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Chapter 3: Nineteen Years into the Past
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Blake appeared first, followed by Julia, then by Lily. Lily almost lost her balance when she landed and Blake had to hold her up to keep her from falling. They looked around and saw the Astronomy Tower didn't look much different from their day.
"Well, since it's nineteen years in the future, we will be what, thirty-six?" Blake said. The girls nodded.
"So, we probably won't be here at school. `Cept for Lily, who's probably a teacher."
"I doubt it. What would I teach?"
"I wonder if Mum and Dad are still teaching? They'll be fifty-five."
"Probably. They wouldn't quit."
"How about we find out for ourselves instead of just guessing?" The three went into the castle and down to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. But the teacher they found wasn't Harry or Hermione.
"Who is that?" Blake whispered, when they had glanced in, but stood against the wall next to the door. Lily looked again.
"It's Remus. But it doesn't look like him, almost, he looks younger. A lot younger than he should be."
"Why would he be teaching again? Dad said he hasn't taught since the year after Mum, Dad and Ron were out of school." Lily shrugged and they left the hallway, and went down to the Great Hall. One student passed them in the hallway and said without glancing closely at them,
"Hi Harry." The three of them stopped and turned, but the kid had already turned down the corridor.
"What did he call me?"
"Why would he call you Harry?"
"He wouldn't still be here, he might have thought that he was Blake's son. Maybe you named him after Dad," Lily said with a shrug at her brother. Blake shrugged. They entered the Great Hall, and everyone was so busy eating they didn't notice them. Lily looked at the Gryffindor table and saw a black haired boy sitting at the table, a red-haired boy at his left. Across from them was a bushy haired girl. Lily's brow furrowed in confusion.
"What the…?" She looked closer to the people at the table, and saw green eyes on the raven-haired one, and she squinted and saw on his forehead…
"Oh my God," She whispered.
"What is it?"
"Look." Julia and Blake looked at who Lily was pointing to.
"What about him?" Julia said.
"Look at his eyes and his forehead." They saw the green eyes and Blake's eyes widened in surprise and Julia gasped as they saw…
"Lightening shaped scar. That definitely is not your son, Blake. We didn't go nineteen years into the future; we went nineteen years into the past. Those people are our parents."
"Oh my God, there's my Dad. Then my Mum has to be around here somewhere." She looked around and finally saw her future mother. She pointed at Luna Lovegood sitting at the Ravenclaw table.
"There she is."
"Is that Mum sitting across from Dad?" Lily nodded.
"What are we going to do, Lils, they're going to recognize us."
"Maybe not, cuz' we're from the future, and we haven't been born yet," Julia said with a shrug.
"Julia, look at Blake, he looks exactly like our Dad. I look like Mum only with black hair and green eyes. You look a lot like your dad. They're going to see that something's not right, and find it suspicious. And they sure as hell can't find out who we are, we'll cause a time paradox and ruin the future."
"So what do we do?"
"I have an idea, let's go."
"Where are we going?"
"The Room of Requirement."
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"Ok, we need to change appearance."
"How?" Lily went to a bookshelf and pulled out a tome. It explained how to change one's appearance with a simple incantation. She opened it and searched for the spell. After a while of reading, she picked up her wand and pointed it at her brother.
"Changpeloencio!" The roots of Blake's hair slowly turned to brown and the color reached out to the ends of what was once his messy black locks. A mirror appeared on the wall, and Blake ran over to inspect his hair. While he did that, Lily already conjured up a pair of contacts for both of them. They were muggle contacts that were brown to change the color of their eyes. She took off her glasses and put them in, and following her motions, Blake put his in. Julia laughed at the looks of her friends.
"Oh my gosh, if I didn't know who you were, I wouldn't never guess that you were Harry and Hermione's kids. Lily grinned.
"Good, that was the look I was going for. Ok now, Jules, what color do you want to be? Brown, black or blonde?"
"Make me a blonde."
"Changpeloencio!" The same thing happened to Julia's hair as it did to Blake's. Though the red hair couldn't be covered up, so Julia ended up with strawberry blonde hair rather than plain blonde. Julia made a face. Blake and Lily laughed.
"Weasley red apparently does not cover up easily."
"Yeah. Hey, can you make me tan? I've always wanted to be darker, but having red hair just makes me burn in the sun." Lily looked it up, and pointed her wand at her friend.
"Changfleshencio!" Julia's skin darkened a little, and kept getting darker.
"Tell me when." Julia looked at her arms and said when she was her desired tone,
"Ok, that's good." Lily put down her wand to stop the darkening skin.
"Lils, can you make me taller?"
