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"Harry?"

"Harry, wake up!"

Harry opened his eyes wide after hearing the calls from his two friends, Hermione and Cassie.

"Hey, I saw my dad. He was across the lake, and... he sent the Dementors away." Harry said looking at his two best friends, smiling.

Harry glanced at Cassie.
"Cassie, you saw that deer too, right? That's my dad!"

Cassie took a deep breath and lowered her head.

"No..at that time I was trying to help you, but suddenly there was that big light."

Harry smiled happily at that.

Hermione seemed to hold Harry's shoulder. "Listen, Harry. They've got Sirius."

"And after that, the Dementors will give Sirius a kiss."

Hearing Hermione's words, Harry suddenly woke up from his sleep.

"You mean...they're going to kill him?!"

"No, this is worse..."

Cassie nodded. "Much worse."
"...They'll suck his soul out."

Suddenly, the Hogwarts hospital door was opened by Professor Dumbledore who came to look.

Seeing the Headmaster Professor, Harry, Cassie and Hermione immediately approached him.

"Professor, you have to stop them. They got the wrong person!" Cassie protested.

Harry agreed and nodded.
"That's right, sir. Sirius is innocent."

"Scabbers did it!" Ron's reply made the four of them turn their heads.

"Scabbers?" Asked the Professor frowned.

"He's my rat, sir." Ron frowned in confusion. "He's not really a rat. But he was a rat."

"That's my brother's rat, Percy." Ron said starting everywhere.

Hermione and Cassie glanced at each other with nonchalant expressions.

Ron continued,
"But then they gave him an owl..."

Hermione turned to face the Professor quickly. "The point is, we know the truth."

Hermione looked at Professor Dumbledore expectantly.

"Please believe us, Professor.."

Professor nodded.
"I trust you, Ms. Granger."

"But I'm sorry to say that the words of four thirteen year old witches will convince few people."

The Professor walked over to Ron who was sitting on the hospital bed with a badly injured leg bandaged.

"A child's voice, no matter how honest and true, means nothing to those who have forgotten how to forget..."

The Professor seemed to be holding Ron's bandaged leg and tapping it a few times.

The incident made Ron feel his leg hurt more and more so he wanted to touch it. Want to protest but not comfortable with the Professor.

Professor turned, he fixed his eyes on the big clock outside the school which was visible from the wide open hospital door.

"Time is a mysterious thing."

The Professor walked towards the exit past Hermione, Cassie and Harry.

"Strong, and when disturbed, dangerous."

"Sirius Black is in the top cell of the Dark Tower." Professor Dumbledore said giving a leak.

The Professor turned around to face the three friends.

"You know the rules, Ms. Granger."
"You're not to be seen. And I think you'd better be back before the final bell rings."

"..Otherwise, the consequences are too dire to speak of."

"If you succeed tonight, more than one innocent life might be saved."

The professor turned around and left the hospital, he closed the big door, but when he was about to close it he held it.

"By the way, when in doubt, I realized following back in my steps, was a wise thing to start with."

"Also, Ms. Diggory, maybe you can try Hermione's necklace this time."

Hearing what Professor saying to her, Cassie smiled wide happily.

"Good luck." The Professor said then closed the door of the room.

After there was no one at all, except for Cassie, Harry, Hermione and Ron, Cassie gave a jumping up and down cheer.

"YAYY! Look Hermione! Finally I have a chance to wear that necklace!!!"

Hermione frowned, while Harry was just confused by what the two girls were talking about.

Cassie raised her eyebrows and held out her palms to Hermione.

"Now, Hermione. Give me your necklace." Cassie said with a crooked smile.

Hermione still stared at Cassie cynically, she shook her head. "All right, all right."

Hermione pulled the gold necklace string from inside her pink jacket. Then she took it off and gave it to Cassie.

Cassie smiled widely. She almost took Hermione's necklace, but Hermione pushed it away for a moment.

"Hey! Don't be careless, remember the consequences. You still remember how, right?"

Cassie snorted, she rolled her eyes lazily. "Already..!!"

Hermione nodded. She gave her a long gold necklace, has a circle with an hourglass in the middle.

"Good luck. I'll accompany Ron here." Hermione smiled and patted her two friends on the shoulder.

Cassie smiled, while Harry still had no idea about Hermione's necklace.

"What are you two talking about?"

Cassie then put Hermione's necklace that she always dreamed of around her neck and Harry's neck.

Feeling curious, Harry touched the circlet of the necklace. Cassie however brushed his hand off immediately.

"Don't touch."

"Why?"

"Because I said it."

Yes, Cassie's sarcasm has finally returned.

Cassie focused and seriously turned the bolt on the clock called..

Time Turner.

After three rounds, the circle with the hourglass in the middle moves fast and fast.

Harry looked around. Apparently, Hermione who had been sitting next to Ron was now gone. He saw the time to be evening, he saw when madam Pomfrey help him in the hospital bed.

The confusing events moved quickly, but not with Cassie and Harry who were fine.

After the winding of the necklace stopped, it brought them into the morning with the scorching sun.

Cassie removed her necklace from Harry's neck and tucked it inside her dark green jacket.

Harry looked around in confusion.
"What just happened?" he asked. "Where are Ron and Hermione?"

Cassie looked ahead, where she saw the large clock that everyone could see at Hogwarts.

"Half past eight in the morning." Cassie turned to Harry.

"Where were we at 7:30?"

"I don't know, maybe in Hagrid's Shack?" Harry replied.

Cassie held Harry's hand.
"Come on, and we must be out of sight."

Cassie ran out of the hospital and Harry followed.

"Cassie!"

The two friends head out of school to go to Hagrid's Shack. Passing through courtyards, bridges, until finally they came to an alley.

"Cassie, Wait!"

