Prologue
Chapter 1 of 5
themistresssnapeEven though the Battle of Hogwarts is won, Hermione feels that everything has been lost. Can she make things right? Or is she meddling with a fixed point in time that cannot be changed? Rating for later chapters.
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“Are you sure this is going to work?” Ron Weasley asked, his doubt evidence in his voice.
“It has to,” Hermione whispered back. The two of them stood in the outside corridor of Hogwarts Castle, streaked in blood and soot in the aftermath of the final battle. It was over. Voldemort was gone and the Wizarding world was safe.
But so many were gone. Tonks and Lupin. Colin Creevy and so many students who should never have seen the battle. Hermione felt the tears slip down her cheeks as she thought of everyone who would never see the sun rise over a safe world. Absentmindedly, she rubbed the mudblood scar on her forearm. So much had gone wrong.
“Maybe we should tell Harry,” Ron continued, breaking into her thoughts. Hermione shook her head violently, making her sweat streaked curls bounce.
“No! I don’t think he’ll let us. I don’t think he’ll want us to.”
Ron looked around, his worried pallor making his freckles stand out even further. “Then maybe we shouldn’t. Maybe its best if we just leave things like they are…”
Hermione looked up at him, her deep brown eyes glistening with tears. She pressed her palms to her face just as her shoulders shook with sobs. Ron didn’t know what to do. He had thought, all those months in the forests and around the countryside together, that there was something between him and Hermione. He thought they might have had a chance at a life together, but he didn’t understand the way she was acting just then. It was so… odd.
He took a breath and tried to get himself under control. So much had happened in the past few hours that he didn’t know whether he was coming or going. The world had turned topsy-turvy since they’d come through the portrait hole in the Hog’s Head. Now, it seemed, things were going to become even more complicated.
“How are you planning on doing this?”
Glancing up, Hermione felt a rush of gratitude go through her limbs at the confirmation in his voice. “Really, Ron? You’ll help me?”
Ron rubbed the side of his long nose, smearing soot and dirt. He tried his best to look anywhere but at her. “Well, I’m not about to let you do it alone, am I?”
Without warning, Hermione flung herself at him, throwing her arms around his neck and hugging him as tightly as she could. “Oh, Ron…”
Ron awkwardly patted her back. He waited for her to let go, but when she didn’t, he gave her a strangled squeeze. After a few moments, Ron pulled away and rubbed the back of his neck. “Shouldn’t we get moving with this mad plan of yours?”
Hermione straightened and wiped furiously at her eyes with the back of her hand. She took several deep breaths, feeling her body fill up with determination as if the oxygen flooding her blood carried her courage with it. She looked off into the distance, her eyes skipping over the dust and soot wafting in the breeze. People gathered on the lawn, desperate to be out of the suffocating warmth of the Great Hall, not wanting to look at the crumpled form that was Tom Riddle. Hermione could hear Harry’s voice beneath Ginny’s. But her own thoughts were only on the little shack by the boats.
And the body inside.
With a determined nod of her head, she met Ron’s gaze. “We’ll have to get down to the boats. And find a hiding place.”
Ron took a quick look around, making sure that no one saw them, before he took off down the corridor. Hermione went off after him, digging her arm elbow deep into her enchanted purse. At last her hand clasped on the Time Turner she’d nicked from the Ministry when they’d broken in to find Slytherin’s locket. She clutched it to her chest and whispered to no one.
“I’m coming. I’m coming, Severus.”
Author's Note: It's been a while since I've written Harry Potter fanfiction. I've been in the Avengers fandom and other places. But I'm coming back to my first love. And I hope I can write stories you like again!
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Latest 25 Reviews for Second Time's A Charm
30 Reviews | 7.93/10 Average
great start to your story, I'm already wanting to know what happened in the woods with Hermione that makes her so determined to save Snape as well as the others. Curious also if she can alter Malfoy's opinions of muggleborn people as well. please update soon!
More updates soon please! :-)
A fantastic and original start - thank you! I am looking forward to this very much.
Well worth the wait 
, Sirius had best keep his head down, if Hermione gets her hands on him he will wish he was in the seventh circle of hell, instead of at her tender mercy.
