Another Time

Everyone sat in stunned silence when they heard the last two names. It was Dumbledore who overcame the shock first, “And how are you two related to the Malfoys and Potters?”

“Well Lucius Malfoy is my father and James Potter is Harry’s.” Draco said enjoying the fact that everyone was so confused.

“How can he be my son?” James asked, not fully grasping the concept.

“You idiot, they just told us they are from the future.” Sirius said while laughing at his friend. He found it hilarious that James was so confused by the situation. “So who are your mothers then?” He just really wanted to find out who thought James as an adequate enough father to have a child with him.

“Your cousin Narcissa Black was my mother and Lily Evans was Harry’s.” Draco said, the tone of his voice changing. He suddenly wasn’t enjoying the conversation anymore.

“What do you mean was?” James’s father asked.

“My mother was killed the summer before our sixth year and Harry…” he suddenly wasn’t sure he wanted to tell the people in the room this part of the story.

“What about Lily, why was she a ‘was’?” James asked worried to find out what would happen to the girl he was in love with, but didn’t love him back.

“She was killed when I was a year old. You both were actually.” Harry said while looking at his hands. He just couldn’t find it in him to look his father in the eye.

James was shocked. He and Lily were going to die when their son was a year old. He wouldn’t get to watch his son grow up, or play with his friends. He also noticed his son didn’t act like a normal happy 17 year-old would.

James asked, “How did it happen?”

Harry and his friends all looked at each other. No one wanted to tell James how he was going to die, but finally Harry decided to give them the history or future as it were.

He had explained it all and even told them how Sirius had escaped Azkaban; the only thing he left out was who had raised him. These people wouldn’t know the Dursleys anyways.

When he had finished his grandparents walked over and hugged him. They had also figured they were not a part of his life in that time, but when asked he said he didn’t know what happened to them.

When everyone had processed the information Sirius asked another question, “How did a Potter and Malfoy become friends?”

That set all the teens from the future into fits of laughter and it was Ginny who answered the question. “No one in our time saw that coming either. One day the two just showed up laughing and joking together and about made everyone around them pass out from shock. Now everyone is used to seeing the two together as they actually live together with Harry’s godfather, you Sirius, and Remus lives with them too.”

“How did we end up with them, I thought I was on the run?” Sirius asked.

“Well when you name was cleared you took custody of Harry and when Draco told his mother he didn’t want to be a Deatheater she sent him to live with you as you were the only member of her family she liked who didn’t take the mark.” Said Hermoine.

They were about to continue when a white owl flew through the window and straight to Harry. Harry smiled at his familiar, took the letter and began to read.

To whoever receives this:

My name is Lily Evans and I am in desperate need of your help. I am living with my sister and her husband, at the moment they have me locked in a room, and her husband has been beating me. I am not sure what brought this owl to me, but I am thankful she is here and hop this letter reaches you in time.

Lily Evans

Harry paled as he read the letter and when he was finished he handed it to the others in the room for them to read.

“Harry, you can’t go. Let the rest of us go but we can’t let you go. You remembered what happened the last time you saw them. Harry please.” Hermione begged.

“Hermione you know I have to go and help. Besides she may need to be healed and it is not like I will be going by myself.” Harry said as everyone else in the room nodded. “Besides it might be fun to pay them back for the wonderful care they gave me growing up, or is it will give?” Harry said with a mischievous glint in his eyes.

“Tell you what, we will let you children go get Miss Evans and I will give you a portkey back here where you will all stay for the remainder of the summer. That is if it is ok with the Potters and the Lupins.” Dumbledore told the group. They all nodded and he quickly made a portkey to take them to Lily and to bring them back.

They were about to leave when they heard, “And young man if you are unconscious when you come back you will be spending the rest of the summer in the Hospital Wing.” From Madam Pomfrey.

Everyone laughed and Harry shrugged it off, not the first time he had heard that threat. They then touched the portkey and were gone.

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They landed outside #4 Private Drive and all the teens from the future felt chills running down their spines. They had heard stories of what happened in this house and frankly none of them wanted to ever go inside it. However they didn’t have much time to think about it as the teens from this time began to walk toward the house.

