TITLE: Troubled Minds
PAIRING: Harry/Hermione past/possibly future
DISTRIBUTION: Ask and you shall receive
DISCLAIMER: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended. The only thing that belongs to this author is the storyline and the characters made up by the author.
A/N: Okay I have had finals and projects and all of that big stuuf now that I am officially done with school. I can write more. Although I might not be here from late June to early July.
Now on to business. This has been the hardest chapter for me to write. I have no idea why, but it has. It may be short, but hey you guys wanted me to put up a new chapter so here it is.
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A recap about what happened last chapter.
After a while Stephanie fell on her butt as she finally reached her destination. She looked beside her and already saw her mother.
"That hurt." Stephanie said as she rubbed her now bruised arse.
"Least it's not as bad as Portkeys." Hermione said as she stood up and started to wipe off the ash.
"Hermione?!"
Hermione looked up and her eyes widened. The person who called her, she had not seen in 11 years. She looked startled for a bit before she answered.
"Hi…"
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Now on to the real story.
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When Hermione was about to finish her sentence, Stephanie interjected, loudly.
"Professor Malfoy!? What are you doing here?" Stephanie said obviously wondering why her Potions Professor was present at her friend's New Year's Eve party.
Sure enough there he stood, Draco Malfoy, the current potions teacher, still with his platinum blonde hair and startling gray eyes. The only difference from this Draco, from the one Hermione knew eleven years ago was that he was taller, more muscular in the abdomen, and instead of his trademark sneer/smirk, he had bewilderment and shock written all over his face.
"Professor? You're a professor?" Hermione looked from Draco to her daughter. "You never told me he was a professor.
Stephanie shrugged. "Well you never asked me who were my professors were mum."
"No. I think I did." Hermione retorted forgetting who else was present in the room.
"No, you just asked me if Snape taught there anymore and if he was still teaching, that I should watch out, because he hated Gryffindors. That's all you asked. I just never wrote who was the new Potions Professor."
Just then a familiar redheaded girl walked into the room looking for her fiancé.
"Hey, Draco? Can you help me with the…" Ginny immediately spotted the squabbling duo, but instantly recognizing the older of the two. "Oh my god! HERMIONE!?" Ginny screamed running over to the other girl and hugging her like she was about to disappear if she blinked.
"Ginny!?" Hermione said, pretty much flinging the whole secretive idea out the door.
"Well, I guess I inherited the blabbermouth from her." Stephanie muttered to herself. Stephanie coughed very loudly to get her mother's attention. "Whatever happened to keeping this a secret?" Stephanie asked emphasizing on the last word.
Hermione blushed lightly and shrugged her shoulders sheepishly. "Well you told two people, so I told two people."
Stephanie turned around and smacked her head against the wall repeatedly, while groaning.
"Hermione, who is this?" Ginny asked, just getting a small glimpse of the small, but eccentric girl.
Before Hermione could even think of an answer, another person walked into the room. Wondering whatever happened to Draco and Ginny.
"Ginny, Draco, what's taking so long… Hello who is this?" The man asked referring to the woman and child, who currently was smacking her head on the wall, while Ginny and Draco were waiting for Hermione's answer.
Stephanie stopped banging her head on the wall as soon as she heard another voice enter the conversation. Stephanie vaguely remembered it from somewhere, but couldn't put her finger on it. She turned around to find a person, she hardly knew. She put her best fake smile and prepared herself for the toughest acting job of her life.
"Hi, Mr. Weasley." Stephanie said so sweet that it almost made herself gag.
"Hey aren't you Josh's friend, Stephanie?" Ron asked taking a brief glance at the woman than at the girl. The woman was looking at him with shock. But then turned her attention to the girl.
"Yes, I am. Thank you so ever much. By any chance do you know where Josh is?" Stephanie said smiling so big it would put Shirley Temple to shame.
"Uh, yea. He's degnoming the garden with Eric and his cousins." Ron said.
"Alright then. Bye, bye." Stephanie said ready to run for her life. Unfortunately for her, Hermione grabbed her by her arm, preventing her escape.
"Oh no you don't. You're not leaving me alone." Hermione said.
"Please let me go! I'm only eleven, I need to have fun! Please?" Stephanie got down on her knees and groveled. "I don't like being center of attention, well bad attention. Don't make me cry! You know I cry like there's no tomorrow!"
"Stephanie." Hermione paused for dramatic effect. "Suck it up."
Stephanie got off her knees and mock pouted. "Meanie."
"Sorry, for interrupting, but what is going on?" Ron asked utterly confused.
"Oh, I was just leaving wasn't I?" Hermione said eyeing Ginny and Draco.
Ginny; however did not care for this hint. "No you are not leaving. I might see you again for another eleven yea…" Ginny stopped herself and turned to Stephanie.
"How old did you say you were?" Ginny asked.
Stephanie's eyes widened. "Uh, eight?"
Ginny knew she probably wouldn't get truthful answer from her so she turned to her brother.
"Ron did you say she was a friend of Josh's?" Ginny asked Ron, referring the 'she' as Stephanie.
