Hi! I'm in New Mexico now! On vacation. Sort of bored. Ok, a lot bored.
I hope you like this chapter! I had some fun, and sad, with it. (Did that make sense? If not. . . .get used to it!)
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When the older Remus pulled them out of the memory he also pulled them out of the Pensive and back into the old room. He sighed. "I'm sorry you all had to see that, but you shouldn't have gone in there in the first place."
Lily dried the tears off her face. "Well it was James' idea, he pushed me in. I wanted to just go down stairs and see what year it was," she said, you could still hear the fear and pain in her voice from the impact of the memory.
Lupin sighed and shook his head. "Always like him," then he turned to Sirius. "Are you okay?" he asked.
Sirius turned to Lupin and said almost angrily, "Am I okay?" he repeated. "I just saw myself die! How do you think I feel?" he snapped. Then he saw the hurt look on Lupin's face and sighed weakly. "I'm sorry, but it is true," he said quietly.
"It's fine, but I think you four should come with me downstairs," said Lupin. "I need to tell the others that you are all here then you have to tell us all why you are here," declared Lupin. He walked out the door and the others followed him. Lupin stopped when they reached the stairs and turned to the four teens. "You all have to be really quiet here, we don't want to wake up the picture," he whispered. This confused them but they kept their mouths shut.
After climbing down the stairs Lupin opened the doors to the kitchen, "You all wait here for a minute," he said to them then walked into the room, they could hear his voice. "We have some visitors," he said.
A woman's voice answered him. "That's wonderful! Is Harry here already?" she asked, at the mention of Harry's name Sirius' face fell. Whoever this Harry was he must have had a strong relationship with him.
"Not exactly," Lupin said slowly. "You can come in now," he yelled to the door, the four teens walked into the kitchen. Inside they saw a red headed woman, a red headed man and four red headed children - one boy, two twin boys and one girl. Along with all with all of them was another girl with brown hair. They were all staring at them in shock.
The red headed man spoke first, "I-is that really-?" he cut off, "James and Lily?" he said, the two were surprised to hear their names.
"Also Sirius and me," said Lupin nodding.
The teenage boy stood up and walked over to James, stopping in front of him. "Bloody Hell! Harry is going to flip!"
"If it isn't the Marauders, George!" exclaimed one of the twins, the three boys were confused by this.
The two twins walked over to them and shook all of their hands. "It's a pleasure to meet you," said the other twin shaking James' hand.
"All the pranks we pulled with the Marauders map were brilliant!" exclaimed the twin named George. "Right, Fred?"
"The map, how do you know about that?" asked Remus.
"We nicked it from Filch, of course!" said Fred. "All our pranks wouldn't be possible with out it!"
"And all the secret passage ways we found with the map helped," said George.
After the twins were done they walked over to the table and sat down, then the girl with brown hair walked over to Lupin.
"Professor Lupin, how did this happen?" she asked.
"Professor Lupin?" exclaimed all four teens.
Lupin blushed a little and shook his head. "No, not any more and I haven't asked yet Hermione," he said.
"And we still want to know more about the memories in your Pensive," demanded James.
Ron stared at James, "They went in you Pensive! What did you see?" he asked nervously.
"The last day of school-" started Remus.
"-Me about to go to my wedding, who I'm not sure-" said James.
"-Remus talking to a boy named Harry that we assume is James' child-" continued Lily.
"- and we can't forget a big fight somewhere, and we saw me die!" exclaimed Sirius. "Then the boy named Harry screaming my name," he added.
Everyone in the room gasped.
"Yeah, that was my reaction as well," snapped Sirius folding his arms over his chest. "By the way, what year is it and where are the others - besides me of course," he said with a hint of bitterness.
They whole room suddenly became very quiet. Before anyone could say anything more Dumbledore and Snape walked into the room, they stopped short.
"Potter?" spat Snape.
James took a good look at Snape, then exclaimed. "Snivellus?" he asked.
"Don't you dare call me that Potter or I'll-" threatened Snape, but Dumbledore interrupted him.
