So sorry for the wait, once school's over it should be much faster.

So without further ado, voila

September 1, 1972

Hermione stared amusedly at the scene in front of her.

You would never guess that James would be asking out Lily at every chance the way they're acting. Hermione wondered briefly what would change that, but the shouting brought her back to the present. It had started mid-way through the train ride. She was sitting with the future marauders and Regulus previously because she couldn't find Lily and Severus, and well and she wanted to stick near Regulus. Sadly, Narcissa Black had come to fetch him five minutes into the ride with Lucius treading behind her. Her and Sirius sat on one side while James and Remus sat on the other; Peter was the last one in and got stuck sitting on the floor underneath the window. Then Lily and Severus came in, looking for her but something that James said made Lily angry and thus the shouting match began.

Perhaps sexual tension that James will make worse with all the asking out, she thought as she looked at the scene in front of her. Goodness, she was having much too many Luna moments, next thing she'll know she'll be looking for nargles and swatting away the wrackspurts. Then she snorted, it would take a lot of effort to change Hermione Granger, grant? , into Luna Lovegood.

She shook her head and returned to the present moment. Lily seemed to be royally pissed off and grabbed Severus' wrist and pulled herself and him out of the compartment. Silence. Everyone was looking around at each other and when Sirius turned to Hermione and opened his mouth to say something to her the compartment door slammed open, a red-faced Lily Evans appeared and grabbed Hermione's wrist, pulling her out of the compartment, leaving a spluttering Sirius behind.

She plunked down beside Alice McKinnon as Severus and Lily sat down across from her. Alice raised her eyebrows at the fury that you could still see on Lily's face. "What's got you all bothered?" Alice asked.

Lily started babbling incoherently where you could only make out the words that she had put extra emphasis on so Hermione pulled out 'The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 2)' and started to review what she would be learning this year and the limits of how much she could know.

"Right Hermione," asked Lily?

"Excuse me?" Hermione asked, looking around at their questioning faces.

"When I was looking for you I saw Black's younger brother, he looks like a mini-me Sirius, right?" Lily repeated.

"Yeah sure," she said then tried to keep reading.

Regulus, she thought of what had happened with a sigh. He had been very distant at the beginning of the summer break. Also, she didn't even see him until mid-July because it had taken Sirius him that long that it wouldn't kill him to be around muggles or a muggleborn and even then he had been rather cold to her. By the end of the summer he was tolerating her with a small amount of smiles. And now, well he would be forced to stick near Narcissa and all the other purebloods/relatives.

She vaguely wondered what house Regulus would join. Gryffindor was a stretch, Hufflepuff would never happen, Ravenclaw seemed unlikely, and as much as she wish it was different, he's sly and cunning like a Slytherin.

The train ride sped by and soon enough they pulled into hogsmeade station and piled out of the train.

Lily, Severus, Alice, and Hermione were joined in a Thestral-pulled carriage by Mary and her friend Ivy. Then just before the carriage pulled away Adelina hopped in.

Adelina seemed to have spent her train ride with the gobstone club if the black blob of in on her right cheek, a splotch on her chin, some black spots in her straggly dirty blond hair and her inked black left hand indicated anything. She had a thing about explosives and big messes that seemed to make her eyes widen even further when it blew up. She also enjoyed asking questions about everything and made classes much more fun, well to everyone but Lily.

"Still can't believe that James potter and Sirius Black are going into second year, you would think he would have to like repeat seeing as he seemed to spend more time in detention then out of it," giggled Ivy to Mary as they exited the carriage and headed up to the castle doors.

They separated from Severus at the tables then headed down the Gryffindor table and took their seats.

Soon enough the hall was filled with everyone from impatient second years to worried seventh years.

A few more moments passed before the large doors opened and professor McGonagall led in the group of first years. She took her post beside the stool and the dusty old hat took its cue to sing a song.

Hermione stared at the hat, the words of the song drifting through one ear and out the other as thoughts ran through her mind. Didn't that hat say there had been another fate traveler in the past 50 years? She wondered who the other was. Perhaps she should look into that, just in case there was anything she needed to know.

