Title – Hermione Granger and the point of no return
Chapter title –When Severus Gets Yelled At
Word count – 2,525
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.- Anon
Sitting next to Kathleen in the changing rooms before quiditch Hermione was grumbling about Peter.
"I've never hated anyone, but sure as hell I HATE him. Who does he think he is, saying crookshanks almost ate him. I mean look at crookshanks, he's tiny, he couldn't hurt a fly."
Kathleen just nodded her head sympathetically before swinging her broom of the shelf, standing up and following the boys who had already left to the pitch to do a lap. Hermione ignored her parting and grabbed her own broom, gave Crookshanks a quite pat on the head and told him to stay and guard her things before following her friend out of the door.
The cold air hit Hermione's face like a breath of fresh air. Soaring round the pitch quaffle in her hand she was momentarily distracted by a glint of gold in the stands. Flying closer to have a look she almost fell of her broom as she flew past Remus, Sirius, James and Peter, glaring at the latter she zoomed of gathering speed before lobbing the quafle with all her strength towards the goal and watched in satisfaction as it soared through.
Once practice was over Hermione left the pitch alone. Walking out toward Hogwarts she heard her name being called, she whirled round and sighed exasperatedly as The Marauders ran up to her.
"Yes?" she asked coolly.
They all shifted on the spot and refused to meet her gaze.
"I thought so, now if you excuse me I have to go to bed, some of us have class tomorrow," she turned around and continued on her way to the school.
Hermione woke up the next morning and a sense of relaxation passed over her. Tuesday. No defence today. No Classes with the marauders. Pure bliss.
Hermione hopped into the shower, coming out she carefully selected her clothes for the day before putting them on, grabbing her wand and bag and walking down to breakfast.
Stuffing a muffin into her mouth whole before sitting down Hermione immediately scanned the great hall. Snape was sitting at his table, carefully edging away from Lucius who seemed to be trying to persuade him into something, Hermione's face darkened a shade. On the Hufflepuff table, Lily was sitting talking to the head girl, they appeared to be conversing happily enough. At the Gryffindor table James was staring over at Lily and wistfully expression across his face, Hermione suppressed a snort. Remus was reading a book and seemed not to be paying attention to what Peter was saying to him. His face appeared warn and tired, full moon tonight Hermione reminded herself. And Sirius was glancing around the room every now and then tossing a wink in the direction of a random girl, he caught her eye and smiled warmly at her, Hermione glared back and sent him a dark look clearly saying "go away," he appeared to take the hint and engaged into a conversation with Remus.
Charms, saw Hermione sitting by herself at the far corner of the room next to the window that overlooked the forest and the hills beyond. Slowly the Hufflepuff's flitted in and arranged themselves around her carefully keeping their distance as her expression warned them to. As there were an odd number of people in the class, Hermione found herself once again partner less, but she didn't care, it was easier to get more work done this way.
"Warding spells are exceptionally complex magic, they will definitely come up in your OWL's and certainly in your NEWT's if any of you choose to keep them. In NEWT classes you learn how to break wards and how to cast wards as strong as the Hogwarts ones. Today however we will be doing minor wards, I want each of you to take a small scale of the castle and place as many wards around it as you feel able to do without exerting yourself. I want only 6 different wards though so make them all fairly strong. As the castle is a small model you won't be required to cast the wards we use on bigger buildings such as Saint Mungo's and Hogwarts, however you will need to cast some like that. Begin."
Hermione walked up to the front and collected a model before sitting back down again and taking out her wand. She glanced at her Charms book and whizzed through the pages looking for decent and complicated warding charms. When the bell rang professor Flitwick came around quickly and tried to penetrate her wards with little stick figures he conjured up, rather like the miniature Krum Ron got at the Quiditch World Cup. When he was unable to do so he awarded her 50 points for exceptional charms work.
The rest of the day came and went rather quickly after that. As Hermione threw herself into a sofa in the common room she sighed happily as Crookshanks came over and jumped up. Petting him she glanced out the window, snow was still settling on the ground. Hermione looked sideways startled as a weight sat down next to her on the sofa. Crookshanks jumped up distressed and ran away to hide under a bookshelf. Daniel sat down next to her and buried his face into her shoulder, she patted him startled.
"What's wrong?"
"Rita Skeeter. You know that 7th year Hufflepuff?"
Hermione grimaced at the memory of the Triwizard Tournament. Yes she new Rita Skeeter. Who didn't in her world?"
"Yes, I've heard of her," her lip curled at the end of her sentence.
"She just chased me all the way from Herbology proclaiming her love to me. Save me?"
Hermione stifled a laugh. Poor Daniel.
When Daniel finally looked up at her he saw laughter written across her face.
"It's not funny!" he insisted, "She's been after me since 3rd year when I saved her from one of Hagrids pets. Even though she's a year above me, she thinks we have a connection!"
"I'm sure you don't."
Daniel threw his head into her chest and moaned quietly. Hermione smiled, she knew what it was like when Rita Skeeter was out to get you. She couldn't help but wonder if this was the reason why she hated her, Hermione Granger, in the future, because she reminded her of Hermione Babineaux. The girl who dated the boy she loved. But then Hermione reasoned, when she left Rita would have a way to get Daniel, what happened? A sense of dread overtook her, what happened? When she got back, she decided, she would find out.
Later that evening, once Daniel had forgiven her, saw Hermione and Daniel sitting on the same sofa playing tonsil hockey. Much to the annoyance of the general population of the room. Hermione sighed happily into Daniel's mouth and came up for air resting her head against his forehead.
