Chapter Fourteen- Hermione to The Rescue!
By the time the disorientation left her, Hermione found herself laying on a bed in the Hospital Wing. But she wasn't the only one in there. Everyone who had been at Hogsmeade were all occupying a bed, and not just the students. Shop owners and people who lived in Hogsmeade were there as well.
"What's going on?" Hermione asked looking around in confusion, and then suddenly she was surrounded by teachers, including Professor Dumbledore. They all started asking her questions all at once. From what she could gather from catching parts of their questions, everyone had suddenly appeared all at once with an explosive 'pop' disoriented, and she was the first one to waken from her disorientation.
"Quiet! You're giving me a headache and I can't understand you all at once!" Hermione snapped before she realized what she had done. "I'm so sorry! I didn't mean- I don't know what came over me just then!"
"It is quiet alright dear, if you hadn't done it, I would have." Krystin Rose said shoving her way through the crowd with Madam Pomfrey right behind her. "Now everyone back up!" Krystin ordered. "Give the girl some breathing room. And then after I check her over, and only then, can you ask her one at a time what happened." She told them with a firm glare which caused everyone to backup with shameful looks. "Right, now, can you tell me your full name and date of birth?" She asked turning her attention back onto Hermione.
"Hermione Jean Granger, September 19 1979." Hermione answered as Krystin used her wand as a light and began checking Hermione eyes, checking her pupil dilation and response.
"What are your parents names?" Krystin asked. "Also follow my wand with your eyes."
"My dad's name is Wendell Granger, and my mother's name is Monica Granger." Hermione said as she followed the wand up, down, left, and right with only her eyes.
"Good. Can you feel this?" Krystin asked taking Hermione's left hand and giving it a slight squeeze.
"Yes." Hermione said.
"Awesome. How about this?" Krystin asked poking her foot which Hermione only just realized had had the shoe removed.
"Yes." Hermione answer causing Krystin to smile.
"Great! Can you lift both of your arms above your head?" Krystin asked and Hermione lifted her arms in response. "Perfect. Now I need you to wiggle your toes." Hermione did so and Krystin smiled. "Good, good. Can you stand up?" Hermione stood from the bed. "Great, you can sit back down. Just one last simple thing." Krystin pulled out a small silver ball from her pocket as Hermione sat back down. "I just need for you to grab your wand from the table beside you, and levitate this ball from my hand. And then we'll be done."
"Okay." Hermione said grabbing her wand. "Wingardium Leviosa." The ball quivered before shakily levitating off of Krysin's hand about half an inch for a few second before falling back down before Hermione cut off the spell.
"Your magic still seems a little unstable, but you did just wake up. So rest for a few more minutes and we'll retry. I don't want you to leave until you can keep this ball in the air for a good minute, alright?" Krystin said and Hermione nodded as someone else woke up. "Right, rest. I'll be back." Krystin walked away and Dumbledore walked over to Hermione.
"I do apologise about our behavior earlier. We are just concerned about what happened, all we could find out from the magic that caused everyone to appear here; and the fact that you, Mr. Malfoy, Mr. Weasley, Haiden and Harry were found away from everyone else; that it was Harry who brought everyone here." Dumbledore told her causing her to remember what happened. She gasped and looked around noticing that her bed was in between Haiden and Ron, Draco was laying on the other side of Haiden, yet Harry was nowhere to be seen.
"Where's Harry?" Hermione asked frantically, worried something had happened to Harry.
"Calm down, Miss Granger, Harry is quite alright. He has been placed in a private room where he can rest up without all of us disturbing him. This," Dumbledore motioned to all the people who were slowly waking up one by one, "dangerously drained him of most of his magic. He collapsed in Professor Snape's arms. Professor Snape found you all in a pile in an unused third floor were told by Professor Snape that Harry had slurred out two, possibly three words, but he couldn't figure out what that last world, if it was one, was." Dumbledore placed a calming hand on Hermione's shoulder. "If you can, please tell me what you remember."
