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!
"Amaterassu, are you around?" Severus hissed, slithering around the phoenixes.
All of a sudden, a huge animal appeared out of a hole in the stone wall.
"Hello there, visitorsss," the basilisk replied, and Harry had the impression as if she sounded pleased. "Are you friendss or foess?"
"We come asss friendsss," Severus informed her. "My friend would like to transform into his human form in order to sspeak with you asss well, but would it be dangerousss for him?"
"I will change my eyesss to white, then it'ss all right to do ssso," Amaterasu promised, and an instant later, her large, yellow eyes turned white.
Harry and Severus quickly transformed back, and the two boys continued to speak with the basilisk. 'Fawkes was right; she really is a cutie,' he thought and asked Fawkes to flash back to Dumbledore and inform him that everything was all right.
Amaterasu did not only assure him that she was willing to give Severus some of her venom and even lay a basilisk egg for him, whenever he needed one; she also promised to show the boys Salazar's private library and Potions lab. Moreover, she taught them a spell with the instruction to cast it from behind the lake in order to make the whole school safe from her deadly eyes.
"You have to re-cassst the sspell once a year," she instructed the boys, who immediately promised to take care of the matter.
"We'll do that right away and come back to visit you as soon as possible," Harry promised the basilisk, before he transformed back into his phoenix form and flashed back into the bathroom together with Severus, knowing that everyone else was probably still waiting for them.
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Very early the following morning, Fawkes came to see Harry and informed him that Dumbledore wanted to speak with him in the headmaster's office.
"I'll be there in a blink," Harry promised and quickly got ready for the day, before he flashed in front of Dumbledore's office and transformed back to properly enter the beautiful room.
His grandfather informed him that Moody had talked to the head of the Aurors about the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets and that Hagrid had been granted a trial, which was scheduled for Monday the following week.
"Now Harry, do you have any memories of Voldemort telling you that he had opened the chamber, which could be used at the trial?"
Harry remained pensive for a while, before he finally replied, "Yes, I think so. May I borrow your Pensieve, sir?" He put a few memories, which did not reveal anything about having occurred in the future, into the Pensieve. 'I just hope that no one is going to find out about the future,' he thought, absentmindedly observing Dumbledore enter the Pensieve. While the headmaster was watching his memories, Harry pondered if there was anything else that he might be able to do for Hagrid, before his great grandfather pulled him out of his reverie.
"Very good, Harry. That'll do," the headmaster acknowledged. "The only problem is that we'll have to explain where you come from in order to clarify where and when these scenes might have taken place. Therefore, we'll have to tell them the truth and must be careful to obliviate everyone who leaves the room."
"Could we perhaps take Professor Flitwick with us for that purpose? If anyone is good at memory charms, it must be him, and since he doesn't have to say anything at the trial, he can fully concentrate on placing memory charms on people," Harry suggested, gently caressing Fawkes' crown feathers.
"That's a brilliant idea. I'll talk to Professor Flitwick at lunchtime," Dumbledore promised, sounding relieved at the solution. "By the way, we should have breakfast."
"All right," Harry agreed just when the door opened, revealing a sternly looking McGonagall.
"Why are you not at breakfast in the Great Hall?" she enquired, glaring at her husband.
"I'm sorry, Minerva; we're going to have breakfast this minute. Twinkle! Could you bring breakfast for Harry and me, and tea for Minerva please? Now, Min, I had to discuss something with Harry concerning Hagrid's trial," Dumbledore replied in a soothing voice. "He put several memories into the Pensieve that clearly prove Hagrid's innocence, yet regardless of the fact that he can't even open the chamber."
"That's very good," McGonagall commended her great grandson. "Hagrid deserves better, and I'll be very happy to teach him in private if he wants to study for his OWLs and NEWTs."
"In my time, you engaged him as professor for Care of Magical Creatures, and he taught very well," Harry informed the headmaster, thinking, 'At least before Umbridge made him so frightened that he spent ages only teaching about flubberworms.'
"Thank you for the information, Harry. I'll think about hiring him as soon as our current teacher retires," Dumbledore promised. "I'll try to do the same with Severus by the way. As soon as Professor Slughorn takes his leave, Severus should have the job, don't you believe that would be the best, Minerva?"
"I fully agree, Albus. But now eat your breakfast please, both of you," the Scottish lioness said in a strict voice.
When the two teachers dismissed Harry, he asked hesitantly, "Hagrid knows about where I come from, doesn't he?"
"Yes Harry, he knows," McGonagall replied in a soft voice. "Do you want to talk to him?"
Harry smiled. "Yes, I'd like that very much. Thank you. Bye." He took a short detour via his dormitory to pick up his own Pensieve, before he headed straight to Hagrid's hut.
