Suddenly Lily, who had watched her son and noticed his glance at his watch, remembered something and said, “Oh, Harry, I am sorry, I completely forgot to tell you, that Ms. Weasley has detention with Mr. Filch tonight, so that she probably won’t make it here before curfew.” Harry glanced at his mother with a relieved expression on his face and told her,

“Oh, that’s good, thank you Mom. I had just begun to worry where she was, especially as there is no Quidditch practise on Thursdays.” Severus cleared his throat and suggested,

“Harry, I don’t know if you intend to join us tomorrow night for the full moon,” Harry’s eyes started to twinkle with joy and he nodded eagerly, “but after your disturbed night yesterday, I think you should go to bed. I will stay with you, and when you have memory visions and I don’t notice it, please wake me up.”

“And when you don’t feel well tomorrow morning, just stay in bed; you don’t have to come to classes then; even your animagus students will have to be content with me,” McGonagall added strictly.

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This night was not better than the one before, and in the morning Severus and Harry were putting up quite a fight if Harry was well enough to attend classes. Totally fed up with the two of them, Lily fetched Poppy’s toy thermometer and thrust it under Harry’s tongue, and when it told Harry to shut up and stay in bed, he finally quietened and accepted that he would be missing at least the first class in the morning.

“But you have to tell Granny that I will come to the second class and take the 7th years’,” Harry made his parents promise; “Otherwise I won’t stay here at all.” Severus glared at his son and said,

“Alright, but you may only take this class; afterwards you will return here immediately. I will come before the third class starts and check if you are here. And if I cannot find you, you will be in a lot of trouble.”

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When they met in the forest just after curfew, Harry had the idea to flash all of them into the huge park of Potter Manor, so that they could enjoy the night there for the first time since ages. The others liked the idea immediately, and Harry flashed James, Sirius and Remus over, before he returned for his parents. As it was still before midnight, James went and invited his parents, so that they started the night with a picnic next to the lake, which looked beautiful in the light of the full moon.

“Harry, what do you think about visiting us during the Easter holidays? You could either come with your parents and sisters or even alone and stay for a few days,” Mrs. Potter asked, while they were sitting near the lake. Harry frowned and said,

“I would love to, Granny, but at the moment I am not able to go anywhere, because I still get memories back and as I feel quite sick afterwards, I prefer to be at home. But maybe in the summer if that would be alright with you.” Mrs. Potter smiled at him.

“Of course, Harry, you are always welcome, and you know how to contact us.”

After their picnic, they spent a few hours playing around in their animagus forms, until Harry flashed Remus and his parents back to Hogwarts in time for breakfast.

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When he talked with Ginny, they decided that Harry should organize the tournament, but that Ginny as the new captain of the Hogwarts team would represent him during the event in the afternoons and evenings if necessary. As soon as Ginny left shortly before curfew, he filled the dates he had arranged with his grandfather into the new copies he had made a few days ago and thought about flashing to the owlery to hand the letters to Cyclops. But then he had a brilliant idea. From his recently retrieved memories, he knew that the name of the team captain of Beauxbatons was Simone Bateaux and of Durmstrang was Peter Schiff.

He transformed into Icicle, took the letter to Simone into his left foot and flashed over to where he imagined her to be. As a phoenix he was able to flash to any person he knew about – it was such a valuable gift to have, that he still could not really believe it and forgot about it most of the time. He found Simone sitting together with several other girls in a room what he supposed to be the equivalent to their house common rooms. The room was not as colourful and cosy as their common rooms in Gryffindor or Merlin; it looked relatively plain and elegant with the furniture in a light beige colour. The room was surrounded by large windows, but as it was already dark, he could not see anything outside. He jumped straight in front of Simone, and before he knew what happened most of the girls started to shriek, at least until they had a good look at him. Then he could hear, as far as he could understand the French,

“Simone, whose bird is this?”

“Oh, look, he is adorable!”

“What kind of bird is it? It looks like a magical bird.”

“Maybe a phoenix?”

“No, Juliette, they are not white, they are red.”

Harry grinned, but the girls could not see it, they could only hear a beautiful trill and looked at him in awe. He stretched his foot out so that Simone could take the letter off his foot. She read it and said aloud,

“It is from Harry Snape-Dumbledore. He is inviting us for a Quidditch tournament again this year.” Now turmoil broke out. Everyone was happily shouting and cheering at the same time, so that Harry could not understand a word. ‘The next time I’ll be stuck at home, I will try to study a little to improve my French’ he resolved and wondered if he should transform back or better flash back to Hogwarts immediately. Simone was watching him quietly.

