A/N: Well I must say I am surprised by the response I have gotten from this story. I hope that I can keep meeting your expectations. I will try to answer any questions you have, but things will start becoming clearly as I decide to reveal them. In response to Dr. Misaki: Thank you for the constructive criticism. Reading back over my first chapter I really see what you were saying. Although Lily did say that Harry reminded her of someone from school, and Harry can't look exactly like James, similar but not an exact replica. I realize I could really use a beta reader. Matter fact I just realized a hole that I left in chapter 2 the night after I posted it and I am going to patch it up in this chapter. I will try to put a little more description in the character interactions. Thank you again I enjoy the constructive criticism. Some reviewers would just flame and stop reading.Well I hope you enjoy this, the third chapter.

Harry Potter and the Paradox of Time
Chapter 3: Summer's New Beginning

"Portkey. Touch this paper and grab a hold of your trunk." He waited for her to touch the piece of paper and then said, "Godric's Hollow Activate!"

They felt the tug behind their navel as the portkey activated and a few seconds later they both landed in a rich garden on fertile green lawn.

They both looked up from the garden and saw a decent sized two story house. Harry thought it looked more like a summer cottage than a manor house, but he just shrugged it off. But, still Harry had to admit that it certainly did look regal.

"So shall we go inside?" Harry asked Lily who was looking at the house with awe.

"It's beautiful, Harry. Where did you manage to find it?" Lily asked him.

"It is an old family house. I had remembered earlier that it had been abandoned during this time, so I thought I…I mean we could use it for the rest of summer, and then we won't need to use it once we are back Hogwarts. So let's go in now." Harry said pushing Lily gently in the small of her back towards the house.

Harry and Lily walk towards the house. They reached the door and Harry went to open the door when he felt a small tingle of magic go through his arm and then into the rest of his body. Harry smiled a bit. The deed had said something about blood wards.

Harry opened the door and stepped over the threshold.

Lily went to follow, but she hit an invisible wall, "Oww, what was that?"

"There are blood wards on the house. The only ones that can pass must be in the blood line of the family or have been explicitly invited by one that is." Harry told her.

"Well would you invite me in already? I don't want to be out her all summer." Lily said a little impatient.

"I will, but all you need to do is just say please." Harry teased.

Lily growled. Harry held his hands up and said, "Fine, I give up. I, Harry, officially invite you into my family's manor house at Godric's Hollow."

A faint glow came off Harry and encased Lily and then faded. Lily stepped through the door this time without a problem.

"So should we explore? I've never been here myself." Harry asked.

Lily nodded.

First they explored the first floor. The whole house was decorated in Gryffindor colors. The first floor had a dining room that was connected to a magnificent kitchen. There was also a sitting room with a fire place and many chairs and a few coffee tables. The next they found was just a loo. After that they walked into a huge den that had two desks and a few comfortable chairs. The chairs were arranged around a fire place that was tall enough for people to use comfortable for flooing to places. And, the last bit, one that particularly excited Lily, they noticed about the den was the small library they found in a corner of the room.

Once they were done exploring the first floor they moved up the stairs to the second floor. The first two rooms they looked into were just a bath room and a normal, if not large, bedroom. The next room they thought was the master suite. It had its own attached bathroom and it was the only room so far that wasn't done completely in Gryffindor colors. Instead it stuck to a blue color scheme, with navy blue being the dominant color.

All thoughts of that being the master suite were lost when they walked into the next room. There was a huge king sized slay bed that was made from cherry. The sheets were made of fine silk and everything just looked so ornate and rich. There were three doors in the room. The first door led to an equally magnificent bathroom that was made of red marble with gold fixtures. There was a large tub with magical jets set all over the basin. It would best even the best of muggle hot tubs. There was also a shower that was large enough for at least two people. There was a toilet that looked more like more like a throne than a toilet. The vanity also had two sinks with a mirror that stretched out in front of both of them.

After admiring the bathroom, they went through the next door and found a study with two matching desks and its own private library that looked to house some rarer more ancient texts than the one down stairs.

