Hogwarts Letters – Hermione PoV
August 1997
"Helena, get out of my room!" I shouted at my younger sister. Helena rummaged through my bookshelf looking for some books. She was young, just over eleven now, bushy brown hair and straight teeth. Her hair wasn't quite as my hair usually was but you could tell that we were sisters by just the hair alone. Helena looked at me and Ron on my bed and grinned.
"You know that you're not allowed to have boys in your room. Especially him." Helena said.
"Good morning to you to Helena." Ron muttered. I glanced at Ron.
"Sorry." I said to him before getting off the bed and taking hold of my younger sister. When we had gone to Scotland the main purpose had been to get my sister back to London. She'd spent the last five years in a boarding school in Scotland at her request, she wanted to be closer to where I was going to school. Now she was delighted and kept reading my first year books because, surprise, surprise, she got a letter to go to Hogwarts. Helena, mum and dad were delighted whereas I thought it was going to be hell. It's one thing her coming to school but I didn't want her to meet any of the Slytherins, especially Draco Malfoy.
I went to my sister and pushed her out of the bedroom, slammed the door behind her and locked it with my wand.
"That should keep her out." I said to Ron. I turned to see Ron smiling. "What?"
"I'm glad my sister isn't quite that annoying." Ron said.
"Helena's just worried." I said, "She wants to know the person I'm going to marry." I said with a smile on my face. Ron's smile broadened at the phrase. I sat next to him on the bed and kissed his cheek.
"I still can't believe I got the courage to ask you to marry me. You know what I'm like with pressure type situations. If I run away at the wedding it's nothing personal." Ron said to me. I smiled and leant against his shoulder.
"Don't worry, I know what you're like." I said to him. Ron grinned and put his arms around my shoulders. "Besides, it's another year or so until we get married."
"Do we have to wait that long?" Ron asked. I turned to look at him.
"Why?" I asked him suspiciously. I wasn't really suspicious but it Ron looked really cute when he felt uncomfortable with something. His face began to turn red, as it usually did.
"Because I want you to be my wife, no other reason then that." He said. I couldn't help laughing softly as he tried to reply to my question. I kissed him to tell him that I really didn't care. He relaxed and kissed me back. He lay down completely on the bed so I was leaning on him slightly.
"Herm-" I put a finger against his lips and lay part of my body on him. He smiled and kissed my lips as I touched his lips with mine. He put his arms around me and pulled me closer when…
"HERMIONE!" Helena screamed through the door. Ron and I broke off the kiss as I sighed and went to the door. I unlocked it and opened the door.
"What!" I demanded as a flash of green light narrowly missed my head and struck the wood of my door frame. "Shit." I said pulling Helena into the bedroom. I turned to Ron. "Ron, we're being attacked." I said but he was already on his feet with his wand in his hand. He joined me near the door. I turned to my sister.
"Are you ok?" I asked her. She showed me a bit of her arm that was bleeding. I felt a weight lifting off my shoulders but an annoyance that my sister had been hurt. Mum and dad had gone to visit some friends for the day so I'd been stuck looking after Helena.
"Take Helena to the Potters." Ron suggested.
"How?" I asked him. Ron shrugged.
"Apparate?" He asked as a bit of my door splintered inwards. Ron covered his head with his arm while I moved in front of Helena.
"I can't apparate!" I told Ron.
"Correction, you haven't passed your test, do a double apparition thing!" Ron said, this time the entire door exploded. I took Helena in an embrace and thought of Harry's house. I felt the usual strange feeling of transporting my body from one place to another. I knew I'd arrived but before I opened my eyes and held my sister tightly, she was still here. I opened my eyes to look around Harry's living room. James Potter was sitting on the sofa with Lily Potter. They looked at me and Helena in surprise.
"Hermione!" Lily said in surprise.
"There's an attack at my house." I said, "Someone tried to attack us." James got to his feet immediately.
"Your parents?" He asked.
"They went to visit some friends." Helena told them. James nodded and disapparated. I felt my sister jump with surprise as he disappeared and Ron appeared next to us. Lily looked at the three of us then at Helena, she turned to me curiously.
"My younger sister. Lily, this is Helena, Helena this is Lily Potter." I said. Lily nodded.
"Ok, well, Hermione, where are your parents?" Lily asked.
"Windsor." Hermione said.
"Ok, I'll ask Molly if she'll go and get them, or at least tell them what's happened." Lily said. She began to get up but Ron stopped her.
