Chapter One
It is a quiet night in the Department Of Mysteries.
All the Unspeakables had gone home for the night.
Their experiments and research topics locked down.
By all accounts the D.O.M should be as quiet as a tomb.
Ironically enough the only happenings of the D.O.M was occuring in the fabled Death Room.
The large stone archway that housed the Veil Of Death fluttered as though blown by a none existent breeze.
Cold frigid air began to billow out like dry ice on a stage.
Suddenly the Veil parts and two individuals walk through.
One was a male with messy black hair, emerald eyes, and a strange lightning bolt shapes scar on his forhead.
The other was a female with equally messy hair only her's was a frizzy mess of brown.
She had slightly too large front teeth and chocolate brown eyes.
They took in the sight of their D.O.M and smiled.
But their expressions soon dimmed when they looked at one another.
"Hermione!"
"Harry!"
They yelled in sync.
"Why are do you look like a first year?"
"Why are do you look like a first year?"
They both asked.
Their eyes then turned to their respective bodies.
"What the hell?" Harry said.
"Calm down, calm down " Hermione said.
"How can I possibly calm down?" Harry asked.
Her eyes moved to him.
"I was talking to myself" she replied.
"How could this have happened?" Harry asked.
Hermione's eyes moved back and forth like reading an invisible page.
"My only guess is that when we went back in time through the veil there were some side effects" she answered.
"You think" Harry said waving his arms dramatically.
"Well did we at least get the right time period?" He asked.
Hermione summoned her wand from her holster.
She cast a quick Tempus Charm.
"Oh bloody hell" she replied.
And if anyone who knew Hermione Granger knew anything it was of her dislike for bad language.
As such Harry knew instantly that it can't have been good.
Harry quickly cast a Tempus Charm with his own wand.
"Crap Baskets" he complained.
"1970" Hermione also complained.
Suddenly a sound drew them from their musings.
Both of them instantly cast a Disilusionment Charm on themselves.
They vanished from sight just in time for the night guard to arrive.
He looked around and seeing nothing of interest other than the room being slightly colder than normal went among his business.
Harry and Hermione stealthily exited the D.O.M and the Ministry in general.
They quickly Apparated to the Forest Of Dean.
There they pulled out a tent from Hermione's beaded handbag.
They went about mechanically setting it up and adding their security charms.
They then made their way inside.
The pair sat at the small dining table and with a flick of Harry's wand two cups of tea were preparing themselves for the pair.
The tea's levitated themselves over and placed themselves gently before each person.
The pair held onto their steaming cups as though they were a life line.
They remained in shocked silence for who knows how long.
Eventually it was Harry to break the silence.
He released a sigh before taking a sip of his tea.
"So things didn't go as planned then" he said non committedly.
"That's one way of putting it" Hermione replied.
"We knew trying to travel back in time through the veil was risky. I just never imagined this was a risk" Harry said with another sigh.
"If I had to guess we miscalculated slightly. There must have been a mistake somewhere in the Arithmancy" Hermione said grasping for straws.
"Honestly it doesn't matter at this point. We both knew it was a long shot. I'm just glad we made it through in reasonable health" Harry said.
Hermione nodded knowing what the alternative could have been.
It was a flip of the coin whether they survived the trip or not.
All things considered being de-aged wasn't too bad in the grand scheme of things.
"I wonder how old we are now" Harry said.
He then pulled up his shirt showing his torso.
"I would say between nine and ten" Harry estimated.
"The worst scar from Vernon's belt isn't there" Harry said pointing to his unblemished skin.
Not taking Harry for his word with his estimate Hermione quickly cast some medical grade Diagnostic Charms on them both.
Two thin pieces of parchment came from the tip of her wand.
"Says here I'm 10 and you're 9" Hermione explained.
"Also we are lacking all our magical inoculations but that was to be expected" she said.
