-It really was Sirius. He looked younger and cleaner.

"Harry? Is that really you?"

"Yeah, Sirius, yeah, it's me!" Harry said happily. His eyes sparkled brilliantly.

"How?" Sirius asked wondrously.

"Peeves helped us." Ginny said. She had walked over to see him.

"Hi, Ginny, it's great to see you." Sirius greeted, smiling broadly.

"Hi! Hermione, it's Sirius!" Ginny called out.

Hermione ran over to them. "Oh, my God, Sirius!" she exclaimed.

"Hello to you, too, Hermione." Sirius laughed.

"It is you… Three whole year, Sirius…" Harry whispered. His eyes were glistening with tears of happiness. Before the tears could fall, Sirius spoke.

"My God, Harry… what the hell happened to you?" Sirius asked softly.

Harry bit his lip. "I guess it was the battle… the effects of it. I killed Voldemort, Sirius… it was last year." He said quietly.

"Harry! What-" Sirius started.

"Wait- before we start anything, I'd like you to see someone…" Harry walked to James. "This, is James Potter."

- - - - - -

"Bloody hell, James!" Sirius whispered incredulously.

"Er, yeah…" James said awkwardly. "Hey… Padfoot."

"Are you bloody joking? Would anyone like to tell me how a dead guy's bloody alive?" Sirius asked frantically.

"Hey! Do I look dead to you?" James asked, eyebrows raised up high.

"Merlin, Prongs, you're only 17!" Sirius cried.

"How do you know how old I am?" James asked curiously.

"You're my best mate, Prongs… how can I not know how my best mate looks like at 17? That's when Lil-"

Harry coughed. "Sirius, he shouldn't know everything…"

Sirius looked at Harry. "Alright, but would you please tell me what the hell is going on?"

"Er, yeah… about that." Harry said, grinning slightly.

"Ginny, Hermione, and I are in the past time, when you guys were in your 7th year. Hermione and I are 18 and Gin's 17. Recently- er, not here recently, but in our time, I've killed Voldemort." Harry started to explain.

Sirius cursed happily. "Way to go, Harry."

"Thanks," Harry grinned, "Anyways, Dumbledore thought it was a good idea for me to have a vacation of some sort, so I came here and became the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor." Harry said.

Sirius looked closely at Harry. "You've changed quite a lot, Harry. What happened with you and Voldemort?" he asked quietly.

Harry shivered and his eyes went silver and cloudy.

"It was at Hogwarts, actually. Everyone was fighting. The battle was bloody and violent. We all knew it would be the last one. Voldemort and I were dueling, when we were sort of apparated, but not exactly. We just disappeared and appeared to what looked like the Department of Mysteries. In instinct, I just rushed to that door that wouldn't budge, but I guess Voldemort had the same thought. Both our hands were on the doorknob, and the door opened. I didn't feel any different, so I went in. There wasn't really anything there except a thick sparkly silver mist that hovered in the center. It looked like it was tugging to me and Voldemort, as if choosing to whom it should go to. We just stood there, ready to duel. I could tell what he was thinking. All he wanted was that ultimate power, you could call it, to come to him so he could kill me. I just felt confident of myself and thought whether or not I had that power, I could still kill him. Then suddenly, that silver mist shot at me towards my heart and at that same moment, Voldemort shot the Avada Kedavra curse at me. I didn't die because I had the power, so I killed Voldemort. I think I got all this silver from the affect of Volemort's curse and the power." Harry told Sirius. He shivered again at the recollection of that night.

"…My Lord, Harry. You've been through so much…. I'm just so sorry I wasn't there for you." Sirius said weakly.

"It's okay. At least we got through it… most of us did." Harry said quietly, glancing at Ginny.

"Oh no, what happened to everyone?" Sirius asked in horrification.

Harry let out a large breath. "Professor Lupin got severely injured by Wormtail-"Sirius growled softly at the name-" but Professor Lupin managed to kill him. Er, Ron got hurt really bad… he has to stay in St. Mungo's for quite a while. A lot of the D.A. members fought… most of them got injured… Minerva McGonagall is unconscious at St. Mungo's… Mr. Weasley got bitten by that damned snake of Voldemort's again… Draco Malfoy- you'd never believe this but, he got killed by his own father! Draco died, saving me. Professor Trelawney's in a coma, I think…. Hagrid's in St. Mungo's for serious head injuries… and er, Fred and George were killed were killed by Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange." Harry said the last part extra quietly.

Sirius looked at Ginny. "Oh, Merlin, Ginny, I'm so sorry." Sirius said with a look of deep concern, sorrow, and sympathy.

