A/N: I don't remember if I put a disclaimer in the previous chapters, so just for the record I don't own Harry Potter.

November 28, 1996

Harry sprinted up the corridor, swung around a sharp corner, scurried along a hidden pathway behind a tapestry of monks doing the robot, ran up a flight of stairs skipping every second step along the way and dashed the rest of the way to the infirmary. Moody had kept him late during their duelling session thus making him late for his healing lessons with Madam Pomfrey. Mad-Eye wouldn't let Harry leave until he mastered the fendi adludo¹ curse well enough to knock at least 5 people 3 meters back.

The curse worked by sending out a shockwave with the sender as the focal point 360º outwards, making it an ideal curse when surrounded by an enemy. With practice you could choose how big the focus area is (if you're not alone when surrounded), the strength of the shockwave (from a light tap to making the opposition fly several meters away) and even focus the direction of the spell to a specific area (if you're not completely surrounded). Because of those properties it would make an ideal spell for getting out of sticky situations when you're outnumbered. However most people are only able to use this curse with a focal area no bigger than 1 meter in diameter, with the strength to give the opposition just a strong push to make them stumble (and sometimes fall) and usually are unable to focus the direction at all. Not to mention even then the spell takes a lot of concentration and power; concentration that most don't have time for in crisis situations and the power required usually makes it very difficult to follow up on the slight advantage the curse gives while duelling. Therefore most aurors are taught this spell as a distraction method more so than an actual defence.

Moody insisted that Harry should master the curse enough that he could depend on it as both a distraction and a formidable defence on its own. So far he's been able to adjust the power of the spell enough to throw any number of people across the room, but he can only adjust the focal area sometimes, and he can't focus the direction at all yet. Not to mention that performing the spell leaves him so tired that he's forced to use only first and second year spells on Moody and whoever happens to be duelling him at the time in the follow up after using the curse .

At any rate, he was late for healing (even though Poppy, as she insists he call her, wouldunderstand). Today he was going to be learning how to stitch a wound the muggle way, since as Madam Pomfrey says there's always some way to help a patient. Though most healers scoff at the primitive muggle methods, Harry knew how effective some of their techniques were and he didn't want to be useless if he was low on magic or didn't have his wand with him.

Liam woke to find his mother's tear-filled face hovering over him. Once he was fully awake his mother wasted no time in scooping him into a hug, muttering incoherently into his neck.

"Mom? What's the matter?"

His mother just hugged him tighter. "Oh Liam! I-We thought something had happened to you! Sophia came in crying about a flash of light, and we couldn't wake you up...I'm so glad you're o.k.!"

Sure enough when Liam looked around he spotted his father asleep in a chair by his bed, his sister next to him. And he could tell that it was already morning from the light coming through the window.

And now that he thought about it, last night's memories came flooding back to him. How Sophia had let him try on the necklace, and then the flash of bright light. Afterwards, he had found himself in a cozy living room where a messy-haired bespectacled man and a green-eyed red-haired woman where playing with a small green-eyed black-haired baby, who was obviously their son.

The family didn't seem to notice him at all, and any time he tried to touch them, he'd just go through them, like they were ghosts or something. After many failed attempts at gaining their attention and/or figuring out what was going on, Liam just settled down to watch as if it was a giant play.

The seven year old didn't really know why he had had such a weird dream, but he pushed it to the back of his mind.

Now convinced that Liam was indeed well and whole, his mom set out wake the others, to get him dressed and make breakfast. As a precaution she took back the necklace and decided to have Luke (who was one of the village's physicians) look over him just to be sure nothing was wrong.

"...I don't know how it works. They just push the button and it turns on."

"But how can it work without magic? There's got to be something I'm not thinking of. Describe it to me again, everything you can think of, every little detail is important."

Today was Sophia's thirteenth birthday. And as a present Liam had given her what she craved most – knowledge.

After the incident with the necklace on Liam's birthday, Liam's and Sophia's mom confiscated the necklace to make sure nothing was wrong. After a month of wearing it and nothing out of the ordinary happening, she gave it back to Sophia with the orders to not let her brother touch it just yet. Another month went by and Liam was finally allowed to hold it, and occasionally wear it for short periods of time. After another month their mom thought that the bright light incident was probably a fluke and allowed Sophia and Liam to alternate who wore the necklace like they had planned back on Liam's birthday. But once Liam slept with the necklace, the weird life-like dreams started up again.

Curious about the things he saw and learned about, Liam asked Sophia about it. When his sister learned about the vivid dreams, she dragged him to their parents. The next thing Liam knew, he was in the middle of a huge kerfuffle.

After a lot of questions, tests, and just about every single villager wearing the necklace, they concluded that what Liam was witnessing was the Harry Potter's memories. No one knew why it only worked for him or how Nicole's family had come by it (though it was assumed that the necklace was either given to or taken by their Death Eater ancestor by Harry Potter to preserve the history of the time before the Dark Lord and that it was spelled to work for the first male born of his descendants). Liam also found that he could remember everything he saw while he dreamed in perfect detail. Any efforts to repeat a dream or to skip to a certain year proved useless; the dreams would continue where the last one left off in chronological order (but that's not to say that the dreams wouldn't skip time). And Liam would only have these dreams when falling asleep with the necklace on.

Since then, many people wanted to exempt Liam from school and any chores he had to do, wanting him to just sleep all day and record what he dreamed about. Thankfully his parents were adamant that he have as normal as a childhood as possible and that he get a proper education.

His days started with breakfast, where he'd tell his family about what happened in his dream and answer any question they had. He and Sophia would go to school and his dad would go to work at the forge (since he was a blacksmith). Meanwhile his mom would record all that he had said, both for personal reasons and public record. This way everyone got their questions answered without bothering Liam. After school Liam would do some chores and then find Michael and Bryan so they could play before supper. After supper he did his homework and then went to bed.

It was now over seven months since his birthday and around three months since he started wearing the necklace every night. It was odd seeing the Harry Potter as a small vulnerable baby when all the stories and legends about him described him as a wizard of great power and one of the only ones to fight against the Dark Lord and win.

Sophia was a little jealous at first – not only would her brother keep the family's heirloom but he would have a first-hand look at how life was like back before the Dark Lord's reign; something that scholars could only guess about before now. But after a while she got used to the idea and ended up questioning Liam at every opportunity, then leaving to try and puzzle something out before returning with even more questions.

Even though it was tiring and a little annoying to Liam, he still remembered how Sophia had first given him the necklace so he wouldn't feel left out and how she helped get rid of anyone trying to interrogate him or steal the necklace. So he felt that it was the least he could do to answer any and all questions she had for her birthday.

Posted: February 13, 2008

A/N: This is a pretty short chapter, so sorry about that. I'll try to make the next one longer.