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"Hello Harry. Interesting story that Dumbledore tol' me 'bout you," Hagrid beamed, ushering him into his hut.
"I don't know how much he told you, but I just wanted to tell you my version of things. I'd like to show you my memories of how we met, that you were the first friend I ever had, and that it was you, who gave me my first birthday present and baked the first birthday cake for me." Harry put his memory into the Pensieve and invited Hagrid to enter the Pensieve together with him.
When they finally left the Pensieve, Hagrid was stunned. "So we're really close in your time, aren't we?"
"Yes, and Dumbledore hires you as Care of Magical Creatures teacher, and you're a really good one," Harry said, smiling. "I changed the future so much since I came here, so I don't know what's going to happen this time, but Dumbledore knows about it and I hope he'll remember to do so again." He grinned mischievously. "Anyway, Hagrid, we'll meet at the trial on Monday. I'm very glad that you get one, because in my time you were still using your umbrella as a wand, and they even put you into Azkaban when the Chamber of Secrets was opened again. But since I changed the future by killing Voldemort, you have nothing to fear. I put a memory into Dumbledore's Pensieve that proves your innocence, so you don't have to worry about the trial. Everything will be all right. Bye now, Hagrid."
"Bye, Harry, and thank you so much for doing this for me," Hagrid replied, unobtrusively wiping a large tear from his cheek.
"You're welcome," Harry responded, smiling.
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On the day of the trial, Dumbledore, Flitwick, Hagrid and Harry took the Floo straight from the headmaster's office to the Ministry of Magic. The trial took place in a small courtroom under exclusion of the public, and Alastor Moody had arranged for the trial to be held with as few people involved as possible.
Since Harry was the most important witness, he was called up immediately. When he was asked to state his name and birthday, everyone who didn't already know, who he was, gasped. Fearing that people would not believe that he came from the future, Harry suggested to be questioned under Veritaserum. The judge agreed, so he was given just one drop of Veritaserum, before he was further questioned.
"When did you first meet Hagrid?"
"I first met Hagrid on my eleventh birthday. He came to explain to me about Hogwarts and took me to buy my supplies."
"Did he open the Chamber of Secrets thirty years ago, causing the death of a student?"
"No."
"How can you know that? You were not even alive at that time."
"No, but Voldemort AKA Tom Riddle told me in my second year at Hogwarts that Hagrid was innocent, and he can't speak Parseltongue anyway, which would be necessary to open the Chamber."
"Who then opened the Chamber?"
"Tom Riddle."
"Why do you know that?"
"He told me so at the same time. You can watch my memory in the Pensieve if you wish."
His memory was self explanatory, and Hagrid was judged to be innocent and was given permission to receive a new wand, as his had been snapped thirty years ago. He was also granted thirty thousand gallons as compensation for the misjudgement, which had taken place thirty years ago. Harry beamed at his friend, thinking, 'Thank Merlin that I came to the past.'
"Headmaster, Harry, thank you so much," Hagrid just managed to blurt out, before large tears began to pour down his face.
"You're very welcome, Hagrid," Harry replied, feeling extremely happy for his first real friend.
"Headmaster, may I take Harry to Diagon Alley for an ice cream?" the half giant asked, seemingly overwhelmed with happiness.
"Of course Hagrid, you may. Harry is excused from all classes today," Dumbledore replied gently, smiling at both of them.
"Cool," was all Harry could reply, before he had to wriggle himself out of a bear hug in Hagrid's large arms.
After devouring a monstrous ice cream at Fortesque's ice cream parlour, Hagrid and Harry went to buy a new wand for Hagrid. They spent the whole afternoon in Diagon Alley, and especially Harry enjoyed it very much. He felt as free as he hadn't felt in a long time. In the past few years that he had lived in the future, he had not been able to go out unless a bunch of Order members were accompanying him, and after Voldemort's demise he had spent all the time either in the hospital wing or being grounded by his over protective great grandmother. He had not even been able to go to Hogsmeade since then.
The two friends only returned to Hogwarts on time for dinner. In order to apparate back to Hogwarts, Hagrid embraced him a bit too fiercely, so that Harry felt he that could not breathe anymore and was overcome by dizziness. The next thing he knew was that they were standing on the street leading from Hogsmeade to Hogwarts.
"Wow, Hagrid, your grip is too strong. I could barely breathe," Harry complained and set to walk towards the castle.
"You're just on time Harry," James addressed him, when he sat down at the Gryffindor table for dinner. "Don't forget that we've Quidditch practice after dinner!"
"Yes James," Harry replied, grinning.
'We still need to visit Amatersu and have her show us Slytherin's library and Potions lab,' he thought. 'Perhaps, we should take the Marauders with us.'
tbc...
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