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Hermione blinked, the early morning light shining across her face. Untangling herself from the bedsheets, she stared around the room. It must've been late, because nobody was there. She knew normally she should have been a little hurt Lily or one of the other girls hadn't woken her up like usual. But right now, she was kind of happy not to have anybody to deal with.
Hopefully Lily hadn't mentioned any thing Hermione said last night to the boys. Although, she was pretty sure they would think Lily was crazy, anyways.
She huffed, then flopped down beside her sack and dug around for her school robes.
After getting changed, she gathered up her wand, and headed out the door.
She was skipping classes.
Something that she NEVER did.
But she had to go to the library because that was way more important right now.
'Maybe, if I find a way to get us back really soon, I wont have to explain to Lily the whole future thing.'
'No, I can't do that!'
'But if I tell them, Harry will let it slip about how Petigrew is a traitor!'
'And that hes their son.'
'Wow, we are talking major league future changes here.'
'Hermione, Hermione, Hermione. What have you gotten yourself into?'
She entered through the library front doors. A much younger Madam Prince was sitting at her round desk at the middle of the room, and raised a questioning eyebrow at Hermione as she made her way to a back table.
She was determined to find out how to get them back, even if Dumbledore himself couldn't, and also, she would find out what would happen after they went back. Would everyone remember them, or would their memories be erased when they were in the present time?
One other question plagued Hermione's mind, as she searched through the stack of books she had picked from the shelves.
'Will we ever get back?'
She threw yet another book down onto the table after it proved to be useless to her.
'What if Ron doesn't believe me when I tell him that kissing Sirius wasn't my fault?'
'I wonder what he thinks was happening between us?'
'Oh God, what if he never forgives me?'
'What if he hates me now?'
'Maybe he thought .. no, don't be ridiculous !'
'Its not like Ron and I are married! Or even going out for that matter!'
'I have a right to kiss whomever I please!'
At this thought Hermione raised her hand to wipe off tears that were flooding down her cheeks.
She pulled out another book on time travel, all the books so far, and including this one were very basic. Then it hit her.
'Of course there wouldn't be anything advanced here, they wouldn't want students mucking around with time!'
Then, yet another light bulb flicked on in her mind...
'The restricted section'
Hermione peered around Madam Prince who was now very near to her stacking the shelves, If only she had Harry's invisibility cloak.
But Harry's invisibility cloak was here, only it wasn't Harry's yet.
Hermione tore off full speed towards the Common room, her heart racing.
When she finally got there she was very out of breath ,and sunk onto the floor for a moment after entering the common room.
The whole place was deserted, it was, after all around four o-clock in the afternoon.
Hermione gathered her strength and climbed the stairs to the boys dormitories.
She peered around, checking to see if the coast was clear, which, luckily it was.
"Thank heavens." Hermione sighed as she made her way into the room.
"Which one is James..." She questioned out loud, looking at the fourposter beds.
Hermione knew which one was Harry's instantly, for there was a heavy peppermint scent around his bed, and on his trunk was a picture of Ginny.
She spotted Ron's, she could tell it was him, It had the faintest smell of chocolate surrounding the bed. Probably from late night snacking on chocolate frogs.
The Hermione found Sirius' bed, it was easy to tell it was him because of that cologne.
'What did Sirius do, dump a bottle of cologne on his bed sheets!' she thought.
Then she found it, James' bed, it had to be, who else would have a picture of him and Lily on the pillow?
Hermione found his trunk and lifted the cover, she didn't want to throw his things all about , so instead, she said;
"Accio invisibility cloak."
The liquid like cloak zoomed out into her hands. For a moment doubt overcame her. but she put it out of her mind and ran like a bat out of hell back to the library.
Hermione only stopped right outside the doors to put the cloak on then went in.
She cautiously made her way to the restricted section, watching Madam Prince out of the corner of her eye. casting "Alahermora" the iron gates clicked, before swinging out and open.
Once inside she searched for hours until she came across a book that interested her.
Hermione read silently...
'Time does not go in circles, although it may seem it. Time goes in a straight line, it only makes you think you can master it.'
Hermione turned the page.
'Time is a dangerous thing to be meddled with, although it has never been proven that you can go back in time more than a few days it seems quite possible.'
Hermione read the next paragraph
'Time Turners are the only possible way to change time, that being, the ministry of magic scarcely lets anyone use them.'
That was all for that book, Hermione plucked another off the shelf, it was titled...
The mysteries of time. By Akadora Samuels.
Hermione flipped threw the pages until one story caught her eye.
'There once was a case, a few years back where a young woman lost a child, later she found the infant safely on her bed, being put there by a mirror like figure that vanished when she laid eyes on it. Later our sources say that she concocted a legal potion, making improvises by adding a genuine Time Turner, and a mix between powdered mugwort and fossilized sand, apparently she thought of the place and time she had to go and went there, she found, and returned the child, how we do not know. But when her past self saw herself she vanished. Also, Research done by my team confirm that after a full moon cathrim passes, the person(s) who fell back in time would vanish forever. Although, once again, this has not been proven.'
Hermione's eyes grew wide, this had to be it, it had to be! And that would happen tonight.
'Great,' she thought, 'perfect timing.'
But how to tell Dumbledore, he hadn't found the book yet, obviously, so maybe she had to help him.
