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Fear raced through Hermione, and she stared at Harry. "Impossible," she breathed. There was the sound of approaching footsteps, coming down both the boy and girl staircases. "Quick," Harry whispered, casting a wary look at the boy's side. "Just act casual."
Hermione nodded, and flung herself onto a nearby chair.
For the next ten minutes she was prodded with questions.
"Why did you do that?" Gladys would ask.
Another girl, with dirty blonde hair, said, "Just don't do that again."
Harry was receiving the same treatment, only the boys were doing the interrogating. Once the crowd had slowly dispersed, Hermione buried her face in her hands. "What's going on?" she moaned.
Harry didn't answer. He started getting up, and muttered, "Meet me at the library. Tonight, if you can get away."
Hermione also got to her feet, and started up the girl's staircase. "Sure," she said over her shoulder.
Again, she was bombarded with questions, all of which she ignored, putting on her robes, and Head Girl badge. Hermione walked down the stairs again, and out of the portrait hole. The Fat Lady was still there. Hermione walked down the corridor, noting a few slight changes in décor, but nothing too out of the ordinary until she saw who was walking up to her. A boy with slicked back white blonde hair and a pointed face was trotting down the corridor, coming from the opposite direction. It was almost as if Draco Malfoy had an identical twin, but, like Harry, were differences. The once pale grey eyes were darker, and the hair was longer. But Draco still had his old strut, and Hermione saw it was him, yet different. She had stopped in her tracks, as had Draco. For the first time since Hermione had met him, he didn't have a rude smart-alec thing to say. "Malfoy?"
Draco still hadn't said anything. He turned on his heels and ran. But not before Hermione saw what was pinned to his robes. A black badge with two silver letters emblazoned on it: HB. Head Boy. Draco Malfoy, or the form he was in, was Head Boy.
Hermione turned around, and also ran. She crawled through the portrait hole, and was about to start running up the boy's staircase before a thought stopped her. Apparently everyone went crazy because Hermione and Harry weren't allowed to wear their night things down to the common room. So that probably meant the girls weren't allowed up in the boy's dormitory. With a sigh, Hermione sat down on one of the squashy armchairs, and waited. When the boys finally did come down, Harry was surrounded by a flock of boys. Hermione saw, with a quiet gasp, who three of the other boys were. One, with messy black hair similar to Harry's, only longer, was grinning, and said something that made the other boys laugh. Another was carrying a book and was searching through it while listening to his friends talk. And the last, was the shortest of them, had pale grey, watery eyes and buckteeth. His voice was abnormally high as he laughed. "Sirius…Lupin…Wormtail." Hermione was astounded at who she was seeing. Sirius was dead…yet he was there, talking. With a shock, Hermione realized what had happened. Time!
She tried to get Harry's attention, but his gaze was fixed on Sirius' face. Hermione felt a flush of frustration, but forced it down. She would have to be patient.
The girl followed the boys back out of the portrait hole, and down the Grand Staircase. Several paintings and statues Hermione knew along the way were gone, and others in their places. But the Great Hall was the same, with the four long house tables, and decorations. Hermione found a seat, and vaguely saw a Slytherin eying her strangely. She ignored him, and pulled a stack of toast towards her. Hermione was putting generous amounts of margarine on her toast when the Slytherin tapped her on the shoulder. She looked up at him. "Who the hell are you?"
"Tom…" the boy made a face, before continuing, "Marvolo Riddle."
Hermione turned back to her toast. "Mmm…is this supposed to mean anything to me?"
"I don't know."
"Right. You don't know if your name is supposed to mean anything to me, but it actually does. Go away."
Tom walked away, leaving Hermione muttering, "What a seriously weird guy…and where have I heard the name Tom Riddle before?" shrugging, she took a bite of toast. "Who cares?"
Hermione tried to get another conversation in with Harry, but he was always surrounded with the usual crowd- Sirius, Lupin and Wormtail. Sirius kept looking at Harry with a confused look on his face, then at another person, a red-haired girl with stunning green eyes. Hermione recognised her from her own dormitory, an extremely quiet girl who seemed to almost have an iron grip inside, but refused to show it. Hermione joined in with some conversations with Gladys, but still hadn't found out the name of the red head. And she had to try and remember who Tom was. But he's a nobody, she argued with herself. But I've heard someone say it before…but who?
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