So, this is your basic Time Travel story... or is it?

P.S. I don't own Harry Potter...

Chapter 1

"James!" Eight year old Lily hissed, revealing her two missing front teeth.

"Shush, Lily," James tried to quiet her, pulling her further into their father's office and shutting the door behind her. "Mum and Dad will hear you."

"So?" Lily asked crossing her arms. "What are you doing in Daddy's office, anyway?" She glared at James and he glared back. "If you don't tell me, I'll tell Mummy and Daddy that you were sneaking through Daddy's stuff and that you have a whole box of Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes products underneath your bed that you are going to sneak to school this year." She made a move toward the door, but James quickly stopped her. He grabbed her arm and she struggled under her older brother's grasp to get away.

"No, Lils," James began to exclaim. The door began to slowly creak open and James began to hurriedly think of explanations to tell his overly curious parents when they walked in. The door opened farther to reveal the intruder and James' grasp on his sister loosened from relief.

"Oh, Al, it's only you." Sighed James as his sister tried to pull away. His grasp hardened again.

"What are you doing?" Al asked as he set his copy of "Hogwarts: A History- The revised edition" revised by his own aunt, Hermione Granger, on the floor. "And why do you have Lily in a 'lick grip'?" James looked down to find his sister using her usual escape plan when one of her brothers grabbed her arm like James had done. She was moving her head and arm at the same time to bring James' arm close enough to her mouth to lick it.

"Lily!" James exclaimed as he pulled his arm away from his sister while still holding on to her. Albus Potter chuckled as his sister gave him a glare for giving away her plan.

"You know, James." Albus said with a plan to make it up to his sister. He slowly inched toward the door. "You can't hold onto both of us, and I know we both have extremely incriminating evidence against you." Albus smiled as he then received a glare from his older brother.

"You wouldn't dare."

"What's that, Mum?" Al pretended to ask his mum, who was downstairs. "You want to hear about all the horrible things James did last year at Hogwarts? Okay!" James lunged toward the door to shut it.

"You two are pure evil!" James exclaimed, glaring down his siblings.

"We learn from the best!" Lily smiled.

"I'll take that as a complement." James returned the smile.

"I meant Mum." Lily said with a serious expression on her face as Al tried extremely hard to cover up his laugh. Al recovered just in time to stop James from attacking their little sister.

"So, are you going to tell us or what?"

"Fine," James muttered. "But you two had better keep this a secret!"

"Depends," Al said, eying his brother. Lily nodded her head vigorously, agreeing with Al. "What's in it for us?"

"Um," James thought to himself about what his siblings would agree to. "You can use the items I'm looking for anytime Fred and I aren't using them."

"No deal." Lily and Albus said together.

"Why?" James exclaimed. "You don't even know what it is, yet!"

"Because," Al began. "You and Fred will always be using them if they are so important." James looked defeated.

"And," Lily decided to voice her thoughts. "If you take them to Hogwarts, then I can't use them for another two years!" James rolled his eyes.

"Fine, Al, I'll let you in on pranks Fred and I will pull, and Lily, I'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat."

"I already have one." Lily said. "Uncle George gave it to Mummy several years ago because he apparently promised her one, and Mummy gave it to me!" James had not expected that one.

"I'll come up with something else." He told Lily. "Al, do we have a deal?"

"I guess, but bear in mind, I will hang this over your head at any given moment to get something else from you." James seemed okay with these terms, because those guide lines were always placed in any deal.

"So, do the three of us have a deal?" Lily and Al nodded. "Good. Now, what I was up to is this. Fred told me the other day that Uncle George told him about two specific items that Dad used when he was at Hogwarts for sneaking around. Fred and I thought that these items might be useful this next year when we" James thought for a moment. "Need something to help us."

"Well, do you know what these items are?" Al asked. "And are you certain Dad keeps them in his office?"

"The items are an invisibility cloak," Here Lily interrupted asking something about the "three brothers," "And a map of Hogwarts." James began to search the room, and Al and Lily soon joined him, to count it as something else to hang over their brother's head. They searched for a while with no results. They met back in the middle of the room after some time.

"I think Uncle George did say something about the map looking like a worn piece of parchment." Al smirked when James said this, and Lily didn't pick her head up from examining something gold and shiny in her hands. "And the cloak probably looked like a normal cloak, until it's actually used." Al smirked again.

"You mean this?" Al pulled a silvery cloak from behind his back where he had hidden it.

"Yeah!" James exclaimed ready to pull it from Al's hands. He paused. "Did you happen to find a worn out piece of parchment as well?" Al unfolded the cloak to show just what James asked about. "When did you find this?"

"About ten minutes ago, along with the cloak." Al explained. James' eyes narrowed on his brother.

"And you let us continue searching?" Al just shrugged.

"It's fun to watch you get aggravated." Lily finally spoke from where she was still examining the object.

"And you knew about this too?"

"Al let me see this pretty necklace if I kept my mouth shut about him finding the cloak and map." She held up the object that was in her hand to reveal a golden necklace."

"Give me that!" James lunged toward his sister to try and take her new prized possession away from her.

"No," Lily squealed as she turned away from her brother. James got a hand on the necklace and yanked it out of his sister's grasp. Sand like powder fell out of the necklace and the room began to spin. Suddenly, the three kids landed face down in an empty room. Lily was the first to push herself up, followed by James and then Al.

"Oh, James," Lily began to laugh slightly. "Daddy is so going to kill you!"