A/N: So here is chapter 4. Sorry it took so long to finish and update. I'll try to update sooner, though I can't make any promises. Once again, if there are any mistakes (grammer/spelling) just let me know. Please read and review.

Thanks to Rayquaza45 for proofreading.

When Hermione woke up the next day, she felt drained. Flashbacks rushed into her mind of her participation in a battle between the Order and Death Eaters, and her being hurled back to the past due to two curses merging together.

She didn't remember going to sleep. Looking at herself, she saw that she was still wearing her clothes from the day before so she assumed that she must have cried herself to sleep last night.

Opening the curtains of her four-poster bed, she saw a trunk at the end of her bed. Opening the trunk, she saw clothes, books, quills and so on. Dumbledore had given her everything she needed while she was here, just as he had promised.

Grabbing some clothes and toiletries, she went into the bathroom to get ready. When she looked in the mirror, she could clearly see the signs of her crying the previous night. Her eyes were red and puffy and her cheeks felt sticky from the salt of her tears that had dried during the night.

After taking a shower and getting dressed, she mentally prepared herself to get through the day. This, apparently, was a good idea because when she exited the bathroom she came face to face with three girls, all looking wide awake and a little curious.

Lily, of course, she knew but there were two other girls that she didn't know.

It was Lily that broke the little staring contest and started to speak.

"Hermione, good morning. How are you? Did you sleep well?" Lily asked with a smile.

"Good morning. I slept fine." Hermione replied with a small and unsure smile.

Then Hermione looked once again at the two girls that were staring at her. Seeing this, Lily went on and introduced everybody to each other.

"Hermione, this is Alice." Lily said while pointing to the girl with blue eyes and brown hair. The girl smiled and waved. "And this is Marlene." Lily stated while pointing to a blonde girl with brown eyes. Marlene, just like Alice, gave Hermione a smile and a wave in reply.

"Alice, Marlene, this is Hermione. Our new roommate." She directed to her two friends with a smile on her face.

"Hi." Hermione said in a small voice in which you could hear that she was a little nervous.

"Hey." The girls answered simultaneously.

"So, Hermione, looking forward to attending Hogwarts?" Alice asked.

"Yes, though, I have to admit that I'm a little nervous." Hermione replied.

"Don't worry, everything will be just fine." Marlene said with an encouraging smile.

"Thanks." Hermione said.

She then went to her trunk to grab her bag. She would get her timetable at breakfast from Professor McGonagall so her bag was still empty as she didn't know which books she would need that day. Then she turned to the girls and stated she was going to the Great Hall for breakfast.

"Would you like for one of us to come with you?" Lily asked.

"No, no, it's okay. I'll be fine." Hermione responded with a small smile, though her smile didn't reach her eyes. Nobody noticed this, however, and before any of the girls could say anything more, Hermione had already left the room.

Upon arriving in the Great Hall, she saw that many students were already there and eating. She sat by herself at the end of the table, aware of the stares and whispers she was getting from the other students.

She only sat there for a solid ten minutes when her attention was drawn to the entrance of the Great Hall where she heard laughter. Looking at the entrance, she saw four boys walking in.

When she looked at them, she couldn't help but think that they had something familiar to them, like she had seen them somewhere before. While she kept staring, one of the boys looked right back at her. Feeling like she did something wrong she looked away. The boy, on the other hand, nudged his friends in the sides, pointed at her and together they walked up to her.

Feeling the presence of others around her, Hermione looked up, looking right in the faces of the four boys who had walked in just a moment ago.

It was a boy with long black hair that was the first to say something.

"Hello, beautiful." He said with a seductive smile while taking her hand and placing a kiss on it. "What's your name? 'Cause I can't imagine that a girl as beautiful as you would wander around without an even more beautiful name. And I really want to know what I should call you, milady."

Hermione could only look and stare as if in shock.

It was a boy with black messy hair that pulled the boy with long black hair away from her, so she could have her hand back. He was also the one that made the introductions.

"Hi, don't mind this weirdo too much. I'm James, James Potter." He said, holding out his hand for her to shake. "The one who just tried to assault you is Sirius Black." He said with a grin on his face while pointing to the boy with long black hair.

