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!
On his way down to the Great Hall, Harry frowned and shook his head. 'What does Granny mean? Is she going to play pranks on me?' he wondered. When he entered the Great Hall, he found everyone's attention turning to him, and soon enough, everyone began to laugh. 'Oh no,' Harry inwardly groaned. He quickly walked over to Merlin table, where Severus and Lily had saved him his usual place between them, and whispered, "What's wrong? What did she do to me?" He was horrified to found himself being the main attraction.
Grinning, Lily whispered back, "Your hair is all sparkling in bright neon colours. Just ignore everyone and eat your lunch."
Harry growled over to the head table and wished his grandmother's hat to be a big, yellow rubber chicken clucking 'I love prank wars'. Continuing to eat his meal as if nothing was out of the normal, he realised that the whole room exploded with laughter. However, all of a sudden, he realised that he could not grab anything from the table, neither his glass with pumpkin juice nor his knife or fork. Everything slipped away from his grip. Feeling helpless and annoyed, he glanced to Lily.
"It's all right, I'll make a sandwich and bring it with me for you, when we go down to the Potions classroom," she whispered, calmingly.
Therefore, Harry relaxed, leaned back and thought about how to fight through this war. He transfigured her knife and fork into baby spoons and wished a large bib around her neck with a neon red sentence on it. 'Minnie is trying to eat! Go'way!'
Suddenly his glass was transfigured into a toad trying to eat from his plate, before it was transformed into a howler saying in Madam Pomfrey's voice, "Don't play around during lunch! Eat or you will get a nutrient potion!"
Hearing this, Harry got really upset and transfigured McGonagall's plate into a bunch of pink rabbits singing, "Cats are horrible." He then once more exchanged his grandmother's wand with the faked one, which he had accio'd before from the Transfigurations classroom, put McGonagall's wand next to his plate, transformed into Icicle and flashed directly into the kitchen to ask the house elves for something to eat and drink. While he was eating peacefully, he wished a big parchment on the wall of the Great Hall that was just opposite the Head Table saying, "Don't try to pull pranks on a phoenix, Granny!" Once more, the hall erupted in laughter.
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For the leaving feast, Harry had planned a special prank even his friends did not know about. When he entered the Great Hall, he had expected to see the room decorated with the Gryffindor house banners, because they had obviously won the house cup, but the banners above the five tables were those of the respective house. As soon as everyone was seated, Dumbledore stood and announced, "This year, it is difficult to award the house cup, because fifteen students joined Merlin house at the beginning of January, after earning or loosing points of other houses. Therefore, although the hourglasses show a clear victory of Gryffindor, I believe that it would be unfair to award the house cup at all this time, as we don't know exactly how many Gryffindor points in fact belong to Merlin house and vice versa. So, we have decided that there won't be a Cup this year, and I hope you can all understand this decision."
Several students clapped their hands to show their appreciation. Harry grinned mischievously and wished the house banners to change into his own creation, which he had made a few days earlier just for this purpose. Suddenly, the house banners were replaced with white-golden banners, which were decorated by six animals, a stag, a dog, a snake, a teddy bear, a snowy owl and an ice phoenix. They were just beautiful, and everyone stared at the new banners. Then another banner appeared at the wall opposite of the Head table. It showed the same animals with a writing underneath:
'The Marauders say good-bye to Hogwarts!'
Severus gave Harry a kick. "Look, the whole head table is glaring at us."
But Harry only grinned mischievously. Suddenly, Dumbledore stood up again, looked in Harry's direction and mouthed, "Finished?" Harry nodded, and within seconds, food appeared on the tables.
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The five Marauders except for Severus had decided to go 'home' to James' parents' place at the beginning of summer holidays; and Remus, Harry and Lily would return to Hogwarts on the 1st of July, which was also the last day of Severus' Potion Masters' exams and the first day of James' and Sirius' Auror training.
