Hermione's Baby
Chapter 4
When Hermione finished her tale, the silence throughout the room was deafening. Harry and Ron were glancing between their best friend and her husband in shock, while Severus looked at the top of his wife's head in silence, thinking to himself.
Finally Harry broke the silence, saying slowly, "Well. . . that is - erm - quite a surprise," to which Ron nodded emphatically.
Severus sneered at the two boys and said, "Now that you two know what has happened to your friend, could you please get out? We need to talk."
"Severus," Hermione said, glaring wearily at him, "This is MY room, and I will be the one who tells them when to leave."
Severus smirked at her before saying, "Very well. I will leave then, and we will discuss what we were talking about with the headmaster when you are done socializing." He then swept out of the room before Hermione could respond.
Hermione sighed, staring at the doorway through which he had exited for a few moments before turning back to her friends, who were still looking at her in a mixture of horror and shock.
"You married Snape?" Ron asked her in horror, "What on earth possessed you to do that?"
Harry winced, mentally kicking Ron for saying that. Sure enough, Hermione gave the redheaded boy a glare that resembled that of the dreaded potion master's and snapped "If that's how you're going to act then you bloody well can get out. If you want to stay then you won't insult my husband or marriage."
Ron muttered "sorry," and gulped. Hermione's temper was often extremely scary.
"So," began Harry, wanting to change the subject, "What is going to happen now? I mean, you're a lot older than us now and have already graduated, so will you continue taking classes with up?"
"I don't know," admitted Hermione, sighing, "'Hermione Granger' is not registered as having taken the NEWTs, 'Lavender Finnegan' is. So maybe I'll have to re take those. I have no idea. I think that I'll have to discuss that with Albus."
Harry looked at her apologetically and said "Why is Snape so mad at you? Did you not tell him that you had to come back to the future or something?"
Hermione sighed and said "Yes. . . that. . . among other things that I can't explain right now."
There was an awkward silence because neither Ron nor Harry knew how to respond to that, before Hermione broke it by saying "So tell me. How is the Quidditch season going?"
Both boys knew that she was just trying to change the subject, but went along with it. "Oh, it's great," exclaimed Harry, smiling at her, "We had a game last Saturday against Hufflepuff and we slaughtered them!"
"Yeah," Ron joined in excitedly, "Harry did a perfect wronski faint. Rodgers, the Hufflepuff seeker, got knocked out because of how hard he hit the ground! It was brilliant!"
Hermione smiled to herself, and thought her own thoughts as the boys continued to discuss Quidditch. 'They are so similar to James and Sirius,' she thought to herself. And with that thought she also started to think about how she would never see those two or Lily again. The only one of the boys who she could see again was - "Remus," she said suddenly, surprising the boys out of their Quidditch discussion.
"What?" said Harry, confused.
"I can still see Remus," Hermione clarified, speaking more to herself than to the two boys, "And maybe Alida too. . . I wonder what happened to her. We've never heard of her - " She trailed off, looking at the two boys thoughtfully.
"Who's Alida?" Ron asked.
"Another Gryffindor girl in my year - or, well, the year I was in in the past," Hermione shook her head, "God this is confusing."
Harry and Ron smiled at her and Harry said "I can imagine." There was a silence for a moment before Harry said, "Err. . . Hermione?"
"Yeah?" She asked, smiling at the slightly awkward expression on her friend's face.
"Could you - could you possibly tell me about my parents?" He asked quickly, looking hopefully at her, but then, when she didn't answer for a moment, he quickly said "No, never mind. . . you don't have to."
"No," Hermione said smiling at him, "I will. Let's see. . . what do you want to know?"
"I don't know," said Harry, "anything. What their relationship was like, well, without the nasty details; pranks the marauders pulled; anything."
Hermione smiled and told the boys about some of the pranks that she had helped the marauders pull, such as their raids on the Slytherin common room. The boys were shocked that their bookworm best friend had in deed given the boys the spell they used to turn the Slytherin common room into Gryffindor heaven, but by the time that she had stopped speaking they were rolling on the floor laughing. Literally.
"Oh - Hermione -" Harry was saying, gasping for breath, "Who would have thought?"
Hermione grinned at him and said, "Thanks boys, I needed that laugh."
"No problem, Mione," Said Ron, "after all, what are best friends for?"
Hermione glanced at him before saying "You mean that you're still my best friends even with, well. . . everything?"
"Of course," They simultaneously replied, and the three shared their hug in - for Hermione at least - over three years.
