A/N: Hey everyone thanks for being so patient (well most of you). Sorry
I've taken so long to update but I've been busy with school and choosing my
subjects for next year, as everything that I chose next year will affect my
whole career [fun fun]. Thanks so much to all my lovely reviewers I
appreciate you taking the time to write me lovely reviews. I'd just like to
say 'HEY GORGEOUS!!' to Flounder and 'I am FINALLY updating!' to all you
impatient peoples who were just devastated when you came to the end of
chapter one and got a message about an update only to find it was just an
authors note. So anyway, enough blabbering and excuses here's chapter two.
Disclaimer: See chapter one.
CHAPTER TWO:
Hermione landed with a thump at the bottom of the stairs leading to Hogwarts front door. She quickly hopped up and glanced around at her surroundings. She noted that Hogwarts looked exactly the same as ever and this settled her stomach a little, knowing that she was in a familiar place.
She silently made her way up the stairs, not knowing what to expect.
As she reached the entrance, the giant doors swung open on their own accord. Hesitantly, Hermione stepped inside. The entrance hall looked deserted but as she walked she heard a great deal of chatter coming from what could only be the Great Hall. As she made her way towards the open doors of the Hall she spotted a familiar face, which made her smile. It was McGonagall.
'Hermione Granger, I presume?' She asked kindly.
Hermione nodded. 'Yes Professor, I'm Hermione.'
McGonagall smiled sweetly at her. 'Follow me dear. You're just in time for the sorting.'
Hermione walked along side McGonagall as she led her down the aisle between the Gryfindor and Ravenclaw tables. McGonagall motioned for her to join the end of the Gryfindor table before carrying on towards the front to direct the sorting of the first years. Hermione supposed Dumbledore had seen to it that she remained in Gryfindor.
Watching the little first years brought back memories of her own sorting. She was thrilled when the hat had screamed out, 'GRYFINDOR!' as she had hoped to get into that house. Albus Dumbledore himself had been a Gryfindor.
Hermione was pulled out of her thoughts by a soft nudge on her arm. She whipped around to see who had touch her and was surprised to see a younger, happier Sirius Black smiling down at her.
'Siri.I mean.ummm, hello.' She finished awkwardly. Hermione had nearly bursted out Sirius' name would certainly arouse suspicion.
'Hello there.' He replied, ignoring her last comment. 'You must be new. I'm Sirius Black and this..' Indicating to his left, '..is Remus Lupin, and this is James Potter. Oh, and this here is Peter Pettigrew.' He finished, pointing to a short little boy across the table from them.
'Uh, hey. Nice to meet you all.' Hermione was a little shocked at meeting the younger version of all these guys and especially meeting James, as in her time he was...well, dead. It was unbelievable how much James looked like Harry. Except for his eyes, James' eyes were a deep chocolate brown.
'What's your name?' Remus asked gently.
'I'm Hermione Granger. I'm in my sixth year.'
'Wicked, we're in sixth year too.' Replied James. 'So where did ya come from?'
'Oh, I've just transferred from a smaller school in Wales.'
'Hmmm, well I'm sure you'll love it here.' finished Sirius with a wide grin.
Hermione couldn't believe how nice the four were. She was good friends with Sirius and Remus in her time but this was just different somehow. She felt she was meeting them for the very first time. She felt a wave of hatred for little Peter though. She knew he turned out to be a betrayer to the other three but Dumbledore had warned her about not letting the other three boys in on this, because if she did she would be changing far to much and might risk helping Voldemort rise again.
After a few start of term notices and warnings, Dumbledore said a few nonsense words before sitting down to tuck into the food that had just appeared. As he reached for a bread roll, Dumbledore caught Hermione's eye and gave her a smile full of pure happiness. Hermione also noticed that his usual twinkle was present again and it was brighter than ever. Smiling to herself she tucked into a wonderful feast.
Noticing her smiling to herself, Sirius decided he liked Hermione. She wasn't exactly the most gorgeous girl in the world but who cares?!
'Sooo..Hermione, why did you decide to move here?' Sirius questioned the girl.
'Well, I felt that it would be helpful to move to a larger school with more classes for career purposes.'
'Oh, cool. So what is it that you want to do when you get out of school?' Sirius replied.
