Harry Potter and the Book of Impossibility

Chapter 17 - Daddy.

Two days later, Harry and Hermione still weren’t finished translating. So far, they only finished the part which explains what werewolves really are. Things they already knew, like that they change with full moon, they can be killed by silver and more useless information.

Finally, the first paragraph was ready. But it was dinner time, so they took a break. They arrived in the hall, and noticed a lot of excided students.

"Why are they so excited?" Ron asked.

"I don’t know." Hermione said, which was a rare combination of words for Hermione.

"Let’s have a look."

They made their way through the crowd, and finally arrived, to see that there was a note pinned to a large note board.

In honour of the fifteen hundredth ‘birthday’ of our school, there will be a ball on valentines day.

Old scholars will be invited too. Also other important wizards from our community.

The ball will start at eight o’ clock, and will end at 1 o’clock in the night. The first, second and third year students however will be sent to their dorms at eleven.

We expect you to wear appropriate clothing, and look at your best. It will be no disco, so don’t wear disco clothes, dress robes are preferred.

You can chose a dance partner before the ball, but there will be enough people to find one at the ball itself.

The ball will start after a surprise, which we, the school staff, don’t know either. The minister of magic will give it to the school as a birthday gift.

Yours sincerely,

Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts school for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

"A ball? I hope it will be better then the ball last year." Ron said.

"That were other circumstances, most important, you didn’t have the right date." Hermione said.

"I wonder who else I should have asked, you were already preoccupied by Krum if I’m not very much mistaking. By the way, I didn’t ask Padma, Parvati did it because Harry asked her to do it."

"But this time I’ll do it right. Herm, would you like to go to the ball with me?"

"Of course honey!" She replied happy.

"I guess we’ll go as a couple too, am I right?" Harry thought to Karlien.

"Of course, what kind of fiancée will I be if I don’t?"

"None" Harry replied.

"Are you two talking to each other some wayor another?" Hermione said.

"How would you know?" Harry asked.

"Well, you’re both very quiet, and have a smile on your face. I think I know what happened on Christmas night."

Both Harry and Karlien blushed furiously. "I’ll tell them" Karlien thought.

"Actually, we can do this since Halloween." She said.

"Did you have to tell that?" Harry said with his voice.

"What does it matter to tell them?"

"It matters because…" Harry was quiet for a moment, trying to find a reason why his best friends shouldn’t know, "I don’t know. It doesn’t matter."

"Talking about relationships, Ron and I have had contact with a ministry official for your wedding, and he says that you can only have the ceremony once. We suggest to just have a pre-wedding party at the WSA, invite my parents there, eventually the Dursleys. And after that, have the real ceremony just before the start of the new school year, here in the Great Hall. We also have to say that this won’t be a small wedding, after all it’s your wedding, Harry Potter. The ministry already said they would help, financial support and things like that. Do you agree on that?" Hermione said.

"Fine by me, what about you, honey?" Harry thought to Karlien.

"A pity we can’t actually do it on the WSA, but this is a good alternative. I agree with it."

"We agree." They both said together.

"Okay, if you will start making a list of names of people to invite, no rush there. We’ll start designing the invitation letter sooner or later. But first things first, let’s go get dinner! I’m starving."

After dinner, they continued translating the werewolves chapter. They had arrived at a promising part, the part which claims to know how to cure from werewolf.

It’s really hard to get cured from being a werewolf. You have to drink a very difficult potion on the day before full moon, than at the moment of the change, there is a spell to be performed. It’s a real hard spell, which even I, Salazar Slytherin, have problems with.

The recipe of the potion is this:

A fully grown wolfsbane root

Blood of the werewolf in it’s human state.

…

…

a lot more ingredients followed. After that the spell was explained.

"It looks almost impossible, the potion itself already takes two months to prepare! Then one of us have to practise the spell for a long time."

