Twenty Years Earlier

by Foreverinmyheart17

Hermione is sent back in time to the age where harrys parents ruled the school. This also means severus is at school now. Hermiones thrust her friendship at severus, will he reject her or will he let her in his life or will they become more than friends?

4. Chapter 4

Hello World! (:

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- it is suppose to be in 3rd person, but I sometimes slip into first person by accident. I always catch myself doing it, and I really don't mean to. I usually correct it but I probably didn't notice it. If I do slip into first person it's from Hermione's point of view. Sorry if it happens again!

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Matrice: (chp 2 comment): I agree that Hermione should have got in between, and stopped it and it was a little out of character of her. But I did that because I have future plans for that involving her getting in between and if I had her intervene then it wouldn't work, as I wanted it to. I didn't think Lily was acting submissive, because I felt that she wouldn't stand up for severus anymore since what he called her, and I felt it was in character.

Matrice (chp3 comment): Thank you for making the connection/ point I was trying to get to (: I really didn't think Snape would be her friend automatically, and he would be really reluctant.

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O = Outstanding;

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Failing scores are P = Poor;

D = Dreadful;

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CHAPTER 4:

Hermione woke up the next day at 6 o'clock. Stretching, she rolled over and buried her face into her pillow. Rise and shine Hermione, she thought, as she groaned and got out of bed.

Slowly she changed out of her nightdress and put her school uniform on. It only took her about 20 minutes to be ready to go for the day. Sighing, she shrugged and picked up the book bag, books, and other school supplies a house elf dropped by for her, and headed out the door.

Humming, she walked quickly to the Great Hall to get breakfast before all of the other kids so she could avoid the breakfast rush.

Rounding the corner, she slammed into another body, and landed on her butt.

"You really need to learn how to look where you walking." A silky voice hissed at her.

Hermione's faced flushed as she looked up into the eyes of. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean too, it was a mistake."

"Of course." He seethed and started to walk past her, leaving her on the ground.

"Wait!" She called, and got up and quickly caught up to him. "Are you going down to breakfast?"

"No, you can't get breakfast until 7." He said. Hermione could almost hear him eye roll from the way he said it.

"Yes you can." She said.

"How would you know, it's your second day here." His voice sounded bored.

"Dumbledore told me." She replied matter-of-factly.

"Well then, if you and Dumbledore are so chummy why don't you go and walk with him?" He snapped. How long had she been talking to Dumbledore for? It seems he told her everything, he thought.

"Because I don't want to, I want to walk with you."

"Why?" He asked, snorting. "You're friends with the Marauders." He said their name as if it was laced with poison, which to him it probably was. "Go walk with them, they would kill you if they saw you talking to me." He grumbled and walked away from her.

She stared at his retreating figure. "Well this will be a little harder than I thought." Hermione whispered out loud.

"Yeah, he's usually like that."

Hermione gasped and spun around. Lily had an amused smile on her face.

"Hey Hermione." She laughed, as Hermione blew out a sigh of relief.

"You scared the crap out of me." Hermione said.

"Yeah, I gathered that." She said, and started to walk off towards the great hall. "Walk with me."

"So, what did you mean he's usually like that?" Hermione asked nonchalantly.

"Oh well, he is never let's people be his friends. Unless, of course, you're lucky. I was his friend, we were really close, but we had a fall out. I would stop trying he's not worth being friends with if he can't see what a great girl you are." Lily said smiling sweetly at Hermione.

"Thanks Lily." Hermione smiled, but to anyone who knew Hermione they would be able to tell that Hermione wasn't really smiling at Lily at all. Hermione's mind was racing with thoughts as she put what lily was saying together.

"Well, why did you guys have a fall out?" Hermione asked sweetly.

"Oh well… you wouldn't understand… You see I'm muggle born-"

"Oh me too!" Hermione gushed.

"Oh well err…" Lily stuttered, "Well you see, I was defending him when he got into a fight with James and Sirius. So I got in-between and tried to stop them from hurting him and he called me a mudblood and said he didn't need my help." She shrugged. Hermione stared blankly at her. She had already heard this story before but she needed to make an impression on Lily.

