Harry Potter

Forward Motion

Chapter Seven: A Wise Headmaster

Disclaimer- I own nothing of JK Rowlings! Those are all the wonderful creations of her very own mind!

Authors Note!

HAVE MERCEY! My Beta dissapeared on me.. lol! So I probably have a few spelling grammer mistakes! I did spell check a lot though and I read it over, so I hope it's ok! But I have to warn you all, this chapter is very fast moving! Lots happens in a little time, cause I really wanted to get to the main part of the story faster. Hope you guys like it anyways!

p.s. I don't have time for shout outs this time cause I'm supposed to be in my room, eehh I got myself grounded! And my moms yelling at me to hurry it up!

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"I am sooooo bored!" Sirius moaned drumming his fingers on his knees. "Why won't she let us in?" Sirius motioned at the Fat Lady who still refused to let the boy who looked like Sirius Black enter her common room.

Hermione shook her head, Ron and Harry were in there, and those were the people she needed to talk to. She looked up as she heard footsteps, but no one was moving. Looking down the hall, she saw two figures.

"Harry?" She jumped up as Harry came to a halt from his jog. "Harry we need to talk you'll never believe who I've found in a broom closet!" She stated running up to Harry.

Harry groaned, "You don't mean there's more!" He pointed behind him to a slow approaching red headed girl.

"That's not…" Hermione squinted at the distant figure. "Is that Lily Evans?" She looked over at Harry, he nodded slowly.

"And who are all these people?" He asked waving his hand about at Sam and Sirius. "Oh hey Luna." He added as Luna waved briefly from the corner.

"Harry," She said slowly, "You found Lily Evans, and if you're thinking the same thing I am, you believe she's from the past, right?"

Harry nodded.

"Well I also found someone from the past," Hermione waved for Sirius to come forward. "Harry meet Sirius."

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James held his stomach as it gave an enormously loud grumble. "I'm sick of this waiting, and I don't even know who we're waiting for!" He groaned, and then glared at Ginny. "And who elected you; no one wants you yelling orders at us!"

Ginny glared back, but in a light manner. "I just need to figure some things out, and since the person I needed to talk to wasn't in the boy's dorm I think it's best to just sit and wait till he comes back."

"Why are you waiting for Harry, he's talking to you right now!" Ron grumbled pointing at James, thus making the marauder jump to his feet and pull out his wand.

"If you call me Harry one more time, I am going to…"

Ginny jumped up interrupting his threat. "What you need to do, James is calm down, put your wand away." Ginny instructed.

"Yes, mother. " He huffed, and with one last death glare in Ron's direction James stuffed his wand back in his robes.

"Why are you calling him James? His name is Harry, HARRY!" Ron roared.

"RON! LOOK AT HIS FACE! IT'S NOT HARRY!"

Ron glared at his sister, but never the less took her advice. He studied James's face carefully. Lifted his bangs, looked at his eyes, and held his wand to the light.

"No way… it isn't Harry!" Ron gaped as he looked once more into James's eyes.

"The red head is making me uncomfortable," James complained pushing Ron out of his face. "Call him off!"

"No, Ron, it's not Harry. I'm glad you finally realized it, sort of sad you couldn't tell your best mate from his fat… fat clone… heh." Ginny blushed at the cover up. She had almost slipped the word father that would be a big no-no.

James stuck his tongue out at her, "I'll ignore that, but only because I know that I am indeed not fat… but that clone word… ouch, I'm an original."

"So he really is James?" Ron asked rubbing his head. "But that's not possible; he'd have to be from the pa…"

Ginny jumped up and shouted, "PANTRY!"

Everybody looked around at her, "Ron, may I have a word with you." She asked in a strained voice. "NOW!"

Ron jumped up and followed her to the corner of the room. "What?" He complained leaning into the wall. "I'm so confused this isn't making any sense!"

"Of course it's not! I don't really understand it much either, but the one thing I do know is that it's plain old stupid to tell these guys they're from the past." Ginny told her older brother.

"So he really is from the future?"

