Warning 3rd segment contains domestic violence

The peace in The Burrow didn't last for long though. Apparently at some point Molly had snitched, because an enraged Minerva McGonagall showed up. Rose was surprised steam hadn't been coming out of her ears. It apparently didn't take her long to determine it was true that Albus Dumbledore was alive and well, just looked different. Faulks did after all kind of give it away.

"Really Albus! You not only left us alone when we needed you the most, you let us all think you were dead!"

"And I've told you I'm sorry Minerva. I really am. I didn't have another choice in the matter. Things had to play out the way they did. All of time and space could have been destroyed or at least unrecognisably altered if it didn't."

"I don't know about 'time and space' but seriously, you should see the state Hogwarts is still in. Firstly some of the wards have been broken and no one can fix them because no one has ever seen runes like them before. Secondly we found this coral-like substance growing over the missing patches of wall, then actually checked the walls and found it's growing behind or between every wall and no one knows what it is. It's stalled things so much as it baffles the experts we don't know if we'll be ready to open by next September. We were already supposed to open last September as it is. Then I still need to find a transfigurations professor, and a Defence Against The Dark Arts Professor. No one wants the job for the last one. No one is willing to test if the position is still cursed now Tom Riddle is dead."

"I'll test it," Ross spoke up.

"Really Severus as much as I'd love you to do so, you are still wanted for his murder." McGonagall pointed at Dumbledore.

"I've told you, that's not who I am anymore."

"Yes well, Rossadel-whatever—"

"Rossadelaser," he corrected.

"Yes, well you've done enough to fool the casual eye but you still look like Severus Snape. Besides all your credentials are in that name, and don't think you'll get away with using psychic paper the Aurors will look for that," Minerva explained.

"Ah yes… that brings me to the other reason you both came here today," the Doctor added as he started rummaging around in his coat pocket. He then pulled out two large envelopes and handed them to Ross and Albus. "You both stated your wish to stay on in this time period for now, but needed identification. Along our adventures before getting here I talked to some old friends in UNIT. That's everything you both need to start a new life. Birth certificates, the qualifications you both asked for both muggle and magical, Gringotts vaults, it's surprising how generous the goblins get when you mention the shadow proclamation. What else? Oh yes drivers licences, magical and muggle passports, you're both registered animagi so you'll not get in trouble if you shape shift, medical records, dental records, and even some unpaid parking tickets so you don't look too clean on a background check."

"Great. I'm desperate. So Professor?" Minerva McGonagall asked Ross with a raised eyebrow.

Rossadelaser looked at the Doctor. "I hate you."

"No you don't," he replied laughing.

"Professor Ross Fisk Oranda," Ross replied to Minerva.

"What's so bad about that?" McGonagall asked, confused.

"Ross is what they nicknamed me in the Prydonian Time Lord Academy, because it may be a common non offensive name in English but in Gallifreyan the same word is a type of fish that tastes quite delicious but stinks. Fisk is an Old English name meaning 'A Fish', and an Oranda is a type of goldfish. What did I ever do to you Doctor?"

"You made a whole galaxy call me Theta Sigma," The Doctor accused. "This is just payback."

"Oh yea…. I'd forgotten about that. I mean come on it wasn't that bad, it was after all only a very small galaxy," Ross replied.

"Well this in comparison is after all, just a minuscule speck of a solar system," The Doctor shot back.

"So what's your new name Albus?" Minerva McGonagall asked to change the subject before an argument erupted.

"Albus Lionel Gryphon. I take it since I'm not sure where my animagi registration is in this lot just yet, you registered my golden griffin form."

"Yes well it would have been hard to explain you having that and a phoenix form. Golden griffin is what you are naturally, Faulks is the only reason you can also turn into a phoenix," The Doctor answered. "I've sneakily got myself added under John Smith as a wolf while I'm at it. Since Rose is still using the credentials she's already gotten as Rose Tyler she's going to have to go through proper channels to register."

"I could fix the wards, but honestly my Old High Gallifreyan isn't as good as it used to be which was clumsy to start with," Albus told Minerva. "I will help as best I can of course. As for the coral, it's part of the living organism Hogwarts is made out of. It's good to know she's healing."

