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Chapter 14:
Finally, finally, having the opportunity to settle into her own room, Hermione Granger laid down amoung her dark red and brown bedding and her many books that she had either stuffed in her personal book shelf or under bed. Pavrati and Lavender (her eternal roommates as she liked to put it for the past seven years) had always disregarded her from collecting too many books. Little did they know that she had many more books tucked away in the Room of Requirement whenever she needed for reference or for just a good read.
Her current, reoccuring read is Jane Eyre. Lovely book.
Tucking in beforethe girls got back from dinner (she still wasn't feeling up to her normal self, and the potions still left her feeling nauseous.) but she settled in and stroked Crookshanks, her half-neazle. She picked up another book on Time-Turners that she got from the boys when the went (grudgingly) to the library for her before dinner.
She has certainly read every book on the subject before asking Professor McGonagall to use the Time-Turner in her third year so she was pretty certain she most there was to know in the subject in the magical world. Unless, of course, you were an Auror or a part of the Department of Mysteries.
Regardless. she sat up pondering about the eventual changes she was going to experience the next couple of weeks. So, far, she has discovered to real changes. She found her hair and mails were growing faster than normal (she great at least two inches of hair since her trip to the infirmary). It was truely nothing that the staff and the students have noticed so far.
She knew she was no real beauty. With her bushy, plain brown hair and dull skin, she was always the subject of conversation by her roommates, unless thery were talking of boys, of course. She knew she could put in more effort but she always found intellectual prowlness would attract a career, not a mate. Her parents were always very supportive of her choices and did not push her to wear pink bows (unless she wanted to wear them) or participate in the school's pagent (unless she wanted to sing). Hermione, of course, was an excellently trained singer by one of her mother's friends. She was a professionally trained singer and taught Hermione well before she started up at Hogwarts. After her second year, she was started again during her summer holidays and thought she had a good grasp on the theory and execution.
Regardless, the Granger family always have supported her choices. They have been extremely supportive of her magical education, although she may have left out many significant details about hte magical world that last few years due to the second uprising of Voldemort ( she refused to call him Lord-almost as much as she loved to be called the Gryffindor princess.) Although not on the same level of significance, it was annoying and unworthy non-the-less.
Considering her near future as an opportunity to not only to try and examine the changes she will eventually endure, she considered this a chance to not only help all those who have fallen in this 'time trap', but to perhaps help and try to reverse the aging that Professor Snape has to forcefully endure years ago. She know she shouldn't concern herself in her Potions Master's affairs but perhaps, in some way, she could help him or others who are stuck in this terrible magical predicament.
But what will she tell her parents?
Hermione started to drift off as her roommates came into the room discussing the gossip of the day. Casting a silencing charm (which took a lot of energy but figured it was worth the quiet night) she fell fast asleep holding her Time-Turner book and was cuddled warm by her familiar at her feet.
A/N: But how is Snape dealing with this situation these past few days?