Hermione was slowly waking up and was aware of her surroundings. She felt very comfortable in the large soft bed and comforter, especially her last sleep was on lumpy mattress, if that could be classified as sleep. The events from the last 48 hours or so flooded her brains. She began feeling overwhelmed from everything that happened. The sheer weight of the event and the things she had done since she landed in this timeline blew her mind. Everything from the Potters, Longbottoms and the marauders in general, the highest point in all this is her brother Harry or rather her nephew now had his family even Neville has coherent parents and would grow to achieve his potential, which she knew was immense but his lack of confidence in the previous timeline was the result of a broken women who tried to keep her last family members safe and away from the world . She vowed she would do everything in her power to prepare Harry. It was his destiny to face the evil. She knew this long ago, not from the prophecy that fraud spouted and she highly doubted if Voldemort was the dark lord anyways. He was just a small mind revenge bend individual who was a Slytherin to the core and had managed to manipulate the stupid purebloods into doing his own dirty work and essentially kill amongst themselves and any others he deemed a threat.

Her thoughts were back on Harry and his destiny as a memory began filling her mind, about what happened during the holidays before the 6th year. The Grangers always provided her with lot of freedom and she had used it to go into Diagon Alley to collect some book to prepare for the year. Since she knew it was less safe for her to walk around the place, she had disguised herself so well that, even the Order members in the Leaky didn't recognize her as she flooed in.

She went straight to Flourish and Blotts to first pick the books Harry had requested for. He had asked for book on Animagus transformations and occlumency. She searched the place from top to bottom and finally got frustrated and enquired with the store assistance, who informed her that the Chief Warlock had put a ban on the storing the books and since the owners were half-bloods and he himself was a muggleborn he could not take the risk. Hermione was shocked but had reasoned that since it was wartime Dumbledore wanted to ensure that such information was not easily accessible to Death Eaters. She made her other purchases and started to leave when she felt a shimmer in the air. She felt a draw toward the alley near Gringotts and decided to explore the area. As she walked the lane, her eyes feel on old storefront, the peeling board said Caudex.. Her mind supplied books, she thought it must a second-hand book store the Weasley's frequented. From her experience she knew that all second-hand stores would have a treasure trove in them if someone took time to sift through them. If she was lucky she might find something useful for Harry in the shop.

She quickly entered and looked around to see piles of tomes and other books stacked around everywhere. She began searching,while she was trying to reach a book she slipped, and hand steadied her. She was startled and turned around with her wand in her hand. She saw an old woman in front of her.

She held on to her wand when the woman began to speak, 'Hello Dearie, I was wondering when I would see you. What you look for is always here, but now is not the time. The freedom your kin of blood and heart yearns for is denied from his birth. The binds will only break when faces his fabricated foe. His true foe hides behind lies and manipulation and you are his savior while he would be the savior to Lady Magic. He will stand the test of time and be reborn, but his suffering and pain eradicated from his memory.'

Hermione knew who the woman was referring to, Harry, no he could not die. He was the savior while she was just a know it all, how could she be his savior. Where was Dumbledore in all this?

She replied, 'Who are you and why are you not informing all this to Dumbledore?'

The women laughed at her statement. She replied, 'Your brother is Magic's child but he must face the test of Destiny, to prove himself worthy, but our Lady Magic is nothing but kind and patient. He has faced every hurdle fate and destiny has thrown on him with grace and intelligent and he is truly the Magic's chosen one. Lady Magic feels his reward is his rebirth and the lives of his dear ones, to cut the cord of the puppeteer. Your loyalty will take you there before him. You will pave his way and be the power behind him. You will the family and his strongest ally.'

For the first time in life Hermione was rendered speechless. She opened her mouth to protest all this and to ask the lady to help her save Harry. He should not have to suffer more than he is already. As if reading her mind, the lady said 'my child, you shall remember all this when the time is right and then I want you to come here to my shop. I will give everything you need to help Magic's savior to reach his true potential for in this life he is crippled beyond repair.'

