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Chapter#5

That's Impossible

Teddy knew it sounded utterly ridiculous coming out of his mouth, he could only imagine what the people hearing it were going through.

He looked over to his right and spotted Dominique picking up Lucy who looked quite upset and rightly so, she was only seven after all.

Molly was still holding Hugo as he clung tightly to her, face buried in her shoulder. He felt someone tug at his trousers and looked down to see Lily standing there, looking close to tears. He immediately bent down and picked her up. She wrapped her arms tightly around his neck and hid her face in the crook of his neck.

He took a deep, calming breath and started again, looking the headmaster directly in the eye, "Look I know, what I am saying sounds absolutely absurd but that is the truth….we ourselves don't even know how this happened." Teddy knew that whatever he was saying wouldn't be able to convince anyone, he couldn't blame them though, it really wasn't something that you could believe easily.

Dumbledore looked at each one of them in turn, his piercing gaze scrutinizing them.

Teddy watched with bated breath as Dumbledore's expressions seemed to change from one of anxiousness to that of amazement and awe, as his eyes flickered over all of them, presumably finding uncanny resemblances to that of his current students.

Finally his eyes settled on Teddy and he can swear he saw Dumbledore's lips twitch into the briefest of smiles, but he quickly fixed him with a stern stare, "If you are indeed from the future and I am right in assuming that you all are distinctly related to some of my students present here, then I might just need to confirm this myself." He must have seen the terrified look on Teddy's face as he quickly added, "There is no need to worry of course, only a very simple piece of magic is needed; nothing too drastic. I am sure you are familiar with legilimency."

Then it dawned on Teddy and he sighed, "Yes, I am"

"Oh that is good, and dare I say that by the look on your face, you have not yet learned the art of occlumency, yes?" inquired the suddenly jovial headmaster

Again Teddy sighed as he answered in the affirmative, "Yes"

"Albus you cannot be serious! You do not really believe these people are from the future do you? They all could be death eaters for all we know." The speculation had come from a disgruntled looking Minerva Mc Gonagall.

"Do you honestly believe that these children can be death eaters, Minerva?" Dumbledore said raising his eyebrows.

"Well, we cannot really put anything too far away from anyone, nowadays. And what if he is lying about not knowing occlumency?" retorted Mc Gonagall with apprehension clear in her voice.

"I think I would know if he tries to use occlumency, Minerva." Dumbledore gave her a meaningful look before turning to Teddy again, "I suppose you should take a seat", he said conjuring a chair. "And you might want to hand her over to someone else." he added gesturing towards Lily

Before Teddy had the chance to ask her, Victoire squeezed his hand tightly and took Lily from him.

Teddy made his way over to the chair and sat down. Victoire was standing just behind him and had her hand on his shoulder.

"Are you ready Mr...?" said Dumbledore with an inquisitive look

"Teddy...you can call me Teddy" said Teddy nervously, he reckoned it wouldn't be a good idea to tell anyone his surname now.

"Alright Teddy..." said Dumbledore with a slight smile, pointing his wand towards Teddy's head, "...1...2...3...Legilimens!"

Teddy held on tightly to the edges of his chair as he saw every part of his life being played fast forward in his mind; his first birthday...going to the muggle cinema with Harry...visiting his parents' graves with his grandmother...riding his first broom...going over to visit Draco...boarding the Hogwarts Express...winning his first quidditch match...kissing Victoire...joining the Auror training...

Dumbledore finally lifted the spell and Teddy suddenly felt rather queasy. He grabbed Victoire's hand which she hadn't moved from his shoulder still. She squeezed his hand gently and smiled at him; he smiled back and then looked towards Dumbledore to find him leaning against the heads' table with an undefinable expression on his face.

Teddy supposed that this was the result of knowing about a future that not only held the headmaster's own death but also of his countless acquaintances and numerous other innocent people.

As the headmaster seemed to get his composure back, Mc Gonagall who had been at his side in a flash, started inquiring about what he had seen, "What happened Albus? Are you alright?"

"I am fine, Minerva." said Dumbledore, the distress in his voice and the missing twinkle in his eyes betraying his own words. Something akin to astonishment and deep sadness had taken over his features. "Do me a favour Minerva, will you?"

Mc Gonagall nodded, her eyes alight with concern.

"Call in The Order. Floo Arthur and Molly, tell them to come here with their sons and ask them to bring Miss Delecour and Miss Tonks along." said Dumbledore in a commanding voice. "Severus" he called and Severus Snape walked over to him looking as uninterested as he could be, "Bring Remus to the castle as soon as you can, you know where to find him."

With that Mc Gonagall and Snape both nodded and made it for the hall's exit. It seemed as though their departure shook everyone out of their trance because suddenly there was a massive outburst of question from students and teachers alike as they all wanted to know what had happened or indeed what was going to happen.

At the centre of it all was Harry Potter, looking just as confused as the others but voicing his concerns a bit more loudly and emphatically.

"Silence" Dumbledore shouted over all the noise and at once the hall fell silent. "Take your seats and I will answer all your questions."

Everyone who was standing went to sit at their respective seats save for the newcomers and Harry of course, Ron and Hermione beside him.

