Can the Past be Altered?
Chapter 3
Severus and Draco couldn't take it any more and they moved to leave the office and the castle. Suddenly two people appeared in a beam of light and placed a badge on their chests. They all then vanished and appeared on what appeared to be a ship. It was the space ship Relativity.
Confused by what just happened Severus and Draco had automatically whipped out their wands in self defense. They were told by a man in a strange uniform, "Don't worry we brought you here to help you."
"Help us?" Questioned Severus, ever so cautious "how and Where are we?"
"You have been transported from your timeframe to the 29th century when we found a terrible imbalance that developed from the world of magic that affected the movement of time and space.
Severus's eyebrow rose slightly in disbelief as he cautiously stared about the large room with its odd looking inhabitants who looked back at him with calm expressions.
The man told them. "You are on the timeship Relativity. We want to send you back to the time where you had to teach Harry Potter Occumency, for he must be made to realize that he must protect himself from being taken over by Voldemort."
Isn't tampering with the past a bad thing?" Draco asked
Turning to look at the young blond wizard; the Commander said. "Normally yes but l'm afraid Dumbledores plan to save the world of magic backfired. If it isn't repaired there will be no world of mankind to speak of and no explorations into space. After we went through the records and did some tests we found if the imbalance was not corrected there would be no future for either world and time itself would be unraveled."
"Oh Good Merlin, we have no world of magic left from what we saw." Draco exclaimed.
"l know and because there is no world of magic in the timeframe that we took you from there will be no hope for mankind, for without magic there is no reason to strive for knowledge to uncover the unknown or to use ones imagination and create." explained the Commander.
"All right l understand, but how are we going to convince them?"asked Severus.
"We are going to break with protocol this time and this time only. We are going to set you down two years before your time in Albus Dumbledores office when Severus, your younger self is there with Harry Potter. We want you to tell them everything that you know happened in your time frame."
"They are going to think this Severus is an impostor, a polyjuice drinking one at that" Draco explained to the Commander.
Severus answered, "It's okay Draco, knowing Albus he will be suspicious but polyjuice effects last only one hour remember? And after that since l won't change my form he will know we are who we say we are"
"Your right we have nothing to lose and everything to gain,and l do mean everything" Draco said as he thought of what they had witnessed in their beloved land of magic.
"Okay we will now transport you to the coordinates where you will meet Albus Dumbledore with Mr Snapes younger self, and then bring you both back here and then send you back to your own time. Do you understand?" the Commander asked
Yes we understand" both Severus and Draco said.
Albus had Harry standing in front of him, he was telling Him that he had to learn Occumency and it was to be with Professor Snape. Severus did not speak as he stood a little way off by the door to Albus's study when two beams of light appeared and formed into another Severus Snape and Draco Malfoy.
They all drew wands and demanded to know who these two were.
Severus (Future self) "l know you may not believe this but we were taken from our time to the distant future to bring us back here to this time"
Albus said "right, more like poly juice here though l don't know how you two caused that beam of light and appeared here"
Severus (future) "lt isn't poly juice as you will surmise in an hour but some future power which we can't reveal. The only thing we can reveal is that we have to change the past or there will not be a world of Magic left. we know this because we come from there .
Draco who was silent collapsed and cried, from horror and despair for the future as he knew it.
Severus(present) automatically went over to Draco and knelt down and put his arm around the boys shoulders. "There now Draco it will be fine, let us hear them out Albus, if my other self does not change within the hour that would be proof that they are telling us the truth don't you think so?"
Albus agreed and bade the two travellers to sit down and tell story of mass destruction in their time. They sat down togeather and while drinking some hot chocolate they began their story. It took the hour and more to tell the many details, from Harry not doing the Occumency lessons as he was told to do , through the horrible plan of Albus's murder up to Harry killing Voldemort and being taken over because Voldemort managed to get into Harry's mind and the destruction of the magical world as they knew it.
Harry was shocked by what he heard and he couldn't believe that he would go through everything and be taken over by Voldemort because the prophecy had said that one must kill the other. He couldn't believe he would harm Heromine or Ron and his family.
Albus being older and wiser knew that the possibility was real as he had suspected that when Voldemort transferred his powers to the baby Harry and was destroyed he had caused Harry to become a Horaclux. Now that his fears were confirmed he knew that Harry must be made to understand without a doubt that he had to learn Occumency
Severus (present) agreed with Albus but questioned why his future self and Draco had come back to the past as he always understood that things could go horribly wrong if a wizard tried to alter the past.
Draco answered, "Things are horribly wrong as it is there is no one left but us and Voldemort. Left alive In the world of magic. Voldemort had somehow managed to cause everybody to die."
Severus(future) said "We were told in the distant future where we were taken this is the one time that protocol would not be observed and the past must be changed for the future not just of our world but of earth and time itself.
The combadges on the chests of Severus (Future) and Draco started to crackle and the voice of the Commander came over clearly.
"Severus and Draco as you have finished your mission it is time to bring you back."
Albus, Severus(Present) and Harry jumped a little when they heard the disembodied voice and saw Severus(Future) and Draco disappear in beam of light like that they had appeared in.
"Yes sir " Severus (future) and Draco said as they dematerialized and found themselves back on the Space Ship Relativity.
"Good job both of you. Now you must be returned to your space and time" the commander said after removing the badges " Thank you and goodbye"
Severus and Draco were then transported back to the Headmasters study where they materialized in front of Albus and Harry who remembered the talk they had approximately two years before.
Draco and Severus looked around cautiously and Draco ventured to ask, "Is everything as it should be?"
Albus smiled at both of them and said "Yes the world of magic is still here and Voldemort is gone totally because he could not get into Harry's mind as Harry did take the warning to heart and learned Occumency from you Severus. We will go on with thanks to both of you and the time ship Relativity. ."Yes l too got taken there but that is all l can say" Now no more will be said to anyone and we four will go and have some hot chocolate ...and some Sherbet Lemon."