Thank you so much for kind revives; it motivates me so much to continue writing!

Hermione was laying in her bed, slightly shaky after the events of the long evening. She gently touched her necklace, thinking over what this meant. Her meeting with Dumbledore had almost gone completely wrong, and she was experiencing the after match.

Flashback

"But I am willing to make an exception for now" Dumbledore continued in a tiered voice. His whole posture had changed in a matter of seconds, and he looked like the old man that he actually was. The look of defeat was baffling.

"Tell me everything" He said and met her brown eyes with his blue.

"Thank you, headmaster," Hermione said with gratefulness in her voice, the relief flowing through her in waves and she carefully let her wand-arm relax. She saw that the headmaster realised that she knew exactly why she was thanking him, as shame crossed his face for a second. He had realised that she knew what he had been about to do. Hermione started her tale, carefully selecting her words.

"There are quite a lot to tell, and I am not sure where to start, nor how much to tell you. I will start with what happened, thence we'll see what went wrong. I shall try to tell things as accurate I remember it." With an approving nod from the headmaster Hermione continued.

"In my originally fifth year, we didn't know much, I Harry and Ron. We knew that the order was watching something that Voldemort wanted to use, some kind of weapon, but we didn't know what it was. We only had speculations from what we manged to overhear from Order members and our own imagination. It was a confusing and scary time, we had a lot of theories of what it was, which of course made thigs even worse. Harry is having visons about Voldemort, this is something you know. That is especially when he sleeps, when his mind is vulnerable. Right now, it is only I and Ron who knows how frequent it happens. At Christmas this year, Mr. Weasley will get attacked by Nagini, Voldemort's pet-snake, Harry sees this in a dream, and made sure to notify you so that Mr Weasley's life was saved. Voldemort had previously been unaware of his connection to Harry, and that he could sense his emotions. This lead to that you wanted to make sure that Harry learned occulamancy so Voldemort would not have access to his mind, which didn't go that well. Snape was his teacher, and his hatred for James Potter makes him incapable to teach Harry anything, at least something as advanced as occulamancy. You wanted to teach Harry occulamacy so that Voldemort would not create false visions and lure Harry into a trap. This eventually happened and Sirius was killed in a fight". Hermione noted a change in Dumbledore, his eyes was distant as if he was seeing something not present. "Voldemort wanted Harry to fetch the prophecy for him, as he obviously cannot walk into the ministry now, exposing himself."

"This led to that you told Harry about the prophecy and why Voldemort is so obsessed with him. During our sixth year, you had private lessons with Harry, where you wanted to teach Harry about him. You covered his past on what made Voldemort the man he has become. You collected memories from Tom's past and early relationships and showed Harry through the pensive what he covet. Together you learned that Voldemort made Horcruxes, seven in its amount". '

Hermione paused for a moment, letting the information settle.

"He made a Horcrux?"

"He made horcruxes, plural" Dubledore looked slightly ill.

"I had suspicions, but… Please continue"

"Um, yes. You and Harry left the school one night to retrieve one of the horcruxes - Harry had for a long time suspected that one of our peers had become a Death Eater, and told us to keep watch that night. Harry was right, and that night Malfoy succeeded to sneak a dozen Death Eaters into the castle. Malfoy had been tasked to sneak them in, as a revenge for Lucius's mistakes earlier, and had a mission to kill you. We learned afterwards that you knew about this, and didn't interrupt Draco Malfoy because you wished that he would turn to the light side. As you phrased it yourself, you wanted to save his soul.." She empathised the last word with venom in her voice. "He won't come to his senses before it's to late" she said with an annoyed huff. "You had made a deal with Snape, as both of you knew that you were dying caused by an incurable curse. It was also your way to prevent that the Elderwand didn't turn its will to someone you didn't trust."

"After your death, we realised that it would not be long before Voldemort gained more power and would take control over the ministry. We decided to skip our last year of school to look for horcruxses. We eventually found them and Harry killed Voldemort".

Hermione looked at Dumbledore unsure of how much more to revile. She was afraid that too much information would do more harm than good, and that it would not work for the best. She decided to wait, and let him figure out some things out for himself. By the time she had finished her story, Dumbledore was looking at his wand with a deep frown.

"I suspect that there are things you have left out," Dumbledore said in a light tone.