Curious to what could be in third door they went in there. The third door actually led to another smaller bedroom that was outfitted to take care of a baby. Harry had the fleeting thought that this had probably been his room when he was a baby. This room also connected to the main hall.

When they came out of the hall Harry remember something he had forgotten and exclaimed, "Shit!" He then tried to apparate and got slammed back down and he realized there were apparition wards on the house.

Harry just cursed, jumped up, and ran down the stairs. Lily tried to follow him, but the moment he was down the stairs he zipped through the front door and disappeared with a pop.

Harry all of a sudden remembered they had never gotten rid of James body. When he did he rushed out of the house and apparated into Lily's old room.

Sure enough the body was still there. Right as he popped in the bed room door opened up, and Harry saw Petunia in the doorway.

"Your still here are you?" She said with her nose sticking up. She paused however as she looked around the room. Lily had taken most of her stuff and the bed and curtains were about the only thing left. She was pleased that her freak of a sister had cleared her stuff out of her house, but then she spotted the body.

Petunia let out a screech. Harry followed where her eyes were looking and cursed. She had spotted James' body. Harry quickly stunned her before she could get away and brought her into the room. He started to panic. He had no clue how to Oblivate someone.

What was he going to do? Not knowing what to do, he popped back over to Godric's Hollow.

He rushed into the house and shouted out, "LILY!"

Lily rushed out of the den when she heard her name called thinking that Harry was in trouble. "What is it? Is everything ok?" She asked worried.

"I'm fine. Do you know how to Obliviate someone?" Harry asked a little frantic.

"I can do basic stuff, but I can't get erase more than five minutes on any single person. Why do you need to Obliviate someone though? And, what was with the rush earlier?" Lily asked placing her hands on hips more than a little irritated.

"We forgot about James' body. We just left it in your room." A look of horror passed over Lily's face. "When I went back to get rid of it your Aunt walked in and spotted the body. I stunned her before she could get away and locked your door, so I need someone to Obliviate her or we are going to be in trouble. She was only there for about a minute." Harry told her.

"Fine! How are we going to get there?" Lily asked.

"I'll take you along in side-along apparition." Harry told her as if it was obvious.

Lily opened her eyes in shock. "You can do that? Have you performed it before?"

"Once and it really didn't seem that hard. You just need to concentrate really hard to make sure both people make it." Harry told her.

Lily looked at him skeptically, "Are you sure?" She was clearly worried.

Harry nodded his head. "Come on lets get this over with." Harry gestured for her to move outside.

Still looking skeptical she followed him out the door. "What do I need to do?"

"Just come here and relax a little." He had her come over and Harry gripped her forearm. She winced a little but didn't say a word.

Harry closed his eyes and made sure to concentrate extra hard and step forward. He felt the immense pressure and then it was gone. Harry opened his eyes and they had made it.

"Is that what apparition really feels like?" Lily asked.

"Ya. It is a little worse with side-along apparition, but that is pretty much what it feels like. You get use to it eventually I hear. The last few times I've apparated it really hasn't affected me much as my first time." Harry told her.

Once he verified they both still had all their body parts, he turned her, "So, here is my wand. Oblivate her to forget from the time she opened the door till she passed out." He handed over his wand.

Harry watched as she shut her eyes before she raised the wand and pointed it at her aunt. A pale blue light issued from the wand and encased Petunia.

"Ok. It's done. I'm not sure if I did it right, but there is only one way to find out." Lily told Harry. She went to raise the wand.

Harry stopped her, "We need to get rid of this first." He pointed to James' body.

"Ya, right. I'll be easier if you do it, this being your wand and all. A strong 'Evanesco' should do the trick." Lily said handing Harry his wand back.

Harry accepted the wand and screwed his eyes up in concentration. He pointed the wand and shouted, "Evanesco!"

All of James disappeared except for a few strands of hair, his clothes, and his glasses

Harry shrugged, "I could never quite get that down. I could use the glasses and robes though. They are nicer than my own and we were built similarly." Harry picked up the robes.

