Greetings Everyone! Okay new chapter, hope you enjoy it! I want to clarify something, the reason why Hermione is sent back specifically into 1975 is because that is the year it was created. She couldn't have gone back any further, and to not go back that far would have been wasteful. Dumbledore assigned this to her late in her 6th year at Hogwarts because he knew that Snape would have to end up killing him because of Voldemort's demands. It was a now or never situation. Anyways, I hope you like this chapter! Please leave a review, they make me SO happy. And thanks for reading!

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Hermione's POV

The days turned into a week, and then another one. Suddenly Christmas holiday was slowly creeping up, and Hermione missed her old home more than ever. She tried to put these thoughts behind her as she studied in the common room with her dorm mates, but it was difficult.

"I'd try revising your structure Alice; it looks a bit sloppy when you start mentioning the uses Agrippa." Lily told Alice as she flipped through the girl's essay. Hermione glanced up from her own essay and glanced at the red head. She had a permanent frown on her face when she was concentrating; it was something that she noticed right away that Harry also did. She took a deep breath when she thought of Harry.

The only Harry she would know in this time period would be a child. Hermione frowned a bit; he might not even be the same. If all goes according to plan, and Hermione managed to defeat Voldemort and save James and Lily, Harry would be raised with loving family, not people who despised his very existence. He would be raised in the wizarding world and would probably be quite popular, just like his father. Harry would probably lack some of the very qualities that made him Harry. His modest behavior would surely be gone if James was there to raise him, but he'd probably also be a bit more studious if Lily was alive to push him. It'd be for the better, no matter how Harry turned out, Hermione knew for sure.

"What do you think we're going to do in Defense Against the Dark Arts?" Marlene brought Hermione out of her thoughts with her question.

"Probably going to go over Giants, I asked Professor Bode about it the other day," Hermione responded, ignoring the fact that the other three giggled at her mention of Professor Bode.

"He's quite cute, Professor Bode." Alice smirked. "Not as cute as Frank, but he comes quite close." Hermione joined in on the laughter this time. She had enjoyed watching Neville's parent's relationship develop over time. From the short time Hermione knew the couple; they had already proved they were very much in love. Hermione would catch them always standing within close proximity of one another, and when possible they were always touching. It wasn't in an annoying kind of touching, but simple innocent kind. Holding hands and a reassuring hand on each other's back was quite common between the two love-birds.

"Hmmm…" Marlene grinned at Alice, "How does Mrs. Alice Longbottom sound." Hermione couldn't help but laugh, Alice would eventually become Mrs. Alice Longbottom, and Frank and her would have a brave son named Neville…And they would be nearly tortured to death…

NO!

Hermione wouldn't let that happen. She wouldn't let anyone harm these people. She had the power to protect them, and she was going to use it to its full ability. The words reminded Hermione of her and Dumbledore's office visits. She hadn't had any meetings with him in a few weeks and he rarely showed up to the Great Halls during meals. She knew he was probably working on getting the order together and destroying Horcruxes, but students had begun to notice his frequent absence. Peter even suggested one day that he might be secretly very ill, but Hermione quickly disbarred that rumor by telling Peter that even if Dumbledore was sick, he was also the most powerful wizard of all time and could probably handle himself.

"He knows what he's doing, but I think Professor Bode's a bit rude." Lily retorted. When Alice gasped in disapproval Lily turned around and glared at her.

"Have you forgotten when he completely mortified us on the first day of lessons?" Lily had obviously not forgotten. Alice shrugged, and looked at Marlene and Hermione for help.

"That's true," Marlene giggled, "Lily wouldn't talk in that class for a week." Lily blushed at her words as the other girls giggled. The door to the common room swung open and the Marauders walked in, obviously on their way back from detention, this time it was for charming a group of Hufflepuffs hair to grow at an alarming rate. The boys had thought it was funny, but apparently Professor McGonagall had not, and had given the boys another week of detention with Filch.