"Living organism, how by Merlin do you know that?" McGonagall couldn't help but ask.

"Actually the Doctor has nothing to do with how I know that. Right Merlin?" Albus asked, eyes twinkling.

The Doctor rolled his eyes. "Well Godric Gryffindor, I happened to be stuck in a multi universal circular paradox that made me have to be Merlin. Are you still going to gloat about rescuing me from being sealed in the ice caverns by Morgana?"

"Wait… you're Merlin?" Harry asked incredulously.

"Yes…. And most of what you've been told about me is a huge exaggeration. Also any of those old blood families claiming to be able to date their families back to me are lying. Well unless any of my kids or grandkids back on Gallifrey got up to something they were not telling me about anyway," the Doctor answered, rubbing the back of his neck.

"Great, great, great, great, great grandkids last count I heard," Rose added.

"Way to make me feel old Rose," he shot back somewhat embarrassed. "Anyway the point is, he knows all about Hogwarts because he helped build it in the first place."

"And I used a sentient coral-like life form that should encompass the entire castle by now, and is very protective of her charges. If it wasn't for the Time War sapping her strength Riddle would never have managed to sneak a horcrux in in the first place, and kept that ruddy great big snake of Salazar's contained in his 'secret room'. Rose would be better at fixing the wards though. She did spend a few centuries as a member of the Pythia on Karn. They studied those things extensively along with healing," Albus explained.

"Yea I could fix and improve the wards but it will take me a while. I always was better at warding than healing. I'll do it in exchange for fake animagus training Headmistress McGonagall." Rose agreed.

"Fake training?" McGonagall asked Rose.

"Well I don't need real training, I already can change into an animal. I just need the ministry to think I've gone through it all," Rose replied. "Also I'll need to stay at Hogwarts since that's where I'll have to spend my time. Shouldn't take more than four months."

"Four months?" The Doctor whined.

"You can always skip ahead and pick me up then. After all I know you couldn't sit still that long without getting board," Rose said ever so innocently.

"I can so sit still for that long. I've managed to stay on earth longer than that," the Doctor stated with confidence and bravado.

"Yes, when your TARDIS was disabled by the Time Lords," Rose taunted back.

"You're on Rose Tyler, I'll show you I can stay for however long it takes without skipping ahead."

"Loser has to go back and talk on an Art Bell show during one of his time traveler hotlines," Rose joked.

"You're on. Tell him all about the year 2020, they'll never believe any of it until it happens." The Doctor stated.

"Fine," Rose agreed.

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Hogwarts weeks later...

Rose Tyler was actually having fun remaking the wards. She discovered Albus was right when he said his Old High Gallifreyan was pretty bad. So she decided she had to start again from scratch on some of them. It was precision work to ward runic arrays to cover the whole of Hogwarts, and she carved it into the coral where possible.

'At least you're on a time-space rift. Not as powerful as the one in Cardiff but should be enough to keep you charged up and the runes working,' she told the old castle as she carved one of the roughly four hundred and twenty places she needed to put runes on for just the anti-apparition wards alone. She had removed a whole set of stone blocks inside the Slytherin common room to do so in order to get to the coral behind it.

'It still isn't as good as the central eye of harmony on Gallifrey,' Hogwarts shot back. They had been having this argument for weeks now. The castle was depressed and hurt and kept looking for the negatives while Rose would point out the positives. 'What is that you're adding?'

'Oh just some anti dark wizard measures. I'm going to do so in all of the common rooms since despite the rumours to the contrary there has been dark wizards to come out of every house. Just because the humans don't know how to ward against the 'unforgivables' don't mean I don't. When I'm done no one should be able to cast any of them anywhere in this castle. Just one of the many improvements I'm making.'

'What if the humans see you? They're not supposed to know how to do that yet.'

