Chapter 10 – I don't care of him!

Hermione was walking with Ron near the broomstick's shop and before Harry called Ron turned to Hermione as kissed her passionately She kissed him back but then pulled him away from her and slapped him. 'HOW DARE YOU, RONALD WEASLEY!' she yelled and turned back. Then she saw Harry and she blushed, turning her face in deep red. She ran towards him and muttered ' That Ronald Weasley, if he thinks I will be all loving and caring...I don't care about him more than I care about you. AS A FRIEND!'

She passed by Harry and went to the twins' shop, leaving a confused Ron and a happy Harry behind. Harry walked to Ron, still petrified with the response to his revelations and kiss. ' She...she...she, oh Harry, she... She slapped me in the face!'

Harry smiled, it was so obvious that Hermione has been fighting against her feelings for Ronald, it was so obvious that they both fancy each other. Time was all they needed to be together, finally and peacefully at last.

' Don't worry, mate... she likes you. She didn't tell but I think she fancies you.' said Harry to comfort Ron, who was still bubbling about the matter. He smiled at last and entered the twins's shop.

Neville, who was still there, came and talked to them. 'Hi, guys! How was your summers?'

Harry and Ron looked at each other and smiled.

'Great, Neville, just great' said Harry, lying a bit.

'Are going back to school? My Grammy doesn't want me to go if you are not going. She says that you guys have protected me and made me a man... I think she is afraid that You-Know-Who would try to get me because of my parents... But being with you I would have help if I needed because you're my friends, right? We are friends, aren't we?' Neville said a bit nervous.

'Yes, of course we are, Neville! How many times do we have to tell you? You are our friend and mate!' Harry snapped.

Neville smiled embarrassed He liked them both, when he attended DA's meeting he felt like a normal guy, with friends and with people who cared about him. He was lucky to have friends like Harry and Ron, Ginny and Hermione and not forgetting Luna. They were brave and good people. He was proud of them.

' So are you going back? I received a letter from the new Headmistress, Miss Hannah Dumbledore. Do you think she's Dumbledore's daughter?' asked Neville to Harry and Ron.

'No, I'm not Mr.Longbottom. I'm his goddaughter.' said Hannah from behind Neville who jumped scared.

'As yes, I think Harry and all your friends will go to school, Mr.Longbottom. And I will speak to your grandmother, it's important to you to came as well.' Said Hannah in a very important voice. Neville nodded and said goodbye.

As he went away, Hannah started to laugh. 'I can't tell how I did that Mr.Longbottom and the serious voice...I know I have get use to it. I can't go treat you by your names in front all school. Although I think I like you two and consider you almost like friends, I can't call you differently from the others.'

They nodded, it had been strange to see Hannah call Neville by Mr.Longbottom. She was know a bit more open with them both and she started to call them by their names, although sometimes she called Ginny by Ginerva and Ron by Ronald, that made both angry.

She went away too, leaving the two boys talking about Ronald's talk to Hermione.

'...and then you saw it, after telling that I'd fancied her since three years ago and that I really didn't have any kind of feeling by Lavender or Fleur, that was her who I love, she slapped me and if I had done much...I just kissed her and she kissed me back! Harry, SHE KISSED ME BACK!' Ronald yelled for the second time.

'OH, can you leave it!' snapped Hermione followed by Ginny. She was paler again and had red eyes, from the crying.

Hermione was really angry. She even threated Ron with jinxes and curses if he told anyone about the kiss!

And after this they started arguing for no motive as usual. All this made Harry forget a bit of his life, they normal again, arguing about the sky color and what wand was better...

Harry almost forgot to pick his money and the things he wanted to buy. But after picking his money he ask Hermione ' What things do we need to battle and to destroy the horcruxes? The cup was Hannah who destroyed but she used many energy, she locked herself in my parents room for a week after doing it! We have to buy potions supply, paper, feathers, ink, ingredients, weapons...am I missing something?'

Hermione looked at him. He would have to spend lots of money to buy everything. Harry understood the look and answered that he had more than enough to buy it twice.

Hermione stoop up from the chair and grabbed Harry's hand. 'Come on, then, we have to worry up!'

