Into a new world

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Chapter 1: Where am I?

'BANG BANG!' Harry groaned and rolled over on his stomach and buried his head in his pillow. It was the summer after his third year at Hogwarts, and unfortunately, he was back at the Dursley's. Although Dumbledore had insisted on that, Harry hung on to Sirius Black's promise that Harry could live with him. You see, Harry had become aware that Sirius Black was his Godfather during the previous year. He was still on the run from the authorities who believed that he was responsible for betraying Harry's parents and Peter Pettigrew. Pettigrew was an old friend of Harry's parents, who actually betrayed them and killed 2 other people. Harry had told the Dursley's this at the beginning of the summer, so they were treating him better. All this to say, Harry had a very complicated life.

He did notice straight away that his bead was much more comfortable than he had remembered it being. His bed at the Dursley's was lumpy and hurt his back, as his Aunt Petunia refused to 'waste good money' on buying a new one. However, the bed he was in currently had no such effects. Confused, he opened his eyes and sat up startled, he was in a room he had never seen before. It was dark blue and forest green with posters up on the wall, and pictures with people he had never seen before, that was except two. There was a smiling picture of himself, Ron, Hermione, and Neville Longbottom on his desk. Another photo had him with older versions of his parents, a girl just younger than him and two boys that looked like twins. These three-mystery people looked a lot like him.

'But my parents are dead, and I have no siblings.' Harry reminded himself.

The door knocked on again, "Come on, Harry, you need to get out of bed." Came an older sounding female voice, Harry thought she sounded like the voice that plagued him when he was faced with a dementor. Finally, the woman opened the door and came into the room, and revealed herself to be Lily Potter, "You an hour to get ready before Uncle Sirius, and Auntie Kathleen comes with the boys." Harry looked at her, confused, "I know what your thinking," his mother started.

'I'm sure you don't,' Harry thought back.

"Uncle Remus and Auntie Laya are meeting us at Hogwarts with the girls."

Harry's confused mounted more and more with each passing moment, without thinking he said, "It doesn't take me an hour to get ready, I can be done in 10 minutes."

His mother looked at him, very surprised, "who are you and what have you done with my son?" She joked.

'No idea.' Harry thought honestly.

"Anyway, up you get, or I will send Matt and Ryan in." A look of horror clouded Harry's face, he didn't want to meet anyone else until he figured out what was going on. His mum thankfully read the expression differently, "I thought that would move you. Them twins are like your father and uncle Sirius rolled into one. It's a good job you and Megan are more sensible."

"Where are we going again?" Harry asked innocently.

His mother laughed, "your head is like a sieve. We are going to Hogwarts for an induction with the staff as I'll be joining them in September.

"What are you teaching, and why is Remus and Sirius going?" His mum looked at him suspiciously but didn't say anything about it.

"Harry, you know I am teaching potions, and your Uncle Remus has taught DADA for 10 years now. As for your Uncle Sirius, he just felt left out, and Dumbledore took pity on him. But don't tell him I said that." She mock whispered.

Harry laughed, "Your secret is safe with me. If it's an induction, why do we need to go?"

"Because the whole family is moving to Hogwarts, we want you kids to meet the other Hogwarts staff kids, and show you where I'll be staying."

"Will, you not be where the old potions masters quarters where?" Harry asked, assuming that this person was Severus Snape.

"No, because Uncle Sev is staying on staff as head of Slytherin and as the new alchemy professor. Now get dressed. Wear a buttoned-down shirt and some jeans, and hurry up cause you need to eat breakfast." His mum finally left, and Harry's mind was spinning. He concluded that he was having some dream, and knew everything would go back to normal soon, so he decided to play along.

He walked to his wardrobe and found some suitable clothes, and realized he had an ensuite bathroom. If this was all just a dream, it was a pretty good one. He quickly got ready, although he had to open every drawer in his room and bathroom before finding the belongings he needed. He was grateful that his wand was on his bedside table alongside his glasses. Although his glasses where horned-rimed and much nicer than the ones, the Dursley's got him.

He managed to find his way to the kitchen, which was pretty easy as he followed the noise.

"Harry, glad you joined the land of the living." James Potter remarked from the head of the table. "I'm surprised you got ready so fast, though."

"You do normally take longer than Megan." A young boy who was around 2 years younger than Harry threw in. He had the same hair as Harry and hazel eyes. Harry assumed it was either Matt or Ryan but didn't know which one. Thankfully James saved the day.

"Honestly, Matt, you're just as bad, " Megan said, walking into the room. She looked exactly like Lily with red hair and emerald green eyes.

"Where is Ryan?" Harry asked, really, he wanted to meet all of his family, so he knew who was who, but also trying to act as normal as possible.

"Currently trying to set a dungbomb in your sister's room," His father replied calmly, clearly amused.

Megan screamed, "WHAT!" and jumped from her seat to rescue her room from its peril.

Harry was getting more and more confused about his current situation.

"Oh and Harry, I wrote to Uncle Remus, he is going to come now to chat a bit before taking you to Hogwarts." Harry felt conflicted. In one way, he really wanted to talk to Remus, but on the other hand, he didn't know who Remus was in this timeline.

