The Changed Timeline
by Teddylonglong
All recognizable characters belong to J. K. Rowling, and I am not earning anything by writing this story.
I am not a native speaker of English. Please excuse my mistakes.
COMPLETELY AU! Partly OOC! Time travel!
"I'm sorry, Professor, but I urgently had to speak with Severus about something very important," Harry said in a soft voice, giving his head of house an apologetic look.
"Very well, then you should be able to explain the reason to the headmaster and myself," Professor McGonagall replied sternly, her mouth stretched to a thin line. "Follow me." With that she turned around and swiftly walked towards the headmaster's office.
Harry hesitantly explained the whole story to the teachers, who were clearly shocked at his revelations and remained quiet for a few minutes.
Finally, Dumbledore broke the silence. Thoughtfully stroking his beard, he said gently, "Harry, thank you very much for warning Severus tonight. 100 points to Gryffindor. Now, I believe that it's time for you to go to bed, and I'm sure Professor McGonagall will be so kind as to escort you back to Gryffindor tower."
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Harry was unable to sleep that night. When he returned to the dormitory, none of his classmates were there. They had all drawn their curtains, but from the lack of breathing sounds, he knew that the room was empty. Trying to ignore the strange silence in the dormitory, he scrambled into his bed, pondering what he should do about the matter. 'Should I talk to them and tell them that I know about Remus' problem only to obliviate them later on? They can't know that I came from the future; otherwise they'd know immediately that I'm James' son,' he mused. 'Or should I just keep quiet and pretend not to hear and see anything?' It was six o'clock in the morning when he finally fell into a restless sleep.
Thirty minutes later, James, Sirius, and Peter slipped into the dormitory, hidden under James' invisibility cloak.
"Oh, he's fast asleep. Hopefully he didn't notice that we were gone all night," Sirius beamed.
"I don't think that we'll be able to hide it from him forever," James said, shrugging.
"Do you think we should tell him the truth?" Sirius asked, feverishly searching for a pair of matching socks.
James let out a long sigh. "Frankly speaking, I think we should tell him, but I believe that it's up to Remus to make that decision. We'll have to ask him tonight. Anyway, I'm going to wake up this lazybones." With that, James went over to Harry.
"Harry, it's time to get up. Hurry up or you're going to miss breakfast," he said in a loud voice, carefully shaking Harry's shoulder.
Harry groaned, feeling absolutely groggy. "Sorry James, I don't want breakfast. I'm tired. Can you wake me up again on time for our first class?" he asked, pleadingly.
"Okay, we'll do that," James readily agreed. "Come on Sirius, Peter; let's go."
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Harry woke up to a cool hand on his forehead, and a soft voice penetrated his ear. "Harry, what's wrong? Are you ill?"
Harry lazily opened his eyes but was fully awake when he saw his mother, Lily, standing next to his bed. "Sorry; no, I'm fine; I'm just tired and my head hurts. I didn't sleep well."
"Shall I excuse you with Professor McGonagall?" Lily asked softly. "Transfiguration is going to commence in ten minutes."
"No thanks; I'll hurry up," Harry replied and quickly scrambled out of bed to ready himself for a day of classes.
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He just managed to slip into the room, before Professor McGonagall shut the door.
With a flick of the teacher's wand, stuffed rabbits were distributed to the students' desks. "Each student should have one stuffed rabbit. Today, we will try to transfigure these rabbits into live rabbits," the professor announced.
Harry inwardly groaned. 'Only one rabbit, only one rabbit, only one rabbit, two rabbits, three rabbits…' His head hurt and his eyes were so heavy, '…not too many rabbits…'
"Mr. Pane!"
Harry nearly fell from his chair, startled, as he cracked his eyes open and glanced at his head of house, who was standing in front of him. "Oh, I'm sorry Professor."
"Do you think this is too easy for you?" Professor McGonagall asked sternly, glaring daggers at him.
"No, of course not, Professor," Harry replied uncomfortably, averting his eyes to the floor. "I'm sorry; I just don't feel very well today."
Lily spoke up. "Professor, I think Harry is really unwell today. I even had to go and wake him up ten minutes before the beginning of the class. Maybe he should go back to bed and rest?"
McGonagall gave Harry a sharp look. "All right Mr. Pane, go back to your dormitory, and if you still don't feel better at lunchtime, go and see Madam Pomfrey. Take your rabbit with you and try to transfigure it into a live rabbit. I want to see a live rabbit in our next class on Friday."
Harry nodded. "Thank you Professor, thanks Lily," he said and returned to the dormitory. He slept through lunch and managed to be in the dungeons just on time for his afternoon classes. Severus smiled when Harry slipped into the seat next to him.
"Hello Harry, how are you?" the Slytherin enquired. "When you didn't come to Charms, Lily told me you were sick. Are you feeling better now?"
