Author's Note: This book will encompass year 2 and 3. It'll be separated in seasons. Pre-Year 2, Year 2, Pre-Year 3 and Year 3. The Synopsis of each season will be posted before it starts.

Pre-Year 2:

Hermione when summer truly begins is taken from her family by Arcturus and sent off to train. Harry lives with the Dursley surprised that his summer was going fine. Ron struggles with living in the shadows of his siblings and the lack of letters in the beginning from Harry. Neville struggles under the harshness of his Gran, visiting his parents and his Uncle Algie. Daphne and Tracey are both embroiled in discussions of betrothal contracts.

Chapter 1

Summer Summer Time

June 20, 1992

With the children gone the teachers had their normal end of the year…powwow where they drank to having a castle without children or being able to go home fully to their families. Teaching at Hogwarts was a lifetime commitment and sometimes it wore heavily on their families or significant others if they had one. Singles like Severus and Minerva had it relatively easy in that regard. Sadly, they both were purposefully single neither of them wanting more.

This year, the get together was held in the dungeons. As, Severus poured himself a drink of some firewhiskey he sighed. "Your snakes were a tad adamant in their refusal to join class Severus." Pomona said huffing. He simply smirked as he settled into a chair.

"They were angry rightly so. As was I." Severus said in response.

"You can't let us get one win without harping about it can you?" Minerva asked with a roll of her eyes sipping from her own drink.

"Not at the expense of the…feelings of my students. Albus gave points where they weren't due. He knew this when he did it. If he'd given the points properly I wouldn't have minded." Mostly because my snakes would've won regardless.

Bethesda snorted from where she was drinking. "Ah yes, we've heard the story when you reamed the others at how horribly done their protections were."

"My seeing eyes saw this to be true." Sybil remarked causing a bark of laughter to escape Aurora's lips and Severus to sneer at her. Minerva just wrinkled her nose in distaste.

"What nonsense?" Filius remarked. "You as well as I know that the divination you teach here is borderline fraudulent." Sybil huffed her wide eyes glaring at her fellow teachers who were laughing at her expense.

"Well you try to teach dozens of dunderheaded children without any divining abilities who only take your class as a joke or an easy grade. And quit before or during their OWL year before I can actually get to the better stuff." She shot back.

The other teachers could only shrug knowing it was true. Divination was a joke at Hogwarts. There have been less Seers in the Hogwarts in the last few centuries. There used to be at least ten to fifteen Seers or magic diviners. Not only that the divination course has been tossed out the window. Divination was about seeing what's not there, not just about the future. Several spells that divine the location of something, tracking charms, and even spells that assessed injuries were a form of divination that used to be taught at Hogwarts until the ministry outlawed most of the divination spells or simply had another branch of magic teach the necessary spells.

It was a sad time they were all living in. None of the teachers could teach how they wanted, spells, charms, curses, jinxes, hexes or anything they wanted to their charges due to the Ministerial constraints. Magic at Hogwarts used to be abundant. Classes taught during the Founder's time no longer taught. They all knew of it…anyone who read Hogwarts A History knew that the school used to teach over thirty subjects not just the eight core subjects and an added on six extra subjects.

Yes, indeed it was a sad time, they lived in when magic that used to be so vibrant and full in their country has become worse than a shadow of its former self.

The teachers decided to move from that depressing topic onto another one. "How about we discuss more safety precautions for the students. We had Vol-sorry Severus" Septima said when she saw him wince and discreetly clutch his arm, "I mean the Dark Lord here."

"There isn't much we can do. The Headmaster controls the wards and I'm beginning to think Albus has indeed begun to lose his mind." Minerva said. After all he was the one who suggested the chess board as a protection.

"More patrols at night. How about instead of one of us two of us, Filch and the ghosts patrol at night?" Filius offered.

"That could work." Rolanda popped up. "I have more free time than the lot of you so I could."

"Rolanda dear you don't even live at the castle." Bethesda said. The flying instructor reminded them that she lived only in Hogsmead. A hop skip and a jump away.

