Time Paradox

Chapter Four: Christmas Holidays

Harry was packed ready for the Christmas break, the only thing left for him to do was to give out the three presents he had gotten for those he was friendly with. Mathew Snape was one, though he looked nothing like the Severus Snape from his own time. Nicholas Malfoy was the other, he looked like Draco and luscious Malfoy. Blonde hair must be dominate in that family. The last was for Tom Riddle, they had spoken quiet a bit now since he was on the Quidditch team with him and Tom was captain.

Hw went down into the Slytherin common room, it looked just like it did in his second year at Hogwarts when he and Ron had used polyjuice potion to take the forms of Crabbe and Goyle. He found all three of them at one of the tables, they were deep in conversation about Quidditch strategies they should use. Mathew and Nicholas were both beaters for the team. He walked over to them.

"Erm, sorry to interrupt guys but I have something for you all." he said still a little wary of them all.

"Hi Harry, what's you got for us?" Matt asked they stopped talking and looked at him.

Harry walked closer towards them and handed out three presents, "Christmas presents for you all. Since you are all staying here for Christmas, I'll see you all when I get back."

With that he turned around and went back towards the dormitory. He didn't give them chance to say thank you to him. He missed his friends Hermione and Ron. He had been searching for a way to get back, there wasn't one. Even Headmaster Dippit and Professor Dumbledore had tried to find a way. He was stuck here, he didn't know whether it was forever or not.

He had a chance to also try and change Tom Riddle, to stop him from becoming Voldemort. He had decided that the best way was to become his friend and try and help him stay on the right path. So now he was talking to Tom a lot more, though he was still wary about him, after all he had opened the Chamber of Secrets the year before.

Well it was time to go, he got his trunk and used a shrinking spell on it. He placed it into his poket and head for the exit out of the Slytherin dorms. Someone grabbed him from behind. Tweo others stepped in fromnt of him.

"Now where do you think you going, we have something for you too." Tom Riddle said from behind him. He loosened his arms and Mathew and Nicholas gave him their presents, Tom then gave him his "It isn't much, but its better than nothing right." he said with a smile.

"Merry Christmas Harry, have a nice time being with your family." Mathew said as he went back to the table where they were sat when Harry had given them there presents.

"Merry Christmas to you three as well." he said smiling happily at them, he still wished he was back in his own time.

Tom walked with Harry to where the carriages were waiting for those that were going home for Christmas. Richard Potter was standing by one of them waiting for his cousin, now brother. His father had told him that a distant cousin and their spouse had passed away leaving Harry alone, now he was part of their family, taking on their last name.

"Hurry up Harry, the train will leave without us if you take any longer saying goodbye to him!" came Richard's shout.

"You better go Harry, I'll see you when you get back alright." Tom said as he gave Harry's shoulder a friendly squeeze.

"Bye Tom." he said as he climbed up into the carriage and closed the door when he sat down opposite Richard.

They rode in the carriage in silence, Harry didn't feel like talking much, he would be getting a Weasley hand knitted jumper for Christmas this year. It was always something that he looked forward to at Christmas. He always wondered what she was going to knit on the front of the jumper. It had been a griffin last year, he wonder what it would have been this year if he was still there.

Harry had been rudely awoken Christmas morning by Richard dumping a bucket of cold water over him. Harry sputtered and cursed Richard as he got out of the soaking wet bed and into a hot bath. He had come down to breakfast and had sort his revenge. Harry knew wandless magic and had used it a number of time, it was untraceable to the Ministry. He sat down to breakfast with the others, half way through he used magic to change Richards hair colour to Slytherin green.

"Richard, your hair has gone green." Michelle said as she looked at her son.

"What do you mean that my hair has gone green, there's no way that could happen unless someone cast a spell, and it wasn't father, or you mother." Richard said not believing what she was telling him.

"It has Richard, it's Slytherin green, Harry have you got something to do with this?" he asked Harry after confirming what Michelle was telling Richard.

Harry looked guilty and said calmly "Yes sir, guilty as charged on that one." then he turned towards Richard and told him "Pay back for the cold water this morning, it will last until we go back to School."

Simon looked at him and said "Harry you know magic can't be used out side of school until you leave, the ministry will be send you a letter of warning about it soon."

"They wont, they can't trace wandless magic Simon." he said to reassure them all. He looked up from his breakfast and said "What?" when he noticed them looking at him funny.

Simon looked at his future great gran child and said "You can do wandless magic?"

Harry nodded "I've been able to do it since I was in sixth year, though I may of did it without really thinking about it before then." he told them.

They continued to talk for a while longer until breakfast was over. When it was they went into the living room and sat down to open their presents. Harry was surprised to see so many for himself. Simon quietly asked him about what his own Christmases were like with his parents. Simon hadn't been told that they had died when he was just a baby, so that's what he did. He told him of the Dursley's and Mrs Weasley's jumper. Simon could see the young man was upset because his was missing his friends.

The rest of Christmas he tried his best not to be to obvious about missing his friends. He didn't want Simon to worry about him. He made sure he was happy enough so that they wouldn't see what was really going on with him. They did notice and they were worried about the young man they had taken into their home. He was quiet and polite, never did anything, except for the occasional pranks he pulled on Richard, but that was only when Richard did something to him first other wise he would spend most of his time studying or reading one of the books he had gotten for Christmas.

It was time to go back to Hogwarts for him and Richard, he was looking forward to the next Quidditch game he was to play, they had to play each team twice instead of once like it was in his own time. He had already played in one game against Hufflepuff, and they had won within half an hour. The next game was against Griffindor. Richard was the seeker for the Griffindor team. Simon and Michelle had both promised to come to the game to watch them play against each other.

Richard had told them both about how good Harry was at Quidditch,. He told them how quickly Harry had caught the snitch for the Slytherin team. Richard told them that Harry should play professional. Harry had told them it was a great sport but it wasn't something he wanted to do for the rest of his life, he told them that he wanted to be an Auror.

They said their goodbye and see you soon's at Kings Cross Station. They boarded the train and it started on its way back to Hogwarts.