Glancing at the clock, Hermione was shocked to see that it was almost dinner time. "Oh dear," she said worriedly, "You have missed class. It's almost dinnertime!"
"That's ok," said Ron, glad to see that she was the same old Hermione he remembered, "I have no problems with missing class."
"Look," said Hermione, shaking her head slightly, "Why don't we go down to dinner together. Just let me wash up quickly."
The boys nodded and started to discuss Quidditch tactics as Hermione went into the bathroom to wash up.
When she came out she said "Um. . . Harry? Ron?"
"Yeah?" they both replied, turning to look at her.
"Could you please not say anything to anyone about, well, anything?" She asked them, looking from one to the other.
"Sure!" They both replied, and the three friends exited the head girl's room and walked through the halls towards the Great Hall. They were slightly early, so the hall was not very crowded. The only teachers present were Professor Flitwick, Minerva, Albus and Severus, and there were no seventh year Gryffindors yet.
When the 'Dream Team' entered the room, Professor Flitwick gave a tiny squeak and said "Welcome Back Mrs. S-"
But he was cut off by Severus who actually kicked him under the table. Hermione smirked when she saw that, but didn't say anything, just waved at him. As Hermione was heading over to Gryffindor table with Harry and Ron, she saw Albus beckoning to her.
"Harry and Ron?" Hermione said quietly to the boys, "I need to talk to Albus for a moment. See you in a second, ok?" They nodded and she headed up towards the head table.
"Good evening my dear," said Albus, smiling down at her, "I hope that you had a pleasant afternoon with Misters Potter and Weasley?" To which Severus snorted and Hermione, shooting him a glare, nodded. "Good, good, good," Albus continued, "Now. I set up an appointment for you with the ministry to discuss everything, but the only time available was for next week, so I am afraid that you must attend classes at least until then. I hope that that is not too horrible a prospect for you?"
"Of course not Albus," replied Hermione, smiling at him.
"Wonderful. Now, there is another issue to address. How much if anything do you wish me to inform the school about?"
"Err-" Hermione looked at him, unsure of what to say. 'Luckily,' Severus was there to voice his opinion.
"I would suggest, Headmaster," he said silkily, "that you refrain from discussing the question of our marriage at the moment. I wouldn't want to cause her any embarrassment."
Hermione stared at him in shock before snapping, "What's your problem Severus? You know why I had to leave, why won't you just let it rest?"
Severus was about to reply, but just as he opened his mouth an excited voice rang throughout the hall "You're back!"
Hermione turned around, and, seeing who had said that, grinned happily and squealed "Remus!!!" before running and giving him a big hug. She had missed all of her friends during her pregnancy, and seeing Remus again was one of the greatest moments of her recent life.
The entire hall stared as their head girl threw herself at their Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher after calling him by his first name.
"When did you get back?" Remus asked her excitedly, "I was practically killing myself these past two weeks! I can finally discuss this with you!"
"Oh I missed you so much!" Hermione said happily, smiling at him.
Remus look at her, confused, and said "But I saw you the day before you came ba-" he trailed off, noticing for the first time that she looked older and more worn out than the last time he had seen her. "What happened? Where-"
Hermione, getting uncomfortable, cut him off by saying quietly "Not now."
Remus still seemed confused, but nodded. Then they both noticed for the first time that the hall, now practically completely full, was staring at them. "Err-" said Hermione, looking nervously at the headmaster.
"Students," the voice of Albus Dumbledore rang throughout the hall, "As you can see, Hermione Granger has returned. Now, I know that many of you were concerned as to where she has been for the past two weeks, so now, with her permission, I will tell you." He looked to Hermione, saw her nod, and continued. "When Hermione Granger disappeared in the middle of her potions class two weeks ago, she was transported into the past, and has been there for almost four years of her life." Everyone in the hall was looking at each other in confusion, but remained silent as he continued. "She was transported to when both Professor Lupin and Snape were in their seventh years, which should explain the reunion you just witnessed," he said with a twinkle in his eye.
Now the entire hall was looking at Hermione, who blushed slightly, but didn't say anything, knowing that Albus wasn't quite finished. "However, as Miss Granger was forced to assume a different name when she went to the past, there is no record of her having taken her NEWTs and graduated from Hogwarts. Therefore, she will have to continue taking her regular classes until her meeting at the ministry next week." He paused for a moment, "Now, I am sure that you are all very hungry, so tuck in!"
The great hall all of a suddenly was filled with the chatter of excited gossipers. "So," Remus paused, "What do I call you?"
"I don't care," said Hermione, sighing.
"Right," Remus nodded. "So, Hermione, are you going to sit at the head table or at the Gryffindor table?"
