Authors Note: Thanks for the support with faving or following my story. And a special thanks to lilly-flower15 for the review.

And I'm really sorry for the late update. I was really busy. It's a lot recently with my father getting worse since a stroke over 15 years ago and by now he's really weak and though he's in a home I visit often because he could theoretically die any day and get's really sick close to dying about every three month. on top was my mother diagnosed with cancer and it looks better as at the start ( it's unlikely she'll be cured but instead of two month to a year she might manage a few more years) so please do forgive me that I currently don't manage to update every day as I usually while working on a story.


Time

Chapter five

Finally

Harry looks at the five people that snug into the ministry with him. He had not talked to Cedric's parents. They grieved and especially the mother was heartbroken but they were alive and still somewhat okay. And he got this far now. He saw the death eaters get into position after they made sure there was no security around to stop his younger self. Harry and those with him that he saved have a plan. He trained them all for this. Even Cedric in case anything goes wrong and to do a spell he needs to cast without Harry around as well as all possible unlocking charms he might need on his way. He watches himself and his friends rush through the lobby and whispers "Go." To Cedric.

All of them are under Harry's disillusion ward that works much better than the plain old spell. Still hidden Cedric floos straight to St Mungos and breaks into the room where the Longbottom's are. He drips one drop of a potion the time traveller, who's identity he still doesn't know, gave him. He suspects him to be Snape though. He's certainly grumpy enough most of the time. And knows his potions it seems. If it wouldn't be for the Potters he would not have trusted him.

After that he can finally go home, end the disillusion ward that hides him with the spell he was taught and explains what little he knows to his parents. The Longbottoms should be cured in about an hour.

In the mean time Harry lets Fabian and Gideon lead them towards the death chamber as the room with the arch is called. On the way the two look at the fixed time loop machine. "That reminds me." Harry asks "Did you get it fixed?"

"It fixed itself. We also found out there is a compartment where we could leave notes in that don't get reset such we knew a bit. You must have reset time too quickly for us to do so a few times though." They tell him switching who speaks "This symbol was new after you came. We think it means the machine is in use, meaning by you. The number here seems to count your number of loops." Harry stares, he restarted the loop far over 2000 times. Well, counting the times he blew up the ministry seconds after starting that probably means he did at least that first week already over 2000 times in total because he didn't blow up the ministry over 500 times.

"You wouldn't happen to know how often I did my OWL'S?" Harry asks.

"Including this time, 1394 times." Fabian grins.

"Your NEWT just about 132 times. Your first year was the worst with redoing it, the first half year was more often without reaching the OWL's test than you actually reaching it. You got send back less often with time." Gideon says surprising Harry. He thought he hadn't done the NEWT's fifty times. It felt like time barely restarted after NEWT's. But than again, compared to 2653 restarts it was nothing.

"We don't know why though." Fabian says.

"Can we go on? You said Sirius needs us." James reminds them.

"Right, let's go." Harry agrees

They reach the death chamber and wait well hidden. As soon as the young Harry and the others show up the still hidden people spread out to the right places and get ready. Soon after the order members arrive. Harry quickly casts the spell that protects Sirius from the killing curse just before Bellatrix's spell hits him. After the illusion that makes everyone think Sirius is dead when in truth Harry just silenced him, he runs after his younger vision that is following Bellatrix and reversing all spells on Sirius right before he's out. Neither of the three leaving such sees the surprise on Sirius' face when he doesn't drop dead. Or the shock on all others when they just see him again. As soon as both Harry's are gone the Prewitt brothers, Lily and James end the disillusion wards on them and James just asks Sirius "What do you think of his ward against the Killing curse. Protects you from one usually more up to five depending on how powerful they are."

"James. Guess that means the loop ends today." Sirius grins.

"About time. I missed you guys." Remus grins. "But I think we have some pressing matters to take care off."

Though with James fighting on Sirius side and Lily helping out too as well as the Prewitt brothers, that are a force on their own, the other order members have an easy time tying the death eaters still there up nice and tight to make sure they can present them to the minister. They are marked, wearing death eater robes and in the Mysterium department where they are not supposed to be.

