Hermione laughed as she finished the third straight speed replay in her quest for epic power. It was amazing what you could do under the power of a luck potion, tapping icons before you had even read them completely, hitting just the right spot on the girl for extra experience and even a couple of bonus stat points to her character's already broken stats thanks to the random reroll coming up 18s in every stat because she's used the luck potion. While curing the girl of everything they'd afflicted her character with used up half their remaining gold in this world, it was well worth it to have a character with insane magical power and abilities without all of the drawbacks she probably should have had.

She smiled as she managed to finish her character's Hogwarts adventure and save the character before her luck potion ran out. "I think the only thing left is to find a dragon that will help."

Harry said, "Okay, let's jump out of here then into the Council of Wyrms setting so we can find a dragon."

Hermione sighed. "What happens if this doesn't work?"

"Then it doesn't work. If it works, we'll have two very cute girls for year mates at Hogwarts. If it works out how we want, we'll have two hot twin girls for girlfriends."

Sarah grinned. "If it doesn't work, at least we tried."

Harry reached out with his magic and pulled them out of the module and back to the cottage. "Okay, let's see, Council of Wyrms, I know just the scene, a young silver is at the bar and bored." He reached into his backpack and pulled out the paperback version of the game. He opened the book to the correct chapter then set it on the chair next to the module. "Are you ready?"

"I'm ready," Hermione replied while Sarah just nodded.

Harry reached out and pulled them into the book about dragons. He glanced around the bar until he noticed the pointy eared male 'elf' at the bar. "Ah, perfect." He walked over to the young 'man'. "Hello sir, are you Haderarlin?"

The elf laughed good naturedly. "Something like that, you can call me Hal if you want. How can I help you?"

Harry asked, "How would you like to make a thousand gold for less than an hour of your time?"

Hal raised an eyebrow in suspicion. "Doing what?"

Harry whispered, "We need a dragon to unlock a magic item for a quest."

"Dragon?" Hal sighed. "What gave me away?"

"Magic."

"Fine. What type of quest?"

"Complicated, the book basically works via divination to predict offspring, a magic user is using it to do a study and needs a dragon for his test."

Hal raised his eyebrows. "A thousand gold for a knockup simulator?"

"Wizards are insane." Harry shrugged. "Are you interested?"

Hal said, "Let's see the magical item, I'm going to cast a couple of detection spells, if nothing dangerous comes up I'll activate your magical items then you're going to give me 2,000 gold and buy a round of drinks for the bar."

Harry grumbled, "You realize there are other dragons around right?"

"Yes but I'm the one that you approached."

"Do gemstones work?"

Hal shrugged. "Yes, provided they're valuable ones."

"Deal." Harry gestured for Hermione to bring the book over."

Hermione walked over with the book. "Feel free to cast your detection spells."

Hal waved his fingers and concentrated on the book. "Divination and some preservation magic, nothing dangerous. I guess you have yourself a deal though if this is supposed to be a fucking simulator, when will the actual fucking take place?"

Sarah asked hopefully as she walked up, "Someone mentioned fucking?"

Hal stared at Sarah, "Ah yes, please… I mean ah…"

Sarah flashed Harry a smile, "Pay the elf so I can fuck his brains out."

Harry chuckled as he reached into his bag and pulled out several rupees then started counting them onto the table. "Tell me when I have enough."

Hal blinked at the pile of gemstones. He really wanted to let the man keep putting gemstones on the table but his honor prevented him from overcharging the man too much. "Deal."

Hermione help the book out. "Just touch here."

Hal reached out and touched the book. "Now what?"

Hermione selected her previous character then drank her last luck potion and hit the accept button. "Perfect."

Sarah held out her hand for the 'elf' gentleman. "Now we rent a room, buy the bar a round of drinks and I fuck your brains out."

Hal stashed the gems in his bag then followed Sarah back to his room.

Harry laughed as Sarah led the dragon away. "At least he seems nice enough."

