A/N: Sorry this is a late update… I just got home from a trip to Colorado and I have been to lazy to write. Sorry. I PASSED TWO HUNDRED REVIEWS! I was so excited… I made some changes as to what I was going to do with this chapter… Mira Bella will still be in it but Its focused around a different idea… I made Tonks adopted… it just something I had to do…

( updated 4-3-11 to fit in with chapter 16 of What happens)

Chapter twenty four : All the help I can get…

Year six

"Snape?" Voices echoed through the Great Hall when Dumbledore announced that Professor Snape would no longer be teaching potions; but that he would instead be teaching Defense Against The Dark Arts.

The development was shocking and some what traumatizing for several people with in this room. Many of them wished to think that it was a joke and that Ashton Kutcher was going to jump out and say that it was all a prank and that they were on live television. Everyone that attended Hogwarts knew that Snape had wanted the job for fifteen years and had never gotten the job. So why was he getting the job now?

"Well at least we know that he will only be our teacher for one more year." Ginny said indifferently looked at the head table. "The job is jinxed, no one has gotten the job and kept it for any longer than a year." she explained seeing some confused expressions.

"Well maybe except Quirrell, But he had Tom Riddle on his head."

"That's true Gin, All that job got him was a six foot hole in the ground." Hermione said looking up at the head table at Snape. "one lost his entire memory, on was a were wolf, one was a Death Eater and one was an evil ministry worker. Something has to happen to Snape." Hermione agreed.

"Eye hoppe eei eyes." Ron said with his mouth full of roast beef and so no one under stood him properly.

"Come again?" Ginny asked and Hermione asked "What?"

"I said that I hope he dies." Ron said angry that they didn't understand him the first time he had said it.

"That is very harsh, Ronald." Hermione said. "He may be a horrible person but he is still a person."

"I agree with Mione, Ro…" Ginny started to say when someone interrupted.

"Holloway, We have rounds tonight." Draco said from behind them, Hermione turned to face him.

"You know you could be a little nicer when you say it. And you act as if you don't know my name, first and last." Hermione said lightly, Draco knew that she was trying to avoid suspicion but she was cracking a little.

"So would you rather I called you Hermia or Riddle?" He asked quietly and only Hermione, Ginny and Harry heard him leaving the others confused.

"Neither really, that would make people suspicious of me.." She said quietly thinking about it properly.

"Okay then, and again we have rounds tonight be there or I get to tell Mini." He said in a very serious tone. Hermione, Ginny and Harry all laughed and they even heard Luna laughing at the Ravenclaw table.

"Really, Mini?" She asked though her laughter and he just walked away.

"Well, that didn't go the way I thought it was. I expected a fight." Seamus said looking at the Slytherin table like a love sick puppy. Everyone turned to see what he was looking at.

"Awww, someone likes a girl." Ginny and Hermione said when the saw that he was looking at Cherokee.

"Huh what girl?" He asked looking away, and he was turning red.

"Don't play stupid with us Seamus, we saw how you were looking at Cherokee Herington." They all said in unison.

"I have no idea what you are talking about he said looking at his plate. Hermione held up her hand to make a point and she mouthed five, four, three, two, one and right on cue he looked up at Cherokee again and this time Cherokee and Taylor were looking at him. His face, if possible, turned even redder. He had been caught so he began hitting his head on the table in embarrassment. They all laughed at him, Hogwarts was always so fun.

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"Good afternoon class." Professor Slughorn, a short walrus like man, said waddling into the Potions Class room to where four cauldrons sat on a small wooden table.

"Good morning Professor Slughorn." Several Slytherins and Hermione said.

"Ah, shall we get straight to the lesson? Gather around this table please." He said ignoring groans from students who had expected an easy lesson. "Can anyone tell me what is in this cauldron?" He asked once everyone reached the front of the room, even Harry and Ron.

Hermione's hand quickly flew up. and nobody was all that surprised. "It's Veritaserum, a colorless, odorless potion that forces the drinker to tell nothing but the truth." she said when Slughorn pointed at her.

"Very good!" He said beaming "Now can any one…" Hermione's hand was up again and he pointed at her once more.

"It's Polyjuice Potion," she said.

