𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍 -

❝ ɪ'ᴍ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴍɪꜱꜱ ᴍʏ ᴡᴇᴅᴅɪɴɢ, ᴡʜɪʟᴇ ᴡᴇ'ʀᴇ ꜱᴛᴜᴄᴋ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴀꜱᴛ! ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴀꜱᴛ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ᴏᴜʀ ᴘᴀʀᴇɴᴛꜱ ᴀʀᴇ ᴀʟɪᴠᴇ - ᴡʜᴏ ᴀʀᴇ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟʟʏ ꜱᴜᴘᴘᴏꜱᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ! ❞

( i picture michelle gomez as younger minerva mcgonagall )

EVERYTHING WENT BY IN A BLUR and suddenly they appeared somewhere that felt familiar but very different at the same time. They grow awake, blinking their eyes a little bit by the way the bright sun blinded them

"What the hell?" Magnolia whispers, feeling the prickly grass under her before getting up but not without stumbling a little. "Woah" She mutters, holding her head as she grows dizzy with a faint headache from beside Harry, who's waking up now too.

"Where the hell are we?" Harry mutters with a groan, getting up from the ground. He dusts off his jeans before looking around in confusion.

"Is this Hagrid's hut?" Harry asks, looking at the cleaner and newer-looking hut that resembled Hagrid's old back when they were in Hogwarts. Magnolia glances around before turning around with wide eyes.

"Holy shit!" She shouts, looking up with wide eyes towards the massive view.

"What? What is it?" He asks urgently as she grabs his chin to look up the hill and not at her.

"Hogwarts..." They whispered together, utterly astonished. They knew Hogwarts had just finished being built... But it couldn't have been this ready... right? It looked exactly like it was before the war... Maybe even newer.

"It can't be possible, right?" Maggie asks as Harry shakes his head vigorously before naturally walking towards Hagrid's hut. She doesn't say anything but follows her fiance nervously, holding his hand with a twinge of anxiety over her. Harry knocks on the door of the hut, almost getting an immediate response back.

"Come in!" They smiled at each other before they opened the door, and entered inside. They looked around in confusion, as everything seemed cleaner and newer but less material than before.

"Hagrid?" Maggie asks, the big tall man with long brown hair turns around. They look at him surprised, clearly not expecting him. They knew it was Hagrid - it had to be - it looked exactly like him... Just a lot... younger?

"Oh um hello - you guys must be the new students!" They furrow their eyebrows as Hagrid instructs them to sit down. Harry raised his eyebrow, pulling Maggie down to sit by him on the stool.

"New students? - Hagrid, it's me" Hagrid looks at the two with an old look.

"Harry Potter?" Harry remarks, pointing at himself with a 'seriously?' expression. The tall and big man grows even more confused at the young man, glancing at the young blonde woman as she eyes him oddly.

"Remember -You're a wizard, Harry," Harry says, trying to mimic Hagrid's deep West Country voice. Hagrid only stares at him with no idea what he's talking about as Harry scoffs before pointing at Mags beside him. "Magnolia Lupin? Seriously Hagrid?"

"I'm sorry, I'm afraid I've never met you guys before. Though I am new this year, so I apologize," He remarks, making the couple look at each other with even more confused looks.

"Are you guys related to someone that goes here?" They shake their heads at the older man, and he sighs.

"Well, what a coincidence, you guys have the same last names as two special students I know here."

"What?" Maggie laughs, both Harry and Magnolia know they're the last living Potter and Lupin - except for Remus's father, who's gone, and Teddy who is too a Lupin.

"James Potter, he's Quidditch captain for Gryffindor and Remus Lupin, a very bright young wizard might, I say so myself," The older man says with a small laugh, as the couple look at each other with wide eyes.

"H-Hagrid?" He looks at them, as Magnolia looks at him with her mouth slightly parted and Harry stares at the ground in shock.

They couldn't be - they just...

"Yes?"

"What year is it?" Magnolia asks making Hagrid start to think.

"1977! It's been a good year so far!" He chuckled, and Maggie suddenly wanted to vomit.

This had to be a bad dream - or a joke somehow. Like George and the boys are pranking them into hallucinations? If it is some joke - this is not funny and it's just sick.

"Hagrid... Would you believe us if we told you we're from the future?" Magnolia asks with a large gulp as Hagrid eyes the two, with wide eyes.