The five really enjoyed the first weeks of their holidays, each in their own way. While Sirius slept in every day until lunchtime, James spent the whole morning in his room or the Potions lab planning pranks on the others, which he pulled during the afternoon and evening. Remus spent the morning in the library preparing his Defence Against the Dark Arts classes for the time after the holidays, while Lily loved to help Mrs. Potter with chores or just to sit in the kitchen talking to her. Moreover, Harry could be found in the library reading just everything that he could get his hands on. In the afternoon, they spent their time together, mostly in the huge park, eventually taking a swim in the lake, and in the evenings Remus, Lily and Harry had to suffer from the pranks Sirius and James were irresponsibly playing on them. One of their pranks was even so bad, that Remus and Harry were unable keep anything down for two days. After a day and a night of vomiting, Harry was so disgusted and upset that he was on the verge of returning to Hogwarts, when James came to apologize to him promising his son he would never try prank potions ever again.
"Please Harry, stay for the last week, don't go back earlier. Look, I'm really sorry, and I have a surprise for you for the night of the full moon," he pleaded.
Harry groaned and said, "Sorry, James, but you can't imagine just how fed up I am with your surprises."
"And by the way, James, you and Sirius are grounded for the rest of your holidays," his mother announced. "I am the last one to say something about a little prank, but I can't accept you playing pranks on your friends – or even on your son – that makes them ill for a whole day. I'm very disappointed; now go to your room and stay there; the house elves will bring you something to eat," Mrs. Potter added in a strict voice.
"But Granny, it's all right," Harry contradicted, smiling at his grandmother. "They didn't do it on purpose, and Remus and I are fine again, so please don't punish them like that."
Two days later, Mrs. Potter finally listened to Harry's continuous begging and waived James and Sirius' punishment for the rest of the week.
Saturday night was the night of the full moon, and Sirius and James were making plans for the night. At dinner, they told everyone they had a big surprise for them and invited James' parents to come out to the lake at midnight.
And it was really worth it. With a 'bang' the first firework shot in the air, far above the lake. It was beautiful, and the friends, huddled in warm robes, thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
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A week later, during which James and Sirius thoroughly annoyed Harry by their continuous pranking, Lily, Remus and Harry returned to Hogwarts. As glad as he was to be able to go back to Hogwarts and escape from James' and Sirius' behaviour, he knew that he would miss his grandmother. But at least Severus, Remus and Lily would be staying with him.
Severus had managed to pass the Potions Master's exam as the youngest Potions Master England had ever seen. When he got his results, he came over to Harry, hugged him fiercely and said, "Harry, this is all thanks to you – You can't believe how grateful I am."
Harry hugged him back, saying, "No Severus, it's not thanks to me, but your own achievement, and I'm very happy for you. I'm really looking forward to meeting your new future self."
Harry spent the next weeks visiting Severus, Lily and Remus in their new teacher's apartments and helped them decorate their rooms and prepare for their lessons. 'I so wished I could just stay here with them. Who knows if I'll be able to meet everyone I love so much, when I arrive in the future? What if…'
"Harry, are you all right?" Lily enquired, interrupting his musings.
"Yes Lily, sorry, I was just thinking. You know, in only two weeks, I have to return to the future, and I don't even know if all of you will be there, when I arrive," he replied in a barely audible voice, not even trying to hide his dark mood from his mother.
Lily came over and hugged him fiercely, before she said, "You'll see, everything will be okay. We'll all be there waiting for you."
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In the evening Dumbledore and McGonagall joined Harry, Lily and Severus in Harry's room.
"Harry, I have something I want to give to you," Dumbledore said to gain Harry's attention and gave him a small green envelope. Harry cast his grandfather a surprised glance and proceeded to open the envelope. Inside was a Gringotts Key. He looked at his grandfather, questioningly. "This, Harry, is the key to a vault which I opened last year to deposit the money that you received for your book and for vanquishing Voldemort."
"Hmm?"
Severus laughed. "As eloquent as ever Harry," he sneered, provoking a glare from his best friend.
Dumbledore continued, "Harry, for every copy of your book, which is sold, you receive twenty percent of the book's price from Flourish and Blotts. This money is being put directly into your vault at Gringotts. And I've also asked the ministry to transfer the money, which you received together with the Order of Merlin 1st class, into this vault. Therefore, when you're back in the future, go to Gringotts and take a look at your vault. There will probably be even more money, because I think Severus now has time to look through the bunch of Potions books, and if he decides to publish at least a part of them, he will do it under both your names; so, when they're sold, you'll each get a certain percentage of the money."
