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Chapter 4: Gone

CA Hermione POV

2001 June 5th

"RON! What are you doing! We are going to be late!" shouted Hermione Granger to her husband who was doing God knows what in their bedroom. Harry had invited them two days earlier to have dinner with him and Hope and they were running late. She hated being late. Well, she had to get used to it after marrying Ron, but still. She was already waiting in the living room with their 3 years old son Hugo. Her impatience also had to do with the fact that she was going to announce big news to Harry tonight: She was pregnant with their second child!

Hermione had been very sad when Ginny past away. Ginny was like a sister to her. She had been afraid that Harry was going to fall apart, he had changed after the war and she had been worried about him when he chose to moved out of town. Far from them and all the people he knew. She had been nicely surprised to see him get better. She knew that a part of him was still broken, and she knew that it would probably never heal, just like she and Ron would never be the same again.

When Ron finally got out of the bedroom, the three of them flooed to Harry's home. They arrived in the living room of the cottage but no one was there to welcome them. It was not that unusual, especially during summer but Hermione got a very bad feeling, and when she crossed eyes with Ron she knew he had the same feeling.

"Harry! Hope! Are you in the house?" called Ron. She went to the kitchen while Ron was checking upstairs. There was a plastic bag, with groceries in it on the table. Harry didn't use magic very often in his daily life, he liked cooking, strangely enough after the life he had with the Dursley, and going to grocery, cooking, cleaning had became a kind of ritual that Hope and Harry shared.

"They must be with Ginny, let's go there and check." Hermione nodded, she couldn't talk. She took her son's hand and they start walking to the gravestone. Ron and Hermione were really quiet, but Hugo was babbling about what games he was going to play with Hope.

They had walked for less than two minutes when she saw something. It was like if a mini tornado had devastated a two meters square area, the grass was gone and rocks had surfaced. Ron and Hermione ran to the scene, telling Hugo to stay behind. On the rocks, was a strange green, shining powder, one that she had never seen before, and this was rare enough to worry her. There was also the pink coat she had given to Hope on her birthday two month ago, and there was blood on it.

"Ron!" she showed him the coat. He closed his eyes and said slowly: "let's go home, we have to call Andromeda and Minerva right now".


Here is the fourth chapter of my story! It short, I know, but it's on purpose ;)

Thank you very much for the review. And I am currently looking for someone to check the grammar and the spell so it should get better soon!