"Black, Regulus." Spoke out professor McGonagall, pulling Hermione from her thoughts.

She bit her lip as she looked to see where Sirius sat, then with a start realised he had taken the seat on her other side without noticing. He gave her a hopeful smile and her twinkling eyes turned back to Regulus who sat perfectly straight but his eyes kept giving uneasy glances over to them as he muttered in response to the hat.

Hermione sighed, if only she could hear what was happening.

She could almost smack herself, you know legilimency twit, the person who could fool Riddle had taught you himself.

She stared at Regulus and willed herself into his mind.

"No, I want to be with Sirius in his house." An upset voice vibrated through her mind.

"Oh look, a visitor," grunted the hat.

"Regulus, why are you arguing with a hat?" Hermione asked.

"I want to be in Sirius' house, he protected me from mum during the summer and I want to watch out for him," said Regulus.

"Regulus, Sirius can watch out for himself, if neither Black child makes it into Slytherin your mum would storm the school, at least in Slytherin you could warn Sirius when something bad would happen. You know, like a inside person. Now, let the hat do its job."

She quickly left as the hat yelled out, "SLYTHERIN."

She smiled at Regulus then noticed Sirius wasn't smiling and elbowed him.

"Slytherin?" Sirius murmured with a slight sneer.

"Crouch, Bartemius," called out professor McGonagall then placed the hat on the kid's head.

"Slytherin," called out the hat making people look surprised but clapped politely.

Finally the list was finished, Dumbledore said his tiny speech then the food appeared and everyone started to eat. Well everyone but Sirius who looked subdued as he pushed the food around before putting it into his mouth and chewing slowly. She felt like she ought to say something to him but she wasn't sure exactly what to say.

Dinner and desert passed quickly and it became time for professor Dumbledore to say his speech.

"After that excellent meal I have but a few things to tell you about before you can retire to your dormitories. First off the Forbidden forest happens to own up to its name and is forbidden. Secondly, there will be no magic in the corridors. Thirdly, Mr. Filch has posted a list on his door of the 168 items that happen to be banned. Lastly I would like to introduce your new defense against the dark arts teacher. Mr. Blanc has unfortunately been injured recently and decided that he should not teach anymore. Our new Defense professor recently gave birth to her third child, Gabrielle, so when she isn`t teaching she will be cared for the child, please welcome Mrs. Gwen Lockhart."

At the words Lockhart, Hermione stared at the new professor. She seemed to have her Lockhart's crystal blue eyes and wavy blond hair but she didn't want to believe it. I'm going to be taught by another Lockhart. She was scared for the seventh year's learning this year.

September 2, 1972

The next day, as professor McGonagall started to hand out the schedules, the owls arrived. Two landed over at the end of the Slytherin table where Regulus, Bartemius, Narcissa Black, and an uncomfortable Lucius Malfoy sat. Bartemius opened his letter with a dread-filled face as Regulus untied a white letter from the owl's left foot, on the right was a scarlet colored letter that seemed to be swelling. After he pulled off the letter he reached for the red one but the owl flew away and landed at the Gryffindor table, in front of Sirius.

Professor McGonagall waved her wand and had a strong silencing charm placed on it. You could see the scarlet letter dancing around in the air, most likely sprouting out obscene language, but couldn't hear a word of it.

"Mr. Black," spoke McGonagall as she handed his schedule to him. He gave her a smile which she seemed to return slightly before looking for the next student.

December 25, 1972

Hermione sighed as she glanced up and watched the snow lightly fall down before hitting the invisible dome and melting. The year was passing slowly, like usual, and defense was horrible. Worse than professor Blanc that professor is. Picture a girl version of Lockhart who is even more vain then you could think was humanly possible, giggling and flipping her hair and trying to beat how high Umbridge's voice was. It's a wonder that her husband stays with her the way the fourth year and up boys treat her.