Thank you so much for the update, you really made my day when I got the notice about the update. I have said before that I love this story, and this chapter enforces that even more:-)) As much as I want this to be a Hermione/Severus story, I do find, at least at the moment, that I want for Lucius to find some happiness too. He might do something to change that at some point, but at the moment I do care for Lucius too. I am really looking forward for the next update.
I'm so sorry that Severus had to put up with Sirius' vicious attack, but I'm glad that both Hermione and Ron have had ample proof that Sirius is a psycopath if not outright insane.
And Severus knows her name, and that she and that red-head boy know about things that they supposedly had no way of knowing.
This story keeps getting better and better!
Beth
Smashing! This looks like it's going to be a great yarn, I'm looking forward to the next chapter. Nice to see that this fandom is still kicking, too. I have to admit to a fondness for time turner fics, and having Ron along on the jaunt is a new take on an old staple. Thing is, originality isn't even that important if the writing is good, and your writing is stellar. Thanks for this!
Response from themistresssnape (Author of Second Time's A Charm)
Oh, thank you so much! I got my start writing Harry Potter fanfic, and it just felt right to come back to where it all began. I'm so glad this place is still here! And I'm so glad you enjoyed so far! ~The Mistress
I love time turner fics! It's nice to see one with Ron being snapped back in time with her. It's a first to see her in a new time with a friend.
Response from themistresssnape (Author of Second Time's A Charm)
Yes. I thought this was a chance for Hermione and Ron to grow as friends, because I refuse to believe that they ended up together romantically. As far as I'm concerned, it didn't happen. ~The Mistress
Poor Lucius, he is going to have his hands full.
Response from themistresssnape (Author of Second Time's A Charm)
Oh, you have no idea. ~The Mistress
OMG! I hope there will be another way for Hermione and Ron to save Severus... and perhaps Sirius, James, and Lily. There are so many different roads this story can take, and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens to everyone involved.Beth
Response from themistresssnape (Author of Second Time's A Charm)
I know! There's a lot of possibility with this storyline, and I'm not entirely sure how it's going to go for EVERYONE yet. But I have an inkling for most of them. I hope you enjoy the other chapters just as much! I'm hoping to have another up in a few days! ~The Mistress
I am intrigued with this beginning, and want to know what happens next.Beth
Response from themistresssnape (Author of Second Time's A Charm)
Ahhhhh! I'm so glad you're interested! I hope you like the rest! ~The Mistress
Excellent!!! More, please!!??
Response from themistresssnape (Author of Second Time's A Charm)
Up and coming, I promise! ~The Mistress
This is a really promising start! I can't wait to see where you are taking it.
Response from themistresssnape (Author of Second Time's A Charm)
Ah, thank you! I can't wait to see where it's going either! ~The Mistress
I like the beginning. Can't wait to see where this goes.
Response from themistresssnape (Author of Second Time's A Charm)
Thank you! I'm really glad to have gotten my muse back, and this one is coming quick! I hope you enjoy it! ~The Mistress
Intriguing start - looking forward to more!
Response from themistresssnape (Author of Second Time's A Charm)
Thank you! I'm working on it! ~The Mistress
Yippy! Me too! Me too! But I don't just hope, I know you can write the stories we like again. This is a scarey great start. So many things could go wrong, but Hermione saving Severus is the thing that keeps us coming back for more. 