Harry shook his head in determination before replying, "Severus can have the books printed under his name only and can keep the money; I'm fine with that."
Severus growled at him and contradicted, "No Harry, and I'm not going to have this discussion with you either. As you won't be here, you can't do anything about it anyway; therefore, just shut up and listen please."
Harry scowled at him, mumbling, "We'll talk again in 18 years' time," as tears began to form in his eyes.
Lily immediately hugged him and said, "Please Harry, I know, but don't cry; you'll see everything will be all right. We'll all be waiting for you."
McGonagall tried to change the topic and asked, "Harry, about your birthday. Is there anyone except for the four of us, Poppy, Remus and Hagrid you want to invite to your party? What about the Potters or Sirius or James?"
Harry thought for a moment and whispered, "No, only you, Remus, Poppy and Hagrid. That's enough, because I'm sure I'll spend half the day crying and I don't want many people to see it. And I'm still not able to forgive Sirius and James for ruining part of my holidays by constantly pranking me. I'll forgive them in the future, but not now. And Lily, please don't make Sirius my Godfather, take Severus and Remus this time." Everyone laughed.
"I'll do my best," Lily promised in a soft voice, smiling fondly at her son.
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Finally, Harry's birthday arrived. When he woke up, Severus and Lily were sitting on the edge of his bed.
"Good morning, Harry, and happy birthday," both of them greeted him.
"Morning," Harry mumbled sadly, knowing what his birthday meant.
"Now Harry, get up and let's go down to breakfast," Severus urged him, and Harry hurried to get ready. When they got down to the Great Hall, he was astonished to find all teachers sitting around the round table, which replaced the five house tables during summer holidays. The Great Hall was decorated beautifully, and even Fawkes had joined them and was sitting on a perch near the table. As soon as they were seated, a huge birthday cake appeared just in front of Harry, and everyone began to sing for him, before Dumbledore motioned him to blow the candles out. Finally, McGonagall divided the cake giving Harry an extra-large piece. After he finished only half of it, he was unable to stomach any further bit, and Lily pulled him with her to the head table, where many presents in different colours were waiting for Harry.
From Severus he received a Spring-sprong-spell-gone-wrong cauldron cleaner, his newest invention, which might come useful in the future. Lily gave him a beautiful photo album with photos of his friends, the complete Hogwarts team, the Gryffindor team, and scenes from the game against the teachers, Dumbledore handing the Quidditch Cup to Harry and many, many more – Harry was stunned. He hugged Lily, and tears were filling his eyes. Professor McGonagall gave him a broom tuning kit for tuning his Nimbus so that it would be well able to keep up with the brooms of the future, and from Madam Pomfrey he received a book on Ancient Healing Techniques. In Remus' present he found a full set of contemporary chocolate frog cards (sure to be a hit in the future), and Hagrid gave him something suspicious with holes in it ... again? Harry groaned, glaring at his large friend.
"Um... Hagrid? Could it be that something is alive in this box?" Harry asked, tentatively, causing everyone to laugh.
"Yeah 'Arry, just the righ' thing for you! Go on, open it 'Arry, you'll like it!" Hagrid beamed at him, and Harry very carefully opened the box and revealed an egg.
"Eh... Hagrid? An egg?" he turned back to the half-giant.
"Yeah 'Arry, a Runespoor's egg," Hagrid shouted, seemingly proud of his present. "It's small enough te take it with you, an' they'll 'atch in about three weeks' time."
"Thank you very much Hagrid, I appreciate it very much," Harry replied, surprised but also truly happy at the gift.
Now there was only one package left. It was wrapped in dark blue paper with twinkling stars on it. When he carefully opened it, he saw a whole batch of ... chocolate frog packages? Harry looked at his grandfather in confusion, who laughed, merrily, and said, "They aren't what you think Harry, they aren't chocolate frogs – take one in your hand and have a look."
Harry did as he was told; he held a chocolate phoenix in his hand. "Wow! A chocolate phoenix. Is that new? I have never seen one before."
"Yes, they're new, and so far only three of them exist – Merlin, me and only one more person."
Severus beamed at Harry and said, "Let's see the cards."