'I'm not entirely sure yet but I was thinking it would be fun to do something about potions or...'
'Sorry to interrupt put I think you may want to reconsider that suggestion. I'm sure you'll understand why once you've met our potions teacher.' Remus butted in.
'What do you mean? Why?'
'Well let's just say that Professor Snape has that affect on people.' Remus finished with a voice full of hatred.
'Professor Snape? But isn't no wait..I'm confused.' Hermione replied honestly. Hermione was sure that Dumbledore had sent her to the right year, and if so Snape couldn't be a potions teacher yet. He was still in school.
'What's so confusing?' Asked James, through a mouthful of potato.
'It's just that, oh don't worry.'
Hermione remained quiet throughout the rest of the meal, pondering the information she had just received. To say she was confused was just an understatement; Hermione started looking at all the possible answers, but with doing so just got herself more worked up. She decided it was best if she just waited calmly until her first potions lesson to find out. And with that in mind she started making her way up towards the Gryfindor tower.
'HEY HERMIONE!!! WAIT UP!' Sirius called, just as she reached the top of the staircase.
'WHAT D'YA WANT?!' was Hermione's reply.
'DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA AT ALL WHERE YOU'RE GOING?!' Sirius started walking up the staircase.
Hermione inwardly cursed herself at not realizing what she was doing. Of course she wasn't suppose to know where the entrance to the Gryfindor common room was yet.
'NO ACTUALLY I DON'T!' Hermione lied.
'WELL THEN..'
'HERMIONE!!!' interrupted Remus, strolling towards the bottom of the stairs. 'HEY HERMIONE. HEY SIRIUS. HEY REMUS.' Shouted James as he reached Remus.
'HEY BUDDY I'M JUST STANDING HERE NO NEED TO YELL!' Remus shouted back to James.
'WHY ARE YOU YELLING THEN?!' James argued.
'HEY GUYS, SHUT-UP! LET'S GET GOING TO THE COMMON ROOM.' Sirius butted in, before the two started a full on fistfight. Besides, the group was starting to attract attention with all the noise. People were actually stopping to watch them have their very loud conversation with one of them at the top of the staircase, one half way up and two yelling at each other at the bottom.
'YEH, I THINK..' Hermione started.
'I THINK THAT IS AN EXCELLENT SUGGESTION MR.BLACK.' Chimed in a new voice.
'PROFESSOR..' yelled James, now use to yelling at people who were only 2 metres away from him, 'I mean Professor. Sorry about that.'
'Yes I'm sure you are.' Said Professor McGonagall, rubbing her now sore ears. 'Anyway, I suggest you all make you way to your dorms and get some sleep. Maybe next time you can carry on your conversation when you are at least within 3 metres of each other and in not such a public place. Oh, and please keep your voices down.' She finished looking pointedly at James.
'Yes Professor.' The four replied in unison. As McGonagall walked off, the entrance hall was cleared of the six years audience.
The boys quickly made their way up to the top of the stairs to join Hermione. Sirius shot Hermione a big grin, which she returned. It seemed he wasn't at all embarrassed about what had just happened. In fact he looked as if it happened everyday, which Hermione reminded herself, it probably did.
'So Mr. Black. Would you care to show me the way to my dorm?' Hermione asked ever so politely.
'Why of course madam.' He replied, sticking his arm for her to hold onto. As they started walking Remus caught up to them and hooked his arm around Hermione's free one. James soon got into it by hopping in front of them and attempting to half skip, half bounce backwards so he could talk facing them. To say he fell over only a couple of times would be lying, I'd say it was closer to 10 or so.
By the time they crawled into the common room, holding their sore stomachs from too much laughing, the Gryfindor common room was deserted. Remus directed Hermione to the girl's dorm, as he couldn't actually get up there himself because the staircase had a nasty habit of not letting anything of the male species up. After a bit of planning of where and when to meet tomorrow and a lot of hugs they all set off for bed.
When Hermione reached her dorm she was glad to see that it hadn't changed a bit from her time, apart from the different people in the beds. Her three roommates were all asleep so Hermione thought it might be best to wait for introductions in the morning. She quietly got ready for bed and hopped into the warm, cozy four-poster bed. As soon as her head hit the pillow she was asleep. Stripped of all worry, Hermione dreamed of pleasant fantasies though out the cool night.
