Chapter 1

AN: I hear every FF writer has to write at least one time-travel fic, it's like a rite of passage, so here is my attempt ay one. I hope you enjoy it! Also just to clear a few things up, this takes place during the Marauders 5th year and Harry is transported back in time during the battle at the Department of Mysteries. Harry is very disoriented at first and doesn't really remember what happened to him but all will be explained in the next couple of chapters. Pretty please with a cherry on top review review review!

Disclaimer: It's JKR's world i'm just playing in it :)

Lily Evans walked briskly down the corridor, her red hair swinging behind her. She was on her way to the library to look up the properties of moonstone, she could remember all of them except one and it was driving her insane. It was almost lights-out but Lily had decided that if she hurried she could make it there and back in time; she knew she wouldn't be able to sleep with it bugging her like that. Anyone else would have simply let it go but not Lily, plus it was her O.W.L year, what if this question came up on the exam and she didn't know the answer because she had been too lazy to walk down to the library?

With that consoling thought she hurried around the next corner when she heard a crash behind her. She turned around and rushed towards the sound. To her surprise she saw a boy with messy black hair lying sprawled across the floor. She sighed exasperatedly of course it was James, who else would it be? Lily walked up to the body, she was slightly perplexed, how could James have gotten behind her? She hadn't seen anyone when she walked by and James usually made his presence known. Shrugging, she decided it really wasn't important, what was important was making him go away so that she could continue on her way to the library in peace.

"James, get up!" she ordered as she kicked him lightly in the side. The boy groaned but made no other movement. Lily sighed again "come on James I don't have time for you're games tonight, now get up or I'm leaving you here." Lily wondered to herself why she didn't just leave him, to be perfectly honest she was curious about this most recent attempt to win her heart. She decided that he must be going for the sympathy technique; well it most certainly wasn't going to work. Lily waited for another moment of so but when the boy didn't make a move Lily got slightly concerned; it really wasn't like James to play dead. She kept expecting him to jump up and try to scare her but he didn't. She rolled him over onto his back with her foot; he simply laid there looking quite pale. Lily nudged him again in the side.

At that moment Sirius came around the corner, returning from his detention with Filch. When he caught sight of Lily standing over James' body he let out a yelp and exclaimed "Oi! What have you done to him?"

"I didn't do anything!" Lily protested vehemently "I just found him like this," Sirius didn't look convinced and rushed over. They both bent down over the unconscious body.

"Prongs wake up!" said Sirius as he shook Harry's shoulders.

"As if I didn't already try that," Lily scoffed, "here move over" she instructed. Lily pulled out her wand and was about to perform a spell when Sirius stopped her.

"Wait, what are you going to do to him?" he asked, looking warily at her wand.

Lily gave him a disgusted look as an answer and then muttered "Ennerverate." Harry opened his eyes blearily and saw a flash of red hair swimming above him.

"Ginny?" Harry mumbled and then immediately turned to his side and retched all over the floor. Lily leaned back in disgust and then shared a concerned look with Sirius. Once he was finished emptying his stomach he slumped back down to the ground and closed his eyes.

"We'd better get him down to the hospital wing," Lily said.

"Yeah, good idea," responded Sirius and together they hoisted Harry to his feet. He blinked a few times, clearly very out of it. "Can you walk?" asked Sirius, Harry nodded and Sirius and Lily released his arms. He swayed for a moment and then collapsed back onto the ground. Sirius and Lily dropped besides him each looking at him seriously, very worried at this point. Harry rolled himself over and pushed himself into a sitting position. He leaned his head against the wall and let out a soft moan. His head felt like it was about to explode and all he could think about was the pain. He knew the people around him were saying something but he couldn't decipher the meaning. He couldn't remember what had happened to him and his stomach was still churning.

Sirius finally broke the silence, "James, what happened to you? Last I know is you were headed off to your detention with McGonagall for setting Walter's hair on fire and then I found you here, care to fill in the gap?" Harry moaned again and held his head in his hands. Had he just been called James? Slowly the images from earlier that night came to him, he had been running through the Department of Mysteries, he had come to a room full of time turners and then there was a flash of red and the cabinet of time turners had come crashing down onto him, after that there was only black and now an oddly familiar face was staring at him in obvious concern.

Suddenly with a shock he recognized the face, "Sirius is that you?" his rasped out, his throat felt think, he could hardly get the words out and after he said them he was struck with a coughing fit.

"Of course its me, mate," Sirius shared another anxious look with Lily, "now lets get you to the hospital wing."

Harry coughed again, "No, I'm fine, really, I just need a minute to sit here, get my bearings you know?" Harry closed his eyes again. He couldn't understand what was going on, where was he? Why was a 15 year old Sirius starring at him and why did it feel like his head had just been pounded with a hammer? His thoughts continued to race as he tried to think of a logical explanation for all this. Maybe it had something to do with the time turners, or maybe the spell Neville had shot had hit him and something had gone wrong which was why he was hallucinating.

"What should we do now?" asked Lily. At the sound of her voice Harry's eyes snapped open, he hadn't even noticed before who the other person was besides Sirius.

"Who're you?" he asked without thinking, she looked astonishingly like his mother from pictures of her at school but Harry didn't dare even consider the possibility that it was her.

"James," said Lily seriously "It's me, Lily."

"I'm not James, my names Harry and you can't be Lily. I don't know what game you're playing at but it certainly needs to ends now."

"Look James, I'm not playing a game and I don't appreciate being made fun of after I just tried to help you! You know what? Just whatever, I don't even know why I tried, Sirius you take care of him; I can't deal with James right now or ever for that matter." And with that she stormed off in a huff.

"Wow Prongs you really made her mad this time,"

"I already told you, my name is Harry and what are you doing here?" His brain was still so fuzzy, later he would realize the stupidity of his remarks, he should have simply played it cool and pretended to be a new student but in his shock he stubbornly refused to understand the current situation.

"Uh well I go to school here you know…."

"Sirius stop joking around you're supposed to be at Grimmauld place, that's what Bellatrix said, she said the dream of Voldemort torturing you was fake and instead you're at home…." He trailed off at the shocked expression on his godfather's face.

"What are you talking about? You-Know-Who torturing me? And since when do you talk to my cousin? You must have hit your head pretty hard, look lets take you to the hospital wing and we can discuss all this when you're back in your right mind." Just at that moment the real James Potter rounded the corner.

AN: This is my first fic so please give me constructive critisism, anything is welcome, just let me know if it's worth continuing or not. Love you to death for reading this by the way!