"I swear Potter if you ever so much as look at me again I will have to….."

"To what Evans there's nothing that you can do to me that will hurt as much as my broken heart for you." Begged a seventeen year old boy with raven dark hair that stood up of its own accord and had big, warm, chocolate eyes that any girl would die for. Any girl that is apart from Lilly Evans standing opposite this boy with obvious disgust on her face as the boy took a step closer to her and took her hand and kissed it gently. "Potter get away from me now or I will tell Snape where you hide you precious broom and as it is not in the Gryffindor tower I'm sure he will have no problem taking it for a week or two." Said the girl with an evil gleam in her eyes as the boy stepped away quickly with apprehension in his eyes. "You wouldn't. Your just saying that" the Lilly laughed at his expression.

"would you like to test that theory Potter?" and with that Lilly Evans walked away proudly not looking back as the raven haired boy ran off in the opposite direction with his friends following close after.

As the other boys caught up with Potter they all gave him confused looks as he walked up and down the corridor revealing a door to one of their favourite places to relax. "What's wrong Prongs did Lilly not fall for your famous James Potter charms yet again. Seriously mate I think you should give up now. What did she say to make you run all the way here anyway?"

"That girl only threatened to give MY broom to SNIVIELLIUS! Sirius how could she?"

"Very easily mate. So why are we here?" said Sirius with a grin on his face.

"To get my broom of course" exclaimed James as he strode over to the other side of the room grabbing his broom and giving it a quick kiss to make sure it was alright. Another boy who had followed them there laughed at his outward signs of affections toward his broom. "Something funny Moony?" inquired James

"Yeah actually. Just the thought of having to resort to kissing a stick because they got burned by a girl." Said the boy called Moony.

"Well I don't see you with anyone at the moment Remus so you're hardly in any place to talk." James retorted as the other two boys burst out laughing at there friends little spat. "But I have and excuse James. How many gays do you think that there are here apart from me?" and to two onlookers burst into fresh bouts of laughter as James could find no reply to the last comment from Remus. "You know James he is right as always and you really should move on because she is never going to give into you!"

James was now extremely put out. Not only had he been rejected and broom threatened in the space of ten minuets but his friends we to busy laughing at him to care. James the decided enough was enough and went to leave. "Come on wormtail lets go somewhere that has cool people in it" and the last (extremely fat and sweaty) boy got up to follow him. "Come on James we were only messing. That's what we do. Anyway you know you would never be able to find anyone who is remotely as cool as the Marauders." James ignored him as he reached for the door handle but was thrown back onto the floor by something flying through what appeared to be the wood of the door. All the boys froze. This was defiantly a first as a (maybe hot in some peoples eyes) strange girl flew though wood and onto Prongs.

The girl sat up and groaned in pain clutching her head. Opening her eyes she saw James under her. "Harry what the hell was that? I thought we said gentle curses and why am I sitting on you?" the boys just carried on staring at her until Sirius found his voice and asked "Umm not being rude or anything but who the hell are you and why are you sitting on James and who is Harry?" it was then that the mysterious girl noticed the other people in the room and recognising more than one. She stood up and backed away against a wall. "What year is it?" she asked in a terrified voice. The boys all looked at her in amazement. "I think she hit her self on the head going through that door" James said in an amused voice, but Remus was looking concerned at her and walked over to her asking her if she was ok but she just repeated her question. "Its 1977 and you're in……" but she cut him off

"I know where I am thank you" she said in a curt voice but there was a tremor coming through. "I need to go to Dumbledore" she stated before running out of the room. Remus, James and Sirius ran out of the room after her with Peter (wormtail) following quickly behind. When they finally caught up with her they found her screaming different names of sweets at the stone gargoyles that guarded Dumbledore's office. The girl had tears falling down her face and she looked as if she would faint any second now. But just as she fell over into unconsciousness Sirius ran up and caught her.

The gargoyles moved behind them as Dumbledore stepped out of his office to look at the scene before him. "May I enquire as to what is happening here or is this something that I should not know?" Said Dumbledore, looking as the girl in Sirius's arms with a glint in his eye. The girl seemed to wake up to the sound of his voice and jumped up to him. "Professor Dumbledore, Thank God, I need help." She stuttered out before falling again only to be caught again by the same boy. The gleam that was in Dumbledore's eyes just now had vanished and been replaced with concern and he ordered the boys take the young girl up to the hospital wing and then dismissed them.