'Why do you think I've only been adding them and the others they're not supposed to know about whenever Professor Flitwick or Babbling isn't here, and turned any paintings around so they can't see anything either.' Rose finished with everything she needed to do in the Slytherin common room and used her magic to repair the wall making it seem like nothing had ever been removed from that area. She put protesting portraits back to rights then headed toward the next place she needed to go. She was also a little grateful Harry let her borrow the Marauders Map while she did this. It's so easy to get lost around here. She looked down at the map and saw a series of Gallifreyan runes marked on it that spelled out the Doctor's name, and it was headed her way.

They both rounded the corner and nearly ran into each other quite literally, thanks to neither really paying attention. "Is that the Marauders Map?"

"Yep. Harry lent it to me when I said I'd probably end up getting lost since I'm gonna end up all over the castle."

"What name do I show up as, on there?" He was genuinely curious, Rose just turned the map towards him and showed it. "Now that. That is scary. Probably a good thing only one that's using the map and can read Gallifreyan is yourself."

"It's got mine on there too," Rose added, "I wonder if it had Rose Tyler as my name on there when human or did they see a whole bunch of what would just be squiggles to Harry and Ron. I'm assuming it said Rose Tyler since Ross showed up as Severus Snape…. Wait…. Are you saying you're okay with me knowing your actual name?"

"Sure. Only fair since I now know yours," he replied, trying to go for nonchalant but came out as embarrassed and awkward instead. "If you don't mind that I now know yours of course... We could force ourselves to forget if you are more comfortable…. I mean since you changed back to Time Lady I thought that you weren't into me anymore, and I can't seem to stop myself from talking… I'm sor—"

The Doctor was abruptly silenced by Rose pushing him up against the dungeon corridor, grabbing onto the lapels of his jacket, reaching up on her tiptoes and quite thoroughly snogging him speechless.

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Elsewhere in Hogwarts…

Harry really didn't know what had gotten into him lately but he found himself hanging out with Snape or now Rossadelaser every day. He had to admit the man was nothing like the Potion's Professor he had known for seven years. Not only had he changed his name and styled his hair differently, he started wearing bright colours all the time. After all Severus Snape would never be seen dead or alive in such clothing, or so Ross claimed. His disguise seemed to genuinely work as well, no one seemed to recognise him. Not even Neville who had taken over the Hogwarts greenhouses after the death of Professor Sprout. Harry wasn't going to tell him either. Especially since he insisted on tutoring both of them in potions, passing on really helpful hints and made sure to keep it interesting so both of them didn't let their minds wander. Surprisingly they both had found they now actually liked the subject and were good at it.

Harry showed up in a mood and with a backpack outside Rossadelaser's quarters in Hogwarts one morning. It had been two months since Rose had shown back up in his life with time lords in toe changing his life forever. If someone had told him just three months ago he'd show up on Snape's doorstep looking for somewhere to stay he'd have laughed at them. Really though he didn't have anywhere else to go right now. Hermione had abruptly decided to go live with her parents in Australia four months ago, although he has his suspicions why she did now. Remus had made it through the war but Tonks hadn't and was busy looking after a baby and didn't need him showing up. He'd start sleeping in a muggle tent under an overpass before going back to the Dursleys. That only really left Ross.

Ross opened his door and took in the state Harry was in right now. "What happened?"

"I was practicing using that potion for detecting if things are drugged. I put some of the tea Ginny made me in it to show her. Only instead of showing the negative result I was expecting it turns out she's been dosing me with amortentia. I'm pretty sure she's been doing so since sixth year. I'm just glad we hadn't got married yet because my bride-to-be has been secretly dosing me with a love potion for years. I need to find somewhere to stay. Mr and Mrs Weasley are appalled by what Ginny did, they all are except for Ron my so called best friend, but I just can't stand to be near her in that house right now."

"Ah. I'm really sorry to hear that. What about the few weeks you spent galavanting across the time space continuum getting in trouble with the Doctor and Rose? I know you need to be dosed daily with that stuff, or when looking for horcruxes?"

"I honestly didn't think about her much at all until I got back. Both times she was very quick to give me food or something to drink when I got back."