"I’ll do it, it looks a lot like the Patronus spell, which I can perform pretty well. I also can change into an animal which is stronger then Snuffles, if he can survive, I can survive if it fails. My father would have wanted me to do it, I know, because Remus was his friend"

"You’re right, but lets finish the full chapter before we start, maybe there are some nasty side effects."

There were no nasty side effects, so they started collecting ingredients the next day.

Now that Snape was gone, they could easily get all the ingredients that were necessary. He got everything stoked in his office. But they felt guilty afterwards. Breaking into a office of a just murdered person wasn’t very nice.

Fill the cauldron with water, add the wolf toenails, and make it boil for 12 days. When done…

* * * * *

After he felt like travelling across the universe by Floo Powder, he found himself on the cold stone floor of the Shrieking Shack. He had a big headache. ‘Better go to Madame Pomfrey’ he told himself. He left the Shrieking Shack through the long tunnel.

"That’s odd, there was no snow when I entered the Shack, and now there is. Weird, those magic guys…" He entered the castle which fortunately hadn’t changed. Pomfrey was in her office, but when he entered, she came and greeted him. "Potter, what have you done THIS time?"

"I ehh… fell from the stairs and now I have a terrible headache."

"Well, you better lie down then, I’ll make you a potion, and then you will stay here for a couple of hours to have rest." He didn’t feel like protesting, so he nodded in agreement.

Few hours later.

It was late in the evening, and the whole castle was asleep already. He walked up to the Gryffindor common room, and gave the Fat Lady the password.

"Wrong, who are you? Why do you want to enter this room with a wrong password?"

"Wrong?!? It was like this when I left today!"

"Nonsense, I haven’t used that password in years."

He noticed he was fighting a losing battle, so he used the secret passageway to the Gryffindor common room. One which he hadn’t put on the Marauders Map. He walked to his dorm, and saw that his bed was missing. "And these people are called ‘Friends’" he said irritated. He conjured a stretcher, because he didn’t feel like searching for his bed, probably decreased in size, and put in one of the closets under a pile of shorts, hard to find.

"What are YOU doing here? You haven’t been here the whole school year!" A round faced, small boy he didn’t know said the next morning.

"Just recovered from a terrible headache, must have taken the wrong dorm. Sorry."

"Never mind, go get dressed, it’s snowing, and it’s weekend, so we’re going to have a snow fight."

‘Damn, they’ve taken my clothes too. Accio spare robes!" He yelled. A minute later, a pear of spare school robes came flying towards him. He caught them, and pulled them on. He entered the common room.

"So, you decided to come after all," a girl who he didn’t know said, "And why are you coming from the boys dorms?"

He walked to the group of unknown kids. There was a read-head boy with a lot of freckles, must be another Weasley. And two girls. One on the lap of the Weasley, and the girl who talked to him.

"I’m coming from the boys dorms because I AM a boy." He said.

The girl ignored him and continued.

"And your eyes! What happened to your eyes?"

"There’s nothing wrong with my eyes, now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll go to the Great Hall."

The girl looked hurt, "What have I done wrong?"

He ignored her and was about to leave the common room, when he heard a scream.

"Harry?" The girl yelled, "If your here, the who is there?" She pointed at him. He saw a boy, probably called Harry, who looked exactly like him, except that he had brilliant green eyes.

Harry realised this too, and grabbed his wand. He walked to him, and said.

"Who are you, and what are you doing with my looks? Polyjuice potion?"

"Who I am, I’m James Potter, and this is my very own body, so I might ask YOU the question."

"James Potter? That’s impossible! My father has been dead for more than fourteen years. Now I want you to tell me the truth, because I know some real good hexes!"

"Dead? For fourteen years? I must have traveled in time then, 21 years to the future to be precisely. But who are you?"

"I’m Harry Potter, your future son if you’re telling the truth. I’ll believe you if you pass a test, go sit with them and introduce your self, while I’ll prepare the test."

‘Could I’ve really traveled in time? So that thing did work! I have a son, I wonder who the mother is.’He felt a happy feeling over his whole body. "A son!"