"What'd you do today?" Lily lifted an eyebrow, "scrub the toilets?" Hermione and the other three girls joined her in laughter.

"Yeah, with our bare hands!" James smiled as he stuck his hands into the girls' faces, causing them to squeal and duck away.

"What'd they make you do this time?" Hermione asked Sirius as he joined her on the couch.

"Scrub the floors in the hospital wing, without magic. Wasn't all bad though, Filch left halfway through because Peeves was throwing pastries at some portraits." Sirius explained. Hermione nodded. Peeves and the Marauders had some strange alliance, when one of the two was in trouble; the other did their best to bail them out. The Marauders would never admit this aloud of course, the moment they did Peeves would cease to help them ever again. It was more of an unspoken rule.

Hermione stifled a large yawn and stretched out, "I think I should go to bed," she told Sirius. She was having difficulties keeping her eyes open. The words in her text book were starting to blur together, and she knew it would be a matter of time before she passed out.

"Goodnight," Sirius smiled warmly at her, Hermione smiled back and waved to the group who murmured goodbyes back to her.

The next morning came and went, and Hermione found herself alone in the library. She had wanted to do some research on her and Remus' odd ability to not be able to strike one another. Not that she'd ever want to hit Remus; she just found it odd that she couldn't. She began researching until she heard a voice clear their throat behind her.

She spun around and found Regulus Black, nervously looking down at his feet.

"Er, hello." Hermione awkwardly smiled a small, tight, probably unbelievable smile. She wanted to keep things polite between the two, but couldn't forget his harsh words the last time they spoke.

"Hermione," Regulus curtly greeted her. The two stared at each other for a moment, perhaps forgetting to talk, before Hermione cleared her throat. "You say you were homeschooled for a bit?"

"Er, yes." Hermione said wearily, not used to Regulus being so polite. "I was taught by my mother, but she recently passed, so I was sent here."

Regulus thought about this for a moment, "Why didn't you attend Hogwarts to begin with?" The question had been often asked, and Hermione was quite used to answering it.

"My mom thought it best she taught me." Hermione said frankly and Regulus nodded, seemingly convinced with her rather short answer.

"I see," Regulus nodded politely.

"Anything I can help you with?" Hermione offered, the situation was a bit weird.

"I wanted to apologize, for that day in the book shop. I was rude and it wasn't becoming of me." Regulus politely recited to her. Hermione cringed; it sounded as though someone had written him a script and ordered him to read it to her.

"That's, er, alright. I was a bit rude myself," Hermione confessed. Regulus was handsome just like his brother. They both had the same face shape and raven colored hair. Although Regulus wore his much shorter and neater than Sirius; Hermione wondered if that was because his parents. There eye shape was almost identical, but whereas Sirius' eyes were ice blue, Regulus' were a cold chestnut. Both of their body types were similar as well, tall and muscular.

"You and Sirius then," Regulus plainly said. Hermione bleakly nodded, shifting back from one foot to another uncomfortably.

"Yes," Hermione responded.

"Nice," Regulus said coolly. The two stared at each other a moment more until Hermione made a move to leave, things were getting a bit awkward, and she could jut study in her common room.

"Well, goodbye." Hermione politely said as she began stuff her bag full with books. Regulus's stern eyes got wide and let out a barking laugh, one that was so similar to Sirius'.

"I've almost forgotten, Dumbledore wanted me to give you this," Regulus went red as he handed Hermione a piece of parchment shoved neatly inside a letter. Hermione raised an eyebrow.

"Are you his new owl?" She challenged. Regulus put his hands up defensively and took a step back, his face still remained friendly.

"I was just with him; he probably thought it'd be easier." Regulus explained. Hermione looked at Regulus for another suspicious moment and sighed.

"Alright, well thank you." She finally said. Regulus nodded a response and stalked away.

