Harry Potter - Series Fan Fiction ❯ Harry Potter and the Other World ❯ Past Problems ( Chapter 6 )

Chapter Six: Past Problems

 

 

 

Finally the time turner stopped leaving them in a Diagon Alley but this one was a new Diagon Alley, it was like the one Harry remembered, not the dark abandoned Diagon Alley they had just been at. “Where are we?”

 

“When are we you mean, we are in Diagon Alley.” People were staring at them so they ducked into the robe shop they had just been thrown out of, in the future. “We need to find a newspaper, can't be asking people what day it is they'd think we had been on the wrong end of a memory charm.” They looked around and didn't see one.

 

“You dearies need any robes?” The woman came out from behind the counter, Harry didn't recognize her, must have been a former employee…

 

“Uh no we just needed to get out of the crowd.” Hermione grabbed Harry's hand and dragged him out of the store. “Ok if we go to the bank we can get a newspaper, they sell them out front.” Harry and Hermione went to the bank and indeed there were newspapers but there was something wrong.

 

“1974? That can't be, that would make this time turner at least twenty year old, right Hermione?” Harry had read up on time turners during one of his many hours of being bored and alone at Hogwarts after he had fought with Hermione.

 

“A time turner can only take you back as far as it was created. How did Voldemort get one this old?”

 

“Maybe he made it in case of something happening.”

 

“Yes but then he would be trapped back here what would be the point of that?” The newspaper said July 30th, 1974, but it couldn't be, Harry couldn't believe it and neither could Hermione.

 

“He didn't kill me, he just sent me to a place that made it so I couldn't come back, at least not for another 20 years…” This was his fault, if it had just been him he wouldn't have cared but he had dragged Hermione with him. “What do we do? We can't get a hold of Remus or Tonks or your parents, we haven't even been born yet!” Harry was starting to sweat heavily panicking about the situation.

 

“Dumbledore, we know where he is, we know where the castle is, mostly, we go there and tell him what happened.” It was a plan even if Harry thought it wouldn't work it was a plan.

 

“How do we get there?” It would be to far to walk, by the time they got there school would have started.

 

“Have your broom?” Harry got his bottomless pouch out and reached inside for his trunk. Pulling it out he opened it and got his broom out. “What about your invisibility Cloak?” Harry pulled that out next even with people staring at them Harry didn't care he was panicking too much. “Ok get on then I will and we can use your cloak so no on sees us.” Harry got on then Hermione who wrapped her arms around Harry's waist hanging on for dear life, she hated flying but it was the quickest way for them.

 

“Ready?”

 

“Yes.” Harry kicked off the ground and flew as fast as he could. They headed first for the train station finding the tracks that went to Hogwarts then followed those for nearly four hours until Harry could see the tallest tower of Hogwarts.

 

“Almost there Hermione, but what do we do?”

 

“Tell the truth, even if this is 1974 it is still Dumbledore, we have to trust him.” Harry was even more skeptical now then before but just like before it was a plan, something Harry didn't have. They landed in front of the schools entrance getting off the broom. “Here goes nothing.” They walked in the school looking around nervous, this was Hogwarts but it wasn't their Hogwarts. They nearly ran to Dumbledore's office getting to the Gargoyle. “Uh, Lemon drop?”

 

“Licorice wand?”

 

“Choclate frog?”

 

“What are you doing?” The two teens both jumped and turned around; it was who they were looking for.

 

“Dumbledore we need to talk!” Both Harry and Hermione shouted this.

 

“Who are you? You shouldn't be here the school year doesn't start for another month.”

 

“You don't understand this is 1974, this isn't our year, we aren't supposed to start school yet, hell we aren't even born yet!” Harry knew he sounded stupid but it was the truth.

 

“Come into my office so we can talk, Blow Pop.” The Gargoyle moved out of the way and the two teens followed Dumbledore into his office. “Now please take a seat.” They did. “What is going on? Is this some sort of prank? I've had enough from the Marauders and I don't need any more…” Dumbledore stared at Harry. “James? What have you done to yourself? And Lily, how did James get you into this?” Harry heard those names, could it be?

