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"What?" Ginny said in shock.
"Impossible," Ron said.
"I don't know, that one there looks a lot like Hermione." Harry said thoughtfully.
"And he looks like Harry," Hermione said. "But he has brown eyes instead of green."
"Yah, I have my mums eyes," Albus told them. "Everyone says that."
"I still don't believe them," Ron scuffed. "Just because they look like us doesn't mean they're our kids."
"Wait a minute," Rose said, rummaging through her pockets. "I have something here that should prove it."
She pulled out a silver chain with a small locket on it. "You gave this to me for Christmas when I was six, the lock is broken, so I can't wear it until it gets fixed, but look inside it."
Ron took the locket and opened it up. Inside it was a tiny picture of a little Rose sitting on an older version of Ron's lap.
"Blimey," said Ginny looking over his shoulder. She's right!"
Ron was silent, and then he finally said, "I suppose she's my other daughter too, she has red hair and all."
"What Lily? No she's my cousin though. Hugo is your son."
"I thought he was Hermione's son." Said Ron in a confused voice.
"He is."
Ron turned bright Red. "Hermione's my-"
"You have got to be joking!" Hermione yelled, standing up.
"Hermione, shhh, Madam Pince will come and kick us out!" Ginny warned.
"Hang on, I got it," Harry said pulling out his wand. "Muffiato."
"If you expect me to believe that I marry the arrogant, stuck up, selfish, stupid, idiot, you have another thought coming!"
Rose opened her mouth to speak, but her mother cut her off. "This is all probably just some joke they think is funny. I'll buy that they're from the future, but there is no way I would ever, ever marry someone like Ron."
She huffed back over to her table with her books, crammed them all in her bag, and headed out of the library without giving them another glance.
"I think I know where you get your temper Rosie," James said.
"Wait," Ginny said slowly. "If Ron and Hermione end up married, that must mean that Harry and I…"
She looked over at him.
It was Harry's turn to look embarrassed, but Albus saw a glowing tint in his eyes.
Ron who had been looking at the floor with a pained expression, jerked his head back up. "Are you serious?"
"It's true," Lily said. "They're our parents," she said, pointing to James and Albus.
Ginny continued to stare at Harry, and Ron still looked surprised.
"Anyways," Rose said, finally recovering from her mum's abrupt departure. "We need to get back to our time, and we need to have a certain potion in order to do so."
"What kind?"
"The potion is called Revictero It's extremely complicated to make, plus it takes 29 days to complete."
"Well," Ron said, his voice a bit high from the discovery of finding out he had two kids and his best friend married his little sister, "Harry's gotten good at potions this year, why don't you check and see if the Prince has any directions for the potion."
"Huh?" Harry said, who had been trying to avoid Ginny's eyes. "Oh yah, the Prince."
"Who's this Prince?" Ginny asked softly. Harry recognized this voice; Ginny used it a lot when talking to him up until last year.
"Just someone who wrote in my potion book," he replied still looking anywhere but at her.
He flipped through the pages until he came across the instructions for the Revictero potion.
"Look's like we'll be having another Polyjuice Potion incident then," Ron said. "Joy."
"Do you think you can make it?" Albus asked his father. Harry shrugged.
"He didn't make any revisions on this one, so we'd have to follow the directions straight out of the book, which will be tricky."
"We need Hermione," Ginny sighed.
"Listen, I think you might be mistaken about me and Hermione," Ron said to Rose and Hugo.
"We know who our parents are," Rose said firmly. "I even showed you that picture."
"I know, I believe you're my kids, but maybe, I dunno, I'm married to another girl named Hermione."
"Yes, because it's such a common name," James said sarcastically.
"I'm serious. Hermione's probably going to marry Victor Krum or someone," Ron said, though his face fell at this, and he added quietly, "She won't even look at me."
"Who's Victor Krum?" Lily asked Ginny.
"He's the Seeker for Bulgaria. Him and Hermione went to a dance together two years ago."
"Yah, and did who knows what afterwards."
"Ron, is this all because I said Hermione snogged with Hermione." Ginny asked
"Did she or not?"
"I was just saying that to make a point."
"Ginny! Yes or no."
"She did, once only. And she said it wasn't even that good."
"But she still did it, right?"
"Are you jealous Ron?"
"No!"
"Do you think we can talk Aunt Hermione into helping us?" James asked.
"I dunno, she seemed pretty bitten off about me being her husband, and we're not exactly on speaking terms right now." Ron said.