They enter in the usual shop to buy supplies for potions and bought more than usual, to him,Hermione, Ron and Ginny. Harry bought all the ingredients he read in his manual to do the Felix potion and two or three protective potions.

He bought paper, ink and feathers to write. He didn't know which books he would have to buy so he asked to Hannah that answered that she had bought them already.

So, there they were, with tons of bags.

'We still need something to fight with.' said Ron.

Hannah stared at Ron ' To fight, Ron?'

'Yes, we need more that our wands to fight against the Death Eaters!' he replied.

Hannah smiled 'Ron, there's only one thing you need, and you can't buy it!'

Ron looked at her confused. What did she mean by that? He couldn't buy it?

'But still, he have to buy some stuff to protect ourselves! Like... ahn...like a...like a armor or something.' he tried again.

'No, Ron. All we need is a book 'Most Potent Potions' and ' Most Potent Spells' which I think we could buy in the usual place if Hannah convinced the owner to take us to the back room.' said Hermione.

Hannah smiled, Hermione knew her plans to the school year they were going to do. She talked with the owner and after five minutes they were all set with brand new collection of the 'Most Potent Potions' and 'Most Potent Spells', five books each collection. Hannah bought it for them and a little black covered book which she found in the back room for her.

They were ready to go when Hannah started to feel a pain in her belly. She grabbed Harry's shoulder so she would not fall. As she did so, Harry felt her energy coming from her hand. She had her hand in her belly and she was muttering something to herself. Hermione tried to help by grabbing her and putting her in a chair but screaming and shaking angrily, Hannah falled in the floor.

Her face was showing her panic and hurt. She was felling a huge pane sweeping through her body. Harry and Ron were confused,what was going on? Ginny and Hermione had their hands below Hannah's head as so she wouldn't be heart. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley had gone back to The Burrow and there was no one to help them.

Suddenly, a man with his face covered arrived near them.

'Snape!' Harry yelled pointing his wand to the man.

Snape looked at him and them to Hannah who was still like she was under the Cruscios Curse. Snape kneed near her and put his hands in her belly. She gradually stop shaking and returned to herself.

She looked at Snape. 'How do you know?' she asked in a soft voice.

'I always know, Hanny' he said in a calm voice 'It's not easy to...you know...but you have to be careful, now that he knows that it works... he will do this more often. You have to jinx the mark so that it doesn't hurt like a crucious curse. All of us know that...' he said in a low voice that only Hannah heard.

He stood up again, stared at Harry who still had his wand pointed at him. Snape laughed. 'Potter, are you going to curse me?'

'Petrificus Total –' Harry yelled in his mind but Snape stopped the spell.

'I said you once, Potter. You will not succeed if you don't close your mind to whom you are facing.'

'I will succeed ...Snape' he said angrily.

'Correction, Potter...you won't succeed unless you do what I tell you and ...it's Professor Snape or sir.' Snape turned to Hannah giving her a significantly look, she understood that the agreement had changed and nodded.

'WHAT!' they chorus. Harry, Ginny and Ron were staring at Hannah as looking for an negative answer She nodded sadly and looked at Hermione that understood that she wanted her to take her friends to The Burrow to spend the last days until they went to Hogwarts again.

'Come on with me, Harry, Ron ,Ginny...' she started. Hermione gave her arm to Ginny and walked away with a very angry Harry and a very confused Ron.

When they had walked away, Hannah stood up with Snape's help. They walked along the street silently.

Hannah decided to break the silence asking Snape 'What were you doing here at that precise moment?'

'I needed to tell you the news about the agreement.'he explained.

'Sure...I understood that Voldemort wants you to teach' seeing Snape shaking when he heard his master's name, she rolled her eyes ' Don't be a jerk, like if is bad to say a person's name! As I was saying, Voldemort wants you teaching, right?' he nodded and she continued 'What...Defense against the Dark Arts or Potions?' he said nothing and she stared ' Not...no,no,no,no! I can't accept it! You shall not give Duel to Potter! I will teach him myself. Maybe your Master is afraid that I teach him to well that he wants to make his servant to teach him badly as so he would win easily!'

