"Harry, thank goodness! I was positively ready to kill Fred and-" Hermione paused. "You're not Harry."
"Um, no," said James.
"I've always liked that name, though," Lily added. "This is James, and I'm Lily. Where are we?"
"Umm..." Hermione was too overwhelmed to speak.
"Harry! I've been looking ev-" Ron stopped short, finding himself face to face with his best friend's dead parents.
"Ron, meet James and Lily," said Hermione as she recovered her wits.
"How do you do?" Ron said politely just before he passed out.
Hermione sighed. "It's going to be a long day."
"Where'd they go?" wondered Sirius.
"Who knows? Hopefully back to where I came from," Harry said. "Hermione will know what's going on."
"So what do we do now?" asked Remus.
"Well, I suppose I could try again-" offered Harry.
"No!" Sirius and Remus interrupted at once.
"I'm quite content in this time period," said Sirius, "no offense."
Harry had run out of ideas. "Then I guess we'll just have to wait."
"Ron! Ron, wake up!" said Hermione to the unconscious figure before her.
"What's the matter?" Fred asked as he and George wandered over. "Has our little brother gone and fainted?"
"Pity," added George. "Then again, he always was a bit of a pansy."
"True," Fred agreed. He noticed the two unfamiliar people standing near Hermione. "Who's this?"
"Fred and George," Hermione introduced, "meet Lily and James."
The twins were silent for a moment as they assessed the situation. It was George who spoke first. "Interesting. Well, we'd best be off. Places to go, things to do, you know."
"Not so fast!" said Hermione. "You two helped make this mess, and you're going to help clean it up."
"Yes, ma'am."
"No arguments here."
"Excellent." Hermione turned her attention to the business at hand. "Now Lily and James, you did meet Harry, correct?"
"Yes, he told us the whole story," James explained.
"And then he showed us the spell that sent him here. I mean, there. Wherever he went," added Lily. "It was something like, Greasy mice!"
And Fred and George were gone.
"I probably shouldn't have done that," said Lily.
Ron woke up. "Did I miss anything?"
Voila! I'm pretty sure the chapters get longer as the story goes along, but I'll update frequently so it doesn't really matter that this one was so short. Thanks to everyone who reviewed! You rock! Reviews, as always, are rewarded with eternal gratitude. So, please, keep them coming. Thank you! -Luna