“Are you waiting for an answer?” she finally asked and Harry shook his head. “Can you understand me?” she asked again, and Harry nodded. “Alright, then please tell Harry, that we are very pleased and we love to visit Hogwarts again. I just have to fix the dates with our headmistress, and I will send you an owl during the next few days.” Harry/Icicle nodded his consent and in a flash of ice, he was gone.

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When he returned to his room, he transformed back immediately and went out into the sitting room. Nobody seemed to have noticed his absence. ‘Should he flash to Durmstrang as well?’ he thought but remembered just in time, that if France was one hour ahead in time, Bulgaria probably had to be even two hours ahead. So he had to postpone flashing there to tomorrow. He bade his parents good night and went to bed. After a few minutes, Lily came into his room, tucked him in and sat on the edge of his bed. She watched him closely, felt his forehead, nodded contently and finally asked,

“Is everything alright, Harry?” Harry smiled at his mother.

“Yes, Mom, it was a nice, quiet day, and I didn’t have any memories apart from the few in the morning, so everything is fine. Really,” he added. He would love to tell her about Beauxbatons, but he could imagine what the reaction would be and as did not want to endanger his trip to Durmstrang, he decided to wait a day. As soon as he came back from there, he would tell his parents about the other schools. “Good night, Mom,” he said tiredly and closed his eyes. His mother stayed where she was watching her son proudly, until she noticed his breathing evened and he was fast asleep after a few minutes. Harry did not notice Severus coming into the still enlarged bed, but when he woke up from a memory vision, his father was at his side instantly forcing a potion through his throat.

After breakfast, Marina urged him to play with her, and as it was Sunday, he knew he should do so, but first he wanted to get rid of his letter to Durmstrang. Therefore, he told Marina,

“I am sorry, little sis, but I have to do some work first. Now, let me work for an hour without disturbing me, and I will play with you until lunchtime. How is that?” Marina nodded eagerly, and Harry withdrew into his room. He started to grade the papers, only for his desk to look as if he was working at it. Then he transformed into Icicle, took the letter to Durmstrang into his foot and flashed to where he supposed Peter Schiff to be.

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Peter was surrounded by the students Harry knew from his memories as his team members in a room that was supposedly the common room. It was a very gloomy, large room with dark brown furniture and only very few windows. Harry thought he would probably be going crazy very soon being forced to spend his time in such a dark place. He flashed directly in front of him and stretched his foot out for him to take the letter. Fortunately, he could not understand one of the students asking,

“What is the chicken doing here?” Peter read his letter and his face changed into a huge smile. As soon as he told his friends what the letter was about, they cheered in a similar way to how the students at Beauxbatons had reacted. Finally Peter knelt down in front of Icicle and told him in English,

“Thank you very much for delivering the letter. You are a very pretty phoenix. Are you Harry’s?” Harry nodded and trilled an answer. Peter went on, “Please tell Harry, that we are looking forward to the tournament very much. I will try to confirm the dates today and send an owl to him. Can you tell him that we are very grateful for having him organizing…?” Suddenly he stopped, threw a curious glance at Icicle and said, “Wait! I could understand what you just said. You said you are Harry, didn’t you? Why can I understand you?” Harry trilled,

#You understood correctly. Maybe…um… are you a bird animagus?#

“Yes, Harry, I am a Hawk. Therefore, I am able to understand you? Wow, that’s great. Can you transform back, so that we can talk for a while?” Harry shook his head and replied,

#Sorry. No, not today; I have to go back, because I didn’t tell anyone that I was coming here. Maybe I can visit you another time, but you have to clear with your Head of House, if it is alright for me to visit you here.# Peter nodded and said,

“I will do that, Harry, you know, the organization of the tournament will be a good excuse, won’t it?” He laughed. “I will send you an owl.” Harry nodded, trilled his good-bye and went back to Hogwarts with a flash of ice.

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Being back into his room, he continued grading parchments until a very excited Marina stormed his room only a few minutes later. “Harry, where have you been?” she shouted reprimanding. Harry sighed and asked,

“Why did you notice that I went somewhere in the first place? I told you not to disturb me for an hour, didn’t I?”