Hermione grinned as the scene between Hal and the leprechaun/nymph combination of doom started playing. "Let's hope for twins." She laughed as the sex scene eventually faded to black and two character sheets came up for twin girls. "Perfect, I love luck potions."

"Just remember we can only use so many of them at a time before they cause problems," Harry replied.

Hermione hit the reroll stats button a couple of times on both the girls until her inherited advantages and stats were maxed out for a half dragon. She also liked the fact that they had red hair and decent sized breasts. "Okay, that's as good as I can make them without more flaws."

Harry asked, "Do you actually need any more advantages?"

"I could always improve their flight and magic and buy regeneration but those are rather expensive. Oh, they could have lost their legs in battle for extra points and an extra combat edge."

Harry sighed. "Hermione, I'm not sure traumatizing them is the right way to go here."

"If we write up the backstory properly then it should work." Hermione added some quirks and other flaws that they could deal with then added regeneration and regrowth. Sure it wouldn't work on the curses that took their legs but it would work on any other injuries they got. She frowned as she added the 'advantage' kissed by the gods of fire. It wasn't supposed to be curable and wasn't pretty but it would make the girls immune to fire at the cost of being heavily scarred by fire. She just wished that it had shown up last time but it hadn't. She was hoping that a couple of playthroughs would allow her to buy off the scarred trait if not they might have to try again or something. The scarred trait reduced the number of people that would have sex with the girls but she was hoping there were ways around that. She spent a couple of minutes selecting backstory options then hit accept. "Okay, that should be everything."

Harry stared at the book as the two scared girls showed up in Diagon Alley. Hermione relied on her luck potion to get her through the horrific scene of people tormenting the girls while a Harry like person glared at everyone as they made their way through the alley. "This probably wasn't the best idea in the world."

Hermione grumbled as she directed them to the potions store and spent a fair amount of their starting money on polyjuice so they could look like less freakish people. "Okay, that should help."

Harry asked, "Do I need to jump in there and give her more gold?"

"No, I should be able to fuck the assistant at the bookstore while using the polyjuice potion to buy the required books and the clerk in the pet shop for a pet. That will actually save me some gold in the long run. If I also have them fuck the woman that sells them clothes, they should be okay for money."

Harry sighed, "Please tell me they won't have to do this crap the second time around?"

"Hopefully not, once I get some experience I'll know more. If nothing else we'll go in before fifth year and have you use the Loliblade on them."

"That might fix some of their physical issues." Harry was hoping it worked because he really didn't want the twins to experience that level of trauma.

Hermione clicked away and did her best to fuck everyone and everything that offered her experience, perks and benefits up to and including some really ugly hags for a boost to con because the twins didn't die, mostly thanks to their high con and luck potion. From there it was a tour of Diagon Alley to fuck everything she could in exchange for increased dark magic resistance and a couple of items that had proved useful in her last couple of adventures with other characters.

Harry felt like hurling as he watched the girls go through Diagon Alley until the scenes advanced to the train and Hermione repeated the polyjuice trick and worked on fucking everyone on the train using a bushy redhead's hair for the potions. He was fairly sure that the chances of such actually being possible should have been so low as to make it impossible but it wasn't if you were using a luck potion. He really didn't care for watching the girls have to fuck a bunch of guys but hopefully the second run through would be better.

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Harry twitched as he glared at the book where the twins were being raped in the potion's lab to the amusement of a bunch of Slytherins. "I'm going to kill him! I'm going to cut his fucking throat out!"

Hermione winced as she watched the greasy haired man. "You have about thirty seconds before the rest of the students start on them, then they'll be obliviated and dumped by the Gryffindor tower."

"Why the hell did you pick this damned path?"

"Because it should have given me enough to buy off the stupid scarred part of the flaw but I can't. Apparently the stupid book wasn't joking about that. Also this path gives access to the potions classroom later where I can find an awesome potions book that gives a potions talent. I'll skip this path next time."