In the mean time Harry watches how the blasting curse hits his younger version and how he was thrown into the time loop machine. It breaks only to reassemble itself right away. Dark smoke stays behind. It floats around before trying to get past the disillusion wards but it can't reach him, it moves towards Bellatrix but before it reaches her Harry casts fiend fire at it and breaks his wards and the glamour right after looking at Bellatrix with a grin. "You know, I would thank you for all that extra study time you gave me to have an easier time against your master but really, you shouldn't have given me that much. I started to get board." She casts another blasting curse but Harry waves it away with his left hand not even bothering to use his wand. "Now, now. You really don't want me to gain even more experience by accidentally pushing me into something else in here my dear. Trust me, I had enough time to learn some really fancy wand work."

"My Master will kill you." Bellatrix hisses angrily.

"Master? I thought you just call him Lord? Seems like you really are scurrying around that half blood like a house elf after its owner. Not that I care that your precious Master is a half blood, but I thought you did. Looks like I was wrong." Harry grins. "But it's adorable how much you resemble a house elf. But than again most decent wizard with a bit of kindness would treat their house elves better than Tommy boy treats his death eaters. But then again I could be wrong." He ties Bellatrix up and moves her before himself towards the lobby. "Lets see if he comes out to help you or not."

On his way through the lobby he calmly stops and waits a moment "See." Harry eventually says "He is still hidden. I know you're here, Tom Riddle, why don't you come out? I'd like a word with you."

"Who are you? Just so I know whom I'll kill for calling me by that vile name." Voldemort says, finally showing himself.

"That stung. Don't you recognise your dearest enemy?" Harry says using a locator spell certain that Nagini can't be far. "I know, I'm a good twenty years older than I ought to be but hey. You can thank Bellatrix for that. Personally I'm very grateful for her help. You see, she send me back in time to give me plenty of time to get ready to face you."

"I just casted a blasting curse to slow him down my lord I'd never help him." Bellatrix defences herself.

"Oh yeah and how nice of you to blast me inside the time room. Well done my dear." Harry grins before tuning to Voldemort to ask "I even figured out the nature of the connection we had thanks to her and was able to destroy the piece of you that was stuck in my scar. Want to know what it was?" the dark Lord just looks angrily at the boy but doesn't speak "I take that you haven't figured it out. No need to be ashamed though I didn't need that long to stumble about a book that helped me find out but still, it was luck in my case. But just so you know, it was the same as you have in her." Harry says and casts fiend fire onto Nagini. Only ending it after she's dead.

"You'll die for that! Harry Potter." Voldemort says raising his wand.

Harry easily disarm him saying "Patience please. I wasn't done. Now let me rephrase myself to correct what I said. It was the same thing that was in Nagini, that was in a once lovely now burned tiara of Rowena that I burned last night. And one was in a cup that I swapped with a fake one before dear Bellatrix left the fake one in her vault. The real one is burned too. I also asked Kreacher to hand over the original locked of Salazar that Regulus Black was kind enough to help Kreacher to acquire. Kreacher was very happy when I contacted him late last night and offered my help to destroy it. Anyway where was I. Oh yeah. Another piece was in a ring in that old run down 'house' your mother used to live in. I know you hate your muggle father and I get why, was more snobbish than even Lucius, though Severus still insists that to be impossible, but at least his house used to look nice. Until it wasn't used for years because you killed your muggle family. But I'm getting off topic again don't I. Did I forget anything? Oh yeah the diary but of course you knew Lucius kindly helped me get rid of that just like dear Bellatrix helped me get rid of the piece in my scar. Just out of curiosity would you have tried to kill me had you figured out what that scar was?"

Looking very angry Voldemort growls "Impossible. If a part of my soul had been in you, it would have possessed you!"

"I'm sure it tried but you see, I was in the past for years and that after I knew how Peter hid for years fooling everyone to be dead so I thought, let's see if I can fool you and then some. I saved the Prewitt brothers and Cedric of course. Just like my parents. I'm even a big brother by now." Harry grins "So you see I did survive on my own accidental magic, not my mother's protection. Sure I was constantly draining my magic to fight you off but hey, I had enough left to fight you when I was a child last year. Guess what I can do now." In that moment Dumbledore arrives and Harry just looks at him "Hello Dumbledore please, do stay out of it and just relax. Leave Tom to me, you shouldn't have to bother with his childish temper tantrums at your age."