Harry shrunk the robes and shoved them with the glasses into his pocket. "I guess we should wake your sister up now. Ennervate."

Petunia woke up. "What happened? Why am I in floor and what in the world are you two doing here?" She asked her face starting to draw taught.

"You walked in and fainted, and we were just leaving." Lily said and offered her arm to Harry.

Harry took her arm and concentrated closing his eyes and with the normal pressure disappeared. Then the pressure stopped and they were back outside Godric's Hollow.

"Well now that that is taken care of lets get properly settled in." Harry said and held the door open for Lily to walk in.

"Oh. I moved my stuff into that room in blue. I figured I would let you have the master suite since it was your family house." Lily told him.

"Thanks." I'll be right back. Harry floated his trunk up the stairs and Lily walked into the den.

Harry took his stuff into the Master suite and unpacked his clothes and some of the books he had taken from the Potter family vault. Once he had everything unpacked he looked around one last time and he turned to leave and he heard a crack.

"Master Potter, it is an honor for Larry to be seeing for the first time in so many years." Harry could se that the squeaky voice had come from a house-elf that was now bowing so low its squashy nose was pressed against the floor.

"Umm…Hi, Larry." Harry said not sure what to say.

The house-elf looked up sharply and looked Harry in the eyes. "You're not Master James. What are you doing in Master's house?" The house-elf raised its hand at Harry ready to defend its master's property.

"No. I'm not James, but I am a Potter. I would appreciate it if you didn't tell Lily that I'm a Potter." Harry said trying to quickly calm the angry elf.

The elf gave him a suspicious look. "How does Larry know that you aren't a bad man trying to trick poor hard working Larry?"

"I got into the house didn't I? I'm sure you can tell that the wards are still in place and I am clearly safely inside. And, if that isn't enough I command you to lower your hand. I am not here to hurt you, so I expect the same from you." Harry commanded the elf.

The elf reluctantly lowered its hand as if it was forced by some invisible hand. "See only a Potter could command you to do that. Now I don't want any trouble. Lily and I will be staying here till we leave for Hogwarts. I don't ask much. Just do as you normally would. Also I believe Lily's birthday is coming up and I would like to have a cake for her if that isn't much trouble. I could never cook them right. They always fell in the oven." Harry told the elf.

Larry bowed his head. "I understand, Master. I will do as you command. What time would Master like breakfast and dinner to be served at?"

"I think breakfast will be fine at about nine o'clock and dinner at about six would be good." Harry went to dismiss the elf when he added, "Oh and Larry call me Harry, just never mention Potter. You may go now."

"Thank you, Master P…Master Harry. And, Master, Larry is sorry for how he treated you earlier. Larry saw you and didn't recognize you. Me thought you were here to rob my Master's stuff. I will go now." Larry said and bowed and with a crack disappeared.

Harry sighed in relief. He then opened the door and went down stairs to find Lily. She was in the den reading a book. When she heard the door open she looked up.

"What took you so long, Harry?" She asked curiously.

"It turns out there was a family house-elf. I had to convince him I was part of the family." Harry said shrugging his shoulders.

"So what are we going to do for the rest of the day?" Lily asked returning to her book.

"Relax, I guess. Larry should have dinner ready in about an hour. I'm going to look through some books I got in Diagon Ally and the private study upstairs." Harry said.

Lily just mumbled and waved her hand as she kept reading the book she had started.

Harry chuckled. She was a lot like Hermione when she got started on an interesting book. "Well I'll see you at dinner."

Lily mumbled something else, so Harry just left and went back upstairs and entered his private house.

Harry spent the hour before dinner looking through the texts that had been in the small private library. One of the first volumes he looked through had been on wards.

When the hour was up, Harry heard a crack.

"Master Harry dinner is being ready now. I will now go inform Ms. Lily now." Larry disappeared with a crack.

Harry shook his head. He would never get use to the quirky personality that most house-elves had.

Harry made his way down the dining room. Lily was already there. They say down and ate dinner not really talking much. They both finished and they then went back to what they were doing.