Sirius, once again, took her hand and placed a kiss on it. "Nice to meet you, mademoiselle."

"This," James said pointing to a tall boy with light brown hair, "is Remus Lupin."

"Nice to meet you." Remus said with a small calm smile on his face while shaking her hand.

"And this," James went on while pointing to a boy with mousy brown hair and that was smaller than the previous three, "is Peter Pettigrew."

"Hi." Peter said in a small voice while hesitantly shaking her hand.

Hermione looked shocked, more than that, she looked like she had seen a ghost and the only thing she could do was stare at the four people that were standing before her. The reason: standing in front of her were the four marauders, all young and all alive.

She looked at James. He was a carbon copy of Harry or better said, Harry was a carbon copy of James. Everything was the same, the height, the messy hair, he even wore glasses, though James' were squared and not round like Harry's. The only difference were the eyes. Where Harry had bright emerald green eyes, James had hazel ones. Of course, James didn't have the lightning bolt scar.

Moving on from James, Hermione looked at Remus. He wasn't that different from the Remus in her own time. Though, this Remus was definitely younger and had less scars, you could see that he already had been through a lot. Though, he had the same friendly face and the same calm voice. Also, his clothes weren't as loose and patched as in her time and his green eyes held a sparkle which he had lost when she met him in her time.

From Remus, she moved on to look at Peter. This boy looked nothing like the man she met in her time. He looked almost sweet, nothing like the old-looking, balding, nervous rat that he would become in the future. Looking at him made her feel conflicted: she wanted to hurt him for what he did but seeing how he was now and that, in this timeline, he hadn't done anything yet, she didn't know what to do or how to react.

Lastly, she looked at Sirius. He looked so young and so lively, so different from the man she knew in her time. He looked like he hadn't a care in the world: a smile on his face, his grey eyes sparkling. In her time he looked entirely different, probably because in her time he had lost his friends and spent thirteen years in Azkaban. What shocked her the most, however, was the fact that he was alive. In her time he had died and had been dead for a year. Knowing that he had died and seeing him now, she wanted to burst out in tears, not only for herself or Sirius but also for Harry.

The boys just looked at Hermione while she was staring at them. James and Sirius had a smile on their face as if proud to see that they made her speechless. Remus and Peter watched her with curiosity, wondering what she was thinking about.

Coming out of her trance-like state, Hermione introduced herself to the boys.

"I'm Hermione, Hermione Granger." She said.

"Ah, so you're the new girl." James stated with a wide smile on his face.

"Yes, that's me." Hermione said in a small voice while looking away from the boys.

"Are you looking forward to attending Hogwarts?" Remus asked. It was the exact same question Alice had asked her only moments ago in their room.

"Yes, though I'm a little nervous."

"Do you look forward to the lessons?"

"I do, though I still haven't gotten my timetable."

At this, Professor McGonagall came walking towards them.

"Here you go, Miss Granger. Welcome to Hogwarts. I hope I may expect great things of you." McGonagall said while handing Hermione her timetable.

Hermione looked at her timetable, as did the four marauders. All of them, except for Remus, were a little shocked about the amount of classes she was taking. The reason that Remus wasn't shocked was because he was taking the same amount as her.

Hermione, still not used that she was sitting next to the marauders and now having her timetable, wanted to leave the table as soon as possible. She stood up from where she was sitting and grabbed her bag, not even having finished her breakfast.

"What are you doing?" Sirius asked, looking at her as if she had grown a second head.

"I'm going to class." She said while walking away.

"But class doesn't even start for another half an hour!" He yelled after her but he didn't get any kind of response.

While Hermione walked out of the Great Hall in a semi-hurried pace, she passed Lily, who saw that Hermione had just walked away from the marauders. Seeing this, Lily made her way towards the marauders.

"What did you do?" She asked not too friendly.

"Good morning my Lily-flower. How are you this fine morning?" James greeted her as usual. And as usual, she didn't answer.

"What did you do?" She asked once again.

"I don't know. What have we done?" asked Sirius.