Harry was back, and showed him the Marauders Map.

"How do I use this?" Harry asked.

James touched the paper with his wand and said the spell. The map of Hogwarts came in view, and right where he was, it said: Harry Potter, James Potter, Karlien van Voorthuizen, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger. He also saw to familiar names in the DADA teachers office, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin.

Suddenly Harry became emotional. He hugged James, and called him: "Dad, I finally meet you!" Karlien, Ron and Hermione were beaming at the two of them.

"Sorry to interrupt, but I think it’s highly important to go to professor Dumbledore." Hermione said.

"Yeah, but let him take Harry’s cloak, call Sirius and Remus too, and surprise them!" Ron said.

The five of them agreed, and Harry went to get his invisibility cloak.

They walked to the DADA office, where Sirius and Remus lived, and told James for the last time: "Don’t let them know you’re here, only after Harry says so." Ron said.

"Your wish is my order, sir!" James joked. After all, he wasn’t an adult like Sirius and James, but a teenager of Harry’s own age. He wasn’t serious yet, like Sirius and Remus would be if something like this happened to them now. James just played along with the game.

Remus was the one who opened the door.

"Harry, Ron, Hermione, Karlien! How can I help you?" Sirius had appeared in the door opening too.

"We would like to talk to both of you, in professor Dumbledore’s office." Harry said with a serious voice. Remus heard his voice, and thought it might be important, so he agreed.

Sirius and Remus let them to Dumbledore’s office, and gave the password, ‘Flammable Marshmallows’.

The moving staircase brought them up, and Remus opened the large door. Dumbledore was busy reading a book. He sighted a put his book away.

"Harry says he has something important to discuss with all of us, he came to get us." Remus said friendly, not irritated.

"We have a big surprise for you, Remus and Sirius. And for you a little bit too, headmaster." Harry said.

"Great! I love surprises, surprise us!" Dumbledore said excited.

"Okay, you can take of the cloak now, Dad." Harry said.

James took of the cloak, and Sirius and Remus gasped, Dumbledore smiled.

"It WORKED?!?" Sirius screamed.

"It must have," Remus said, "that means the two of us will come soon"

"The two of you? Didn’t Peter come along too?" James said.

"Ehh, yes he probably did, but he’ll be the one to return." Dumbledore said.

"How do you know about it?" Sirius asked.

"You think I didn’t know that you were going to try it out? I did know. And I also know that it only works six times. There’ll be two times left, you don’t want to be separated, but James, trust me, you want Peter to leave."

"Why is that? He’s my friend! Where’s he in this life anyway?" James said.

"Prongs, we thought he was our friend, maybe he was at that time, but later, he wasn’t very friendly anymore. He’s dead now, killed by a death eater." Sirius said.

"Why are you calling me ‘Prongs’?" James asked, "And is Voldemort still in power?"

"Oh… yes, Prongs is your later nickname, We’ll explain later. About Pettigrew, he killed himself in a fight with your son. He held the wand the wrong way and hit himself, while he tried the Killing Curse on Harry." Sirius said.

"He never was really bright, but why would he want to kill Harry, and you said he was killed by a death eater. Oh no! Do you mean to tell me Peter was a death eater?" James said astonished. Sirius, Remus, Dumbledore, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Karlien nodded.

"I think you will have to tell me about the past a bit. Why was I murdered? Wait… that sound crazy. Why was the other me murdered? Who is the mother of my son? I’m full of questions!"

"Later, Mr. Potter Senior, first let me introduce your son and his friends and then go find the other Sirius, Remus and Peter. We also have to decide what to do with the three of you now that you’re here and won’t return. We might as well let you just continue classes from where you ended, if I’m correct, you left your own life at exactly the same time as Harry and his friends are now," Dumbledore said, "after everything is done, I’ll have to notify Ron’s father, the Minister of Magic. Let’s go to the Shrieking Shack to pick you and Pettigrew up."