"Depends...." Maggie stands up, intertwining her and Harry's hands.

"Me and Harry are from the year 2000, I'm the daughter of Evangeline Taurus and Remus Lupin and I was born in the year, 1980 on September 30th..." She then turns to Harry as he sucked a deep breath in and looked at Hagrid.

"I'm the son of Lily Evans and James Potter, and I was born on July 31, 1980."

Hagrid's eyes are wide and utterly confused. He looked between the two and then tried remembering the three students' faces in his head. He saw Lily Evans's kind green eyes, James's mischievousness glint, and the same soft brown skin with his usual unruly dark brown curly hair.

Then, he most definitely saw Remus Lupin in Magnolia. But it was the blue eyes and blonde hair that caught him slightly off though - maybe it was from the mother - Evangeline Taurus. Remus and she had the same face - and she was already nervously eating chocolate.

Where did she get the chocolate? No idea.

"I have to go tell Dumbledore, he'll know what to do" Hagrid rushes, running out of his hut. They watch in confusion, staring in shock as he runs up the small hill, to go find Dumbledore... Who's alive and younger?

"Dumbledore's not dead?" Harry asks and she shakes her head.

"Oh my love - my darling - this is why I love you... It's because you don't listen" She whispers, puckering lips teasing him. Trying to reframe from having a panic attack at the fact their in the past.

"Do I hear a note of sarcasm in that statement?" Harry asks with a small smirk as she glares at him before sharply hitting his shoulder.

"A note?!" She scowls, making him pout.

"More -" She grabbed a random newspaper beside her, hitting him over the top of the head with it with every word.

"OW!"

"Like -"

"Bloody hell!"

"A god damn -" She pulls away with one last hard hit.

"OW!"

"Symphony!"

"Merlin woman! What's that for?!" He complains as she sits up with a serious expression.

"I'm going to miss my wedding, while we're stuck in the past! The past where our parents are alive - WHO IS ACTUALLY SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD!" She exclaims, waving around the newspaper before Harry grabs it out of her hand. He cups her jaw, squishes her cheeks, and gives her a small kiss and she relaxes with a deep breath as he smiles at her.

"Calm down my love, we'll figure this out."

Suddenly walking into the hut was a tall older woman, wearing long dark emerald green robes, her black hair tied in a tight bun. She held her sharp and formal with the same professional aura. She gave the two a severe look, with suspension as they immediately recognized the famous woman.

"Professor McGonagall?!" The woman looks surprised at the two, placing a hand on her chest at their outburst and how they quickly recognize her.

"Minerva, do you find them familiar?" Then a tall man with a sort of ginger gray beard, and blue eyes, wearing long robes walked in behind her.

"Bloody hell - he's alive" Harry mutters into his hands as he almost tries to hide himself behind his hands and slightly standing behind Magnolia. Magnolia has her eyes wide and mouth slightly open once again in shock.

"Yeah, no shit, Sherlock," Maggie remarks back, before leaning close to Harry's ear. "This must have been the time Dumbledore decided to grow out his beard" Harry couldn't help but chuckle at her remark but quickly covered it with a cough.

"And when was he, a ginger?" They both chuckle again before meeting the three of their questioning eyes.

"Who are you?" Minerva asks suspiciously, thinking they might be spies from Lord Voldemort himself.

"We're not from here - or exactly supposed to be here" Harry stutters as she gives him a certain look. Looking closely at the boy and girl, her eyes suddenly widened.

"The boy looks identical to Mister Potter!" Minerva exclaims in horror, making Harry point at himself like he is in trouble but Mags quickly slaps his hand down.

"You're right! What is your names?" Dumbledore asks as Maggie and Harry glance at each other.

"Harry Potter." Once said, they could see the vision of Lily Evans and James Potter morphed into a person and being exactly him.

"I'm Magnolia Lupin" The professor and headmaster look at each other before one answers in understanding between the two. " Daughter of Remus Lupin and Evangeline Taurus..."

"Minerva... This was in your dream" The older man pointed out as the woman shifted nervously and nodded.

"Dream?" Harry asks, stepping more beside Magnolia and not behind her.

"It was mostly a blur, but I had a dream where it was mostly all black and I heard voices. The beginning was this very conversation" Harry looked at Magnolia as she played with her hands nervously.