"Yes, James, Remus, Sirius, Peter, and Lily are all here from the future… I believe. You see that short boy, that's Peter. And the blonde boy, Remus."

Ron gaped as he realized that she was in fact right. "What the bloody… what are they doing here?"

Ginny shook her head, "By mistake I believe… but it's just strange that this group came forward through time… I wonder if any others…"

Ron groaned, "You're making my head hurt!"

"Time travel does that to a person," Ginny nodded rubbing her temple. "This is going to be a long hard night."

"You've got that right…" Ron paused, "Do you hear something?"

"My heads pounding… I didn't think it was that loud though…"

Ron shook his head, "Do I hear voices…" Ron looked at the portrait hole. "Outside the common room." He added as Ginny gave him a spatial look.

Ginny kicked up an eyebrow, she walked over to the Fat Lady and pressed her ear against the wall.

"You're driving me CRRAAA-ZZY!" A voice carried through the wall. Ginny leapt back and began pulling on the portrait hole. Looking out she saw six figures.

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Hermione pushed Harry up to Sirius carefully. "I just thought you'd like to meet him before we ran into everyone else… which very well could be tomorrow morning." She groaned thinking of when the portrait hole would finally swing open revealing students on there way to classes.

Sirius shook Harry's hand, "Good to meet you, names…"

"Sirius, I know." Harry smiled, for some reason this wasn't bugging him. It lifted a weight of his solders, right now in this second his God Father wasn't dead.

Sirius cocked an eyebrow, "So you've heard of me have you?" He grinned then looked closer at him. "You know you look almost exactly like one of my best mates. It really starting to creep me out."

Harry grinned, "Spitting image aren't I?" He laughed as Sirius nodded.

"And you!" Sirius said now obviously excited. "You remind me of my dear girlfriend Lily Evans. I bet you wish you really were Lily, just so you could date me."

"Sirius,"

"But not to worry, I'm sure maybe we could just get together sometime, Lily wouldn't mind."

"Sirius!"

"Well maybe she would…"

"SIRIUS!"

"WHAT!"

"I am Lily Evans." She pointed out.

Sirius's eyes widened. "Oh by golly… you are Lily Evans…"

"And I am most certainly not dating you!" She huffed poking her finger into his chest. "Don't you go spreading rumors, I thought that ended fifth year."

"Heh… right well, I've still got Sam here!" He barked trying to grab Sam, but she dodged him and ran behind Luna's back.

"Fine be that way, I love you all to!" Sirius let out a fake sob. "I guess I'll just go wallow in self pity for now."

"Sirius grow up," Lily hissed.

"Only if you grow up first!"

"Oh you are so immature!"

"Well you're more immature-er…. So HA!" Sirius made a face and ducked as Lily made to smack his in the head.

"Sirius you know what," Lily asked him, smiling lightly.

"What?"

"You drive me CRAA-ZZY!" Lily laughed, and bopped him on the head.

Sirius stuck out his tongue, "That just means I'm doing my job right!" He leaned against the Fat Lady only to jump back away from it.

"It's moving!" Sirius pointed at Fat Lady.

"She's letting us in!" Hermione smiled, and walked towards the portrait.

"I'm not doing it on purpose!" The Fat Lady cried, obviously trying to close the path, but to no avail. She swung open revealing the Gryffindor common room.

"Ginny!" Harry and Hermione cried out together.

Ginny grinned, "Thank the gods! You're back! I need to talk to you, now! It's urgent, you won't believe me when I tell you!"

Hermione shook her head, "No, I think we're on the same page." Ginny looked to Harry, who smiled and pointed behind him where Sirius and Sam were, they both waved. However, a girl with red hair just stared right back at her. It was as though she was looking into a mirror.

"Is that Lily?" Ginny asked staring into the mirror image.

Hermione nodded, "I know it's weird, but you're just going to have to put it past you, we need to figure this all out." And with that, Hermione climbed into the common room, everyone else on her heels.

They walked into see everyone sitting around the fireplace. James and Remus were lecturing Peter for pulling the switch, and Neville was stroking his pet toad, Trevor. Ron was sitting in one of the armchairs, he looked up and then jumped up.