"I was with Draco near the Shrieking Shack, trying to convince him to ask his father to drop his case against Hagrid and Buckbeak. I remember hearing some footsteps struggling up the slope to me and Draco. And when I turned to see who it was," Hermione paused to replay what she believed she saw in her mind to make sure she wasn't missing anything, "I think I saw Harry come flying up the slope and slam into something, I couldn't see what he had slammed into, but I know he slammed into something from the way his body stopped and the sound of him hitting something. He then pulled something off Haiden, revealing him, it was only then that I realized that Haiden had snuck into Hogsmeade under his Invisibility Cloak. The two of them started struggling with each other. Harry was so angry. I don't think I've ever seen him that mad. He was claiming that he was going to take Haiden back to the castle with him." Hermione told him.
"Do you know how both Haiden and Harry managed to sneak out of the castle and into Hogsmeade undetected?" Dumbledore asked and Hermione shook her head.
"I don't know the exact route. I just know it's connected to Honeydukes' basement since that's where they had entered to get back to school the last time." Hermione said.
"Last time? They've done this before?" Dumbledore asked and Hermione nodded.
"Only once, from my knowledge. They have a map. It shows all the hidden passages in the school, even the ones that lead out from the school. I don't know exactly where they got it, or if someone gave it to them. But the second I found out about the map I urged them to turn it in. Arguing that Black could steal it and use it, or it could be used to help search for Black. And at first both Harry and Haiden didn't want to give the map up, but after the attack on Ron, Harry was all for turning the map in." Hermione told him with tears in her eyes not sure if she was getting Harry and Haiden in trouble, but knew Dumbledore needed to know this.
"This map would help a great deal. But let's go back to outside the Shrieking Shack. What happened next?" Dumbledore asked, and Hermione shook her head.
"I don't know. I just know that Harry froze, looked at the Shack and then I'm waking up here." Hermione informed him. Dumbledore patted her shoulder and then went to get up before he seemed to remember something else.
"You said you were trying to get Mr. Malfoy to ask his father to drop his case, right?" Dumbledore asked and Hermione nodded wondering what this had anything to do with any of this. "I'm afraid Mr. Malfoy would not have been able to do much. The Minister decided to push the trial date to today." With that he left. Hours later everyone but Harry was released from the Hospital Wing.
~Lock Me In Your Heart~
The next day, after being denied being allowed to see Harry, Hermione, Haiden, and Ron trugged across the grounds to go visit Hagrid and find out how the trial went. But the second Hermione saw the Axeman sitting in the courtyard sharpening his axe, she knew the outcome. As they passed him, Hermione glared at him, he smiled a crooked smile at her. She then sped walked as fast as she could to Hagrid's, with Ron and Hermione following her.
"I can't believe they're going to kill Buckbeak." Hermione said angrily shaking her head, she had never been so angry before, she needed to find a way to let it out, and soon, before she went off on someone. "It's just too horrible." She said just as they came across Pansy and her gaggle of 'friends'
"It just got worse." Haiden said, that along with over hearing what Pansy was saying was the last straw for Hermione.
"Father said I can keep the hippogriff's head so I can gift it to Draco. It'll show him how much more I care about him than that annoyed Harry. I even got the Minister to push the trial date up!" Pansy bragged. Hermione growled and stormed over towards her, wand out ready to throw curse after curse at her.
"Look who's here." One of her friends said spotting Hermione.
"Ah, come to see the show?" Pansy asked smirking.
"You!" Hermione growled out. "You foul, loathsome, evil, little cockroach!" She yelled shoving her wand under Pansy's chin as she began to cry, scared of Hermione.
"Hermione, stop!" Haiden cried running over to her.
"She's not worth it." Ron said. Hermione stayed in the position ready to fire a curse. Ron was right, surprisingly enough, this bitch wasn't worth getting kicked out of school for any length of time. She sighed and lowered her wand, she went to turn away and heard Pansy laugh at her, Hermione then spun around as fast a she could and punched her in the face, breaking her nose.
