Ok, so there is this tree that each year one leaf falls off, this tree has millions of leaves. Even after ALL those leaves fall off, I will still not own Harry Potter…or Sirius.
Yep, another chappie, that's three in one day. Woooo.
A/N: I did recently change my pen name from Acila to MorgansGurl just FYI.
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Professor Bogg asked the students to sit in their respective places. Then he realized he had a new student that needed a partner. Noticing that Miss Evans' partner was not in attendance he placed Miss Granger as her partner temporarily.
"Today class, as you all know, we will be practicing dueling." Professor Bogg noticed the looks on all the students' faces, some were worried, some excited, and others like Mr. Black, Potter and Lupin couldn't wait to get up and fight.
"I will be paring you off Gryffindor vs. Slytherin." The entire class moaned in disappointment.
"How appropriate." Lily whispered sarcastically into Hermione's ear, who just gave a sarcastic smile in agreement.
"Miss Granger," Professor Bogg stopped just inches in front of where she was sitting, the entire class was watching yet again. She was really getting tired of every ones eyes turning to her when her name was called.
"Yes sir?"
"What level in dueling would you say you were at?" Bogg asked seriously. Hermione just smiled.
"I would say that I am impressively advanced in the art of dueling Professor." And she was dead serious. These duels would be nothing compared to being in war, it was child's play. Besides, she had been dying to give Hogwarts something to talk about, if they were going to talk about her she saw it fit to give them something good to gossip about.
"You seem very sure of yourself Granger," Bogg eyed her up and down "are you sure you want to be so boastful, I might make you prove your skills in front the of the class, I would hate for you to be humiliated if you are exaggerating" his tone of voice was a clear warning. Hermione had no doubt that he would do good to his word. She liked a teacher like that, no beating around the bush.
"I assure you professor," Hermione gave him the same pause and serious glance "I dare not exaggerate my skills, I would be more then willing to prove them to you and the class."
"Well then, lets hope so." With that Professor Bogg called the first set of duelers, it would Bellatrix against Sirius. How Ironic she thought to herself again, she had been finding a lot of ironies in Hogwarts since she arrived in this time.
Until now Hermione had completely forgotten that Bellatrix Black was even in the same era as her brother, but it made perfect sense, she couldn't believe she had completely forgotten. Of course Sirius won the duel easily, and it enraged Bellatrix. It only made Hermione nostalgically sad, she wished it had been as simple and easy for Sirius to have won a particular duel in her time. She couldn't ponder that now though, her name had been called, and Lucius Malfoy was standing on the podium waiting for her. She simply smiled. Revenge was going to be one sweet thing today.
Rising slowly from her seat she took her time reaching the podium, her wand already making it to the firm grip of her hand from the hidden pocket in her sleeve. She wasn't nervous, nor anxious, she wasn't even worried. Hermione learned that those emotions could get you easily killed in a battle.
"You both know the rules, nothing serious or dark, the first to either leave from the podium willingly or loose their ability to fight will be declared the looser." Boggs informed them. Hermione kept her eyes trained on Lucius, never once looking at the professor or into the classroom where she knew students were watching curiously and anxiously. For once the whispers and murmurs stopped, everyone was focused on her and Malfoy.
"You know Mya," Lucius said in a whisper "I've never lost a duel." Hermione knew better then to be drawn into his barbs. He had lost a duel plenty a time in her era, and she assumed that dueling skills improved over time not digressed, but then again it was Lucious she could, could, be wrong. She doubted it.
"I might have many flaws Lucius," She stated calmly " But Dueling isn't one of them." Her eyes never strayed from his, never faltered under his gaze. She was going to give it all in this duel, she needed to win.
"DUEL!" Bogg yelled.
Lucius was the first to strike, he yelled out a banishing charm and Hermione ducked the stream of silver physically instead of magically causing some students to gasp. Never had someone physically avoided a strike, they always placed a protecting charm. Lucius wasn't expecting Hermione to fall to her stomach either, he had at first thought he had won, and so had Professor Bogg until Hermione shouted off a spell from her position on the ground.
"Confundo!" Lucius put up a blocking charm to deflect the spell, but before he could pull it down and make an attack Hermione was spouting off her next attack "Conjunctus!" This time her charm hit its target and Malfoy's eyes were crusted shut.
He quickly alleviated the charm and yelled out "Diffindo!" Hermione's rope split open to revel herself in a tight muggle shirt and low rider jeans. "Nice Granger." Her motioned to her body with his wand sarcastically, but partially meaning it.
"Cap it Malfoy." She dodged his Disapparate spell easily by dodging to the side and spouted off "Flagrate!" engulfing Malfoy in a ring of high rising flames. He simply laughed at her. "Furnunculus!" Lucius's body broke out into nasty puss filled boils that were irritated by the fire around him causing them to burst open into gaping flesh wounds.
