"Flashbacks"

"𝙷𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚢'𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜"

"YELLING"

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"Time travel?" Harry questioned, almost a minute later, "But Dumbledore said— "

"You cannot always rely on the past!

"What do you expect then?"

"Yes, I admit, Dumbledore and his famous quotes are great. Don't you want to try something new? Like going to the time before the Dark Lord died to stop Dora from being killed by my older sister?" she stared at the graves, couldn't read the words clearly because the night was very dark.

They let out a shiver, it was strangely colder than usual as well. "It will go wrong, and...I must ask Tonks about this, what if she doesn't want it? And even she's fine with your idea—"

"One is never complete without their soulmate, darling. I'm sure she held a special place in your heart, and once she became closer, not just in a portrait, you will be truly happy." Narcissa's whispers were soft, yet strong enough to make Harry reconsider.

"You have a point though. It feels like something is missing when Tonks's not with me, these days talking to her in a portrait, things were right again. She has a way of making my days brighter."

Agreed, the years I was stuck at Malfoy Manor, I used to imagine the young girl's carefree smile. How old was she the first time I met her, in person? I still remember her laughs, her pink hair that literally said 'be cheerful'. She reminded me my situation would get better, if not, in the end." Narcissa recalled, her two-colored hair went flying once more with the wind, "1995, she joined the Order of the Phoenix. I vowed to keep her safe and stop the dangers. But the truth is, we caused the dangers—"

"Narcissa, don't say that ever again! Harry practically yelled. He knew Cissy was kind, although her kindness often got overlooked by both warriors of the dark and light side.

"My actions can't be changed. And the fact that I didn't try to help was even worse. I should have at least..."

"It's not your fault, you saved the whole Wizardry World! I wouldn't have been alive right now if not for your lie." he exclaimed, "Besides, I didn't expect you to use the killing curse on Lucius Malfoy or anything. You've done what you could, and I'm glad about it."

Narcissa shook her head, "My story is too hard to explain, do you want to hear the rest?"

"Yes madam, please don't stop," Harry answered, waiting for her to continue.

"What did you call me?"

"Uhh sorry, Narcissa."

"Anyway, after my niece joined the Order, I found Kreacher and asked whether Dora was doing well. At the same time, I gave him information on you and Sirius. I'm sorry, darling, I took a part in your godfather's death. He then told the Dark Lord, to which he immediately lured you into a trap. My sister Bella did the most unacceptable action ever. It shocked me greatly considering she was Sirius' favorite cousin when we were younger."

He gasped, "Unbelievable! Bellatrix Lestrange, my godfather's favorite cousin?"

"I heard him talking to James on who was his favorite out of the three of us. Going to your sixth year, I once again noticed him, Remus Lupin. He, and my niece..." Narcissa let out a giggle, free of all the pain she experienced in the past few years, "I was very surprised by the news at first."

"You better have nothing against werewolves—"

"Of course not! In fact, I figured out his furry little problem in his 1st year at Hogwarts. I offered him help one day, then we sort of became friends."

Wow, that was new, Narcissa Black befriending first-year Remus. It showed again that she was indeed very kind, or she may not be willing to be friends with werewolves.

"Sorry about asking so many questions," said Harry, "Are you professor Lupin's first friend?"

"I am, thank god he had the Marauders later on. I couldn't always be there for him, especially when Bella told our parents." 

"Does that mean you're an animagus?"

"Sometimes I wonder why you are not sorted into Ravenclaw. I became one to assist Remus during his transformation, until his 5th year, where the Marauders took over. This sounds insane but I was an arctic fox."

"Was?"

"After my parents found out, they stopped my powers and I could no longer change into an animal." she said as if it was not a big deal, "Did you know, I once received a love letter from 13-year-old Remus.

Harry's eyes went wide, "WHAT THE HELL? I thought..."

"Only for a short time though, he eventually moved on. Emmeline Vance, the girl he spent most of his life wishing to be with her. He loved her, more than I imagined."

"And she died?"

"While dueling 5 Death Eaters, brave girl, was she?"

"Yeah, you seem to know a lot. So who was Sirius' crush back then?"