"That might be"

Dumbledore gave her a thoughtful look but left it at that.

"So what are your suggestion for me to do miss Granger?"

"My suggestion is that you stop ignoring Harry, nothing good will come of it. I also strongly suggest that you tell him of professor Telewany's prophecy of him and Voldemort. He can handle it. All of us left our childhood behind by the time we reached second year. That is nothing you should even think about. In the meantime, I will try to change the small things"

"I will consider it," Dumbledore answered.

"No, you won't consider it, you'll do it. I am not part in your plan to make Harry feel alone, nor a part of your 'greater good'"

His gaze was penetrating, but she refused to back down, some things were just not right.

"Is there something troubling you?" he asked her with a frown.

"Um, yes" she said, "I have a worrying observation. Some days ago, I deliberately did something in class to prevent Harry from getting detention with Umbridge. Last time I asked her some questions about her teaching, which triggered Harry to tell her that Voldemort is back. This time I did not, but he still managed to get detention. I am worried that, maybe I can't change things"

"Am I right to assume that someone else did what you did not do in your place?" he asked. Hermione answered with a nod.

"To change time is a tricky thing Miss Granger, as one never knows how others will react to new situations. Some events will always be impossible to prevent, because someone else will take the place you abended and left free. The more we change, the more will be uncertain. Therefore, we must only change things that are necessary, things that will not leave people with too many new options of action"

This was a possibility Hermione herself had thought about, and could not help but agree too. Even if it was an unpleasant thought.

"Miss Granger, could I perhaps examine your necklace one more time? I just realised something" she doubtfully and reluctantly handed over her neckless again.

"Interesting… Is the person who gave you this close to you, and did he or her die during the first time?" Without waiting for a reply he continued, "I think some sand of time was mixed with the sand of love, the sand of faith and… the sand of…. It cannot be right... the sand of life"

"that is an interesting combination and I must say, incredibly dangerously dealt with the wrong way"

"What does that mean headmaster?"

"The sand of love symbolises the uncommitted love, the love you have for someone no matter what they become or do, like a mothers love to her child. The sand of faith represents the faith every person have for what they believe in, some muggles place it in a God, some place it in a leader and some place it in their belief in what is right or wrong. It is the faith you have in something so strong you are willing to die for it. The sand of life represents life, and everything combined with life. It represents what makes life, and what makes it worth living. The essence of love and faith is strongly presented in the sand of life ".

"I am not sure of what it means, but I think I am safe to say that you meant a great deal to the person who gave you this. And that I also think that most of your consumptions are in fact, correct."

"Which of my consumptions?"

"I think, but we cannot say for sure, that the person who gave you this loves you greatly and that the combination of his or hers love in the making of this necklace, made the unconventional combinations of sand react in an unconventional way. It gave you your life again when you died with your life missions unfulfilled. You are resurrected from the dead, and are given a second chance to fulfil your destiny. I think as well that this makes you able to change the future, but we must be careful of the butterfly effect. We must keep this information to ourselves, as you understand it is dangerous information knowing the future, and can be gravely misused by the wrong people".

Hermione nodded, it was a conclusion she herself had come upon.

"Dumbledore, I will insist that I come with you when we retrieve and kill the Horcruxes,".

"That is a dangerous mission"

"With all due respect Headmaster, I have after all done it before. I can be at great help, as two wands beat one it is not the most dangerous thing I have done".

Dumbledore calculated her for a while before he resultant nodded to himself.

"That is well, I'll call for you when it is time, and I'll pass a note when I wish to speak to you again about this topic"

"Good, because I already have one in my possession" Hermione replied with a sly smile.

AN: This took me a while to post. I have actually had it practically ready for two months, but I have never felt that it has been good enough to post. Therefore, I decided to just post it now so that I can move on with the story. I annoys me so much that I never get it the way I want it and imagined it in my head. Anyways, here it is. Btw, One of the other reasons for that it is so late is because of that Dumbledore, a difficult character to write indeed.

AN: I wanted to write Dumbledore as a part of the team, not as a bad guy which I often see in fic's. He is still not a grandpa, and his actions are questionable, but he will cooperate to some degree. I also wanted to make a little twist on the whole time-travel fic, without all of the unbreakable bods and oaths etc.