"Harry?" Albus asks surprised to find his student so changed.

"Yeah?" Harry calmly responds before turning to Voldemort "I just remembered I wrote Fudge using a school owl that Harry Potter said some nonsense about Voldemort being in the ministry and ran off to safe the day so he might want to come with plenty of witnesses to see for themselves how crazy Potter must be. I doubt it'll take him much longer." He had written Percy as Malcom too, warning him that he too believed Voldesnort to be there that night and to such stay away for his safety because he really cared about him. Of course he cared about. Percy was the first to be born after Harry joined the family and though he got around becoming his godfather claiming to be too young, though mostly because he knew he couldn't be around as much as he'd liked to be there for a godchild, he had still promised Molly to watch over all the kids and he had written them a lot. Especially Percy during that year, trying hard to not let himself be drawn into the fight he had with his parents and never even saying what he believed. He just had asked Percy repeatedly to remember what he knew about others and to never be blinded by what others say be it Dumbledore or Fudge and to make up his own mind. And that he'd care for him and his siblings no matter who was right or wrong. Such Percy accepted his letters still and wrote back regularly. So far still buying all of Fudge's crap. Mostly because he felt good to be given such special treatment. Not seeing Fudge just hoped to get to Arthur and over him to spy on Dumbledore.

"I won't need long." Voldemort says, lifts his wand and says "Avada…." And then his wand flies from his hand.

"You know the fact that the spell needs too much power to be used quickly makes it a real disadvantage." Harry points out and sends the wand back to Voldemort "Do try again but with a bit more creativity."

"Are you crazy?" Dumbledore asks seeing Harry return the dark lords wand to him.

"A little yeah." Harry calmly replies. "That's what happens after doing your OWL's over a thousand times. It's a long story but trust me." He waves away a blasting curse from the dark Lord like it's no more than an annoying fly. "Life can become very tedious. I'll explain later. Though make that tomorrow. My lover is waiting for me and I'm running a bit late."

He looks at Voldemort asking "You know, not having a mother is no excuse to be rude, I ought to know! And I was talking here so please wait your turn. Now, where were we? Oh right try again."

Voldemort looks furious before saying "This is not over, I'll be back."

"Oh no." a quickly casted ward prevents the dark Lord from leaving "No running away now. I know you're a Slytherin and such bravery isn't your strongest suit but really, how would you look in front of your house elf like little minions? And really, I don't want to have to chase you around. I'm way past the age of playing catch or hide and seek. Let's just get on with this now."

Fudge shows up followed by a lot of his employees and considering the cameras and ready quills and note pads, some of his buddy's at the prophet are there too. To Harry's dismay Percy is right by his side. Harry just grins at Fudge. "There you are. Now since that thing over there was just a figment of my imagination I probably don't need to fight him right?" Harry asks pointing at Voldemort "I should let him try to kill you all since he's not here and I'm just crazy and might break something if I fight my hallucination, right? After all Fudge assured you all that he is not back! I can't fight someone who isn't there."

"Harry!" Albus chidingly calls out.

"What?" Harry asks "It's what they had said. That I'm crazy and that he isn't back. Is it too much to ask that they apologise?"

Voldemort once again tried to use Harry's distraction and sends a killing curse his way. Harry easily steps away from it and the spell scorches the wall. "Did I imagine that too?" he innocently asks Fudge.

"All right, all right, I'm sorry I was wrong." Fudge says quickly and terrified.

"So I should fight him for you? Umbridge said I'd never need to. The ministry would protect us. So, shouldn't you fight him?" Harry asks and sidesteps another killing curse.

Harry turns to Voldemort and says "I said wait your turn! I'm busy! And anyway! I think Fudge wants to duel…."

"No I don't. You fight him!" Fudge says "That's your job!"

"Job? I thought it's the ministry's job and last I checked I'm not on your pay role." Harry says.

