Hermione back in time

Chapter 2

They were all staring at her with stunned expressions. They didn't know what to make of her. Nobody was supposed to know about the map. No one.

Sirius was the first to recover. "Who are you?" He questioned. "And how did you know about the map?

"Ummmmmmmm" Hermione hesitated. She didn't know how to explain herself. She stood there frozen as they sat there staring at her. James was the next to speak. "Well?" he prompted her. She stood there, hunched over behind their seats gaping at the four boys in front if her. "I'm.. ummm.. I'm hermione granger." She responded shakily. She held up the time turner trying to explain to them the situation but unable to process her thoughts and answer the questions.

Remus gasped as he looked at the necklace. "That's a time turner!" he stated. "Where'd you get one of those?"

Hermione was nervous as she answered him all at once, stumbling over her words "Well I'm a student at Hogwarts in the future and I was in divination and I was bored and I was turning it, but I didn't realize it, and then Bam! I ended up in here at this time and I only got the thing cause I wanted to get to more classes and..." she ran out of breath. She realized more people had noticed her and were staring at her. Trelawney still hadn't noticed her as the group sat near the back of the classroom but she was attracting quite a bit of attention from the other students. She ducked behind the seats so that only her eyes peeked over the top of the chairs. A few students went back to their work but a few continued to stare.

The group realized that Trelawney would soon notice her so they shooed hermione towards the back of the room and whispered to her to come out at the end of the class. Hermione inched slowly backwards and hid behind a shelf filled with books on crystal gazing along with dozens of crystal balls of different sizes. She waited there for what seemed like ages before the class finally finished and the marauders came to find her.

They surrounded her in a circle to sneak her out of the class and they walked down the stairs through the many hallways and down the grass towards the black lake in silence. Divination had been their last class of the day and the marauders all had some free time. The moment they found a nice spot with nobody around to overhear their conversation they stopped and told her to sit. Once they were all comfortable enough they started up with more questions.

'What time was she from? Why was she there? How did she know their nicknames and about the map?'

Once she had explained about voldemort and the war and how she had gone back to school with her friends for their senior year and how she knew about the map etc (although very vaguely so as to not give anything important away and alter anybody's time lines) they started asking about their futures. Hermione refused to give any answers about anything important all though she did answer a few answers she thought couldn't hurt. The first question from Potter was "Do I get Evans?" The rest of the marauders snorted as they knew this would be the first thing on his mind. She answered that with a simple "yes." and at that potter jumped up with joy and did a little jig of sorts to express his happiness. Hermione giggled at the sight of him parading around with a proud look on his face.

Eventually after they had asked her all of the questions that they could think of Remus said "well what's she gonna do until she can get back to her time, if she can at all and where will she stay?"

They decided to go see professor Dumbledore as he would be able to help them with the problem at hand. They walked up the hill, through the large entrance and down a few corridors until they came to the big gargoyle that guarded the headmasters office. The group then realized that they did not know the password. Sirius and James, having been in quite a lot of trouble had been to his office a considerable amount of times and knew that the passwords were always a kind of sweet. They stood around guessing the password trying 'cockroach clusters, fizzing wizzbees, ice mice, sherbert lemon' and more until finally professor Dumbledore himself came strolling up the hallway.

"Who is this young lady?" questioned the headmaster once he had reached them.

"I'm Hermione Granger." Hermione answered quickly.

"Well well, is there a particular subject that you wish to speak to me about? I also know for a fact that you are not a student of Hogwarts and I'm quite interested in finding out how you got inside the grounds unnoticed by me."

James spoke up "Now that's a bit of a long story."

"Then perhaps we should first go into my office. Make ourselves comfortable." He turned towards the gargoyle, said "Treacle tart" and stepped onto the now ascending staircase. The group piled onto the staircase and entered his office.

Hermione started the story with the fact that she had a time turner for her classes and how she got taken back in time, then ended it at the part where the headmaster invited them into his office.

After hermione finished her story, Dumbledore continued to stare at her and everybody else looked at him, waiting for his answer.

Finally he said to her "Well we have quite the problem here. Nobody has ever gone into the future even though we have found out his to go into the past and I'm not incredibly willing to let you be the first to try going into the future as you may get hurt. But you say you are a seventh year in the future. Would you, for the time being, like to rejoin classes?"

"Oh yes please professor!" She answered enthusiastically. "But will I ever be able to get back to my time?"

"We will have to see if there is a solution. We can search in the library for an answer but until we do find a solution you will need a place to sleep and we must make you up a time table." The headmaster flicked his wand in the air and conjured up a brand new time table. "Now, you said you were in Gryffindor. Am I correct?"

"Yessir." Hermione answered.

"Well then, I suppose you will be able to stay in the dorm occupied by Ms Lily Evans, Ms Amelia Bones and Ms Xena Hemlarch. You already know the way so pip pip off to bed. And no detours I have ways of knowing." Dumbledore said all of this while looking at hermione with a twinkle in his eyes until the last bit where he turned to the four boys and spoke more firmly with them.

"Of course sir. No detours." They said in unison.

They piled out of his office and started towards the gryffindor tower. It was quite late by this time and the corridors were very dark. There was a chorus of 'Lumos!' And they all started talking

None of the boys had talked much in the headmasters office but now James and Sirius were goofing off and making a racket. Peter followed them around the halls as they pranced down the dark corridors. He never talked much in the first place but the other two boys were making him excited. Hermione just clutched her bag- it had been around her shoulder thankfully when she was swept back in time- and walked calmly down the corridor with Remus at her side. He was the polite one in the group and was making small talk with her, asking her questions about her family and friends in the future. She in turn asked the same sort of questions until they had reached the gryffindor tower. She had no idea what the password was and so she waited for one of the boys to say it.

"Mandragora!" Remus stated. The fat lady woke up grumpily and started complaining until she noticed hermione. She looked inquisitorially at Hermione but before she could say anything Remus repeated the password.

"All right!" she said before swinging forwards to admit them to the common room with an annoyed expression on her face. They all said goodbye and parted ways when the got to their separate stairwells and all of a sudden Hermione got nervous.

'I'm going to be staying with these people for the next while. I have to make a good impression. They're probably all asleep and they will wake up to find a stranger in their dormitory! What if I wake them up and they think I'm a murderer or something or what if....' her mind raced with more 'what ifs' as she got closer and closer to their dormitory. She stopped at the entrance to her new room. (Well sort of new since it was the same one she was staying in before she came to this time) She took a deep breath, not knowing what to expect, and opened the door.

I hope this lived up to everybody's expectations (Everybody knows who lily is and Amelia Bones for anyone who forgot works at the ministry and is part of the wizengamot- she's in the fifth movie- and xena if it's not obvious at this point will be obvious in the next chapter - Her name gives it away. Also I should mention it's a fanon name but I made up the last name.) hope everybody liked it!