Hidden Passions and Desires
Chapter 2: Sorting Hat
Hermione's POV (continued from last chapter)
James had rarely encountered a girl who didn't know his name or that he existed.
Hermione rose to leave. 'I have to see Professor Dumbledore. I have to tell him what's going on so that I can go back home,' Hermione thought. She had totally forgotten James was standing in front of her. "I don't recognize you, You don't go here, do you? ," James asked Hermione confused. 'Oh, no. Think fast, what should I say?' Hermione thought hard. "I'm a new student from Drumstrang. I just moved here." Hermione said surprising herself at lying so easily. "What's the date?" Hermione asked James trying to not sound weird. "It's September 8, 1976." James answered.
"Thanks. James, right?" Hermione asked confused.
"That's right. I'm James. James Potter." James said extending his hand to shake Hermione's.
"Hermione Granger." Hermione said introducing herself to James.
"Nice to meet you Hermione" James said friendly. "Would you like to talk to the headmaster?" James asked sensing that Hermione probably needed someone to show her around the school.
"Oh, That would be great, Thanks." Hermione said relieved.
"Just take a right turn at the next hall and you'll be in front of the headmaster's office. Oh and the password is Chocolate Frogs." James said giving Hermione a smile and a wink. Hermione blushed.
"Thanks, See you later." Hermione said making her way to Dumbledore's office.
"Yeah, see you later." James said walking toward the Great Hall for dinner.
Hermione walked to the gargoyle and said the password " Chocolate Frogs." She stepped on the stairs and knocked on the door.
"Come in." Professor Dumbledore said.
Hermione walked into the headmaster's office. It didn't look very different than it did in her time. The office looked as warm and cozy, as it had always been. It still had the portraits of Hogwarts past headmasters of hanging on the wall.
"Hello Ms.—"Dumbledore said greeting the new student that he didn't know the name of.
"Hermione Granger." Hermione said giving her name to the expectant Dumbledore.
"Welcome to Hogwarts, Ms. Granger. I don't believe I've received a letter or notice indicating your arrival." Dumbledore said confused.
"Professor, I have something to tell you. You see I'm not from this time, I'm from the future." Hermione said expecting Dumbledore to look surprised and to interrupt her, but he didn't so she went on. " My friends and I Ha—"
"Please do not tell me any names from the future." Dumbledore interrupted with his hand raised.
"Of course. My friends and I were walking to the Great Hall when Malfoy, Sorry Professor, used the Expelliarmus spell to send me flying cross the hall. When I fell on the ground, I vanished which I believe was caused by my time turner breaking. What do I do Professor?" Hermione said, relieved that she had a person in this time to talk to.
"What year were you in Ms. Granger?" Dumbledore asked.
"Sixth, Professor." Hermione answered.
"I'm guessing that you were a perfect in your time, and an outstanding student since you had a time turner." Dumbledore stated. Hermione blushed at the comment.
"Yes, Professor." Hermione agreed.
"I'm going to work on your situation and figure out a way to return you to your time. I don't know how long it will take, because time turners have been recently discovered and not very enhanced.. In the meantime you will have to attend school and resume your life. I must ask you Ms. Granger, whether you have told anyone from this time your true identity?" Dumbledore asked.
"I met James Potter when I appeared in this time. I told him my name was Hermione Granger and I'm a new student from Drumstrang." Hermione said looking worried if. Had told James too much about herself.
"Good. You haven't told him much. Ms. Granger, I must stress how dangerous it might be if you told anyone of your true identity and the events of the future. Remember, revealing events about the future may alter your life and the lives of others." Dumbledore said looking serious. "Now, about your classes. What were you taking?" Dumbledore asked Hermione.
"Athermancy, Ancient Runes, Transfiguration, Potions, Defense Against the Dark Arts, History of Muggles, Herbology, and Charms. They are all N.E.W.T level classes." Hermione answered, proud of herself.
"Well Ms. Granger. I would tell any student with as many classes as yours to drop some but you seem very capable of handling them." Dumbledore said smiling and giving Hermione a wink. Hermione felt relieved that he didn't ask her to drop any of her classes. If he asked her to, she wouldn't know which one to drop, she likes all of them.
"Thanks, Professor." Hermione said.
