Hermione stared in shock at the destruction that had been her parent's house. There were still fire trucks and police cars at the scene even though the fire was out. "I'm going to kill that bastard... and all of his damn people if I have to go back to when he was a baby so I can strangle him in his crib. Even when he loses he wins..."

"Welcome to my life..." Harry put his arm around her and hugged her to his side. They had hoped to deal with Voldemort before the death eaters sent people after her parents. They hadn't wanted to alter their memories and send them to Australia again... as it had almost broken Hermione the last time. So they had tried to cheat the system by warding the house against magic but that hadn't been enough to stop one of the surviving death eaters from hiring someone to kill their families with muggle bombs. The fact that they had also killed the Dursleys didn't really bother him as much as it probably should. Apparently someone hadn't gotten the memo that he hated his relatives. He tried not to wonder if it was karma or just bad luck on their parts.

"Do you think we're cursed?"

Harry smiled slightly, "Of course we are... we have several great children... more gold than I know what to do with and a bunch of dark wizards that want us dead..."

"I'm serious Harry..."

"Nah... that's..." He winced as she hit him in the shoulder, "Hey..."

"You were going to make a joke about Sirius..."

"Yeah..." He wasn't going to say it but part of him was glad that the death eaters had killed her parents as it meant that they could drag them into the past as ghosts. While he knew Hermione was brilliant the fact remained, there had to be something there in the first place for any empowerment rituals to work. Thus he hadn't had a clue how they could have gotten her muggle parents back into the past other than possibly transfiguring them into something inanimate and then back but that had risks as well. "On the upside at least I got my trunk out of number four before it burned to the ground..."

"I still can't believe that you forgot to grab the map when you left the first time..."

Harry sighed, "I was more worried about you and the girls..."

Hermione smiled slightly, "Good to hear... I had made a couple of copies of photos... a lot of stuff I can't replace..."

Harry hugged her, "You'll see them again... and next time we'll make sure that we keep them safe."

Hermione wiped away several tears, "Thanks..."


McGonagall frowned as she looked at Harry and Hermione, "I'm not sure what good it will do... but I'll write both recommendations... you were excellent teachers under the circumstances..."

Harry smiled, "Thank you Professor."

"It would have been a lot worse if you hadn't stepped in... I'm sorry that you're not staying. Can I ask where you'll go?"

Harry shrugged, "Another country... or someplace that they don't know who I am..."

"That will be rather difficult..."

"Probably but I can try."

She smiled as she headed over to the desk to write a recommendation for two of her favorite students.


Hermione smiled as she looked over number twelve, she almost wished that she could bring the restored building back with them as Kreacher had done a wonderful job restoring the place. "Very nice Kreacher."

Kreacher scowled at Hermione, "Kreacher doesn't need a mudblood to give him praise, master ordered it cleaned, so I cleaned it."

Raven scowled at Kreacher, "He's not very nice, is he?"

Hermione shook her head, "Not really."

Harry smiled at Kreacher, "Thanks for the service."

"Nasty blood traitor is getting sentimental."

Harry sighed as he raised his wand and stunned Kreacher. "At least he made it easy."

Raven sighed as she looked at the elf on the ground, "Are you sure this won't give me pointed ears?" She hadn't been particularly happy to find out that she was eating magical creature hearts but at least she got something out of it. She would have felt bad about Kreacher having to die but he had gotten her dad's godfather killed and he was always saying nasty things about 'aunt' Hermione so she wasn't going to be sorry that he was gone. She just hoped that he didn't taste too horrible.

Harry shrugged, "You'd look cute with pointed ears..."

"Not helping Dad."

He laughed, "I know, look you don't have to do this."

"Teleportation, wandless magic and energy blasts, who wouldn't want to be able to do that?"

"Hopefully the nice muggleborn couple I'm selling the place to like it." He chuckled as he pulled out his syringe and stabbed Kreacher in the heart.

"Either way Sirius's mother will be twisting in her grave and they paid cash."

Harry smirked, "True."


The records clerk frowned as he looked at the black haired young man in front of him, "Why do you want a list of violent criminals caught in the last five years? What was your name again."

Harry lied as he handed the records clerk a 50 pound note. "John Smith, I'm doing a report for school."

The clerk pocketed the money and closed the visitor book that he had been trying to get the young man to sign, "No worries John, shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes to print that out for you."

"Thank you."


Christmas came and went as Hermione helped make sure that everyone had enough magical strength to make their way back through time which meant using the rest of the captured Slytherins' hearts for power boosts and capturing some more dark wizards to cut apart.. Mostly she had used a confusion charm on people so that they had thought they were eating a messy desert. For the most part it had worked well enough. She was fairly sure that Luna had known what she was eating but then again her mind was strange enough that saying, "Yummy candy hearts." might have made sense to her. As much as she really did like Luna, her mind was a strange place. It wouldn't have taken as long as it did to sort things out but there had been more students interested in coming with them than they had thought there would be. Luna had told more people than they thought she would, not that she was complaining but it had pushed back their departure date until the first of the year. Katie Bell, Angelia Johnson, Alicia Spinnet, Lee Jordan, Neville Longbottom, Hannah Abbott, Susan Bones, Luna Lovegood, Tracey Davis and about two dozen other girls from various other years that had lost enough family members that they wanted a do-over had decided to come with them into the past. Hermione was glad that Gabrielle and Fleur were also coming with them as that gave her a chance to get to know them since they had been killed the last time around before she really had the chance to get to know them. The property looked like a mess because there were greenhouses, storage sheds and tents scattered around everywhere to accommodate the extra people. She was rather amazed that everyone seemed in good spirits and were making the most of things as they waited for Hermione to complete the ritual that would send the land back. She glanced over at where Harry was talking to himself or at least that's what it looked like. She whispered to Dobby, "What is he saying?"

"Dobby can't hear and spying is bad Miss Hermione." Her smiled at her to show that he was mostly saying that for Winky's benefit. He had managed to talk Ginny into accepting Winky as a house elf so that she didn't waste away at Hogwarts without him. She was still a bit touchy about proper behavior though.

"Fine... fine." She smiled at Dobby. She was glad that he was coming back with them as he had an important task to complete. She glanced back over to look at Harry, he was supposed to be talking to her parents' and Sirius's ghosts. She couldn't hear what he was saying as he was talking too quietly.

Harry smiled as he finished explaining the plan to Amelia Bones, Sirius Black and Hermione's parents. "We're jumping back to a bit before mine and Susan's first year... that should give you plenty of time to look into Sirius Black's case before he escapes."