Ginny looked at Sirius and smiled softly , "Don't be sorry. That's the why they would've wanted to die… helping the light side." Harry looked down at Ginny and put an arm around her waist and kissed her head. He was proud of how she was being so brave.

"Which of the Death Eaters died?" Sirius asked.

"I killed Lestrange, personally." Harry said with ice cold venom in his voice. Sirius grinned at him.

"I also killed Malfoy, Macnair, and Rookwood. Ron killed Dolohov and Rodolphus Lestrange. Ginny and Hermione didn't kill, but just hurt them. I wanted to kill Wormtail, but I let Remus do the honors." Harry said.

"I see." Sirius chuckled, then looked at both Harry and Ginny. "You two are…?"

"Together, yes. Althouhg, both Ginny and Hermione managed to slap mein front of everyone in the great Hall." Harry answered, grinning at Ginny and Hermione.

"So, what's it like in there, old Padfoot?" James asked, finally talking.

"Hey, I'm not that old. I'm only 40!" Sirius said mock angrily.

"Sounds old to me," James muttered, "I'm only 17."

"Well, anyways, loads of dead people are here. Some that didn't even come from the arch!" Sirius answered.

"Sirius?" Harry said quietly. "Did you… did you happen to see my-my parents?"

Sirius' face fell. "Harry- I want you to know that I've looked around- a lot. But there's just too many people here. I couldn't find them… but they could be here."

"Where is 'here' anyway?" James asked.

"Here, there, anywhere you want to call it." Sirius said, shrugging.

"Oh, very specific." James said sarcastically.

"Yeah." Sirius said, not getting the sarcasm in James' voice.

"Does the age get to people?" James whispered to Hermione. She giggled.

"Hey, I heard that!" Sirius said loudly.

"Exactly." James said simply.

"How do you get out of there? I mean, you can get out of there, right?" Harry said slowly.

"Er, I haven't really figured that out yet. It's only been almost er… 3 weeks I think, since I got here." Sirius guessed.

"Oh, my… It's been 3 years here." Hermione spoke up softly.

They were all silent for a bout a minute, when Ginny let out a small cough. She then said in the quietest whisper yet, "How are you, Sirius?"

Everyone stared at her, until Sirius answered her question. "Not too bad. Could be better, but I'm quite content. Well, not really, but you get the idea. I mean, look at me, I'm dead sexy! Get it? I'm dead-er, not really, but nearly, and sexy! Well, of course I'm not dead. I just fell in, not by the Avada Kedavra curse, though. Just fell-"

"Enough, Sirius. We get the idea." Harry said, to stop Sirius' rambling.

"Bloody hell, we've been talking for nearly 5 hours!" James suddenly exclaimed.

"Are you serious?" Sirius asked, alarmed.

"No, but you are." Everone else said in unison.

Sirius cast them all dark looks and let out a stream of very colorful curse words.

"I'll go talk to the head person and ask them about Lily and James and a way to get out of here. Talk to me in 2 hours, okay?" Sirius said.

"Okay. We better get back to Hogwarts. Shit, James and Ginny missed all of their classes… it's nearly 9!" Harry cursed loudly.

"Right, Harry, then I'll talk to you soon, and hopefully the rest of you will be there, too." Sirius said, looking at all of them.

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Once the mirror was put away, Harry apparated all of them to Dumbledore's office.

"Er, hello." Harry said feebly, giving everyone in the room a weak smile.

Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore were there.

Professor McGonagall gave a small shriek. "Don't do that, Potter!" she exclaimed quite angrily.

"Ah, would you all care to sit down?" Dumbledore asked the newcomers with a merry twinkle in his eye.

'Damn twinkle...' Harry thought fiercely. They all sat down in chairs next to Professor McGonagall.

"How did you know?" Harry asked Professor McGonagall.

"Albus told me just now. Where in the name of Merlin were you all today?" she asked harshly.

Harry mumbled something that nobody could hear.

"Excuse me?" McGonagall asked.

"The Department of Mysteries." Harry said more loudly.

"Why would you go there?" McGonagall demanded.

"Because Sirius needed our help." Ginny answered.

"Mr. Black has been at Hogwarts all day, and all of Mr. Potter's- James' friends were worried sick. They claimed that you weren't at the school, although I don't know how they would know." McGonagall said.

'The Marauder's Map.' Harry thought. Apparently, James had been thinking this too, because a small smile appeared across his face.

"Minerva, it's entirely my fault. Don't get James, Ginny, or 'Mione mixed up in this." Harry said.

"Would you tell us why you were at the Department of Mysteries today?" Dumbledore asked calmly.