"Oh my god!" One friend cried.
"Pansy, are you okay?" The other asked as Pansy fell to the ground covering her bleeding nose.
"Let's go!" Pansy cried standing up and running away as fast as she could. Watching her ran gave Hermione a strangely exhilarating feeling.
"That felt good." Hermione said with a smirk looking at Haiden and Ron's shocked faces.
"Not good-" Haiden started.
"Brilliant." Ron finished and Hermione couldn't help smiling at them. She still disliked Ron quite a bit, but right now she could overlook that, at least until he did something to piss her off or get on her nerves. They then continued on towards Hagrid's where they passed Buckbeak that was chained up outside the hut. They knocked on the door and were let in quickly by Hagrid who served them tea.
"Oh, look at 'im." Hagrid said sadly motioning to the hippogriff outside. "Loves tha smell of tha trees when tha wind blows through 'em."
"Why don't we just set him free?" Haiden asked moving to stand next to Hagrid by the window.
"They'd know it was meh an' then Dumbledore would get inta trouble. 'E's coming down, you know, Dumbledore. Says 'e wants ta be with meh when they… when it 'appens. Great man, Dumbledore. Great man." Hagrid walked away from the window looking as if he was trying not to cry. A big difference from the first time they talked about this.
"We'll stay with you, too, Hagrid." Hermione said standing up from her seat. She needed to be with at least one of her friends, is she wasn't allowed to be with Harry in his time of need then she would be with Hagrid in his.
"Ya'll do no such thing! Think I want ya seein' somethin' like tha? No, ya just drink yer tea an' beh off, 'Arry needs ya more than meh. Oh, before ya do, Ron…" Hagrid walked over to a dresser, opened a jar and pulled something squeaking out of it, holding it out to Ron. Hermione got a good look at the object and noticed that it was-
"Scabbers!" Ron cried jumping from his seat and carefully taking the rat from Hagrid. "You're alive!"
"I want ya to keep a closer eye on yer pet, Ron." Hagrid said and Hermione couldn't stay silent any longer.
"I think that means you owe two someones an apology, Ronald." Hermione said angrily glaring at him.
"Right. Next time I see Crookshanks and Loki, I'll let them know." Ron told her with a smirk causing Hermione to ball her fists up in anger getting the urge to punch him in the face as she did Pansy.
"I meant me and Harry!" Hermione yelled angrily, suddenly the vase sitting on the table next to her broke in half. At first Hermione thought she had broke it with accidental magic, but when she inspected it closer, she found a small pebble in the remains of the vase.
"Blimey! What was tha?" Hagrid asked.
"Ow!" Haiden cried just as the sound of something hitting Haiden in the back of the head was heard. Haiden rubbed the back of his head and looked out the window to see if he could spot who had thrown what ever had hit him. "Hagrid." Haiden said catching Hagrid's attention and pointed out the window.
"It's late. It's nearly dark. Ya shouldn't beh here." Hagrid said, panicking. "If someone sees ya outside the castle this time of night, ya'll beh in trouble- big trouble." Hagrid moved away from the window, over to his bed grabbing a blanket from it. "Particularly ya, 'Aiden." Someone knocked on the door as Hagrid tossed the blanket over a creature that had been sitting next to the door the entire time they had been there. "With ya in a moment!" He then turned to them. "Quick out the back door." He whispered urgently.
"Hagrid." Hermione heard Haiden said as someone knocked again. "It'll be fine." He said before quickly rushing out the back door as the person knocked for the third time. Once out the back, Hermione peeked around the hut to the front, spotting the Minister, Dumbledore, and the Axeman being let inside Hagrid's hut. When it was safe for them move and not be seen, Hermione led Haiden and Ron past Buckbeak and hid behind a stack of pumpkins that Hagrid was growing.
