A/N: HA! Chapter Two! Yipee! I just put up Chapter One earlier today and I'm already working on Chapter Two. That's a good sign isn't it? And just to let you all know, the title is supposed to be "What Happened question mark/exclamation mark" but it turned into "What Happened!". Which brings me to:

Warning: It's not letting me do question mark/exclamation mark's. So if you come across a question that ends in ! and has no space after it, pretend it ends in a question mark/exclamation mark, okay? And if anyone knows how to fix it, feel free to tell me ;).

Reviews:
xxlightningboltxx - YIPEE YOU'RE THE FIRST TO REVIEW! Go you! Thanks so much! I love reviews! Yahoo! Anyway... it's nice you like the storyline, even though I'm not sure myself of the future storyline. I dunno how often I update, but I'll try to do it often. Cool pen name by the way.

Disclaimer:
Me: Now, class, who owns HP?
Class: J. K. Rowling!
Me: Good. Who owns everything else in this story that's not from HP?
Class: The Muggle Marauder! (a.k.a. me)
Me: Yes!

Chapter Two: A Mistake That Costs Me Time

(Date Unknown)

I'm still in Hogwarts, but now I'm in an empty corridor on the seventh floor. Now I just need to find out what day it is. I got a little lost in the counting, so I might have to wait a few days before Harry, Ron, and Hermione go to the Department of Mysteries. Oh, well, I made sure I at least went back enough that I wouldn't miss it.

"Hello. Who're you?" a boy I recognize as Harry says as he turns the corner. I thought he wore glasses though, and he's not now. So what, maybe he lost them. He has black, messy hair, and he's a little short.

"I'm Allison. Hi," I say, sounding cheerful enough I guess. The reason I didn't say my last name is that he would wonder if I'm related to Sirius, and I don't want to tell him yet. I really want to ask what day it is, but I have to think of a way to say it that isn't too obvious. After a moment of my mind working furiously, I ask, "Do you remember when exams are?"

He shrugs. "No idea. Sometime in June."

"Aw, that's too soon," I remark. I assume it's sometime in May, because I know I wasn't more than a month off.

"Huh? There's still a lot of time. It's only October!"

What! How much did I mess up by! "Yeah, I know, I just meant I wish they were never." Lame excuse, huh? But you can't really expect me to be quick-thinking when I have no idea what's going on.

"Sure," Harry says, but he looks like he thinks I'm really odd.

I need a while to think and figure out what I did wrong, so I say, "Er, I need to go finish homework."

"Oh, yeah! I forgot about mine!" he says in a sort of clueless voice. "See you."

"Bye." I quickly walk away. I know he's in Gryffindor too and we're both heading towards the same common room, but I take a different way on purpose even though it's longer.

When I show up in the corridor in front of the portrait hole, Harry's just climbing in. I wait a few seconds and then follow. He's walking over to the fire, so I go away from it. I don't really want people talking to me right now.

"Hey, James!" someone shouts. I don't pay attention till I notice he's talking to Harry. Why's he calling him James? Oh no. James is Harry's dad, who I've heard looks almost exactly like him. When is this! The boy, who has black hair (neater though) too but is taller, walks over to Harry/James. "Did you forget to do that earlier?"

"Yeah," I hear Harry/James grumble. "You didn't? I'm amazed."

"Remus reminded me."

More proof that I'm about twenty years off. Sirius told me Remus Lupin was his and James's best friend. So I guess this is their time at Hogwarts, and Harry really is James. But what I'm really concerned with right now is: How in the world did I come back in time so far? I know I didn't turn the Time-Turner that many times too many.

I just realized I'm standing uselessly by the wall, doing nothing but eavesdropping and looking like an idiot. I quickly sit down and pretend to read a book, while a dumb voice goes on and on through my head, nagging. You'll have to tell someone eventually. Where'll you go if you don't? So why not get it over with and tell them. One of them is your uncle's best friend. Who's better to tell?

"James, Sirius, hi!" another boy calls. He's tall, pale, and has light brown hair.

