The Headmaster's room was filled with a lot of hushed and urgent voices.
To Ron, Hermione, and Harry underneath the invisibility cloak, it sounded only like muffles.
"They have been working on something, I can feel it," this voice came form none other than Hermione Granger herself.
She was a full grown knock out of an unbelievably smart girl. It was her, Ron and Harry's seventh year at Hogwarts, and she knew that Voldermort had something planned, but she needed to find out, "Honestly you two, could you keep still and shut up!"
"Mione! Its not us, its Ginny, she just showed up with a set of EvesDropEARS! Now we can hear everything Dumbledore is on about, here."
Ron shoved an EvesDropEar into her hand and put in his own.
"What are these things?" Hermione asked, fascinated after putting it in her ear, she could hear every breath muttered in the room!
But it was Ginny who spoke this time, "Just something I got an idea about from Fred and George," she smirked and continued, "they are like Extendable Ears, but no magic can stop you from hearing, even if its sound proof."
She continued before the stopped to listen to the rest of Dumbledore's meeting.
"Fred and George are selling them at their shop, and they are in the 'back' so no one knows they are selling them, except people who need them." She smiled when Hermione gave her nod of acceptance and Harry just grinned madly.
"Albus, do you think it be wise, to send young children on a mission as important as this?"
This voice of course was from Minerva McGonagall. Then not Dumbledore, but Snape responded.
"Well Minerva, if it concerns the boy, I believe it is his choice to go, after Dumbledore's request," He then sat down, shifted his tush around the hard seat uncomfortably and continued, "I mean, how many times has he been in danger?
"A ton..."
"Plenty..."
"Quite a lot…"
"Too many! The boy has to be all patched up after he returns all bruised and tattered, bringing his friends along, scaring the life out of me."
Dumbledore smiled at his best friend Poppy Pomfrey and nodded acknowledging that she was too right. Then he continued and everyone went silent.
" You know, I believe we should consult him, but after we tell him, if he has any doubts, we must not carry on with the task…"
Dumbledore was interrupted by a small crash behind his door and a few muttered, 'Shut Up!' 'They'll Hear Us!' and 'Bloody Hells!'
He smiled a mischievous smile that informed the teachers that he knew something they did not quite know yet.
"Right, as I was saying…"
Out side, everyone was getting situated to the new arrangement of bodies because Ron had strangled himself with the cord from his EvesDropEAR and tumbled down a few steps on top of everyone.
"Hush will you? We need to hear what Dumbledore is planning, otherwise Harry won't know what he is to expect, now move over Ron!"
Ginny huffed a little and got re-situated.
Dumbledore's voice once again filed out of the contraption into the group's mind and they were able to focus.
"And then we shall use the one from Miss. Granger, and Harry will fix the problem, before it fixes him," then Dumbledore gave a small chuckle and raised his voice so it grew ten times in the ears of the teens outside, " Does that sound good to you Mr. Potter, Weasley, Miss Granger?
The kids turned to look at one another and the teachers seemed to catch on.
Then Poppy Pomfrey decided she would add on, "What about you Ginevra, dear? Are we speaking loud enough?"
Ginny was a lot different than her older brother and his gang, she was much more friendly with the teachers and had a close relationship with her school nurse because she wanted to be a healer. So she replied.
"Why yes Madame Pomfrey, it's just perfect, although Professor Snape seems to be mumbling a little and we all know his role in this plan is very important!" Ginny stopped yelling and the three teens gapped at her in shock.
She smiled widely and giggled some after Madame Pomfrey scolded Snape for not speaking loud enough.
Then, after Dumbledore realized that they would probably all tell each other eventually, he opened the door and let them sit amongst the teachers at the meeting.
"So, what is this all about, I know I am 'that boy who always get himself into trouble' but I'm not usually asked to do it by my headmaster and teachers." Harry sat so he could see everyone waiting for an answer.
Everyone was dead silent when Dumbledore opened his mouth to discuss his plans with Harry.
