Hello Everyone! Time Travel won by a lot but I will do Lizzie's story eventually. This is my new Time Travel story. It's mostly DH compliant except for the epilouge and a few minor details. The main pairing isn't planned yet. Enjoy!!! Belinda
Hermione Granger was just starting to wake the morning of the beginning her seventh year. She'd gone back to Hogwarts after Voldemort was defeated last year. The school had been repaired over the summer, and looked better than she'd ever seen it. She tucked her emergency bag into her shirt next to her time turner and left the room for breakfast. She knew what she wanted to do with her future, so she took as many classes as she could. She'd tired of war, and loved learning. She wanted to help others the same way her teachers had helped her. She would be a Transfiguration teacher. She also studied with Madame Pomfrey so she could learn healing spells. She took all of her regular classes, plus her apprenticeship to McGonagall, plus her homework, detailed as usual, plus the animagus training she did every evening plus her training with Madame Pomfrey. With all of that, McGonagall had allowed her another time turner. She nodded politely to the Head Boy as she ran through her common room. Really, why McGonagall appointed Malfoy as Head Boy anyone could only guess. She hurriedly ran to the infirmary. She was only a minute early when she arrived.
"Ah, there you are Hermione. Did you have a good weekend?" Hermione grinned.
"Yes thanks, Madame Pomfrey. What do you want me to work on today?" Madame Pomfrey grinned.
"You've been improving greatly, dear. How about you give Professor Snape his checkup?" Hermione gasped softly. No one but Harry, Dumbledore and Madame Pomfrey had been admitted to see him, and Harry only to give him his memories back. The three of them had gone back to get his body, so he'd be buried with honor, and they'd found him alive, but only just. She'd used dittany on his wound to close it up after carefully extracting as much venom as she could.
"Do you really mean it? Am I ready?" Madame Pomfrey nodded her head, amused.
"Go on, you silly girl. I believe in you, and you should believe in yourself." Hermione nodded and gathered the supplies she'd need for his checkup and daily medicine then set off for the private room that he'd been given. She entered slowly, cautiously heading towards his bed. He looked up and his eyes widened to extreme measures.
"Puellla." He whispered softly. "POPPY!!!" Madame Pomfrey ran in, took one glance at the two of them, and sighed.
"Severus Snape! Calm down this instant!" Hermione watched wide-eyed.
"Don't tell me to calm down! Tell me why she looks like... like..." They both noticed that she was still there at the same time. Hermione was, of course, confused.
"I'll tell you later, Severus. Miss. Granger, why don't you continue." Hermione continued and left swiftly, hovering outside afterward. She wouldn't have normally, but this situation was in now way normal!
"Poppy, she looked almost exactly the same as... oh dear Merlin!" Hermione could hear the distress in his voice.
"I know, Severus, I know. It surprised me when I first saw her after the summer also. Puella Lupus was a considerate girl. Miss. Granger has recieved a time turner this year from Minerva, do you understand?" Hermione was disturbed by the change of topic, but stayed still. She heard mutterings. "Good." She heard footsteps and slipped silently but quickly down the hall. She made it to her desk just in time for Madame Pomfrey not to be suspicious.
"Madame Pomfrey?" Hermione asked timidly. The mediwitch's head turned towards Hermione. "Who's Puella? Professor Snape said the name when I came in, just before he called you. Who was she?" The older woman sighed.
"Puella was a friend of mine, she went to school with Severus and Harry's parents. She was often in the hospital wing because of one thing or another. She was transferred here in here seventh year because her whole family was killed, poor girl. She became Professor McGonagall's daughter, but kept her last name, as a momento to her family." Hermione sighed.
"She must have been a wonderful girl."
"Oh, she was. She had more boys after her than anyone else at the school at the time, including Sirius Black, who was known for being a player." Hermione frowned.
"Did she look like me? Only I'm not that pretty and Professor Snape said I looked sort of like her." Madame Pomfrey smiled.
"You are pretty, Miss. Granger, but yes she look like you, but with a few differences. Her hair was slightly longer, and was in gentle curls, she was a bit more curvy, a bit tanner than you are also and she had the prettiest amber eyes you ever did see. They were a mix between amber and honey brown, you see." Hermione nodded. "Oh, and she had a birth mark, not as if I know if you have one, my dear. It was a red mark that contrasted beautifully with her tan. It was shaped like a crescant moon and it was on her left...or was it right?" Madame Pomfrey murmured to herself for a bit.
"Left Poppy. She wrote with her right, don't you remember?" Hermione jumped and spun, staring wide-eyed at one person she never expected to see alive. He was also staring at her. "Puella?" He whispered softly, then fainted. Hermione whipped out her wand and performed a cushioning charm.
"Madame Pomfrey!" Pomfrey ran forward, lifting him onto a hospital bed.
"Diagnostic check?"
"Heart normal, breathing normal, a few minor wounds but nothing serious." Hermione said as she performed automatically. Pomfrey gave her a weird look but it passed quickly. They healed his wounds then Hermione woke him up. "Erenevate!" He opened his eyes slowly.
"I thought I was dreaming! You're back!" He pulled her to his chest roughly, hugging her tightly. Her eyes widened.
"Professor Lupin? Are you ok?" He pulled her away slowly and looked into her eyes. "Harry will be beyond ecstatic that you're alive Professor." He looked to Poppy, who shook her head sadly.
"Remus, that's Hermione."
"Hermione?" He asked, voice hoarse. Hermione nodded slowly. He let her go and she moved away slowly.
"Madame Pomfrey, I have to get ready for classes, may I be dismissed?"
"Of course, dear. Tell Mr. Potter that Remus is alive and that he can visit during lunch."
"Yes Ma'am." Before she left, Hermione saw something that stopped her in her tracks, before she stumbled out the door. Snape pulled Remus to his chest and they both broke into sobs.
How was that for the first chapter? Who do you want her to end up with, Snape, Remus or Sirius? Belinda