"No, I'll go, you might hurt yourself." He said. Lily looked at him with a sceptical look.
"How much danger can apparating be? Ron, I'll go, honestly, I'm fine. Harry should be upstairs with Rhia. Emma is with Ginny in the garden." Lily told us.
"Ginny?" Ron asked.
"I don't know why she's here. Anyway, I'll be back in about ten minutes. Harry will keep you guys entertained." Lily said. She apparated out of the living room. I felt Helena jump again.
"We better go then." I said. I made my way to Harry's bedroom and knocked on his door.
"Emma go away."
"It's not Emma." Ron said. The door opened and Harry appeared in the doorway. His hair was a bit more messy then usual and his clothes were slightly askew.
"Hi, what are you guys doing here?" He looked at Helena, "Um…hi, I'm Harry Potter."
"I know." Helena said.
"Harry, this is my sister." I said to him. "We got attacked at home, your mum sent us up here."
"I'm busy." Harry moaned, "Never mind, come in." He said pushing the door open wider. Rhia looked rather annoyed his bed but she got up. "Sorry." He said to her.
"It doesn't matter, I should be getting home anyway, Jessie has been acting weirdly recently."
"How weirdly?" Ron asked.
"I don't know, she's just different. I'll see you guys soon" She said. Harry nodded and gave her a kiss. She picked up a jacket on the end of the bed and squeezed past us.
"Who's that?" Helena asked.
"Rhia Black."
"Oh, is she related to April Black?" Helena asked. The three of us looked at my sister.
"How do you know her?" Harry asked.
"She came to our grandparent's house a while ago. She was all beat up and she'd broken her arm and foot." Helena said.
"Ah, so you're the one she was talking about." I said, pretending to know what Helena was talking about.
"She told you?"
"Yeah, she told me about a bossy little girl who wouldn't leave her alone." I said.
"I'm not bossy!" Helena said, "You're bossy."
"No I'm not." I said. I heard the boys sniggering behind me so I spun to look at them. "You two say anything, you even laugh and I'll hex you!" I told them. Their faces went straight immediately but I could see their mouths twitching at the corners. Harry turned to Helena.
"If you go into the garden you'll see my sister, red head girl with green eyes, she'll keep you company for a while."
"I want to stay with Hermione." Helena said.
"Helena" I warned.
"What? What if she tries to kill me?" Helena asked.
"She won't!" I told her. "Just go." Helena grumbled as she left the room. I sighed as she finally left and shut the door.
"She's just like you." Harry grinned.
"No she's not." I said.
"She is." Ron said, "I tried to tell Hermione that earlier but she won't listen-ow!" He had been talking to Harry until I hit him.
"How have you guys been then? I haven't seen you since, what? Yesterday." Harry said with a smirk.
"You know, we got attacked at Hermione's house, nothing unusual." Ron said like it was nothing out of the ordinary.
"Really? We got attacked a week ago." Harry said.
"I know." Ron said. "We jumped out of a VIP window." I looked sharply at Ron, he knew my opinion on that and since I'd threatened not to talk to him he never mentioned it. I'd come straight home from Scotland as soon as I could when I heard about it. Harry sat on the corner of his desk as he smirked at Ron.
"At least my girlfriend doesn't get so annoyed with me so easily." Harry said.
"I don't get annoyed, I get worried." I told him. At this we both burst out laughing with Ron looking at both of us confused.
"Strange people." He muttered as he wondered to the window. I looked over at him.
"What are you looking at?" I asked.
"I'm curious as to what Ginny is doing, coming round here." Ron said.
"Something about Diagon Alley the other day, I'd guess that Emma and Ginny are gossiping." Harry told him.
"Possibly." Ron said uncertainly.
"Seroiusly, Ron, what's wrong?" I asked him.
"Nothing, don't worry." Ron said. I scowled at him for a moment and was about to say something but two people interrupted me.
"Get off me!"
"Andy, stop it you're hurting me!" shouted a boy that I didn't recognise with light brown hair. The girl had dark brown hair…or maybe it was black, I wasn't sure. She was pretty and would be prettier if it wasn't for a scar that ran across her left cheek from near her nose, across her cheek to her jaw. It wasn't very large or very hideous but it was noticeable. The boy had light brown hair that was cut short. It looked as though someone had mussed it up with their hands. The boy was slightly taller then the girl, both were wearing jeans, the boy wore a baggy top while the girl wore one that bared her midriff. What struck me most about the two were their eyes, bright green. I turned to Harry, who looked uncertainly at the two. The girl looked as though she was our age and the boy looked more like Emma's age, maybe younger. They seemed to stop quarrelling enough to notice us.
