Jean's Tale
By Rurple101


Story Summary:

Hermione travels back in time due to a mistake with her time turner. She appears up in 1963, aged as a two year old. Over the eight years, she grows up in the part of town where Lily Evans and Severus Snape grew up. The summer before they all go to Hogwarts, they meet and the tale begins...


Chapter One

Eight years passed by.

Eight years passed while Hermione Granger didn't exist anymore and she was known as Jean Brown, adopted by Mistress Mabel Brown and one of the cleverest and kindest girls around.

Except she was very shy and tended to hide behind books rather than speaking to people. When she was at school, kids bullied her for being nerdy and accused her of being a teacher's pet.

Crying to herself softly, it was only when she went home to Mistress Mabel, that she would tell her.

Mabel was very protective of her daughter. Nobody would get away with hurting the one thing she had desired the most of the planet. Raising Jean had been a struggle with little money but she got child support and they were both happy.

That is, until Jean had a tantrum one day and decided to explore the neighbourhood while her adoptive mother was asleep.


Hermione wandered across the streets, glad to away from Mistress Mabel's company for once. For a child that had been there since she had popped up as a young 2 year old, the woman was fiercely protective of her.

She headed towards a play park where she could see two girls swinging on the swings. Hermione walked over and coughed awkwardly. One of the girls stopped her swing and glowered at her. The other however, swung higher and higher above the ground.

Despite being so high and the wind whipping her long red hair back and forth, the girl looked down and beamed at her. She then let go of the swing and positively flew from where she was sat, mid arch and landed right in front of Hermione neatly on her feet.

"Hi" she said, happy to see someone apart from her sibling. "How are you?"

Hermione recognized the long red hair and green eyes at once from Harry's old photo album. This was Lily Evans, Harry's mother.

But then the memory vannished and she shook her head slightly to clear it.

"Hello" she said shyly and held out her hand and Lily shook it. "I'm…Jean."

"My name is Lily, Lily Evans, you look lonely, do you want to join us?" she took Hermione's hand and lead her over to where her sister sat glowering.

"This is my sister Petunia" Lily said, nodding to Petunia who was sat, glaring at Hermione as if she were a rotted cat.

"Nice to meet you" Hermione said and absently mildly tugged at her heavy jacket. She hated the jacket but Mistress Mabel had half bullied her into wearing it.

Petunia got off the swing and promptly pushed her over, making her crumple at Lily's feet.

Hermione's temper flared and before she knew what was happening, Petunia had grown a white shinning beard that went all the way down to her toes.

Lily couldn't hold her laughter in as her sister gasped at the beard attached to her pale chin.

Hermione could hear a muffled laughing and turned around sharply. She could make out the trace of a young skinny boy who was around their age and he was bent over with chokes of laughter.

She faced Petunia.

"I'll take it off, but if you push me then it will remain there!" she half threatened.

Petunia stuck her lounge out and started running away. Only she tripped on her beard and fell over herself. Then she started balling.

Lily sighed. "Can you remove it please?" she asked Hermione and she agreed. With a click of her fingers, the beard was gone and Petunia got up and started running towards a house opposite the play park.

"Sorry" Hermione mumbled, fiddling with the clasp of her coat. Sighing in frustration she closed her eyes tightly and clicked her fingers quietly. The coat un-did itself and flew away from her and crumpled upon a pile of leaves that someone had attempted to rake up.

"Wow" Lily said, watching the coat soar away from them. "You're magical!"

Hermione grinned and sat in the abandoned swing. "So are you" she pointed out to Lily.

Lily shrugged. "I doubt it."

"Then how else do you explain the things you do?" Hermione asked, peering up at her new friend.

Lily met her eyes and then looked up at the sky and thought deeply.

"You're a witch" Hermione whispered. "And NO, it's not an insult!" as Lily looked up irritated.

There was a silence for a few seconds.

"What else can you do?" Hermione asked, the curiosity poking at her.

Lily walked over to the flowerbed nearby and picked a lily from its stem. She then walked over to where Hermione sat and held out her palm. She smiled widely as the petals started opening and closing.

"That is awesome!" Hermione gasped, when she had been a child herself she had managed to make books fly over to her and undo things she didn't want.

"I find it interesting" Lily started but then stopped.

"What's the matter?" Hermione asked, looking down to meet her eyes.

"But my sister insists on calling me a freak all the time" Lily said and tears escaped her eyelids and dribbled down her cheeks.

Quickly Hermione got off the swing and handed her a tissue and hugged Lily. Odd how she was friendly with someone she'd met less than ten minutes ago.