Hermione pulled the book as far as the chain that connected it with the shelf allowed and then.
'discendo.'
The chain was severed.
Hermione put her wand back in her robes and tucked the book under her arm.
Madam Prince rushed into the room before Hermione had time to leave, she looked shocked and panicky as she started to shuffle books.
Then she saw the remainder of the chain dangling over the shelf, Hermione backed up under the invisibility cloak, only now noticing that the chain was glowing blue.
Trying hard to hold her breath , Hermione moved around Madam Prince and started to tip toe out into the main library again, leaving Madam Prince to her search for the stolen book.
Hermione realized if she gave the book to the present day Dumbledore nothing good could come of it, so she ( still hidden under the invisibility cloak ) searched for a place to leave the book that future Dumbledore would be sure to find.
Hermione knew just what to do.
She slipped the cloak off and covered the book with it, then reduced the lot of it, and stuffed it in her pocket.
Hermione ran so fast she smashed into a suite of armor, but her adrenalin was so high she hardly felt it. When she reached the great oak doors that lead to the outside she collapsed holding her sides.
"Hermione?" she heard Lily call.
'Great, she'll be sure to want explanations.'
"Are you alright? What happened?"" Lily asked.
Hermione was taken aback by Lily's kindness, she was so trusting!
"Your bleeding!" Lily exclaimed pointing at Hermione's ankle.
Sure enough Hermione saw her ankle and lower leg were covered in blood, and moments after looking Hermione was overcome with a great wave of pain coming from the injured area.
"I'm fine, thanks Lily, I just really have to see Hagrid about something."
"Why?" asked Lily, confused.
Hermione could see through a window from her spot on the floor, the sun would be setting soon, Dumbledore had to bring them back really soon, or else.
"Lily, I don't have time to explain, this is life and death!" Hermione moaned as she tried to stand up.
"Hermione, students are not aloud to go to Hagrid's cabin, its too far back in the forest." Lily said.
'Shit, it must have been moved from now to 2005.' Hermione thought as her ankle gave out and she met the hard floor again.
"Well, this has to get to him really soon, or else, Harry, Ron and I are all dead." said Hermione, very seriously.
"Really, why?" asked Lily, obviously very confused.
Hermione saw the look in Lil's eyes and decided, there was no chance now, nothing she could do would get the book to Hagrid fast enough so she might as well tell Lily the truth before the second night of the full moon came.
"Lily, I told you I'd tell you the truth, well here it goes."
Hermione said, her eyes darting around to make sure nobody overheard her, but the rest of the area in view seemed deserted.
"I read about this, its away to get us back to our time, hopefully, and ..." Hermione was cut off by Lily.
"What did you read about?"
"Oh, its a book, its wrapped in James' invisibility cloak iin my pocket.
Hermione was interrupted again.
"How did you know about that?"
"Because Harry inherited it from James, his father, and your his mother, so I figured James would have it, it was the only way to get into the restricted section, so I stole it, I was going to bring it back, I swear, then I found this book, it said all this stuff about this potion and maybe it could be reversed and it could get me and my friends back home..."
Hermione stopped, she was out of breath and her ankle was bleeding so heavily Hermione felt dizzy.
Lily saw this and took out her wand, then she started to try to stop the blood from coming.
"Lily, I'm so sorry I lied to you, and everybody, but now its too late, I failed them, both Harry and ... Ron, Now we'll all die, Ron will think that I never really loved him... I never got to tell him."
Tears seemed to be drowning Hermione, Lily all the time trying to help with her wound.
They stayed there in silence.
"You can't tell anybody about Harry, or you and James, it would disrupt the future." Hermione finished, still pouring out tears.
"Why does Hagrid need this book?" Lily asked
"Because, Dumbledore trusts him, I would tell him that I'm from the future, and in 2005 when I disappear, he could give Dumbledore the book." Hermione chocked.
"And there's no way to get the book to him in time?" Lily asked, tears brimming around her eyes.
"No, I don't think I could get to his cabin, through the forest, on one leg, when I don't even know were it is." said Hermione desperatly.
"And you think you could get, through the forest, on one leg, if you knew were the cabin was?" A deep voice joked, coming out from under the stairs. it was Sirius.
"Funny." Lily snapped impatiently.
Sirius came down and nealt by Hermione.
"Give me the book." He instructed.
Hermione closed her eyes against the pain and reached into her pocket. Once brought both the cloak, and the book out they returned to normal size.
Just then Hermione noticed Sirius was carrying a broom in his left hand, the book in his right.
"Why are you here?" Lily asked impatiently, silent tears still falling.
"Well ,I plan planning on flying. But if you have a better idea."
The he pushed open the door, book under his arm, and took off flying.
"Lily, get Hermione to the hospital wing, and tell Ron to go there to, I think they need to talk." Sirius said, and with that he took off in the direction of the forest.
Thats when Hermione passed out.
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I hope you liked that chapter, as always please review and last but not least I know cathrim isn't a real word, but sorry, I'm not very intelligent and I couldn't think of anything else to put besides a word I made up that would represented the second day of the full moon. And I thought second day would work for two reasons, one its inbetween the last day and the first, so its kinda the middle. And second, its just perfect timing isn't it? Lol.
So thats another chapter rewritten. One to go!
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much l0ve,
KatrinaLee