Tony sat in the waiting room with the gaggle of red heads whilst Hermione was taking her MRI. "So, um, Mrs Weasley, was it?"

"Yes." She said sharply.

"Um, what school does Hermione go to? Emma and Dan only told me it was a prestigious Boarding School up in Scotland. I found her Primary school records and she did very well on all subjects, but I haven't seen anything since."

Mrs Weasley's face softened slightly. "I've invited one of the Professors over to talk about her schooling with you. Professor McGonagall should be here after Hermione's MRI. She'll tell you everything you want to know."

"Oh, um, thank you for organising that."

"You're welcome, now what do you do for a job?" She asked and Tony smirked, clearly the woman had never heard of him, and he found that refreshing.

"I'm an engineer and inventor. My father started a company up during world war 2 and gave it to me when he died. One day, Hermione will inherit it as well, that is if Hermione wants it."

"What kind of things do you invent?" Arthur asked, suddenly curious.

"Um, well I'm very good with technology, I've modernised many computers and smart phones, I've also created several Artificial Intelligence computers, such as JARVIS."

"Hello Mrs Weasley, Mr Weasley." A new voice said.

"Sorry, that was JARVIS, he kinda scares people who aren't used to him."

"Jarvis?" Mrs Weasley asked.

"Yeah, it's an acronym. It stands for Just a rather very intelligent system. It's the best I could come up with. I've also come up and advanced medical scanners for people with incurable diseases to help their everyday life." Tony finished and Mrs Weasley glanced at Harry who nodded at her.

"Mr Stark? I am the radiographer that handled Miss Granger's MRI. We've just finished and she's coming back now. All in all, there's nothing serious in the MRI scan. We were mostly worried about her head and any potential internal bleeding. Whilst she did hit her head in the accident, that mostly seemed to be superficial. There was nothing abnormal about her brain, we were expecting swelling or something, but it seems she is incredibly lucky. We also scanned her stomach to check for internal bleeding, but after she woke up and was alert and even talked with you all, I doubted she had internal bleeding, but it was good to double check."

"So, all she has now is her broken arm and the bump on her head?" Tony clarified.

"Yes, it seems she was incredibly lucky."

"Thank you Jade." Dr Cooper said.

"Anything else?" Tony asked.

"We are redoing her x-rays on her left arm. The first pair were right afterward and the humerus wasn't coming together as neatly as we'd hoped. Now she has a cast on, we want to see if that has changed to any degree. If not, she might need surgery to compensate for that. She did complain of pain in the MRI, but I think it's worse than what she's letting on." Dr Cooper told him.

"Sounds like Hermione." Harry said softly.

"Breaking the humerus is a horrid injury and not as easily fixed as the broken radius. It is painful and debilitating, particularly with how severe Hermione's is broken. I'll let you know more after the x-rays."

"Okay, thank you Dr Cooper." Tony replied.

. . . .

Eventually Hermione arrived back into her room as Tony sat down on her right side and Dr Cooper and another Doctor, an older and with black greying hair came in.

"Hello Hermione, how are you feeling?" Dr Cooper asked.

"Um, a bit better I guess." She said.

"Good. This is Dr Eaton, he's an orthopaedic specialist."

"Hello Hermione. I've had a look at your x-rays for your broken humerus and radius. The radius is healing quite nicely, and your current cast is certainly helping that along. However, your humerus, the upper arm bone is not healing as we'd expect it to. It is a pretty severe open fracture, and whilst it has closed by a small margin, it will not close all the way just with a cast. Unfortunately, you need surgery to fix it completely. Now, there are two options, internal fixation and external fixation. Internal is where we actually cut to the bone and fix it with a metal implement that stays there. External is where we just cut small holes into the bone to allow it to be pieced back together. I'll talk it over with your guardian and we'll set the surgery for 2 days from now, and we'll take x-rays every 12 hours to see if there has been an improvement before surgery. Don't be afraid to take pain medication, the humerus is a serious bone to break."