"Yea, she is." Ron answer simply.
Ginny turned to Stephanie and studied her for about a minute before she knew what it was. "Sweet Merlin." Ginny paused. "She looks almost exactly like you." Ginny commented to Hermione.
"Ginny, what's this all about. And who is she?" Ron asked pointing to Hermione.
"You were always a bit dense, weren't you Ron? I'm not surprised to still find to find you still oblivious after all these years. Of course maybe if you paid attention to details more closely." Hermione said, knowing that she better tell Ron, instead of Ginny telling him.
Ron was about to retort when he froze in place. His jaw dropped open when he realized who was standing in front of him. "H…H…Hermione?" Ron barely choked out.
Hermione gave a small smile. Ron ran over to Hermione and gave her a giant bear hug and spun her around.
"Oh my God Hermione! Is that really you? Where have you been? How are you? Does Harry know you're back? Are you staying for good?"
Hermione smiled at her friend. Still the same after all these years. "In chronological order, yes, New York, fine, no, yes. But there is another thing I have to tell you."
Hermione turned around to her daughter. "Oh no, let me do it. I need another heart attack." Stephanie smiled mockingly sweet. She cleared her throat and walked over to the three adults and held out her hand. "Hello everyone. I haven't properly met any of you. My real name is Stephanie Granger." Stephanie's voice turned deadpanned. "Nice to meet you. Now can we continue this conversation somewhere else more private unless you want dad to join in this little love fest? Thought so. You four catch up, I'm going to find Josh and Eric. Bye, bye." Stephanie said ready to run for the sake of her 11 year old life.
"What! You're coming with me. Now, move!" Hermione said pushing the three adults while dragging her daughter into an empty room. When the door closed, Draco was the first to speak.
"Wow, bookworm got knocked up. So who's the father?"
Ginny looked disgusted towards Draco. "Draco, this is no time for jokes!" She said as she smacked him in the head.
"Excuse me. You do realize I am in the room?" Stephanie asked. "Plus, Professor Malfoy. It isn't that hard to figure out. Green eyes, a Gryffindor, Seeker for the team in my first year." Stephanie heard someone gasped and continued. "I rest my case." Stephanie saw her mother glaring at her. "What?"
Hermione just sighed and rested her forehead on her palm.
"Oh my god." Ginny whispered.
"Does Harry even know about her?" asked Ron.
Stephanie rolled her eyes. She hated when people would talk like she wasn't present. "Hi, still here."
"No. He doesn't have a clue, that's what Stephanie told me."
"I don't think he suspects anything. He hasn't told said a thing to me." Draco added.
"This is way too much stress for an eleven year old. By the time I turn thirteen, I'm either going to have stroke or an ulcer." Stephanie muttered to herself, not aware the Ginny overheard her.
"You think this is bad? When I was eleven, I was pretty much possessed by You-Know-Who." Ginny said as she sat next to Stephanie.
"You mean Voldemort?" everyone in the room cringed but her. "Sorry."
"Well we know where she gets that from." Ron said referring to Harry.
There was an awkward silence for a while.
"Why did you leave?" Ron asked.
There was a very pregnant pause.
"I was scared." Hermione said simply.
"Hermione you know we would have been there for you. I'm pretty sure Harry would have been there too." Ginny said.
"You don't know that, but thanks. You guys have no idea how much I have missed you." Hermione said.
"Okay getting a bit too emotional for me." Stephanie muttered to herself. "Sorry, for breaking up this little reunion, but question is, Professor Potter, dad, whatever I call him, going to be here?"
"Well, actually he's already here." Ron said as a knock on the door was heard.
"Hide!" Hermione said as she tried to think of what to do, she did the only thing that came to mind. Change into her animagus form. Hermione fully changed as soon as Harry opened the door.
"Hey Ron, Ginny, Draco you guys are needed." Harry paused at seeing the fourth member of the room. "Miss Vigil what are you doing in here?"
'Think, Stephanie, think.'
"Uh, well." Stephanie paused and looked around the room looking for ideas when she spotted a ginger cat. "Well, they were helping me, to look for my cat. Oh look, there she is!" Stephanie said as she moved over to her mother who was currently her cat. "Thanks for helping me find, uh, Fluffy. Now excuse me I going to find Josh and Eric, bye, bye." With that Stephanie fled the room, with her mother, running all the way outside where she spotted three redheads and a brunette flinging gnomes all the way to Timbuktu.
"Hey guys." Stephanie said trying to catch her breath.
"Hey Stephanie. What happened to you?" Josh asked.
"It kind of looks like you just tried to run away from a hippogriff." Eric added.
"Thanks, real sensitive." Stephanie retorted.
"Hey, who's that?" asked Josh referring to the cat.
"Come over here for a second Josh and Eric. I need to talk to you alone." Stephanie said as she walked over to a point that Brian and Cody couldn't here them.
"Josh, Eric, I would like you to meet my cat, Fluffy, or also known as my mother, Hermione Granger."
