A peaceful and vampire free night was what Hermione received and boy was she grateful for it. Not wanting to get into a slump Hermione had stayed up for a few extra hours and set out a study schedule for herself and Harry to go through until she was changed.
Harry decided to be courteous and used the back door to enter the Granger residence and Hermione awoke to laughter and the smell of bacon. She threw on a robe and raced to find out who was cooking in her domain. She found Tonks, Remus and Harry all sitting at the table, Tonks and Remus in disguise, eating from a huge pile of bacon, eggs, mushrooms and toast that was positioned in the centre of the table.
"Harry I thought I told you no cooking," Hermione scolded the teen but honestly knew that she had been a horrible cook of the dinner last night.
"To my defence you were sleeping when I got here and we were all very hungry. Tonks and Remus have to act as though they are going to work to arrange a vacation and then Tonks has to go to her real job while Remus is stuck teen-sitting for the day," Harry grinned at the mess that was his best mate's hair, while he ate a full helping, a first ever in the school holiday.
Hermione sighed but seated herself down to get a fair share for herself, "Fine but I'm washing the dishes and we have a schedule to stick to."
"What sort of schedule Hermione?" Tonks asked around her food.
"Studying and school homework. Have you even started yours yet Harry?"
"Done actually, I had nothing else to do but sulk at the Dursley's so I did it all this past week. Speaking of Sirius, what now happens with all of his stuff? Do they do like muggles and have a will reading or something different?"
Remus smiled sadly, "Once the goblins find the Will there will be a reading but until then they cannot do a thing. Luckily, the few items that anyone knows of are still accessible to the Order to use, like Grimmauld. Ragnok should have the Will found soon enough though. I personally just want to know who gets stuck with Kreacher and then beg for the chance to murder him with my own two hands."
The house elf was a main factor to Sirius' death and Harry wanted nothing better than to kill the damned thing himself but Hermione stuck in, "You can't kill him though. He knows that's what you will do to him and is probably wanting nothing more than to be murdered. He would hate to be the servant of a half-breed or half-blood, or even worse think of him being mine. How badly would he wish for death rather than be the servant of a mudblood? I hope Sirius left him to me so I can punish him for what he did to that wonderful man."
This shocked the group, as Hermione was the advocate for house elf rights. Hermione just laughed at their faces before responding, "He deserves it and he's got to be the only house elf that does. He sent his master to his death sentence and that is a big no-no in the elf world. I would order him to follow Dobby's orders to a tee."
This caused Harry to crack up, thinking of the nutty house elf who he had saved in his 2nd year. The thought of the retched Kreacher following Dobby around on his hands and knees was hilarious to the wizard and he started to choke on the mouthful of food he had in his mouth. Hermione rubbed his back while Tonks used a charm Hermione had never heard of before.
"Oh it's a wind pipe clearing spell. You just say 'Anapneo' and poke the person's chest. Airway unblocked and everyone safe from death."
Hermione looked around for a spare piece of parchment to write it down but Remus stopped her, "7th year charms Mione. You learn it then, really fun because you actually have to use it on someone choking. You learn who your friends truly are then."
Harry slowly took a sip of water before thanking the auror, "I always knew my lack of table manners would try and kill me."
The others laughed at the teen's pathetic attempt to make light of the situation, "Well I need to be off to work, Mister Granger are you coming with me?"
Remus grinned in his muggle form, "Of course Missus Granger."
Hermione gagged slightly but still chuckled along with Harry before growing concerned, "Do either of you know how to drive a car?"
Tonks laughed manically, "Of course I do, passed my 10th time."
The younger witch held her head in her hands at the thought of what was going to happen to her parent's Jaguar but Remus cheered her up, "Don't worry Hermione I've been a licensed driver in the muggle world since I was 17. The car will be perfectly safe and Tonks free. I'll be back in a few hours, if anything happens race next door and alert Moody, though he'd probably already know."
The adults walked out and soon the teens heard the engine rev and squeal out of the garage. Hermione knew that her parents were stupid to buy the damned thing but she had hoped to get to drive it at some stage in her life. Now with a speed freak behind the wheel chances were that the car wouldn't survive the day.
"Don't worry Mione, it'll be safe. How about you go get dressed and I'll get started on a few books?" Harry comforted the witch, who only just then seemed to notice what she was wearing.
"Oh Merlin I'll be back."
The wizard watched as his friend raced away from him to get ready for the day. Biding his time, not wanting to seem nervous about having to tell Hermione that he was half-vampire, Harry did the dishes and then went to the lounge and flipped through a text that was just laying around.
Hermione got showered and dressed in record time, a first for her to only take a minute to get her clothes on, and was soon racing down to the lounge, "All better, now where should we start?"
Harry grinned at the witch, loving the effort she had tried to put into her hair, failing miserably of course, "Well first off I need to tell you some things that Remus told me about before dinner last night. Then I need to tell you something about Ron that I think you have a right to know."
The wizard proceeded to tell Hermione about how he was part vampire, causing the witch to smile and cry with happiness at the fact she wouldn't be the only one around. Harry then had the unfortunate duty of telling Hermione that her friend was a bigoted prick.
"HE WHAT!" Hermione screamed at hearing that Rom had signed the petition.
Sure she had heard of the stupid thing, she had even attempted to rip it up a few times but never before did she believe that anyone she knew had actually signed the bloody thing. It was against all logic to disallow other their rights, no matter what race they were.
"He signed the petition, was the first one apparently," Harry had worried about this part of their talk.
Hermione stood up and paced the floor numerous times, deep in thought. She suddenly stopped and grinned madly, "Well then I guess we'll just need to make sure that the exact opposite to that law is passed before the Wizengamot. Of course with Harry Potter behind them who wouldn't want the law passed as quickly as possible?"
"You're taking this a little easier than I thought you would. I'm so proud of you Mione, I will stand beside you no matter what the cause, even if it is for wages and freedom for a race that wants neither," Harry chuckled at his friend, who threw herself onto him and started tickling quickly.
Their tickling turned into exhausted hugging as they were worn from the last night's tickling too. Harry put his nose into Hermione's hair and smelled the lilacs and roses that were commonplace in her shampoo. Hermione giggled at this and tightened her hold on the wizard's torso.
"Knock, knock," Remus walked in and saw the teens wrapped in each other's arms.
"Oh hello Remus," Harry said mildly angrily at being interrupted from his dream position.
"Well this doesn't look too much like school work or training study so I would suggest getting back to it," The werewolf grinned slyly at the couple on the floor.
Hermione sighed but got up and grabbed a hold of a defensive magic book, getting nose deep quickly. Harry was less enthusiastic and spent many minutes shooting death glares at his friend before picking up an offensive magic book.
