Time Turners and Hippogriffs

AU Drabble Series. Yes, drabble. Hermione gets dusted with the Sands of Time and is sent back fifty-something years into the past. This is a TMRxHG fic.

Apologies to Hermione. I know you're shipped with everything with a pulse...

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"I hissed?" Tom asked. He could have swore he had just yelled at the snake, not hissed. He felt Hermione nod her head against him.

"It was frightening, but it was more scary to face the snake alone. Thank you, Tom." She stayed silent for a few seconds, as if working up the courage to say something else. "Tom?"

"Hm?" he answered, keeping his eye on where the snake had ended up. Mrs. Cole was quickly instructing some of the older boys to catch the snake and kill it so it wouldn't bite any of the children. In the back of his mind, he had a vague thought wondering why she didn't just take them all back. Hermione's words brought him back to her.

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"I'm going to miss you. When you leave for Hogwarts," she clarified. Tom looked at her but she refused to face him. She buried her face into his chest. "I don't want you to go." What she didn't say, and he heard he anyway, was 'and leave me here all alone.'

"You won't be alone. Sica will be here with you, and with some of the younger children being adopted, you won't have to look after them all the time. Think of how many books from the library you'll be able to read while I'm gone?" Tom reminded her.

"But you won't be walking with me," she mourned. Tom sighed.

"Just wait a year. Then you can be with me at school." The tightening of her arms was her only response to that.

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Tuesday came quickly, and when Tom retrieved the coins from their safe hiding place, Hermione could barely contain her excitement.

"The door gets locked at eight. If you're not in by then, you're getting locked out 'til mornin!"Mrs. Cole yelled after them as they ran down the street toward the nearest Underground entrance, train cards in hand. The trip wasn't long, their excitement somewhat dimmed as Hermione mused on having to lock Sica in her room because the cat had tried to go with them.

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Hermione stopped in the hallway, Tom stopping a few feet after. She bent down and picked up the red-furred cat that was following them.

"No, Sica. You can't come with us." The feline's ears drooped back sadly. Hermione went back to her room and placed her pet on the bed. "Be good! We'll be back in a few hours." Hermione kissed Sica on the head and left the room, making sure to close the door fully. She went back to where she left Tom and they continued to Mrs. Cole's office where she would check them out.

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Going through the Leaky Cauldron, they stopped at the brick wall in the courtyard and Tom pulled out his wand. After tapping the pattern onto the bricks, the wall receded to expose Diagon Alley and all of its wonders to the two children. Just across the street was Gringotts, and after letting a large family pass by, the two headed for the white marbled building. Hermione marveled at the sight of it. Once inside, her curious gaze swept over the goblins behind their desks, the guards at the door, and the other patrons in the bank.

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