Sirius' head was pounding; he didn't know what happened and why he was lying on a hard floor. He opened his eyes and saw bars, for a moment dread overtook him and he thought he was back in Azkaban, but he couldn't feel the Dementors.

"Welcome back to the land of the living," came a woman's voice, he looked back and saw Tonks sitting on the floor and leaning on the wall. The memories of what happened flowed back, and instead of dread a sudden fear overtook him. "Harry?"

"We don't know," this time Remus answered, the same fear that Sirius felt echoed in his voice. He was kneeling next to Sirius and helped him sit up.

"What happened?"

"Well after you punched the scumbag, or what seemed the scumbag, they disarmed us and brought us here. They separated us from the kids as soon as we got here. Some people I don't know."

"Frank, and the Prewett brothers, or at least seemed like that. If this is an elaborate scheme from the Death Eater, they did their job well." Remus said not sounding very sure, "Apparently, the burrow had been emptied because of an alert of a probable attack…"

"That never happened" added Sirius, "But that happened…"

"The day Harry was born," Remus completed.

"So you two really think we traveled through time. Fifteen years, that's impossible, the only way of traveling is a time turner and that only takes you a few ours, a day tops!" Tonks interjected exasperated.

"I don't know what happened, what I do know is that everything seems right like I remember. How could they have known?" Remus asked.

"Peter" Sirius voiced.

"Yes, and they used Polyjuice to recreate everyone and lure us to a false sense of security." Tonks added.

"You can't polyjuice the dead" Remus reasoned "James, Fabian, Gideon. And what about us, we looked younger."

"I don't know Moony, but I'm not buying this," Sirius stated.

"His right, we better keep our guard up and find out us much as we can."

"That's exactly what we were saying" came a voice from behind.

The time travelers turned and were faced by a young Sirius Black and James Potter, followed by Dumbledore.

"Where are the kids?" Remus asked trying to keep his focus and remember that that wasn't his so missed friend.

"We ask the questions here."

"There's no need for rudeness, James" came Dumbledore's calming voice

"Why don't you head up to the school, I think Poppy sent word that you are expected there."

James eyes widened and he hastily said "Yes, of course, I'm schooling up to the go, I mean I'm going up to the school." Dumbledore chuckled at the new parent's nervousness and asked Sirius, who possibly was even more nervous than James, to accompany him.

"Now to us."

He conjured three very comfortable chairs behind the bars and one outside for him. He motioned for them to sit down.

"Answering your questions, the kids are fine, they are being guarded by members of my Order. The boy that was ill was taken to the school, Hogwarts, and has been given proper care." At this word the three relaxed. "Now, answer my question, who are you?"

"If you're really who you say you are, you should know, Professor Dumbledore, and if you are not, if you're a Death Eater in disguise, you should know too, since you captured us." Remus stated very calmly.

"I have a suspicion, but you can understand how my suspicion seems very farfetched, Mr. Lupin. As for who I am, why don't we do this, I prove who I am, and you prove who you are."

"Fine by me." Sirius said bluntly. "How do we do that?"

"I see you haven't changed much Mr. Black."

"You'd be surprised," he answered back

"I already am! I taught you both how to conjure patronuses," he said handing them back their wands, "A patronus is unique to the wizard that conjures it, no amount of polyjuice can reproduce that, and I happen to know yours very well."

Without waiting they both conjured their patronuses. A big shaggy silver dog and a big silver wolf circled the room and evaporated.

"Your turn" Sirius said, and Dumbledore raised his wand, a silver Phoenix came but Sirius, Tonks and Remus seemed unfazed. They knew only Dumbledore could conjure that Patronus, but everything that happened today seemed to have proven their knowledge wrong, so Remus asked.

"THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO VANQUISH THE DARK LORD APPROACHES….BORN TO THOSE WHO HAVE THRICE DEFIED HIM, BORN AS THE SEVENTH MONTH DIES…, at this time only one person knows the rest of that prophecy, and in our time, although some trustworthy know the contents of the prophecy, only Sirius, me and Dumbledore know the exact wording, if you're a Death Eater you won't know."

"That is also true for you." Dumbledore stated.

"EITHER MUST DIE AT THE HAND OF THE OTHER FOR NEITHER CAN LIVE WHILE THE OTHER SURVIVES... there you go," continued Sirius "that much doesn't compromise us and no Death Eater from our or your time knows that."

Dumbledore seemed convinced and continued "THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO VANQUISH THE DARK LORD APPROACHES….BORN TO THOSE WHO HAVE THRICE DEFIED HIM, BORN AS THE SEVENTH MONTH DIES, AND THE DARK LORD WILL MARK HIM AS HIS EQUAL, BUT HE WILL HAVE POWER THE DARK LORD KNOWS NOT… AND EITHER MUST DIE AT THE HAND OF THE OTHER FOR NEITHER CAN LIVE WHILE THE OTHER SURVIVES….THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO VANQUISH THE DARK LORD WILL BE BORN AS THE SEVENTH MONTH DIES…."

Tonks was dumbfound. She knew the prophecy they were protecting had something to do with Harry and Voldemort, but this was not fair, he was a kid for crying out loud!

