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Different Endings	By : sshgdifferentfan Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Hermione Views: 8217 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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SEVERUS WAS ON HIS THIRD STROLL AROUND THE ROOM

…when he finally caught sight of both Granger and the man he was looking for. Without another thought he walked to the man and even though the wizard was already engaged in a conversation strode to him, clearing his throat as he got near enough.

Gareth Carlisle gasped as his gaze settled on him, his eyes widened in surprise and delight at the sight of Severus Snape. "Ah, Headmaster Snape! What a surprise… How may I be of service, sir?"

"I was wondering if you can spare a minute of your time… I have some questions about your inventions."

The man Carlisle had been talking to bowed and retreated without a word.

"Of course, of course," said Carlisle eagerly. "I have many of them like the Anti-Cheating Parchment – that's mine you know, not Rufus Walpole's. He stole it from me a while back and because I was stupid enough not to register it with Patents and Inventions immediately after creating it, he's getting the big Galleons for it, not me. Then there was the Red Flu-Powder and the Self-Reading Book and…"

"Yes, well, I'm sure you have many of them, but the one I'm interested in is one I've experienced… Transporter, I believe it's called. I found it simply fascinating. Maybe you can tell me about it."

"Yes-yes… My baby," said Carlisle with pride.

"It's different from any portkey I ever used..." started Severus, but was cut off when Carlisle's enthusiasm got the better of him.

"That's because is so much more than a portkey. Yes, it takes you from A to B but there's so much more than it can do: bypass all sorts of wards…"

"I did notice that," chuckled Severus.

His mind was working in overdrive, devising and discarding ideas. He needed to get Granger out and that Transporter seemed like the best idea. He could send her to a secret kept location. There were still those Order safe houses that they have never used or Dumbledore's cabin out in Scotland or maybe even Sinner's End. He could send her there, make it look like she somehow escaped, throw suspicions on others or... Fuck it, he could even take the blame and ran away with her if that was what he had to do.

They could then find a way... someway of killing Voldemort once and for all. They were intelligent enough on their own, together they could do it.

Thought after thought swirled around the other two sides of his mind that worked just as avidly. One side was keeping track of the conversation - of what he said, of what Gareth Carlisle said, of what the people around them were doing - while the other one sought an opening large enough for some wordless and wandless Legilimency. It wasn't long before he found it and even less before his consciousness was sucked into Carlisle's mind.

He was him, he was Gareth Carlisle, and he was dreaming of creating a device so outstanding that everyone would see just how great an inventor he really was…

He was looking at himself in the mirror, imagining an Unspeakable badge on his chest…

He was reading an article of Rufus Walpole's Anti-Cheating Parchment…

He was before Minister Pius Thicknesse getting his invention papers in order…

He was walking down Diagon Alley, thinking of the wonders of his Transporter. Masked men came out of nowhere, surrounding him. He barley saw the light of the spell, before all went black…

He was standing before the Dark Lord explaining what the Transporter was supposed to do…

He was in his lab working on some Arithmancy equations for space travelling…

He was in the Department of Mysteries, in the Time Room, going over time jumping equation, solving them, trying to implement them in his project…

He was back in his lab, going over and over the Time Travelling Charm. It still wasn't working…

He was in his lab again hexes flying left and right, ripping his research off the wall and destroying it in frustration as the last characteristic of the device still eluded him…

He was before the Dark Lord, reporting his progress, knowing the Cruciatus will be his reward for failing again…

He was before the Dark Lord again, screaming his pain as the Cruciatus ran through his veins, hearing a crackling laugh…

He was explaining to Lucius Malfoy the workings of his device...

He was in the parlour, a box and a glass-coin in hand, tapping them with his wand and uttering the incantations: "Verto Veho Ex Hogwarts Viator Severus Snape Ut Lucius Malfoy"…

That's it, thought Severus, with that one little part of his brain that was not Gareth Carlisle.

He was at the First Annual Victory Ball, speaking to Severus Snape about just how much more than a mere portkey his Transporter really was…

He was again Severus Snape...

"…there's no need to hold on to it, can carry one even beyond a Fidelius Charm…"

"You don't say," drawled Severus. Now that he had the information he needed from the man, he didn't need pretend to be interested anymore. He was about to cut the man down when something he said caught his attention.

"…and it can move you through time just as well as through space."

"I beg your pardon? Time? You're telling me that your… Transporter is a Time Turner?"

"No, no… not a Time Turner, but a Time Transporter… You see, Time Turners take you back, and only back, in time by a few hours… twenty four is the longest anyone ever went back in time. My baby, the Time Transporter, goes back or forward to a specific time - no limitations."

Severus stared at the man as if trying to make sense of what he just heard, before grabbing his arm and directing him towards a balcony nearby.

"Explain!" Severus demanded in what generations of Hogwarts alumni would recognise as his dreaded Potion master voice as soon as they were out of earshot. "Start with the beginning!"

Carlisle chuckled. "I knew you'd find it interesting! Well, it's like this: I discovered a while ago that some Arithmancy time equations seemed to point to not one, but two ways of time travelling. So I did some research, got the best Arithmancyers money can buy on those calculations and before long, I had two sets of equations, one for each type of traveling."

"The first one, we all know about, is the time turning travelling. The process is simple enough: you go back in time, not more than twenty four hours and then you have to let time run its course until it gets back to the present you just left from. A nice little circle - going from now to then in a heartbeat and again to now in regular time."

What's with all this talk about circles tonight? Severus asked himself for the briefest of moments. He then soon forgot about it as Carlisle's explanation on time travelling captured his complete attention once more.

