A/N: Here's chapter 7. Sorry for the long wait but I had exams and I had some trouble writing. I know where I want to go with this story but not how to get there, so most of the time I'm making it up as I go. So the updates can take some time, sorry about that. If there are any mistakes (grammar/spelling) let me know. You know the drill. Please read and review.

Thanks to Angel From Above Is Here for proofreading.

It was Saturday morning, the day of the Hogsmeade trip. Hermione was one of the few students who were already awake. The rest of the students had decided to sleep in before going to Hogsmeade.

Though, she had decided to stay in the castle, she couldn't help being awake. She was an early riser and she could do nothing about it. when she had woken up and saw the others still sleeping, she had decided to start early with her reading. So, as silent as she could, she had dressed herself, grabbed her book and made her way down to the common room.

She was sitting on one of the love seats before the fire, her back leaning against the side and her legs on the seat next to her. She had been reading for a good hour when someone greeted her.

"Good morning, Hermione." Lily said with a smile on her face.

"Good morning." Hermione said. "Ready to go to Hogsmeade?"

"I am, though Marlene is still getting ready. So, instead of waiting in our room, I decided to come down and wait here."

"I see."

"I see that you already started catching up on your reading." Lily said, pointing to the book Hermione was holding.

"Yeah, I was up early so I thought I'd make a head start."

"Couldn't you sleep? Was that why you're up early?" Lily asked a little concerned.

"Oh no, I slept fine. I'm just an early riser, that's all."

You could see on Lily's face that she was glad to hear that nothing was wrong. She was also glad that Hermione was, indeed, talking to her and wasn't avoiding her. Just then, Marlene entered the common room.

"Hey Lily, ready to go?" she asked. Seeing the person to whom Lily was talking to, she said, "Oh, hey Hermione."

"Hey." Hermione replied.

"Okay, I'm coming." Lily said to Marlene. Then she looked at Hermione and said, "Are you sure you aren't coming?"

"Yeah, I'm sure. Next time." Hermione told her with a smile.

"Okay, next time."

"Have fun." Hermione said to both girls. The girls answered by giving her a wave of their hands just before leaving the common room.

Hermione went back to her reading, only to be interrupted some time later by the marauders. They were talking animatedly while descending the stairs from the boys' dormitories and entering the common room, until they came to a stop and fell silent.

They were standing behind the sofa she was sitting on, looking down at her. Seeing the marauders standing there from the corner of her eye, she lowered her book and turned to look at them.

"Is something wrong?" she asked them a little uncertain.

"No, nothing's wrong. Just wondering why you'd prefer reading over a day spent in Hogsmeade." Sirius said.

"I already explained that, and besides, I like reading."

"Yeah, but still –"

"Never mind that, Padfoot." James said, interrupting Sirius. Then he looked at Hermione and asked, "Have you seen Lily?"

"Yeah, she left not so long ago with Marlene."

"Come on, maybe we can catch up to them." he said while running to the portrait hole. Just before leaving the common room, he yelled a "Thanks!" to Hermione. The remaining marauders shared a look as if to say 'he will never learn' and turned to look back at Hermione.

"Well, see you when we get back." Sirius said.

"Have fun." Hermione told them with a small smile on her face. When the portrait of the Fat Lady closed behind them, she went back to reading her book.

When she finished reading her book, Hermione noticed it was noon. Feeling hungry, she went to the Great Hall to have lunch. Arriving in the Great Hall felt different now that there were so little students in the castle. It was a lot calmer, but maybe that could just be because the marauders weren't there. The only students who were still in the castle were first and second years and a few older students of each house, amongst them was Hermione.

After eating lunch at an almost empty gryffindor table, Hermione went to the library to look for another book to read. After having browsed the shelves of books, until she finally found what she was looking for, Hermione checked out the book. Upon leaving the library she walked straight into someone. She stumbled a bit but didn't fall, this in contrast to her book and the books of the person she had ran into.

"Watch where you're going." someone snapped.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to, I wasn't paying attention." Hermione started to apologize while grabbing her book from the floor. Looking up, she saw no other than Severus Snape, her potions Professor, or future potions Professor. She was surprised, to say the least, but she still helped to gather his books.

After all the books were gathered, she handed him his books she had picked up.

"Again, sorry. I wasn't looking where I was going."

Severus only looked at her like he looked at everybody else, with an impassive but slightly look of disgust on his face. Then he said something.

