Changing Times

-by Zille

A/N: Hi! This chapter is kind of messy, but it is really important, so just *try* to keep track... :)

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Chapter 6 = The Art Of Forwarding Time Backwards

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"Good morning class. Please turn to page twenty-two. There you will find a chapter about Floggs. Yes, I know, they doesn't look like they belong in a book about the Dark Arts... But, see, Floggs aren't as sweet as they look. Many wizards hold them as pets, and Floggs are well known for their loyalty towards their owners. They are actually that loyal, that they will attack and kill the persons enemies if the owner wants it to," I say... blah, blah, blah. Something has to happen. We are getting closer and closer to the day Harry died... Uh, I mean will die. And I haven't told him yet. Luckily, no one suspects me, which, when I think about it, only makes it harder for me to bring it up. 'Why didn't you tell me before?' 'Why should I believe you?' he'll ask. Oh, this is confusing. Oh, but at least I think I have found a way to return... I found this spell where I can flip the hourglass, kind of like in a mirror, and then I can just turn it around as many times as I did when I was going back here. ...But I still need to rescue Harry.

"Miss? Nancy? HEY!"

"What...?" That is Ron. Oh, I completely forgot about the class. "I am sorry, I guess I just dazed off a minute there. What was I talking about again?"

"Floggs!" Ron says. How long has he been talking to me?

"Oh, right. The Floggs. Their loyalty can be very dangerous, if it they have the wrong owner... Some owners are actually turning the poor creatures into murderers. The creatures don't know better, they think it is a good life. Maybe we should start a Liberation Front-" I stop myself. No, no, no. Why??? Why did I have to do that...? Well, ok, the young Hermione looks happy. She probably thinks she has found someone like herself. How keen. Harry, on the other hand, looks slightly annoyed. Thank God, he doesn't know. He probably thinks the same as me, no, Hermione. Thank God. And then Ron- He looks at me. No, he *stares* at me. His mouth is hanging wide open. He can't know... No way... (A/N: hermioneharry4ever should cheer now.)

"Wi- wick- wi..." he starts. I have got to get him out of here! "You..."

"Ron! You and me, outside, right now!"

"What did he do???" Of course, Harry always sticks up for his friends.

"He... he knows a wizard with a Flogg. The Weasleys has always wanted a Flogger, right Ron...?"

"But they never had the money!" Malfoy!!!

"Sixty points from Slytherin. Outside Ron, NOW!" I pull Ron outside with me, as Malfoy looks annoyed.

"Wha... No... You can't be... There's no way..." he starts. Good, maybe I can still convince him it's nothing.

"Ron, what? Look, I don't know what you are talking about. I just happen to like Floggs, and."

"But the brown hair... the eyes... Ok, just answer me this: Are you Hermione?"

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"No. No, of course not. Ron, Hermione is inside. You saw her, she was sitting next to Harry...." God, I have to pull this back...

"But... but..." He looks at me, very closely. "Of course not. I am so silly," he says. I can't believe it! I tricked him!!!

"Yes Ron, you are. We better go back into class before Dra- Malfoy starts any trouble." I say. I can't believe my luck!

"Sure. Uh, just one more thing... House-Elves are meant to be slaves, they love it, and we are right to take advantage of them!"

"Shut up!!! House-Elves should be free; they have the right, and-" DAMN! He looks at me, with a gloating smile.

"WICKED!!! - Wow, Got you there, Herm! But... Why are you old? And why are you here? How did you get here??? I am so confused!" Tell me about it...

"Ron... Ron, promise you won't tell anything alright...?" I beg him. Harry should hear it from me, not from Ron. "No one can know."

"Sure... Oh, did you get here with the thing Hermione - you told Harry and me about two years ago...? The thing you and Harry used to save Sirius Black?"

"Yes," I answer. I don't really know how much I can tell him without changing everything. "I... I am here to... to..." Plink! Something dropped to the floor. Oh God, it's the hourglass... "Stop that!" I yell. Oh, thank God, Ron stopped it with his foot. He picks it up... Great Ron, now just hand it over...

"What is this? It looks like an hourglass... Does it work?" No. Please Ron, don't...

"Ron, don't flip it"!!!"

... Too late. He flipped it he Goddamn flipped it!!! We're going back in time...

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"Where are we?"

I look around. We are at Hogwarts. I wonder how far back we went. "We are at Hogwarts."

"Wh- what happened?" he asks.

"You turned the hourglass, you fool!"

"What? Fool? How should I know? One turns an hourglass, and whoops! Big flash!"

"We went back in time, you moron!!! What do you think I used to go back in time in the first place??? An old shoe? Seriously Ron..." I am being mean right now... it's not his fault. "Ron, I'm sorry."

"That's fine... Are we really back in time??? How far?"

"How many times did you flip the hourglass?"

"Uh... I don't know... it's not something you remember you know..." he says! God, I could just kill him!!! -But I won't, don't worry.

"That is ok. We can probably find out which year this is if we could just find a newspaper. Well, at least now I know how to get back to the future. Uh... Whatever. Just give me the hourglass and I'll do the spell- what's wrong Ron?" he suddenly looks at me.

"The hourglass? You don't have it?"

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I actually meant for this chapter that it was the younger Hermione who went back in time with the older Hermione... But that would just get a little too messy. :)

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