"Is that it?" Hermione asked, a slight smile tugging on her lips.

"Oh well, yeah. I wasn't about to go forgiving him for calling me something like that! Friends don't do that!" Lily said. Her brows furrowed together in confusion as to why Hermione wasn't agreeing with her. Especially since she was a muggleborn too.

Hermione started at her for another second and burst out laughing.

"Why are you laughing?" Lily hissed, tugging on Hermione's robe sleeve. "If someone called you a mudblood would you go around forgiving them?" She asked.

" Yes, of course!" Hermione said, wiping away the tears that started to build at the corner of her eyes. "Oh lily, it's just a stupid little name. You have to learn to ignore it. Besides, I've had people call me worst names than that!" Hermione finished waving her arms around in an exasperated way. "Names and words don't have power unless you give it power." Hermione said, and walked away from where her and lily were standing and went into the great hall.

Lily stayed where she was clenching her fist. She would not let Snape and Hermione become friends, and especially nothing more. 'Am I jealous?" Lily thought to herself. 'No, of course not. You let Snape go, and you made the right decision. She just… wouldn't be good for him.' She thought to herself. Slowly, an evil smile crawled across her face and she followed after Hermione into the great hall.

They were both oblivious to the pair of black eyes watching the whole scene from one of the crooks along the hallway. He also got up and followed the girls into the great hall for breakfast.

LATER THAT EVENING.

Hermione's classes passed by in a blur, she had already learned most of the information she was being taught. It was now her last class of the day and it was potions with the slytherins.

Hermione looked around and saw Lily sitting with James, Sirius sitting with peter and lupin sitting alone. Hermione smiled and sat down next to lupin.

"Hey." She said smiling at him.

"Oh hey Hermione." He said warmly, smiling back at her.

"How was your day?" Hermione started to pull out her books and equipment.

"Good, got a lot of homework an-"

"Do not take you're stuff out yet!" Their teacher at this time was Horace Slughorn and Hermione grimaced thinking about her year with him as a teacher. "I will be switching you're seats around. I've noticed over the past couple of days that the slytherins sit on one side and the gryffindors on the other and there are no people sitting together from other houses. So I'm going to assign people to sit next to each other from different houses!" Slughorn clapped his hands together happily.

He seemed to be oblivious to the sounds of the entire class, except Hermione, groaning and whining.

"Hm okay let's see. Miss Evans, with… Mr. Malfoy." Slughorn droned on and placed kids together. Hermione stared off into the distance, ignoring his voice, but was broken out of her daydream when lupin got up and left her. "Bye!" She whispered to him with a touch of sadness in her voice that he was leaving her.

"Bye! Sorry about who you're partner is." He whispered in her ear, smiled and moved to his seat. What did he mean he was sorry about her partner? She pondered, but her question was answered quickly when a body filled in the seat next to her.

She turned and smile at her new partner but giggled quietly as she turned and saw the image of Snape glaring ahead of him as he pulled out his books and equipment.

"Hey partner." Hermione greeted him, with a large smile on her face.

He turned and stared at her. "Hello." He said, and then went back to preparing all of his equipment and books.

Hermione was happy that he didn't glare at her like he had earlier and turned back to her stuff and continued to set it up and organize it.

By the time she was finished slughorn had already started the lesson and she didn't have a chance to talk to Snape again.

They were given a fairly simple potion to do, one that Hermione had covered in her 6th year at Hogwarts. She looked at the directions given and grimaced. These were different from the way Snape had taught them to make it. Hermione turned and saw Severus frowning at the piece of parchment in front of him also. He flipped his own potion's book open to the page where it had the same instructions. Except his book had scribbles, markings and corrections all on it. Severus turned toward Hermione, and brought his head down and closer to her and said in a serious whisper, "I take potions very seriously, and I need to get the best markings. Now, I know you may be some sort of a genius but I know that these directions will not produce the finest potion. But I have made corrections and I know my ve-"

"Severus!" Hermione cut him off before he could keep talking. "It's okay, I trust you. Besides I was thinking the same thing- that these directions will not produce the best quality. We will use your corrections."

