I'm so sorry it's been so long…I've had a lot of issues the past few weeks, but I finally have time to put up a new chapter! Hope you enjoy it.

Disclaimer: Sad fact: I don't own Harry Potter or any of its characters. If I did…..well, I wouldn't be writing on this website.

"Do you understand me?" Albus said, looking at Lily and Hugo with intensity in his eyes. It was around nine o'clock in the morning, and the three were down near the lake. "There will be no "Mommy and Daddy", got it? If possible, don't make eye contact with any of our family at all."

"Ok, Al," Lily said in a small voice. "We understand." Hugo nodded in agreement.

"Good," Al said, standing up straighter. "Well, why don't we walk around the lake? I'm sure that James and Rose are still sleeping, the lazy bums." Albus said with a little laugh.

Lily and Hugo were having a fun time pretend-shoving one another into the water, which, one may like to point out, was freezing cold. Al, however, was looking at more important things. His father and Aunt Hermione were walking around the lake as well. In his direction.

"Lily, Hugo, come this way," Albus urged his younger sister and cousin back towards Hogwarts. Both looked confused at his sudden need for departure.

"Hello?"

Al cursed mentally. He turned around, a faux smile on his face as he saw none other than the two whose company he least craved right now. They were- you guessed it! - Hermione Granger and Harry Potter.

Lily and Hugo's jaws almost dropped at the sight of their young parents. They looked so…small compared to how they did in the future.

"Hi," Albus said through almost gritted teeth. "Who are you?"

"My name is Hermione Granger," Albus's future aunt said briskly. "And you three are some of the new exchange students, are you not?"

"Yes, we are," Al said, relaxing slightly. They didn't think it was peculiar that he looked so much like Harry, even though Dumbledore had put a charm on his hair to make it look like more of an auburn color, like his younger sister's.

"My name is Al and this is my younger sister Lily and cousin, Hugo," he said, nodding at the younger children in turn. "And you're Harry Potter, aren't you, the boy who is illegally in the tournament?"

Al felt extremely guilty saying that, like betraying his own family. Which, in a way, he was. No, he reminded himself. Harry and Hermione are NOT you're family. At least not yet. You're playing a character right now, and a character would immediately dub Harry as the boy in the tournament or the Boy-Who-Lived, nothing more.

"Yeah, I am." Harry's voice was sulky and a bit rude. Al raised his eyebrow. He wasn't sure what to make of this.

"Well, good luck," Albus said abruptly as he steered his Lily and Hugo away from his young father and aunt. The situation was just too weird for him.

"Did you see them?" Hugo whispered ecstatically.

"Yes I did," Al said quietly.

"Now I know why people say that I look like my mum. Because I do!" Hugo's grin was so wide; you could have fit all of Tottenham Court Road in there. (*)

Albus almost grinned at Hugo's ecstasy. He sounded so happy and full of joy.

Lily was excited as well. "That was my Dad at fourteen, Jamie's age!" She said, smiling in happiness. "He looked so little," she giggled.

Then Al noticed something. James and Rose were rushing towards them hurriedly, faces showing a bit of distress.

"Al," James was panting when they had run that last bit. "We have something important to tell you. We saw Mum."

Al's eyes widened immensely at that. Seeing his father was one thing, but his mother? That was another thing entirely.

"Well, we've got news for you, too," Al said. "We saw Dad and Aunt Hermione."

"You did what?" James had just finished recounting his story.

"I can't believe you were that mean to my dad," Hugo said in sorrow.

Hey, I'm sorry, Hugh," James patted Hugo's shoulder. "But you're dad's a jerk at fourteen."

"James!" Rose said, slapping his arm.

"Ow!" James yelled, rubbing the spot her arm had made contact. "What are you made of, nails?"

"So this has definitely been a most interesting day, hasn't it?" Al said in good humor.

"You could say that," Rose said with a shaky grin. "But just wait until classes start on Monday."

"Damn," James said, his head falling back against the wall with a thump. "I completely forgot that we had to learn."

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