"Excellent, excellent! Now, this one here… Yes my dear? Slughorn said looking very impressed.

"It's Amortentia." She said proudly.

"It is indeed, It almost seems foolish to ask, but I assume that you know what it does?" He said still extremely impressed.

"Yes sir, It's the most powerful love potion in the world!" She said with a look of desire on her face as she looked at it, but she knew she didn't need it.

"Quite right, I am assuming you recognized it because of its mother of pearl sheen?"

"And its Characteristic spiral steam," she said still looking at it, "and it is supposed to smell differently to each of us according to what attracts us the most, for example I smell Spearmint tooth paste, fresh parchment, The scent you get just before it rain's and…" She trailed off and blushed so deeply that she could be mistaken as a tomato. She was glad that no one had notice, they were all to busy swarming around the cauldron to get a better smell of it. Slughorn seemed to notice and clamped the lid down on it quickly and everyone came to their senses.

"May I ask your name dear?" He asked.

"Hermia Holloway, well Holloway is my mothers name I don't go by my fathers and I go by Hermione most of the time." She said quickly trying to draw away from her almost slip.

"Amethyst Holloway's eldest daughter?" He asked shocked. "My oh my, why I didn't notice it sooner you look just like your mother dear girl." he said "though there is something else… May I ask what your fathers name is."

"Tom." She said cheerfully as if nothing was abnormal about that name and she heard Harry and Draco snort and everyone turned to look at the two boys.

"Well I know many Toms, could you please be more specific Miss Holloway." He asked smiling at her.

"Tom Marvolo." she said making several Slytherins, though not many mainly just Pansy and Taylor's older brother Gavin, gasp in shock. They knew who that was. Surprisingly the whole thing went right over Ron's head, typical, and he should have known.

"No way are you his daughter!" Pansy said in shock and horror. "He never had kids, He would have never been with a mudblood!" the girl spat in fury.

"I am, Honestly Pansy look at me, do I not resemble him more than my own mother." Hermione said sadly. "He was with my mother, he loved her enough to have two kids with her."

"Hermione, do you really want people knowing that?" Harry asked in shock.

"Harry, their aren't any records in this school with that name on it and not many people know his middle name. I would know." She said smiling weakly at him feeling secure with her decision.

"Wait?" Pansy said in wonder "How in the name of Merlin are you a Gryffindor, Both he and Amethyst were Slytherins?"

"I'm nothing like him, It's only a name." Hermione said without missing a beat, "I have asked myself that every night since that night at the ministry when I found a prophecy made about me and my sister." Hermione said looking right at Pansy, " That means you can treat me no differently than you did before this day." Hermione said smiling trying to drop the subject.

"But…" The girl started in.

"Drop it Pansy, It's a name and no one needs to know it. I am Hermione Holloway and I may be his daughter but I am just as much Amethyst's daughter." Hermione said walking to her desk and sitting down.

"Right," Slughorn said slowly not seeing why it was such a big deal, "Open your books to page ten." He said and every one listened. "We will be making Draught of Living Death, and the best potion maker receives a prize!"

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"Harry! You need to get rid of that book!" Hermione said while in the common room two weeks later. She was still mad that he had cheated his way to the prize

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"Yeah like I will do that any time soon." Harry said rolling his eyes. "Cheating or not I'm passing that class."

"Merlin, Harry, If you get caught do you know how much trouble you will be in?" She demanded as a question.

"Hermione, I believe that you have your fair share of skeletons, am I wrong? " He asked bringing tears to Hermione's eyes.

"Harry, I cant help who my father is or who I fall in love with!" She screamed and everyone looked at her. "You have a choice in what you do!"

"Hermione, I'm so sorry." Harry tried to say as he realized his mistake.

"NO you aren't, Harry." She said knowing that what she said wasn't the truth. "Knowing the truth has hurt our friendship, I was fine When I was Hermione Granger or even Hermia Holloway, but I'm not as Hermia Riddle." She said quietly and walked away with tears in her eyes. This was a horrible day.

