Hermione Granger; A Vampire Chapter 4

Hermione Granger stood in the middle of the dining hall smiling at everyone. She didn't fell guilty about what she just did. She felt amazing.

Everyone was screaming and putting protective charms around themselves, some fleeing from the windows others crowding into the furthest corners in the room.

Hermione could tell Dumbledore was confused by her sudden outbreak of smiling which made her smile even more. She looked down at the Ravenclaw girl on the floor and though wistfully of her blood. Oh how she wanted some more! She sighed happily and continued to beam around at everyone.

Professor Mcgonagall hurried forward, ignoring Hermione, she bent over the Ravenclaw girl and felt her pulse from her wrist.

"She's alive, but barely" she whispered clearly horrified at what Hermione had done. She was very pale.

Professor Dumbledore spoke to Professor Mcgonagall, but he kept his eyes on Hermione's smiling face.

"Take her to the hospital wing Minerva, and make sure Poppy puts a healing spell on her."

Hermione continued to smile and scanned the room. She swayed happily on her feet, her hands behind her back.

"Oh relax everyone! I was hungry! I'm not going to attack again…unless you wish me too." she Laughed at her joke and raise her hands in mock surrender.

"Oh no you won't Miss Granger. You will come with me. Severus? Please escort everyone back to their common rooms. I'm going to pop outside with Miss granger here." Dumbledore beckoned to Hermione and she followed him out the door and outside onto the grounds.

The walked together for a while in silence. Hermione noticed that Dumbledore was producing some sort of shield over Hermione with his wand.

"Professor why are you doing that?" She asked

He spoke as though he hadn't heard her. "Miss Granger as you may have realised you have completed the transition. Now I'm going to lay some ground rules and teach you all you need to know about vampires." Dumbledore spoke so calmly that Hermione was surprised. He must be angry that she had just severed the neck of an innocent girl in he dining hall in front of everyone!

"First of all, to answer your question, vampires cannot walk in the sun…hundreds of years ago vampires could roam around freely… there was no bind, so they could hunt whenever they wanted. A powerful witch eventually put a curse on them limiting their powers and now vampires are weakened by the sun. There are special things that can protect you from it though. The one we will be using is a ring, bracelet or necklace that you have to wear at all times. I will put a spell on this piece of jewellery that will keep you safe from the sun. For now I'm going to make do with this specific shield." He paused and looked over to Hermione as if to check she as listening.

He carried on.

"Tonight I'm going to teach you how to retrain your thirst for blood…if you are going to continue to have your education here, you must learn to control it. I will not tolerate you feeding on innocent people for your own pleasure. You are going to learn to feed on animals only, and yes this will not make you as strong as drinking human blood will make you, but feeding on innocent people is wrong."

Hermione thought about feeding on innocent people and she found that she didn't care. All she cared about was that she had to get more blood. Human blood.

"You know Professor, I find that I don't even feel sorry for that girl that I fed on. Normally I would but at this moment I don't…whats that about?" Hermione was confused. She normally was a goody goody and she would've hated to have to feed of innocent people but she found herself not giving a fig.

Dumbledore continued to walk towards the forbidden forest, Hermione following. He was quiet for a moment and Hermione though he wasn't going to answer.

"Miss Granger, When you become what you are, you loose your humanity. I feared this would happen and it seems it did judging by the smile you gave us when you attacked that poor girl." Hermione snickered at the memory of the shocked faces that had stared at her after she fed on the Ravenclaw girl.

He continued. "But you can get your humanity back if you want it enough, acting and trying to feel as normal as possible. Now- here we are." He put his wand down and the shield disappeared.

They were now deep in the forbidden forest. No one was really allowed in the forbidden forest because it was filled with lots of dark and dangerous creatures. Hermione recognised the place where they had stopped. It was the place where she had been bitten.

And then she had a flashback…a very real flashback. She could remember what happened that night. She could remember the vampire who had done this to her, his slick back black hair, his dark dangerous eyes, she could remember him biting her neck and and drinking from her screaming and then the compulsion…

(The flashback)

The vampire was looking into Hermione's eyes and speaking to her softly. His hands were cradling her face.

"Your going to drink my blood willingly…" he said still looking directly into her eyes.

"I'm going to drink your blood willingly." Hermione spoke in monotone her pupils getting smaller the longer she looked into his eyes.

"Then I'm going to kill you, you will keep quiet." He whispered.

"Then your going to kill me…I will keep quiet." She said in monotone again.

And with that the vampire bit his wrist and offered it to Hermione. She reached slowly for his wrist and started to drink. After a few mouthfuls the vampire removed his wrist from her lips.

"Don't make a sound." He said looking into her eyes again.

He then bit her on the other side of her neck and began to drain her dry. She didn't make a sound. When he was finished he dropped her and she crumbled to the ground, her eyes open but stiff and glassy. She lay there dead.

The vampire vanished.

Hermione opened her eyes to find Dumbledore crouching over her looking slightly worried. "I must of fainted or something" she thought. She sat up and rubbed the back of her head, which was throbbing slightly.

"Professor! I remembered! I remembered the attack! He did a mind control thing, I was repeating everything he said!" She looked up at the professor.

Dumbledore seemed to be thinking about something. His brow was furrowed and his eyes were unfocused.

"Miss Granger, If its alright I'm going to extract this memory from your mind and put it in the Pensieve when we get back to the castle." He looked at her waiting for an answer.

"Of course Professor." Hermione said.

Dumbledore produced a tiny glass bottle. He put his wand up to Hermione's forehead.

"Miss Granger, focus on the memory of the attack please."

Hermione focused on he attack and closed her eyes. Dumbledore put his wand once more to her forehead and pulled his wand back slowly. Hermione opened her eyes and saw that attached to the wand was a slivery substance neither liquid or gas. Dumbledore Put the end of the wand into the bottle and the silvery substance unlatched itself from the wand and fell in into the bottle.

Dumbledore spoke as though nothing happened. "I bought you here because I was sure you would remember the attack if you were in the place that it happened. Now for the hunting part. I want you to open to all your senses…your sense of smell, your hearing, your sight. Just open up. Go with your instincts.

Hermione stood up and opened her eyes wide, listened carefully and took a deep breath as though trying to taste the air. She could smell something. It smelt sweet, but sharp at the same time. The smell didn't seem to far away, she scanned the forest trees. It seemed dark here in the forest even though it was still day time. She breathed in again.

Then she took off running. She could feel herself running very fast, and when she looked down while running, she could see her legs were moving so fast they were a blur. She came into a clearing and sitting in the middle of it was a small white rabbit. This was what she was smelling.

She moved swiftly to its side and, taking it by surprise, she bit it near its neck and began to suck it dry. When it was dead she concealed behind a clump of bushes and made her way back to Dumbledore who had not moved at all since Hermione had took off.

"A very well done I should say!" Dumbledore gave a quick round of applause and smiled at her.

She smiled back and wiped her mouth on her sleeve but her sleeve came back with blood all over it.

"Miss Granger." Dumbledore produces a large handkerchief with a wave of his wand.

Hermione took it gratefully and wiped her mouth.

And Together they walked back to the castle.