"Tell me, do all gryffindors think that they own the place?" he asked with such venom behind his words that Hermione was taken aback a little. The Snape she knew in her timeline as good as never raised his voice and because of his reputation he didn't need to. Everything he said was said in a passive voice.

Hermione, still looking a little taken aback, didn't know what to say or how to answer that question. Severus looked at her for a moment longer and then passed her, making his way to the library, the place she had just come from.

Making her way back to Gryffindor Tower, she thought about Snape and how he wasn't that different from the Snape in the future.

After entering the common room, Hermione took the same seat that she had taken that morning. And while she was thinking about Snape and other people from the future, the marauders were having fun in Hogsmeade.

The marauders were sitting at a table in the Three Broomsticks, each with a butterbeer. They had been to Zonko's to refill their prank material. Then they had been to Honeydukes to stack up on sweets. Remus, especially, needed his bars of chocolate. And while James was harassing Lily and Sirius was looking at the scene with amusement, Remus and Peter had decided to make a quick shop at Tomes and Scrolls. Getting a little tired due to going from shop to shop and carrying all of their bags, they had decided to take a break and so had landed here, in the Three Broomsticks.

"Moony, Wormtail, you guys should've seen it. The way Evans just kept running from him while he chased her. You should've seen the look on her face." Sirius was saying while laughing loudly.

"I think I can imagine what it looked like." Remus said. At the same time Peter tried to imitate what he thought would have been Lily's face, though it was fairly exaggerated. All of them, except James, burst out laughing.

"Yeah yeah, go ahead and laugh. But I'll say this: one day Lily will admit she has feelings for me."

"Of course mate and she'll admit that on the same day that Snivellus decides to become our friend." Sirius said with a smile on his face.

Seeing that their glasses were empty, they ordered a new round. When Madam Rosmerta reached their table she said, "So, what will it be? Same thing?"

"Four butterbeers, lovely lady." Sirius said flirtingly.

The other three marauders rolled their eyes, seeing that he always tried to flirt with Rosmerta yet never really succeeded.

"Mister Black, how many time do I have to say this? You're a charmer but it doesn't work on me. Besides you're still green behind the ears." she said with a half smirk gracing her face but still remaining as lovely and friendly as ever. This was their game: Sirius would try and flirt with her and she would reject him and call him green, inexperienced, a charmer and so on.

When she left to take care of their order, the table erupted into laughter, once again.

That's how it went for the remaining time they were in the Three Broomsticks. After some time they decided to go stop by a few other shops. When they had returned to the castle and had made their way into the common room, they found Hermione in the exact same spot as that morning. They made their way towards her.

Hermione was so caught up in her reading that she didn't even noticed that they had made their way towards her and were now standing beside her. Suddenly, someone had grabbed her legs from on the couch and put them down again. Only this time her legs were on someone's lap and not the couch itself. Hermione looked up and saw Sirius sitting beside her, with her legs on his lap. Looking up, she also saw the other three marauders, sitting on the other couch.

Seeing that they were back and that they were looking at her, she closed her book and put it down.

"You're back." she said while she retracted her legs from Sirius' lap, not really knowing what else to say.

"Indeed, and you're still in the same spot as this morning." Sirius replied with an amused smile on his face.

"Indeed." She replied.

There was a small pause but Hermione decided to break it.

"How was your day?" she asked, not able to think of anything else.

Apparently this was the right question to ask because all four marauders started to recount what had happened that day. From the moment they left, to Lily running from James, to Sirius being rejected by Rosmerta. Of course, it was only natural that Hermione was laughing, hearing all this. It felt like it had been ages since she had laughed like that, it felt nice.

After some time, Hermione began to feel tired.

"I think I'm going to bed." she said, still a smile on her face from laughing. "Goodnight." She stood up and went to the stairs. Just before ascending the stairs, she heard a chorus of "Goodnights" from the four boys.

Once in her room, she saw her roommates, Lily, Alice and Marlene.

'Hi." she said.

"Hey." Came the reply of the three girls.

"How was your day?"

And just as with the boys, the girls started telling about what happened. Alice, especially, was happy because she had spent the day with Frank, her boyfriend. After hearing the stories, Hermione had to ask Lily something.

"Lily, is true that you ran away from James?"

"Of course I did."

"But really running? Like you were being chased?" she couldn't hide the small smile that was creeping on her face.

"Of course, because I was being chased. By him."

Hermione just started laughing.

"I wish I had seen that."

"If you wanted to see it then you should have come with us." Lily said in a teasing voice.

"Maybe next time he'll do it again and then I can see it."

Hearing this, Lily made a face of dread.

