Later the next day, Hugo was still wondering where Albus might be. Albus was the same age as him and they were really good friends. He wanted to help the others find him but he was afraid that they would think he's too young. He was sitting in bed and everyone else was at the morning feast. He sat there staring out of the window waiting for something else to happen. He took out his deluminator that his dad left him and told him to be extra careful with it. He turned on the lights when he saw an owl coming towards his window. There was a letter, with no envelope.
"I'm still here witches, A," Hugo whispered to himself. "Albus?" He was surprised that Albus sent a letter to him. He wondered if the others got this letter too. He decided to tell them only if they tell him that they got a letter. He got dressed and went down, he had missed the morning feast so he went straight to charms class.
Teddy and Victoire were running off to the quidditch pitch because Teddy wanted to show Victoire what he had learned. He took the bat and let loose the bludgers. They started flying up in the air and so did he. He leapt up and tried to hit the bludgers to the other side of the field but it flew back and Victoire right in the head.
"Oh my! Victoire, we need to get you to the hospital wing right now! I don't know how that happened I hit it on the other side of the field!" Teddy shouted.
Teddy jumped of his broom and swept Victoire into his arms. He ran to the hospital wing and told madam Pomphrey what happened. She said to leave her for now and later he could visit. Teddy looked really bad as he got out of the hospital wing and went straight to the Gryffindor common room where he found Rose and James sitting together at the couch. He told them what happened and they half went in shock and half knew something like this was going to happen.
"Soon he's going to be jinxing our quidditch matches!" Said Teddy.
"And our quidditch tryouts!" James said. "We have to stop him, or whoever is doing this."
"I'm pretty sure it's Albus." Rose said.
"We would never know," Said Hugo as he walked in. He had been eavesdropping and heard everything.
"Hugo, what are you doing?" Rose asked all innocently.
"I got the letter too, you don't have to hide it from me, just because I'm one year younger then all of you, doesn't mean I get excluded or what so ever. He or she sent me that letter too. I didn't know all of you thought I was to young for this stuff or something," Hugo said shrugging.
"Oh Hugo, don't put it that way," Rose said shrugging as well.
"That's cool, I'm going to my next class now, I'm late," Hugo said as he left.
"I'm going to go-" James said as he rushed out the room. He climbed all the way up to the seventh floor and past the room of requirement he thought, I need to find Albus Severus Potter, I need to find Albus Severus Potter. A door appeared and the same map came up and this time James stayed for longer. Once he looked closer, it had times and dates on certain points of the map, like the quidditch pitch was there and the date and time was today at the exact same time, that Teddy had came to tell them what happened. The next date was tomorrow at 3:00pm in James's History class! He had a test then, and he was scared to find out what was going to happen. But he wondered how does this help him find Albus. Maybe if he can track down the time he does all of this then, he ought to find him.
He rushed downstairs to the others and told them what he had found. They all started talking about what could happen to them next, they wish that the sorting hat had just put Albus in Gryffindor. They all just stopped talking and started thinking.
"He could ruin everything, I just wished that he could come back, everything could be better, if we can just talk to him again," Teddy said as he stared at the hospital wing. "I'm going to visit Victoire, I'll see you later."
"Ok then, bye," James said.
Teddy walked slowly to the hospital wing to find Victoire awake in bed and he walked towards her and saw bandages over her head and pumpkin juice at the side of her bed on a little table.
"How are you?" Teddy asked.
"I'm fine, I just broke my skull a little, I think," Victoire answered sarcastically.
"I'm so sorry, you know it was an accident, it was a jinx!" Teddy said.
"What? Wait you did this? How did it happen? I don't remember…" Victoire said in a confused voice.
"She kind of forgot the past few days, she doesn't remember anything from the past week. But she remembers the sorting ceremony, until the part where Albus got sorted into Slytherin," Madam Pomfrey explained in a whisper to Teddy.
"Victoire, can you tell me what you last remember happening?" Asked Teddy.
"Well, we were riding the carriages and we got to the sorting ceremony and the last word I remember was HUFFLEPUFF, then I wake up and I'm sitting here. Madam Pomfrey tried to explain to me that I got hit in the head with a bludger, but I don't really know what else happened," Victoire explained.
"You can help her remember everything, since you were there most of the time, isn't that right?" Madam Pomfrey said to Teddy.
"Ah, yes, ok thank you Madam Pomfrey," Teddy said to Madam Pomfrey. "Victoire, I accidentally hit that bludger on your head, because the bludger was jinxed. You came to watch me practice."
"Yeah, I did, I kind of remember, not really," Victoire told Teddy.
