Not retribution, just returning favor!

2: Bygone

"Oh, look an Apple store. I didn't know they were selling their stuff during this time.", Hermione exclaimed loudly.

Harry grinned as the couple sitting in front of them in the London's famous red double Decker bus, turned to look at Hermione and then shifted further away from her. Harry didn't blame them, she would have done the same had she heard someone exclaim a normal thing in her time like it was a wonder. Hermione has been pointing out several differences between their times for past hour and Ron was trying to understand very normal muggle things. Like why are there different colored three light at the road end and that too on one stand, what a waste. Everyone around them was slowly moving away from the deranged trio on the bus.

The muggle 1977 was drastically different from their time. Here Ford was the luxury car and horses were seen as much as the cars. The television were huge boxes with antennas, telephone was corded one, computer looked like a joke or a toy that is sold to children to play with, there were posters of bands that Harry has heard only in passing.

"Oh, we should totally go to Rolling Stones and Zed Zeppelin concerts. My dad used to love their songs. I would love to see them live in their glory. What do you think?", Hermione said excitedly. Harry nodded and Ron, who confused as to why anyone would want to pay to watch someone rolling stones, agreed after a while.

Harry got lost in her thoughts as Hermione and Ron kept pointing different things from present and past. Harry was glad that the wizarding world has not changed drastically or they would't have been able to blend in because which teenager not know about latest technology and how to use them. They knew technology but technology that ten times faster and better than this.

The wizarding world, thankfully, hasn't changed much. It was embroiled in upcoming war between pureblood ideologist and the rest of wizarding community. It was more subtle here than it was in the sixth year. No one had officially declared their sides but everyone knew who everyone supported. The people fighting on two sides were almost same, except maybe a generation older.

During the research of the current time, they found out that a small school, near Hermione's old house, was destroyed and several people were killed in and around the area. Among the list of people killed were Weasleys. Ron, then, remembered their parents vaguely talking about some squib in his father's side three generations ago, who was shunned from the family for being a squib. Only for the next generation of the squib to have a wizard born in it. The squib pissed that his family had shunned him, refused to send his son to the school of high and mighty. He sent his son to the smaller school.

The smaller schools were started by the Minsitry after the demand of 1890s, when some parents didn't want their children to be gone for almost the whole year. The Ministry started, what was called rotatory school, all over the country. These school had teachers rotating from one place to another. The subject were taught as per teacher's availability but course was covered were same as Hogwarts. So that squib's current generation family went to that school as well. The whole family was killed by death eaters.

Ron decided to be one of the son's of this family. They had very poor record keeping in these schools as many children dropped out after OWLs. Hermione and Harry would say that their parents didn't want their children to be gone for so long, so they chose this school as well. It gave them a chance to try muggle education too. Harry, Hermione and Ron became friends since then and have decided to come here to complete their education. Their parents and families were murdered in the death eater's attack. Luckily for them, some Granger died in the raid too. Not related to Hermione. She checked.

They had toured and shopped for muggle clothes in the neighborhood near Hermione's old house. Hermione reasoned that since they would be posing as muggle born, they should have a knowledge of the place and muggle clothes to go along with it. After having lunch, they were on their way to Leaky Cauldron Pub.