Previously on The New Defense Professor,
There, in the doorway, stood a black-haired 19 year old with green eyes and a lightning-bolt shaped scar on his forehead.
Chapter 16: The Future
"How much did you hear?" the James-look-alike asked them as they walked into the office.
"If we said, "what about the other spells?" are we off the hook?" Sirius asked.
"No. Because I know that you would be lying." Harry told them.
"Honestly Harry. How long do you think you can keep up this charade?" Melissa quoted.
Ginny closed her eyes in regret. She now had red hair instead of black.
"I should have had the map on since we were without disguise." Harry realized.
"And risk them walking in and seeing it?" Ginny asked.
"What's going on?" James asked. "Why did she call you "Harry Potter"?"
"Should we tell them?" Ginny asked.
"Might as well. Their graduation gifts from us will be extremely powerful memory charms." Harry said before continuing
"Alright. I won't tell you the whole story, but something close. My real name is Harry Potter. "
"So, how are you related to Prongs?" Sirius asked.
"I'm his son." Harry said simply. "Ginny and I are from the future. 1998 to be precise." Harry said.
"And I came from 1999." Ginny interrupted.
Mouths were dropped again.
"I have a son?" James managed to ask.
"And a daughter." Harry added. "But we won't go there yet."
"Who's the mother?" Spica asked excitedly.
"Not allowed to say." Harry said as Ginny rolled her eyes.
"Why not?" Sirius pouted.
"Ruin the romance." Harry told him trying not to laugh.
"Then I won't press." James said accidentally reminding the boys the original mission.
"James has been acting weird." Sirius said in a tattletale-like way.
"That's my fault." Lily admitted. "If I…"
"It's alright Lily." James interrupted. "I've been considering reading that book anyways since I heard that Gryffindor's heirs are mentioned."
"What book?" Harry asked.
"Hogwarts, a History." Remus, Sirius, Lily, and James admitted
Ginny laughed. "That book is a threat to everybody. Hermione's threatened Ron with it many times."
"And me." Harry added.
"Who are Hermione and Ron?" Melissa asked.
"My best friends." Harry explained. "Ron is also Ginny's brother."
"One of them." She corrected.
"So," Sara said. "If you two are from the future, what are you doing here?"
"Well," Harry said. "For a while, I had been considering being an Auror. But after Voldemort's defeat, I figured it was better to teach. That way, future generations would know how to defend themselves. I just wanted to try out teaching before I announced it to my friends and family. In order to keep it from them (and the press), I traveled to a different time to teach. I wanted to try it for two years before making that decision. Just to be safe." (A/N: he said "and the press" under his breath)
"Who knows that you left the time stream?" Lily asked.
"Besides Ginny," Harry told her, "Professor Dumbledore from my time."
"He's still alive?" Sirius asked.
"Of course." Ginny said. "He's only…what? Going to turn…"
"I think it's now 152." Harry said. "Or 153. I'm not too sure."
"Does OUR Dumbledore know?" Remus asked.
"He knows we aren't from this time." Ginny explained. "But he doesn't know from what time period. At least, he seems to not know. You know how Dumbledore is."
"Is Bill Weasley related to you?" Spica asked Ginny.
"Yes. He's my eldest brother." Ginny told her. "Out of seven children, I'm the only girl."
"Whoa." The younger teens said.
James was thinking. "So, I don't know that you left the time stream?"
"No." Harry told his younger father. "I left without warning."
"Why?"
"Even though Voldemort was gone, there were still some Death Eaters around. I didn't want to risk anyone knowing and…making sure it never happened."
"How did Ginny find out?" Sara asked.
"Dumbledore told me when he knew that I was learning how to conjure a Patronus from Professor Lupmmmph." Ginny explained as Harry covered her mouth.
"Ixnay." He told her.
She shoved his hand away. "They're getting a memory charm about this anyways." She told him. "Professor Lupin." She finished.
Remus paled and everyone starred at him.
"Me?" he asked.
"Of course." Harry said. "The best we've ever had. In fact, a year after you left, you were asked to return."
"Why did he leave in the first place?" Melissa asked.
The two time travelers looked at each other.
"Well," Ginny started.
"Someone slipped and told the school about…the problem." Harry finished.
