Title Loving Hermione / / / Rating M
Chapter 04 – Visits and Pranks
Warnings Contains mentions of a past rape, Molly and Ron bashing along a couple of scenes of a sexual nature.
-Loving Hermione-
Previously on Loving Hermione...
Hedwig hooted dolefully, being chased round the room by Crookshanks. The floorboard created again and they heard her heading upstairs to check on Fred and George.
"She doesn't trust us at all, you know," said Ginny regretfully, Dobby taking her back to her room. Harry was sure he would not be able to fall asleep; the day had been so packed with things to think about that he fully expected to lie awake for hours mulling it all over. He wanted to continue talking but was scared of, and annoyed with, Molly Weasley.
He just hoped she wouldn't interfere with anything to do with his love life...
Number 12, Grimmauld Place, London, England
9th July 1995
It had been a week since the Weasleys had arrived at Grimmauld Place, a week of a battle of wills between Dobby and Molly Weasley, who was determined to rule the roost over the kitchen. It culminated in Dobby expelling Molly from the house on her backside, with her being allowed back in the house once she had made a magical oath not to interfere with the eager House Elf and his work.
Instead she forced the twins, Ron and Ginny to spend the time completing their Summer assignments in the classroom that Grimmauld Place, not forcing Harry or Hermione, scared that she would upset the Elf or his Master again. Instead it was Hermione who encouraged Harry to, with the help from the books in the Black Library, make his work to the top end of the Outstanding criteria, and encouraging him to start his revision for his OWLs.
Harry had to admit that the work was gruelling, but on the other hand, he enjoyed the rewards at the end of the day, varying from a bar of Honeydukes chocolate all the way through to a long kiss that left Harry and Hermione breathless.
Sirius, knowing from the reports that Harry and Remus had given to him about the state of potions tuition, persuaded his cousin, Andromeda Tonks, a Potions Mistress who had been teaching the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and Beauxbatons Academy of Magic to help tutor the two teens. Sirius wouldn't admit, however, that the sight on the face of Severus Snape when he had bumped into Andromeda in the Leaky Cauldron was murderous.
Andromeda admitted to her two students that she had applied for the role of Potions Mistress at Hogwarts, her being one of three people who had been studying under the previous Potions Master, Horace Slughorn, but had been beaten out to the role by Severus Snape, who she had suspected something dodgy was in play at the time.
She had shocked Harry, however, with the revelation that the other candidate was his mother, but she had suddenly disappeared, and subsequently died. Out of the three of the candidates, Andromeda admitted, Lily Potter was the most qualified of them, having completed her studies in one year, as opposed to the standard two, subsequently to giving birth to Harry the year after completion.
The only upside on that day was when Hermione, along with Fred and George, had played a prank on Remus and Sirius, the first part by getting Dobby to place in the evening drink of the two Marauders a Muggle laxative, releasing their bowels, with the second part being the use of some cling film that Sophie Granger had purchased from the Wilkinson's hardware store on Oxford Street in central London.
That night had been a rough night for Harry, as everything had hit him at once, the fact that his parents were dead, that all he had left was people who had known them and had memories of them, but it still couldn't shale off the fact for Harry that he had only one memory of them, the memory of the night that they died.
It had taken Hermione to comfort him, holding him close to her, just like he had comforted her when she had flashbacks of waking up in the middle of Krum and Poliakoff, to help calm the boy who lived down. It was that night when Hermione found the scar that was on Harry's chest, one that had been hidden under bandages in the Hospital Wing, that he wouldn't let her see, the scar from where he had been hit with the killing curse for a second time.
It was the following morning when Hermione woke up, finding the bed empty. Quickly getting dressed, she went downstairs, hoping that her boyfriend was either in the dining room or the drawing room, unaware that she had forgotten to cast the locking charm on the door to her bedroom. Thankfully, however, Dobby had been observing the 'Great Harry Potter sir's Grangey' and had locked the door tight, so that Molly would not get in there.
Headed into the dining room, she saw her boyfriend, Remus Lupin, Tonks, Sirius and her parents were all sitting there, drinking a cup of tea. All of them were fully dressed except her mother, who was wearing a quilted, purple dressing gown. She leapt to her feet the moment he entered.
"Morning Hermione," she said as she hurried over to the fire.
"M-m-morning, Hermione," yawned Tonks. Her hair was blonde and curly this morning. "Sleep all right?"
Looking at Harry who nodded, telling her it was alright to say what happened. "It's alright, I…I spent the night in bed with Harry, comforting him. He had woken up as he has obviously told you and so I looked after him, especially as I know he had done the same for me."
Despite Adam Granger trying his best to glare daggers at Harry for being in the same bed as his daughter, he couldn't help but soften his look at the raven-haired teen when he realised how he had helped his daughter.
"I've b-b-been up all night," Tonks said, with another shuddering yawn. "Come and sit down…" She drew out a chair, knocking over the one beside it in the process.
"What do you wants for breakfast?" Dobby asked, elf Apparating into the room. "Porridge? Muffins? Kippers? Bacon and eggs? Toast?"
"Can I have a full English please" Harry asked, with Hermione agreeing with him. After everyone had confirmed their choices, Remus looked at the happy couple and then asked his own girlfriend, "What were you saying about Scrimgeour?"