"And the rest... It was about Ms. Lupin and Mr. Potter changing the future for the better" Minerva states and Magnolia looks up in realization.

"You two are supposed to be here - it was no accident that you both had come back in time" Dumbledore expressed, making the two eyes widen and Harry let out a scoff, quickly catching focused attention.

"We've been through so much already - can't we take a break? I'm supposed to be married in a few hours, and now I have to save everything all over again?!" Harry exclaims, utterly frustrated. He wanted to live life again happily with his soon-to-be wife - it just felt like he lost everyone he loved and the war just ended - He... He can't do it again.

Magnolia quickly grasped his hand and his heart softened, glancing at her blue eyes, he calmed down.

"We're just kids... We shouldn't be the ones doing all the dirty work" She whispers as Hagrid looks at the two worriedly.

The three of them didn't know what they had to go through, but they had an idea - they had to have lost a lot if they had to come back in the past.

The two didn't want to sound selfish - it just was all traumatizing. Harry from a young age was abused by his aunt, uncle, and cousin - cursed by the dark Lord and hunted to be killed ever since. And then from such a young age he had to watch so many lives he loved, die in front of him.

Magnolia for most of her life was away from human life for her and her father's safety. And then she came to Hogwarts only getting into the mix of the war - watching her father and loved ones die in front of her.

Now, they have to face the family that won't even recognize them, since they're not born at all yet nor known to exist. Yet, what if they can't go back home and have to relive all of it... All over again.

"Albus..." Minerva whispers, giving him a certain look and he nods with a sigh.

"Do you guys know how you both got here?" He asks and Harry nods.

"It was a time turner, but in our time they were all destroyed - and this one brought us back 24 years - not a few hours..." Dumbledore looks down in thought, before raising his head at the two.

"I'll do my best to figure out how to get you two back to your time" He looks at Minerva and nods, but before leaving Hagrid's hut, Maggie stops him.

"How long do you think that will be?" He softly smiles at the nervous girl.

"Don't worry Ms. Lupin, you'll be back for your wedding" He gives her and Harry a curt nod before leaving the hut, leaving them with Minerva and Hagrid.

"Thank you, Hagrid, for informing them to us, now you two must follow me" Harry and Maggie softly wave goodbye to Hagrid, and he smiles happily back as they leave - following Minerva out of the hut.

"Mr. Potter - has anyone told you that you have your mother's eyes?" Maggie laughs as Harry groans with an eye roll. Everyone tells him that - literally everyone. It's gotten annoying for him.

"Almost 24/7," He tells her, making the older woman chuckle leading them up the hill.

Magnolia grows instantly nervous to walk into the castle - more nervous to see people she possibly will recognize.

"How are you not nervous?" She asks Harry as he looks around in amazement with a smile.

"I'm only a little nervous... But we should take advantage of this and have a little fun, right?"

"Harry, you do realize the boys back at home are probably waiting for us - probably wondering where we are?" Walking into Hogwarts, it looked exactly how it looked in their sixth year - the last time they saw it fully built and well... Before it was all demolished.

"Don't worry about that - only a few seconds would have gone by when you get back, even if it's been a whole month stuck here. Well, that is, if you guys don't change anything here in the past to change your guy's present and so then, you'll have an entirely different future ahead of you." Minerva tells them before stopping in front of a room. The two glance at one another in worry before stopping in front of the professor.

"You t two can stay here, I'll be out in a second" The two nod and she walks into the room before closing it behind her.

"Dinner is just starting, lucky us" Harry smirks as Magnolia looks at him with an unamused expression.

"You should be freaking out with me."

"Why?" He asks dumbly, making her furrow her eyebrows sarcastically.

"Oh, I don't know! Maybe because we're in 1976! The year our parents are in! This is their sixth year in Hogwarts! Aren't you afraid of seeing your parents?" She asks as he looks down avoiding eye contact. She crouches down back to maintain eye contact with him to raise his head back up to look forward at her.

"I guess it's a little scary... But I never got to meet them, you know? So I feel like it won't be hard to face them..." She felt like she could cry.

She wanted to. It might make her feel better.

She was terrified to see them. And the thing is - they won't even recognize her.

