Dumbledore smiled, "We will leave too?"

"Professors wait, you must be here for this next year. It is not an option, a lot of things happen. Voldemort is a big part of it, and Wormtail... also Luna calls the year of the Goblet of Fire."

Dumbledore stares at her, "Goblet of Fire? Can it be? Really?"

"Yes Professor, don't be late." Hermione stated, Dumbledore nodded and lift with McGonagoll.

"So you are going to cook?" Sirius and James asked at the same time. Remus follows them in the kitchen to watch as Lily joins them.

Hermione sighs, "Yes, leave it alone."

Sirius walks to her side, "Mia, what is wrong?"

She shakes her head, boils water for noodles and begins to make an Alfredo sauce. James walks to her other side, "Come Mia, just tell us. We won't hurt you."

Her hands faltered but she ignores them, Sirius notices, "Is that what you are afraid of? That we would hurt you?"

"That will never happen?" James swore, Hermione shook her head.

"Please just leave it alone." she whispers.

"We can't."

"Sorry."

"It just..."

"...isn't us."

Hermione backs away from them, staring with pain in her eyes. "Don't, don't do that. Don't talk like that please. It was Fred and George's way of talking, just don't."

Sirius nodded, James held up his hands. "Okay we wont."

"This year is a powerful one for us. All of it changes. If we had pay more attention maybe we could have stopped it, if we had let Remus and Sirius kill Peter maybe Harry wouldn't have gone though what he did." Hermione sighed. "I know why I am here, what I am working to save but the what ifs are sometimes more then I can take." Hermione walked over to put noodles into the boiling water, "We will still be friends, will we trust each other with our lives, will we stand up for those who have no one? What if I am a snob and the boys never become my friends? What if Harry and Ron move on and I am all alone? What if the friendships and the paths we took made us into the people we are meant to be but changing them we change ourselves? What if I become someone I hate? Sometimes it scares me when I think about who I could become but I know it is the right thing to do so that Harry can have the life he deserves. I would die for Harry and all I can think is what if in the new future we don't even like each other? Maybe with Harry growing up as a wizard, him and Ron wont be best friends, what will happen then? Will Harry still met Ginny?"

"You can't think like that, Mia." Sirius whispered.

"But it isn't just us. There is Bill and Fleur, will they met if not for Harry? Will Bill be attacked by Fenrir Greyback in his human form, scaring his face? Will To...she finally convince Remus that she is not leaving him just because he is a werewolf? If not will Teddy ever be born? Will Fred and George ever open their joke shop without the money Harry gives them that he wins at the end of our fourth year? Will Buckbeak die? Will Snape ever admit the truth or just keep it hidden until the day he dies? Will Neville ever grow a backbone and stand up to people the way he did to Voldemort? Will Luna have any friends? There are so many lives that could be forever changed and the only thing keeping me here is the fact that I know Harry will always be Harry and will be far better off with his parents." Hermione turned off the flame to the sauce and drained the noodles. She flicked her wrist and the bread sliced, buttered and toasted itself. "I don't want to be alone again, I don't want to lose the family I have found. I don't know if I could handle it without them."

Lily walked over to her, tears coming down her face and hugged her close. "You will never be alone, I wont allow it. Harry will be your friend as I am sure so will Ron."

"It took almost six years for Lily to fall in love with James and the rest of us, we will try to make sure it doesn't take you and Harry that long." Sirius stated.

"You wont be a snob, I wont let my favorite student be a snob. So relax." Remus said with a smile.

James laughed, "You have changed us already, Mia. You will always be a part of our lives."

Hermione smiled as she made everyone's plates, "Hurry and eat so we can get started on year four."

James smiled, they all ate in silence. Sirius and James cleaned the table and everyone moved to the living room when Dumbledore came through the fire looking rather upset. James stood. "What is wrong?"

"Somehow Tom knows Hermione is here and he wants her." Dumbledore spoke.

"What? How is that possible? She has only ever been here? No one else has been here?" Sirius yelled as McGonagall came through the fire, looking worried.

"Maybe not." Hermione whispered, everyone turned to her. "Dumbledore, Snape told you this, didn't he?"

"Yeah, how did you know?"