"If you broke up with Lavender, I guarantee she'll be friendly with you again," said Ginny. "It's not as though you even like her, your just using her."
"I guess. And speaking of which, when are you going to break it off with Dean?"
Harry looked over at Dean, by himself at the table, and felt a surge of triumph over him.
"What'd you mean?"
"Well you obviously end up with Harry, how that happened I have no clue, but why would you waste your time with Dean if you know it won't work out?"
"I- I guess I'll handle that later," she stammered. "Right now shouldn't we focus on getting these five back to whatever year they're from?"
"She's right Ron," Harry spoke up. "So go find Lavender and end it, so Hermione can help us make this potion."
"But how do I break up with someone?" Ron asked in a panicky tone. "You haven't done it have you? You and Cho just sort of broke off."
"Cho?" Lily questioned, but nobody seemed to hear her.
"Just go say you don't think your right for her. She'll be mad for a bit, but then get over it." Ginny instructed him.
"Alright, where is she?"
"Probably in the common room,"
"The Fat Lady won't let us in," Rose told them. "She only lets in people she knows as Gryffindors."
"Here," Harry said, pulling a cloak out from his bag. "Get under there."
"Awesome, the Invisibility Cloak," James whispered.
"You know about it?"
"Yah, you gave it to me when I turned 11."
"They won't all fit under there," Ron said.
"I have an idea," James said. "Hugo, get on my back, Lily go on Albus's"
Making sure no one was watching them, Harry threw the cloak over them, and grabbed his bag. Ginny ran over to her table with Dean, grabbed her bag and told her she would talk to him later, and followed them out of the library.
"Password?" asked the Fat Lady as the group arrived.
"Tapeworm," Ginny said, and the portrait swung open. Harry and Ron tried to help the kids over as much as they could with out attracting too much attention, but James and Albus still had difficulty.
Surprisingly, the
common room was empty, except for Lavender, Pavarti and Neville.
"Won Won!" squealed Lavender as she ran over to Ron and
draped herself around him.
"Er, hi Lavender," he said uncomfortably. Ginny shot him a stare. "Can-can we talk?"
"About what Ronny?"
"Um, you see, I thinkweshouldseeotherpeople," he said very quickly.
"What'd you say? You were talking too fast Ronikins."
"Lavender, I think we, need to, um what I'm trying to say exactly is- well I don't like you like you like me. There, I said it."
Lavender was blinking back tears. "What?"
"I er, don't think we're right for each-"
"It's that Hermione girl isn't it!" she said furiously.
"Lavender, calm down," Pavarti said, coming over to her friend's side.
"How dare you Ronald Weasly!" she shrieked. "You good for nothing jerk!"
She aimed a kick at Ron's leg, but missed and sent a stack of books flying.
"Lavender!" Pavarti said desperately trying to hold her back as she advanced on Ron.
"He thinks that it's no big deal to just leave me for some bushy haired brainy know-it-all!"
"Hey, she's not a know-it-all," Ron said indignantly.
"You know what Ron, you'll be crawling back to me by the end of the week, mark my words!"
She spun around and marched back to the girls dormitory, passing Hermione who she nearly trampled as she went up the stairs.
"Sorry about her," Pavarti said, picking up the books Lavender had knocked down. "I'd better see if she's okay."
She gave them a weak smile and went up to the dormitory.
"What was going on down here?" Hermione asked, coming towards them. "I could here Lavender all the way from the dorms."
"We ended it," Ron said, looking directly at her.
"You did?" Hermione asked, her face lighting up. "Oh, um, I'm sorry about that Ron."
"Don't be," he told her. "She was getting on my nerves from the beginning."
Hermione laughed.
"I think I'll go up to bed," Neville said, shutting his book. "See you in the morning."
"Wait, Neville," Harry stopped him. "Do you know about them?" He pointed to the know visible James, Hugo, Albus, Rose and Lily.
"You mean that they're your, um kids?" he whispered.
"Yes."
He nodded. "I met them outside the Fat Lady this afternoon, and they told me everything. Apparently I'm a Professor in the future."
"No way," Ron said.
"He is," Rose defended. "He's one of the best. He's even head of Gryffindor."
"Well, suppose that's not the weirdest thing we've heard today," said Ron, sinking into an armchair.
"Suppose it isn't. Well, G"night." And he disappeared up the staircase.