Harry resisted the urge to reach out and hit Hermione with a newspaper. "They're in fifth year, would would happen if I stepped in and killed Snape?"

"I've only managed it once in seventh year while using a luck potion. After this should be the scene where the main character is dropped off somewhere to be found. You should have time to jump in and use the Loliblade on them there, see if you can restore their limbs and fix their scarred flaw." She opened her character menu and spent all her points in pain tolerance.

Harry glared as he waited for the scene change then jumped into the story. He staggered as the world twitched and shifted and everything changed colors before things changed back to normal. "What the hell was that?" He shook his head as he pulled the Loliblade out of his pocket and slipped it on Anna. He staggered as the world seemed to rumble and twitch as Anna twisted and changed into a perfectly healthy thirteen year old girl with all her limbs that looked a bit more like him than she had before. "Okay, that worked." He reached down and took Anna's g-string off which changed back into the bracelet. He turned and slipped the bracelet onto Beth's wrist. He managed to keep his feet as the world shook and thunder struck in the distance as Beth's body changed into a perfectly healthy thirteen year old match for her sister.. He reached down and took the Loliblade back and pocketed it. He reached out with his magic and shifted out then blinked as he realized the book was partially charred. "Damn it, the book is partially charred. I think we'll only get one shot at this when we decide to do it."

Hermione sighed. "That might be for the best. Okay, they're heading into their dorm… and okay, there's a time skip. Okay, let me go collect the book, then I'll see about them fucking the rest of the teachers and Dumbledore if we can swing it, that should finish things out for the year."

Harry rubbed his face then looked at the door to the inn room. "I'm going to go get a drink, do you think you'll be done with the first run and have them innocent little eleven year olds again by the time I get back?"

"I should be, grab me something to drink." Hermione replied as she worked on having the girls seduce Flitwick.

Harry briefly wondered how good his parents were at obliviation as he left the room to get a drink and check on Sarah.

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Lily looked up as Hermione, Sarah and Harry reappeared. "Any luck?"

Harry resisted the urge to glare at Hermione. He knew she was trying to help and that it wasn't her fault that some of the book scenes brought back memories of his cousin trying to kill him but it hadn't been a pleasant experience watching the book play out. "That's what we're going to find out." He reached into the book, grabbed two of the girls' favorite hair clips and pulled as hard as he could. He jumped back as the book burst into fire. "That wasn't fun."

Hermione dropped the burning book and jumped back. "Did you get them?"

Harry opened the fingers of his hand revealing the purple and blue hair clips that he'd pulled out of the book. "Yeah, they're the only items of 'clothing' the girls don't swap on a regular basis. Now all we need is a cupboard and some dolls."

Sirius said, "I found some life sized dolls and you should be able to use the closet."

"So do I want to know why you have life sized dolls?"

"Of course not." Sirius grinned. The truth was he'd liberated them from a muggle store that sold creepy life sized dolls once he realized what the plan was.

Lily shook her head as she led the way into the mostly repaired cottage. "Hopefully everything will be repaired in a couple more hours."

Harry looked around the living room. "It looks amazing Mum."

"Thank you. Do you want to tell me what happened?"

Harry shuddered. "Not really, the book was icky and brought up some bad memories of Harry hunting."

Lily tried to keep her anger in check as she asked, "Harry hunting?"

"What my cousin called it when he'd try to chase me down and beat me up. Thankfully he can't run that fast. Anyway, the girls should be perfectly happy girls because they didn't really live through the icky part as they were reset to eleven but getting things to that point sucked."

Sirius asked, "What happened?"

Hermione glanced at Harry and realized that she should probably explain. "Things sort of glitched strangely when Harry jumped in there during fifth year and used the Loliblade to fix some extremely nasty flaws that I'd stupidly given them. They finished their OWLS then things reset to the beginning of third year, probably because they were thirteen again. Thankfully there weren't too many major glitches the second time and I completed everything we needed to and saved their character sheets at the end of seventh year."

