It all belongs to J. K. Rowling, accept for the original characters I've tossed in.

Chapter 55

Severus Snape sat in his office contemplating everything that had occurred. Minerva had decided to cancel classes until the new term since she'd be absent for the trial and Lupin gone to deal with Harry. He was glad of that since he wasn't sure he'd have been able to control his temper around the students. This was why he hated teaching. They never seem to grasp the extreme dangers of potion brewing, and deliberate attempts of sabotage should be punished harshly as the outcomes were so unpredictable. He might have expected something like this from one of his Slytherin's but not that goody two shoes Gryffindor Know-it-All, Granger. He would have liked to have gone to her hearing but either he or Minerva needed to stay on premises. They need more then just one Head of House and with his new responsibility as Deputy Headmaster he wasn't able to go. He hoped that they don't go light on her. In his opinion they had gone to soft on her far to long. He would have kicked her out of school long before what happened yesterday. Frustrated at thinking in circles on subjects he had no control over he pulls the stack of essays over and starts grading.

Someone knocks firmly on his door so he knows it's not a student, they are all approaching him in extreme caution.

"Severus," She replies in greeting

He demands impatiently, "Minerva what happened? Did the self serving know-it-all get locked up?"

"Not yet, the Judge wants to speak to you and Remus about everything that has happened so far he will be here at 4pm. I just hope that we can get Remus to leave Harry's side long enough to come."

Severus declares, "I will go there personally and bring him here if I have to, I won't let her get away with this. I don't think matters should have been handled like they were anyhow. She nearly killed him and all this over a bloody Potion essay."

Minerva adds in contempt, "Turns out that it was more than that; she used the essay as the catalyst but, she is more upset over the books and the lessons that he has been getting." You also know that we had to give her a second chance just like we have to most of your Slytherin's. How many would we have had to expel, suspend or call the MLE about if we'd not offered second chances? Remember the Quidditch match Harry's third year you would have lost 4 students then. I felt the same way about them then as you do about Ms Granger now. I will admit that what she did was uncalled for: she not only endangered Harry but your entire class and yourself. But there have been instances when those of your house have done the same and only received a slap on the hands and a few days detention."

Sighing, "I know but I can't help it Minerva. I was forced by Dumbledore to ignore most of the indiscretions from the members of my house. He claimed it was because they were persecuted by you and the other heads of house. That it would also help cement my position as a spy among the Death Eaters. While it did succeed in that endeavor, I hated having to let those children get away with their dangerous pranks and breaking of rules. I hated doing it and I never let one of their disruptions harm anyone - beyond boils; which Poppy can cure with her eyes closed. Granger needs a wake up call: she has had too many privileges in this school. First the time turner, and then an unlimited pass to the restricted section of the library. Yet she is still allowed to get away with some things. She should have been removed after she threw that tantrum after the attack on the Weasleys in the Great Hall and slapping him in front of the entire school. I would bet that if he hadn't gotten upset and left the room that it would be him up on charges of assaulting her. He is never given a break; after all HE had to face the full Wizengamot for use of underage magic when he did nothing more than save the life of his ungrateful cousin from Dementors. You had better go fire call Lupin and let him know he needs to be here."

"I will, and I know how you feel, I should have done something about it then also."

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Things have taken a turn away from the usual peace and tranquility of Potter Manor Remus is at his wits end with Mrs. Weasley and Nurse Stephens as they scream at each other.

"Mrs. Weasley Please remove yourself, I was Hired to take care of him and that is what I will do, I know you care about him but he needs rest and you hovering over him isn't going to do that patients that are in a coma know what is going on around them and the way his heart rate is going up this is stressing him out." Jennifer Stephens Told her.

"Nurse Stephens I think I know what is best for Harry and me being here is."

"Molly, please leave or I will have Dobby block you from this part of the house. Right now I want him to get rest and you aren't helping, If you don't I will remove him from here and take him where no one will find him. I brought him home so he would feel safe. I'm tired of this argument. He has a nurse to take care of him. He doesn't need you too, I will allow you to help only when Jennifer has to go some where. No Please Leave his Room."

Molly storms out of the room in a Huff

"I'm sorry about that she cares about him but doesn't seem to remember that she isn't his mother or a nurse."

"That is alright Remus, I understand. I will leave you here alone with him if anything happens I have a monitoring spell on him plus you can have Dobby get me."

