CHAPTER 7: I COULD GET USED TO THIS
Dumbledore stopped just outside the great hall.
"Now Ms Granger, you are to remain in the house you were in in your time, which would be Gryffindor by the looks of your robes" Dumbledore said. Hermione nodded.
"Very well then" Dumbledore strode into the great hall.
"Shall we?" Sirius said, holding out his arm for Hermione. Hermione rolled her eyes and walked in.
She sat down quickly with many a curious glance directed at her.
"Hey" Someone whispered next to her.
"Lily!" Hermione exclaimed seeing the girl sitting beside her. Lily smiled at her before looking at the staff table where Dumbledore was waiting for the students to quiet down.
"Welcome to another, and for some a first, year of Hogwarts!" Dumbledore said happily. "I have some notices to give, but for now...Tuck in!" As he said this plates and plates of food appeared on all four tables.
Hermione grabbed a bit more food then she usually would, mainly beacause she hadn't had a chance to have any lunch.
"So I see you've meant them" Lily said, nodding in the direction of Sirius, James and Remus who had sat down beside Peter.
"I've met Sirius, James and Remus, but not him" Hermione said, hatred in her voice when she said 'him'.
"His name's Peter, he's pretty quiet and definatly weird, but he seems nice" Lily said, continuing to eat. Hermione shrugged.
Finally the food disappeared and Dumbledore stood up.
"Now that our stomachs are nolonger talking to us (Dumbledore chuckled at his own little joke), I have a few notices.
"First of all. All of you should know that the Forbidden Forest is out of bounds, thus the name.
"Secondly. The corridors are not there for midnight strolls, If a student is found wandering the castle after hours they will recieve an immediate detention and lose their house some points.
"Thirdly. Mr Filch our care-taker has once again reminded me to tell you all that magic is not permitted in corridors. Nor are a number of other things that can be viewed on the extensive list outside Mr. Filch's office.
"Now, I would like you all to welcome our new Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher, Professer Flamel" The hall broke out in a polite applause.
"And while we are on the subject of welcoming, I'd like to welcome Ms Hermione Granger, our new seventh year Gryffindor who has done home schooling up til now" Dumbledore said cheerfully. This time only four students clapped, Lily, Sirius, James and Remus. Everone else were too busy trying to see who she was.
Hermione slid down in her sit, embarrassed by all of the attention.
After the feast Hermione and Lily quickly made their way to the Gryffindor common room, chatting happily on the way. Hermione felt so at home talking to Lily that she accidnetly let slip that she was from the future.
"Whoa..." Lily said in disbelief. "You did seem a bit different though"
"I did?" Hermione asked with a confused expression.
"Well yeah, your cloths are different, you seem to know heaps about everyone and well...you seem pretty confident...I mean, you were shy when everyone was looking at you, but you seem really open" Lily said. Hermione smiled at this.
"So, what am I like in the future?" Lily asked. Hermione's face darkened when she remembered this girl's fate.
"I don't really know, I've never met you, I have heard of you though" Hermione said.
"You've heard of me...but never met me, cool, means I could be a celebrity or something" Lily joked. Hermione laughed at this.
"No Lily, I know someone who knew you" Hermione said, referring to Sirius. Lily sighed in disappointment making Hermione laugh.
Finally they reached the portrait hole where they saw a boy that reminded Hermione of Neville standing there.
"Hey Frank" Lily greeted. "Forgotten the password?"
Frank laughed at this, "You wish! Nah, I'm just waiting for Alice"
"Oh ok" Lily smiled. Suddenly Frank's face looked horribly confused.
"How can you both be headgirl!" He suddenly exclaimed.
Hermione and Lily both looked at Hermione's headgirl badge.
"We can't" Hermione muttered sadly, taking the badge off and pocketing it. Lily's heart when to the girl.
"Come on Hermione, better go into the common room before everyone arrives otherwise we'll never get the seats by the window." Hermione nodded.
"See you Frank, you're welcome to sit with us when Alice arrives" Lily said.
"We might" Frank said mischeiviously. Lily gave him a stern look before entering the common room after Hermione.
"That was Frank Longbottom, I've caught him and Alice making-out in the astronomy tower after hours quite a few times, and yet he always manages to talk his way out of things" Lily laughed. "Not to mention I've had to go to him quite a few times to ask the password, and I'm head-girl!"
Hermione frowned without realising it. Neville was definatly nothing like his father.
"Something wrong?" Lily asked. Hermione looked at her.
"Oh, not really, just thinking" Hermione answered. Lily gave her a worried look.
"Come on, we'll sit down" Lily said, walking over to the window and sitting on a couch next to it. Hermione did the same.
"So..." Lily began, before talking about pretty much everything. It was Hermione's first real girl talk, something she had been deprived of, havingguys as her best friends.
"Can we join you lovely ladies?"
Both girl's looked up to see Sirius and James trying to look charming while Remus rolled his eyes and Peter looked confused.
"Can you like...not" Lily muttered so only Hermione could here. Hermione smiled a this, which the guys mis-took as an invitation to sit down with them.
