Disclaimer, If I owned Harry Potter I would never have brought Ron Weasley back into DH after he deserted the hero and heroine. Then again I would never have written those two awful books HBP or DH So I definitely am not JK Rowling.

Without his Power

A very angry and puzzled Hermione Jane Granger after wandering around the castle for some time trying to calm down was slowly making her way toward the Gryffindor tower, her mind was fixed on what had happened in the great hall less than fifteen minutes earlier. Why the hell would he pull a stunt like that in front of just about every one at Hogwarts? Why the hell did he have to spoil her dinner for such a stupid prank? She was walking slowly because she feared if he was still awake in the common room when she got to the common room she would end up hexing him for certain.

Was what he had done some sort of pay back for what she had done this year. She had started the year with the simple idea of refusing to get involved with his rash escapades like the one that had nearly got her killed just a few months ago. Somewhere along the line things had changed, she had started by withholding the hugs and touching, stopped offering her comfort and support.

From there things had somehow progressed to her refusing to listen to him when he had something to say, and then it had gotten worse when she had started to talk down to him, which eventually led to her calling him names, belittling him and declaring him a cheat in class. From simply wanting to try and stay safe she had gone so much further than she ever wanted, she had pushed him away until he was no longer her friend. Worse than that was that he no longer tried to keep their friendship alive, he had withdrawn from people and things, spending much of his time away from them. No one knew where he spent his time anymore, he rarely spoke to anyone other than Neville Longbottom.

And now this stupid stunt in the great hall even though he knew she had been trying to get Ron interested in her, she would have quite a lot to say to him about embarrassing her so much it was over five minutes before she dared lift her eyes from staring at the table in front of her, in case someone commented on her red face.

As she climbed the second to last staircase to the Tower, she heard a voice behind her calling her name. On reaching the top of the stairs she waited for Luna Lovegood to catch up with her. She wasn't really in the mood for Luna's strangeness at the moment but she had sworn to treat the girl better since the battle at the ministry.

"I want you to come with me right now, and no arguments about it," Luna said in the most compellingly authoritive voice Hermione had ever heard.

Without knowing why, Hermione followed Luna along the corridor, up the next flight of stairs and into the room of requirements. "Sit!" Luna commanded when they entered the room. Hermione reacting like a faithful puppy did as Luna said and sat in the closest chair. Realising what she had done Hermione looked up at Luna and saw the most serious expression she had ever seen on the blond girls face. It looked totally out of place on the usually dreamy eyed younger girl, thoughts of saying some thing to Luna left Hermione's mind and she simply sat back to listen.

Luna looked at her friend for several seconds before she said anything. "You know Hermione, why is it that people don't call you loony instead of me? I mean after that display tonight it is quite obvious who the real loony one is."

This time when Luna spoke Hermione gave a scathing reply "Look Lovegood, it wasn't me who pulled a stupid prank in the great hall. It was that fool Potter. So don't start getting at me girl."

"So it's got that bad you now say his name with the same contempt as Malfoy does. I never thought I would see this day, of all the various scenarios this was never one of them," Luna said as she sat down opposite Hermione with a look of defeat on her face.

"God Luna you say that as though the world is going to end," Hermione said her anger dissipating on seeing the other girls reaction.

"That's just it though Hermione, you just sealed the fate of the wizarding world and signed its death warrant." Luna said as a tear fell from her eye.

"Luna, nothing I've done is gonna be the cause of the bloomin world ending, I mean that's just plain silly, so what ever odd idea you have in your mind you may as well forget it, go back to thinking of Snorkacks or what ever you call them mythical things," Hermione said in a slightly condescending voice.

Luna leaned forward so that she was looking right into the eyes of Hermione, "Tell me Hermione did you ever wonder why I am always in the right place when I am needed, or say just the thing you need to hear, exactly when you need to hear what I tell you. Did it ever enter your logical mind that their might be some one who knows more than you do, someone who see's more than you do, if not then it should have. And you were wrong, what you did today has done what Voldemort could not."

Hermione was getting frustrated with Luna and began to rise; she was going to go to bed where she was safe from all the stupidity that seemed to be rife among the student population tonight.

"Stay!" Luna's voice commanded. Look into my eyes Hermione, look and see what you have done."

Hermione looked at Luna about to tell her something about going away in a rather rude manner; instead she was compelled to look into Luna's eye's.

Hermione looked around wondering what had happened, and where she was, a small sound behind her made her spin around pulling her wand out as she turned. Luna stood right behind her, a truly sad look on her face and tears dripping off her chin.

Hermione looked around again, she knew where they were, but the Diagon Alley they were standing in looked like one of the horror stories about the aftermath of a nuclear war. There were rotting corpses all over the place, dogs and rats chewed on the rotting flesh of the dead. All the buildings were seriously damaged in some way. The quiet seemed truly out of place for such a scene. There was no background music like there would be in a film, this was not a film and she knew that for certain.

"Luna what happened, what's happening? What are we seeing, how did we get here?" Hermione asked the girl standing amongst the devastation with her.

"This is the future your actions lead to; this is the future you chose for us when you pushed Harry to far away from you." Luna said quietly.

As Hermione tried to understand what Luna was saying she turned to look on the Alley again and instead she found herself in Hogsmeade amongst the same sort of devastation, there were just fewer bodies around the village than there had been in Diagon Alley. "Luna I don't understand, I really don't," Hermione said as the blonde girl looked around at the burnt out shops and houses.

Hermione then found her self standing in the grounds of Hogwarts, bodies of students and teachers alike lay where they had died, it looked like it had been a hard fight but everyone was dead. Luna pointed to the castle "Come Hermione, you should see inside the castle," she said grabbing Hermione's hand and leading the way through the bodies.

Together the two girls entered the castle and walked into the great hall. There at the far end sitting in the headmasters chair was Lord Voldemort, dead bodies surrounded him, death eaters and students. It looked like the demented Slytherin had killed every one around him.

Hermione looked at Luna and gave her a questioning look, a look that said I don't understand what happened. Luna looked into Hermione's eyes and suddenly Hermione found herself back in the room of requirements. "I'm the only true seer alive Hermione. Why else do you think I walk about looking as though I am in a dream? I see all the possibilities and I see the choices that lead to the future possibilities. Taking the power the dark lord knows not from Harry leads to what you have just seen."

"Luna, Can't you simply tell me in plain English, exactly what all this means and can this be changed?" Hermione asked hoping that Luna did not really mean what she thought she meant.

"You Hermione are the power the dark lord knows not, without you to love Harry is just another wizard, a powerful one but still only a wizard. Tonight in the great hall you finally took away that power from Harry when you refused him, and in such a nasty way too, it's been his love for you that has always helped him to win before.

Now he knows he doesn't have your love he's got nothing left for him in this world of magic, he's gone Hermione. He will become like a muggle, living without love and without his magic. And Voldemort's evil will spread to the muggle world causing them to declare war on us. Within twelve months there will be but one magical being left alive. Your actions have destroyed the entire magical world, not just the British. Oh I should tell you when he proposed to you in the great hall tonight, he was being serious, he couldn't understand why you treated him that way, his friend suggested it might be because he was not showing you how much he loved you. And asking you to marry him was the only way he had left of proving he really did love you. Now there is nothing we can do but sit and wait for the end."

Luna however seemed to have forgotten that Hermione Jane Granger was not one to sit around and do nothing, and she was most definitely not going to sit and wait for the end. Now she knew his marriage proposal had not been some stupid stunt she would find some way of finding him and hopefully she could get his forgiveness and show him she actually loved him.