The lot of them continued passing their ideas back and forth over drinks. None of them believed this pow wow would be fun. Hopefully next year it is.

June 23-30 1992

Harry ran up to the Rover-800 where Hermione was sitting in the back seat of the car. Harry happily opened up the door to the car and slid into the back seat. She greeted him with a quick hug and looked at his relatives. Vernon and Petunia were glowering towards the car as they backed away. Her father quickly drove off. "How has your summer been so far?" Hermione finally asked after they were ten minutes into their drive.

"It's been okay. I've mostly stayed in my room doing homework and Mipsy's been fetching my meals." Harry told her.

"Same here. I'm almost finished. I just have to finish Professor Snape's essay." Harry looked at her in surprise.

"Seriously, I barely got through my Charms, Herbology and History homework and you're telling me you're almost done?" Hermione shot him a cocky smirk to which he rolled his eyes to.

The two of them left continued talking about each other's letters that they got from their friends. Hermione revealed that Ron's been followed around by his sister who was constantly asking about the Great Harry Potter. It made Harry blush since Ron didn't put that in his letter to him just that his sister was getting on his nerves.

Hermione of course didn't reveal anything of importance in regards to the letters she got from Blaise. The boy revealed that he was having an extravagant late birthday party of some sort and wanted to invite her. She told him that she couldn't but would send him another gift.

"Why can't you go?" Harry asked. Hermione blinked remembering that she didn't tell him that she was leaving England.

"That's right I didn't tell you that I was leaving England next week." Hermione remarked a lot.

"What why?"

"My Uncle is taking me away on…a business trip I believe. Don't worry though, my parents and siblings should still be here so if you want to ride and play with them you can."

Harry sighed heavily. Hermione waited for him to say something. "It's a good thing we can hang out before you leave then."

"That it is."

The rest of the car ride was filled with mindless chatter and music on the radio. Before long, they arrived at Hermione's home. The two of them immediately left the car and ran into the house. Both shuddered a bit when they felt the wards that encompassed the yard. "Jay, Cray get your brooms!" Hermione shouted through the house.

"Harry's here!" Cray ran down the stairs with his broom in hand and greeted Harry followed by a slightly more lethargic Jay with her broom.

"Hi Harry," Jay greeted him with a small smile and wave. Harry beamed at her and waved back.

The three siblings led Harry to the back of the house where they had his broom sitting in a closet right next to Hermione's. Hermione grabbed her Silver Arrow and Harry did the same with his Quicksilver. She then picked up the Quaffel since Harry didn't bring his snitches and it was supposed to be fun not training.

The four of them took the skies passing around the Quaffel ducking around each other playing keep away. Harry didn't question why they weren't getting odd looks from Muggles until they reached the ground for a break.

"The Wards keeps muggles from seeing anything related to magic." Hermione explained.

Harry nodded in understanding. "Is it alright if I came here and hung out even when you're gone? And I also want to practice with the training snitches you got me." He squirmed under look.

"I don't mind but you have to schedule it with my parents since they'll be the ones picking you up." She reminded him.

"Hey! Let's get back to it!"

Somehow, they ended up playing a two on two game of Quidditch. Hermione and Jay ended up being the 'keepers' of the fences they hovered by as the two boys duked it out above the house. Cray did this awesome trick and feinted Harry and went straight for the goal.

Hermione quick on her broom shot out startling her brother causing him to turn. She followed him and knocked the Quaffel right out of his hand. It fell but Harry darted down grabbing it before it hit the ground. He then flew towards Jay and tossed it. Jay caught it in her hands making a save.

The game continued like this until Hermione's parents called them in to eat lunch. The children descended onto the backyard and went into the house ready to eat. Both Hermione and Harry thought if their vacation continued this way it would be brilliant.

HGHG

Their vacation continued with Harry coming over on odd days. On some days, he'd bring his snitches to do solo training, others he would play with mostly Cray because Hermione and Jay weren't that into Quidditch but did enjoy riding their brooms. One day, Harry came over he revealed something worrying to Hermione.