"Why ask me? He's your godfather!" she pointed out.

"He's your cousin!"

"He may want his privacy. " Narcissa said, "Aright, it's late now, probably 2 a.m. Consider time traveling, would you?"

"I will, no promises though. Wait a minute, Tonks said your singing voice is amazing, can you sing a song, please?"

"Fine, then you have to go to sleep!"

https://youtu.be/SUxqNeL3-34

(Only adding this because I want you to hear Narcissa Black/Helen McCrory's voice, yes, this is sung by our Cissy)

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Harry had a very strange dream that night.

Way back in 1991, there was a 7th Hufflepuff student named Nymphadora Tonks. She had bubblegum-pink hair, black and yellow robes, and a wide smile. So Nymphadora-like. According to the dream, she was neither a prefect nor a Head Girl. Harry was not at all surprised, because he remembered one of Tonks' lines "I was never a Prefect myself, my Head of House said I lacked certain qualities, like the ability to behave." That didn't mean she was the typical bad girl, quite the opposite actually.

He got a glimpse of the other Hufflepuffs, Penny, Chiara, and Leonie. Tonks must have known them. Now the main question is, why did he go through such a useless dream?

The scene switched to a redhead that looked like Charlie Weasley. After another closer look, Harry figured the boy was exactly Charlie, the dragon lover. He and Tonks were in the same year, a horrifying thought came to him: Could Tonks be his girlfriend? It took him one second to remember Charlie was asexual, thank god.

Charlie disappeared from his dream, the image that went next almost woke Harry up. What was it? Oh, right, Harry Potter and Nymphadora Tonks sharing a kiss in the empty Quidditch Pitch. He wondered why he kissed Tonks in his dream, what the hell is the reason they were both having their 7th year. She was seven years older, by the time she should have graduated, they couldn't be wearing robes at the same time.

No, it couldn't be. He woke up completely, the clock showed the time was four o'clock, not the best hour waking up. As quiet as possible, he walked into Teddy's room to check how he was sleeping, Teddy was doing great! He left the room trying not to disturb his godson.

"Aww, little Harrykins having trouble sleeping?" he heard a girl say softly, it was Tonks-Portrait without question.

Harry couldn't help but blush, he was the one he kissed, at least only in his stupid dreams, not real. "Good morning Nymphie!"

She had allowed Nym, but Nymphie was way too much. Then again, he wouldn't have used that nickname if she didn't call him "Little Harrykins" at first.

"Don't call me Nymphie!" the only reason she wasn't screaming was that none of them wanted to wake Teddy up, "Why are you awake this early?"

"I had a dream..."

"Of what? Was it a nightmare?"

"No...it's a normal one...I suppose?" Harry stuttered, feeling very nervous.

Based on his expression, Tonks had already guessed half of the dream, or she wouldn't have been such an awesome Auror, "What do you want?"

"Can I be here without wanting anything?"

"Oh yes—but we can't go on like this forever, can we?"

"Right, what if you like someone and they don't like you back," he said, looking for some "advice", "And even if they do like you a bit(I don't think that's true), you are not going to get what you wish for because the person is...uhh far away from you?"

Far away? Haha, Harry meant dead, or more politely, in heaven."Oh my god, you're so lovesick!"

"I'm not!"

"You are!"

"No!" he lowered his voice as he remembered sleeping Teddy, "You have zero ideas what I'm talking about! Would things go terribly wrong if I take a time turner and stop the girl's death?"

"Nonsense! Time is dangerous, and no offense Harry, you might accidentally kill your past or future self."

"I'll be careful..."

She sighed, "Look, I can see where aunt Cissa is coming from, and I must thank her for thinking of this, but the risk is huge that we cannot take. Don't you wanna live normally? Without any heroic adventures such as fighting Voldemort and time-traveling?"

"How did you guess it's Narcissa?"

"Well, duh, I'm an Auror, did you forget?" Nymphadora winked, for a moment Harry thought he was in his dream, the kissing scene immediately came to mind.

"Yeah, of course, a smart one." he retorted, trying to be sarcastic.

