Hermione now sat in the less eccentric office of Headmaster
Dumbledore. He had considerabley less wrinkles and his eyes seemed to
twinkle brighter.
"So, you are our fallen angel?" Dumbledore smiled.
"Oh, hardly." Hermione laughed. "I'm Hermione Granger. I'm a seventh year." She smiled.
"Did you go the Beauxbatons? Durmstrang?"
"I go here." She said confused.
"Oh, I don't remember you. I've never done that!" He scoffed.
"Well, I may sound crazy, but I believe this, book, brought me here." Hermione held up the book. She accounted the actions of the day to the entranced book.
"May I see it?" Dumbledore indicated the book in question.
"Yes." Handing the book over, Dumbledore opened the book and his eyes widened.
"This is a very important book, Ms. Granger." he said sternly.
"I am aware of this. But can't it be used to bring out Death Eaters?" She whispered as if the walls could hear.
"Yes, but I would bide my time with this book Ms. Granger. For now, I would keep this book well hidden." He handed the book back to her. "But, you can head up to Gryffindor tower. Lily Evans should be up there and show you around. Your classes will be brought to you in the morning. Oh, yes, right, I'll need those!" Hermione laughed at his typical absentmindness. For the next hour, Hermione's schooling was straightened out.
"So you are the mystery child!" The pretty red haired girl stood at the entrance to Gryffindor Tower. "I'm Lily Evans." Sticking her arm out, she shook Hermione's hand.
"Hermione Granger." Keeping the secret of Lily's future son, she smiled at the traits Harry inheirited from the girl. "I'm to be your shadow and learn my way around."
"Great! You can meet the gang right off the bat and get four great friends!" She chirped. "Elderberries!" The Fat Lady swung forward to reveal a warm, fire lit common room that hadn't changed. "James! Come meet Hermione!" Lily called to the dark headed father of Harry. Four heads popped up from what is to be the Marauders Map.
"Hermione? Isn't that Greek?" The dusty brown haired one, Hermione recognized as Professor Lupin, asked.
"She looks English to me!" The dark headed one with shoulder length hair growled. Sirius.
"I don't think she enjoys being talked about to her face guys." James drawled, the blonde beside him nodded vigorously in agreement. Pettigrew. Hermione itched to choke the slimey little rat who was soon to get Sirius into Azkaban.
"Quite alright." Hermione murmured.
"I'm Remus." He stuck his hand out to receive hers. After shaking it, it was Sirius who grabbed it next.
"Sirius Black, nice to meet cha'!" He gave a cocky grin as if already planning her seduction. Hardly.
"James Potter." The quidditch captain shook hands with her and Hermione refrained from touching the watery eyed Pettigrew.
"I'm Peter." He stammered.
"Pleasure to meet you." hermione refrained from sneering.
"Gaul, you sound like ol Greasy Severus like that!" Sirius scoffed.
"Who?" Hermione played dumb. Knowing that soon Sirius would nearly get Severus killed.
"This guy who is obsessed with getting us into trouble. A good old brown noser to our Potions Mistress. Probably screwing the old hag!" Sirius gafawwed at his joke. Hermione did not. "He's unbelievabley tall, and can almost beat James on a broom. Good ol' rivals ya know." He smirked. "But no one can beat James on a broom. No one!"
"I have a friend who is very good on a broom as well. He was made seeker his first year." Hermione said. Not like she couldn't talk about her friends, she just wouldn't mention last names.
"You don't say." Remus smiled.
"Yep. And his best friend is top in her class and Head Girl as well." She smiled.
"Wow."
"And she's an animagi, like myself." The four men raised their eyebrows in amazement.
"Unlisenced?" Remus asked worried.
"Only the fun way." Hermione laughed. Sirius laughed and slapped her on the back.
"I think she may fit in!"
"What is your transformation?" James asked ignoring his friend.
"A snake." She murmured. All four reared back.
"You actually turned into one? I thought it was mainly Slytherins who turned into them." Peter stammered.
"Yes. I haven't biased them. I have a Slytherin friend who had a father who was very evil and was one to kill him." She smirked.
"Well, Sanpe is not one of the better ones let me tell you." Sirius scoffed.
"He's the one who brought me in, and if you don't mind I have to clean up. I feel wretched." Standing, she made her way up the stairs and into the female dormitories.