"Your welcome. Here is a schedule of your classes." Dumbledore commented as a piece of parchment appeared on the desk. "I'm afraid you won't be a perfect here because all perfects have been chosen." Dumbledore said in an apologizing tone." You will find clothes, money, and your school supplies in the morning at Professor McGonagall's office. So if you could go there after breakfast and pick them up, that would be excellent." Dumbledore said.
"But Professor, I already have my books." Hermione said, confused why Dumbledore would give her new books when she already had them.
"You have a sixth year's books from your time, but they are written by different authors than this time. You must have books that are authored by authors of this time." Dumbledore explained. "Dinner will begin in ten minutes, so excuse me, I have to leave to introduce you to the school. You have to be sorted in a house tonight if I'm not mistaken." Dumbledore said as he got out of his chair and went to the door to open it for Hermione as she left. "See you at dinner, Ms. Granger."
'Wait isn't he coming to the great hall? Oh well he must have another way in the Great Hall only teachers have access to,' Hermione thought. She walked to the Great Hall thinking that not many people would be there as everyone is probably busy preparing for the classes for tomorrow. But as Hermione opened the doors she saw that the all eyes were on her.
"I present to you our newest student, Ms. Hermoine Granger. She ia a transfer student from Drumstrang and new to Hogwarts. I hope that all of you will make her feel welcome and help her, especially those in her house." Dumbledore introduced Hermione, who was blushing to the roots of her hair.
Hermione didn't think that she would feel any nervousness about the sorting hat since she has already done it before, but now that she . was going through the situation again, she found it hard not to feel nervous under all of the prying eyes, especially those of the Slytherins. ' They probably want me in their house since Drumstrange focuses mainly on the Dark Arts. I hope I won't be sorted in there. Oh no.' Hermione started to panic , she was afraid that she would be put in Slytherin, a house which she hated because of their "pureblood" slogan (A/N does that make since?). She wanted to be put in her house, Gryffindor.
"Ms. Granger, you have to sit on the stool and then I will put the sorting hat on your head." Professor McGonagall said.
" Hermione Granger!" Professor McGonagall said in a loud voice.
Everyone's heads and attention was focused on the brunette haired girl from Drumstrang. Hermione walked to the stool and sat down. Professor McGonagall placed the hat on her head.
Hermione was as red as a tomato, because everyone was looking at her and waiting for the hat to shout out its decision.
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Note: the italic writings represent the thoughts and what the hat says. Hermione's thoughts are indicated by the use of single quotation marks '-- '.
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Let's see what we have here. My, my a time traveler. Never mind that. Let me see. Used to be in Gryffindor. Cleverness, braveness and hunger for knowledge. You could do very well in Ravenclaw but I also see courage and loyalty. Your muggle born but I see a lot of power. You also do very well in Slytherin. I haven't seen this much quality, power, and difficultness in a student since Riddle, the hat thought in Hermione's head. ' No, please don't put me in Slytherin, anywhere but there.' Hermione pleaded to the hat. Are you sure? The hat asked Hermione. 'Yes, I'm sure. Please.' Hermione answered pleading once more. All right then, if you're so sure, the hat said.
"GRYFFINDOR!" The hat shouted. The Gryffindor table started to clap to welcome their new addition. Hermione felt relieved that she has been placed in her original house. She got off the stool and went to sit with the Gryffindors.
James POV
James headed toward the Great Hall to meet his fellow Marauders. As he made his way to where his best friends were sitting, he spotted Lily Evans sitting a few feet away. "Hey Evans, how about going out with me this weekend?" James asked across from the table, running his hand through his hair and giving her his famous smile.
"I'd rather go out with death than go out with you, Potter!" Lily snapped "I'm sure you'll find that I'm so much more handsome than death if you'd go out with me." James said. Lily fixed him with her icy glare which made the guys start laughing at his failing attempts at trying to go out with Lily.
"Prongs, mate you should stop going after Evans. There are other fish in the sea, you know." Sirius Black said after he had stopped laughing
"Don't take Padfoot's advice James, after all he is the expert at dumping girls and moving on." Remus Lupin said getting a glare from Sirius. "Lily's just not any girl, you're just going to have to work extra hard to win her over." Remus advised.
