.

Sirius jumped back a bit shocked that she knew his name more than he was shocked by her coldness.

Hermione just laughed at him then looked at Tonks. "You will have to excuse him, he is a sucker for a pretty lady." She then turned her attention to Sirius. "Sirius now is not the time, and she wouldn't be interested in you anyway. She already has a boyfriend back home, and I don't think he would like you muscling in on his girl." Hermione said as she winked at Tonks.

Tonks kind of blushed, because even if she didn't have a boyfriend like Hermione said she was still attracted to someone else and it wasn't Sirius.

Hermione looked at everyone as Sirius returned to his seat with his head down. "We have a plan, but it will take all four of you along with us to pull it off."

Remus now looked a bit worried as he looked at his girlfriend. "Hermione how are seven of us going to take him on and all his death eaters?"

Harry stepped forward and answered before Hermione could. "Actually it will only be six of us fighting him, since Hermione will be the bait to lure him in."

Remus' face became red with anger as he jumped to his feet. "NO! Hermione will do no such thing! I will not have her risking her life to save him."

Harry looked at Remus and could feel his pain, but he also knew that now was not the time to act like a fool. "Remus I suggest you cool down and listen to what Hermione has to say. Otherwise all your lives will be in danger not just hers!"

Remus sat back down but he clearly did not cool down. He didn't like this new guy already and there was something strange about him. Remus knew that Hermione was from the future, and most likely so was this guy, but Hermione never once mentioned anyone named Ludwig or Linda to him. She always talked about Harry and Ron, but never once about this strange guy with long silver hair.

James seemed respect the new guy somewhat. 'Maybe he wouldn't be too bad, he seems to be a natural leader like me.' Thought James as he looked at Harry.

Lily looked at Harry with contentment gleaming in her eyes. There was just something about his silver eyes and hair that drove her nuts.

Sirius was still sitting off to the side a little taken back by how Linda (Tonks) had reacted to him. Not knowing that she was actually his cousin from another world.

Harry looked at the group of Marauders, Lily, Hermione, and Tonks. "I think it would be best if we discussed this in a different place. I don't want anyone walking in on this that shouldn't know what's going on."

They all agreed and made their way to the Room of Requirements where they knew that they would have the privacy that they wanted. Once everyone was in a seat at a table they created in the room, Hermione began to explain her plan to them. It was a simple ambush to set up, the only real problem was how to defeat the dark lord Voldemort. This was proving to be the real problem. As none of them had actually beaten a dark lord before none knew what they had to do. Harry knew that it would have to be him that killed Voldemort. There was no way around that, but since the prophecy was not yet written maybe they could do it as a group.

"This is getting us no where!" Screamed Sirius as he stood up knocking over his chair. They had been at it for several hours now and they were still no closer to getting a plan in place.

James looked at Sirius as he stood fuming. "Sirius maybe you should take a break. Actually it is later than I realized. It is almost one in the morning, so how about we all get some sleep, and we will try and pick up here tomorrow."

Just then Albus Dumbledore walked through the door into the room. "I am glad to see that you have realized the time. Professor McGonagall has been wondering where you have been since the prefects missed their meeting tonight. I assured her that you were okay, but I think it is best if you get off to bed now. Ludwig and Linda I suggest that you use this room for tonight since your stay here will be short. Also I have advised the teachers that you all have excused from classes for the next couple of days. I am sure that you will use this time wisely. Miss Granger I would like to speak with you, Ludwig, and Linda. The rest of you may go now."

Remus gave Hermione a hug and then left with Sirius, James, and Lily to go back to the Gryffindor common room.

Dumbledore waited till they left and then looked at Hermione. "Miss Granger I hope that all of you know the great amount of risk you are taking. I know it is pointless to try and stop you, but I must be kept informed of anything you're planning on doing. It is critical that I know just in case you need my help."

Hermione looked at Dumbledore for a moment before speaking. "Sir I know we are all taking a big risk, but it is one we must take. I would never keep you in the dark, and I have not since I have been here. I will personally see to it that you know exactly what will happen, because we may in the end need your help, the orders help, and the help of the ministry's Aurors."

Dumbledore just smiled with his eyes twinkling brightly. "I have assumed as much and that is why I have contacted all the order members shortly after you, Harry, and Tonks left my office. They will all be here at noon tomorrow to discuss the matter, though I am not sure what will come of the meeting. Since I have my hands tied so to speak, about the matters at hand. Miss Granger I suggest that you go and get some sleep, because tomorrow will be a busy day for all of us."

