A/N: Okay, She Loves the Rain is back. To my old readers, this will be quite different from the original. I just didn't plan the other one out, and it was very poor quality in my opinion. So, I'm sorry for the wait, and I hope you enjoy this new and improved version!

Disclaimer: I don't own a thing. Well…maybe the plot, but…

She Loves the Rain

Prologue

Hermione Granger really wished she would've returned her time turner. She had not needed it since third year, after she dropped some of her classes. She probably should have given the necklace back to Professor McGonagall at the end of the year; it would've been the right thing to do. Just keeping it almost felt like stealing...

Although, Hermione reasoned with herself whenever she felt guilty, her Professor had never specifically asked for the time turner back. In fact, Professor McGonagall had completely forgotten about Hermione's time turner. She was quite old, and it just…slipped, right out of her mind.

Little Miss Granger kept her secret possession around her neck at all times, careful to put the chain and pendant underneath her cloak before she left the dormitory. Looking back, she thought it was a pretty stupid thing to do.

You see, time turners, being made of glass were pretty breakable. Say a spell hit it, or it simply fell off of the chain, it would shatter into a million, tiny pieces. Nobody, until Hermione, knew exactly what happened if a time turner broke. The Unspeakables in the Department of Mysteries were too afraid to test it, and even if they had wanted to, there would've been no way to experiment without somebody getting sucked into the vacuum of time and/or space. In short, they didn't want to risk it.

Little did they know, all(or most) of their questions would be answered without any costly experimenting, for on a faithful day in the middle of July, 1996, just before her seventh year, Hermione Jane Granger found out exactly what happens when you break a time turner.

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Hermione ran, fast as she could, down the steps of the Entrance Hall, trying not to trip on the bodies that littered the area.

"You can't run from me, little girl!" shouted Bellatrix Lestrange, who was only yards behind the her. The crazed Death Eater shot a stream of green light at Hermione, who had looked back only seconds before. She dodged quickly, and ran out through the doors of Hogwarts(which had been blasted of their hinges), and down onto the lawn, where a full blown battle was taking place.

Death Eaters and Aurors alike were paired up, shooting spell after spell at one another, hoping that they would be the one to come out of it alive. Hermione sent a stunner behind her back, and shiver of relief went through her body when she heard Lestrange's scream of rage. Now she had to find Harry.

This wasn't exactly hard to do; a large circle had been formed, framed by dueling witches and wizards, around Harry and Voldemort, who were both shooting as many spells as they could at each other.

Voldemort, his red eyes gleaming, smirked, blocking every one of Harry's spell with graceful ease, while Harry, face set in grim determination, shot spell after spell.

Hermione watched as her friend was weakened, and tried to run faster, but she was having so much trouble dodging spells and duelers, that she only just saw Harry get hit by a well aimed Crucio.

"Harry!" she screamed, as she saw Voldemort raise his wand. Just as the spell was released from its tip, she jumped between them, shielding the Boy Who Lived, and closed her eyes, bracing herself for death.

Nothing happened. Hermione opened one eye, and gasped. Everyone, all the Aurors and Death Eaters and even Voldemort were moving backwards, extremely fast. She looked down at where the spell should've had hit.

There, hanging from her neck, was her time turner, spinning violently. Before Hermione could react, she was engulfed in a ball of white light.

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A/N: Okay, yeah. That was really, really short, but at least I actually got this written and up for you guys.

Oh, and incase you were wondering why people were at Hogwarts during the summer: after the incidents of sixth year, and the threat of the war, the Ministry decided to use Hogwarts as a safe house for families during the summer.

Any other questions you'd like answered? Ask away.

I don't know when I'll post(or write) the next chapter, but the more reviews I get, the more likely I'll be to update. (Hint, hint.)

Hope you enjoyed.

Love always,

The Author