"When did you become an expert with girls, Moony?" Sirius asked Remus.
"Just because I don't go out with girls, doesn't mean I don't know anything about them." Remus snapped
"Thanks, Moony." James said.
James sat beside Sirius, as he often did, on the right side of the table to have a better view of the Great Hall. As dinner approached, the boys talked about the upcoming Quidditch matches and the Hogsmeade trips.
"So how come you're late, Prongs? I thought you said you were hungry." Sirius asked.
"I met a girl" James replied.
"Oh, so you've taken my advise and moved on. Good for you mate." Sirius said.
"I didn't move on." James said getting a grunt from Sirius.
"So who's the girl, Prongs?" Lupin asked
"She's a new student from Drumstrang. Her name's Hermione Granger." James answered
"Well she's probably going to be sorted into Slytherin. Drumstrang specializes in the Dark Arts. The Slytherins will love to have a student from that school in their house." Remus said.
"She doesn't look like a Slytherin though," James said defending the new girl that he barely knew.
"You'd better not be defending that girl in front of Evans. You don't want Evans thinking that you're trying to catch two apples with one hand." Said a squeaky voice little boy named Peter Pettigrew.
"I told you. I don't like the new girl that way besides, I do--" James said and was interrupted by the headmaster who was starting to talk.
The boys stopped talking and looked at the headmaster. They didn't realize that all the teachers and students were there because they had been talking and eating fruits.
"Good evening to you all. I hope that everyone has been settled to be ready for your first day of classes tomorrow." Dumbledore said after he stood up and had gotten everyone's attention. "I know that the sorting of students into the houses tookplace yesterday but I must, again, ask for your attention as another student needs to be sorted." Dumbledore said. Everyone in the hall started whispering to his or her neighbor about who the new student might be. "I present to you our newest student, Ms. Hermoine Granger. She has been transferred from Drumstrang and is new to Hogwarts. She is a sixth year. I hope that you all will make her feel welcome and help her, especially those in her house."
As Hermione walked toward the staff table, some of the boys were whistling. "Wow, Prongs mate, you didn't tell us she's that pretty." Sirius said eyeing Hermione and giving James a pat in the back.
"I wasn't paying attention to her looks, Padfoot. I was trying to figure out who she was and why she looked confused. I don't think she knows anyone here." James said.
"She will when she gets sorted into Slytherin." Sirius said nodding toward Lucius Malfoy's direction.
"What? Malfoy?" James said confused.
"Yeah. I won't be surprised if he gets her. She's pretty and from Drumstrang, so she probably has some evil in her that Malfoy would want to be associated with." Sirius said as he turned his attention back to the girl sitting on the stool with the sorting hat on her head. It seemed that the hat was taking forever to sort the houseless girl. Finally the hat made its decision.
"GRYFFINDOR!" The hat announced. All the Gryffindors clapped.
"Let's motion for her to sit by us." James said, scooting to make a seat available for Hermione.
"Hermione! Over here!" James said as he waived at Hermione indicating for her to sit next to him and the rest of the Marauders.
End of James' POV
Hermione's POV
Hermione walked down the stairs to the Gryffindor table. She didn't know where to sit, because she didn't know anyone. Just as she was feeling lost and alone she spotted a girl motioning for her to sit by her. Hermione looked at the girl with the emerald green eyes and knew that she must be Harry's mum. She walked to where Lily was sitting and saw that James was also telling her to sit by him. She mouthed to him a 'sorry' and sat beside Lily.
"Hi, I'm Lily Evans." Lily introduced herself.
"Nice to meet you, Lily." Hermione said smiling. 'Harry's mom looks really pretty. I wish Harry was here to see his parents rather than me,' Hermione thought. 'But then again, what use will it do for Harry if he hung on and hoped for what's not there?' Hermione thought to herself, feeling slightly guilty for having the opportunity to see Lily and James.
"Have you met James Potter before?" Lily asked Hermione curious as to why James wanted the new girl to sit by him and his friends.
"Um...yeah. I have. I met him earlier before I came in. He seems really nice." Hermione said as she reached for the food in front of her to fill her plate.
