Chapter 8 - A time turner? Seriously?


Hermione was a smart kid. Everyone knew that.

Her first year she had the highest average that a first year had ever had. It had turned quite a few heads. A muggle-born with a perfect O average? How is that even possible?

What really made people take notice was her second year. Even with her missing a large portion of the year in the infirmary, she still asked to take her final exam. The exams had been canceled, but Albus was willing to humor her.

Quite the shock when she ran the table with straight O's once again.


She waffled for a time, but in the end she decided to take all of the possible electives.

This left the Headmaster with quite the conundrum. She clearly had the intelligence to study all of the classes, but there just was not enough time in the day...

Ah! There you have it! A time turner! What a wonderful idea. She can take all the classes she needs, and perhaps people will take muggle-borns more seriously when she manages the most O.W.L.S. in the history of Hogwarts!

It's decided then, she will be enrolled in all the classes, and she will receive a time-turner. Nothing bad could possibly come of this!


She had been using the time-turner for a few months now.

Ron and Harry had made some comments at the beginning about her full schedule, but they had lost interest when they found their own workload increased with the two new classes.

She was thinking about her next class, Divination. What a terrible teacher she had. What a fraud.

Checking her bag for the day, Hermione realized she was missing a quill. She checked her trunk and realized she only had one more left. One more thing to pick up in Hogsmeade...

Gathering her things she looked at her watch and saw the time. Only ten minutes!

She rushed down the stairs, and as she made her way to class she forgot about her minor quill situation.

Such a small detail was barely worth a thought when she could possibly be late to class!


What a fraud!

She rushed down the tower in a hurry. This was the first class she had ever walked out on.

Left with nothing to do, and needing to calm her nerves she decided to go to her happy place: the library.

She pulled half dozen books down for some light reading, and pulled out some parchment and her quill for some notes.

Or rather, she would have pulled out her quill if, in her moment anger towards her professor, she hadn't left it sitting on her desk.

With a huff, Hermione left the library to get another from her trunk.

She couldn't exactly show her face back in class to pick up a quill after her little tantrum could she?

Not wanting to be caught out of class, she decided to turn time back an hour and sneak into her dorm.


Thank Merlin for small favors. An hour previous, her younger self and most of the school was in the great hall.

That made getting into the getting into her dorm rather easy.

She didn't want to meet her young self, so she was in quite the hurry and forgot about the quill in her trunk being her last quill.

This was not good.

The second she grabbed the quill she made herself a nice little time paradox.

Both her and herself needed a quill. Past self had gotten said quill already and had then lost it. Present self now needed a quill, and took the same quill that she had already taken previously. But now past self won't have a quill to take and then lose...


The universe chose that exact moment to implode.


Time-turners were outlawed and researched by the department of mystery's for a reason. Paradoxes are to be avoided at all cost.

What ran through Albus' mind when he decided to give Hermione a dangerous magical artifact? Not much, given that he was a senile old man.

But then again, Wizards are stupid.


AN: Why oh why would something as dangerous as a time-turner given to a student for the most frivolous of reasons...? Albus is not all there.

FYI, I have been rather slow with the updates because I just got back from a trip to Calgary, and spent a couple days at a house without internet.