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A/N Okay I'm finally done the 'explaining stage' you could call it and it'll go smoother from now on, yay! I'm going to be hopefully updating much more quicker cause.. it's summer! yay o.O Okay I'm to tired right now to think of anything but my pillow.. so I leave it here and enjoy :P
Silverone3about the Voldy thing, All will be explained in due time xD But your somewhere on the right track, I give you that :P
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dracoXharryfan6 I was a little late on the updating (we all hate plots we know we do) thankies for reviewing!
Lady-Draconian-Sapphire I forget what Ron said but if it was freaky.. probably won't be said again!
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Thank you for the reviews.. now onto the story!
"You've got to be kidding us, James; you have got to be kidding." Sirius was saying as a big smile crept slowly onto his face, brightening up all his features as if they were about to play a master prank on someone.
"I'm not okay? The professors don't want us coming along, they really don't. The only reason we're being allowed to help is because Harry threatened to figure out a way to get to time travel by himself. He can be really persuasive." James said, remembering Ron and Hermione tell him about it.
"Harry is… well, he's headstrong. The teachers figured, given past behavior, that it would be easier to let him come along instead of having him tumble through it on his own." Hermione explained, shaking her head as Ron laughed.
"Trust us, he would have done it on his own, and he would probably get himself in a lot of trouble." Ron added, before Harry walked in, looking at them with happy green eyes.
"I'm starting to like the pregnant thing." Harry commented, sitting down by the fire on the red couch, rubbing his stomach mindlessly. James shook his head, knowing Harry would be cursing it to hell and back in the morning.
"So, you've actually gotten permission to go with Dumbledore and Harry to rescue those students, James? Tell me the truth." Remus asked looking at him with those concerned eyes, as if trying to catch him in a lie.
"Yes, this time it's totally legitimate. Remus, stop looking at me like that!" James exclaimed, getting annoyed with not being trusted, he'd done a few things in his life, well a lot of things in his life that could be the reason why not many people should trust him, but that was in the past wasn't it?
"I'm just trying to make sure that this time you are not doing anything that's against the rules. I don't think we can afford it this time." Remus said.
"Oh come on Remus." Sirius cut in, putting one of his arms over Remus' shoulder and another over James, cracking a big smile. "This will be an interesting thing for us all, just think of it! We can go back in time, we can rescue the damsels in distress, and… Remus cheer up this is something exciting!" Sirius finished, smiling at Remus who was still looking worried.
"I don't know, Sirius. I mean it's not like we're allowed to go along with James as well, now is it?" Remus pointed out, making Sirius' smile falter before twinkling blue eyes landed on James.
"We are coming along for this one aren't we?" Sirius asked, but James, who technically had only been told he was going to go along with Harry, couldn't tell Sirius what he wanted to hear.
"Uh, no Sirius. I don't think you are." James responded, cringing when Sirius blew up at him.
"WHAT? The biggest thing that might ever happen to us and only you get to go? Oh, I might just break a few rules and go along with you." Sirius said, but Remus would hear nothing of it.
Remus poked Sirius in the side, getting his full attention. "Sirius if I have to tie you down to your bed I will, you're not going to drag me and Peter into this. If we are not allowed, we aren't." Remus said, but Sirius only made what he thought of that very clear.
"Bullshit." Sirius said, before running off into the dorms, most likely running to Harry complaining.
"James, one of these days, don't tell Sirius a goddamn thing." Remus growled. James nodded, knowing Remus was right but… he always had to tell Sirius everything, it was what best friends did.
But he could see why Remus was worried, if they went back in time that meant they had to worry about one other thing where Remus was concerned. The moon.
"Why are we going to the library again?" Ron asked, looking around the silent corridor as they walked from Gryffindor tower down a staircase.
Harry jumped over the stair that wasn't really a stair, the one that always seemed to always make him lose his footing. "Because that's where the time pocket opened up, plus the statues there, we are going to take the statue with us to get it back to where it belongs." Hermione responded, jumping over the same stair, and Ron soon followed.
"So we need to be in the library to open the same time pocket?" Harry asked, staring at the candles as the lit the corridor with orange and reds.
"Yes, you can't open the same time pocket in another place for some reason… just doesn't work. Natural time pockets never occur anywhere else but where they are, so opening this one I guess is the same. But natural time pockets are always open, and easier to get out of." Hermione explained, and Ron just nodded, clearly not listening to what she was saying.
"Are they going to open it up again or something?" Harry asked, not quite sure how this was going because when Dumbledore had spoken to them about it, he'd been feeling the leftovers of his morning sickness again.
"Harry, were you even listening this afternoon?" Hermione said, looking abashed as the rounded the corner with a lone suit of armour standing in the hallway.
"Hermione leave him alone, he wasn't feeling well." Ron said, "I mean I don't understand how you can always listen… it's like you're half—"
Hermione cut him off with her eyes narrowing "I'm half what, Ron?" She asked, as if daring him to finish that sentence.
