Chapter 11: Hermione?

Severus apparitioned near his house.

Although he wasn't looking forward to going back home because of the bad memories it brought back, he also knew that he couldn't afford to keep the rent on the room at the Leaky Cauldron for a week and at the same time buy everything he needed for the summer program at SCoP.

He already knew that he was going to have to use all his savings just to barely get most of the basic things he was asked for, luckily they provided room and board there, otherwise, this trip would be impossible for his current finances. So reluctantly Severus decided to return home for the week.

Returning to his small home in the Muggle world, Severus wasted no time in the street of Spinner's End where he apparitioned and headed straight to the end of the street where his house is located.

Once in front of his house, he didn't care much about the gloomy and worn out look it had, he didn't have good memories in this house, so he didn't see the need to remodel or do anything to change the look of it and as soon as he had the chance he had already decided that he would leave the house.

Without thinking too much Severus opened the door of the house and entered as usual.

Once inside he headed to the room where he usually brewed his potions, he needed to make a large amount and sell them to pay for all the expenses this trip would have.

When he arrived in front of the door to the room he turned the handle and slid the door in.

"Fuck, what happened here, who in the name of Merlin is this woman, and what is she doing lying in my house?" Severus was shocked at the first thing he saw, the whole room was a mess as if an earthquake had occurred only in this room, leaving the rest of the house intact, but what caught his attention the most was the unconscious woman in pretty bad shape lying in the middle of the room.

"Merlin, did the death eaters find out about my trip to the USA, did they fake an incident in my house to keep me from leaving the country on charges of suspicion?" Severus began to think of all the possibilities of what was happening in front of him.

Severus had been in this house yesterday, so the scene in front of him had to either happen shortly after he left or it happened earlier today while he was at the ministry.

"No, no, this is not the time to lose your head, now I should see the state she is in and hope that by the time she wakes up she will give me some answers" Severus calmed down and decided to help and treat the unconscious young woman first, then he would get his answers.

"This... she seems to be close to my age, who could it be?" he wondered once he was already lifting the young woman up to carry her to the bed and treat her.

Between his many thoughts and the rush to help and treat her first, he had completely forgotten to get a good look at the young woman's face.

Once he had put her to bed, Severus went on to undress the young girl, first, he made sure to preserve covered the parts of the young girl's body that he was not correct to see, he was quite surprised to discover that she had a wand, doing a quick scan of the magic stream he discovered that she was a young witch, that upset him a little as he did not know what a wizard of her age could be doing in his house, but he decided to leave those questions for later and go back to attending to the girl in front of him.

Once he had finished undressing her very carefully, he saw that the young woman had no wounds of any kind on her body, but she did have many minor burns running all over her body, and the occasional major burn, also apparently she had gone through a terrible dizzy spell and headache that caused her to faint and become unconscious.

"What in Merlin's name could this young lady have done to receive so many burns?" wondered Severus.

Severus first cleaned and disinfected the young girl's burns with a little bit of orange paste, once the paste made contact with the skin it moistened and was absorbed by the young girl's skin, when he finished disinfecting, Severus took a reddish liquid mixed with purple and passed it again over the visible burns, the liquid on contact with the skin smoked and stung, but then he tapped it with his wand and the minor burns were treated instantly, there were still some major burns, but these were also improving little by little.

Now the young wizard was in a better state than before, with some burns still in the process of healing completely, but she was no longer as bad as when he found her, which reassured Severus, as it seemed that the young girl had nothing untreatable, in time she would heal completely, perhaps the major burns would take a few months to heal completely.

Once he finished tending to the burns on the young witch's body, Severus finally focused on her face, the young woman's face was covered by her hair, so Severus had to move her hair to the side and what he saw shocked him to his heart's content.

"By Merlin, this..., it can't be, impossible..., what's going on?"

Severus was even more confused than before now that he saw the young girl's face, he couldn't believe what he was seeing.

"How could this be possible, are my eyes deceiving me?"

"How could Emma Watson herself be in his house and be a witch of all things, none of this makes sense, Emma Watson was a well-known actress in his world like Benedict Clarke but no doubt in this world Severus had never heard of her."

"Mmmm but now that I get a good look at her, despite looking just like Emma Watson, her hair is a mess in comparison, too bushy as opposed to the straight and soft hair you remember from the actress, this young woman has very voluminous and fluffy hair almost like the description of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter books and movies"

"Wait a minute, could it be Hermione Granger, no, no, no, impossible, she wasn't even born yet, how could it even be her, Merlin, it's so confusing."

Severus was lost in thought about the young wizard lying in front of him, no doubt she looked just like the Emma Watson who was an actress in her other life, but if I had to guess I would say that she was more similar to her character as Hermione Granger, not only because of the hair but also because she was a witch.

"Could it be that in this reality there is a witch identical to the Hermione Granger of the future, it could be a possibility but it would be too much of a coincidence that just that which has appeared in my house of all things, here is something else hidden and the only one who has the answers to my questions is her, I guess I can only wait for her to wake up, but first I will take her wand, it is better to take precautions in case she decides to attack me out of nowhere, better safe than sorry."

A few hours later, the young mage finally woke up.

"I see you finally woke up, now, I would like to know who are you and what is a witch doing in my humble home, I don't usually have guests and even less in the deplorable state I found you in" Severus spoke in a cold and dry voice, as he looked with his dark and penetrating eyes from his seat at the young wizard lying on the bed in front of him.

Severus didn't want to give her time to think of excuses, that's why he was so cold, dry, and direct, he needed her to say the first thing that came to her mind as she was waking up.

"I...I, I'm Hermione...Cough Cough, well, you see, I'm Hermione Prince, are you by any chance Severus Snape son of Eileen Prince?" the young witch said and asked once she caught a glimpse of Severus and assimilated his question.

That was certainly not the first answer Severus had expected to hear from this young woman.

How could she be a Prince, he had no living relatives and besides her name was Hermione, who was he looking to deceive, no doubt this witch in front of him was Hermione Granger, but then, what was she doing at this time, what was she doing in his house and why was she pretending to be a Prince?

"Oh, excuse me, but I must have misheard, you said your last name is Prince?"

"That's right, I am Hermione Prince and I am looking for Eileen Prince's son, as for why I was in that condition, I can only tell you that on my journey to this house I suffered some altercation that left me in that condition, I can assume that you tended to my injuries, I thank you in that case" she seemed only a little nervous, but not that much given the situation she was in, she did not have her wand and in front of her was Severus, a wizard who did not have a kind appearance

"I see,..., but what a strange thing, isn't it, last time I checked there was no living member besides me in the Prince family, Miss Hermione. Oh, excuse me, I didn't introduce myself, I'm Severus, Severus Snape, nice to meet you, as for your burns, there's nothing to be thankful for, I couldn't just leave you lying in the room in that state, they could accuse me of some crime if so, even though you entered without my permission" Severus said dryly but in a joking tone as if mocking the young witch.

Severus was convinced that the young woman in front of him was Hermione Granger and no doubt she was trying to trick him, so if she wanted to play that way, he would play along.

Now the most important thing for him was to get as much information as possible about the crazy situation he had in front of him, maybe Death has something to do with the fact that now there is also a person from the future in his present, it seems that his knowledge about this world is not as accurate as he thought, he will have to rethink many things from now on, the appearance of Hermione Granger changes many things and generates many doubts.

"Oh I see, thanks anyway for attending to my burns, and to answer your question, I am a distant relative of the Prince family, you must be Eileen Prince's son, right?"

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