"I'm sorry about earlier," Hermione said at once. "It was just odd finding out Ron and I wind up married."
"What's odd about that?" Ron demanded.
"I don't know, I guess the fact that we always argue. And then you were with Lavender…"
"You were with Krum!"
"Years ago!"
"Still, you were, and evidently you liked it, seeing as you kissed him!"
"Well you kissed Lavender practically 24/7, are you saying you were in love with her?"
"No, but you admitted you liked Krum at some point!"
"Well obviously. And you had to like Lavender at some point or you two would've never been together in the first place."
"Oh please, I was only with her to make you jealous!" His eyes grew wide and he instantly became many shades darker than his flaming red hair, and looked around at everyone staring at him.
"You wanted to make me jealous?" Hermione questioned in a small, teary voice.
"Yes," Ron said in a barely audible whisper. "I wanted to get you to like me."
"Oh Ron," Hermione said, bursting into tears.
"Don't cry," Ron said in a worried tone. "I understand if you don't-"
"Of course I like you!" She pulled him into a kiss, getting many gags from their kids.
Harry and Ginny smiled.
"It's about time those two got together," Ginny said as Hermione and Ron continued to kiss. They seemed to have forgotten the others in the room.
"Yah," Harry responded distantly, then said bravely, "So, we end up married huh?"
She looked into his eyes and said, "I remember when I was younger, I would always think about marrying Harry Potter, but it was only a dream. But then Hermione said that I was just wasting my time dwelling on you, since you only seemed to like me as a friend-"
Harry had just locked lips with her, kissing her at long last.
Ginny felt sparks, like she had never felt kissing Dean or Michael.
"Disgusting," James said, looking back and forth between to two couples. "Absolutely putrid."
"You said it," Hugo agreed.
Hermione and Ron finally broke apart, and Ron spotting Harry and his sister yelled; "You two coming up for air anytime soon?"
"You're awful Ron," Ginny said as her and Harry pulled apart. "Honestly, no one interrupted you." Then she smacked herself on the forehead. "Shoot, I completely forgot that I left Dean waiting in the library. Don't worry," she added at Harry's hurt stare. "I'm breaking up with him."
She gave Harry a quick kiss on the cheek, and left out the Portrait.
"So," Rose said awkwardly, to remind them that they were still here. "Are you going to help us with the potion so we can get home?"
"The Prince doesn't have instructions for it Hermione," Harry said grinning. "So you're back to being the best potion maker"
Hermione looked very satisfied. "Well, Mertyl won't be happy to see us back, but I guess we can manage."
The entrance opened, and a very angry Dean stormed in. Without even noticing the kids or Harry, Ron and Hermione, he headed straight for the boys stairwell and climbed up.
"He didn't take it very well," Ginny explained as she came in. "But he'll be alright."
"Hermione agreed to fix the potion," Ron announced to her, putting his arm around Hermione.
"Excellent, then they can get home back to their time."
"What're we supposed to do in the meantime?" Lily asked. "Just hide out in old classrooms and broom cupboards like we did today?"
"The common room should be empty during lessons, Hermione said. "And everyone spends their breaks either in the library or on the grounds. As long as you're hidden before six when lessons end, you should be safe."
"I've just noticed this," Rose said suddenly. She had the book she found the potion in earlier that day open.
"What?" Ron asked her.
"It says here that once the users of the Portual Rensive return to their time, any events that took place during their visit will be erased, leaving everyone they came in contact with, without any memory of them."
"So that means," Harry said slowly. "We won't remember any of this?" He glanced longingly at Ginny, and Ron pulled Hermione closer.
"I don't think it matters," Hermione said. "After all, we're together in the future, so everything must've worked out."
"True, but after they go, I'll be back with Lavender," Ron said glumly.
"And me with Dean," Ginny sighed.
"We'd better make the best of the time we have then," Hermione said.
Neither Hermione or Harry would be welcome back into their dorms, seeing as they were now dating one of their roommate's ex. Hermione sent Ginny up to her dorm to get her books and a pillow, and Ron did the same for Harry.
"You lot stay behind here," Ginny instructed the kids as she made a bed of sheets and pillows behind a large sofa. "No one should be able to see you unless they actually walk over here, but that's unlikely, seeing as it'll be early morning."
Nobody got much sleep that night, as the fact that their kids were now with them at Hogwarts was still fresh in their minds.
By the time students started coming down to the common room, the four were already dressed and Hermione was studying the potions recipe, as to see what supplies they would be needing.
