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Hermione woke with a loud cry, expecting to find blood everywhere from having her head cleaved in two but found nothing besides a normal run of the mill headache and an empty hall.
She was sitting in the same Hogwarts hall she had come from but it seemed as though something was different.
There was a picture that looked down at her and seemed rather displeased that she was there that she didn't quite recognize. It seemed odd that she didn't recognize it having walked this corridor for years since the twins showed it to her…
She stood shakily and looked around curiously, noticing slight changes here and there but nothing too out of the ordinary.
In the end she, she found herself walking back to the common rooms but stopped as she found herself facing the Fat Lady who sported a much newer looking face compared to the one she was now used to being so faded and old.
The Fat Lady was sleeping and looked so peaceful that Hermione was honestly a little hesitant to wake her.
"Excuse me, I was wondering if I could go in please?" the Fat Lady jerked, surprised and looked down at the girl, confused.
"What are you doing here? Why aren't you in the Great Hall with everyone else?" It was Hermione's turn to be confused.
The painting sighed, "Come girl, let's get you back to the Hall before you get in trouble shall we."
With that Hermione watched as the painting left hers and walked into her neighbor's and so one, leading her to the Great Hall as though she didn't already know.
"There you go dear and the Professor's Table is where it always is as you know. Best get seated before the students come don't you think?" Hermione frowned again in utter confusion but did as the Fat Lady had told her and took a seat at the Professor's table hesitantly.
She tensed as a huge mass of students came flooding in and filled the Hall and a great noise nearly deafened her as it had been such a surprise. She looked to her side and saw familiar faces such as McGonagall and Madam Pomfrey and of course… Dumbledore!
She looked to the crowd before her and searched the crowd excitedly, looking for her friends but finding none in the crowd so instead decided to wait for when they would show themselves.
It seemed to take ages for the first years to show up and when they did, she couldn't help but marvel at their petite size and scrawny limbs. She watched as they looked around in wonder, many, like her, seeing true magic for the first time in their lives.
She watched as they all settled down eventually and the Sorting Hat sang its great song and they went on with the Sorting. She watched eagerly to see who was placed where.
Imagine her surprise when Sirius Black was called from the list…
Her head flew up and hew jaw dropped as she watched the cocky looking child take his seat on the stool and allowed the hat to be placed on his head. It didn't take too long for him to be sent to Gryffindor.
She then saw James, Sirius, Lupin, Peter and Lily and couldn't help but cry a little bit as she watched them all be sorted into their houses. She watched as Snape went up to the stood and pondered the length it took for the hat to decide on Slytherin.
Hermione watched all of the students as they trickled down until there were no children left to be sorted and then sighed as she wondered what was going on.
Albus stood and to give the annual announcements and greeting and she watched him with attention as her told them about the rising threat that was Voldemort and told them to be careful. She jumped when he mentioned a new Charms Professor called 'Kara Benly' and faced her.
She felt a gently prodding elbow to her left and turned to see Professor Sprout (Who was about her age) motion kindly for her to stand to acknowledge her new position.
She stood on shaky feet and gave a slight, impulsive curtsy to the students who all clapped in welcome.
She sat hastily as Dumbledore moved on with his welcome and flinched when Sprout leaned forward to speak to her, "Good Evening my dear. Lovely batch this year isn't it?"
She looked back out at the children who were all waiting semi impatiently for their food and nodded, "Yes, I suppose it is. Though I think it might be interesting."
After that, she and Sprout became something of friends and spoke at length about their plans for the year, to which Hermione or Kara admitted to having none, and what they thought to expect that year even after the food came.
When dinner was over they were dismissed to their quarters for the night. Hermione, being new, was shown to her rooms by Sprout and was soon immersed in her studies to become the best impromptu Professor she could.
When morning came she was still reading writing down notes. If fact she didn't leave her room until it was only minutes before she needed to be in her classroom.
She hurried from her room and rushed to the Charms classroom that she knew and loved and closed her eyes peacefully for a moment as the familiar yet unfamiliar feeling of the room washed over her.
She took her seat at her desk, slightly disappointed that there wasn't a large stack of books for a short professor to stand upon during his lesson. She cast a quick spell on the room and then waited with her eyes closed.
She sat, peacefully as the last student rushed in, out of breath and clearly having been lost and listened as the door slammed closed before turning.
"G'morning. I am Kara Benly as you all well know and I will be serving as your new Professor this year. The charm that closed that door is simple one that by the end of your seven years here you will have mastered. That same charm will for a week wait until everyone is in this classroom before closing. However, after this week is over, those of you who still do not know your way or refuse to be on time will be locked out and have points deducted for me having to stop my class to let you in. Is that understood?"
There was complete silence.
"Good. Now I'm going to start with the basics, as levitation. It is a simple incantation. Wingardium Leviosa. You will do a simple Swish and flick movement with your wand as I will demonstrate. Are there any questions?"
The students looked to each other, nervously before Lily raised her hand.
"Professor? I read in one of my books that on some spells there was a certain way to pronounce it otherwise it wouldn't work. I was wondering about where you put the emphasis on this one: LeviosA or LeviOsa?"
Hermione had a flash back to way back when and her eyes softened as she explained and was soon watching lilt feathers fly all throughout her room.
"Good good. Now I want you to keep that feather up for as long as you can, practice it in class, outside, in you common room, anywhere so long as you all get it down. Believe it or not that spell once saved my life."
The first year students all just stared in awe and mindlessly nodded their agreement and willingness to practice.
It did not escape her notice however, that the feather wasn't the only thing a certain Potter was looking at. She also didn't fail to notice when his feather started flashing neon colors at a startling rate.
"Harry- James I mean- James Potter, please pay attention to your feather please.
For all the rest of her classes she had them right her a report of all the charms they had learned thus far in all of their years in Hogwarts.
By the end of the day she was exhauhsted. She had never really given much though to how difficult teaching entire classes of magical children would be like. Especially if you had to teach the Marauders of all students.
By the end of the day, James and Sirius could already barely be separated. That is after the huge brawl in their Defense class when James discovered Sirius came from a Slytherin family and they went into a heated insult match which resulted in them wrestling on the ground. Right after they agreed that anyone who could fight that good and come up with such great insults couldn't really be that bad and so began the friendship between them that would last until the end.
Lily of course was not overly impressed with the boys and their brawl and it only strengthened her resolve to have nothing to do with them. She stuck close to Severus mostly when he was there and talked on end about their school life.
Hermione couldn't help but feel dizzy thinking of teaching her best friends parents and their future professors and enemies and all around confusing mix of people and decided to pay a visit to Dumbledore. After all, if anyone would be able to understand her predicament, it would be Albus…
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