Harry hesitated in heading back to the house that had been his own personal Hell for most his life. He was suddenly comforted when he felt a large hand close around his own smaller one. He looked up and saw Severus looking back down at him and knew the other boy may have figured his reasons for hesitating.

Severus saw the look in the smaller teen’s eyes and knew that this house held bad memories. He took the hand of the boy and led him up to the house where the others were waiting.

When everyone was ready James knocked on the door and waited until a man about three years older than them answered. The man was about as tall as Remus, so James, Sirius, Severus, Draco, and Ron were all taller than him. He also didn’t have a mustache or was as heavy as he was in the future. As Harry looked at him he realized that his version of Vernon was no nearly as terrifying as the one that raised him.

“Where is Lily?” James growled through clenched teeth. He was still in love with her even though she had turned him down all those times.

“Why should I tell you?” Vernon asked.

“Because if you don’t you will be dealing with 9 very pissed off wizards, 8 of which are old enough to use magic outside school.” Draco answered as the others glared at Vernon.

“You won’t frighten me. Now get away from my house.” Vernon tried to slam the door in their faces, but Harry put his foot in and stopped that from happening.

“I don’t think we are going to leave unless we bring Lily with us.” He said to the man. Vernon was still taller than him, but he wasn’t going to let that bother him.

“What’s this, do you always let the little one do your fighting for you?” he said while smirking at the small teen.

“Nope, only when we don’t want to deal with his temper for accidentally doing something to anger him.” Draco said remembering all the time Harry had lost control of his magic and had accidentally destroyed whole rooms. It didn’t happen often as Harry usually had a pretty good hold on his magic.

“You mean to tell me this child has the rest of you scared of temper tantrums? You freaks really are pathetic.” As he said this all the glass in the house as well as the car windows shattered.

James and his friend looked around in shock before their eyes settled on Harry. They really hadn’t thought the small boy could be that powerful, but when the word freak everything broke. They decided not to underestimate the boy again, it was obvious he was very powerful.

Harry and his friends just pushed past a stunned Vernon and headed up the stairs with James and his friends on their heels. Harry came to what would become his bedroom and saw the locks on the door and knew that was where his mother was. He didn’t even use his wand as he blew the door off its hinges and walked inside to see his mother asleep on the bed with bruises on her face.

He pulled out his wand and used some of the less complex spells to heal her as he didn’t want to find out if Madam Pomfrey was being serious with her threat.

Soon Lily was healed and opened her eyes. When she saw who was in the room with her she almost feinted again. James Potter and who looked to be a brother or cousin of his along with James’s friends, Severus Snape, and four other people she didn’t know were all in the room with her.

It was then she noticed she wasn’t in any pain and began to wonder who had healed her. “Harry did it.” James said pointing to Harry. It was then she turned to the smallest of the group and saw her own eyes looking back at her. She looked at the boy and then at James. “Yeah, he’s from the future, and happens to be our son.”

She looked back at the boy and saw that the looked to be much more mature than his future father and was surprised by that.

“We should get going back to Hogwarts. We can explain everything to you there.” said the boy, her son, Harry.

With that he held out the portkey and they were all gone.

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Lily had been shocked to hear what her future held for her and devastated to find out her son would be sent to live with her sister. She just looked at the boy she was going to give birth to and could see how hard a lifer her baby would have. It was then she decided to be the mother he didn’t have growing up. She looked at James and saw that he too had the same look in his eyes.

It was then she looked at Severus. She was surprised to see how he was looking at her son. He looked as though he had been longing to be in her and James’s positions and holding Harry. She could see Severus had fallen for Harry, but knew he was going to fight the feelings. It was obvious the blond saw it too.

The blond was another thing that puzzled her. She had been told the blond and her son were like brothers and she was surprised to see Lucius Malfoy’s son so protective of James Potter’s son. She found herself not caring though, she was glad he had someone watching out for him. Oh, she had been told he was powerful when it came to magic, but if something got physical and he was for some unknown reason unable to do magic he wouldn’t stand a chance. That was why she was glad he had protective friends. It was also obvious Remus and Sirius would protect him too. And looking at Severus she realized he would probably be there for Harry more than the rest. Who knows maybe some day Severus would become her son in-law. She just wished she could have lived to see that day.