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A/N: Hey! Well I have been having problems with this chapter. It's not writers block it's more of I have too many ideas for it! Lol! And of course there's school to deal with. Well here's what I have decided on for this chapter!

Becoming a Memory

Chapter 3

BACK IN 1998

Harry Potter was starting to get worried. He and his friends, Ron and Ginny, had been looking for their other friend, Hermione, all morning and they still hadn't found her.

"What about the Library?" Ron asked.

"We looked there first thing remember?" Harry answered slightly annoyed.

"What about the kitchens? Maybe she's decided to take up SPEW again." Ginny said hopefully.

"Checked it already"

"The girl's bathrooms?"

"We checked them all. Ron has the bruises to prove it. Who would have known that girls were so over protective of their bathrooms?"

"Idiots… Wait a minute have you checked the map?" Ginny said.

"No, we haven't!" They went to their dorm and opened the map. They searched every where but still no Hermione. Then they saw another name that they weren't expecting in Dumbledore's office.

Sirius Black was written in tiny print across from Dumbledore's little dot.

"What is he doing here?" Ron asked confused.

"I don't know but let's go find out, we can tell Dumbledore about Hermione while we're there."

SCENE BREACK

As they were entering Dumbledore's office after guessing the password, they heard Sirius and the Headmaster talking to one another.

"So you're saying that Ariel is really…" They heard Sirius say.

"Yes she is. Now why don't I go on and explain every thing to you, Mr. Potter and Mr. and Ms. Weasly all of which are standing in front of the door." Dumbledore said with slight humor in his voice. "Come on in you three. You should know that my office alerts me when someone comes in."

"What is this all about Professor? And where is Hermione?" Ginny asked panicked.

"All will be explained in due time Ms. Weasly. Now why don't you all sit down and I'll tell you a story of a girl I used to know by the name of Ariel Bennet."

TIME WARP

IN 1978

The next morning Hermione woke up before Lily did. Apparently the other Gryffindor 7th year girls had transferred schools together, leaving only Lily and herself in the dorm.

She got out of bed and went to bathroom. Looking at herself in the mirror she saw that she had puffy eyes from crying the night before and fixed it with her wand.

She took off her clothes and was just standing there in her bra and underwear. She inspected each scar carefully. They were still a light pink color and she doubted they would every fully disappear.

She was too busy inspecting the scars on her thighs that she didn't notice the door open.

"Oh, I'm so sorry Ariel! I should have knocked!" Lily said embarrassed by her rudeness. Hermione turned towards her without realizing she was giving Lily a clear view of her scars.

"Ariel where did you get those?" Lily asked.

How could I have been so careless! Maybe I should just tell her. It would be nice to get at least one of all my secrets off my chest.

"I was attacked by a werewolf. I am a werewolf Lily. That's why I have all these. Please don't tell anyone, not even the marauders." Hermione said.

"I'm sorry Ariel! I promise I won't tell anyone. But you should tell the boys they won't care that you're a werewolf and neither do I."

"Thanks Lily, maybe I will tell them one day but not yet."

"Ok, well I'll leave you to get dressed and then we can walk down to breakfast together."

SCENE BREAK

When the two girls walked into the Great Hall they noticed something was different. But they didn't figure out what it was until they looked above the Gryffindor table.

TIME WARP AGAIN

1998

The three just stared at Dumbledore trying to soak in the information he just gave them.

"So you're telling us that the girl that showed up here in 1978 and you came to know as Ariel Bennet is actually our Hermione Granger." Ron said finally finding his voice.

"That's right Mr. Weasly."

"So then where did Ariel go I've never heard of her before?" Harry asked.

"That Harry is where it gets complicated," Ron mumbled something that sounded like 'you mean it's not complicated already?' "You see Ariel Bennet has been missing since about a month after you were born Harry. My theory as to why she disappeared is that she realized that soon she was going to be stuck in between saving Lily and James and messing up the sequence of the events we already know happened. So she left to keep herself from spilling her secrets of the future and possibly causing something worse to happen."

"Makes since I guess." Said Ginny thoughtfully. "Wait a second why is Sirius here then? Why was he so shocked before?"

"That's quite a simple question; you see Ariel Bennet is actually Ariel Black."

TIME WARP CAUSE I'M EVIL

1978

As they looked in the direction of the Gryffindor table they saw a huge banner that said in huge bold letters:

ARIEL BENNET WILL YOU GO OUT WITH ME? –SIRIUS

Hermione had no idea what to do. She couldn't go out with him he was going to be her best friends godfather. No matter how much she wanted to say yes.

She took out her wand and underneath Sirius' message she inscribed the message:

SORRY BUT I CAN'T. –ARIEL

Looking around she saw Sirius. He looked a little put out and waved his wand so the banner disappeared. Lily and Hermione continued their way to the table and Hermione noticed that Lily had a grin spreading across her face.