"And what did you do all day?"

"Reading." was Hermione's simple answer.

"Just reading? All day?" Marlene asked with a little scepticism. Marlene liked to read a book here and there but just like James and Sirius, she couldn't see the fun in reading for a whole day. Or reading for a long time in general.

"Yeah. Oh, I went to the library and walked into someone. But besides that, I only read."

"who did you walk into? Like a first year?"

"No, not a first year. I walked into Severus Snape."

Hearing this, all the girls got strange look on their faces. Marlene and Alice quickly looked at Lily to see how she would react but Lily didn't say anything for a moment. After a moment Lily spoke.

"Did he do something?"

"No, he just wasn't happy about me running into him."

"Did he say something?"

"Not really, just that all gryffindors are the same."

"Hermione, it's best if you stay away from him."

Knowing what they meant, she just nodded and said, "Okay."

"Say Hermione, what were you talking about with the marauders? You seemed to have fun."

"Oh, they were just telling me about their day in Hogsmeade."

"So you already knew I ran because I was being chased." Lily accused.

"Yes, I did. But I wanted to know for sure because I couldn't tell if they were exaggerating." Hermione said while she let out a soft laugh.

"They didn't say or do anything to make you feel uncomfortable, did they?" Lily asked a little worried.

"No, they didn't. They're not so bad really."

Saying that the marauders weren't so bad, was something she regretted saying by the end of the next day.

The next day it was Halloween and the marauders made sure that everyone knew it. They pulled one prank after the other, no one was safe. What was worse was that since it was a Sunday they had free reign for a whole day, not having classes and such. Though, Hermione doubted if that would've made any difference.

Like said before, no one was safe but somehow most students that were targeted were slytherins. Though, this also didn't surprise Hermione very much. By the end of the Halloween feast, the marauders had succeeded in getting detention, to be carried out the very next day.

After the feast, when everyone had gone to their common rooms, the atmosphere was still festive in the Gryffindor common room.

The marauders scared some third years with fake bats and the lights would 'flicker' and go out. Seeing the marauders play pranks on people, Hermione had to think of Fred and George and how alike they were to the marauders now. Though, she didn't approve of everything they did, she couldn't help but laugh at the silly pranks sometimes.

Remus, who was sitting on the couch besides her and who was a little calmer than the other three, saw her laughing.

"Entertained?" he asked with a smile.

Hermione turned to look at him.

"A little." she said.

"I didn't think you liked this kind of thing. You know, pranks."

"Why would you say that?"

"Well, you kinda remind me of Lily and she doesn't really like this kind of entertainment."

"Well, actually, you're right."

Hearing this, Remus arched an eyebrow in question.

"I don't really like these kind of pranks but today, you guys reminded me of someone. Two persons to be exact. Before I came here, I knew a set of twins, Fred and George, who would continually pull pranks. I didn't always approve but it was fun to watch, sometimes. And seeing you guys today made me remember them. I, actually, kinda miss them." she said with a fond smile on her face.

"I see. So you're used to some pranking, then?"

"You could say that. Though, some things they did were far worse than I have seen you guys do so far."

"Is that a challenge?" Remus asked amused.

"Certainly not!" Hermione said a little panicked, afraid that she had set something in motion.

Remus started to laugh.

"Don't worry. I was only joking."

Feeling relieved, Hermione relaxed once again.

"What's so funny, Moony?" Sirius asked as he made his way towards them, followed by both James and Peter.

"Nothing." Hermione said a little quickly.

Sirius and James both raised an eyebrow at her answer, not believing a word. Remus came to her rescue.

"Hermione just told me that we remind her of a few friends of her with our pranks."

"Really?" Sirius asked.

"Yes. They used to prank people all the time. They're even planning on opening a joke-shop." she said, thinking about how Fred and George opened Weasley's Wizards Wheezes in her time. Unfortunately, the shop didn't exist now. How could it, the twins weren't even born yet.

"Really? That's awesome!" James and Sirius said full of enthusiasm.

"Yeah, it's pretty amazing." she had to admit. "I think I'm going to bed, it's getting late. Goodnight."

"Goodnight." was the mutual answer she got from all four of them.

When Hermione was lying in her bed that night, she thought, once again, about everyone she left behind in her own time. Fred and George, Ginny, Luna, Neville, her parents, but most of all she thought about Harry and Ron and how she missed them.

She made up her mind, somewhere in the next few weeks she would go to see Dumbledore again and ask if he had made any progress because she really couldn't wait to go back home. Back to her own time.