Harry picked up the story, "Then we started a new game with their updated character sheets and I pulled their hair clips out of the book. More than that will have to wait for a firewhiskey," he muttered, "or three." as he headed to the closet and opened it. He looked at the life size dolls then carefully attached the hair clips on their red hair and shut the door.

James walked in from the kitchen, "Firewhiskey?"

Lily said, "Apparently it wasn't a fun mission."

"That's a bit of an understatement Dad. Let's hope this works." Harry took a breath then let it out as he pulled out his magic key. He inserted the key in the lock then locked and unlocked it. He opened the door and two naked eleven year old redheaded girls stumbled out.

Anna frowned as she caught herself before she fell. "Is everything..." she trailed off as she saw the strangely familiar strangers.

Beth raised her hands as she looked between the various people standing in the living room. "Okay, what's going on?"

Anna looked over at Lily and Sirius, "What's going on?"

Hermione asked, "What's the last thing you remember?"

Anna looked at Beth then at Hermione, "We were hiding because some dark wizards attacked the house and Dad told us to hide." She looked at James in confusion. "You told us that you'd send us somewhere safe..." She trailed off as she realized that her 'dad's' eyes were the wrong color. "Why are Dad's eyes the wrong color?"

Beth shook her head. "I don't think that's our dad, he looks like the pictures of grandpa James." She turned to look at Lily. "Are you Lily, Lily Potter?"

Lily gave the girls a smile of encouragement. "I am."

James said, "And I'm James Potter."

Anna frowned. "But you're supposed to be dead."

Beth glanced back and forth between James and Lily and the rest of the people in the room. "I'm confused. If you're our grandparents who is that?" She pointed at Harry.

Harry said, "I'm Harry, Harry James Potter."

Hermione gave the cute redheaded twins a smile. "I'm Hermione Granger. I'm a friend of Harry's."

Sarah waved. "I'm Sarah."

Anna stared at the eleven year old that was claiming to have the same name as her dad. "What happened to our Dad?"

Beth looked around at the strange people in the house. "Why are James and Lily alive?"

Lily asked, "What year is it?"

"2011?" Anna asked hopefully.

Harry shook his head. "It's 1991"

"Fuck," Beth muttered.

Anna muttered. "Great, time travel."

Beth looked at Lily and James. "Or something like it, shouldn't they be dead?"

Sirius snickered. "They got better."

Beth looked at Sirius for a couple of seconds then her eyes widened. "You!" she glared at Sirius. "What are you doing here traitor?"

Anna blinked as she recognized Sirius from old photographs. "Shit… okay, maybe they're all evil."

Beth glanced at Hermione, Lily and Sarah before looking back at Sirius with a glare. "Damn, because they're hot as hell."

Anna snorted. "Get your mind out of the gutter and help me figure out how to escape."

Lily shook her head. "Sirius Black wasn't our secret keeper. At least not in this world. Probably not in yours either. He was framed."

Anna asked, "Framed?"

Beth asked, "You're sure? He didn't sell you out Halloween?"

Lily nodded. "I'm sure."

"Okay, that's good to know." Beth still wasn't sure if they were lying about being evil or were who the claimed to be but at least they seemed nice.

Anna looked at Sirius. "Can you prove that you're not evil?"

Sirius asked, "What type of proof are you looking for?"

Beth asked, "How about standing on one foot and spinning around?"

"Any particular reason?"

"Most evil people don't have a decent sense of humor."

Sirius lifted his left foot then spun around clucking like a chicken and flapping his arms. "Is that good enough?"

Anna snickered. "That was pretty funny."

Sarah said, "Yep, I think they'll fit in just fine."

Beth said, "Now that we've determined that you probably aren't evil magic users, what are we supposed to do about being in the past or an alternate reality?"

