Albus Don't you Dare!

Breakthrough

Present (2021)

Draco put on his traveling cloak, grabbed his briefcase and apprared directly from Malfoy Manor to Hermione's office. He stumbled upon the parchments and documents piled on the floor, knocking them over like dinomos.

"Draco are you alright?" said Hermione worriedly, lending out her hand to Draco who immediately took hold of it.

"Yeah, I'm fine." said Draco, finally standing up on his feet.

Draco was glad to be back in 2021, it was really strange for him to be stuck in the past with the people who intensely disliked him. But he still had that nagging feeling that there was something going on between Scorpius and Lily, he has to ask Harry and Ginny about this.

They seemed a lot more relaxed whenever they were together than they normally were before.

"Any progress while I was away Hermione?" Draco asked, placing his cloak on the back of a chair and taking out mountains of parchments from his briefcase and finally sitting down.

"Er, nothing yet," Hermione answered lazily. "But for your information, I happened to stumble upon a spell that can possibly predict your future."

"Really!" Draco exclaimed. "There can't be one that exists, right?"

"Of course not!" said Hermione, sounding frustrated and flung the book to the floor; something that was odd for Draco to see.

"Oh,"

"It's complete trash! There has been practically no recorded events of wizards traveling that far into the past for centuries. Unless if you count the incident last year, and it was just sheer dumb luck that got us out of hell."

Hermione groaned and glanced at Draco.

"What are we going to do?"

"Hermione," said Draco, attempting to lighten up the mood. "To be honest, I have no clue. I mean you're the brightest witch of our age."

"That's exactly what's upsetting me Draco, I'm supposed to fix this, but I can't."

"Well, we fixed it. Partially."

"Right you are," Hermione groaned. "But if we could only go back five minutes at a time, we won't have to erase their memories. And who knows what could've happend to them."

"Why don't we just let them be and don't erase their memories?" Draco suggested.

Hermione chuckled slightly at this but suddenly stopped as she saw the look on his face. "You can't be serious Draco."

"Well why not?" said Draco. "In that way, Sirius would know to not go to the Ministry and Harry would know that it was a fake vision. It could save their lives; Everyone would be happy then."

"It's too dangerous Draco," Hermione reminded him. "Everything happens for a reason. And no, I'm not going to do that! No matter the consenquences."

"Sorry Hermione, it was just an —"

"Look, when Albus and Scorpius went back in time last year, Ron and I almost didn't get married and that means... that... that Rose and Hugo... weren't... born and I could never forgive myself if something terrible happened to my children."said Hermione, she was now looking distraught as she spit out every word and began to sob quietly.

"Hermione," Draco croaked, holding her hand to comfort her. "I'm really sorry, it was just a stupid idea that came into my head. Actually, you're right, it could mess things up."

"Please don't get me wrong, i'd love if Harry still had Sirius, Teddy had Remus and Tonks, and if George had Fred —"

"Hermione, it'll be alright," Draco reassured her, his grey eyes fixed on her brown ones. "We'll find a way to fix the time turner, bring the kids back home and prevent them from changing the past."

"You're right, thanks Draco. We better proceed."

The two spent the next several hours consulting books, practicing and double checking, taking down notes, writing ideas down, and only took a break when Ron visited the office along with Rose and Hugo brought them lunch and when Harry came in asking if they needed his help.

"Are you sure you don't want any help?" Harry asked for the last time, reaching for the doorknob.

"We're fine Harry,"'Hermione sighed. "Oh and by the way, please tell Ginny that we're all having dinner at the Burrow tonight."

It was around quarter to seven o'clock when....

"Hermione!" Draco said triumphantly.

"What?" Hermione groaned, just waking up after her short nap.

"I fixed it! I fixed the time turner!"