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"Well, it is your own fault," Hermione Granger said, pausing by her friends bed in her room at Number Twelve, Grimmlaud Place. "Officially, the records may say you quit, but honestly if you weren't the savior of the wizarding world, it would say you were fired for being drunk."
The young women groaned into her pillow and roughly pulled her comforter over her body." I was not. I was just…"
"You can't even come up with a believable lie for your actions," said a voice.
Hermione clucked her tongue loudly at the interruption, not turning to the voice.
The girl in the bed sat up, the blanket falling low over her body, revealing a disgruntled and tired looking raven haired girl with bright green eyes. She stared through squinted eyes at a young women lolling in the bedroom doorway. She was dressed in a knee length dark blue skirt and a bright orange tank top, her waist length blonde hair flowing wildly as she flounced into the room. " Personally, I think it is a wonderful way to say, fuck you, to everyone at the ministry."
" And where have you been Luna?" Hermione asked shrewdly.
" in the kitchen," answered Luna, as she laid down next to her disgruntled friend," looking for honey"
" Honey?" the young raven haired women queried." Why would you need honey?"
" I don't need honey," said the blond," you do."
The greened eyed girl furrowed her brow, confused at Luna's thought process.
Hermione sighed and sat down next to them, giving up on trying reprimand her friend," Astrid, would you please, just answer me. Why, did you think it was a good idea, to show up to work drunk. I mean for Merlin's sake you're an auror."
Astrid Potter chewed a wisp of her deep black colored hair and looked carefully between her two best friends."
Hermione tried again:" When we left you last night you were sober. That was around one in the morning, and you said you were going straight to bed. What happened between then, and when you had to show up for work?"
" Hermione?"
" what Luna?"
"Would you please stop twittering about?"
Hermione Granger groaned with irritation, and fell back on the bed.
It was several minutes before anyone spoke. " Okay, so the twins may have sent me some things, and I may have ignored their warning, on how I shouldn't use it if I was going anywhere. Honestly though, how was I supposed to know it would make me shit faced drunk?" Astrid asked in a defensive tone.
"Of course, its always the twins isn't it?" Hermione voiced towards the ceiling.
With a huff, Luna sat up crossing her arms.
" We need to go show them who's boss," Luna said to her friends decisively." They knew that Astrid would just eat it, no questions asked. " Before Hermione could ' twitter' in protest, Luna got up, dragging them both out of the room. Hermione smiled graciously as she caught on to what Luna was trying to do. She was getting Astrid out of the house, so she wouldn't just sulk about for days on end.
" Yeah," Astrid said, fixing her old beaten up, Metallica t-shirt." Lets go give the twins a piece of our mind. They got me fired." And with that she flooed to the Burrow.
" They did tell her not to use it if she was heading anywhere," Hermione sighed tiredly, Luna just winked at her and left to without answering" She's 23, she should've known better." The curly haired brunet huffed before flooing after them.
"Mrs. Weasley, do you know where the twins are?" Hermione heard Astrid asking as she stepped from the flames.
" Oh, dear, I've told you countless times to call me Molly." Mrs. Weasley answered as she hugged Astride to her side.
"Sorry." She answered.
" Forgiven. Fred and George went out into the forest to look for ingredient's for some new items their creating." She clucked her tongue, she still thought they could be using their skills for something less childish.
" Thanks Mrs. Weasley," Astrid yelled, as she ran out the door pulling Luna and Hermione after her. She pooped her head back in and smiled sheepishly at the plump red head in the kitchen. "Sorry, Molly." She corrected herself, before she took off again.
"Wait," Hermione practically screamed, as she pulled the persistent brunet to a stop at the edge of the forest." We can't just charge into the forest."
" Yes, we can." Astrid countered as she walked in, leaving them behind.
"Don't worry, the nargles say something great will come out of all we will face from this point forward," Luna spoke airily, she gripped Hermione's hand and lead her in after Astrid," It may, at first seem like were away from where were supposed to be, but our destiny lies ahead of us"
Hermione looked confusedly at her blond friend, and let her lead her to where Astrid appeared to of gone." Luna. What's going to happen, where are we going to go?"
" You know, maybe we should use the point me spell." Hermione heard Astrid talking to herself as they caught up with her.
"Or we could just keep aimlessly walking around, its not like were three young women, out on our own in the middle of dark forest or anything." Luna answered, ignoring Hermione curious and apprehensive stare.
" Hardy har har." Astrid said glaring at her, while she pulled out her wand and prepared to cast the spell. She paused though, when from behind them a deep feral growl sounded.
Slowly they all turned, and made fearful eye contact with a huge dark brown wolf.
" Hey there big guy," Astrid whispered in an attempt to calm it down, all it did was seem to aggravate it though as it leapt forward and ran towards them. She shot a spell at it but all did was bounce off harmlessly. "Run!" she screamed.
They a took off further into the forest, the wolf hot on there tails for several adrenaline filled minutes. They ran in terror as fast as they could, Hermione at the front, she sprinted over a tree root and stopped suddenly just on the edge of a ledge. There was a massive gaping hole spanning what looked to be a mile, she wasn't sure and didn't get to think on it hard as Astrid and Luna ran into her, making them fall in.
They screamed as they free fell down the huge pit, the surface rapidly disappearing until they were bathed in total darkness. There screams echoing about the forever deep chasm, wind ripping wildly as they fell. It felt like hours that they fell, their throats rubbed raw from so much yelling, when suddenly, they hit ground dangerously hard.
Astrid felt around the squishy mud underneath her, and slowly rolled onto her back. She opened her eyes, immediately closing them again as bright sunlight flared down on her. To her right, Hermione groaned, shakenly using her arms to push herself on to her side.
Glancing over at Astrid she noticed something peculiar, her friend appeared to be far shorter than her original 5'4, she was also missing all of her clothes. Not to mention that her feet were far bigger than considered normal, opening her eyes more she pushed herself up further, and realized she was in same condition.
Peering around them slowly, she started to catalogue there surrounding area the best she could with a pounding headache. They appeared to be in a forest with high winding trees, many berry filled bushes and fruit bearing trees. Looking back at Astrid she noticed Lune sprawled out, faced down in the mud, grass and blood matted in all of her bright blond hair.
"Luna," she tried to say, but all that came out was a gargled noise, and she feel forward, coughing up blood. Her breathing became wet and ragged, her head starting to spin wildly.
" Oh dear." Hermione heard someone yell out, and fast foot steps thuded towards them. Someone gently touched her shoulder, making her flinch and let out a whimper at the pain," It's all right, I won't hurt you." A distinctive male voice soothed.
She forced her eyes open, and meet the concerned eyes of a short male with a huge basket full of fruit on his arm. He had brown curly hair and light brown eyes, and looked to be somewhere in his thirties. He smiled kindly but forcefully at her when he caught her looking at him.
" My name is Bilbo, you look very beaten up, I'm going to help you, all right?" was the last thing Hermione heard as her eyes fluttered shut once more, and she passed out.
