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Chapter 2: The Story of My Life
Dumbledore winced slighty as a glass swan, a gift from a muggle born student in back in nineteen eighty smashed against his office wall. He turned to the irate boy-who-lived in front of him and waited.
Harry seethed. "Where is she?" he asked, breathing deeply, tears of despair running down his face. "Tell me now. I can't…" He paused as his voice caught, "I can't lose both of them."
"I know where Miss Granger has gone," The headmaster replied, indicating that Harry should sit.
Harry remained standing.
"Where?" he asked, drawing his wand and heading for the door, "Tell me where she is Sir."
"I suggest you take a seat and wait for Sirius and Remus to arrive."
Harry shot a questioning look at the Headmaster.
"They shouldn't be too long," Dumbledore continued, knowing Sirius at least would be seeing the Gryffindor Students.
This seemed to have the calming effect Harry needed.
"Ginny," he gasped. "I need to see her, she's all alone."
"I believe that the twins have arrived are with her at this very moment."
That said the door to the office opened revealing a sombre looking werewolf followed by a angry Animagus.
"How many?" asked the Headmaster.
"Ten," said Remus, his voice barely audible, "All sixth or seventh years, four from Gryffindor, two from each of the other houses, and Madame Rosmerta."
"Where's Hermione?" Sirius asked, looking around the room. "She's not in the hospital wing, I've just come from there."
"Four?" asked Harry, "I know of Dean and..and Ron but…" he faltered and turned to Sirius. "I don't know where Hermione is."
Sirius turned to Dumbledore, "You don't think?" he asked, standing behind Harry and resting his hands on his shoulders.
Dumbledore nodded, his blue eyes sparkling.
Harry looked over his shoulder at Sirius, "You know where she is."
Sirius nodded and glanced at Remus. "Maybe you should take a seat." He said to Harry.
"I'm going to floo Tonks," Remus said, "She'll be able to help."
"Thank you Remus," Sirius replied as the werewolf quietly left the room.
Harry sat down as Sirius suggested, watching Dumbledore and waiting for his answers.
"We do not know where Miss Granger is currently, Harry. We know what happened and where she went, but unfortunately we do not know her precise location."
Harry frowned, "I don't understand." He said, turning to Sirius, "You know where she went, but you don't know where she is?"
"She was sent back in time." Sirius answered, watching his Godsons reaction carefully.
"What?" Harry whispered "How far?"
"Twenty years ago a girl with bushy hair fell from the sky into my arms. We thought she was suffering from amnesia, she was injured when she arrived, we all assumed she'd been in a battle and had blocked her memories." Sirius shifted in his seat and faced Harry, "This girl with curls had a remarkable resemblance to your Hermione."
"My Hermione?" asked Harry
"This girls name was Hermione too. She was our Hermione, Hermione Thomas."
Harry frowned, "She took Deans name?"
Sirius nodded, "It was muggleborn, that brilliant mind of hers was working as soon as she woke up in the Hospital wing." He finished, smiling fondly.
Harry's eyes hardened slightly and Sirius sat back at the anger flowing towards him.
"Why didn't you stop it? You must have know it was going to happen!" he accused his Godfather.
"There was no way to be certain." Dumbledore said speaking up for the first time. "Most just thought it was just a coincidence. Everyone apart from Sirius, that is," he added, nodding towards the animagus.
"So you do know where she is, she's back twenty years in the past," Harry said feeling a little confused.
"She went missing in June of nineteen seventy eight, we've been looking for her ever since," Sirius replied, his voice, barley louder than a whisper, broke as the words left his lips.
Harry could feel the clogs in his head ticking over, processing the information "So she's somewhere here, but she'll be twenty years older?"
Sirius sighed, "That's one possibility, the one we hope is true among the others, including being trapped once again in another time."
"And if Miss Granger is still alive," said Dumbledore.
Harry face paled and Sirius spun his steel gaze on the Headmaster, "She is alive Headmaster. I know it. I feel it"
Harry sent his godfather a questioning look.
"Perhaps" Dumbledore said quietly, ignoring Sirius' glare. "You should start from the beginning."
"But we need to find her," desperation evident in Harry's tone.
"Its okay Harry, we have Order members searching now, that is where Remus has gone. You may want to hear the story your Godfather and Remus have to offer," said Dumbledore with a sparkle in his eyes.
Harry glanced questioningly at Sirius, "You knew her well?"
Sirius nodded, "We were all friends." He stood and motioned for Harry to follow, "Let's go mate, Molly and Arthur should have arrived by now, we'll go see them first, then we'll find Remus and we can start filling in the blanks."