"Huh?" Eric asked confused.
"This is her animagus form, duh. Josh can we go to a room so we can have more privacy?" asked Stephanie.
"Sure follow me."
Josh led them to his dad's old room. Still covered in Cannons posters. As soon as the door closed, Hermione changed to her normal self.
"That took a lot out of me. When was the last time I transformed?" Hermione muttered to herself.
"Mum." Stephanie said trying to redirect her mother's attention.
"Oh, sorry. Nice to meet you, Eric, Josh. I see you have the trademark Weasley hair." Hermione said to Josh.
Josh shrugged. "What can I say? It runs in the family."
"You bet it does." Hermione smiled. "Oh yes, question. What's Draco doing here?"
"Oh, he's Aunt Ginny's fiancé." Josh answered.
"Merlin, I didn't expect that one. Of course I didn't expect your dad and mom to get together. And they called me the intelligent one." Hermione paused for breath, finally taking in her surroundings. "It's been so long since I've been in this room. It still blinds me. Your dad still a Cannon Nut?" asked Hermione.
"He is one." Josh smirked.
"Somehow, I'm not surprised." Hermione smirked.
Then suddenly a brilliant idea popped into Stephanie's head.
"Mom, can you create a glamour?" asked Stephanie.
"What?"
"Can. You. Create. A. Galmour?" Stephanie asked again.
"Uh, yes. Why?" Hermione asked, afraid of what was going on in her daughter's head.
Stephanie smiled the famous Potter grin. "Would you like to stay for the party?"
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"Are you sure no one will recognize me?" asked a now blonde hair and green-eyed Hermione.
Stephanie rolled her eyes for what seemed like the millionth time. "No, now stop asking. You have asked me the same question about six times already. No one will recognize you. Now, let's go over the facts. Number one, your name is Harmony Vigil. Number two, you were born in England and moved to New York when you were ten. Number three; you went to a small wizarding school that no one has heard of. Number four, my father is also a wizard and just say I have never met him and you don't want to talk about it." Stephanie paused for air. "Okay, do you think you're ready?"
"Define ready." Hermione said.
"I'll take that as a yes. Now let's go downstairs." Stephanie said as she took Hermione hand and led her out the door with Josh and Eric behind them.
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"Now breathe. If you stop breathing and faint it will cause more attention." Stephanie said as Hermione clutched her arm. "And can you let go of my arm? It's turning purple."
"Do you really think I'm ready? I haven't seen anyone for at least eleven years." Hermione asked.
"Mom, they don't even know that it is really you under that glamour. They won't know it's you." Stephanie tried to reassure her mother.
"I guess you're ri-."Hermione started to say, but then was frozen.
"What mom?" asked Stephanie.
"Hide me!!!" Hermione whispered frantically.
"Why?!"
"Sirius!" Hermione exclaimed in a low voice.
"What? Where?" Stephanie asked looking in the crowd.
"Over there!" Hermione said as she jerked here head in his direction.
"Well act natural! He doesn't know that I know who he is, so he won't come up to me and say hi Stephanie, hi Hermione. Let's just go outside, ok?"
"Better than inside." Hermione muttered as they made their way outside where they saw a game of Quidditch about to start.
"Hey Stephanie!" Brian called out from the group as he and Cody ran up to meet her.
"Come on, we need a Seeker for our side!" Cody exclaimed
"And that Seeker is you-" Brian started.
"If we want to win." Cody finished.
"Give me a bleedin' second will you?" Stephanie said as she started to drag Hermione in the opposite direction.
Then Stephanie spotted Ginny magically putting up floating streamers all over the yard.
"Hello, Ms. Weasley. Would you like to get acquainted with my mother?" Stephanie asked as Hermione and she walked up to Ginny.
Ginny was just a bit confused, until Stephanie mouthed 'glamour' to her.
"Sure, Stephanie. Now why don't we go up to my room I have to show you something." Ginny said walking as she was pulling Hermione with her.
Stephanie gave Hermione a little wave as Hermione did the same in return.
"Now to convince you to come back to this world." Stephanie whispered to herself.
Then all of a suddenly Stephanie was picked up and pulled over two people's shoulders, Brian and Cody.
"What the? Hey! You could of asked first!" Stephanie screamed as she was dragged away onto the Weasley's Quidditch Pitch.
"You really think we would do that?" asked one of the twins.
"No, but I would appreciate it if I knew I was being dragged into war! Not to mention all the pressure!" Stephanie yelled.
"Ow, that's going to leave mark in the morning." Stephanie said as she stood up. "Now which team am I on?" Stephanie asked no one in particular.
"Oh no. No pressure at all-"
"Just catch the Snitch-"
"Before Professor Potter-"
"The other Seeker-"
"Avoid beaters and-"
"Their bludgers-"
"But we already know-"
"That you know-"
"To watch out for the beaters-"
"Which namely is our uncles-"
"Fred and George." Brian and Cody finished together.
"Wonderful for me." Stephanie muttered sarcastically
Then Brian and Cody dropped Stephanie on the ground, ("That's going to leave a mark in the morning.") which I may add was not at all graceful.