Who's better, you ask? I argue back to myself. How about my uncle himself? Because now I know that Sirius is the one talking to James. Now the only problem is actually telling him.

Before I can get think of too many ways this might go wrong (What if he tells someone? And what if they tell me I have to go back to my own time? Are Time-Turners even invented yet? What if no one believes me?), I stand up and walk over to the three. "Sirius, can I ask you something really quick?" Wow, I'm stupid, I almost said "Uncle Sirius". Yeah, that's sure a way to keep it a secret.

"Okay..." he says. Good, I didn't make a mistake and ask the wrong person. He seems a little confused, and I don't blame him. He doesn't even know who I am yet, so he's probably wondering how I know him. He follows me out of earshot, and then I begin my explanation.

"I don't know if you'll believe me, but I'm from a different time. I just used a Time-Turner and I think I made a mistake."

"What's a Time-Turner?" he asks.

Great. I was right when I didn't want to be. Time-Turners don't exist to these people. I take it off from around my neck and show it to him. "It takes people backwards or forwards in time. I meant to go to 1996. What's the date?"

"October 28, 1973."

"Oh... ouch. Anyway, I'm Allison Black, your future niece." In my mind I cringe, waiting for the "yeah right".

Sirius laughs. "Do you know how insane that sounds?"

At first I'm annoyed, but once I think about how it sounds to someone else, I grin. "Yeah, but it's true."

"I know."

"You don't think I'm lying?" I ask, surprised. This was easy.

"Nope, I've seen crazier things at Hogwarts," he explains, sounding amused. "So when did you come from, anyway?"

"October 28, 2005. It's weird how I ended up on the same day, only in a different year," I comment.

"Yeah. So do you want to tell James and Remus? They won't tell anyone if you don't want them to," he promises.

I'm unsure, but I trust his judgment enough to agree. We go back and join up with his two friends again.

"Guess what?" he says loudly and happily.

"Sirius, don't say it so loud!" I warn. I hope I was right to trust his judgment as a fourteen-year-old. He might be completely different. Oh well, what's done is done.

"Oh, yeah, sorry," he says to me before telling James and Remus, "Allison here used a Time-Turner, these things that take people back in time, and she tried to get to some other year but ended up here! So what do you think?"

James immediately says, "That's cool! Do you still have the Time-Turner? That'd be really useful..." He reminds me of Rae there.

"Yeah, I do, but I need to keep it where it can't get lost or I might be stuck here," I point out.

Obviously disappointed at the loss of some trouble-making opportunities, he says, "Oh, right. I hope someone invents Time-Turners soon, then."

"How long are you staying here?" Remus speaks up.

"No idea," I admit. "I can go back any time I want and not miss anything from my time, so it doesn't matter. I'd rather not go back very soon anyway." I've always thought kids from a little ways in the past sounded nicer anyway.

"Then shouldn't we tell someone so they know you're here?" suggests Remus.

"What d'you mean?" Sirius demands. "I thought you wouldn't tell anyone!"

"I won't unless Allison's okay with it!" Remus quickly replies. "I just was wondering where she'd stay if no one knew she was here. If we told Dumbledore, he might let her join the school for a while." Oh, right, Dumbledore was—I mean, is—the headmaster right now. Does anyone know how confusing it is to travel through time?

"But he'd just tell me to get back to my own time!" I argue.

There's a small pause, then James says, "You could pretend you lost the Time-Turner. Or you could let someone in the Ministry borrow it to see if they can work out how to make them. Then you really wouldn't have it till you asked for it back."

I sigh. "Yeah, I could, or I might say I don't want to use this one, which is true 'cause it didn't work coming here so I can't be sure it'll work going back. I don't want to get stuck jumping around in time and not being able to find my own time."

"So you're okay with telling him?" Remus asks.

"Yeah." The four of us begin walking out of the portrait hole and to the headmaster's office.

A/N: Yay, second chapter DONE! So what do you think? Please review, I love it when people tell me what they think of my stories!

I don't know if I'll be able to keep updating this often, cause I just had a long weekend and now I won't have as much time, but I'll try. See you all in Chapter Three...