"Seriously Harry, I'm sure you will find a girl(or boy) better than this clumsy policewoman here." she smiled again, which made him wonder if she was really happy, or fake-smiling in order to cheer him up, "Let me find one for you...Luna Lovegood, ahh yes, creative and not afraid to be herself, why don't you make out with Luna?"

He expected her to say Ginny or even Cho, the answer he got was quite unusual, "I like Luna a lot, as a friend only, sort of like my relationship with Hermione. Although I totally agree with "she's not afraid to be herself", it's one of the reasons why I like her so much."

"If you like Luna as a friend only, then I hope we are as same as—"

"Nah, you're different. Luna is like a younger sister to me, while you are—"

"An older sister?" she suggested, half-laughing.

"Tonks!"

"Just kidding, told ya I'm weird and abnormal!" she grew serious after that, "As for the time-traveling, I reckon you shouldn't do it, because I wouldn't love you to risk all of this, for me."

"But I'm willing to! According to Sirius, what's life like without a little risk?"

"And that got him killed," said Tonks a-matter-of-factly, "Now why don't you go check on Teddy, I must have heard something inside, which means he's likely awake."

Harry stood up, Teddy was sitting in his little bed with widely-opened eyes just as Nympadoa predicted, "Morning kiddo, slept well last night?" His blue hair almost glowed, he definitely had a wonderful sleep.

He carried the child to the living room, where milk was already heated. Teddy drank it all, good boy. He was usually a good boy unless he was taking a bath.

"Teddy, would you like to hear a story?" Harry asked, his godson nodded, or at least it looked like he nodded, "Today, I'm going to tell you the full story of Snow White."

"Great choice!" Tonks complimented, happy for the book he chose.

"Listen carefully. Once upon a time, there was a princess. Her skin was as white as snow, so her parents named her Snow White. Everything was perfect, right? Until her mother died."

"So in the majority of Children's books, it's either dead and nice parents or alive and mean/evil parents. Cool!" she snorted, Harry grinned widely.

"After her mother's death, her father found another woman, the new Queen. She was not very kind to Snow White, leading her to be treated badly. One day, she talked to her magical mirror, 'Mirror, Mirror, who is the most beautiful girl on the earth?' she waited for the mirror to respond, 'You, of course. But instead, it said, 'Snow White'".

Nymphadora giggled, "I love your version!"

"Thanks, Tonks! The Queen was very angry, how could Snow White be more beautiful than her? 'Kill her!' she ordered the Hunter. The Hunter took Snow White into a forest, 'Princess, I don't want to kill you as the Queen asked me to do, go, and never come back!' She ran and ran, finally, she reached a small house. No one was in there. Later, she found out there lived seven dwarfs. They allowed Snow White to live with them as long as she always helps with housework. She and the dwarfs lived happily until the Queen noticed something wrong: Snow White was alive."

"Yeah, she has to be alive, usually the main character never dies!" said Tonks.

"True, or the story can't go on," Harry agreed before continuing, "This time, the Queen was going to kill Snow White herself! She changed like an old woman selling apples, only, the apples were poisonous. Once, the dwarfs were out doing business, Snow White was the only one at home. The Queen used this time to go in the forest where our Princess lived, and said in an old-lady voice 'Ahhh, what a beautiful princess! Would you like to try an apple I made?' Snow White thanked her and took an apple. She 'died' after taking just one bite! The Queen saw it, and walked away, laughing."

"If I was Snow White, I would throw the poisonous apple right onto the mean Queen's face, rather than eating it."

"She didn't know it could kill her!" 

"I bet the princess had trust issues after this incident." 

"Tonks, you certainly are very imaginative," said Harry, laughing at her weird comments, "The seven dwarfs came back, they saw a 'dead' Snow White. Oops, that was terrible. They wondered what to do, as charming Princes went their way riding a horse. He eventually got what happened, and found a perfect solution. Slowly, he gave Snow White a kiss on the lips, suddenly she became alive again! At the end of the story, Snow White and the Prince lived happily ever after."

He finished, Tonks clapped as loud as possible. "Amazing, Teddy loves it!"