"Nothing." Ron replied and quickly looked at Harry, mouthing the words 'ask her something' to get himself out of trouble. Harry obliged to help his friend out with Hermione, a force to be reckoned with.
"Hermione, what did they say they were going to do?" Harry asked, wanting an answer so he knew what was going on, and knowing Hermione would give in and tell them anyways. Sometimes they were not so lucky to have a generous Hermione.
"Professor McGonagall and professor Flitwick are going to open up the time pocket with the spell you found, and a week from now they are going to open it up again so we have six days to get them back pretty much." Hermione explained, grumbling in her mind about how they both needed to work on their attention spans.
"Why do we have a set time to get them back?" Harry asked, thinking it odd that they didn't give them more time to find and get the students back.
"Because after a week it might become a part of time itself, so far it technically hasn't happened yet… It's complicated, okay? Just think of it as this; if we don't get them back in a week, we might never get them back." Does Hermione always have to have the answers? Harry thought to himself, frowning as the three of them didn't speak for a minute or so.
"I still can't believe we're all being allowed to go, Harry. I mean… doesn't this seem odd to you?" Hermione said, as they walked down to the Library where the time pocket was going to be reopened.
"Not really… Maybe… Yes." Harry responded back, looking over his shoulder again. After a lot of yelling and complaining, Sirius had bought his ticket onto the ride with Harry and a few of the teachers, as well as getting Ron and Hermione in on the whole thing.
Initially Dumbledore had only wanted Harry and James to go, but after quite a lot of protesting, he allowed Harry and James' friends along, for their protection. There is safety in numbers after all. It wasn't total codswallop.
"Why are you worrying, Hermione?" Ron asked, looking forward to actually being in on the whole deal.
"Because… Dumbledore didn't think it would be a good idea to have all of us go at first." Hermione said, looking nervous.
They had arrived at the Library, and were ushered into the Library by the charms teacher, Professor Flitwick. "Miss Granger, further reading on the charm tells us it works better if more people use it at once because of how long and complicated the charm itself is. I would have hoped you would know about how charms can function if they're extremely complicated." Flitwick said, and Hermione blushed a deep tomato red.
"I remember." she muffled, looking a bit embarrassed at the fact she had forgotten something for once.
"Okay you seven." Flitwick said, and soon had fourteen pairs of eyes staring at him. He smiled and pointed to the Greek statue by the bookcases; it had not been moved at all in case it tampered with the charm even a little bit. "Professor McGonagall and I will perform the charm on you in that corner, and Professor Snape and Professor Hagrid will be going along with you."
At hearing this the Gryffindors glanced at each other, but none looked as displeased as the potions Master himself. If they had known how many times Professor Snape had pleaded with the Headmaster to not to make him go with Hagrid on his little rescue mission, they would have pitied him.
"Come on Professor Snape, we have to get movin' or we won't be goin' anywhere." Hagrid said, his big moleskin coat over his shoulders as he smiled at the students and walked over to the bookcase, taking up most of the room.
"Yes…" Snape responded sulkily, glaring at all of them with much hate in his beady obsidian eyes. He walked slowly over to the group, and put as much distance as he could between himself and the others. Unfortunately there wasn't much distance to put between them and they were all stuffed in the small space beside the big statue.
Professor McGonagall looked at her students with worry, and Flitwick started to move his wand around in complicated swishes, moving it this way and that, soon joined in by the transfigurations professor.
Light wisps of purple soon appeared around the group and the statue of Hermes itself, curling around and through them, starting to twirl around, creating a vortex. Harry's breath hitched up, and he held tightly onto his stomach as the time pocket created itself around them, starting the pull he had felt the last time he had almost been caught in a time pocket.
The time pocket was created, jolts of violet moving around the students as they all looked worried. The only one who didn't look phased was Snape, who just stood there glaring, as if his misfortune to be stuck there helping was worse then the phenomenon happening around him.
The time pocket pulled the students out of their time, along with the statue, traveling it through time. They didn't see the Library fade quickly, but eventually it did.
Harry had once seen a cartoon showing characters riding a time machine through space, and it was like a spiral spinning around and around. Whoever thought that up was way off from what it actually was.
It was blinding light of a thousand colours racing around him, creating a chaos of time soup. He was barely aware of Hermione and Ron clinging to his arm beside him, seeing exactly what he was.
When the charm ended, the group was thrown out of the time pocket onto the group, all standing, if a bit shaken, as they had been when the time pocket started. The time pocket closed up, leaving them alone in the night of a new moon.
Harry looked around, seeing his Father holding up a very green looking Peter, and Sirius was being held up by Remus, who was looking at everyone, as if checking for anything unusual. Hagrid sat down on the ground, cradling his head, and Snape stood exactly where he had been earlier, scowling at them all.
Hermione was still clutching onto Ron's arms, and Harry started to feel faint himself, needing to sit down on the cool grass, wondering where the hell they were. He only knew that right now it was night wherever they were.
He didn't know about anybody else, but he was ready for a nap to relax and clear his mind.
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