"There's nothing in here for it, sorry." From in front of the mirror, Julia said,
"Hey, my freckles are gone, thank God."
"Ok, now that we look different, I think we need to come up with different names for ourselves, because it'll give us away if we were still Blake Potter, Julia Weasley and Lily Potter.
"I'll be Julia…Wessely."
"Not that close."
"Ok, Julia…Carter."
"That's better."
"Ok, I'll be Blake…Walker. Are you Lily Walker then?"
"I don't know, should I keep the name Lily?"
"As a precaution, I wouldn't," Julia said, still in front of the mirror.
"Ok, I'll be Elizabeth Walker. Call me Beth."
"Beth Walker, alright."
"Alright, but there's one catch to this spell."
"There always is a catch."
"As long as our identity stays hidden, we'll stay this way unless we take the effects off ourselves. But if someone finds out who we are and tells someone else, the spell will wear off, and our true identity will be revealed. But if they know, and don't tell anyone, we're safe. So we can't slip up and tell someone, or let something slip about who we are, because someone could find out, and we'll be back to our appearances that we were born with."
"How are we getting back to the future?"
"We have to brew the potion for going into the future, so we have to find that book in the library. It's there, I know it; the copyright on it is ages ago."
"So we can go back in a week?"
"Right."
"So what do we do for a week?"
"We pretend to be students at Hogwarts in this time."
"How do we know what house we are in?"
"We have to speak to Dumbledore about this, it'd be strange to see three people walking about the school that no one knows where they came from."
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"Can I help you?"
"Yes, sir, we're exchange students from America sent here for a week."
"I don't remember your headmaster saying anything about it."
"He sent a letter along with us." Lily pulled out a letter that she had written up quick. Dumbledore slowly nodded. He looked at Lily, and she had that feeling that her thoughts were being read. She glanced down at the floor. Dumbledore folded up the parchment.
"I know when I'm being lied to." The three of them looked at Dumbledore.
"Tell me the truth." Lily sighed.
"Ok, we're from the future. We came back in time accidentally after brewing a potion for time travel, when we meant to go forward in time. The potion will take a week to brew, and we need a place to go while we're here. We've changed our appearances so we don't look like our parents, who are our age in this year. Please, don't tell anyone about us, it'll blow our cover."
"You have my word. I won't tell anyone. And if you like, you can brew the potion in here."
"Thank you sir."
"Do you have the book?"
"No, it's in the restricted section of the library."
"How did you get it then?"
"Um…" Lily hesitated with her answer, but Dumbledore put his hand up.
"Never mind, I don't need to know. To make it official, I think you need to put the Sorting Hat on to see what house you'll be in." Dumbledore went for the Sorting Hat and when he came back, he held it to Blake.
"So, what is your name then?"
"My one in the future, or my pseudonym?"
"Your pseudonym. Do not tell me what it is in the future, it'll cause a paradox."
"Blake Walker." Blake put the sorting hat on and he heard the little voice in his ear,
"Ah, Mr. Potter, I know your secret, I can see it in your head. You're Harry Potter's son. You'll do great things in your life. I see power given to you by your father and by your mother. I believe I shall put you into Gryffindor." After the hat shouted out the house, Blake pulled it off of his head and handed it to Julia.
"And your name?"
"Julia Carter." Julia placed the hat on her head.
"Miss Weasley. I also know who you are; I can see it in your head. You're the oldest of Ron Weasley's five children. You'll discover true power and feelings before the end of your time here. I'll put you in Gryffindor." Julia took the hat off her head and handed it to Lily. Lily placed it on her head.
"Ah, Miss Potter, Blake's twin. You're like your mother, Hermione; you have a quest for knowledge that you feel only books can give you. But you will realize like your mother has that there is more to life than books. You have the power of your father, and the knowledge of your mother. You'll do great things, and will stand with those who mean the most to you in times of peril. I shall put you into Gryffindor." Lily pulled the hat off her head and handed it back to Dumbledore. He placed it on the shelf it came from and said,
"Well, you may go to your houses, and a schedule shall be given to you sometime today. What professions are you studying to be?"
"Aurors." The three of them answered at the same time.
"Alright, you may leave, I shall call you back soon and have you brew the potion." The three of them left, heading to the Gryffindor Tower, and when they came to the portrait hole, the Fat Lady said,
"Password?" The three looked at each other, not knowing what the password was. They were saved by someone coming and saying,
"The password is N.E.W.T.s. Dumbledore told us that you were new students. Welcome to Gryffindor." The trio turned around to see the original trio, and looked into the faces of their future parents.
A/n: Here's the third installment to the Tricky Deals of Fate. Hope you enjoyed it. Please review!!!!!
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