This is a Fan fiction therefore I do not own anything to do with the Harry Potter franchise; it is JKR's work I am simply expanding.
This story starts from Harry, Ron and Hermione's 6th year at Hogwarts so please take into consideration that Ron has never dated Lavender so Hermione's feelings for him had never reached a peak.
The Hogwarts expressed had just finished its route from Platform 9 ¾ at King Cross Station, London to Hogsmeade and had just pulled up at Hogsmeade Station. It was late and the sky was pitch black and bright stars were dotted all over it, the stars illuminated Hogsmeade. Hermione Granger had never seen anything so beautiful.
She tugged at Ron Weasley's arm "Look at the sky Ron, isn't is just beautiful?" Ron just grunted and went off to find Harry, leave Hermione to stare up at the sky.
"It's really very pretty" A voice came from behind Hermione, it was distant and eerie but that is how Luna Lovegood's voice always sounded.
Hermione turned and was now facing her "Had a nice summer, Luna?"
"Oh yes Father and I found a Nargle nest in our back garden, we've had fun discovering all sorts of new and exciting things about the creatures that no one else had ever found" Luna has a very bad habit of not looking people in the eye as she spoke which had always bugged Hermione and as she spoke she was staring at something behind Hermione. "Where is Draco Malfoy going? He's headed in the way to the Forbidden Forest, should we help him?"
Hermione turned around to discover Luna had been staring at the blonde who looked rather shifty and was edging toward the Forbidden Forest.
Suddenly a ginger was running towards Hermione and Luna "I can't find Harry anywhere, he must have gone up to the castle already. Can I go with you two?" Ron asked.
"Yes but look at Malfoy he looks like he's up to something. We should go and see what he's up to" Ron agreed instantly and Luna nodded warily.
They crept around the edge of the Forbidden Forest until they saw a blonde haired boy standing in a clearing just inside the forest, they all followed Hermione lead. All of a sudden a fire erupted out of nowhere and Draco stepped through, the fire turned a blue colour as he went. The three rushed over to where the fire was. "Should we go through?" Hermione directly asked Ron.
"Well Malfoy did it and he wasn't scared so we might as well"
"I agree"
Both the brave Gryffindor's turned to Luna Lovegood who once again seemed to be preoccupied staring into space. "Luna? Are you with us?" Ron asked.
"Of course" She smiled at him sweetly.
One by one the trio stepped through the fire when they got to the other side nothing had changed, they were still in the Forbidden Forest, and the sky was still bright with stars however Mr Malfoy was nowhere to be seen.
"How odd" Hermione turned round having the intention to investigate the fire but as soon as she did it went out in an instant.
"Bloody Malfoy, I bet he saw us and was trying to trick us!"
"You're probably right, come on let's go to Hogwarts. We're going to be terrible late"
"Thats alright" Luna seemed to be stroking an invisible animal. A Threstle. "This guy can probably hold all three of us". Hermione and Ron had both flown on a Threstle before last year whilst escaping Hogwarts and rushing to the Ministry of Magic to save Sirius...or so they thought. Luna guided the two of them onto the Threstle and they set off towards Hogwarts, the Threstle landed just outside the main entrance door to Hogwarts. Luna carefully guided the other two off.
Hermione turned around to take in the beautiful scenery when something rather odd struck her "Where is the Whomping Willow?" And sure enough where the Whomping Willow should have stood an empty bit of grass was there instead.
The three looked to and fro each other for some time until Hermione muttered "Shit" Ron and Luna still looked as confused as they did before. "Shit, oh shit."
"Care to elaborate on that Hermione?" Ron glared at her.
"Don't you see? Don't you understand? The Whomping Willow was planted in 1971, that means we aren't in the Marauder Era we're before that but how much before? Well we won't know until we enter Hogwarts of course. But is it too risky? What if we are in the 16th century or something"
"Mione, are you trying to tell us that we've somehow managed to travel back in time?" Ron looked shaken.
"We have travelled back in time. That fire which Malfoy was casting was a Time Loop its incredibly dark magic and I have no idea how he managed to conjure it but that doesn't matter now the point is the longer a Time Loop stays open the further in back in time we go, Malfoy went through straight away so he could've only gone back a year or so we however waited much longer deliberating if we should go through or not. The only way to find out what year we are in is to go to Hogwarts but the problem is Dumbledore might not be there and we could find ourselves facing a lot of questions which we couldn't possibly tell without revealing out true identities" Hermione was talking at such a rapid speed the other two had difficulty keeping up.
"So we make another Time Loop so we can go back to the present" Luna suggested.