"What has you so happy?" She asked the red head.

"Oh, nothing just that it seems Sirius has a crush on you."

"Well I'm not interested in him." Hermione lied.

"Yeah sure you aren't." Lily said unconvinced.

"Alright I am interested in him but it would never work. What if he doesn't like that I'm a werewolf." Ok so that's a stupid reason but I can't tell her the real one.

"Ariel he won't care about that. Give him a chance."

Hermione just nodded. And they found their seats near the boys. Hermione tried to avoid Sirius' eyes but she was having a hard time doing it. Every time their eyes met she felt a spark deep inside her. Forget it Hermione pretend you don't notice.

They didn't say a word to each other the entire meal. Then they all had to leave for potions class.

SCENE BREAK

Once in the potions dungeon they found that they had already been assigned partners for the rest of the term. Hermione hoped that it wouldn't be a Slytherine but it turned out that her partner was Sirius.

They started making their potion in silence then Sirius seemed to have had enough.

"Why won't you go out with me? I mean every other girl wants too!" He said to her. But all that did was make Hermione mad.

"You want to know why I won't go out with you? It's because I don't like being compared to every girl that will throw themselves at you. I'm not every girl Sirius, now shut up and help me finish this potion." She seethed at him.

Sirius then realized his mistake. Why did I have to open my damn mouth! Of course she's not like every other girl that throws themselves at me! Look at her she actually has a brain! I'm going to have to make it up to her.

He looked at her through the corner of his eyes, and saw a frown across her face. Maybe I should let her cool down first.

When potions ended she sped out of the room not waiting for anybody. The other two marauders and Lily came over to him.

"What was that about Sirius?" James asked his friend.

"That was me not shutting my big mouth."

"You didn't," Remus said.

"I did, you know maybe she really just doesn't like me."

"She likes you Sirius she told me. It's just that there's something about her that she thinks you wouldn't like. And she won't take the chance. You have to earn her trust and her friendship first." Lily said to him.

"Really?" He said hopefully. Lily nodded.

"Come on guys we have to get to DADA!" Remus said.

SCENE BREAK

When they got into the class room they found that Hermione was already there and they sat around her.

They sat in silence until the professor walked in.

"Hello, my name is Professor Higgins I will be your DADA instructor this year. Now I would like to hold a dueling session today to see where every one is at. Let's see for our first pair how about…" he looked around the room. "You," he pointed to Hermione, "and you." He said pointing to Lucius Malfoy.

Great, just my luck. Oh well it will be fun bringing his ego down a few notches.

Hermione had been practicing her dueling skill with Harry every chance she got and had become quite good. She had even beat Harry a few times.

They stepped into the front of the class room. Lucius had an evil smirk on his face obviously thinking like every one else that this would be an easy duel since Lucius was the best dueler in the class.

They both raised their wands.

And when the professor said 'go' Hermione didn't waste any time in shouting out a hex.

"Petrificus totalus!" Lucius dodged and fired a curse back.

"Impedimenta!" Hermione side stepped it easily.

"Aguamenti!" Lucius was hit with a jet of water but was back up in no time.

They continued in this fashion the curses getting increasingly advanced until Hermione hit him with a well placed spell. When the smoke the spell had caused cleared Lucius Malfoy was no longer there. Instead there was a fluffy, white, ferret wearing little Slytherine robes.

The class burst out laughing even the other Slytherine's. Hermione had a wide grin on her face as she sat back down in her seat.

For the rest of the day all anyone talked about was the strange new girl that turned Malfoy into a ferret.

TIME WARP (LAST ONE!)

1998

"Wait so you're saying that Hermione is married to Sirius?" Harry asked.

"Yes we are married. Though I knew her as Ariel it still applies." Sirius said with blank expression.

"So do you know where she is then?" Ron asked.

"No, I don't I haven't seen her since she disappeared. But I know that she's alive. We both have these rings see," He held up a ring they had always seen on him. "Our wedding rings have a spell on them. They would have turned black if she was dead and turned red if she was mortally wounded. But it has done neither. She's alive somewhere just waiting until it is the right time to return to us. Which I think may be sooner than we think."

Sirius turned and gazed at the sunset wondering if the love of his life was doing the same thing.

IN A SECRET LOCATION THAT I DON'T EVEN KNOW OF

A woman in her late 30's gazed out her window at the sunset. It was beautiful full of reds, pinks, yellows, and oranges. She looked at the calendar to her right.

"Not much longer now. Soon. Soon I'll be with them again."

A/N: I had fun with that! Sorry for such a long wait! I decided to give ya'll a long chapter since I had you wait so long! Hope you liked it!

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- Amrawo