"I promised the boys that I'd sit with them tonight, but we need to have a long chat later," Hermione informed her friend, "You need to catch me up on your life, and - oh! I was wondering, whatever happened to Alida?"
"I'm still in touch with her," Said Remus, smiling at Hermione, "In fact I think that I'm going to visit her in a couple of days. You can come with me if you wish, but we'll discuss that later."
Hermione nodded and headed over to the Gryffindor table.
A/N: Ok. . . ok. . . I know. . . it's incredibly short and badly written, but I wanted to get another chapter out. Please review, and I hope that I'll update again soon with a longer chapter!!!
I know where I'm going with this story in the short run. Hermione's going to get adjusted and they still have to deal w/ the whole Seamus thing, but then I'm not so sure what's going to happen after that. Anyone got any ideas?
Anyway, I'm telling you, THE MORE REVIEWS I GET, THE SOONER I'LL UPDATE!!!!
ROSE PETAL: thanks
DISTINCTVAGUENESS: Thanks for all of your comments!! And I agree. . . how do we know that when wizards and witches adopt babies they don't charm them to look like their new parents? And yeah, they don't ever describe him in the book. Yeah. . . I contemplated focusing on the past, but the whole point of the story was the whole baby thing, so I wanted to keep going w/ that!! (
PIPER: thanks!
HERETIC ANGEL: thanks!!
WENDYNAT: thanks! Glad you like it! Hope this was soon enough for updates. . .
POTIONSGODDESS: yeah. . . I really liked that story but I agree that it could have used some more information and It killed me when they didn't get together immediately!! lol
LIFESLIKETHAT: thanks! I'm glad that you like the way it's written. Yeah. . . I was hoping it wouldn't be clichéd, and I'm glad it doesn't seem to be! (
ANABELLEELIZABETH: thanks!
SPAZ141: great username!! I'm glad that you like the story and it makes you think!
FIERY PHOENIX: did I say that they were already married? 'cause I didn't mean to. They were in love before she found out how to come back, and practically married. . . ( glad you like it though!!
ANARANE ANWAMANE: yeah, I agree. . .
HEADNCLOUD: thanks. . . sorry I'm so slow about updating. . . don't worry. . . we'll get some more sev/Hermione action soon hopefully! (
Chapter 4
When Hermione finished her tale, the silence throughout the room was deafening. Harry and Ron were glancing between their best friend and her husband in shock, while Severus looked at the top of his wife's head in silence, thinking to himself.
Finally Harry broke the silence, saying slowly, "Well. . . that is - erm - quite a surprise," to which Ron nodded emphatically.
Severus sneered at the two boys and said, "Now that you two know what has happened to your friend, could you please get out? We need to talk."
"Severus," Hermione said, glaring wearily at him, "This is MY room, and I will be the one who tells them when to leave."
Severus smirked at her before saying, "Very well. I will leave then, and we will discuss what we were talking about with the headmaster when you are done socializing." He then swept out of the room before Hermione could respond.
Hermione sighed, staring at the doorway through which he had exited for a few moments before turning back to her friends, who were still looking at her in a mixture of horror and shock.
"You married Snape?" Ron asked her in horror, "What on earth possessed you to do that?"
Harry winced, mentally kicking Ron for saying that. Sure enough, Hermione gave the redheaded boy a glare that resembled that of the dreaded potion master's and snapped "If that's how you're going to act then you bloody well can get out. If you want to stay then you won't insult my husband or marriage."
Ron muttered "sorry," and gulped. Hermione's temper was often extremely scary.
"So," began Harry, wanting to change the subject, "What is going to happen now? I mean, you're a lot older than us now and have already graduated, so will you continue taking classes with up?"
"I don't know," admitted Hermione, sighing, "'Hermione Granger' is not registered as having taken the NEWTs, 'Lavender Finnegan' is. So maybe I'll have to re take those. I have no idea. I think that I'll have to discuss that with Albus."
Harry looked at her apologetically and said "Why is Snape so mad at you? Did you not tell him that you had to come back to the future or something?"
Hermione sighed and said "Yes. . . that. . . among other things that I can't explain right now."
There was an awkward silence because neither Ron nor Harry knew how to respond to that, before Hermione broke it by saying "So tell me. How is the Quidditch season going?"
Both boys knew that she was just trying to change the subject, but went along with it. "Oh, it's great," exclaimed Harry, smiling at her, "We had a game last Saturday against Hufflepuff and we slaughtered them!"
