Hey everyone. Welcome back for another chapter of Time Secrets. I know that my previous chapters haven'tbeen that good, but hopefully the rest of the chapters get better. Just to let you guys know, Hagrid is going to be in this chapter. Yay! Enjoy!
"Talking"
'Thinking'
'Animal speech'
Normal POV
Hermione woke up and felt her head throb. She tried to sit up, but felt her muscles ache from not being used for 5 days. "The Marauders are going to be here tomorrow. I guess I should get up. I need to check when the last full moon was and when the next one will be.'
Sighing, the brunette shakily stood up. Looking over to Ginny, Hermione decided that the younger girl should get some more sleep. The young woman walked over to Madam Pomfrey's office and knocked on the door lightly. After a few seconds, the older witch opened the door and looked at Hermione. Madam Pomfrey quickly looked over Hermione to make sure her injuries had healed and gave her a potion to help the aching go away.
"I expect you not to over work yourself. Come back down here to take more potions once a day to help finish your recovery and to help with the pain. Once a week, I will examine you to make sure you are still healing alright. You need to keep coming down here because I don't know if there will be any other side effects." She nodded and walked out of the office.
Hermione was about to walk out of the infirmary when she heard a sleepy voice speak. "Where are you going?" Turning to look at the red haired girl from the corner of her eye, Hermione smiled. "I'm just going to get a few things. I can see that you already brought the books in, but I would like to go get a moon chart. It will be easier to deal with Lupin's...condition. I need to know when the last full moon was and when the next will be. The potion takes a month to complete, so I need to see if there is enough time to finish the potion before the next full moon." Ginny nodded and turned onto her other side so she could go back to sleep.
The brunette turned back to the doors and made her way over to the library. Entering the room, the animagus was flooded with memories. 'It'sbeen a long time since I was able to come here. I remember when I wasn'tgetting into trouble with Harry and Ron, I spent my time in here.'
Thinking about Ron and Harry made Hermione's eyes fill with sadness. The young woman felt tears sting her eyes. "N-no! I can't allow myself to cry. I won't cry ever again.' Pulling herself out of her thoughts, Hermione began looking for any moon cycle charts.
After going through the entire library, Hermione looked over at the clock. According to the clock, it was already 3 p.m. 'What? I've been here for 3 hours. I guess I should go check on Ginny and go see if Dumbledore has a moon chart.'
Approving her plan, the woman left the library. Due to her time rushing from class to class, then running from death eaters, Hermione's speed had improved. Any normal student would take at least 10 minutes to get from the library to the infirmary, but the panther managed to get back to the large room in 5. She would never tell you that her animagus form helped.
As soon as she entered the room, the woman was tackled by the younger girl. "Gatto, you've been gone for 3 hours. I was about to go looking for you. Why did it take you so long?" Seeing that her sister was still worried about her well-being, the brunette smiled. "Sorry, Gin. I was trying to find a moon chart and guess I lost track of time. I need to see Dumbledore in order to see if he has a chart that we can use. If you want, you can come with me." The younger one pulled herself away and nodded to the older girl.
The youngest Weasley followed her friend out of the infirmary as they began walking up to the Headmasters office. Looking at the person walking next to her, the red haired girl couldn't help but to become lost in her own thoughts.
'Hermione is so different than she used to be. I remember when she, Ron, and Harry would get into trouble and have fun. Although she almost always had her nose in a book, she was happy and fun. If our plan works, maybe some of our happiness will return. We will get to see those dear to us again, even if they don'tremember us and things can'tbe the same.'
Ginerva was pulled out of her thoughts when they reached the Headmasters office. She listened as her older sister spoke with confidence. After saying the password, both girls walked until they reached the closed doors of the Headmasters office. Just before they knocked, a soft 'Enter' was heard. Opening the doors, both animagi saw Dumbledore speaking to Professor McGonagall. Both time travelers walked forward with grace and confidence.
Hermione POV
I watched as Professor Dumbledore smiled at us and Professor McGonagall looked at us with her familiar frown. "Hello Miss Granger. Hello Miss Weasley. I see you are feeling better. We were just about to call the two of you up here. Is there anything you need" ?I forced myself to keep a blank face as I spoke to both my professors. "I just needed to see if you might have an extra moon chart you could spare. I need to find out when the last full moon was because the potion takes at least a month to prepare, so there might be a chance that the first transformation here at Hogwarts will have to be without the potion." The Headmaster nodded and stood up. He walked out of the room and McGonagall looked at us slightly confused.
The older witch spoke to us in a confused voice. "What potion are you talking about?" I looked at her about to answer, but Ginny beat me to it. "There's a potion that hasn't been invented yet call Wolfsbane. It makes it so that the werewolf who takes it still changes, but keeps there 'human' mind." Nodding at the answer, we all waited for Dumbledore to return. He came walking down and handed me the chart. I looked at it for a second and frowned. "What's the matter Hermione?" I looked at Ginny. "The full moon was two weeks ago, so we have to wait passed this full moon."
Just before we left, Dumbledore stopped us. "I just realized that we don't really have a way to make it acceptable for you to come to school so late." Looking at each other thinking that we were complete morons for not thinking about that, we thought for a moment before the Headmaster continued. "How about this, you two are the children of close friends of mine who lost their lives so you came here because you needed to continue your learning and you wanted the interaction of others your age. Does that sound okay?" We nodded to our professor.
We thanked our teachers and left the room. As we were walking back, I decided that I wanted to visit Hagrid. "Gin, I think I want to visit another one of our old friends." Seeming to know who I was talking about, my little sister smiled. "You know, it has been a while since we last saw him."
It only took us a few minutes to reach Hagrid's hut, and when we did, I was really nervous. I hadn't seen the man for years, and since this was past Hagrid, he wouldn't be able to remember me. After my moment of hesitation, I knocked on the door.
When the piece of wood opened, it revealed the man I had met in my first year of school. He looked almost the same, the only difference being he was younger. "An' who are yeh?"
I smiled at the familiar voice, and apparently that made the air around us happier. "Hello Hagrid. My name is Hermione Granger. This is Ginerva Weasley, though she likes to be called Ginny" .I had to add the last part after Ginny poked my in my side for giving out her actual name. "We heard that you lived out here and wanted to come meet you. It's a pleasure."
After a moment the man smiled back at us. "You can come in if ya wan'. No one ever really comes an' visits me. All except Dumbledore. A great man 'e is." We walked into his house and sat down. After a moment of Hagrid rambling about how amazing Dumbledore is, we heard a little bark. When the two of us turned to look, we saw a three headed puppy.
When the man noticed where our attention was, he began to panic. "Ah! Please don' tell no one. Fluffy really is a good boy. I got the stuff to make 'im fall asleep an' stuff." Wanting to calm him down as much as I did, Ginny stopped the poor man.
"Hagrid! It's fine. As long as Dumbledore knows," he nodded, "We don't mind." He began to tear up at the words said and thanked us. After a few hours, we decided to head back up to the school.
When we entered, what we saw had us stand still in slight shock. Standing in front of the infirmary were the Marauders.
I'm evil to make the chapter end their, I know. orz
Next chapter will be better and I plan to make it longer. Thank you to everyone who has decided to read my story. I was going through writers block for a while there. See you next chapter.