Back in time...

Back in time..., Chapter 2.

Chapter 2 

Hermione awoke the next morning to a circle of Gryffindor Girls faces surrounding her, as she recognised none of them she went to scream but before she could she heard the sweet and comforting voice of Lily Potter say

"Back off girls, she's probably scared to death" coming closer to Hermione she added "Are you alright Hermione? Should I call you that? Or is there a nickname you prefer?"

"My friends used to call me 'Mione." She replied the events of yesterday only just kicking in. "what time is it?"

"Its morning, you slept for a long time. We were just about to head down to the great hall for breakfast if you wanted to join us, then maybe we can start to get you settled in with the time table and go to lessons."

Realising she hadn't eaten since two nights ago (in her context), Hermione was all to happy to say "yes please" and follow the girls down to the great hall, seeing as she still had her school uniform on from the day before this didn't take long.

By the time they reached the Great Hall Hermione had been introduced to Sarah Bones, Jennifer Vaughan, Emma Cartright and Madeline Wood, all the girls her Gryffindor dorm consisted of.

She nervously walked into the Great Hall but tried to act nonchalant by chatting to the girls about the day's timetable, she would have to go and see Professor Mcgonagall about that as she was certainly never using a time turner again and therefore needed to drop some classes. Or choose her classes she should say, it was going to be hard work to remember that she was meant to be a new home schooled student, she probably shouldn't even know Mcgonagall's name. Once they had sat down Hermione put on fake curiosity and asked the girls

"Where shall I go to sort out my timetable?"

The girls gave her directions to the house mistresses' office, which she of course already knew, and told her it would be best to see her sooner rather than later so she could settle in as soon as possible.

After a few bites of toast, she didn't feel like she could eat much more and left the girls to go and speak to Professor Mcgonagall.

She left Mcgonagall's office feeling relieved; the only subject she'd had to drop was Divination, and although it pains her to say this about any form of learning, she truly did hate Divination.

She caught up with the girls just in time for Charms and breezed through the lesson easily (she had researched that particular spell only last week) earning; house points from Professor Flitwick and friendship from her fellow Gryffindor's, including The Four Marauder's). 

Hermione and her new friends headed down to the dungeons for Potions with Professor Slughorn. They chatted their way through the large oak door into the dismal dungeon classroom and distractedly took their seats. It took Hermione a moment to realise that she was left without any one to sit next to. She quickly spotted a seat at the back of the class and hurried to sit down just as Slughorn bounced jovially into the room. Hermione found herself sitting next to a dark haired boy hunched over his textbook scrawling notes into it, she would have introduced herself but knew from personal experience how frustrating it could be to be interrupted whilst taking notes. So she simply sat watching Slughorn greet the class whilst charming a piece of chalk to write the lesson's instructions on the large black board. The boy raised his head, took in the name of the potion and turned to get off his stool, noticing Hermione in the process. As soon as he looked her she saw his dark bottomless eyes and knew this was none other than Severus Tobias Snape. Feeling that this would be the best time to introduce herself Hermione said a cautionary

"Hello" and waited for a reply. The young Snape took a moment to compose himself before mumbling another

"Hello" and sliding off his stool and walking into the store cupboard. He came back a moment later carrying two sets of ingredients for the lesson's potion, they would be brewing a sleeping draught today and would therefor need; Flobberworm mucas, lavender and Valerian sprigs. Snape sat down again and pushing one set off ingredients towards Hermione he said

"I thought seeing as your new, you might not know where the ingredients were in the store cupboard". This of course was not true as Hermione had been inside that store cupboard rather a lot. "So I brought out your ingredients for you."

"Thank you so much, that's very thoughtful of you. i'm Hermione, Hermione Granger".

"Severus Snape."