Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters of Harry Potter or the story itself. This entire wondrous world is the possession of J.K. Rowling.

Author's note: My biggest chapter since the beginning of the fic! Enjoy:)


The next day, Hermione went to the great hall and sat beside Ron to take her breakfast.

"Good morning, you two." she smiled as she sat on the bench.

"Hi, Mione." greeted back Harry.

Ron on his side managed to bow his head between two mouthfuls to respond. Hermione rolled her eyes at the behaviour of her friend.

"You're really disgusting, you know? Can you even stop to eat sometime?"

"Hum?" he looked at her with a broad smile and bitted in some fresh bacon.

"Anyway..." she knew he was a lost case and she began to put some foods in her plate.

"Do you have any news of the boy Mione...?" asked Harry.

Hermione raised an eyebrow. "According to you, do you think I had a lot of time to have new informations since the time we went to bed yesterday and the time I went to eat my breakfast?"

"No, you're right, but... I know you Hermione, when you want to solve something you barely sleep to get through it! I thought that maybe you would have woke up earlier this morning..."

"Well, I did not." she was surprised to see how her friend knew her well. Even if she didn't like not telling him all the truth... she wasn't really lying, she did not woke up early in the morning to search the informations she needed... she just went to bed later.

"What boy?" managed to say Ron after having finished one toast.

Hermione and Harry began to explain to him all of what happened the night before and Hermione took really care to not slip some important informations that neither of them needed to know.

"Geez! And I had to have a detention with that greasy git, yesterday! I missed all the fun!" he grumbled.

"First, he's not a 'greasy git', Ron. He's our professor. Second, how could you have a detention with him when he was with Dumbledore at his office?"

'And third, why am I taking his defence?' she continued in her head.

"Well, he left for about half an hour and when he came back it's as if he had forgotten about me! So he told me that the detention was finished and to leave him alone. He seemed quite upset, I don't know what happened in Dumbledore office, but he didn't like that!" Ron explained.

'I do know why he had to be upset... I would too...' She nodded to Ron. "And did you notice if he acted strange before, that night?"

"Yeah! He was marking some works and then he stopped abruptly! He brought his hand to his head and I swear I could have hear him say: 'No this can't be happening...'. It's just after that, that he told me he was going to be away for some time... he was so shocked that he didn't even put a charm on my wand to prevent me of finishing more easily the task he gave me!"

"And I suppose you did not use that wand, Ron?" smiled Harry knowing too well the answer.

"Yeah! Call me stupid! I did use that wand! If not, I would still be there scrubbing all his fuels!"

Hermione let her two friends talk between them and glanced at the staff table. Dumbledore and Severus weren't there. Maybe Dumbledore was telling him the plan he told her the night before. 'He's gonna be so mad...'

She finished her plate silently, waved good-bye to her friends and began her way to the hospital wing.

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When she arrived at the hospital wing, she saw Dumbledore sitting near the young Severus and the old Severus standing at the end of the bed. He seemed hypnotized by the vision of his younger self. The young Severus seemed to be still asleep. 'He looks so peaceful.' she smiled.

Dumbledore who heard some footsteps coming near them, turned to look to where the sound was coming from.

"Ah Miss Granger! You are just in time! The boy has not waked up yet. The effect of the sleeping potion should go away in only in a few minutes though." he motioned her to join them near the bed of the boy.

Hermione looked at the old Snape uneasily and took a chair beside Dumbledore. The three of them stayed silent, waiting for the young boy to wake up. 'This is really an awkward moment...' thought Hermione wanting suddenly to go away from this room.

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Severus began to feel his sense coming back again. He felt he was in a comfortable bed. He smiled as he sensed the warmth that the covers brought him. He opened his eyes very slowly and found himself surrounded by three persons. There was Dumbledore, who looked older too like Madam Pomfrey, there was this girl he met and a man he never seen before, though he looked a little like his father.

"How are you feeling today, son?" said Albus in a comforting way.

"Not bad..." he answered.

"Good. Are you able to sit down?"

Severus nodded and sat.

"I do not really know how to tell you this..." tempted Albus.

"Tell me what...?" asked Severus in fear to have a detention. "Have I did something wrong? Will I have a detention?"

"Damn boy, get a grip of yourself!" barked the dark hair man in front of him.

Hermione noticed how Professor Snape felt uneasy with the fact that we could see 'him' in such a fragile state. In fact, she was very surprise to see him like this. She never thought this harsh man could have such childish fear.

The young Severus startled at the comment of the professor and turned to look at Dumbledore pleadingly. "Am not gonna be expelled I hope...?"

Professor Snape sighed in embarrassment.

Dumbledore laughed. "Calm down Severus, you are not in trouble. You have not done anything wrong..." he smiled at him to reassure him.

"Oh..." he sighed in relief.

"You just had a little accident...with your time-turner."

Severus looked quickly at the little pendant around his neck and found it was broken. "Oh, Merlin... I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to deceive you... I know it's rare and..."

"This is not the problem, Severus."

Severus gave a quizzical look at Dumbledore.