Sirius Black smirked, "It's not all that fun in Azkaban but I'll try not to break out before you can spring me."

Amelia Bones sighed then said, "That would help a great deal. I'll need some type of proof to start things off..."

Harry looked over at where the twins were chatting with the Gryffindor chasers, "We can arrange that... I'll have them drop Pettigrew off with you."

She smiled, "That would do it."

Emma Granger sighed, "Not exactly how I expected things to go when I found out my daughter was a witch."

Dan Granger sighed, "How much will we remember?"

Harry shrugged, "I'm not sure, maybe most of it, maybe none of it. Luna remembered most of her life but she's a witch. I'm hoping that it will be the same."

Amelia glanced over at Hermione, "You should tell her that you're ready before we lose our nerve."

Harry quickly gave Hermione the thumbs up which meant that he had all of the various ghosts with him that they wanted to take back with them. He hadn't really wanted to include Amelia in the trip back but she had proved herself one of the only fair members of the government. He was hoping that she could help them out with identification papers and those types of legal details. It hadn't been a big deal the last time around because everyone was taking over their duplicate's bodies but most of the people were traveling physically this time so they would need identification papers.

Hermione smiled to show that she had gotten his message then started the ritual.

Raven smiled as she watched the sky turn funny colors and spin as Hermione's ritual pulled everyone through time. She was a bit jealous that Rose would get to go to Hogwarts while she had to wait another year then again she had Remus and Tonks for magic teachers so maybe she had the better deal. She staggered a step as everything stopped spinning and the sky lightened up and turned into a warm summer morning. It didn't take long at all for the temperature to go from mid thirties to something much closer to sixty. It was a refreshing change. She took her coat off and set it on the back of one of the chairs.

Ginny handed Raven a glass of cider, "Looks like we made it."

Raven chuckled, "We'll see, thanks for the cider."

"You're welcome, I think I'll go see about getting a paper at the local store."

Raven snickered, "Better you than me."


Neville and a few other people stared at the date on the muggle paper. Just looking around at all of the old cars on the street had convinced them that they had gone backwards in time but they hadn't realized that they had hit near their mark until they saw the August 4th, 1991 Sunday paper. "We made it, I didn't really expect to." He blushed slightly as he looked at Hermione, "Sorry."

Hermione laughed, "It's all right Neville. I wasn't sure how much I'd miss the mark by either. I would rather show up early than late." She had been aiming for the first so missing by four days wasn't so bad. She wondered if it had to do with leap year or something else that she hadn't taken into consideration. Still it was close enough that she was happy to put it on the back burner and worry about it later.

Susan Bones sighed as she realized that they didn't really have any valid identification papers or anything, "So now what?"

Harry glanced over at Hermione then back at Susan, "You're free to head to your aunt's house being that she should have came back with us, actually if you wanted to drop off a copy of our old papers with her, she said she would get us some current papers."

Susan nodded, "I can do that..."

Hermione looked around at the rest of the people, "The rest of you, we'll figure something out."

Hannah Abbott smiled, "Thanks Hermione."

Bill Weasley said, "Thanks."

George and Fred looked at each other with amusement, "I think we're going to enjoy this world, double the trouble."

Angela laughed, "And double the fun..."

Lee Jordan laughed, "If we can stand that much fun you mean."

Charlie Weasley rolled his eyes. "True."

Harry hoped that he could work something out with Dumbledore so that the people that needed to go to school could. He didn't really have any short term plans other than working on getting Sirius out of jail. He figured the long term plans could wait until they had a chance to pool their skills. From there he would figure out what to do about his alternate self. For the meantime he figured that everyone could have some fun and watch some muggle movies.


Dumbledore frowned as the instruments in his office that monitored Harry went crazy. A third of them started twitching as if they were trying to point in two different directions. Half of them merely melted and the rest started screeching painfully. He waved his wand at the instruments to silence them as he tried to figure out what was going on with Harry. "I'll need someone to check on him..."


Harry Potter was going to have to get Amelia Bones a large present once things got settled, well other than effectively bringing her back from the dead. She had managed to get him official papers that said that he was James Potter's bastard son. Rather than lie about who his mother was she was listed as not disclosed. It wasn't unusual for purebloods to cover up bastards when they had them young so the fact that Harry had been elsewhere for the last seventeen years wouldn't cause him too many issues. He was expecting a bit of a firestorm once the press got word of his existence considering who his 'brother' was but that's about it. His parents and grandparents were dead so it wasn't like they were going to tell anyone that he wasn't who he claimed to be. Plus he could legitimately swear under a magical oath that he was James Potter's son so that helped with things. She had also included paperwork that would cause Dumbledore to scream or at least gnash his teeth in fury. He knocked on the door to Number Four Privet Drive.

Petunia opened the door and shrieked, "You!"

Harry smirked at his aunt, "Not exactly, anyways, can I come in? I doubt that you want what I have to say to be gossiped about..."


Dumbledore cursed himself for not going to check on Harry yesterday. One of his contacts at the ministry, Mad-eye, had said that everything was fine so he had tweaked and adjusted his monitoring charms until most of them worked again. He had planned to come check himself when things calmed down. Sadly the rest of the magical instruments had failed spectacularly ten minutes ago which had prompted him to check on Harry himself. He stalked up to the Dursley's front door and knocked on the door.

Petunia smirked at Dumbledore, "You're too late, he's not here anymore."

Albus glared at her, "What did you do?"

"His brother came and got him, nice enough chap. He gave me some money for the trouble for taking care of him for all these years, he also fixed Dudley's tail that your oaf gave him. He recently became an adult in your world, he had his emancipation papers for my world. I signed off on him leaving less than an hour ago... it's about bloody time."

"Harry doesn't have a brother."

"They had a lawyer from a reputable firm..." She gulped as she realized that Dumbledore was red with rage.

Dumbledore felt his whole world slip and twist as he tried to process the idea of Harry having a brother. It didn't make sense. He was going to have to find out what had went down and get Harry back here before someone took advantage. "Tell me everything."


Harry wasn't sure what to think about his brother or his house. It was a mad cap crazy place filled with dozens of witches and at least twelve tents scattered around the grounds. "Is it always like this?"

Harry laughed, "Not really, it should calm down in a couple of weeks once we get a couple more locations opened up. I'll introduce you to a couple of people that I think you'll like."

"Thanks, I'm still not sure this is real, I mean magic... then finding out that I have family is a bit hard to swallow."

"I can relate."


Hermione Granger stared at the girl her parents were hugging. "What's going on?"

Emma Granger smiled, "This is Hermione, you can think of her like an evil older sister..."

