“What do you want? I was in the middle of a good dream,” Twenty-four year old Harry Potter grumbled, glaring at the woman who'd disturbed him through the screen door of his house. He had good reason to be doing that; being that it was just a quarter to four in the morning at the moment, the sun not even up, and he'd been in a dead sleep before the incessant doorbell had begun to ring without stop. His irritation was more than earned, especially considering that he hadn't one to sleep until just a bit before midnight.
“And here I thought you'd want to know that it's finally ready, but if you'd rather sleep...” the woman said, trailing off at the end as a look of reluctant excitement crossed Harry's face. “You mean it's actually ready, and not a fluke this time?” Harry asked. He knew that his words would cause a scowl to appear on the woman's face, but he wanted to make sure. They'd been trying to do this for almost three years, and in those three years, they'd had quite a few flukes. “I'm sure,” the woman said, growling out her words. “So come on and lets go. Andromeda, Hermione and Luna are all waiting for us. And I'm sure that the others will probably be there before we are as well.” “Okay,” Harry said, turning to head back inside. Then, a thought occurred to him, and he turned back, asking, “What about Teddy?” “Bring him with. We don't have time to find a baby sitter that would be good for him to be around without problems being caused, Andromeda wants to see him, and, well, with what we've learned, he kind of needs to be there anyway, considering what it is that we've discovered,” the woman said, turning and heading back to her truck. Harry nodded his head, though she didn't see it, and closed the door behind him. He headed up to Teddy's room ,turning on the lights as he told him that he needed to wake up before going and taking a quick shower in his bathroom. Dressing just as quickly, he went back to Teddy's room, sighing as he saw that Teddy hadn't moved, and went about getting him awake enough to leave the house. All in all, by the time he walked out, with Teddy in his arms, half-an-hour had already past. “About time,” the woman grumbled as Harry strapped in a seemingly still sleeping Teddy – who had rationalizing that it was a Saturday, and therefore a day to sleep in – and then got into the car himself. “Tristelianna, it's not even sun up yet. Of course I'm going to take a while to get ready, particularly since I was asleep when you came and banged on the door, and am still tired,” Harry explained. “Plus, I didn't want to get up,” Teddy said, startling Tristelianna as she looked behind her seat at him. She saw that, though he had looked asleep, he actually was awake, looking over to her as he pushed back his blue and black shaggy hair from his eyes. “What's with the hair?” Tristelianna asked him, taking a quick glance at him while waiting for a stoplight to turn green. “I couldn't decide on a color, What about you? What's up with your hair?” Teddy shot back. Harry rolled his eyes, knowing that this was a common game between them. Like his mother, Teddy was a metamorphmagus, able to change his appearance at will, though, other than his hair, he was expressly forbidden to chance out of his 'normal' form, at least until he hit twenty-one. Harry and Andromeda had been in complete agreement about that fact, not wanting something bad to happen to him because he turned into the wrong person and they couldn't find him. They had only given in about the hair deal because he couldn't quite control it when the deal was made, and he hadn't wanted to change it once he could control it – in fact, other than school, his hair tended to go for the unusual colors, or even two colors at once, like it was now. And, just like Teddy, Tristelianna was also a metamorphmagus – the one who mostly taught him his control due to his mother not being there, which was probably where Teddy got his perchance for the unusual colors. Right now, Tristelianna was sporting a vivid silvery purple color with dark purple ends. “I felt like being all purple today,” she answered, shrugging. The two males looked at her, seeing that it was true, for everything, right down to sandles and toenails, were some shade of purple. Even her normally blue-gray eyes were purple today. “The only think you need to do is change your skin color, and you'd get your wish,” Harry said. “I didn't think that would go too well with the mundanes,” she said as she turned onto the freeway. There was silence for a moment, and Tristelianna fiddled with the radio, find nothing on, and deciding to throw in a mixed CD that she'd new Teddy would like. As the theme song for the original Power Rangers began, Teddy finally looked more awake, excitedly bouncing in his seat as the song played. Harry groaned upon hearing it. “Did you have to put this in?” he asked. “Teddy likes it, and it annoys you, so yes, I did,” she answered, giving him an innocent smile. Harry groaned again, falling back into his seat as the two started to sing to the song. He really hoped that she wouldn't have it repeat over and over again, knowing that there was a good chance she just might do that, simply to annoy him. There were several times that he wondered why he was friends with her. They'd met when he'd decided to get away from England, a move that turned more permanent, after his