Chapter four

Harry stepped into the house and found himself in a large conservatory, he never stopped just kept walking until he saw a dining room, then Harry stopped, gaping at the person standing smiling at him.

'What the hell is going on Dumbledore?'

'There is a lot to explain Harry, yes I am Albus Dumbledore, but I am not the Albus Dumbledore that you knew. You have traveled Harry, travelled to an alternate universe. I do know that sounds absolutely crazy and you probably believe I am crazy as well. There's a lot to discuss and a lot you probably won't believe, not straight away. But why don't we sit and have a nice cup of tea, I'm sure you could use one.'

'How do I know you're not dangerous, some death eater that used polyjuice potion to lure me here to kill me?'

'Well, I suppose for now you will have to trust me. You can read everything in your own words very soon. But let's sit and have some tea, you can ask me some questions if you wish,' Albus smiled then went about making tea, 'Please sit Harry, you look exhausted.'

'I have no idea what to think about all this, but for some reason I do trust you,' Harry sat down, dropped the bag on the floor then waited.

Albus brought two cups to the table, placing one in front of Harry, 'From what I was able to work out, from what I was told, from what I read, you were given a chance at another life, if you wished to take it. So now I should explain all this. First is you wrote that book which is in your bag, but you also wrote me a letter explaining when you were going to arrive, what had happened in your world and how you were able to contact me, you wrote two letters to my counterpart in your world.

'You have no memory of this, it's all part of the charm that surrounded your arrival here and when you decided to take up this offer that a seer explained to you. She explained to you that you would kill Voldemort, you would survive but right after you're life becomes very hard and impossible to live with. She explained that with a special charm placed on some parchment, you would write what you needed and those same words appeared on parchment in my office. Once I realised it was true, I studied up on that charm and I contacted the seer from my world. She was able to connect with her other self and she showed me the future Harry, your future after the death of Voldemort.

'Basically you become paranoid, a hermit, scared to be around people, scared of your friends, scared to even step outside the doors of your old partly destroyed home in Godric's Hollow. You were scared that even your friends weren't real, that they were death eaters using polyjuice potion, and since you accused me of that I can see that all this is playing out as it should.

'It started because no one would leave you alone, you were constantly followed, people kept turning up in your back garden, some even got inside you home. Originally you went to your old home to repair the damage so you could live there. But you never got a chance to fix it because you were constantly being harassed, but you were also being attacked. Not just from the few death eaters and snatchers that escaped, but supporters that thought you destroyed their life. So many times you found your way to Hogwarts, bleeding badly, seriously injured, so finally it got too much for you.

'One day while in the hospital you seemed to be lost inside your own head; that is how Poppy described it. When you came too, three days later, during that time even though it had not happened yet, the seer showed you how you're life was going to be, then once your subconscious wanted nothing to do with that life the seer placed special charms on you. From what I found out, she really did this a year before you killed Voldemort. She placed messages inside your mind, so after Voldemort was dead you would walk into the forbidden forest and find the stone which had been charm but not to activate until after the war with Voldemort ended. My counter-part in the other world was able to work the charm so I received his messages as well. Between the four of us we were able to charm the stone that would bring you here because that is what you wanted and we decided to help, you deserved a chance. Once I spoke with the seer I contacted the Albus from your world and we formed some plans. That was the hardest part, as your world was in the midst of war, neither of us knew if he, the Albus from there could die, if he would die or when he might die. The main part of this Harry is you decided to take the chance at this different life.'

'So some seer told me I could have a life here, what about Voldemort? I don't want to go through all that shit again and if you're alive and a lot younger then that means it's my past, so he's still here.'

'Harry, please listen to me, yes some things are the same, but not everything. When I received your first letter it was before Voldemort was born. We have no idea how any of this works, so I can't explain it to you. This parchment you charmed with the help from the seer, you could not continuously write, so you needed to be very selective about what you wrote. You explained about Voldemort, who you were and how you were thought of. You explained about some who was on your side, who wasn't and who died and when. You were very good actually, you made the notes as short as possible but carried as much information as possible.'

'Okay, so even though I know you're younger, it's not before Voldemort was born. I also saw McGonagall, she looked maybe twenty or so years younger but that's it.'

'Time is different, that is the one thing we could not predict. But first because of what you wrote, I kept an eye on Merope Gaunt, our Merope Gaunt. She was pregnant by the time I found her, but she died in childbirth, along with the child, Tom Riddle or Voldemort is no longer, so you see, our world is different in that sense. He does not exist here because he died before he could be born.'

Harry stared at this Albus Dumbledore, 'You did it, you made sure he never lived, didn't you?'

'Very wise Harry; after reading what you wrote, I was able to contact your Albus and he explained some more. I knew there was a chance to stop what happened in your world from ever happening in mine, so I took necessary steps. You of all people should not have a problem with what I did?'

Harry shook his head, 'No, I don't, he needed to die and this way you've saved a lot of lives, saved families from being…' Harry's mouth fell open as realisation struck, Voldemort never grew up to murder his parents, he never gathered followers, like Bellatrix, so his parents and Sirius must be alive in this world, but how old, Harry had no idea. If McGonagall was around twenty years younger, than Harry wouldn't even be born in this world, but his parents were together, but more importantly, alive.