Hermione rolled her eyes, "Oh please Mum..."

Hermione snickered as she looked at her younger alternate, "You remember all those time travel stories you used to read?"

Hermione's eyes got bright with excitement, "Really?"

"Really really..."

"Why are you here?"

"I wanted to see me, well you."

The younger Hermione looked at her parents, "Okay, so how did this happen?"

Emma shrugged, "Apparently not all of the magic users in the world are nice, a couple of years down the road things go badly and we got blown up, then we got pulled back as ghosts and well now we're back."

"So you're her mother too?" Hermione felt her head spin a bit as she tried to make sense of everything.

"Yep and yours."

"Okay... I don't remember reading about time travel in any of the magic books."

"Yeah, the ministry doesn't like to talk about even the more common types of time travel. It took us years to figure out other ways to travel in time, I'll show you at some point."

"That would be fun, so can you show me some magic?"

"Sure, you don't have the trace on yet so I'll show you a couple of things." She pulled out her wand.

"Hey that looks like mine."

"It should." Hermione smiled at her eager younger self. She was hoping that she could talk her younger self into just telling people that her mother was a witch because things would go better for her if certain groups didn't know she was a muggleborn. No, that pesky telling the truth bit would keep her from going through with it. Maybe she could just tell people that she had family that could use magic, it wasn't actually a lie. It wasn't her fault if people took that to mean something that wasn't true. If it kept her younger 'sister' from having massive issues, then the small misdirect was well worth it in her mind.


Bill stared at the coin on the ground. "Damn, you win."

Charlie laughed, "It can't really be me anyways, the other me might actually be there still."

"That's a good point, that reminds me."

"What's that?"

"The family clock..."

Charlie chuckled, "It might be going haywire..."

Bill chuckled, "Something to look into at least. I guess I'll go. Ginny might kill Ron if she has to go into his room for Scabbers."

Charlie shivered as he remembered how long the rat was in the family, "I still can't believe that damn rat is Pettigrew, I mean I can but still."

"Makes sense in a warped way, it's an old rat. I'm surprised that I didn't notice when he brought it to Egypt."

"Yeah, lesson learned I guess. So what are you going to do if he runs?"

"I could always ask Hermione to borrow her cat."

Charlie laughed, "Nah we want him alive."

"Pity..."


Albus Dumbledore stormed into Amelia's office, "Can you explain why Harry Potter isn't at his aunt's house?" His sources had pointed at Amelia's office for the problems with Harry not being at his aunt's house.

Amelia glanced up at Dumbledore, "Probably because his brother filed for custody and his aunt signed off on it. It seems a rather open and shut case to me."

"Except that James didn't have two children."

Amelia shrugged, "One Harry James Potter, aged seventeen. I looked over the records myself because of how high profile Harry Potter is."

Albus frowned as he added up the years, "That would make James thirteen."

Amelia shrugged, "It's happened. Anyways, there were plenty of irregularities with how Harry got placed with his aunt and uncle but Harry going with his brother is legit." She noticed that he was about to interrupt. "I'd leave it alone Albus, unless you want me to open up the records and do a full accounting of wills or investigate a charge of kidnapping."

"Kidnapping?"

"Yes, your groundskeeper kidnapped Harry Potter from his house and delivered him to his aunt's house when he was fifteen months old. With Hagrid's record, well, I don't think it would work out well for him."

"He was merely making sure that Harry was safe."

"He refused a lawful request by Sirius Black to turn him over, Sirius Black is Harry's godfather and was supposed to care for him in the event that something happened to his parents."

"A much as it pains me to say, Sirius Black is a criminal."

Amelia shook her head, "Not when the request was made and not as of twenty minutes ago."

He sputtered, "What? I'm the chief warlock."

"Ah, yes, well the minister was willing to excuse you from presiding over a case that you had personal involvement in."

Albus asked with disbelief in his voice, "Personal involvement in?"

"Sirius Black is suing you for will tampering and contributing to child abuse."

Albus stared at Amelia, "What?"

"James and Lily's will was very clear that Harry never end up with the Dursleys."

"That was sealed."

"The minister was very willing to order the will unsealed once we told him that there was obviously a mistake with it being sealed. It was a mistake, right? I really don't want to have to do all of the paperwork to prove that you maliciously tampered with the will of a Lord for some reason. It wouldn't go well for you." She knew that making something actually stick would be hard as Albus had a lot of discretion as the chief warlock but it would cause Albus some embarrassment if nothing else.

Albus sighed, "There were circumstances..."

"At any rate, you smoothed over several incidents where Harry preformed accidental or rather wandless magic to escape the Dursleys' abuse on his person. Because of your acts against Harry Potter's welfare, the minister was worried about a conflict of interest. So he excused you from presiding over Sirius Black's trial. He figured that you wouldn't complain because excusing yourself from something you have a personal stake in is the noble thing to do then again I find it suspect that Sirius never actually got a trial."

"That wasn't my fault."

Amelia nodded, "I suspect that's the only reason that Sirius hasn't suggested that you be brought up on worse charges. I'm glad that I'm not Mr. Crouch because Sirius has some stuff on him that will send him away for life. Oh and for the record Pettigrew was the Potter's secret keeper. He confessed forty minutes ago. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got work to do."

He sighed as he made a semi-dignified escape from Amelia's office. He would have to visit Sirius and see if they could come to some type of compromise.


Sirius sipped at his soup. Ten years in prison didn't exactly do much for a person's health. The shower had felt heavenly after having to wash himself off as best he could with a bowl of cold water for ten years. The soup wasn't the best but it would have had to be a lot worse before he would have turned the food away. While he had memories of eating decent food while out, his body was still rather weak. "You do know that Dumbledore will just wave his hands and have the charges vanish."

Harry shrugged, "Sure but before he wastes his resources doing that he'll probably try to talk with you."

"I'm not even sure where I would start ranting..."

"I'd start with Harry's invisibility cloak then move on to getting the rest of the transfer students places at Hogwarts."

"You do realize that transferring in this many people with names similar to names that are already here... it's going to look weird."

Harry snorted, "So it looks weird, which is more likely illegal cloning experiments that we're trying to cover up or time travelers that figured out a way around the normal rules of time travel?"

Sirius chuckled, "When you put it like that, just about anything else we tell Albus will be believed."

"Exactly..."

"Speaking of things that I would rather not do... I should probably see about making sure that the Black house is cleaned up. Have you figured out a plan for dealing with Bellatrix's vault yet?"

Harry shook his head, "It's probably easier to sneak into Gringotts and rob the place than it is to kill her in prison."