Harry looked through a few more books on wards, one of which was on the Fidelus Charm. He then moved on to the books on more advanced magic. He was able to find the unknown spell he had cast in Diagon Ally.

It was called Emerald Lightening. It shot emerald flames in the shape of a lightening bolt. It will catch anything it touches on fire, and the flames were extremely difficult to dispel.

He was also able to find the shield he had used. I was on extremely old shield that required a lot of power to be useful. But, to those that were powerful enough it could be strong enough to hold up against almost any spell short of the Unforgiveables and several other unblockable spells.

Harry started to feel tired around nine. He got a pair of pajamas out of the dresser he had put his clothes in. He grabbed a book on Quidditch that Ron had given him for Christmas one year and lied in bed reading when he heard a knock at the door.

"Come in." He called out.

Lily came in. She was in her pajamas and her red hair was still dripping a little bit from her shower.

"I just wanted to say good night." She told him.

"I've been meaning to ask, when is your birthday?" Harry asked her.

"Its three days on the fourth. Why do you want to know?" She asked raising an eyebrow.

"It just seems to be a hassle to have you always using my wand and plus it will be easier to get around if you can learn to apparate. Side-along apparition tends to take a bit out of you." Harry said with a smile.

Lily shook her head and obviously didn't entirely believe his excuse. "Well, goodnight."

"Goodnight and Larry is serving breakfast at nine." Harry said waving her off.

Lily backed out the door and shut it.

That night when Harry fell asleep there wasn't a smile on his face. Instead it slowly worsened first to a scowl of anger and then into a deep frown. In Harry's head he had started out seeing what he thought Voldemort might be doing in the future with both him and Dumbledore gone. It had pissed him off, but he realized there was nothing he could do for them but try and change the future for the better since he was trapped in the past.

Then Harry started reliving all his worst memories like he had his own personal army of Dementors surrounding him, but not giving him the mercy of nothingness by sucking out his soul.

Outside of Harry's head he eventually started to sob, and as the memories got worse so did his sobs. Eventually it turned into one of his nightmares of old and he was thrashing and yelling in his bed. The entire time he didn't wake.

It got so loud that Lily had even awoken. She rushed from her room and into Harry's. She tried calling out his name, but it didn't wake him. And, there was no point in shaking him he was already thrashing violently.

Running out of ideas on what to do she spotted his wand on the table. She picked up off the table and pointed it at him, "Aquamenti!"

A spurt of water shot out of the wand and hit Harry, but Harry didn't wake. He keep thrashing as his screams got even loader.

Lily had thought that would work. Not sure what else to do she raised the wand again and shouted over his screams, "Ennervate!"

A blinding light issued from the wand and hit Harry. Phoenix song filled the room and Harry shot up awake with tears stopping, but they were still there ready to be shed on moments notice.

"Are you ok?" Lily asked in a little voice. Harry was sitting up in bed with his chest bare.

"Ya. Just nightmares." Harry said looking away wiping his eyes clear.

"Do you want to talk about them? It helps sometimes to share your troubles with others." Lily said looking back Harry fighting her embarrassment because of his bare chest.

Harry looked up and momentarily stared into the depths of her eyes. It only lasted for a second, but to Harry it seemed like an eternity.

He looked away and said, "No. I'm fine. I was just seeing some things that I never wanted to see again. I'll be fine. I don't want to trouble with my silly problems."

"They obviously aren't so silly. Trust me you shouldn't hold all it in. I made the same mistake. When my p…parents died, I," She stopped for a second fighting her tears. She started back again after a stifled sob, "When they died, I had horrible nightmares. All I had was Petunia left and she hated me. I thought there was nothing left. The nightmares got worse. That was the toughest summer I have ever had to go through. I almost didn't return to Hogwarts, but it was the only thing I had left besides Petunia."

Harry was looking at her with a saddened expression. When they had talked earlier about herself, she had avoided the subject of the summer when her parents had died. Harry could even tell at that time that it had been a hard time. But, from what he could tell something had changed early on in that school year.