"Finite Incantatem!" Lucius yelled expelling himself from the boils and flames. "This is Childs play Mya, Incendio!" Hermione's body burst into flames.
"STOP" Bogg yelled, realizing that the duel was about to turn nasty between his two students but neither listened.
Hermione yelled a dousing charm on herself that left her soaking wet, but it was better then being on fire. "You want to play Lucius, I can throw spells you havn't even heard of yet." She growled in warning. She wasn't lying though some of the spells she had learned in Hogwarts in her era weren't even heard of yet in this time.
"Try me Granger. " Lucius laughed, holding his arms wide open. She threw a Backfiring Jinx on Malfoy and he fell to the ground as all the spells he had cast turned back on him in a instant before he had a chance to react.
"Avis!" Lucius yelled in hopes of distracting Hermione with the flock of birds currently attacking her. It was a good ploy because Hermione had to dispatch the annoying creatures one at a time giving Lucius time to recover.
"Crucio!" Lucius screamed, and the light hit Mya in the chest. She screamed out in agony as red hot pain seared through her body. It felt like the time travel all over again only more painful, more consuming. Professor Bogg tried to step in but Lucius had placed a anti-intruder spell around the podium. Professor Bogg tried his hardest to dispatch the spell in time.
"You want to know about dark magic's Mya, I can show you some." He shot another Crucio spell at Mya's body on the ground but she managed to roll out of the way, she lifted her wand in a shaky hand in order to fire off another curse but Lucius beat her to it.
"Accio Wand!" Hermione's wand flew out of her hands and landed in front of Lucius feet, who simply stepped over it keeping his wand aimed her.
He was approaching so quickly, towering over her, and she began to panic. This was so similar, so familiar. But she had one more trick up her sleeve that she didn't have before. She held her hand out, open palm. Lucius interpreted it as Mya trying to beg him to stop.
"Oh poor Mya, you want to stop already we just started." Lucius laughed deeply, his eyes glaring with triumph. What he wasn't expecting was Mya to yell "BANISH!" at the top her lungs so her voice cracked. In an instant he was sent across the room, his body colliding with the stone room walls with sick resounding cracks. She was certain she had broken some of his bones by the impact. He deserved it.
Her breathing was labored, she was soaked to the bone, her clothes were ripped and sweat was falling from every pore on her body. Her elbows collapsed from under her and she fell to the ground, her chest heaving.
The Marauders rushed down the classroom and up to the podium as quickly as possible. Professor Bogg was calling for Poppy and the Headmaster while trying to revive Malfoy. Most of the students were in awe of Mya, whispers were starting about her use of Wand less Magic.
"Mya, Mya wake up." Sirius was holding her upper body on his lap while Lily was performing healing charms on her left and right, as fast as she could.
"I. Am. Awake." Hermione insisted groggily with closed eyes, causing Sirius to smile a sad smile.
"You should be fine." Lily comforted. Remus didn't say anything but simply brushed some or her wet hair off her face. He knew better then anyone what the Crucio curse felt like, he experienced something similar every time he had to transform.
"Malfoy will get expelled for using a unforgivable Mya." James spouted off, trying to keep her awake.
"No. He. Wont." Hermione countered. She knew that even though Lucius had used a unforgivable on the school grounds, he had to many connections and was only a child, or at least that would be his excuse and since unforgivable curses were not taught at Hogwarts he could very well get away with the excuse that he didn't know, that he simply read it in a book somewhere.
"We'll your ok, that's all that matters." Lily said, trying to steer the conversation away from the blond jerk.
"Yeah." The Marauders agreed.
Sirius picked up Hermione's body and decided to carry her to Madam Pomfrey, at least she would see the medi-witch faster then waiting for her to get to the classroom. Besides he personally wanted her as far away from Malfoy as he could.
Funny thing was that Zack was sitting on the Slytherin side, no sign of emotion coming off him that he was even remotely concerned about Mya. His eyes did fall on Sirius Black though, and the way he was holding her.
Snape, through all the commotion found his way out of the classroom, he had a dark lord to report to. He would most deffinatly want to hear about this turn of events, Mya had just bested one of the better duelers in Hogwarts.
"Well Malfoy was suspended but not expelled." Remus mentioned bitterly as he entered the common room. Hermione showed no emotion as she sat in the chair by the fire and sipped her healing tea.
"You expected him to be?" Lily asked unbelievably.
"I expected him to get life in Azkaban as is the punishment for an unforgivable!" Sirius mentioned angrily.
"Oh be serious." Lily chastised.
"I already am actually." He replied more sarcastically, only this time he wasn't trying to be funny about it.
