It was like a dream when girl opened her eyes. She was lying on some grassy meadow and only things she saw were full moon and her shining time-turner. Until she suddenly felt pain. She was strong but this was… this was.. Oh my god, what was happening?

Only sounds were her cries when she transformed. Now instead a girl was a wolf.

"Mm," wolf thought, "This smell is sooo good" and she started running towards the source of it. It was coming from a little house under the trees and in front of it stood a little boy with brown hair.

"Be a good boy and don't scream", wolf thought when she jumped.

But the boy did scream and wolf got hit with a curse when boy's mother ran outside.

Sadly not fast enough because the she-wolf had gotten her bite.

****

Hermione woke with a moan. Why was everything so blurry? And why was she sleeping? And… wait a minute, who were talking and were they talking about her?

"Professor Dumbledore, that scar makes me worried." Miss Pomfrey pointed towards the girl's neck. "It looks awfully similar to Mr. Lup..." she quieted her voice "to Mr. Lupin's scar. And it is fresh, although it isn't possible, there wasn't even full moon yesterday."

"Are you absolutely positive about her new condition?" an older male voice asked.

"I'm afraid I am. There is her bag too. Who is this girl anyways?"

"I don't know yet Poppy. But it seems that we are going to find out soon." He murmured quietly "I'm just worried about what happened."

The girl didn't look like mess anymore. Poppy had cleaned her bruises and cuts. She was, although in bandages and looked very pale and weak.

Poppy startled when the girl suddenly opened her eyes and asked: "Am I dead?"

"No darling, definitely not, just some bruises"

Dumbledore in other hand was curious "Why do you think so?"

"Because you are" Hermione stated matter-o-factly. That was true; death of the headmaster was too big tragedy for everyone to be so easily forgotten. And madam Pomfrey didn't survive when Lestrange had crashed whole ceiling in Hospital Wing.

"So, what's happening?" the girl asked.

"Poppy, can you check other patients please?"

Headmaster waited until Pomfrey had rushed away and asked "How many years?"

"What? I'm sorry I don't know what you mean. But I'm 17." answered very confused Hermione.

"Oh dear, this wasn't on purpose, was it?"

"What wasn't?"

Dumbledore asked suddenly "What year is it right now, miss…?"

"Umm, I'm Hermione. Hermione Granger. Is this some joke, you know me after these years! And it's 1997."

"Then, I'm afraid; I don't know you yet Miss Granger. It's 1977."

"Wow, it did work!" Hermione remembered that she didn't have time to set her time-turner right, so how did she ended up here?

The two of them spent hours speaking and when Poppy dared to come back, Hermione had told Dumbledore almost everything what had happened.

When the headmaster had left, Hermione for the first time didn't have a plan. Especially after what Dumbledore had said.

"I'm afraid that there isn't anything I can do to help you back your own time. It's a mystery how you can be here, because known record of time travelling is about 2 years, not 20. But maybe that was on purpose? Only you have knowledge to change things and lives. You have to be very careful."

They decided that she would continue her studies. Hermione couldn't handle the second shocking thing what headmaster had said. The hurting scar on her neck was werewolf's.

"Damn Remus," she thought before drifting into sleep.

****

So I'm a werewolf now? Hermione asked herself next morning. She remembered how she had gotten her scar, just hours before the battle when Wolfsbane didn't work for some reason and she had been in wrong place at the wrong time. She wasn't angry, no; she knew it had been just an accident. Hermione was a little bit thankful that Professor Lupin didn't have a change to know what he had done. She was sure that he would have killed himself then. "But," she thought, "the deatheaters were faster."

"May I introduce Miss Granger, who is here for her final year. Please, Hermione, have a seat." Dumbledore said in front of the Great Hall and put the sorting hat on her head.

"Mmm, what do we have here? Cleverness and courage… But let's stop talking about me. I understand that I have seen you before or to be right, will see you again? What house were you in? Ah, in Gryffindor? If that's the case you are going to…

"SLYTHERIN!"

After 2 days, rumors about the new girl were finally forgotten. Hermione hoped that curious glances will end too. She had to stay in Hospital Wing for few days and came out only for meals. She didn't know why she had ended up in Slytherin and that made her nervous. After the sorting when she went towards her new house table, she had almost forgotten to breathe when she noticed two familiar faces. Hermione cursed that she had forgotten that 20 years ago Malfoy and Snape were students. With the marauders, she remembered.

"Well well, I am Lucius Malfoy and welcome to Slytherin."