"So, I really have to have surgery?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah, it sounds like you do. Sorry." Tony said as the doctors left the room and Mrs Weasley knocked on the door.

"Hermione, Professor McGonagall is here."

"Thanks, Mrs Weasley. Can you send Harry in as well?"

"Of course, dear." Mrs Weasley said and left the room.

"Right, the mysterious school." Tony said smiling as Professor McGonagall and Harry walked in.

"Miss Granger, I am glad to see that you're alright. I am terribly sorry for your loss."

"Thanks Professor." Hermione said in a small voice. "Shouldn't Pepper be here too?"

"Oh, do you want her to be?"

"It would be easier; she'd need to know as well." Hermione said.

"I'll go get her, Mr Stark." Harry said and ran off and returned soon afterwards with Pepper Potts.

"Right, this is a little complicated, but you were wondering about Hermione's schooling?" Professor McGonagall asked.

"Yes, I could access her records for her primary school easily, her secondary school was a bit different, I couldn't even find out the name of the school." Tony admitted.

"It's Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."

"Wait, witchcraft and wizardry?" Tony asked, thinking it was some prank.

"Hermione is a witch, she's magical." Professor McGonagall said bluntly, and Tony Stark just sat there in total shock.

"This is some kind of joke, right?" Pepper asked.

Professor McGonagall pushed her square glasses up her nose and looked at the two. "No, this is no joke." She said softly and turned into a black and silver tabby cat right in front of their eyes.

"Okay, so you're telling me that magic exists. That you have a whole secret school, a secret society. Why?" Tony asked as Professor McGonagall changed back.

"You're American, correct? Have you ever heard of the Salem Witch Trials?" Professor McGonagall asked.

"Oh." Tony said.

"Didn't that happen like 300 years ago, though?" Pepper asked.

"Yes, there were witch burnings across the world, and although most of those poor people weren't magical, there are a few instances of magical people being killed because of their powers. And it is still happening. They may not be called witch burnings anymore, but there are people out there who are frightened of magic and what it can do. We are also stubborn people and we hate change! This secrecy has been our way of life for many centuries now, I don't think we can change that."

"Okay, so my daughter is magical, was Emma magical?"

"No, Hermione is what is called a muggle-born, both her parents are non-magical. Now, are you okay? You do believe what I'm telling you?"

"You turned into a cat right in front of me, that's proof right there." Tony said.

"Right, now let's talk about Hermione's schooling. As you are an American citizen, I'm assuming you'll be taking her back to America?"

"Um, I don't know, but everything I know is in America, so probably."

"Okay, well, here is where it becomes a bit tricky, as you would take Hermione with you to America, she would have to go to America, but if you stay in Great Britain, she could still attend Hogwarts."

"Oh, um, do you want to stay at Hogwarts?"

"Yes, I've talked to Harry and he doesn't think I should, but you need to know the full story before you decide, and I need Professor McGonagall's opinion."

"Okay, truthfully, I hate boarding schools, I hate the limited holidays and that you're stuck there on weekends. I had a bad experience with my own Boarding school, and I don't want you to think I've forgotten you, like I did."

"There are a few non boarding school types out there, but they are not as prestigious. Every country has a handful of schools, but then there are the 11 main schools throughout the world and they are all Boarding Schools."

"Okay, I'll have to talk to Hermione about what she wants, has she also been doing her regular education, or do they teach maths and science at Hogwarts?" Tony asked.

"Hermione's mother and step-father asked the same; however, we didn't have any program at the time, and the governor's council don't see any need for one."

"Well, I think classes in the summer would work well for Hermione, but as much as I can tell, she was always ahead of her classmates anyway. If you decide on Hogwarts, we can discuss it later, or you could discuss it with a different school." Tony said. Now, what did you need to talk to Professor McGonagall about?"

"Um, is it okay if I do it in private first?"

"Sure thing, kiddo." Tony said and he and Pepper left the room.