"Well I've got the perfect remedy for a broken heart," Ross declared as he ushered Harry inside and pulled out a bottle of fire whisky and handed it to him as he picked up another bottle which said 'ginger flavour'. "We're gonna get well and truly drunk, then find you a place to stay until September tomorrow. Minerva should be back by then, I can ask her if you can stay for a while, but I doubt she'll let you stay the whole time. It's to do with resetting the wards, but who knows she might. After all, Rose along with the Doctor, has done much to improve them already. Might no longer need to vacate for at least a week every year."

Harry barely listened, as his mind wandered and he also spotted a lot of bottles of ginger ale, crumbs of ginger cake and bread, ginger tea, and basically anything edible with ginger in it. "What's with all the ginger?"

"Oh… Yes well it takes a lot of alcohol to get a time lord drunk. What actually does work like alcohol to us is ginger, believe it or not."

"I can. There's something about ginger I've always had a reaction to unlike anyone else does. Makes me fuzzy headed, stagger, remove my brain to mouth filter, and gives me headaches later. Yet I could drink this entire bottle and not be affected."

"Hmm. There must be more gallifreyan in you than we thought," Ross spoke while swapping the bottle of fire whiskey Harry was holding for another one this time with added ginger, "Genetics can be strange things when it comes to hybrids, and I know gallifreyan genes are normally dominant within four generations out when crossing with humans. Quite fascinating. We're going to need to sweet talk the Doctor's TARDIS into letting us in to do scans. I'm actually curious now. I've finished the basics of making my own TARDIS now but it still needs lots of equipment like medical scanners. Have you ever had a reaction to aspirin?"

"Actually yes," Harry replied a little confused and startled by the question. "When I was five. I remember it so clearly despite my age at the time. It was one of the very few times I've been sick. I'd had a bad flu and my temperature was so high I'd actually been hallucinating on and off. Aunt Petunia wanted to take me to a doctor but Uncle Vernon was adamant I stay in my cupboard and not infect Dudley. So all she really could do was give me some aspirin. Some fifteen minutes later I started to swell up and couldn't breathe. Uncle Vernon didn't want to get me help, just be rid of me, but Aunt Petunia called '999' and got an ambulance then set me up on the sofa like I had been there the whole time. I got admitted to the hospital and was there for a week. I apparently almost died from the aspirin then later from the flu."

"I really need to give your 'Aunt' and 'Uncle' a good long talking to. You know what let's go now!"

"Wait what?" Harry asked incredulously as he followed Ross into his wardrobe which turned out to be a TARDIS in disguise. For the first time Harry noticed the time lord seemed to be somewhat inebriated.

Ross just started to run around the central console and flip switches and turn dials as the TARDIS took off. He didn't say anything as they landed. They appeared to be in Private Drive to Harry when he followed him out and the wardrobe had turned into a car. He could tell they were still in the time they had just left though because there was a newspaper with today's date on it rolled up and sitting on the front step of number four.

"Rossadelaser, I don't think this is a good idea," Harry said as the other man was going to knock.

The sound of an argument was going on inside. They heard things crashing and being thrown. Then there was a piercing scream of a woman inside. "Tuney?" Ross asked no one in particular. Harry seemed to have frozen, probably having some sort of flashback. He took a deep breath to calm himself. Rossadelaser then took advantage of the fact his body as a time lord was so much stronger as he made a run at the door and bust it open as he rammed his shoulder against the edge it opened on. His adrenaline was high, he didn't feel a thing even though he had a large splinter of a door now sticking into his shoulder.

He made his way into the kitchen where things had been turned upside down and lots of smashed glass and crockery lay around. Petunia Dursley was cowering behind the upturned table covered in cuts and bruises, with Vernon enraged and holding a very large kitchen knife. This got Ross' blood boiling and he even forgot he had magic as he rushed Vernon Dursley and took him to the ground in a rugby tackle. They fought over the knife for a bit until Ross managed to get it off of him and threw to the far side of the kitchen. He struggled to keep the man pinned and yelled out, "Harry!"