The next morning at breakfast, she transfigured her pumpkin juice into coffee and ate the quiche that sat infront of her. She felt the same feeling when Professor Snape looked at her. Looking to the staff table first, she didn't see Prfessor Snape and then remembered, he's now a student. Turning, she looked across the Great Hall and into the eyes of Severus Snaoe as a hot blooded teenager. He wasn't the sinister looking man he is in the future. In fact he was quite attractive. His skin was the color of milk with highly contrasting black hair that fell to his shoulders with no wave or curl. His nose was the most familiar part and his cobra like gaze. His eyebrows were sculpted unlike the ogres sitting around him who have yet to find a pair of tweezers. His lips were a fleshier color than the rest of his face and were thin yet full looking. He wore typical school robes with a green turtle neck. His hands were still elegant for a man and looked like the hands of a pianist. He rose an eyebrow when he noticed she was staring.
"You see what an ugly git, Snape is now?" Sirius hissed as he glared at the future Potions master.
"Actually, I think he's quite handsome." Hermione smirked when Sirius' jaw dropped.
"You don't mean it!" Remus gasped.
"I do. I owe him alot. If he hadn't rescued me yesterday, I might not have been here today." She was unable to finish due to the arrival of the owl post. A snow white owl landed in front of Hermione leaving a parchment. Giving the bird a treat, she opened the letter.
Miss. Granger,
Your classes are as follows. (In order mind you.) Herbology with Ravenclaws Double Potions with Slytherins Advanced Muggle Studies Arithmacy DADA with Hufflepuffs Transfiguration with Ravenclaws Care of Magical Creatures with Slytherins History of Magic with Hufflepuffs
Further questions can be written to me. Have a nice day and stop by whenever you need to talk!
Albus Dumbledore
Hermione smiled at the affection she now had for the Headmaster. This was her new mentor for this age. Lily was tapping her shoulder. Looking up, Lily smiled.
"Classes will star soon, we don't want to be late!" Hermione nodded and headed out with her only to be stopped by a younger Professor McGonnagal.
"Miss. Granger? I was brought to attention that you require a new clothing line, along with the circumstances surrounding it. You will have to miss your first class, but I know you can make it up." Beckoning Hermione, the two headed off for Hogsmeade.
Hermione returned by Potions, only to be paired with Severus as a partner. She turned to him as he sat stiffly beside her.
"I'm Hermione Granger, I can't help but thank you for what you did yesterday." She smiled.
"Your welcome, but I woudl listen. You've missed enough as it is and there are potions to be made, Hermione." He smirked.
"Oh, alright. But I just wanted to know if I could do something. As, a thank you of sorts." She smiled.
"I'll bring that up in a minute. I have to retrieve our ingrediants." Severus went to get up. "By the way, I'm Severus Snape. I bet you've already heard worse from your housemate Sirius Black, but I do bathe. Daily in fact. And I do not drink blood, there are too many diseases floating within one's blood." Hermione laughed at his dry humor.
"Thank you, Severus."
The two worked on their potion and was recognized by the teacher when they finished in record timing with top mark results.
"You two are to stay as a team. I enjoy having atleast one potion work. Mr. Longbottom couldn't brew one if it was merely putting salt into water." Their haggard teacher ran a hand down her face. Letting the students relax, she went to criticize the other potions.
"So, you were going to address my thank you to you?" Hermione turned to a shocked Severus.
"Oh! Yes, well. There has been speculation within my house on my, sexual preference. I'm not homosexual, but I have merely not found anyone of the correct calliber. But today has confirmed what I suspected from your fingers. You are a brilliant potions student. As my thank you, I would like to ask you to portray as my girlfriend." He stated as if it were a mathmatical equation.
"Portray? Why don't you come out an ask me out?" Hermione scoffed.
"Fine. Hermione Granger would you be my girlfriend?" He growled.
"Good, nice to see you have balls. Yes I would." She smirked when Severus blanched at her vulgar wording.
"Good. What call do you have next?" Severus asked.
"Advanced Muggle studies. Why?" She asked.
"I'll escourt you, I have History of Mgic which is down the hall from that." He smiled crookedly. "If you'll let me of course."
"Indeed I would." Prfessor Hartress asked that the partners would bottle their potions and store them. Hermione went and retrieved several flasks to store the potion when Sirius came up behind her.
"Hey, Hermione. Want to go out with me? I would love to get ol' Vampie over their ruffled." Sirius laughed.
"Too late Sirius, I already am dating ol' Vampie." Patting his stubbled cheek, Hermione laughed at Sirius' dropped jaw.
"You've only been here a day!" He yelled across the classroom.
"Mr. Black there will be no yelling in my classroom. Ten from Gryffindor!" Sirius grumbled and glared at smirking Severus who was using a ladle to fill the flasks.
