13A/N Hi. Talk to you down stairs.
It's been, what? A week? Two? I honestly don't bother to keep track. The important thing is that it's been some time since that wack-filled day, and many things have happened since, one of them being that Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes now sells cookies. Yes, those cookies, and it's a hit! But back to the present, there is one week left before most of the Potter-Weasley clan has to be shipped off to Hogwarts. Them, AND Teddy and Scorpius. I don't think that I had to mention them, since you probably got the idea, but I did just in case.
In this final week-which I will start referring to as "that final week-Judy, who had been pranked by the troublesome duo for that day more times than I can count, had a surprise leaving gift for them.
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Scorpius Malfoy was the last person to floo to #12 Grimmauld Place, where Teddy, Vic, Lily, Fred, Al, James, Hugo, and Rose were waiting for Judy, who had sent them each an origami swan that told them to all gather up in the Potters' house. Why aren't they also here, you might ask. Well, they (and by "they" I'm talking about all of their parents) were bribed with tickets to some movie, the most hilarious part being that Hermione somehow managed to persuade everyone to carpool. As in, ALL of them, riding in a car (for some reason) TOGETHER. Makes you wonder what happened to them. . .Moving on, as soon as Scorp sat on the couch next to Albus and Rose, their honorary aunt decided to dramatically reveal herself as the apparently transfigured purple lamp (the tall kind).
"Ta da!" she shouted, probably expecting some applause for her amazing feat.
Hugo blinked once, then twice, and asked, puzzled and disbelieving, "Was that you the whole time?" Judy visibly deflated and sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose.
"Fine," she snapped. "Be that way." She dragged a stool towards the children (and two adults). "Now, the reason you're all here is because I want to make it up to you. You know, for what you've been through (even if some people would kill for some excitement like that, ungrateful beings)," The witch looked at every single one of them, doing that thing with her eyes that made it look like she was looking into their very souls. "It was very stupid. I was very stupid. What I-"
"We forgive you, Aunt Judy." Victoire smiled, glad that her aunt was finally seeing the error of her ways. "We know that you regret what you did, and-"
"What?" Judy interrupted, a very confused look upon her face. "Regret what I did? What in the world would make you think that? I never, EVER regret anything that I did. Even that time when James bet I couldn't eat spaghetti with red sauce and syrup. It was disgusting, and I gagged after every bite, but I didn't regret it, and those 15 galleons were so very sweet. I didn't even regret it when Teddy accidentally knocked hot sauce-why did we even have hot sauce on the table?-into my plate." Here Judy shuddered, along with James, who may or may not have somehow ended up in the same position two years later due to some people I shall not name.
"Back to the actual conversation, the only thing I was a bit sorrowful about was the fact that I didn't inform you about the fact that you were in a dream, and that there wasn't a chance that you could have ruined the timeline for real. Which brings us back to why we're all here in the first place. After a lot of tinkering and experimentation (on who, I'll never say), I have finally made this potion!" Out of nowhere, she produced a plastic water bottle filled with a purple liquid, which she held into the air like a trophy. Why did she use a plastic water bottle, you ask? Simply because glass can easily break, but plastic cannot! That, or she had nothing else available.
"What does it do?" asked Victoire resignedly, giving in to the fact that they were going to have to deal with her aunt's nonsense.
"What does it do? What does it do?!" BOOM! BOOM! went the thunder (where did it come from, I have no idea), and then someone started cackling. No, wait, that was Lily coughing. Never mind. Finally, Judy looked straight at Victoire and tilted her head to the side. "I thought it was obvious. It sends you into a deep sleep and to that weird world of what would have happened if you hadn't obliviated Severus. People-"who" will be a surprise-will find you and help you start your adventure. You can choose to tell them that "We're from an alternate reality, we need to be sent back!" or you can just, you know, ask me for papers and I'll give you some backstory. I think you should do the former. It'll make things way more easy, interesting, and fun. But back to the main point, time will move faster in the dream, so one month in there, is one day out here. You also don't need to eat or go to the bathroom, but you can. So you'll all have fun at Hogwarts with your kinda-siblings and stuff, just do whatever you want, and when things get boring, contact me and I'll send a problem on its way to liven things up. Maybe a Dark Lord. Or Lady. Yes, yes. Definitely and Dark Lord or Lady. Though I'm leaning towards Lady. . .Any questions?"
It took a few moments, but after everything she had said sunk in, especially the Dark Lord/Lady part, there were more than a few questions.
Teddy started by asking, "Will the Dark Lord or Lady be a real danger, 'cause if they are, then it'll be like Harry's childhood, and he's told me a lot about it."
Judy just grinned, quite mischievously if I do say so myself. "Oh, don't worry. Whoever it will be won't actually be that bad."
"Won't people recognize us?" asked Albus.
Judy shrugged and replied, "That's their problem, for when-and yes, when, because you guys won't resist-you enter the dream realm, which from now on is what I'll call it."
"Won't Snape recognize us? You know, 'cause we're the same time travelers that altered history?" Scorpius has a point.
