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With a heavy sigh she replaced the leather bound book on the shelve.

She glanced at the last remaining book on the table. She had already been through five other books on the same subject, but she had found nothing.

"Prince" she muttered, she was starting to believe that there weren't any princes in the Wizarding World. But then who was the Half Blood prince ? Harry may think the book was harmless but the spells in it proved otherwise and she was determined to solve this mystery.

With that final thought, she picked up the copy of: "The Wizarding World, A history" and began flicking through the pages.

Nope, still nothing about Kings,Quins, princes or princesses. The Wizarding World didn't have any Royal families. The ministery and the purebloods were the highest rangs.

Hermione bit her bottom lip, "Half Blood Prince,..."

Suddenly it hit her, "PRINCE" she shouted excitedly. Madame Pince shot her a warning glare, "Miss Granger, this is a library, please keep your voice down."

She flushed, "Sorry." she muttered sheepishly. In her excitement, she hadn't immediately realised she had shouted it out loud. But it was clear to her now, Prince. How could she have been so stupid ? Prince, it was a name, not a title. She jumped up from the stool and practicly raced through the shelves.

The restricted section. Students not alowed without permission. But Hermione was an exception, she had been given a library pass. Her hunger for knowledge had seen to that. She grinned as she picked a particular heavy book of the shelve. The title read; "Wizarding families."

With the copy tucked safely in her arms, she went over to madame Pince. After reassuring her she would bring the book back tomorrow, she shecked out of the library and made her way back to the dormitory.

She couldn't help the grin that spread on her face, yes this time she had evidence. She would prove to Harry that the so called Half Blood Prince wasn't James Potter, his father. The grin grew even wider when she thought of the possibility of the person being a girl.

TWACK

"Oempf" Hermoine fell to the ground with a loud thump and the book flew out of her arms.

"Well,well,well, if it isn't the little bookworm mudblood Granger."

She stiffened as she realised who the person she hand walked into was. She jumped to her feet and glared at Draco Malfoy, the Slytherin prefect.

"Malfoy." she greeted coldly, then she tried to walk around him. " Going somewhere , Granger? You sure you didn't forget anything ?" He smirked smugly and held the copy out to her. She tried to grab it, but he held the book above his head, out of her reach.

"Give it back Malfoy" Hermione snapped.

"Temper, temper, Granger. We wouldn't want to seem unpolite now, would we ?"

Anger flared through her as his smirk grew wider.

"GIVE. IT. BACK." She said slowly, trying to stay calm. She wasn't in the mood for little mind games, she had better, more important things to do than to listen to the nagging of the slytherin ferret.

Malfoy shook his head, his cold grey eyes glistening in the candlelight. " Say Please, mudblood." he drawled taking a step closer to her and showing her the copy.

"Never." She hissed, "There's no need to be civilized when talking to a ferret." Oh god. Had she really said that last part out loud? She bit her bottom lip nervously as she saw his expression change. His eyes seemed to darken and his lips pulled into a thin line. "What did you call me, mudblood?" his voice was no more then a whisper and Hermione could feel chills running up her spine, but she wasn't going to back down now. She took a deap breath and stared him dead in the eye. " I said ferret, you're nothing more then a scared little pathetic ferret,--" SLAP ! Her head banged against the wall and her vision became blurry. Malfoy had hit her.

"Don't ever speak to me like that again." he had backed her up against a wall, his breath in her nek.

Hermione closed her eyes, what had she done?

"You're nothing but a lowly mudblood, I could breake you so easily." He ran a finger over her cheek. Hermione shivered, his fingers left a cold trail along its path, a sick feeling spread in her stomach. She was scared, bloody hell, she was frightened. Why ? Why had she provoked him ? Wasn't she the one to hold Harry and Ron back when Malfoy provoked them ? Wasn't she the one who said that MAlfoy's insults weren't worth a fight? Well here she was now, going against her better judgement, no Harry and Ron around to help her, backed up against a wall, cornered by Malfoy.

"Get of Malfoy" her voice sounded so small, so fragile. She mentally slapped herself, the last thing she needed was Malfoy knowing she was afraid of him.

"Not so sure of yourself anymore, eh ? Granger? Are you frightened?" He let his finger trail the path of her neck, before letting it rest at her collarbone. She breathed in deeply, this wasn't happening.

"You didn't seem to sure of yourself either, Malfoy, crying in a bathroom?" The words slipped her mouth before she could stop them.

She felt him stiffening, "What do you mean?" he asked, his voice cracking a bit.

Bingo, Hermione thought. Now she had him.

"Wat did daddy force you to do this time?" She replied, sneering at him. His hands were asround her neck before she could stop him. He was choking her. Cold waves of panick were flowing through her body as she tried to gasp for air. Black spots started dancing in front of her vision.

"SHUT UP MUDBLOOD, YOU DON' T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ME." He shouted, his eyes flashing red.

Then he let go of her and threw her to the floor.

Tears rolled down her cheeks as she took huge gulps of air.

A cold object touched her neck.

"As I said Granger, it would be so easy to end it." he had his wand pointed at her..

She closed her eyes, the fear still coursing through her.

"You don't know anything about me either, Malfoy." she said, her voice a bit shaky.

"You're lucky he still needs you to fulfill the phrophecy." Malfoy hissed, he withdraw the wand.

Hermione didn't hesitate and jumped at him, throwing him to the ground. He was much stronger then her and flipped them over.

She felt something breake in her pocked as she landed on her side.

The world began spinning around her and then,

All went black.

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Okay, it's been done a million times before, but I decided to give it a try too.

It's a timeturner fic, (cheers loudly).

So tell me, what did you think of it ?

Does anyone have constructive criticism ?

Please review.

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