"I take it you told Black over there?" Severus drawled as Hermione pushed a stopper into her flask and labled it.
"Yep. In fact, he tried to ask me out just to annoy you!" She laughed. Severus shook his head and pushed the stopper into his own bottle. Using a quill, he labled the bottle and picked up the now empty cauldren.
"Help me clean?" He cocked his head toward the sinks where several other pairs were cleaning. One of them being Lucius Malfoy and Jack McNair.
"Severus! Are you going to join me this winter holiday?" Lucius said with heavy double meaning.
"I do not know." Severus' tone went ice cold as he scrubbed furiously at the pewter interior.
"Someone would be highly dissapointed if you didn't." Lucius teased. Severus remained silent, his knuckles had turned a bloodles white as he gripped the scrub brush in fury.
"Ah, and you must be Lucius Malfoy. I don't believe I've had the displeasure of meeting you yet." Hermione said with obvious sarcasm.
"And you are?" Lucius sneered at the smaller girl. Hermione was only 5'9" but bot Severus and Lucius stood near 6'4".
"Hermione Granger. Gryffindor." She hissed.
"Ah, a little lionees sticking her nose where ti does not belong." Lucius drawled. Pulling the same stint his son had pulled for 6 years.
"Hardly when your harrassing my boyfriend." She growled.
"Oh, Severus. Tell me this little scamp does not belong to you. She has no breeding. A pureblood would not dare insult a Malfoy." He sneered at Hermione more than Severus.
"Well any well respected human would not follow someone as blind as to become a lemming. I hear they're terribley stupid and they are only good for being pushed around. I even hear that they can't even get a girl going." Hermione smirked. Lucius' face was mottled in fury. He rose his hand to slap Hermione. As his hand descended, it was caught by Severus who was close behind her.
"Refrain from touching my girlfriend. She has several good points. But she tends to not know when to keep her mouth shut." Releasing Lucius' hand, Severus jerked the angry Hermione by the arm and led her back to the table. "You nearly got yourself killed"! he hissed. "And how the hell did you know that he belongs in the ranks?"
"Meet me at the library tonight after dinner and I'll tell you. I know what eh was hinting at about you. I don't think you should go." Hermione said. "If no one supports you, I would." She smiled. The bell toned and the class flooded into the hallway.
"Thank you." Clasping her hand in his own, he tugged her toward their next class.
"So, you are our fallen angel?" Dumbledore smiled.
"Oh, hardly." Hermione laughed. "I'm Hermione Granger. I'm a seventh year." She smiled.
"Did you go the Beauxbatons? Durmstrang?"
"I go here." She said confused.
"Oh, I don't remember you. I've never done that!" He scoffed.
"Well, I may sound crazy, but I believe this, book, brought me here." Hermione held up the book. She accounted the actions of the day to the entranced book.
"May I see it?" Dumbledore indicated the book in question.
"Yes." Handing the book over, Dumbledore opened the book and his eyes widened.
"This is a very important book, Ms. Granger." he said sternly.
"I am aware of this. But can't it be used to bring out Death Eaters?" She whispered as if the walls could hear.
"Yes, but I would bide my time with this book Ms. Granger. For now, I would keep this book well hidden." He handed the book back to her. "But, you can head up to Gryffindor tower. Lily Evans should be up there and show you around. Your classes will be brought to you in the morning. Oh, yes, right, I'll need those!" Hermione laughed at his typical absentmindness. For the next hour, Hermione's schooling was straightened out.
"So you are the mystery child!" The pretty red haired girl stood at the entrance to Gryffindor Tower. "I'm Lily Evans." Sticking her arm out, she shook Hermione's hand.
"Hermione Granger." Keeping the secret of Lily's future son, she smiled at the traits Harry inheirited from the girl. "I'm to be your shadow and learn my way around."
"Great! You can meet the gang right off the bat and get four great friends!" She chirped. "Elderberries!" The Fat Lady swung forward to reveal a warm, fire lit common room that hadn't changed. "James! Come meet Hermione!" Lily called to the dark headed father of Harry. Four heads popped up from what is to be the Marauders Map.
"Hermione? Isn't that Greek?" The dusty brown haired one, Hermione recognized as Professor Lupin, asked.
"She looks English to me!" The dark headed one with shoulder length hair growled. Sirius.
"I don't think she enjoys being talked about to her face guys." James drawled, the blonde beside him nodded vigorously in agreement. Pettigrew. Hermione itched to choke the slimey little rat who was soon to get Sirius into Azkaban.
"Quite alright." Hermione murmured.
