Chapter eight:

It's about time (part two)

Harry gawked openly, while Dumbledore continued to smile underneath his rather heavy and large beard.

"Before you ask, I am not joking. It is your new assignment that I know that you will do well with obviously if you accept"

"Mission?"

"yes Voldemort may be dead in our time but back then he was very much alive and killing many, but there has been a new twist added to that mix some of the future death eaters have taken it upon themselves to go to the past and after given the past a little chaos, bring the young Voldemort back to the future with them to continue on his future dead self's work, you, if you choose to except, will be working as the defense teacher at Hogwarts were you are to protect the students and staff as best as you can, many important Aurors and officials that played a part in this war are still in school back then and they will need to be protected, for the attack that is sure to come." Dumbledore said finishing up his speech.

"Whose time would I be going to?" Harry asked merely asking for information he could never turn down a mission so important.

"Surprisingly enough, it would be your parents seventh year at school, all the more reason to go right?" Dumbledore said still some what uncertain if Harry would take on the task, he had been through all this crap before why would he willingly go back?

"Well that makes things interesting, but all the same I am taking this mission, I have been missing have a power hungry loon after my guts" he said somewhat sarcastically.

Dumbledore gave him a grin, "I knew you would, now then before you leave on your little trip there are several things that you will need to know"

"Wait I am leaving now, but I don't have any of my stuff, and I have not said goodbye to anyone yet or told the ministry that I won't be there"

"Slow down there Harry, first of all…" Dumbledore uttered a few words and pointed his wand at the ground and with a flash Harry's trunk, Hedwig's cage and Hedwig herself were standing before them. "now then, I can not let you tell any one were you are going this is a top secret mission that we don't want going public, send a letter to Sirius telling him that you are going on a small vacation for a year to get away from all the madness, I am sure he will understand, and that if he or anyone else asks wants more information for them to visit me I am sure that I can give them a good story or two.

"And the ministry has been informed about your leaf of absence." Dumbledore said very prepared, it seemed that he had been planning this for quite some time, almost like twenty odd years.

Harry sat still and attentive to every word that dumbledore had uttered but Dumbledore was not done yet.

"Now that that is settled, there are a few things you should know that might make the mission go more smoothly for you

" you obviously can not be known as Harry Potter with such resemblance to James already, so instead we shall call you Harry Granger, I am sure that Ms. Granger won't mind. "

"But sir your records say Harry Potter" Harry said.

"very observant Harry, bringing me to my next point, when you arrive you will obviously need to apply for the available slot, I know for a fact that I will question you, and you are to tell me that you are from the future and that your real name is Harry Potter, and that is all do not let anything of the future be discovered unless it is indeed measured necessary"

Harry nodded he knew that that would be a given anyways.

"good, now some small things that you might want to know, the schools past Defense teachers were not as qualified as you are therefore the students are not fully up to their levels except for a few select few which I am sure you can guess to whom I am talking of"

Harry smiled he knew exactly who Dumbledore was talking of.

" good good , also you should know for your own 'safety' that Lily and James are not a couple yet and are still very much in a phase of a cat chasing a mouse if you catch my drift" Dumbledore said his eyes twinkling once more.

"Also Harry, I must tell you that those that have made faults in the future were not necessarily the same way at the school, you should try and treat them as if they were as good and loyal as the rest of them."

Harry nodded though almost involuntarily, he forgot that while he would be teaching his parents, godfather, and close friend he would also be teaching the traitor that had ruined his life, but from what he knew Peter had not yet turned bad and there fore Harry could not stand against him, but he was certainly not going to be super perky to him.

"Well that is good for Mr. Pettigrew I would hate to see that you had tied one of my students to the ceiling by there toenails"

Harry smiled in spite of himself remembering using those words when he talked to Dumbledore about Pettigrew before.

"Anything else, sir"

"Hmm. Well just know that obviously the house rivalries are still there as much as the death eaters, and Voldemort. And also be very aware of a certain group of pranksters." Dumbledore said with a glint of mischief in his eyes.

Harry smiled to, this would be fun he was going to get to prank his father and his friends. He may be the teacher but hey he was only eighteen so he therefore thought the rules of a carefree adolescence still applied to him as well.

"Okay then I should probably write that note to Sirius then."

"Yes that would be a good idea and while you do that I am going to go and get your "teaching papers" and transportation.

"Oh yeah. How will I be traveling?"

"Oh you will be traveling by my very own version of a time turner, you should feel honored you are the guinea pig."

Harry rolled his eyes all the while trying to decide if that was a joke or if he was telling the truth.

Twenty minutes later, Harry had sent his letter off with Fawkes, and was ready to go with his teaching papers in his trunk and the modified time turner in his hand.

"right well, a few last minute things, the time turner that you are traveling with must stay hidden from the rest of the inhabitants of the past keep it safe and do not loose it"

"Sir I am not Ron or Sirius for that matter I know how not to lose it" Harry said.

"quite true, right also you will most likely arrive somewhere just outside Hogwarts as the wards won't let you through by time travel just like apparition, remember that it is the second day of school so think up an excuse for your late arrival, and finally expect the unexpected" Dumbledore said this last part with amusement in his eyes.

Harry was confused for a moment as to what that was to mean but shrugged it off as just another one of those Dumbledore things.

"Goodbye Harry"

"Good bye and I will see you soon Albus"

They exchanged a hand shake.

Harry shrunk his belongings, even Hedwig who gave a hoot of displeasure.

"Right then, wolla siht relevart ot retne eht tasp 7791" Dumbledore spoke.

The time turner in Harry's hand started to buzz and went into a rapid succession of changing every shade of black, white, and gray.

Harry heard a loud ringing in his ears and a buzzing feeling in his toes, as he was sucked backwards full force, keeping his eyes wide open and his grip steady on the time turner, he traveled past his life and the lives of others, glimpsing bits and pieces of images of happy, sad, angry, laughing families some of which he knew and others in which he didn't.

As fast as time passes it ended. Harry landed with a thud in the pitch black of the deep of the forbidden forest.

'trust Dumbledore to land me here' Harry thought as he got off his aching butt and lit his wand brightly so that he could see a large portion of what surrounded him, it seemed that he had landed a little beyond where Hagrid's brother Grawp had been kept in his fifth year it would be an hour or so before he reached the school, hopefully just in time for dinner he hoped. He started off his journey up to the castle of the past. A man of the future was now currently walking the forest of the past.

A.N. so what do you think, I was so excited to write it, and I hope that you enjoyed it. Well you know the drill. review; you will feel so good after you do.

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