Just to stop Harry from being busy Voldemort throws a killing curse at Fudge. A spell from Harry hits the minister first and the killing curse is ineffective. "Please Tom, we all know you are impatient but he just said he doesn't want to fight you himself, so please wait until we discussed who'll fight you! And don't try killing anyone, I've developed a protection against that particular curse." Harry is worried though. The minister partially stepped behind Percy for cover.

"Than how about this one? Crucio!" Voldemort says pointing the wand at the Minister who pulls Percy in the way.

Harry waits summons a shield that reflects it right back to Voldemort who screams for a moment when his own spell hits him. "How dare you. Don't you know? To help me after my accidental time travel, for which I have Bellatrix to thank, the Prewitt brothers helped me with a fake identity as their adopted son." Percy gasps "That makes Percy there my little cousin. And you better never endanger him again! Or you will regret it." He turns to Fudge "And you, don't you ever dare to use my cousin as a shield again or there won't be a next time after that." He turns back to the dark Lord asking "I hope that shield did at least answer your question? But for future references, that shield also reflects the killing curse. Had I used it instead of sidestepping them when you tried to kill me with them, you'd be dead now. Do be careful what you throw at me."

"Just kill him already!" Fudge bellows.

"Sorry. I don't kill anyone on principle, which is why I didn't reflect his killing curses." Harry says. "I could capture him though."

"Than do it." Fudge says terrified.

"You said it's my job right. So I should get paid. Especially since I see no reason to do you any favour after you used my precious cousin as a shield!" Harry points out.

"All right, all right you get as much gold as you want just get him." Fudge orders.

"I don't want gold." Harry tells him "I want you to ensure Umbridge is punished for torturing students with a quill that not only cuts their skin and writes with their blood but puts a compulsion to do as they write on them! And I want you to make laws that prohibit children from being harmed by anyone! Be they family or teacher!"

"I'll do it. I promise." Fudge says terrified.

"Great." Harry says and turns to Voldemort "Now we can fight. So, do you want to start? Because I will end it."

Voldemort glowers and then tries to use a far less known spell Severus developed. "Sectum…" and then he is bound and gagged.

"I really don't like you using the spells my lover invented." Harry says "That was a big mistake."

In that moment the order along with those Harry had saved, apart from Cedric, come up with bound and captured death eaters. "Great!" Harry says. "You can explain everything so I can go see my lover." He turns to Percy "Please do reconsider working for that idiot Fudge, he apparently doesn't appreciate you as much as you wrote he does. Because if he appreciated you half as much as you deserve, he would not have used you as a human shield. And do say hi to your mom from me when you see her. And visit her soon, she's not angry, she just misses you. And family will always be there no matter what mistake one makes." After that he just breaks the anti apparition wards and is gone.

"He really is losing it with everything isn't he?" Lily sighs worriedly.

James just shrugs. "He's still a good guy and caring and all. Who cares if he's a little funny sometimes."

It takes awhile for them to explain everything while Harry walks into Hogwarts and towards Severus, who is walking a whole in the ground "Is he okay? I mean you, I mean your younger version?" Severus asks the second he sees Harry.

"I guess. But you'll tell me, was I okay in the past? The loop just started for him." Harry grins "Which means I'm out of it. Finally." Then he kisses Severus. "I also bound and gagged Tom and then left him for the Ministry to deal with him."

"You do realise that people will storm these rooms to talk to you soon." Severus grins between the kisses they share.

"Right." Harry grins, draws his wand, waves it around and says "Done."

"Done what?" Severus asks.

"I placed a 'Disturb at your own risk!" sign outside the wards I just raised." Harry gins and pushes Severus to the bedroom. "Now lets celebrate that we won. Unless Fudge messes things up."

"You don't really expect him not to." Severus grins.

"I'll deal with that later then. Now I want to show you the advantages of having me all to yourself." Harry whispers seductively before pushing him onto the bed.

"And why would I need to be shown?" Severus asks.

"Because now that I can, I want to tell people that you're mine!" Harry says.

