WARNING: This is a female Harry story. This Harry, or Holly as it is, is BORN AS A GIRL. IF YOU DON'T LIKE THESE KIND OF STORIES THEN BE MATURE AND HIT THAT BACK BUTTON, complaining about it is just plain stupid. Thank you.

DISCLAIMER: Obviously I do not own Harry Potter or any of its wonderful characters. But I might stick a minor OC somewhere, who knows.

Setting: Christmas 1996, and Sirius Black is alive in this story thank you very much.

Notes in hopes to ease confusion: Sirius from the past will be called Padfoot and Sirius from the present will be Sirius. Of course, sometimes they might also be called Mr Black or Snuffles or Idiot.

Chapter 1 A Rough Landing

"Come on Prongs! It's a great idea."

"Padfoot, I'm not very sure about this"

"Oh shut up, don't be a spoilsport. Where's your marauder spirit? We'll have so much fun, think of all the stuff we'll see! Then we can come back and impress everyone with our wisdom. I can already see the look on Minnie's face."

"That will be pretty funny."

"Exactly, so what are we waiting for?"

"Well, uh…"

"Well? If you don't spit it out soon I'm going to go ahead and have all the fun without you."

James Potter paused, and thought of all the trouble Sirius Black could cause if he went alone. Looking at his crazy best friend, he knew it would be a huge amount. "Fine."

"Excellent answer Prongs, if I could I would give Gryffindor 10 points right now."

"If you could you would just give Gryffindor the house and Quidditch cups."

"True, now let's get going! Time does not wait, and the prefects will be here any second. Isn't Moony and Evans on patrol tonight?"

At the mention of his Lily-flower, James perked up. "Yeah, they are. Let's go."

Not long after, a white flash surrounded the hallway, and the two troublemakers disappeared.

When the Gryffindor prefects Lily Evans and Remus Lupin came around to investigate, they found nothing incriminating. So both decided to head back to the dorms, but both were silently suspecting the same people for the mysterious flash of light.

Holly Potter was sitting in a very comfortable armchair at Grimmauld Place, reading a book on Pureblood traditions from the vast Black family library, with Snuffles curled up by her feet when a blinding flash encompassed the room. She immediately shielded her eyes with one hand while reaching for her wand with the other. She heard Snuffles growling and placing himself between her and whatever just appeared.

Opening her eyes, she wondered if someone had hexed her eyesight, because she should not be seeing what she saw. Her father and godfather, younger than they should be, were sprawled out on the floor, not moving. Holly was immediately concerned and wanted to check them for injuries, but a hand on her shoulder stopped her – Sirius.

"Stay back." It wasn't a suggestion, it was an order.

Sirius Black had been wrongly imprisoned in the most feared magical prison of all time for crimes he did not commit for 12 years. With more than a decade of exposure to the deadly dementors, he often wondered if he was having hallucinations. That's what happened to every other prisoner in Azkaban. It was only his animagus transformations and repeated thoughts of 'I'M INNOCENT' that kept him sane (most of the time) after all these years.

But now, standing before what appeared to be himself and his best friend, he heavily questioned his sanity.

Sirius looked at Holly, and saw that she could see them as well, and decided that he was not crazy after all, unbelievable as it sounded. But before he could do anything, the marauders recovered from their fall.

"Ouch, what in the name of Merlin was THAT."

"Hey, don't blame me. I didn't know the spell provided such poor quality landing."

"Of course you didn't." Grumbling, James Potter sat up, fixed his glasses and looked around. Only to come face to face with Sirius, but he looked strange. Older, way older than he should be. "Oh…" was the very intelligent response from James when he realized what was going on. "Uh Padfoot?" The older Sirius flinched at the nickname while the younger seemed to have just gotten up from their 'poorly provided landing'.

"Yeah what?" Padfoot sat up and looked around, and saw what appeared to be his future self. But he looked… SO BLOODY OLD.

"What year is this?" James asked, hoping to break the tension that suddenly filled the room.

"1996." A female voice. James looked around and saw his twin, or someone who most definitely could have been his twin, but with green eyes.

Hearing the voice of his goddaughter, sense returned to Sirius, and growled out "If you two don't explain yourselves now, I'll put Bella's curses to shame."

Ever the charmer, Padfoot stated "Nice to meet you too, I suppose you're my future self, but heavens knows how I aged so much in just 20 years. This dork here is my best friend, James Potter."

"Prove it."

The marauders looked at each other, and shrugged. Since this was their future self, he would already know their secrets. Seconds later, a majestic stag and a big furry dog replaced the two boys.

Sirius looked at the two, face paling rapidly, and managed a stiff nod to show his trust in their words. He was at a loss as to why this was happening, but at least they weren't death eaters, and that was all he cared about. Holly was safe, for now. Besides, time travel shouldn't shock him so much, he was raised in the magical world!

But then a not so nice thought struck him. His sweet goddaughter is currently in a room with two of the naughtiest boys of their time. James wasn't so bad, considering he's been smitten with Lily since third year. But Sirius, his past self, was the biggest flirt in the history of Hogwarts and he didn't want to go down that memory lane, not where Holly was concerned.

Azkaban had done a lot to Sirius Black. It haunted his memories day and night, but it also matured him, a bit too much, and it definitely increased his protectiveness over his goddaughter to just a tad possessive. When Holly was born, and Sirius declared as her godfather. He and James had discussed the plans they had in store for the poor unfortunate boys that would eventually try to date Holly. Key word is TRY. Because as long as Sirius Black is around, they will never get their dirty little hands on his sweet little Princess. Some memories which survived the dementors include their planning sessions. It was decided that James would hex the poor souls while Sirius shall prank them so drastically that it will make the Norse Trickery God Loki proud. (Merlin help the morons who get past them and break dear Holly's heart! That's where Remus and Lily will come in of course) While they went over their attack strategies, Lily would be muttering something about 'how those men are still boys' to herself in the background while holding baby Holly and Remus would just smile a smile that said 'what did you expect, they'll never grow up' and shake one of Holly's toys in front of her, inciting a laugh every now and then.

A noise from the time travelers drew Sirius from his thoughts, and he had a conclusion. Let them stay here but keep younger me AWAY FROM HOLLY!

Turning back, he saw James was looking around in curiosity, while Padfoot had been looking at him, and when he took a better glance at the interior of the room, he froze in shock, then exploded "WHY THE HELL AM I STILL HERE AFTER 20 BLOODY YEARS!"

"Sirius, we need to explain."

"Ah shit."

Aaaaannnnddddd that's chapter 1! What do you think? Does this story have hope or should it be thrown into a dark corner and never see the light of day again.

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