"You're not a freak, Lily" Hermione soothed as Lily wiped her eyes. "Petunia is jealous. She's not a witch, she is what witches and wizards call a muggle. They are non-magical and that is her way of acting like she doesn't want it but she does!"

"But why am I the only one in the family?"

Hermione moved her over and sat her on the swing whilst she took the other.

"There are three 'types' of magical people in a way" Hermione said. "There are people who are fully magical families and these people are often quite mean as they boast about their magic. I know this because my…carer is a witch. She thought I was a normal muggle until I started making things fly everywhere!"

Lily giggled.

"Then there are muggle-borns, which is what you are, that means you are in a muggle family but you are a witch yourself, like it just crops up in your timeline or something. I'm muggle-born as well."

"We're make a pack or something!" Lily laughed as she started swinging again.

"Then there are half-bloods, who are people who have one parent who is muggle born and the other is half-blood themselves or pureblood. Get it?"

Lily nodded, swinging higher and higher.

"Bet you can't catch me!" she laughed again as she swung further upwards.

"Looks like you're cheating!" Hermione scoffed and they both giggled.


After nearly an hour of playing, Hermione decided it was better she'd go home or she'd be in trouble. She bid goodbye to Lily and started walking home. Only, when she got out of the play park, a boy jumped out and in front of her.

"Ahh!" she yelled before he clasped a hand over her mouth. When he was sure she wouldn't scream, he removed it.

"Who are you?" he said in quite a cold voice. Hermione's eyes narrowed.

"Jean, Jean Brown. Who are you?" she said, folding her hands tightly behind her back.

He stood up straighter and his too-big clothes flapped in the movement slightly.

"Severus Snape, resident wizard and bored out of my mind. Are you a muggle?"

She sighed and twiddled her thumbs.

"Almost" she whispered, playing the part of a worried muggle born.

"Ohhh" he said, in understanding. "You're a witch, but you're…"

"SHUT UP!" she hissed, making flapping noises with her hands. "My carer doesn't like me talking about that!"

He rolled his eyes.

"Carer?"

She thought the urge not to cry. Taking a deep breath she struggled and whimpered out. "I haven't got parents."

"Oh" it was silent for a while until he stepped forward and hung his head. "I'm sorry."

She tried to shrug it off. "I need to get over it, doesn't matter. But Mistress Mabel is very kind to me. She's…" She looked around carefully before leaning forward and whispering in his ear.

"She is a witch as well, and she does spells and things around the house, making things fly and whatever. I want to do it and I yelled at her to stop doing once because I was so jealous!"

She giggled and leaned back away from him. There were traces of a smile lying around his face.

"I've seen you before" he said. "I saw you when you were really tiny. How long have you been with Mistress Mabel?"

"Since I can remember, always been with her, yet I look at the picture of my parents with me and they looked so happy. It made me upset to see that they have gone without me!" Jean sighed.

Severus Snape didn't know what to do, but he'd remembered that when he was upset, his mother would hug him. So he stepped forward again and wrapped his arms tenderly around this complete stranger.

Hermione was in shock, she couldn't believe that her old professor was hugging her. But her real life was being forgotten quickly as she was growing up in this time. So she sighed and leaned into his comfort.

"Thank you" she said after a few minutes, stepping back and nodding.

"I saw you talking to that girl" Severus half accused. He'd wanted to be the one to tell the pretty girl that she was a witch. And now this girl had ruined his plans.

Hermione nodded. "Yes, Lily was very kind to a person she's only met today. Her sister…well, I'm going to have to get used to not hexing her when we're older."

He chuckled.

"I'll introduce you to her if you want, she's very kind." Hermione offered.

Severus's eyes lit up happily and he nodded eagerly.

"Was it you, I saw in the bush laughing when she grew her beard?"

He nodded, "You got some good control over your magic" he complimented her. "The way you just close your eyes and focus on it. Cool."

She blushed.

But then she checked her muggle watch and cried out. "Oh NO!"

Severus jumped. "What is it?"

"Mistress Mabel is going to kill me! I have to go." She started running towards her house. "I'll see you later Severus!"

Severus just stood there and watched Jean Brown run away. Was it him or did he wonder if he was better off becoming friends with Jean rather than Lily? They were both beautiful…especially when Jean blushed.


I AM SO EXICTED FOR THIS STORY! TELL ME IF YOU LOVE IT OR IF YOU LOVE IT AS WELL ! LOL XX

Also, I got the idea from a family I was playing on Sims2. So after a while, I will see if I can Sims2 this story and put it on Youtube for you guys!

Rurple101 xx