"Oh…yeah…well, we need to be a bit more careful, he's been asking Kingsley and me funny questions. Thank goodness that Amelia Bones is running interference by reminding him about who runs the DMLE." Tonks said, smiling. "She otherwise keeps herself cooped up in her office ever since Sirius had been set free."
Turning to Sirius, Tonks said the one thing that the dog animagus was surprised at. "By the way Sirius, Amelia said that she doesn't blame you for protecting your friends, and that she and Kingsley have been keeping Scrimgeour from actually finding you. She also says that she wants to see you sometime, and that she is sorry, she was angry at the time."
Harry watched as Sirius started sobbing, the pent-up emotions that he was carrying causing him to do so. In a way, however, Harry felt vaguely grateful that he was not required to join in the conversation as his insides were squirming with hunger. Dobby left a plate with sausage, bacon, fried eggs, black pudding, fried bread and much more in front of him and Hermione.
"By the way, I'll have to tell Dumbledore I can't do night duty tomorrow, I'm just t-t-too tired," Tonks finished, yawning hugely again.
"I'll cover for you," Sirius said, looking at his cousin and wiping his eyes. "I'm okay, I can talk to Amelia as well."
As soon as they finished eating, Sirius decided that it was time to head to an appointment that he had been intending to keep, one with Augusta Longbottom.
Longbottom Hall, Chorley, Lancashire, England
9th July 1995
Sirius, who had arrived by apparating to the front gate of Longbottom Hall was being to the drawing room by the Head Elf for the Ancient and Most Noble House of Longbottom. From his politics lessons as a child, Sirius remembered that the Longbottoms were a family who, like the Potters, via the Peverell family, able to date their ancestry to the days of the Founders, the Potters being descendants of Godric Gryffindor and the Longbottoms being the descendants of Helga Hufflepuff.
The Blacks, on the other hand were the descendants of Salazar Slytherin, with the Evans family, Lily Evans being the first witch in the Evans since Corban Evans, the last head of the Ancient House of Evans, a family who were Squibbed out because of a curse put on Corban Evans in the dying minutes of the fight against the self-proclaimed Emperor Trevisan, was the descendant of Rowena Ravenclaw.
Eventually the person he was waiting for, Augusta Longbottom, came into the Drawing Room and shacked Sirius's hand. "Thank you, Madam Longbottom, for your efforts along with the Headmaster in securing the dissolution of my conviction."
"There is no need for thanks young Sirius. I had been trying for ages but only Amelia Bones would believe me. She knew you wasn't the Secret Keeper for the Potters, in fact she tried to get Pettigrew as she wanted to murder him for forcibly terminating her pregnancy, but you got to him first." Augusta said, hugging the young Marauder. "I knew you were innocent as you, Frank and James all worked together, and that there were no secrets between you. Just like how you had to get him to go to that rat just to get the address that James and Lily lived at."
The two of them sat down, the Elf appearing with two pots of tea, along with scones, the on pot being used to have a cup of tea. It was then that Sirius remembered something that Ginny had told him the prior day that could make her life happier, along with someone else's. He had to, however, frame it in a way that he knew Augusta would accept it.
"I have an invite from Professor Dumbledore for your grandson to undergo some extra tutoring in two subjects that he is needing improvement on, ready for his OWLs. At a place where I am currently having my godson and his girlfriend tutored, we have a Potions Mistress that has taught at both Ilvermorny and Beauxbatons." Sirius explained, hoping that Augusta would allow him, and if Ginny managed to get hold of her boyfriend at the time, that suited him perfectly. He just hoped that Molly Weasley would not chew him out for the decision that he had made.
"I see no problem with that young man." Augusta replied. "Young Andromeda Tonks was the Healer who worked with you and Frank in the Auror Department, and Frank spoke highly about her."
The two agreed that Neville could come in the next few days, Sirius handing her a piece of parchment which she said that she would burn straight after showing it to him on the day. Apparating back to Grimmauld Place, Sirius knew he had made the right choice.
-Loving Hermione-
A/N – Yes, Harry had died in the graveyard, as mentioned in the final chapter of Taking Hermione. Also, Sirius was unaware that at the time, Amelia had only blamed in because of it being the heat of the moment.
Coming Up in Chapter 05- A Visitor to Grimmauld Place and an old flame is rekindled…
Disclaimer I don't own the Harry Potter series. Harry Potter is the property of JK Rowling, and are not my intellectual property. There is no financial gain made from this nor will any be sought. This is for entertainment purposes only. Any text used from the Harry Potter series is used under the fair use allowances of various copyright acts
Social Media You can now like "GryffindorTom" on Facebook and Twitter to get all the latest news, bits I'm working on, story updates and much more. You can also discuss this story and much, much more on Reddit - just navigate to r/GryffindorTomOfficial on there.
Reviews Please remember to review this story as it helps improve the stories that I write for you guys. It's the only payment, along with adding to community's and favourites that I get for writing these, and I admit I enjoy that payment.
Type Multi Chapter / / / Status WIP
Distribution FFN, AO3, GryffindorTom Online
Story ID 243 / / / Publish Date 11/02/2017