"That would be a fantastic idea Luna, the problem is Time Loops are very temperamental and they only go backwards in time never forwards" Hermione explained.
"What so we're stuck here?" Ron yelped.
"Apparently so, if we go up to Hogwarts we could use the library mostly the restricted section to read up on ways of transporting ourselves back. The problem with that is we will have to tell people who we are"
"So we lie" Ron was really fired up now "I'll be Ron Weatherby, Luna you can be Luna Loveroe and Hermione you can still be a Granger because you are Muggle born so no one will recognise your last name"
"We're actually going to do this?" Luna looked excited.
"Yes, are you in?" He looked at Hermione.
"Well it's a better plan than I had so yeah i'm in but on one request, we say we are all 7th year Gryffindor's."
Ron looked bewildered "Why?"
"Because we will learn more if we enter our seventh year, more complex magic so we we do get back we will be more prepared to fight You Know Who and we need to say we're all Gryffindor's so we can stick together. If Luna is put in Ravenclaw we won't be able to contact her as easily and she'll be on her own"
Luna smiled "Thanks, I never really thought of that"
"Okay, we need to leave our lives behind now just until we figure out what the hell is going on" Ron looked at Luna and gave her a reassuring smile, she shared one back. This made Hermione very uncomfortable.
"Let's go" She commanded.
They entered Hogwarts, all was quiet. "Where should we head first?" Ron asked Hermione.
"Well I don't think Dumbledore is headmaster yet and before he was headmaster he was the Transfiguration teacher so we head to McGonagall's Office"
"Agreed" Ron and Luna said in harmony.
As they walked to what they thought was Dumbledore's office they still didn't see anyone, this struck Hermione as rather odd. They arrived at the Transfiguration teachers door which had a sign on it which read "Professor Dumbledore's Office" all three of them let out a sigh of relief. They knocked and a familiar voice replied "Enter". As they walked through the door Hermione had no idea exactly how this was going to go but she already knew she would be doing all the talking.
"Ah hello, do excuse me but are you new pupils here I don't recognise you at all?"
"Well yes and no professor it's a long story really" Hermione tried to explain.
"A long story calls for chairs and lemon drops" Three chairs appeared in front of Dumbledore's desk and a bowl of lemon drops too. "Do sit" The trio did as they were told. "Now Miss?"
"Granger, and these are my friends Ron Weatherby and Luna Loveroe"
"I see and where have you come from?" Hermione went into a detailed description about how herself, Ron and Luna went through a Time Loop and how they have no idea what is and how they needed help getting home.
After she had finished her speech there was a long pause from Dumbledore, "You seem very intellectual Miss Granger so I hope you understand what happens when time travelling foes wrong?"
"I do"
"Well then I hope you will understand that I will do my duty and enrol you at Hogwarts as 7th years in Gryffindor like you say you are but I feel like I should not invade your search to get yourselves home. There will be terrible consequences otherwise I feel" Three trunks appeared out of thin air "In those cases you will find all the things needed for this year and in case you are still wondering it is the 1st of September 1944 and the password for the Gryffindor Common Room is Flobberworm"
"Thank you so much Professor"
"I'll give you your timetable tomorrow at breakfast when I have informed Professor Dippet of your arrival from Beauxbatons, now do hurry along and get yourselves settled"
"Well that went well" Ron smiled.
"Indeed, we need to get to the Common Room and change into our robes so we don't stand out like a sore thumb" Hermione commented.
They did exactly that, Hermione concluded that everyone must still be in the Great Hall having the feast so it was a perfect opportunity to get settled down. As Luna and Hermione were climbing up the spiral stairs to the girls dorms they realised they didn't exactly know which dorm would be theirs but girls names had been carved into the wood and sure enough right at the top of the stairs was door which was engraved "Hermione Granger and Luna Loveroe".
"Looks like it's just us two in a dorm, how odd" Luna commented.
The dorm was much smaller than the rest and only had two beds each pushed to either side of the room a part form that the room was decorated the same as the normal dorms. They didn't bother unpacking what Dumbledore had gotten them instead they did a quick change into their robes which were slightly more old fashioned that their usual ones and rushed down the stairs to meet Ron who was waiting by the fire.
"Do you have a dorm to yourself?" Was Hermione's first question.
"Yeah it's this tiny little thing at the very top. It has two beds in it but only my name was engraved on the door."
"We had the same, except we're sharing the room" Luna said.
"So what do we do now?" Ron directed the question towards Hermione.
"We wait until the rest of the students return to their Common Room and explain we are transfers from Beauxbatons and are in 7th year Gryffindor"
They all sat down on the sofa opposite the fire and waited anxiously.
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