"Professor, I don't think you should threaten them. We should be asking why and how they are here," said Dumbledore quietly and calmly.
"PROFESSOR!" exclaimed all four teens, this time it was angrily.
"Yes, now I have to teach your brat, Potter," sneered Snape.
"Severus, I know you and Mr. Potter had a certain dislike for each other but now is not the time," said Dumbledore, then he turned to James. "Now, please tell me. How did you four get here?" he asked.
Lily answered this question. "Well professor, we were in potions class when Professor Slughorn asked me to stay behind with these three when they finished a potion-" started Lily, but was then cut off by Sirius.
"Yeah, it was right after he stopped Snivellus from blowing up the class room - probably because he was jealous of Lily for getting praise from Slughorn," he said with a huge smirk, Snape sent Sirius a scathing glare before Lily continued.
"It was then that Sirius added the wrong thing that resulted in making a time travel potion," finished Lily.
"Very interesting indeed," muttered Dumbledore.
"One of the problems is that they all went into my Pensive and one of the memories was the fight at the Department of Mysteries when Sirius fell through the veil," explained Lupin.
Snape snorted lightly. "It was his own fault, he's the one that wanted the adventure of fighting the Death Eaters and try and save Potter," he shot a look at the young Sirius. "Always jumping into action with out thinking, like he's always been like that."
"What do you mean by 'saving Potter?'" asked James.
"And the Death Eaters?" added Sirius.
"You can rest assured that it's not you," answered Snape turning to James.
"That's another thing, should we tell them everything about what they saw and what the future holds for all of them or not?" asked Lupin.
Dumbledore looked deep in thought for a moment, then answered, "I think we should, it's going to take a while to make the time traveling potion on purpose and they are going to have to meet Harry in a few hours, then once we send them back to the past we can just erase their memories."
"Everything?" asked Mrs. Weasley.
"Yes Molly, everything," answered Dumbledore. "Now if you will all excuse me I'm going to go get Harry from the Dursleys-"
"Wait a moment," said Lily. "Dursley? My sister's boyfriend's last name is Dursley."
"All will be explained by Remus and the others, I must be off," and with that Dumbledore walked out of the kitchen.
Lupin sighed, "I guess we should start from the beginning. You say that the first memory was of the last day of school?" he asked. They nodded and told them James was going to say goodbye to his girlfriend, Lupin laughed at this. "Yes, you and Lily had been going out since the October Hogsmeade trip-"
"WHAT!" exclaimed Lily.
"Cool!" exclaimed James at the same time.
"But that would mean-" said Lily, "You said in the next memory when James was about to get married that he had beginning going out with the bride since 7th year," she said.
"And that would mean that you married me!" exclaimed James throwing an arm around Lily, she groaned.
"That can't be possible, I only agreed to one date!" she insisted pulling his arm off.
"I must have charmed you!" said James drawing a conclusion. Then he turned to Lupin. "What about that boy Harry you were talking to?" asked James. "Is he really my son?"
Lupin laughed, "Yes James, he is. Splitting image, too, although he has Lily's eyes."
"What!" yelled Lily.
Sirius laughed, "Well you did say you felt bad for his mother."
Lily blinked for a moment, then winced. "Ewww, mental images!" she exclaimed.
"I think you should really stop that when Harry comes over," said Ron. "Although he does know that you hated each other until your last year."
"And who are you, huh?" snapped Lily with her hands on her hips getting up in Ron's face.
"Why is it that she reminds me of you, Hermione?" asked Ron backing up, Hermione stepped on his foot. Ron grabbed it and muttered, "That's why," along with James, Sirius and Remus.
"That and they are both the smartest witches of their age," added Lupin with a laugh. Lily and Hermione blushed.
"But Lily and James, there is something you should know," said Lupin gravely, suddenly everyone got quiet.
"Why do I feel like I'm going to want to sit down for this?" asked Lily. Lupin gave her a sad look and she sat down, so did the other boys.
"Shortly after Harry was born you two went into hiding, only one person besides Dumbledore knew where you were and he betrayed you," stated Lupin, "You went into hiding because there was suspicion that Voldemort was after you."