Once they were gone the strange girl woke again to find herself in the hospital wing. She looked over to her right and Dumbledore was sitting next to her. She smiled in relief. "Professor Dumbledore sir? What year is it?" the old man gave her a kind smile and answered "It is 1977 my dear. You are in Hogwarts School, but I see that you are already in our uniform. May I ask what your name is?" he said in a warm and calming voice that relaxed the young girl a lot. "I'm Hermione Granger." Was all she could manage. The old man gave her an encouraging smile. "Well I see you already know who I am. How did you get here? I do not believe that you have been here long as I have not seen you before." Hermione nodded.

"I'm not supposed to be here. I don't know how I got here. I think that I got sent back in time. I didn't know that someone could do that without a time turner." It was then Dumbledore's turn to nod. "What time should you be in my dear?"

"2004. I was practicing duelling with my friend and then I was here and I don't know how. How am I going to get back? I need to get back. The war! I have to be there. Harry needs me." Said Hermione starting to panic.

"Calm down Miss Granger I am sure that we will be able to send you back to your own time. It will just take a little while for us to do it. I think that while we are figuring out how to send you back safely you would benefit from being a student here at Hogwarts. You needn't be sorted again. I will sort out for someone to come and look after you. I must ask that you do not tell anyone where you come from because if they find out anything that would change the future it would be a catastrophe." Hermione mumbled an agreement and then Dumbledore left.

Hermione was not left on her own for long though as the boys who had found her earlier that day were curious and came to she who she was when she was in a fit state to talk. When Hermione saw who had just walked into the hospital wing she sat up and the blood drained from her already pale face. Remus (being the only one who wasn't checking her out) was the only one to notice this. He put a Hand on hers and gave her a reassuring smile whispering "Don't worry we wont hurt you we just wanted talk and see if you were alright." Hermione nodded and smiled at him but she was still in a state of shock as to who she was seeing. "I'm Remus Lupin and this is Sirius Black and that one with the weird hair is James Potter and him at the back, he's Peter Pettigrew. Again Hermione nodded and then realised that she was supposed to answer now but she couldn't find her voice. "What's your name?" Sirius urged with an encouraging smile. "I….I….I'm Hermione ….. Ummmm …… Hermione Taylor." She managed to splutter out. Giving out her mother's maiden name. They all beamed at her.

The boys stayed talking to her for a while about anything and everything that came up into their minds until the same girl that James had had an argument with came into the room and walked over to them. "Are you Hermione Taylor? Dumbledore has asked me to come and look after you while you are here. My name is Lilly Evans." Hermione smiled at her and nodded yet again (she was doing that a lot that day). Lilly soon whisked Hermione away from the four boys saying that they were not worth her time and that she should come and meet some of Lilly's friends. Hermione liked Lilly a lot and was grateful fro being taken away because she found it hard not to stare at Remus and Sirius looking so young. As well as the uncomfortable feeling of sitting with James when he should be dead and also with the man who betrayed him and Lilly to their deaths.

When the girls had gone off to meet Lilly's other friends the boys went back to their secret room that Hermione had walked in on before. "So what did you think of her?" asked Remus

"She was hot I think even prongs here could admit that she would give Evans a run for her money on best looker in school. Wouldn't you say prongs?" Said Sirius with a grin on his face. "OK she was hot padfoot but she was no where near better than Evans. She could be second best in the school though. What about you wormtail?"

"I think the same as you James of course"

"Of course independent thought would be too much for you wouldn't it?" sneered Sirius "No its not like that I just think that she was pretty but not a pretty as Lilly"

"Don't you guys ever think about anything but girls? There is more to life than kissing" interrupted Remus before they got into an argument over how sheepy Peter was. "Remus you don't have to put up a front we all know that inside that's all you think about. I know you think that I'm sexy." Laughed Sirius. Remus shook his head. "Nope sorry. My mind is clean. And another thing. Sorry Padfoot but your not my type. You're a bit to ….. Well never mind" at this James burst out laughing.