second try at a relationship with Ginny failed, mostly due to the fact that the feelings that he'd had for Ginny – which had been sudden to begin with – had disappeared after Andromeda had insisted on him, Hermione, and Ron all having a very thorough exam, one that had ended with a potion being given that had flushed all unneeded and unnecessary potions and their effects from his and the other's system. When they'd tried to go for a second go, Harry, not having the same feelings for her at the time, had figured that figured that it would be better to end it and not cause her to hurt when he had to admit that he didn't feel what she deserved someone to feel for her. Unfortunately, Ginny didn't quite take it all that well, the end being quite damaging, leaving him wanting to get away from England for awhile. Hermione – after dealing with everything concerning her parents – had gone with them after breaking up with Ron. Apparently, like with Harry, she'd also been potioned up on something, since she'd broken up with Ron rather quickly after her own appointment with Andromeda. While their break up hadn't been as bad as Harry's with Ginny had been, Hermione had thought it would be best to give him some time to get over it without her around – being that he actually did like her without having to be potioned up as she had been. So, the two of them had gone on a vacation, where they ended up running into a classmate of theirs that they knew by name and sight, though neither of them had ever talked to the girl. Azure Monroe had been a Ravenclaw in there year, but that was all they knew about her, as she didn't really socialize with anyone else, even in her own house. So they were surprised to discover her at the bar they'd gone to, with a friend of hers who she apparently knew for years, and her boyfriend Theodore Nott, who had been a Slytherin in their year. Harry and Hermione were moderately surprised to discover Theodore and Azure were dating, since Azure was a half-blood, while Theodore was the son of a pure-blood fanatic who'd been a death eater, though Theodore hadn't joined Voldemort at all, and had even helped out during the Battle of Hogwarts. Azure had been the one to introduce Harry to Tristelianna, and, well...while the two hadn't actually started dating straight up, they had done ended up doing a casual, no strings attached, friends with benefits deal after a few months of knowing each other. Harry and her had learned each other rather intimately during that time, before deciding that just being friends would be better. Still, he did learn quite a bit about bedroom play while with her during that time, which did help him forget about Ginny's...outburst upon him breaking up with her. Still, even though they were friends and had become such before they'd done their benefit stint, there were still some problems. They didn't agree on many things, especially in the beginning of their friendship, but, eventually, they ended up having a slightly grudging respect for each other. The main reason that there respect was only grudging – or, rather, one of the reasons – and what had had made Harry mad and not liking her when they'd first me of her dislike of his old headmaster. It was a dislike that had only increased upon hearing Harry's zealous defense of him, mostly because he hadn't respect the fact that she didn't have to like him. Of course, though it took a while, Harry did eventually begin to actually listen to what she was saying, and, even though it had taken longer, he did realize just how right she was about Dumbledore. Then again, it wasn't just him that had trouble with her saying her thoughts about Dumbledore, either. Hermione had also had trouble hearing it, putting up an even more zealous defense about him than even Harry had. What had finally gotten her to stop it was when Tristelianna had forced her to face several facts that just couldn't be disputed by anyone, one of those facts being brought to her by psychology book written by an expert of the field. If that hadn't been enough, what had really finally gotten her to her had been learning that there had been no reason for Harry to have died in the final battle. She had assumed that there wasn't any other way for it to happen, only to learn that, if Dumbledore had bothered to look deeper into, or even wished for Harry to have even actually survived otherwise, would have been able to learn as well. Then again, once the arguments concerning Dumbledore had tapered down, and he'd gotten used to her, she really wasn't that bad to hang out with. While they did tend to annoy each other a lot – in fact, one could say that was what they did most of the time when around each other – they really did end up being good friends. It also helped that she'd gotten along well with most of his other friends from England, as well as with his remaining family – for, though it had gone over his head when Sirius had mentioned it, he was related to the Blacks, something of a cousin to Sirius, Andromeda, and, much to his surprise, Hermione, whose grandfather was a Black. In fact, if he thought about it, he was more closely related to Hermione than he was to Andromeda and Sirius, mostly based on the fact that Hermione's grandfather was Harry's grandmother's older brother. Harry was startled out of his thoughts by the music shutting off. Looking around, he