Harry took a deep, quiet breath. He then launched the story about how he knew that Sirius was there (he left out the part of James, afraid he would get in trouble) and Peeves could help them, and how they communicated with each other for a while.

"...And I guess we just talked a bit too much and lost track of time." Harry said.

"Ah, understandable." Dumbledore said, nodding.

"Well, Mr. Donovan, you're just very lucky you didn't have any more classes. But Ms. Wheeler and Mr. Potter, you both had three more classes." Professor McGonagall said disapprovingly.

"You may all go, but make sure this doesn't happen again...but if it does, make sure to let me or Minerva know." Dumbledore said.

Harry nodded in understanding. When they left Dumbledore's office, Harry started to speak.

"Can you promise me that you won't tell anyone about this? Even Sirius, Remus, and Peter." Harry asked James.

"Especially Peter." Ginny added.

"And just act normal. Don't act like you know something they don't...you know what's going to happen." Hermione said.

"What am I supposed to tell my friends? They know I wasn't on the Marauder's Map." James said.

"Er...tell them that I er...took you to Hogsmeade to er- talk about..er... Patronuses." Harry made up.

"Okay, but I don't know if they'll believe me." James said.

Harry shrugged. "It's worth a try."

"Yeah, I guess."

"Hey, James...Do you want to come to my Quarters so you can talk to Sirius too? I'm sure he wants to talk to you." Harry said sort of hesitantly.

"Sure! I can just tell my friends it's some Head Boy thing."

"Great, come to my chambers in an hour. The password is 'Golden Snitch'." Harry said.

They were at the Fat Lady's portrait.

"Don't forget Ginny, you come too." Harry said as they went in.

"Prongs! Where the bloody hell have you been!" Sirius exclaimed.

"Merlin, Padfoot, no need to worry!" James said, grinning, as Sirius pulled him into a brotherly hug.

"Prongs, we were so worried, Wormtail nearly wet himself!" Remus joked, grinning.

"Hey! No I didn't! Anyways, where were you?" Peter asked.

"Merlin guys, calm down. Professor Donovan wanted to see me and Ginny, so we went to Hogsmeade to talk." James said.

"Why?" the other three said in unison.

"To talk about erm, Patronuses." James said a bit uneasily.

"That reminds me. Why was the Professor's Patronus, well- you?" Sirius asked.

"Er- I'm not quite sure." James answered slowly. "He didn't tell me or show any sign of recognition."

"So, do you want to brainstorm a prank on Snivelly? I'm thinking we do something about his hair, you know, wash it and stuff so it's not all greasy. We can make it all blonde and smell like daisies!" Sirius said grinning.

"Genius, Padfoot, genius." James said, grinning like a madman.

They were planning on the prank, when suddenly, Ginny came over. She stopped right in front of James and gave him a meaningful look.

"Oh!" James exclaimed as he popped out of his chair.

"Er... hey, Ginny." Sirius said in confusion.

"Oh shit, guys...I forgot to tell you, I have to meet with Professor Donovan. I'll see you in an hour or two. Sorry, guys... I forgot." James said apologetically.

"Eh, that's alright. I'm going to bed, anyways. See you tomorrow, guys." Peter said, yawning. He went up to the boys' dormitories sleepily.

"Er, well, I'll see you guys later." James said to Sirius and Remus. They nodded.

Ginny practically dragged James out of the common room.

"Golden Snitch." Ginny said hurriedly.

They both stepped in. Harry and Hermione were already sitting on the couches.

"Okay, now that we're all here..." Harry said. He took out the mirror. Suddenly, Harry's eyes flashed silver.

"Accio Invisibility Cloak!" Harry said with his hand outstretched in the direction of the portrait door.

Remus and Sirius appeared to view.

"Er... um... hey!" Sirius said weakly. Remus looked a bit ashamed and nudged Sirius in the ribs for the pathetic greeting.

Harry sighed deeply and put his head in his hands and mumbled something like, "This is getting way too bloody complicated. Dumbledore is so dead when I get back."

"Why do you have my mirror?" Sirius demanded.

Harry looked up at Sirius and sighed again. He walked over to his fireplace and tossed some floo powder in.

"Professor Dumbledore." Harry called into the emerald green fire. Dumbledore came out of the fireplace right after Harry popped his head back out of the fire.

"Yes, Harry?" Dumbledore asked with a twinkle in his eyes.

'Damn that twinkle...' Harry thought angrily.

Harry just pointed at Remus and Sirius, and then collapsed into the couch next to James and Ginny.

"Oh... you might as well tell them, Harry. You can trust them, of course." Dumbledore said. "Although, I do not like it."

