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"Rise and shine. Come on, Hermione, we're going to be late!" Hermione woke to the sound of a cheery voice that should be illegal this early in the morning and the feeling of her arm being tugged in an attempt to make her sit up.

Unfortunately for the voice's owner, Hermione was not yet ready to leave the world of sleep and settled herself into her bed determinedly. As the tugging, and now shaking, continued Hermione was able mumble out a very pitiful 'no' in response.

"Get your" tug "lazy butt" tug "out" tug "of" tug "bed." With the last word came the strongest tug which forced Hermione to shoot up into a slouched seated position from where she saw Lily tumble backwards, barely catching herself on the bed. "Well now that you're up get moving," the red head commanded, "the other girls have already left for breakfast."

Hermione groaned and forced herself out of bed to find her uniform. She had not gone into a deep sleep until very early in the morning, up until then her rest had been fitful and pestered with thoughts and questions. The fact that she was not a morning person in the first place was not helping. Lily on the other hand appeared well rested and as cheery as her voice.

"You are lucky I was here to wake you, you would have slept straight through breakfast and first period," Lily chattered as she began brushing through her fiery mane. A still groggy Hermione attempted to listen and focus on her tie at the same time so as not to appear rude. "You know they wanted to put the Heads in their own dorms this year? We would have had to share a common room, can you imagine that? Me! Practically living with Potter!"

"Well yeah, you two got along well enough last night," the brunette answered sleepily.

"What! Not you too," Lily whined, "I was hoping you wouldn't agree with them."

"With who?"

"Everyone, they all think Potter and I would be the perfect couple."

"I don't know about perfect but you'd do well together."

"Never," the red head said forcefully, "I will never be with Potter. And while we are on the topic of boys I should warn you about Sirius. He's a flirt. Plain and simple, don't fall for his tricks and trust me he will flirt with you just like with every other girl. Well every girl but me, thankfully."

"Why not you? You're so pretty, much prettier than me or the other girls here," Hermione questioned.

Lily laughed, "Thanks for the compliment but his best friend and honorary brother has already claimed me. Any way you are much prettier than you think and…"

Lily had turned around and stared. Hermione raised an eyebrow and looked down at herself, 'Did I put on the wrong clothes?' no her clothes were fine her skin wasn't. Apparently Lily had yet to get a good look at Hermione that morning and the glamour charms had worn off. Her legs, which were bare below her skirt, were once more visibly covered in scars. "Crap," Hermione muttered as she quickly began to reapply the charms. "Lily before you ask, I don't know. We think they are related to the accident that gave me amnesia."

"But…but," Lily stuttered, "those aren't just scars, they're battle scars. Where would you have gotten those?"

"I don't know and to be honest I kind of don't want to find out," Hermione said thinking of her worst scar. She hurriedly pulled on her socks and shoes, "Come on Lily, let's go have breakfast." Hermione grabbed her beaded purse which she had finally looked through before school started. It was very large on the inside and filled with books including texts on all of the subjects offered at Hogwarts, except Divination. She also found a number of dark arts texts that frightened her and lots of clothes that looked rather odd.

Lily nodded and the two girls left but the look on her face plainly showed that Lily was still curious and a bit disturbed about Hermione's scars. It made Hermione a bit self conscious to see that look on the other girl's face so she quickened her pace towards the Great Hall. When she arrived she found an empty seat next to Remus and quickly took it. The shaggy blonde smiled at her, "Good morning, is there a reason you slept in so late?" he asked indicating the time that informed Hermione that she only had fifteen minutes to eat.

"Just tired really," she answered, "I didn't realize it was so late already, have they handed out the schedules?"

"Yeah, here's yours by the way. I'm guessing they tested you, what classes did they put you in?"

"Well," Hermione said as she opened her schedule, "I have advanced everything except divination, I guess I didn't forget any of my education."

"Advanced everything?" Pettigrew repeated in disbelief.

Sirius smiled, "Pretty and smart, I guess that means you start off in transfiguration with us. Gryffindor Head of House and six Gryffindor students, it is going to be the best class all year." Everyone nodded in agreement as they finished their breakfast.

Moments later the Marauders, Lily, and Hermione were seated two by two in Professor McGonagall's classroom. The girl's in front, James and Sirius behind them, and Remus and Pettigrew in the back. Also in the class were a couple of Hufflepuffs and a few Slytherins and Ravenclaws. Amongst the snakes was the same pale boy Hermione had noticed yesterday but he was not paying her any attention now and was instead looking at the front of the class along with everyone else. Hermione looked up front as well and saw a strict looking Tabby cat that the whole class recognized as their Transfiguration Professor. When everyone was seated the feline transformed back into a woman, "Welcome back everyone, in this class you will be preparing for the N.E.W.T. exams and will also be given the chance to become an animagi." At this the Marauders began to snicker for some reason and made an effort to hide their mirth when the class turned to look at them. The professor simply smiled knowingly and continued her speech. Eventually she asked everyone to pull out their text books and walked over to Hermione. "Ms Jean, the school will provide texts for you but for the time being I ask that you share with Ms Evans."

"No need I have a book," the professor gave her a questioning glance, "Would you believe I found it in my purse? Somebody put a charm on it, it's filled with everything I need." By now the whole class was listening hoping t find out more about the strange girl.

"May I see it, it may not be the right text," Hermione handed her the large tome that looked very different from the rest of the class'. The older woman opened the text and looked at the first page, around where the copyright information would be. Suddenly her eyes widened and McGonagall shut the book, "Ms Jean I'm afraid I need to see all of your books and you will still have to share," she said in a shaky voice.

"O-okay, is something wrong Professor?" Hermione asked, accioing the books out of her purse.

"I'll discuss it with you later, now everyone read chapter five and take notes." The professor then levitated the books to her desk and began checking the first page in each one. "Ms Jean there are no names in these books are you sure they are yours?"

"They have an ownership charm on them."

"Oh yes how silly of me not to check. A pity, I thought we would find out your real last name."

Hermione could tell that the older woman was very shocked about something as she walked into her office. Moments later he came back out and Professor Dumbledore came out with her. By this point nobody was pretending to take notes and all attention was on the teachers. The Headmaster looked at all the books and his eyes sparkled, "Interesting, very interesting."

AN: I think it's pretty obvious what's going on but for those of you who haven't figured it out I'm going to leave you hanging.

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