AWAKENINGS
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Chapter 1 - Rewards
Hermione Granger was dead. She wasn't supposed to be dead because she had done everything she had been asked to do and did it efficiently. She had been personally mentored by the "Greatest Wizard since Merlin" and Leader of the Light, Albus Dumbledore. She had been given private, special lessons because she was the "brightest witch of her age" and was told by that great man that she had the intelligence to understand what most people couldn't.
She had given up the relationship with her parents although it had nearly broken her heart. However, logic overcame emotion as they were just humble Muggles while she was a talented and powerful witch. She disrupted their lives and wiped all of their memories of having a daughter to save them
as it was kinder this way because, as she had been told several times during the past seven years, since they were Muggles they belonged to their world while she belonged to the Magical World. It would have happened sooner or later and when you looked at it logically, it saved them much emotional pain as she would have eventually distanced herself from them little by little until she just dismissed them from her new life.
She had survived the war after making many sacrifices, all for the Greater Good. Some of the things she had had to do for this Greater Good of Albus Dumbledore had, at first and many times thereafter, seemed wrong and against her conscious and the way she had been raised. However, as she learned and grew and been tutored by Albus Dumbledore, everything was explained to her satisfaction and even though she still had to harden herself at times to complete her missions, she did it willingly as the world was in danger of burning and falling into irretrievable darkness if the missions failed.
She was helping the Great Albus Dumbledore save the world and if a "few eggs were broken" and a few had to die to save the many, so be it as that was war and that was life. It had to be done and after the final victory she would be hailed as a hero and be rewarded by helping Albus Dumbledore mold the world into what it should be and not what it was. She would be a builder, a mover and a shaker in this brave, noble, "Light" world and make a name for herself. She would go down in history as one of the "Greats" because Dumbledore promised and he always kept his promises.
The only regret she had was the one concerning Harry Potter and his fate. He had a destiny to fulfill and as Dumbledore had sadly (very sadly) told her "The boy just isn't up to it" and it had disappointed the great wizard. He had confided to Hermione it was the greatest sorrow of his life that Harry was not good enough and not having what it took to live up to his destiny. This revelation had broken her heart and she grieved with the noble man, this living saint.
That was why Harry had to be so tightly controlled, isolated, constantly tested, forced into doing what was right and not what he selfishly wanted to do (like having a life of his own) and kept on the path of Light until that unnamed destiny was fulfilled. When Dumbledore had been so foully murdered by Severus Snape (because Harry couldn't prevent it due to his incompetency) disaster struck and had it not been for people like Hermione, Ron, the Weasleys and other members of the Order of the Phoenix, evil would have won because Harry just couldn't defeat Voldemort on his own.
Hermione felt sorry for Harry. Down deep inside he was a very nice, if totally hopeless, person. Not everybody could be as intelligent and talented as Hermione or as resourceful, brave and noble as Ron and the Weasleys. Harry could be defined as a lovable oaf – much like Hagrid – except that Dumbledore's plans couldn't fail even if Harry did. Thus, all of them having to help Harry to survive until it was time for him to fulfill his destiny and…die.
And die he did, as that was the only way to destroy the Horcrux in his head. He didn't know he was a Horcrux but Dumbledore did and always had. The soul piece couldn't be removed from a living entity hence Harry having to die. Once all the Horcruxes had been destroyed, then anyone could kill Voldemort and the world would be saved. She thought that Ron should have that honor as he had worked so hard, been so faithful to Dumbledore and really deserved to be known as the real hero that he was.
However, although once Voldemort killed Harry, Dumbledore said there might be a possibility that even though the Horcrux was destroyed what remained of Harry's soul might survive and then he would come back and fight Voldemort. If this happened and Harry (by some great miracle) managed to kill "Tom" that would mean that Harry had, probably due to a dark curse associated with Horcruxes and other forms of darkest magic, not only survived but he was now Voldemort's heir and a new and more dangerous Dark Lord. If that happened then as soon as Voldemort was dead, Harry had to be killed immediately to save the world.
And that was what had happened. Harry came back from the dead, fought Voldemort, managed to reflect the killing curse back onto Voldemort and it killed him. But Harry still lived and now he had to be killed and killed immediately. Ron was about to do it but was beaten to it by Bill who quickly cast a reducto to Harry's back. Hermione always knew that Bill was a glory hog and this proved it.
Kingsley Shacklebolt quickly explained to all present (even the Death Eaters) why this had to be done. Bill had set Harry's emaciated body on fire and by the time Kingsley had finished explaining everything, all that remained of Harry Potter were ashes because Bill had used a special curse to make certain that there would be no chance of Harry's evil surviving or contaminating others. Kingsley had just gotten to the part about known followers of "Harry Dark Lord" having to be stopped before they could assume his mantle when much to her shock a half-reducto curse was sent against her – by Ron Weasley the love of her life.
A half-reducto would kill you but slowly and in great pain as you would bleed out from your horrible and painful wounds. The smirking, evil, very happy face of Ron Weasley loomed over her his eyes glittering with hate as he said to the now traumatized girl "I hate you MUDBLOOD BITCH. I always have. One of the many rewards I am to receive was to first beat the living filth out of you, rape you until you broke apart and turn you over to whatever scum wanted you just as long as they hurt you as much as possible until you died. Unfortunately, Bill just stole my thunder so you get to die quickly but not before I do this" he said.
Ron had "whipped it out" and was now pissing (not urinating as that was a refined word compared to what Ron was doing) directly on Hermione's bloody face. He laughed at her shock and pain and waved his pisser all over her face until he hit the mark by pissing directly into her mouth not only insulting but now drowning her. Once he ran out, still laughing he called out "Incendio" and it set her abused body on fire while she was still alive. The last thing she heard was his laughter joined by Ginny's and Molly's hag-like honks.
The next thing she knew, the pain subsided and she was floating but not into the light or even a tunnel. No the faithful Gryffindor, the brightest witch of her age was falling into darkness and then oblivion.