"Yeah," Ron joined in excitedly, "Harry did a perfect wronski faint. Rodgers, the Hufflepuff seeker, got knocked out because of how hard he hit the ground! It was brilliant!"
Hermione smiled to herself, and thought her own thoughts as the boys continued to discuss Quidditch. 'They are so similar to James and Sirius,' she thought to herself. And with that thought she also started to think about how she would never see those two or Lily again. The only one of the boys who she could see again was - "Remus," she said suddenly, surprising the boys out of their Quidditch discussion.
"What?" said Harry, confused.
"I can still see Remus," Hermione clarified, speaking more to herself than to the two boys, "And maybe Alida too. . . I wonder what happened to her. We've never heard of her - " She trailed off, looking at the two boys thoughtfully.
"Who's Alida?" Ron asked.
"Another Gryffindor girl in my year - or, well, the year I was in in the past," Hermione shook her head, "God this is confusing."
Harry and Ron smiled at her and Harry said "I can imagine." There was a silence for a moment before Harry said, "Err. . . Hermione?"
"Yeah?" She asked, smiling at the slightly awkward expression on her friend's face.
"Could you - could you possibly tell me about my parents?" He asked quickly, looking hopefully at her, but then, when she didn't answer for a moment, he quickly said "No, never mind. . . you don't have to."
"No," Hermione said smiling at him, "I will. Let's see. . . what do you want to know?"
"I don't know," said Harry, "anything. What their relationship was like, well, without the nasty details; pranks the marauders pulled; anything."
Hermione smiled and told the boys about some of the pranks that she had helped the marauders pull, such as their raids on the Slytherin common room. The boys were shocked that their bookworm best friend had in deed given the boys the spell they used to turn the Slytherin common room into Gryffindor heaven, but by the time that she had stopped speaking they were rolling on the floor laughing. Literally.
"Oh - Hermione -" Harry was saying, gasping for breath, "Who would have thought?"
Hermione grinned at him and said, "Thanks boys, I needed that laugh."
"No problem, Mione," Said Ron, "after all, what are best friends for?"
Hermione glanced at him before saying "You mean that you're still my best friends even with, well. . . everything?"
"Of course," They simultaneously replied, and the three shared their hug in - for Hermione at least - over three years.
Glancing at the clock, Hermione was shocked to see that it was almost dinner time. "Oh dear," she said worriedly, "You have missed class. It's almost dinnertime!"
"That's ok," said Ron, glad to see that she was the same old Hermione he remembered, "I have no problems with missing class."
"Look," said Hermione, shaking her head slightly, "Why don't we go down to dinner together. Just let me wash up quickly."
The boys nodded and started to discuss Quidditch tactics as Hermione went into the bathroom to wash up.
When she came out she said "Um. . . Harry? Ron?"
"Yeah?" they both replied, turning to look at her.
"Could you please not say anything to anyone about, well, anything?" She asked them, looking from one to the other.
"Sure!" They both replied, and the three friends exited the head girl's room and walked through the halls towards the Great Hall. They were slightly early, so the hall was not very crowded. The only teachers present were Professor Flitwick, Minerva, Albus and Severus, and there were no seventh year Gryffindors yet.
When the 'Dream Team' entered the room, Professor Flitwick gave a tiny squeak and said "Welcome Back Mrs. S-"
But he was cut off by Severus who actually kicked him under the table. Hermione smirked when she saw that, but didn't say anything, just waved at him. As Hermione was heading over to Gryffindor table with Harry and Ron, she saw Albus beckoning to her.
"Harry and Ron?" Hermione said quietly to the boys, "I need to talk to Albus for a moment. See you in a second, ok?" They nodded and she headed up towards the head table.
"Good evening my dear," said Albus, smiling down at her, "I hope that you had a pleasant afternoon with Misters Potter and Weasley?" To which Severus snorted and Hermione, shooting him a glare, nodded. "Good, good, good," Albus continued, "Now. I set up an appointment for you with the ministry to discuss everything, but the only time available was for next week, so I am afraid that you must attend classes at least until then. I hope that that is not too horrible a prospect for you?"
"Of course not Albus," replied Hermione, smiling at him.
"Wonderful. Now, there is another issue to address. How much if anything do you wish me to inform the school about?"
"Err-" Hermione looked at him, unsure of what to say. 'Luckily,' Severus was there to voice his opinion.
"I would suggest, Headmaster," he said silkily, "that you refrain from discussing the question of our marriage at the moment. I wouldn't want to cause her any embarrassment."
Hermione stared at him in shock before snapping, "What's your problem Severus? You know why I had to leave, why won't you just let it rest?"
