The time is now, this is my first chapter of my new story, Days of A Different Life, I'm so excited to see how this one goes. It's HHR (obviously) but I'll leave it up to you guys reading to decide if you want a side pairing or not.
So, this is set up straight after Harry defeats the Basilisk and I can't remember how long it takes to brew the Mandrake antidote so I made it up XD.
anyway, I've rambled on too much. Same as everyone, I don't own Harry Potter, it's JKRs and now. On with the story...
Harry was in pain. He had just been bitten and Fawkes had healed the wound but it still burned and he knew that it was a miracle he had survived never mind getting the pain to cease completely. Ginny had wept in his arms and together they had headed up and out of the camber. He had now got Ron up and along with Lockhart, climbed up a staircase Harry had summoned in parsel tongue. When they reached the top of the stairs, Ginny caught up to Harry and blushed as she tried to talk to him but Harry didn't even look at her once.
"Harry? What's wrong?" Ginny asked but Harry ignored her and left the toilets walking briskly before throwing his invisibility cloak on outside.
There he ran as quickly but as silently as he could before he ran into Snape and Dumbledore walking in the corridors together.
"Do you think Potter has anything to do with the chamber, Albus?" Snape asked, to Harry's surprise, with a hint of fear in his voice
"Oh I think he does, I think he's down there fighting the beast right now considering Fawkes left my office randomly with the Sword of Gryffindor in his talons" Dumbledore answered calmly
"What! You're leaving Lily's son to die trying to fight a fully grown Basilisk?"
Snape hissed keeping his voice quiet but Harry could still hear and this caught his attention
'What does he mean Lily's son and why does he care about me all of a sudden' Harry thought.
"You lack faith in his abilities Severus, he will succeed" Dumbledore replied calmly.
"I'm tired Albus, I will go and retire to my office. I will see you at some point tomorrow to talk some more about Potter and the Chamber I assume."
With that, Snape flicked his cloak as he turned nearly walking it to Harry as he hurried off back to the dungeons.
Harry hurried into the Hospital Wing and Madam Pomfrey was looking at the patients before hearing the door close. "I should have known you would come here Harry. I guess you're here for Miss. Granger again?" It had been 2 months since Hermione had been petrified and Harry had come to the Hospital Wing just to check on Hermione every single day. Now, the mandrake potion was finally complete after 5 long months of brewing.
Flashback:
Harry had just snuck into the Hospital Wing the night Hermione had been petrified. Madam Pomfrey was looking over all the other patients giving them scans and making sure that they were okay (obviously they weren't considering they were petrified). She came to Hermione's bed and after doing all of her checks said aloud "you can come out from under your cloak Mr. Potter, I understand you want to be here with Miss. Granger, she is after all, your best friend"
"H-h-how did you know?" Harry stammered after pulling off the cloak.
"Several reasons really, first I can very faintly sense your magical core. It's not surprising since you end up in here every month"
At this, Harry cringed slightly knowing she was right. But she carried on,
"Secondly, since I'm the matron and am in charge of the wards on the Hospital wing, I was alerted to your presence but the wards told me you weren't a patient or a threat so I carried on working. And finally, I remembered that your father had an invisibility cloak as I found it in his possession here many times. So when I didn't see anyone I added two and two together. But don't worry I won't tell the professors and since you are such a frequent and pleasant visitor, you can call me Poppy in private."
Harry smiled and replied "Then you can call me Harry whenever you want to"
"Please visit to see Miss. Granger as often as you want. If she were awake, I'm sure she'd appreciate your company"
Flashback over
Harry had stumbled forward and into the light. There Madam Pomfrey got to see a large scar running down his forearm with blood drying across his head. "Get over here now Mr. Potter or I will stun you and sort you out while you're unconscious"
Harry then limped over to a bed and lay down. He described what happened to him in the chamber. She was left wide eyed looking at the Basilisk fang scar on his right arm that was still visible even after Fawkes had patched it up.
Madam Pomfrey did all she could to cover and heal the scar and as she finished, Harry swung his legs off the bed and moved towards the curtains surrounding Hermione's bed.