So they left, while on their way, Harry introduced James to his friends. "Ron Weasley, nice to meet you, you’ll tell me some good pranks you did on Snape?" Ron said. "You know Snape?" James said. "I wish I don’t, he was our potion teachers until last week, when he was murdered. He was absolutely horrible." Ron said. "Serves him right, being killed, did you know he was a death eater already in school? I wonder why professor Dumbledore hired him.". "I wonder that too, Dumbledore won’t tell us. But that guy did one good thing. He saved Harry’s life in our first year." Ron said. "Why would he want to do that?" James asked. "Because you saved his life once. Dumbledore says that saving somebody’s life creates some sort of band." "Why would I EVER want to save creeps life?" "Because you and Sirius would be expelled if you wouldn’t have saved him. Sirius showed him how to enter the Shrieking Shack once. Just when Remus had entered at full moon. You pulled him back just in time."

"I’m Hermione Granger, a pleasure to meet the famous James Potter." Hermione said. "Famous? Why am I famous?" "You’ll find out later, when we tell you everything."

"I’m Karlien van Voorthuizen, nice to meet my soon-to-be father-in-law!" Karlien said.

"Soon-to-be father-in-law? Are you and Harry going to get married then?" "What do you think? He’ll adopt me? Yes, we’re going to get married this summer, you’re invited to the wedding." They both laughed at this, but then they arrived at the Whomping Willow. Sirius took a long piece of wood, and pressed the tree to make it freeze.

They entered, and walked to the Shrieking Shack. When they were about to enter, the heard footsteps, and a younger Sirius and Remus came around the corner. First, the two walked further without noticing that there were other people. Suddenly they saw them.

"James! Glad you made it too! Oh… hi professor," young Sirius and Remus said, "And you are?" Young Sirius added, to the older Sirius, who was in front together with Dumbledore and James. The others were hidden behind them.

"You." Older Sirius said.

"I’m Sirius Black, one of the four official Marauders of Hogwarts, and Head Prank Designer, and you are?"

"You." Older Sirius said again.

"What are you playing at? I just told you who I am, now who are YOU?" young Sirius said, irritated.

"Sirius Black, one of the four official Marauders of Hogwarts, and Head Prank Designer."

"That’s who I am, now don’t fool me again, or I’ll hex you!"

"I’m even more dumb than I thought I was," old Sirius said, "You still don’t get it, do you? I’m you, the older you. That time travel thing, doesn’t move us to another time, but copies us there. That’s why we thought it failed when James tried it first, he remained where he was. So we tried it too, and then Lily came in. She must have followed us, and used that time traveller before we could stop her. She’ll be here any minute, but we have to get Pettigrew before he escapes."

"You mean Peter. Why do you call him Pettigrew anyway? You don’t mind if I say ‘you’ to you, don’t you? Because I could just as well call you ‘I’ or ‘me’"

"No, I don’t mind. And about Pettigrew, Peter if ‘I’ like, I’ll tell ‘me’ later. Ah, there he is"

When Harry saw Peter Pettigrew, he felt a sudden anger rise inside him. The kind of anger he had when he first met Sirius. Harry ran towards him, pointed his wand at him to hurt him, but Dumbledore stopped him.

"Harry, calm down, he’s still innocent, we’ll just modify his memory and sent him back. Deal?" young James, Sirius, Remus and Peter Pettigrew looked shocked, but Harry nodded, and put his wand away. Dumbledore put a memory charm on him, gave him a small stone that was lying on the ground, probably that time travel thing, and performed a difficult spell. Pettigrew was gone again.

"Can anyone please tell us where that was good for?" young Remus said, "And who are the others?"

Just then, a beautiful girl with long, red hear and bright green eyes, just like Harry, entered.

"Lily!" James yelled, he ran towards her, and hugged her, as if she was a long missing friend who just showed up after years of being gone. "I thought I was never going to see you again! I’m so glad you followed us here!".