Then she was covered in mist and the next moment in her childhood bedroom at the Granger.

Just as the memory faded again, Hermione realized what the lady had informed her. She felt a clarity for all that had occurred. She had to speak her brother and friends. They needed to be in the loop. She hopped out of the comfortable bed and went to use the loo to freshen up. She looked around and was impressed by the bathroom. It was large with clean marble floors, with a granite countertop and dark wood cabinets. On the far side was a walk-in shower stand and opposite to it was a large bath. It was luxurious in one word and it overwhelmed her greatly. Her last proper bath was when Ron had left them in the tent and Harry had suggest transfiguring one of the pots and filling it with warm water. They had taken turns and it felt like luxury given their conditions.

She forced herself back to reality and walked into the shower area and took a shower. It felt amazing to have the hot water hit her. She lathered up the soap and cleaned herself. The smells of lavender filling her senses. Once she felt clean and fresh, she wrapped herself in a towel and wondered about clothes. She didn't want to wear her old ones. She stalked out of the bathroom and spied a wardrobe near the vanity table and decided to take chance. She hoped to get some clothes she could transfigure till she could purchase some. Well, she would have figure out about the money situation before that.

She opened the large hardwood doors to the wardrobe and was surprised to find some comfortable looking skirts, jeans and jumpers along with clean undergarments. She removed the towel and took a pair of jeans and white jumper and the undergarments and dressed herself.

When she checked the mirror, she felt good as the clothes fit her perfectly, though they were bit old fashion than what she was used to. Her hair had surprised her the most. She had the Potter black hair but bit more tamer. She must have taken after her mother, from what she saw in the portraits. She had waist length hair, she searched the vanity for a comb and something to tie it up. She found the comb and a length of ribbon. She arranged it in messy braid and tied it off with the ribbon. Some of the shorter hair in the front was lying loosely and framed her face.

Once she was satisfied with her looks. She slipped on her shoes and walked out of the room. She could make out where exactly she was, so she kept walking until she reached the staircase. She began her descend and just as she reached the foyer the front door opened, and she was bit startled and her wand in her hand.

Sirius had just arrived and used the front door to enter the manor. It was quiet, and he presumed everyone must be taking rest from the hectic day. Just as he stepped in the foyer, he saw Hermione standing one first step with her wand drawn. He must have startled her.

He smiled at her and playfully said, 'Apologizes my Lady. I didn't intent to startle you. I hope you are not planning to leave from here'

'Yup Definitely Sirius.' She thought. And she replied 'Oh no dear sir, I was just looking around. I hoping to know where my brother is.'

He snorted at her reply, when it dawned to her that she just flirted with her best friend's godfather. She felt her face heat up.

James hearing the noises had coming looking for the sources. He saw them both and said 'Padfoot leave her alone.'

Hermione turned to James and smiled and said, 'he is not bothering me, I was bit lost and was startled when the front door opened suddenly, war after effects, I guess.'

They both smiled at her and Sirius held out his hand, much to James' annoyance, which she took, and they walked toward the living room. Lily was on the floor playing Harry. He was giggling and clapping his hand seeing Lily build a tower using the blocks. Hermione felt her heart bursting in happiness, seeing Harry so happy. In the times he knew him, she had never seen him so happy or laugh without care. He was always guarded,never carefree. Maybe this was the reward the lady spoke about, his happiness. Harry now didn't have to suffer the loss of his parents and family. He didn't have to live with the Dursleys'. Sighing she continued to walk toward the play mat where they were. Harry turned around sensing them and got excited. He pulled himself up and started running or rather wobbling toward them. Sirius left her hand and kneeled and in a few second Harry crashed into his arms. Sirius lift him and was swinging around. The place was filled the happy cries of a toddler, who was flying around in Sirius's arms along with occasional cries of 'Pa foo'. Sitting down along with James and Lily, she could not help but remember the moments from when Sirius and Harry were together in Grimmauld Place. The hurt look in Sirius's eye whenever near Harry was obvious, while the fault was not with either of them, they were mutually hurt. Harry was a shy reversed and closed off person and Sirius was mentally disturbed from his stay in Azkaban and then his family home. He dwelt on his memories to stay sane. She always remembered his haunted looks when she went near him. She forced those thought down. It was all in her past. She was here now and had changed things. Harry and Sirius would never suffer. James and Lily would see their son grow up.