 

“My mom and dad are here?” This confused Dumbledore, he thought he knew what was going on.

 

“Mom and Dad? Those two are far too young to have children let alone children who look to be in the same year as them, what's going on?” Hermione took over.

 

“We were attacked, Death Eaters, they threw something at Harry and he caught it, I tried to grab it out of his hands but it activated, it was a time turner, and now we are here since you are the only person we can trust.”

 

“Now we are getting somewhere, Death Eaters, that new group of ruffians? They are Anti-Muggle but if you know about and can see Hogwarts you can't be Muggles.”

 

“You don't understand, of course you don't, my Mom and Dad were killed by Voldemort but he couldn't kill me, he fell for awhile but then came back and has been trying to get rid of me since then. Voldemort did this, he sent me here to get rid of me.” Dumbledore was processing this new information, these kids, whoever they were, weren't lying.

 

“You are the son of James Potter and Lily Evans from the future, and you are?” Dumbledore looked at Hermione.

 

“I'm Hermione Granger, sixth year student and Prefect, Muggle born.”

 

“And you were attacked by Death Eaters who are following Voldemort after he fell and came back, where?”

 

“Diagon Alley, we flew here on Harry's broom. Our year is…”

 

“I don't want to know, this playing with time, it could destroy everything in the future if you interfere in anything.”

 

“We know our third year we used a time turner to free Sirius before the Dementors could kiss him.”

 

“Sirius? You know him also? What had he done to deserve such a punishment?”

 

“He didn't do it, Wormtail did it, Wormtail killed all those people and he betrayed my parents.”

 

“Well this is very serious very serious indeed. I can't ask you too many things, knowing something I shouldn't and changing the outcome, the effects could lead to disaster.”

 

“But we need your help, you are the most powerful wizard in the world, you are the only one Voldemort fears, you have to help us, we can't stay here.” Harry was close to crying.

 

“Even in your time?” Dumbledore shook his head slowly. “I can't think about that, I have to correct this, the easiest is of course killing you before you interfere with anything.” This got Harry's attention, could Dumbledore kill them? He didn't know them, he didn't know if he could trust these two kids. “But I won't. I will ask you to stay here for the time being since you most likely don't have a home to go to and this will allow me to keep an eye on you.”

 

“Dumbledore we need to get back now! My, well Hermione's family is probably worried about her.”

 

“And what of yours Harry?”

 

“I don't have any left, Voldemort killed them.” Dumbledore picked up on Harry's rage and tried to divert his attention.

 

“You call me by my last name only; I am assuming we are close somehow in your time?” They both nodded. “And you came to me first?” Both nodded again. “I can tell you aren't lying but this can't be; a time turner that old would be under Ministry control.”

 

“Voldemort has spies everywhere, and he could have just built his own if he wanted to, or had someone make it for him.”

 

“But he would have to of done it now and Voldemort is not that powerful, he only has a few followers in a new Anti-Muggle group.”

 

“He is very powerful in our time, he has attacked the school, the Ministry, destroyed Azkaban, has the entire country in a state of fear. Voldemort wants to control the wizarding world and destroy the Muggle world, your Order and the Ministry has been trying to stop him for over a year now, we were with Order members when the Death Eaters attacked.” It was strange for Harry, he now knew something Dumbledore didn't, how many people could say that in this world, past or present?

 

“Then they weren't doing a very good job if you are here.”

 

“It wasn't there fault, Moody saw them and start attacking but no one else could see what he did, they didn't have a magical eye.”

 

“Moody? What would he have use for a magical eye for? His eyes are fine.” It was 1974 so it probably hadn't happened yet.

