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A/N Can I just say how embarrassed I am. I mean, my first chapter was 420-something words without the A/Ns. That's so bloody small! And the second, though better, only 1,200-something words, which is still very small, compared to the 5,000+ chapters from fanfics I was reading.

So, I've decided that from now on my goal is to reach more than 2k words per chapter. From there I'll make my goals bigger and better. Hope you like this chapter!

Molly, for some reason, decided to take it upon herself to make sure that her future family (not that she knows they are) doesn't go hungry. In other words, making so much food that it would've fed one Hogwarts' houses. The time travelers were used to her overbearing tendencies, so everything was ok. Well, ok until the events of the last hour caught up with them.

"We've traveled back in time." That statement, said by our favorite metamorphamagus (well, future favorite considering the fact that Tonks, sadly, dies) made them all realize how problematic their situation is. Even if they could prevent altering the timeline (which they kind of could, considering how good Hugo is with the Memory Charm), they still had to find a way to go "back to the future". Pun kinda intended.

"Well, we can use a time turner, right?" Lily Luna half suggested and half asked.

"Yeah, we can, if we had one," pointed out Rose.

"Maybe. . .Maybe we can go through that vortex thingy again!" James exclaimed after swallowing his bite of chicken. "Wait a second. . .Hugo, how in the name of Merlin's pants did you come across a vortex?" At this, everyone paused and looked at him, even Molly.

"Oh, well, I was going to our Quidditch Supply Room to get some brooms so we can play Quidditch. I shrunk only 8 brooms because I know Vicky doesn't like to play, and put them in my pocket. I was going to go down the stairs when that vortex thing went right through the roof and was right in front of me. That's when I screamed for help and started getting swallowed by it." Hugo shuddered at this. "And that's something I don't EVER want to experience again. It felt like I was getting squished and stretched, like that thing that Mom gave us when we were little. I think it was called Plado. No, that's not right. . .Playdo! Yeah, that's it. Anyway, I thought that my life flashed before my eyes, because I saw all the delicious food I've ever eaten, and that day where I got mentally scarred for life when I-" Hugo got cut off when Rose slapped him on the back and he started choking.

"What was that for?" Hugo asked when he recomposed himself, glaring at Rose. If looks could kill, I think Rose would have ended up choking like Hugo did just seconds before.

"Didn't want you to ruin any of our lives any more than you already did," retorted Rose. Hugo opened his mouth, probably to say that no, he did NOT ruin any of their lives and that it was unfair that she was blaming him. Of course, he never got to say that.

"ANYWAY," Scorpius said, hurriedly changing the conversation before it turned into an argument, which it was. "We need to find another way back. Or forward. You know what I mean. Anyway, we have to start brainstorming ideas. Does anyone know any spells, rituals, and anything like that that can help us get back home." As he said this, he looked hopefully at Teddy, considering the fact that he researches these kinds of things.

Teddy sighed regretfully as he said, "No, I don't have anything. Rose?"

"If you can't come up with something, then I definitely don't "have anything"."

"Maybe we can help," Hermione said as she entered the kitchen, followed by most of the Order. It turns out that Dumbledore went into a coma after Lily mentioned Harry's horcrux, so Bill and Kingsley were to take him to Madam Pomfrey, since St Mungos is being watched by the Ministry. Snape (obviously) thinks that this is all Potter's fault, so he left for Hogwarts with Minerva in tow. Something about getting a headache potion from Poppy. That left Mad-Eye, Sirius, Remus, Tonks, Arthur, the Golden Trio, and the rest of the Weasley children (minus Charlie and Percy, of course).

"Unless you have a time turner dangling from your neck, I don't think you can help," Fred said as he served himself seconds.

As Hermione was opening her mouth to say who-knows-what, Scorpius snapped his fingers and shouted, "I think I've got it!" Once everyone was paying attention, he said, "You know how sometimes when we (Al, Rose, and I) go to the Room of Requirement to relax/study/play Exploding Snap, and after a little while get hungry? But of course because of Gampy's Something Something Law of Transfiguration, the Room can't conjure up food, so-" Scorpius, of course, was interrupted by the very knowledgeable redhead on his right.

"One, it's Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration, which I know you already know," Rose said exasperatedly. "And two, why are you talking about us getting hungry in the Room of Requirement? This is a time of crisis, not of talking about the Room of Requirement's inability to create food! Honestly, I'd expect this from Fred or James!"