"Yes," Harry replied, feeling very uncomfortable to lie to his friend. "I'll tell you later, when we're alone."
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The same evening after Quidditch practice, James held Harry back. "Can we meet in our dormitory for a few minutes? We'd like to talk with you about something."
"Of course," Harry replied and followed his father and his friends back to the dormitory in excitement, wondering what the other boys wanted to speak about.
James cast a locking spell and a silencing spell at the door, causing Harry to give him a questioning look. Remus, Sirius and Peter, who had already made themselves comfortable on their beds, quietly watched James and Harry. Remus was the first to speak up. "Harry, we'd like to tell you something; however, you have to swear that you won't speak about it with anyone else."
"I promise," Harry replied sincerely.
"I'm a werewolf," Remus told him.
Harry had to try hard to put an astonished expression on his face. "A werewolf... That means that you transform into a wolf on the full moon every month, is that correct?" he asked thoughtfully, trying to sound curious.
"Exactly," Remus confirmed. "I always go to the Shrieking Shack on the nights of the full moon to transform. If I was together with other people, they'd be killed. However, James, Sirius and Peter are Animagi. They can transform into animals and are able to safely spend the night with me. James is a stag, Sirius a dog and Peter a rat. However, no one must know about me being a werewolf, which only the teachers know of course, nor about the others being unregistered Animagi."
"I won't tell anyone," Harry promised. "That sounds very interesting. Do you think you could teach me how to become an Animagus too?"
Everyone laughed, looking very relieved. "Of course, we'll teach you. We can practise every night here in the dormitory," Sirius suggested, beaming with joy.
James picked up a quill and wrote something on a small parchment, before he instructed Harry, "Go to the library and get this book. Make sure that you read through the first two chapters before tomorrow evening."
Harry eagerly accepted the parchment from his father, went to the library to get the book and managed to read through the whole book until late that night. It was so interesting that he just couldn't stop. As soon as he woke up in the morning, he turned to James. "How do I get the potion that shows me which animal I'm going to become? Do I have to brew it?"
"Yes, you either have to brew it, or you can buy it at Hogsmeade," James replied, pensively. "I don't know when the next Hogsmeade visit will be though. We bought it at Hogsmeade, so I don't know how difficult it is to brew."
"Oh well, I can ask Severus," Harry said thoughtfully. "He is tutoring me in Potions every other evening, and I'm going to meet him tonight anyway. Maybe he can show me how to brew it tonight."
"Are you sure, Snivellus won't tell anyone?" Sirius asked, his voice laced with distrust.
"Yes" Harry replied firmly, "I'm sure."
When he told Severus and Lily about the potion, both of them were eager to brew the potion and test it as well. Harry promised to tell them everything he learned about the Animagus transformation and help them during their Potions tutoring lessons, so that they could practise to become Animagi at the same time.
Harry returned to his dormitory just in time for his first Animagus lesson, carrying the potion in his robe pocket and beaming with excitement.
"All right, Harry, do you have the potion?" James asked, giving him a questioning look. When Harry proudly showed them the bottle, he advised, "I suggest that you lie down on your bed before taking the potion, because you'll really transform into the animal, which you're going to become, and the first Transformation might hurt a lot."
Harry complied and transformed, and for an instant he found himself in a black world of pain. When he opened his eyes again as soon as the pain receded some, he noticed that his field of vision was much wider than before, and he felt as if he had wings. Looking at himself, he saw many white feathers.
"A phoenix! You're a phoenix!"
"An ice phoenix. Lots of white feathers and a few green ones, cool!"
"A magical animal. That's brilliant; I didn't know that was possible!"
His friends were looking at him in apparent amazement, and Harry finally realized, 'If I'll be able to become an Animagus, I'm going to be a phoenix. That's cool. I'll be able to fly without a broom.' He felt extremely happy.
"Please, you just have to teach me how to transform," he begged his friends as soon as he was back in his human form.
"We'll do that, and we're going to commence tomorrow evening," his father said, fully understanding Harry's excitement.
During the following weeks, his friends joined him for his Animagus practice every evening, and twice a week Harry additionally practised together with Lily and Severus. Lily was training to become an owl and Severus a snake.
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On Friday morning in the Transfiguration class, Harry was again dreading the correct Transfiguration from a rabbit into just one live rabbit. His stomach was churning and he was on the verge of throwing up when the professor called, "Mr. Potter please."
Harry summoned all his courage to transfigure his rabbit, and the blink of an eye later, three pink rabbits were running around his table.
Professor McGonagall nodded her approval, vanishing the rabbits with a flick of her wand. "It wasn't your turn yet, Mr. Pane, but very nice Transfiguration indeed. Now, Mr. Potter please."
