The Past
Hermione's POV
I landed somewhere outside of Hogwarts, suddenly. I saw a gang of four people coming towards me. "How in the world did you get here miss? What's your name?" A boy that looked almost just like Harry asked me.
"I'm Hermione Granger. I don't know how I got here… I jumped in front of my boyfriend when a spell was cast on him, next thing I know I'm here." I say, shaking violently. I sit down as the shaking gets worse.
"Are you ok? You're shaking really bad." The black-haired boy asks me, sounding concerned and confused.
"No, I'm not ok." I say weakly. A boy that looks like a young version of Sirius Black picks me up and holds me in his arms. "We need to get her to the Hospital Wing." He says, sounding really concerned. About twenty minutes later we arrive at the castle, and a younger looking Dumbledore intercepts us. "Sirius, James, Peter, and Remus, who is this young girl in Sirius' arms?" He asks.
"Her name is Hermione Granger, that is about all I know." Sirius says. "She needs treatment. Her heart rate is going down fast. I don't know what happened, but someone wanted her or someone else dead."
"Take her to the Hospital Wing then. I will come with you." Dumbledore said. I blacked out after this.
Much later I woke up on a Hospital bed, and my new friends were right beside me. They were talking, and they had not noticed I was awake just yet. Sirius turned around and gasped. "She's awake! Oh Merlin, Hermione. You gave us all quite a scare." He said, tears of joy streaming down his face.
"You were out for 3 weeks." James said.
"Three weeks? How long have I been here?" I asked, my last memory consisted of Dumbledore.
"Four months." Sirius said. I gasped, freaking out again.
"Woah, Hermione calm down. The nurse said you might not remember the 3 months before now, at first. You've been through quite a lot. You tried to go back to the future, where you're from, but it almost killed you. You could not go back." Sirius explained. Then everything goes black.
Back to the Future
Harry's POV
In a dream, I see Hermione in a wedding dress, then all of a sudden the scene changes and she's dead on the floor. "HERMIONE! NO!" I yell.
"HARRY WAKE UP!" I hear Ron scream. I wake up, shaking, with tears streaming down my face.
"Harry you've been screaming her name every night ever since she disappeared. Harry it's been four months now. You need to move on mate, I don't think she's coming back." Ron says, sympathetically.
"Ron I can't just m-move on… You know why…" I say, crying still. "Wh-What if she's stuck there and can't get back? What if she needs someone to come and get her?" I ask him.
"For starters Harry, we wouldn't even know where to start. No one knows that spell, and we don't know who cast it." Ron said in a serious tone. Over the past few months that Hermione's been gone, I've gotten ill. Ron stays by my side 24/7, and I'm lucky to have him. My illness isn't getting any better. If anything, I'm getting worse every day. No one knows what's wrong with me.
"Harry, you're getting worse. You're pale as the moon and you're shaking." Ron says, frightened. He touches my hand. "You're clammy too. Harry you have to fight through this. At this rate, Harry, if Hermione comes back, she wont have anyone to come home to."
"Did they say I'm dying?" I ask him.
"Yes. They don't know how or why." He says, turning his head away. Ginny runs into the dormitory. "Ron why are you crying?" She asks him, then when she looks at me she gasps. "N-Now I know why…" She comes and sits on my bed, looking me over. She puts her head in her hands, and begins to shake with silent sobs. I put my hand on her back, and rub it gently.
"Ginny there's something I haven't told you about Harry's diagnosis." Ron says flatly.
"Tell me. What's going on?" Ginny says, in a muffled and strained voice.
"Harry's dying. Slowly but surely. No one knows why." Ron says, his voice strained and sad.
"Harry why? You can't die." Ginny says to me, her tears falling on my bed.
"I can't exactly prevent it now can I?" I ask her gently.
"I suppose not…" She sniffs.
"Come lay beside me. I'll keep my arms around you till you fall asleep." I say softly. She does just that, and I stroke her hair until she falls asleep again. When she is finally asleep, I begin to feel odd. I am suddenly unable to breathe. I feel Ginny leave my side, and I see Ron place her on his bed. He comes back to me, and sighs. Then he looks at me, and gasps. "Harry! Oh Merlin! SOMEONE GET MADAME POMFREY NOW!" I hear him scream into the night. My eyes close, and next thing I know, I'm watching everything unfold outside of my body.