Snape just blinked at her. "You trust me? You haven't even looked at my corrections." He was awed by her amount of faith she put in him.

"Yah well, I know you're changes are right."

"And how is that?"

"Because I know you're passionate about this subject. And when you're passionate about something you don't make mistakes, or let it go." Hermione gave him a half smiled and then started preparing ingredients.

'Woah…' Snape thought. 'If she were Lily, she would never have let me use my own version of this potion. I would have spent at least 10 minutes convincing her that my way would produce the best quality potion. And then she would have to look over what I changed and think about how it affected the potion and if I was telling the truth.' Severus felt something inside of him flutter. Nobody had ever had complete trust in him before…

Lily was glaring at the back of Hermione's head as she and Snape conversed, their heads close together. 'I thought she was a nice girl, and we would be great friends… but she moved into danger zone. She is going to make Snape's life hell.'

"Excuse me Miss. Evans for invading your glaring but may I inquire why you look like you are about to kill the knew girl, sitting next to Severus?" Lily's partner drawled.

"What?" Lily asked, snapping out of her thinking and glaring. She turned to her partner who was smiling evilly at her.

"Oh, no I was just wondering why you glaring daggers at Hermione Granger." Lucius Malfoy drawled, smirking at her blush.

"I was doing no such thing!" She insisted, crossing her arms.

"Oh okay, and I'm not a slytherin." He remarked sarcastically, rolling his eyes and getting back to their potion.

"Well, why would YOU care?" Lily hissed, annoyed that he had noticed that she was staring at Hermione.

"I don't care, but I thought we could make a deal of some sort." Lucius said, smiling. The truth was that Lucius thought Hermione was, well, hot and he wanted her for himself. And from what he could see, Snape was getting in the way. From what he had observed of Lily reactions to the two of them smiling at each other and working well together, that she was jealous. She obviously didn't want them to be friends and just wanted him for herself so she could string him along as she pleased.

He was a slytherin after all! He couldn't help but notice things like this.

"What… what sort of a deal?" Lily asked, eyeing him suspiciously. He was a slytherin, and Gryffindors do NOT trust slytherins.

"Oh, I don't know. Perhaps you should tell me WHY you were glaring at her so I can make sure we are on the same page." Lucius asked.

"I…err…nothing. Forget it!" Lily stammered and went back to preparing the ingredients for the potion.

"Let me guess, you're jealous? Or are you claiming you're property?"

"What do you mean 'claiming my property?' "

"Well I'm just making a remark on how you seem to be mad that he is talking to another girl when he has been chasing you for all these years like a puppy dog. You must be mad that he's not staring at you right now. He's staring at the new girl." Lucius said shrugging his shoulders as if it was an obvious answer.

"No, he should be happy. He doesn't have to always like me. It's fine!" Lily said half heartily because somewhere deep inside her she knew he was right, even though it sounded awful to admit.

"Hm, really?" He asked, raising an eyebrow at her.

Lily narrowed her eyes at him, "what kind of deal are we talking about?"

"Oh, I would just flirt with Hermione and get her to like me so you can have Snape back as your puppy."

"Puppy?"

"He follows you around like one. He's whipped." Lucius shrugged his shoulders laughing at his own joke.

"Oh… So that it? That's is our deal, you'll go after Hermione and take her away from Snape?"

"Yes. Well of course you would always owe me a favor." Lily didn't notice the evil haze go over his eyes as she contemplated what to do.

"I… fine." She finally decided. What was the worst that could come out of it?

Lucius held his hand out, "We shall shake on it." He smiled at her.

Lily squirmed under his gaze nervously and held out her hand. They shook hands quickly and then set back to their potion. Their quite exchange was not noticed by anyone in the room.

Hermione was smiling as Snape and herself worked on the potion, sometimes talking about what to do next and every now and then a joke or too that Hermione would say and Severus would smirk at. 'She really was a remarkably smart girl.'