"True, either way I think we can leave that for later. The more important Horcrux we have to deal with is in Harry's head, have you figured out how you're going to deal with that?"

"I was thinking that we would stick a vacuum cleaner up to his head and suck it out."

Sirius started at Harry, "Seriously what?"

"No, you're Sirius." Harry smirked at Sirius.

Sirius rubbed the bridge of his nose, "You have a plan, right?"

"You're not going to like it..."

"Hit me."

"We eat a dementor's heart then we work on their soul eating powers and we suck Voldemort's soul fragment out of his head."

Sirius stared at Harry, "That's insane..."

Harry gave Sirius a couple of seconds to ponder the insanity of the supposed plan before he said. "Actually, Hermione has a spell that should remove the soul fragment without damaging Harry."

Sirius sighed, "Why didn't you just say that before?"

"This was more fun, I mean seriously, dementors don't sound fun to eat at all."

"I'll give you that, wait a minute how long was Hermione working on that?"

"A couple of years off and on, she wanted to prove that Dumbledore was insane for thinking that Voldemort shooting me with a killing curse was a legitimate thing to hope for."

Sirius glanced over where Hermione was introducing her parents and alt to the various witches staying at Harry's cabin. "That reminds me, I should probably go investigate Number Twelve now that I'm a free man."

Harry chuckled, "That would certainly reduce the number of girls staying here, on second thought, that's a horrible idea, some of them are cute."

Sirius laughed, "Need I remind you that you're married to a redhead?"

Harry sighed, "Point..."

"Come on, you can help me do the initial sweep plus I'm sure Kreacher is there."

"Sure." Harry frowned, "I feel like I'm forgetting something but I can't remember what it is..."

"Eh, it will come to you eventually..."


Dobby smirked as he lifted up the stone planter he had taken from the hallway and smashed it into Lucius's head while he slept. He tried a second time when the stone planter didn't break on the wizard's head. "Nasty old master. I'm never ironing my hands again." He sighed as his second attempt to break the planter wasn't any better at breaking the planter. He set the planter down then reached out and grabbed the unconscious wizard before he popped to the Godric's Hollow tent Ginny had set up to keep prisoners.

Ginny smiled as Dobby showed up with Lucius, "Good work Dobby."

"I'll be back with the rest of them shortly."

"Sounds good. I'll make sure he can't escape." She had already tossed up a bunch of wards so that he couldn't get out. She cast a small healing spell over the wizard's skull fracture so that he wouldn't bleed out before they were done with him. She planned to have Dobby iron Lucius's hands a few times then break a couple dozen of his bones to give the girls some practice at mending injuries. After they were through she planned to cut his heart out and feed it to someone so their magic increased. As she looked at the unconscious wizard she realized that she still had a lot of resentment toward him for giving her the diary all those years ago. She was going to make sure that nothing like that happened to her younger alternate.

Dobby took pleasure in using a levitation charm to haul Draco out of bed by his feet and slam his nuts on the bedpost twice before he walked over and teleported Draco to the detention center.

Ginny smiled as Draco and Dobby appeared in the cage. "One more down."

"One more to go." Dobby saluted then popped back to the manor to grab the diary and Narcissa Malfoy.


Sirius smiled as he walked into the Leaky Cauldron's backroom. He had wanted a private but semi public meeting place for his chat with Dumbledore. "You wanted to talk, so talk."

Albus looked Sirius over, "You're looking better than I would have expected..."

"A few square meals and about fifty showers will do that. What do you want?"

"I want to discuss Harry..."

"What about him?"

"Where is he?"

"Not at his aunt's house. Other than that, it's really none of your business until September 1st and even then I have my doubts that he should even go to Hogwarts."

Albus looked down his nose at Sirius, "Hogwarts is a perfectly acceptable school."

Sirius snorted, "You have a problem keeping your defense teachers, your history treacher is a ghost and a bigot, not that I like the goblins but he's also dreadfully boring and skips important events because of his issues. Your divination teacher is mostly a fraud, one correct prophecy in her life... more the pity that she didn't just off herself years ago before she said that damned prophecy. All things considered it would have been better. You don't keep up with mundane studies and your potions class is taught by a Death Eater that hated James. Need I continue?"

"Severus Snape reformed and was never convicted..."

"I'm going to ignore the part about him getting a trial. He also gave Voldemort the prophecy originally, so honestly I'm inclined to argue that he stay the hell away from Harry."

"Potions is a mandatory subject."

Sirius shrugged, "So let Harry have a tutor for that class instead or restrict Snape from taking points from him."

"That would undermine his authority."

Sirius snorted, "Good. Let me put it another way. If we have to, we'll send Harry elsewhere. I'd rather not but if the choice is between teaching him myself and allowing Snape to torment him, I'll spend the time to train him myself. Of course if I have to do that then I'll be a petty bastard and send a letter to the Daily Prophet explaining why Albus Dumbledore cost Hogwarts the legendary Harry Potter. I'll also explain that Severus Snape was a Death Eater and a traitor to the dark lord. I expect that he won't live out the week. Either the 'light' side kills him when they find out that he got James and Lily Potter dead or the Death Eaters do when they find out that he sold them out over a muggle-born."

"You'd get him killed over school disputes?"

"No but I will see him dead if you allow him to torment James's son. Oh, I also want James's cloak returned to Harry sooner than later."

Albus frowned, "I was planning on it..."

Sirius shrugged, "You were planning on Christmas as if it was yours to give away. You might have the death wand but the cloak isn't yours."

Albus stared at Sirius, "How do you know about that?"

Sirius rolled his eyes, "I'm a Black, I snuck around under that cloak for years. His father used it and his father before him going back centuries. Three brothers, three artifacts. Honestly, I really don't give a damn about your wand but the cloak is Harry's and it will be returned or there will be hell to pay."

Albus sighed as he realized that he wasn't talking to the Gryffindor student that he remembered, he was talking to Sirius Lord of the House of Black. He had sort of forgotten that Sirius had been raised by one of the old houses. While he wasn't going to try to read his mind he could tell that he was actually deathly serious about Snape and Harry. "Very well, what do you and Harry's brother want for the charges to go away?" He was still confused about that but somehow he didn't think that Sirius would tell him. Still, if Sirius accepted that James had had another son then it was probably true as the two were almost like brothers.

"The older Harry has some friends that he wants to have a better education, he was hoping that they can go to Hogwarts, I'm able to pay the tuition which puts Hogwarts on the table for their education. Harry and I will agree to let bygones be bygones if you help speed the process along so that we can get them into classes by September 1st."