"Now, the second type of time traveling is time jumping. Here things get a bit complicated, but only because of the spell work and the time space manipulation behind it, the jumping part is still simple enough. So, time jumping, basically lets you pick a specific time in your time-line only and jump or get transported to it - pretty much just like a time turner would do, without the time limitation. Then comes the interesting part, as you can now jump from that new point in time be it past or future to any moment in your time line. There's no waiting for time to catch up with you again. There's no growing older faster."

"You mean someone could go back to any past event…"

"…or future," supplied Carlisle.

"Future?"

"As long it's in his time-line, yes. You can go as far as your death bed… nothing beyond that, though."

"Death bed?"

"I wouldn't advise it though… I tried it, it wasn't pretty and besides it's already changed."

"What changed?"

"My death, of course! Once I saw it, it changed, because you know… I was going to get to that point not knowing… now that I know my whole life up to that moment will be slightly different because of it and …"

"Yes, yes I get it… But how do you know it changed?"

"I went again… and again… and… always a different ending. So I decided to stick to the past or recent future… Anything more than a day or so, changes too much."

"Indeed!" Severus drawled, his mind going in too many different directions at once. Could he use such a thing? Of course he could!

"And even that changes a lot, but at least you won't tamper directly to the future."

"How much can it change?"

"Everything… One can go back - let's say one year - change some things and then come back to a slightly different present and consequently a somewhat different future… Now, if one were to go to his birth day or some other time far away into the past, the smallest of change - like squashing a bug - could create a completely different present and I don't even want to think about what something like that would do to the future."

"A bug?"

"Yes, well..." chuckled Carlisle. "You understand what I mean. The smallest of changes that far back, can change everything you ever knew."

"Indeed!"

Severus's mind started working, crating new plans and ideas. He could change everything… Save everyone... Eileen, Lilly, Dumbledore, Potter, now Granger… all of them.

"How far back have you gone?"

"All the way to a second after I was born," chuckled Carlisle. "Strange thing seeing me mum that young."

"And the changes?"

"Minimal. I kept out of the way... interacted with no one... just observed. It was my first try, you see, and decided to take the safe route."

"I see," drawled Severus, his mind even busier than before. He could change his whole life... Have a better one... Have Lilly... "What about when you came back?"

"Disturbing as Hell, I tell you that! Took me the better part of that first week just to adjust to the new set of memories."

"New set of memories?"

"Yeah... You go with your present ones, your time changes and when you come back, you're assaulted by the new ones. In the end you have two different set of memories for everything that's different now - some more different than others. For example: I've been married in one timeline, the original one - a real bitch that one. Don't know how, but never met the woman in this timeline - Good riddance, too!"

"Fascinating!"

"It is, isn't it? This baby'll be my ticket into the Department of Mysteries someday."

"Or your ticket out of your memories regarding it," said Severus. "It's a powerful tool to have, you know!"

Carlisle waved his hand as if the idea was more than absurd. "Nah… they wouldn't do that to a fellow researcher."

"You think?" drawled Severus before taking a look around for any witnesses. "I would, though!"

He then cast a wordless and wandless Silencing Charm on the man and taking his wand out and pointing it at his head, drove right back into Carlisle's mind.

This time there was no finesse to the assault, he didn't need it. The man would not be able to defend himself anyway and when all will be over, he'll remember nothing of Time Transporters or any other thing related to it.

It was more or less ten minutes later when he finally exited the man's mind, glad to have all he needed from him and even more so that nobody had discovered them. Looking around he noticed through the balcony doors the festivities still going on and there, in the one corner of the room visible from his spot, Hermione Granger standing alone by the wall.

Severus gripped Carlisle hand when the man, regained enough of his senses to try and flee, and pointing his wand at his temple again, whispered "Obliviate!". It was easy enough to erase all knowledge of the time device he created as well as the talk he just had with him on the matter and even easier to create a new memory of talking about portkeys and Ministry regulations on travelling.

"You understand why I had to register it with the Minister himself, don't you?" said Carlisle suddenly, continuing the train of the discussion Severus planted in his mind. "I couldn't let another Rufus Walpole, steal my work again, now could I?"

"Indeed," said Severus a smirk on his lips. "Now, if you excuse me… the Dark Lord assigned me a task for tonight and I have neglected it enough to satisfy my curiosity."

"Of course, of course, it was a pleasure, Headmaster!"

"Yes it was," retorted Severus and made his way back to the ballroom with all the memories the man used to have regarding Time Transporters now as his own, leaving a perfectly obliviated Gareth Carlisle on the balcony.

Nobody will notice a thing.

He will make his time travelling trip tonight, but for now he would do as his Master asked and keep an eye on Granger, because if everything went as it should, this could very well be the last he would see her as she was now. He would remember of course, but that was hardly the same. No, he would waste some more time - he had all of it at his disposal anyway - to just look at her, to remember her exactly how and who she was now, his beautiful secret lover.

Author's Note: This is the last part of the 'Harry Potter's Death Day' chapter which had with approximation around 9000 words (much too much in my opinion for just one chapter). If I ever get into chapters this long be sure I'll post them just like this one in several parts.

Author's PS: I would love some help from you guys with one of the next chapters: Severus will be jumping back in time to fix something from his past, to save somebody's life. When would you want him to jump?
1. 03/20/1976 - The day Eileen Snape was killed by Tobias Snape
2. 04/11/1980 - The day Sybill Trelawney makes the prophecy about Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort
3. 10/31/1981 - The day Lord Voldemort kills Lilly and James Potter and tries to kill baby Harry Potter
4. 06/08/1997 - The day Severus kills Albus Dumbledore
5. 05/02/1998 - The day Harry Potter is murdered by Ronald Weasley
6. __/__/____ A completely different time (please tell me which)
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