realized that they were close to the building where they housed the project. He felt a slight bit of excitement as he thought about what Tristelianna had said to get him out of his house at this time in the morning. t was wonderful to hear that they finally had some more success with this project that they were working on. It was a project that focused on figuring out, and bringing about, a way to successfully send back information to the past so that different decisions could be made, ones that would, hopefully, save lives. It was this project that they'd been working on for three year, a project that had gotten its start when Hermione had read about Tristelianna in some book after her and Harry had decided to make a permanent move to America. Hermione had learned that Tristelianna was quite well known for her work on the matter of Time and whether or not it was possible to completely destroy your own time through the actions done when one would go back into time in America. At least, that was just one of the things she was known to have studied extensively. Learning about that, Hermione had grilled Tristelianna for some answers to questions that Harry hadn't been privy to hear – in fact, he only knew about it because Tristelianna had complained a bit about Hermione's excessive questions to her, as well as Hermione often asking if he knew where she was because she still had questions. That hadn't been fun for Harry to deal with. Of course, not being as well read as Hermione was, Harry hadn't known exactly what it was that Hermione was trying to do that required Tristelianna's help, but he learned what it was several weeks after those complaints. To his surprise, he learned about what Tristelianna was known for, as well as the fact that Hermione had begun to come up with a plan to help change the outcome of what had happened in the war after learning about this herself. Hermione had, of course, mostly kept most of the details of some of her ideas to bring this about, only talking about it with Tristelianna in order to fine tune some things, even after mentioning Tristelianna's reputation to Harry. It was only when Hermione had mostly gotten all of her answers and started a tentative plan using them that she had opened up to him about what it was that she was doing, as well as her reasoning for this. Harry had been astounded to learn that she had been asking her questions to Tristelianna in order to figure out a way to successfully send information back into the past. She had only begun her planning on it after Tristelianna had mention that it was possible, though they themselves wouldn't actually benefit from these changes, or even know about the changes since 'this time line already exists, so sending information back into the past would do nothing more than create a new one, parallel to this line. In fact, the only reason why we would even know that these changes could end up being made is if we had been those to that had given allowances for changes to be made in the past.' Hermione and Tristelianna had then gone on into a tirade of just what plan they'd come up with, which had been a lot more simple than what Harry's mind had gone to upon learning all this. They had decided that they'd send something holding information to the past, where a new time line that would hopefully result in a better outcome than their own had could be created thanks to said information. It had sounded like an extremely easy plan, in Harry's mind, and he had expected it to be just like that, taking only a few days at most. He had been severely wrong in that assumption. It had taken them a few months just to figure out the way that the information was going to be going to be sent to the past before they could even do anything else. Hermione had originally wanted to go herself, something that Tristelianna had immediately vetoed, saying that, just because it wasn't dangerous to inform people of the past of things that were needed to be changed, it was dangerous to send a person back to the past, partially because said person would be stuck there, and partially because said person would most likely want things to go a certain way, and try to control the situation. And that was without the addition of the fact that a person wouldn't survive the journey to the point of the past that they wanted to go to. A person could safely travel as far back as a month, but beyond that, it was too dangerous. And, no, you couldn't go back and do it in a month by month way until you got to where you were. It was a month regardless, no more. So, because none of them could be the ones to go back themselves with the information, another way had to be found. They had gone through several suggestions, all of them seeming to be problematic in one way, or another, until Tristelianna, tired with the back and forth argument between Harry, Azure – who'd been the one that Tristelianna had brought in to help on her end of this planning – and Hermione, decided that that it would probably be best to send the information back in a book form, since there was less chance of it being lost or damaged, and would give the people the information they needed. Of course, that was just one of the problems they had. Another one was figuring out where to send this information to – it eventually was decided to do so before Harry started school – as well as