"Can't we just obliviate them or something?" Harry whined.

"That would cause more problems. I also think Mr. Black and Mr. Lupin have a right to know some things... not everything, just some." Dumbledore said.

"As long as the rat's not here." Harry muttered under his breath.

"What rat?" both Sirius and Remus said together.

"Should have known...great hearing...buncha' mutts..." Harry muttered again.

"Hey! No we're not!" Sirius and Remus exclaimed indignantly.

"Just come and sit. I'll see you tomorrow Albus." Harry said tiredly. Dumbledore nodded and stepped back into the fireplace and disappeared.

When they were all seated, Harry began to talk.

"Okay, to make a long story short, I'm Harry Potter, and Ginny, Hermione, and I are from the future sent by the future Albus Dumbledore. The future Sirius er- fell into the veil in the Department of Mysteries. My parents, James Potter and Lily Evans are dead so I was orphaned." Harry said.

Remus and Sirius' jaws dropped and they both stared.

"And I got Peeves to go in the veil to give the other mirror to Sirius today, and that's where we were all day. Now, we're trying to see if Sirius can find my parents in the veil and if he can get out of there." Harry said. He took out the mirror.

"Sirius Black." he said loud and clear. The next moment, Sirius' face appeared into the mirror.

"Hey- AAAAAHHHH! It's me!" Sirius yelled in the mirror.

"Bloody wicked." the younger Sirius whispered, eyes as big as galleons.

"Anyway, what did you find out?" Harry asked eagerly.

"Well, the head person said that Lily and James were here, but I couldn't find them. There's a way to get out. When a person has unfinished business to do, they go back, but they have to be in the veil." Sirius answered, glancing at his past self every now and then.

"When's the next time people are sent back and when was the last time?" Harry asked.

"The last time was...four days ago."

"Four years ago for us." Hermione said. "Sirius wasn't in the veil yet."

"And the next time is in 5 hours... meaning 5 minutes for you guys. I'm just not sure if me, James, and Lily are going..." Sirius said as he bit his lip in nervousness.

"Well, I'll talk to you again after five minutes if you don't come." Harry said.

They were all waiting in silence.

"Has it been five minutes yet?" Harry asked impatiently.

"Harry, calm down, it's only been a minute." Hermione said.

"Harry, we'll wait in your bedroom, okay? I just think you should see them alone first. You can call us when you're ready, is that okay?" Ginny said softly.

Harry gave her a small smile and nodded thankfully. He kissed her lightly before they all left.

When Harry was just about to give up, flashes of light erupted all over the room.

With a flash of light, Sirius appeared in the room. He looked just like he did in the picture of Harry's parents' wedding, but just a little older.

"Sirius!" Harry screamed happily. He ran over and embraced him, as if he was holding for dear life.

"Harry, it's so good to see you..." Sirius murmured. They parted and got a good look at each other. Harry was just an inch shorter than Sirius.

"Merlin Harry, you've changed so much." Sirius said.

"Yeah, I know." Harry said darkly. He was thinking about his hair, scars, and eyes. He was mostly thinking about the grotesque things he had seen during the war.

"I guess my parents aren't coming this time..." Harry said sadly.

"Yeah... but there's another one in a month or so, but I'm not quite sure." Sirius said.

"Yeah..." Harry murmured. Then he shouted, "Hey, guys, come out now!"

The door opened and out came Ginny, Hermione, James, younger Sirius, and Remus.

"J..Ja..James.." Sirius whispered, "P-Prongs?"

"Er... hey, Sirius- uh, Padfoot." James said nervously.

(OLDER SIRIUS, SIRIUS1 YOUNGER SIRIUS, SIRIUS)

"Sirius!" Hermione squealed. She ran to him and hugged him. Hard.

"H'Mione! Can't... Breathe!" Sirius gasped painfully.

"Oh... oops! Sorry!" Hermione said, blushing lightly.

"Nah, that's alright." Sirius said, giving Hermione a normal hug.

"Hi, Sirius, er...welcome back." Ginny said smiling.

"Hey Ginny, I don't get a hug from you?" Sirius fake pouted.

Ginny grinned and gave him a big hug. Her head went to the top of his shoulders.

"Oi, Sirius, that's my girlfriend you're almost flirting with!" Harry exclaimed mock angrily.

"Oh, shut up, Harry!" Ginny said well naturedly.

"Just come to me if Harry pisses you off." Sirius said to Ginny and winked.

"Okay!" Ginny said. She smiled smugly at Harry.

"Er, hi Sirius." Remus said quietly.

"Moony! Wow, you look the same- except younger!" Sirius said, rushing over to give Remus a hug.