"I'm Remus." He stuck his hand out to receive hers. After shaking it, it was Sirius who grabbed it next.
"Sirius Black, nice to meet cha'!" He gave a cocky grin as if already planning her seduction. Hardly.
"James Potter." The quidditch captain shook hands with her and Hermione refrained from touching the watery eyed Pettigrew.
"I'm Peter." He stammered.
"Pleasure to meet you." hermione refrained from sneering.
"Gaul, you sound like ol Greasy Severus like that!" Sirius scoffed.
"Who?" Hermione played dumb. Knowing that soon Sirius would nearly get Severus killed.
"This guy who is obsessed with getting us into trouble. A good old brown noser to our Potions Mistress. Probably screwing the old hag!" Sirius gafawwed at his joke. Hermione did not. "He's unbelievabley tall, and can almost beat James on a broom. Good ol' rivals ya know." He smirked. "But no one can beat James on a broom. No one!"
"I have a friend who is very good on a broom as well. He was made seeker his first year." Hermione said. Not like she couldn't talk about her friends, she just wouldn't mention last names.
"You don't say." Remus smiled.
"Yep. And his best friend is top in her class and Head Girl as well." She smiled.
"Wow."
"And she's an animagi, like myself." The four men raised their eyebrows in amazement.
"Unlisenced?" Remus asked worried.
"Only the fun way." Hermione laughed. Sirius laughed and slapped her on the back.
"I think she may fit in!"
"What is your transformation?" James asked ignoring his friend.
"A snake." She murmured. All four reared back.
"You actually turned into one? I thought it was mainly Slytherins who turned into them." Peter stammered.
"Yes. I haven't biased them. I have a Slytherin friend who had a father who was very evil and was one to kill him." She smirked.
"Well, Sanpe is not one of the better ones let me tell you." Sirius scoffed.
"He's the one who brought me in, and if you don't mind I have to clean up. I feel wretched." Standing, she made her way up the stairs and into the female dormitories.
The next morning at breakfast, she transfigured her pumpkin juice into coffee and ate the quiche that sat infront of her. She felt the same feeling when Professor Snape looked at her. Looking to the staff table first, she didn't see Prfessor Snape and then remembered, he's now a student. Turning, she looked across the Great Hall and into the eyes of Severus Snaoe as a hot blooded teenager. He wasn't the sinister looking man he is in the future. In fact he was quite attractive. His skin was the color of milk with highly contrasting black hair that fell to his shoulders with no wave or curl. His nose was the most familiar part and his cobra like gaze. His eyebrows were sculpted unlike the ogres sitting around him who have yet to find a pair of tweezers. His lips were a fleshier color than the rest of his face and were thin yet full looking. He wore typical school robes with a green turtle neck. His hands were still elegant for a man and looked like the hands of a pianist. He rose an eyebrow when he noticed she was staring.
"You see what an ugly git, Snape is now?" Sirius hissed as he glared at the future Potions master.
"Actually, I think he's quite handsome." Hermione smirked when Sirius' jaw dropped.
"You don't mean it!" Remus gasped.
"I do. I owe him alot. If he hadn't rescued me yesterday, I might not have been here today." She was unable to finish due to the arrival of the owl post. A snow white owl landed in front of Hermione leaving a parchment. Giving the bird a treat, she opened the letter.
Miss. Granger,
Your classes are as follows. (In order mind you.) Herbology with Ravenclaws Double Potions with Slytherins Advanced Muggle Studies Arithmacy DADA with Hufflepuffs Transfiguration with Ravenclaws Care of Magical Creatures with Slytherins History of Magic with Hufflepuffs
Further questions can be written to me. Have a nice day and stop by whenever you need to talk!
Albus Dumbledore
Hermione smiled at the affection she now had for the Headmaster. This was her new mentor for this age. Lily was tapping her shoulder. Looking up, Lily smiled.
"Classes will star soon, we don't want to be late!" Hermione nodded and headed out with her only to be stopped by a younger Professor McGonnagal.
"Miss. Granger? I was brought to attention that you require a new clothing line, along with the circumstances surrounding it. You will have to miss your first class, but I know you can make it up." Beckoning Hermione, the two headed off for Hogsmeade.
Hermione returned by Potions, only to be paired with Severus as a partner. She turned to him as he sat stiffly beside her.
"I'm Hermione Granger, I can't help but thank you for what you did yesterday." She smiled.
"Your welcome, but I woudl listen. You've missed enough as it is and there are potions to be made, Hermione." He smirked.