 

“Never mind, it wasn't their fault they were doing their best but against the Death Eaters, against Voldemort, your best isn't enough.” Hermione had taken control again. “But what do we do? And another thing, if we are here now, then our Dumbledore knew this was going to happen, right? You are Dumbledore, so if you know something then he knows something, so why didn't he warn us!” Hermione made a good point, or so Harry thought, he wasn't sure if what Hermione said made sense but it was Hermione.

 

“Well I have two answers for that, either I wanted this to happen which I sincerely doubt or he, I didn't know since it hadn't happened yet.” This confused Harry even more.

 

“Grandfather Clause? You can't go back in time and kill your grandfather because if you do that then you were never born so you could never go back in time and kill him, but if he doesn't die then you are born and able to go back in time to kill him. If we do something here it doesn't affect our timeline it creates a new one, or doesn't happen until we do it, I think.” Hermione seemed just as confused.

 

“Yes, if you were to say, destroy Hogwarts, Hogwarts won't be destroyed until it happens. If I were to create a hole in that wall,” Dumbledore pointed to a back wall “it wouldn't form in your timeline until I did it, so all the times you were in here you never saw it because it hadn't happened yet. Or there are other theories on this all to complicated for you children to understand.”

 

“I wouldn't say that Dumbledore, Hermione is the smartest witch in my year if not the whole school.” Hermione elbowed Harry trying to get him to shut up.

 

“What I mean is I couldn't explain it to you, there is no way to put the thoughts into words you would understand.”

 

“Well, that means if I were to hunt down Voldemort here and kill him either I wouldn't change my timeline but create a new one or everything he did would still have happened but he would fall over dead the second I killed him here.” Harry's mind was working, Voldemort didn't know who he was, Harry could become a Death Eater, get close to Voldemort, then kill the monster. Harry could either save a world from Voldemort or stops the one in his, either way he would be doing something good.

 

“Now Harry I think that is a bit extreme, but yes if you were to kill Voldemort he would either fall over dead in your timeline or he would die in this one and create a new timeline, a new world without the things he had done.” Extreme? Voldemort had killed hundred of people if not thousands, killing that monster was far from extreme in Harry's opinion.

 

“What do we do?”

 

“You will stay here for now, you are both sixth year students?” They nodded. “Have you received your OWL scores yet?” They nodded again. “And you were a Prefect.” Dumbledore pointed at Hermione.

 

“We both are, Gryffindor Prefects, Harry's the Seeker on the Quidditch team.”

 

“Well I'm not sure but you are here, and I don't know how to get you back, if you want you can continue the rest of your school here and make a life for yourself. I really am afraid I don't know what to do.” Harry didn't want to stay at school, he had a chance to kill Voldemort, he had a chance to do something he couldn't do in his time, and even if it only created a new world instead of killing the Voldemort in his he didn't care, no one should have to suffer at the hands of Voldemort.

 

“We will stay, for now. But where? I'm sure the students will notice two new students and some would probably see Harry and wonder why he looks like his dad, er, James Potter.” Hermione had a point, she was Muggle born, she didn't have to worry about anyone recognizing her, but Harry was always told he looked just like his dad, except for his eyes, they belonged to his mother.

 

“Well there are wizard ways of taking care of that, changing his hair, changing the color of his eyes, all simple things to do if you know a good potions master.” Snape? Wait, he went to school at the same time as his parents.

 

“Would it help if I made my hair longer or shorter?” Harry demonstrated for Dumbledore.

 

“Can you change the colors?” Harry had no idea, he had never tried. Harry thought of a color, at first red but this brought him memories of Amelia and her red hair, then Ron the red headed bastard, so he switched to brown, like Hermione's.

 

“Well?” Harry couldn't see his hair so he asked the other two.

 

“It looks like it got lighter, I think.” Hermione was looking at Harry's head closely.

 

“I take that as a no, don't worry Professor Slughorn can make a potion to change your hair and eye color. How are you going to put your hair?” Harry made it short, almost like a buzz cut, that's when Dumbledore saw something. “That scar, how did you get that?” Harry made his hair long again covering the scar up.

