hi here is my second story i wrote. I hope you like it. This time it's a real time travel story so the quartet travels into the past and not James and Co into the future. have fun


Chapter 1: The Mysterious Gift

Everywhere in Privet Drive it was dark, only in one house there was a light still burning in a window. There a black-haired boy was sitting on a chair in front of the window. This boy was none other than Harry Potter who once again had to live with his relative the Dursleys. He was just about to go to sleep when he saw movement in the distance at the window. He quickly opened the window and now he saw that an owl was flying in his direction. He could hardly see it because it was almost exclusively black, only the lower body was white as snow.
> I wonder who it is from, who sends an owl to them at this time. We only have what time is it anyway? Oh yeah 2:30 in the morning. Harry thought lost in thought when the owl reached him. Now he could see that she had a package with her. Immediately he carefully took the small package from the owl in order to take care of it afterwards, since he saw that the owl had flown very far.
"Here you have some owl biscuits and thanks for bringing me the package, whoever it is. Get some rest first."
Hardly had Harry said that when the owl had already got up in the direction of the closet and immediately landed on it. When she landed safely, she hid her head in her plumage to sleep. "That was quick, well then I'll see who sent you." Harry said and took a closer look at the package.
There was

Mr. H Potter
Privet Drive 4
smallest bedroom

> There is a letter there that I should read first. Seems to be Dumbledore, let's see what he writes.Harry thought to himself and turned to the lines.

Dear harry,
Congratulations on the 15th ......
no sooner had he read these words, he paused and asked himself> wait, is it really my birthday today? Oh man, actually I've been 15 for 2 ½ hours and don't even notice it. Typical Harry forgets his birthday <
calmly, he turned back to the letter

..Birthday, I hope you can do something with my present. It hides many secrets that only you and your friends can solve. You'll soon find out what I mean. But now we prefer to move on to something else, I think you will be very happy that Ron, Hermione and Ginny will come to visit you more often until it goes to Hogwarts, because unfortunately you cannot go to the Burrow because the four of you are there together is dangerous. I think they'll come to see you this afternoon. I'll see you at Hogwarts.
Albus Dumbledore
ps: the owl is also a gift, not that Hedwig would be bad, but that way it's quicker to send it, right? Oh yes, her name is Herakleon and is a rare night falcon male

> cool Ron, Hermione and Ginny are coming today so there probably hasn't been an owl yet. But now I'm curious what I got there. Harry rejoiced. So now he opened the package. The result, strangely enough, was a simple wristwatch engraved with a phoenix. Harry stared at his present in admiration but amazement. On closer inspection, the now 15 year old recognized that something was still scratched

for my grandson Harry, dearly your grandfather

> huh, I don't understand, Prof. Dumbledore is never and never my grandfather, but where did he get this watch from? And what does he mean by secrets. > Harry mused to himself. In the meantime he had sat down on his bed and wondered what it all meant while he admired his owl and his new falcon. Both slept, Hedwig in her cage and Herakleon on the cupboard.In the middle of his thoughts, Harry closed his eyes.
Only at 11 o'clock was he woken up by the ringing of the doorbell. He quickly straightened his glasses, which he had forgotten to take off, and changed them in seconds.
Just as he was done he heard someone coming up the stairs. His door was thrown open and a sordid Uncle Vernon looked at him grimly for a second before grumbling, "Boy, you have a visitor, you know that you and your guests are only allowed to stay here longer than necessary in your room and not in the living room. Got it ! "
"Yes Uncle Vernon I know." the boy replied in an annoyed voice and ran down quickly before his uncle could riot again.

