Hope Does not Disappoint Us
Summary:
Hermione goes back in time to save her parent's life, but accidentally goes to far and ends up in the time of Lily's and James's seventh year. Hermione falls in love, but what happens when she has to return to her own time? Will he love her twenty years later? HGSS
Disclaimer:
I do not own any characters or settings. They belong to J.K. Rowling.
And hope does not disappoint us...
Romans 5:5
Chapter 2
Dining, Divinations, and Dueling
As Hermione entered the common room she was greeted by a girl with auburn hair and green eyes. "Hello, you must be the new girl. Dumbledore just sent me an owl." The girl extended her hand warmly, "I'm Lily Evans." She pointed to the boy that appeared at her side, "This is James Potter. We are Head Girl and Head Boy."
Hermione tried to keep the look of shock off her face as she answered, "Nice to meet you, I'm Hermione Granum."
"The headmaster asked me to take you to Hogsmeade to get your supplies. Would you like to go now or later?"
"Now sounds great!" Hermione replied happily.
"You don't mind if some of my friends come along do you?" James inquired.
"Of course not," she replied. Lily and James then proceeded to introduce her to Sirius, Remus, and Peter. Hermione grimaced as she shook Peter's hand. Peter, who seemed all too happy to meet Hermione, couldn't keep his eyes off her. It was weird to "meet" these people when they were so young, when Hermione knew what the future would hold for each of them.
The six teenagers walked to Hogsmeade talking excitedly. Sirius and James were talking about quidditch. Lily, Remus, and Hermione talked about the classes they like and disliked. Hermione found she had much in common with Lily. Peter walked beside Hermione. Often she would glance at him and find he was staring at her which Hermione found quite unnerving. Hermione soon forgot the fact that Peter was watching her and had a wonderful time with her new friends. They are dinner at the Three Broomsticks. Then headed back to the castle and all went straight to bed, exhausted from the day's excitement.
Hermione was the first in her dorm to rise the next morning, so she took a shower and got ready in silence. As she left the Gryffindor common room she noted the clock read 6:00. When she arrived in the great hall she was surprised to see that it was arranged differently then it was in her time. Looking around she saw that the only other occupant was a raven-haired boy. She walked over to him and politely asked if she could sit across from him. He nodded and continued eating. She sat down and served himself some food. Hermione tried to make conversation, "Thanks for helping me yesterday. I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't of showed up. By the way, my name is Hermione Granum. What's your name?"
The boy looked at her for the first time and answered, "Severus Snape."
Hermione chocked. The handsome, king boy sitting right infront of her was the future, evil, potions professor?
Severus looked sad and said, "So they told you already?"
"Told me what already?" Hermione questioned although she already knew the answer.
"They told you I'm mean and that nobody should sit with me." Severus replied with a tone of indifference.
"Of course not," Hermione half-lied, "I just knew a kid at my old school named Severus. Not a common name is it? It's kind of neat that I know two Severus's"
"That is sort of strange," he admitted.
An owl flew in and dropped a letter in Hermione's lap. Quickly she opened it and read:
Dear Miss Hermione Granum:
Here is your revised schedule. I had to switch Arithmacy for Divinations. I hope you don't mind.
Sincerely,
Albus Dumbledore
Hermione groaned as she looked at her new schedule. She had divinations for the first.
"What's that?" questioned Severus curiously.
"Oh nothing, just my schedule. They had to swap Arithmacy for Divinations." Hermione answered him dully.
"Really, I have Divinations first session. What about you?" asked Severus.
"Me too, do you mind showing me where the classroom is? I get lost so easily," Hermione lied just looking for an excuse to get to know Severus better.
Hermione and Severus managed to keep a conversation on for the rest of breakfast. Hermione was surprised how easy it was to talk to him. When other students started to arrive for breakfast Severus asked Hermione if she would like to start making their way to Divinations. Hermione agreed and they made their way towards the classroom.
As they were talking Hermione learned that Severus thought that divination was full of frauds. She giggled and told him all about her "old, fraudy, divination professor" (a.k.a. Tralawney) They began to scheme tricks to play on the current divination professor, Professor Calmany.
When the silver ladder descended and all the other students arrived, Hermione noted that Severus was the only student that she knew.
As it turned out Professor Calmany was the same old fraud as Tralawney, only she was twice her size. They would be "reading" tea leaves of each others cups. When the finished reading each other's tea cups Hermione and Severus gave each other a slight nod and stood up. They walked to Professor Calmany's desk together with small smirks on their faces.
"Do you need help?" Calmany said in a misty voice.
"No, we were just wondering if we could read your tea leave, you know, for extra practice."
The teacher smiled and returned, "I don't see why not, remember open your inner eye." Professor Calmany drained the last of her tea and Severus pointed his wand discreetly at the cup and muttered something. Thankfully the professor didn't notice.
Hermione shrieked and stared at the cup and fake horror. Severus gasped also and clutched his heart and fell to his knees. Hermione could hardly suppress her giggles.
"Pr…pro…professor," she stammered. "I'm s-s-sorry, but…" Hermione took in a dramatic breath and continued, "You have a grim!"
The professor paled slightly, but recovered saying, "Of course I don't. Let me see the cup, you must be misreading it."
The rest of the class crowded around to get a view of the spectacle. "He professor, have a look for yourself. That is one unhappy cup." Hermione stated as she handed to the tea cup to her professor.
Professor Calmany grew very pale and said, "It is true."
"Here professor," Hermione handed the poor professor a copy of What to Do When You Know the Worst is Coming.
"The professor let out a small gasp and then managed to choke out, "Thank you. Class dismissed."
Once Hermione and Severus were far out of earshot of the classroom and other students they both burst out laughing. They laughed so hard they both clutched their stomachs and began rolling around. Hermione thought about how nice it was to hear him laugh instead of scowl for once.
Hermione heard footsteps; she looked up to see Peter Pettigrew walking down the corridor with his wand out and pointed at Severus. Severus was laughing so hard he didn't even notice.
Peter muttered a curse to throw at Severus. "Protego!" Hermione yelled sending the curse away from Severus. The spell hit the wall and left a scorch mark wherer it hit. Hermione jumped to her feet and stood between Severus and Peter.
Peter cast another spell, this time at Hermione. She deflected this once also. Peter looked evil and frightened at the same time.
"I know all about you, Wormtail!" Hermione spat out. "I know who you work for, your killing yourself; trust me." Hermione knew a lot about Peter from her own time. When he was caught, he confessed that he had become a deatheater at the beginning out his seventh year. He confessed to the murder of many people. Even though he had confessed he was still sentenced to death.
Peter looked positively terrified at Hermione's words, "You know nothing about me," he squeaked. Then he sent another curst flying at Hermione.
She had had enough, "Expelliarmus!" She cried. Peter's wand flew to Hermione's outstretched hand. "Petrifus Totalus." Hermione bound him. She took his wand and laid it by his petrified body, and she whispered to him, "Don't you ever think about hurting my friends again."
Severus stared at her in awed silence. Then spoke, "You shouldn't have done that for me. I could have handled it myself."
Hermione cocked an eyebrow at him and he corrected himself, "Well, I guess the first one would have hit me, but I would have taken him out after that, but Thanks."
"No problem," Hermione replied, "I've been dying to do that to him since I met him." They both laughed and made their way to the great hall for lunch.
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