Albus frowned, "How many are you talking?"

"Thirty students in a couple different age ranges."

Albus stared, "That's a lot of gold..."

"I can afford it, they're all excellent students." The fact of the matter was that most of the people that had come back with them had their own gold so it wasn't costing him that much.

"I would have allowed it without the theatrics..."

"True but I wanted to make my point clear. I'll make Snape wish he was dead if he bothers Harry. I'll have the students folders to you at Hogwarts by tomorrow if that's acceptable."

Albus sighed, "That's acceptable."

"Good day then." Sirius headed out of the room to use the floo to get back to number twelve as he didn't feel up to apparating. He wanted to have a couple more days of solid food and rest before he started apparating that kind of distance.


Harry scowled at his dragon hide gloves that Hermione had made him put on for the mission, "Is this really necessary?"

Hermione snorted as she glared at the over grown shack in front of them, "It's just a safety precaution against blatant stupidity or compulsion charms that tell you to put the ring on."

Harry shook his head, "We're going to level the damn shack then we're going to use your spell on it... then we'll test the ring on Lucius Malfoy before we use it. Besides, I have two resurrection stones already, I don't honestly care about it all that much."

"Point. Still, better safe than having your limbs turn black and suffering a quick agonizing death."

"Fine, I just look silly with my quidditch pads and my dragon hide clothes on..."

Hermione snickered, "Don't forget your lab robes."

"Yeah because I'm going to forget the horrible red and purple lab robes Ginny got me as a gag gift."

"Think of the best case scenario, if the robes burned in the line of duty then you can retire them without 'hurting' Ginny's feelings."

Harry smiled, "True, okay let's get this done."


Ginny snickered, "You did better than Lockhart..."

Rose rolled her eyes, "I still only managed to fix one of his fingers, you make it look a lot easier."

Raven looked at Lucius Malfoy's mangled hand. It looked like someone had ironed his hands with a hot iron then smashed his fingers multiple times with something heavy. His teeth were also mostly missing. It looked like someone had broken most of them with either a baseball bat or a hammer. She could tell he had several broken ribs because of the black and blue swelling on his chest. In short he looked like a wreck. The fact that he was chained to the hospital style bed probably didn't help his mood. She was just glad that he had a silence spell on otherwise he would likely be screaming bloody murder from his injuries. "So how long do you think it will take to put him back together again?"

Ginny shrugged, "I'm not sure, there are a couple of different spells that you'll need to learn to fix his various injuries so that if something happens to someone you care about you can take care of them."

Raven sighed, "I know I need the practice but how come you don't just fix his injuries?"

"Because he's a death eater, he supported Voldemort in the last war."

Raven's frown turned into a glare, "And Voldemort killed grandma and grandpa..."

"Exactly."

Raven frowned, "If that's true why are we healing him at all?"

"Because you need the practice." She figured that she could use him as an instructional aid for a couple more days then see what else she could do to him for fun.

Raven raised her wand and started working on fixing the damage to his hand.

Rose figured that Ginny would probably just bash his teeth out again once they were fixed but figured that she might as well test out a teeth pulling spell she had found in her mother's books. It was a bit scary how many dentistry type spells her mother had collected.

Ginny smiled as she watched Lucius twist in agony as the children went to work fixing the damage that Dobby had caused. It was amazing the amount of pent up rage the little guy had once he finally let go.


Harry smiled as he looked out of the muggle house that he was borrowing from one of the criminals off his list. He wasn't going to lose any sleep over the man's death if his plan went south. It was amazing what you could get away with if you had any imagination and magic. A bit of polyjuice and one of the muggle hairs from a comb left in the guy's bathroom had given Harry a workable temporary identity. He had apparated to Diagon Alley's post office and sent off a report about a dangerous magical creature that needed extermination. Then he had apparated back to the house to wait for his target. Luckily it was apparently a slow day as he hadn't had to wait more than an hour. He put a smile on his face when Walden McNair came walking up the sidewalk. "He's out back."

Walden grunted, "Fine, fine." He stalked through the house that looked depressingly muggle.

Harry hit him in the back with a stunner. "You're an idiot." He hit the man again just to be sure that he was down then walked over and tapped a penny with his wand, "Portus." He placed it on Walden's forehead with a minor sticking charm and waited the five seconds until it activated. "Have fun in hell."

Harry glanced around the house and muttered to himself, "Violent assault against some college girls, you need a one way ticket to jail." He knew the man should still be at work for another couple of hours. "Ah well, I guess I'll come back later for the frame job."


Draco watched as the crazy redhead stabbed McNair in the heart with a syringe, "What, what are you doing?"

Ginny smirked as she kept Draco's wand levelled at him in case he got any stupid ideas, "Giving you power, you want power right?"

"What, what do I have to do?"

"Cut his heart out and eat it."

Draco's whole face went pale, "You're insane."

Ginny smiled as she cursed Malfoy with his own wand. "Imperio." She pointed toward McNair who was chained up against a couple of conjured posts. "Cut his heart out and eat it Draco." She handed him a knife.

Draco felt a fog come over his senses. Suddenly stabbing McNair sounded like a great idea and he was hungry.

Ginny watched in amusement as Draco started eating Walden McNair's heart. "That should give you a boost which will in turn give your family a boost when I feed you to them."

Part of Draco's mind knew there was a problem with something she said but most of his mind was floating happily in fog so he didn't try too hard to listen to the voice of reason.

"Now I want you to go back to your cage and rest for a couple of hours. I want to make sure the magic is all nicely settled for the next part of my plan."


Hermione stirred the polyjuice potion she was working on brewing with some amusement, "You know there was a time when I thought this potion was hard."

Ginny laughed, "Yeah, when you were a second year witch brewing the potion in the bathroom. And it's not exactly an easy potion, sure it's not a luck potion or wolfsbane but it's still not easy."

"How's your project going?"

"Draco's in his cell, his magic should be settled soon then we can start roasting him. Then we feed him to his folks, Sirius, and the younger Tonks. Then I'll feed Lucius to Kreacher and we can see if my crazy idea works." Ginny still wasn't sure what effect eating the same person twice would cause but Hermione had found a warning against eating identical twins, something about them being too close magically to eat without horrible side effects so she was assuming that it was doubly so for younger selves.

Hermione frowned, "I'm not even sure that your idea is viable..."

"Probably not but honestly we might as well try. If you don't experiment with new forms of magic then you're doomed to stagnate as a culture."

Hermione laughed, "That sounds suspiciously familiar."

"I might have stolen it from one of your rants..."

Hermione stuck out her tongue at Ginny.