Harry gave a chocolate phoenix to each of his party guests and noticed that the package was still full. He looked questioningly at Dumbledore, who laughed at his grandson's unbelieving face. "It is a self re-filling box Harry. Keep it well, and you'll never run out of chocolate phoenixes."
"Harry! You're the third person!" Remus suddenly exclaimed and showed Harry a chocolate phoenix card. He looked suspiciously at the front of the card. It showed him with his phoenix Patronus chasing the Dementors in Hogsmeade – a very well shot photograph. On the back of the card it said,
'Harry Pane, famous for vanquishing Voldemort during his 6th year at Hogwarts, saved the village of Hogsmeade from Dementors several times, finder of the Chamber of Secrets, Translator of Salazar Slytherin's diary and Potions books, founder of the Hogwarts Quidditch team, re-founder of Hogwarts' Merlin House; great grandson to Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall.'
Suddenly Harry's owl Cyclops arrived carrying a package from his grandparents. He motioned to Cyclops to stay for a moment and took him over to Lily. "Cyclops I have to go away for a few years, and I can't take you with me; so I'd like to give you to Lily; she's your new owner and will look after you. Alright Lily, Cyclops?" Cyclops hooted and nodded his head.
Lily hugged Harry and said, "Thank you Harry. I promise that I'll take good care of him."
Harry opened the package that Cyclops had brought and found another book: A self-updating history of the Potter family.
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Soon it was time for lunch, after which Lily, Severus and Remus helped him to take all the presents up to his room, so that he could pack everything into his trunk. Finally, he shrank his trunk and put it into his pocket, before he asked his friends, "Shall we go for a walk around the lake?"
"Yes, that's a good idea," Severus agreed immediately. But when they were sitting beside the lake, and Harry looked around at Lily, Severus, Remus and his great grandparents, who had joined them in the meantime, he began to think about the future and what was awaiting him tonight. He slowly began to panic.
"Harry, are you all right?" Lily suddenly enquired.
"Yes Lily, sorry, I was just thinking. I am somewhat afraid of going back. You know, I like it here so much, and I love you all and don't even know if all of you will be there, when I arrive." He began to cry, and when Lily came over to hug him, he sobbed into her robes for a long time, which helped his nerves to calm down.
When they haeded to the Great Hall for dinner, everyone tried to joke and be as funny as possible; McGonagall, Pomfrey and Hooch, who had been in the same year in Gryffindor and were best friends at school, recounted many funny stories from their own school days. Harry listened half-heartedly and continued to push his food around his plate. Finally, Dumbledore asked, "Severus, you have the potion ready?"
Severus nodded and replied, "Of course Professor."
Dumbledore laughed and said, "You're a professor yourself now, my boy, so please call me Albus. So, it'll take Harry to exactly when?"
Severus sighed and answered, "In fact I'm not sure about the time, only about the date. It will be the 9th of September, 1996. He arrived here on the evening of the eighth, and from what he told me, he must have left on the eighth. So, in order to avoid a paradox, I have made the potion, so that he'll arrive one day after he left. I've tried to make the him arrive at the same time as he leaves here, but I really don't know how accurate it'll be."
"Very good, Severus, thank you very much my boy. I shall be in my office the whole day on the 9th of September, 1996." Dumbledore said, his eyes twinkling.
"If I may suggest something," Severus added. "I don't know how the long ride in the floo affects the body. I don't even know how long he'll have to travel – you know we only tested it with a rat from one day to the next, and it arrived about a minute after the time I sent it – so I'd like to suggest that Madam Pomfrey should be with you when Harry arrives."
"Yes Severus, I'll be there as well, don't worry," Pomfrey promised, smiling.
"Very well then, Poppy, Minerva, Lily, Severus and Remus, will you come to my office with Harry and me?" Dumbledore invited the most important people for Harry to his office, from where Harry was going to leave shortly.
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15 minutes later, after a lot of hugs, tears and good-byes, Harry sat down in the fireplace of the headmaster's office, and Dumbledore threw the powder in, shouting "Headmaster's Office, Hogwarts."
Harry's world began to spin fater and faster, and everything turned around – it was horrible and seemed to last infinitely. Harry could only think 'I cannot vomit in the floo, can't get sick now', closed his eyes and only wanted the whirling to stop, until everything went black.
tbc...
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