Hermione waited for a minute before looking at her favourite Professor. "Professor, Harry wants me to go to that American school and leave Hogwarts."

"You do, Mr Potter?"

"I have my reasons." Harry insisted.

"Go on." She said sternly.

"Hermione has been injured or nearly killed 3 times in the last 2 years, and it because she's friends with me. I'm a danger magnet. She's the smartest person in our year, and yet after she graduates she's going to have a hard time getting a job because of all the bigotry in the world, add to the fact that Voldemort seems to be obsessed with me and that makes Hogwarts dangerous."

Professor McGonagall sighed. "Harry does have certain points, you-know-who is an incurring problem, one that adults don't know how to deal with, let alone three teenagers. I know there is bigotry against muggle-borns, certainly with you Hermione. I do hope for a better future and I will fight for it, but I understand if you don't want to come back."

"Ilvermorny does sound like a good school, and it certainly doesn't have the danger or the bigotry that Hogwarts does, but I have friends at Hogwarts, and I can't abandon them. I also don't think it's my decision."

"Hermione, this is your chance to get out and have a good life at a good school that deserves your intellect and doesn't care what blood status you are." Harry said softly.

"I know Harry, but this isn't about the country or the school, this is about you. I'm your friend, and I'm not going to abandon you, if I can."

"If you can?"

"I need to tell Tony everything that has happened at Hogwarts, all the danger and the bigotry. He needs to know because I always lied to my mum and dad about how bad it was, I just…"

"I understand Hermione, I would like to be in the room when you tell him, if that's okay."

"Of course, you can, Professor, and you too Harry."

"Are you sure, I don't want you to get hurt again because of me." Harry asked.

"I don't want to abandon my first friend."

"Okay, it's your decision, but I can't agree with it when you could have a better life

"Mr Potter, I think we're ready. Can you please go get Mr Stark and Miss Potts."

"Sure thing." Harry said and left the room.

"I'm proud of you, Hermione. I know that you understand what he's talking about, and I'm secretly glad you don't want to leave. However, I am as worried for you as Mr Potter is."

"I'm worried as well, this is going to be a big change, even if he lets me return to Hogwarts. I lied to my parents about Hogwarts, I didn't even tell them about the Troll let alone that I was petrified for two months. I want to stop lying, and Tony seems really nice."

"He reminds me of you a lot." Professor McGonagall said softly.

"Hey guys, Harry said you wanted to talk to us?" Tony said after walking into the room.

"Hermione has something rather serious to decide with your help, but she wants to tell you her past years at Hogwarts."

"Oh, okay. Is it serious?" Tony asked as he sat down in one of the seats and Professor McGonagall conjured two more chairs.

"Okay, I can do this." Hermione said and took a deep breath and started. "You're my father and I want this relationship to start off truthfully. I lied to my mum and dad about Hogwarts because I thought they would stop me from going back if they ever found out the truth."

"Okay?" Tony said uncertainly.

"It's a long story."

"We've got time, Hermione." Pepper said softly.

"Okay. The story starts in the 70s, a man called Voldemort rose to power. Witches and wizards are just like people, there are good people, but there are also bad people, and Voldemort was one of the worst. He collected people called the Death Eaters to terrorise people, you didn't know who to trust. He hated non magical people and muggle-borns, like me. We have these three spells called the unforgiveables, because the use of any one is unforgiveable. The first is the imperius curse, which literally controls a person, anything the caster says, that person will do, and its hard to detect if a person is under the imperius curse or not. The next is the cruciatus curse, better known as the torture curse which can actually drive a person to insanity. Finally, the killing curse, which just kills a person. It was a bad time, full of fear and death. Many families were tortured and killed by Voldemort and the Death Eaters. Until one little boy stopped him, but not for good. It was Halloween, 1981 and James and Lily Potter were hiding in Godric's Hollow, hiding because they knew Voldemort was after them. Eventually, even through impressive wards Voldemort found the young family and killed James and Lily, he then turned his wand on their son, Harry James Potter…"

"Wait, Harry Potter, as in your friend?" Tony said and looked to the kid.

