"Are you sure that there's no way at all to go back in time?" Ginny asked for the hundredth time, looking enquiringly to her husband. Remus shook his head and ran a hand through his head.

"No … I-I can't think of any way-"

"There must be a way! Otherwise, how else would our children have gone back in time?" Narcissa cried. Sirius stared at his cousin with worry; he'd never seen her this distressed before.

"I'm sorry-" Remus began, but Narcissa cut him off.

"Oh, you're sorry, are you? You will be if anything happens to my son!"

"Look, you're not the only one worried for our children's safety!" Remus snapped.

"I can't believe this is happening!" Ginny wailed. Sirius clenched his teeth. All this arguing and yelling was unnecessary, they weren't going to get the children back this way!

"For goodness' sake! This isn't going to bring them back!" he yelled "Let's try and do something to bring them back. Why don't we tell Albus of this? Maybe he'll know what to do."

"For once, I agree with you Black. Standing here worrying isn't going to do us any favours" Severus told them.

"Fine. To Hogwarts then!" Narcissa yelled, her and Ginny dashing for the fireplace at the same time.

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Back to the past …

As James, Sirius, Remus and Peter marched into the Gryffindor common room, Rachel, Ashley and Draco in their grasps; James ran up to the girls' side of the tower and yelled up the stairs for Ginny and Lily.

"What is it?" Lily asked sleepily, rubbing her eyes to try and wake herself up. James pointed to the three kids.

"Do those three look kinda familiar to you?" he questioned. Ginny furrowed her brow and nodded.

"Yeah, they do actually, now that you mention it. One looks kinda like Remus. The blonde haired one kinda looks like Lucius."

"Nah, you don't say" Draco retorted sarcastically, making Rachel giggle. Ashley snorted with laughter.

"Hey Rach, she's rather slow, isn't she?" Ashley replied casually. Rachel smirked.

"You would've thought she'd have gotten it by now! Blimey, I thought red-heads were supposed to be smart." Both Lily and Ginny blushed bright red, while Draco burst out laughing.

"Okay!" Ginny said, looking angry "Who are these three?" she demanded.

"Oh, well, I mean, you're our mum, you tell us." Rachel drawled, grinning evilly, while Ashley snickered. Ginny and Lily both stopped dead in their tracks and stared at Rachel in astonishment and shock.

"What?" Ginny squeaked out, going pale.

"Ginny's your mum?" Rachel and Ashley both nodded, grinning madly.

Lily rounded on the four Marauders.

"Is this some sort of sick joke?" she demanded, her eyes flashing dangerously. The four boys shook their heads.

"Ask them who their father is" James said with a knowing smile. Ginny raised an eyebrow to the Lupin twins.

"Remus Lupin" Ashley said casually. Ginny went, if possible, even paler.

"This isn't funny" she said hoarsely, turning to the four boys, but taking one look at Remus' face, she could tell that it wasn't a joke. She gasped.

"You're Lily Potter, right?" Draco questioned, turning to Lily. Lily dropped her wand in astonishment.

"Excuse me?"

"You're Lily Potter?" Draco asked.

"Well … I'm Lily Evans, actually."

"Oh, well, you marry James and have a kid called Harry. He's such a sweetie." Rachel said with a small smile.

"You like him?" Ashley questioned, looking disgusted.

"He's my friend." Rachel replied defensively.

"Quit arguing, please" Draco snapped, looking annoyed. Suddenly, Rachel stopped what she was doing and froze.

"What's tonight?" she asked, her voice shaky "Because I suddenly don't feel too good"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, what's tonight?" Rachel snapped, looking worried. Draco finally seemed to realize what she meant as he turned to look out of the window. He visibly paled.

"Oh god! It's a full moon!" Ashley and Rachel both shared the same horrified look, when the moonlight began to flood in through the window and fled from the Gryffindor common room. Remus hot on their heels.

"Wait! You can't just run off!" Sirius shouted, running after them. Ginny, Lily, James, Peter and Sirius followed after Remus and the Lupin twins.

"You need to get to the Shrieking Shack!" Remus panted "It's over there" he gasped, pointing to a tree "You need to get through a hole. I'll help"

"We'll be right next to you, if you need us" James assured the youngsters. As the cloud passed over the moon, blocking the moonlight from the grounds, Rachel took her opportunity and sprinted as fast as she could across the grounds.

"Rach, wait!" Ashley yelled. It was too late! The cloud moved to reveal moonlight. Rachel let out a scream as she felt the moonlight hit her. Ashley gasped and made to run forward, but Draco held him back.

"Don't be stupid! If you run out there, you'll get hit with the moon too!"

Rachel's screams became louder, sounding inhuman. She was scared; she normally had her mum to help her.

"MMMMMMMMUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMM!" She screamed as the scream ended as a howl. Ginny gasped and instantly knew that she had to help.

"Ginny, what do you think you're doing?" Lily shrieked on seeing Ginny run forward.

"Rachel needs me!" Ginny replied defiantly as she transformed into a white wolf. The white wolf let out a long howl and ran forward towards the young wolf.

"I feel strange" Ashley quivered, his eyes wide with fear "Draco, get away! Run!" He yelped, pushing his friend away from him "Go into the castle!"

"AAAAAAAAARRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOO!"