 

“Uh when Voldemort tried to kill me, he had killed my parents and then when he used the killing curse on me it didn't work, it back fired and nearly killed him.” Harry felt weird explaining something the entire wizarding world knew to Dumbledore, but it wasn't his Dumbledore, it was another Dumbledore.

 

“You survived the killing curse? How old were you? No one has ever done that, how did you do it?”

 

“I was One, and it wasn't me it was my mother, she sacrificed her life for me, it's an old type of magic that Voldemort hadn't recognized.” This was something Dumbledore had told Harry and now he was telling it to Dumbledore.

 

“Very old indeed, as old as Merlin himself, Lily always was a smart one, so sad to hear she died, but you lived and that was why she died, so you could live. I must let you know you are not to leave school grounds, the school year may not have started but you will follow the rules as long as you are staying here which may be until you graduate.” There was strange noise, a whirring noise, Harry looked around for it when something landed in his lap.

 

“It's a time turner!” Hermione grabbed it and the package that was attached to it out of Harry's lap. Opening it up she found three letters and small trunk, one that had been shrunk with magic. “It's my trunk, someone sent me my trunk since I didn't have it on me.” Looking at the letters they all had Dumbledore written on them so Hermione handed them over to Dumbledore. He opened the first one.

 

Dear Dumbledore;

 

I have just been informed that two of my students were kidnapped so to speak by Death Eaters. This is going to sound very peculiar but I am sending this letter to myself, I hope.

 

It was from Dumbledore!

 

They need to be contained before they do anything drastic, I know they are there now, I am getting new memories as I write this, please believe them! I am not sure on what to do myself but you need to keep them at the school! Harry, Hermione, I am sorry for letting this happen to you, I should have gone with you, I was busy with something but it isn't important now, stay calm! Now I have included their OWL results in the other letters so you know where to put them.

 

I have never had to deal with this in all my years and can only do so much from where I am, when I am, Harry, Hermione, do not panic, stay at the school, we will think of something. Now we only have four other time turners old enough to go back so we must plan this very carefully, I will know what the Dumbledore here knows as soon as you tell him, I think. I know right now as I write this that Harry is planning on going after Voldemort, don't do this Harry, we don't know what could happen.

 

Hermione, your parents send their love to you, do not worry they will be taken care of while you are gone. Harry Remus has sent his sincere apologies for letting this happen. You two need to come up with something, Harry this is your sixth year as well as your fathers, he will recognize you as someone who shouldn't be here, you look to much like him, change your appearance quickly, since it is 1974 you will need to have Professor Slughorn make you the correct potions. Keep hope that you will return, I am trying to think of something right now but all these new memories keep distracting me, give me and the others time and we will get you back, we will get you home.

 

 

Sincerely;

Albus Dumbledore

 

 

“As I thought he didn't know this would happen for it hadn't happened yet, meaning something won't happen in that timeline until you do it here or else you would already be back there, I think.” Time Travel was confusing even to the great Albus Dumbledore.

 

“Well I guess we do what Dumbledore, uh, the other Dumbledore says and stay here. Wait, there are already sixth year Prefects, and James was the Seeker, sorry Harry.” Harry hadn't thought of that, he wouldn't be a Prefect or on the team this year.

 

“Yes best that you keep that to yourselves, I'm sorry you must have done well to earn your badges and a spot on the team Harry but it would be unfair to take Remus and Lily's badges and I doubt you want to kick your father off the team.” Remus and Lily, they were the Prefects, that's right, Remus was made on to try and keep the Marauders under control, not that it worked.

 

“It doesn't matter anymore, none of this matters, Hermione you can do what you want but I'm leaving, I am going to hunt Voldemort down and kill him before he becomes to powerful to stop, I am going to kill the bastard who put you here.” Harry stood up and walked towards the door.