Severus smiles a little "I was hoping you'd say that." He kisses him again "I wanted it for a while. Ever since I got that key to see you just for you to come to me every night. And I'm hopeful Umbridge will be gone soon and you'll take Albus' offer this year."

Harry grins "I'm not sure if I told you in this last run-through of things that I only have a few distinct memories."

Severus grins "I believe that came up when we talked about your first potions lesson."

"Another very well remembered and to be honest equally cherished memory is watching Umbridge getting attacked by a Centaur herd today and when she told Hermione and me to tell them that she has no bad intentions or something like it I said 'Sorry Professor but I must not tell lies.'"

"That's that strange scar on your hand." Severus points out.

"Which she caused." Harry says "And after only capturing Tom after Fudge promised to punish Umbridge for hurting students I'm pretty sure she is no longer available. And if I'm wrong I'll visit Fudge and make him call her back. Or better give her a nice cosy cell in Azkaban. But sure, if Albus offers I'll accept. If not don't worry. I have 14 masteries, non in Potions in this run through, which I hope to change and make next. And I get job offers on an almost daily basis and I'm sure the ministry will hire me as an auror in a second. And having send Cedric to give Neville's parents the cure I developed for them should ensure I'll get the next job opening there to. Though teaching here would be my first choice even if you would work elsewhere. So at least while you work here, I promise to accept any offer Albus makes."

"Does that mean you wouldn't leave me or kill me the second I considered to some day in the far future buy an engagement ring." Severus asks between kissing.

"I'd be furious. I bought some ages ago to ask you to marry me but was too scared to go through with it." Harry says breathing heavily from Severus' hands roaming all over his body. "So instead of considering to buy anything in the far future you better consider saying yes in the near future."

Severus smiles saying "How about I promise to say yes if you promise to ask now?"

"Will you marry me?" Harry just ask.

"Yes." Severus agrees and the two identical rings Harry had gotten them appear on their fingers.

"Okay, lets go." Harry says getting up again.

"What? Where? I thought you wanted to seduce me, not that it needs much work on your part but I liked that." Severus complains much too aroused to be willing to let Harry leave now.

"Now I want to marry you right now before you change your mind." Harry insists excited.

Severus just laughs. "How about we plan the whole thing for a bit and have a proper wedding. I promise I won't change my mind. If you haven't managed to scare me off yet, it's impossible to do in the future."

"Careful. I'm Harry Potter. I have a tendency to do things other people believe to be impossible." Harry warns.

"Then just get back into bed and remind me why it's a good idea not to change my mind." Severus suggests pulling him closer again and kisses him.

Harry grins and does as ordered all night long.

It's past noon the next day before anyone sees them again. They walk to the headmasters office while most students should be at lunch.

There they see Harry's parents, adopted and biological ones, Molly, Moody, Ron and Hermione with Neville and Luna. Albus and Minerva were also both present "Malcom. I mean Harry. So good to see you." Molly greats him and gives him a hug. "I missed you my dear. You'll visit more often now I hope?"

"Sure Aunty Molly. If you don't mind my fiancé joining." Harry grins.

"Fiancé?" Ron asks curious while James and Sirius groan and Lily smiles telling them to behave "Since when do you have a Fiancé Harry."

"Well, you guys missed a bit while I was on a little time travel." Harry grins. "I started dating Severus ages ago and he agreed to marry me."

"Well if that's the case maybe you'll…." Albus starts but seeing where that leads and considering what Fudge said, Moody interrupts him.

"Fudge asked you to join us at the ministry as head Auror or anything you want really. I guess the minister post wasn't part of his offer despite the unlucky wording but I bet the public would prefer you."

"The public certainly would be foolish enough I don't doubt that." Harry says turning to Albus "What were you saying?"

Albus sigh fearing he won't stand a chance but still asks "We need a new defence Professor. And as I have for years, I'd like to offer it to you, again. Is there anyway I could sway you to finally consider the offer?"

"Remember your promise." Severus grins.

"No need to remind me love. I told you so and you should know, I love Hogwarts and you are here to." He looks at Moody "Tell Fudge he lost his chance, I'll teach here."

"I feared you'd say that boy. I'm not sure how much longer Fudge is in office anyway. People aren't to happy with him." Moody says.