HermioneGranger&&SeverusSnape
The rest of January and February passed with nothing exciting happening, unless you include James getting slapped by Lily for "being an arrogant prick." Hermione really couldn't see how they were going to end up together.
The evening of March 6th came and brought a sense of peace over the castle. Hermione sat outside under her favourite tree by the lake staring up into the sky and the full moon, her mind wandering back to the morning.
Flashback
Hermione walked into the great hall and sat down grabbing a muffin as usual. She'd been sitting there several minutes when the James and Sirius came running into the hall with Peter trailing behind them screaming "WE DID IT!" Hermione's head jerked up as she watched them all smash into Mooney and tackle him to the floor laughing and crying.
Leaving no doubt in her mind that they'd done it.
They'd become animagies
End Flashback
She sighed contentedly; everything was still happening nothing had been changed. She stood up and stretched before turning away from the lake and heading back inside noticing with a small smile and black shaggy dog watching her from behind the willow.
As March drew on and April and May passed Hermione found she spent more and more time in the library and in the common room. Revising. Her OWL's were coming up. While she was sure she would easily pass Arithmancy, Charms, Potions, Transfiguration, Defence, History of Magic, Ancient Runes and Care of Magical Creatures, she was rather worried about Divination. She didn't care about Divination but it would look poor on her report if she failed it. A bonus however was that because of her revising she was able to spend more time with both Severus and Lily revising helping them out in weak subjects and getting their help in her weak ones, meaning that by the end of May they were firm friends.
Her temper was becoming increasingly frayed and irritable. Causing her to snap and people and loose her temper. The worse case was when the marauders were sitting in the library some desks away and talking loudly. She spent almost an hour calming her temper before going over and asking them to move, she was somewhat rude about it and they were rude back, causing her to whip out her wand and fire of a nasty stinging hex towards Peter who said a rather rude comment. Meaning a detention and the fact that none of the marauders would talk to her. Not that it was much of a loss Lily said when she went to complain to Lily later at the Gryffindor table.
The final problem was because she had only 'joined' this year she didn't have all her notes from before so she was having to borrow Daniel's. So not only did she know all his school notes back to front she knew hers from this year as well as hers from the future where the work was much more complicated.
As Hermione entered the great hall for her first exam she was shocked to find the house tables had gone to be replaced by a hundred smaller tables, each with a name and a paper, facing down, on them. Wending her way with Lily towards the place where the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw tables were she wondered down the aisle trying to find hers. She paused as she passed hers. She glanced around at the names closest to hers. Lily was several seats back and across to her left with a happy looking James sitting behind her. Next to Hermione was Sirius, behind her was one of the girls in her dorm and in front of her was John. He turned round and started a conversation with her about quiditch while they waited.
Once Professor Slughorn was seated John turned round not before whishing her good luck which she returned and waited for the exam to begin. Once the exam start Hermione whipped her quill into her hand a turned over the paper.
Name the potion that allows the drinker to change into another person
Why can't this potion be used on animals?
What does the potion do? (In extreme detail if possible)
So the exam carried on. Once she was finished Hermione reread through and corrected some rather foolish mistakes before turning it upside down, resting her head in her hands, and dropping off to sleep.
HermioneGranger&&SeverusSnape
Hermione walked out of her final exam and hurried over to where Lily stood; together they walked across the grounds out towards Hermione's tree and sat down. They chatted for a while before a noise made Lily stand up and draw her wand. Hermione followed her and watched in horror as James and Sirius tormented Snape, with Peter egging them on. She watched as Snape called Lily a Mudblood and Lily said something before turning around and walking off to the castle.
"Sirius, James!" she called out to them making them stop.
They paused as she ran over to stop them tormenting Snape, who had a horrified look on his face at what he had just done.
"Stop," she said.
The glanced at her for a moment before laughing and carrying on. Hermione whipped out her wand and cast a shield charm making the spells they were using on Severus stop therefore letting him get his wand and get to his feet.
"I said stop," she glared at them.
"Mind your own business Babineaux, he deserves it."
Hermione gazed in disgust at Sirius. She walked slowly over to him and poked him in the chest with her wand. "Say that again," she poked him extra hard and watched pleased as a few sparks of green light shot out the end. "I thought so," she said as they said nothing but backed off.
She turned and pocketed her wand before striding away ignoring Severus and several people who tried to stop her and walked into the castle to find Lily.
Once Hermione found her in the library crying her eyes out her expression softened immediately.
"Lily?" she tried quietly.
Lily's head jerked up and Hermione saw her face streaked with tears.
She hurried over to her and sat down next to her drawing her into a hug.
"How…could he do… that to…me," Lily chocked out between sobs, "I've…always….stuck…up for…him." She dissolved once again into tears.
Once Hermione managed to calm her down she dragged Lily to the kitchens for a foamy mug of hot chocolate to make her relax before walking her back to Gryffindor tower.
"Thanks for the talk 'Mione," said Lily shifting on the spot.
"Don't worry Lils."
Lily gave her a quick hug and said the password "Laughing grapes," and entered the common room.
Hermione's happy facade dropped at once. She stormed through the castle ignoring everyone who tried to talk to her and out towards her tree. Once she got there she hauled Severus to his feet and yelled at him. "HOW DARE YOU! YOU AROGANT PRAT. SHE WAS YOUR BEST FRIEND. YOU HAD BETTER GO AND APOLOGIZE RIGHT NOW!" she watched in satisfaction as he nodded and hurried away.
End Chapter
So it's happened, the end of the year. I know it's a bit rushed but I didn't really want this year to go over 10 chapters but it did. So I cut it short.
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