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Well thank you to Tiger of the Fire for beta reading this fic like she does for all the rest of them. Thanks gal.

Time Paradox

Chapter 17: Minerva

Alastor and Harry were sitting in their office once again; it had been almost a year since Alastor had been injured in Dramer. He now had a magical eye that had been specially made for him. He enjoyed taking it out in front of the kids at the Home; the older ones seemed fascinated by the magical object, though Tom wasn't pleased that he was scaring the young ones. Harry had gone to the sanctuary where the Basilisk was kept to say hello to the wonderful creature, as she had become very friendly with the green eyed young man.

Head Auror Shacklebolt walked into the room and spoke straight away, not messing around with greeting his fellow Aurors. "Moody, Potter, a young witch was attacked by two wizards an hour ago; she is currently in St Mungos having treatment from some dark curses, which include the use of the unforgivable Cruciatus. I want you to go to St Mungos and interview her to find out all you can, we think they may be the remnants of Grindelwald," he said as he gave them the parchment with the details that had been gathered so far.

"Yes sir. We will go now," Alastor said as he and Harry got up off their chairs and pulled on their outer Auror robes.

"Very well, be careful, this is the third attack of this kind this month. You know we could be dealing with the rising of another dark lord," he told his two Aurors as they quickly readied themselves to go to St Mungos.

It was ten minutes later; they were standing outside of a room where their victim laid, waiting for them. They had not even found out her name yet, as she had still only just regained consciousness. The Medi-Wizard came out and smiled at the two Aurors. "She is sitting comfortable now and you can question her, within reason, as she had been severely upset over the incident. Please try not to upset her even more," he told them as he reopened the door and let the two inside.

Alastor went in first, while Harry followed a step behind. Harry looked up and immediately recognised the young witch that was propped up on the bed. Darkish brown hair was falling around her face and blue eyes were looking at him, her mouth was pressed into a thin line of fear. The sternness that she had in the future as the Professor of Transfiguration was there, but only a wisp of it.

"Minerva McGonagall?" Harry asked her, as he wanted to make sure it really was his old transfiguration professor.

"Yes, how did you know my name?" she asked the young man as he moved closer to the bed. "I do not remember you from Hogwarts."

"Your name was on a trophy that Gryffindor had won for the Quidditch cup, I say it when Richard mentioned it, and you were head girl as well," Harry explained, though that was only part of the reason.

"Yes I was on the Quidditch team, I was a chaser. The only Richard I know is Richard Potter. He was three years below me."

"He is my brother, not by blood. The Potters adopted me when my own family was killed. I do belong to the Potter family before as my father was a Potter before he was killed," Harry tried to explain, it had been a long time since he last had to say anything about his supposed past.

"So you came to the school after I left then," she said, smiling, though you could see that she was barely holding onto her emotions, the attack had left her shaken.

"Yes I did. Anyway, is there anything you can tell us about the attack, I know you must be very distressed, but we need to know so we can catch them," Harry asked her, keeping his voice soft and gentle, like he did with some of the younger children at the Home.

Minerva took a deep breath as she was sitting propped up against fluffy pillows. "I was going back from a job interview; it ran over a little so I decided to take a short cut. Down Alave Ally. There were two of them, they grabbed me from behind and put a body bind on me. I was able to break it, as it was weak. I started to hex them and they hexed me back and used a cutting curse. They ran off quickly after that. I didn't get a good look at them. One had dark hair and I think blue eyes, and the other had brown hair and brown eyes, I know that because both the eyes and the hair were the same shade. They wore hoods at first, but when I started to hex them they fell, I could see their faces properly. They were both taller than me, both the same height," she told them, her voice shaking slightly as she relived the attack.

"Okay Minerva, thank you. I know this must have been very hard for you to so soon after it happened. But we needed to know," Harry said softly, giving her a reassuring smile.

"Thank you for your kindness," she said, giving a small yawn.

"Oh and if you would like a job we needed someone to help teach the younger children their reading, writing, and math skills, if you are interested come by Hope's Home Orphanage. I think you would be great with the kids," Harry said, smiling at a younger version of his stern transfiguration professor.

