Chapter 13: Transfer Student

Hermione woke up to an empty train compartment. Where were the guys and who's things were those? Her head was killing her.

Then the memories started rushing back to her. Malfoy coming into the compartment. Him and Ron pulled their wands and she jumped in between them. There was a blinding light and then she was here, alone.

She listened as laughter and footsteps approached the compartment.

"That was a good one Padfoot, old friend," one voice said.

Padfoot? Wait, no it can't be…

"Did you see his face Prongs? He never saw it coming. I bet he won't have the counter curse figured out before we get to Hogwarts. What do you say Moony?" the second voice said.

Prongs? Hogwarts? Moony? The realization of it all came crashing down on her. She was sent back in time!

"I think that it was a good spell, but you could have at least waited until we reached Hogwarts." That was Lupin's voice, she was sure of it.

"Oh well, let's go sit down," the first voice said as he slid open the door.

There stood an exact replica of Harry. He stopped when he caught site of her though and looked questionably at her. Behind him came the voice of Padfoot.

"Come on Prongs," he said as he shoved his way past, "your holding up the…" He stopped at the site of her. "Hello."

"Hello," Hermione answered back. "I'm really sorry, I didn't realize this compartment was taken. I'll just go."

Hermione go up to leave but Sirius stopped her. "No, it's all right, we don't mind sharing," he said with a grin.

Hermione tried to smile back but it was too hard. She had just come to terms with Sirius' death and now here he was. No worries showed in his warm blue eyes. His hair fell handsomely around his face and a heart-stopping grin spread across his face.

He laughed, "You can sit down. We don't bite," he teased. "Well, some of us don't," he said looking at Lupin.

She took the window seat and was surprised when Sirius opted to sit down beside her. James and Lupin sat across from them. Lupin broke the silence.

"Are you a first year?" He asked with interest.

"Um, no. I'm a transfer student," she said thinking fast, "from Beauxbaton."

"What year?" James asked.

"7th," she replied.

"Us too," Sirius said happily. "We can show you around. By the way, I'm Sirius Black. And those two are James Potter and Remus Lupin."

"I'm Hermione Granada," the Spanish town popping into her head. "I'll need to see Dumbledore when we reach the school."

"Naturally," Lupin said. "We'll take you of course."

"Thank you, if it's not to much of a problem that is," she added quickly.

"Oh it will be no problem at all," Sirius said happily leaning back.

As Lupin got Hermione on a discussion of books, he took time to study her. She was by far one of the prettiest girls he had ever seen. She had dark chocolate hair that hung in curls to her waist. Her eyes matched her hair and showed so much emotion that you could get lost in them. Her body had all the right curves in all the right places and her smile. Her smile could probably brighten a room.

He was distracted when the compartment door shot open. The object of James' fantasies stood there in the doorway. But to his and Lupin's surprise, James did not acknowledge her presence. Instead, he chose to stare out the window.

"I just came to reprimand you guys for what you did to Severus. I wish you guys would behave in the future," with that she turned and marched out.

"Wow, okay Hermione, that was Lily Evans. James is crazy about her."

"Yeah, but I'm giving up on that," James said.

"What?" Remus and Sirius exclaimed.

"It's useless to like her when she obviously detests me," James raged and left the compartment.

A/NHey ya'll…. I just thought I would take a break from my wonderful research of Henry IV and type some more of my story. I hope you guys like it and don't worry, James doesn't give up on Lily for long. Please Read and Review. Thanks