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Chapter 17: Preparing for the Future and Goodbye
A/n: Second to last chapter y'all, hope you enjoyed this story of mine!! Please review when you're done!!
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"Hey, got some good news," Lily said to her brother and his new girlfriend.
"What's the good news?" Julia said.
"I just spoke to Dumbledore, the potion is ready; we can leave today if we want to."
"Really?" Blake and Julia didn't look as enthused as Lily thought they would, but in a way, she felt the same way. Lily sighed sadly.
"We have to go back. We can't stay here forever. We'd probably really screw the future up if we did."
"I know, but here we've finally got to know our parents without them being mean and now we have to leave," Julia said.
"Jules, we have to go."
"I know, I know."
"It'll just be hard to say goodbye," Blake said sadly. Lily and Julia nodded.
"Well, I suppose…no time like the present. Let's get it over with and go home. You're right Lils, we do need to go. I miss everyone." Julia stood and turned to leave, but stopped when the twins didn't get up with her.
"Are you coming?"
"Yeah, just a second, I have to Blake. You go ahead." Julia nodded and left.
"What's up?" Blake asked.
"Blake, they can't remember this ever happening."
"I know."
"And I think, that we need to put some of that combination Potter-Granger power to use."
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"You know what I heard today?" Ron said to his best friend and his new girlfriend.
"Jules, Lils and Blake are planning on leaving for home soon. They could leave today if they wanted."
"Well, they have to, they can't stay here forever. They'll mess up time too much if they stay," Hermione said.
"I know, but it's sad, we get to know our kids and then they have to leave."
"We'll meet them sooner or later, Ron, it's not like we'll never see them again."
"Hermione's right, Ron, what's even better is that we get to know them for seventeen years, we get to watch them grow, and raise them in whatever weird way we see fit."
"You know, I just realized," Ron said. "You're right, Harry, what their personalities are like, is all because of us." Hermione smiled.
"And I can't wait till two years later when we get to start raising them," she looked at Harry, "It gives you something to look forward to in dark times."
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"So, we heard you're leaving." Lily looked at Blake and Julia then back at her godfather.
"Wow, nothing can be kept on the down low here, can it?" Blake shrugged.
"Guess not."
"But yeah, we're planning on leaving soon. We need to get back home. We miss everyone there."
"Yeah, like Mum and Dad," Julia said, making everyone smile.
"And I mean like the mum and dad I've always known, not my dad as a seventeen-year-old, you all know what I mean," Julia said, then a sudden idea came to her.
"Hey, ok, Blake got to fly against his dad, there's something, Ron, you and I have to do before I leave." Lily and Blake smiled; they knew what she was talking about.
"What's that?"
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"Queen to E-5." Ron cringed as his daughter's queen took his bishop. Julia smiled smugly as her queen broke the bishop in half. Ron studied the board for a while.
"Rook to G-7." (A/N: By the way, I'm just throwing out numbers and letters on the chess board, I've only played chess like three times in my entire life, so bear with me all you chess players out there) Ron's rook took Julia's bishop. She made a face and studied her next move. The game went on for hours, each one equally skilled at chess. The match went on for so long that Hermione pulled out her homework, Lily and Blake sat away from everyone and were talking about what looked like a very important subject, and Harry was beginning to get bored with watching the game and joined Hermione with homework. Finally all conversation ceased when Julia triumphantly squealed,
"Queen to D-3!" Ron's eyes widened in horror as Julia's queen moved across the board and stopped in front of Ron's king, making it unmovable without being taken.
"Checkmate!" Julia squealed again and bounced in her chair in a victory dance. Blake and Lily grinned, and Harry and Hermione laughed, looking for Ron's reaction.
"Ron, I think you've finally met your match at chess," Hermione said.
"I think that's the first time he's ever lost a match too," Harry said. Ron stuck his hand out to his daughter across the table.
"Good game," he said quietly.
"You've taught me well," she said shaking his hand.
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"So, do you really have to go now?"
"Yeah I think so. We need to get home, get back into the class mode again. Well, classes that important."
"Don't worry everyone, we'll see each other again, just in a different time, and you three will all be nineteen years older," Julia said.
"Gee thanks, that's a comforting thought," Hermione said with a smile.
"I know we're just full of those."
"So, anything we need to know for the future?" Harry said.
"Well…" Lily tried to think of words of wisdom to give Harry. She hadn't planned on any of this, because they wouldn't remember it anyway. But to humor Harry, she glanced at Hermione, then back at Harry, finally thinking of short words of wisdom.
"Love your wife. Love your children. Defeat Voldemort, save the world. Be a good teacher and Auror." Harry smiled and nodded.
"Sounds doable."