"Obliviate him. Or mess up his memory. Muddle it so what the time-travelers' features will look fuzzy."
"When we go to sleep-"
"-won't we have to go to Hogwarts-"
"-and when we wake up-"
"-won't we have to do the same year-"
"-again?" Of course James and Fred wouldn't want to do any more school-work than they have to.
Unfortunately for them, Judy just gave a sheepish shrug and smile. "Um, you may have to actually go to Hogwarts, but the good news is that you'll be ahead of all your work!" When all she got were glares, she tried another approach. "Since you're not staying there, the work won't actually hurt or help your grade, so you can just do nothing or just some of the work. I know you don't mind detentions and you won't have to care about house points since it isn't gonna affect your actual house in any way." This was met with a pair of grins and a high five.
Victoire, ever the thinker, also spoke up. "If, and yes, if Teddy and I go, we won't be able to go to Hogwarts, so what will we be doing?"
Judy opened her mouth, but nothing came out. She scrunched her face up for a moment or two, then just shrugged and said, "I guess you'll be getting jobs, or something, to pass your time. What jobs would you take, I have no idea, and recommend that you consult whoever finds you or just someone else. And you could just not do anything and go on a vacation somewhere. I'll be making a special vault that only you guys will know about so you can make withdrawals when you want without others knowing. It'll be filled with money, I'll make sure of it." The black-haired witch looked around, seeing that no one looked like they had anything to say.
"No more questions? Good." At that precise moment, the DING! of a timer could be heard from the kitchen. Judy then smiled to herself in a way that would make you think that she planned for the timer to go off the moment she finished speaking. Of course, that's just plain ridiculous!
"Well, I better go check on those cupcakes. Think about it, ok? And while you certainly can try this at another time, you would just keep thinking about how you didn't drink the potion now, and it'll eat you up until Christmas break, where you aren't going to go on this wonderful adventure because of all that Christmas stuff you do, aaaaaaaaaaand I'm rambling. I'll be back in about," she looked at her wrist, where her non-existent watch resided, "6 to 7 minutes. Probably since I'll be icing the cupcakes. Bye!" And with that finally walked out of the room.
Silence reigned for about three seconds, until James and Fred broke it.
"I don't know what you guys are doing-" started James.
"-but we're definitely taking that potion," finished Fred.
Teddy started nodding, then abruptly stopped when Victoire started glaring at him. Persuading her is gonna be hard.
"Come on, Vic! It'll be like a vacation of sorts, and since they're all going to be shipped off to Hogwarts, we can finally spend some time together. Just you and me." By the end of his three-sentence speech, the part-Veela was nodding dreamily, picturing their soon-to-be one-on-one time.
Persuading her turned out to not be that difficult after all.
At this point, Albus decided to join the conversation.
"If my brother is going, then I unmistakably am!"
Before anyone else could get a word in, Scorpius exclaimed, "If Al is going, then so am I."
Then, you guessed it, "If Scorp and Al are going, then I certainly won't be left out!" No one could say no to that.
"Hey!" Lily exclaimed indignantly, probably because she was being left out of the conversation. She grabbed Hugo's forearm and said, "If my older brothers," just so you know, when she said "brothers" she said it like she was talking about onions, "are going on this totally dope adventure, then I'm ONE HUNDRED PERCENT going, and Hugo will come too. Won't you, Hugo?"
"Of course!" said Hugo while nodding vigorously to his favorite cousin then everyone else.
Victoire, having long since come to terms with this asked, "So, we're all decided then? We'll all be going?" That got a bunch of nods and yeses, just as expected.
They then followed the nice aroma of the flavor-wise different types of cupcakes (cinnamon toast, cookies and cream, red velvet, chocolate, etc.) into the kitchen, where they decided they would help with frosting the cupcakes.
And somehow, someway, they ended up having a cupcake war in which Hugo (why is it always Hugo) was made temporarily blind. You know, just your average afternoon.
A/N SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sorry for making you wait! I'm very frustrated with myself. I could bang my head on something. Probably isn't a good idea, but I still could. I'm so very horrible at time management. Moving on~
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! FINALLY! DONE! FINISHED! *walks in a circle throwing confetti all over the place*
Thank you to everyone who's read this far. That's all I got to say, because if you've read this far then you really deserve some credit. No, really. I know that this fic is a bit bad, but nevertheless, I'm still proud of it! Maybe one day in the far future I'll do one of those things where you reread your old fanfics and decide to beta your own work.
As for the Dumbledore picture, if you really want to see it, it's on Wattpad.
Anyway, DO you guys want a sequel? Does ANYONE want a sequel? 'Cause if you don't, then you don't. Also, I'll just say it now, but the sequel isn't going to come up any time soon. There are two one-shots I want to get out there and after that a multi-chapter fic I'm gonna work on, so the sequel will come later. Especially since I'll have to plan it and other stuff.
Either way, I shall edit this thing when I have the sequel and/or Judy's one-shot. =)
Date of Update: 12/3/2020