"It seem the time-turner started to turn when you feel on the stairs..."

Severus eyes widened when he began to understand what Dumbledore was implying. "I went to the past...?"

"Not really... Might more be the contrary."

"In the future...? How many..." Severus stopped in mid-sentence in shock.

"Twenty years in fact."

"Oh, Merlin!" he gapped. "But what am I gonna do? Is there any way to bring me back to my time?"

"We did not found any solution for now... but for the time we are searching for it, you will have to get use to our time." he tried to smile.

He nodded trying to assimilate all the things that Dumbledore was telling him.

"There is a little problem though." Dumbledore added.

The young Severus turned to look at him with some fear in his eyes.

"You are teaching in our school right now." the twinkle in his eyes came back.

Severus eyes widened and he turned his head to the man in front of him. "You're...me?"

"Indeed." Was all the Professor found to say.

"I'm... OLD!" he frowned.

"Well, in twenty years you're gonna be old, you git!" he barked.

Hermione looked at the two of them, same person, having a fight and tried to suppress her giggles. 'This is priceless!'

Dumbledore stopped the two of fighting before the older Severus killed the young man and killed himself by the same way. "Hush you two! Calm down!"

The two of them regained themselves and swiped off a lock of hair out of their face with a quick move of their hand.

'Oh god, they are so identical!' she tried not to laugh again.

"Well Severus. You are now well aware that you cannot have your same identity, aren't you?"

"Yeah, I understand quite well, Headmaster."

"So, which name would do like to have?" he asked him.

"Hum...William Greenlake sounds great."

"Very well, welcome to Hogwarts M. Greenlake. As you might already guessed... the world changed a lot in the last twenty years and as you already met and told your true self to our young Miss Granger, she will be the one to take care of you from the time you're here with us."

"Miss Granger? Are you sure it's wise Dumbledore?" asked Severus in a harsh tone not too please with the fact that a Gryffindor would take care of his younger self.

"I am totally sure, Severus."

'Now this is weird, calling the two Severus...' Hermione began to feel dizzy with the whole situation.

"...But Dumbledore... She's in Gryffindor..." added shyly the young one.

Hermione felt a little hurt by his comment and glared at him. 'He really is the same bastard...'

"I think you had a really good friend in Gryffindor in your time, am I right Severus?"

"...I had." he looked down at his sheets.

Hermione looked at his hurt face and her angriness went quickly away, she then turned to look at the older Severus and he looked hurt too. 'Wow... that must have been a harsh moment of his life. I don't think he really like to bring all these memories back again...'

"Sir... I'm not saying that because I don't like Gryffindor... it's just that people will laugh at me..."

Dumbledore almost forgot how he had been bullied by Harry's father and his friends back then and it surprised him to see him in this state.

"This will not happen. I swear. Because you will be a Gryffindor too."

"What?" the two of them shout in stereo. The younger one looked surprised but the older one was definitely outraged.

"Dumbledore you must be out of your mind! Me? A Gryffindor! Never, I will accept such a thing!" The old Severus snarled.

"Severus, my dear, it is the only way Miss Granger will be able to be most time with our young... M. Greenlake."

The young Severus nodded. "It's okay, I'm gonna be a Gryffindor."

The older one looked at him in utter shock. A lot of emotions were mixed in his face: disgust, hatred, fear and disappointment.

"Good. You will also share the same room. You will still be a prefect, but in Gryffindor... so the fact you share a room will pass more easily amongst the other students. Well, I think this is about it. I have a lot of things to settle for your official arrival so I will have to leave you alone. Severus would you come with me, please, I will need some help."

Professor Snape nodded and followed Dumbledore.

"Well it looks like it's only the two of us, now." Hermione tried a little smile. "By the way, my name is Hermione Granger." she presented her hand to him.

"Mine's William Greenlake." He answered jokingly while he shook her hand.

Hermione laughed. 'Who would ever think Severus would make jokes?'

"It seems you're gonna be stuck with me... the stupid girl." she smirked.

What she saw really surprised her. He seemed to regret what he had said! He seemed to feel uneasy! 'This is really cute!' she blinked '...Wait! Get this out of your head!'

"I'm sorry for that..." he mumbled.

Her eyes widened. He was now apologizing to her! What happened between the young and the old Snape? 'Stupid question Hermione... Deatheaters... Dark Arts... Voldemort... Wonder what made him so dark, eh?'

"Oh, it's nothing... You were in a state of shock. I really don't mind." she smiled warmly.

He smiled back. "Thank you." he yawned.

"Oh! All this must have tired you! I'll let you have some sleep. I'm gonna be here tomorrow to bring you to your new chamber. Have a nice recovery." she placed her hand on the one that was on his lap.

He looked at her in the eyes, surprised by the soft and caring movement she did. Hermione blushed a little and so did he.

"See you tomorrow...William."

"You too, Hermione."


Author's note: I tried to correct the most obvious mistakes I did, by reading again the chapter. I found some forgotten "s" and sometimes I wrote "to" instead of "too", things like that. There is certainly still a lot of mistakes! Feel free to tell me where they are so I can correct them!