A/N: So my happy readers, what do we think? I'd love it if you put your little comments in a review and hopefully use your constrictive criticism in improving my story. Anyways, goody byes all, until chapter three.
Disclaimer: See chapter one.
CHAPTER TWO:
Hermione landed with a thump at the bottom of the stairs leading to Hogwarts front door. She quickly hopped up and glanced around at her surroundings. She noted that Hogwarts looked exactly the same as ever and this settled her stomach a little, knowing that she was in a familiar place.
She silently made her way up the stairs, not knowing what to expect.
As she reached the entrance, the giant doors swung open on their own accord. Hesitantly, Hermione stepped inside. The entrance hall looked deserted but as she walked she heard a great deal of chatter coming from what could only be the Great Hall. As she made her way towards the open doors of the Hall she spotted a familiar face, which made her smile. It was McGonagall.
'Hermione Granger, I presume?' She asked kindly.
Hermione nodded. 'Yes Professor, I'm Hermione.'
McGonagall smiled sweetly at her. 'Follow me dear. You're just in time for the sorting.'
Hermione walked along side McGonagall as she led her down the aisle between the Gryfindor and Ravenclaw tables. McGonagall motioned for her to join the end of the Gryfindor table before carrying on towards the front to direct the sorting of the first years. Hermione supposed Dumbledore had seen to it that she remained in Gryfindor.
Watching the little first years brought back memories of her own sorting. She was thrilled when the hat had screamed out, 'GRYFINDOR!' as she had hoped to get into that house. Albus Dumbledore himself had been a Gryfindor.
Hermione was pulled out of her thoughts by a soft nudge on her arm. She whipped around to see who had touch her and was surprised to see a younger, happier Sirius Black smiling down at her.
'Siri.I mean.ummm, hello.' She finished awkwardly. Hermione had nearly bursted out Sirius' name would certainly arouse suspicion.
'Hello there.' He replied, ignoring her last comment. 'You must be new. I'm Sirius Black and this..' Indicating to his left, '..is Remus Lupin, and this is James Potter. Oh, and this here is Peter Pettigrew.' He finished, pointing to a short little boy across the table from them.
'Uh, hey. Nice to meet you all.' Hermione was a little shocked at meeting the younger version of all these guys and especially meeting James, as in her time he was...well, dead. It was unbelievable how much James looked like Harry. Except for his eyes, James' eyes were a deep chocolate brown.
'What's your name?' Remus asked gently.
'I'm Hermione Granger. I'm in my sixth year.'
'Wicked, we're in sixth year too.' Replied James. 'So where did ya come from?'
'Oh, I've just transferred from a smaller school in Wales.'
'Hmmm, well I'm sure you'll love it here.' finished Sirius with a wide grin.
Hermione couldn't believe how nice the four were. She was good friends with Sirius and Remus in her time but this was just different somehow. She felt she was meeting them for the very first time. She felt a wave of hatred for little Peter though. She knew he turned out to be a betrayer to the other three but Dumbledore had warned her about not letting the other three boys in on this, because if she did she would be changing far to much and might risk helping Voldemort rise again.
After a few start of term notices and warnings, Dumbledore said a few nonsense words before sitting down to tuck into the food that had just appeared. As he reached for a bread roll, Dumbledore caught Hermione's eye and gave her a smile full of pure happiness. Hermione also noticed that his usual twinkle was present again and it was brighter than ever. Smiling to herself she tucked into a wonderful feast.
Noticing her smiling to herself, Sirius decided he liked Hermione. She wasn't exactly the most gorgeous girl in the world but who cares?!
'Sooo..Hermione, why did you decide to move here?' Sirius questioned the girl.
'Well, I felt that it would be helpful to move to a larger school with more classes for career purposes.'
'Oh, cool. So what is it that you want to do when you get out of school?' Sirius replied.
'I'm not entirely sure yet but I was thinking it would be fun to do something about potions or...'
'Sorry to interrupt put I think you may want to reconsider that suggestion. I'm sure you'll understand why once you've met our potions teacher.' Remus butted in.
'What do you mean? Why?'