"But I guess seeing Remus and Sirius will be weird because - they were part of my life" Harry sees her face and immediately wants to take back his statements, knowing her circumstance is different compared to his. He curses himself before quickly wrapping his arms around and whispering apologies. She bites her lips, sniffling quietly as she rests her head on his chest and wraps her arms around his waist.

"It's gonna be okay, I promise" Maggie nods into his chest, and he holds her tight before pulling away hesitantly.

"We'll keep a low profile, okay?" He asks her, and she nods again.

"Okay," She whispers before Minerva comes out of the room with some things.

"Mr. Potter and Ms. Lupin, what house were you guys in?"

"Gryffindor," They both say and she hands them each a bag.

"It has books and everything you'll possibly need for classes-"

"Classes?" Harry asks, furrowing his eyebrows as Maggie starts looking through the leather bag she was given.

"If you both want to keep a low profile it's best if you guys have fake last names since they're people you know here" The two look at each other, thinking of a name that couldn't be possibly used there in Hogwarts.

"Granger! I'll be Harry Granger!" Harry exclaims with a smirk, knowing Hermione is a muggle and she was the first witch Granger in the 90s.

"I'll be Magnolia... Taurus - She goes to Beauxbatons and they don't meet till your parent's wedding" Minerva smiles at the couple and nods.

"Okay, Ms. Taurus and Mr. Granger, you two will be having the extra room in Gryffindor and you guys are in your sixth year."

"Why can't we be in our seventh?"

"We have an overflow of seventh-year students this year, it's not possible to fit any more students into those seventh-year classes" The two nod with a sigh before Harry groans.

"Wait - do we have to do work? Like the N.E.W.T. exams?"

"Oh don't worry about your grades, I'll make sure they stay an O as long as you're here - just go to each of your classes and don't cause attention to yourselves" They nod before Minerva leaves with something.

"I must be off now, I have a few students with detention today - you guys know them pretty well," She says with a kind smile before walking away and Magnolia lets out a deep breath.

"Oh my god, we're going to die" She mutters in panic as he pats her back and starts walking.

"It's okay Ms. Taurus, we'll get through this" She rolls her eyes before following him to the Gryffindor common room.

Little did they know...

A certain four boys were hiding in a hallway, hearing some of the conversation.

"Wanna prank Snivellus after detention-" Sirius Black shushes James Potter, covering his mouth and hearing some students waiting by a door talking.

"What are you-" James then shushes Remus Lupin, and he furrows his eyebrows.

"Are they new students?" Peter Pettigrew asks as they all perk up at the interesting conversation. They were at a corner of a hall, so the two teens didn't see them on the other side of the corner as they spoke.

"It's gonna be okay, I promise."

"We'll keep a low profile okay?" The boy who looked almost exactly like James, tells the blonde girl as she has her head on his chest.

"Mr. Potter and Ms. Lupin, what house were you guys in?" The four furrow their eyebrows in confusion and interest as they hear James and Remus's last names being used by the two as their own. Then, trying to edge closer at the news they're both in Gryffindor too.

"Do you guys have siblings we don't know about?" Sirius asks the two with a raised eyebrow as both James and Remus shake their heads.

"Classes?" 'Potter' asks.

"If you guys wanna keep a low profile it's best if you guys have fake last names since they're people you know here."

"Granger! I'll be Harry Granger!"

"I'll be Magnolia... Taurus-"

"Holy shit - they're spies!" Peter exclaims, but Remus quickly smacks his hand over his mouth to shush.

"The girl is pretty hot-" Sirius whispers to the others as they roll their eyes.

"But actually, I think they're spies" Sirius whispers, coughing up to ignore how interested he was towards the two, making Remus and James glance at each other. "And you guys have some family members you don't know about."

"I must be off now, I have a few students with detention today - you guys know them pretty well" They looked at each other in confusion as the professor smiled at the students, before walking away and the blonde girl took a deep breath.

"Oh my god, we're going to die."

"It's okay Ms. Taurus, we'll get through this" They watch as the two start walking to the Gryffindor common room.

"Boys..." Sirius smirks, looking at the couple with mischief glistening in his eyes.

"I think this year is gonna be a bloody interesting year."

authors note !!!

i'm so excited! and don't worry, nothing weird happens with sirius's interest in maggie because it's just a clue to something in the future and a close connection he feels with her because of how they know each other in maggie and harry's present time