They watched and tried to listen to what was being said in the hut, but with all the crows cawing and the distance they were at, it was hard to hear. But Hermione got the jest. The Minister was giving Hagrid a formal and final decision, Buckbeak was to be put to death. A stick snapping behind them caught her attention and she spun around to see what had caused the stick to snap, and swore she saw herself ducking behind a tree. But why she would be seeing herself duck behind a tree, she had no clue. Unless at some point today she would use her Time Turner to come back and save Buckbeak.
"What?" Haiden asked.
"I thought I just saw-" She started only to suddenly remember he had no idea about the Time Turner. "Never mind."
"Let's go." Ron said and they took off back up the hill, a safe distance away from the hut where Hermione had punched Pansy. They could see the Pumpkin field, but not Buckbeak who was laying in the field, because of some trees. Hermione felt tears wield in her eyes, and though she believed she would be coming back to save Buckbeak, she was still sad that she would have to save him in the first place. They silently watched the Axeman walk over to the place Buckbeak was, raise his axe, before swinging it down. Hermione gasped before turning and burying her face in Haiden's shoulder. Haiden hugged her as she cried, even Ron layed a comforting hand on her back.
"So you've heard already?" Draco asked behind them, shocking them. They looked at him, he was panicked and looked to have been crying.
"Heard what?" Haiden asked.
"Harry's missing!" Draco informed them. "I was there when they found him gone. I went to visit him just as Madam Pomfrey screamed before running out of his room, claiming he was gone all while holding a sheet covered in blood. Black kidnapped Harry!"
"Ouch!" Ron hissed before anyone could reply, and at first Hermione thought he was being sarcastic and rude. "He bit me!" Ron cried and Hermione noticed that Ron had dropped Scabbers and his finger was now bleeding. "Scabbers!"
"Ron?" Haiden asked as Ron ran after Scabbers who was running away as fast as he could. "Ron?!"
"What are you doing, Weasel?! Black has already kidnapped one student and is still on the loose! Do you want to be next?!" Draco asked as they chased after Ron.
"Scabbers! Come back!" Ron yelled.
"Wait!" Haiden yelled. They followed him all the way to just beyond the Whomping Willow.
"Haiden…" Hermione panted when she remembered something. "Didn't know you say there was a hidden tunnel under the Whomping Willow? One that lead to the Shrieking Shack?"
"Yeah." Haiden panted out.
"What's going on?" Draco asked also panting.
"Harry figured it out." Hermione said. "Harry figured out where Black was hiding. The Shrieking Shack." Hermione whispered to them as Ron caught Scabbers.
"That's not good." Haiden said. "Ron, Run!" He yelled. Ron looked up, paled and pointed behind them.
"Haiden! Hermione! Run! It's the Grim!" Ron screamed in fear. They all turned around and spotted a shaggy, black dog above them, growling. The dog barked just before running at them, it lunge right pasted them and continued to Ron. It grabbed Ron by the leg and pulled him into the tunnel under the Whomping Willow.
"Haiden! Help!" Ron cried out.
"Ron! Ron, no!" Haiden yelled chasing after Ron and the dog.
"Go get help, Draco!" Hermione ordered chasing after Haiden just as the Whomping Willow woke up and whacked them away with one of its branches. It continued to swing every branch, keeping them from getting close. Crap! How were they to get to Ron and help him if they couldn't get close. They heard Ron scream in pain. Determined, Hermione and Haiden ran at the tree, dodging the branches when they were swung or slammed at them.
"Move!" Haiden yelled pushing Hermione out of the way from a branch.
"Duck!" Hermione cried ducking in time to miss getting hit by a branch, but from the sound of Haiden's grunt, he was not so lucky. Hermione looked over and saw Haiden on the ground, his glasses knocked off. She looked back at the tree just in time to jump over a low swinging branch, stumbled, and looked up in time to get hit by another branch. But instead of letting it fling her way, she clutched onto branch for dear life. She got an idea and quickly situated herself on branch so that she could execute her idea safely. It was only then that she realised that she was terrified of heights. She couldn't help the scream that flew out of her mouth as the tree swung her around.