"I'm glad I didn't bore you to hell."

"Oh no, not at all!" she quickly stated, "I was just thinking about how much you are similar to the Prince!"

"Me? The Prince? Are you serious?" 

"No I'm not Sirius, my name is Tonks." she gave her typical eye-roll, Harry secretly likes it a lot.

"Whatever, what makes you feel like I'm like him?"

"Several reasons. One, both of you are very handsome, never mind, ignore this," Tonks may or may not have blushed a bit, "Two, your motivations are the same, wanting to save a girl from death. I'm not saying it's stupid, but umm... Three, the two wholeheartedly believe doing whatever to save the girl will work. In reality, it will not. This book is a fantasy, Harry, in real life, can you make a person alive again by giving them a kiss? Absolutely not!"

"There are other ways to save a girl, right?"

"No there is none, end of the story, goodbye." Her words sounded a little like the face Madeye Moody, Harry mused "If they are dead, let them stay that way, did anyone save Dumbledore? Or Snape?"

"You're intelligent, far more than me."

"Thanks? But not really, I'm silly once you get to know me, and very clumsy."

"Wow, the first thing I remember you is how sassy you are."

"You've got him, don't listen to the rumors 'Hufflepuffs are sweet and nice, they can't even speak sarcasm!' Wrong, I'm being sarcastic in almost half of my life!"

"Yeah, sure Nymphie!" said Harry, using that nickname for the second time today, "Guess I'll take Teddy out a little while, he loves playing outside!"

"Okay, bye, be back soon!"

He held Teddy to the outdoors and closed the door behind, the weather was nice, "Where do you want to go?"

He, a months-old child, said nothing.

There were flowers alongside the road they were walking on, lilies, petunias, narcissus, daisies...Harry pointed to a lily flower, "Look, this is called a lily, my mother was named after this flower. She had flaming red hair, emerald green eyes, and her heart belonged with none other than James Potter, my father. Professor Lupin said dad chased after mum even since his third year, she used to hate him and refused to be his girlfriend. The world turned upside-down after Snape called her the M-word. In her 5 or 6th year, mum spent more time around dad, amused by their pranks."

"Day by day, she started catching feelings for him. Both her roommates Marlene McKinnon and Alice Fortescue hoped she would ask my father out. Before she even had a chance, dad took her to a muggle restaurant and they sorta umm...yes, sparks fly, you see? And this was how Jily sailed. Once they were simping and now they were smitten. As the marauders describe my parents 'Jily: the undying love", why? Because Lily and James: Forever!"

"Nah, it couldn't last forever, the world got very dark after that, Voldemort was at large. He murdered thousands of muggle-borns, including Lily's parents. Its world needed a protector, at the most dangerous time, the Order of the Phoenix arose. Led by Dumbledore, the army fought Voldemort. Later that year, a prophecy was made, he came to my parents' house, dad faced him giving us a little time. He then forced her to move aside, but she didn't. Anyway, that was the life of my mother from the beginning to end." Harry finished, it was not made up by the way.

Teddy seemed to love lilies for no reason. There was one thing we could all agree on, James Potter + Lily Evans = Perfection.

His eyes landed on another flower, it was mostly white, with some yellow color in the middle, "This, Teddy, is a narcissus. Your aunt Narcissa was very different from Lily Potter. She could never be the Slytherin Golden Girl, nor did she become friends with almost everyone at Hogwarts. A lot of students called her cruel, only a handful saw through and noticed how kind she is. She looked like she doesn't care about anything, but really, she's nothing like how she looks."

In the sunlight, Harry saw two figures, they waved to him."

He waved back.

The two figures were Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.

"Harry, here you are!" Hermione screamed excitedly, "We missed you loads! Ron and I had a good time in Paris, it was a great trip! We send you the cards with photos, did you receive them? And yes, the ship between me and Ron has sailed, so yay to you and Luna, two of the biggest Romione shippers in the world. Ohh, is the boy you are holding Teddy Lupin?"

"Let him breathe, Hermione," said Ron, stopping his girlfriend from asking too many questions.

