When he finally made it outside the wards, Severus apparated to the front step of the Orders Headquarters, once inside he was unsurprised to see that both Remus and Sirius were still up when he entered the kitchen.

"Severus?" Remus addressed his confused and he stood up when he noticed Severus's presence.

"What is it?" Sirius asked, judging by his presence on a school night that it had to be something serious.

"I found something or rather Miss Granger did," Severus responded noticing he was out of breath as he pulled the book from out of his robes and opened it up in front of his two allies.

Sirius and Remus leaned over the book immediately taking it all in.

"Does this mean?" Sirius asked unable to finish the question as he looked from Remus to Severus.

"There's more," Severus cut in, ignoring Sirius's question. "I remember this, when Potter presented me with this just moments before when I read it, it was as if something inside me shifted and I remembered that I already knew it."

"What do you mean?" Remus asked intrigued.

"I mean I sat down in the Hogwarts library all those years ago and I read a very similar passage to Ginevra Dunham as we sat near the back of the stacks."

"Why are you only telling us this now?" Sirius barked.

"Because I didn't remember it before."

"How do you just forget a conversation like that? I remember ever word I ever said to her, it replays over and over again in my head," Sirius snapped.

"So do I, no one was more surprised then me when Ginny Weasley showed up at Hogwarts looking exactly like Ginevra Dunham," Severus responded.

"Yet you're saying that you knew she had travelled back in time?" Remus asked doubtful.

"Yes, well no. I didn't know I knew, but somehow when I read this page I remembered," Severus responded with enthusiasm.

"You called yourself her friend, you said you loved her. How can you forget anything that happened between the two of you!" Sirius said banging his fist on the table and knocking over his cup of tea.

"Sirius," Remus whispered placing a hand on his friends shoulder as he shot a glance upstairs, worried they would wake someone up. "It was a long time ago, you cannot honestly expect him to remember conversations from-"

"No Sirius is right," Severus protested cutting Remus off as he slumped into an empty chair across the table. "I remember everything about her, the way she tossed her hair over her shoulders, the smile that never fully met her eyes -like she wasn't able to fully be happy because she knew all of our fates."

"Then-" Remus began to protest, but Severus continued on.

"I figured out her secret not because I was clever or because she wanted me to know, I figured it out because I watched her. I watched her obsession with Tom Riddle and it made no sense to me. Ginevra had no pure blood aspirations, if she did she would have put herself in Slytherin, she would have paired herself with the Black boy who was close to Tom, she would have accepted Lucius's advances. I figured it out because I was jealous of her., her relationship with Regulus, I watched them both. I had worked hard to align myself with those I thought would protect me, I tried to hide my lineage to pretend I wasn't a half blood."

Sirius looked surprised at his last confession but made no comment as he let Severus prattle on.

"What I said about her smile, that's not true," Severus said, looking up from the table that had seemed to be the direction of his conversation moments before to meet Sirius's gaze. "Her smile, it reached her eyes when she was around you."

Sirius opened his mouth to speak, but suddenly found himself at a loss for words.

"You've always been able to silently watch and collect information Severus, that's never been a secret. That's how you found out what I was." Remus stated.

"It's not just about that, it's that when Ginevra disappeared I didn't see it coming, when my best friend went with her I didn't see it coming. It haunted me for years, I took pride in always knowing what was happening around me, and the two people I cared about the most disappeared and I was clueless. It made me more determined to find her."

"For you, or for Voldemort?" Sirius asked, finally finding his voice.

"Both at first, but with out Regulus by my side I realized I had sided with the wrong cause, the closer I got to the inner circle the more alone I felt, and the more I realized I had made a mistake."

"How do you know you had this conversation with Ginny? How do you know that it doesn't just sound familiar because you've read it before and you've just forgotten?" Remus asked.

"Because I remember her reaction when i read it to her, she was mad I was confronting her about it in the middle of the library, but after she only seemed scared for a moment, it was like after the initial shock she moved right to acceptance as if she had known all a long that was her outcome."

"Ok so you just forgot about the conversation." Remus concluded.

"No no that's not it, I had no memory of it, but as soon as I read this it came back to me as if i had just dipped into a pensive I felt to memory pull me in, and now it is fresh in my brain," Severus explained.

"That doesn't make sense," Remus spoke, running his hands through the scruff that had started along his chin.

"Maybe it does! Maybe Severus is right! Maybe he forgot because he was meant to forget," Sirius spoke excitedly.

"How?" Remus asked.

"Maybe she did something so that he would forget, maybe so he would only remember at the right time."

"But why now, why is it suddenly the right time? Severus asked.

"Maybe it has nothing to do with the time, and more to do with the passage, maybe you were meant to forgot until you saw it again," Remus voiced.

"This isn't quite the same passage though, this is an updated book the one I read all those years ago varied slightly, had a little less detail," Severus added.

"Maybe she was waiting for you to look for her for the right reasons," Remus offered.

"It doesn't make sense though, I already knew she used a time turner to return to the past, why would she want me to forget that I read what happens when someone travels that far back?"

"Maybe she was protecting you from You-Know-Who," Sirius offered. "Maybe it wasn't about wanting to hide the information, like you said we already knew she traveled back with a time turner, and technically we can prove she was there longer than five hours-"

"And that she changed history," Severus added.