"Well, he's not nice." Lily said as she started filling her plate. "You might want to stay away from them, I mean James and his friends." Lily advised. "See those three sitting next to James?" Lily pointed at the guy sitting next to James and the two across him. "That one with the dark hair," Lily motioned to Sirius Black as if Hermione didn't know him, or them. "Is Sirius Black, he's Potter's right hand in all the pranks. They're the cause of all the trouble and pranks that happen here. You shouldn't be attracted by him; he goes out with girls and dumps them as fast as eating sunflower seeds." Lily said.
Hermione looked at Sirius who had very handsome features. His hair was dark brown, while his grey eyes reflected a dangerous spirit. His lips were hot pink, which made Hermione lick her own. 'Oh my god 'Mione you're drooling on your best friend's godfather who's dead,' she thought. As the thought of Sirius' death came to her, she felt like crying. Sirius was sitting right in front of her looking far better than she had seen him; when he was a prisoner from Azkaban on the run. 'I can't believe, I'm going thru this,' Hermione thought. It was enough for her to go through the impact of Sirius' death the first time, now she has to go over it again. Hermione reverted her attention back to Lily and her food.
"The little boy in front of Sirius is Peter Pettigrew. He doesn't do very much but, idolize James and follow him around." At the mention of Peter Pettigrew's name, Hermione had a feeling of hatred stir in her. "The other boys protect him since he's the weakest, especially James." Lily added. Hermione couldn't understand how Pettigrew could betray James in the future. "Remus Lupin, the one next Pettigrew, is a perfect but he's with the other two. He's not much of a troublemaker so I don't know why he hangs out with Black and Potter. You should stay way from the Marauders--" Lily concluded, but was interrupted by Hermione.
"The what?" Hermione asked Lily confused.
"The Marauders. Potter, Black, Lupin, and Pettigrew are called the Marauders in this school." Lily explained
"So that's why the map is called the Marauders Map." Hermione thought out loud.
"What was that? Sorry, I didn't hear you." Lily asked pushing her plate away.
"Um...Nothing." Hermione said quickly.
"Well, you should eat because, we're going to bed in twenty minutes." Lily said as she glanced at her watch.
Hermione stopped thinking and continued to eat her dinner. After she finished she moved her plate away and started drinking her pumpkin juice. Just as Hermione reached for her cup a girl came up to introduced herself.
"Hi, I'm Summer. I'm the life of the Gryffindors." Summer said confidently. Lily laughed at that statement. Hermione gave Summer a smile and said "hello."
"Actually Summer, we're the life of the party if you've forgotten." Sirius said making his way to where the girls were sitting.
"How could we ever forget?" Lily commented. Sirius ignored her.
"Hi, I'm Sirius Black." Sirius said introducing himself to Hermione.
"Pleasure to meet Sirius." Hermione said smiling and extending her hand to shake his.
"The pleasure is all mine, Lover." Sirius said kissing Hermione's hand and giving her a mischievous smile. Hermione blushed. 'He's so charming,' Hermione thought. Lily at the other hand was glaring knives at Sirius.
"C'mon Hermione. We should go before the rest of them come over." Lily said dragging Hermione away from Sirius.
"All right, all right. I'm coming." Hermione said kind of getting annoyed with Lily's dislike of the Marauders, especially James.
"I'm sorry. I just can't stand Potter. He's so egoisticial." Lily said.
"Maybe you should give him a chance, Lily." Hermione said. Lily looked at her as if she lost her mind.
"Obviously, you don't know him. You wouldn't say that if you did." Lily said. Hermione didn't say anything else, thinking that she wanted Lily as a friend rather than an enemy, though unlikely. Everyone had gotten out of their seat and was making their way to their dormitories.
"So do you know where you're sleeping?" Lily asked Hermione changing the subject.
"Yeah. In the Gryffindor girls dormitory." Hermione answered confused why Lily would ask her such an obvious question.
"Of course you will, but with who?" Lily asked.
"I don't know." Hermione answered.
"Well you can be in our dormitory since we have one unoccupied bed." Lily said.
"Thanks." Hermione said feeling lucky that she would get to know Lily better, so she could tell Harry about her.
"Lils! 'Mione! Wait up!" Summer yelled at Lily and Hermione over the heads of the students. Lily and Hermione walked to the side of the door to wait for her.