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Anna sighed as she realized that her dad had probably done the stupid and noble thing and destroyed whatever magic item he'd used to send them to wherever they were which meant that he was likely already dead. "I'm not sure, if Dad doesn't show up in the next couple of minutes, he's probably gone."

"Crap." Beth started crying once she realized that her father was likely gone.

Harry said, "In which case, we'll be here for you."

Lily held out her hands. "We won't let anyone hurt you."

Anna glanced at Beth then decided that they might as well trust the people as none of the dark wizards had enough imagination or time to come up with a scenario this strange. She stepped forward and hugged Lily. "Thank you."

Beth sniffled. "I'm sorry… we don't want to be any trouble."

James shook his head. "You're not trouble, you're family. Even if you came from another world, you're still a Potter."

Harry stepped forward and pulled Beth into a hug. "Which means you're stuck with us."

Beth asked, "Even if we're naughty?"

"You're family."

Hermione felt a massive spike of guilt as she realized one of the problems with her plan. It made her almost relieved that the book was toast as it meant that they couldn't repeat their mistake. She wasn't sorry that she'd helped save or create the girls but she was sorry that she hadn't figured out a better way to get them here.

Lily used her shirt to wipe the girl's tears away. "I just realized something, I don't know your names."

Anna looked up at Lily. "I'm Anna Lily Potter and my sister is Beth Lily Potter, together we're Annabeth. I think it was because Dad was worried that he wouldn't be able to tell us apart or something."

Beth said, "It's simple she has a purple hair clip and I've got a blue hair clip."

Sirius asked, "And you never swap them to confuse people?"

Anna tried and failed to look innocent. "Of course not that would be completely unethical."

Harry gave Beth a light squeeze before letting her go. "Which likely means that they swap whenever they're carrying out a prank."

Beth asked, "I don't suppose you have a magic crystal ball or something that you can use to find our father?"

Hermione said, "We have a magic mirror that might help. It might not though."

Anna looked at Beth. "We might as well."

Harry pulled the magic mirror from his bag. "Sure."

Lily asked, "Can you grab them clothes while you're at it."

Beth frowned slightly in confusion. "Are we going somewhere?"

"I just thought you'd be more comfortable if you had clothes," Lily replied.

"Oh, we only wear clothes when we have to go somewhere fancy," Anna replied.

James asked, "Don't you get cold?"

"Nope!" Beth replied.

Anna giggled. "We can play in the snow for hours and hours without getting cold. Dad said it was a bit of family magic in our blood but wouldn't explain more than that."

Lily glanced over at Hermione then looked back at the twins. "I see, we still need to get you some for when you leave the house."

James said, "And robes for Hogwarts."

Beth asked hesitantly, "Can we still go?"

"Of course you can. The deputy headmistress is a friend, she'll help us out."

"Thank you. You're being really nice about this."

Harry said, "You're family. I'm not sure how it worked in your world but I got stuck with my aunt and uncle for a while, they weren't nice people. I'd always hoped that someone would sweep in and make everything better."

"Oh." Anna frowned as she tried to remember anything her father had said about his life before Hogwarts and only came up with fragments. "Dad didn't talk about his early years much at all. He just said that he spent most of his time training to defeat dark wizards."

Sarah said, "I know what would make everything better, ice cream. You like ice cream, right?"

Beth nodded. "Of course."

Sarah held out her hand and conjured two chocolate ice cream cones for the girls. "Here."

Beth smiled as she accepted her cone and started eating it.

Anna accepted her cone and started licking it playfully with a grin at Sarah and Hermione.

James glanced at Sirius. "Do you want to take the girls shopping? Remus is off talking to some friends and you're really the only one that can be seen in public right now."

Beth paused eating her ice cream cone long enough to ask, "Why?"

"We just came back from the dead a couple of days ago, letting the Ministry know that would be problematic."

"Oh, I don't think they'd take it well. Dad used to complain about them being stupid a lot of the time."