Hermione couldn't help but notice how well they were working together either. It wasn't a surprise either that they were the first people to be finished with their potion.

"So, what are you doing later?" She asked.

"Oh uhm… Studying in the library probably." Severus shrugged. He hated to admit it but he had grown a little more comfortable talking to her.

"Oh cool, we should study together." She suggested smiling at him.

"Err… what?" He asked, staring at her with shocked eyes.

"Study together, we can be study partners… unless you wouldn't want too…"

"Oh uh…" He wanted to say no, he would not like to study with her but something inside him couldn't make him do it as he stared into her soft brown eyes. "Sure." He finally said.

"We can walk up together after class." Snape nodded his head in agreement. Hermione said as she cleaned up their potions area. Snape put the potion into a vile and brought it up too Professor Slughorn's desk.

"So, what is you're favorite color?" Hermione asked as Snape sat down.

Why did this girl like to interrogate him? It was a little annoying. "Uh… black, silver and green."

"Of course. Slytherin colors." She smiled.

"What are you smiling at, I can't have house pride? What are you're favorite colors? Red and gold?" He asked with narrowed eyes.

"No actually, purple and green." She laughed, while sticking her tongue out at him.

"How rude." He chuckled with a little smirk playing on his lips.

"My, my did Severus just make a small little joke?" Hermione asked turning to look at him full on.

"Perhaps." He chuckled.

"And he laughed too! What is the world coming too?" Hermione teased.

"My, aren't you a funny one?" He seethed, but Hermione could see the playfulness in his eyes. They continued bickering and sometimes shooting insults at each other.

Lily sat fuming at her desk at the way Hermione and Severus were bickering at each other. She remembered when that used to be her bickering with him. However, she usually ended up getting mad and storming away with Severus apologizing and coming after her. Hermione was laughing at Severus's snide comments and didn't seem fazed by them at all.

The class was dismissed and Lucius thought it would be a good time to go into operation 'Win Granger over.' He walked out of the classroom and waited against the wall for her to come out.

Snape was staring at the girl who was laughing slightly and putting her bag over her shoulders. She didn't seem harmful. And she was certainly different from lily. She didn't even get mad at any of the insults he said to her. Perhaps he could… maybe give her a chance… Maybe….

"Ready?" She asked, smiling at him. Hermione was happy inside that Snape hadn't tried to block her out and not talk to her. She was making an improvement with him. In no time they could be… friends. A giant grin spread across her face as she looked at Snape and thought of them as friends. He needed one and she would be that one.

"Yeah." He said and slung his bag over his shoulder. "After you." He said, and waved his hand to let her pass him. Blushing Hermione walked out of the room first, and was followed by Snape.

"Hermione!" A voice called from the side.

Hermione looked around to see who called her voice. Her eyes rested on a boy… well teenage boy with long blonde hair and cold grey eyes. Sure he was handsome, but Hermione couldn't help but narrow her eyes slightly at the sight of Lucius Malfoy.

"Hello." She said, a little cold. Snape stopped walking and waited for her.

"Hi," he said, as he got closer to her. "My name is Lucius Malfoy. I am in the Slytherin house. I thought I should introduce myself to you. You are very beautiful." He drawled, trying to sound seductive as he grabbed her hand and kissed her palm.

Snape watched, as a mixture of disgust came across his face. Of course his fellow housemate would try to get chummy with the new girl. She was new and didn't know about his dating past. He was also known as the sex god for sleeping with the most amounts of girls out of all the other boys in the class. To Severus it was the stupidest title or thing to be proud of. Sure Lucius was one of Snape's only friends, but he often felt disgust towards the man.

