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"Say what now?" James II asked as many voices echoed his.

Snape's upper lip curled. The young boy looked so much like the Potter boys , it was hard not to make the connection , but it seemed , Snape thought that no one else had made that connection. How typical. James Potter (the first) looked and behaved just as Snape remembered him.

His line of thought was interrupted as Dumbledore patiently addressed the question.

The blue eyes twinkled as they swept over the standing people in the room. He had an idea what may have happened. And his ideas were usually quite accurate.

"Dear boy , I understand you must know some of us?"

Scorpius and James II nodded.

"We know everyone." Scorp said.

"But we've only met Dad and Uncle Ron!" James supplied casting a look at said people. He was confused as to why his family looked so much younger and why they didn't recognise him.

"Bloody hell!" Ron said. He turned to Harry. "I'm an uncle Harry!" Snape rolled his eyes (which James saw and glowered until Lily hit him on the head.)

But Harry was too preoccupied by staring at his 'son' to answer Ron. When Ginny had gotten pregnant , of course Harry had been happy. Nervous , but happy. But he had never associated the word 'dad' to himself.

"Albus?" Lily asked timidly , slightly dazed by what was going on. James put his muscular arms round his wife and caught Harry's emerald eyes. James gave a start and then smiled in Harry's direction. Those eyes were exactly the same as his Lily- flower's.

Lily looked at Snape quickly , wondering why he had such a pained expression on his face. After all they had made up after the wedding. He had even come over to Godric's Hollow for dinner a couple of nights ago. Things were still frosty between James and him, but that could be worked on.

"I'm slightly confused. Why would there be a port key? And these people? I'm afraid James and I are only familiar with yourself and Severus." She leaned back into James' arms ,who kissed her temple and Snape turned away.

Dumbledore smiled mysteriously and Snape rolled his eyes , having turned around again.

"That's because my dear Lily , these people aren't yet born in your time!" Everyone's mouth dropped open.

"And here I was about to ask James to pinch me. I thought it was a dream!" Scorpius exclaimed.

"Our time? But surely we're all from the same year?" James voiced and Harry jumped a little hearing his dad's voice for the first time.

"I don't think so." Harry said softly and James turned to look at him properly , a questioning look on his face.

"Potter is right , for once." Snape said in a sneering voice. James II stared at him , his parents had always insisted that Snape was a war hero. Were war heroes mean?

James I stared at him too. He realised that Snape's cutting remark wasn't directed at him because he was looking at the boy he had referred to as 'Potter.' Potter?

Dumbledore gave him a look. "Perhaps we should start with names and what year it is."

"Okay , I'll start!" James II said.

" We are from 2017 and I am James Sirius Potter "

Lily started laughing and Albus let out a chuckle of his own. "Do you get detentions often?" Lily asked bemusedly, looking at her supposed grandson.

Said grandson only grinned cheekily towards her while looking at his father.

Harry had a smile on his face. A smile that only Ron could tell was strained. Ron knew how painful it must be for him to see his parents and then to have his son be named after the two biggest fatherly figures in Harry's life must be , needless to say, strange.

Ron placed a comforting hand on his brother-in-law's shoulder, donning a sympathetic look.

James I saw this and although he had puffed up his chest before, he now had a frown on his face. Why would his son name his own son after two people who he saw on a daily basis? It just didn't make sense. Could it be, that he and Sirius, were in fact not in his son's life?

"Well, my turn now! I'm Scorpius Hyphron Malfoy," Scorp all burst shouted, beaming.

"What idiot married that ferret!" Ron growled.

"Hey!" Scorp said, his usual calm self disappearing fast as he saw both of the older Potters eyeing him with certain disdain.

"Watch it! That's my mother you're talking about. We may play chess together, sir, but you still can't speak ill of my family!"

Ron stared at him. "Play chess..." he whispered to Harry. "With the spawn of a death eater?"

"Are you related to Lucius Malfoy?" Albus asked gently.

Scorpius was still glaring at Ron so his friend answered for him. "His granddad, but don't worry, he's in Azkaban again. In fact his own son charged him guilty!"

James I groaned. So Padfoot's cousin did end up marrying that blonde retard.

"Narcissa?" Lily asked, and James nodded in answer.

"Ah, see Severus, he is good at heart," Albus said softly. Harry and Ron heard and snorted in disbelief. They hadn't seen hide or hair of any of the Malfoys since that fateful day. They weren't there at commemoration day either.

"How can you say that, Albus? He is trying to kill you!" Snape hissed in response.

"But aren't you too?" came the quick reply.

"On your orders!" Snape glared at the older man.

"And young Draco is only doing it on someone's orders too." Albus replied smiling childishly at his victory.

Everyone else watched their little exchange with mixed emotions. For Lily it was strange to see Sev so grown up and sure of himself.

