"I can't believe we are not able to come up with a good way to get back at Granger even with our combined intellect." James groaned.

"Let me go on the record saying if you had any intellect, you would realise you were in the wrong and let it go." Moony yawned while lounging on the sofa.

Sirius threw a pillow at him conveying their combined displeasure at his insistence on no contribution.

"I was not in the wrong! Did you see how her hand went to her arm when I called her a Death Eater, that was as good as a confession in itself. I don't know how she has convinced Dumbledore but I can bet there is a dark mark on her arm. She has to be a higher one too to get all that information. And did you notice how she is always in a hurry to leave? Bet she is on Voldy's beck and call all the time."

"What if she is? She is still helping us out being a spy for the order." Moony insisted.

"Her developing cold feet when she realised the madness of her 'Master' does not excuse her deciding to become one. Who knows what all she did or does as a Death Eater! She needs to pay for it."

"She needs to pay for that or for the humiliation she put you through?" Moony said in his infinite wisdom.

"Both okay! Do you know how much I had to hear from Mom and Dad after we came home? They were ashamed of me Moony, I have never ever seen them have that expression on their faces. Lily is still not talking to me. It's all her fault!"

"Shouldn't you be focusing your energy on getting Lily to talk to you again rather than find a way to make Granger miserable?"

"Naa she'll come around. I can take care of that later. I need to think what to do with Granger first."

Remus and Sirius exchanged a look that he did not understand.

He had to focus on what to do next.

"We don't even know where she lives!" He spoke out loud. "And we can't prank her at the Order meeting."

"How about send her something nasty through owl post?" suggested Sirius.

"Now you are talking! We get our revenge and she can't even pin it on us." James said excitedly.

"This is a bad idea," Remus decided to chip in, only to have both Sirius and James throw a pillow each at him this time.

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The next few days were a complete nuisance for Hermione.

The first time she received parcel from an unknown owl, she didn't bother checking, she had no enemies in this time period as far as she knew. That proved to be a costly mistake and the minute she opened it, a dust engulfed her and she turned green. Not with jealousy at the innovativeness of the product but actual complete green. From top to bottom. Her hair, her skin, every inch of her body was actual green colour.

Teddy thought it was funny and she was copying his hair colour changing capability and insisted on having green coloured hair the entire week, even after she got rid of hers in about a couple of hours despite it being an extremely complicated spell. She wasn't the brightest of witches just for name sake. If she had not been the target, she might have actually been impressed with the spell work.

The parcel had contained a note saying "Since you like Slytherins so much".

She knew it was most definitely from James, he had been furious with her. What he said to her had hurt her more than she showed outwardly. It had already been tough to look at him considering his resemblance to Harry but when he was saying all those despicable things with venom in his voice, it pierced her heart. It felt as if Harry was talking to her like that.

She had initially thought she would like to be friends with the Marauders in her new future, but now she wasn't sure. It would hurt too much to have people who liked her earlier or who she wanted to like her, hurt and hate her. She could not give that power to anyone.

Severus and Regulus were safe. She never knew Regulus and the Snape of her time wouldn't talk without a sarcastic mean comment at the tip of his tongue so Severus talking even in a normal tone to her felt like a love poem.

A couple of days later she received a new one. She did all her tests for curses and hexes and when they came back negative, she couldn't help her curiosity. She ended up with blood on her hands and all over her front, literal blood. She felt disgusted and even had a mild panic attack remembering Malfoy Manor and the war.

The message accompanying said "Since you Death Eaters like having blood on your hands so much."

Third time she just tried to vanish the parcel but it was impervious to that. She decided to 'Incendio' it and the minute she did so, they almost ended up with fire at the Hogs Head.
It was filled with fireworks and accompanied by the fireproof note "Since you like lighting a fire in the calm."

Next time she didn't even have to open the parcel. The minute she touched it her nose grew an abnormal length and a message popped in the air "Since you like being a wicked witch."

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Hermione was seething by the time the next Order meeting came. After saying goodbye to Teddy while leaving him in Aberforth's care, she decided she had had enough. A little help from Professor Dumbledore and she was all set to teach James Potter what it meant to mess with her.

Seated between Albus and Severus, she was too excited for what was to come to focus on the topic's being discussed. It was in any case irrelevant to her as they were all getting a know how about the Death Eaters from Severus and Regulus. She had already experienced the Death Eater treatment first hand so the information wasn't anything new to her.

She could feel the Marauders staring at her from time to time but she made the conscious choice to ignore them for now. It was a relief that Albus had managed to convince Pettigrew to let go of the Order membership till his mother was feeling better and he could devote more time. She wasn't ready to see the rat and not strangle him with her bare hands.

"And last of all, Moody here has a few things he wants to talk to you all about." She heard Dumbledore say. Ah, that was her cue to pay attention.

Moody started, "Considering the amount of information overload that we have had recently, it seems we might actually have an end in sight for this proxy war. That means you all need to be ready to fight. Hands on. So from now on we are going to be doing some duelling practice after each meeting to figure out where everyone stands on that front.
Today we'll have our Auror trainees show us what they have learnt by now."

Bingo! Albus came through.

"Potter, you are up." Hook.

"Choose your opponent." Line.

"I choose Granger." And Sinker.

She smiled and looked up at the smug face of James Potter giving her such a pretentious look, she wanted to slap him once again.

They both stood in the designated circle.

As expected he started his first spell without even a warning but it still took her less than 10 minutes to bring him down on his knees with her wand pointed at his jugular.

He was good but she was battle worn. There was no competing with actual practical life and death duel experience.

She could have ended it earlier but she had to first change his clothes to a ball gown, make him bald, give him green eyebrows, make his feet dance to a ballet and convert his face to that of a canary(she thanked Fred and George for the idea in my mind).

She leaned close once she reversed the transformation and spoke so that only he would hear. "Send me one more parcel and this is going to look like a party compared to what I'm gonna do to you."

He seemed shocked and transfixed by the end of it. And she was pretty sure she had conveyed her message.

However what she had not anticipated was for James to suddenly hold her wrist tightly and spat out, "I don't take instructions from Death Eaters" for everyone to hear.

And before she could snatch her hand away, he had raised her blouse arm to uncover the one thing she had not shown or told about to anyone in this time period.

James dropped her wrist as if he had got burnt as soon as he saw what he had uncovered, and she covered it back immediately, but the shocked look on everyone's face told her they had already seen the one thing she had not been keen to share.

She could hear someone throw up but her ears were ringing with her own cries from Malfoy Manor as that crazy old bitch Bellatrix carved her up with the word "Mudblood".

"I got to go", she spoke out to no one in particular, rushed towards the exit and apparated to Hogs End.