"Hermione what's wrong?" A girl asked from behind her when she reached the empty Great Hall, it was empty because it was eleven o'clock at night. Hermione spun around and saw her. The girl had long curly blond hair that reached just past her waist. Her eyes were beautiful pools of silver liquid that had thin sapphire rings around them. Hermione couldn't help but stare at her in awe. She was beautiful and yet vaguely familiar.

Hermione noticed that the girl wasn't wearing the usual school robes but instead she had on a long sleeved knit green sweater and her Slytherin uniform skirt, silver tights and black flats.

"You recognize me don't you?" The girl asked smiling, "People tell me all the time that I look like my daddy." she said and at the mention of her dad her smile faded a little, it was obviously a touchy subject. "But Auntie thinks I look like my mum."

"Oh my sweet Merlin." Hermione said not knowing what to say, "You look so familiar."

"Well I would hope so." She said laughing at Hermione. "I'm Mira-Bella Brianne."

"Brianne?" She said looking at the Slytherin in confusion. "Why haven't I ever seen you here at Hogwarts before?" Hermione asked.

"I thought that would be relatively obvious." She said "I'm from fifteen years in the future." Mira said painfully.

"How is that even possible? And don't say time turners, they cant take you back that far into time." Hermione said.

"Time Travel Spell, you can send just about any thing back in time." She said smiling, "Well within reason, I mean you cant go back any farther than the day your parents were born; "And you can pretty much go back farther than that if you travel with some one older than your self… Like Teddy and I did."

Brianne sat down on a bench and looked at Hermione who sat down next to her.

"Who is Teddy?" She asked remembering the kid Brianne had mentioned.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that you didn't know him." She said, "He is my father's mother's sister's adopted daughter's son." She said and saw how confused it made Hermione. "To make things clearer lets just say he is My god father's god son and my best friend." She smiled "I think he went to find his god parents who are also my god parents." She laughed.

"That's not confusing at all." Hermione whispered sarcastically. "SO why did you come back in time?" Hermione asked a few moments later.

"To save mine and Teddy's families." She said looking at her hands. "Teddy's family was killed in the war a long with my father." She sighed.

"What about your mother?"

"She wanted revenge for my father so she killed the man who killed my father." Brianne

said quietly.

"So she is in Azkaban?" Hermione said trying to clarify what she was hearing.

"No, Mum isn't in Azkaban, they said she was innocent and that it was self defense." The girl said smiling weakly, " though she was forced into to a marriage by the ministry, they have this whole marriage law that says that if you are not married by age twenty one that you will have someone picked for you. Same applies to widows, they make you re marry." The girl said, she clearly knew a lot about the law in question.

"That is horrible!" Hermione shrieked. "What if you don't like the person you are put with? What if you hate each other?"

"Then your screwed, there isn't a way out of the arrangement unless you kill your self." The girl said. "Auntie tried but mum wouldn't let her and Lavender Brown threw herself into the Brain tank in the Department of Mysteries, Mum found her." Brianne continued.

"Who are you parents Brianne?" Hermione asked, she had missed that part of the information, or had she, she had the strangest feeling that she knew who they were.

"I cant tell you that, you will just have to find out for yourself." The girl said as a bow with brown hair and piercing purple eyes ran into the room with a tall girl with black hair ran in behind him.

"Brianne, we just saw Professor Beeler!" The girl panted.

"She doesn't know us." Brianne laughed. "She wont for me for what a year and she wont know you for eleven or Teddy for twelve."

"Oh right." They said and calmed down. "Who is she?" The girl asked when she saw Hermione sitting next to Brianne.

"Aria, Teddy this is Hermia Riddle." She said smiling.

"Most people call me Hermione." She said quickly as to not cause any confusion.

Aria and Teddy exchanged looks. "No way! Really, you look so different Hermione, not as sad, more alive." The girl named Aria said off handedly.

"What do you mean? I'm always full of energy." Hermione said looking at the two in confusion.

"Well…" Aria trailed off.

"We should get going!" Mira-Bella said quickly and jumped up off of the bench and ran over to the two. "It was nice talking to you Hermione." She said grabbing onto Aria and Teddy's arms and pulling out her wand and said the spell and disappeared.

"What just happened?" Hermione asked herself as she stood up and then she walked out of the great hall totally befuddled.