“Harry,” his father came into the room, “you know Marina, and you made one mistake. Normally your door is always open, isn’t it? But this morning, you closed your door, and Marina was very worried if you might be ill again, and she just could not wait an hour to check on you. Therefore, she opened your door and noticed that you were not here. Could you please explain where you have been?” Harry nodded and said,

“I was going to tell you and Mom anyway. Let me come out into the living room.” He sat on his favourite spot on the sofa with Marina on his lap, and told his parents about delivering the letters to Simone and Peter. They were speechless. It took Severus a few minutes to collect himself far enough to say,

“Harry, do you know how dangerous that was? Why are you always looking for even more trouble than you are already in?” and Lily added,

“Harry, I fully agree with your father. Why do you always have to do such crazy things?” Harry was watching his feet while he was busily cuddling Marina, who had remained unusually quiet during his talk with their parents. Finally, he said,

“I am sorry for not telling you in advance. I don’t know why it could have been dangerous, but…” his voice ebbed out and he was drawn into a new memory.

It must be a memory of the last Quidditch tournament. Harry was walking down the street to Hogsmeade together with Simone and Peter. They headed down to the Three Broomsticks, sat down and Harry ordered three butterbeer.

“Now Harry, how does it feel to win the tournament for the fourth time in a row?” Peter asked, and Harry grinned saying,

“I don’t mind how many times it might be, I just care that I don’t want to loose a game, and so far I have lost none.” Simone smiled and them and suggested,

“We should do this every year; I mean, come here for a butterbeer when the last game is finished.” Both boys nodded their consent enthusiastically.

Harry was back in their living room and thankfully gulped down the potion Severus held in front of him. Then he leaned back into his father’s arms and closed his eyes. After a few minutes, he felt better and sat up only to notice a huge envelope with his name on it sitting on the table in front of him.

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He reluctantly opened the envelope and found a card written by the Weasley twins:

The official opening of WWW

– The Weasleys’ Whizzarding Wheazes Shop in Hogsmeade –

Next Saturday during the Hogwarts Hogsmeade weekend 12 o’clock

As our silent partner your presence will be appreciated

Harry looked up and noticed that his parents had watched his face changing into a huge smile he couldn’t hide fast enough. So he had to tell them something.

“Um... you know the Weasley twins, um... I mean...Fred and George Weasley of course.” When his parents nodded, he continued and told them the story about their first joke shop in the old time line. When he finished telling them how he persuaded them to found a joke shop even in this time line, Severus laughed and told him,

“You know that Albus is often being called a meddling old coot, don’t you? You are as meddling as your grandfather, aren’t you, my son?” Harry snorted and told them,

“I don’t know if you will like it, but on Saturday at noon I have to be in Hogsmeade. If you don’t want me to go on my own, you are very welcome to accompany me, but I just have to go, and if it’s only that I flash there at five minutes to twelve and flash back at ten past twelve!” His parents laughed and Lily said,

“We understand that, and we will decide what to do on Saturday morning, alright?” Harry gave his parents a thankful nod. It was so good to have parents who could understand his wishes and needs – he was really happy now.

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After his animagus class on Saturday morning, he flashed over to Hogsmeade and managed to arrive at the twins’ shop exactly a minute before the opening was going to start. Ginny was nervously waiting for him a little aside a large group of students who were gathering in front of the entrance door. She visibly relaxed when the beautiful white phoenix hopped onto her shoulder.

A moment later, one of the twins opened the huge front door and an announcement could be heard:

“Welcome to the opening of our joke shop! We are especially glad to greet our little sister and her boyfriend who at the same time is our silent partner, without whom the founding of this shop would not have been possible. Come here Ginny Weasley and Harry Snape-Dumbledore!” Harry quickly hopped down to the ground and transformed back into himself, and Fred guided them through the shop, where the group of students followed them. ‘Funny,’ Harry thought. Nothing was much different from what he remembered of his old time line. The students seemed to be delighted, and at least the opening day seemed to be a full success – not that Harry had doubted it of course. Suddenly he became aware of the time. Unbelievably Ginny and he had already spent a whole hour in the shop and if he didn’t want to get memories here, he would have to flash back soon. Excusing himself to Ginny, he looked for one of the twins, and when he finally found George, he asked,

“Now, did I promise you too much? Your shop seems to be the highlight of the day!” George laughed and answered,

“Yes – the only pity is that it was your idea and not our own – but we are very grateful and happy of course.” Harry shook his head vehemently and replied,

“No, George, that’s not true! It was not my idea but yours. YOU founded this shop in my old time line – I only told you about your own idea. Congratulations by the way!” He glanced at his watch and mumbled,

“Sorry, George, but I have to flash home now. Good luck with your shop; I will make sure to come over from time to time.” After a huge good-bye to Fred, who had come over to them in the meantime, Harry transformed back into Icicle, but before he could flash away, Ginny managed to grab his tail feathers and was flashed with him. Together they arrived back in Harry’s room at Hogwarts. Only then, Harry noticed that Ginny was with him, transformed back immediately and threw her an astonished glance.