Her eyes then turned to Harry "However you have signs of Malnutrition and several incorrectly healed bones" Hermione said.
"But on the plus side being de-aged didn't return the Horcrux in your scar" she said.
"Thank Merlin for that I suppose" Harry sighed with relief.
The pair then returned to a contemplative silence as their brains worked through the problems they were dealt with.
The only sound between them was the sipping of their tea's.
"So what do you think we should do?" Harry asked.
"Well we came back in time to escape the third war, and if we could avert it" Hermione said.
"I say we do the same thing only try and avert the second one as well" she said hopefully.
Harry nodded.
"We are going to have to settle into this time frame the best we can" Harry said.
"That means gaining new identities. And inserting ourselves somewhere into society" Harry added.
Hermione nodded.
And so they began planning on the most effective way to do just that..
They knew they would eventually be invited to Hogwarts as they suspected their names would have instantly been added the moment they stepped into this time frame.
Neither wanted to return to Hogwarts all that much.
After all Harry was the former Head of the DMLE and Hermione was the former Minister Of Magic.
But without proper schooling they would stand out like a sore thumb.
And it's not like their records came back with them.
As such they knew they would have to practically start again from the beginning.
They also knew they were in need of some kind of identification
Thankfully Gringotts is open twenty four seven and would be the easiest place to get that sorted.
And so the pair left the tent and Apparated to Diagon Alley.
The pair were in awe at the differences they had seen when compared to the time period they came from.
They quickly schooled their features however and made their way to the bank.
Thankfully there was nobody there this time at night.
As such they got to see a Teller straight away.
The surly Goblin sneered.
"This is no place for children" it snapped.
"Greetings Master Teller. May your gold flow like rivers and so too your enemies blood" Hermione said in perfect Gobledegook.
All her years negotiating with them as Minister had obviously taught her a thing or two.
"We would like two Gringotts inheritance tests please" she asked politely.
The Goblin brow creased but in a rare moment of Goblin goodwill decided to humour them.
After all it's not like he had anything else to do tonight.
"That will be 5 Galleons a piece" he said.
Hermione instantly began fishing the coins out of her Beaded Hand bag.
The Goblin gave the coins a quick examination but the coins came back as legit.
"Very well tiny human" he said.
He then fished out two pieces of parchment, a bright purple quill, a bowl, and a dagger.
"Prick your finger and let three drops of blood into the bowl" he ordered.
"Ladies first" Harry said.
"Such a gentleman" Hermione replied.
She followed the Goblins instructions.
Once she had dropped the final drop of blood the Goblin clicked his gnarled clawed fingers.
The Quill began to float, it dipped itself into the blood and began writing on the parchment.
"Well well well" the Goblin said.
"It says here your name is Ms Hermione Granger formerly Weasley. Bit young to be married yet alone divorced" the Goblin said eyeing them with curiosity.
"Mishap from magic we weren't completely familiar with" Hermione replied.
The Goblin could sense some of the truth in that and thought nothing else of it other than the cursory "fools" he said in his mind.
According to this you are next in line to inherit the Dagworth-Granger Vaults and to become their Heiress.
Hermione nodded and followed along with that as it would aid them immensely.
The Goblin clicked his fingers and several forms appeared.
"Sign here, here here and here" he said handing over a BloodQuill.
Hermione did so upon giving the forms a quick glance.
Upon making sure there was nothing damaging to her she signed.
The moment she finished signing an ornate ring appeared on the desk along with a key to a vault.
Hermione quickly placed the ring on her left pinkie finger (the same one she saw lords and Ladies of the Wizengamot use over the years).
The ring instantly shrunk to fit her dainty little pinkie.
She took possession of the Vault Key, and then it was Harry's turn.
Once again the Goblin was shocked.
However as James Potter was alive at this time as was his Father there was no chance of Harry gaining the Potter inheritance.
Not that he minded all that much really.
What he could claim however was the Peverell inheritance which he promptly did.