Hermione just nodded and then left to head off to her bed in the Gryffindor Dormitory.

Dumbledore watched as she left and then turned to Harry and Tonks. "I am sure that the two of you will managed in here tonight. I do not wish for to many of the students to know of your presence here, since you will be leaving in a few days. With that in mind I will have a house elf bring you breakfast in the morning. For now I suggest that you both get some sleep, as I have said tomorrow will be a long day for all of us."

With that Dumbledore turned and made his way out of the room and headed off to his office for the night.

Harry turned to Tonks after Dumbledore left and reverted back to his natural appearance. "Looks like it is just you and me tonight Tonks." Harry said with a smile as he watched her revert back to her natural appearance (not real natural but natural for the real Tonks). "I just wish that Dumbledore and the rest of them could understand the real risk that we are taking. There is more than our lives on the line and if we fail then all will be lost."

Tonks gave Harry a hug and then pulled away with a smile. "Harry we have faced zombies, imprudent muggles, and insane wizards. Not to mention that we have also faced off with Voldemort and his Death Eaters on my world. I think we can come up with something in time to stop them this time around."

Harry thought back to the battle on Tonks world and felt a shiver of fear creep through his body. He had seen some many of his friends die in that battle and he almost lost Tonks in that one too. He knew that he would never be able to sleep now with those images and the images of the last world firmly in place in his mind. "Tonks I think you should get some sleep. I want to look over a few things before I got to sleep."

Tonks was about to object, but she was exhausted so she did as he asked. Harry thought of a large king sized bed, with satin pink sheets, and pink covered pillows for her. She couldn't object once she seen the bed and quickly laid down and fell asleep.

Harry made the table and chairs they had been using disappear and in their place put his favorite red cushioned chair. He sat down and thought a moment for a book that would tell me how to defeat a Dark Lord. Instantly a green book appeared beside him entitled The Downfall of Dark Lords throughout Time by Garrison Lord. Harry looked over the book for a little while and at some point he fell asleep in the chair.

Dream

Harry could tell instantly that he had to be dreaming because he was no longer in the Room of Requirements. Instead he found himself standing in the middle of a strange pub that he never seen before.

Harry quickly looked around the pub and saw that some candles on the walls dimly lit it. It was a dark and not so friendly looking pub with some beasty looking gentlemen sitting at the bar. As Harry looked around the pub he also found that there are four tables placed in the back of the pub. Two of the tables are occupied by gentlemen that looked less than honorably as they spoke hastily. Another of the tables was completely empty, and the last table in the far back of the pub was occupied by a man that seemed to staring at Harry as he stood looking around.

The man stood up and Harry got his first glimpse of him. The man stood a little over six feet tall, with broad shoulders. He had on a long flowing black cloak that covered most of his body, though with the front open Harry could see that he had metal chain mail on under it. The man also had a hood drawn over his head to conceal his face.

'That man' Thought Harry as he looked at him. 'He looks just like the man that was following me in my other dream.'

The man walked forward and it seemed to Harry that the man was the only one that had noticed him being in the pub. The man just glared at Harry for a moment (not that Harry could see this) and then spoke in a low, but rustic voice in a language that Harry could not understand.

Harry looked at the man for a moment in shock and horror. "I a…I'm sorry, but I don't understand you."

The man stood stalk still for a moment and then spoke in his rustic voice again. "You speak English I see. Please come with me Harry I have been expecting you, though not this soon I must say."

The man motioned for Harry to follow him through a door in the side of the pub that led into an empty room. Once inside the man waved his hand and the door flew shut and locked.

Harry didn't know what to think part of him was telling him to run away because this guy just managed to shut and lock the door with no wand at all. However another part of him told him to stay and talk to this man.

"Harry now is not your time to be here, though the day will come for us to meet this should not be now." Said the man as he waved his hand making a chair fly off a table and land upside right. He then motioned for Harry to sit down.

Harry sat down, but didn't know what to make of all that was happening around him. He kept trying to assure himself that it was all a dream and that he would wake up and laugh at his imaginative dream. Though part of him told him that this was more than just a normal dream. There was something about this guy that told him there was more to it.

The man took a seat by Harry and kept looking at him for a moment. "I am sure you have a lot of questions, but now is not the time. I must know what you are doing here?"