"Oh, alright. But I just wanted to know if I could do something. As, a thank you of sorts." She smiled.
"I'll bring that up in a minute. I have to retrieve our ingrediants." Severus went to get up. "By the way, I'm Severus Snape. I bet you've already heard worse from your housemate Sirius Black, but I do bathe. Daily in fact. And I do not drink blood, there are too many diseases floating within one's blood." Hermione laughed at his dry humor.
"Thank you, Severus."
The two worked on their potion and was recognized by the teacher when they finished in record timing with top mark results.
"You two are to stay as a team. I enjoy having atleast one potion work. Mr. Longbottom couldn't brew one if it was merely putting salt into water." Their haggard teacher ran a hand down her face. Letting the students relax, she went to criticize the other potions.
"So, you were going to address my thank you to you?" Hermione turned to a shocked Severus.
"Oh! Yes, well. There has been speculation within my house on my, sexual preference. I'm not homosexual, but I have merely not found anyone of the correct calliber. But today has confirmed what I suspected from your fingers. You are a brilliant potions student. As my thank you, I would like to ask you to portray as my girlfriend." He stated as if it were a mathmatical equation.
"Portray? Why don't you come out an ask me out?" Hermione scoffed.
"Fine. Hermione Granger would you be my girlfriend?" He growled.
"Good, nice to see you have balls. Yes I would." She smirked when Severus blanched at her vulgar wording.
"Good. What call do you have next?" Severus asked.
"Advanced Muggle studies. Why?" She asked.
"I'll escourt you, I have History of Mgic which is down the hall from that." He smiled crookedly. "If you'll let me of course."
"Indeed I would." Prfessor Hartress asked that the partners would bottle their potions and store them. Hermione went and retrieved several flasks to store the potion when Sirius came up behind her.
"Hey, Hermione. Want to go out with me? I would love to get ol' Vampie over their ruffled." Sirius laughed.
"Too late Sirius, I already am dating ol' Vampie." Patting his stubbled cheek, Hermione laughed at Sirius' dropped jaw.
"You've only been here a day!" He yelled across the classroom.
"Mr. Black there will be no yelling in my classroom. Ten from Gryffindor!" Sirius grumbled and glared at smirking Severus who was using a ladle to fill the flasks.
"I take it you told Black over there?" Severus drawled as Hermione pushed a stopper into her flask and labled it.
"Yep. In fact, he tried to ask me out just to annoy you!" She laughed. Severus shook his head and pushed the stopper into his own bottle. Using a quill, he labled the bottle and picked up the now empty cauldren.
"Help me clean?" He cocked his head toward the sinks where several other pairs were cleaning. One of them being Lucius Malfoy and Jack McNair.
"Severus! Are you going to join me this winter holiday?" Lucius said with heavy double meaning.
"I do not know." Severus' tone went ice cold as he scrubbed furiously at the pewter interior.
"Someone would be highly dissapointed if you didn't." Lucius teased. Severus remained silent, his knuckles had turned a bloodles white as he gripped the scrub brush in fury.
"Ah, and you must be Lucius Malfoy. I don't believe I've had the displeasure of meeting you yet." Hermione said with obvious sarcasm.
"And you are?" Lucius sneered at the smaller girl. Hermione was only 5'9" but bot Severus and Lucius stood near 6'4".
"Hermione Granger. Gryffindor." She hissed.
"Ah, a little lionees sticking her nose where ti does not belong." Lucius drawled. Pulling the same stint his son had pulled for 6 years.
"Hardly when your harrassing my boyfriend." She growled.
"Oh, Severus. Tell me this little scamp does not belong to you. She has no breeding. A pureblood would not dare insult a Malfoy." He sneered at Hermione more than Severus.
"Well any well respected human would not follow someone as blind as to become a lemming. I hear they're terribley stupid and they are only good for being pushed around. I even hear that they can't even get a girl going." Hermione smirked. Lucius' face was mottled in fury. He rose his hand to slap Hermione. As his hand descended, it was caught by Severus who was close behind her.
"Refrain from touching my girlfriend. She has several good points. But she tends to not know when to keep her mouth shut." Releasing Lucius' hand, Severus jerked the angry Hermione by the arm and led her back to the table. "You nearly got yourself killed"! he hissed. "And how the hell did you know that he belongs in the ranks?"
"Meet me at the library tonight after dinner and I'll tell you. I know what eh was hinting at about you. I don't think you should go." Hermione said. "If no one supports you, I would." She smiled. The bell toned and the class flooded into the hallway.
"Thank you." Clasping her hand in his own, he tugged her toward their next class.