'Well let's just say that Professor Snape has that affect on people.' Remus finished with a voice full of hatred.
'Professor Snape? But isn't no wait..I'm confused.' Hermione replied honestly. Hermione was sure that Dumbledore had sent her to the right year, and if so Snape couldn't be a potions teacher yet. He was still in school.
'What's so confusing?' Asked James, through a mouthful of potato.
'It's just that, oh don't worry.'
Hermione remained quiet throughout the rest of the meal, pondering the information she had just received. To say she was confused was just an understatement; Hermione started looking at all the possible answers, but with doing so just got herself more worked up. She decided it was best if she just waited calmly until her first potions lesson to find out. And with that in mind she started making her way up towards the Gryfindor tower.
'HEY HERMIONE!!! WAIT UP!' Sirius called, just as she reached the top of the staircase.
'WHAT D'YA WANT?!' was Hermione's reply.
'DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA AT ALL WHERE YOU'RE GOING?!' Sirius started walking up the staircase.
Hermione inwardly cursed herself at not realizing what she was doing. Of course she wasn't suppose to know where the entrance to the Gryfindor common room was yet.
'NO ACTUALLY I DON'T!' Hermione lied.
'WELL THEN..'
'HERMIONE!!!' interrupted Remus, strolling towards the bottom of the stairs. 'HEY HERMIONE. HEY SIRIUS. HEY REMUS.' Shouted James as he reached Remus.
'HEY BUDDY I'M JUST STANDING HERE NO NEED TO YELL!' Remus shouted back to James.
'WHY ARE YOU YELLING THEN?!' James argued.
'HEY GUYS, SHUT-UP! LET'S GET GOING TO THE COMMON ROOM.' Sirius butted in, before the two started a full on fistfight. Besides, the group was starting to attract attention with all the noise. People were actually stopping to watch them have their very loud conversation with one of them at the top of the staircase, one half way up and two yelling at each other at the bottom.
'YEH, I THINK..' Hermione started.
'I THINK THAT IS AN EXCELLENT SUGGESTION MR.BLACK.' Chimed in a new voice.
'PROFESSOR..' yelled James, now use to yelling at people who were only 2 metres away from him, 'I mean Professor. Sorry about that.'
'Yes I'm sure you are.' Said Professor McGonagall, rubbing her now sore ears. 'Anyway, I suggest you all make you way to your dorms and get some sleep. Maybe next time you can carry on your conversation when you are at least within 3 metres of each other and in not such a public place. Oh, and please keep your voices down.' She finished looking pointedly at James.
'Yes Professor.' The four replied in unison. As McGonagall walked off, the entrance hall was cleared of the six years audience.
The boys quickly made their way up to the top of the stairs to join Hermione. Sirius shot Hermione a big grin, which she returned. It seemed he wasn't at all embarrassed about what had just happened. In fact he looked as if it happened everyday, which Hermione reminded herself, it probably did.
'So Mr. Black. Would you care to show me the way to my dorm?' Hermione asked ever so politely.
'Why of course madam.' He replied, sticking his arm for her to hold onto. As they started walking Remus caught up to them and hooked his arm around Hermione's free one. James soon got into it by hopping in front of them and attempting to half skip, half bounce backwards so he could talk facing them. To say he fell over only a couple of times would be lying, I'd say it was closer to 10 or so.
By the time they crawled into the common room, holding their sore stomachs from too much laughing, the Gryfindor common room was deserted. Remus directed Hermione to the girl's dorm, as he couldn't actually get up there himself because the staircase had a nasty habit of not letting anything of the male species up. After a bit of planning of where and when to meet tomorrow and a lot of hugs they all set off for bed.
When Hermione reached her dorm she was glad to see that it hadn't changed a bit from her time, apart from the different people in the beds. Her three roommates were all asleep so Hermione thought it might be best to wait for introductions in the morning. She quietly got ready for bed and hopped into the warm, cozy four-poster bed. As soon as her head hit the pillow she was asleep. Stripped of all worry, Hermione dreamed of pleasant fantasies though out the cool night.
A/N: So my happy readers, what do we think? I'd love it if you put your little comments in a review and hopefully use your constrictive criticism in improving my story. Anyways, goody byes all, until chapter three.