Hermione felt someone's eyes on her. Slowly, she opened her eyes. About 7 or 8 people surrounded her bed, but she knew none of them. Suddenly she remembered it all.

She must have traveled time! But she had no way of knowing how far back she had gone. Annie had been playing with the time turner for a few minutes before she noticed, so she had no way to know how many times she had spun it. Hermione shut her eyes, trying to stop the constant pain in her head. She knew she must have hit it on something when she appeared in the past.

Suddenly an old man came to her bed - Dumboldore! He calmly asked the other students to leave them to speak alone. He sat down on her bed, and asked if she knew where she was.

"Well, I must be at Hogwarts. The time turner must have sent me here because that is where I am during the school season. Am I in the hospital wing?"

Dumboldore nodded. "You hit your head on the dungeon floor when you arrived. You have been out since last Wednesday. It is Friday now."

"Sir, if I may ask, what year is it?"

"Why, it is 1975. December 3, 1975 to be exact."

She had gone back almost 30 years! Hermione looked around. She had no idea how to get back to her time, as she had only been taught how to use the time turner to go back in time. Still, she could try spinning it the other way . . . Hermione reached under her gown and grabbed the time turner's chain. She smiled. Now she could disappear again, and all would be back to normal. But when she reached for the hourglass, it had turned into a regular old pendant with a smiley face engraved in it.

The headmaster noticed that Hermione seemed upset. He had no idea where she came from, but she seemed so troubled that he hated to ask her. So he left her alone for the night, and decided to sort everything out the next morning.

AN:

I know, this chapter is tiny, but I decided to seperate one big chapter into two smaller ones. The next will be longer!

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-Meg