(Okay A/N, I've decided to expand the ghosts and the future ppl's visit in the past for extra few weeks because I really wanted to add this chappie! Sorry if I've annoyed anyone!)
About two weeks later, school was back in business. Everyone groaned in annoyance when they realized they'd either not completed their homework or the fact that they were having so much fun that they didn't want to work. By now, everyone knew that Harry was Harry Potter, James and Lily's son. Lily had freaked out completely at first, but eventually calmed down when she had had a word with her ghost self.
Harry was grinning madly from receiving news that Lupin would be teaching Defense against the Dark Arts for the first few lessons, seeing as their new teacher wouldn't be able to get to Hogwarts for another week, due to an illness.
Ghost Sirius was always seen with Ghost James, they seemed to always be planning pranks of some kind and Hermione feared the worst. It was bad enough having themselves at the age of seventeen planning pranks, but their ghost selves as well?
It was a late Monday morning when Hermione awoke and screamed on seeing the time. Ginny blearily opened an eye, glared at Hermione, then shut it again. Hermione leapt up and threw back Ginny's covers. Ginny shivered and curled up into a ball.
"GINNY! WAKE UP! IT'S EIGHT THIRTY! WE'VE GOT TO BE READY FOR CLASSES IN HALF AN HOUR!" Ginny shot out of bed as if receiving an electric shock.
"I'm up" She squeaked and dashed into the bathroom. Hermione shrieked in annoyance.
"I was meant to go and get washed first!" she yelled indignantly.
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They hurried into the Defense against the Dark Arts classroom five minutes long. Amazingly, Ghost James, Sirius and Lily were sitting there, along with Lupin who looked startled to see the girls late for class. Sirius winked at Hermione and patted a seat next to him, which had obviously been reserved for her, Ron on the other side. Ginny smiled when she saw a vacant seat in between Harry and Remus. They were both smiling at her. They quickly sat themselves down and got out their parchment and quills.
Lupin smiled and shook his head.
"Well, shall we proceed with the lesson? If someone would be so kind as to fill in Miss Granger and Miss Weasley on what we were discussing first of all?"
Lily raised her hand, her eyes twinkling as Lupin nodded to her.
"We were discussing Boggarts" she replied, lowering her arm onto the desk. Hermione and Ginny glanced at each other knowingly with similar grins on their faces.
"Now … does anyone know the charm that we use to defend ourselves against a Boggart?"
Hermione, Ron, Harry and Ginny immediately raised their hands. Ghost James laughed at Hermione's enthusiasm. She was waving her hand madly in the air. Sirius watched her in amusement. Lupin's smiled widened when he purposely chose Harry. Hermione put a hand down and pouted.
Instead of trying to be number one at knowing everything, Hermione chose to talk to Sirius, who was more than happy to oblige. A few minutes later, however, Lupin's voice interrupted them.
"I'm sorry, but if you both continue to talk throughout my class, I'll have to give you both detentions" Hermione gulped slightly; she'd only ever received one detention in her life. Sirius bit back a laugh as Lupin grinned.
"Hey, Mione, how about we go and do something more productive in the Astronomy Tower after class?" Hermione giggled and blushed and whispered back that she'd think about it.
"That's it, I'm afraid you two have detention" Lupin said with an evil grin on his face. Hermione gasped slightly, while Ron and Harry were trying their hardest not to burst out into hysterical laughter. Ginny, unfortunately, wasn't quite as subtle and was literally killing herself laughing.
"Wait! I can make a bargain with you!" Hermione called out. Lupin looked interested.
"Oh really? What did you have in mind?"
"I'll be quiet for the rest of the lesson!" she piped up "I won't answer any questions or talk or anything" A smile tugged at his lips.
"Hermione, for you, that is simply impossible, but if you're willing to do that, then of course, but this means that you can't talk or make a sound" Hermione nodded and agreed to the conditions.
"You have half an hour and your time starts now" Hermione stayed quiet, which Harry and Ron found particularly amazing, so Ron decided to spice it up a bit.
"Hermione, stop trying to talk to me!" Ron yelled out, pretending to look annoyed, but failing miserably. Hermione opened her mouth to protest, but then realized what the conditions were for her not to get a detention. She shut her mouth and instead, gave Ron a piercing death glare.
Ron carried on yelling out every now and then, giving the class a few chuckles at Hermione's wants to protest, but being unable to, she just kept glaring at him.
In the end, Hermione got so annoyed that she scribbled something furiously on a piece of parchment and stormed up to Professor Lupin. She held it up and he read it and grinned, holding back a chuckle. It read: Ron keeps trying to get me in trouble! Can you please tell him to stop it?
Lupin took the piece of parchment from her and scribbled something under hers, then gave it back to her. She read through it and burst out laughing, then quickly made herself laugh silently as everyone watched her curiously. She handed it to Ginny, who read it then started laughing herself.
"Professor, are you calling my brother a t.w.a.t?" Lupin shook his head.
"Nope, I'm calling him a rat. He shouldn't be trying to get his friends in trouble" Ron and Harry looked to each other and started laughing. Ghost Sirius and James were chuckling madly, while both Alive and Ghost Lily were trying their best to stifle their giggles. Five minutes later, the bell rung and Hermione leapt up, batting her eyelashes at Lupin. Lupin chuckled.
"You can talk now and no, you don't have detention" Hermione jumped into the air and let out a whoop of triumph.
"God, I'm good!" she yelled as she ran to catch up with Ginny and Lily.
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"God Remus, you're so mean!" Hermione told him later on that night. Remus merely shrugged, grinning madly.
"I found it extremely entertaining, it really shut you up" Ron told her. Hermione glared at him.
"I can't believe you kept trying to get me into trouble when I wasn't saying anything!"
"He wasn't really gonna give you detention Hermione, you could tell by the look on his face, he found the whole thing hilarious" Harry said, eyes laughing. Hermione narrowed her eyes at him.
"Harry Potter, shut up!" she snapped. Harry held out his hands in defense.
"Calm it girl. Anyways, Sirius is looking for ya, he said to meet him in the Astronomy Tower" Hermione nodded and ran at full speed to the Astronomy Tower. On the way though, who should she bump into? Lucius Malfoy.
"Ouch!" Hermione yelped as she fell to the floor. Lucius held out a hand to help her up. Hermione glared at him angrily and slapped his hand away.
"Keep away from me Malfoy, you've done enough damage as it is!" she snapped, making to storm off, but Malfoy grabbed a hold of her arm.
"Look, what happened with my future self … I don't feel that way, I don't want you dead" He told her sincerely. Hermione carried on glaring at him.
"I'm sorry, but I don't accept your apology or whatever it is you're trying to say. You purposely turned my boyfriend against me, so if you think that I'm gonna forgive you, then you've wasted your time" she said coldly. Lucius fixed her with a hurt stare.
"Mione, I …"
"Don't call me that!" she spat harshly. Lucius winced slightly and lowered his gaze to the floor.
"I really like you"
"Well, I don't like you, so take a hint and leave-me-alone!" Hermione yelled, yanking her arm out of Lucius' grip. Lucius growled as he watched Hermione storm off.
"You won't get rid of me that easily Hermione, you just wait! You'll regret that you ever got together with Black and not me!"