"How about for me?" Ron asked.
"Finish school, become an Auror, make your mother proud," Julia said. "Love Luna, give her a chance, and love your children, but don't be too tough on your oldest when she brings her boyfriend home," Julia finished, leaning against Blake. Ron smiled.
"I'll try. Any words of wisdom for Hermione here?"
"Love your husband. Love your children. Become a good Auror and teacher. Accept the fact that your son isn't like you and doesn't like reading books constantly. That's your daughter's personality, your son is more like his father; obsessed with Quidditch and flying," Blake said.
"I'm not obsessed with Quidditch," Harry said.
"Right, Harry," Lily said.
"I'm not. There are more important things in life." Lily nodded in agreement.
"I agree with you. There's more imperative things to worry about than the House Cup, especially for you soon." Blake and Lily glanced at each other and nodded.
"Well, I think we're ready to go soon, so we'll go have some lunch and say goodbye." The six of them went down to the Great Hall, had some dinner, and said goodbye to Ginny and Malfoy, all the Gryffindors, and finally the original trio. The second-generation hugged each one of the original trio members, and then Blake and Lily glanced at each other again. They nodded slightly and pulled out their wands. Harry, Hermione and Ron looked at them questioningly.
"What are you doing?" Hermione said slowly.
"I'm sorry, but we have to place a memory charm on the whole school. We can't have you remembering us." The trio all had worried looks on their faces.
"You said nothing about a memory charm," Harry said.
"How do you even know how to do one?" Hermione said.
"We've been reading up on it."
"You can't place a memory charm on the whole school, two people can't do it alone."
"Ron, you forget, they're the son and daughter of Harry Potter and Hermione Granger. There's more power in one of them alone than the rest of us could acquire in a lifetime," Julia said. Lily and Blake pointed their wands at the trio sadly.
"I'm sorry," Lily said shakily. They waved their wands over their heads and pointed them into the air, and in a tone that was deeper and more mystical than their normal ones, they said loudly in sync,
"OBLIVIATE!" A clear jet rippled across the Great Hall and into the school. Everyone's eyes were dazed and confused. Before they could register who was standing in front of them, the second-generation trio left.
"You two better hope to God that you just erased the memory of us, not their entire memory, that was one hell of a powerful spell you cast," Julia said on their way to Dumbledore's office.
"Trust me, Jules, we only erased the last few weeks."
"Ok, why again did we have to do that?" Julia asked.
"Because we weren't supposed to go back in time, we've already messed up the future, even if it's just a little thing. But we learned that time is not meant to be messed with, that we shouldn't have come back, that people aren't meant to know their children before they even know they have any or even know who their married to, and that people aren't supposed to know their parents at their age. That's what the whole purpose of time is for. To pass by, generation by generation and never going back. So we had to cast a memory charm on them so they forgot us and to right the wrongs we did."
"But what if they're back with the people they were with when we got here?"
"Just trust us on this one, Jules, we knew what we were doing," Blake said. They reached Dumbledore's office and spoke the password. They climbed the stairs to his office and knocked on the door.
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"Come in." Blake turned the doorknob and the trio came inside. Dumbledore smiled and his eyes twinkled.
"You're ready to go home I see. And you've cast the memory charm, Miss Potter?"
"Yes."
"Did it work?"
"I think so, I hope so."
"I'm sure it did. Miss Weasley, I can see it in your eyes that you are confused about something."
"How do you know who we are? The whole school had the memory charm placed on them." Lily answered her.
"More of that Potter/Granger power, Jules, we could choose who to cast the charm on, like you and Professor Dumbledore." Julia nodded slowly.
"I guess that makes sense, a little. But, of course, I'll never understand that whole power thing in the prophecy." Lily smiled and nodded, the lines of the prophecy about her brother and her going through her head.
"AS THE ELEVENTH MONTH DIES, TWO WILL BE BORN TO THE ONE WHO WILL DEFEAT THE DARK LORD, AND THE POWER PASSED TO THROUGH THEM FROM BOTH PARENTS WILL BE BEYOND ANYONE'S DREAMS. COMBINED SPELLS WILL BE TEN TIMES AS POWERFUL, AND THEY WILL BE MORE POWERFUL THAN THEIR FATHER AND MOTHER THEMSELVES." The third true prophecy that Professor Trelawney made, saying that the son and daughter born to Harry Potter would be more powerful than he, and that was saying something. Lily divided the potion between the three of them, and added the date they wanted to go back to. They bid Dumbledore farewell and drank the potion. Their insides felt chilled and they were lurched forward into time. They were going back.
A/n: Well, second to last chapter everyone, hope you've enjoyed this story; I've had fun writing it. Please review!!!
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