Harry and Ron were watching on with a bit of sadness, knowing that they were lucky to have known two extremely brave men. Even if one of them hated their guts, regardless.

James and Scorpius having seen the two portraits of the men bicker before were watching with glee at the real life people.

Finally the two arguing men realised that everyone was listening and their whispered conversation came to a stop.

"If you will, dear Headmaster, shall we carry on with the introductions?" James asked, all to comfortable with his old Professor.

Albus smiled like an indulgent father and said "of course, why don't you go next?"

"Well, we are from 1979 and our names are James and Lily Potter." Harry, unable to stop himself felt a tear escape his eye.

Lily ran to him and James I hung back a second before joining his wife.

"You're our-our son, aren't you?" Lily finally said and Harry bobbed his head.

"You don't know us, do you?" James asked not wanting to hear the conformation; but again Harry nodded.

Awkwardly James II went up to them as well. Ron stepped away from the Potters, to give them some privacy.

Upon seeing her grandson Lily couldn't control her tears and enveloped all three of her boys into a hug.

For a while everyone was silent until Albus cleared his throat and the introductions continued.

Albus introduced himself, although unnecessarily and also did Severus, albeit reluctantly.

It turned out that they were from Harry and Ron's sixth year. Understanding swept across Harry and Ron's face. And at once Harry's eyes flickered to Albus' hand. And sure enough it was blackened, with a ring on one of the fingers. Severus saw this and raised his brows.

"You know." It wasn't a question. It was quite clear from the pained expression that the boys held that Albus' plan was known to the boys. They were alive after all!

"Yes." Came the simple reply. The other four who were not in on this, held confused looks but since no one bothered explaining , they assumed it was not of consequence.

"And finally, we are Ron Weasley," Ron said pointing at himself, "and the still very famous Harry Potter. From the year 2000."

But no one smiled at Ron's forced optimism. Everyone except for Lily and James who were getting a fair idea, were reminded swiftly of why Harry Potter was famous in the first place. Even Scorpius had heard stories.

"Sooooo, now what?" Scorp asked trying to break the tension and deciding to flop down. James I grinned. The kid may be kin of the Malfoy but he seemed alright and he decided to flop down as well. After that it seemed that everyone wanted to do that and as a result Albus made Severus summon some bean bags from the charms classroom.

Once everyone was comfortable Harry spoke up and said, "This book seems to be about me..."

But he was cut off as a note came spitting in from the fire. It disturbed Fawkes, who fluttered her wings indignantly but then settled back down.

Before anyone could catch it to read it, the note formed a mouth and from it issued a message.

"Hello everybody. I trust that you have all introduced yourself. I am responsible for bringing you all together and the majority of you would know who I am. I suggest you begin reading the book pronto because you only have a limited amount of time together. Over the course of the reading, people who you may know, or some of you may not, will come in. Don't let this stop you from reading.

Farewell for now, I will speak with you again at a later date.

"That's Hermione's voice!" Ron and Harry said immediately.

"Granger," we should have known this was her doing. That witch always meddles with everything!

"Don't talk about Aunt Mione like that!" James II snapped, liking this 'war hero' person who his brother was named after more and more.

"You call her mione?" Ron snickered.

"Yeh, and you're Uncle Ronny, to my baby sister!" James II replied and now , James I and Scorp snickered.

"Ah, Severus did I not tell you that Mr. Weasley and Miss Granger would marry?"

Severus just gnashed his teeth together and muttered something about 'old fool always being right'.

"I have a daughter?" Harry asked with wonderment. James II smiled "Lily is your favourite."

Three pairs of eyes looked at the original Lily who herself was staring at her own son with a mixture of sadness and pride for him.

"You reckon Mrs. Weasley would come in at one point?" Scorp asked James.

James shrugged. "She's known dad and Uncle Ron since they were all eleven so she should be arrive here I guess."

"Shall we start then?" James I asked, eager to hear about his son's antics at Hogwarts.

"But shouldn't we wait for other people to come?" Lily asked.

"You heard what Granger said," Snape said speaking directly to Lily while Ron instinctively muttered "Weasley, now"

"They'll start coming in as we begin the book." Albus finished for him.

"And on that note, I'll read first."

Only one book seemed to want to open and thus Scorpius picked up this book and in a clear voice started to read.

"Chapter 1 : The Boy who lived"

Harry closed his eyes, knowing what was coming up and couldn't help curse Hermione under her breath. He could only hope that the book didn't go into too much detail about his life.

A/N : Okay next chapter is definitely chapter 1 of the 'real' book. Sorry for taking so long to update and to start, I wanted to make this more than just a simple 'read the books' story. I wanted to explore each individual character because then that way it is slightly more interesting!

Anyway, hope you liked it. There will be characters popping in and out and some will become permanent and others will be there for only a little while. If there are particular people you want to see, let me know? Of course Hermione will be coming in very soon...what age should she be?

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