"Harry?" He ran towards him rather over enthusiastically. "Is it really you?"

Harry laughed and lifted his bangs off his forehead revealing his lighting bold shaped scar. "The one and only," He smiled as Ron let out a deep sigh of relief.

"You have no idea how confusing this night has been!"

Harry shook his head, "Sorry mate, but it's only going to get worse." He motioned behind him to reveal the rest of the group from the past.

"This is unbelievable," Ron shook his head, "What in the name of pixies is going on!"

Hermione came up next to Harry, "We're going to figure that out," And with that, she walked away promptly.

"Still mad at me, is she?" Ron grumbled. "Figures."

Harry shrugged, "You two can work it out later, we really need to deal with what's going on now." He looked back behind him to see Luna cautiously poke her head into the portrait hole.

"I don't believe I should come it," She stated and with that, she turned on her heel and marched away.

Harry was to taken aback by the sudden action that he had no time to call her back. He shook his head and turned back to the couch, the marauders were reuniting, Sam and Lily sat down and began to talk amongst themselves.

Hermione came back to Harry's side as Ron took his place back on his armchair, a sour look crossed his face.

"Well what do you propose?" Hermione whispered waving about the common room, "Should we tell them or not?"

Harry shook his head, "We really have no choice in the matter, first we'll find how they got here, if they even know. Then if we can't find a way to send them back, that's when we'll tell them."

Hermione nodded, "Attention, can I have everyone's attention… hello? Please listen…" Hermione called about the room but no one seemed to have heard her.

"SHUT UP!"

Everybody turned to Ron, "Sorry, not me, them," Ron stated pointing to Harry and Hermione. All heads turned to them.

"Erm… Hello, for those of you who don't yet know me, my name's Harry." He spoke over James sniggers of 'hairy boy'. "And this is Hermione," He stated motioning to the girl beside him.

"If you're going to say something, get it over with." Sirius shouted.

"Right, ok I'd like to know how you all got here, no not you Neville." He added as Neville began his tail of being yanked down the dorm steps by Ginny.

"I mean the marauders, Sam and Lily. How did you get… here." He ended lamely, but nonetheless he received several unsteady looks.

"It was my fault," Heads turned to Peter. "We were on our nightly prowl, and this door said, "Do Not Enter!" so we did, and inside there was this giant… machine."

"coughwishmachinecouch," Sirius's spat out, looking innocent as everyone rolled there eyes at him.

James took over the story from there, "So we came across this, 'wish machine' and we were innocently examining it when we hear this knock from the window, so Peter went to see who it was, it turned out to be Lily, and then a later knock revealed Sam. So we were all together looking at this giant machine when,"

Sirius took over the story now, "When Peter stepped forward and pulled down this giant lever that said, "DO NOT PULL". And all of the sudden everything went,"

"Everything turned this white creamy color, and it felt like I was spinning through snow or something. And then everything went black, and when I opened my eyes I was in a girl's bathroom." Remus finished looking up at Harry.

"So, I personally think it's some sort of transporter, like it takes you to different places in the castle." Sam jumped in, not wanting to be left out of the discussion. The only person in the group of time-travelers that remained silent was Lily.

Harry looked at Hermione, she nodded meaning that he should go ahead and tell them. "Alright, so you each ended up in different places with different people,"

The group nodded.

"The truth is you weren't teleported to different rooms in the castle." Harry stated, he looked at Lily, she knew what he was talking about.

"We've been transported into the future," She finished for him.

Silence swept the room.

"Are you mental Evans?" James voice cracked the pause. "What makes you think we've gone into the future, what looks different to you?"

"Several things," Lily stated above the whispers, she looked at Sam. "You believe me don't you?" She asked her friend. "Think about it, look at the weather, we were just out jogging two hours ago. The weather back home was chilly, the weather here is freezing, especially when you wake up under a sprinkler."

"You're nuts," Sirius muttered. "James you're in love with a crazy person." He shook his head sadly looking away from Lily.