 

“Harry stop right there!” Hermione had gotten up and grabbed Harry by the arm turning him around. “You are not leaving me here, you are not going to abandon me to chase after Voldemort, and you are not going to go on some suicide mission!” Hermione stepped in between Harry and the door, Hermione knew Harry blamed himself for putting her there so if he was going to kill the person who put her there it meant killing himself. “This is not your fault this is Voldemort's! You've said it yourself before that I am in danger anyways being a Muggle born witch, it has nothing to do with knowing you!”

 

“Fine I won't leave, yet. But when you find a way to get us home I am killing the Death Eaters, all the Death Eaters I can find before we go back.” Harry had the upper hand, he knew who they were, some before they even knew it, he could kill them all before they even became Death Eaters.

 

“No you won't Harry, you told me we should mourn all death, even Death Eaters for they are people too! I thought you were soft but it wasn't you being soft Harry it was you being more human then anyone else. You can't kill people because they become Death Eaters in the future, you can't kill people before they do something, what happened to you?”

 

“What happened? Look where we are Hermione! We aren't even born yet and we are here! What about Wormtail? If I kill him I will get my revenge for him betraying my parents, for selling his soul to Voldemort, and for putting Sirius in jail! They are Death Eaters, they don't care who they kill, and don't you remember what you saw in the Great Hall? All those kids dead and the Death Eaters laughing about it, they will die, I will kill them before they get the chance to kill anyone.”

 

“But it won't change anything! You know if you kill them they will fall over dead but everything they did will still happen, you would be a murderer Harry, a cold blooded murderer!” Hermione wanted to bring Harry back, the one she knew, the one who felt bad for not feeling bad about the Dursley's, the one who wanted to mourn the death of the people who treated him like garbage because they were human and deserved to be mourned.

 

“Calm down both of you! Harry you will not kill anyone! If any student dies while you are here I will send you to Azkaban, they may do horrible things in the future but they haven't done anything yet and do not deserve to be killed.” What were they thinking? Harry had the chance to stop murderers by the dozens, it would be vengeance, justice, Harry would become the right hand of God wiping out the evil of the world, not a murderer. “I will get a place set for you to sleep, for now you will be sharing a room, will this create problems?” Yes, Harry thought, but Hermione shook her head.

 

“We are just friends.”

 

“Alright, for now you will be sleeping in a guest room, I have already ordered the House Elves to make two beds and to prepare dinner for you.” Dumbledore walked with the two teens to the entrance and then led them to their new room. It was about the same size as a regular dorm room but only had two beds in it and a table with two chairs. “If you need anything just say `Looni' and a House Elf named Looni will come to do what it is you need.” Dumbledore left the two in the room going back to his office.

 

“What do we do Harry? How do we get back?”

 

“I don't know Hermione, I don't know.” Harry looked around the room, it was roomy enough for two people but he really didn't want to stay here, not with Hermione. “Where's the bathroom?” There were four doors, one to the hallway, and three he didn't know. The first door was a closet but the second was a bathroom. It was large, basic bathroom things, was carpeted, but the third door was a closet. “I guess we have to share this Hermione.” She nodded looking concerned.

 

“Harry I should have told him to put us in two separate rooms, I wasn't thinking, sorry.”

 

“Don't be Hermione, we wouldn't be in this situation if it weren't for me, and I'll just make sure I close my eyes whenever you go in and out for a shower and when you change.” Harry wasn't comfortable with the situation but he wasn't going to let Hermione blame herself for something that was his fault.

 

“Oh sure like I can trust you, you're a man, seeing women naked is number one, two, and four on your list of life goals.” Hermione laughed and walked over to a bed putting her shrunken trunk on it. “Egorgio.” The trunk grew to normal size. “I'm glad they thought of this, I don't carry my life with me like you Harry, why did you have your trunk and stuff in your bottomless pouch?”

 

“Why not?” And the voice had told him to, the voice told him he would need it, did the voice know this would happen? “Voice?” Harry tried to get the voice to talk but nothing happened. “That's great when I finally want him to say something he ignores me.”

 

“What was that?” Hermione was staring at Harry.

 

“Nothing.” If the voice knew why didn't it warn him! He could have at least kept Hermione out of this mess. Maybe this was the point the voice was worried he would miss, but why would it want him to come here?

