Well here I am, starting right back at the beginning once again! To anyone who has come back to read this thank you, it means loads to know that people are standing behind this story. And to anyone who is new...hello :) have a cookie :) I am so nervous right now but I have my fingers crossed for some good feed back, I think the spelling is better this time round. If you spot anything then please let me know and I'll change it!

This is a rewrite of my story on my old profile and while this chapter stays the same I can promise you that there are very big changes to the main story line.

Special thanks to: Pinkrose14 for checking over this chapter for me and Captain Severus Padfeet (still love the name btw) for offering to help me with this.

Disclaimer: I own more books than I can count but Harry Potter is all J.K. Rowland's.

Chapter One

In the beginning

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. ~Attributed to both Marion Smith and Nicole Hollander

In the year our story starts there were two thousand one hundred and sixty-three students attending Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. Three hundred of them were first years and this on average worked out to be five hundred and twenty-five students per house and seventy-five students per house per year.

Out of them only one thousand and sixty-three were female and one thousand and ninety were males. To put it simply there were more males then females attending the school. You would think that the males would over power the females.

I'm here to tell you the truth.

Behind the hidden doors of Hogwarts many things that only a few people know of happened. It started fifty-five years ago, before my own time in 1949. There was a Ravenclaw Fifth year named Helen Stevens. Every school holiday was the same, she would spend it looking after her mother while her father did nothing but watch his wife die with no remorse. She had long accepted her home life but it still didn't make it easier. She loved her mother just as much as she hated her father. She knew it was wrong but there was no love for him in her heart, sometimes she even wished that he was the one who was dying.

That Christmas holidays it finally happened; her mother died and took away any hope Helen had been able to hold onto. The day they buried her Helen realized something: her father had more power over her then she would have liked and while she was so young there was nothing she could do about it. As her world changed around her so did her view on the male population. There was nothing she could do at home but she would be damned if it wasn't going to change at school. It wasn't in till her sixth year that she finally did something, after months of planning she felt ready to take action. Out of her fellow students she picked twenty of them, all girls and everyone as different as the next.

They had different personalities, different views and most importantly were from different houses. It was perfect. After explaining her plan even the Slytherin's couldn't say no, all of them wanted the same thing: to help girls who were being controlled by men. The first problem they had was where to do all of this, no one could ever know so it had to be somewhere secret, somewhere that was theirs and theirs alone. It took Helen over a month but on one sunny Wednesday she finally found it, a room she had never seen before. After stepping inside she found everything that they would need and even more. It wasn't in till she tried to show the girls the room that she realised something was wrong, the door was simple good and in its place was a wall, almost like it had never been there. It took her another two weeks to figure out the rooms secrets and how it worked. She names it "The room of requirement" The others loved it.

By December the seventh, 1950 twenty girls had created amongst themselves something that no one in Hogwarts had ever done before: house unity and a small club called "Femina Auctoris" In order to keep their secrets and still be able to talk about it between themselves out of the room they simply shortened it to "FA". Every year when another member had to leave they would be replaced by someone else that had been selected by a book Helen made herself called "The book of our sisters".

By rules no one under their third year of Hogwarts was asked to join in till they came of age. Over time they found more power within the school and getting what they wanted got easier with every passing day. I guess it was also because of some of the new people that joined, you see before someone could even be considered as a member they had to appear on the list in the book. The list magically updated its self every year and only girls who had something to offer them would be on there.

If you didn't have something to offer, or some special talent that they needed then your name would never be on that list.

Fifty-two years after all this happened a new name was added to that list. My name. Hermione Jane Granger. It happened when I was in my third year, the day that changed my life and the way I looked at things. My life had always seemed so normal (well as normal as your life could be with Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley as your best friends) I had people I loved, my school work was flawless and my life at home had never been better.

And then it happened.

Pansy Parkinson, a Slytherin whom I had never talked to before found me in the library and sat down at my table.

My table!

While we had never spoken I knew enough about her to know that something was wrong with this picture. She was not only a Slytherin but also best friends with the worst one of them all: Draco Malfoy. I am always going to remember that day because in a few hours what seemed like a normal day ended up being something that changed the rest of my life.

Two years later

Fifth year

Date: Thursday 1st of December, 2005

Location: The Great Hall

The Great Hall was buzzing with excitement as people of all ages talked about their upcoming plans for their Christmas holidays; it seemed that the first day of the month had brought out their anticipation for the festive season. Hermione was sitting with of her best friends: Harry, Ron and Ginny, all of whom were deep in conversation with their fellow house mates who were sitting around them.

It had been a normal day, class, homework, playing chess (Ron had won) and now she was trying to block out the sounds around her as she thought about what the night would bring. That morning she had gotten a letter from Pansy, as had all of the other girls, telling them to meet in the room of requirement at midnight.

Hermione closed her eyes and hoped to the heavens that something had finally come up. No matter how much she disliked thinking about it there was no hiding that things had been slow these last few months. Ever since their last case in August it seemed that no one needed their help anymore. All of them had been waiting for something, anything that could get things started up for them again.

Just as Ron said something to make the people around them laugh Ginny and Hermione both looked up, causing their eyes to connect, both of them smiling for their own secrets reasons. It wasn't in till last year that Ginny had finally been asked to join them and Hermione couldn't help but been more thankful. They had always been friends but anyone who looked close enough could see that they had became closer friends, it helped to have someone that you didn't have to hide all of your secrets from.

But Ginny wasn't the only person she knew who was a member, there were many people whom Hermione had known for years. It seemed that there were many girls in Hogwarts that believed in their cause.

FA members

The Gryffindor students:

Lavender Brown - connections to the ministry of magic (Aurors department)

Katie Bell - can translate six different languages (this can be shockingly useful)

Angelina Johnson - Father works in Gringotts (illegal access to people account files)

Parvati Patil - Knows everything about the students of Hogwarts (she is kind of like a walking file cabinet)

Alicia Spinnet - Mother works in ministry of magic (more specifically the magical creatures department)

Romilda Cane - had access to the entire stock of Gambol and Japes Wizard Joke shop (shockingly useful)

Ginny Weasley - Can do hex's so powerful that a full grown man would run to his mother when she was done with them.

Hermione Granger - is known to be the smartest witch of her age and knows many spells that are up to a seventh year level.

The Hufflepuff students:

Hannah Abbot - Older brother works for the school board and she can get a copy of the first year students that will be attending Hogwarts for the next two years.

Susan Bones - Her aunt works for the legal department in the ministry of magic, because of this she is able to get information of any case she wants.

The Ravenclaw Students:

Luna Lovegood - Is able to get information from any boy she talks to...no one asks her how she does it.

Cho Chang - Knows about every boy in school, including their past and current relationships.

Marrietta Edgecombe - can get hold of people's personal details and files (her older sister works for the ministry and used to be a member)

Padma Patil - photographic memory.

The Slytherin students:

Millecant Bulstrode - her family is so rich that she just puts forward money when it is needed.

Pansy Parkinson - Her mother and father are powerful Death Eaters and when possible she is able to give us information about some of their plans.

Hermione smiled to herself, when you thought about what everyone could do you would think that they had little power but when they all worked together…well let's just say they are not the kind of people you would want to get on the wrong side of. She could still remember the first question that she had asked Pansy all that time ago, what "Femina Auctoris" stood for. It turned out it was Latin for women power. Ron smiled at her and she frowned slightly as she looked away, the only down side was how much she had to lie to her friends, they told her everything while she could never tell them about her life.

They wouldn't understand that sometimes a girl had to do what a girl had to do.

Remember to look on my profile for a chance to "adopt" one of the FA girls!

Till next week!