Then Teddy sat there on the edge of her bed and told her everything that happened in the past week or so. It took a while for her to understand everything, even though Teddy doesn't even understand everything. When Teddy finished explaining he went to potions class, he had finished his free period. He went down to the dungeons and found out that he was late.
"Mr. Lupin, you're late, sit down now," Said Professor Slughorn.
"Sorry, I was visiting Vic-" Teddy started.
"We don't want to hear your stories, you're lucky I didn't take any house points away," Professor Slughorn said.
Potions class was the same as usual boring and dull, the teacher was getting old, so they get really little done by the end of the class. Teddy rushes out of the classroom at the end of class to find James. It was almost 3:00 and James was going to his History class, for his test.
"Good luck James," Teddy and Rose both wished him good luck.
"You should tell the teacher you're a little woozy so he doesn't judge you if you do something bad on your test," Hugo suggested.
"Ok thanks guys, I'll be back soon, see you later," James said as he went to his history class.
James arrived at history class a little early, it was only him and the teacher.
"What brings you here so early?" Asked Professor Binns.
"I'm just tired today, so I thought I'd come early to settle down a little." James said as people started walking in, giggling and talking.
"Settle down everyone, today we're learning about the 1980, boy who lived, only wizard alive to survive the Avada Kadavra curse and conqueror of Lord Voldemort," Professor Binns started, when suddenly, a horrible hissing sound came from around the room.
"James, James Sirius Potter, come to the forbidden forest tonight, and you will not be harmed, come with your friends, and you shall be rewarded," A snake like voice started hissing into his ears. Harry Potter had told James and Albus that they could speak parseltongue, Lily couldn't. But James had never actually heard it in real life. Harry potter explained the sound, and how to know when you're hearing parseltongue or when you're hearing normal english.
"What was that horrible hissing sound?!" Screamed a girl at the back.
"Keep calm, keep calm everybody, this lesson won't be happening today anymore, I will go find the headmistress," Professor Binns said very slowly but he was obviously frightened.
He left the room and everyone was whispering and looking at me. Probably thought that James could speak parseltongue since Harry Potter speaks parseltongue. James walked away as fast as he could walk without bumping into anyone. He spotted Hugo in the common room of Gryffindor and told him what had happened.
"Do I really have to come?" Whined Hugo. "You know that I get scared easily."
"I know but. who knows what rewarded might mean? Like we could see Albus or get galleons, who knows?" James told Hugo in an emerging way.
"I don't know James, it could be a trap," Hugo said in a tiny voice as Rose appeared at the doorway.
"So, what happened?" Rose asked.
This time Hugo explained what happened and Rose seemed a little scared but she always knew what to do. She always thought of the ideas and solutions to everything.
"Why don't we just go there with your marauder's map and we will see whoever is there or whoever is coming?" Rose said, see, she always knew what to do.
"Brilliant. Just brilliant," Hugo said, just like his father.
"We can go tonight, we need to get Teddy and Victoire as well," Announced James.
They rushed out of the common room and James, as Teddy's best friend, knew where Victoire and Teddy hung out, so James went alone, to get Teddy and Victoire to tell them the news, and the plan.
When Victoire and Teddy got everything settled they rushed back up to the common room to have a nice long nap before they face whatever is in the forbidden forest. They even made sure they had an alarm for midnight so they wouldn't get found, and they have enough time till everyone starts waking up. (This was all set up and timed by Rose, obviously)
The alarm went off, and everyone gathered around the common room at 12:00 sharp, due to Rose's precision. They made sure that the alarm was soft enough so only they could hear it. They crept out of the common room fully dressed with the marauders map with James and everyone had their wands ready. Nobody was in the forbidden forest now but he was sure that something or someone is going to appear there. As they crept down to the entrance hall they saw little lights coming from the forbidden forest. They sort of ran, tiptoed, to the the forest.
"Lumos," James whispered followed by everyone else and their wands.
"Come on, we need to go faster, we're late," Rose said to everyone as she lift her left foot off of something icky and gooey from the ground. "Eww! Guys let's go!"
Everyone was making faces and looking at her shoe as she stormed off faster than everyone else. Soon they were all at the forbidden forest. They stopped walking and stared at each other.
"Guys, we can do this, let's go," Victoire said, girls can be the tough ones as well.
They walked into the forbidden forest and still didn't see anyone on the map that was in the forest, but they saw footprints leading to something further into the forest. They followed the footsteps across muddy grass and tall trees that now covered them. They reached this big circle thing that had this box in it. James took a step into the circle and reached for the box. He opened the lid and suddenly he was pulled inside!
"JAMES!" Rose shouted. "James can you hear me?!"
"Hello? James?!" Hugo added.
Everyone started shouting at the box.