Lily didn't notice Harry staring at her and she continued her story, "When I returned to Hogwarts, I continued having nightmares. They never got any better. I didn't have any friends, not true friends at least. I was the nerd. That and James Potter always drove away any guy that ever tried to befriend me. I withdrew from the school almost completely. McGonagall even tried to talk to me, but I ignored her. I started to become trapped in my own head. All I had was the nightmares. I missed so many classes that one day McGonagall came to the common room and told her. I did. I didn't pay attention to anything we were passing. Eventually she pushed me onto a staircase that moved spiraling up. We came to a door and she pushed me through and then went back down the stairs." She stopped again to draw a shuddering breath.

Harry knew she was in Dumbledore's office. He wasn't sure what was happening, but he just stayed quiet. He had only ever lost Sirius and even then they hadn't been as close as Lily had been to her parents. Harry couldn't even imagine how she had felt.

Lily continued, "Professor Dumbledore was in the office. He asked me to sit down in a chair in front of his fire. He came over and sat in the other chair, and we both stared into the fire. After a few minutes of silence he started, 'Ms. Evans, I know this is a hard time for you. You have lost your parents, and from what I can tell your sister isn't… the most pleasant person in the world. I hate to see such a wonderful student, as yourself, just throw your life away like this.' Dumbledore let me think about that for a second. I'm not sure why I did it, there is just something about Dumbledore that makes it natural to trust him, but I told him about my nightmares that I was having. He just sat there and listened to me about all my nightmares. I told him how I would get lost even in my waking hours in the images that I saw at night. After I was done he gave me grandfatherly smile and said, 'I'm proud of you Ms. Evans. The first step in dealing with our problems is talking about them. I believe there is a way that we can help you with your nightmares also.' He got up and he went over to a bookshelf and pulled at a small book. 'Take this book, Ms. Evans. It should help you deal with your nightmares and your problem of being sucked into your memories during the times better spent in class or with friends. You may keep the book if you like. I have so many that I doubt I will miss it very much.' After that I started to feel a little better. I read the book he had given me and it was actually over Occlumency. The exercises organize your thoughts and it helps you to control your dreams or at least block them out." Lily finished her story.

Harry just watched her. At first she looked as if she might cry, but when she started to talk about Dumbledore she started to sober back up and a small smile even crept onto her face at the end.

After a moment of silence Lily shook herself, "I'm sorry I shouldn't have said all that, but if you ever need to talk I'll listen. I think I'll also start teaching you Occlumency exercises tomorrow. For some reason I think this is a common occurrence for you." Lily didn't wait for a reply. She turned around and walked out the door closing it behind her.

Harry sat thinking for a little while about what she had told him. He would have loved to share what his dreams had been about, but he couldn't tell her most of them. It would reveal more about him than he wanted to share at the time.

Harry couldn't get back sleep. Harry got up and picked up his want that Lily had dropped when she had cast the spell to wake him up. Harry got dressed and grabbed some of the books that he wanted to start learning from.

Earlier when he had been reading through the personal library in the master suite, he had come across a book that detailed all the features of the house from the wards that had been cast to the underground training area that made up the house. He thought that it would be the perfect place to train for the summer.

Harry made his way down to the den and opened the hidden trap door and descended into the stone room.

A/N: Well there is the third chapter of my story. I hope that everyone will enjoy it. This is the longest chapter so far, which isn't saying much. I know I said this would be the rest of summer, but I was writing and there is a bit more that I want to add to the summer than I had originally planned on. I will make sure to finish the summer in the next chapter and after that it will be the train ride and maybe the first day of classes. I'm trying to keep chapters to seven or eight pages. That way even if I think of more I have something for the next chapter. On another note, I have decided, over the three days of writing this chapter, that I could use a beta reader. If you are interested please send me an email or I might open my Yahoo! Group back up and you can post there. The only requirement is that you have a good understanding of the cannon so far and that you are pretty good with grammar. Those are my main problems in my opinion. I have read so many fics sometimes I confuse parts of them with actual cannon, plus you can make sure I keep characters the way they are suppose to be. Well I won't say anymore. I'll start working on the next chapter probably later today.