A search for the ghost of Albus Dumbledore transports Hermione back to the summer of 1996. Struggling to fit into her new role as professor of History of Magic under the watchful eye of Dumbledore, Hermione agrees to help the Order, although she believes that nothing she can do will affect events already passed. After all, what happened has already happened, right?

Voldemort has been defeated, but the Ministry remains in political turmoil as Hermione returns to Hogwarts. No longer in the company of Harry and Ron, she soon becomes highly involved in a political movement that publishes an underground newspaper run by a seventh year Slytherin. Eventual SSHG, slow burn (Hermione will be over the age of 25). EWE, slightly AU.