The Product of Time,

The foursome landed with a thud. Off to the side or somewhere in front of them they heard someone swear.

“What the bloody hell?”

The four of then struggled to sit up and look at who just talked. Harry gasped. He was looking at an image of himself. Only with deliberate mistakes. The didn’t have his scar or green eyes. They had brown eyes instead.

Fred looked at Harry and back at Harry’s copy again.
“harry mate, I don’t wan to alarm you or nothing but that bloke over there…” Fred went into a stage whisper “he stole your face!!!”

Someone to the left of the copy snorted. They looked around and harry nearly fainted.
“Sirus?” harry whispered. Harry shook his head and rubbed his scar. This had to be a trick of some sort. Sirus was dead. He fell through the veil two years ago. This wasn’t right, it couldn’t be right.

“Are you ok harry?” asked Draco looking in some concern at his boyfriend.

“Do you need to go and see Madame Pomfrey in the infirmary?”

Harry looked around again at the new voice and his eyes narrowed dangerously. There beside Sirus was Peter Pettigrew. Harry growled low in his throat and Draco and the twins realised that Harry was close to the edge. Draco took a hold of Harry’s hands and forced him to look at him rather then Pettigrew.

“Harry. Harry baby you need to look at me and breath. You have to calm down or you will hurt someone with your magic.” Draco was rubbing slow circles on the back of his hand as harry took a slow deep breath in. Harry pulled his hand out of Draco’s and stood up slight wobbly on his feet. Just then harry heard a voice that he recognized.

“Mr Potter, Mr Black, Mr Lupin and Mr Pettigrew, how many times have I told you not to hang about in the corridors? Five points each form Gryffindor. Move along to your class.”

“But professor McGonagall, we were on our way to class when these four fell out of no where. They nearly took out poor peter!” said Harry’s copy that harry now realised was his father.

“James for goodness sake what are you blathering on about?” snapped McGonagall.

James gestured towards the new comers.
“Them. I dunno where they came from.”

McGonagall turned and looked at harry.
“By thunder!!” she exclaimed. She looked form harry to James then back to harry again.. Harry would have laughed if he wasn’t feeling so confused himself.

“Where did you lot come from? Who are you?” she asked.

They all looked at each other.
“Uh…” said harry. “We were in potions with Professor Snape when there was an explosion and we ended up here somehow.”

“Yeah” said Fred. “Dumbledore asked us to give harry this letter and when the explosion happened George and I ended up here with harry and draco, in front of this bloke here who stole Harry’s face!” fred was gesturing wildly at james who looked bemused. “OUCH!!” George had lent over and smacked fred across the back of the head.
“What the hell was that for?”

“You idiot!” said george. “He did not steal Harry’s face fred. Think about it a moment will you…”

“But the only person that could look like harry is--Oh!” said fred as he put two and two together. “Shit! I mean blimey. Sorry professor.”

The marauders all looked at each other in confusion. They had no idea what was going on. But before they could ask Professor Dumbledore arrived and stood before them.

“Wonderful. I see that you found our exchange students Minerva. Now if you four.” he pointed at the marauders, “Would like to move ahead to class. You can meet these four later. They will be sorted later at dinner. Now you four,” Pointing to harry, draco and the twins “follow me please. You to please Minerva.”

Dumbledore walked away giving harry and the others no choice but to follow. When harry looked back down the hall, he saw james give him a weird and calculating look before following his friends into the class room opposite him. Harry followed the others into the stairway that lead to the headmasters office feeling very confused and upset.

Once they were all seated McGonagall launched straight into her questions.

“What the hell is going on Albus? Where did these children come from? They said something about a professor Snape. We don’t have a professor snape. And this one here looks like james Potter! What the hell is going on Albus?” sputtered a very confused and harassed looking McGonagall.

“These children are from the future I think Minerva. Is that correct? Considering that you landed in the year 1977?” Dumbledore looked around at the group.

Draco looked at him incredulously.
“How the hell do you do that? You always know everything before anyone else has a chance to think! It’s creepy! If this is 1977 then yes we are from the future. 1997 is where we were about an hour ago. I’m Draco Malfoy. That’s Fred and George Weasly. And that’s Harry Potter. Harry James Potter.”

Draco looked at the headmaster, whose eyes were steadily widening. They were all startled when he let out a delighted laugh.

“Well Minerva, it looks like you owe me a hundred galleons. I seem to have won that bet.” He looked at the other woman with a smirk on his face and a twinkle in his eye.

“Don’t be silly Albus.” she said, “You didn’t win anything. We don’t know who the boy’s mother is.”

“My mothers name was Lilly Evans.” pipped up harry as he looked from one to the other.

Dumbledore’s smile grew and McGonagall scowled. “Now is not the time Albus.” she snapped. “We need to sort out this mess. You are going to have to stay until we figure out how to get you back to your own time line. You can’t go by your own last names because it appears that your parents still go here. So please pick a name for your selves to go by.”

Harry thought. How the hell was he supposed to come up with a name that he would remember to answer to when it was called?
“I’ll be harry Thomas. Its easy enough to remember.”

Draco and the twins sniggered and harry pinched draco on the leg.
“Ouch you git that hurt!! I guess I could I could go by the name of Finnegan.” said draco. This time it was harry who sniggered and got pinched for his efforts.

“We will hence forth be known by the name of Wood.” stated the twins. Harry sniggered at them.
“Just don’t start channelling his spirit. We have enough to deal with when you channel your own spirit let alone his psychotic spirit.” harry was still sniggering at the twins so fred lent across and smacked him in the back of the head.

“Very good, very good.” said Dumbledore. “Now lets head down to dinner so that our transfer students from Durmstrang can be sorted into their rightful house. Remember that you must not say anything about the future or it could change it and you may not exist. It is very important that you just let it play out as you know it. Now shall we go?” And with that he led the foursome down the stairs, into the great hall and to their new lives.




Author Note:
Thank you to everyone that read and reviewed. Keep up the reviews and here is a question for those who are going to stick with my story. I am unsure about whether I should make the twins relationship into something more then what it is…more along the lines of Harry and Draco’s relationship. Let me know what you think. And for those who want more here is a snippet from my next chapter:

----- ‘I don’t trust you Thomas. Your evil and those two dickheads beside you are evil too.’

Harry looked his godfather in his eye and what ever Sirus saw their made him shrink back in fear.

‘You have a lot of nerve Black. What gives you the right to make these judgements on me or anyone else?’


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Irishangel.