trying to figure out a way to make sure that said information was read. This ended up being one of the two two bigger problems they ended up having. Sending the information back to before Harry started school had been rather easy to do – though not using the books they'd made of this information, they did send something back and made sure that it had made it there, after all, even if they couldn't exactly see it. However, because they'd wanted to know that the information had indeed been read, and that, even if they couldn't see the changes being made, they could see that those that learned of this information were willing to use the information to make changes, which was what they wanted to have happen. Plus, they also wanted to make sure that only those they wanted to read actually got the information as well. Eventually, Tristelianna had decided that using a seeing well modified to look into the past would be the best way to watch as this happened, especially after they'd used a spell to gain all information they needed from Harry resulted in there being seven books, a book for each of his years at Hogwarts along with a final one for the Horcrux hunt that had happened in what should have been his and Hermione's seventh year of Hogwarts. Once they'd tested to make sure that this would work, they'd ten gone to their third problem – figuring out just whom would read the books. It took them almost a year to figure this out, though only because, by the time they'd gotten to this problem, several of their other friends had ended up getting involved. With Azure spending so much time with them in trying to figure out the first one problem, Theodore eventually began to wonder why, and was then introduced to what it was that they were doing. Then, Luna, who'd moved there several months after they had, overheard Hermione and Harry talking about it, and, having a few suggestions herself, ended up being introduced into the group. Just after her was Neville, whom Hermione had discovered having moved to America himself with his wife. She had invited him to hang out with her and Harry, having forgotten that they were still talking about the project as well. When he overheard this, after freaking out a bit, he'd ended up being invited to join them, which he did. And then, finally, Andromeda ended up getting involved after wondering why Harry, whom she was living with in America to be closer to Harry, Teddy, Hermione, and Azure – whom she was surprised to learn was actually Regulus Black's daughter – was often coming home late both on his days he had to actually work and the days he had off. She had been surprised and a little wary over what they were doing, but considering what they were hoping to have happen with this chance, she willingly joined the group, mostly acting as a sounding board for Hermione and Tristelianna. In truth, due to this, only Neville's wife, Hannah, had absolutely nothing to do with the project, only knowing that Neville was working on something with his friends. Luckily, they ended up having to have the group that read be rather small, mostly because, while they had wanted the younger versions of all the members involved working on the project, it ended up being shown that it wasn't feasible, or really even worth having happen. That ended up being scrapped due to the fact that Neville, Azure, Tristelianna, Andromeda, and Theodore wouldn't be able to do it with them, leaving only Harry, Hermione, and Luna to have a chance. Of course, after they'd realized only three of the member's younger self could be a part of the group, they had to decide if it would be possible to add some other people – specifically, some of the adults that were in Harry's life at the time. Of course, that was quickly chosen to be a no when one considered that Tristelianna made it clear that Dumbledore wasn't allowed to know about this, citing that she wouldn't trust him with the information. Because pretty much all of the adults that Harry could say he trusted would immediately tell Dumbledore about the books, they realized that they really couldn't have any of them in on the reading. So, it was decided that it would just be the three of them reading, until Luna dropped a bit of a bombshell on them. She'd be able to be called to read the information with the other two, but they would have to allow one other person with her, for the time they decided they'd send the information and have the reading be done would be mean that Luna's god-brother would have to join them, because she was hardly ever without him at the time in question. Harry had to admit that he was surprised to learn that Cedric Diggory was her god-brother, mostly because of the fact that there had never been any indication that they'd known each other before Cedric had died. The fact that the information hadn't been told to him before also hurt him a bit, since he and Luna had started dating for a few months after she'd joined the group, but he knew that he couldn't expect her to tell him everything straight away, especially when Luna began to explain. She admitted that her father had been slightly comatose after her mother had died, so much so that her godmother, Abigail Diggory, was usually over every day after it had happened, and, once Cedric's second year of school had ended, he'd ended up joining them, often playing with her and keeping