"I find it best not to test her," James suggested to his friend "she can be rather….untestable." His words were emphazised by his fast nodding of the head.
"I'll be sure to member' that." Sirius just rolled his eyes "You planning on saying anything anytime soon?" he directed his question to Mya. He didn't mean to sound so harsh or irritable with her, though it came out that way.
"I could, but it still hurts a bit to talk." She admitted.
"Bastard." James cursed under his breath.
"You don't have to talk Mya, it's ok." Lily reminded her so much of Molly sometimes. She could tell by the way Lily and James were acting that they were already together, it was a shame she missed the fighting she was told about before.
"Actually I think she does." Peter barged in, a crooked smile on his face that none of the others noticed except for Hermione.
"So, Hermione, care to tell us how you didn't attend Buckingham?" Peter asked.
"Care to lift up your sweater sleeves?" she shot back, when he faltered she realized he already had the dark mark. "Congratulations on finding out the name my abbreviation Mya was attached to, though how do you figure I didn't attend Buckingham?"
"You aren't in the records." Peter replied, a little less sure of himself.
"According to who? Did you see the roster for Buckingham yourself?" she asked, coughing a bit.
"Well, no…" Hermione cut Peter off.
"Then how could you possibly know that I havn't attended Buckingham, I hear there is a popular rumor going around about you, care to share if it's true or not." Hermione bested him at his own game when he turned and left, saying something about how he wasn't going to stand for this.
"Why are you so mean to Wormtail?" Remus asked curiously.
"Lets just say," Hermione took a sip of her tea "He rubs me the wrong way."
"Yeah but he never did anything to you?" James asked curiously.
"I don't like him much either guys." Lily said, attempting to defend Mya, she didn't quite understand why though.
"That's not the point." Sirius reminded them all.
"I knew someone like him once," Hermione decided she wasn't going to lie, just bend the truth a little. She took a deep breath "He ended up being a traitor that got a bunch of my friends murdered." A single tear slid down her cheek. She seemed to be doing that a bunch as of late. Crying that is.
"That doesn't mean Wormtail is like that!" James defended.
Hermione sighed, this was a boy that they had known for years. Why would they trust a girl that they had merely met a few days ago. One that had most of the mistrust of the majority of the house in Hogwarts. Well all except Hufflepuff, but you never know.
"Look," Hermione sighed "I just don't like him, and he has seemed to be starting everything with me, don't you notice." Remus took that into account, Peter did show just as mistrust for Mya as she did for him, maybe, just maybe there was something more to what was going on between them. "Why do you call him Wormtail anyway, or Sirius Padfoot, or you Remus, why do you get called Mooney and James Prongs?"
Of course Hermione already knew the answer but she desperately wanted to change the topic of conversation. She figured asking about their animagus names would keep them busy for awhile.
"Well, um…"James couldn't muster anything up. Lily was smart and kept quiet like she didn't know why, and pretended to be just as interested as Mya.
"It was just names we came up with one day, we figured we would give ourselves animal nicknames while in care of magical creatures one day." Sirius supplied confidently. "I was named after a dog, James after a stag, Remus after a wolf, Peter after a rat." If Hermione didn't know any better she would have sworn their explanation to be the truth.
"What about Lily?" Hermione asked innocently, turning to face the red head.
"Well, since she is dating one of the marauders we decided to name her Breeze after a dove, she doesn't like it when we call her that though." James supplied with a giant grin on his face. Lily looked furious. James scooted away from her out of the safety of his being. Hermione found the entire scene rather funny.
"Well I better be getting back to my room." Hermione made the move to stand but Remus grabbed one shoulder and Sirius the other, literally pushing her back into her seat.
"There is no way we are going to let you walk all the way to the Ravenclaw house tower, at night, when I'm sure more then a few Slytherin's are wanting your neck right now." Lily stated. "You can share my bed, I'm a prefect, I have a large enough bed for two." Hermione recognized that it wasn't a question, it was a demand really. Now Hermione saw where Harry got all his stubbornness from.
"Ok." Hermione was really to weak to argue, and she really didn't feel like running into Emma again, or her group of gossipers. They were just, annoying.
Hermione had to admit, being able to sleep in the Gryffindor house again felt so comforting when she finally laid down on Lily's bed to get some rest. For some reason the atmosphere was just, different.
It was nice.
New chapter to come soon, man don't you guys love me (now that just makes me sound full of myself, and I'm really not) I'm just full of Sirius.
So who do you guys want to see show up in this story? Yes I am asking the reviewers, do you want to see a teenage Molly Weasley, maybe a teenage Longbottom, or a teenage Lovegood, or even a teenage Chang (and I mean the parents of longbottom, lovegood and chang not actually Neviell, Luna or Cho.) Let me know in a review and I'll see what I can do.