She was thankful that even though she was terrified, she was still in control of her body. And when the branch swung her close enough to Haiden who had just stood up and grabbed his glasses, she reached out and, focusing her magic into her hand, gripped his shirt taking him with her. The branch swung them up and then down in the perfect alignment to the hole under it that lead to the tunnel. Knowing that she probably wouldn't have a better chance for this, she swung Haiden at the hole and let go. And then she hoped and prayed he fell into it unharmed. She dropped down herself with a scream and landed in the hole, on Haiden's back.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Hermione told him.
"Don't worry." Haiden gasped out before getting up. They quickly followed the path all the way to the Shrieking Shack, hoping to get there before anything bad could happen to Ron, and maybe even find Harry, hopefully alive. When they got to the Shrieking Shack, it was just as horrible as she thought it would be. It was creeking and swaying with the wind that sounded like howling and moaning as it flew through all the cracks in the walls. And there was dust everywhere. The only place where the dust had been disturbed was the drag marks that lead upstairs.
"This is the Shrieking Shack." Hermione whispered, she felt Haiden take her hand.
"Come on." He whispered and led her up the stairs. And as they climbed a sinking feeling entered her stomach as she caught sight of what looked to her as fresh drops of blood. The blood was either from Ron, or Harry, she did remember hearing Draco say that there had been a sheet covered in blood in Madam Pomfrey's hands when she ran out of Harry's private room after noticing him missing. And the grunts and groans she was hearing didn't make her feel any better.
"Ron!" Haiden cried spotting Ron sitting on a dirty mattress on the floor, holding Scabbers, his leg was bleeding from his bite wound, looking very pale, frighted, and a little sick.
"Ron! You're okay!" Hermione said breathing a sigh of relief.
"The dog- where is it?" Haiden asked.
"Haiden, it's a trap! He's the dog! He's an Animagus!" Ron cried pointing behind them. They turned and spotted Black standing just beside the door. Hermione gasped, but not because of Black, but because of what she spotted behind him. Blood coated the floor behind him, and in the middle of the floor was the motionless body of Harry. She covered her mouth in shocked horror and ran over to her friend. His arms were slashed and he looked as if he had put up a great fight, but what really caught her attention was the deep slash on this throat. Black had cut Harry's throat.
"WHAT DID YOU DO?! HOW COULD YOU DO THIS! HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO YOU!" Hermione cried.
"Death is dead!" Black giggled out. "I killed Death!" Hermione felt a weak tug at her robe, glanced down and saw that Harry wasn't dead. He eyes, that had been closed when she had gotten to him, were now open and he was looking at her, pleading. And she could see the life draining from his eyes.
"NO!" She screamed and placed her hands on the slash on his throat and tried to will her magic up to her hands like Harry had shown her, like she had done just moments before. She felt her hands begin to heat up and her energy drain. Just then Remus crashed through the door Black had closed, wand in hand.
"Expelliarmus!" He shouted and Hermione looked over her shoulder just in time to see Haiden's wand fly from his hand. She also noticed that Haiden had somehow gotten Black onto the ground and was pinning him there with his hand to his throat. He motioned for Haiden to get off Black, which he did. "Well, well, Sirius…" She watched Remus sniff the air, and her theory that Remus was a werewolf was confirmed then and there. His head snapped towards her and Harry, when he caught sight of Harry his eyes turned bright gold, his teeth elongated, and his body started shaking.
"I didn't want to believe it." Remus growled out, his voice more demonic. "Even went so far as to defend you. And yet, here is my proof." Remus turned back towards Black. " You killed Harry. You killed my pup!" He howled before pouncing, Black barely managed to rolled out of the way.
"Remus, my old friend! You've been tricked! That wasn't Harry! I know Harry! I've held Harry! Harry is human! That-" He gestured to Harry as he skillfully managed to continue evading Remus's attacks. "-That was not Harry! That was not Human! That was Death! I've seen him with my eyes! Trying to trick me as well! But I caught him switching between his real form and Harry's form! So I took him! I tried to get him to tell me where he put Harry! But he would not tell me! So I had to kill him!" Remus roared at that and Hermione watched in horror as he shifted a little more into his wolf form.