“Sorry, sweetie, but I didn’t want to spend the whole Hogsmeade weekend without you. If you cannot stay at Hogsmeade, I thought we could stay here together, can’t we?” Harry laughed – that was his Ginny! He stepped over to her and pulled her in a hug saying,

“Thank you Ginny. I appreciate it very much. I’m sorry for not being able to spend more time at Hogsmeade. Shall we go out in the living room and ask Dobby for lunch?” Ginny agreed and they spent the rest of the day together in the Snape quarters.

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On Sunday morning, Harry remembered something important he wanted to discuss with his parents. He looked from Severus to Lily, wondering about how he should ask.

“Um…, Mom, Dad? Um…, do you remember, that before I went back to the future, Hagrid gave me an egg for my birthday?” He noticed that his parents were glancing helplessly at each other. Severus frowned and replied hesitantly,

“I am sorry, Harry, but for us, you know, more than eighteen years have passed and we don’t remember every detail. What is it about this egg?” Harry sighed.

“Alright. Hagrid gave me a Runespoor’s egg for my birthday and said the Runespoor would hatch in about three weeks time. The night I returned here, I had to stay in the Hospital Wing, so I gave it to Hagrid and asked him to care for it.”

“Oh, right, I remember that,” Severus interrupted him, “In fact it was me who took it to Hagrid; I just didn’t consider what kind of egg it was.”

“Anyway,” Harry continued, “I think it is time for me to go and get the Runespoor back. So, um…, would you mind me keeping it here in my room?” Lily and Severus exchanged a glance, and Lily asked carefully,

“Harry, is this Runespoor poisonous?” Harry thought for a moment and said,

“I’m sorry, Mom, but I am not sure. I haven’t thought about that. If it were poisonous I should not keep it here together with Marina. Maybe I just have to ask Hagrid to keep it.”

Lily glanced from one to the other. She felt bad to have to ask Harry to give the snake up, but with a five year old and especially with a very active five year old like Marina it was better to be on the safe side. “How about going to Hagrid, visit the Runespoor and ask him about it? We still have some time before lunchtime,” she suggested. Harry nodded eagerly, and Marina squeaked,

“Yes, I want to visit Hagrid now!” However, Severus asked Harry softly,

“Harry, how comes, that you had a memory vision at 10 o’clock in the morning? Did you forget to take your potion, or does it not work anymore?” Harry blushed and replied,

“I am sorry, Dad, I must have been so wrapped up in my thoughts about the Quidditch tournament that I forgot to take both potions. I will take the one for my immune system now, but I don’t think it would be reasonable to take the lemon potion now. If you think we should go to Hagrid now, I will transform into Icicle until we are there.”

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They decided to go immediately and Harry as Icicle flashed his parents and his sister down to Hagrid’s hut. Hagrid was very happy to have so many visitors and invited them to tea and rock cakes, which only Marina wanted to try. Harry cleared his throat.

“Um, Hagrid; in fact I have come to look after the Runespoor – how are they?” Hagrid looked at him for a moment as if to remember something, and then said,

“Oh, yes, yes, the Runespoor. Of course, Harry! They are beautiful. Come and have a look!” He guided Harry to the fireplace at the end of the room, where a huge snake with three heads was lying. Two of the heads seemed to be asleep, but the middle one was awake and turned towards Harry, when he approached.

&Hello, how are you?& Harry proceeded to ask in Parseltongue.

&Oh, you can speak our language,& the middle head said pleased.

&Yes. What are your names?& Harry asked again, and the middle head explained.

&I am Hebi; our left head is Habu, and our right head is Migi. Are you our new owner?& Harry nodded and watched the three heads carefully.

&Are you poisonous?& he asked Hebi, and she replied,

&Only Habu, our left head is poisonous; but as we are still young, she does not have a lot of poison yet.& Suddenly the left head, Habu, woke up and turned to Harry, hissing angrily at him. Harry was so shocked about the sudden movement and the angry hissing, that he stepped back frightfully, not even noticing his sister’s fearful screaming.