A/N: I don't own anything.

Chapter 3

Lily was almost to the door, when the girl who was on her bed answered her. "My parents and some of my friends." Lily turned around confused. "What?" "You asked who died." Lily's eyes went wide in realization. "Oh, I'm sorry. If you want to talk, I'll be around." The new girl nodded and closed her curtains. Lily sighed and turned around to go to the common room.

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Lily barely made it down the stairs before she was pounced on by the Marauders.

"Where does she come from?" James asks first.

"Where is she?" Sirius looks around.

"Why is she here?" Remus looks concerned.

"One at a time. She didn't really talk. She only told me that she had private tutors and that she come here this year because her parents died. Worse yet, some of her friends died too." She went into James's arms and cried for the new student. The Marauders all sat down and stared off into space, each thinking about the girl upstairs.

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Hermione woke up the next morning to the others still asleep except for the bed next to her which was empty. She glanced around. Lily was the only girl, she would have known and she was missing. Her eyes teared up thinking of everyone she left behind. She hurried to get her day started and not think about her problems.

It worked till she got to the common room and saw the Marauders and Lily sitting there. She sighed and tried to walk out. Lily looked over. "Oi. Hermione, come say hi." She squared her shoulders and walked over with a fake smile plastered on her face. Lily smiled brightly at her. "This is James, Remus and Sirius. You will meet Peter later in the year. He is in America for a Student Exchange." The boys held out their hands and shook hers. "Hi, I'm Hermione."

"That is a pretty name? From Shakespeare, right?" Remus asks. She blushes, then nods.

"So Hermione, how did you end up in our detention?" Sirius asked her. Her eyes went wide for a second. "I tried to apparate to the dorms from the Headmaster's office." Remus frowned. He knew she was lying no one could apparate within the school's walls. Lily voiced his concern. "But you can't do that." "Yeah, I know that know. It is why I fainted." She explained looking a little nervous.

She tried to find something to change the subject with. Glancing around she saw James was rushing to finish his homework. "So, what is the homework about? Maybe I can help?" James smiled at her, before showing her. It was Transfiguring that she had done as a 4th year. James pulled up a chair next to her and she helped him finish his homework, as the rest of the them chatted around her.

Sirius looks at his watch. "Come on, we have to get to breakfast." The group gathers their things and leave. Hermione falls to the back of the group as they walk. She watches them as the walk. Sirius looks the same from her time, but different. He is so full of energy in this time. His eyes sparkle with mischief. James and Lily however, they seem to combine to make Harry. James has his unruly black hair and little boy like look. Hermione had to be careful not to ruffle his hair like she used to Harry. Lily, well, she seemed to see right through Hermione. She had heard from many people that Harry had his mother's eyes, but it was quite different to see them for herself.

She turned to the last member of the group. Remus. She thought he was cute in her time, but it was something she never thought would happen. His amber eyes still shined with happiness. These were the best years of his life, he had once admited to Harry. She knew after school, his best friends would be murdered, another was thought to be murdered by the last friend. He blamed his only best friend still alive with killing the other 3. He believed it too, till her 3rd year. She was so lost in thought of how his life had been that she missed him looking back at her.

Remus watched the young witch as they entered the great hall. She separated from the group and sat down in a spot closest to the doors. She seemed sad. Lily had told them about her family and friends, but this seemed to be something else. She only seemed to get sad while talking to them. He had seen a few other Gryffindors talk to her and she didn't have the same look as when she talked to them.

Sirius had noticed that Hermione had sat away from them. He stood up to yell for her, when Lily pulled him down. "Sirius, she will not be happy if you make a big deal out of her. Leave her along. Wait for her to come to us." She hissed at him. He glanced over at the sad young witch and sat back down nodding.

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"Ah, Miss Jane. Welcome to my class." The older man in front of the class exclaimed. He smiled warmly at the young girl. She smiled back. "Take a seat please, next to Mr. Potter." She nodded and took the seat next to James.

"Today, we are going to duel." The class cheered. "The list in on the board of the pairs. In the order they will duel. We will only be doing the first 6 pairs today."

James groaned next to her. She turned to him and stared. "I have to duel Lily. She always wins against me." Hermione snorted in laughter, but quickly covered her mouth and stared wide eyed at James. He started laughing. "That was great. Don't be embarrassed. Sirius's laugh sounds like a bark." He wiggled his eyebrows at her. She started to outright laugh at him.

"Crap. You have Avery. He is a Slytherin, they fight dirty. You need to be careful." He told he bluntly. She glanced to the board and saw she was in the 6th round. She groaned, it would be the last duel of the day.

They watched the pairs duel. Sirius dueled a blond Slytherin and didn't know the other pairs till the teacher called her name.

"Miss Jane, Have you dueled before?" He asked gently. She nodded. He smiled. "Good luck" he told he before she walked to the platform.

She watched the tall boy with wavy brown hair walk up to his spot. She kept staring. Finally, they bowed and took their stances.

