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Hermione was glad she had spent the summer preparing her lessons for the upcoming year and had successfully planned out all of her lessons. She would cover everything that she believed would prepare her students for impending war and help save their lives.

She had skipped breakfast though she had been up practically all night because of the extreme anxiety that plagued her. The thought of food made her feel nauseated and she doubted she was ready to see the people she had become familiar with in the future. Sure she had faced death, Voldemort, the vilest of all wizards, and the most dangerous of monsters yet she had never felt this nervous before in her life, including the days of her upcoming newts and owls back when she attended Hogwarts.

Today she would hold classes for every grade except for second years, and her first class of the day was 7th year Gryffindor's and Slytherin's which meant both the Marauders and her future torturers would be present. She wasn't sure she could handle such a class and felt as though she might faint at any moment. She quickly scolded herself for being such a baby, and told herself to suck it up. She could do this; she had to do this, in order to save not only her best friends lives but the future of the wizarding world.

The opening of the door to her class room awakened her from her thoughts as she found herself face to face with a young Severus Snape. He looked just like she remembered him from the future though he also looked drastically different in the sense that it no longer looked as if he had the burden of the world on his shoulders. He seemed less bitter and lonely but he was just as grouchy and insufferable. He avoided looking her for a reason she did not know and he seated himself in the back of the room on what she figured was Slytherin's side, which would not last long with her seating chart.

A few minutes later more students came pouring in the room taking seats next to their friends and leaving four empty seats in the front which she assumed they had left for the marauders would sit. They arrived only barely before they would be considered late though Hermione did not know if she would have the courage to reprimand them if they were tardy. The marauders seemed to be as anxious as she felt, not knowing what to accept from the strange new teacher.

Once she figured everyone had arrived she stood from the desk she was seated in, in the front of the class room, and in a stronger voice than she believed she could possess she introduced herself.

"Welcome to Defense Against the Dark Arts, I am Hermione Granger, and you will address me as Professor Granger. This year I will teach you how to protect yourself in the impending war and against those who wish you harm, like Voldemort"

A gasp was heard throughout the room at the name Voldemort and everyone seemed to stare at Hermione in some kind of shock. While some students just continued to stare at her a few raised their hands, including Sirius Black and James Potter.

Hermione just sighed and said "Fearing the name only increases the fear itself "

She then proceeded to call up Sirius "Yes, Sirius?"

"How do you know there is going to be a war, Voldemort is just some crazy , and frankly you don't even seem old enough to be teaching us in the first place let alone teach us to protect ourselves from serious dark magic"

Hermione responded quickly in a serious but agitated tone "Believe what you want but Voldemort is rising to power making war inevitable and you may choose to be ignorant of this or you may choose to accept it and prepare yourself in any way possible. And I am perfectly qualified to teach you to protect yourself from dark evil since I have faced it myself more than a couple times and age doesn't matter in the eyes of the people who want you dead."

This caused murmurs to break out in the class room which Hermione quickly suppressed. "Well, I think we have gone over enough today, so class is dismissed but be ready for tomorrow when we will start to conquer our fear because fear can be your best weapon and worst enemy"

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