Chapter 1
As September ended and October began at their sixth year at Hogwarts, Hermione, Harry, and Ron are in another one of their fights, which has seem to become a lot more common since the death of Harry’s godfather, Sirius Black.
“Ron put that down right now! It’s not a toy!” Hermione yells, running towards him. Ron moves out of her way, making sure she can’t reach him as he runs. They both almost slip from the damp morning grass. Ron runs closer to Hargrid’s hut, making them follow in pursuit.
“Oh look at me, I’m Hermione, turning my special little necklace,” He mocks as he puts the time turner around his neck, “I just know everything because I’m soooo smart.” He spits out the emphasized ‘t’.
Hermione looks like she is about to kill him, before she turns to Harry, “Stop him, would you? He has the time turner. I’m not saving his ass if something happens.”
“Like I need saving from you.”
“Ron, come on, give it back.” Harry looks at him, hoping he will give it back and they won’t have to explain to Ron how they have kept the time turner from him.
“Oh come on now, why are you fighting like we're five?” Draco says, walking down the hill where they are standing. They all looked at him wondering when he came down there. The amount of times he snuck up on them is too many to count. He looks at Ron knowing that he must have done something to cause this fight.
“Why do you care? What, you came down here to fuck your girlfriend again? Oh I'm Hermione banging the enemy.” Ron mocks once again.
“Yes, I actually did. Now why are you two fighting like my parents?” He took Hermione's hand even though she looks like she is about to use a curse or use an unforgivable on Ron. “So what happened?” The question was toward Hermione but Harry butted in instead.
“He took something of hers and won’t give it back.”
“Ok, so what is the big deal? Ron just give my girlfriend back her thing so we can leave.” Draco looks at Ron as if he had magically solved the problem, even though Hermione and Ron have one of these fights every other day. Most of Hogwarts is shocked they are still friends at this point. Hell, even Ginny thinks their fighting is getting out of hand. Before anyone even knew about Draco and Hermione everyone thought that Ron and Hermione were going to end up together.
“What! Why the hell would I listen to some suck up Slytherin rich kid? Just because Hermione likes you doesn’t mean I do. You don't get to come here and tell me what to do. She was my friend first.” Ron yells at him.
Hermione starts to get annoyed at him and interrupts. “Guys, please. Ron just stop it already. You have been nothing but rude to us and I'm done with it. Give me back my necklace and let us leave.”
“Maybe because you decided to get together with a guy who has constantly shamed me and my whole family? What even is this thing? Why do you even care about this old necklace, anyway?”
Hermione's face turned from angry to annoyed and sad at the same time. When her and Draco told him about them dating he did not take it well. She thought he might actually try and kill Draco that day. Hermione thought that after a little time, he would get over it. It was pretty clear that he hasn’t. “We already talked about this, Ron. You know I would never do anything to purposefully hurt you. It just happened and I’m sorry. Can you please just give me my necklace back so we can go?”
“Well guess what? I don’t forgive you.” Ron says with a mischievous smile as he runs behind Harry, searching for protection.
“Ron! Do not turn that!” Hermione yells and she starts running towards Harry and Ron while dragging Draco close behind her.
As Ron sees his demise coming as soon as Hermione reaches him, he starts to rapidly turn the time turner, unknowingly about to send them all back many, many years.
When Hermione sees this, she starts sprinting full speed, forgetting about Draco, causing him to trip and fall right into Hermione’s back. This causes a domino effect with Draco falling into Hermione, Hermione falling into Harry, all while Ron was still furiously turning the time turner.
The moment Hermione and Draco collided into Harry, they all flew backwards right into Ron.
One moment they were in the year 1996 and the next, 1976.
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“James! I swear you better run you little bitch!” The voice of Remus Lupin could be heard from around the hut to the castle. Remus runs towards James, angry at his comment about him and Sirius. Ever since they came out to the group, James takes it upon himself to joke about Sirius and Remus' relationship. He is always joking when they’re together. James should be lucky that he hasn’t said anything to Sirius about him being fuck buddies with REGULUS FUCKING BLACK!
“Nope,” James says smugly, “It’s my job to be the bestest of friends and make sure you guys know you are grossly obsessed with each other.” James skips away, still very pleased with himself and his joke.
Peter runs behind trying to catch up to whatever fight James and Remus are having. Sirius is also strolling down to where they are, not really caring all too much, even though this fight was low key about him. “Yeah, beat him up Moony!” Peter yells towards the two of them.
“Oh come on, why are you supporting him? Come on Pads, help me!” Remus yells back to Peter and Sirius. Remus can practically see Sirius roll his eyes about James and him “fighting”. James makes Remus jump by wrapping his arm around him laughing at this funny, but not funny fight they just had.
“Awh come on I missed the fight,” Peter complains. Peter always seems to be fourth wheeling them at the start of the year. I mean this summer Sirius finally ran away and him and James are now actually brothers, and Sirius and Remus are dating . So now, he is just by himself.
James decides it would be a good idea to run up to Peter and try to push him, and Peter ends up falling right on his ass. Sirius in the background starts laughing and finally catches up to them. Remus walks closer to Sirius and places his hand into his. James sits down next to Peter and where he fell. James then starts to say, “So do we have any plans for a prank?”
“Nope.” Sirius says bluntly. “I mean we could alway just bug Snivellus again.” His shoulders rose slowly as he said this. He starts to walk towards Peter and James. In doing so he drags Remus with him. They sit down and now it is the four of them sitting on the grass.
“I swear if we get a grass stain on our uniforms Professor McGonagall will have our heads.” Remus says to the group. “I mean she’s already mad at us for that prank we pulled in the great hall. She took 50 points from gryffindor. I had first years coming up and yelling at me.”
Sirius looked at his boyfriend and said, “Really? No one came up to me or anything.”
“Yeah, cause you’re a Black and everyone is scared of you.”
James chimes in, “Yup because Sirius is super scary. I mean when you see this boy sleeping, he doesn’t look very scary to me.” James likes bragging to the bunch about how he and Sirius practically lived with each other during the summer. He is the only one who really talks about it much though because they are scared that if they say the wrong thing Sirius will get mad or have a flashback and ignore them. It happened once and he almost didn’t talk to anyone for a full week. They all know something happened when he went home last summer. They never asked, but the way he has been acting they could tell that it was pretty bad.
One thing they had noticed is that Sirius and Regulus were talking less and less as the year went on, especially compared to prior years, making Regulus and James’s relationship even more difficult and awkward.
They sat there for a little while until this blinding light appeared and suddenly four strangely familiar students appeared.