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Chapter 2: Nineteen Years into the Future
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"Ok, do you have all the ingredients for this?"
"Yep, and the potion is all made up and everything," Jules said, grinning.
"You've made it already?"
"Yep."
"You're sure it works?"
"We did everything like the book said."
"You're sure?" Blake sighed.
"Yes, Lils, come on, have some confidence in us."
"Yeah, but," Lily said, grimacing. "Your potions grades are horrible."
"Well, then this time, you know we did it right," Julia said. "Because we didn't have you looking over our shoulder and nagging that we're doing it wrong like we do in potions." Julia grinned as Lily gave her a deadly glare.
"Joking, Lils."
The potion was divided up between the three of them and the date was tossed into the potion already. They clinked the glasses together and Blake said, "Cheers. See you two in the future." Julia laughed.
"The last time we said that we ended up in the past."
"Let's hope we don't this time," Lily said before she tilted her head back and emptied the contents of her goblet. Her brother and best friend followed her, and they were flung forward into time. The landing in the different time was always a rough one, and all three of them fell when they arrived in the future. They helped each other up, and looked around. Everything looked the same as it did nineteen years ago. Blake and Julia were going to leave, but Lily held them back.
"We need to change appearance. People are going to recognize us." She pointed her wand at Blake.
"Changpeloencio!" Blake's messy hair changed from black to a dirty blonde.
"Aww, dang it, I liked the black hair," Julia said.
"Why am I a blonde, not brown?"
"Your future self would remember it." She pointed at Julia.
"Changpeloencio!" Julia's hair turned black and shortened to her shoulders.
Julia looked at her short hair and said in surprise, "You cut my hair!"
"Yeah. Don't worry, it'll grow back when you change it back." Lily took a strand of her own hair in her hand and looked at it. She pointed at her hair with her wand and said, "Changpeloencio!" Her shoulder-length shiny black locks turned to a dirty blonde, an identical color to her brother's. She transfigured her glasses and Blake's glasses to blue contacts and they stuck them in.
Julia picked up a rock and was about to transfigure them to contacts when Blake said, "Don't do green."
"Why not?"
"You have black hair." She shrugged and turned the rock into hazel contacts and put them in. They all looked at each other and all nodded in approval at each other's appearance. They left the grounds and went into the castle. The first person they saw was a raven-haired girl at the top of the stairs. She saw them and said from where she was standing, "Hello."
Lily said, "Hello."
"Are you new students?"
"Yes, we are."
"Oh, where are you from?"
"Salem Academy."
"Oh really, all the way from America? Interesting. You don't sound like an American."
"Oh, we only lived there for a little while." The girl nodded and came down the stairs. When she reached the trio, she held out her hand.
"My name's Elizabeth Finnigan, but call me Beth. I'm Head Girl, so if you need anything, just ask me." Lily looked closely at this girl and noticed she had that Potter black hair, and green eyes. Her last name was Finnigan, so Lily assumed that this Elizabeth was her daughter and that she ended up with Will. She shook Beth's hand.
"I'm Isabelle Peterson. This is my brother, Evan Peterson, and my best friend…" Julia interrupted saying,
"Lauren Davidson."
"Well, it's nice to meet you. You'll have to go see the Headmaster about being placed in a house, I'll show you where it is."
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The trio left Dumbledore's office a half hour later, all in Gryffindor. Beth said when they told her what house they had been placed in, "Excellent, that's what house I'm in." She showed them to the common room and was beginning to show them around the room when a voice was heard from the couch in front of the fireplace. The exact couch that Lily and Will had just been sitting in nineteen years prior.
"Oh look, the room just got more bossy." Beth rolled her eyes.
"Shut up, James." The trio looked at each other. The owner of the voice stood and Beth gave him an annoyed look that he countered with a cocky smirk. The trio's jaws dropped slightly. He was an exact replica of Blake.
"New students I see. I'm James Potter, Beth's cousin."
"We're friends of Beth." Beth gave him a smug look that said, `so there!'
"Friends? Beth has friends? That's a first. Big day for you then, isn't it?" Beth pretended to look like the comment didn't hurt, but it was obvious that it did. She stared at the floor, trying to fight back a few tears.
"A word of advice, in this place, there's such thing as the wrong kind, and the right kind. Beth here, is the wrong kind. She'll bore you to death with her books and information. I can help you with finding the right kind here at Hogwarts." He held out his hand to Blake first for him to shake. Blake looked at his future son's hand skeptically with a raised eyebrow.
"I think we're fine, thanks."
"Suit yourself. But trust me, you'll be wanting to take me up on that offer later once you get to know her." James started to walk away when all of a sudden Beth spoke up.
"Go to hell James." James stopped in mid-step and turned.
"What was that?"
"You heard me. Are you happy now? You've embarrassed me in front of the new students, but…I won't sit back and let you verbally put me down anymore without offering any verbal retaliation. I am sick and tired of your cocky, arrogant…bullshit that you put on. You think you're the best there ever was because you're Harry Potter's grandson…" James gave a sarcastic laugh.
"I think I'm all that because I'm Harry Potter's grandson? I could care less whether I am or not, in fact, I'd rather not be! I'm not the one who's hiding behind his name like you do!"
"I do not."
"Yeah you do, Beth."
"I hope you burn in hell for everything you've ever done, James Potter, you and your father. You're both mean and spiteful and have no compassion or kindness for anything or anyone but yourselves."
"I'll send my love from there then." James turned and walked away and went up the boys' staircase. Beth sighed and sat down in the couch James just vacated. The trio carefully sat down in the chairs next to the couch, not knowing what to say next.
"I'm sorry about that. He's more suited for the Slytherin house for how much of a jackass he is, but…there he is. He's just like his dad." Blake shifted uneasily in his chair.
"What did his dad do?" Lily asked. "I mean, if you don't mind us asking."
"Well, a few years ago, my uncle and my Grandfather got into this huge row because Blake wanted to quit the Auror business, and his dad wasn't happy about it. So they haven't talked since unless they have to. Blake changed a lot, and a few months ago he and my aunt split, and that didn't set well with anyone in my family. Julia wanted to take my cousins, all of them, but James didn't go, he went with Blake. My other cousins don't go to school here, they transferred to Salem. I haven't seen them in years. Maybe you know them? Brandon and Michael Potter?"
Lily shrugged. "It's a huge school…" Beth nodded in understanding.
"Do you have any brothers and sisters?"
"Just a twin sister. She looks nothing like me, she has brown hair and blue eyes. She looks more like my Dad and I look more like my Mom. Her name is Gabrielle. She's nothing like me, she's more the sporty type." Lily nodded, while her brother and best friend sat in silence, attempting to take all this new information in.
"Well, you three came at a really bad time, tomorrow everyone goes home for Christmas vacation. You just got here, and now you gotta turn around and go back. But you can stay here if you want. Or you can go and spend time with your family."
"Oh, we all don't get along with our families apparently."
"You don't? That's sad. You can come with Gabrielle and me if you want. There's always room for more people at our gatherings."
"Really?"
"Yeah. Why not? You can meet my grandparents right now if you like. They're the Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers."
"Really," Lily said, looking at Blake and Julia and smiling, "that's cool."
"Who're your grandparents?"
"Harry and Hermione Potter." The trio smiled and nodded. Blake and Lily glanced at each other. Time to go meet Mom and Dad.
A/n: Chapter 2 everyone! Like with Tricky Deals of Fate, I have to revamp a lot of stuff in this story to make it flow better and to add a little more to it. Hope it worked out well!! Please review!!!
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