Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, JK Rowling does; I do not own any other copyrighted characters that might come up in this story, the respective owners does. Finally, any and all new characters that show up in this story are mine, you want to borrow my characters; ASK me first, if you do that, chances are I will say yes.

A/N #2: I got the inspiration from a few fanfiction stories, well, the basic idea of it (time travel, future help, alternate reality, etc… you get the idea) credit to where it is due if anyone recognizes a "shell" of their work. Anyway, this is my idea of STRUCTURING this particular storyline. I hope the past explanation made sense; you have a question or problem, please contact me.

FYI: I know that the chapter is from the book (and the book's credit goes to J.K. Rowling (fakey smile :D)) but I really cannot be able to come up with something that covers the important points of the first chapter, and I did not want to screw up the story too much…besides, the first chapter is canon and after the last sentence the rest of the story is AU. Therefore, do not worry about the quality of the other chapters, (not too much anyway…) so there's that…Please! Read on! ***not betaed***

***Those of you who were here before, I just basically cut a large part of the story to make it smaller***

Chapter 1

The small spun-glass ball dropped from Neville's pocket and, before either of them could catch it, one of Neville's floundering feet kicked it, making it fly some ten feet to their right and smashed on the step beneath them. As both of them stared at the place where it had broken, appalled at what had happened, a pearly-white figure with hugely magnified eyes rose into the air, unnoticed by any but them…Harry could see its mouth moving, but in all the crashes and screams and yells surrounding them, not one word of the prophecy could he hear. The figure stopped speaking and dissolved into nothingness.

"Harry, Ib sorry!" cried Neville, his face anguished as his legs continued to flounder. "Ib so sorry, Harry, I didn'd bean do -"

"It doesn't matter!" Harry shouted. "Just try and stand, let's get out of -"

"Dubbledore!" said Neville, his sweaty face suddenly transported, staring over Harry's shoulder.

"What?"

"DUBBLEDORE!"

Harry turned to look where Neville was staring. Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his body - they were saved. Dumbledore sped down the steps past Neville and Harry, who had no more thoughts of leaving. Dumbledore was already at the foot of the steps when the Death Eaters nearest realized he was there and yelled to the others. One of the Death Eaters ran for it, scrabbling like a monkey up the stone steps opposite. Dumbledore's spell pulled him back as easily and effortlessly as though he had hooked him with an invisible line -

Only one pair was still battling, apparently unaware of the new arrival. Harry saw Sirius duck Bellatrix's jet of red light: he was laughing at her.

"Come on, you can do better than that!" he yelled, his voice echoing around the cavernous room.

The second jet of light hit him squarely on the chest. The laughter had not quite died from his face, but his eyes widened in shock. Harry released Neville, though he was unaware of doing so. He was jumping down the steps again, pulling out his wand, as Dumbledore, too, turned towards the dais. It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch. Harry saw the look of mingled fear and surprise on his godfather's wasted, once-handsome face as he fell through the ancient doorway and disappeared behind the veil, which fluttered

for a moment as though in a high wind, then fell back into place. Harry heard Bellatrix Lestrange's triumphant scream, but knew it meant nothing - Sirius had only just fallen through the archway, he would reappear from the other side any second…but Sirius did not reappear.

"SIRIUS!" Harry yelled. "SIRIUS!"

He had reached the floor, his breath coming in searing gasps. Sirius must be just behind the curtain, he, Harry, would pull him back out…but as he reached the ground and sprinted towards the dais, Lupin made to grab Harry around the chest, but Harry in a fit of desperation managed to slip past him, the other order members, tried to stop Harry, but their efforts were futile as Harry failed to see the stone step, therefore tripping and falling through the Veil. Suddenly, he was frozen in place, suspended in total darkness for a moment before he went through the other side and landed on the floor.

"Ah! Guys here he is, about bloody time Potter!"

A/N: so what do you guys think of this? Do you like it? Please read and review.

A/N 2: one more thing, I thought that it is fair that you all should know that I am going to be busy this summer, I am in college (during school season), and I do homework as well as working in a part-time job that will now pick up the pace as it is summer. What this means is that there MAY BE long periods in which I may not post anything. I will update however soon I can, all I ask is patience. Thanks.
***Story is now AU***