"Haiden! Ron! Get away from him! He's a werewolf!" Hermione warned them knowing that he was started to lose control of the wolf. She felt a hand touch hers, and it was only then that she realized she had stopped focusing her magic into her hands. "No!" She screamed and turned back towards Harry and tried to force her magic back into her hands, but she was too tired. Just then Severus barged into the room and used a spell to knock Remus to the ground before binding him.
"He killed Harry!" Remus growled out fighting against his binds. Hermione saw Severus glance at her and Harry who had started wheezing. This happened at the same time Black yelled something about Peter Pettigrew still being alive.
"This isn't the way to go about this, Remus. Yes, I want him dead as well, but if we give in and kill him, as he did Harry, then we both rot in Azkaban and he wins." Severus growled out pointing his wand at Black, the look in his eyes saying how much he wanted to kill Black.
"If you'll excuse me, I have some unfinished business to attend to." Black said suddenly sounding a lot more sane then he had been, walking up to Severus who shoved his wand against Black's throat.
"Give me a reason. I beg you." Severus begged, his promising murder as the binding around Remus vanished and he stood up, looking a lot calmer than he had.
"Severus, you were right. Now, don't be a fool." Remus said and Hermione watch Severus tighten his grip on his wand and clench his teeth.
"He can't help it. It's habit by now." Black taunted, giving Hermione a strange sense that they've done this song and dance before, or at least a similar song and dance.
"Sirius, be quiet!" Remus roared out.
"Oh, quiet yourself, Remus!" Black hissed out.
"Oh, listen to you two, quarreling like an old married couple." Severus growled out.
"Jealous?" Black asked with a smirk and Remus rolled his eyes before stalking over to Hermione and Harry, quickly grabbing his wand and put a stasis charm on Harry. "Why don't you run along and play with your chemistry set!" Severus pushed his wand farther into Black's throat.
"I could do it, you know." Severus closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "But why deny the dementors? They're so longing to see you. Do I detect a flicker of fear? Oh, yes. A dementor's kiss. One can only imagine what that must be like to endure. It's said to be nearly unbearable to witness, but I'll do my best."
"Severus, just bound him and let us get Harry to the Hospital Wing. I don't know how much longer he'll have." Remus said picking Harry up, and even though Harry was in stasis, Hermione could have sworn he sent a spark of his magic at her, because as her hand slid from his throat as Remus picked him up, she felt a shock go through her and images fill her brain: Ron's rat shiting from human to rat and back again.
Without thinking, Hermione pulled out her wand, shot to her feet, and shot the deanimagus spell she remembered learning from Harry earlier that year. It hit the rat in Ron's hand and Ron screamed as the rat suddenly began to grow larger. And then, he was no longer a rat, but a human male.
"Remus? Is-s is this Sirius?" The man asked. "My old friends!" He held out his arms looking as if he wanted a hug, he even took a step towards them but then he tried to bolt out of the room. But Severus and Black stopped him. The man glanced around the room before spotting Haiden. "Haiden, look at you. You look so much like your father, like James." The man said slowly hobbling over to him. "We were the best of friends, he and I…"
"How dare you speak to Haiden!" Black growled running so that he could get in between Haiden and the man.
"Miss Granger, help Remus get Harry, and Ronald to the Hospital Wing. I can handle everything from here." Severus ordered. And seeing how, as of right now, Haiden was trapped in a corner behind Black and in front of the strange man, Hermione rushed over to Ron and helped him up and out of the room. Before she left, she glanced at Haiden who nodded to her.
~Lock Me In Your Heart~
Hours later found Hermione worriedly pacing besides Harry's Hospital bed waiting for Haiden and Severus to arrive. Harry didn't have long to live, and even though Madam Pomfrey had closed the gash on Harry's throat and gave him some blood restorative potions, his body was refusing them. No one knew how much longer Harry had, but they knew he would not make it through the night. But not only that, she had not seen Haiden nor Severus since she and Remus left them in the Shrieking Shack with Black and that man she now knew was Peter Pettigrew, someone who was supposed to have died at the hands of Sirius Black.