"Yeah."

"Wow, I'm so sorry Harry, that must be horrible."

"I don't really remember them that much, sir. Go on, Hermione."

"He cast the killing curse on Harry who was 15 months old at the time, but for some reason that nobody knows, the curse rebounded and hit Voldemort instead. Harry was left with a lightning bolt scar on his forehead and dropped off to his aunt Petunia's house, who hates him by the way."

"He's a child, how could she hate him?" Pepper asked in shock.

"They hate magic, they think it's unnatural, so they always tried to stop me from becoming magical, they weren't very nice, but there's nowhere else I could go." Harry told them.

"But surely someone could take him in?" Tony asked.

"There is said to be powerful wards around the house that prevent anyone harming him, for instance Voldemort and his Death Eaters, but does not prevent harm coming from the inhabitants. It only works with Harry's blood relatives. I want him out of there as well, but I can't go against Dumbledore."

"Okay, so fast forward a few years and I was about to start Hogwarts for the first time. I was very excited, I didn't have any friends in primary school, so I was excited to go to a new school this time. We take a train to the school and it was there that I met Harry and Ron, although we wouldn't be friends for a couple of months yet. It was Halloween, and I had no friends and Ron had just insulted me for helping him learn a new spell, it was the last straw and I spent the afternoon in one of the bathrooms crying. Anyway, that night someone let a 12-foot mountain troll into the castle. Anyway, Harry dragged Ron to come find me because I didn't know, except the troll walked into the very bathroom I was in. It was a scary few minutes, but Harry and Ron saved me. Harry actually jumped on the back of the troll and Ron used the same spell we fought over to lift its club above its head and knock it out. Then, the professors came, and I lied for the boys and then we became friends."

"Wait, you lied? You didn't go find the troll?"

"No, Professor, sorry. I was just in the bathroom crying about missing home and all the bullies, when it walked in. Harry and Ron just wanted to warn me, they thought the Troll was in the dungeons."

"So, you nearly died but two 11-year-old boys saved you? Well, you were right I would have wanted to take you out of the school too." Tony admitted.

"That's not it." Hermione admitted sheepishly.

"Of course not." Tony sighed softly.

"Um, so the year continued pretty slowly apart from a few things, like Hagrid hatching a dragon, Harry's first Quidditch match going a bit awry, me setting fire to one of my Professors…"

"You set one of your Professors on fire? Please tell me it was a bad one."

"He was innocent at the time, but he isn't very nice. Eventually the year started to end, but then we became convinced that Voldemort's disembodied spirit was after the Philosopher's stone…"

"What is the philosophers stone?" Pepper asked.

"It's a small stone that Nicolas Flamel invented, it can turn any metal into gold and produce the elixir of life, meaning the drinker will be immortal. And if Voldemort got his hands on it, he would be back to his usual strength, and that would be bad. So, we told one of the Professors, but they didn't believe us, so we went down ourselves to protect the stone. There were a few challenges, like a plant that kills you, we had to fly and get an old key, we had to play wizards chess with us as the pieces, Ron was hurt during that one, then Harry and I went on and walked past a troll that had already been killed, this one was even bigger than the one before and finally a potion riddle which I figured out and Harry went through. Turns out one of our Professor's, Professor Quirrell was possessed by Voldemort and was trying to steal the stone that night.

"So, this man is one of the worst wizards in your history, and he was teaching at your school for an entire year?" Tony asked.

"Um, yeah?"

"Holy f…"

"Tony!" Pepper said.

"Harry was pretty badly injured, and I had some bad wounds myself, but we survived."

"What were the adults doing during this?"

"Well, the Headmaster was sent a fake letter which told him he needed to go to London immediately, and he flew there on broom, but I'm wondering if it was so urgent, why didn't he use the floo or apparate, or use his phoenix?"

