Summary: The final battle was bloody and scary, and Hermione thought it may never end, until she was hit with an unknown spell that sent her back in time. She wakes in a world not too different, but so very strange and has to navigate her way through it. Adopted into a pureblood family she attends Hogwarts with the ghosts of the past. There's no going back, so it's forward from here, and well, if she couldn't win in the 90s, she's going to win now. After all - Ultimo Tendo, or One Last Try.

A/N: Hello! God, it's been so long since I've had the motivation or anything to write, but this story latched on and wouldn't let go. I have no idea how long this is going to be hah.

Please let me know what you think! :D Reviews are motivation haha!

2nd May 1998
Hogwarts Grounds

Hermione Granger wasn't usually a violent or vicious person, disregarding the jar in her fourth year and the Marietta Edgecombe incident, but the final battle had brought something out in her that she wasn't sure she liked. They'd been fighting for hours now, sweat and blood and tears dripping into her eyes, and coating her skin. She'd lost track of Ron after Fred and Percy had been killed. Harry had fallen hours before, trying to protect Narcissa Malfoy after she'd protected him from the first killing curse that had failed to kill him. The second he'd not been so lucky with.

The Hogwarts' grounds were littered with bodies, but she'd become almost desensitised by now. She was battling two Death Eaters, both miles better than her now she was flagging with exhaustion, her spells missing the mark more often than not. She was tempted to give up; even though Harry had defeated Voldemort before dying himself, his death had renewed something in the Death Eaters. And permanently killed something in her. It was only a sense of duty and pride that kept her fighting to her last breath.

"Weasley!" The shout caught her attention, her head snapping to the side where she saw Ron battling what looked like the Lestrange brothers. Both men looked utterly crazed. It was only a moment of distraction, but it was enough, as she watched a jet of green light streak towards Ron, who could do nothing to stop it, she was hit by a brilliant golden light. It blinded her, and she squinted through it to try and see who had thrown the unknown spell at her.

Suddenly she was falling backwards towards the filthy ground, her arms wheeling out behind her. When she didn't hit the ground straight away confusion filled her, before horror took over as she recognised the feeling of being pulled backwards, the world twirling past her. She hadn't felt such a thing since her third year. Alongside the falling and the horror was something she'd never experienced in any of her time-travelling - because that must be what this was - before, pain. She felt like she was being ripped apart, aches and sharp pangs suffused her whole body, if it was possible she could feel it down to a cellular level.

All of a sudden it stopped; the pain, the falling, and she was lying somewhere unknown, green laid out beneath her and blue above. No screams of the dying and wounded, no horrifying smells, it was quiet and she could hear birds tweeting. This was it, she thought, this was death. It must be because in all her research on time-travel when she was younger there had never been anything to say a spell could do what it seemed to have done to her. It had to have been time-travel and some sort of transportation spell, because she was somewhere completely different. With that thought, and her exhaustion finally catching up with her, she passed out.

A/N: As I said in the summary, I'm not expecting to post any more chapters for a while. I've got two written so far, but I wanna have at least ten written before I post anymore.

Let me know what you thought :P

- I have read so many time travel fics that there will undoubtedly be some influence in this fic from them. I'd especially like to acknowledge two that I've read over and over and absolutely love as there were certain story elements in those that I know influenced my writing and story decisions! I'm trying not to steal anything from them consciously, but I'm aware there may be elements that are obviously heavily influenced *sweats* (Debt of Time by Shayalonnie and Roundabout Destiny by MaryRoyale) -