"Whoa, and myself!" Sirius exclaimed.

He went to hug James, then his past self.

"This is so weird." Sirius said when everyone was seated.

"Yeah..." Sirius1 agreed.

"How old are you?" Sirius asked.

"40 years old." Sirius1 answered.

"Holy shit, you're old!" Sirius exclaimed.

"Hey, that's you you're talking to!" Sirius1 said. "How old I look?"

"Around 25 years old."

"Ahem."

They all turned around to see Dumbledore.

"This is Sirius Black, my godfather." Harry introduced.

"Hello, Professor. Tell me, do I look just like the young one?" Sirius1 asked.

"Not very much. Just a little bit." Dumbledore answered, a bit amused.

"Great! Can I help Harry and Hermione in DADA? Please!" Sirius1 asked eagerly.

"I suppose so...What name will you be using?" Dumbledore asked.

"Er... Sean Michael Courtley." Sirius1 made up.

"Alright, then. You all should get some sleep. The majority of females were worried sick about you two, Mr. Potter and Mr. Donovan." Dumbledore added, his eyes twinkling.

James grinned and Harry blushed furiously.

"I'm... a teacher!" Harry protested.

"A young one, too." Sirius1 commented.

"Get used to it." James said grinning. "Every Potter deals with girls. Be strong and confident. You have to like it to be a Potter." Harry glared at James.

"Unless you have a girlfriend." Ginny noted loudly. Harry smiled at her.

"Just go to sleep." Harry said to the Marauders.

"Please refrain from telling Mr. Pettigrew about tonight. The less people that know, the better." Dumbledore said.

They all nodded. After Dumbledore and the 7th years left, Hermione yawned.

"Bloody hell, it's two in the morning!" Hermione said stifling another yawn.

"Hermione Granger cursed!" Sirius1 gasped, pointing at her accusingly.

Hermione rolled her eyes at his immaturity.

"Come on; let's catch up on some stuff." Harry said, pulling them both down on the couch.

"So, what's been going on since I fell?" Sirius (I'm just not going to put the '1'in when I don't have to. Like when there's only one Sirius in the scene) asked casually.

"In our 6th year, we had small battles and er, Neville got caught by Death Eaters for about five days, but those bloody Aurors were too slow, so Hermione, Ron, Luna, Ginny, and I went to their hideout and got Neville." Harry said.

"How did you know where the hideout was?" Sirius asked.

"One of those damn vision-like dreams. I really didn't know where the hideout was, but I knew how it looked like. Ron sniffed and smelled Neville." Harry said slowly and clearly.

"What the-? Oh. OH! Oh, Merlin, you did!" Sirius exclaimed.

"Yeah." Harry and Hermione said, grinning widely.

"What are you guys?" Sirius asked eagerly.

"I'm mainly a Phoenix, but I can turn into any animal." Harry said.

"I'm a black panther and Ron's a husky. Luna rode on me and Ginny rode on Ron. Harry was flying above us. All of us changed back and shot spells at the Death Eaters that were there. There were only seven there. Then we changed again, but Neville rode on Harry. Harry was the fastest so Neville rode on him because he was injured and tortured. And when we got back at Hogwarts at around nine at night, Professor Snape insulted Harry, like 'You are out of like, Potter, this time I will make sure you are expelled. You're just like your arrogant, big headed, show off, loser father.' Then Harry blew up at him. I mean, really. It was really scary. Then when they were both ready to curse each other, Dumbledore came and looked furious. I don't know who looked more furiousr: Harry, Dumbledore, or Professor Snape." Hermione said.

"What did Dumbledore do?" Sirius asked, wide eyed.

"He took Snape and Harry to his office, but I'm not really sure what happened after that, because Harry still won't talk about it." Hermione answered.

Harry who had been glaring at the floor, glared harder.

"Well, Harry?" Sirius said, with raised eyebrows.

When Harry didn't answer, Hermione said, "All I know is they didn't come back until the next night."

Both Hermione and Sirius looked expectantly at Harry. Harry looked up, surprised to see them staring at him. He sighed.

"Fine. But if I find out that you two are talking about it outside of here, you will pay." Harry said darkly.

They both nodded.

"Okay, well, Dumbledore made us both go in his office... and wouldn't let us out until we didn't hate each other. He didn't even let us sleep."

"Oh, that must've been hell, being in the same room as Snivelly for 24 whole hours!" Sirius exclaimed sadly.

"So, do you still hate each other?" Hermione asked.

"Of course we do." Harry said matter of factually.

They talked about their 7th year and being Animagi for the rest of the night.