"Thank you Jennifer." Hearing her shut the door he starts beseeching Harry, "Harry, please wake up! I don't know what to do without you. If you don't then I'm also afraid what will happen to Hermione. Not that what ever happens she doesn't deserve but if. Without you Draco and Neville will be lost too. This was going to be the best Christmas you had. You have friends, family, and people that love you here with you, you have your freedom from Dumbledore, and for once you have your own house. So please wake up." There is a knock on the door, he glares at the disruption but calls, "Come in."

"Remus, how is he doing?" Minerva asks

"A little better his breathing has settled down but he still won't wake up."

"I hate to ask you this but I need you to come back to Hogwarts for a few hours today."

"I'm sorry, I can't leave him."

"Remus, the Judge wants to."

"I don't care if Merlin himself wants to speak to me I'm not leaving Harry, let him come here and see what she did to him, if he is so determined to find out what she has done then let him see, Harry for himself. But I am not leaving him in this house alone. Molly has already tried to take over, I just hope that Jennifer keeps her temper in check."

"Jennifer Remus you don't mean Lily's friend?"

"Yes Poppy knew how to get a hold of her she is a nurse and is here taking care of Harry, you just missed her leaving the room."

"Oh, dear if Molly Weasley tackles her we will all wish that Voldemort would have taken over. I will have a talk with Molly about what her role in Harry's life is she is a concerned friend and not a mother or a nurse. Oh dear oh dear."

just then they hear Molly yelling down stairs.

"You have no right to tell me what I can and can not do with Harry you are not his mother nor a friend."

"Did you know the Potter's?"

I knew them from the order."

"I went to school with Lily, I knew them all, so until you can tell me you knew them better then me, then you can tell me how to TREAT MY PATIENT! She yelled back.

Remus runs into the room.

"ENOUGH!, I will not have this right now. Molly I know you have only the best in your heart for Harry, but right now that is Jennifer, so please let her do her job, if you can't then I will set you up in one of Harry's other houses and you will not see him again until I can determine if you are not going to upset him. I can't have him hearing this right now. He is going to have enough to worry about when he wakes up. I don't want him worrying about you too Molly. So please for Harry's sake stop this fighting. Jennifer I know you where our friend in school but fighting isn't going to solve anything. And if you can't get along with Molly I will find someone else to take care of him, that will be a promise. My Main and only concern is Harry, and if kicking everyone but Dobby out of this house is what I have to do then that is what I will do." with that he turns on his heels and goes back to his vigil at Harry's bedside.

"How dare he talk to me like that?!" Molly fumed

A very angry Minerva McGonagall descends on them and starts, "Molly be lucky it was him and not me; don't forget that Harry cut you out of his life because you tried to control it this summer. I can promise you that he will leave with Harry, right now that is his only concern." Seeing Molly open her mouth to speak Minerva continues, "Before you start in on he is only concerned because he looks like James tact that you used on Sirius last year know this Remus sees Harry, not Harry Potter the Boy-Who-Lived, nor the poor orphan that needs to be taken care of, and he does not see a reincarnated James Potter like you seem to think. I will agree with Remus and say you will all have to leave if you keep this up. Remus removed him from Hogwarts so that he could rest without worry, without being disturbed, so he could heal. Because of you two he doesn't want to leave this house he is afraid of what you will do, I don't want anymore fighting in this house do you BOTH understand me?"

"Yes, I do Professor McGonagall, and I'm sorry, I just don't like being told how to do my job."

"I'm sure you don't and Remus doesn't need the added stress of keeping you two apart. Now get along or leave your choice." heading back upstairs.

Looking in on Remus she pleads, "Remus please come to Hogwarts for a little while if you don't I'm afraid that Ms Granger won't get the help that she needs or the punishment she deserves."

I will give him 20 minutes and that is all. He'll need to meet me in the Hospital wing so that if something happens I'm right there at the floo and can get back to Harry."

"Alright we need to go now he will be there in 5 minutes."

"Dobby?" Remus calls out loud.

"Yes Mr. Remus Sir."

"Can you bring Draco up here and then ward the door to only open to me or him if something happens I want Harry to lay here uninterrupted I need to go to Hogwarts for little while."

Draco enters the room cautiously, "Remus, you needed to see me?"

Remus replies with a heavy sigh, he never meant to frighten the boy, "Draco I have to go to the school to speak with the Judge that is overseeing Ms Granger's trail. Dobby is going to ward this door to only open to you or me. No one is to come in unless something happens to Harry. I don't care if Nurse Stephen or Mrs. Weasley say the house is on fire, Dobby is the only one you are to listen to until I return is that clear?"

