A/N: This chapter might be a little bit confusing. Hermione will have another past like I said before. But in this past, she might not have acted the same way. It's a way that the curse makes the victim suffer. More often than not with this curse, they will meet someone from their "past" to complicate things for them. So, Hermione will have two personalities in a way. She will act the way that the person(s) from her past remember her sometimes and she will act like herself others which just causes problems and all the rest of it. Oh, and 'aye right' means 'yeah right' in a very sarcastic way. Just showing my good old Scottish side there ;). And there's not very much Sirius in this at all! I need Hermione to get settled and even then their relationship will take ages. Let's just say that it'll be a while before they even begin to feel like that not to mention before they realise it. Sorry.

Disclaimer: Imagine owning Harry Potter. My life would be complete. Meeting Tom Felton would do the same thing as well. Shame neither of them will happen.

Chapter 7

Hermione woke up to the sound of her alarm beeping, signalling it was 6:00 and time for her to wake up.

"Oh my Merlin!" came a voice from the bed next to her. "Who in God's name has set an alarm for the bloody middle of the night?"

"No one, Lily dear, it's 6 in the morning."

"6 in the morning is the bloody middle of the night! Now turn off that incessant beeping before I throw you out the window. Not the alarm clock, you!"

Hermione gulped, knowing that Lily could very well follow through on that fret. She scurried into the shower and locked the door behind her. As she washed her hair, she thought about the night before. Their Defence Against the Dark Arts hadn't actually shown up yet. Apparently they got into some trouble at the Ministry and were held up. She went about her daily routine and got dressed to head down to breakfast. Her robes were swishing around her feet, getting her a lot of looks from the passing boys. She looked at her watch and realised she had taken longer than she had expected to walk from Gryffindor tower and she had to go to Defence or else she would be late. It wouldn't do to be late for her first class on her first day. So she turned on her heel and headed to her class.

~oOo~

Hermione strolled into the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom wondering what they would cover that day and more importantly, who their teacher was. They couldn't make it to dinner so the whole class was probably thinking the same thing. She imagined it would be someone from the first Order. As she walked in, she saw a man leaning on the desk. The man couldn't have been much older than them, only about 17 or 18. His light brown hair was perfectly messy and his pale blue eyes were the colour of swimming pools. A diamond piercing shone in his left ear lobe. His tanned arms were adorned with tattoos and a snake's tongue flicked out at the back of the neck of his form-fitting black t-shirt. He was good-looking, there was no denying that, but Hermione's mind was too busy to realise. Suddenly, her brain was filled with memories of him. They were both in Beauxbatons uniforms, laughing and joking on the stairs. Then, the scene changed and they were...dancing? They looked good together she realised. Considering she had two left feet, she figured it must've been something that she learnt at Beauxbatons. She realised that this man must not have actually existed before, he was merely a side effect of the time-turner curse.

He's here now, no changing that.

She was broke out of her reverie by the sound of a light French accent.

"'Mya?"

"Luke?" So that was his name.

He smirked and for some reason she found herself running at him to hug him. He lifted her up off the ground and twirled her with ease, a goofy smile etched on his face.

"What the fuck are you doing here?" she asked, pulling away to look at him but still keeping her arms latched around his neck.

"Now now Miss Granger, is that any way to talk to your professor?"

"You're teaching here?!"

"Yeah," he said beaming, keeping a firm hold on her waist.

"It's Potter now, by the way, not Granger. And what happened to being an Auror? You left Beauxbatons early to take the French Ministry up on their offer. You only had to have a crash course and you would be just as qualified as a fully-trained Auror! Luke Vierren, do NOT tell me you got fired! You abandoned me without a partner for months and if it all went to waste, I swear to God I will personally make sure that you will never have kids!"

"Relax, Mya. No, I didn't get fired. I came over here to help out with all the dodgy stuff that's going on but they wouldn't let me in to the Auror ranks. Said that I wasn't qualified enough and that the laws are different here than in France. But I had nowhere to go so I applied for the post here. Now I'm a teacher. And really, no partner all that time? You must've been going nuts."

"I was, and still am actually. You didn't find a new partner, did you?" a flicker of hurt shining in her eyes.

"Oh, Gods no! No one could replace you Mya, you should know that! I told you often enough!"

"You did say that a lot, didn't you?" she mused. "We should get together sometime, to catch up, you know?"

"Yeah, I'd like that. And Potter? Did you and Harry get back together and then he finally grew the balls to propose? Wait, aren't you too young to get married?"

Hermione laughed. "Yes Luke, I am too young to get married so obviously I'm not. Harry and I never got back together anyway."

"Then why did you change your name?"

