I'M SOOOOOO SORRY! I reviewed the chapter beforehand but something got mixed up! SORRY! If you saw the mixed up computer code I really am sorry. I also wanted to say I finally got a beta reader!


"We tell Dumbledore and wing it from there." Hermione hissed back.

"We all know you're brilliant, Hermione, but this by far is your most brilliant plan." George whispered sarcastically. Ginny smacked him in the arm.

"At least she has something, unlike certain idiots I know." She pointedly glared at her brother.

"Let's hear your plan then." George challenged.

"So," Hermione said, raising her voice so everyone could hear her. "Tell us about yourselves." She directed this at Harry's parents.

James smirked. "Lily and I here are madly in love, you see." James said, wrapping his arm around Lily's shoulders.

Hermione, Ginny, and George smiled. That seemed about right.

She stepped away from James. "Don't touch me, you arrogant pig. Your stupidity is rubbing off on me." She said coldly.

Hermione's eyes widened, Ginny choked on air, and George was frozen out of shock.

"What's happened to our truce?!" James asked, in mock-desperation.

"It got stabbed, kicked off a cliff and drowned in a river. About the same time you decided to stay your usual stupid self." Lily dead-panned.

"Why, oh why, my Lily-Flower?"

"There are way too many things wrong with that one short sentence. The most important being that I am not yours! I never have been, nor will I ever be!" She shrieked.

"One day, You'll change your mind!" James remarked confidently.

"Don't flatter yourself. You're pathetic." Lily looked at him in disgust.

James winked flirtatiously. "Only for you, darling."

Lily glowered at him.

"Are you sure these were Harry's "very much in love" parents?" George whispered incredulously.

"Harry's never going to be born!" Ginny panicked.

"I heard they didn't get along much before they got together, but this is simply ridiculous." Hermione said back.

"Sorry about that." Lily said, grimacing politely. "I don't think we did introductions." Lily said apologetically. "I'm Lily Evans and this is my best friend, Evelyn Reeves. That's her boyfriend of a few weeks so far, Remus Lupin." She said, pointing to each in turn.

Hermione turned to her friends and raised an eyebrow. A few weeks?

"And this..." Lily continued. "Is Potter. He's an arrogant prick, as you can probably already tell."

"James. I'm James Potter." James butted in.

"They seem like nice people, so I would expect they would be sticking to 'Potter'." Lily retorted.

Hermione cut in before they could start arguing again. "I think we get the gist." She said meekly.

Lily's face turned scarlet, and she nodded sheepishly. "Sorry."

Hermione smiled. "No problem! You can call us all by our first names; we're okay with that, right?"

Ginny smiled. "Right." Then she elbowed George.

"Righty-oh!" George yelled.

Evelyn laughed at George's antics. Hermione glanced at Evelyn from the corner of her eye. Evelyn's scars twisted up in a strange way when she laughed, or showed any emotion using face muscles. It made the scars look more grisly, but it made her look more real. Youthful. Like a real, genuine teenager. Evelyn caught her staring and sighed.

"I'm going to venture out and guess that you're not staring at me for my pretty face." Evelyn remarked, though not unkindly as Hermione expected.

Hermione looked down, feeling sheepish. "I'm sorry."

"No, honestly, it's fine." Hermione noticed Remus giving Evelyn's hand a gentle squeeze.

Suddenly Ginny cried out and fell to the ground. Hermione barely caught her before she hit her head on the hard stone floor.

"You know what? Maybe you could take us all to the Hospital Wing first. I forgot how severe our injuries were, as I went numb a while ago." Hermione said in an attempt to lighten up the situation.

Lily nodded, her eyes wide with surprise. Evelyn hurried over to help Hermione lift Ginny, while the three boys stared in shock.

"Hurry!"

OoooooooooO

"Madam Pomfrey!" Lily screeched when they got to the Hospital Wing.

Madam Pomfrey turned around, and ushered them all into the Hospital Wing, seeing the unconscious girl. She set Ginny down onto a bed.

She hustled around, grabbing various potions and medical equipment.

"Is anyone else injured?" She inquired.

"These two are." Evelyn replied, gently pushing them towards the medical witch.

"Let's see then." Pomfrey said, putting them all into separate beds. "I'm going to start with the ginger girl."

Madam Pomfrey transfigured their clothes into hospital gowns. She took one look at Ginny's legs and made a disapproving clucking sound. She cast a spell to see her X-ray and gasped.

"What have you children been doing?!" She wailed and hurried across the room, grabbing another potion.

Ginny moaned pitifully. James and Remus stepped forward and gulped. Her legs were bloody and bruised. On her right leg, there was a painful-looking gash that was tinted a faint green colour. They beckoned Evelyn and Lily over.

"What in the world?" Lily murmured.

Madam Pomfrey returned. "Her muscle is torn. It looks like it was done by a dark spell of some sort. It won't heal." She said, worriedly.

Madam Pomfrey uncorked the potion and poured it over Ginny's leg. Ginny let out a gasp and a muted scream as she had stuffed her fist into her mouth in an attempt to muffle her sounds of pain.

"Someone grab a Numbing potion. Now!"

James ran over to the Potions cupboard and grabbed the potion from the shelf. He handed it to Madam Pomfrey who made Ginny drink it.

"Please finish it all, Miss?" She trailed off, looking to the students.

"Ginny Weasley." Ginny croaked.

"Miss Weasley." Madam Pomfrey nodded. She coaxed Ginny into drinking it all and Ginny calmed down. For once she didn't even complain about the taste, so the others knew she must be in a lot of pain.

She swathed Ginny's leg in bandages. "Dear Merlin."

"What is going to happen with that injury?" Remus asked.

Madam Pomfrey sighed. "I'm not sure. If not kept under care at all times, she could possibly bleed to death."

Ginny sat up, alarmed. "What?!"

Pomfrey sighed and pushed her patient firmly but gently back down. "That should be alright for the night. Now, which one of you is worse?"

Ginny still had a scared look in her eyes, but pointed at Hermione. George also pointed at Hermione while she pointed back at George.

"A wall fell on top of him." Hermione said.

George snorted. "Barely! I still didn't save him." He looked away. "Anyway, you took on five Death Eaters at once, got attacked by a werewolf, got slashed with a knife, ran in after me when that wall fell, you were on the run and haven't had a proper night's sleep in a year. I rest my case." He said pointedly, proud of himself for thinking of so many points.

Everyone gasped. "Five Death Eaters?!" The fact that Hermione was still alive was incredible.

"Oh my!" Madam Pomfrey ran over to Hermione. "Miss, are you comfortable with taking the Hospital gown off?"

"It doesn't matter. I've stripped for people many times." She said. "From battle wounds." She corrected, uncomfortable with the incredulous stares. The stares didn't go away.

Madam Pomfrey nodded and waved her wand, leaving Hermione in nothing but her underwear. George and Ginny didn't react, it was routine for them. Under normal circumstances, James would have ogled a half-naked girl, and Remus would shyly look away. This was different. This time, not even the girls could lecture them for staring.


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