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Chapter03

Settling in

Hermione followed Lily into the Great Hall and seated herself in one of the seats. It was, admittedly, nothing new than the Great Hall in her time. The ceiling was now dark with some grey clouds here and there. The moon was, she realized with a start, almost full. It meant that the next day Lupin€

She looked around carefully, searching for a replica of Harry or a younger Sirius. But the Marauders had not yet come down. Here and there, students were eating, some of the more academic Ravenclaws were scribbling down some home-work. Ron would probably have rolled his eyes and said, €œYou would think they might take their home-work out on dates, the way some of them are obsessed with it!€ Hermione smiled; yes, Ron would definitely have said that. Her smile faded as the reality of her situation again crashed down on her. She shook her head, trying to clear it from such depressing thoughts. She was shaken from her thoughts by a First-Year requesting her to pass the salt.

As she was eating, she was so caught up in her own thoughts that she didn€™t realize that someone had tapped her lightly on her shoulder. It was only after that person tapped her again, this time more forcefully that she was aware of her presence.

€œMiss Jane Grayson, right?€ the woman said. Hermione stared at her for a moment and then realized that she was calling out her €œsupposed€ name. She nodded nervously. The woman in front of her was young and fair with straight light brownish hair, soft features and piercing grey eyes. She was smartly dressed in a pale blue cloak which was unadorned yet looked very graceful on her.

€œWell, Miss Grayson, Professor Dumbledore just told me about your transfer here from your previous school. Welcome to Hogwarts, first of all. Well, I would like to make some things clear, the standard at Hogwarts is very much high as compared to most other schools. Our classes, especially the NEWTs are very advanced and I think it€™d be a bit difficult for you to cope up with the pressure of studies. So, I would like you to come for some extra practice classes with me so that you can hone up your magical skills in certain necessary areas.€ She said this all in one breath in a flowing speech. Hermione€™s head jerked up and she stared. No teacher had ever asked her for some extra €œpractice€ lectures and the teacher had just assumed that she was lacking in her magical skills?

Annoyed, but with no other option than to shake her head meekly, Hermione said,

€œProfessor, how many extra classes do I have to take?€

€œI think thrice a week will do. My name is Lavinia Stallys and I teach Defense. I will owl you the time-table when I set it.€ Hermione nodded again. Finally after bidding her good-bye, Professor Stallys departed, probably towards her office. Irritated, Hermione sat down once again to finish her food. It felt as though she had lived a dozen days at once; it was hard to believe that it was not even one day past since she had come to this time. Having such miserable thoughts, she went back to the dormitory to sleep.

***

Hermione was the first one to wake up in the dormitory; she hadn€™t been able to sleep at all through the night as she was besieged by nightmares. It was only just one-two hours ago that she had fallen asleep. She looked around, all the rest of the girls were asleep, she wondered whether she ought to wake them, but then just thought to let them be. She had a bath and was returning from the bathroom when the other occupants of the room woke up. They were huddled close to one another in a circle and seemed to be discussing something excitedly. Hermione looked on curiously, wondering what they might be discussing. It was Caitlyn who noticed her standing there awkwardly. She quickly motioned to all of them and they dissipated very fast.

€œEr€good morning€we were just€er€discussing a bit of Quidditch in the morning, you know it€™s a beautiful game really!€ Hermione nodded, letting it pass; it was most obvious they were discussing something rather secret.

Alice seemed to feel bad for her being left out because she chirped up almost as soon, €œHey Jane, you don€™t want to get lost on your first day in school! You know what, come with us, we€™ll take you to all your classes.€

€œUm€no it€™s okay. I€™ll manage,€ she said. Of course getting through Hogwarts would not be any real challenge for her but she did not want to blow her cover of a new student. She had decided, while bathing that she would try to keep put of everyone€™s way as much as possible and keep to herself.

However, it was as if everyone was now trying to be nice to her after listening to her reply, because almost immediately, the entire group of girls was offering to escort her through Hogwarts and Ophelia even offered, rambunctiously, to show her the Hogwarts kitchen. Profusely thanking them for the offer and agreeing to go with them, she managed to refuse Ophelia€™s offer quite diplomatically. It was quite obvious that they were all trying to make her feel at home and she liked the cheery bunch of girls. Hermione listened to them talk rather than taking part in the conversation herself. The conversation ranged from downright school topics like who was going out with whom, to the more serious topics like the NEWTs. Hermione took out her time-table from the bag in which she had packed some of the books which Dumbledore had so generously given her.

The first lecture was Transfiguration. Hermione smiled; Transfiguration was her favorite followed closely by Defense but of course, it depended a lot on the teacher who taught Defense.

