Ostensible
Disclaimer: Don't own them I just like to play around and imagine what might have been.
Summary: A series of dictionary one-shots in which Hermione and Sirius pretend at having a relationship before realizing that ostensible things are often true
Licentious- morally unrestrained
Never would he have guessed that Hermione Granger would do something so unlawful…but he was glad she did.
She still couldn't believe she'd done it herself. The research was no problem and when it came right down to it the magic bit of it (tracking down Bill swearing him to secrecy and training as a curse breaker) wasn't the hard part either. The hard part was tossing the morals she'd managed to cling to during the war.
It had ended at Hogwarts just like it always seemed to need to. Most everyone (save the Death Eaters) got their happy ending. Harry was with Ginny and Ron with Luna while Neville somehow discovered a plant that was bringing his parents back to him when brewed properly. Teddy was almost a year old his bright blue hair a beacon that rivaled his mother's pink.
But something was missing.
She could see it in Harry and Remus's eyes, in Molly's guilt and Tonks's light sighs.
Sirius.
He was the missing piece. And being herself she planned to fix that so she began to research. She found a way but kept looking surely she wouldn't have to…?
But she found nothing else and though she resolved not to compromise herself or her morals in it, after Harry announced his engagement and said Ron and Remus were standing up with him something inside her screamed
THIS IS WRONG! SIRIUS SHOULD BE THERE!
So soon she was outside Shell Cottage asking a surrogate older brother for aide. She would need the types of things he knew to accomplish her self set task.
It took two months for her to rob the Black graves. She sweated for it and bled not a little but the third month saw her sneaking back through those deserted corridors of the Ministry to the Veil. She froze a moment shaking in remembrance of the silver masks and that deadly wand pointed at her but she made it and soon was flooing to the Burrow successfully clutching his unaged, but living breathing body to her.
It wasn't until later that Bill confessed to him what she had done.
"Grave robbery? Assault? Breaking and entering, Hermione? Was I really worth all that?"
She looked at the teasing mirth in his face trying and failing to hide the seriousness of the question in his grey eyes.
She looked at Harry who finally had a father, Remus who had a brother, Tonks and Teddy blood family that wouldn't murder them on sight, and Molly's clear blue eyes.
Then she said, "Yes, and probably more."
Interlocking- locking together, fitting
Molly watched her friends and children as they arrived
Bill and Fleur flooed in cooing over an upset Victoire.
A very pregnant Tonks waddled in swatting at Remus's attempts to coddle her while Teddy rode his shoulders and played with his hair.
Fred and George landed in the yard on the heels of their fiancés Angelina Jones and Katie Bell.
Percy and Audrey stepped out of the fireplace. He was prattling on about new ministry regulations and blushed when she silenced him with a kiss.
Hermione apparated in alone making Molly's heart tug at the wince she made on surveying all the happy couples. It was a sad thought not to have her as a daughter-in-law but her breakup with Ron was the best for both of them proof of which her youngest son was drifting up the lane with Luna Lovegood.
Ginny and Harry came in swinging hands from the garden.
"Can I help with anything, Molly?"
It was Hermione asking, bless her soul.
"Oh yes, dear. I'm just moving everything to the table."
Arthur flooed in and kissed Molly lightly.
"Go ahead and sit down. I'll finish."
Molly hesitated but complied at Hermione's urgings and just as she levitated the final dish to the table the fireplace flashed once more and Sirius stepped out. Molly figured she was the only one to notice Hermione's relief.
"Sorry I'm late everyone. Bloody muggle police keep showing up in the damndest times."
"It's about time you got here Mr. Black." huffed Hermione.
"Ah. Miss Granger, I'm dreadfully sorry to leave you at the mercy of all the sappy couples. We unattached must stick together."
But as dinner progressed and Molly saw their glances and light touches, a hand on his arm, a brush of her hair by her neck, the way they gravitated toward each other, she decided that no one at her table really was single even if they didn't know it.
AN: Well here goes my first published Harry Potter fic and first published multichaptered fic. YAY! Any way the other piece is written but not entirely typed and edited so it may be a little while before it's up but I'll do my best and as I'm sure you've felt or read before support is a great motivator. ;D Thanks Chaer