Sirius and Remus both turned to Severus in surprise but he waved away their concern gesturing to Sirius to continue on with his thoughts.

"Right, let's say that Ginny did remove your memory, it had nothing to do with her wanting to spare us from the possibility of her being erased, and more so to do with her not wanting You-Know-Who to find out just how far she traveled from, or what she was up to."

"Right, for all we know the passage could just be to serve as a warning for anyone using a time turner in the wrong way," Remus nodded.

"I still knew she travelled back in time," Severus added.

"But you didn't know her motives, you didn't know she used a time turner until now in the future when Ginny Weasley disappeared," Sirius concluded.

Severus opened his mouth to protest, and then closed it, letting Sirius's words wash over him as he realized that Sirius was right. Until the Ordered discovered Ginny Weasley had disappeared he had no idea that Ginevra Dunham had travelled to the past using a time turner. He hadn't even put any pieces together until he saw Ginny Weasley at Hogwarts years ago, long after the Dark Lord had gone into hiding, and even then he remained in the dark about the path she set herself on.

"Because I didn't know, and Regulus died, there was no way for the Dark Lord to figure it out," Severus agreed.

"Until we told Lucius Malfoy that Ginevra Dunham and Ginny Weasley were one in the same," Remus whispered grimly.

The next morning Sirius woke with a start as the voices from downstairs caused him to hit his head against the wall, where he had fallen asleep currled up beside Buckbeak the night before.

Sirius reached into the straw and pulled out his wand, rushing from the room taking the the stairs two at a time as he descended the landing and headed towards the raised voices in the kitchen.

"That's our daughter Arthur," Molly exclaimed hysterically.

"Molly dear I know, but we don't even know where this came from," Arthur soothed, wrapping his arms around his wife.

"Well no one can just waltz in here and leave a crumbled page on the kitchen table, it came from one of our own," Alastor Moody spoke, from where he stood in the corner.

"What's going on?" Sirius interupted.

Remus looked up from where he sat at the table, and slid a piece of paper down towards Sirius.

Sirius made a move to pick up the parchment, but he felt guilt swell up inside him as he he recognized the page from the one Severus brought to them last night.

"It was sitting on the table this morning when Molly came down to make breakfast," Arthur spoke.

"It's mine," Sirius stated.

"Sirius-" Remus began to protest.

"How could you have possibly-"

"Harry sent it to me, they found it in the library when they were looking into Ginny."

"Why would you involve the children?" Arthur asked.

"Come now Arthur you know how Harry is," Alastor interjected.

"I didn't ask him for anything, I haven't offered him any information, It's been hard keeping Harry out of the loop," Sirius spoke directly to Arthur.

"Harry is persistent," Remus voiced his agreement.

"Granger the one that found this?" Alastor grunted, nodding towards the parchment.

"In one of the books in the library," Sirius nodded.

"It can't be true," Molly whispered.

"I doubt it, it's all circumstantial," Alastor dismissed.

"How do you know?" Molly asked.

"Because we already have proof that Ginny was alive for quite some time after traveling to our time," Remus said, rubbing his temples.

"Why didn't you tell us when you got this?" Arthur asked, picking up the parchment.

"It was late, I knew it wasn't true, Ginny's disappearance, and this warning were unrelated, I didn't want to wake anyone up in the middle of the night over nothing," Sirius said, meeting Remus's eye.

Alastor nodded in agreement from across the room.

Both Bill and Charlie Weasley sat at the table with Remus, but both remained silent.

It took a few more minutes to convince Molly, but when she had settled down Charlie and Bill both took their leave, and Arthur brought Molly upstairs to bed.

"So tell me boys what's really going on?" Alastor addressed both Remus and Sirius, once the others were out of earshot.

"What do you mean?" Sirius responded.

"You expect me to believe that Sirius got this page last night and didn't discuss it with you Remus?" Alastor asked, his good eye fixed on Remus.

"Sirius hasn't been in the habit of sharing much with anyone these days Alastor," Remus responded.

"Come on Mad-Eye, I left the parchment on the kitchen table, it's not like I retreated to my room with it," Sirius protested.

Alastor grunted, his glass eye spinning around wildly, as he made his exit from the kitchen.

"Why did you do that?" Remus hissed, once he knew Alastor was out of earshot.

"Me? You left the parchment on the table last night," Sirius hissed back, taking a seat across from his friend.

"Why didn't you tell them the truth?"

"Judging by the fact the parchment was still a mystery to everyone before I came down means you didn't jump at the chance to tell the truth," Sirius responded pointedly.

"I didn't know you were going to leave the bloody thing out in the open I was caught off guard. If anything Alastor might have been able to explain how Severus misplaced an entire memory with Ginny. Who knows what else he's forgetting." Remus countered.

"Severus is the least of our concerns, we need to talk about Lucius," Sirius responding, waving his hand, as if he was literally pushing Remus's words aside.

"The same thoughts have been running through my mind."

"He's known long enough for you-know-who to have forged some kind of plan," Sirius nodded.

"Severus hasn't heard anything, either You-Know-Who doesn't trust him as much as Severus believes, or-"

"Or Lucius hasn't said anything," Sirius grinned.