her busy at the same time. It was only after her father had 'woken up' – which happened about halfway through that summer – that she had stopped seeing Cedric so much. And, during school, she hadn't wanted to bother him a whole lot, though it had the unintended side effect of causing them to drift apart. She didn't even seen him during the summers much after that, and then, before anything could be done to fix that problem, he'd been killed. So, knowing this, they'd added Cedric's name to the list, though Harry was slightly afraid to know what his reaction would be when they got to the fourth book, when they'd read about his death. Unfortunately, even after this one problem had been dissolved, two new problems that had sprung up on them, one of them being one that they hadn't realized would be there until they'd resolved the other problems and begun truly putting them into practice. The first was the fact that, while Harry and Hermione lived within an hour of each other, Luna and Cedric didn't live that close to the other two. It took them a few days for Tristelianna and Andromeda to come with a new spell that not only called the group together without them even realizing it, but would also help cut the distance between the two groups. Of course, when this spell was made, it opened up for others to join, but they chose to stay with their original decision, and just have it be the four they had already agreed to have read. Finally, the final and biggest problem they'd had ended up being the very problem that not only caused all the flukes that Harry had been thinking about when he heard the project was ready to be fully set into motion, but also the very problem that had caused it to take so long for it to be set into motion. Of course, because of these 'flukes', Harry was more than a little skeptical of this actually going to work this time around. He, Neville, Theodore, and Azure – though the last one was mostly because of her own choice – had been 'kicked out' of the lab – which was the above ground basement of a three story mansion – so that the other four girls could work on it without the 'interference' of the guys. That had happened two weeks ago, and he only really saw Andromeda during those two weeks, as she always came home to spend some time with Teddy, with the exception of last night. “Are you listening?” Those words penetrated his mind, and Harry realized that Tristelianna had been talking to him. He looked at her sheepishly, though she didn't really see it as she kept her eyes on the road. “Sorry,” he said. From the backseat, he could hear Teddy tsk. “I was explaining that we finally figured out what was wrong,” Tristelianna said. “We had everything right about sending things back and all, but we ended up forgetting about one rather major equation.” “Which was...” Harry said. “Ourselves,” Tristelianna said. “Huh?” Harry said. “What does ourselves have to do with it?” “That question right there explains why, one, you guys were kicked out for a while, and two, why it took us much longer than it should have to get this project ready to go,” Tristelianna said. “Your not going to explain it now, are you?” Harry asked. “Nope, not right now,” she answered. “Your not the only one who needs to know, and I'd rather just have to go through it once.” “Then why did you bring it up?” he asked. “Because she could tell that you were doubting that it would work this time,” Teddy answered from the back. “Yeah, what he said,” she said. Harry sighed as they pulled up to the mansion. He could see only one other car there, recognizing it as Hermione's car. “Where are other others,” Harry said. Tristelianna nodded. “Theodore's inside, while Azure went to get Neville and Hannah,” she said, shutting the engine off and hopping out. Harry and Teddy did the same. Heading towards the door, it opened before they arrived, and Andromeda stepped out. Though it had taken him a while to not tense every time he saw her, Harry was always glad to see her. After the Battle of Hogwarts, when they'd buried Remus and Tonks, he'd invited her to live with him for a while at Grimmauld, along with Teddy. Harry – much to Hermione's unhappiness at the time – employed a house elf after learning of Kreature's death during the Battle of Hogwarts, something he only learned after Kreature had failed to come to him after being called. Tibby, his new elf, had managed to remove the picture of Walburga Black, making the house more livable with just that action. Andromeda, still saddened by the deaths of her husband and daughter, had agreed to come live with him only after that had happened, for she couldn't stand being there when the portrait was up. During the time they were living in that house, when Harry wasn't with Ginny, he learned a lot about his father's side of the family, including of his relationship with her, and Hermione after learning about Marius Black. He'd become close to her, regarding her as the Aunt that Petunia should have been growing up. “About time you got here,” Andromeda said, reaching to give Teddy a hug. “Teddy didn't really want to get up,” Harry said, while Tibby skipped out the door after Andromeda. While Tibby was an English elf – and, therefore, originally programmed to think like the English elves did, in that everything the masters did was right – she had, strangely enough, taken Tristelianna's elf