(Avery's spell) (Hermione's Spell)

"Expelliarmus"

"Protego"

"Petrificus Totalus"

"Protego"

Avery started to stare at her.

"Incarcerous"

She dodged the ropes that shot from his wand.

"Miss Jane, you really should attack too." The teacher yelled.

"Avis" She yells, as birds shoot from the tip of her wand.

"Oppugno" The birds attack the boy. Avery gets his by several before he vanishs them. Glaring at the girl.

"Bombarda"

"Protego" She yells causing the spell to bounce off her shield and hit the wall, causing a hole. She turned to glare at the boy.

"Furnunculus" Boils appear on the boy.

"Langlock" His eyes widen as his tongue sticks to the roof of his mouth causing him to loose the ability to talk.

"Bambarda" She watches as a shield erects around him. She turns to the class to see Severus Snape glaring at her. He points his wand at her.

"Sectumsempra" Snape yells as she moves. The slicing spell hit her shoulder. The teacher starts to intervene as she waves her hand and heals without a word.

"Lacarnum Inflamarae" She yells as a ball of fire shoots at eyes widen but he castes his shield and yells "Expelliarmus"

Her wand flys across the room to him. He smirks at her her waving her wand.

Her eyes narrow as she castes "Incarcerous" Snape finds himself bound by ropes

She castes another silent spell. "Accio Snape's wand. Accio Hermione's wand" Both wands shot to her hand. The teacher walks up. "Mr. Snape. It was not you duel. Miss Jane, well done." He acts like he wants to talk to Miss Jane as the bell rings and she runs out of the room, tossing Snape's wand to the teacher.

She saw the Marauders trying to push through the crowd to talk to her. She runs to a passageway that wasn't on the map. Fred and George had showed it to her once when they hid from Filtch. She slips behind the tapestry as disappears into the wall and down a hidden courador.

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"Wow" was all James said. Remus and Sirius were still speechless. Lily spoke up. "Did you see that? She did wandless and silent magic! That was amazing. Why did she run off though?" Remus shook his head to snap out of his daze. "I don't think she wanted to do that. I think it was just because she was pushed to it. Did you see how red her face was after the duel. It was like she was embarrassed by it."

"That was great though. Did you see Snape's face?" Sirius asks. "Did you see Avery's face?" James adds. "Serves him right. You remember them attacking that poor boy last year, just because he was muggleborn?" Remus adds.

Lily glanced around. "Where did she go?" The boys looked around. "That is weird. She should be around here." Remus mutters

They went their separate ways and none of them saw Hermione till lunch. They went to their regular seats to see Hermione sitting by the door once again. She had a few people around her asking her about the duel, she ignored them all and kept eating. Remus watched her for a few minutes till he looked back at his friends to see Sirius and James smiling wickedly at him. He quickly looked down at his plate and didn't look up till dinner was almost over.

*BANG* Everyone in the great hall looked to the suddenly opened door to see 2 people that most had never seen before. They heard a scream however as Remus saw Hermione run to them. The taller boy with black hair scooped her into his arm. "Thank god you are okay." He kissed the top of her head and then pushed her away to look her over. Satisfied she wasn't hurt he pulled her back to him. "God, Don't ever do that again." She kisses his cheek and see the boy next to him.

"Miss me?" He flashed him most dashingly handsome smile. She launched herself into his arms. "With everything I hex you with, but my aim has gotten better." He laughs at her then hugs her tight. "You are okay, right?" She smiles. "I will be. I missed you both so much." She pulls both boys to her and hugs them both till they hear someone clearing his throat.

Both sets of newcomer's eyes widen and then look to their friend. She laughed for one of the few times since she was there. She grabbed their hands and took them over to the corner where Dumbledore was walking to. Everyone watched the 4 people with great interest. Sirius leaned over to Remus. "I think you might have missed your chance with the pretty witch." Remus glared at his friend, but then looked up to Dumbledore as he went to his podium.

"Students, we are delighted to have 2 more new students. Mr. Harry James and Mr. Draco Hunter."

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~ Thank you for all the reviews. :) As for Albus's age, apparently J.K. Rowling said in 2001 that he was "about 150 years old". She defined it closer in 2008 saying that he was born in 1881. Harry Potter Wiki is where I got this from. I really don't follow all J.K. Rowling's interviews and things like that. Thank you though for telling me. I really do appropriate it. Really I do. He also was Wizard of the Month in Sept. 2007 on .

~I added in a character name Alecto Avery Apparently at some point in the stories or interviews it was said that Lily was mad at Snape partly for his friends, one of whom was Avery who attacked a muggleborn kid with one other person.

~Sorry it took so long, along with my 2 small kids getting sick and myself, we lost power for several days. Not fun.

~Updates on Fridays, for now. At least till I finish Lego Harry Potter for the DS.~

(My hubby was so bored, he got the ds from me to play a game. When the battery died and we still had no power he actually debated on buying another one at the store till I reminded him of the whole, We would still have to charge it part.)

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