Raven had been in the hospital wing for a couple days when Madam Pomfrey had given her, her walking papers. She was on her way out when her best friend, who was more like a sister to her, met her at the door. "Hey, I'm going to Snape's classroom to brew a late homework assignment. Care to join me?"

A surge of nervousness shot through her, it was a disagreement with Professor Snape that led her to a mix up between a sleeping draught, and a feign death potion, that had landed her in the hospital wing. Raven had not spoken with the man since the first morning she had re-awakened. Heart winning out over head, Raven agreed to accompany Raya along. "Sure, let's go." With that, the two girls headed down to the dungeons.

The walk from the hosptial wing to the dungeons filled Raven's head with all kinds of thoughts, wondering if this was one of her brighter ideas, but her heart so longed to see the Potions Master, that anything that her head was telling her was lost. She bit her lip nervously as they stood outside the door, and Raya lifted her hand to knock. The knock echoed the hallways, and a moment later was answered in Professor Snape's cold tones, the same tones that always sent a chill throught the girl's body. "Enter." As the door opened, Snape, sitting at his desk turned to greet the newcomers. "Miss Lupin. Come...er...Miss Pegasus?" He was obviously surprised to see Raven there as well.

"I asked her to accompany me." Raya smirked as she went to work setting up the ingredients she would need for that evenings assignment.

"I see." He didn't seem very pleased. "Very well, please complete the assignment, so I can get back to work." He turned his attentions back to the papers on his desk. Raya set to work, while Raven wandered around the room...testing her limits, so to speak, with Professor Snape, who on occasion would glance up from his work to see what she was up to. After a bit the girl decided to check on Raya's progress, and took up a spot behind her friends shoulder. Raven glanced up to see Snape watching, most likely to make sure Raven wasn't trying to help Raya in any form. She smiled at him, causing him to once more return to the papers on his desk.

Raya, who had not been getting much sleep of late, did her best to ignore the goings on as she worked on the potion before her. Yawning, and wiping her eyes, she continued to work. In her moment of distracted attention, Raya picked up a wrong ingredient, and dropped it into the cauldron before her. A loud boom echoed throughout the potions room, Raven and Raya were tossed backwards by the blast, thrown against the wall.

Regaining their senses after a moment, the girls started to stir. "Bloody hell, what happened?" Raven inquired, with a cough, as she stood up, and dusted off her robes.

Raya shrugged, "Something's not right." They were in the potions room, but things were not as they were set before the explosion, and there was no sign of Professor Snape. Deciding to go find out what was up, the girls left the potions room behind, meeting unfamiliar faces in the hallways. They both looked at each other curiously as they paused before the board, Raya read one of the annoucments aloud. "Next Hogsmeade trip scheduled for April 17, 1977. What the bloody hell!"

'1977...We're in the past?' Raven thought, speaking one word. "Severus."

"Is that all you can think about at a time like this?" Raya exclaimed, "We could be lost from our time forever!"

"No, think about it...If we're in the past, then the Memory Potion must've had some side-effect when you added that wrong ingreidient. We're sort of living in Severus's past memories." Raven explained. "Make sense?" Although she wasn't as sure of herself as she was trying to sound.

Raya nodded, thinking it sounded as good as anything else at this point. "Okay, we need to find Dumbledore and explain the situation. Hopefully he and the current Potions Master can help us get back to our time." With that agreed, both girls made their way to where they knew the Headmaster's office to be.

Standing beside the gargoyle statue that gaurded the entrence to Dumbledore's office, the girl's stood there, and threw out the name of any sweets that came to mind. After about a dozen guesses on both their parts, the gargoyle moved, revealing the quickly rising stairway, the girls moved quickly and rode the spiral to the top. The door was already open, as if they were expected when the reached the Headmaster's office. Stepping in they found Professor Dumbledore seated behind his desk. Raven couldn't help but smile, seeing a slightly younger verison of her foster father seated before them. And as always, that look that said he already knew what was going on, when he really shouldn't. His next words confirmed as much. "I was expecting you my dears. Now please, tell me how you arrived." 'You will never cease to amaze me.' Raven thought.

After a few seconds, Raya began, Raven knew the look on the girl's face, she too was amazed at Dumbledore's 'knowing'. "Erm...okay, I was very sleepy when mixing a delicate potion. And well, it backfired, and we ended up twenty years in the past." She looked up at the man before her, still feeling a bit confused, "We're from the year 1997."

Raven added her thoughts on the matter as well. Dumbledore listened, and nodded thoughtfully. "That would make sense. I shall speak with Professor Slughorn, and we'll try to come up with a way to send you back. Until then, I suggest you pretend you're temporary transfer students, and you were placed in..." He looked carefully at the robes the girl's wore before continuing. "...Slytherin. What are your names?"

"Raven Pegasus."

"Raya Lupin."

Dumbledore's eyes flashed his all knowing look once more before he continued. "Ah, Remus Lupin is here, as a sixth year Gryffindor. I suggest you change your last name and come up with a cover story. If someone should ask, they might become suspicious."

"Raya Pegasus." Raya quickly offered up. "Raven's older sister." As it were, they were already sisters by heart...Now they would get to parade around as it in the past. With the decisions made, and cover story created, the girl's headed off to the Slytherin common room. Once out of range of anyone's hearing, Raya, who had been surpressing a laugh for a while now let it escape, earning a curious look from her 'sister'. "I'm older than my dad!" she said with a giggle, as in the time the girl's came from, Remus Lupin had adopted Raya Black, saving her from her abusive father Coleridge. Raven shook her head slightly, joining in the other girl's mirth, as they continued on their way.