Ron cries out when he sees me lifeless on my bed. He frantically does CPR, trying to save my life, but it doesn't work. He keeps at it. Ginny wakes up now, to Ron's screaming. "Ron.. What's going- Oh Merlin!" Ginny puts her head in her hands again, sobbing. I see Lavender Brown run in, and Ginny runs into her arms, sobbing. I look back to Ron, and I place my hand on his shoulder. He looks up into my eyes, with tears streaming down his face. "You can see me can't you?" I ask him, tears streaming out of my own eyes now.
"Yes. Come back to us Harry. We all need you. Hermione still needs you. The whole wizarding world still needs you." Ron said.
"It's not that simple, Ron. I don't know why I died so soon, but I did. I don't know how to bring myself back." I tell him softly. Madame Pomfrey then comes in, and looks at my still form. Professor McGonagall comes in as well, and puts her hand over her mouth. "All of you OUT! NOW! Except for Mr. And Miss Weasley." She says sternly.
"Pr-Professor? Can L-Lavender stay with me? P-Please?" Ginny asks her.
"Very well, but everyone else OUT NOW!" The professor yells. Madame Pomfrey starts to work on me as everyone else leaves but those three people. "Where's Miss Granger? I knew someone was missing but I didn't realize it was her until just now." The professor said.
"Someone cast a spell at Harry, and she jumped in front of him. I think the spell took her back in time. We aren't sure which time frame. We don't even know who cast the spell. We've tried finding the spell, but we've had no luck so far." Ron said. Dumbledore walks in and eyes me, my spiritual form.
"Harry is here, watching the whole thing unfold. I don't know who else can see him." Dumbledore says in an old and tired voice.
"Professor I can see and hear him." Ron says.
"Only because I have my hand on your shoulder." I say to him softly.
"Is that so Harry?" Dumbledore asks me.
"I don't know how in the world you can hear me. All I know is Ron saw me when I touched his shoulder." I say, confused. Dumbledore just smiled at me. His eyes twinkled under his half-moon spectacles as always.
"I think I know what time period Miss Granger might be in." Dumbledore says cautiously.
"How?" I ask him.
"I don't know, I have a feeling Harry. I think she's in the Marauder's Era. Which means she's probably met your parents." Dumbledore says softly.
"What? Ok, do you know how to-" I cut off mid-sentence. I realize that I'm beginning to fade, not sure where I'm going to go. I freeze, freaking out.
"Harry! You're fading!" Ron yells.
"I-I don't know where I'm going. Ron I may not wake up. I'm sorry if that's gonna be the case. If anyone finds a way to get Hermione back here, tell her I love her, and that I'll be watching over her. Ron, I love you mate. I'll be watching over you too if I don't come back." I say with my last burst of energy. The last thing I see is Ron crying hysterically.
In the Past, with Hermione
Hermione's POV
I wake up and see just Sirius by my bedside. I realize that I had wanted it to be just him, without the others. He seemed to understand what I was going through better than anyone else. He looked like he had been crying for days. I reach out and touch his hand. He wakes up, and looks at me. It takes him a minute to process that me being awake is not a dream. When he realizes it isn't, he hugs me tightly and kisses my forehead. "Hi Moonlit Angel." He whispers.
"Why'd you call me that?" I ask him.
"It's the nickname we all came up with for you. We want you to join our group. Dumbledore said it would be good for you to be with us while you're here. He says you'll help get us out of trouble." Sirius laughs softly.
"Oh like that will happen." I say, rolling my eyes. "I actually like to participate in the trouble more than preventing it." I laugh softly as well.
"Well we are working on something very secretive that we want you to be apart of. Will you join us tonight?" Sirius asks me.
"Yes." I say, starting to like it here in the past.
Later that evening when Hermione was discharged out of the Hospital Wing
Sirius guided me out of the Castle and into the Forbidden Forest. My stomach was full of butterflies. The excitement felt good. I could not wait to see what they were going to have me be a part of. I knew it was a big deal that they asked me to be a part of this, that it was an honor. They NEVER let girls in on their secrets, and I was the girl they seemed to trust. I felt lucky, to be apart of the group I had heard so much about. "All in favor of inducting our newly nicknamed Hermione, Moonlit Angel, to be a part of the Marauders, say I." Sirius said. Everyone said "I" except for Peter.