Karitha as a roll model, quickly adjusting her attitude and way of acting to the way Karitha was like. Harry had thought this was a bit weird at first, but then he realized why Tibby looked up to Karitha; any elf who could get Hermione off of her S.P.E.W. kick was well worth looking up to. Even Harry looked up to the little elf for managing to do something no other person or elf had been able to do. “Master, Little Master,” Tibby said happily in her high voice. “Miss Trist.” Tristelianna smiled at the little elf, not minding the shortening of her name, as she was used to it. The group headed inside, and down to the basement – or, rather, Harry and Tristelianna headed down to the basement, as Andromeda took Teddy with her to his 'room' in the manor, Tibby going with them on Harry's instructions. As they entered the basement, they ran into Karitha. “Mistress, Mistress's old boy toy,” Karitha said, bobbing her head once and then moving past the pair, having things to do. As always, Tristelianna giggled while Harry sighed at the greeting. Since Karitha had known him, she never called him by his name or Mr. Potter. Instead he was known as the Mistress's boy toy, or, after they stopped, the old boy toy. A part of him knew that it shouldn't surprise him that the elf would have a personality like that; after all, this was the elf who felt it was okay to pretty much kick Hermione until she got her to actually listen to what she was trying to tell her. No one could say that Karitha was just any old elf. “Hello, Harry,” Luna said dreamily as she walked up to him, giving him a light kiss on the lips. “Harry,” Hermione said, from the other end of the room, standing at a table looking at the papers on it. “Hermione,” he said, walking over there with Tristelianna, and taking a seat next to her, with Luna on his other side. Tristelianna took a seat as well, just as Andromeda came down with Theodore, Azure, Neville, and Hannah following minutes later. Hannah looked around at the lab, having never been down there before. It was a surprising mix – a potions lab on one side, a Muggle – or mundane, as the American witches and wizards called them – chemistry lab, a dining area where they were all sitting right now, and, probably the most curious object in the room of all, a large stone well-like bowl with quite a few chairs set around it. Hannah, if asked, would mention how surprised she was to have been asked to come with, for, while she'd known that Neville worked on this project, she hadn't expected to have anything to do with it herself. “Come on, come on,” Hermione said, gesturing for them to take a seat. Once everyone was seated, though she was still standing, she finally started to talk. “Okay, as we said when we went and got you all, we've finally figured out how what our problem was in getting this project to work,” Hermione said, jumping right into what needed to be said. “Now, everyone here other than Hannah knows what we were trying to do, so, if you'll just let me explain it to her for a moment, I'll get back on track.” With that, Hermione told Hannah what was going on. Hannah was slightly amazed to learn of what they were attempting to do, even more so when she realized that they had successful conclusions already. “Alright. Now, as our last test before we kicked out the males showed, we were having trouble getting the time to stand still outside of our chosen...area and still allow ourselves to watch what was going on, correct?” Tristelianna said. There were various nods from those on the project. “Well, once it was just us girls brainstorming and trying to figure out what was wrong, we finally realized what our problem was, which, in truth, is why everyone is here. Tristelianna.” Hermione sat down, while Tristelianna stood up. “As Hermione said, we finally figured out the problem,” she said. “While we had everything correct for the past, including the fact that we had gotten time to successfully stop for a few minutes, we forgot about ourselves. We can't watch and council with those reading the information we're sending if we ourselves are not in the same way that they are – meaning, of course, that we need to be in the same condition that they are in, mainly, we need to be frozen in time as well. “Something that I forgot about was the fact that, by sending this information back to the past and thus creating a new time line, it will become parallel to this line, and the conditions need to be relatively the same in order to be able to know what's going on. Freezing one line was...disrupted to the process of watching, so, within the last week, we've been doing out best to create the same circumstances for both the past and present. Last night, we finally tested it, and not once was our...signal interrupted, as it usually became the last few times we did this.” “Which, of course, has brought home a new problem,” Andromeda said. “Exactly,” Hermione said. “See, all of us who were a part of the project planned on observing what was going on when we could, with Harry, Hermione, and me being the ones to do the most observing – in fact, my part in this would be even bigger in that I would be the only one to have any interaction with the people reading the books and would be needed the most to keep an eye on everyting,” Tristelianna said. “However, with this new problem, that's not possible anymore,” Hermione