"Most were idiotic enough to buy all that crap he said." Harry shrugs "So they have no right to complain."

"The prophet did not make him look good." Sirius grins "But I'm officially cleared seeing as I helped you and James and Lily could confirm that Peter was their secret keeper. Where is that rat anyway?"

"My bet would be that he's hiding somewhere as a rat. Bad enough if you ask me. If he get's caught it's Azkaban if not, life as a pet rat. Can't be that thrilling." Harry muses.

"I just remembered, the prophet is asking for an interview with the saviour." Dumbledore smiles.

"Tell them that after how they treated me in the past year, over my dead body!" Harry says before smiling at Luna "Tell your dad he can get an exclusive interview anytime."

"Thanks Harry." Luna smiles at him.

"What happened to the dark Lord anyway? Harry said he left him tied up in the ministry's care." Severus asks.

"I was asked to watch him until a demontor had been fetched. For some reason the dementor didn't want to give him a kiss but after a promise to be allowed to get Bellatrix next he gave Voldemort a kiss too." Albus smiles. He was worried about the horcruxes at first but had told the Prewitt brothers about them just like Lily and James and such Albus knew about the one in the scar being gone.

"Where are Rose and Orion?" Harry asks his parents.

"We picked them up from home after you left and Fred and George Weasley offered to show them the castle while we talked and waited for you." Lily explains "They seem very nice."

"Excuse me please. I need to get the children of James Potter as far from those terror twins as humanly possible or no one will be safe ever again." Severus worriedly gets up.

"Sit down and let them have their fun." Harry tells him "And don't worry I'll make sure they won't bother you."

James groans "Please, don't make them get any more stupid ideas about better being a Slytherin."

"I beg your pardon?" Severus asks.

"Oh I just used to help the two monsters to prank dad by hiding snakes in his bed. Is easy since I speak parsel, and I kept telling them what a great prank it would be to get into Slytherin and how that house has windows underwater how cool is that. And the head of Slytherin is the only one favouring his own house meaning if you are a Slytherin you have a chance to get all teachers to like you. Also, I'm dating the head of Slytherin so I'm bound to love all Slytherins."

Ron also groans "I still can't believe that you're dating him. You hated him. Apart from Umbitch he's our most hated teacher."

"There is a fine line between love and hate." Harry shrugs.

"But he hated you. Always gave you detentions and all." Ron points out.

"How else was I supposed to stop him from having time to run after girls and find a lover before going back in time and dating me?" Severus frowns "And anyway. Even at eleven he moved and looked at people in the same way so I was thinking about my lover, who couldn't be with me because of that stupid time travel. So in short seeing this younger Harry made me angry that I couldn't kiss the older him."

"But he looked so different with his glamour." Molly points out.

"Not the way he moved." Severus said.

"Best was how he flew." Minerva agrees. "Harry got even better as Malcom in the past but really, why were you a Ravenclaw?"

"After being able to read without getting a headache and actually able to get what I was reading much easier I quickly liked it and I tried all houses but found out I had the best chances of getting through my OWL's in Ravenclaw." Harry shrugs.

"What do you mean. Able to read and get it easier. You mean after studying more for a few loops or what?" Hermione asks.

"No. Tom Riddle left something of himself in my scar and that was not only draining my core but it was close to my brain and disruptive. Especially when trying to focus. I couldn't even try to look at small print for long without getting a headache and words seemed to swim around before my eyes. I had real trouble reading at all never mind understand what I read and due to that I hated it. I thought it was just because I'm stupid but even during my first loop I started reading like mad. Every time I woke up from nightmares I read."

"I can't imagine you reading." Ron says.

"Read the entire Hogwarts library." Harry says "And every book I could get my hands on."

"Seriously?" Ron asks.

"How do you think I managed to get 14 masteries?" Harry says before he looks at Molly "And do I need to hunt down Percy to talk sense into him or did he contact you. I won't let him avoid you any longer."

Molly smiles sadly "Not yet. And give him time."

"He's got until my wedding and I need your help to get that one set this summer. I'm not going to wait."