"Okay?"

"Transportation that would have gotten him there pretty much instantaneously, flying would have taken up to 3 hours, probably more."

"Okay, so that was the end of the year, right? You went home and what did you tell your parents?"

"Nothing."

"You told them nothing."

"I thought they would have taken me out of the school." Hermione admitted. "I had never had friends before Hogwarts, and whilst Ron is a bit…well not the best friend, Harry is. He's important to me, and I didn't want to leave him."

"So why are you telling me? Because honestly I'm having the same reaction."

"Because you need to know so you can decide whether I go back to Hogwarts or go somewhere else. Harry thinks it's too dangerous and wants me to go to Ilvermorny."

"Okay, look this sounds bad so far, and I understand not wanting you to return, but there's something else, right?"

"Magical Britain is very bigoted against people like me." Hermione admitted.

"What do you mean people like you?"

"People with muggle parents? I get called names, and Voldemort's whole thing is attacking people like me, maybe that will change with Voldemort's death, but I'm starting to doubt it."

"Okay, that does sound bad, and I can see Harry not wanting that for you, or the danger. Is it the whole society?"

"No, there are far more muggle-borns and half-bloods than pure-bloods, they are around 10%..."

"Okay, so 10% of the population fights, and the other 90% doesn't fight back?"

"Yeah, that's about it."

"But that doesn't make sense. Why don't the others fight back? They were killing people, right? If they killed someone I loved, I'd fight back."

"There's also the fact that the pure-bloods have most of the control of our government, the Wizengamot. And there was the Order of the Phoenix, but there weren't many members and they started getting killed off to show what would happen if you opposed them."

"So, the others noticed and just didn't fight back?"

"Yes, the last war was an annihilation, not only adults were killed, they killed a lot of children as well. We only have 49 students in our year, the year before there was 60. The years were slowly declining in the number of students during the war years, before the first war there was upwards of 150-200. This number has been declining since the 70's when the first war began. You can see just how many were killed." Hermione said softly.

"Holy Shit. Could you have been killed?" Tony asked.

"They have killed muggle-born children and their parents before, so yes, they could have found Hermione somehow."

"Okay, I think I'm ready to hear about your second year?" Tony said softly.

"Well it starts on Halloween of that year. Halloween is basically cursed for Harry something always happens on that day for him. Harry started hearing voices in the walls…"

"Wait…"

"There's a reason why, it's part of the story." Harry promised.

"Okay, continue."

"Neither Ron nor I heard anything like that, which made us worried for Harry. Then we came upon a section of the castle that was flooded, and then we turned and saw a message written on the walls in blood. 'The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. Enemies of the Heir Beware.'"

"Written in blood?" Pepper said aghast.

"Yeah, it was a crazy year. Anyway, we turned again and saw the caretakers cat just lying there, we thought she was dead, but it turns out she was just petrified. Anyway, we were at the scene of the crime and suddenly, everyone was there and accusing us of doing it. Then I asked one of my professors about the Chamber of Secrets. Hogwarts was founded by four people, Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin. They wanted a space where they could teach children about their magic as it had been dependent on parents before that time, which meant muggle-borns would have never known about their magic. They all agreed to the school, except one part. Not all of them agreed they should teach muggle-born students. Salazar Slytherin was said to have hated non magical people and their magical children. So, he made the chamber of secrets and hid within it a monster, which could only be controlled by Salazar Slytherin and his heirs to take out those he deemed unworthy of learning magic. No one has ever found the chamber of secrets, it was thought to be a simple myth, but clearly something was happening."

"I don't even know what to say." Tony admitted.

"Muggle-borns kept getting petrified throughout the year…"

"Wait, is there a way to un-petrify someone, and what do you mean petrified." Pepper asked Hermione.

"It's similar to a coma, except you're literally stuck in the position you were petrified in, and yes there is a cure. There's a potion that can be made using mandrake leaves, but the school's mandrakes weren't mature enough."

