To the Moon and Back
By vampyreice

Hermione went straight to the library after receiving her letter from Dumbledore. She wasn't sure why but the library was one of the few places were she felt completely at ease. No wait scrap that, she knew exactly why she came here, she loved the smell of the old books and the wealth of knowledge that was just waiting for her to read. Sitting at her usually spot a table in the centre of the room she took out her letter and began to read.

Hermione Granger,

I have a request to ask of you, I want you to promise yourself that you won't devote your whole life to study. You should not limit yourself to all work or all play, go halfway, and have half work and half play. Follow your dreams but have fun while you're doing it.

Hermione you are a great person and you should not settle for second best in anyway, not in your boyfriend or in your career. You should be with someone who loves you for who you are.

Knowing you, you are curious about why I included you in my will. Well to tell you the truth I'm not sure. I think it is that even though you turned against me there were all those years where you supported me when no one else would. Example in our fourth year when nearly everyone turned away from me you stuck by me and in our second year you stuck by me. That is about all I want to say in this letter. Just so you know I forgive you.

Sincerely
Harry Potter

P.S. I was serious about the book, I can just imagine a clone of you going around giving everyone the fact of your book just like you did to us.

Hermione couldn't help but let out a gasp as she finished reading the letter, here she was, someone who had acted atrociously to her friend and he willingly forgave her for everything she had done. Could she ask for a better friendship? She knew that she didn't deserve Harry's friendship but she was glad she had it all the same.

Hermione was startled out of her thoughts when two hands simultaneously dropped onto her shoulder's, with a cry of surprise she turned to see Fred and George behind her with large grins on their face.

"Sorry about that Hermione, but we-"

"Were wondering if you had seen Ron around?"

"Don't scare me like that! And to answer your question I saw him not too long ago, he was heading up to the Gryffindor tower."

"Thanks, anyway what were you reading?" asked Fred.

"It's a letter from Harry, apparently he knew he was going to die when he went to face Voldemort and made the proper precautions, not only did he have a will made up but he also had all of these letters for people."

"Yeah, we know." Replied George.

"How?"

"Well, it was a few weeks ago but we had to withdraw some money from out Gringotts account for our next supply shipment and we quite literally bumped into Harry. When we asked him what he was doing here he told us the whole story. Needless to say we were shocked and as we regained our senses we tried to persuade him not to do it, as there had to be another way. He told us that if there were another way he would be doing it, however due to the connection of his scar he told us that this was the only way. Well we spent the rest of the day with him and them we popped in on him quite a few times after that. I think he was a bit sick of us by the end, don't you Fred?"

"Nah, he loved it."

"So you knew he was going to die?"

"Yeah, and I think we realised when he was going to do it as well." Commented George.

"What do you mean?"

"We visited him two days before he went and he was acting strange. I mean he was still glad that we had come but he kind of looked resigned?"

"Yeah, it was like he was thinking that this was the last time something like this would happen. Anyway, since we hated seeing him like that we took him to the zoo." Agreed George.

"Did he enjoy it?"

"I don't know, you'll have to ask Harry, he's in with the snakes." Fred replied.

"WHAT?"

"Only messing with you Hermione, yeah he enjoyed it, he spent like half an hour talking to the snakes."

"That's good, I'm glad that he had some good times before he died."

"Anyway, we're going to go find Ron."

"Keep your chin up Hermione." George said before following Fred out. Hermione watched them go thinking about what they had said.

"Hogwarts', A History? Sounds interesting."