Why had Dumbledore made Regulus deliver the message? He surely could have found someone else to deliver the message. What if he had opened it then magically resealed it? Then he surely would know her secret now. Hermione sat for a moment in thought when Madam Pince's scolding of a couple of rambunctious second years brought her back. She inspected the letter once more, for all she knew, Lucius Malfoy or Mulciber and Avery set this up for her. It could have been a trap. She turned the envelope over in her hands, it had Dumbledore's seal. And it looked nearly identical to all of the other letters she received from him. Before she could talk herself out of opening it, she tore the envelope open faster than she thought possible, and held the piece of parchment close to her face, preventing someone from looking over the shoulder and reading it too. She looked around the library once more and began to read.

Miss Granger,

Meet me in my office after dinner tonight; I have an offer you might be very interested in.

Sincerely,

Albus Dumbledore

Hermione stared at the piece of parchment, a surprise? Hermione wasn't a fan of them, and Dumbledore was usually one to get to the point. She turned the letter in her hands twice more and bit her lip. She did that when she got anxious, and this letter definitely made her anxiety perk up.

She continued to pack her books away and stalked to the common room, Defense Against the Dark Arts would be starting soon, and Hermione refused to be late. Hermione searched for her friends in the common room, but only found groups of third and fourth years playing exploding snap and gossiping. She frowned and made her way up to her dorm room, where she found an upset Lily sitting on her bed, surrounded by a comforting Alice and an anxious looking Marlene.

"Whats the matter?" Hermione dared to ask. She knew that Lily rarely got upset about juvenile things, and figured it had to of been something of utter importance. Lily rubbed a hand quickly over a tired eye. She wasn't crying, but she looked exhausted and tired. Alice looked over at her for the okay, and Lily nodded.

"Lily was on her way back to the common room when Severus attacked her," Alice explained, Hermione gasped.

Noticing Hermione's gasp, Marlene interrupted. "He didn't actually attack her; he just started pestering her again." Hermione nodded, and Lily spoke up.

"He just won't leave me alone, ever since the incident last year, he'll try to talk to me. He'll beg for my forgiveness and I forgave him a while ago…I can learn to forgive, but I'm not going to forget." Lily firmly stated. "Every once in a while though, I think he misses me, and he gets this idea that if he just talks to me it'll be like nothing ever happened, but it didn't happen. He picked the Slytherins over me. He chose to say those words. How does he expect me to want to be close to him again?" Lily rambled. Hermione could tell that Lily was trying to convince herself more than explain it to the other girls.

"What did he say?" Hermione prodded, taking a seat on her own bed.

"The usual, how he regrets it, how he misses me. But what I absolutely hate the most is that it still upsets me. I hate that I still miss him, even after all he did." Lily spat, "just forget about it, I really don't want the boys to find out he cornered me again." Lily said knowingly.

"What happened the last time?" Hermione curiously asked. Marlene groaned and fell back onto the bed, while Alice's face paled as she remembered; Lily however went a bright red. "Guys, what happened?" Hermione repeated.

"Er, let's just say Snape was in the hospital wing for nearly a whole month," Alice explained.

"A whole month? What did they do to him?!" Hermione horrifyingly gasped, had the Marauders really hurt Snape that bad?

"They won't tell us," Marlene explained, "They said they swore a vow, but I doubt it, probably just told us that to get us off their backs."

"How much trouble did they get in?" Hermione asked, trying to remember to ask Sirius about it later.

"That's the thing!" Alice eagerly said, "They didn't get in any trouble! No one even knows what happened to Snape, it was all kept hushed!"

"Maybe I'll ask Sirius about it," Hermione confessed, "I think he'd tell me." Hermione told the girls. Lily cringe and Alice looked nervously at Marlene.

"What am I missing?" Hermione asked the girls. The girls shifted uncomfortably and then Lily cleared her throat.

"Don't hold your breath Hermione," Lily told her. "Sirius may be dating you, but he's married to the other boys. If all four of them are hiding something, it's not likely they'll tell anyone," sighed Lily. Hermione nodded her head, but on the inside she was surprised by the brutality of Lily's words. She didn't sugar coat things, that's for sure.