Cassie stopped in her tracks. And Harry was standing beside him.

"Cassie, tell me what we're doing."

"A moment."

Cassie and Harry were standing behind a stone wall. They had heard and seen earlier this morning, where Hermione was making fun of Draco.

Harry fell silent. "That's us." Harry shook his head in disbelief. "This isn't normal..."

Cassie snorted. She turned on Harry and pushed his body against the wall.

Cassie showed him the necklace she was wearing,

"It's a Time Turner, Harry."

"McGonagall gave it to Hermione in first year. I would have given it too, but at that time, I was having school holidays."

"So, to this day McGonagall forgot to give it to me. This is how Hermione and I have been able to keep up with classes all year long."

Harry was starting to understand. "So we go back in time?"

Cassie nodded. "Yes."

Harry looked away, still with Cassie explaining.

"Dumbledore obviously wants us to come back to this moment."

Cassie and Harry turned back and witnessed the phenomenon where the Golden Four and Bronze Trio were fighting.

"There must be something we have to change." Cassie said.

When it came to Cassie saying 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐 ℎ𝑖𝑚 to Hermione, Harry chuckled as he said,

"You are very brave."

Cassie laughed. "Haha, thanks. I always wanted magic Draco to be a white rat."

As they watched back, after Hermione punched Draco in the face, and the Bronze Trio immediately ran down the hall.

"Malfoy is coming, let's go!" Cassie said grabbing Harry's hand and running as well as hiding behind the wall below.

They were again eavesdropping on what the Bronze Trio & Golden Four were talking about there.

"I will avenge that mudblood!"

"I fell good..."

"Not good, Brilliant!"

"Come on, we have to get to Hagrid's house."

Cassie and Harry sneaked out of hiding to see if they were safe.

As the Golden Four had descended the hill and were on their way to Hagrid's house below, Cassie and Harry slowly stepped forward.

The two of them were now hiding behind the tall rock where Draco had hit Hermione. They saw the Golden Four walking down and down.

Harry smiled thinly. "See, Buckbeak is still alive."

Cassie nodded smiling. "Of course."

Cassie frowned at Harry.
"Remember what Dumbledore said? If we succeed, more than one innocent life could be saved.."

Harry nodded understandingly.

Cassie took Harry's hand.
"Let's go downstairs."

Cassie and the boy she love, Harry are now hiding behind a pile of orange pumpkins.

They fixed their eyes on the conversation between Harry and Hagrid as well as Hermione, Ron and Cassie.

While Harry watched, Cassie turned to the group of men walking toward Hagrid's house.

Of course Professor Dumbledore, the Minister, and the man who was about to execute Buckbeak with his giant axe.

Seeing that Cassie was paying attention to something else, Harry followed her gaze.

"They're coming. We have to hurry."

Harry thoughtlessly stood up to release Buckbeak, but the cautious Cassie tugged hard on his blue jacket.

"Fudge has to see Buckbeak before we steal him." Cassie said looking deep into Harry.

"Otherwise, they'll think Hagrid released him."

Harry followed Cassie's words, he returned to pay attention to the Golden Four in Hagrid's house.

They saw the time when Hagrid gave Scabbers the rat to his owner, Ron.

Harry scrunched up his eyes angrily.
"That's Pettigrew."

Cassie chuckled, she held both Harry's shoulders.

"Harry, you can't just do that!"

"Cassie, that is the person who betrayed my parents! And please don't let me just stand there."

Harry angrily wanted to go into Hagrid's house, but Cassie pulled him again.

"Yes, but you have to stay here!!!"

Because Harry was half standing, so Cassie also stood up a little and took Harry to hide on the other side of the pumpkin.

Cassie caught her breath and tried to coax Harry back.

"Harry, you're in Hagrid's Shack right now⎯ "
"⎯ And if you barged in, you'd think you were crazy!"

Cassie sighed, looking at Harry intently. "Bad things happen to wizards that interfere with the passage of time, Harry."

Harry was just silent listening to what Cassie said word by word.

Cassie then glanced at the group of men from earlier. "Fudge is coming.."

Cassie turned again to the Golden Four who were still in Hagrid's house, Cassie frowned.

"Why are we still inside.."

Cassie's eyes then fixed on a natural object above the pumpkin in front of her.

Cassie took it with a tactical look. A small stone carved spiral in the middle.

Cassie exhaled, she looked at the Golden Four and threw the carved stone into the sand vase which shattered it.

Seeing that she had gotten the attention of Cassie who was in the house, Cassie behind the pumpkin immediately hide deeper.

"What are you doing?!" Harry asked.

Cassie didn't answer, her eyes lingering on the approaching Fudge. Realizing that the Golden Four had not left yet, Cassie picked up a rock and threw it at random.

It seemed the rock had hit Harry in the nape of the neck.

"Ouch!" Harry screeched behind the pumpkin holding his neck. "It hurts."

Cassie smiled awkwardly. "Sorry."

The two of them are now paying attention again when the Golden Four is about to leave.

"We're out the back door, Come on!" Invite Cassie to hide behind the shady trees behind.

The atmosphere is getting tense, because the Golden Four of the past is now very close to the present day Cassie and Harry.

Cassie & Harry are still keeping an eye on everything.

Cassie gently brushed aside the branch in front of her and tried to peek at the Golden Four in front of her.

She narrowed her eyes, tilted her head.

She whispered, "I told Hermione I should have tied up my hair⎯ "

"Cassie!"

CRACK

"What's that?"

Cassie and Harry gasped, luckily they were back in hiding.

"What?"

"I think I just saw..ah, forget it."

"Come on!"

Cassie's breath hitched, but she finally managed to get it back together. Cassie looked back as the Golden Four had gone up the hill.

Harry had seen it too. "Come on." He then walked quickly followed by Cassie.