"Yeah it's clear Remus," Draco replies confidently.

With that Remus left the room and goes downstairs where he addresses both women a bit contemptuously, ""Molly, Jennifer, I have to go to the school for a little while. I have left Draco in with Harry NO ONE and I mean no one will go into this room unless something happens to him. I will be back before he needs his next potion and for him to be checked out. I find out you were fighting again I will remove you." Looking at Jennifer he adds, "When I come back I will be setting some new rules over Harry's care." He finishes with a snap to his jaws and floos to Hogwarts Infirmary.

"Poppy, good afternoon." Remus said

Poppy concerned at seeing Remus so soon after his departure, "Remus, is everything alright with Mr. Potter?

Remus with a little fear in his voice, "He hasn't woken up yet Poppy; I don't know if I can deal with Jennifer and Molly fighting over who is going to take care of him constantly either. I'm tired and want this whole thing with Ms Granger handled so that I can get back to Harry."

"Summoning some tea, she encourages him, "Drink this Remus it will help while we wait. I'm sure the Judge will be here soon he knows that you will only talk to him here."

"I just hope that Minerva told him I only have 20 minutes to spare."

"Remus, I'm going to say this and I want you to listen to me or you will be staying in this Hospital wing tonight. You are going to rest and you will take whatever or however long it takes to talk to the Judge; if you rush him then you will have to deal with the consequences of that. What if that means that Ms Granger doesn't get what she deserves? Can you handle know that you might let Mr. Potter, down."

Seeing Remus getting ready to protest she adds, "I know you would never do anything like that on purpose. I think out of every person that you know, I know you best, you can't help but know someone when you treat them once a month for 7 years. You are very protective of the people you feel are part of your pack! I see this with Mr. Potter more and more. But if you don't take care of yourself where will that leave Mr. Potter? If you make yourself ill then what good are you going to be to him? I will ask you to do one thing when you get home. Conjure a bed in his room and sleep but please sleep. I don't want to worry about you too. Between you and Mr. Potter you are the boys I will never have; I have treated you both more than any other student I have ever had."

"Poppy, no promises but I will try to sleep tonight, but until he wakes up I don't think I can. What do you think should happen to Ms Granger?"

"I honestly don't know; I treated her after both the spell and the potion and there were no lingering effects. So I'm going to say with the medical information that I have that the spells and the potion she was given just compounded what was already in her mind. I believe that at first she was just being his friend but with Mr. Potter always getting the best grades in the class for Defense she was irked. She needs to have the highest marks. Then I think this summer with him having all that knowledge and most of it rare just confounded the problem and the spells didn't help. The one that was to bring feelings of love for Mr. Weasley back fired badly; it only compounded the feelings of jealously that she felt. Whoever placed the spells on her didn't research them enough, between the 3 of them she was only showing what she was really feeling. I may not be a therapist but I believe what she did yesterday was something she would do if she was pushed enough and I believe she was. I don't know everything that happened but she must have felt that something was going to upstage her or that she wasn't going to learn something else."

"Poppy, I know that is how she feels; I have been with Harry and Ms Granger when she has thrown a few of her fits. I don't care what potion she was under as Harry brewed the counter potion for it and then offered to teacher her the higher level shield. She refused to learn it because Harry wouldn't let her into his classes. Then thanks to the changes in the school he had to give them up and rejoin the regular student body. Just five weeks later she deliberately sabotaged his potion. She knew exactly what would happen when she placed the doxy eggs in the potion; she not only endangered his life but all the other students in the class room as well. I can't not feel sorry for her anymore and I hope that when Harry wakes up he won't hate me because I want her to suffer like he has been all year. I don't care what happens as long as she doesn't have anything to do with Harry again. I will do everything in my power to protect him."

As he finished his emotional tirade Minerva and two others enter the room.

"Remus, this is the Judge and Ms Granger's lawyer." Minerva says.

"Professor Lupin, Thank you for meeting us here, I'm sure you want to get this over with as soon as we can and I'm sorry that I'm late. I got tied up at the Ministry."

"Please can we get this over with, I left Harry at home and I need to get back but I also want to see Ms Granger punished for her misdeeds."

Sitting down they start to ask the questions.

"I think that is all we are going to need, I'm sorry about Mr. Potter."

"Thank you, Poppy, Minerva. I will talk to you both later," with that Remus floo's back to Potter Manor.

"Headmistress if we can talk to Professor Snape now."

"Follow me please."

In the dungeon's

"Professor Snape, are you ready for us?"