"Ok Harry, well… we have found out what… what Voldermort wants."
"And what might that be Professor?"
"Well," he continued, "It is safe to say Voldermort wishes you were never born, he would not only have full power, but respect, all of his abilities restored to himself, you wouldn't have defeated him at all." He paused and surveyed his favorite student's face.
"Do you understand what I am trying to say Harry?"
"Sort of sir… so Voldermort wants to… kill me… before…before I was born?" He ended in a sort of question rather than answer and all the teachers nodded.
"That's right Harry, he is going to go back in time to kill you, but not actually kill you."
Dumbledore is usually very straightforward, but this is getting ridiculous!
Hermione thought to herself, Just tell him already!
But right after, Dumbledore looked her way and chuckled after reading her train of thought, "Yes Miss Granger I am trying my best to move along, it is rather difficult, I'm sorry to cause you impatience."
He seemed firm, but his eyes were dancing merrily with laughter. So he continued.
"Harry, your mother and father got together on the train heading to Hogwarts for their 6th Year, and they fell in love and had you, and Tom was also around the school at that time, he had graduated of course, but was my Herbology teacher that year."
Harry let out a surprised snort and laughed himself silly, " He…He…he was a Herbology teacher?" He finally managed to sputter out?
"The great 'Dark Lord' ruler over the evil witches and wizards in the world was a plant loving, devil's snare sleeping, mandrake kissing, PANSY!"
This caused everyone to laugh except for Madame Sprout who everyone had forgotten was present.
"Yes Harry, yes he was, and he was very good at it too, it's a sad shame, so anyways Harry," He adjusted his glasses before the slipped form the tip of his nose from laughter, "Your mother and father were tasking his advanced level class and he had access to them every week, so I hop you realize that Voldermort plans to go back into his Herbology teaching self, and kill your parents before they have you…"
Harry's head immediately spun around and he stopped to think if Voldermort was a genius, or a fool.
Yup, definitely a genius. A crazy, evil, Herbology loving git of a genius.
Then leave it up to Ron to speak up.
"Honestly, of all the smarts these evil people in the world have got, why go evil, invent something, do something smart, its no use making your brain smaller by destroying others…am I right?"
Everyone thought for a second and then nodded simultaneously and gave him eyes of question. The Snape growled a little.
"You can't be serious; Mr. Weasley is never reasonable or shows any signs of remarkable intelligence, so when the jock opens his mouth and says something slightly intelligent everyone has a cow…"
Dumbledore raised his hand to stop his Potions Master from sneering at the well build, red haired boy.
"Alright Professor, I will do it."
Harry was good at silencing a crowd of people.
"You'll do what Mr. Potter?"
"Ill use Hermione's time-turner and go back in time when my parents were in our year, and make sure tom cannot stop them from loving each other and having me."
"I actually had not thought about that Mr. Potter, but I believe your plan is a much better way of handling it than mine."
He smiled like a mad man, and continued, "So it is settled, you may bring only yourself and two other, ONLY TWO Mr. Potter and you may leave when you are ready."
"Ok Professor, but how will you accept me into the school, when you are your old self?"
"I have just the thing, wait here."
Dumbledore walked over to his pensive and watched the silver smoky memories swirl around until he muttered an 'Ah' after finding the one he wanted. The he uncorked a small potions flask and pointed his wand at the pensive then at the flask. The memory went into the small bottle and Dumbledore corked it.
"That should suffice I believe." Dumbledore carefully handed the flask to Harry and Harry looked up and awaited an explanation.
"You are to go back to Hogwarts when your parents were in Ginevra's year and give this to me, I shall put it into my pensive and watch it, and I will see the meeting we have just had so I can see my future self explaining everything, I will have to believe myself right?"
"Ok Sir, I want to get this done, so I will leave tonight, along with whomever I choose, if they agree."
With that Dumbledore dismissed them and the teens all walked back to Gryffindor town together, thinking.