Severus was about to reply, but just as he opened his mouth an excited voice rang throughout the hall "You're back!"
Hermione turned around, and, seeing who had said that, grinned happily and squealed "Remus!!!" before running and giving him a big hug. She had missed all of her friends during her pregnancy, and seeing Remus again was one of the greatest moments of her recent life.
The entire hall stared as their head girl threw herself at their Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher after calling him by his first name.
"When did you get back?" Remus asked her excitedly, "I was practically killing myself these past two weeks! I can finally discuss this with you!"
"Oh I missed you so much!" Hermione said happily, smiling at him.
Remus look at her, confused, and said "But I saw you the day before you came ba-" he trailed off, noticing for the first time that she looked older and more worn out than the last time he had seen her. "What happened? Where-"
Hermione, getting uncomfortable, cut him off by saying quietly "Not now."
Remus still seemed confused, but nodded. Then they both noticed for the first time that the hall, now practically completely full, was staring at them. "Err-" said Hermione, looking nervously at the headmaster.
"Students," the voice of Albus Dumbledore rang throughout the hall, "As you can see, Hermione Granger has returned. Now, I know that many of you were concerned as to where she has been for the past two weeks, so now, with her permission, I will tell you." He looked to Hermione, saw her nod, and continued. "When Hermione Granger disappeared in the middle of her potions class two weeks ago, she was transported into the past, and has been there for almost four years of her life." Everyone in the hall was looking at each other in confusion, but remained silent as he continued. "She was transported to when both Professor Lupin and Snape were in their seventh years, which should explain the reunion you just witnessed," he said with a twinkle in his eye.
Now the entire hall was looking at Hermione, who blushed slightly, but didn't say anything, knowing that Albus wasn't quite finished. "However, as Miss Granger was forced to assume a different name when she went to the past, there is no record of her having taken her NEWTs and graduated from Hogwarts. Therefore, she will have to continue taking her regular classes until her meeting at the ministry next week." He paused for a moment, "Now, I am sure that you are all very hungry, so tuck in!"
The great hall all of a suddenly was filled with the chatter of excited gossipers. "So," Remus paused, "What do I call you?"
"I don't care," said Hermione, sighing.
"Right," Remus nodded. "So, Hermione, are you going to sit at the head table or at the Gryffindor table?"
"I promised the boys that I'd sit with them tonight, but we need to have a long chat later," Hermione informed her friend, "You need to catch me up on your life, and - oh! I was wondering, whatever happened to Alida?"
"I'm still in touch with her," Said Remus, smiling at Hermione, "In fact I think that I'm going to visit her in a couple of days. You can come with me if you wish, but we'll discuss that later."
Hermione nodded and headed over to the Gryffindor table.
A/N: Ok. . . ok. . . I know. . . it's incredibly short and badly written, but I wanted to get another chapter out. Please review, and I hope that I'll update again soon with a longer chapter!!!
I know where I'm going with this story in the short run. Hermione's going to get adjusted and they still have to deal w/ the whole Seamus thing, but then I'm not so sure what's going to happen after that. Anyone got any ideas?
Anyway, I'm telling you, THE MORE REVIEWS I GET, THE SOONER I'LL UPDATE!!!!
ROSE PETAL: thanks
DISTINCTVAGUENESS: Thanks for all of your comments!! And I agree. . . how do we know that when wizards and witches adopt babies they don't charm them to look like their new parents? And yeah, they don't ever describe him in the book. Yeah. . . I contemplated focusing on the past, but the whole point of the story was the whole baby thing, so I wanted to keep going w/ that!! (
PIPER: thanks!
HERETIC ANGEL: thanks!!
WENDYNAT: thanks! Glad you like it! Hope this was soon enough for updates. . .
POTIONSGODDESS: yeah. . . I really liked that story but I agree that it could have used some more information and It killed me when they didn't get together immediately!! lol
LIFESLIKETHAT: thanks! I'm glad that you like the way it's written. Yeah. . . I was hoping it wouldn't be clichéd, and I'm glad it doesn't seem to be! (
ANABELLEELIZABETH: thanks!
SPAZ141: great username!! I'm glad that you like the story and it makes you think!
FIERY PHOENIX: did I say that they were already married? 'cause I didn't mean to. They were in love before she found out how to come back, and practically married. . . ( glad you like it though!!
ANARANE ANWAMANE: yeah, I agree. . .
HEADNCLOUD: thanks. . . sorry I'm so slow about updating. . . don't worry. . . we'll get some more sev/Hermione action soon hopefully! (