"Stop it!" But the voice was not Lily's this time, it was Sam's. "Leave her alone… she's right, something about this place is different. And the people, explain how we've never seen these people in our life, even though they're the same year as us!" She badgered pointing to Harry, Hermione, Ron, Ginny and Neville.

"Trust me," Harry spoke now. "I know who you all are… I've heard stories about each of you… well maybe not you Sam, but all the rest of you."

"Yea like I'm really going to trust someone who looks exactly like me! I think you're some sort of an imposter."

"Or maybe a descendent," Remus added. "If we really were sent into the future, don't you think we'd have children here…"

James and Sirius looked at Remus, bewildered. "You mean you think that this guy is… is my son?"

"Something to that matter, yes, I believe that this boy could somehow be your son." Remus nodded, he doesn't completely look like you, but the resemblance is very close."

James nodded in agreement, "I guess I know what you mean. It's believable in a sort of twisted, messed up way."

Sirius laughed, "But if James is this guys father, who's the mum?" He looked at Harry, "I'm guessing you know the answer to that."

Harry looked at Hermione for support. Hermione was there for him,

"We can't just tell you something like that, in fact we shouldn't even be talking to you! Who knows how this could effect our future. If we told you who you marry, what if you changed your mind knowing you'd marry her." Hermione explained, "Harry would just disappear, everything would be different."

Remus nodded, "You're right, we probably shouldn't be interacting… but what are we going to do, we have to get back to the past as soon as possible." Remus stated.

"Time-Turners," Sirius piped in. "They're not legal in our day and age, but maybe now they are, do you have any?"

Ginny shook her head, "Two years ago we had a run-in at the Ministry of Magic, we sort of destroyed all the time-turners."

"Maybe we could have them make us some new one, it shouldn't take that long." Neville suggested reaching for Trevor as he dashed away under the table.

"No can do, it takes over five years for them to make a new one, by that time there'd be a gap in the time stream, everything would be messed up." Hermione said looking putout.

"Then what are we supposed to do?" Sam asked looking around at everybody.

"Find another machine, like the one back at home." Peter suggested looking at Harry. "I'm sure if there was a time machine back in our school in our time, there's still one here now."

"I highly doubt that, Dumbledore wouldn't have such a thing. He took away the Mirror from our first year, so it would make sense that he would take away a time machine too." Hermione stated, "I'm sorry, but I'm sure there's another way."

"Maybe they're here for a reason," Everyone looked at Harry. He shrugged, in his hand was the letter from Dumbledore.

Hermione's eyes widened, "Brilliant, the letter, does he say something about this in there? Unless he had no idea this was to have happened."

Harry nodded, "It's nothing of how to get them back, it simply says, New friends you will meet, and they will help you defeat, the one who lives to destroy. Trust you must make, chances you will take. To complete the journey you've began, you must take fate into your hands. That's all it has about it, but I think it's a small hint, I mean what other friends could he be talking about?"

Ron shrugged, "Who knows, there's no way to tell, what if it's not them though?"

"But what if it is?"

Ron shrugged again, "I'm still trying to get over the fact that these guys are here, no way am I going to try to think about some letter Dumbledore wrote."

Harry sighed, "Knowing Dumbledore, he knew this was going to happen, and knowing Dumbledore he knows what's going to happen."

Hermione shook her head, "Dumbledore may be an amazing wizard, Harry. But there's no way he can see into the future, there's no way to tell that these are in fact the friends we are supposed to trust."

James shook his head, "No there's a way," Everyone looked at him questionably. Ginny spoke, "How would you know?"

"Because I too, received a letter from Dumbledore."

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HAHA I bet you didn't see that coming! Alright so for those of you who haven't been reading my authors note, yes Dumbledore's Letter changed. Sorry I wrote that very vaguely because I just wanted to get my first chapter up, and when I got to this chapter I realized, I left out several important things, and added several unimportant things. And my second version of the Letter I like better because it… hehehe rhymes! You have no idea how hard it was not to stick made up stupid little words in there. I tried my best to stick the letter in character!

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