"Peter why didn't you say I?" Sirius asked him.
"She makes me nervous." Peter says to them softly.
"Well too bad. It's three against one." Sirius smiled. "Hermione, our deepest secret involves Remus. Remus why don't you tell her your secret before we tell her what we are trying to accomplish." He says.
"Sure." Remus says, smiling at me.
"I already know. You're a werewolf aren't you?" I asked him.
"Yes, how did you know that already?" He asked me, sounding surprised.
"Not important. It's better for me not to say." I say cautiously.
"Oh, you don't want to disrupt time. Ok. In that case don't tell me." Remus says smiling.
"Ok, so Moonlit Angel, James, Peter, and I are all trying to become an animagus so we can be with Remus while he's in his moon cycle. Would you like to become one as well?" Sirius asks me, his eyes sparkling.
"Yes. I would love to." I say excitedly.
"So I want to be a dog, James wants to be a Stag, and Peter wants to be a rat. Weird choice, but also works to our advantage." Sirius laughs. "What do you want to be Moonlit Angel?"
"I don't know really. Let me think for a minute." I say softly, thinking hard about what animal I would want to be. After a couple seconds I come up with my answer. "I want to be a snow white female wolf. I've loved wolves ever since I was a young girl."
"Well, I am sorry to say your animagus form will reflect your personality. Though since you love wolves so much, I wouldn't be surprised if you became exactly what you want to be." Sirius says. I giggle, excitement just bursting out of me.
"What now?" I ask.
"That was the last ingredient. We have to wait one more day, then we can become animagi." Sirius says triumphantly.
The next day in Potions class
I walked in the classroom early, and got out my book. I was reading through how to make the potion on the board, when another person came into the room. I looked up for a second. The boy I saw before me looked a lot like Professor Snape back in my own time. I didn't want to say anything though, in case I was not right. I went back to reading. The boy came and sat next to me. "What are you reading?" He asked me, in an interested voice.
"The steps to make the potions in today's lesson." I say.
"Ah. I've never seen you in class before now. You must be new. I'm Severus. You are?" He asks me.
"I'm Hermione." I say back, surprised that I was right on who he was.
"It's nice to meet you. Where did you come from before you came here?" He asked me.
"It's nice to meet you too. I don't really remember actually." I lie.
"You're not a very good liar you know." The boy says, laughing.
"Gee, thanks." I say sarcastically. "If I told you something bad would happen. I'm not allowed to tell anyone where I'm from anymore. I only got to the first day I was here, because I had to." I explain.
"That's extremely complicated." He tells me, obviously suspicious.
"Yeah, it is. I don't like it anymore than you do. In fact I would like to get back to where I'm from sooner rather than later. Time is running out for me." I say.
"In what way is time running out for you?" He asks me.
"Don't say anything to anyone. I need to tell someone this, and you're here, so I'll tell you. I'm dying. I don't have much time left to live. A spell that was cast on me sent me here, but its double effect was to kill slowly." I say, my emotions getting the best of me. Just then, my four friends walked into the room, seeing me with Severus. I looked back at them, tears streaming down my face. Sirius ran to me. "Snape could you go? We need to talk to Hermione alone." Sirius says politely. Severus reluctantly gets up and walks out the door. "Hermione what's wrong?" Sirius asks me, concerned. Looking into his eyes I could not find a valid reason not to tell him what was going on.
"I'm dying, Sirius. Very very slowly. The spell which hit me and brought me here to the past, has a double effect. It kills very very slowly." I say, my voice strained and emotional.
"How do you know this? How long have you known?" He asks me.
"I heard it being said while I was in a coma." I said.
"Do you have someone you need to get back home to?" Sirius asks me.
"Yes. His name is Harry James Potter." I say softly.
"He has part of my name Hermione." James says.
"Yes I know. I know a lot about all of you, so much more than you realize. There's a reason why I can't stand Peter. I can't tell you why, but what he does in the future will change my boyfriend Harry's life in terrible ways." I say, shooting my death glare at Peter.
"Is Harry my son?" James asks.
"Yes." I say. "He looks just like you, but has the green eyes of his mother."
"Green eyes." He says softly, and I can feel him thinking over who I mean. Someone clears his throat in the background, and we all jump from being startled. I turn around and see Dumbledore.
"Professor?" I ask him.
"Miss Granger come with me. Now."