"James! I’m glad I did too, since this is the first time in weeks you hugged me, and I was about to brake up with you. Now I know you still love me, so I won’t brake up." Lily said.

"You know I will always love you." James said. They were about to kiss, when Harry interrupted them.

"I’m glad you didn’t brake up, because if you would have done that, the world won’t be the same. You two and I are one of the most important people this century. Now, I will hug you too, because I haven’t seen my mother in about 14 years." And Harry entered their hug, his family was finally back together.

Young Sirius and Remus were astonished, James and Lily, parents? Famous? Most important of the century? Ron, Hermione and Karlien had stayed on the background all the time, but young Sirius spotted them, and the came to introduce. It was all very merry. But then Dumbledore asked all of them to come to the Great Hall, which was empty now, and his office was to small for all of them. "We’ll have to get all of you new once up to date." He said.

Three hours later, people started to enter the Great Hall for lunch. "Quick, use this!" Harry said, and he threw his invisibility cloak over them. "Stay here, we don’t want anyone bumping into you, or do we?" Harry said, Dumbledore agreed.

Harry and his gang went over to the Gryffindor table, and saw Dumbledore walk to a door behind the Head Table, leaving the door open surprisingly long, for only one person to enter, before shutting it.

A minute later, the door opened again, an owl flew out, and the door closet again. The owl flew to Harry.

Come to the room behind the Head Table when you’re finished eating.

You can take your friends with you.

Your father

"Are you really hungry?" Harry asked the others, who had made sandwiches but didn’t eat them. "No, to excited. You?" Ron said. "Me too, let’s go to them." Harry replied.

"I’m really happy for you, you know?" Karlien thought to him.

"Thanks, but I think that they still don’t really understand that they are my parents, after all, I am older than both of them. We’ll more likely be parental figures to them, we know a lot more about the world nowadays." Harry replied.

"We need to continue our little chat" Dumbledore said, when everybody had entered the room. "Now that you know everything about the past, We’ll have to discuss your future. You can’t go back anymore now, so I suggest you just continue your education where you dropped off. Agree?" Young Remus, Sirius, James and Lily nodded. "You need your school supplies and personal things, I’ll let someone take care of those. You also need a place to sleep. You can go to the fifth years dorms, but the boys one will be a bit crowded. The last, and biggest problem is how we introduce you to the school, and after that, to the whole world."

"Sir, may I make a suggestion?" Harry asked.

"Of course, Harry. Go ahead." Dumbledore replied.

"We introduce them to the fifth years now, let them get to know their dorms and dorm mates. And with dinner, introduce them to the rest of the school, explain everybody what happened, maybe not everything, but a selected part of the truth." Harry said.

"Excellent idea! Couldn’t have made it better myself!" Dumbledore beamed.

* * * * *

All the other Gryffindors were a little shocked, when they saw professors Dumbledore, Black and Lupin, together with Harry, Ron, Karlien and Hermione walked into the Gryffindor common room.

"If all the fifth year students would please go to the boys dormitory." Professor Dumbledore said. At that very moment professors McGonagall, Flickwick, Sprout, Hagrid and all the other teachers, and at last Filch and his cat entered the common room. "Why did you want us here, Albus?" Professor McGonagall asked. "You’ll see, Minerva." He replied.

Once in the over crowded fifth years boys dorm, professor Dumbledore asked everybody to stay calm, and cast a silencing charm on the room, so that nobody could get eavesdropping.

"I want you to swear total secrecy about what I’m about to show you. Why you?" He said to the fifth year students, "Because you will have to get used to it before everybody else get to know it, tonight, at dinner." Everybody agreed. Dumbledore walked to one of the beds, which curtains were closed, and said:

"I give you," he opened the curtains, "James Potter, Lily Evans, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, the young ones."