"Hey have you gotten anymore letters from Ron or Neville?" He asked Hermione. Hermione blinked.

"Yes, I have why?" She asked.

"It's just that I've not been getting any from them." She furrowed her brows.

"That's odd? Someone might be interfering with your mail. I'll write them and ask them if they've sent you mail."

Two days later Harry came back over. Hermione told them what she learned that they were indeed sending him letters but he wasn't answering them. "But I haven't gotten any letters except from you!" He shouted in annoyance. Hermione frowned she was using Indra to send her letters. Maybe whoever was messing with her male couldn't mess with Indra.

"I'll write them and tell them to send letters through Indra." Hermione said. Harry nodded. "Now, let's hang out I have only three more days left."

And those three days went quickly for Hermione. She hung out with her siblings, parents and best friend/cousin. During those three days Harry's problem with his mail stopped when Indra began delivering the letters. It wasn't hard to see that he was marginally relieved when he came over the last day. When he did he had a surprise waiting for him.

"Harry since today is last my last day here and I'm leaving Indra with you so you can keep getting letters I'm going to give you this." Hermione handed him a brand new blue Nokia 101 mobile with its charger. She showed him her black one. "I don't need to tell you how to use one do I?" Hermione asked.

"No." Harry said staring at it.

"My family's numbers are already programmed inside so you'll really just have to click on our names to call us."

"Thank you, Hermione." Harry finally said. He struggled a bit with his happiness.

HGHG

The next day Hermione was up early her things packed and ready to go. Arcturus was already downstairs in the sitting room waiting for her. She walked up to him and gave him a slight bow. "Welcome," Arcturus simply smiled and patted her shoulder.

"Bir take my heir's things. I'm sure you've already said your goodbyes. We must leave immediately." He pulled a simple book. "This is a portkey." Hermione's interest peaked. She's never took a portkey before. She heard they were as odd and annoying to use to travel as apparating was. But Portkey was a safe way to travel for groups of people trying to get to the same destination. "This portkey will take us to a friend's place in Rome."

"Why are we going to Rome?" Arcturus did not answer and when she touched the portkey he said.

"Highlander."

Hermione felt even more disorientated than when she side along apparated with Arcturus for the first time. She felt her body twisting and turning sideways. She kept a tight hold onto the portkey and distantly heard Arcturus shout run in place. She did as she was told and moved her legs in a running motion. The portkeys twisting and turning stopped.

Her running kept her from falling flat on her face when she touched the ground. Although, she still did almost tumble.

"Is this her?" A harsh male's voice was heard. She looked up at this. All she could tell was that she was in a dark room with barely any furniture. The person who spoke was in the background.

"Yes, Gaius this is her my heir Hermione Black." He introduced her. "Hermione this is my old friend Gaius Caelius." Out of the shadows appeared a tall man much taller than Arcturus but not on the level of a half-giant.

The first thing she noticed about Gaius was his strikingly good looks. He had long golden brown hair with flecks of grey that was pulled into a ponytail. His eyes were an amazing violet. His face was chiseled in a fashion that she was sure one of the ancient Greek sculptors had sculpted him themselves. Surprisingly, on his face was a scar right across his eye as if he was cut there by a sword.

He wore if Hermione's eyes weren't deceiving her, an old fashion Roman military armor. On his torso was what seemed like a shirt of red scaled armor but…instead of metal it seemed to be some type of lizard scales. If she was a gambling girl she'd guess it to be some form of dragon. On his waist was a sheathed sword and he wore a pleated armor skirt around his waist with some type of tight short pants that stopped at his knees.

"Gaius, is an old friend that fought with me during the Continental War against Grindelwald."

Endnote: This was just a little introduction to what they all will be doing this summer. I have chapters partially finished and the others are already charted out all I have to do is write them. So, I'm thinking I'll be finished with Pre-Year 2 around October 15th ish. Give or take a few days. Anyway I'm sorry for the delay and the next update should be in by Friday my time.