Re-ordered by DrT 1 Table of Contents Re-ordered............................................................................................................................................1 Chapter I..........................................................................................................................................3 Chapter II.......................................................................................................................................11 Chapter III......................................................................................................................................19 Chapter IV......................................................................................................................................27 Chapter V.......................................................................................................................................36 Chapter VI......................................................................................................................................45 Chapter VII....................................................................................................................................54 Chapter VIII...................................................................................................................................62 Chapter IX......................................................................................................................................70 Chapter X.......................................................................................................................................79 Chapter XI......................................................................................................................................87 Chapter XII....................................................................................................................................96 Chapter XIII.................................................................................................................................105 Chapter XIV.................................................................................................................................114 Chapter XV..................................................................................................................................122 Chapter XVI.................................................................................................................................129 Chapter XVII...............................................................................................................................137 Chapter XVIII..............................................................................................................................146 Chapter XIX.................................................................................................................................156 Chapter XX..................................................................................................................................166 Chapter XXI.................................................................................................................................174 Chapter XXII...............................................................................................................................182 Chapter XXIII..............................................................................................................................190 Chapter XXIV..............................................................................................................................198 Chapter XXV...............................................................................................................................207 Chapter XXVI..............................................................................................................................216 Chapter XXVII............................................................................................................................224 Chapter XXVIII...........................................................................................................................231 Chapter XXIX..............................................................................................................................239 Chapter XXX...............................................................................................................................246 Chapter XXXI..............................................................................................................................254 2 Chapter I Friday, August 11, 1995 Albus Dumbledore was worried as he sat in the courtroom and tried to manipulate Harry's defense. He was worried in part because two dementors had attacked Harry and his cousin in Little Whinging. It should have been impossible for Tom to have sent any forces to that town with the blood protection which Lily had provided Harry, and which he had used to construct the wards -- and that protection would especially include dementors. If Tom hadn't sent dementors, who had? Dumbledore now had a terrible suspicion which was approaching a certainly. Dumbledore was also worried about how powerful Fudge's political influence had apparently become since June, although it was more likely attributable to Lucius Malfoy's long and deep purse than to Fudge himself. Had he still been head of this court, Dumbledore would never have allowed any case like this to be brought forward. Had he somehow been out-manoeuvered, he could have insured an easy verdict in Harry's favor. Now, it might come down to the shabbily-dressed Squib he'd had to pull out of bed in a hurry to get Harry off. The only alternative defense would have set Harry outside his control, which would be nearly as bad as Harry being found guilty. Still, that would form the appeal Dumbledore would make, if worse came to worse. Suddenly, Harry slipped out of the accused chair and landed in a heap on the floor, convulsing as a powerful spell of some sort made his body glow with power. Now Dumbledore was even more worried. Harry slowly came back to awareness of his body. He was confused. Harry slowly came back to his body. He was not so much confused, as he was concerned, as he wasn't certain exactly where his body was. Or when. The two Harrys confronted each other in their now-common mind. "Who are you?" 15 year-old Harry demanded. "You," the other Harry said, "except I'm actually from 2013." Had younger Harry been awake, he would have blinked and shaken his head at that. "You won," older Harry said. "You beat Voldemort in 1998, but at a very high cost. Sirius, Dumbledore, Remus, Tonks, Ron, Ginny, Hermione, just to name a few you currently care about, where all dead by then. You survived, and mourned their loss for almost a year. When you came back to the wizarding world from your mourning, they actually tried to arrest you for killing Tom Riddle, since he and Voldemort were proven to be the same person." 3 "Sounds about right," younger Harry agreed. After all, he was already on trial for non-crimes. "I was angry and depressed, and a friend helped me escape to North America. I came back to Britain in 2004, when the twins and some other friends of ours started a movement to overthrow the Ministerial oligarchy and replace it with a more representational government. We won, but again the price was high. By then, I had lost everyone I ever care about as more than just a friend, and had lost most of them as well. I spent six years researching this spell, to send my self and magic back to the past." "Well, it worked," younger Harry said. "Hopefully, it's May or June, 1995, at least a week before the end of the Triwizard." Younger Harry sighed. "It's August, 1995." "Shit! Before or after the trial?" "During," younger Harry said drily. "Oh . Shit, shite, merde! I was afraid that might happen, because it was about the worst scenario I could come up with." Younger Harry was now convinced that this was indeed himself. That was his secret 'bad word set,' which he had never uttered aloud, but sometimes thought. "So what happens now?" he asked. "You take me over?" "No," older Harry replied. "In terms of magic, it's our power merged together. I was slightly stronger than Riddle ever was, and he was slightly stronger than Dumbledore. ." "You're joshing!" "No," older Harry said. "Your magic overpowered Riddle in the graveyard, because then it wasn't about knowledge, only raw power. Remember, the reason Riddle is so dangerous to you is not your lack of power, but his ruthlessness and your lack of experience. He had nearly forty years of practicing magic on you in June, since he was a spirit for over ten years. Dumbledore is his near- equal in power, and has a hundred years on Tommy-boy." "And now?" "Together, we can easily over-power the Dork Lord," older Harry stated firmly. "He still has at least twenty years on the combined us, so we will have to be careful. More importantly, we will know what we need to know to destroy the bastard." "Really?" "Really," older Harry assured his younger self. "Moldishorts made himself nearly immortal by splitting his soul into six pieces plus the piece inside of what passes for his body, and each piece can be difficult to destroy by itself, although we took care of one at the end of our Second year." "That diary?" 4 "Exactly," older Harry agreed. "One Horcrux down -- that what the six pieces are called -- and five more plus the Dark Lump himself.