"I never knew Ginny was an Animagus" Lily whispered, watching her best friend with awe.

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Back in Present time …

"So, what do you think Albus? Is there a way to get them back, or is there a way for us to go there?" Lucius queried. Dumbledore surveyed the worried parents over his half moon glasses. They were deeply concerned for the children's safety, but then again, who wouldn't be? He took a deep breath, considering how to tell them … there was a way … but the chances of them all getting back alive and well were small …

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Ashley awoke the next morning, feeling weak and tired.

"W-Where am I? Where's mum? This doesn't look like our basement" he muttered in a hoarse voice.

"That would be because you're not at home, Mr. Lupin." His eyes followed to where the voice had come from and landed on Albus Dumbledore. His eyes were twinkling as he looked to him and his sister.

"You're in the Shrieking Shack" he said gently.

"I wanna go home." Ashley whimpered "I want mum."

"Don't be such a mamma's boy!" Rachel snapped "You expect to get into Gryffindor? You'll never make it if you start whining."

"I see a Slytherin in our midst." He murmured quietly "When you feel able to walk around, we'll sort you … but then again, I assume you're going to want to be with your parents, am I correct?" Ashley nodded, while Rachel looked unsure.

"I don't want them bossing us around-"

"I assure you, they will do no such thing."

"Well … okay. But, how are you going to explain it though?" Rachel questioned.

"The truth" he said quietly "I'm guessing you two and your friend, Mr. Malfoy will be able to find your own way back to your present time, and when you do, we will forget that you ever came here."

"Well, that's a relief" Ashley said with a smile.

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"I'm going to sit at the Slytherin table with Draco. See you later Ash" Rachel said excitedly, running over to her best male friend. Ashley rolled his eyes and made his way over to the Gryffindor table.

"Hi" he said timidly as he stood, feeling awkward, looking at his parents and their friends.

"Sit down, Ashley, it's alright! I don't bite, you know." Lily said in a friendly voice.

"She doesn't bite much" James said with a wink, and was rewarded with a smack around the head by Remus. Ashley sniggered.

"You remind me of Harry." Ashley stated.

"Harry's my son, right?" Ashley nodded enthusiastically.

"Yeah, he's my best friend!"

"Where's Rachel?" Ginny questioned, noticing that her daughter was missing.

"Oh, she's over at the Slytherin table. I guess she never told you that she wants to be in Slytherin. Strange, but true."

Immediately, everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at Ashley with horror.

"You're joking!" Sirius breathed, eyes wide.

"No, but I mean, it's okay. You don't mind and neither do mum and dad."

"We don't mind?" Remus raised an eyebrow.

"Course not. Rachel will still be the same. She just wants to be in that particular house and I want to be in Gryffindor. No biggie. I'm cool with it. As long as she's happy, it's fine; at least, that's what you all said. Even if that house is supposedly the house where all witches and wizards turn evil."

Ginny nodded in agreement.

"That is true, I s'pose."

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"So, you're Severus? You don't look much different from our present time!" Rachel exclaimed "I think you're really cool in our time, you protect mum all the time and once, you saved me from a Boggart!" Snape flushed slightly, not really knowing how to react to the little red-head's excitement.

"Uh, thanks" he stammered meekly. Suddenly, Lucius groaned.

"Great, we've got Potions first … with the Gryffindors!"

"Oh, woo-hoo, I'm ecstatic." Severus stated sarcastically.

"C'mon, let's go."

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"Well, well, well, if it isn't Snivellus!" Sirius grinned, while James smirked.

Snape was ready to stand his ground, but once again, he wasn't quick enough. James hexed him before he could even get his wand out of his pocket.

"Impedimenta!" Rachel gasped, her eyes wide with horror as Snape fell to the floor, unable to move. Ginny wasn't around to see it and neither was Lily. Rachel did the only thing she could think of. She'd read about hexes in many books, maybe, just maybe, she could use one. She whipped out Draco's wand from his pocket and pointed it straight at James. Ashley, realizing what was about to happen, gasped.

"Expelliarmus!" she yelled. Amazingly, it worked and James' wand flew out of his hand as he went flying backwards.

"Impedimenta!"Everyone watched in amazement and shock as an eleven year old managed to accomplish using hexes. It had never been known for someone so young, let along someone who had never used a wand before, to be able to curse! She quickly performed the counter-curse on Snape, then turned back to James.

"Ah, get-me-out-of-this!" James panted. Rachel grinned maliciously. She'd heard her dad and Sirius speak of this spell before.

"Scourgify!" she hissed. To Sirius' and Peter's horror, and Snape's and Lucius' amusement, it worked! As James could be heard choking, voices could be heard and Rachel swore under her breath.

"What's going on here?" Ginny, Remus and Lily had shown up, after hearing the commotion. Lily screamed on seeing James on the floor. She leapt in and performed the counter-curse, then she turned her accusing eyes to the Slytherins.

"Who did this?" she demanded. Everyone immediately pointed to Rachel. Lily, Remus and Ginny blinked several times in shock.

"What? That can't be right! She's only eleven … it's not possible!"

"I'm afraid it is." Rachel's blood ran cold on hearing the voice. It was Dumbledore, and his face was one of seriousness.

"Rachel Lupin, come with me please."