This shook Harry out of his stupor and he ran into the house and joined him in the kitchen. Thinking quickly he moved to the cupboard under the stairs he had once lived in and pulled out a really long extension lead that had been there for as long as he remembers. He picked up one of the kitchen chairs and set it down beside where Ross was wrestling with Vernon. "Let's get him up on the chair so we can tie him up. Don't want to use magic because someone might have called the police by now after you kicked the door down. If Dumbledore was still Dumbledore, I've no doubt Mrs Fig would have contacted him as well, so she might reach out to someone in the order instead."

"Right. Help me up with this worthless lump of lard then."

Harry did as asked and they wrestled Vernon into the chair then tied him up, protesting and name calling the whole time. Vernon glared at them both. "What do you think you're doing!"

"Stopping you from killing my Aunt it looks like," Harry shot back angrily. He moved over to where she was hiding and coaxed her out. "Are you okay Aunt Petunia?"

"He threatened to kill me and this time he meant it," she replied.

"How long has this been going on Tuney?" Ross asked.

"I know you…."

"Well we were children last time we met. Back in Spinners End. I've also cut and dyed my hair since then."

"Sev?" She asked and he nodded. "What are you doing here?"

"Got mildly intoxicated and decided it was a good idea to have an argument about how you both treated Harry as a kid. Harry came along to probably stop me."

"I'm sorry Harry. He used you as a scapegoat, and if I showed any affection he'd beat me for it. I'm sorry about all the times I locked you up, but at least if you were locked away you were safe from him. I've tried my best to keep both you and Dudley from knowing."

Vernon tried to say something but couldn't because at some point it seems like someone had taped his mouth shut.

"So if the police don't show up, is there anything you'd like me to do with him? I can not harm him but leave him somewhere far away with no memory," Ross asked.

"Don't be silly, you will just get into trouble with your lot that way," Petunia replied, feeling a little more confident.

"You know how my parents died. My father, the drunk he was, was always abusing me or my mother. Eventually he killed her, then himself. Although that part was more drunken accident than suicide. I was only in fifth year at the time, and it messed me up worse than ever. If Lily knew I'd let you suffer the same fate she'd somehow manage to hex me within an inch of my life from beyond the grave," Ross stated, playing the part he'd lived as Severus Snape one more time to get through to her.

"No I'm going to call the police, get this bastard behind bars where he belongs," she replies and then goes to call the police.

They stayed there and when the police came gave their statements. Vernon was taken away and Harry went to the hospital in the ambulance with his Aunt Petunia. She had suffered a number of injuries that needed to be treated and documented. He called Dudley who was at university to tell him what was going on, and he rushed to the hospital himself. Both Harry and Dudley offered to stay with Petunia to help her out around the house when she gets out of hospital. Ultimately she decided to only take Harry up on the offer because he currently needed somewhere to stay. Dudley had his own place near the university and would be in better condition to get to classes from there.

Rossadelaser stayed at Number 4 Private Drive to 'clean up' once the police were finished and had refused all treatment for the splinter stuck in his arm and had simply pulled it out and healed it when everyone was gone. At least cleaning and repairing had been easy since he could use magic.

By the time he had finished he had made everything look as if nothing had ever happened, then commenced with his real reason for staying behind. He looked through the house for any of Lily's things Petunia may have kept, finding a few forgotten boxes full of things in the roof space.

He had no luck though, Naomi's watch was not among them. If he could find that watch and her soul was still in there he could bring her back. Not through the dark methods Tom Riddle had used to do so. No the watches were different and if someone died when under a chameleon arch it was possible if the bio container for the soul was still intact, to resurrect them through Time Lord science.

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Luna University, 42nd Century

Bernice Summerfield hadn't meant to fall in love again. She really hadn't. It's just meeting Miles at the bar that night had turned into agreeing to meet up again for coffee the next afternoon, then drinks at the bar the next night, then going to see the new hollo movie remake of Return of the Jedi, and before she knew it they were dating. It had been going on for months now, and she was actually really happy. She just couldn't help waiting for the proverbial shoe to drop. There was something off about him that she could never quite put her finger on. She also had to shut up her inner voice every time it whispered how much he was like Brax, her friend Brax, before he'd gone crazy. Or even Irving back on Legion. But he was definitely human. She couldn't help thinking she was forgetting something important relating to that.

