Harry woke up the next day to find James, Remus and Sirius sitting around his bed, wide awake. "About time you woke up, mate," said Sirius.
Harry got up, made his bed and went into the bathroom. He brushed his teeth, washed his face and found some clothes hanging on a peg. He quickly began to change.
"Let's go down for breakfast," said Harry after he changed but Remus interrupted.
"We can't," he said. "It would look suspicious and anyway, no one would recognise us."
"Then let's use the Invisibility Cloak," said James and Harry in unison.
They both look at each other and smiled. Harry looked into his trunk while James took out a silvery cloak from his pocket.
"Did I give that to you in the future?" asked James curiously looking at the identical silver cloak Harry was currently holding in his hands.
"In a way," said Harry.
"What do you mean?" asked Remus curiously.
"I don't wanna talk about it," said Harry.
"Come on, I'm your father," said James. "In a few years, but I'm still your father," he said.
"Well," began Harry. "You and Lily were murdered when I was a baby. But that's all I'm saying about your future."
James gaped at him. Remus and Sirius's eyes widened. "Who murdered us?" asked James managing to find his tongue. Remus and Sirius looked at each other and at Harry in disbelief.
"Voldemort," said Harry uncomfortably looking at his shoes.
"I've heard of him," said Remus. "He was in the Daily Prophet. He murdered someone's whole family. Anyway, that incident is probably forgotten by now. But poor guy, he was left with not a single family member and he's only eight years old," he added looking grim.
"Then, what happened to you?" asked James curiously. Remus and Sirius's attention were directed back to Harry.
"I'm sorry, but I won't say anymore," said Harry. "You already know too much of your future."
"Aww," said Sirius. "Come on, mate. At least tell us who's going to die. That won't do much damage, won't it?"
"In some way, it will, Sirius," said Harry.
"Come on! Please," begged Sirius.
Harry mumbled something under his breath. "What did you say?" Sirius asked.
"Nothing," said Harry.
"You muttered something"
"When?"
"Just now"
"What did I mutter?"
"That's what we want to know"
Harry paused. "Who are we talking about?"
"Come on, mate, Just tell us," said Sirius widening his eyes and quivering his lip. "Please."
"Okay, okay," said Harry. "Professor Dumbledore is dead but that's all I'm saying."
James, Remus and Sirius remained silent looking at Harry, their mouths gaping. James opened his mouth but closed it. Sirius was looking at James and gave a nervous laugh. There was a long moment of silence which was broken by Hermione walking into the room with Ron who was holding a big tabby cat.
But this wasn't Crookshanks as Harry had suspected. Instead of an enormous ginger coloured cat, a medium-sized cat with reddish brown fur was held by Ron. Ron looked at Harry and said, "Morning."
"Morning said Harry, James, Remus and Sirius all in unison. Hermione looked at all of them. "I hope we're not interrupting anything," she asked. The four of them shook their heads.
"Anyway," said Hermione. "This is Lily." Ron held up the cat. "I Transfigured her to cat. I thought a cat wouldn't draw too much attention," she added. Lily the cat gave a soft mew and jumped from Ron's arms and stood patiently on the floor. Hermione flicked her wand and the cat transformed into Lily Evans.
"So, let's go find Dumbledore and-" Lily said but was interrupted by James. "Dumbledore is gone. Dead," he said grimly.
Lily looked surprised as Ron and Hermione looked at Harry. "You didn't tell them," said Hermione in disbelief.
"I just told them that Dumbledore was going to die," said Harry shrugging. "I thought that wouldn't make too much of a difference."
Ron and Sirius's stomachs gave a big growl. "Sorry," said Sirius and Ron in unison, blushing as everyone looked at them. "Looks like my stomach is angry," said Sirius. "Bad stomach. Stay, stomach, stay." All of them burst out laughing.
"Oh my gosh," said Hermione looking at her wristwatch. Everyone stopped laughing. "We missed breakfast. We are going to be so late for class now! Think about all the points we will loose from Gryffindor because we were late. Oh no. Oh no."
"Hermione," said Ron.
"Oh no. Oh no," said Hermione frantically not paying any attention to Ron. "We are late and to make matters worst, Harry and I are the Head Boy and Girl and Ron and I are prefects. We are going to set a bad example to the first years."
"Hermione," said Ron.
"We will get into so much troubleā¦" Hermione started a rant about what was going to happen to them for being late, each suspected punishment becoming worst than the last. Her rant lasted about fifteen minutes. "We would probably loose about a thousand points," she said with great finality.
"Done?" asked Ron who was now sitting with Harry on the edge of Harry's bed, resting his head in his hands.
"Yes," said Hermione mildly surprised that Ron wasn't as panicked as he should be. "Pretty much," she added.
"Good," said Ron. "Because I wanted to say, today is a Saturday."
Almost at once, the room filled with laughter and James and Sirius seemed to forget the tragic future. Hermione blushed and started to laugh along with them.
As Sirius's stomach growled again, this time louder, Harry flicked his wand and a table filled with food and seven chairs appeared before them. Harry, Hermione, James, Lily and Remus grinned at each other as Ron and Sirius began stuffing their faces instantly. They joined in and ate the food as Ron and Sirius continued to scarf down the food as though they haven't eaten in days. After everyone was satisfied, Harry made the table and the remains of the breakfast disappeared.
Each of them sat on their chair and rested. "So, what do you want to do today?" asked Ron groggily from his chair.
"Ron, we have to find a way to get them back," said Hermione as she looked at the nodding faces of James, Lily, Sirius and Remus.
"After a few minutes," said Ron. "My stomach is bloated and I am a little tired at the moment." Ron gave a huge belch and everyone laughed.
"Join the club," said Sirius as he belched louder than Ron and all of them laughed harder.
"Okay, after half an hour," said Hermione.
"And in the meantime," said Lily and she flicked her wand. The three beds Harry had conjured last night were replaced by three small tables, on top of the each, there was wizard chess set. "Who's up for wizard chess?" she continued. "I'll keep track of the score."
She conjured up a small table for herself, dragged her chair behind it and put a piece of parchment, a quill and a bottle of ink onto the table. "Round one, First pair, Harry against James. Second pair, Ron against Sirius. Third pair, Hermione against Remus," said Lily clearly while writing on the piece of parchment. The rest of them dragged their chairs to a desired table, sat with their assigned partner and started to play.