"I assume that in your time you already know who the boy is. Am I correct to assume that he is the one lying in the hospital wing at Hogwarts. James son? "They all nodded.

"On Halloween, next year, Voldemort will try to kill him, but Harry will deflect the killing curse, leaving him with the scar on his forehead and reducing Voldemort to a mere shadow of himself." Sirius started explaining, obvious pain in his face and Dumbledore wondered what else the cost of that was.

"He stayed like that for almost fourteen years but regained a body about a month ago."

"We reformed the order," Remus continued "and when we were proceeding to take Harry and his friends to safety we were attacked, Voldemort and his Death Eaters, I don't know how but Harry conjured a wandless shield. I didn't even know he was able to do wandless magic! Backup came but Voldemort uttered a spell and everything went weird, a green light covered the shield, and we started seeing this images, of stuff that happened, when that stopped we were standing outside of the Burrow again, at the exact same place, and Harry collapsed. You know the rest."

"What was the spell?" Dumbledore asked and this time Tonks answered

"Proferre Tempus"

"I've heard that before but I need to do some research to see what we can do. Meanwhile," he waved his hand and the cell door opened, "why don't I take you to the others and you can go up to the school to see Harry. Oh, my, how rude of me. I never asked your name, miss?"

"Tonks"

"Ah, Ted and Andromeda's daughter, Nymphadora." at this Sirius and Remus shook their head.

"Just Tonks will do sir. Honestly I should be allowed to sue my parents!" and she stormed in front of them. The three men chuckled.

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They followed Dumbledore to a room upstairs were they found the kids being guarded by Remus and Peter. They were sitting staring at their guards with the weirdest expressions ever. While they would look at Remus with a mixture of respect and hurt on their faces, they scowled at Peter with utter loathing and disgust. Dumbledore found this behavior very intriguing and asked the two to exit the room, and return the prisoners wands saying that there had been a big misunderstanding. The two men protested but obliged. Once they were out of the room Dumbledore was again impressed, but by the demonstration of affection. Ron and Hermione jumped at once to Sirius embrace, and the others followed suit. After the adults reassured themselves that the kids were fine, presentations were made.

Dumbledore was amused to find out that the Weasleys had one more kid, and was surprised to see how those kids responded to the duress they had just been through. Instead of cowering they were alert and prepared, Dumbledore wondered what had they been through to react so normally. Remus question brought him out of his musings.

"Can we go see Harry?"

"Yes, of course, but better be careful, James and Lily are there and he won't like to see you there. James is very protective of his friends, as you know. As a matter of fact, Peter is a friend to you too, what made you attack him like that?"

"We had just been under attack, I didn't realize who they were and tried to protect our group," Sirius lied, averting Dumbledore's gaze. Dumbledore knew he was lying but didn't pursue the subject not knowing how this could affect the timeline continuum.

He proceeded to create a portkey that would take everybody, their pets and their trunks to Hogwarts.

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They landed one on top of the other on Dumbledore's office. Sirius was almost at the door ready to head to the Hospital Wing when Dumbledore stopped him.

"I think that would be best if you did not go to the Hospital Wing Sirius."

"But I need to see my godson."

"I know, but as I said before James and your past self will be there, and I think that by know Peter and Remus must have joined them." Dumbledore said looking at Remus that had joined Sirius side. "I'll accompany you to the guest quarters and will go and fetch Poppy."

Sirius and Remus didn't seem to want to do this and Fred, George, Ginny and Ron were right behind them, but Hermione's voice of reason stood out.

"He is right, that would only lead to more confrontation and that can be bad for Harry." They looked at her as if they weren't going to budge, but they knew that she was as concerned as they were about Harry and that staying away must be costing her every ounce of resolution she possessed. With resigned sighs they agreed and followed Dumbledore to the staff wing.

There they entered a common room that looked almost exactly as the Gryffindor common room with the exception that instead of having two doors that lead to the stairwells there were five doors.

"There are five rooms with private bathrooms, I figured the kids could share. The password can be changed by tickling the fruits of the trees. You may choose your password. I'll have the house-elves bring enough beds and some food." And with that he exited the room. Fred went to the portrait and changed the password. When he came back he was grinning at the others that were all sitting in the chairs and sofas around the table.

"So, what's the password?" asked Tonks who was becoming irritated with the tiredness mounting up.

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," Fred answered

"We all now that. What's the password?" Ginny said exasperated.

The others laughed and Ginny's and Tonk's annoyance increased ten fold.

"What's so funny? What's the password?" they said together.

"That's the password," Sirius answered amused by the girls reaction. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good. That's the same password that reveals the marauder's map."

"The what?" Tonks asked.

With nothing better to do Sirius and Remus launched on the story of how they wrote the map, and then Fred and George recounted how they rescued, their own words, the map from evil Filch and worked how to use it. Sirius and Remus were quite impressed. Suddenly a soft knock came from the portrait and Hermione jumped to open the door. There stood Madam Pomfrey with a stretcher hovering in front of her. Lying on the stretcher, completely unconscious, was Harry.