And in the time they had gotten Ron and Harry safely to the Hospital Wing, which honestly surprised Hermione since the full moon had been out, and learned that Harry would die. They had made him as comfortable as they could, and Remus explained everything to her. From how Remus, Black, James, and Peter had been friends in school, to how Black had been made not only the Godfather to Harry and Haiden but had been made the Potter's Secret Keeper when they went into hiding, to the changing of the Secret Keeper from Black to Peter.
Hermione jump when Severus barged through the doors to the Hospital Wing with Haiden passed out in his arm. "What happened?!" Hermione asked running over and helped Severus carry Haiden to the bed next to Harry.
"Pettigrew got away." Severus said falling into the chair that was sitting in between Harry and Haiden's bed.
"What?!" Remus, who had been silently watching them from the other side of Harry's bed asked. "How?"
"I don't know! It happened so fast! Pettigrew had somehow gotten a hold of a wand and turned back into a rat. Black changed into a dog and chased him. This idiotic boy thought it would be a good idea to chase both of them. And I chased after him. We somehow found our way to the lake where we were attacked by a swarm of Dementors. Me and the boy tried to fight them, but there were too many, we got overwhelmed. And then I blacked out. I don't know how we survived, because the next thing I know, I'm coming to laying besides him. And Black was gone, captured." Severus explained.
"It was my dad." Haiden muttered.
"What?" Hermione asked giving Haiden her full attention.
"He sent the Dementors away. I saw him across the lake." Haiden muttered.
"...-mione." Harry croaked out.
"Shh, don't speak." Remus instantly hovered.
"...-mione." He croaked again and Hermione knew he was calling her and would not stop until she went to him. "...oser." He croaked when she moved to his side. She bent over him, placing her ear right next to his mouth. "...Time Tuner…. Save… take… Haiden." Was the last thing he said before he was gone. Hermione cried, but knew she didn't have much time to do this. She rushed over to Haiden, forced him to stand up.
"What are you doing?" Severus asked, but she ignored him. If she was going to save everyone, she and Haiden needed to go now. She didn't know why Harry wanted her to take Haiden, but he had never stirred her wrong before. And besides, if she had already used the Time Turner and this was Harry's second pass through this, then he would know what needed to be done.
Before she could pull her the Time Turner out from under her shirt, the clock tower struck midnight, and a man with a long black cloak, the cloak's hood covering the man's face. He appeared out of the shadows beside Harry's bed next to the distraught Remus. The man glanced at Harry's body before looking at Hermione and Haiden. She had seen this man only once before, the night after McGonagall had given her the Time Turner.
"Sirius Black is in the topmost cell of the Black Tower." He said, his voice dark and deep as the hopeless darkness, and yet filled the air with the hope of light. "You know the rule, Hermione. You must not be seen. And you would do well, I feel, to return before this last chime. If not, the consequences are too ghastly to discuss." The man placed his hand over Harry's left eye, and the left side of his body began to decay, only for the decay to vanish the second he took his hand off. "If you succeed tonight, more than one innocent life may be spared." He walked over to the still open doors of the Hospital Wing, he grabbed them. "Three turns should do it, I think. Oh, when in doubt, I find retracing my steps to be a wise place to begin. Good luck." And with that he shut the doors.
"What the bloody hell was that all about?" Ron, who was in the bed across from Harry, asked but Hermione was already rushing to pull out her Time Turner. She unwrapped the long chain from her neck and threw it over the very confused Haiden.
"Sorry, Ron, but seeing as you can't walk…" Hermione said before starting to turn the Time Turner backwards three times before quickly slapping Haiden's hand away when he tried to touch the Time Turner. Hermione and Haiden watched as time began to quickly rewind, speeding up as it went. She had never gone this far back in time before.