"Holy Merlin!" The boy said.
"Look what you've done now, you idiot!" The girl said hitting the boy round the head.
"Don't call me the idiot, it's your time turner!" The boy said.
"Time turner?" I asked them.
"Yeah, you know, transports you through time and…oh my god." The girl said, she stared at me with her mouth open. She looked at me, then Harry then at Ron then back to Harry again.
"Sam." She said nudging the boy.
"What is it?" The boy said as he looked around the room, "You know, this is like your room but for a boy." He said, "What have you done?"
"Look who it is." The girl said through gritted teeth. My hands instinctively went to my wand, Harry's wand was already in his hands but something about the two in front of us made us hesitate in using them.
"Who are you?" Harry asked.
"Sam P-" The boy started to say when the girl stamped on his foot, the boy started shouting in pain and cursing as the girl introduced them.
"He's Sam, I'm Andrea. It's nice to meet you, we haven't seen you in ages." She said like she was talking to a ghost.
"Like ten years." Sam said when Andrea stamped on his foot again. "Oh for crying out loud Andy!" He said hopping to the bed.
"Who are you?" Andrea asked.
"Harry, Harry Potter." Harry said.
"Hermione"
"And Ron." Ron finished. Andrea looked like she was torn between crying of sadness or happiness, I couldn't tell which because as she made her mind which emotion she was going to express she flew at Harry and pulled him into a hug. Harry staggered back in alarm and pushed the girl off him.
"Um, I don't know who you are but I have a girlfriend." Harry said.
"Oh yeah, I forgot." Andrea said with a smile.
"Andy, get over yourself." Sam said. "So, you're alive." Sam said curiously as he looked at us. I don't know why I felt like this but I felt like he was scrutinising us intensely as if measuring us. Usually if someone did this I wouldn't be all too bothered but this boy was weird.
"Um, did you say you got here by Time turner?" I asked after a few minutes once I'd recollected my thoughts.
"Yeah," Andrea held up a chair with the time turner attached to the end. Unfortunately the bottom half had broken off and the contents of the time turner disappeared as it left the instrument.
"Why do you have one of those?" Ron asked.
"Because McGonagall gave it to Andy." Sam answered.
"McGonagall?"
"Yeah, Head of Hogwarts." Sam said. "Don't you know."
"Dumbledore was head of Hogwarts when they were this age Sam." Andrea said to the boy.
"Was he?" Sam asked, he turned to us, "How old are you guys?"
"We're all seventeen." Ron said, "How old are you?"
"I'm seventeen, he's fourteen." Andrea said, "You're still only seventeen?" I looked at Harry uncertainly.
"I'm going to go and fetch mum." Harry said, "You two make sure that these two don't do anything dangerous, could we have your wands?"
"Um…why?" Sam asked, his hands going to his pockets.
"How are we to know that you aren't Death Eaters?" Ron asked.
"We're not." Sam said.
"We don't know that, wand or we'll curse you." Harry said with his wand out. Andrea immediately threw her wand to the floor. Sam was a bit more reluctant but he handed it to me. I took it. The wand felt strange in my hand but I put it in my pocket.
"We'll just sit here." Andrea said as she sat on the bed.
"Ok, will you two be ok?" Harry asked us.
"Yeah, we'll be ok, we have faced Voldemort after all." I said to Harry. Harry smiled and opened the door.
"Emma and Ginny are in the garden if you need them." Harry said before he left the room.
"Oh, Lily's gone to my house by the way!" Ron called after Harry. Harry swore and grumbled about having to use the Floo network. Andrea started laughing. Ron and I turned to look at her.
"What's so funny?" Ron asked.
"You're just like Grandmother told us." Andrea said.
"Who's your grandmother?" Ron asked with a frown.
"L-OW!" Sam said as Andrea hit him.
"We can't tell them anything!" Andrea said.
"Why not?" Sam asked, "They're our -" He stopped at Andrea's look.
"Ok, tell us who you really are." I said, getting impatient. I drew my wand and pointed it at them.
"We can't tell you." Andrea said.
"Why not?" I asked her.
"Because my birthday was the sixteenth February two thousand and one." Andrea said. I froze, 2001!
"But it's still only ninety seven." Ron said.
"Exactly." Andrea said, "That's why we can't tell you who we really are, just our first names."