Harry looked at the man for a moment. "Sir, no disrespect but I don't even know your name and yet you seem to know all about me."

The man lowered his hood to reveal that he had short blonde hair and sparkling blues eyes. Under his left eye Harry could see that he had an old scar, that looked like he got it in a bar fight or something. The man looked at Harry his eyes sparkling like that of Albus Dumbledore. "My name is Blade Claven, but now is not the time for you to know the rest. Rest assured when the time comes all shall be revealed but now is not that time. Your subconscious mind has brought you here to me for some reason before you were suppose to arrive. Now young one please tell me what is it that troubles you so?"

Harry looked at him for a moment. 'His name is Blade, is that why I saw that shimmering blade in my other vision?' Thought Harry as he looked at the man. "What troubles me? I don't know what is worse, having dreams that I can't explain or knowing that I am about to put my life on the line once again. For people who only look like my friends, because my real friends are back on my Earth. The Earth that I have no way of knowing how in the bloody hell to get back too!"

For a moment Blade's sparkling blue eyes, flared blazing red, but quickly reverted back. "Now is not the time to second guess what you should do. Harry you know your place at this time, and that place is protecting those people that look like your friends. They may not be the real friends you made, but they are real people who are just like your friends. As for your dreams, not all dreams are, as they seem. Some are mere dreams, but others like this one is a gateway. Though now is not the time for that."

Harry stood up enraged by Blade's comments. "Look I don't know who you are or what in the bloody hell you are babbling on about. All I know is that when I wake up I have to figure out a way to take down one of the worse dark lords of my time, and I have no bloody way to do!"

Blade grinned at Harry as he motioned for him to sit down. "Now we are getting somewhere. So it is a dark lord you wish to vanquish." Blade paused as he thought for a moment about his own villainous enemy. "That can be most perplexing, but I am sure that you will find a way. Just look to an enemy for the solution and I am sure one will come to you. Now return to wince you came, for your time here is over. Until we meet again young sir, travel with the utmost caution."

Reality

"Harry wake up your having a nightmare." Tonks said as she shook Harry awake.

Harry blinked a few times as he looked at her scared expression on her face. "Don't worry Tonks I am fine now."

Tonks looked more relieved as she looked at Harry this time. "Come on Harry why not come to bed, and try to get some sleep. My bed is big enough for both of us and that chair doesn't look to comfortable."

Harry seen Tonks blush a bit when she mentioned sleeping in her bed before he looked at the floor. Harry didn't remember falling asleep in the chair, but the dream he had was vivid in his mind. It was so real, but yet it had been a dream right? Harry looked at Tonks and could tell that there was no point in arguing with her. It was clear by the expression on her face that he would not win that argument. He stood up and looked at Tonks for a moment. "You win Tonks, I guess I am more tired than I realized."

Harry followed Tonks over to the bed and laid down on it. Tonks went around and laid on her own side of the bed. There was an opening big enough to fit two or three more people in between them as they laid there. Tonks fell back to sleep easily after being awoken by Harry.

Harry however laid there for a few minutes trying to figure out what Blade had meant. 'What did he mean by look to an enemy for a solution? How could he know so much about me, and yet I know so little about him? Was it him that was following me around in the other dream, vision, that I had? Will I ever figure out what in the bloody hell all this means?' Thought Harry as he slowly begun to fall asleep.

Harry was awoken by the voice of a house elf the next morning. However what really startled him was that Tonks was lying right up close to him and he was holding her close to his body with her head upon his chest.

"Sir, Ziggy is sorry sir, to have woken you, but Master Dumbledore asked that Ziggy bring young sir and ma'am their breakfast. Ziggy shall let it here for you sir to get when you and the young miss fully awaken." Said the house elf before disappearing from the room.

For some reason Harry did not feel like moving from where he was and quickly fell back to sleep still holding on to Tonks.

A/N: That is it for this chapter, and come next chapter we will see what the team of Harry, Tonks, Hermione, James, Remus, Sirius, Lily, and Mystery Member can come up with to stop the Dark Lord Voldemort. That is if they can come up with something in time! Thanks again for all the reviews and please review and let me know what you think about this chapter. Also I would like to invite you once again to check out my message board. You can get some answers to your questions there and lots more. A link to it can be found in my profile by clicking on the homepage link. I hope to see you all there.