"Sirius mate I think you jus got your first rejection. And from a guy as well. That must be bad." Sirius shot daggers at James and then turned back to Remus.

"What is wrong with me? What am I?" Sirius demanded, Remus was now in gales of laughter and found it hard to rely.

"Sorry mate I think that maybe its just that you've been around girls so long that you're starting to act like one."

"WHAT! TAKE THAT BACK MOONY!" James was now falling over on the floor clutching his stomach with laughter watching the two boys. "Sorry padfoot but its true I'll even prove it to you." Remus stood up and pulled both the hysterical James and the fuming Sirius and pulled them next to each other and then ruffled up both of their hair. James just laughed harder (if that was possible) whereas Sirius quickly smoothed down his started yelling again. "That doesn't prove anything. Besides we all know that he wants his hair look screwed up."

"Do you want more proof Sirius? I could do another if you want." Sirius agreed letting Remus grab his hand and inspect his nails. "AHHHA!" Remus cried out "Evidence B as well as fixing his hair every five minuets he also cleans out the inside of his nails."

"There's nothing wrong with being hygienic."

"Yes but there's a difference between being hygienic and being a …."

"A what? Go on I dare you"

"A GIRL! A PONCE! WHAT EVER YOU PREFER!" and with that Sirius stormed out of the room outraged as the rest of the marauders fell into uncontrollable laughter. "woops I didn't mean to be so harsh on him do you think that I should go and apologise?" giggled Remus as every one calmed down enough to breath.

"Nah he'll be fine. I think it would do him good to have his ego deflate a bit." Replied James and Remus smirked. "Well look at the pot calling the kettle black."

"Oh shut up Remus isn't insulting one of us good enough for you in one night!"

Sirius had power walked all the way up to the Gryffindor common room only to stop and let of some steam by hexing a few Slytherins. When he finally got into the common room, after having a little discussion with the fat lady on her dress sense outside, Sirius found it empty apart from girl sitting on his favourite chair looking into the fire. It was that new girl from today. He had learned earlier that she came from Buexbattons and didn't know anyone here yet. The marauders had already classed as "hot" and so finding her in a room all by herself would be a perfectly good time to get to know her, before all the other boys in the school noticed her. Not that anyone in Sirius opinion was half as good as himself or James. Sitting down in the seat next to Hermione's, Sirius waited for her to notice he was there. But after three minuets she still had not moved so he decided to take a different approach and cleared his throat loudly. "Yes Sirius can I help you?"

"I'm fine, but you seem a little spaced out. What's up?"

"Oh nothing really just thinking"

"About …….."

"About all my friends in my old school and if they miss me or if they have even noticed that I have gone. I didn't really get a chance to say good bye to they you see."

Sirius frowned. "That must have been tough. I'm sure that they will miss you a lot. Why didn't you get to say goodbye properly?" Hermione sniffed

"Well let's just say that I left rather unexpectedly." And then Hermione, much to Sirius's dismay, burst into tears. "I may never get to see them again and I didn't even get to say good bye. What will they think of me? They probably think that I chickened out of the war or something and ran away. I just want to go home. But I don't know how! I'm left here all alone and no-one cares!" Sirius wrapped his arms around her as she started to weep more heavily into his shoulder and soon his robes were soaked though. "Shush shush. It's ok. I'm here. I bet they are just as upset that your gone and maybe more so. And we're here for you. Even though you don't know us you can trust us. We won't let you down I promise." Hermione nodded and started to calm down a bit. "Hey how about you could floo there for an hour or so. I think I still have some left upstairs?" Hermione shook her head to his suggestion.

"No, no I can't sorry. There are just some places that you can't floo to." Sirius gave her a confused look. Surely you would be able to floo to a wizarding school. But Hermione stood up and walked over to the girls dormitories. "Thank you Sirius. You have been a real friend. I'm going to have a shower now. I'll see you in a couple of minuets?" and he nodded with a pout on his face "don't I get a reward for being the agony aunt? Please?" and this Hermione let out a weak laugh. "Some things never change!" and then left for the showers.