Harry knew that Minerva had worked in an orphanage before she began to teach at Hogwarts. The headmaster had mentioned it during his last month in the future Hogwarts. He had begun to talk to the headmaster; they were trying to rebuild the trust that had been broken when Sirius had gone through the Veil.

"If I don't get this job then I will. I have just completed my mastery in transfiguration. I've applied for a teaching position at Beauxbatons, though I don't think I have the necessary experience for it. They wanted someone experienced to take over, as they are in the middle of the school year," she told Harry as Alastor waited impatiently beside him. The older Auror wanted to hurry up and find out who was responsible for the attack.

"Hope to see you again in better circumstances," Harry said as they left the young witch to sleep and recover.

Two Months Later

Minerva had been working at Hope's Home Orphanage for just over a month now and she had been given a room for herself to stay. She enjoyed teaching the young children their basic skills; she was still on the look out for a transfiguration, teaching position at one of the magic schools. She had become close friends with Tom and Harry, since she started working with Tom and the others at the orphanage.

The muggleborns were getting sent there were taught about Wizarding etiquette so they would fit in more easily. It was difficult as most of the children that were brought to the orphanage were muggleborns as their gifts were frightening their parents. Those of wizard born were the ones that were displaced because of the war that had ended, while Tom and Harry were still at school. There were still attacks that were taking out families, sometimes leaving children with no one to go to. As time went by the attacks were becoming less frequent.

Harry and Alastor had stopped by the orphanage to talk with Minerva, they had two people arrested, waiting to be questioned by two Aurors that had been picked by Harry to do so. They wanted Minerva to come in as the magical signature of the two matched the ones that were attached to the curses and hexes that had hit Minerva.

"Mini, we have found the two that attacked you. They are being questioned now, and if they confess, as we will be using a truth serum, they will be tried straight away. So we would like you to come in so you can see for yourself that they have been finished," Harry said as he stood next to her, talking quietly so the children that were in the room learning would not hear them.

"Okay then Harry. Class I need to go somewhere important so I am going to take you to the playroom with the other children. So pack everything away and line up at the door," Minerva said to her class as they followed her instructions.

Within minutes the class was lined up and waiting to be taken to the playroom. Soon the children were playing, and Minerva, Harry and Alastor started to make their way to the Auror Department of the Ministry of Magic. They walked to a lounge area set up for people like Minerva, so they can be comfortable and more relaxed before a trial.

Two Aurors soon joined them and sat down across from where Minerva was sitting. "Miss McGonagall, they confessed to attacking you. The trial will start in one hour. You will be asked to testify, but that should be nothing to worry about. They targeted you for a reason. Your father was a pioneer with transfiguration and his research is priceless, as you are one of the children of his that are out in public, you were the easiest to try and capture. Since your brothers hold the research, by capturing you they had hoped to trade your life for your father's research papers," Jenny Marson said to the startled young woman.

"Thank you for telling me," Minerva said softly.

They sat around waiting for Minerva to be called. When she was, only one of them was allowed to go with her so they would not appear to badger the defendants, a few hours later and they came back to the victim's lounge and sat down. The trail was over quickly, from Minerva's testimony and the confession under truth serum, there was no way for them to be left off for their crimes.

"What was their sentence?" Jenny asked Minerva and Alastor, who had gone with her.

"Five years in Azkaban. They would have gotten longer if they had succeeded in their plan of kidnapping me. They didn't so they only got five," Minerva replied.

"You're heading back to the orphanage Mini? I would say that Tom wouldn't mind if you have the rest of today off as well as the week," Harry said with a comforting smile.

Minerva huffed a little at the nickname she had gotten from Tom on her second day at the orphanage. "Please Harry; I have enough of Tom calling me that. No, I think I'll go back, it will give me a good distraction."

"Okay then, I'll go with you, Ali will you write up the rest of the report about the trial and outcome, since you were there." Harry grinned as he got up.

Alastor nodded and they all went their separate ways. Harry went with Minerva back to the orphanage and went to tell Tom what had happened at the trial, so that if Minerva did need sometime off she would not have to go into why she wanted the time off. With a kiss good bye and teasing Minerva for a moment or two in front of her class, he went back to work.

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