said. “At least, not the first part of being about to observe when we could. Because of what we have to do, if a person wants to observe, they have to be here the entire time this is happening. In fact, just like the readers, we'd basically be trapped.” “Which is why everyone's here,” Andromeda said. “To basically give everyone a choice on whether or not they want to be trapped here with us or not. Now, for those who chose not to be, you'll simply believe that this 'meeting' took place five minutes before everyone else would leave. However, for those of us who stay, we'd be trapped here for however long it takes for those reading the books to do so, whether it takes days, weeks, or even a full month, though I doubt it'll take that long.” “However, we really need you all to decide, because we plan on having this ready to be put into motion by noon at the latest today,” Hermione said. “And we need to make sure that we have plenty of food, clothes, entertainment, things like that,” Tristelianna said. “So, knowing this, who wants to stay?” Everyone in the room raised their hands. “So, that's ten people,” Hermione said, automatically counting Teddy in with the group, knowing that neither Harry nor Andromeda would want him somewhere else, since, though Teddy would only believe it to be around five minutes, Harry and Andromeda would end up not seeing him for who knows how long. “Now, we plan on having elves here with us as well. How many of you, other than Tristelianna and Harry, will be bringing your elves?” Neville and Theodore were the only ones who raised their hands. “How many do you two plan on bringing?” Hermione asked. “I plan on having Jori and Jobi,” Neville said. “And I thought to Lore and Myth with me,” Theodore said. So, all together, we need things for at least twenty-two beings,” Hermione said. “Well, I already planned on having Karitha and Narisa go to the store for food,” Tristelianna said. “I guess I'll just have them get more than they are originally going to. If your allergic to anything, or want something specific, make a list to give to one of them. Meanwhile, Neville, you can have Jori and Jobi get your and Hannah's things ready, while Theodore can have Lore and Myth do the same for him and Azure. Harry, you need to have Tibby go to your house and get your, Teddy's, and Andromeda's things. I'll have Mari go with her as well. “Meanwhile, while they're doing that, Aine, Derotha, and Jero can go hit the bookstores and electronics stores, to stock up on books, movies, TV shows, music, stores that would hold things of entertainment. We won't be able to actually watch regular TV or go onto the internet, but we can do other things. Plus, there will be some allowances to go outside.” “But I thought...” Hannah began to say, sound uncertain. “We've made it so that the surrounding area, all the way to the gate, is in the warding, as it's roughly the same size as the area that the readers will be in, which makes it ideal. It's better to have the areas roughly the same size. Of course, I wouldn't suggest going outside a lot, since, like it will be for the readers, the outside won't be all that pleasant,” Tristelianna said. “How so?” Neville asked. “We will be having a rain storm,” Hermione said. “Originally, it would be complete with thunder and lightning, but we figured that would be a bit too much, and some of us would probably feel the need to get out of the house if we were never allowed to do so. “All right, so we know what we need to do, so if everyone could head upstairs, and pick out a room, and get the elves ready to do their jobs, we should be ready,” Tristelianna said. “I suggest, if you want to make sure you've soaked up enough sun for a while, you do so now, because, either once everything is gathered and what we need is here, or come noon, the activation will start.”
True to Tristelianna's word, the moment all of the elves, who had been going back and forth between where ever they'd been sent to, bringing everything they were told to, were finally back, she had her elves shut and lock the gates. After that, she had them go and inform everyone that she was about to begin the ritual and spells to start the process.
While everyone came in, Tristelianna headed downstairs alone, to being the activation. There were no fancy lights or anything that would suggest that she was doing something. In fact, all she did was pick up her wand, point it at stone well, and mutter a long incantation. “Ó a làlthair chum ùine a chaidh, ar tìodhlac chum sibh. Reòdh tràth chum tabhair tràth. Leig eòlas thoir sibh còmhluath. Leig còrd à càirdeas agus naidheachd tòisich,” she said. A bluish purple light left her wand, striking the well, and she nodded to herself as she looked inside it, and noticed that the silvery blue swirling liquid changed to a darker color, before disappearing. “It's done,” she muttered to herself, noticing that the new image in the well was split into three parts, each showing a different scene: Harry was running away from a group of boys, Hermione was walking towards the library with her nose in a book, and Luna and her god-brother were walking through the woods near her house, exploring. She waited until she saw the Harry and Hermione run into each other while Luna and Cedric headed in their direction before heading up the stairs to let the others know that it had worked.