As soon as Harry got downstairs, he shouted, beaming with joy, "Schnuffel, Ron, Hermione, Ginny you're here. This is really a great birthday!"
"Hey Harry, mate how are you." replied Ron with a grin while the other two had no chance to greet Harry, because Schnuffel had thrown himself at him with joy and was licking him.
Harry could only happily caress Schnuffel before the big dog finally settled down to walk off Harry.
Only now could the quartet really greet each other "Congratulations Harry!" his friends congratulated him. "Thank you, but first come upstairs to my room." He invited the three of them.
Schnuffel immediately disappeared upstairs like lightning and waited for the others to come. "Yes-yes typical Schnuffel always so wild." laughed Ron. Harry opened his bedroom door and let everyone in.
The others were just about to take a closer look when they suddenly only saw a pattern from the direction of the closet that was approaching Harry.
However, he was not surprised when a bird perched on his shoulder. "Well Herakleon, slept well." He asked his bird while watching his friends with a grin. The peace was only disturbed by a man's voice."Wow Harry, how long have you had a new bird?"
Everyone turned to the originator of the voice. Instead of the dog, there was now a black-haired man who looked at Harry with a questioning expression on his face, "That's exactly what I wanted to ask, Sirius. Since when do you have a new bird Harry?" Ron interfered now, while the girls just quietly waited for an answer.
"May I introduce Herakleon. It was a present from Dumbledore and I have had it since this morning." The raven-haired boy petted up with an unmistakable grin on his face.
Ignoring the expressions of his friends he called out "Hedwig, will you come to me, please."
Whereupon Hedwig immediately sat down from her cage on Harry's other shoulder. Satisfied, he watched as Hedwig and Herakleon eyed each other curiously and then happily flew together to Hedwig cage and sat down there.

Only now did Harry devote himself to his friends again. "Better sit down on my bed first, then we can continue talking."
"It's good, but now we come to your presents Harry. Here." Said Ron and together with the others he handed Harry several packages. He took it happily and thanked him, "there are so many, thank you all." "No problem, Harry. You are our friend." “Open mine first, OK Harry,” the eldest begged like a child.
"Yes Siri's good," Harry said, opening the gift that was from the dog animagus. It was medium in size and square.
So Harry curiously opened the present. Two small hand mirrors with phoenix images and another book "Becoming an Animagus and special abilities" came to light.
"Uh paw why are you giving me 2 mirrors?" asked the 15-year-old black-haired man, amazed. "These are two-way mirrors. With them you and Ron can talk during detention in different rooms, for example. James and I always did that. And what do you say?"


"Wow that's great."The black-haired one was happy and thanked him stormily.
Grinning with satisfaction, the godchild tossed his hair and calmed the other down. “I'm glad you like it, but now it's not your turn for the other presents, Ron?” “Yes exactly, now it's my turn Harry.” The redhead confirmed.
This time it was a big gift and a little rounder. > I guess that's all the Weasleys. Harry thought quickly.
When it was open you could see a typical Molly Weasley sweater in red with an h embroidered on it and a snitch. There were also several shock frogs from Ron himself and several joke articles from Fred and George. An advanced defense book by Bill and another titled "The Ways of Magic." from Charlie and Arthur.
“Wow Ron, you didn't give me a little too much.” Harry wanted to know. "Oh what, that's okay, we won some money Harry, but before I forget Ginny wanted to give her present one by one. Aren't you Ginny?" Ron waved him off and turned to his sister on the last sentence.
On the other hand, she didn't react the slightest bit nervously. "Yes Ron is good. This is my Harry." she said, handing Harry a small square present.
He took it and carefully unwrapped it.
What he saw then took his breath away. He recognized a beautiful silver chain. A gold-colored snitch with the letters H hung on the delicate chain. "You can't take that Ginny. It must have cost a fortune." noted Harry touched.
"But Harry, you can, because if you don't take it I'll be angry. Besides, it suits you and ..... oh no matter." Ginny explained as she got quieter and quieter towards the end.
Sirius surprised the boy even more by taking the chain off him and then simply putting it around his neck and agreeing. "Is it true Harry, Ginny is right. Hey Gin, how did you come up with something like that?"
Hermione quickly intervened by quickly telling Harry, who was still speechless, with the words "Now mine Harry." put a medium-sized but heavy square package in his hand.Since everyone was watching Harry, none of the boys could see Ginny smiling gratefully at Hermione before they both turned back on the present.
Hermione had given him a book called "Advanced Potions." One with the title "Transformation and Their Peculiarities" and finally a thin but interesting book with the title "Elemental and Wandless Magic" Thank you Hermione, they are great but why magic potions? "asked the black-haired one.
"Quite simply Harry, first of all you need Potions to become an Auror and secondly, have a look at the first pages, it's a surprise," replied Hermione in her typical tone.
So Harry opened the book curiously