"Yes, I know Rose. But that's not the point I'm trying to make. The point is that we asked the Room to create a pathway to the kitchens so we can get some food from there. And it worked! Coupled with the fact that it doesn't show up on the Marauder's Map," cue Remus + Sirius + Weasley twins + Golden Trio's surprised faces, "and that it has magic involving time," here he put heavy emphasis on the word, "and space! Don't you see where I'm going with this?" Most did not, but before he could explain, he was cut off yet again.

"Wait a second, so you're saying that we should ask the Room of Requirement to give us a way back home, in the future?" asked a disbelieving, but slightly hopeful Victoire.

"YES! Exactly that! And besides, it's our only option, isn't it?" Scorpius said to the many faces on heads with bodies in front of him. Yes, I just wrote that. "But if we're going to go through with my plan, we're going to have to find the quickest way of travel to Hogwarts possible. After that, we can go to the infirmary and obliviate Dumbledore, Bill, and Kingsley, find Snape and Professor McGonagall and do the same! Of course, sometime before we leave here, we would have to memory charm them," he pointed at 1995 Grimmauld's residents, "and ta da, we're done!"

The time travelers weren't all that enthusiastic with Scorp's somewhat shaky plan, but it was the only plan they've got, so they were going to have to go through with it. But before they did, they needed to find a way to go to Warts of Hog, so they started fishing out ideas.

"How about we floo there?" suggested turquoise-haired Teddy.

"No, the Ministry is monitoring all floo networks, including Hogwarts'," answered Arthur as he took on a pensive expression.

Al snapped his fingers. "What about a portkey?"

"The Ministry is monitoring portkeys as well," Moody answered as his magical eye stared Albus Severus up and down.

"The Knight Bus?" Sirius said as he grabbed a plate and started piling the food on it.

"No, they probably have Death Eater or Ministry spies," Remus said tiredly, as if the thought itself drained his energy (though it was probably the fact that the full moon was coming up).

"Oh, oh! What about apparition?" shouted Ron excitedly, as if he's solved one of the world's problems.

"Ronald, you can't Apparate to Hogwarts! There are wards preventing apparition and other modes of transportation. It's in Hogwarts, A History. Honestly, don't you guys read?" came the obviously expected reply from a certain bushy-haired girl.

"How am I supposed to remember that if I haven't ever read it! At least I haven't suggested flying a bloody car!" However the argument was stopped shortly after someone shouted:

"I've got it!" With all eyes on the Boy-Who-Lived, he fidgeted but said again with much more certainty, "I've got it. How about we fly to Hogwarts! No, not with a flying car, Ron, with brooms, like how the Order brought me from Privet Drive: we flew here! From what Hugo said earlier, you all probably know how to fly, so that means that this should be easy for you." He looked at everyone, determined to send his maybe-children (but hopefully not) and relatives home, then asked, "How 'bout it?"

I, personally, think that they could have come up with a better, more comfortable idea. However, that's all they've got, and that's all I've got, so they'll have to go with it. Alastor, though still wary, helped Remus and Tonks put concealment charms on all the time travelers so that they wouldn't be seen when flying to Hogwarts, which Arthur informed them should take about 2 hours considering the brooms they were using.

Once everyone was ready (everyone meaning the 2020 time travelers, Moody, and Tonks), Hugo took his wand out, ready to perform the Memory Charm on Harry, Ron, Hermione, Dead-Uncle-Gred, Forge, Ginny, Sirius, Remus, Molly, and Arthur.

"Any last words?" Hugo said ominously. He obviously watches way too many movies.

"Actually, yeah-" however Sirius was interrupted.

"Oh! Yes! Did I expand S.P.E.W.? Did it work? Did we win? Is You-Know-Who dead? If so, how? Was Sirius given a trial and declared free? Is Harry happy? Is everything peaceful? Were all the Death Eaters captured? Why were you guys in Grimmauld place in the first place? Wait, did Harry inherit this place? Why? Wha-" Hermione's flood of questions was interrupted when Hugo, who literally couldn't take it anymore and felt like stabbing his ears, obliviated all of them and implanted memories of them sitting around and doing practically nothing for the past couple hours in their heads. After he finished spelling all of them, he muttered, mostly to himself, "Bye everyone, I'll see most of you later."

The whole group quickly (and as stealthily as possible) went outside and positioned themselves on their brooms, three of which had to be transfigured since Hugo only brought 8 brooms, and took flight.