Harry smiled as his daughter Luna hugged him as he walked in, "Heya Loony."

"You're finally home. What took you so long?"

Harry sighed, "I had to run some errands for your mum."

"More weird potion ingredients?"

"Nah, just something for an experiment. So what have you been working on?"

"Basic first year magic with the other Hermione and Harry."

"Not a bad idea." It worried him a bit that his nine year old daughter was getting pretty good at some of the simpler spells. He was going to have to make sure that all of the children got lessons as soon as he could arrange it.

"So, can I have some ice cream?"

Harry raised an eyebrow, "Ice cream?"

"I finished my schoolwork, mum said I could have some but that I had to wait for you to get it."

"Ah, sure. We can have root beer floats." He smiled as he looked down at his smiling daughter. He would be glad when he could just relax a bit and enjoy being just a dad again rather than Harry Potter, problem solver.


Hermione smiled as she looked at the fire pit where Draco was slowly turning over the fire. "I'm not sure what it is about this place that I love so much."

Ginny chuckled as she looked over the area of the forbidden forest that they were using as a camp. They had tossed up some wards around the area so that they wouldn't get interrupted by the large spiders that lived nearby. "I think it's the fact that there are so many dangerous dark creatures around that people don't normally come here, that and the easy body disposal."

Hermione chuckled as she chopped carrots to go with the stew she was going to make, "It made the clean up on McNair easy. I'm looking forward to being able to dump Lucius's body in the forest..."

"Not until he eats part of Draco and has time to process the increase to his magic... then we cut his heart out and feed it to Narcissa."

Hermione shrugged, "I still think that your plan is a bit crazy..."

Ginny chuckled, "That's why it should be interesting... if Hagrid of all people can make blast-ended skrewts then I should be able to make something far more interesting."

Hermione shrugged, "It's worth a shot, if your idea doesn't pan out then we can feed Narcissa to the Black family and move on with other things." She smirked as she looked at the pole that Draco was roasting on. "I still can't believe you got him to stick the pole up his own ass then drive it through himself by slamming the bottom of the pole against the ground several times."

Ginny chuckled at the memory. "It almost makes me believe that some people really were cursed to join the dark side except that I don't think they could have summoned up the emotion to cast the unforgivable curses on others if that were the case."

"Point, we have a whole list of people we're sure are Voldemort supporters."

"True, I guess we don't have to worry about all of them just the most problematic ones." She really would have liked to deal with all of the death eaters but that would take years and she didn't want to spend years working on it, not when they were getting close to finally saving Harry's parents.


Sirius looked at the stew suspiciously that Hermione had given him, "This tastes funny."

Hermione rolled her eyes, "Just eat it, it's full of potions and nutrients that will help you get on your feet faster."

"Fine, did you and Harry have any luck getting the resurrection stone?" He wouldn't have cared either way except that it was also a horcrux. He took another bite of the stew and decided that it wasn't that horrible even if it had a lot of garlic in it.

Hermione chuckled, "Yeah, it wasn't so hard." She sighed, "The spell worked to separate the soul fragment or at least mostly..."

"Mostly?"

"It merely moved the soul fragment to another object that was close in this case the lead box we were using to keep it."

Sirius shrugged, "That's almost as good as long as you can get the soul fragment out of Harry then I'm calling it a win."

"True, I'll do more testing but we should have it out of him by the time we send him off to school."

"We should be able to spread out a bit once most of the children leave, Number twelve isn't in that bad of shape my father only died a few months ago rather than years so that's something."

Hermione said, "I'm a bit sad that some of the girls are going off to Hogwarts, I really need to see about a naked Quidditch calendar or something..."

Sirius laughed, "I think Ginny is a bad influence on you..."

"True, did you know that Katie Bell actually asked her if she would lend her Harry for a couple of hours so that she could have a child?"

Sirius coughed, "What?"

"Apparently she thinks he's cute and well he's extremely magically powerful."

"Not to mention rich..."

"That's really only part of it. Most of the girls aren't looking to come back with us when we jump for the last time... so the Potter line would die at least in this timeline..."

Sirius frowned as he considered, "That's actually a valid point... we've got more than enough gold leaving a vault full for Katie and a baby..."

"Would hardly be a drop in the bucket compared to what we're stealing from the Malfoys..."

"Exactly..."

"I guess it's up to Harry but I can't see him saying no. I mean he sort of had a crush on Katie for years..."

Sirius chuckled, "She's cute. Not that I have designs on her but even I can see it."

"I bet Harry freaks a bit."

"I'm not taking that bet."


Ginny smiled as she pointed Draco's old wand at Lucius Malfoy's head and obliviated the word mudblood from his mind. "This is sort of fun."

Hermione smiled as she looked at the broken wizard that was chained up and gagged. The girls had done a decent job putting him back together again after Dobby worked out some aggression on him. "Getting in some practice?"

"Yeah, just a bit. I'm trying to see if I can erase words and concepts then I'll see about erasing whole years."

"Interesting idea, it's still a horrible spell."

Ginny shrugged, "True but if you want some practice then by all means..."

Hermione shook her head, "Not really but I have some ideas I wanted to try related to counter spells for obliviate this would a good chance to test my countermeasures to it."

"As long as none of the countermeasures fries my mind..."

"Nah, that would be bad, I like your demented mind just the way it is."

Ginny grinned, "Same, go get your notes. I'll wait to hit the pet store until you get back."

"I'll be back in five..."


Harry stared at his scar in the hallway mirror, "It looks a bit lighter, will it go away?"

Remus sighed, "Not completely, though if you want we could probably remove it with magic or at least try."

Sirius grinned, "It would likely be very painful and involve cutting off part of your face and stretching the rest of your skin up to cover the part we have to remove..."

Harry gulped, "Ah, I think I'll pass because that sounds really painful and ah, I've gotten used to it."

Remus would have liked to say that Sirius was joking but he probably was actually close to what they would have to do to remove a curse scar made with magic that dark. "Probably for the best..."

Harry asked, "So, what can you tell me about my parents?"

Remus was glad that he was getting the chance to talk to Harry this time around. He had been an idiot last time to let feelings of shame for not keeping his friends safe to keep him away from Harry. "Amazingly talented..."

Sirius listened as Remus told Harry about his parents. He was hoping that James didn't explode when he found out what it had taken to get everyone back to the past. He knew that eating magical creature hearts to get the power required wasn't completely on the light side of things but he was hoping that his oldest friend wouldn't hold it against him overly much. He could almost hear the lecture from Lily, you let my son do what? Still, it was for a good cause or at least he was trying to convince himself of that.