"And here is our Seeker, Stephanie." Eric said proudly.
"You must be joking, she's a first year!" One of the older boys exclaimed.
"Who were you expecting? A Russian mail-order bride named Yolanda?" Stephanie said deadpanned.
The older boy pretended not to hear her. "I mean an eleven year old against 'The youngest Seeker in a century'?" The older boy yelled.
"Shut up Leo! She's a really great Quidditch player and I believe that title now belongs to Stephanie. She's on the house team!" Josh yelled at the older boy who happened to be his cousin, Leo, who was Charlie's son.
"Okay enough! Let's just play okay? Now what are the teams exactly?" Stephanie asked no one in particular.
"Well we splited up adults versus kids, so on our team we have you, me, Brian and Cody, Leo, Chris, and Eric. The adults have Professor Potter, Professor Malfoy, Uncle Fred and George, my Dad, and Aunt Angelina and Aunt Katie. We also have bets going on, if the kids win the adults are our slaves for the day and vice versa. So get your broom!"
"I have an easier way." Stephanie said with a devious grin as she pulled out her wand.
"Uh, Stephanie are you going to do something illegal?" asked Eric nervously.
"Don't be a git. I'm saving illegal things for third year." Stephanie said with another smirk. Stephanie took a deep breath and did a swish and flick with her wand as she said, "ACCIO FLAMETHROWER!" Now Stephanie put her wand away in her clothes and then waited. Sure enough after a couple of seconds the Flamethrower came into sight and Stephanie held out a wrist a soon as the Flamethrower was in grabbing distance. A loud crack was heard from Stephanie's wrist.
"Stephanie are you okay? Did you break your wrist?" Josh asked genuinely concerned.
"Oh no, it's okay. My wrists' crack all the time. I also can crack my knees, neck, back, and of course fingers and toes. I think I get that from my mum. Okay getting off subject. Now are we going to play a Quidditch or what?" Stephanie said with an adventurous glint in her eye.
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(A/N: I'm sorry people I have no clue how to write Quidditch scenes. I can't write about any sports, if I try I comes out, well let's just say you will never look at sports the same way again.)
One hour later, the game had progressed very well. The score was 110 to 80, in favor of the adults. Stephanie herself was dead tired. Fred and George most of the time had focused their bludgers towards her. Luckily they had stopped now and started focusing on the chasers.
Stephanie now was above the action, which involved the chasers, beaters, and keepers. She was flying about trying to look for the snitch. The only problem was, she was about to fall asleep on her broom, which isn't one of the smartest things you can do. While flying, Stephanie would yawn every once in a while which brought her to tears. She had this weird problem, every time she would yawn, her eyes would water, hence the saying bored to tears. Well back to the match. Stephanie now was doing practically nothing, well except for yawning when the strangest thing happened. Stephanie was yawning very much so, and the something flew into her mouth. It was was absolutely too large to be a bug. Stephanie spat it out, only to see a snitch flying away. Stephanie instantly realized that she almost ate the ball she was supposed to catch. Before she could ponder anything more she remembered that she was supposed to go after the snitch. Stephanie quickly regained her composure and took off like a rocket after the snitch. Unfortunately for her, Harry then spotted the snitch also, or so Stephanie thought. He then suddenly dived. Stephanie followed, thinking that he had found the snitch. They were about two feet away from the ground when Stephanie realized he had not seen the snitch and was pulling a Wronski Feint. After pulling up from the dive Stephanie strained her eyes to see the snitch. It was flying right next to Josh, without him even realizing it. Stephanie casually flew over to Josh, so that she wouldn't cause suspicious. Thankfully the other the other players were focused on the other side of the field. Stephanie started talking to Josh so Harry would think she spotted the snitch.
"Hey Josh before we have to fly our little hearts out again, I want to thank you for defending me against that older kid. Leo what is?" Stephanie conspicuously tried to fly closer to Josh, for the snitch was right behind his head. Stephanie thought of a way to get the snitch without rousing suspicion, but it was well a bit awkward to do.
"No problem. Leo can be a prat sometimes." Josh said with a smile
Stephanie stopped all of her thinking when she saw the snitch jerk slightly. She had to do it. If she didn't, she would be flying al over the field again with Harry trying to catch it. Stephanie let all thoughts in her mind when she did it.
She kissed Josh.
Well on the cheek anyway while grabbing the snitch.
"Thank you, Josh. Also thanks for helping me get the snitch, it was an added bonus." Stephanie said with a smile.
Josh turned three shades of red. "As I said before no problem."
"Look everyone, Stephanie has the snitch!" Brian called out.
It was Stephanie's turn to blush.
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Fluffy isn't it? It was short, but what do you expect from a girl who has taken finals and is on a sugar high? So now REVIEW, if you want more new/revised chapters! Can you review more that once, go under an anonymous reviewer, I don't mind. Even flame me! I'll do the flame dance with you! I don't care about flamers anymore, but I would appreciate if you didn't use my email to stick your butt in my face!