"It'll be much easier taking ingredients this time then with the polyjuice potion," she said brightly. "Slughorn would probably hand us everything if we asked him for it."
"Still, we'd better sneak it," said Ginny. "Just to be sure this stays a secret."
As the common room finally cleared of all tired students, the four went behind the sofa let the kids know they were leaving.
"Well bring you whatever we can from breakfast right after Charms," Hermione told them, as Ginny tried to wake a still sleeping James. "Make sure you stay in here. If for any reason somebody comes in here, tell them your first years."
"I am NOT a first year," James mumbled, burying his head in his pillow.
"Well, then say you're a second year," Hermione said. "Just read something in the meantime."
"Read? It's break for us!"
"Then play chess!" she said exasperatedly.
"Wow, Uncle Ron was right when he told us you were touchy in school,"
Hermione shot Ron a death glare. "I'm touchy because certain people, like Ronald, make me that way."
"How have I made you touchy?"
"Oh, you know. You always-"
"Hang on a second," Harry said, cutting the two off. "I've just realized something."
"What?" Ginny asked.
"If I'm married and have kids in the future, then obviously…"
Hermione gasped and clamped her hands to her mouth. "We win the war! You must have killed Voldemort!"
"We have to tell Dumbledore this!" Harry said. "They can tell him how the war ended, and we can use that way to do it sooner and-"
"What war?" Albus asked.
"What'd you mean what war? The one going on right now with Voldemort," Ron said. "The one where evidently, you father kills the most infamous wizard of all time!"
"Who?" Lily asked.
The four stared at the kids. "Don't you know anything about the war, or Voldemort, or the Death Eaters?" Harry questioned.
They all shook their heads.
"But how can they not know?" Ginny asked in a puzzled tone. "I mean, with Harry, it'd be hard for them NOT to know, unless we just didn't tell them."
"Have we ever mentioned anything about fighting Voldemort?" asked Harry. "Anything about my scar, or the Order, or Dumbledore-"
"Him we know about," Rose cut in. "He was the greatest Sorcerer of all time."
"What'd you mean was? He's dead?"
"Yes, you said he died about twenty years ago in our time."
"But that would be around this timeframe," Ginny cried.
"How does he die?" Harry pressed on anxiously.
"We don't know, whenever we ask, everybody changes the subject. We even asked Teddy, and he tells us loads of stuff we're not supposed to know-"
"Teddy?"
"Yah, he's your godson, our god brother."
Harry had so many more questions for his kids, but as he was about to continue Hermione announced that lessons were starting in 20 minutes.
"Remember, stay in here," Hermione said as she pushed the portrait open.
"Okay," the five echoed back.
"Well, whatever this war is about, it seems to be pretty important," Rose said as their parents left.
"And it has something to do with dad's scar by the sound of it," Albus added.
"But he said he got his scar in a Quidditch game," said Lily.
"I doubt that now," James said. "Just like I bet Uncle George didn't lose his ear due to one of his jokes going wrong."
"We'll just have to coax what's going on out of dad," Lily said. "Or mum, Uncle Ron or Aunt Hermione."
"Why do our own kids know nothing about the war?" Ron asked for the second time as the picked at their breakfast.
"It looks like we never told them about it," Ginny said.
"But why?" pondered Harry.
"Well," Hermione said thoughtfully. "Come to think of it, it does seem pretty smart."
"What?" the other three asked in confusion.
"Think about it. If Harry did defeat Voldemort, he would probably be the most famous wizard ever. Would you want your kids knowing you as a celebrity or their father?"
"She has a point there," said Ron.
Harry and Ginny nodded. "But now they'll be asking us questions about it, seeing as we let it slip."
"We'll just hold our ground. After all they have to listen to us. We are they're parents."
"But I want to know more about after the war," Harry said. "Even if they don't know there was a war, they'll know how things are in general."
"Don't bother Harry, you heard Rose, after they leave, we'll go back to living life as if they never came."
"But-"
"Drop it mate," Ron advised him. "The more you ask them, the more they'll ask you."
The bell rang, and stuffing strips of bacon into napkins and placing them in their bags, Harry, Ron and Hermione went of the Charms, while Ginny headed to Transfiguration.
It was painful for Harry to have so many unanswered questions, especially when he knew he'd be finding out the answers for many years when he actually lived them out. He wondered if he could hold out asking until the kids were safely back home…