Hermione's cheeks flushed red, and Snape rolled his eyes. Of course she would find Lucius attractive. Snape felt an odd feeling go over him. Was it jealousy? No. Snape knew the girl for 2 days. Sure she had seemed like she was flirting with him earlier in class but that was probably how she treated everyone. She sure was beautiful…

NO! His self-conscious roared in his head. You don't trust pretty girls, they break you're heart. Besides, he thought, she wouldn't like someone like me anyways. I'm just a greasy git. Snorting at the sight of Hermione with flushed cheeks and Lucius kissing her hand, Severus rolled his eyes and walked away. He intended on picking up some books in the library and then going to his own quarters and studying.

However, Hermione's cheeks were flushed with anger. As Severus walked away she snatched her hand out of his.

"Well, thank you." She said curtly.

"If you ever need someone to give you a tour of the school, or maybe some extra help in potions you can write me an owl or come and see me." He said, stepping closer to her and smiling down at her.

Hermione's stomach started to get a weird feeling. She didn't like the way he was smiling at her.

"Well, thank you for that offer but I think I will be find. I know my way around the school, and I fine with my subjects." She said stepping away from him.

"Well, how about a study partner." He asked, taking another step closer.

"No, I already have one." She said, dieing to get away from him and go with Snape.

"What? Snivellus?" He asked, rolling his eyes. "He isn't nearly as much fun as I am." He said with a smile.

"No, I would rather work with Snape." She growled, her eyes narrowing at the name he had just called Snape. Hermione thought they were friends in their school years. Obviously Lucius hadn't been a very good friend to him. "I would much rather be with him, than you. You seem like an arrogant self-centered person. Now if you will excuse me." Hermione spat out and pushed passed him to notice the hallway was empty.

"Ugh, he probably already went to the library." Hermione thought, and took off quickly before Lucius could corner her again.

Lucius stared at the place where she had just been. 'Well, this is gonna be harder than I thought.'

Snape was checking out his library books when a mad Hermione came storming through. Her eyes scanned the library and then fell on Snape's figure. Severus frowned, she found him, he thought. She walked over to him quickly while muttering under her breath.

Snape caught 'Disgusting pig, self arrogant, I hate the malfoy's.' This brightened his thoughts incredibly. He could feel his lips forming a smirk at how annoyed she was at what Lucius did. He was wrong then, she wasn't attracted to him like every other girl was. She thought he was disgusting pig, just like he did.

"Thank you for leaving me."

"Sorry, I know Lucius and when he puts his charm on it takes a while to get a girl away form him." He spat, even though he knew he was just kidding she didn't. But he wanted her to deny liking talking to him or make some mean remark about him to make sure he wasn't imagining what she said under her breath.

"Ugh, that is disgusting. His so-called 'charms' make me want to puke. He is such a prick. I don't see what girls see in him." She said, letting out all of her annoyance. What she really hated about him was how he called Snape Snivellus. She thought that they were friends, and he was actually a backstabbing friend.

Snape looked at Hermione. 'I think I'm in love' he joked in his mind. Having to be friends with Lucius for so long meant that Snape was always in the shadow, and no girl ever spared a glance at him if Lucius was in the room. So to see this young girl standing in front of him, and wanting to, made his heart speed up a little. She left Lucius to come find him. She was beautiful. And she thought Lucius was a prick. Yes, he decided (going against everything he knew and thought was right.) I will give Hermione a chance to be his… friend.

"Let's just study. Come on." Hermione said, grabbing his arm and dragging him to a table in the back of the room.

And she willing touched him, He thought in his mind. This girl really was something else. They opened up their books and got their supplies out. They spent 4 hours studying, talking and working with each other. They even skipped dinner, and worked until curfew. They got along very well, Hermione noted in her mind. Even though he would never talk about anything personal unless it was a silly question. Nothing ever came up about feelings and he never asked her anything. It was the outskirts of friendship, her promised herself. She would get past his walls that he put up and really get to know him.

Snape frowned as he left the library. He let her get closer to him, mentally. He let down a couple of his walls and allowed himself to smile. Something he never did with anyone else. But Snape was a smart man and he got feelings, and vibes about people and he knew Hermione was different and special in a good way. She was remarkable and Snape, much to his displeasure, liked her.

But he still was in love with Lily, of course.

Right?

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