Where the New Future Begins

Chapter 11

The day went by fast after McGonagall told me about the meeting. Too fast for my liking. It was almost time for the meeting and I was dreading it. I would have to face Charles Potter again and meet Dorea for the first time. I sighed and looked around my class room. I was trying to distract myself from all my thoughts. This meeting was going to be one of the most important one's ever. I was going to oversee it all.

If Harry could see me now he would be impressed. I don't know how he does it. Harry made it look easy. Right there I heard a knock on my door and there stood Minerva. She gave me a smile and said,

"Did I disturb your thoughts?"

I shook my head and said,

"I was just in a daze of sort. Is it time?"

She nodded and I got up to join her at the door. We walked up to my office and used the floo. She went first and then I stepped in once the flames calmed down. I took a deep breath and said,

"Potter Manor!"

Minerva was waiting by the fireplace for me. We walked into the big dining room. Everyone was waiting around talking. I saw Fabian and Gideon. I the corner talking to a woman. Fabian waved me over and there stood was a tall slim woman with long black hair. I gave her a once over and knew who she was. Both Fabian and Gideon gave me a hug.

"Dorea we would like to introduce you to Hermione Granger." Fabian introduced.

"Well, it's nice to meet you. I have a lot about you from these two. Your name sounds so familiar. Have we meet before?" She asked.

"No, but I have meet your children. They are great boys." I said.

She gave me a look. You could tell she was confused. I smiled and said,

"Didn't these two or your husband tell you I am a professor at Hogwarts."

"No, are you the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher my children cannot stop talking about?" She asked.

"Yes, she is dear. This is Professor Granger." Charles said from behind me.

I turned around and looked at him. He gave me a sweet smile and said,

"It's nice to see you again Miss Granger."

"Please call me Hermione. Professor or miss sounds too proper." I said sweetly.

He nodded and Dorea asked,

"So how do you know my children beside classes?"

"They are great. They are some of my best students. I have to say they are good friends of mine." I shared.

They were surprised. I snickered a little bit and then Dumbledore got all our attention and we got down to business. Everyone went quiet and took a seat. It was a big crowd this time. I took a deep breath as Dumbledore talked. It was similar business and then he said,

"Now I am going to let Hermione have the floor."

Everyone looked my way and I stood up and went to the front. There was a few people confused and you could see the confusion on Dorea's and Charles face. I looked around and said,

"You all are thinking what does this girl know that will help. But I know things that would make the hair on your skin curl. Things that would save lives and change the future forever. Now let's get down to business."

I explained some plans that we were going to do and you could see that some of the people were not believing me. I sighed and said,

"If you don't want to believe me or take me serious then I hope you are ready to write your will out because it will be your death."

I know that it was mean to say but they had to hear it. Right then you could see that some of them took me serious now. I sat back down and Gideon whispered to me,

"That was badass girl."

I smirked at him and thanked him for that. As the rest of the meeting went on I could feel a set of eyes on me. I turned slowly to see Charles looking at me. I sighed and knew that I would have to talk to him privately later.

Everyone started to leave. I felt a hand on my shoulder and I jumped a little bit. I heard a snicker from behind me and I turned to see Fabian smirking at me. I glared at him and said,

"That is so not funny. The last person that tried that got stunned so hard they could not move for hours."

He gave me a look and then said,

"Sorry Hermione, you alright?"

"Yeah, I just got to take care of a few things. So, I will talk to you guys later. Tell your sister I say hi and I am sorry that I couldn't talk to her today. That we will catch up soon." I told him.

Fabian nodded and gave me a quick hug and said,

"Alright, I can see in your eyes that you have a mission to take care of so I will let you go. See you later. Let's have lunch sometime in Hogsmeade."

I nodded and walked away. I could not see Charles anywhere. Then I saw Dorea slip out of the room. I followed her and saw she was meeting up with her husband. I made a noise and they both looked at me.

"We need to talk." I said.

They nodded and before we could talk I saw Dumbledore standing in the door way. He gave us a grin and said,

"Everyone has left and I would like to thank you for allowing us use your house for a meeting spot. We shall see you back at Hogwarts Hermione dear."

"Of course Dumbledore." I said and then went back looking at the Potters.

"So Pro... Hermione what is it that you wanted to talk about?" Dorea asked.

"I want to tell you that you may not trust me or know who I am but I hope one day that will change. This all doesn't make sense to you but it would be helpful to know that there are a few people here that I can trust." I said truthfully.

Dorea stepped forward and then said,

"I have nothing bad to think about you. My children have been saying so much good things and you have only taught them a few things. I would love to get to know you and have you as a friend. It's different to be friends with one of my children's friend but you are incredibly different. In a good way!"

I smiled to her and then turned to Charles. He had been quiet about it all. I gave him a look to get his point of view on this.

"I know you hate not knowing about me or my past but in good time you will. I know that as an Aurror you have trust issues with new people mostly since it is a war it is hard that way." I said.

You could see in his eyes that he could he was understanding and I smiled to him and said,

"I will let you have time and we can talk later Charles."

He nodded and we end it like that. I went back to Hogwarts, I ended up in my office. I sighed looking at the stack of papers I needed to grade. Right there in the middle of my desk was a package. I slowly opened it after cast a few charms making sure it was harmless. There inside it was a bottle of some type of liquid. I picked up the note and read,

For a quick escape whenever you need it. Hope it help.

But no one signed it. I looked around confused. I sat the bottle down on my desk and looked at it. This was confusing as is. I know that I had to do some test on this potion. I was not going to use something that could be poison for all I know. I just huffed and sat down in my chair. This was going to be a long night.