Remus paled even more as Sirius and James started to look angry. The girls were also fuming.
"Who told?" Sirius asked dangerously.
"Should we tell them?" Ginny asked.
"Why not? Our greasy haired, Head of Slytherin, git of a Potion's Master at that time who hated my guts because I look like Dad." Harry told him.
Ginny laughed. "Hermione would have your head if she heard you talking about a Professor Snape that way."
"SNAPE!" the younger crowd asked.
"After what happened fifth year, your fourth, do you really think she'd care?" Harry asked her.
"Probably not." Ginny admitted "He did lock us in the headmaster's office. Thank goodness for wings and beavers."
The younger crowd looked confused.
Just then, James got a look of recognition.
"Your Patronus." He remembered. "Why didn't I see it before?"
"You finally figured it out?" Harry asked with a grin.
The other boys caught on while the girls looked confused.
"You can tell them." Harry told his future father, godfather, and surrogated uncle. "Nobody will remember this conversation after I perform the charm at graduation."
"You're going to let us remember?" Melissa asked.
"Only until graduation. I think you deserve to remember for a while." Ginny repeated. "After that, it will be like this conversation never took place."
"This is what I'm talking about." James told the girls.
He then transformed into a white stag. Sirius followed by transforming into a dog.
The girls starred in awe as the boys transformed back.
James braced for the explosion. To their surprise…
The girls, Harry, and Ginny laughed.
Remus, James, and Sirius looked at each other in confusion.
"We'll explain by showing you." Lily told her boyfriend.
With that, Lily, Sara, Spica, and Melissa were replaced by a fox, rabbit, squirrel, and wolf.
This time, it was the boys turn to laugh.
"All this time," Sirius said. "Why were you two laughing?" he asked the professors.
Harry and Ginny looked at each other before turning into an owl and a robin.
There was more laughter.
When they transformed back, Remus remembered something.
"Her Patronus. It's you isn't it?" he asked Harry as he pointed to Ginny.
Harry and Ginny both nodded.
"That's the second time you've pointed that out." Ginny said with a smile. "You did it when my Patronus became corporal."
Remus then whispered to Harry, "And that first night with the Full Moon. Where you there?"
"Yes." Harry admitted. "I transformed just before you did. And the girls know about your…you know."
"You know?" Remus asked turning to the girls. "About my condition?"
"Of course." Melissa told him. "Other than wanting to do something you guys would never do, that was another reason we became animagi. Just so we could keep an eye on you. It worked until fifth year when the stag, dog, and rat started to appear."
"So we're all animagi?" Sara asked.
"Not me." Remus said.
"You transform into an animal." Spica told him. "Just not at will."
"Don't worry." Harry told him. "In a few years, a potion called "Wolfsbane" will come out. It will help ease the pains of the transformation. And a year and a half before I left, the cure was discovered."
"Really?" Remus asked excitedly.
"Since you're not going to remember this after graduation, it's safe to say this." Harry continued. "It was discovered by the new Potions Master, Mrs. John Newton née Montgomery."
Sara shrieked with excitement.
"What happened to Snivillus?" Sirius asked.
"He's currently rotting is Azkaban for letting Lord Voldemort into the school." Ginny told him.
"How come you told Sara her future husband, but you can't tell James his future wife?" Melissa asked.
"Isn't it obvious who Harry's mum is?" Ginny asked.
"It is." Lily said. "I'm just trying to let it sink in."
James agreed.
"I don't see it." Sirius said.
"The eyes Padfoot." James said.
Remus and Sirius' mouths dropped as Melissa, Spica, and Sara shrieked with happiness when they saw the green eyes.
Lily's green eyes.
"Took them long enough." Harry told his girlfriend.
"What about me?" Sirius asked. "What am I like?"
"You are an Auror for the Ministry with Dad and John. Spica also works there." Harry said truthfully.
"And me?" Melissa asked.
"A healer at St. Mungos with Harry's mother" Ginny told her.
"What about Peter?" Remus asked.
The two time travelers' faces darkened.
"You don't want to know. Trust us." Harry told him.
"He was killed?" James asked.
"You could say that." Ginny said to him.
"Poor Peter." Lily said.