Christmas was excellent, as always, though she missed the sweaters Mrs. Weasley made. She had given Sirius some muggle prank gags that she had gotten during the summer from a corner store, Lily and Severus both got some books that were on topics they enjoyed, she had given Alice and Adeline some drooble's gum and lastly she had sent Regulus seeker gloves that she ordered from hogsmeade. He had taken to ignoring her in public but they'd a few conversations over the past months. He was rather upset about Sirius' biased attitude that all slytherin's are evil and had started to shun him but other than that he seemed to be settling quite well into the school.

"-Have you even been listening Hermione," Asked a frustrated Lily Evans?

"Of course I have, you were talking about… James," said Hermione.

"No, well yes, but I was saying that both the annoying duo of Gryffindor and Sev are missing from the great hall and that never ends well."

Ah yes. James still seemed to dislike Lily and Severus. Right now the reason seemed to be that 'Gryffindor's and Slytherin's don't mix' and since he would never hurt a fellow lion, had taken to hurting Severus. James had been sending Remus into the library to fetch him prank books as apparently if he entered a library he would suddenly die.

"Hermione," said Lily, trying to get her attention back.

"Fine , let's just go find one of them to make sure nothing back is happening, they probably wouldn't do anything on Christmas anyways," reasoned Hermione then resignedly stood up and followed dutifully behind Lily.

"Let's check the Gryffindor common room first," said Lily.

Hermione rolled her eyes as they made their way up the first set of stairs and Lily already seemed tired.

She reached out and grabbed Lily's wrist, pulling her reluctantly along.

"Hermione, we're going the wrong way, the next set of stairs are over there," complained Lily.

"Shh, there's a secret passage up here to the seventh floor," said Hermione as she stopped in front of a tapestry. She pulled it aside and revealed the wall behind that had a chunk missing out of one of the blocks. She pushed where the block had a chunk missing and a faint outline of a door appeared before it swung open.

Mid-way through the passage was a split passage which they planned to go to the right until they heard the echoing voice of James Potter. They shared a glance then rushed down the left passage. They stepped out and saw Remus standing with his back to the wall on the right. James, Sirius, and Peter stood with their wands drawn, pointing at Severus.

"-And you don't just randomly come out of wal- Hello Lily, Hermione," spoke Severus.

"Why were you all alone in the hallways anyway Snivellus?" Taunted James, who had purple spots appearing rapidly all over his skin. Severus' eyes flashed then his wand started shooting off spells at the trio. Hermione and Lily jumped in to help Severus. A boiling hex flew at Hermione's face but she leaned back enough that it flew past, cold air in its wake. Her skin started to bubble and shake violently and she let out a shriek of shock. She did dodge the boiling hex right? She asked herself. Everyone stopped at her shriek and watched her skin bubble and shift all over her face before hair sprouted.

The top of her head ached as she felt something push through her curly locks. Her nose felt like it was transfigured badly and her cheeks ached like something tried to pull something out of them but failed.

Lily, with her wide eyes on her put an arm around her shoulders and brought her to the hospital wing.

"What on earth happened," asked the new matron, Madame Pomfrey, asked.

Lily glanced at Hermione then replied, "I'm not entirely sure to be honest."

"Well bring her to the bed," said the matron as she bustled about grabbed different vials.

Hermione waited patiently until the medi-witch was out of sight and Lily had left to reprehend James, Sirius, and peter, before pulling out her wand and conjuring a mirror. Her shoulders slumped in tiredness but held up the mirror.

The site inside freaked her out. Something strange was going on, and she'd be damned before figuring out what has happening to her.

Reflected in the mirror was something she never wanted to see again, the first time.

In the mirror was Hermione's face, covered in fur and whiskers, and two cat ears protruding from her hair. Exactly how she looked after taking the polyjuice potion with a cat's hair.

I had planned for this chapter to be all second year but I felt it was getting too long.

I also decided to date it so you understand what's happening easier.

The chapters may or may not start getting smaller (1500 instead of 2000) so, thought I should tell you in the chance that they do.

:D