Lily screamed lightly at the name and the three boys flinched.
Lupin continued. "More than a year later on Halloween he went to your home after being told by this person where you were hiding. He killed you both," Lupin's voice broke here, he quietly cleared his throat, "Then he moved into kill Harry because of a certain prophecy one of his followers heard, when he tried to use the killing curse, Avada Kedavra on him but it back fired on him. Instead of killing Harry it left nothing but a scar and Voldemort disappeared for about 13 years."
The time travelers just stared at Lupin for a moment. Finally Lily spoke up. "How? How did it not kill Harry?" she asked.
Lupin smiled, "Because of your love," he answered. "James died fighting off Voldemort trying to protect you then you tried to protect Harry, it was old magic and Voldemort didn't expect it," explained Lupin. Lily was now looking at James. The knowledge that he would die protecting her was breathtaking.
"But sadly Voldemort returned in Harry's fourth year," said Lupin, Hermione and Ron bowed their heads at this. They were there when Harry came out with Cedric's body. "He used Harry to return, then tried to kill him again in a duel but failed . . . again."
Hermione spoke this time. "Of course Harry has never been the same since then, he watched Voldemort come back and kill a classmate, then last year when Sirius died . . . he was heart broken. Sirius was the closest thing Harry ever had as a father, even if it was only for two years."
"How is that?" asked Sirius.
"Well that night when Harry's parents were killed you went after the man who betrayed them, then he was framed for the murder of many muggles," explained Ron, "You were sent to Azkaban for 12 years, when you escaped we all thought that you were the ones that betrayed the Potters and wanted to kill Harry to finish what You-Know-Who couldn't."
"We finally learned the truth with the help of the Marauders map that Fred and George gave Harry," said Hermione, the twins smiled at this. "The only down side is that the real betrayer escaped and you were never proven innocent so you went back on the run."
James cleared his throat, "Who was the person who turned me and Lily in to V-voldemort?"
Ron looked at Lupin, who nodded. "He had been pretending to be my rat for 12 years, if that helps you at all."
"You mean, it was Wormtail?" asked Sirius, Ron nodded. "How could he do that to James?"
"We don't know, he was scared of Voldemort he said but that's still no reason to turn in you friends," answered Hermione.
The group finished explaining everything to the time travelers, answering any questions they had. Finally they heard the front door open and close again.
"Come Harry, they are in the kitchen waiting," said Dumbledore, "But first let me go in there, I'll be right back." Dumbledore stuck his head into the door and whispered, "He doesn't know about our visitors yet, he is going to be surprised." Then he stuck his head back out and a moment later him and Harry walked in the door.
"Harry dear, how was the Dursleys?" asked Mrs. Weasley hugging Harry.
"Just like it's always been," muttered Harry. Then Harry turned to Snape. "Professor," he said quickly in a hateful voice.
"Potter," he said in the same tone.
"Harry!" said Hermionie and Ron walking up to Harry and hugging him.
"Hi guys," he said quietly.
"Harry, I think there are some people you'd like to meet," said Hermione. Harry gave her a confused look then her and Ron stepped out of the way and Harry saw the time travelers.
"Um . . . hi?" said James.
Harry turned to Lupin, "Professor, is that really-?" he asked.
"Yes Harry, it's them. And Sirius and myself." answered Lupin, Harry turned back to James and the others. "They also know everything Harry, we have just finished telling them. They know everything, about Voldemort and what their futures hold."
"But how?" he asked.
Lily stood up and walked over to Harry, "Well we, and by 'we' I mean Sirius, added the wrong thing to a potion and it became a time traveling potion." Lily looked at Harry closely. "Wow, you do have my eyes," she said.
"I hear that from everyone," said Harry. "Everyone that knew you besides me," he said somewhat bitterly.
Lily's face suddenly fell, "I'm so sorry," she said, and hugged him. Harry was surprised at first, but then he hugged her back. It seemed like he was finally going to get to know his parents.
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