Harry rolled his eyes. "So they say now." He whispered to Ginny low enough to where the other's couldn't hear.
"You said that we also have a daughter." James remembered.
"Megan." Harry sighed. "She'd be four in October."
"Why don't you just go back to the time from when you left?" Remus asked.
"Because we'd already be older than from that time." Harry explained. "I was born in 1980. How am I supposed to explain to you guys and my friends I'm 20 when I'm supposed to be 18?"
"The truth?" Lily answered.
"I'm not going to lift the memory charm I'm going to place on you." Harry told them. "If you guys realize there is one on you and have it removed, that's your problem. I'm not going to change the future. That's the last thing on my mind."
Lily remembered something she heard earlier.
"What did you mean by, "I'd much rather grow up an orphan again and have Sirius mess up that potion than live through 13 extra years of Voldemort"?"
Harry winced. "You heard that part. When I was a year old, Voldemort showed up on our doorstep. He killed you" he pointed at James "And then told you" he pointed at Lily "to move aside. When you refused to let him kill me, he killed you. Because you didn't need to die, your love for me shielded me. The curse backfired and Voldemort was weak for 13 years. Then, he found a way to come back. About a month after he came back, Sirius was trying to bring back your ghosts to help me through the next year. Something happened and he accidentally brought you back from the dead."
"Way to go Padfoot." James said to Sirius.
"Who raised you?" Lily asked.
"Well," Harry hesitated, "Sirius was on the run because he was believed to have betrayed you. He didn't by the way. Melissa, John, and Spica were out of the country. They didn't even know you were killed. Peter was believed to be dead. I have no idea where Sara was. Remus couldn't for obvious reasons…"
"Harry Potter. Answer the question." Lily said like a stern mother.
"Even at 17 she still has it." He mused. "Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon."
Lily and James paled at this.
"Petunia marries that fat oaf?" Melissa asked.
"And has a son with him." Harry added as the news sunk into his parents.
"THEY REPRODUCED?" Melissa, Spica, and Sara yelled.
"So much for that vow." James finally said.
"We vowed that you would never meet them." Lily explained.
"It's not the end of the world." Harry told them. "When I was 13, I met Remus and Sirius. They helped A LOT."
"Where were we?" Melissa and Spica asked.
"America." He explained. "From what I heard, Melissa's parents sent her to Harvard and Spica followed to make sure she doesn't forget magic."
"But we returned?" Spica asked.
"Yes. In fact, since you won't remember this, it's safe to tell you. You, Spica, are now Mrs. Sirius Black. And Melissa is now Mrs. Remus Lupin."
Remus and Sirius and Melissa and Spica looked at their future spouses in surprise.
"Should we tell them about Adam, Colin, and Vega?" Ginny asked.
"WHO?" they asked.
"How are they?" Harry asked. "You never said."
"Fine. Last I heard." Ginny said.
"Who are Adam, Colin, and Vega?" Lily asked curiously.
"Adam Newton, Colin Lupin, and Vega Black." Harry explained. "Their," he said pointing to the other five "kids."
Remus, Sirius, Melissa, Spica, and Sara gapped while James and Lily laughed.
"Oh my!" Ginny exclaimed "It's already three o'clock in the morning.
"You better get to bed." Harry told them.
"Shouldn't we be telling you that?" James asked.
Harry laughed.
"Oh." Harry said as they left. "Don't tell John or Peter. I want to keep this quiet."
"Alright." They told him.
Just as soon as they left, James doubled back.
"Harry? Do you know about the Marauder's Map?"
"Of course I do." Harry said.
"How come when I looked at it, you're revealed as Harold Peeler. We made so it wouldn't lie. Is there a flaw?"
"No." Harry said picking up his copy. "This is the map from my time. I used a simple spell on it and it transferred to your copy because technically it's the same one. So, any changes and spells I use on mine, shows on the other one except the activations."
"What happened to it?" James said. "When the others lost it?"
"Filch confiscated it, but he doesn't know how it works." Harry told him.
"Then two of my brothers," Ginny continued "rescued it and after a few years, gave it to Harry."
"Okay. At least it's safe. Goodnight."
"Goodnight. Dad." Harry said.
After James left, Harry turned to Ginny.
"It feels so good to say that out loud again."
TBC