"It's good to see you again! This is my godson. Teddy, meet Ron and Hermione."

Hermione came closer, "I'm Hermione Granger, and this is my boyfriend Ron. You look a lot like your father, wait, are you a—"

"Werewolf?" Harry finished the rest for her, "No, he's a metamorphmagus just like his mother. See he can change his hair color, his favorite is blue."

"Hello Teddy, I'm Ron, I love Hermione and chicken, don't make me choose between them."

"Everyone at Hogwarts knows about Ron Weasley's love for chicken, I won't make you choose, because you can't live without chicken," Hermione mumbled, earning a chuckle from Harry and Ron.

"So, how is it going?" Ron and Hermione asked together.

"Great, I was cleaning Grimmauld Place, and guess what I've found? A portrait of Tonks! I can still talk to her even though...She helps me whenever I'm having trouble with Teddy, it made things easier this way. Teddy is totally awesome, his only flaw is his hatred for taking baths. Overall? Amazing."

"Good to hear! The amount of time you talk about Tonks, I wonder..."

"Oh shut it, Hermione!"

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"Narcissa, I considered time-traveling, I don't think I want to do it."

"It's alright, I have a time turner prepared, just in case. You can choose what you like to do, I'm not forcing you." she smiled knowingly, not at all angry or annoyed.

"I brought Teddy today, he must be very happy."

As they were chatting, a creature tiptoed around. The sound was soft, but Narcissa, having sensible ears, caught them perfectly well, "Who's there?" she took out her wand for security.

"Don't hurt Winky please, Mr. Potter and Lady Black," the creature squealed.

"Winky?" Harry was snapped out of his thoughts, "What are you doing here? No offense by the way."

"The world needs you in 1990, Winky is come to get you! Go back in time to stop the dark wizards and witches!"

"Are you telling me to go back to the year 1990?"

"Yes!"

"Hell no! Nothing terrible happened that year, why do they need me anyway?" he reasoned, bewildered.

"The world is even darker back then, with the R not gone...The boy who lived is one who can set things right!"

"Do I have to go there, all by myself? What about Teddy? He's my godson, I'm not going to leave him here! And my friends, how long will it take until I see them again?"

"No, Harry Potter is not have to go single," said Winky the house-elf, "Take the boy with you, and Lady Black too. Dobby told I all about her, she will give you great help!"

He could see that Narcissa wasn't much happier, either, "Time-traveling must be carefully planned, if we are to be thrown into the past without preparation, we may make huge mistakes we are going to regret later. When will we return to the present? Of course, no one wants to stay in the past for the rest of their lives, especially we are going to the year 1990. Winky, are you 100% sure this is the right choice? If so, great dangers are ahead..."

"Maybe Lady Black's quick thinking will save it all!" Winky clapped her hands at her cleverness.

"You still didn't answer my question. The reason I don't agree with this is that we are going back way too long. I'm not going to be scary but someone dying is highly possible."

"Narcissa, it will be that bad?"

For once, she smirked, "Mostly, it has something good though. We are going to 1990, which means you are to have your last year at Hogwarts, Tonks is born in 1973, which means the two of you will go to Hogwarts together."

"Me going to Hogwarts with Tonks? Wonderful!"

"Yes, please don't snog her the minute you two meet, give her some time before asking my little niece out. You have my permission! My sister Andromeda has been wanting you and Tonks for years ago. And this is the only good in time-traveling to 1990, everything else is not-so-perfect."

"Mr. Potter, Lady Black, are you ready now?" 

"No! Give me a minute—" said Harry, a bit nervous.

Too late, Winky grabbed him and Narcissa's hands, he held Teddy tighter, they were already traveling back in time. Then they were spinning, falling, and...

A/N: When someone likes you, and you like them, but you are dead, so you have to pretend that you do not like them, get the feeling? This is exactly Nymphadora Tonks. So Harry, Narcissa, and Teddy have time-traveled successfully(and yes, Cissy and Meda didn't make amends, sorry). I had to make him see Ron and Hermione once more before leaving... Thank you for reading, please vote, comment, and share!

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