Harry leaned back in his chair in relief. 'I hope no one noticed anything; I have to be more careful to remember that my name isn't Potter for the time being,' he thought as he observed his classmates transfigure their rabbits.
良かったね
The sun was shining brightly for the first Quidditch game of the season, Gryffindor versus Hufflepuff. 'That's strange,' Harry mused. 'In my time, the first match was always against Slytherin and only in November.' He managed to catch the Snitch after an hour, causing the game to end Gryffindor 270 – Hufflepuff 40. 'I caught the Snitch,' he thought happily. 'I wouldn't want to disappoint my parents.'
The party in the Gryffindor common room was extremely loud and lasted half the night, but in spite of being together with the Marauders, Harry missed some of the atmosphere, which the Weasley twins used to bring to their victory parties.
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On Sunday morning, Harry decided to go for a walk around the lake. He sat down at his favourite spot under a tree and reflected about his life in the past and in the future and wondered if he was going to change the time line even unwittingly just by being in the past at the moment.
Suddenly, he spotted something on the other side of the lake. To his horror, he witnessed a scene, which he knew only too well. Sirius and James were picking on Severus, while Remus was sitting beside them reading a book.
The Marauders did not know what happened to them, when Harry rushed over. "Stop bothering Severus immediately, or you'll get to know my bad side," he shouted, angrily.
"What do you have to do with Snivellus?" asked Sirius.
"He's my friend, and you'll never be able to understand why, if you don't try to get to know him," Harry explained, glaring at his future godfather.
"He's a Slytherin, and you can be sure that in the future he'll be kissing Voldemort's feet," Sirius said, casting a look of pure hatred at Severus.
With that Harry saw red and shouted, "Come over here, Sirius, James and Remus. I have to tell you something. Now!" He waved his wand and cast a silencing spell around the four of them and Severus. "Listen very well, because I'm going to tell you this only once," he said in a deadly quiet voice. "I've come from twenty years in the future. I know everything that will happen in your lives during the next twenty years. In the future, Severus will be on my side, but your good friend Peter is going to betray Lily and James to Voldemort and will bring Sirius to Azkaban for that."
"What?"
"That can't be true!"
"You're hallucinating!"
"Really? That means... What's your real name?" James enquired, glaring at Harry.
Harry let out a snort. "My name is Harry James Potter... Dad."
"You're my son?" James asked incredulously. "Who's your mother then?"
"I will let you figure that out for yourself, Dad," Harry replied, chuckling. "Sirius and Remus are my godparents, but let me tell you that I can't be proud of parents or godfathers who are bullies and pester other students. I'm your friend in this time, but I'm also Severus' friend."
"Do you know us all from the future?" Remus enquired.
"I know you quite well, Remus," Harry replied, smiling, "but I can't tell you more as much as I'd love to. I'm not allowed to talk about the future; so please don't ask me anything else. However, I'd appreciate if you could try to behave civilly towards Severus, even if you don't want to be friends with him."
With that, Harry cancelled the silencing spell and pulled Severus away with him. As soon as the Marauders turned away, he performed three obliviating spells, mumbling in a low voice, so that only Severus could hear it, "I'm sorry Remus, James, Sirius, but I had to do that."
Severus smirked. "You're full of secrets, aren't you? Will they remember anything about it?"
"Well, they will remember not to trust Peter but to trust you," Harry replied thoughtfully.
"Thank you so much, Harry," Severus replied, gratefully.
Harry smiled. "You're welcome."
"You still wanted to tell me what happened on Wednesday to prevent you from showing up for Charms," Severus enquired, giving him a questioning look.
Harry chuckled and told his friend about how he had spent the night of the full moon wondering how he should behave towards the Marauders. "I only slept for about an hour that night and woke up with a splitting headache. Then I attended Transfiguration and we had to transfigure stuffed rabbits into live rabbits and I just felt sick."
"We had to do that as well. What's the problem with transfiguring rabbits into real ones? Not that I am very good at it, but..." Severus raised an eyebrow.
Harry sighed and told him about the Transfiguration class that he had on the day before he arrived in the past. "McGonagall was very annoyed having her classroom overrun by at least fifty rabbits, but the main point is that I hate attention. Your future self used to call me "attention seeking brat", because I always get so much attention. However, I don't want it, and I really appreciate that so far I'm just a normal student here without any fame or such, just like anyone else. I've never been so happy in my life before, and I didn't want to lose that just because of this transfiguration of rabbits."
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The Halloween feast a few days later was similar to those that Harry had experienced in his own time. However, he could not help thinking about what would be going to happen in exactly four years and was not able to enjoy the feast at all. Therefore, he decided to go to bed early. However, as soon as he was asleep, he was pulled into a vision. He suddenly found himself in a dark stone room and heard himself speak.
tbc...
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