A Shock

Hermione was sitting alone, hidden by Harry's cloak at the entrance of their tent upon Ron's and Harry's insistence, when they heard sounds outside.

'We'll be OK,' Ron had said, 'we need someone to look after the tent, packing up would take too long.'

'Yea, be here, we'll be right back' Harry's words echoed in her mind.

It had been 10 minutes, and it seemed just that. Time flies when you are lost in thought. She had been like that since she found out that she was the owner of the first Hallow, the Elder Wand. No one except Harry, Ron and Ollivander knew that.

She remembered Harry face, surprised; and Ron's, surprised, and a whole lot jealous, when Ollivander gave them this news at Bill and Fleur's. She knew he wanted the wand badly.

Poor Voldemort, she thought. He had Dumbledore's wand now, thinking it to be the Elder Wand. The real wand, she found out, belonged to Travers, from whom Hermione had snatched during their break-in at Gringotts. If only A History of Magic would have known that.

She, Hermione, was the possessor of the first Hallow, and Harry having the second, it was only fair that Ron had the third…

She was absent mindedly tossing a black pebble in her hand, still hidden under Harry's cloak. Pointing her wand at it, she etched the sign of the Deathly Hallows onto it, first the top of the triangle, then the lower line completing the triangle. Then she fitted the circle into it, forming the sign of the Deathly Hallows, the triangle eye.

Imagining it to be the Resurrection Stone, she turned it lazily in her hand and mildly wished Harry's parents and Sirius was alive. Not much later since these thoughts crossed her mind, she sensed some presence behind her. Not like human, with their hearts beating with their souls, she sensed mere flesh; flesh which covered bones inside, which had no living soul inside them.

She was right. Turning around, she saw James and Lily Potter, and Harry's godfather, Sirius Black.

She almost shrieked. They were smiling at her, all in the same clothes when they died; Lily's emerald eyes looking the most alive thing in the tent. Sirius was looking at her, and, Hermione noticed, he didn't look much older than her. She never noticed his handsome face, his dark eyes, shaggy hair blocking most of his face.

Hermione looked at James and her mouth fell open almost immediately. She had a bizarre thought that she was looking at an older version of Harry. She dismissed this thought when she saw James dark eyes.

'H-How did you guys c-come here?' she asked, pulling the cloak off her and taking a step towards them.

'The stone' James simply said

'y-you mean....you mean....this is the...the... resurrection stone?' Hermione said, holding up the pebble she picked up.

'I guess so.', James said.

'b-but this is just a pebble I picked up, look, I drew this sign on it by myself, with my wand!'

'My dear,' lily answered this time, also annoyed by James' ignorant replies. Sirius sniggered. Lily shot him a look and continued, 'I could be mistaken, but when a really powerful wizard unites two Hallows, it may be possible to create a third,', she said in her clear voice, vaguely pointing at the cloak, the stone and the wand, her hand stopping there.

'That, I presume, is the Elder wand?'

Hermione nodded

'And that is James' cloak? I mean, Harry's, it is Harry's now right?'

'Y-yes'

'So that is it! You united two hallows and have succeeded in creating the third! but I do not know how that worked as the cloak is Harry's, not yours.'

For a moment Lily and Hermione stood staring at each other both thinking the same thing. Sirius' voice forced them to look away.

'Where are Harry and Ron? I always thought if anyone would summon us back from death, it would be Harry.'

He looked at Hermione right in the eye.

'u-um..Err.. th-they went out, they heard something outside.' Hermione stuttered, mentally kicking herself for doing so.

Then realization kicked her too; slammed her so hard she was gaping at a on the seat of a chair.

They had been out for quite a while.

OK, so this is my first chapter. Watcha think? Good? Bad? R/R plz!!

ps:Ive changed this ch. too, though I was in a hurry; might change a few more things