It couldn't have been that bad, probably just a prank gone wrong. Hermione knew about 'the prank' that Sirius had pulled on Snape their fifth year. She had remembered Harry explaining to her what happened. But she had a gut feeling that this was something completely different. Harry had told her that his own father had saved Snape's life, so why would Snape have been in the hospital wing for a month. Things didn't quite add up, something else must have happened.

"Oh, okay…" Hermione breathed, she checked her watch and sighed. "We're going to be late for Defense Against the Dark Arts, we better get going."

Remus' POV

"Sirius what's it like mate, being a sworn bachelor for life and then suddenly jumping into a relationship?" James teased from his bed as he opened his hand, releasing a snitch into the air, then instantly snatching it out of the air again.

"You're jealous Prongs, jealous that you don't have what Hermione and I have." Sirius said absentmindedly as he scribbled on a piece of parchment. Remus raised an eyebrow and sat up from his bed. He squinted closer at Sirius and his jaw dropped.

"Sirius Orion Black!" Remus gasped and darted towards Sirius. The raven hair boy looked taken aback and frowned at Remus, and went to put the parchment away, but Remus was too fast. He snatched the parchment and looked at it dumbly.

"Padfoot, I don't believe it. You are doing your homework." Remus smirked as he held the piece of parchment up to show the rest of the boys.

"What?" Peter let out a startling squeal as he fell onto his floor. James burst out into hysterics at Peter, and then promptly rolled off onto the floor himself with a loud thud.

"Homework and Sirius Black in the same sentence? Unheard of!" James stood up and snickered. Sirius flushed red and attempted to elbow James in the stomach, but James quickly stepped out of the way.

"Stop," Sirius warned. His face became bright scarlet, Remus delighted in this moment; it was rare to see Sirius so flustered. "Please, stop." Sirius whined.

"Is a certain lady having an influence on a certain trouble maker?" Remus teased. Sirius gave him a warning look, and Remus laughed. Sirius took a deep breath and then looked at all the boys.

"You deserved this," Sirius said, then took off at full speed towards Remus. Remus' eyes went wide and before he could get out of the way, he was being lifted into the air and then thrown back down. Remus squirmed underneath Sirius, who was pinning him down. James laughed and jumped to his feet, hovering above Remus. Peter crawled to the scene, barely able to breathe from laughing so hard.

"APOLOGIZE MOONY!" Sirius demanded.

"NEVER!" Remus wiggled underneath him, knowing what was coming.

"MOONY! DON'T MAKE ME DO THIS!" Sirius bellowed, "SAY YOU'RE SORRY!" Remus shook his head defiantly.

"BLOODY HELL MOONY! LISTEN TO THE MAN!" James screamed from above.

"Never!" Remus spat. Sirius shook his head, and then began viciously tickling Remus. He squirmed from underneath Sirius, a weak attempt at trying to escape. It was a well known fact among the four boys that Remus was extremely ticklish. Whenever they had to pressure Remus into doing something, they'd always threaten to tickle him.

"Stop!" Remus gasped for air in between laughter, "Please."

"Say you're sorry!" Sirius demanded, not letting up on the tickling. Remus giggled harder than ever, he really hated tickling.

"Sorry!" Remus laughed.

"And that Sirius Orion Black is the best at everything, and is my idol, and I worship every move he makes! He is the most important wizard in this generation, and will probably save humanity!" Sirius yelled at Remus. Remus snorted, typical egotistical Sirius Black.

"Sirius-" Remus laughed hard, "Orion Black-" more laugher, " is the best" Remus took a big gulp of air, "worship every move he makes." Remus cried. "Most-important wizard-this generation, probably save humanity!" Remus finished. Sirius tickled him from a moment longer and then seemingly satisfied, stood up. Remus rolled on the ground a moment more. He stood up and wiped the tears from laughter away.

"I really hate tickling." Remus spat at the other boys, who began laughing quite loudly again.

~Until Next Time~

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