The reaction was exactly as Harry had thought it would be. Hagrid roared with happiness, McGonagall looked emotionally very touched, Flickwick showed no emotion but confusion, Sprout fainted, Filch reacted as Snape would have, murderous, and Dumbledore smiled and his eyes twinkled. Parvati and Belinda had no idea how they were supposed to react, Neville cried silently, Dean and Seamus looked open mouthed, dumbfounded.

Dumbledore asked for attention, well rather screamed for attention, as nobody seemed in state to listen. Once every calmed down, and professor Sprout was brought back to conscience by Madame Pomfrey, Dumbledore explained everything.

"So you’re Harry parents" Seamus said to Lily and James. "That would be correct." Lily said.

"And you are Sirius and Remus, the elder you are our teachers, you know that? It’s nice to meet you. Strange, but nice." Belinda said.

Harry had walked to Neville, to comfort him. He was still crying a little.

"Neville, your parents will be alright one day. I promise. All the doctors are doing everything in their power to help them. They will find a cure. As a matter of fact, I think I know something. Phoenix tears."

"H-h-h-h-how do you know about my p-p-p-p-parents?" Neville mumbled.

"Dumbledore, Crouch Jr. Don’t worry, I’ve never told anyone."

"W-w-w-who is Crouch Jr.?"

"The son of Mr. Crouch. He was the death eater that did cruciatus on you parents."

"Mr. Crouch’s son? I thought it was You-Know-Who himself who did it."

"He couldn’t have. It happened after I defeated him."

"After?!?!? I never knew. What happened to Crouch Jr?"

"He went to Azkaban, and everybody believed he died there. He didn’t, he escaped. He’s been teaching us DADA a whole year, disguised as Moody. He was the one that put my name in the Goblet of Fire, helped me through the tournament, and turned the cup in a portkey which sent me and Cedric directly to the rebirth of Voldemort. I survived, turned back to Hogwarts, we caught Crouch, he told us everything with a little help of a strong truth potion. And then Fudge ordered a Dementor to Kiss him. The one who caused your parents memory problems is more than dead Neville, and I think I know how to cure them like I said before."

"But Phoenixes only cry if they want to. Doctors tried but couldn’t get the phoenixes crying."

"I think I can solve the Phoenix problem. Let’s make a deal, I will deal with your parents within a week, and you will keep your mouth shut about that I did it."

"Deal." Neville looked a lot happier than Harry ever remembered him looking, and Neville too went to introduce himself.

"Honey, Could you please do something for me and Neville?" Harry thought to Karlien.

"Of course, what did you have in mind?" She replied.

"I would like you to go to St Mungo’s, and heal Neville’s parent, they suffered a lot under Cruciatus and lost their minds. Don’t let anybody know we were in this. Go to the loo and become a Phoenix. Be back as soon as possible, please."

"Your wish is my command, sir" she said sarcastic. She excused Lily from a conversation, and left.

While Karlien was gone, everybody else, except Harry, Ron and Hermione, left to the Great Hall to have dinner. Dumbledore had left to inform the ministry. They went to their own dorm to wait for Karlien. She came back ten minutes later with a very satisfied look on her face.

"It worked!!! It was as if they woke up from a trance. They looked at each other, jumped out of the bed, and hugged. Mr Longbottom said: ‘Where are we? When are we? Why are we here?’ his wife responded with: ‘the last thing I remember is those death eaters casting Cruciatus on us. Oh my God, Neville! Is he alright?’ At that moment at least 30 doctors entered the room, and when they saw me, I disappeared." Karlien said.

"That’s great!" Harry said, and he explained the rest everything about Neville’s parents, and made them promise not to tell anyone.

"I thought this day should be celebrated!" Karlien said, "You got your parents, Neville too. I stopped at a pub and stole some butterbeers, turn on the radio!"

Harry opened a butterbeer, and enjoyed it. The radio was playing a song from a band called: ‘Wicked Wizards’. Suddenly the music stopped, and a voice said:

"We’re sorry to interrupt this broadcast, but we have an extra news bulletin. Breaking News."

Harry chocked in his butterbeer, and boosted the volume with his wand.