Narcissa Malfoy stared at the red haired girl that was looking into her cell. It was hard to tell how old she was because of the dim light but she figured that she was in her late teens or so. It was the first time she had actually seen anyone since she had arrived. The rest of the time the food and water had just been slid through a slot in the door. "What do you want?" She had been locked in a cell with no windows for the last couple of days or weeks. She wasn't sure how long had passed since she had found herself in the cell without her wand and with only her night clothes. With her meals coming at strange times and her sleep interrupted by strange screams in the next room she was a mess.

"I want to make you a deal."

"What type of deal?" Narcissa had had a lot of time to think about what she would say if she ever figured out who had kidnapped her from her home. Luckily for her immediate health she had realized that anyone with the ability to take her from her home probably didn't suffer insults well.

"The type of deal that allows you to not die..."

She gulped, "I don't want to die..."

"Good, that makes this easier..." She lied, "I'm sure your husband and son would like you returned..."

"He can pay..." She wasn't actually sure how much he would pay to get her back now that he had Draco. She felt her heart rate spike as she realized that he might just let them kill her without even offering any ransom.

"I'm not interested in his money. I'm interested in an experiment, you're of a noble house."

Narcissa had a sinking feeling in her stomach. "What type of experiment?"

"I know someone that wants a child, the deal is simple you agree to take a potion and have the child then we let you go on your marry way. You'll be moved from here to a more comfortable location amd given as many creature comforts as you could wish for, the alternative... let's just say it doesn't end well for you."

Narcissa gulped, "I can't, there is a magical clause on the wedding contract."

"Null and void if Lucius is dead so which will it be? Him or you?"

"Him."

Ginny was slightly surprised though not that surprised when she didn't even hesitate for a second. "Excellent, I'll even let you cut out his heart to prove that he's dead. I'll be back in a bit with Lucius and a knife."

Narcissa nearly fainted as the crazy witch left.


Sirius shook his head, "You want me to what?"

Ginny smiled at Sirius, "It's either him or Dobby and I like Dobby, I've no idea what the hell the potion will do to a house elf, so I would rather not use it on Dobby... the only other house elf we have is one of the two Winkys and they're girls. Plus Hermione would be upset if my experiment killed Winky she's got plans for them and Dobby to spawn more house elves so that they can make an army of house elves. I'm not sure she's thought that plan through completely..."

Sirius thought about it and Ginny's idea for a bit, "I'm not sure you've thought your plan through, you're breaking about twenty or thirty different laws, plus my cousin... that can't end well. I can't see her agreeing to it."

"I said that it was either that or I kill her."

"She always was a selfish bitch, fine. I'll tell Kreacher to drink the potion and then try to knock Narcissa up, now if you'll excuse me I have to go throw up."

Ginny hugged him for a second before letting him go, "Thanks, you're the best."

Sirius watched Ginny run off and started to wonder about her sanity.


Ginny dropped a half Kneazle hair into the polyjuice potion then floated the potion through the bars so that Narcissa could grab it. "Drink up. Don't worry it won't kill you. If I wanted you dead you would be dead."

Narcissa was still a bit queasy from cutting out and eating her ex-husband's heart while he watched a couple of hours ago. It had helped put things in perspective though, anyone that forced a person to eat another person's heart would have no problems killing someone and she didn't want to die. She scowled as she grabbed the potion out of the air and drank it. She just hoped that the potion didn't do anything too horrible to her. She clutched her stomach as the magic sped through her system turning her into something less than human. She felt momentary pain in her ass, looked down and noticed that she had a cat like tail sticking out of the bottom of her nightdress. "What did you do?"

"A bit of polyjuice and half kneazle hair, you actually make a decent cat girl. I'm rather surprised actually."

Narcissa hissed, "Fix it..."

"Don't worry we'll fix it after you have a baby, hopefully a litter of kittens."

Narcissa was trying to figure out how to back out of the deal when a smallish cat man appeared in her cell, "What are you?"

"Kreacher isn't happy about this either, orders are orders though."

Ginny wondered how horrible Lucius was in bed as after a couple hesitant minutes Narcissa really got into it. 'I didn't know you could bend that way.' She hoped the fertility potion she gave Narcissa meant that she got at a couple of offspring out of the experiment. It was supposed to allow offspring across species lines so she had hope.


August 20th

Harry picked up an unconscious and disillusioned Pansy Parkinson and tossed her over his shoulder. He used a levitation charm on Gregory Goyle's equally invisible and unconscious body. "It's almost a pity we're not cooking him, lots of meat."

Hermione rolled her eyes as she levitated and invisible Vincent Crabbe behind her. She wasn't going to physically pick the boy up unless she had to as he weighed a lot. They had slipped past the crappy wards on the Goyle estate without any difficulty and snuck into the backyard under Harry's invisibility cloaks. They had only meant to grab Gregory but they had found Vincent there as well as Pansy, apparently their parents were having some meeting about Malfoy's disappearance. They had taken advantage of the opportunity and grabbed all three of the children. "He wouldn't taste good, too much fat. Let's just get past the wards then we can get out of here."

Harry snickered.


Hermione dumped Gregory's body in the forest. A simple confusion charm and she had fed the heart to Harry's younger self without a problem. It had taken the form of a meat pie which wasn't far from the truth so the spell hadn't had to work that hard. Her younger self had eaten Vincent's heart in much the same way. A couple of screens and some silence charms and they hadn't realized that anything strange had happened. "So, what do we do with Pansy?"

Harry shrugged, "Ginny said she was practicing her obliviate, we could systematically go through and erase her understanding of blood purity."

Hermione frowned as she thought about all of the insults the girl had tossed her way over the years. "Or we could just eat her heart and not worry about it."

"True but I don't think she's that far gone yet, she's just an attention whore..." He stopped when Hermione started snickering. "What?"

"You know, that's actually an amusing idea. I've got a couple of ideas, a bit of magic and you wont even recognize her."

Harry raised an eyebrow, "In that case she's your project, I want to go see about opening the chamber of secrets."

"You're going to try to fight the basilisk? Are you insane?"

Harry shook his head, "Nah, I'm going to swipe a couple of roosters from Hagrid's pen then I'm going to walk into the chamber with a blindfold while shaking the roosters around."

Hermione laughed, "Okay, that I can get behind."

Harry grinned, "The creature's heart should still have some magic even after it's dead not as much but enough to make it worth it besides I want the creature dead."

Hermione nodded, "Sounds good. I'll see you at home in a while I want to start playing with Pansy's memories."

"Have fun."