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Since I'm not that kind of person, I'm not gonna lie to you guys and say that they had an eventful trip. It really wasn't, because other than Albus falling asleep and almost falling off his broom, and then flying into a flock of pigeons and actually falling off his broom, nothing exciting occurred. But of course, James, Fred, and Scorp are never gonna let Albus live that down. I wouldn't let him either.

Anyway, let's skip forward to them landing on Hogwarts grounds, then quickly making their way into the school and heading towards the infirmary. As they stumbled through the hallway, it was a bit crowded because 11 invisible people stumbling through the hallway were bound to start bumping into each other, whether on purpose (James & Fred) or accidental (basically everyone else). At some point during their journey to the infirmary, Fred and James decided that the Marauder's Map would help them navigate each other better. To you people who think it worked, think again. The Marauder's Map that the time travelers had works on the future Hogwarts, meaning that they saw some Professors getting ready for school, and one passing right through them, which omitted a scream from one of them (they'd totally deny that). But on with the story.

"Finally! We've made it to the infirmary!" exclaimed a very relieved Tonks, who no longer had to endure the grumbles towards her for literally stepping on all of their feet and once even tripping them (all on accident of course). She quickly disillusioned herself and anyone else she could locate.

"We'd have probably made it here faster if someone," cue pointed glare at what Lily thought Mad-Eye's general direction was, "didn't make us stay invisible for some ridiculous reason." Mad-Eye just muttered something that sounded like "Constant Vigilance" then grunted and stepped into the infirmary, wand out and ready for any sign of danger. Basically as paranoid as ever. As they all went inside, they came across Minerva, who was just leaving after drinking that headache potion.

"Wait, Minnie, don't go!" said James.

"Obliviating you guys would be easier if you were all rounded up in one place!" continued Fred.

Tonks was about to explain their situation, but McGonagall held up a hand and said, "I do not even want to know. I also think I need another one of those headache potions anyway." So together, Minnie, Moody, Tonksy, Teddy, Vicky, Freddie, Jamesy, Albie, Scorpy, Rosie, Lily, and Hugo made their way towards Dumblydore, who was unconscious (because that's kind of the definition of someone in a coma) with Kingsley and Bill talking with Madam Pomfrey about something or other that I don't care to describe.

"We have arrived!" exclaimed Hugo, just for the sake of exclamations and because, as I've stated before, watches too many movies. However, it seemed that the trio's conversation was too important to even acknowledge Hugo, so he and the rest of them, not including the trio (I'm confusing myself) went over to Dumbledore and started poking him. Then Albus, who out of nowhere got a set of markers, started drawing on his namesake's face, with almost everyone egging him on (Mad-Eye was the only one who wasn't, and after deciding that this was too childish for him, went on to join the trio and their mysterious and very important conversation).

In the end of all the madness, Dumbles had red lips, light blue "eyeshadow", a very curly yellow mustache, a semi-pink beard, bushy purple eyebrows, and an orange nose. Then, when they were decidedly done with Dumbledore's facial torture, Teddy used a very complicated spell that I don't feel the energy to explain because of how complicated and boring it is and revived Dumblydore, who was groggy and had absolutely no bloody idea what was going on.

After that, they split themselves up into two groups: the wizards and witches who flew to Hogwarts, and the wizards and witches who were already there. One quick but careful obliviate later and some memory implants of some sort or other, the time travelers + Moody and Tonks, the former insisting on them coming along because he didn't trust them do the simplest thing such as walking, slid out of the sickbay and took off running.

Then they reached the seventh floor and stood apprehensively across Barnabas the Barmy's tapestry, as if waiting for some sign.

If you asked them later, they'd say that Tonks running past where they were standing to the end of the hallway, then noticing that nobody was running with her and running all the way back, was just the "sign" they needed, and so they paced 3 times thinking the same thought that they agreed they'd all think. . .

We want a way back home to the future. A way back to 12 Grimmauld Place August 19, 2020.

A/N For what mentally scarred Hugo for life, you can fill that space up yourselves. And as for Dumbledore's makeover, I actually took a screen shot of Dumbledore and did this to him, and if you want me to make it the illustration for this story for some time, just say so and I'll do it.

Also, for those who care, my favorite line is the one about Al while he was flying.

Anyways, please give me constructive criticism and/or any general review of what you think about this story so far and if I can do anything to improve!

Now on to the next and maybe final chapter!

Date of update: 10/5/2020