A/N: Sorry it took me so long to get the second chapter up, but like I
said, I'm bad at that. R&R please!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters. They belong to
J.K.Rowling.
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Slowly Hermione looked all around her, completely unsure of what to do next. Everyone was looking at her as though she might try to kill them, all of them people she didn't know, had never seen before.
She looked up at the teacher's table. There were some people she did know! There was Dumbledore and McGonagall and Hagrid. But they were different. They were several years younger. Dumbledore looked about the same, the same long white hair, and the same long beard. But the others looked rather different. McGonagall didn't look quite as stern and had less wrinkles and less gray hair. It was actually long and black. Hermione didn't remember ever having seen her before with her hair down. She looked a bit more attractive now than she did in Hermione's time when age caught up to her. Hagrid looked like he might have less hair now too. She couldn't quite put her finger on what exactly was different, just younger.
She thought about going up there and talking to Dumbledore about what had happened. He would have understood and could probably help her. But the look on his face, the look of utmost shock and horror, it wasn't very inviting. What would he do if she suddenly started walking towards him? Would he attack her? For the first time in her life, she was scared of Dumbledore.
She didn't know what else she could do. She quickly turned around and ran out as fast as she could. She heard the rising volume of talking and gasping and even screams as she went through the big doors to the entrance. This made her run harder. She didn't really know where she was going. She knew she had to hide until things settled down a bit and so she could think of what to do next. But where could she possibly hide that Dumbledore or Filch, if he was even here, couldn't find her?
Then it hit her. The secret passage that Harry used to get to Hogsmeade! Apparently none of the teachers knew about it or Harry would have been caught, or it would have been boarded up because of Sirius Black. At least she hoped so.
Quickly she ran to the stairs and ran up to the third floor. For once on this adventure, she was glad everyone had been in the Great Hall as no one saw her go up there. She raced to the humpbacked one-eyed witch statue. She took out her wand, which she luckily still had with her, tapped the statue. "Dissendium" she said softly, in case anyone really was up there with her.
She statue's hump opened and she hoisted herself up into the hump and pushed herself forward. She went down the slide to the ground. She muttered "Lumos" and recognized the passageway. She had no intention of actually going to Hogsmeade, just to stay in the passageway for a while until she could think of what to do next.
She sat down a little bit away from the statue behind a pretty large rock and tried to think. Perhaps after a while when people had calmed down just a little bit, she could sneak to Dumbledore's office and explain her problem to him there. There was a lot of risk involved in it, but currently it seemed her only option.
She had stayed down there for an hour still thinking when she heard a noise coming from above her. She realized what it was with a jolt, it was the statue being opened! She hid herself even lower behind the rock hoping against hope that whoever it was wouldn't see her.
Now she heard voices. She couldn't figure out who it was from there, but the voices got louder as they got closer and she realized the person who was talking sounded startlingly like Harry!
"Now really Remus, what's the point in coming down here? No body knows about this passage but us, how in the world is some girl who appeared out of nowhere going to know it's here?"
"James, they've looked everywhere else. There is a chance that she's here, even if it's slight." The boy named Remus said. He also sounded amazingly like Professor Lupin.
With horror and amazement, Hermione realized that the people who were speaking really was Harry's father James! And apparently he had been a better friend with Professor Lupin than he had told them. Apparently they knew about this passage too. She didn't know what on earth she was going to do, but she knew that her stupid rock wasn't going to hide her for very much longer and they were coming closer and closer.
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Yay! I finished! I actually had to rewrite a little bit of it because her original hiding place was the Whomping Willow and I realized a little late that Hermione didn't know about the Whomping Willow entrance until later in her third year. Oh well. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE review! *bambi eyes* Anyway, stay tuned for the next chapter!
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Slowly Hermione looked all around her, completely unsure of what to do next. Everyone was looking at her as though she might try to kill them, all of them people she didn't know, had never seen before.
She looked up at the teacher's table. There were some people she did know! There was Dumbledore and McGonagall and Hagrid. But they were different. They were several years younger. Dumbledore looked about the same, the same long white hair, and the same long beard. But the others looked rather different. McGonagall didn't look quite as stern and had less wrinkles and less gray hair. It was actually long and black. Hermione didn't remember ever having seen her before with her hair down. She looked a bit more attractive now than she did in Hermione's time when age caught up to her. Hagrid looked like he might have less hair now too. She couldn't quite put her finger on what exactly was different, just younger.
She thought about going up there and talking to Dumbledore about what had happened. He would have understood and could probably help her. But the look on his face, the look of utmost shock and horror, it wasn't very inviting. What would he do if she suddenly started walking towards him? Would he attack her? For the first time in her life, she was scared of Dumbledore.
She didn't know what else she could do. She quickly turned around and ran out as fast as she could. She heard the rising volume of talking and gasping and even screams as she went through the big doors to the entrance. This made her run harder. She didn't really know where she was going. She knew she had to hide until things settled down a bit and so she could think of what to do next. But where could she possibly hide that Dumbledore or Filch, if he was even here, couldn't find her?
Then it hit her. The secret passage that Harry used to get to Hogsmeade! Apparently none of the teachers knew about it or Harry would have been caught, or it would have been boarded up because of Sirius Black. At least she hoped so.
Quickly she ran to the stairs and ran up to the third floor. For once on this adventure, she was glad everyone had been in the Great Hall as no one saw her go up there. She raced to the humpbacked one-eyed witch statue. She took out her wand, which she luckily still had with her, tapped the statue. "Dissendium" she said softly, in case anyone really was up there with her.
She statue's hump opened and she hoisted herself up into the hump and pushed herself forward. She went down the slide to the ground. She muttered "Lumos" and recognized the passageway. She had no intention of actually going to Hogsmeade, just to stay in the passageway for a while until she could think of what to do next.
She sat down a little bit away from the statue behind a pretty large rock and tried to think. Perhaps after a while when people had calmed down just a little bit, she could sneak to Dumbledore's office and explain her problem to him there. There was a lot of risk involved in it, but currently it seemed her only option.
She had stayed down there for an hour still thinking when she heard a noise coming from above her. She realized what it was with a jolt, it was the statue being opened! She hid herself even lower behind the rock hoping against hope that whoever it was wouldn't see her.
Now she heard voices. She couldn't figure out who it was from there, but the voices got louder as they got closer and she realized the person who was talking sounded startlingly like Harry!
"Now really Remus, what's the point in coming down here? No body knows about this passage but us, how in the world is some girl who appeared out of nowhere going to know it's here?"
"James, they've looked everywhere else. There is a chance that she's here, even if it's slight." The boy named Remus said. He also sounded amazingly like Professor Lupin.
With horror and amazement, Hermione realized that the people who were speaking really was Harry's father James! And apparently he had been a better friend with Professor Lupin than he had told them. Apparently they knew about this passage too. She didn't know what on earth she was going to do, but she knew that her stupid rock wasn't going to hide her for very much longer and they were coming closer and closer.
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Yay! I finished! I actually had to rewrite a little bit of it because her original hiding place was the Whomping Willow and I realized a little late that Hermione didn't know about the Whomping Willow entrance until later in her third year. Oh well. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE review! *bambi eyes* Anyway, stay tuned for the next chapter!