Sirius looked over at Hermione, "You'll help with the clothes part, right?"

Hermione nodded. "Of course. You'd end up dressing them like clowns or in something else weird."

James said, "Good."

Harry handed the mirror to Anna. "Just think about your father."

Anna finished her ice cream cone then focused on her father and smiled when the image briefly showed her father then morphed to show the Harry Potter sitting in front of her. "Okay, can I see other people with this?"

Hermione said, "Of course, just picture them and you'll see them."

'Headmaster Dumbledore.' Anna smiled slightly as she got an image of the old man in the mirror before she concentrated on her mother. The mirror stayed blank. 'Weird.' She focused on her mother's mother and was a bit surprised that Sarah's face popped up in the mirror. 'Okay, that's interesting.' She focused on her favorite singer and smiled when she saw a much younger version of her favorite singer in the back of a van being fucked by a guy that looked a lot like the lead guitarist. "Interesting."

Lily coughed as she looked at the naked teenage girl in the mirror. "Who is that?"

"A singer that I like or she will be." Anna handed the mirror back to Harry relieved that he actually was her father or at least as close as she was going to get.

Beth pouted, "Aww, I was watching that." She went back to finishing up her ice cream cone.

Lily shook her head. "We should use the Loliblade and the disguise items, that way we can go shopping for the new clothes we'll need and we can be seen with Sirius."

James sighed. "I was hoping to avoid a shopping spree."

"It's not like we have clothes or certain supplies either and the girls need just about everything."

"Fine."

Anna asked, "Loliblade?"

Harry said, "It's a magical item that turns adults into thirteen year olds and girls."

Anna looked at James then back at Harry. "Wait, you're going to turn your parents into teenage girls?"

Beth giggled. "Awesome."

James shook his head. "Only until I use the gender swapping belt we have. It's a bit drastic but it lets us go to Hogwarts and make sure Harry doesn't get into too much trouble."

"I don't know, I might have to run some tests to make sure you're a healthy girl first." Lily grinned at James.

"Hmm, in that case this might be a good chance for Harry and the girls to trade some stories while Lily runs her tests," James replied.

Lily said, "They shouldn't take more than an hour or so."

Harry pulled the Loliblade out of his backpack and handed it to Lily. "Have fun Mum."

Lily laughed as she 'hauled' a laughing James up to their bedroom.

Sirius shook his head. "Right, so… where do we start?"

Anna looked at Harry and asked innocently, "Can you teach me how to make a bracelet that turns people into cute girls?"

Harry shook his head. "Sorry, I haven't actually figured out how to make one yet."

"Rats."

Hermione asked, "What are your favorite hobbies?"

Beth looked at Anna then back at Hermione. "You mean other than playing with my sister and practicing magic? Let's see, probably flying, reading, camping and playing video games."

Anna shrugged. "I like drawing. What about you?"

Hermione said, "I'm not a big fan of flying but I'm getting better at it. I love reading about things and practicing magic is fun."

Sirius said, "Creating pranks and playing them on dark wizards and witches that deserve it."

Beth smiled brightly at Sirius. "Please teach me."

"I'd be happy to."

Anna glanced back and forth between Harry and Sarah. "What about you?"

Sarah grinned at the girls. "Combat training and fucking."

"I think we have a lot in common with everyone," Beth replied.

Harry said, "I love flying, magic, girls and sneaking around in no particular order."

Anna looked at Harry as she asked, "Do you have any interesting magic powers?"

"I can change my appearance and talk to animals."

"That's neat. I can breathe a cone of cold vapor that's cold enough to freeze the top layer of water."

Beth said, "We're also immune to fire, it's pretty neat."

Sirius asked, "You're immune to fire?"

"Yep, we haven't tested it against cursed fire or anything but everything else just feels warm."

"That's a neat trick." Sirius made a mental note to ask Hermione how the heck she'd pulled off that particular trick.