"What is going on professor?" asked Harry

"Sit down Mr Potter. You too Mr Weasley and Miss Granger, I will explain everything very shortly."

"But professor..." Harry persisted

"Mr Potter...please" Dumbledore interrupted Harry, subtly pleading for him to leave the issue at that

The three of them begrudgingly made their way back to their seats and Teddy noticed some rather familiar people walking in through the hall's entrance.

He realised with a start that the people coming in were none other the Weasleys accompanied by Mc Gonagall and his...mother. And they were followed by Snape and Remus Lupin...his father.

Before any of them could open their mouths to inquire about their sudden beckoning, Dumbledore made his way over to them and in hushed tones instructed them all to do something.

Dumbledore made his way to the front of the hall again and addressed them all as he started to speak, "I know all of you have a thousand questions at this moment as to what is happening, I will answer them all but first you all need to listen to me very carefully." He paused for breath and started again, "Our friends here," he said gesturing towards the group of young people that had literally fallen from nowhere, "however ridiculous and unbelievable it may sound, have come from the future." There was a series of loud gasps throughout the great hall. "They have accidentally time-travelled to our time"

"Professor, do you really believe that? It's rather ridiculous if you ask me." Said Harry

"Professor, I don't mean to be rude but Harry is right. Time-travelling is only possible through time-turners and they were all destroyed last summer in the Department of Mysteries. This just isn't possible," It was Hermione who had spoken this time

"I hate to say it but for once Potter and Granger would have the pleasure of me agreeing with them. We aren't stupid you know." Surprisingly enough, it was Draco Malfoy who was voicing his agreement with Harry and Hermione

Teddy watched as the Weasleys, Remus and Tonks returned to the great hall and closed the doors behind them.

"Before explaining everything to you, I would like to tell you all that all the doors to the hall have been closed. Nobody is to leave the hall until the issue at hand is resolved. Also I would like you all to stand up for a minute; I need to change the arrangements."

Though confused, everyone did as they were told by Dumbledore.

"I suppose that if we are going to stay here, we might as well get comfortable." With that he flicked his wand and all the house tables were replaced by a variety of comfy looking sofas and armchairs along with some floor cushions. He did the same with the heads' table and motioned for everyone to sit down. The students all settled in with their house mates. The Weasley family together with Remus, Tonks and Fleur went to sit with the Gryffindors. The teachers too settled into seats.

"All of you can sit over there" Dumbledore said to the group of time travellers, motioning towards the front of the hall

Though hesitantly, they all made their way towards the front of the hall. Teddy sat down on the sofa with Victoire who still had Lily in her arms. James, Roxanne and Fred (II) settled onto the other sofa while Molly (II) and Louis occupied the two armchairs. Al, Rose, Scorpius and Dominique sat on the floor cushions.

"Now that we are all settl..." Dumbledore managed to say before he was interrupted by an irate Harry

"Professor it doesn't matter what you or these people say...I don't believe this."

"Harry, listen..." Dumbledore was interrupted yet again but this time by Teddy

"Professor, if you don't mind can I..."

Dumbledore nodded his approval.

Teddy cleared his throat, looking in the general direction of the hall, he spoke loud and clear, "I know that all of you, for a lack of a better word, are cynical considering our presence here and I don't blame you, my reaction would've been exactly the same if I were in your place. But please, believe me when I say that we really are from the future, 24 years to be exact... w-we had an accident with a potion and Merlin knows how we ended up here!" Teddy paused to take a breath and then continued, "Look, we don't know how to make you believe the truth but we...we can tell you somethings...umm y-you could..."

"This is preposterous! Do you think you can really fool us by saying that you can tell us things from the future? You could easily make some stuff up by yourselves and..."

"Your personal lessons with Dumbledore..." Teddy cut a ranting Harry mid-sentence, stood up, walked towards him and as soon as he was close enough, he whispered, "Your lessons with Dumbledore are about Tom's horcruxes."

"W-What did you say?" Harry stuttered

"You've been looking into the pensieve to determine their whereabouts." Said Teddy in a low voice, so it was impossible for anyone to hear it except Harry

Harry was stunned beyond anything, he, Hermione, Ron and Dumbledore were the only ones to know about the horcruxes.

How could this young man know about such a well kept secret?

...Harry was beginning to doubt his own judgement now

He thought for a minute or so, contemplating whether he should believe these strangers-from-the-future or not. Well Dumbledore believed them, so why shouldn't he? This man named Teddy was indeed privy to information that only some people in Harry's life would ever know.

"I-I believe you" said Harry finally and Teddy heaved a huge sigh of relief

Look, I know what you're all thinking...and I absolutely agree that the scene with Dumbledore changing the arrangements was utterly ridiculous. Believe me, I literally cringed all the while reading it. I actually wrote the first seven chapters a while ago, last winter break to be precise; I really have no idea what I was thinking at that time, but changing this now would mean that I would have to edit, or rather change the next two chapters as well and my laziness, basically, deems me incapable of doing so.

So you'll all have to bear this abomination and forgive me.

Let us all cringe collectively.

Also, next chapter will start with the introductions and I'm not really sure when the next update will come, but I'll try give you another chapter on Friday, hopefully.

Review please.