Harry and Ron watched in dismay as their best friend vanished into thin air. No spells had been said, no potions blown up. Just one second she was there and the next she was gone. They both yelled for her but it did no good.
Tears of anguish and frustration flooded both sets of eyes. Professor Snape stood staring at the place she had been, until reality jumped out at him in the form of Draco Malfoy, his godson.
"Professor what just happened?" the blonde seventeen year old asked.
"I don't know Draco." He answered "Class dismissed, Potter, Weasley, Come with me." He ordered and they headed to the headmistresses office.
As soon as the door opened Minerva looked up. "What has happened Severus?" she asked eyeing him and the two boys behind him.
"Miss Granger has disappeared." He stated rather coolly. "There did not seem to be any spells or potions involved so explain if you can how that is possible."
"Sit down boys." She said clearly giving Severus Snape a look that said that included him. The three sat down across from her. She sighed. "I have heard of something like this happening only once before. That was ages ago. A young girl from Hogwarts was taken by the school itself into the past where she changed the events in time and could not return. She fell in love as well."
"What does this have to do with Mione?" Harry asked his green eyes sparkling.
"I Believe Harry, that she was chosen to change things and if that's the case she will not return." She allowed this news to settle and saw the glances between friends. "She may have been sent to change the final battle or even further back, I do not know. But do not be surprised if things begin to change. "
"The fact that I myself saw a girl appear out of nowhere in my seventh year makes me question..." Snape trails off could it be his memories were changing?
The whole group stopped. Harry and Ron stared as two envelopes appeared in front of them. They reached out as one and grabbed them.
"Hey its Mione's writing." Ron exclaimed
"Minerva, I have two sets of memories." Snape said "One with a girl who called herself Jane Granger and one without her."
"That Severus is because Miss Granger came to your year from here. If you look far enough back you will remember that for months she was Hermione Granger."
All four heads turned to stare at the man in the door. Behind him were others who had also died in the war, including three red heads, two men with black hair and one with sandy brown hair, plus a girl with bubblegum pink hair a baby on her hip.
"Albus!" Minerva and Severus both called.
"Yes." He said "Harry two of these People want to hug you, as they haven't seen you since you were one."
Harry looked up at the red haired woman and the blacked haired man with glasses as they moved forward. "Mom, Dad?"
They nodded and he stepped into out stretched arms.
Ginny and Fred hugged Ron who was crying happy tears. Remus and Tonks held Teddy in their arms. Sirius smirked like a slytherin in the door way. After everyone got hugs the whole group walked down to the hall where they found many others sitting around the tables who they remembered watching die. At the front of the hall a woman with long curly brown hair and dark chocolate brown eyes stood with her hand on the shoulder of a young girl with long black hair and brown eyes.
"Daddy." The girl yelled as she saw Snape and she ran at him hugging his knees.
"Serena Snape leave your father be." The woman called out walking up to them.
"But mommy, he's been gone with Uncle James and aunt Lilly all day." The little girl pouted.
"Honey, daddy works here, he has to do his job and he had to get Uncle James and aunt Lilly to Cousin Harry." The woman said as she kneeled in front of the girl.
She smiled softly. "Are you mad daddy?" she asked
"No baby." Severus said leaning down to pick her up. She giggled.
"Sam and Sue are at the burrow." The woman said with a smile. "Can you believe that they will start school this next fall?"
James and Lilly smiled at her with a strange Happiness.
"Hello Harry. I'm Jane Snape." The woman introduced herself to the boy. She smiled. She might have been older now after her trip and she might have fallen in love and married but deep down she was still Hermione Jane Granger.
"We are happy." She heard Tonks and Remus explain to James and Lilly, who had apparently asked how they had gotten together and if they were happy.
Serena kissed her daddy on the cheek and then got down so that she could wrap her arms around a surprised Harry and then an Equally Surprised Ron. Ginny smiled at them than wrapped her own arms around Harry.
Then the young girl turned back to her mother. "Momma will you tell me the story about Mione?"
Harry and Ron snapped to attention, Ginny eyed her curiously.
"After dinner." She answered causing three out of the four to pout. "It won't kill you to wait." She said jokingly.
Harry, Ginny and Ron sat down at the Gryffindor table while the Snape family sat at the head table with Albus and the teachers.
A small round table sat in front of the head table and the Potters, the Lupins and Fred all sat around it. Harry and Ginny held hands throughout dinner. They walked after dinner down and sat at the edge of the lake.
"Mione, was Hermione Jane Granger. She showed up at the school and met the people you see around you. She had long brown hair and eyes like mine." Mrs. Snape began her story. "She was from the future. Her best friends were Harry James Potter and Ronald Weasley. She changed her own future and could not return. She fell in love and married under the name she was given when she was told she couldn't return."
"Who did she marry?" Ron asked
"I married Severus Snape Ron, the summer after we graduated. I was Jane Marie Granger nee Hermione Jane Granger, I wrote letters to you and Harry explaining things sadly." She smiled at the two shell shocked boys and the surprised girl.
"Who else did you befriend?" Harry asked.
"Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, Bellatrix black, your parents, Sirius, Remus, and Peter." She answered
"You became friends with the Malfoy's and the woman who killed Ginny and put the Longbottoms in St. Mongos?" Harry asked almost yelling
"Look at who you're holding Harry!" She exclaimed "And I've watched her change. She didn't become the woman who did those things."
Harry didn't say anything as new memories flooded him. He saw the face of Bellatrix Lestrange but the feelings associated with the picture was one of warmth almost family. He could see her as if looking through the eyes of a little kid. She was taller and her eyes were shimmering happily. Than another one where her stomach had been in late pregnancy.
"She was like you're family Harry, you grew up with them and the Malfoy's around. Draco ended up acting like your brother most of the time." She explained.
"You have no Idea how confusing having two sets of memories is ." Came the sardonic voice that she recognized as the younger Malfoy Male. She met his blue eyes just as she once had his fathers.
"Oh?" She said "Really cause, I have mine from my "Past" as it were which no longer exists and I can't say that watching what should have been my life go by without me was easy."
No one said anything knowing it was true.