OH NO JAMES, YOU DIDN'T (Harry Potter Next Generation Time Travel Fan Fiction)

Chapter Eighteen

The next morning, Harry, Ron and Hermione went down to the Great Hall early and await for the Daily Prophet delivered by the owl post.

"You know, I don't know why we have to go down this early" Ron said while munching on his toast.

"What do you mean?" Harry asked while helping himself with pancake.

"We could have asked the kids about it." Ron replied then continue when Harry and Hermione didn't come up with a retort "I mean, they're from the future, so they know"

"Yeah" Harry said, nodding.

"I don't think we should do that" Hermione said.

"Why?" Harry asked.

"Remember Lucy? Last evening?" Hermione said and the two fell silent remembering seeing Lucy cry upon hearing what they have said about Percy.

"Oh- right" Ron said.

They continue eating in silence.

Moments later, James, Fred II, Albus, Rose, Lily and Louis came.

"Okay, who died?" James asked jokingly upon seeing the solemn face of their future parents.

"Huh?" Hermione asked.

"You look like you were beside a deathbed." James said.

"Of course we would have known who died seeing as we're from the future." Fred II said then grunted when somebody jabbed him in the stomach.

"What was that for?" he asked Rose angrily.

"Sorry, you were in the way" Rose said. She sat in front of Ron but gave Fred II a meaningful look.

"Do you really want them to know that somebody died?" Albus whispered to his cousin while they took their seat.

"What is it?" Hermione asked. "Are you saying that somebody will die? Someone we know?" she pressed the kids from the future.

Lily rolled her eyes from behind Harry.

"I was only yanking your wand Aunt Hermione" Fred II said easily.

"No, I don't think so" Hermione said. "Is there something you're not telling us?"

"Could've kept your mouth shut dear cousin" Albus murmured.

"Well?" Ron and Harry prompted.

"Ask us no questions and we'll tell you no lies" James said smiling, piling his plate with sausages.

But before Hermione can press more, the owl post arrived.

 Hermione seize the newspaper that a delivery owl dropped in front her and let out a huge gasp.

"What? What does it say?" Ron asked. 

Hermione flattened the paper to reveal a large photograph of Dolores Umbridge smiling broadly and blinking slowly at them. Above the picture bares the headline, "MINISTRY SEEKS EDUCATIONAL REFORM DOLORES UMBRIDGE APPOINTED FIRST-EVER "HIGH INQUISITOR"

"High Inquisitor?" Harry asked. The kids from the future groaned. Lily said "Oh no!"

"Shhh. LIsten" Hermione said and read aloud;

        "In a surprise move last night, the Ministry of Magic passed new legislation giving itself an unprecedented control at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

        "The Ministry has been growing uneasy about the goings-on at Hogwarts for sometime" said Junior Assistant to the Minister Percy Weasley  "