Like Hermione he received his Heirship ring, as well as a key to the Peverell Vault.
The pair then paid to have their identities recognised as Hermione Jean Dagworth-Granger.
And Harry James Peverell.
With that their identities were secured.
They thanked the Goblin and left the bank returning to their tent in the Forest Of Dean.
By now it was getting ridiculously late and the pair were beginning to feel tired.
They cursed their younger bodies but they needed more sleep.
As such they called it a night and made their way to their respective bedrooms.
Both thanking Merlin Morgana and anyone else that they had the forethought to purchase a more suitable tent than the one they used during the Horcrux Hunt.
Harry and Hermione woke up around mid day.
And after grabbing something quick to eat and getting cleaned up and dressed, they headed out.
The pair began searching the listings for properties in the Muggle world.
They eventually settled on purchasing a four bedroom semi detached in Surrey.
Harry knew the area well as it wasn't too far away from Little Whinging.
And thanks to the money they brought back with them, and the era's prices they were easily able to afford them.
They then paid the Goblins to ward the house to hell and back.
Of course they paid extra to have it able to block the Trace as both were sure when they returned to Hogwarts it would be put back into effect.
After all the ticket for the Hogwarts Express secretly housed the Magical Contract that enacts the Trace.
And frankly neither Harry nor Hermione were looking forward to that becoming an issue for them again.
They also had the house put under a Fidelius for added security with Harry casting (something he was barely able to do in his younger body) and Hermione as the Secret Keeper.
Of course they knew this would effect receiving any post so they set up a Mail Redirect ward to a PO Box in Diagon Alley.
This would also enable their letters to be scanned for anything potentially harmful not that they were expecting that any time soon, but it was better to be safe than sorry.
Once that was taken care of Harry and Hermione went to the Ministry.
There Hermione was Transfigured to look like Harry's older appearance.
They then made the Transfigured Hermione into Harry's magical guardian.
Then once that was done they switched places with Harry Transfigured to look like an older Hermione.
Sure it involved some slight compulsions to avoid uncomfortable questions but it was by far the easiest method they could come up with to keep them under their own authority.
Once that was done the pair were free to move into their new home.
And with that Harry and Hermione began making the house a comfortable environment for them both to live in.
But probably the most time consuming was the act of turning one of the bedrooms into a suitable Library/Study.
They used some Expansion Charms and added some wall to ceiling bookcases across three of the four walls.
They then began filling said book cases.
This was accomplished with the books they brought back in time with them.
These books combined with their new purchases in Diagon and Knockturn Alley gave them quite a well stocked Library.
All in all their library now held every book from the Black Library of Grimmauld Place, The pair's Hogwarts textbooks, and any book the pair had collected over the years.
That and their were some books in the Dagworth-Granger and Peverell vaults.
Hermione as you can imagine was in her element organising the library.
This left dealing with the rest of the décor up to Harry.
Thankfully he had plenty of experience turning a place into a home and he too quickly got to work.
He quickly got rid of the dated (despite it being modern right now) décor.
Gone were the browns and flowery wallpapers.
He replaced them with light creams and whites.
The equally dated furniture was also replaced.
By the time he was done their house wouldn't have easily fit in, in the time the pair came from.
The only thing he wasn't too pleased with was the TV and VCR of the time.
He certainly missed his DVD/Blu-ray player and flatscreen TV.
But alas times being what they are he had to settle.
But as he had became something of a movie buff in the years following the second war he would manage.
Fortunately Hermione came up with an idea for him to be able to watch the movies that had yet to be released in this time period.
And that was by using a Pensieve.
Harry thought it was genius and instantly Transfigured his appearance into a none descript adult form and made his way to Borgin & Burkes.
There he purchased not only the desired Pensieve, but also the Vanishing Cabinet, and of all things a Time Turner.
He obviously paid a huge sum of money but he felt it was worth every Knut.