"I'll start administering the antidote to the patients in a minute, I would like you to wait with Miss. Granger." He then went through the curtains and pulled up the same chair he had pulled up every night for the past few months. It was 5 minutes until Madam Pomfrey walked through the curtains and administered the mandrake potion. She then said to Harry, "She may wake up within the next minute or could stay asleep and only wake up around 6 hours, I can't tell you when she will wake up."
Harry sat there holding Hermione's hand for the next 3 hours before his head started to droop but he felt a muscle twitch in Hermione's hand and then her hand grasped his hand and she started breathing slowly, Harry's eyes flew open and he looked at Hermione. Her eyes flew open and she saw Harry looking back at her softly.
"H-h-Harry?"
"Yes Hermione?"
"Right, I have a million questions. First, what school work did I miss?"
At this Harry openly laughed and looked at Hermione before saying "Only you would worry about school work after being petrified for 2 months and completely missing me fighting the Basilisk that almost killed you"
"Wait, you fought the Basilisk? What were you thinking?" Hermione shrieked, "you could have died! I c-c-could have lost you" she started sobbing. Harry crawled onto her bed and put his arm around her. "It's okay. You didn't loose me, I'm right here, I mean I can't promise you I won't try something that stupid again cause I probably will."
Hermione gave him a watery smile and hit him lightly saying, "you better take me with you if you plan on being stupid. Just so I can stop you from dying. But anyway, tell me everything that I missed, after we get a nights sleep, I'm tired and hungry."
Before she had even finished her sentence, Harry's eyes closed and he fell asleep. Hermione thought 'he is so cute when he's asleep, I wonder if he can stay with me over the summer rather than those horrid Dursleys.' With that, she also fell asleep.
The sun woke both of the young children up. Harry yawned as he saw Hermione stirring. He poked her awake as she laughed. Madam Pomfrey checked both of them and discharged them, they hurried down to the main hall. When they arrived, they saw Ginny and Ron staring daggers at them. "Why did you help us Harry?" Ron asked pointedly. "Well, erm I assumed you could get help by yourselves if you needed it, I was too desperate to see if Hermione was okay. I've been seeing her every day since she was petrified" Ron grinned slyly, "so why didn't you take me?"
At this, Harry's face darkened. "Because you know as well as I do, that you've become a pig recently and we wouldn't both fit under the cloak" harry replied dangerously lowly, "if you have nothing to say to 'Mione, then go away. I'm sorry Ron, but you never even asked to go see Hermione, and when I told you I was going, you tried to talk me into playing chess rather than seeing her. Then, you have the nerve to say that I didn't help you, you knew full well that there could be danger and as for Ginny, I helped by getting Tom out of your head. Be grateful cause I'm not fighting another Basilisk like that. Ever since the Basilisk petrified Hermione, your discipline and general pleasantness declined further than I'm willing to call a friend. I'm sorry Ron but if you can't keep your act together, then there is no point being you friend"
Ron and Hermione were both shocked. Ron at the bluntness and careless attitude towards himself and Ginny. Hermione for the care and support Harry had shown while she had been petrified. She was also annoyed at Ron for trying to stop Harry from seeing her and that he didn't think that fighting a Basilisk was help enough. She was so overwhelmed with emotions, tears welled up in her eyes as she bolted out the main hall mere minutes after coming in.
"Look what you've done, Potter" Ron spat, "your Mudblood whore was gone and run away. You might have money and fame, but you don't have a girl, of any worth at least"
The look on Harry's face was a mix of anger and disappointment and anxiety. He hated Ron for what he said and couldn't understand why he had said it. But he also wanted to go and see Hermione. He decided the best option was to go and find Hermione. He gave Ron a cold stare before saying, "this isn't over yet" and he ran off to find Hermione, and he knew exactly where she would be.
Right, this might be really bad, but then again I wanted to set the split from Harry and the younger Weaslys early. Something happens that I don't want to spoil so the divide has happened. As always reviews would be great and I try to reply to my reviews if I can.
My next chapter is up in a maximum of 2 weeks and until maybe chapter 3 we'll be in Hogwarts until the summer. As I said in the top, of you want any side pairings, please don't hesitate to ask me to do one. Just bare in mind, I would rather a straight pairing, but I don't mind a lesbian pairing suggestion. So no Drarry side pairings please XD
signing off for now,
ExhibitionK9