Chapter 12: Girl power

The first thing Hermione Granger did was to check her situation against the Weasley Rule: she could tell where the brains of the symbiote were. That was good, and the fact that the symbiote showed no hostile behaviour.

The symbiote seemed to have "a crush" or "a groupie complex" on her Harry and also seemed to have the information that something had happened to Harry, what would become explained after completion of blending. Therefore, Hermione Granger accepted to blend her mind and personality with those of her symbiote, Kebechet.

The blending, however, turned out to have further implications than initially foreseen by Kebechet: it also created physical blending of the two. Nervous system of the symbiote fused with spine of Hermione Granger and it's brains with cerebellum of the host. Body of the queen disappeared and internal organs moved to be absorbed by respective organs of the host.

Bookworm and sci-fi/fantasy geek Hermione Granger (quiet, but very ambitious, competitive and agonistic) merged with mutant Tok'ra queen whose mind had been "slightly" deranged during her imprisonment in "the Cenobite dimension" (the term which Hermione thought best describes the place in a few words, with comment that it was just like Harry to do something everyone thinks impossible).

The resulting entity decided to continue going under identity of Hermione Granger, but with the mark 2.0.

Hermione Granger 2.0 decided she wanted following things (not in any particular order): prove that witches are as strong as wizards and bring the still largely male-dominated community into 20th and 21st century (after all there had been no notable Dark Ladies since Morgan La Fey), bring humans/wizards to the next evolutionary step, bring Goa'uld/Tok'ra to the next evolutionary step, become suitable goddess to go with her new, god-like friend, and have as much fun as possible while achieving previously mentioned goals. (At that moment, for to them unknown reasons the ascended Ancients suddenly shuddered with dread and feeling of impending doom).

Hermione re-read all the books she had purchased in Diagon Alley (all Hogwarts curriculum and others which had caught her fancy) – my, my, all those loop-holes in wizard laws and regulations, and all the inconsistencies in magic theory.

She went on gene-samples collecting spree in the Natural History Museum and the Zoo (that "Jurassic Park" had been very inspiring). Then the same thing in Diagon Alley, especially in Ollivanders. With that she started making genetic blue-print for her improved and magically gifted Goa'uld/Tok'ra community (she called that "the Uruk-Hai project"). If she followed the example of Wraith evolution then improved Goa'uld would look along the lines of that alien from the Schwarzenegger's movie.

She knew that all Hogwarts students would go to the World Cup, and she took that opportunity to perform quick scans to select individuals for the next step (wizards who would donate their genetic material). Two candidates scored the best: Neville Longbottom (the quiet and late-bloomer Gryffindor had the genes which could already be considered as magic human next evolutionary step) and Draco Malfoy (apparently all those tirades about pure blood were lies and stories about the Malfoy family mixing with various Fae were true).

When a floating city had appeared in the sky over the Black lake and then disappeared couple of hours later (still enough to cause the greatest uproar in wizard history), she knew that Harry had something to do with that – she just wondered why he would expose something potentially so dangerous to wizards.

She had to wait one week for the Ministry to officially declare unable to find where the flying city had come from and gone to, and leave the premises of Hogsmeade.

"Smart Harry, you de-phased it, instead just cloaking it. Luckily, Daddy was the first one to put his hands on Reetou technology."

"My, no wander Harry was out for couple of hours after absorbing Merlin's gift to wizards", said Hermione as she also had spent some time recovering after the experience.

She used her new knowledge to hack into the Chamber of Secrets and activate all its features.

Carcass of the Basilisk was still inside and she took a bite to include its gene-composition to her project, and moved the rest to the part of the Chamber which would serve for incubation of her babies so they could feed on it.

It turned out that Draco Malfoy had a sleeping problem which apparently involved some dreams about her. She used that as a chance to collect. That particular night Draco failed to notice lack of wetness on his crotch after the dream as he had performed tergeo mechanically.

With Neville she wanted to have some fun. That Sunday morning he was in greenhouse n°4, enjoying his hobby, alone. Hermione came to him and petrified him to speechlessness by taking her cloak off and showing him her sexy underwear.

"My, Neville, you really deserve the name..."

The next Sunday, Hermione went to Professor McGonagall and informed her that because of her monthlies she didn't feel well and would need to spend that day in bed (as the life-giving cycle was in question, wizards had never wanted to meddle with it and nothing as efficient as muggle medicine had ever been invented by magic community to reduce the pain).

That day Hermione had spent in the Chamber in her birthing bath, listening to "Salt n Pepa" and "En Vogue".