The sun shun bright, high in the sky at 3:37 PM, June 21st.

The vast mass of children was just returning home after a particularly competitive and tiring game of quidditch, played in the Potter's backyard, in a field designed specifically for such purposes.

Al, James, Lily, Rose, Fred, Lorc, Lys, Dom, Louis and Scorpius all ran into the house laughing, sweating and panting, rushing to take the bathrooms in the house before the others did.

Bathed and freshly clothed, the kids quickly took over the house, some going outside, or to their bedrooms, others heading to the kitchen, craving some food, and a few others (such as James and Fred) disappearing mysteriously.

Al was walking down to the kitchen to retrieve some food for Scorpius, Lorcan and Lysander (who were currently in the occupied, in a rather vicious game of Exploding Snap), when he noticed that the door to his dad's office was ajar, which he thought rather odd, since his dad wasn't even in Britain at that moment.

He cautiously pushed the door open and relaxed slightly, finally walking all the way in.

"Guys, what are you doing here?"

James and Fred looked at him, at each other and back at him, before opening equally mischievous smiles.

"Nothing, little brother, just having a little get-together, that's all." James answered in a matter-of-fact voice, the same smile never wavering from his face.

Al raised one eyebrow suspiciously and slowly walked further into the office, his eyes moving quickly over every surface, looking for anything amiss or out of the ordinary that could indicate a prank destined for his dad's return. But everything seemed normal: every book on the shelves that he knew back and forth, every picture of friends and family, every dark arts gadget (including the foe-glass, which showed no imminent danger laying around), every paper scattered around the desk, every… Severus Snape's confidential file? "What's that about?" Al wondered, frowning. He turned to his brother and cousin.

"A little get together in dad's office?"

James walked forward and put his hand on Albus's shoulder, a funeral-like expression in place.

"Yes, you see... we miss him. Things just aren't the same when dad's away." Fred left the office quietly and as soon as he did, James perked up and said cheerfully, "C'mon, we're leaving to Teddy's in half an hour. Go get ready, mate!"

Al took one last look around the office before getting out, closing the door behind him and headed for his room.

"Hey, where's the food?!" Asked Lorcan as soon as he walked in. Al rolled his eyes.

"We're leaving in half an hour, might as well eat at Teddy's." He said, flopping on his bed, next to Scorpius. Apparently, the game had ended while he was away; the smoking sheets were proof of that.

"Ugh, fine" Lys grunted. "Guess we should go and finish packing, then."

"You two go, Scor and I finished packing yesterday."

Scorpius smirked, stretching himself on Al's bed, hands locked behind his head and said, "We're not idiots, you see?"

The twins left, grumbling good naturally, leaving Al and Scor to laze about while most of the others ran around, trying to find their things that they swore had somehow crawled by themselves, hiding from their rightful owners.

It was about two hours later that everyone was (finally) flooing to Grimmauld Place, Number 12.

As Al arrived, Teddy was already there, saying "hello" and hugging every kid that popped out of his chimney.

He waited his turn, taking the time to look around at the environment. The house looked much better than he did the last time he had visited. It had belonged to his dad's godfather, and no one had stepped foot in it since 1997, according to his father. However, once Teddy had graduated, Harry had offered him the house. Teddy had refused, preferring to stay in-between houses with the Potter's and his grandma Andy, but after two years or so of dating Vic he had finally decided to move in with her. So, after a few months of intensive cleaning and disinfestation, his dad, teddy, Uncle Ron and Uncle George managed to make the house livable and extremely presentable. It seemed impossible that the same light colored, illuminated halls Al now stood in had once contained such darkness and despair. Even the portrait of the rude lady had come off the wall ("PUT ME BACK IN MY PLACE, YOU UNGRATEFUL MUDBLOOD LOVERS!") thanks to Kreacher and they could now talk freely, without need for whispers.

Al's turn came and he was embraced by Teddy, who he had always thought of as a brother. Once they had separated he clapped Al on the shoulder and took a step back, addressing all of the kids.

"So, your parents entrusted me with you so let's try and keep the causalities to a minimum during this week, okay, guys?" He threw what a supposed to be a glare at James, Fred and Louis, the known troublemakers.

"Sport-spoil." Accused Louis.

"You used to be way funnier, Edward." Said James.

"Can't believe you let Vic take the troublemaker out of you" Finished Fred.

"It's called growing up and maturing, maybe you should try it sometime."

The three of them looked at Teddy with pure horror in their faces, and James finally said, "We'd much rather stay awesome, thank you very much." He grinned impishly and took a vow.

"Well, one of these days…" Teddy paused. "What's that around your neck?"

James had straightened up and a long, silver chain with a weird hourglass had popped out of his shirt.

He hastened the chain back into his clothes, saying, "Oh, it's nothing. You know, just a lucky charm."

"James… was that a time turner?" Rose asked slowly. Everyone stared, eyes opening in surprise. Al frowned, from what he had read, time-turners had been golden, not silver. Of course, besides that, it was unmistakably a time-turner.

"No!" He said quickly.

"James?"

"No."

"James!"

"No?"

"…"

"Maybe."

"What the hell are you doing with a time turner?" Cried Dom, taking a step forward toward the boy.

"Woah. Well, you see… boy that's a tough one."

"We just wanted to take a closer look at it, maybe try it on later." Fred jumped in.

"We?" Al stepped closer as well, entering the discussion that was progressing in the entrance hall of Grimmauld Place. "So that's what you were doing in dad's office?!"

"Wait!" Shrieked Dom, suddenly taking a step backwards. "Dad's office?! You mean you took that thing from Uncle Harry's office? As in the Head of Auror's Department's office? James, do you have any idea how dangerous that can be?" She pointed at the innocent looking time-turner.

Suddenly, everyone took a step back, away from the object. Even James, who was holding it by it's chain now held it at arm's length, looking at it suspiciously.

"Surely it's nothing dangerous, right?" He asked doubtfully, looking around at the others for support. "I mean, it was in dad's office, we wouldn't have anything that dangerous there, where we could walk in at any moment."

"You're not supposed to go there, you idiot!" Shouted Lily, exasperated. "As an auror's son you should know that! And as a soon to be adult, as well!"

"Besides," Rose piped in, "time-turners are always dangerous. Do you have any idea how much damage you could do by traveling through time without the proper training and knowledge to do so? You could destroy our timeline, or even cause your own death."

Fred decided to cut in and stop Rose, before she could start naming all the disastrous outcomes of using a time-turner, "Alright, alright! We get it! No messing around with stuff that could potentially destroy the universe as we know it! Geez…"

"So what do we do?" Asked Scorpius, who had kept quiet throughout the family feud.

"Give it to me, James, I'll go put it somewhere safe and when you return home you just have to put it back where you took it from and the adult don't need to know about this." Said Teddy, taking a step forward and reaching out to take the time-turner from James. "I'll go and put it upstairs, you guys can go ahead and grab a bite to eat in the kitchens, if you want."

The kids all perked up at the mention of food. As they turned to head to the kitchens, as instructed, all they heard was a "CLANK!", a "SMASH!" and a shout of "STUPID COAT HANGER!", before the sand that rose form the floor swallowed them and they knew no more.

Hi! I hope you liked the chapter, please let me know what you thought of it in the comments or if you have any questions.

I'll probably be posting a new chapter every two weeks, on friday (I put this one up today because I won't be able to, until next week).

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