PAIRING: Harry/Hermione past/possibly future
DISTRIBUTION: Ask and you shall receive
DISCLAIMER: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended. The only thing that belongs to this author is the storyline and the characters made up by the author.
A/N: Okay I have had finals and projects and all of that big stuuf now that I am officially done with school. I can write more. Although I might not be here from late June to early July.
Now on to business. This has been the hardest chapter for me to write. I have no idea why, but it has. It may be short, but hey you guys wanted me to put up a new chapter so here it is.
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A recap about what happened last chapter.
After a while Stephanie fell on her butt as she finally reached her destination. She looked beside her and already saw her mother.
"That hurt." Stephanie said as she rubbed her now bruised arse.
"Least it's not as bad as Portkeys." Hermione said as she stood up and started to wipe off the ash.
"Hermione?!"
Hermione looked up and her eyes widened. The person who called her, she had not seen in 11 years. She looked startled for a bit before she answered.
"Hi…"
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Now on to the real story.
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When Hermione was about to finish her sentence, Stephanie interjected, loudly.
"Professor Malfoy!? What are you doing here?" Stephanie said obviously wondering why her Potions Professor was present at her friend's New Year's Eve party.
Sure enough there he stood, Draco Malfoy, the current potions teacher, still with his platinum blonde hair and startling gray eyes. The only difference from this Draco, from the one Hermione knew eleven years ago was that he was taller, more muscular in the abdomen, and instead of his trademark sneer/smirk, he had bewilderment and shock written all over his face.
"Professor? You're a professor?" Hermione looked from Draco to her daughter. "You never told me he was a professor.
Stephanie shrugged. "Well you never asked me who were my professors were mum."
"No. I think I did." Hermione retorted forgetting who else was present in the room.
"No, you just asked me if Snape taught there anymore and if he was still teaching, that I should watch out, because he hated Gryffindors. That's all you asked. I just never wrote who was the new Potions Professor."
Just then a familiar redheaded girl walked into the room looking for her fiancé.
"Hey, Draco? Can you help me with the…" Ginny immediately spotted the squabbling duo, but instantly recognizing the older of the two. "Oh my god! HERMIONE!?" Ginny screamed running over to the other girl and hugging her like she was about to disappear if she blinked.
"Ginny!?" Hermione said, pretty much flinging the whole secretive idea out the door.
"Well, I guess I inherited the blabbermouth from her." Stephanie muttered to herself. Stephanie coughed very loudly to get her mother's attention. "Whatever happened to keeping this a secret?" Stephanie asked emphasizing on the last word.
Hermione blushed lightly and shrugged her shoulders sheepishly. "Well you told two people, so I told two people."
Stephanie turned around and smacked her head against the wall repeatedly, while groaning.
"Hermione, who is this?" Ginny asked, just getting a small glimpse of the small, but eccentric girl.
Before Hermione could even think of an answer, another person walked into the room. Wondering whatever happened to Draco and Ginny.
"Ginny, Draco, what's taking so long… Hello who is this?" The man asked referring to the woman and child, who currently was smacking her head on the wall, while Ginny and Draco were waiting for Hermione's answer.
Stephanie stopped banging her head on the wall as soon as she heard another voice enter the conversation. Stephanie vaguely remembered it from somewhere, but couldn't put her finger on it. She turned around to find a person, she hardly knew. She put her best fake smile and prepared herself for the toughest acting job of her life.
"Hi, Mr. Weasley." Stephanie said so sweet that it almost made herself gag.
"Hey aren't you Josh's friend, Stephanie?" Ron asked taking a brief glance at the woman than at the girl. The woman was looking at him with shock. But then turned her attention to the girl.
"Yes, I am. Thank you so ever much. By any chance do you know where Josh is?" Stephanie said smiling so big it would put Shirley Temple to shame.
"Uh, yea. He's degnoming the garden with Eric and his cousins." Ron said.
"Alright then. Bye, bye." Stephanie said ready to run for her life. Unfortunately for her, Hermione grabbed her by her arm, preventing her escape.
"Oh no you don't. You're not leaving me alone." Hermione said.
"Please let me go! I'm only eleven, I need to have fun! Please?" Stephanie got down on her knees and groveled. "I don't like being center of attention, well bad attention. Don't make me cry! You know I cry like there's no tomorrow!"
"Stephanie." Hermione paused for dramatic effect. "Suck it up."
Stephanie got off her knees and mock pouted. "Meanie."
"Sorry, for interrupting, but what is going on?" Ron asked utterly confused.
"Oh, I was just leaving wasn't I?" Hermione said eyeing Ginny and Draco.
Ginny; however did not care for this hint. "No you are not leaving. I might see you again for another eleven yea…" Ginny stopped herself and turned to Stephanie.
"How old did you say you were?" Ginny asked.
Stephanie's eyes widened. "Uh, eight?"
Ginny knew she probably wouldn't get truthful answer from her so she turned to her brother.
"Ron did you say she was a friend of Josh's?" Ginny asked Ron, referring the 'she' as Stephanie.