"I got adopted."

"What happened to your pa-," he cut himself off. "Oh my God, the car crash in Lorient? That was them?"

She found her eyes watering even though she never knew her parents.

"Oh Mya, I'm so sorry," he said softly as he pulled her into a hug.

"It's fine, you didn't know. But anyway, that's how I came here. I got adopted by Victoria and Charlus Potter and I transferred to Hogwarts."

"Missing Beauxbatons?"

"Not at all. Why would I? The girls hated me there because I was Harry's long-term girlfriend and I had you as my partner. And with all the rumours about me flying around left, right and centre there was nothing really to enjoy."

"Even if some of those rumours were true," he said with a suggestive smirk.

"Hey!"

"What?" he asked innocently.

"Even if some of them were true, I did like the anonymity I got when I came here. I was trying not to let the whole of Hogwarts know my old reputation."

He leaned in and whispered in her ear.

"Yeah, I doubt your classmates would want to know what you and their new professor got up to in their spare time."

Hermione blushed a little at the images flying into her head. Nothing was too dirty, a lot of snogging and a few feels. Amongst other things. At least her virginity was still intact. She put an innocent look on her face and smiled sweetly.

"That's not the type of thing you should be saying to your student, Professor Vie-"

They were cut off by the sound of someone clearing their throat. They turned around to see all the 6th year Gryffindors and Slytherins staring at them. Some of the girls' jaws' were practically on the floor and the Slytherin's just smirked. Hermione and Luke sprang apart, both blushing furiously and looking anywhere but at each other.

After a couple of awkward silent moments, Luke spoke.

"Alright class, take your seats."

The class shuffled around slowly, no one taking the new professor too seriously.

"Come on, faster. If that's how slow you move you'll stand no chance in a good duel."

The class began to walk a bit faster at the sound of his sharp tone.

"Put your books away," he instructed, "but keep your wands out. Today, we will be duelling. I want to see what standard you are at before we move onto theory and the like. My name is Professor Vierren. You can call me Sir, Professor, Professor Vierren but in all honesty, I'd prefer it if you called me Luke. I'm actually not much older than you. I left Beauxbatons a few months into my sixth year. My OWLs for Defence Against the Dark Arts, Potions, Charms and Transfiguration were the best results they had seen in a long time and my other marks were exceptional as well. Due to the lack of Aurors in Europe, I was offered a position in the Auror program. But when I came over here, even though I was technically fully qualified, they wouldn't let me become a full-time Auror so here I am teaching you. I am seventeen but just because I am only one year older than you, do not think that you will get away with much in my class. You need to be prepared for your NEWTs and more importantly, you need to be prepared for the real world because let me tell you, it's not a nice place. Especially now. Over the course of this year, you will learn about Dark Creatures such as Inferi and ways to defend yourself from them. You will also learn how to duel properly and by that I don't mean with formalities. I mean you will be put into potential real life situations and you will learn how to defend yourself. I will also show you the 3 Unforgivable curses. You will not be using them and the Ministry says I shouldn't actually show you these until next year and even then I should only touch on them briefly. I say that's crap. I'm showing all years from 4th year and up the Unforgivables, mainly because I know that you're not as innocent as the Ministry believes," he winked. "Any questions?" He looked around. "No? Well then pair up and we'll start today's lesson."

The class were all eager to get partners and Hermione was left to find her own. James was with Sirius and Remus was with Peter. Lily chose Eleanor so she kept looking around. Snape was partnered with some Slytherin that she didn't know and then she saw Lucius Malfoy strolling towards her.

"Duel me?" he asked, more politely than she was expecting.

"Sure," she replied smiling.

Good thing he doesn't know my blood status yet.

"Right now that you all have your partners, can I have a volunteer pair to go first."

Of course James' and Sirius' hands shot into the air and Luke nodded to them, signalling for them to walk to the front. They both took their duelling positions and bowed.

"Now, nothing that's going to cause too much damage. No Dark Curses and no Unforgivables! You may begin."

"Expelliarmus!"

Looks like James passed that one onto Harry.

"Protego!"

The duel eventually melded into nothing more than streams of light and some shouts. Sirius finally won, holding James' wand high above his head and bearing more than just a few cuts.

"Well done boys, both of you. Your techniques could be a little sharper but all in all, it was a great duel. Next pair?"

Lucius offered his hand to Hermione and pulled her up to stand. He dropped her hand and sauntered over to the Professor. He called Lucius over to him.

"Watch this one; she'll give you a right run for your money."

Lucius just smirked as if to say 'aye right' and took his stance. Hermione mimicked him and they both bowed. Lucius looked her dead in the eye as he said,

"Good luck."