Bold = Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Regular = "Reading Deathly Hallows Years Later"

Italics = "Reading 'Reading Years Later'"

CHAPTER ONE

Dumbledore's Army was meeting in the Room of Requirement. As always, Harry, Ron, Hermione were the first to arrive. Then, Neville, Ginny, and Dean came. Fred, George, Lee, Angelina, Katie, and Alicia entered together. As soon as Luna and Hannah walked in, however, a golden light flashed and everyone in the room disappeared.

At Number Twelve, Sirius, Remus, Tonks, Arthur, Molly, and Bill were gathered. Mad-Eye and Kingsley walked in, and a golden light flashed.

In the Headmaster's Office at Hogwarts, McGonagall, Snape, and Hagrid were receiving instructions from Dumbledore when a golden light flashed.

Harry and his companions found themselves in a room with couches and comfortable chairs on one side and a kitchen and a large dining room table on the other. On the back wall, there were fourteen doors. They all had signs that said, "Beds and Bathrooms for:" But the rest of the plaque was empty.

All the students had their wands at the ready but were still unprepared for the sudden appearance of Sirius, Remus, Tonks, Arthur, Molly, Bill, Mad-Eye, and Kingsley.

Harry quickly recognized them and saw his fellow students recognize Sirius. "It's alright," he said before they cursed his godfather. "Sirius Black is innocent of the charges laid against him." The others seemed to trust his word.

Sirius, hearing his godson's words, noticed the large group of student he was now in an unknown room with.

Before he could say anything, the professors appeared. And before they could recognize their surrounding, five more people appeared: Seamus, Draco, Aberforth, Charlie, and Fleur.

Everyone's wands were out, trying to identify the others as friends or foes.

As everyone started to recognize each other and the Order members were checking for impostors, Harry noticed that there was a stack of papers on the table that hadn't been there when the DA members had arrived.

He slowly approached, and the DA, trusting his judgment about the others in the room, followed him as back up. Mad-Eye noticed this but did not comment, wanting to see the group "in action."

Once he was able to see the papers more clearly, Harry saw that there was a letter addressed to him on top of the stack.

Harry reached out to pick it up. Hermione stopped him. "It could be dangerous," she whispered.

This drew Remus's attention to them, but Mad-Eye held him back, waiting to see what Harry would say and do.

"If I let Dumbledore test it, he might not let me read it," Harry returned. "But I won't have anyone getting hurt for that," he sighed.

Harry was about to call out to Dumbledore, but Mad-Eye walked over to the table before he could. Moody nodded to Harry and cast spells on the papers to test for Dark Magic.

"They're not Dark," he told the students.

"Thanks," Harry responded as he again reached for the letter addressed to him.

He read to himself:

Dear Harry,

You and everyone else have been brought to this room to read the manuscript sitting on the table. There are two parts of this manuscript. The words in bold print are what were going to happen in your seventh year (it might not happen now because you will have read the manuscript). The words in regular print are your future selves (after the events of the bold print words) reading the bold print story. (I know, it's confusing, but it'll be easier to understand once you start.) Both prints are from your point of view. (Sorry, but it was the best way.) Things about the future are going to be revealed, and some things are going to make you mad, sad, happy, worried, and maybe even freaked out. In the end, though, this is an opportunity for you to save people and end the war sooner. The room has a fully stocked kitchen and rooms that include bathrooms for everyone. The signs on the doors should now have names listed on them. Time has stopped outside of this room, and no one can leave until you have finished reading the manuscript. Good luck, and remember: do not judge anyone until the manuscript is finished.

~A Friend~

P.S. Feel free to read parts of this letter or the whole thing to everyone as a way to explain to them what's going on.

By this point, everyone had gathered around Harry. He looked up at all the curious faces.

"What did it say, Harry?" Sirius asked.

Harry thought that he trying to explain it would just make it more confusing, so he decided to read the entire letter aloud.

When he was finished, everyone looked at Dumbledore. "It seems we really don't have a choice, and as it wasn't Dark, I believe that we can take the letter at its word."

Everyone nodded. "Alright, then," Sirius said, excited to be out of Number Twelve. "Let's get started."