"What's the point?" Sam muttered
"You must have spun the Time turner a lot if you managed to get this far in the past." I said to Andrea.
"It's his fault" Andrea said. She then turned and smiled. "I think we would have gotten along well."
"Would have?" Ron asked.
"It's a long story." Sam said. "One that I can't tell you cause my sister won't let me." He said, looking at Andrea
"Well, it seems to me that you could possibly be Potters" I stated, Andrea's eyes widened.
"How do you know?" She asked
"Your eyes." I told her, "But whether you're Harry's children, Emma's or the new one-"
"Phoebe." Sam said before clapping his hand over his mouth. "oops."
"It's a girl!" Ron asked.
"Oops" Sam repeated.
"Sam you're an idiot, you really are!" Andrea said angrily. The door opened then and Harry came in with Lily behind him. Behind Emma and Ginny peered into the bedroom curiously. Andrea and Sam looked at Lily, both had small smiles on their faces though Sam's turned slightly nervous.
"It was her fault!" He said pointing to Andrea.
"What?" Lily asked. "What's happening you lot, who are you?" She asked.
"They're Sam and Andrea." Ron said, "Um, they're from the future and they're your relatives." Lily looked at Sam and Andrea.
"What?" She asked, she turned to me and Ron, "What's going on, tell me now, I'm not in the mood to put up with any of your usual games." I looked at Harry, Lily was never this stressed out or angry.
"She's pregnant." Harry mouthed, "She's always like this now." I nodded slowly. I turned to Andrea and Sam, they both looked a little uncertain so I decided to speak for them.
"They're your grandchildren, from twenty eighteen?" I asked them, Andrea nodded. Lily looked at the two sceptically, she looked into their eyes then sighed with resignation.
"Is everyone in this family going to inherit my eyes?" Sam nodded.
"You should see Jamie and Lou-" Andrea put her hand over Sam's mouth.
"Ignore him, he hasn't quite grasped the concept of time travel." Andrea said.
"Why have you time travelled?" Lily asked. Andrea held up the broken time turner. "Oh fuck." Lily muttered with her eyes shut. Everyone turned to look at Lily. She just left the room with a wave of her hand.
"Talk to me about this later, I'm too tired for this."
"And stress isn't good for your baby." Ginny added.
"Yes, thank you Ginny, you should be a healer, anyway, I'll be in bed if James asks where I am when he gets back." Lily said. When she left we turned to Sam and Andrea. I felt slightly sorry for them to be in the spotlight.
"So who's children are you?" Emma asked.
"Um…" Andrea glanced at Harry for a second. I don't think anyone else really noticed but I suddenly saw the resemblances between the children and Harry as well as who their mother must be. Harry's hair on Sam, his eyes, but Andrea's face shape and Sam's nose, I kept my revelation to myself as Harry began to slot into the tole of owner of the house while his mum and dad were indisposed.
My parents came to Harry's house for the following night as James, April and other members of the ministry checked out our house. They wanted to see who was behind the attacks. As the Potters were quickly running out of space in their house Emma and I went to stay at the Black's house for the night where we saw Rhia for longer then anyone had that summer while Ron went back to his own house. She appeared to have fallen asleep in front of the TV but once we entered the room she just turned around and smiled at us.
"Hey, what are you guys doing here?" she asked. "Not that I'm glad to see you guys."
"Oh, the Potters have a lot of visitors." I told her. Rhia looked at us confused.
"Some kids from the future decided to pay us a visit." Emma said, "What you writing?" She asked as she jumped onto the sofa next to Rhia. I wondered out of the room as I heard Rhia begin to explain a song to Emma. Music was a language that I just couldn't understand. I knew the basics that there were major and minor scales but all this about chords, off beat rhythms and so forth just went straight over my head. I wondered out into the garden. It was a lovely night. It was dark but it was still warm and the sky was clear so I could see all the stars in the sky. I also took some note of the fact that it was a full moon today. I wondered how Bo was doing for a moment before I heard someone behind me. I turned to see Jessie walking up to me nervously.
"What is it?" I asked her. Jessie came and sat next to me on the grass.
"I need help." She said quietly.
"What kind of help?" I asked. I looked at Jessie and just realised that she'd cut her hair short. It looked very good and suited her well. It would definitely stop some people confusing her with Kaylee. She brushed some of her hair out of her face and chewed her lip for a minute.
"What do you do if you really like someone?" She asked me. I started in surprise.
"What?" I asked.