"So these students were stuck like this for months?" Pepper clarified.

"Yeah, it's pretty horrible." Hermione said. "So, cut forward a few months and our new Defence teacher was teaching us how to duel, which is still done in the wizarding world for some stupid reason. Harry was duelling Draco Malfoy, a Slytherin students who hates muggle-borns. Anyway, Malfoy cast a snake at Harry, and Harry turned to it and talked to the snake…"

"Magical people can do that?" Tony asked.

"Not all of them, it's an incredibly rare gift, a gift that Salazar Slytherin was said to have as well. So, people think Harry set the snake on another student, although Harry says that he was telling the snake not to, but we can't understand it, it just sounds like hissing to us…"

"So, Harry can understand what the hissing means, and he was hearing voices, meaning the monster is probably a snake, right?" Tony said and Hermione stared at him.

"It's funny that you can figure that out, but all the Professors at the school can't for some reason." Hermione said bluntly.

"Holy shit, I'm right?"

"Yeah." Hermione nodded.

"Your professors are idiots?" Tony stated. "Sorry, Professor McGonagall." He said and she shook her head and laughed.

"Oh, that's not it. It's common knowledge that Slytherin loved snakes, his emblem is a snake, he can talk to them. How nobody figured it out still astounds me." Hermione replied. "Pretty much the entire school then turned on Harry and started calling him this Dark Lord, and the heir of Slytherin."

"Jeez, poor kid."

"So, I decided it was time to get some answers." Hermione said boldly.

"Of course, you did, you clearly can't leave it to the adults because they can't do jack shit." Tony said grumpily. "Again, sorry Professor."

"My plan was to make Polyjuice potion, which literally turns you into someone else for up to an hour. I wanted to go as several Slytherin students and talk to Malfoy, who was our biggest target. It's a very advanced potion, one not taught until NEWTs."

"YOU MADE POLYJUICE?" McGonagall yelled.

"NEWTS?" Pepper asked.

"Seventh year exams, and yes Professor, we needed to do something, and you have to admit, Malfoy does seem suspicious." Hermione clarified. "It took a month to brew and several complex ingredients, some of which I stole from our potions professor, but I didn't care because that man is a bully. I brewed it in the girl's bathroom, which no one goes it because it's haunted by Moaning Myrtle."

"Ghosts are real?"

"Yeah, most of them are really nice and friendly, but there are also evil ghosts as well. So, Harry and Ron were going to turn into Malfoy's bodyguards, or should I say friends, and I was going to turn into Millicent Bulstrode, the student I fought during the duels, and managed to get a hair of her. Harry's and Ron's worked out fine, but they found nothing new. My hair turned out to be cat hair, and it is not advised to use an animal hair. I turned into a giant cat/human hybrid. I had to go into the hospital wing for a month and lie about how it happened."

"And she believed you?" Tony asked in disbelief.

"Uh, probably not, she's good with that though." Hermione replied.

"Hermione Granger, that's why you were a cat? I thought you were attempting an animagus transformation. You actually made the Polyjuice potion and it went well, apart from the cat hair?"

"Yeah, that's not to say I don't want to be an animagus, but I thought it might be too advanced for me."

"Okay, so what happened next?" Tony asked.

"Well more people kept getting petrified and someone or something was leaving messages in blood, so I started investigating…"

Tony groaned softly and ran his hands through his hands. "You were petrified, weren't you?" He asked angrily.

"Yeah. I found out that the monster was a basilisk, basically a giant snake that can kill you just by looking at you. It was using the pipes around Hogwarts to travel. So, I figured that everyone who had been petrified had seen the reflection of the Basilisk, because just staring straight at the eyes would kill you. So, I used a mirror and alerted an older muggle-born, I was going to go to the Headmaster and tell him I figured it out, I used the mirror to see around the corners in case the snake was there, and well, it was. I was petrified for around 2 months."