 

“Well we have a few hours before we have to go to bed Harry, want to go to the library?” Harry shook his head.

 

“We should stay here in case Dumbledore comes for us.”

 

“Alright, then what do we do?”

 

“Nothing, wait for Dumbledore to fix this. We can't do anything, at least I'm not allowed to do what I want to do.”

 

“Harry you can't kill people! You aren't a murderer you're a kind caring person Harry, you can't kill someone.”

 

“Really? I tried to kill Ron, I cast the killing curse at him, I tried to kill him, I wanted to see the light leave his eyes, I wanted to kill Ron. Hermione you didn't see half the things I did, I saw Cho kill Michael, I saw Ron kill Cho and Professor Krats, I saw dozens of Death Eaters killed and disfigured by Devin, I saw death like few have seen. It changes a person Hermione, it changed me, if I had the chance I would find the Weasly's and wait for Ron to be born to kill him before he even saw the light of day. If we are here when school starts I am killing Wormtail, I am sending him to Voldemort in a body bag, and I am sending any other Death Eaters to him.” Harry was serious, if he saw anyone that he knew was a Death Eater in his time he would kill them, they didn't deserve to live, no one that cold and merciless deserved to live.

 

“But Harry that is wrong, they haven't done anything, yet. Yes they may do something in the future but they haven't done anything yet. If you promise me you won't kill anyone I'll forgive you, I'll forgive you for what you did out in the Muggle world.”

 

“Fuck you, how can you not want them dead! You are here because of them! You have been separated from your parents twice because of them, they are evil!”

 

“And you are going to be joining them if you do this! You start killing people you will be the evil one, they haven't done anything yet, so if you kill them you will be the evil one Harry, not them.” Hermione was seriously worried by Harry, this Harry wasn't the one she had loved, the one she still loved.

 

“I'm not evil.”

 

“That's right Harry you aren't, you are the shinning light to the people, people look to you because you represent good, you beat Voldemort, you beat his followers, you aren't evil.” Hermione hoped she had gotten through to him.

 

“Fine, I won't promise, I can't promise it when it comes to Wormtail, but I won't kill anyone as long as we are here.”

 

“Alright, I forgive you Harry, you hurt me but you said you were sorry, I forgive you for what you did in the Muggle world.”

 

“Now what.” They had several hours before they had to go to bed and Harry didn't want to leave the room.

 

“Well we got our things, except for new robes, we need new robes. Maybe ask Dumbledore if we can order them.”

 

“Or someone else, Lonni?” Crack

 

“You called?”

 

“We both are not able to buy new robes, could you enlarge our school robes so they fit us?” Lonni nodded. “Hermione get your robes and whatever else you need made bigger out for Lonni.” Harry got his old robes and his old pair of shoes out. He had his new ones, several of them, but he liked his old ones, he didn't get them with Amelia. Hermione got her robes and other clothes out and put them on her bed. Lonni looked Harry up and down then at his clothes, staring at them hard, Harry noticed they changed then moved and became a little different. Lonni then went over and did the same with Hermione's clothes.

 

“Do you need anything else?” Harry shook his head. Crack

 

“Harry this is stealing, I think. A wizard could do this to all his clothes but it is against Ministry Code 13 Section C of Wizard Item Decree 119 to do that.”

 

“Well fine Hermione you disobey Dumbledore and go to Diagon Alley and buy your own clothes.”

 

“Don't get mad at me Harry I'm just telling you the law.”

 

“I broke as many laws as possible when I was in the Muggle world, I didn't care, do you think I will care about this one?”

 

“You should Harry, Laws are there for a reason. Look I am getting a book out, if you want you can read one or do something else, I don't care.”

 

“Sorry Hermione, I am being a total prat to you and you didn't do anything wrong. Go ahead I am going to think.” Harry went to his bed and laid on it thinking about what to do and to keep himself from saying something else that would make Hermione mad.