“Do not. Lie. To me.” What a great line to use here. 8^)It breaks my heart for Hermione to be feeling so badly physically and emotionally. Ron is doing his best to be there for her, but I believe it's causing him heartache because he remembered when "she'd looked at him that way… once."I wonder how Lucius will fit into what is going on with Severus... seems like he doesn't quite know what to make of his friend and the girls he is drawn to.Thanks for a wonderful chapter!Beth
Response from themistresssnape (Author of Second Time's A Charm)
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Lucius is... complicated. Usually, I write Lucius as he comes off in the books. Vain, shallow, and evil. But I began to wonder if there wasn't more to him than that. And this version of Lucius kind of came about from that line of thinking. ~The Mistress
Response from braye27 (Reviewer)
Before reading the nex chapter, I reread this one and picked up on something that I didn't notice when I first read it:There was darkness, the smell of pine and wet leaves. A ripple of wind and the snap of snow and ice. Something silver flickered through the trees ahead of her, followed by a silent black shadow. Her heart lifted, pounding against her ribs. She caught the scent of what Amortentia smelled like to her… freshly mown grass, new parchment, spearmint toothpaste, and the potions classroom. The scent wafted off a deep black cloak.In and of itself, that passage could have referred to just about any of a thousand times Hermione had seen Professor Snape storming about Hogwarts or the grounds...but then I read this:The memory wavered and disappeared. Hermione let out a wail and tried to reach for the retreating thoughts. Ron, sitting on the bed across from her, felt his heart twist with sadness for Hermione. She had buried herself in the bed, hiding her face in the pillows and sobbing with silent cries. Something had happened in those months while Harry and Hermione had gone through the Forest of Dean without him. Something that had changed Hermione in a way that he could never understand or explain. And Severus Snape was right in the thick of it in some way that Ron could never quite pin down. Brilliant!!! The penny dropped, and I understood just how important this little detail is! I'm so glad I decided to refresh my memory before going onto the next chapter.
Beth
Love it! I eagerly await the next update. I don't think I've ever read a timeturner story quite like it. Looks like trouble will be up ahead if Lucius gets involved.
Response from themistresssnape (Author of Second Time's A Charm)
New chapter is up as we speak! I hope you enjoy! ~The Mistress
Oh Severus! It must be double painful to be seventeen if you have his disposition ...
Response from themistresssnape (Author of Second Time's A Charm)
You have no idea of painful when it comes to Severus... ~The Mistress
Thank you so much for the update. You almost make me feel sorry for Lucius, and that aint supposed to happen, is it? He loves Severus, doesn't he? Otherwise, a great chapter:-))
Response from themistresssnape (Author of Second Time's A Charm)
Oh just wait until you get into the next chapter. Oh, dear, oh dear! ~The Mistress
There are so many avenues for plots and subplots to carry these characters to any number of places:•I can see Sirius eventually getting on James' last nerve.•James finding himself a little bit drawn to Hermione. •Where would that leave Lily?•If James is attracted to Hermione, would Sirius try to move in on Lily?•Would Snape find that Lily was still partial to him instead of James?•Would Ron meet his parents when they were students at Hogwarts?This is a very interesting story with an apparently endless number of complications for our characters to have to work their way through. I'm looking forward to your next update!Beth
Response from themistresssnape (Author of Second Time's A Charm)
New chapter is up, darling! The plot has thickened somewhat, and not necessarily in a good way! And thank you again for all the ways that you think about this story. It's amazing to see someone actually thinking about my story like this. ~The Mistress
Interesting indeed, can't wait to find out what kind of relationship Severus and Hermione have in the present.
Response from themistresssnape (Author of Second Time's A Charm)
Ah, yes! It'm hoping to have the next chapter finished and ready to post tonight. ~The Mistress
I am completely hooked. Your Sirius deserves a good telling off, and punishment, hopefully Hermione will be able to help with that. I liked that James wasn't that big of a prat, and while Ron most often aint' my favorite, it is unusual for him to with Hermione to the past, and if you only keep all romance far away from him and Hermione, I will be happy to see how Ron handle this. Ron the friend I like, Ron the potential/wannabe lover, give me allergic reactions that can make me stop reading any story:-)) Am I right to assume that there was a connection between Hermione and Severus before the battle? I am really looking forward to read more.
Response from themistresssnape (Author of Second Time's A Charm)
I can promise you that much. No Ron/Hermione around here! And as for the last question... you'll have to wait and see! Thanks for reading! ~The Mistress
OH SHIT!!! what are they going to do now, they can do all sorts of damage. They could prevent James and Lily from getting together, and no Harry.
Response from themistresssnape (Author of Second Time's A Charm)
Oh yes, those two can cause a lot of damage! ~The Mistress
I like it please keep going!
Response from themistresssnape (Author of Second Time's A Charm)
Ah! Thank you so much! I'm working on the next chapter now, but it may be a few days... busy busy busy at work! But thank you so much for reading! ~The Mistress