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"I had the weirdest conversation with a Slytherin last night." Hermione told Draco the next night as they did their rounds through the castle. "I mean, It wouldn't have been weird if it hadn't been Mira-Bella Brianne."

That one sentence caught his attention, he hadn't expected it to end that way. "Mira-Bella Brianne? Here, you actually saw her?" He asked frozen in his spot.

"Yes, I actually saw her she told me a little about her family and that she is from fifteen years in the future." Hermione said still not totally sure if what she had seen had been real in the first place.

"What happened to her family?" "he asked when they started walking again, it was deathly quiet in the castle.

"She didn't say much about them she just told me that her Aunt tried to kill herself, that her dad died during the war and that her mom killed the man who killed her dad." Hermione said. "Draco?"

"Hmm?"

"How are 'things going?'" She asked and knew that he would know what things she was talking about."

"Horrible, I have no clue how to fix the damn thing." The said angrily. "It's a big cabinet, It shouldn't be that hard to fix."

"I'm so sorry, Drake. I'm sure you will get it." She put her hand on his shoulder.

"What if I don't want to fix it Mione," He said turning to face her, "what if I want it to stay broken." He was whispering so quietly that not even a ghost hiding in a corner could have heard it.

"Draco, It may be against all things right but you have to fix it." She said looking into his silver eyes intently. "Cause if you don't they will make you leave me. Please don't leave me." She had tears in her eyes. Her biggest fear was losing him to the war, losing him because of her own father.

"I'm not going anywhere Mi, I'm right here and I will never leave your side." He said just as quietly as when he had last spoken and pulled her closer to him.

"You promise?" She asked him.

"I promise." He told her and kissed her forehead.

"If you ever need my help just let me know." she knew it would be wrong of her to help him but she wanted him to fix it as much as her father did, but for a different reason. She didn't want her one true love to die because he couldn't fix a banishing cabinet.

"I will Mione." He said and he let her go so that they could finish their rounds.

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"Oh why am I helping him?" Hermione asked herself quietly as she made sure that Cormac McLaggan missed ever quaffle that came his way. She even made him fall off of his broom once or twice. She couldn't stand to watch that pig make the Quidditch team, he would be such a bad representation of the house and she knew that he wouldn't listen to Harry's instructions at all.

"Damn." She whispered when the ball went a different way than she assumed and the blond haired Gryffindor caught the ball to everyone's dismay.

"That's enough Cormac, Ron you are next." Harry said and Hermione watched Ron mount his broom.

"Oh, why am I doing this?" She mumbled again "Confundo." She said and Ron's broom flew in the direction of the ball, which hit his head, and flew away from the goal post. Hermione sighed, it was weird what she would do for a friend.

The next ball hit Ron in the stomach, but it was still blocked. She managed to make him block all five quaffle and Ron got the position as Keeper.

"You know you aren't supposed to help them, right?" She heard Draco say from under the stands.

"I am perfectly aware of that." she said with out moving her lips to avoid suspicion. "I couldn't stand to watch McLaggan get it. He irritated me." She said fuming.

"Whoa you don't have to get mad at me." He said defensively.

"I'm not mad at you, Draco. I mad at McLaggan every time he sees me he tries to touch me and I want to see him fail." She said angrily and it was so out of character.

"What happened to sweet Hermione?" He asked with raised eyebrows.

"She is still here." Hermione snapped.

"Sometimes it sounds like she isn't." He said and it ticked Hermione off. She hated when he was that argumentative. "You haven't ever wanted to watch someone suffer. Being a Riddle has brought out you anger." He just didn't know when to stop.

"Draco!" She hissed. "I have had a really bad day. My head feels like it is going to split open, I have had to put up with McLaggan and Quidditch all day and now I am mad at you because you wont let me cool down." She said standing up and stomping back up to the castle to cool off. He had screwed up.

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A/N: I know it is kind of short but their will be one ore two more chapters before the filler chapter… I hope you liked the chapter… Please let me know what you think I appreciate it. ~Taylor (slytherin at heart) (I hope that I caught all of the inconsistancies… if you notice any later on let me know and I will fix them : ) I will have the other chapters edited soon… )