Harry said, "I can also pull things out of books and pull people into them to explore new worlds."

Anna blinked in surprise. "Okay, that's different."

Beth asked, "How does it work?"

"I focus on what I want then reach into a book and pull things out with magic. It's hard to explain exactly why it works or how, I just can."

Hermione snickered. "You forgot to mention that you can pull magic items and spell books out of books."

Anna shook her head. "Alternate Dad, o.p. please nerf."

Beth giggled as she hugged Anna from behind. "You're such a geek and please no nerfs."

Harry frowned slightly. "What?"

"She said you cheat." Beth grinned as she hugged her twin.

"Ah." Harry pulled a clothes catalogue out of his backpack. "What type of dresses do you want?"

Anna said, "Either pants or a short skirt I can move in, other than that I don't care."

"I vote a short skirt, she looks cute in them," Beth suggested.

Harry looked through the catalogue until he found a purple silk dress and a blue silk dress in the same style. He reached in and pulled the dresses out. "That should work."

Anna let Beth go as she stared at the silk dress, "You weren't joking were you?"

"I wasn't." Harry handed the dresses to Beth.

Beth snickered as she pulled the silk dress over her head then adjusted it. "Not bad."

Harry said, "Thanks."

Anna smiled as she slipped her hand up Beth's dress and cupped her sister's behind. "Easy access."

Sirius shook his head. "This is going to be a weird year."

Beth laughed as she handed the blue dress to Anna. "I'm looking forward to school. Learning, magic, sleeping in a dorm, it's going to be awesome."

Hermione said, "Let's just hope we share a dorm."

Anna grinned as she looked Hermione over. "Let's hope." She pulled her dress over her head.

Sarah said, "They still need socks and shoes or at least boots."

Harry flipped to the boots section. "What size are you?"

Beth shrugged. "No idea, Dad kept using repair and enlarging charms on our favorite boots because we wouldn't let him replace them."

Sirius said, "In that case, don't worry about it, I'll conjure some that fit. We can stop by the cobbler in the alley for custom boots when we get to Diagon Alley. He pulled out his wand and conjured two pairs of purple and blue socks and boots.

Anna chuckled. "Let's each take one purple and blue."

Beth picked up one of each color of socks, "That works for me."

Sirius smiled as he saw Lily and a female James walk into the living room holding hands. Lily looked even more radiant than he remembered her looking and James looked like a slightly older female copy of Harry with hazel eyes rather than his green eyes. "You should almost stay a girl James."

James flipped Sirius off. "No thanks."

Sirius laughed. "No thanks, I'll leave that for Lily."

Lily laughed. "I don't think most of the idiots would survive the first time they hit on him."

James shook his head. "It might be a fun prank but I like being male a bit too much."

Anna said, "I don't know, you're sort of cute like that Grandpa."

Beth rolled her eyes. "Don't mind her, I think she was dropped as a child."

Harry pulled the gender swapping belt out of his backpack and tossed it to James. "Here."

James put the belt on and shivered as 'he' changed back to a boy. He pulled the belt off and tossed it back to Harry. "We should try to figure out how to create more of those."

Sirius asked, "Does that mean we're ready to hit the alley?"

Lily said, "Yes, James sent off a letter to McGonagall which means we're good to go."

James said, "We'll just pick up an extra copy of everything for Remus."

Anna asked, "Are we flooing there?" as she pulled on her mismatched boots.

Sirius shook his head. "Side along apparition."

"At least that's better than the floo."

Lily frowned slightly. "You don't like the floo?"

Anna sighed. "Dad hated it, he refused to have it installed and warded the house against it being installed. He considered it a security risk but I'm fairly sure it was just because he had trouble sticking the landing. Thus we really only ever used it a couple of times."

James said, "Ah, there are a couple of tricks to sticking the landing, we'll show you once we get it connected."

"Thanks."