"So what classes are yo—" Hermione started to ask when someone calling her name interrupted her.
"Ms. Granger" the intruder said. ' Like I don't know my name.' Hermione thought. She turned around to look at him. Unfortunately it was Lucius Malfoy who looked very much like his future son, Draco.
"Lucius Malfoy." Malfoy introduced himself. She decided to keep up the pretense. She shook his offered hand.
"Nice to meet you, Malfoy." Hermione said giving Malfoy a fake smile.
"Please call me Lucius." Malfoy said pulling Hermione to him. "I hoped you would be in Slytherin, so you and I can get acquainted." Malfoy whispered in Hermione's ear. She could actually smell his cologne, which smelled better than she thought it would. He was so close to her, he was breathing on her neck.
"Get away from her Malfoy." James said, coming to Hermione's rescue. Hermione remembered Harry and how he had also rescued her from Malfoy, among other things. James took Hermione's hand and pulled her away from Malfoy, but Malfoy wasn't paying attention; he was looking at the beauty in front of him. There was something about her that he couldn't resist, even though he didn't know her very well. Malfoy knew he wanted Granger to be his and he wasn't afraid to go to any extent to get her.
"See you tomorrow, Ms.Granger." Lucius Malfoy said darkly not paying attention to the three other boys who were standing behind James ready for action at any moment.
"Did he do anything to you?" James asked Hermione.
"No, no he didn't." Hermione answered. She didn't know why he was suddenly so protective of her, she didn't care, she wanted to be James' friend. Besides she was use to being protected by Harry and Ron so this wasn't any different.
They all started walking toward the Gryffindor common room, with the Marauders telling Hermione about their pranks. Lily was on Hermione's left side, trying to avoid James.
"Thanks, James, for helping me with Malfoy." Hermione lied. She could have protected herself from Malfoy if it had been necessary, but it wasn't." 'Harry always liked to be recognized for his heroics,' Hermione thought. She never told Harry that, he would get angry with her.
"You're welcome." James said.
They waked to the fat lady, and said the password "Mermaids." The girls and boys said "good night", except for Lily who went straight into her dorm before James got the chance to tell her good night.
"You can sleep here." Lily said to Hermione indicating to a bed next to the window overlooking the lake.
"Thanks." Hermione mumbled.
"Where's your trunk?" Lily asked, looking around their dorm for it.
"My trunk?" Hermione asked. ' Oh,. it got lost when I came here. That's it.' Hermione thought.
"It got lost on my way here." Hermione lied. She now was becoming accustomed with lying.
"Here, you can borrow these." Lily said looking in her closet and taking out sweat pants and a shirt. She gave them to Hermione to wear.
"Thanks, Lily." Hermione said. 'Wow, Harry's mom is really generous and nice, that must where Harry got it from,' Hermione thought. She went into the bathroom and changed clothes. Hermione got into bed and started thinking about how exciting tomorrow would be to start classes.
Sirius' POV
Sirius got to their dorm and started changing into his sleeping shorts (A/N is that what boys wear when they sleep? I don't know).
"So how come you're so protective toward Hermione, Prongs?" Sirius asked, not sure why he did. He felt a little jealous of the way James protected her from Malfoy and when they were walking toward their dorms James and Hermione talked as if they knew each other. Even though he was jealous of James' relationship with Hermione he hoped it wasn't evident in his question.
"I don't know but, she seems really friendly, like a nice girl, Padfoot." James answered as he got into bed.
"Or maybe, Prongs, our Padfoot wants to go out with her and feels jealous." Remus said as if reading Sirius' mind.
"I don't want to go out with her." Sirius said protesting.
"Why not? She's pretty. Don't you like going out with pretty girls?" Remus asked Sirius teasingly.
"She is pretty. I just don't like her." Sirius said. He started disliking Hermione from that moment because, she'd been making him feel jealous and he rarely gets jealous, because of a girl.
"Keep telling yourself that, Padfoot." Remus said. James was already asleep, Sirius thought since he wasn't participating in Sirius' and Remus' conversation. Peter was also asleep because, he was snoring as he always did. Fortunately the boys had grown use to Peter's snores, so it didn't bother them anymore.
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