Miles was autistic and had trouble making connections with people even if his condition was mild enough to get through life relatively normally. So the few genuine friends he had were happy for him. That he'd managed to find someone he just clicked with so well, and loved so much, and was loved by in return.

Benny sat in on one of his lectures since she was free at the moment, and he kept doing it to her so she figured, turn about was fair play. She couldn't help but laugh at his antics, he was directing and instructing students, but at the same time kept doing silly things to make her laugh. He deliberately over acted a part in a flamboyant manner as an aside on what not to do. Read out another part but deliberately changed the name of the lead female to Benny. Cracked some jokes that were so corny she couldn't help but laugh at.

She had a friend she'd met through him who taught potions in the magical side of the university. She had long red hair and green eyes. She decided to come with her to sit in on the lecture and she was laughing too. "Really Benny, you could always run away now and I'll distract him. He's a bit crazy after all."

"I'd not do that Lily. I'm afraid it's too late for me. I only wish it won't end up in heartbreak. With either him leaving me when in twenty years time and I've not aged a day while he has, or when he eventually dies on me."

"You're quite morbid today."

"Sorry I can't seem to help it. Just, seemingly I never can manage to stay happy in a relationship for so long. Even with my previous husband Jason, we had our fair share of ups and downs. Probably more down than up if I'm honest. I guess it's just left me suspicious even all this time later, when everything is going along so well. I'm just old and jaded."

It wasn't long until the lecture was over and they sat on until Miles came up to them. "So what brings me the honour of the company of two such lovely ladies."

"I just followed Benny here, then noticed how crazy you actually are and have been trying to convince her to run for the hills. Unfortunately it seems she is too far gone so she's stuck with you," Lily told him.

"I may be crazy but at least I'm medicated," Miles sang out and laughed as he sat down beside Benny and put an arm around her as she unconsciously leaned into him. "That's from another one of those 21st century indie bands I found, Louden Swain."

"What is it with you and your weird taste in music," Lily joked, "Your tastes are all over the place with both that and art."

It was true, the man just seemed to enjoy all forms of art. Everything from classical, to ostentatious, to a little bit wacky. "I don't know, but does it matter?"

"Of course not. I liked that song, it was the one with the kazoo solo in it wasn't it?" Benny reassured him.

"Yes. I believe the song writer thought it was something a little wacky so added it in later. He wanted people to come across it and tell people hey there's a kazoo solo and others have to check it out because it's a bit silly," Miles explained as he answered.

"You're good for him Benny, and I mean that. Miles has been a lot less depressed and thoughtful since the two of you met. Heck he's never liked being touched as long as I've known him and I've known him a long time. Now here he is cuddling and being openly affectionate with you," Lily said in observation.

"Well she's the exception, there's an exception to every rule you know. Why wouldn't I cuddle with the love of my lives and soulmate?" Miles asked then gave Benny a quick kiss on the lips before pulling away.

"Lives?" Lily queried.

"Did I say lives? I meant life of course. Mind you I'm still convinced we knew each other in another life. Just you wait, you'll find someone someday and be knocked off your feet Lily, and don't want to get back up yet alone be able to. It's kind of ironic between you, me, and Marvin, I'm the one who ended up in a relationship," Miles replied.

"See Lily, he can also be a romantic when he wants to be," Benny replied a little flushed at his antics but loving it. He had a way of always making her feel wanted. It probably helped that since developing telepathy she could tell he was being genuine about his feelings and that they ran deep.

"Yea well believe it or not, I always get the feeling I've lived other lives and I had my soulmate throughout most of them. I even see him in my dreams sometimes, all different faces yet the same soul, and that I'm just waiting for him to find me. It sounds silly I know," Lily confessed. "But hey at least it's not anywhere near as bad as the silly dream I keep having about being Harry Potter's mother Lily. It probably comes from too much to drink the most nights I have that dream and being named Lily Evens."

Thank you to ever who has read this story so far. I love and appreciate you all.