The next morning, Hermione woke up and took off her time turner. She never wanted to use it again. She walked out of the common room and headed to double Care of Magical Creatures with Gryffindor. She sighed though; she would have every class with Tom, Lucius, and Severus. Maybe she could hang out with Lily and James? She hoped so.

"Welcome back to Hogwarts everyone, I hope you had a nice summer," Dumbledore said and smiled. "Today we will be learning about Ambahs. They are very small creatures, but have amazing powers. We will be calming them down so that they fall asleep. Please group up in threes!" Hermione walked over to James.

"May I be in your group?" she asked.

"Sure," James said.

"But she is in Slytherin!" Lily exclaimed.

"So?" James asked. Lily decided not to argue. James took one of the Ambahs from Dumbledore; it looked like a bird with hair and fit in the palm of James' hand. He went to pet it and it bit him, drawing blood from James' finger.

"Are you okay?" Lily asked with concern in her voice.

"Yeah," James said and placed the tiny creature on the table. Hermione knelt down so that she was eyelevel with it and began to stroke its back with her finger.

"Who's a good little Ambah?" Hermione asked and smiled as it purred.

"What did you do?" James asked, dumbfounded.

"They like to be at eyelevel with people," she said, not taking her eyes off it. Its eyes slowly closed and it fell asleep. Hermione picked it up and brought it to Dumbledore.

"Excellent work, Miss Granger."

"Thank you Professor," she said and walked back over to James and Lily. She heard someone scream and looked to her right. Tom had done something because the Ambah was firing spells at him like crazy. By the time Dumbledore had retrieved the Ambah and calmed it down, Tom was purple, had yellow spots, and had large blue bumps on his face. Hermione laughed but stopped quickly when everyone looked at her because the rest of the room was completely silent. She stopped abruptly and tried to look serious, but he looked EXTREMELY funny.

"Hermione, can you fix him up while I clean up?" Dumbledore asked.

"Um... Sure..." she said and walked over to Tom. She pointed her wand at his face and said a few charms causing him to look normal again. She walked away before he could stop her. She turned red when she realized everyone was staring at her.

"What?" she asked James in a whisper.

"Where did you learn to do that?" he asked.

"Well, there is this place I like to call Hogwarts and another place I like to call the library, I am sure you have heard of them," she joked.

"We have not learned that yet. How did Professor know you can do that?" Lily asked.

"I do not know..." this surprised her. She could not believe how far behind they were in Charms.

"Class is dismissed!" Dumbledore exclaimed.

"See you two later!" Hermione yelled to Lily and James and ran to her next class, hoping she would not get stopped. Of course, she did. This time Severus and Lucius stopped her.

"What do you want, Snape?" she paused, "and Malfoy."

"Why do you ignore him?" Severus asked.

"Who?"

"You know who," Lucius said.

"Voldemort?" she asked, not thinking.

"How do you know that?" Severus asked. She clapped her hands over her mouth. The two boys looked at her suspiciously. They tugged on her sleeve and walked her to their next class, one boy on either side of her. They continued questioning her, but they did not receive many answers from her after that.

By the end of the day, she was exhausted.