"So, how have you lovely ladies been?" James asked, sliding an arm around Lily's shoulders. Lily glared at Hermione. Hermione laughed at her.
"And tell me what is so amusing?" Sirius asked, slipping an arm around her waist and pulling her to him. Hermione rolled her eyes.
"Nothing Sirius" She said.
"Aww, come on Hermione, you can tell me anything!" Sirius said happily.
"Anything hey? Ok, it might sound boring but stags are my second favourite animal" Hermione said.
"That's not as boring as you think...do tell, what's your actualfavourite animal?" James asked.
"Oh I'm not really sure, I'm not sure whether I like cats or dogs better" Hermione said.
"Dogs!" Sirius pretty much yelled.
"Why dogs?" Hermione asked, nearly bursting with laughter.
"Because dogs are great companions, and they're protective and loyal-"
James snorted.
"I'm sorry, is there a problem Potter?" Sirius said, saying 'Potter' in a Malfoy like voice.
"Of course not Black" James replied with a small smile on his face.
"Well, Hermione and I are going to go to bed" Lily said, grabbing Hermione's arm and pulling her out of Sirius's arms quickly.
"Night all" Hermione said, following Lily up the staircase.
"Goodnight" Remus said, momentarily looking up from a book he was reading. Peter didn't say anything he just just looked at James and Sirius as if soaking in ways he should act around girls.
"Aww, don't go" Sirius said, his eyes looking puppyish.
"Goodnight!" Lily called down the stairs.
James placed a foot on their staircase and yelled "Come back to me Lily!"
The stairs immediatly disappeared into a slide. A small scream was heard at the top.
"JAMES YOU PRAT HERMIONE WAS STILL WALKING UP!" Lily yelled.
"Then where is she?" Sirius called, waiting to see Hermione slide down.
"Lily caught my arm Sirius, now goodnight" and with that the girls shut the door.
"Sorry about them, they can get rather annoying" Lily said.
"It's ok, it's not like they mean most the things they do" Hermione smiled.
"I can assure you that they mean every last thing they do, they were waiting for us to come sliding back down" Lily said. Hermione smiled and opened her mouth to reply but Lily stopped her.
"I wouldn't try defending them, I've known them alot longer then you" Lily said.
"fine" Hermione said, walking over to her wardrobe to find a singlet.
"Oh my god! I already liked what you were wearing, but all of your other cloths..." Lily said, staring wide eyed at the packed wardrobe.
"You can borrow some of them if you like" Hermione said.
"Really?" Lily said, amazed that Hermione would want to share her cloths with her.
"Actually...no" Hermione said, staring over at Lily's wardrobe. Lily's smile left her face.
"I have a better idea" Hermione said, walking over to Lily's wardrobe. Opening it she pulled out some plain shirts.
"Did you want these?" Hermione asked. Lily shook her head.
"Good, now choose some shirts from mywardrobe and bring them here. Lily did so.
Hermione muttered something under her breath and held her wand over one of her shirts. A small light appeared. she moved the wand over to one of Lily's shirts and it tranfigured into Hermione's shirt, except in white.
"I changed the colour so we wouldn't have the exact same shirt" Hermione said with a smile.
Lily looked at her new shirt with amazement before hugging Hermione.
"Thank you" she whispered.
"Any time" Hermione laughed. "Now, back to the other ones"
It took a fair few hours to transfigure 7 shirts and 3 pairs of jeans, mainly because Hermione was trying to make them different colours so Lily didn't have a million white shirts, but the problem was finding colours that wouldn't clash badly with her red hair.
"Done!" Hermione said at last.
Lily smiled, her eyes starting to close.
"I think it's time we went to sleep" Hermione said. Lily nodded immediatly.
Hanging up their cloths with a wave of their wands they climbed into their beds.
"Question Lily" Hermione said.
"Mmm?"Lily mumbled.
"Why aren't there any other seventh year girls in Gryffindor?" Hermione asked.
"There were twin sisters last year, but their parents pulled them out because they were moving to France, so it was only going to be me, but thankfully you came" Lily mumbled.
"Yeah..." Hermione answered, feeling guilty at the thought of leaving Lily when they found a way for her to get back to the future.
Suddenly a faint tapping sound filled the room.
Lily moaned and threw the blankets over her head. But soon the tapping was joined by a loud hooting sound. Grumbling, Lily got out of bed and opened the window. An owl flew in. She snatched up the piece of parchment it help and read it. Then, walking over to the door she opened it. She took a deep breath then...
"IF I GET ONE MORE LATE NIGHT OWL FROM YOU POTTER, I SWEAR I WILL USE EVERY HEX I KNOW AGAINST YOU!" Then she slammed the door and strode back to her bed, throwing the parchment, which landed next to Hermione's bed.
She picked it up and read it.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
come back downstairs
cause I have both flowers for you.
Hermione smiled and placed the note back down on the floor. Even though the thought scared her and made the guilt inside her grow she couldn't help but think that she could get used to life here in the past...
A/n: Another chapter! lol. Review to it please, i worked all day on this, trying to add parts and take away parts. So yeah...more will be explained about this chapter. :)
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