"Yea, she is." Ron answer simply.
Ginny turned to Stephanie and studied her for about a minute before she knew what it was. "Sweet Merlin." Ginny paused. "She looks almost exactly like you." Ginny commented to Hermione.
"Ginny, what's this all about. And who is she?" Ron asked pointing to Hermione.
"You were always a bit dense, weren't you Ron? I'm not surprised to still find to find you still oblivious after all these years. Of course maybe if you paid attention to details more closely." Hermione said, knowing that she better tell Ron, instead of Ginny telling him.
Ron was about to retort when he froze in place. His jaw dropped open when he realized who was standing in front of him. "H…H…Hermione?" Ron barely choked out.
Hermione gave a small smile. Ron ran over to Hermione and gave her a giant bear hug and spun her around.
"Oh my God Hermione! Is that really you? Where have you been? How are you? Does Harry know you're back? Are you staying for good?"
Hermione smiled at her friend. Still the same after all these years. "In chronological order, yes, New York, fine, no, yes. But there is another thing I have to tell you."
Hermione turned around to her daughter. "Oh no, let me do it. I need another heart attack." Stephanie smiled mockingly sweet. She cleared her throat and walked over to the three adults and held out her hand. "Hello everyone. I haven't properly met any of you. My real name is Stephanie Granger." Stephanie's voice turned deadpanned. "Nice to meet you. Now can we continue this conversation somewhere else more private unless you want dad to join in this little love fest? Thought so. You four catch up, I'm going to find Josh and Eric. Bye, bye." Stephanie said ready to run for the sake of her 11 year old life.
"What! You're coming with me. Now, move!" Hermione said pushing the three adults while dragging her daughter into an empty room. When the door closed, Draco was the first to speak.
"Wow, bookworm got knocked up. So who's the father?"
Ginny looked disgusted towards Draco. "Draco, this is no time for jokes!" She said as she smacked him in the head.
"Excuse me. You do realize I am in the room?" Stephanie asked. "Plus, Professor Malfoy. It isn't that hard to figure out. Green eyes, a Gryffindor, Seeker for the team in my first year." Stephanie heard someone gasped and continued. "I rest my case." Stephanie saw her mother glaring at her. "What?"
Hermione just sighed and rested her forehead on her palm.
"Oh my god." Ginny whispered.
"Does Harry even know about her?" asked Ron.
Stephanie rolled her eyes. She hated when people would talk like she wasn't present. "Hi, still here."
"No. He doesn't have a clue, that's what Stephanie told me."
"I don't think he suspects anything. He hasn't told said a thing to me." Draco added.
"This is way too much stress for an eleven year old. By the time I turn thirteen, I'm either going to have stroke or an ulcer." Stephanie muttered to herself, not aware the Ginny overheard her.
"You think this is bad? When I was eleven, I was pretty much possessed by You-Know-Who." Ginny said as she sat next to Stephanie.
"You mean Voldemort?" everyone in the room cringed but her. "Sorry."
"Well we know where she gets that from." Ron said referring to Harry.
There was an awkward silence for a while.
"Why did you leave?" Ron asked.
There was a very pregnant pause.
"I was scared." Hermione said simply.
"Hermione you know we would have been there for you. I'm pretty sure Harry would have been there too." Ginny said.
"You don't know that, but thanks. You guys have no idea how much I have missed you." Hermione said.
"Okay getting a bit too emotional for me." Stephanie muttered to herself. "Sorry, for breaking up this little reunion, but question is, Professor Potter, dad, whatever I call him, going to be here?"
"Well, actually he's already here." Ron said as a knock on the door was heard.
"Hide!" Hermione said as she tried to think of what to do, she did the only thing that came to mind. Change into her animagus form. Hermione fully changed as soon as Harry opened the door.
"Hey Ron, Ginny, Draco you guys are needed." Harry paused at seeing the fourth member of the room. "Miss Vigil what are you doing in here?"
'Think, Stephanie, think.'
"Uh, well." Stephanie paused and looked around the room looking for ideas when she spotted a ginger cat. "Well, they were helping me, to look for my cat. Oh look, there she is!" Stephanie said as she moved over to her mother who was currently her cat. "Thanks for helping me find, uh, Fluffy. Now excuse me I going to find Josh and Eric, bye, bye." With that Stephanie fled the room, with her mother, running all the way outside where she spotted three redheads and a brunette flinging gnomes all the way to Timbuktu.
"Hey guys." Stephanie said trying to catch her breath.
"Hey Stephanie. What happened to you?" Josh asked.
"It kind of looks like you just tried to run away from a hippogriff." Eric added.
"Thanks, real sensitive." Stephanie retorted.
"Hey, who's that?" asked Josh referring to the cat.
"Come over here for a second Josh and Eric. I need to talk to you alone." Stephanie said as she walked over to a point that Brian and Cody couldn't here them.
"Josh, Eric, I would like you to meet my cat, Fluffy, or also known as my mother, Hermione Granger."
"Huh?" Eric asked confused.