"What did you do to Hermione? Why was she fast walking away from here?"

"I don't know but we didn't do anything wrong, Evans." Sirius said like he could care less.

"It's true, Lily." Remus interjected, seeing that Lily was about to explode. "We just introduced ourselves and after she had received her timetable from McGonagall she left."

Looking at the boys for a moment, Lily let it slide and took a seat at the table a little further away from them. The boys, on their turn, looked at each other as if asking if one of them knew why Hermione had left so abruptly. Not able to think of a reason because of the fact that they didn't know anything about her, only her name, they let it go and went back to eating their breakfast.

When the marauders made it to Transfiguration, with no time to spare, they saw Hermione sitting by herself at the front of the class. When McGonagall gave them a stern look, they immediately went to take their usual places in the middle of the room. Professor McGonagall had made those seating arrangements specifically for them because she knew if they were to sit in the back they would do anything except pay attention. This way she could keep her eyes on them.

During class, the only thing James and Sirius did was watch Hermione, seeing as transfiguration was their best class and they didn't found it necessary to put in a lot of effort. Remus and Peter, on the other hand, were paying attention to what McGonagall was saying.

Hermione was listening to McGonagall while taking notes, though she wasn't unaware of the eyes that were boring holes through the back of her head. She decided to just ignore this and pay attention because next they would have to practice the spell of which they were now seeing the theory.

"Okay, everyone. Time to put the theory into practice. Try to transfigure your desk into a donkey and back again." McGonagall said.

In just a few moments all students were trying to transfigure their desks, though very few succeeded on the first try. Among the only ones to succeed on the first try were, unsurprisingly, James and Sirius. What was surprising for the students and professor McGonagall however was that Hermione, too, succeeded on her first try.

When Hermione had turned the donkey back into a desk, she looked up to see everyone staring at her with a surprised look on their face. Even James and Sirius were staring at her, thinking they were the only ones capable of doing this.

"Well done, Miss Granger. It's not often that students succeed on their first try. Keep up the good work." McGonagall said.

"Minnie, don't we get a compliment? We also managed to do it on the first try." Sirius asked with a smile on his face and a mischievous sparkle in his eyes.

"It is Professor McGonagall for you, Mr Black. And also, you two as good as always manage to do it on the first try. If I had to compliment you every time, your heads would be bigger than they are now and we wouldn't want that now, would we?" She replied as stern as ever, though she had a small, almost unnoticeable smile on her face.

After hearing this, the smiles on James' and Sirius' faces only grew wider.

All the other students went back to trying to turn their desk into a donkey. After a few more tries, Lily, Remus and Alice also managed to do it. This is how it went until everyone, except for two or three students, had succeeded.

When class had ended, Hermione left as fast as she could. Walking outside of the classroom, however, she was greeted by the four marauders, people that she didn't want to see right now. Seeing them that morning had been hard enough.

"So, Hermione, where did you learn to do that?" Sirius asked.

"Yeah, normally it's just me and Sirius who succeed on the first try." James interjected.

"Sorry, but I have to go to my next class." Hermione said and walked away, leaving the boys behind.

While Hermione walked to her next class, Arithmancy, as fast as she could without looking suspicious, the boys watched her go. They wondered why she had walked away from them without saying anything, for the second time that day.

This is how it went for the rest of the week. They would try to talk to her and she would give short replies and walk away. When she did something amazing or surprisingly in class and they wanted to ask her about it, she would say she had to go to her next class or that she needed something from the library and walk off. She didn't just do it with them either. She also did it with Lily and the girls. In their dorm she would say little if anything or she would always leave the room before the others did and so on.

Hermione knew she was avoiding everyone but she didn't know what else to do. She didn't want to make a mistake. She didn't want to risk people finding out where she was from. She didn't want to get too comfortable in case she told someone something about the future, however insignificant it may be. She knew the rules of time travel and she wasn't planning on breaking them.

For now, she preferred to be alone. She would do her homework and she would research time travel in her spare time but she would do it alone as to not risk anything. She did this, hoping that the others, the marauders and the girls, would eventually give up on trying to talk and get to know her.