Lily said, "I'll grab the twins, Sirius you can take Hermione and James can take Harry and Sarah if that works for everyone."

Harry shrugged. "Works for me."

Beth nodded. "Yep."

Sarah shrank down to her foot tall form and flew up to hand on James' shoulder. "Ready when you are."

0o0o0o0o0

Severus Snape glared as he saw Sirius Black walking down the alley like he owned it with two messy haired boys that looked remarkably like James Potter had when he was younger. He was glad that one of his informants had called him when he'd seen Sirius Black in a shop doing some school shopping. His attention was drawn to the red haired girl holding the hand of one of the messy haired boys. She looked nearly identical to a young Lily, it was a bit disturbing and made his heart ache for his dead friend. He pulled his attention off the girl that looked like Lily and over to the two other red haired girls that looked a fair amount like Lily that were holding hands as they walked with a bushy haired brunette. He stalked up to Sirius and stopped in front of him. "Dumbledore wants to talk to you."

Sirius plastered a look of confusion on his face. "Eh? Okay, great, why are you telling me this and who are you?"

Severus snorted. "You know damned well who I am."

"Sorry, I can't say I do," Sirius lied.

"Black!" Severus bit out as he glared at him.

"Ah, Snivellus, you haven't aged well at all."

Severus itched to go for his wand but a crowded alley wasn't a good place for a duel. He looked at the rest of the children, his gaze lingering on on the girl that looked like Lily. "Polyjuice?"

Sirius snorted. "Not everything is about potions. This is James Charles Potter the second and Harry James Potter."

"There are more of them?"

"If you must know, Lily had twins. James was hidden with a friend to be kept safe." He gestured toward Lily, "This is Lily Potter, she's their cousin along with Anna and Beth Potter."

Anna and Beth waved at the grumpy man then said, "Pleased to meet you Mr. Snivellus." at the same time.

Severus snapped, "It's Severus Snape."

Sirius snorted. "Right, anyway, you delivered Albus' message now fuck off."

Severus glared at Sirius then looked at Lily. "Why does she look like Lily?"

"Maybe because she's her daughter, you know how she liked her potions. There was a party and Lily knocked up one of James' American cousins, nine months later and the girl has triplets. Now if you're done asking questions that are none of your business, we have shopping to do."

James asked as innocently as he could, "So that's the great and stupid Snivellus? I was expecting him to be shorter and look more like Gargamel."

Severus glared at James then looked at Harry who had his mother's eyes, eyes that Lily also had. "I'll be watching you." He turned and stalked off.

Lily whispered as she watched the man that had at one point been a friend stalk off, "He used to be better."

"A long time ago love." James doubted the man had ever counted as a good person but arguing about it didn't really help matters.

Sarah cast a notice me not spell which caused several people to lose interest in them and wander off immediately. She gave the rest of the people a minute or two before they found somewhere else to be.

Harry knew the man was on the list of teachers they wanted dealt with. He glanced at the crowd that was dispersing a bit now that the 'show' was over. He whispered, "We could always pull a Petunia on him and erase the last decade and a half from his mind then drop him elsewhere."

Anna said, "That has my vote."

Lily thought about the nicer side of Severus that she'd known before things got complicated and he fell into a bad crowd. "I don't want to excuse the crap he's done but I don't see a problem with giving him a better life elsewhere." She didn't see a problem erasing his idiot parents or at least offering to give Severus a new life somewhere else.

James asked in a whisper, "How do you plan on capturing him?"

Lily looked at Sarah. "Easy, we wait until after Snape gives his report to Albus and goes home. Unless he's moved, I know where he lives."

Harry asked, "How?"

Lily whispered, "We grew up in the same town."

Sirius glanced around the crowd that was slowly dispersing. "Let's get back to our shopping so that we can be done at a reasonable hour. We still need to go bed shopping for the twins and make sure the cottage is warded as much as possible."

James nodded. "Let's go."