"He is the only one I would trust. Voldemort expects him to find out as much as he can about me, right?" Dumbledore nodded, Hermione stood and started pacing. "He knows I am here, he knows why I am here there is only one way that is possible... what was that spell that Snape taught me?" She closed her eyes, smiled then lifted her hands to the ceiling. "Leiver Neddih tnirp" Slowly light blue rat footprints ran over the floor. "Peter!"

"What, he was here?" James asked.

"Yes, Snape taught me that spell before he ki... before he had to make himself enemy number one, he said it would reveal if anyone had been in a room that was meant to be secret." Hermione smiled to herself, then she looked sad. "We need Snape here."

"You are joking, right?" Sirius asked, she looked up at him, "Nope your not joking."

"Oh and it might help if you guys didn't call him Snievlus. Just putting that out there." Hermione whispered as Dumbledore disappeared again.

"Right, anything else?" James asked sarcastically.

"Apologize. Let him apologize to you Lily, you know he didn't mean it beside the only reason that word hurts is because we give it the power to. It is just a word and there are worse things that he could have done. Maybe I can save him too." Hermione whispered, everyone nodded but looked confused.

The fire flashed bright green as Dumbledore and a younger Severus Snape walked out into the room. He looked from Lily to the Marauders to the girl who stood off to the left. He turned to face her completely. "Dumbledore told me that you asked me to be here. Why, don't trust that I will keep where you are a secret?"

"Actually, I trust you completely Snape. I trust you with my life, as does Dumbledore." Hermione spoke clearly causing Snape to look shocked. "I asked you here because I remembered all the lives that could be ruined if you keep going down the road you are on. You are great man, a loyal and trustworthy man but no one knows it until the day Voldemort kills you. I know you Snape, I know much more then you want me to know and if you keep lying to those around you then you, your godson and the woman you think you love are going to died."

Snape took a couple steps toward her, Sirius stood up and watched him, Hermione shook her head. Snape looked from her to Sirius, who shrugged and backed off, he stood in front of her, "What do you know? How does it all go wrong?"

"He wont spare her, Snape. Even if he decides to, do you really expect her to stand aside? Would she be the women you care for if she did?" Hermione whispered, Snape looked to Lily and shook his head, "Your godson is going to be a very hateful young man, he makes my life hell at Hogwarts and yes it is mostly my fault because I let him but in the end he begins to see that his way, his father's way is wrong. That blood has nothing to do with who you are but he finds out to late, they kill him because he publicly apologizes to me. He was a great man and they took his life because no one was there to protect him, because you weren't there to protect him from his own father! Snape, do you understand it yet? Your grudge with them gets you and your godson in so deep the only way out is death." Snape falls to his knees, silently crying. "You help Voldemort get the upper hand, Snape you kill Dumbledore."

Snape looked up at her as everyone gasped. "What? Why?"

"Because your godson joins Voldemort, his first mission is two. Get the Death Eaters into Hogwarts, which he does. Then he is too kill Dumbledore but he wont be able to do it, you made a unbreakable promise with his mother to kill Dumbledore if he couldn't. In the end we find out that Dumbledore knew about it, that he let you kill him but everyone hated you. You spent all your time locked up in that Headmasters office, slowly losing yourself and your mind. Snape, he leaves you to bleed out but Harry, Ron Weasley and I find you. We are there with you as you die, you give Harry memories that tell us who you really where and why you did what you did but you still died. The only people there with you are the three students you treated like trash, like dirt under your shoe all because you hated James Potter and Sirius Black." Snape opened his mouth but she cut him off, "We got it, we saw how rude, snobby and cruel they were. We did but we were not them, We are not them. In the end, you are worse then they ever where to you! It is partly your fault that Sirius died leaving Harry with no one but those monsters of an Aunt and Uncle, because you didn't care."

"Please, tell me. How do I change it?" Snape asked.

"Help us. Give them a chance to change, change yourself. Don't lose hope." Hermione spoke softly, he nodded. "Now you missed the first three years but I will let you see that notes so you can read them later but right now we have to talk about year four at Hogwarts, you might not like yourself but you need to Listen."

"Of course." Snape said as he moved to the side of the couch, he stayed on the floor. Everyone sat down and faced Hermione, who took a seat in the chair in front of the fire place.