A/N You can all thank Madame Seraphina for the death threat. Also, I have three exams in the next week and was desperate for a study break. Please don't expect regular updates, but if it gets to be over a year again feel free to threaten death some more.


Hermione woke with a start. It took her a while to remember what had happened, and she groaned. That was the last of her supply. What the hell was she going to do now? There was no way these women would let her go. She'd never seen them before in her life, yet here they were, treating her as if they knew her. What on earth was she going to do?

She looked around, and saw one of the women on the bed next to her. But she looked different. Younger. But how? Oh no. Instinctively she knew she'd caused this change in the other woman. She began to panic, when the other woman walked into the room.

"Miss Granger?"

Hermione wasn't sure who Miss Granger was, it couldn't be the woman in the bed next to her, as previously she had been referred to as Min-something... Minerva that was it. Why would the other woman start referring to her by her last name? Unless this was maybe her daughter? But they'd seemed friends, so wouldn't the daughter also be spoken to using her given name?

"Hermione?"

She must mean me then. Wait. Miss Granger? Hermione looked at the older woman.

"Who are you? And who is this Miss Granger?"

"I'm Poppy Pomphrey dear, the mediwitch at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and you are Miss Hermione Granger, you used to be a student here."

"What? That's insane, and what do you mean mediwitch?"


Well, thought Poppy, today has been an unmitigated disaster.

In the middle of explaining to Hermione that she wasn't playing some kind of sick joke, and showing her some magic to prove it was real, she'd noticed Hermione sweating and shaking profusely, and recognised the beginning of the withdrawals. The younger woman had obviously noticed as well, as she'd said "what's happening to me?" before her eyes rolled back and she fainted. Poppy began checking her vitals, and spelling both a calming draught and a cooling serum directly to her stomach.

And then Minerva just had to wake up and start panicking at the sight of Poppy hovering over Hermione trying to control her withdrawals. Honestly. It was enough to make the few remaining blonde hairs on her head turn white. She'd actually yelled at Minerva to either shut up or get out at that point, as the panicking really wasn't helping anyone. Apparently Poppy actually raising her voice shocked Minerva into submission.

However, she had eventually managed to calm Miss Granger, who apparently didn't even remember her own name, but seemed able to answer to Hermione, which was something, at least. The sedative potion should keep her asleep for the night, although with her magical reserves, her metabolism could well speed the effects to half that. However, Poppy was hopeful that it would be time enough to remove the last of the drug from Hermione's bloodstream, and then all they would have to do would be to keep her off it, shouldn't be too hard, where on earth would she get any kind of muggle drug in Hogwarts of all places? In the meantime, Poppy now had the opportunity to catch up on her sleep, and once she was notified of Hermione awakening, she could go to her, calm her if necessary, then discuss treatment with both Hermione and Minerva in an effort to bring back some of Hermione's memories.


Ummm... Sorry this took so long? (Please don't hit me). Also, sorry if there were several notifications for this one chapter. I named it wrong, then there was a spelling mistake that was too obvious and just rude really... Anyway. Sorry.