Snape looked at her, thinking about if he met her in another time if she wasn't his master's daughter...maybe he would have a chance, maybe she wouldn't be cursed...maybe she would love him and not only fancy him! It hurts his heart to think she will never forgive him for killing Dumbledore. He didn't want to but he had to do it! He had to kill or Voldemort would not trust him and he would die and never see her again.

That was even a greater problem. If Voldemort found that it was him who enable him to suck the energy from his daughter, Snape would be dead meat for fish in a second. He didn't suspect a thing, Snape was a very good Occlumens. He only showed what he wanted to Voldemort.

'Snivellus, I am sorry but I won't talk to you any longer. I have to go now. I think you said everything that you wanted and I...I just can't It hurts, okey! I look at you and I remember how much I made you suffer and you made me suffer...It reminds me that I couldn't love...just fancy...a curse...I wanted more...maybe with time you'd make it more strong for me but you gave me no chance.' She turned away but was pulled by Snape who grabbed her arm and hugged her closely.

'I could make you happy, Hannie. I love you, I really do.' Snape kissed her passionately but Hannah didn't kiss him back. She was crying, He said he loved her but she couldn't say the same, she didn't love him.

She pulled him away and turned back. 'I have to...goodbye, Severus.'

She was now at Tom's bar. She grabbed a bit of Floo and went to The Burrow where everyone was waiting for her.

Hermione was the first to notice her big red eyes. She grabbed her hand and drove her to Ginny's room.

There she set in the Ginny's bed and look at her as in a tell me everything-way. Hannah trusting in Hermione since the first day she saw her told everything. She told her about the mark she had in the belly, made by Voldemort; Snape and her relationship to her over the years; her curse; her dream of being able to love...

'Hannah, you have his mark? Can I see it?' asked Hermione. Hannah pulled up her robes and showed Hermione her mark. It was a little snake biting a phoenix. The phoenix struggled to fight the snake and they were fighting in Hannah's belly.

'The snake is from Voldemort and the Phoenix was because of my mother. She was...she was Dumbledore's cousin. This meant that the snake, Voldemort, had bitten the phoenix, Dumbledore. But as Dumbledore raised me the phoenix survived and now they fight for my heart, if the snake wins it means that I got to the Dark side, but I'm glade to say that the snake is almost dying. I fought myself I made a choice that I won't go back. I won't turned bad and I will protect those who want to fight him. I own this to my precious godfather and to myself. To myself...' Hannah covered her belly again and waited for Hermione reply.

Hermione's thoughts were running. All that information needed to be thought through. The curse...

'Hanny, about you curse...you mean that you are a horcruxes somehow, don't you? You have a bit of his soul in you...'

Hanny gave her a smile 'Yes, it does mean that. It means that if I can't love I must die. If I don't fall in love by May I will have to kill myself because you know that I wouldn't give it to Voldemort...it was just a way to keep him away from Harry 'til I teach him some stuff. If I felt love, Voldemort soul you die and although I would get weaker and less powerful, Harry would be able to kill him.'

'That's way you tried to love Snape, although I wouldn't imagined that he would actually love you! Snape is so...argh!' said Hermione.

'Yes...You have only seen him with his bad guy mask, when he turns into himself he is very good looking and sweet...and soft...caring...loving...'Hanny was now driven away by her thoughts.

'I would say that you are falling by him!'joked Hermione.

'No, I'm not! He kill the most important person in my life. Even if Dumbledore ordered him to...I don't know if I could trust him anymore!' Hannah stood up and stared at the window.

It was hard to her to think that she had marvelous times with Severus Snape and that Voldemort might ruin her life, again.

Voldemort killed her mother after knowing that the baby was gone. She was mischiefed by Voldemort who said she would be his Dark Lady and the most powerful witch in the Wizarding World. She thought he would treat her nicely and carely.

'Hermione, can you keep this secret? I will tell Harry and the others when the time come.'

Hermione nodded and left the sweet women alone in the room. Hannah was still thinking about what happened in Diagon-Al.

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R&R, I have to go now, homework is to be done...

Tuxita