"This is her animagus form, duh. Josh can we go to a room so we can have more privacy?" asked Stephanie.
"Sure follow me."
Josh led them to his dad's old room. Still covered in Cannons posters. As soon as the door closed, Hermione changed to her normal self.
"That took a lot out of me. When was the last time I transformed?" Hermione muttered to herself.
"Mum." Stephanie said trying to redirect her mother's attention.
"Oh, sorry. Nice to meet you, Eric, Josh. I see you have the trademark Weasley hair." Hermione said to Josh.
Josh shrugged. "What can I say? It runs in the family."
"You bet it does." Hermione smiled. "Oh yes, question. What's Draco doing here?"
"Oh, he's Aunt Ginny's fiancé." Josh answered.
"Merlin, I didn't expect that one. Of course I didn't expect your dad and mom to get together. And they called me the intelligent one." Hermione paused for breath, finally taking in her surroundings. "It's been so long since I've been in this room. It still blinds me. Your dad still a Cannon Nut?" asked Hermione.
"He is one." Josh smirked.
"Somehow, I'm not surprised." Hermione smirked.
Then suddenly a brilliant idea popped into Stephanie's head.
"Mom, can you create a glamour?" asked Stephanie.
"What?"
"Can. You. Create. A. Galmour?" Stephanie asked again.
"Uh, yes. Why?" Hermione asked, afraid of what was going on in her daughter's head.
Stephanie smiled the famous Potter grin. "Would you like to stay for the party?"
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"Are you sure no one will recognize me?" asked a now blonde hair and green-eyed Hermione.
Stephanie rolled her eyes for what seemed like the millionth time. "No, now stop asking. You have asked me the same question about six times already. No one will recognize you. Now, let's go over the facts. Number one, your name is Harmony Vigil. Number two, you were born in England and moved to New York when you were ten. Number three; you went to a small wizarding school that no one has heard of. Number four, my father is also a wizard and just say I have never met him and you don't want to talk about it." Stephanie paused for air. "Okay, do you think you're ready?"
"Define ready." Hermione said.
"I'll take that as a yes. Now let's go downstairs." Stephanie said as she took Hermione hand and led her out the door with Josh and Eric behind them.
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"Now breathe. If you stop breathing and faint it will cause more attention." Stephanie said as Hermione clutched her arm. "And can you let go of my arm? It's turning purple."
"Do you really think I'm ready? I haven't seen anyone for at least eleven years." Hermione asked.
"Mom, they don't even know that it is really you under that glamour. They won't know it's you." Stephanie tried to reassure her mother.
"I guess you're ri-."Hermione started to say, but then was frozen.
"What mom?" asked Stephanie.
"Hide me!!!" Hermione whispered frantically.
"Why?!"
"Sirius!" Hermione exclaimed in a low voice.
"What? Where?" Stephanie asked looking in the crowd.
"Over there!" Hermione said as she jerked here head in his direction.
"Well act natural! He doesn't know that I know who he is, so he won't come up to me and say hi Stephanie, hi Hermione. Let's just go outside, ok?"
"Better than inside." Hermione muttered as they made their way outside where they saw a game of Quidditch about to start.
"Hey Stephanie!" Brian called out from the group as he and Cody ran up to meet her.
"Come on, we need a Seeker for our side!" Cody exclaimed
"And that Seeker is you-" Brian started.
"If we want to win." Cody finished.
"Give me a bleedin' second will you?" Stephanie said as she started to drag Hermione in the opposite direction.
Then Stephanie spotted Ginny magically putting up floating streamers all over the yard.
"Hello, Ms. Weasley. Would you like to get acquainted with my mother?" Stephanie asked as Hermione and she walked up to Ginny.
Ginny was just a bit confused, until Stephanie mouthed 'glamour' to her.
"Sure, Stephanie. Now why don't we go up to my room I have to show you something." Ginny said walking as she was pulling Hermione with her.
Stephanie gave Hermione a little wave as Hermione did the same in return.
"Now to convince you to come back to this world." Stephanie whispered to herself.
Then all of a suddenly Stephanie was picked up and pulled over two people's shoulders, Brian and Cody.
"What the? Hey! You could of asked first!" Stephanie screamed as she was dragged away onto the Weasley's Quidditch Pitch.
"You really think we would do that?" asked one of the twins.
"No, but I would appreciate it if I knew I was being dragged into war! Not to mention all the pressure!" Stephanie yelled.
"Ow, that's going to leave mark in the morning." Stephanie said as she stood up. "Now which team am I on?" Stephanie asked no one in particular.
"Oh no. No pressure at all-"
"Just catch the Snitch-"
"Before Professor Potter-"
"The other Seeker-"
"Avoid beaters and-"
"Their bludgers-"
"But we already know-"
"That you know-"
"To watch out for the beaters-"
"Which namely is our uncles-"
"Fred and George." Brian and Cody finished together.
"Wonderful for me." Stephanie muttered sarcastically
Then Brian and Cody dropped Stephanie on the ground, ("That's going to leave a mark in the morning.") which I may add was not at all graceful.
