Chapter two

April Twentieth (day ninety one)


The life of the golden trio could be summed up in pretty much just a few words all being that Hermione Jane Granger was annoyed.

She wasn't fooling anyone she loved living with her two best friends and she had even come to terms with having said best friends flaunt their relationships in her face albeit not intentionally.

But she was realist enough to know that living with two boys would be a chore some times, like this morning. Hermione liked things to go according to plan, each night she laid out her clothes for the next morning and she always made sure any reports were all neatly written out and ready to be presented to her bosses.

However her morning was interrupted when upon waking out of her room cursing both her hair and the so called de-tangle brush when she discovered the living room in a mess with parchments, boxes, half eaten food and stale cups of coffee.

With this sight Hermione knew her morning was ruined and she knew she would have to pester her two best friends until she accepts defeat and clean the mess up her self. Anyone who claimed to be as smart as Hermione Granger would either leave the mess or clean it up before rousing the two male members of the flat; but then again if they claimed they would never be as smart because Hermione needed to remind her dear friends of their agreement to keep the flat clean.

"POTTER" Hermione bellowed in her pure Gryffindor roar stomping on what she hoped to be the boys prized Quidditch magazines.

"WEASLEY" the desired reaction was incited as two heads slumped on the table in the kitchen come dinning room snapped up searching the flat as though Voldermort himself was attacking.

"Hermione" Ron questioned in a sleep laced tone while his bleary eyes blinking back the weak sunlight while his raven haired friend scrubbed at his unruly hair.

"MESS WEASLEY" Hermione hissed and both men winched back and held back their whimpers.

"in door voice Hermione… please remember the indoor voice" Harry muttered rubbing circles into his temples while Hermione narrowed her eyes.

"I'm bellowing at you two in my 'outdoor' voice because I woke up to this… this…" Hermione waved her hand over the current state of their living room words tumbling away from her.

"CHOATIC WHIRLWIND HELL HOLE OF A MESS" Hermione growled as both men furrowed their brows looking around to see what mess their friend was referring to.

"It's not that bad Hermione" Ron offered as Harry nodded in agreement with his friend while Hermione steady her breathing counting to ten and knowing at some point she will have to count to a hundred.

"Oh it's bad… it's bad enough to warrant my outdoor voice" Hermione snipped as Harry groaned and stood winching when his foot kick a half empty ink well pot over. Ron snickered at his best friend until Hermione shot him a glare.

"Look Hermione we'll have it all cleaned up by the time you come home tonight… it's just that we've been given this artefact and we stayed up half the night trying to figure it out" Harry attempted to reason.

Let it never be said that at least one of her friends finally understood how Hermione's mind worked. When you couldn't plead ignorance, forgiveness or even pity then you went straight to reasonable.

"This has something to do with work Harry James Potter" Hermione began to rant before Harry quickly grabbed hold of a large object knocking the salt shaker straight in Ron's direction.

Hermione wrinkled her nose holding her self back from the grimy looking grey object resting in Harry's hands.

The rock was rounded but still looked as though it could bust even Crabbe and Goyle's heads, it was pocketed with small holes but from the top seemingly buried like a sword in a stone was a blue glittering quill.

"McGonagall was cleaning out Dumbledore's old private study and according to her owl this was addressed to be given to the Ministry, who then gave it to me and Ron to figure out" Harry admitted as Hermione slowly edged forward ignoring the mess for the moment.

"They did… was their any instructions on what it does" Hermione questioned tilting her head in order to discover some secret that her two best friends might have missed despite their nights work.

"No only that Dumbledore stated it would be important and that we would have to figure it out soon" Harry declared as Ron rubbed his hands together after clearing up most of the salt from the table before groping for his wand.

"They gave it to Harry but he has more important things to worry about" Ron declared as Hermione snapped her head towards him then back to Harry with confusion written across her face.

Harry flushed an un manly red colour grumbling about loud mouth best friends before sighing and offered Hermione a grin.

"I wanted to ask Ginny to marry me tomorrow" Harry admitted as Hermione stared blankly at him for a moment before her face glowed and a smile split her face in half.

"OH HARRY" Hermione screeched throwing her arms around her best friends neck causing both men to winch and stare at her once more.

"Indoor voice Hermione" Harry gasped as Hermione pulled back and grinned at him almost bouncing on the spot.

"You can't say anything Hermione" Harry warned as Hermione gave him a look that screamed 'as though I would'.

"Oh Harry I'm so happy for you… and Ginny… you two are going to be so happy" Hermione exclaimed while Harry flushed again and ducked his head while Ron grinned brightly.

"As an engagement present I offered to help Harry with Dumbledore's little gift" Ron chirped gaining a glare from both Hermione and Harry.

"Well as part of my good luck -despite not needing it- present I'll offer to help you with this tomorrow… as long as this place is clean by the time I get back" Hermione ordered as both men nodded while Ron grumbled under his breath.

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"Wait what does this have to do with you killing Lucis Malfoy" Green demanded as Hermione narrowed her eyes at the Auror before turning in her seat raising her hand up to study her nails.

"Mark" Mathis hissed as Green shot him a look before glancing back at Hermione who refused to look at him.

"I was asking a question… I don't understand what this have to do with how she's going to convince us she didn't kill Malfoy" Green demanded as Hermione huffed before folding her arms firmly across her chest.

"Mark I swear if I wasn't your best friend I would hit you up side your head" Mathis groaned shaking his head while Hermione sniffed.

"I think I would rather just sit here until it's midnight" Hermione declared as Green rolled his eyes before sighing and waving a hand to Hermione.

"I'm sorry ok… please finish your story" Green grumbled as Mathis and Hermione shot him a look before looking at each other.

"As I was saying…" Hermione paused before flickering her eyes to Green then smirked.

"To answer you very rude question, it has everything to do with the story because if Harry and Ron hadn't left the flat in a mess and then informed me that Harry was going to ask Ginny to marry him I wouldn't have been in a nice enough mood when I reached work and I sure in hell would not have done what I did" Hermione admitted as both men frowned at her but still waited for her to finish.