Also while in the area he signed up for a subscription for the Daily Prophet.
And with that the pair were now as settled into the time period as they could have hoped.
Of course once they were settled in they began working on the next stages of their plans.
They knew they only had so much time before they were due to start at Hogwarts again.
Something confirmed when Harry used the Vanishing Cabinet to sneak in and check the register and confirmed their new names were written on it.
And so they decided to use this time well.
Most importantly was securing their minds.
And unfortunately their Occlumency defences were gone thanks to the de-aging.
As such they had to start from the beginning.
Because of that they spent the entire of the next year working through Occlumency training from the basics all the way up to it's more advanced applications.
This enabled them to not only sure up their mental defences but it also allowed them to organise their memories in something of a mindscape of their own creation.
Thanks to that, the pair's memorisation skills were vastly improved.
Harry and Hermione both gained an almost Eidetic memory because of this.
And the rare thing they didn't remember clearly was aided thanks to the Pensieve they now own.
The pair also worked together in order to become Animagi too.
Both knowing that it would be an incredibly useful ability to possess.
Harry also used this time to get his health issues taken care of.
And thanks to nobody knowing him as the Boy-Who-Lived in this time period he was able to go about it with far more discretion than he ever would have managed in their own time.
It was quite a novel experience for him.
And so the few scars on his body were taken care off, so too was the signs of malnutrition, and the incorrectly healed bones.
At the same time Hermione also used the opportunity to get her front teeth shrunken down somewhat.
Of course they had to use the teeth growing curse on her to give her some plausibility as to why she needed help.
They both got all their magical inoculations while they were there and thus that was one less issue for them to worry about.
Unfortunately the procedure to fix Harry's eyesight wasn't available until he was an adult.
Due to that they had to settle for getting him some contact lenses from the Muggle World.
And thus a year passed.
Harry and Hermione had definitely used this year well.
They stretched it to it's absolute limits with the aid of their Time Turner.
But thanks to that they have the skills in Occlumency that would enable them to keep any knowledge they have of the future safe.
Their Occlumency exercises of meditating to clear ones mind also aided in their Animagi training.
The pair had also discovered their animal forms.
Amusingly both becoming birds.
Hermione an chocolate brown owl.
While Harry a jet black raven.
They had both since mastered shifting between their human and animal forms.
And both found a degree of joy and freedom in their forms ability to fly.
The irony wasn't lost on them either that Hermione actually enjoyed flying in her Owl form but not in her human form.
The pair put this down to their animal instincts being rather pronounced when they were in animal form.
Not that it really bothered the pair as they had gained almost complete master over their minds at this point.
And any bleed over from their animal instincts was only minor at best.
They were however glad they had completed these tasks by the time they did.
As they expected they both received their Hogwarts Letters through their PO Box.
The pair quickly wrote their acceptances and had them sent by their recently purchased Post Owl.
A Dark brown regal looking thing they names Edward.
With that taken care of the pair quickly went to Diagon under disguised forms.
They proceeded to get their school shopping done and out of the way.
Neither wanting to leave it till the last minute and thus avoiding the large queue's and crowds filled with the usual procrastinators.
They made sure they were stocked up with everything a student could ever need.
And on top of their standard equipment they even purchased extra of certain items.
They also made sure to pay extra for their robes to adjust to their growth over the next year.
But possibly their biggest purchase was their trunks.
They paid extra to purchased a trunk each with several compartment made expanded spaces of various sizes.
They also paid for their trunks to be enchanted with increased security measures.
Hermione also purchased herself another set of vanishing Cabinets.
Thankfully they were more common during this time period.
And like the set Harry owned it would allow her to return to their home practically at will.
This was by placing one cabinet in their respective bedrooms and the other in one of their trunks expanded compartments.
With their shopping now done they returned to their home to relax and enjoy the last few moments of peace and freedom before they are due to attend Hogwarts once more.