"I'm here! I'm ok, it's a really big space, there's this screen though, should I go through it?" James asked.
"What do you mean through it?" Rose shouted. "Should I come down?"
"Sure but we need one or two people to watch out outside the box for anything," James told them.
"Victoire and I will stay here, you guys can go down, if you're stuck later on, we'll figure out how to get you out," Teddy said.
"Sure, see you later," James said.
James, Rose and Hugo walked towards the screen and felt themselves being dragged inside it. In a moment, they felt themselves in Hogwarts, with everyone, all the students and professors! Just then Albus started walking towards them.
"Albus? You're here, where have you been?" James asked, but Albus just walked right through him, not hearing a word he said.
They turned around and saw James, going towards Albus.
"Hello Albus, or should I call you Severus now, like, since you're in Slytherin?" James teased as Rose just stood there and did nothing, she looked pretty bad, but didn't want to do anything to interrupt. "What happened, has the snake got your tongue?" James laughed. "Anteoculatia," Screamed James as he pointed his wand at Albus. Albus looked up, he had no hair and he saw two big horns on his head! This had happened before, Albus was showing them what was happening.
"Stop it, James!" Albus screeched as he ran down to the nurse.
"Oh, god, I feel terrible," James said as he looked at his own laughter.
"All I did was just stand there and do nothing, I feel like this was partly my fault," Rose added.
"Bloody hell," Hugo said. "But what did I do?"
Suddenly they were being swept into the great hall, where they could see the group of friends at the Gryffindor table, laughing about something James had said. They could see Albus watching them in despair. Albus stood up and walked over to the Gryffindor table and tapped on Hugo's shoulder.
"Eww, why is a Slytherin slithered to here! Get lost," Hugo said. Everyone laughed.
"I never realized I said that," The present Hugo said. "Now I know why he feels so bad, bloody hell, if only I knew."
They were being swept away again. This time they appeared at the moving staircases right next to a painting of a woman playing checkers with another woman. Teddy was climbing down the staircases with Victoire and Albus was on the other side. Albus was carrying tons of books and looked like he really needed help. Teddy and Victoire walked even faster and bumped into Albus so that all of his books fell down the staircase.
"Oops sorry, looks like Slytherins going to lose some house points for being late," Teddy snickered with Victoire.
Suddenly they were being swooped up, and they were back again in the forbidden forest, outside the box.
"So, what did you see down there?" Teddy asked.
James talked really fast and told them all what happened. He suggested that they walk while talking, since people were going to be waking up very soon. Nobody was in the forbidden forest except for them anyway, according to the map.
"I feel really bad," Victoire said.
"I know, I wish we just had time to fix it all," Teddy added.
"That's it! We need time!" Rose said louder the everybody. "We need a time turner."
"Oh my god, why didn't we think of that before," Hugo said.
"But how are we supposed to get a time turner?" Teddy asked.
"The same way my mum got it!" Rose said.
"You mean, you're going to sign for loads of classes then get the time turner from the ministry of magic so that we can go back in time and somehow change what had happened?" Victoire asked.
"Yeah, how are we going to even fix what we did if we go back in time?" James asked.
"We follow where Albus went the whole time, we follow him from where we last saw him. which is when James hexed him and he went to the nurse," Rose said.
"Nicely planned," Victoire said.
"Yeah, we could do that, except you have to wait another year, since you only get so much classes in year 3," Hugo said.
"That's the only problem with this plan," Rose said. "We need to wait until next year."
"Yeah but then we'll have to wait a year until we can finally come back to the present," Hugo said. "Nobody wants to do that."
"Let's ask Professor Mcgonagall if my dad's on the case," James said.
"Is that your idea of a plan?" Rose laughed.
"Come one let's just pretend we just woke up from a hard night of studying," James said as he yawned and walked into Hogwarts, towards the Gryffindor common room.
But when they walked into the common room, everyone was wide awake in their pyjamas. Everyone turned to look at them when they walked in.
"Why is everyone awake?" James asked.
"We heard a scream coming from there," Somebody said as she pointed to the windows. In the windows there was a light flashing.
"Where were you guys anyways, were you the ones who screamed?" A little boy asked.
"Uhh, well we were going for a walk and then Rose fell down and a bug went in her hair but she only noticed afterwards, and she screamed, but luckily I got it off," Hugo said, lying. They had a sense not to tell them that they didn't know what that scream was, so no one else had to worry about what they were worrying about.
Oh, ok, everyone false alarm go back to bed, it's only 3 in the morning," Molly said.
Everyone left as James sighed in relief and walked to one of the armchairs. He sighed again. He closed his eyes and decided to sleep in that very chair. The others did the same. They fell asleep as fast as dying.