"And here is our Seeker, Stephanie." Eric said proudly.
"You must be joking, she's a first year!" One of the older boys exclaimed.
"Who were you expecting? A Russian mail-order bride named Yolanda?" Stephanie said deadpanned.
The older boy pretended not to hear her. "I mean an eleven year old against 'The youngest Seeker in a century'?" The older boy yelled.
"Shut up Leo! She's a really great Quidditch player and I believe that title now belongs to Stephanie. She's on the house team!" Josh yelled at the older boy who happened to be his cousin, Leo, who was Charlie's son.
"Okay enough! Let's just play okay? Now what are the teams exactly?" Stephanie asked no one in particular.
"Well we splited up adults versus kids, so on our team we have you, me, Brian and Cody, Leo, Chris, and Eric. The adults have Professor Potter, Professor Malfoy, Uncle Fred and George, my Dad, and Aunt Angelina and Aunt Katie. We also have bets going on, if the kids win the adults are our slaves for the day and vice versa. So get your broom!"
"I have an easier way." Stephanie said with a devious grin as she pulled out her wand.
"Uh, Stephanie are you going to do something illegal?" asked Eric nervously.
"Don't be a git. I'm saving illegal things for third year." Stephanie said with another smirk. Stephanie took a deep breath and did a swish and flick with her wand as she said, "ACCIO FLAMETHROWER!" Now Stephanie put her wand away in her clothes and then waited. Sure enough after a couple of seconds the Flamethrower came into sight and Stephanie held out a wrist a soon as the Flamethrower was in grabbing distance. A loud crack was heard from Stephanie's wrist.
"Stephanie are you okay? Did you break your wrist?" Josh asked genuinely concerned.
"Oh no, it's okay. My wrists' crack all the time. I also can crack my knees, neck, back, and of course fingers and toes. I think I get that from my mum. Okay getting off subject. Now are we going to play a Quidditch or what?" Stephanie said with an adventurous glint in her eye.
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(A/N: I'm sorry people I have no clue how to write Quidditch scenes. I can't write about any sports, if I try I comes out, well let's just say you will never look at sports the same way again.)
One hour later, the game had progressed very well. The score was 110 to 80, in favor of the adults. Stephanie herself was dead tired. Fred and George most of the time had focused their bludgers towards her. Luckily they had stopped now and started focusing on the chasers.
Stephanie now was above the action, which involved the chasers, beaters, and keepers. She was flying about trying to look for the snitch. The only problem was, she was about to fall asleep on her broom, which isn't one of the smartest things you can do. While flying, Stephanie would yawn every once in a while which brought her to tears. She had this weird problem, every time she would yawn, her eyes would water, hence the saying bored to tears. Well back to the match. Stephanie now was doing practically nothing, well except for yawning when the strangest thing happened. Stephanie was yawning very much so, and the something flew into her mouth. It was was absolutely too large to be a bug. Stephanie spat it out, only to see a snitch flying away. Stephanie instantly realized that she almost ate the ball she was supposed to catch. Before she could ponder anything more she remembered that she was supposed to go after the snitch. Stephanie quickly regained her composure and took off like a rocket after the snitch. Unfortunately for her, Harry then spotted the snitch also, or so Stephanie thought. He then suddenly dived. Stephanie followed, thinking that he had found the snitch. They were about two feet away from the ground when Stephanie realized he had not seen the snitch and was pulling a Wronski Feint. After pulling up from the dive Stephanie strained her eyes to see the snitch. It was flying right next to Josh, without him even realizing it. Stephanie casually flew over to Josh, so that she wouldn't cause suspicious. Thankfully the other the other players were focused on the other side of the field. Stephanie started talking to Josh so Harry would think she spotted the snitch.
"Hey Josh before we have to fly our little hearts out again, I want to thank you for defending me against that older kid. Leo what is?" Stephanie conspicuously tried to fly closer to Josh, for the snitch was right behind his head. Stephanie thought of a way to get the snitch without rousing suspicion, but it was well a bit awkward to do.
"No problem. Leo can be a prat sometimes." Josh said with a smile
Stephanie stopped all of her thinking when she saw the snitch jerk slightly. She had to do it. If she didn't, she would be flying al over the field again with Harry trying to catch it. Stephanie let all thoughts in her mind when she did it.
She kissed Josh.
Well on the cheek anyway while grabbing the snitch.
"Thank you, Josh. Also thanks for helping me get the snitch, it was an added bonus." Stephanie said with a smile.
Josh turned three shades of red. "As I said before no problem."
"Look everyone, Stephanie has the snitch!" Brian called out.
It was Stephanie's turn to blush.
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Fluffy isn't it? It was short, but what do you expect from a girl who has taken finals and is on a sugar high? So now REVIEW, if you want more new/revised chapters! Can you review more that once, go under an anonymous reviewer, I don't mind. Even flame me! I'll do the flame dance with you! I don't care about flamers anymore, but I would appreciate if you didn't use my email to stick your butt in my face!