"I will." She started walking back toward the camp after Harry apparated back to the cabin. 'I should be able to stuff a bunch of strange abilities into the girl before the start of school.' She started making lists about what magical animals she would need from the pet store and what licenses she might need to acquire to start breeding the animals she would need to start increasing her people even further. It wouldn't do for the ministry to start wondering where all the magical pets were going.


Hermione dug through Pansy's memories and worked on obliviating problem memories. She would then fake a memory based on the memory she had seen that showed what she wanted then show the girl in a pensieve. A minor confusion charm and the memory was 'real' rather than shown at least that was the idea. It was a labor intensive finicky process but it was showing some interesting and scary results. On one level it was interesting because she was able to slowly rewrite the girl's brain but on the other it scared the hell out of her because she liked her brain how it was and wouldn't want someone tampering with it. 'Note to self, first chance I get after starting the next batch of time dust, work on fixing my wards against this shit.' She dug through a couple of memories that helped build Pansy's concept of modesty and self esteem and made a few tweaks to her memories. She would have to take Pansy shopping after she was done but figured that she owed the girl after playing around in her mind. She winced as she noticed a particularly horrible memory from earlier that summer. She made a note to kill the girl's father and uncle painfully. She would have to talk to Harry about tacking down her father and uncle and feeding their hearts to her.


Harry grumbled as he walked into the house.

Ginny looked over at Harry, "What's up?"

"That bastard Slytherin wanted sixty percent of the profit from the snake, for hauling it out and rendering it."

"How was Snape part of the mission to kill the basilisk?"

"He wasn't, I was talking about Dumbledore..."

"Wasn't he a Gryffindor?"

"Only because he told the hat to put him there."

Ginny laughed, "It could be technically considered school property, did you at least eat it's heart?"

"Yeah, I did the ritual and everything while Dumbledore was checking on some things."

Ginny shrugged, "Then stop bitching, take a couple fangs and call it good. Forty percent for very little work isn't that bad."

"Fine." He had thought he got the better of Dumbledore when he had asked if he could spend an hour looking around for the chamber of secrets based on some old journal entries. The headmaster had laughed and allowed it as long as he could come along. Mostly he suspected that Dumbledore was just curious about him as he looked a lot like Harry and James both. Having Dumbledore suspiciously following him had cancelled his plan to grab the diadem but at least he had managed to destroy the basilisk so that it wouldn't be a problem in case Voldemort decided to open it again for kicks.

Ginny smiled, "Relax, we're ahead of the game, the extra kids and Rose will be going to school shortly then we'll have plenty time to rest and relax. Not to mention we can have our wicked way with Hermione."

Harry sighed, "If she wasn't always in the forest playing with her project."

Ginny shrugged, "She'll be done with the project soon as well then she'll be around more."

"Good."


September 1st

Sirius yawned, "It's way too early to be awake."

Harry grinned, "But we've got to catch a train, we've got lots to do still."

Rose rolled her eyes, "We packed last night and we're not that far from the station."

Harry blinked in surprise as he remembered that Sirius's house was in London. "Oh right..."

Hermione giggled as she looked away from her breakfast and looked at her new friends, "If we hurry and eat then we'll get a good spot on the train."

Remus chuckled as he watched everyone getting ready, "We have plenty of time..." He figured it was going to be enough of a mad house getting everyone to the station with the army of children they were taking to the station.

Raven gave her sister a hug, "Have fun."

Rose smirked, "I will."

Ginny smiled then said, "More eating, less talking."


Neville Longbottom smirked as he used a summoning charm on his younger self's toad. He smiled as he handed the toad to his younger self. "Here you are."

Neville stared up at the sixth or seventh year student that he didn't know. "Thank you."

Neville grinned at his counterpart, "No problem. You're welcome to sit with me."

"Thanks."


Snape glared as the new students were sorted, almost none of them made it into Slytherin. When all was said and done he only had two first year Slytherins, Millicent Bulstrode and Blaise Zabini. He had thought that he would end up with more but by some demonic deal Pansy Parkinson was in Gryffindor. He knew the child a bit from his dealings with her father so he couldn't figure out what the hell had happened there. Maybe her father and uncle's gruesome death a week ago had done something to her or maybe the sorting hat just hated him. He wouldn't put it past it. He found it suspicious as hell that Ravenclaw had gotten so many new students and not just first years. Hufflepuff had picked up a few new ones. Gryffindor had picked up a scary amount of new talent. It was disappointing and frustrating because he knew that at least some of the families attacked recently would have ended up in Slytherin. Draco Malfoy had vanished without a trace, all of his attempts to find or contact the Malfoys had failed. He was particularly worried about Rose Potter and Harry Potter both making it into Gryffindor. He wasn't sure who Rose was but she looked like a Potter. He would have to keep an eye on them especially with the headmaster telling him not to take points from Harry Potter. 'Arrogant bastard.'

Rose chuckled as she glanced at Professor Snape, "I don't think he likes you much."

Harry had a month's worth of stories about the other Snape and why he hated him. He wasn't particularly looking forward to having to take potions from him but Harry had said that if he gave him problems that he would deal with it. It was nice to have someone looking out for him even if it was a slightly demented future version. He tried not to glare at the defense teacher even though he knew he had Voldemort in his head. Mostly he was just hoping that the other Harry dealt with the crazy wizard. He glanced over at Hermione, "Are you having fun yet?"

Hermione chuckled softly, "So far." She was trying to follow her other self's advice to not volunteer information or blurt out things that she learned in a book but it was hard. She hoped that her classes were even half as interesting as the last month of private lessons had been but somehow she didn't think they would be. Still, she figured that the school year would be interesting.

Rose finally glared at Ron across the table from her, "Stop talking with your mouth full Ronald Weasley or I'm going to reach down your throat and rip your stomach out."

Ron gulped down the food in his mouth, "Bloody hell."

"A vague disclaimer is no one's friend." She was going to enjoy tormenting him during the year as much as she could. She knew it wasn't his fault for his older self but that didn't mean she couldn't have fun.


Patil stared as Pansy stripped out of her clothes once she got to their dorm then walked over to sprawl on one of the beds. "This is going to be a strange year..."

Rose smiled, "This might actually be interesting..."

Lavender stared, "I'm with Patil on this one..."

Hermione rolled her eyes. "The dorms are girl only, the stairs turn into a slide if any boys try to get up here..."

Lavender relaxed, "Ah, is that bravery or insanity?"

Pansy smiled as she sprawled out on her bed, "I think I'll like it here."

Fay frowned at the naked girl that didn't seem to have any modesty, "I'm guessing both..."

Pansy giggled.