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Chapter 12: The Son and Daughters of the Trio
A/n: Well, here it is, the moment of truth. The chapter you've been pestering me about since I left that cliffie! It sure brought in the reviews; I should use cliffies more often! Anyways, thanks so much for everyone so far that has reviewed, hope you've enjoyed it up until now, and continue to read and review for the next chapters!
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"Hermione, did you find out anything?"
"Oh yes, I found out something," Hermione said the next day after classes when everyone was in the common room.
"Well?"
"Oh my God, Harry, look at this." She handed the pictures to him, and he looked at them.
"Who are these people?"
"That's Julia," She said, pointing at the picture of the red head. She pointed to the raven-haired girl,
"That's Lily, and…" Harry's eyes widened in shock when he saw the next picture.
"That's Blake." Ron, who was looking over Harry's shoulder muttered,
"Bloody hell."
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"What's the matter, Lils?"
"Look." She pointed to the trio, and Julia and Blake saw they were looking at pictures.
"What about them?"
"Those aren't just normal pictures…" She gasped and stood up quickly, and Julia realized the same thing as Lily and stood up with her. Blake also stood up and followed as his sister and friend almost sprinted across the room.
"What are you doing?!" Lily screamed. Harry, Ron, and Hermione all looked up. The second-generation trio's fears were confirmed. The pictures showed their true identity. Harry and Ron both were glaring at Lily, Blake, and Julia, while Hermione had a smug smile on her face.
"What the hell is up with this?" Harry said fiercely. Lily was going to answer, but Hermione beat her to it.
"It's quite simple. Remember when we were thinking these three were from another time period? Well, they are. From the future. You know how I know? I found that book under Lily's pillow. She dog-eared the page that gave the instructions for going back into the future."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes. They are…" But Lily interrupted her.
"No! Don't say it." Hermione ignored Lily.
"These two are your son and daughter, Harry. And Ron, Julia is your daughter, so I'm assuming by the Weasley red hair." It was like a timer went off, the roots of Julia and Blake's hair turned back to their natural born color. Lily closed her eyes as Julia's skin lightened and her brother's hair changed slowly back to black, and again was messy like his dad's. When she opened her eyes, they were green again, and so were Blake's. It was almost creepy seeing those two with different color eyes. Not so much the color, but the brightness and the fact they were identical to Harry's eyes. Harry and Ron's jaws dropped. Harry looked at Blake.
"Oh my God, he looks just like me," he muttered. Hermione, however, knew the spell would reverse when she revealed the effects of the spell and smiled smugly. Lily fixed a glare on her mother.
"So now you know. Yes, it's true; we're from the future. Nineteen years to be exact. And yes, Blake and I are Harry's only son and daughter, and Julia is Ron's oldest daughter. It was by accident that we arrived here, and we seem to have messed a few things up by coming into the past, and so we tried to fix them," she said coldly. Ron cleared his throat.
"Um, Julia, who's your mother?"
"I probably shouldn't tell you."
"Why not?"
"Because there's been enough damage since Hermione can't frickin' leave things alone," she glared at her godmother. "We've probably caused a time paradox, and the future will be messed up, all because your friend can't keep her nose out of things," Julia said coldly.
"You can tell him, Jules, it won't make any difference now."
"Ok. Fine. You end up marrying Luna Lovegood, and having five kids with her. I'm the oldest and the only girl, then my brother Seth, then my twin brothers, Noah and Cole, then my littlest brother Ryan."
"I marry Luna? Was I drunk?"
"No, you love her, and were engaged for four months, or so I'm told."
"So this is why you've taken such an interest in getting Harry and me to go out with each other." Hermione asked Lily and Blake.
"That's right. I guess going out with your best friend doesn't seem so ludicrous after all, does it Hermione? Or rather, mother." Lily said sarcastically. Harry looked closely at Lily, and he saw it.
"I don't know why I didn't see it before. Even without the eye color and hair color you two look like us."
"Are there just the two of you?"
"Yes. Just the two of us." Hermione then realized something.
"Then my reoccurring dream, you knew what that was about?" Lily nodded.
"You told me a few years ago about it. You've been dreaming about the day your mother-in-law and father-in-law died." Hermione's jaw dropped.
"Why, though?"
"I don't know, you don't know even nineteen years from now." Harry looked at Hermione in astonishment.
"You've been dreaming about the day my parents died?"
"I guess. I'd been having this reoccurring dream for the past two weeks, that I'd be in a fog, and hear someone screaming, pleading for mercy from Voldemort so he'd kill her instead of her…son." Hermione trailed off, she realized it made sense that she was dreaming of when Lily and James Potter died. It was exactly like Harry had always described when the dementors got too close. She needed to sit down. The second-generation trio left their parents in the state of shock they were in and went to Dumbledore's office. Dumbledore had the ingredients for them ready to go. Lily mixed them together and in an hour, set it to simmer for a week with plenty of fresh air it needed to mature. They didn't go back to the common room right away, they sat on the floor of Dumbledore's office, trying to go over what just happened within the last half hour before they brewed the potion.
"I couldn't help but notice your appearance is different than the last time I saw you. Somebody discover your identity?" Lily nodded.
"You're Ron's daughter, aren't you, Julia?" Julia nodded.
"And Blake and Beth are Harry's children." Blake nodded.
"My name isn't Beth. It's Lily." Dumbledore nodded knowingly.
"Of course. And Blake's middle name is probably James since his first name isn't right?" Blake nodded.
"Yeah, it is."
"I see. Why so depressed?"
"We failed to do what we set out to do."
"What was that?"
"When we arrived in the past, things weren't the way they were supposed to be. People weren't dating the people they were supposed to be. Ron and Hermione were going out with each other, and Harry and Ginny were going out with each other. But Harry and Hermione get together this year and then two years later they get married and have Lily and me. So we tried all we could to get them together, but they're too stubborn."
"Tell me, Blake, did you learn anything from this experience?"
"What?"
"Time is better left to run its course by itself, and never to be tampered with. Because once you do, the time continuum gets disarrayed. If you had stayed in your time, your parents would've ended up together like they should."
"But since we came back in time, we've threatened our own existence."
"True, but you have to sit back and watch for a while, see where things go before you take charge. Think about it. But now, I think it's time for you to go back to the Gryffindor common room. I'll call you back in a week and you can take the potion if things are the way they're supposed to be that you don't go forward in time and find out you don't exist. But let fate play with the situation a little." Lily, Blake, and Julia got up and left Dumbledore's office. They slowly walked back to the common room, not feeling much better.
"Hey, maybe things'll turn out the way they're supposed to anyways. I mean, now your mum and dad know they'll end up together and my Dad knows he'll end up with my Mum." Blake and Lily didn't say anything, but they both hoped Julia was right.
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A/n: Here's another short chapter, I'm sorry these are the length that they are, this just felt like a good stopping place. Hope you enjoyed. So the secret is out. Please review!!
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