Before Harry could overthink it, Remus walked into the kitchen.

"Uncle Remus!" Matt yelled, running to hug him.

"Hey, buddy," Remus said calmly but slightly awkwardly. "Harry, you ready?"

Harry nodded and followed him outside the house. Once they were far enough away, Remus turned to Harry with a severe expression on his face.

"Harry, what is your Patronus form?"

"A stag," Harry said immediately but confused as to why Remus was asking the question.

Relief flooded Remus' face, "You're from the other timeline too." It wasn't a question.

"Wait, you're in this weird alternate reality too?"

Remus nodded, "And I think Draco Malfoy is too."

"How do you know?"

"In this world," Remus waved his hands around, "Draco has lived with Sirius since he was one year old. But this morning, once he saw him, he screamed, Sirius sent me a letter confused." Remus looked amused, "He wouldn't have had that reaction if he wasn't from the old timeline."

"Draco lived with Sirius since he was 1? What about his parents?"

"They were arrested after Voldemort attempted to kill yourself and your parents. Sirius is one of his relatives, so they took him in. But Harry, we don't have a lot of time, I thankfully took copies of memories of things that happened here in this life. You can't do a Patronus charm because Pettigrew was convicted of betraying your family and killing them people. Therefore, Sirius was never on the run, and dementors were never sent to Hogwarts. You have siblings and grew up with a loving family. In this timeline, you take forever getting ready in the morning, you love to do pranks with your friends, you grew up in the magical world. Neville Longbottom grew up with a younger sister by 1 year, and a younger brother by 3 years and a baby sister by 5 years. You are still best friends with Ron and Hermione, but you are with Neville too. Draco Malfoy wasn't sorted into Slytherin, he was sorted into Ravenclaw and is like a brother to you."

"Where was I sorted?"

"Still Gryffindor. But another thing, you are close to Severus Snape. When there is a problem, you go to either me or him. I don't know if he from the other timeline or not, but we can find that out when we go for the meal. Speaking of which, we better had to get going."

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Severus Snape was having a confusing morning. First, he woke up in a massive bed than what he remembered going to sleep in, and there was an occupant in the bed next to him. Snape vaguely remembered her as Tanya Johnson. She was a Gryffindor in his year at Hogwarts and had brunet her and sparkling light blue eyes. They never really got on, but Tanya was best friends with Lily Potter. She rolled over and when she saw he was awake cuddled up to him. It took all of Severus' strength to not recoil at the touch, but before he could respond, a small force threw himself onto his father.

Tanya rolled her eyes and sat up. "That's one way to wake up your father, Brandon. Go and wake your older brother and sister up." Brandon had Severus pitch-black hair and Tanya's blue eyes.

Severus fought the urge to hang his mouth open, he had 3 kids?

"But Nick and Lauren hate it when I wake them up."

"That's because no one likes a small force pounced at them," Severus grumbled but couldn't be too mad at the 8-year-old.

Tanya laughed, "you've never been a morning person, somethings never change. Remember, you need to pick up Sam and Caleb from the Weasleys. I am glad they get on well with Ron and Ginny even though they aren't the exact age." Wait, Severus had 5 children? His day had gotten progressively worse, and he had only just woken up.

Once they got out of bed and dressed, it was revealed to Severus that Nick was 10 years old, and Lauren was 11. Sam was 12 years old, and Caleb was 13. Once breakfast was completed (which was much more challenging this morning than it was the day before). Severus eventually left to go to the burrow. What had happened? Was there any way to get back to the other timeline? Would he even want to?

He apparated to the burrow; at least this place was the same. What he didn't expect, however, was for a 12-year-old Ginny to run and hug him and call him Uncle Sev.

Thankfully for Severus, Ginny talked a mile a minute, informing him of what they were doing that day (that when you have dropped into a new reality is very useful).

"Ginny, let the poor man come inside." Molly said, mildly scolding her youngest, "Where are Caleb and Sam?"

"They are in the still getting ready."

"Tell them that their father is waiting for them." Ginny nodded and did as she was told. Ginny was much more vocal than she was in the other timeline.

After a few minutes, they walked in holding hands, which is something Severus was used to in siblings, especially in his Slytherin's. Sam was short for Samantha, and she also had Severus' pitch-black hair and his black eyes. Caleb looked exactly like Tanya, with her hair, and eyes, but had Severus' lean and muscular build.

Once he had his kids, he went straight back to Hogwarts. Thankfully it seemed like Dumbledore was still the headmaster, but he didn't know what else would be different.

After a few hours, it was time for the meal and induction, and he would be seeing Lily and James Potter for the first time in 13 years.

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Authors note: I've had the idea for this story for a while, but I have not got around to posting it. I have only written the first 2 chapters, but if there is interest I'll continue, if there isn't I'll stop. If you have read my other stories, it would be good to know that none of the characters from that story will be in this one, unless they are canon. Please let me know what you think, and if I should continue. Also grammar isn't my strength, so if anyone is up for being my beta shoot me a message, much love, Abs.