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A/N: I know it's been awhile, but school is just killing me, plus I'm looking for a job. As you can see, I do not particularly like Dumbledore; do not take offense all Dumbledore Lovers! REVIEW!!!
Chapter 11: Dance into Faith
Recap:
Hermione felt the gaze of the Headmaster boring into her head, so she gathered her Gryffindor courage and looked at him for the first time in over an hour. His eyes were no longer twinkling and were very cold.
"What did you think you were doing by telling Alastor where you were from?"
Now:
"Sir, someone besides you needs to know who I am and what I can do. I will not stand by as innocent people die all because you say that I should not mess with time. I am ready to finish this with Voldemort. I will not watch as my friend's parents are killed and tortured, I will not stand by to watch history repeat itself. I will not listen to you tell me that I must watch those I have come to care about die."
"Yes, you will because we must not mess with time. Time is very fragile and what if Voldemort found out about you? He would capture, torture and kill you."
Hermione looked at the man that Harry had always admired and only saw a man who did not understand.
"Sir, I have been captured, tortured and nearly killed by him. I am not afraid to die, as long as I take the bastard with me."
Her eyes were dark with hate and passion and what Dumbledore saw scared him. He kept staring at her and finally said, "Go, I will make a decision on what to do with you and your knowledge, but you are to tell no one of who you are. One person knowing is enough."
She clenched her teeth together and gave a curt nod. She turned on her heel and went down the staircase. From the staircase, she went to her favourite place in the world, the Communal Common Room. Not many students used it because of the animosity between the Houses, so no one went and sat there, but in her time, it was used frequently, especially by Slytherins and Gryffindors.
She walked to the location on the second floor, to the portrait of Nicolas Flamel. Her face became animated when she saw that the man was still the guardian of her escape. When the man saw Hermione, he smiled a very secretive smile and said, "I never expected to see you again, Miss Granger."
Hermione was stunned and was about to say something when he opened the portrait and she scrambled in. She noticed there was no one in the Common Room and she sighed a small sigh. She was free to sit where she pleased and not have to listen to the Gryffindors put the Slytherins down. She sat on the couch in front of the fire and was lost to her memories.
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"Has anyone seen Mya?" Remus asked his long-time friends. All of them shook their heads and suddenly Sirius jumped up and said, "Bet the Slytherins did something. Let's go find them and force it out of them."
The four friends plus Lily went in search of the Slytherins, but did not have to go very far. The Slytherins were sitting in the courtyard laughing at something.
"What did you do to Mya?! If you hurt her, so help me God, you will pay!" Sirius yelled at the Slytherins, who looked very bewildered.
Lucius lifted an eyebrow and said, "We don't know where she is, shouldn't you keep a closer watch on your friend?"
The boys became very red at this moment, but before the blow-up came, Lily stepped in and said, "Maybe we should look for her; she can't have gone very far."
"Good idea, let's go." Sirius took of only to stop a moment and smack his head. He came running back and shouted, "The Marauder's Map!"
By this point, the Slytherins looked very mystified, but watched as Potter pulled a map out and opened it. He searched all throughout the parchment only to say, "There is no Mya Granger here, only Hermione Granger and she's in the Communal Common Room on the second floor."
The Marauders plus one took off to find out who this Hermione was, so the Slytherins decided to follow them. They all came to a halt in front of the portrait and asked to be admitted. The portrait replied, "Why? None of you have ever tried to enter before."
Lucius stepped forward and said, "Please let us through. We wish to speak with the girl on the other side of this door."
Nicolas Flamel became quite angry when they called Hermione a girl, she was not. He would have to set them straight. "How dare you call Miss Granger a girl? She is anything but. She has been through hell and back, she has been beaten, raped, tortured. Her innocence was ripped from her in the most violent way possible; war. Do not call her a girl."
"My apologies, we just wish to speak with Miss Granger."
Flamel allowed them through on the condition that they do not upset the woman beyond the portrait, to which they all agreed. They stepped through to find Mya Granger, who was Hermione Granger, sitting in front of the fire, silently crying and holding what looked to be a mirror.
"Hermione Granger? That's your name? What didn't you tell us your real name?" Lily demanded, "Didn't you trust us?"
"No," was the soft reply they received.
They stood there shocked, until Severus marched forward and sat directly in front of her, on the floor and reached up to remove the tears from her cheeks. Silently, they all went and sat around her.
They sat there until she had finally stopped crying only to be startled by a disembodied voice saying, "Mione! Come in Mione! You cannot be dead! Please answer!"
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