"Two months? Let me guess, if your parents were magical, they would have made the school cure you quicker?" Tony asked.

"That's what Harry and I think."

"I would complain to the school to get you cured quicker as well, if I knew about it." Tony admitted. "What happened to the giant snake?"

"Harry killed it, but we're jumping too far ahead. Ron's little sister Ginny was taken into the Chamber, another note was written in blood saying, "Her skeleton will lie in the Chamber forever." As you can imagine, Harry's has something that I like to call his saving people thing, so he found the origins of the chamber, with Ron and he went down with our DADA professor who was a fake. They were in the Chamber when the teacher, grabbed Ron's wand and said that they would forget everything, and he would make up some story about he was too late to save Ginny and the boys minds went seeing her mangled body."

"Holy Shit."

"Ron's wand was broken, so went Lockhart tried to cast the obliviate spell onto Harry, it backfired. He is now permanently in St Mungo's Hospital for brain damage. The spell did cause damage to the tunnel, though, it caved in right between Ron and Harry, so Harry had to go on alone, with nothing but his wand. He eventually found Ginny, but there was also someone else there, his name was Tom Marvolo Riddle…"

"Who?" Tony asked.

"I'm getting to it. Basically someone, who we suspect is Lucius Malfoy, planted a diary in Ginny's school books, this diary talked back when Ginny wrote in it, and so she found herself a friend and confided in the diary, who once belonged to Tom Marvolo Riddle. Basically, the diary was making her do all this stuff, it made her open the chamber of secrets, it made her control the snake. Whilst she gave more and more of her heart into the diary, Tom Marvolo Riddle was possessing her and eventually, Tom would come back to life, and Ginny would die. Tom then had a chat with Harry where he revealed, that Tom Riddle was his birth name, but he had another name. He wrote his name, Tom Marvolo Riddle, and it then became another name, an anagram. It became 'I am Lord Voldemort.'

"So Voldemort, again?"

"Yeah, he stole Harry's wand and then called forth the Basilisk. Harry says it was about 60 feet long, and before you ask, Harry is not the type to lie about that. Harry tried to wake Ginny, but there was nothing he could do. The basilisk started chasing him, and Harry had to keep his eyes closed, until Fawkes flew in and gave him the sorting hat and plucked the snake's eyes out…"

"Fawkes?"

"Dumbledore's bird, it's a Phoenix, you know the mythical ones, where when hey die, they are reborn?"

"They're real?" Pepper asked.

"Yes, and he's important to this story. Harry managed to pull a sword from the hat, and that was the only weapon he had and managed to stab the basilisk through the head, but the basilisk managed to bite him when he did that. Basilisk venom is very potent and would kill him in a few minutes. So, Harry knew that even though he had killed the Basilisk, Voldemort was still there, so he took the diary and the basilisk fang and stabbed the diary which 'killed' Voldemort, and then Ginny woke up. Harry knew he was dying, and then he saw Fawkes crying into his wound…"

"What would that do?"

"Phoenixes have healing powers in their tears, it's the only antidote to Basilisk venom. Harry didn't know this, either, he really thought he was going to die."

"Wow. Harry, you certainly are very brave." Tony said and Harry blushed.

"Well, the next few nights, they Mandrakes matured and everyone who was petrified was restored, and exams were cancelled as a treat, except for those in fifth and seventh years. Those are the big important exam years."

"Hermione, thank you for telling me this, I know it must have been hard and that you don't know what I'll say or if I'll take you away from your best friend. I honestly do want to take you somewhere else, but I can't do that to you or Harry. I may not like certain situations, but I can't just take you to America and forget about everything else. You can return to Hogwarts, I'll find us a house somewhere in Britain. Where do you live, Harry?"

"Um Little Whinging, Surrey."

"Okay, I'll try and get as close as I can. Certainly, somewhere in Surrey."

"Thank you, sir."

"Harry, please, it's Tony."