€˜Harry loves Defense the best; he€™ she shook her head, it would not do to think about Harry right now, there was a fair chance she would burst into tears, thinking about all those people that she missed and crying was the least thing she wanted to do right now.

They entered Mcgonagall€™s classroom and again, it seemed little had changed from the classroom of her time. The only difference was that there were some minute, curiously shaped boxes emitting a blue flame which were attached to the walls of the class at regular intervals. When she asked Alice about them, she giggled, €œThey€™re Prank Debuggers.€

€œThey€™re what?!€ Hermione asked again to make sure she heard correctly.

€œPrank Debuggers, Mcgonagall set them up at Lily€™s insistence. They detect pranks and stop most of them. In any case, they can€™t stop the pranks, they let put a high amount of noise!€ Alice explained.

€œOh, so they€™re for the Marauders. Has it stopped them?€ Hermione asked.

€œNo ways, they€™re more rowdy than ever! On the other hand, Lily and Ophelia had a tiff about it y€™know, I know Ophelia has a thing for some naughtiness even though she doesn€™t go all out like the Marauders, even Lily likes some fun now that I come to think of it, I wonder why she doesn€™t like only those four boys. Anyways, so Ophie didn€™t want those boxes, said she loved the Marauder€™s tricks in ol€™Maccy€™s boring class,€ Alice shook her head amusedly as she finished her long speech. Hermione smiled at her, thinking of two red-heads and how she wished she had put Lily€™s little Debuggers in the Gryffindor common room during her time.

Her thoughts were interrupted by the arrival of Mcgonagall. And then she found it more than pleasant to listen to her lecture on the advanced methods of human transfiguration, which the seventh years had in theory, not though in practical.

They were ten minutes through the lecture when the door opened suddenly and four boys trooped in. It was the infamous Marauders. The first to come in was James followed by a short, fat, nervously-looking boy which had to be Pettigrew. He looked the younger and fatter version of the thinned out man she had seen at the end of her third year in the Shrieking Shack. Hermione could see the glaring discrepancies on his round face itself, while his body was even odder to look at. He was followed by a brown-haired very sick looking boy and ultimately by a very good-looking black haired boy. The last two were obviously Lupin and Sirius. Even though Lupin looked the most striking because of his sick-looking face, Hermione€™s eyes were more riveted towards Sirius€™s face. She had always thought that he must have been handsome but had never imagined that he would be so good looking.

€˜How much Azkaban ruins people,€™ she reflected sadly as his future inevitably came to her mind then. It was just plain sad, she thought. While she had been reflecting quietly on them, the Marauders in question had been pounced on by an angry Mcgonagall who was asking them the reason for their lateness. James very easily got them off the hook by saying that they were helping him clean all the Quidditch equipments after a €˜particularly grueling€™ practice session with the team. At these words, Mcgonagall practically melted and just let them off with a light, €œDon€™t repeat this again.€

The rest of the classes went by smoothly and Hermione felt glad that she was at least getting a chance to study her seventh year at Hogwarts. It was the only good thing about her journey to the past. However she still had to sit in one of Slughorn€™s lectures. She was more than curious to see how good Lily was at Potions that had made Slughorn rave about her. Also, she had yet to experience a Defense class of Professor Stallys. From what she had heard, she was quite a popular Professor currently. She had a good time in Arithmancy and Charms was the same as ever, taught by the little Professor Flitwick. All in all, it was a good day. It was topped off by a Marauder prank. Normally, Hermione disapproved of such things as pranks but the Marauders couldn€™t have picked a better target than Avery, the future (or maybe even present) Death-Eater. Hermione felt no sympathy for him when his head suddenly transformed into a half rabbit. The result was quite funny to see and Hermione had to control her laughter. James looked at her and said a little smugly, €œSo you liked my prank eh?€

€œWell, he deserved it,€ she replied looking at the rabbit-headed Avery.

When James stared at her, she said, €œFor some things,€ thinking about all the cruel things Avery was going to do in the future; he might even have started some of them right now.

***

After dinner, Hermione went to the common room to find it unsurprisingly devoid of the Marauders. It was full moon today, so she had a good idea where they must have gone. What was surprising for her was to find her dormitory empty too. She looked around, the room was quite tidy and it did not look as if anyone had been there for the past twelve hours. €˜Maybe Lily and the others are up to something too,€™ Hermione thought, frowning.

€œOuch!€ she cried and clutched her neck. She looked down to see that the small locket was actually glowing. She had no idea how it could have suddenly become so hot. Eyes watering due to the pain the hot pendant was causing her, she tried to remove it with her fingers. And that was quite the wrong thing to do, it seemed as immediately, the world around her black out€

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