Misplaced
Prompt: During the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, a time-turner was damaged and sent Harry and Hermione spinning through time. They find themselves back in the Department of Mysteries though, but their friends were gone, there were no Death Eaters in sight... and everyone was calling them "Minister Granger-Potter" and "Mister Potter, head of the DMLE."
The explosion was magnificent, and surprisingly not painful. The dark and gloomy atmosphere of the Department of Mysteries was shattered by a cacophony of colors Harry has never seen before as she clutched Hermione to her as tightly as she could, trying to shield her best friend from the Death Eaters chasing them. She had no idea where Neville, Ronnie, Luna, and Genoel were, just hoped that they were faring better than she and Hermione currently were.
When the maelstrom of colors stopped, Harry barely glimpsed a pristine looking Room of Time before sirens and klaxons sounded and the lights slammed to full nearly blinding her. Hermione whipped out Harry's Invisibility Cloak, covering the two of them just before teams of Aurors burst into the room from both directions scanning the room for intruders.
"Aurors! Come out from wherever you are hiding! Throw down your wand, and you'll get a fair hearing," one of the younger Aurors ordered.
Hermione started to take the cloak off, but Harry stopped her for a moment curious about what would happen next as a man that looked like her dead father stepped through the doorway.
This man didn't say anything, just narrowed his green eyes, eyes exactly like her own, and scanned the room coming to rest upon the two girls.
"I'm Director Potter. Why don't you two girls come out from under that cloak and tell me how you managed to get in here?" He asked quietly.
Harry let the Cloak slip away, and the young Auror gasped, "Minister Potter?"
"You idiot," the Auror next to him said just as softly. "That can't be the Minister, she too young."
The Director stepped forward, seemingly completely unconcerned by the two girls, and held out his left hand, "Wands?"
Harry couldn't help but notice the wedding ring as she meekly handed over the Holly and Phoenix wand to the man before her, noting how it reacted to him the same way it did for her.
"It… can't be…" he said in wonder as he snapped his own wand out of a hidden holder on his right arm and compared the two wands. "Who are you?"
Hermione clung to Harry as they followed Director Potter through the Ministry to his office in the DMLE with two of the Aurors trailing along behind them. They garnered a few curious looks from people in passing, but then a couple of teenaged girls in filthy school uniforms being in the Ministry during the school year would likely account for that.
"Oh Harry," a fairly familiar voice said as he opened the office door, "What did Sirius do this time? I swear, that boy of ours gets into more trouble than we did in first year. Maybe I should talk to Headmistress McGonagall again…"
"Hermione, love…" the Director tried to interrupt the flow of words streaming from within the office.
"… If Lily or Daniel act anything like him when they get there in a few years, I might just have to fire you…"
"Minister?"
"… so you can go teach there and keep them out of trouble…"
"HERMIONE!"
"What?!"
"This isn't about Sirius…" Harry stated as the two girls behind him slipped into the room.
"So who's this?" Minister Potter asked holding a what looked like a two-year old girl on her lap and indicating the misplaced pair.
Hermione curtseyed Minister, the older version of herself looked a lot like her mother with her father's hair coloring, "Hello, ma'am. I'm Hermione Granger."
"Harry…" the Minister growled.
"I didn't do it!" the Director yelped raising his hands in surrender.
Hermione then defused the situation by asking the Minister, "Is that Lily?"
"What?" Minister Potter asked confused, "No, this is Emma. How did…?"
"We heard you through the doorway."
"Ah… and who're you?" She asked turning to look at the black-haired girl who'd followed her husband into the office.
"Well… I guess I can't use 'Harry' here… so… I'm… Harriett Potter…" the green-eyed girl muttered a bit nervously.
The girl in the picture on the desk that the Minister glanced at showed a girl that was almost identical to Harriett, but with rich, dark, mahogany hair instead of Harriett's and Harry's raven-like black.
"These two were the intruders in the DoM," the Director said calmly.
"The DoM? Sirius! We have to go back, he's in trouble!" Harriett exclaimed.
"I thought you said Sirius wasn't involved," Minister Potter narrowed her eyes at Director Potter.
"No, not your son, Sirius," Hermione interrupted her older self, "My girlfriend's godfather… Sirius Black."
"Well now…" Harry paused in contemplation.
"That does explain a few things," the Minister stated.
"We're not going back are we?" Hermione asked meekly.
The Minister shook her head, "No clue. We don't know how you got here, so you could just snap back to where you came from, or be stuck here permanently. If we tried to send you somewhere else it could kill you, send you back, send you somewhere else… maybe do all of the above… who knows."
"So what are we going to do?" Harriett asked.
"Hermione," the Director asked the younger version of the girl, "Do you think you could go by Jane while you're here?"
Hermione, or Jane now, nodded with a slight slump to her shoulders. Harriett's girlfriend really loved her name.
"Then we'll take you into our home and send you back to school," the Minister stated simply, "no sense wasting the opportunity for a quality education by sitting around here waiting for something that might never happen."
"I'll take the girls shopping, then up to Hogwarts to sort things out there," Harry said to Hermione, then turned to Jane and Harriett, "Welcome to the Family."