Things would be better now. She knew what she had to do.

Just as she was going to start talking the floo flared and Neville and Alice came out, followed by Frank and Augusta Longbottom.

James stood up and walk to the Longbottom, Sirius brought Harry down, who pouted, the boy loved the air even as child she mused. James and Sirius greet Frank and then kissed both the ladies' hands. They led the ladies to the couches and Lily joined them.

Neville joined Harry on the play mat and soon they were busy with the block. It was adorable to see the boy playing.

James settled down on the arm chair and Sirius sat near Frank. James called Libby to provide refreshments for everyone.

They tea and cakes were son delivered and everyone helped themselves. Once they were settled Augusta spoke, 'we need to make our moves quickly. From what Mia told us about things in the future, Dumbledore would have his plans ready and measures taken to implement them. While your rings compact most of the potions and mind-altering spell, we don't know what he would have planned.'

Hermione realized two things one that he had the elder wand with him and second that Snape would be under his command.

She said 'To neutralize Dumbledore we need to remove two things from the equation, one is Snape and second is his wand. It is very powerful. I can bet anything that most his powers are amplified using the wand. It is after all the Death Stick.'

Augusta gasped at the word. She could not believe it. She said 'Oh Merlin, that is why he guards his wand so much. No one gets to see it usually. That wand essentially is the deadliest weapon on the face of earth today.'

Hermione nodded and continued while taking in the confused expression other had, 'I understand you don't know what I am referring to.'

They nodded, and she smiled 'I am sure you are familiar with the story about the three brother and death, well the wand is essentially that death crafted for the eldest using the elder branch.'

Sirius was the first one to recover from the dumbfound expression, he started ' But… it's a just a folk story to keep children in bed.,'

'Yes.. that is what I felt too but the truth is all the legend as essentially based on an actual occurrence but modified to make it more exciting to read. My thought is they were extremely powerful wizards with extra ordinary creativity that resulted in the 3 items.'

James nodded and added, 'that makes more sense that the whole Death thing. Anyways, how do we get something like that from Dumbledore, you can't deny he is powerful, and I don't think any underhand techniques are the way to go.'

Frank seem in thought, 'from what little I understood from the stories the wand essentially has a history in blood and that would mean we need to defeat Dumbledore to rid him of the wand.'

Hermione said, 'While it is essentially factor, it is not the most important at this point. It is however highly important to remove Snape from the equation. I am sure we can bring to court and ensure a strong flushing potion, followed by 3 drops of Vertiaserum.'

Sirius barked out laughed and said 'Oh dear Godric, I love you ..please marry me..'

Hermione blushed furiously, and James whacked him on the head.

Frank smiled and continued but how do we get it into him, he is one master brewer and could smell a mile away.

Lily smirked at that and said, 'Leave that to me.. you guys have him arrested and I will ensure we have the flushing potion which not him or anyone can find. That bastard will be in Azkaban before the end of this week.'

James's face light up and said, ' Ohh I love you Lily flower… People never understand you are worse than me when vindicated.'

Lily smirked and patted James on the head.

Hermione enjoyed the scene in front of her while debated how to explain her memory to them.. Well she would enjoy this bliss for now. She preferred speaking to Lily, James and Sirius alone before revealing anything to the Longbottoms.

They continued discussing various matter about the future. Augusta emphasized on ensuring that the three houses establish themselves as neutral and provide a strong front for the other to rely on.

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