"You know, like if you like a boy and maybe he likes you." Jessie asked, she picked at some grass as he spoke. She rarely spoke but if she did it was for a good reason.
"Um, I don't know, have you spoken to your sister about this?"
"Kaylee would laugh at me." Jessie muttered.
"I mean your other one."
"Rhia's never around any more." Jessie complained. "I thought you could help because you're so clever. I heard that you were going to be head girl, so you must know what to do." Jessie said hopefully. I scowled slightly, ok, take this one step at a time, this was a bit weird but I'd been in stranger situations.
"Well, does he like you?" I asked her.
"Maybe, he did a bit when I last saw him." Jessie said.
"When was that?" I asked.
"Flourish and Blotts in Diagon Alley. I met him in there when mum took us out." Jessie said,
"How do you know?"
"I an a Legillemen." Jessie said.
"Oh yeah." I said with a frown, this caused Jessie to laugh for a while. I smiled at her and shrugged.
"If you like him and he likes you then when you guys meet in Hogwarts again then I suggest, I don't know…hang out with him a bit more." I said. Jessie sat in silence for a while as if thinking it over. She nodded after a while and smiled.
"Thanks." She said to me.
"Is that why you've been acting weirdly?" I asked her. She nodded.
"I can't let Kaylee see the letters I send him, she'd laugh, Orion would bully me and Rhia would give me a speech so I had to sneak the letters around and all that." I nodded thoughtfully. Made sense really. I got up and led Jessie into the house where we bumped into Kaylee, literally, as she ran away from Orion.
"Come back here you little-" Orion was shouting. I was so glad I only had one sister!
The next day came the Hogwarts letters. The day I'd been dreading. If I didn't get head girl I didn't know what I'd do. I woke up to Rhia's screaming from the next room. I'd been sharing a room with Kaylee and Jessie. They both groaned as they heard their sister. I got up slowly and went into the hall. Rhia came running out of her bedroom screaming.
"I'm a prefect! I'm a prefect!" She screamed as she went straight into her parent's room. I heard Sirius telling Rhia to be quiet moments before she was ejected from the room.
"Rude." Rhia muttered with a grin.
"What time is it?" I asked her.
"Six." Rhia said with a smile.
"What! What are you doing up so early?" Rhia shrugged in response. She held out a brown envelope.
"This is for you. There's something funny shaped in there, felt a bit like my prefect badge, so I'm guessing you're the new head girl." Rhia said. I shook my head as I took the letter. I took out the parchment.
Dear Miss Granger.
The staff of Hogwarts would like to congratulate you on becoming the new Head Girl of Hogwarts. As you know this is an Honour that only one girl in every year achieves. We hope that you do not disappoint us and work hard to help maintain the Hogwarts Reputation and to set a suitable standard of behaviour. We look forward to working with you for the coming year.
A book list has been enclosed with this letter. The Hogwarts express will be leaving Kings Cross at eleven o'clock from platform 9 ¾ .
M. McGonagall
Deputy Head of Hogwarts
I tipped the envelope out so the contents fell into my palm. There lay a red badge with a gold outline and gold lettering. HEAD GIRL. I burst out into a grin and looked at Rhia.
"Captain!" She said with a salute. We both laughed and both got shouted out by an annoyed Orion so we both moved downstairs to celebrate our achievements together. In the form of some Butterbeer. It's strange having the drink so early but it was a great feeling. I was head girl! Wait until mum and dad heard about this! I couldn't wait to tell them.
A/N:-Good morning all of you...well technically it's afternoon, it is just gone 2pm. Anyway, tell me what you think of this chapter. I was really hesitant about posting it, with teh time turner stuff and All, if you guys decide that you don't want it then i'll re-write it cause i got some cool story line coming up for Kaylee/Jessie and Bo and Jenny. (Gina knows what the Kaylee/Jessie thing is, isn't it fun!) Its weird but i think the best bit in this entire chapter has to be the bit where Lily swears. I like Pregnant Lily, she's so fun! Oh man! i'm on a ROLL! oh yeah! uh huh! Anyway, this chapter is for Gina, who is kinda lovely. All my reviewers are lovely, i think the loveliest is Gabbie cause she talks to me more, hehe. Nah, i'm not gonna show favouritism. Ok, remember if you don't like i'll rewrite and just stick in Jenny's problem in here. I've decided to go OVER THE TOP in this story! MWAHAHAHAAA! you find out more about the future in the next chapter if you wanna keep this chapter. Up to you, you are the readers, I am here to sorta do your bidding!