"Minerva come in I'm ready."

Sitting down. They start to talk.

"Professor, why didn't you stop what was happening if you where concerned?" Perryweather inquired.

"What was I to do, she wasn't in my house nor where they in any of my classes. Because of her he was forced to stay in his rooms most of the time and study."

"Why didn't you punish her the night that she found out about your friendship with Mr. Potter?"

"What was I suppose to do about it, she was there under orders from the Headmistress and again she wasn't in my house and she was in private quarters. I believe that Professor Lupin handled her punishment. If she had been in my house she would have been suspend from the school as it was all she got was some restrictions and loss of privileges and then Sunday morning she attacked Mr. Potter in the Great Hall she slapped him and made some horrible accusations; he got upset with her but he didn't do anything but yell at her for the way she was treating him."

"What would you like to see happen with her?" this coming from the Judge.

"Personally I would like to see her placed in prison but I know that she is ill, she has been getting treatment that doesn't seem to be working."

"Thank you Professor Snape, we must be going."

The next morning everyone is sitting in the court room when Severus, Draco, Neville, and Minerva all come in Hermione saw them and starts to panic.

"What are they doing her she whispers?"

"Ms Granger they are just as much victims as Mr. Potter they have put up with your outrages also."

"All rise. Court is now in session, the Case the People vs. Granger will now begin." The Auror Intones in a melodic deep basso voice.

"Please everyone sit down. This case has been rather hard for me to make a decision on. On one hand we have a young lady that is extremely jealous of her friend and has done everything in her power to make him suffer, and she finally found the way to, make it happen by Adding a Ingredient in to his potion that she knew would have a violent reaction. On the other hand she has been under the influence of others which I will not condone nor will I excuse her on those grounds as she has shown no remorse. She in fact still claims that everything is Mr. Potter's fault! Now Ms Granger I'm going to do 4 things to you today.

1. You will be placed in St. Mungo's for treatment you will not be placed in the general ward though; you will be placed in the ward for the criminally insane, where you will get treatment for your illness.

2. When the time comes that the Dr. / Therapist feel you are ready to be placed back into society your magic will not be bound but will be stripped from you. The reason for this is some times when magic is bound; there is the chance to do accidental magic.

3. You will have your Memory of Hogwarts and all things magical removed. We will replace them with memories of you going to a Muggle private school.

4. When and if you are ever released you will be retrained for a non-magical job as if you never knew of magic or the possibility that it was real."

Ms Granger please keep in mind that your treatment and all out come in it, will depend on your ability to work with them."

With his pronouncement Hermione jumps to her feet and shrieks tears running down her face unchecked, "You can't do that to me. I've done nothing to deserve being made a … a… a Muggle. I'm a witch. A powerful witch, you can't take my magic from me."

Her lawyer casts a silence spell on her as he whispers to her, "Ms Granger pull yourself together; Upsetting the Judge at this stage will not ease his decisions. Be silent and listen, there is a small possibility we can appeal later on. But not if you act out now!"

The Judge looks down his nose sadly as he continues, "I will tell you that what you have done is destructive and totally without remorse. If you had been willing to admit to what you did at first I may have been more than willing to place you in just the insane ward of the hospital but through this whole thing you have not once admitted to being wrong about what you have done. Ms Granger if Mr. Potter dies this case will be reopened and a murder charge added with additional penalties; do you understand?

Tears running freely down her face she waits for her lawyer to remove the silence spell then answer tearfully, "Yes, your honor, I would just like to say that I'm sorry for anything that I have done."

The Judge nods in understanding, "Ms Granger as much as I'm sure others appreciate you finally saying it; I'm afraid that is it a little too late. Ms Granger you are going to be held responsible for all medical expenses that Mr. Potter incurs from this incident. He would not be needing medical care at all were it not for your actions. Until such time as your Psychiatrist feels you can handle seeing people, you will be cut off from visitors. Your visitor will also be limited Ms Granger, your list will be no more than five people long. I suggest that you choose them carefully. Ms Granger I urge you to take this time to understand what you have done. I have been informed that you were offered the chance to defend yourself against the spells but turned them down. I'm afraid that with that happening it was the Catalyst that sent you even further over the edge and into this predicament. Do yourself a favor when someone offers to help you don't turn them down because they have something you don't. Court dismissed."

A/N: I Hope this Chapter makes everyone Happy.

I got a Review that stated that Hermione is mentally ill I will have to agree with you. Only thing is she has been this way from the beginning of the stories.

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