A fog grew out of the projector turning into a handsome manor. Snape is shown at a death eater meeting sitting on the right side of Voldemort.

"My Lord, the Order of the Phoenix intends to move Harry Potter from his current place of safety on Saturday next, at nightfall."

The scene switches to Harry looking around at the house on Privet Drive, remembering sadly his younger self and the life he led in that place. Suddenly, a large group of wizards arrives in the backyard to escort Harry to his new place of safety. Hagrid is there, as well as Ron, Hermione, Fleur Delacour, Mad-Eye Moody, Fred and George Weasley, Bill Weasley, Arthur Weasley, Remus Lupin, Tonks, Kingsley, and Mundungus Fletcher. Moody announces that they've had to change plans because Pius Thicknesse has gone over to Voldemort and all Ministry-regulated means of transportation are dangerous to them.

The new plan is to send Harry to Tonks's parents' house while six decoys go to other houses. Ron, Hermione, Fred, George, Fleur, and Mundungus will take Polyjuice Potion to disguise themselves as Harry, and each of them will fly with one escort.

Harry is shown getting into the sidecar of a flying motorbike driven by Hagrid, and the entire party rises into the air. Flashes of light are visibly seen as the group is attacked and ambushed by death eaters. All of them make it safely to the Burrow until Bill a appears and say;

"Mad-Eye's dead."

The scene shifts to Harry, Ron, and Hermione gathered in a bedroom. Discussing their plans for the future.

"No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago, years, really."

"Let's see," said Hermione, "I've been packing for days, so we're ready to leave at a moment's notice, which for your information has included doing some pretty difficult magic, not to mention smuggling Mad-Eye's whole stock of Polyjuice Potion right under Ron's mum's nose. I've also modified my parents' memories so that they're convinced they're really called Wendell and Monica Wilkins, and that their life's ambition is to move to Australia, which they have now done. That's to make it more difficult for Voldemort to track them down and interrogate them about me or you because unfortunately, I've told them quite a bit about you. Assuming I survive our hunt for the Horcruxes, I'll find Mum and Dad and lift the enchantment. If I don't, well, I think I've cast a good enough charm to keep them safe and happy. Wendell and Monica Wilkins don't know that they've got a daughter, you see."

"Hermione, I'm sorry, I didn't... "

"Didn't realize that Ron and I know perfectly well what might happen if we come with you? Well, we do.

Ron has even given the household ghoul a pair of his pyjamas and enchanted the ghoul with red hair and pustules so that when Ron fails to return to Hogwarts, his parents can give out the information that he's ill with an infectious disease. Anyone who checks in on Ron will see the ghoul in his bed, assume that Ron's really sick, and flee before becoming infected.

Hermione reveals that she used a spell to steal the books on Horcruxes, which Dumbledore had removed from the library for safekeeping, out of Dumbledore's office after he died. To destroy the Horcruxes will be very difficult, because only very destructive and dangerous items, such as the basilisk's fang that Harry used to destroy Tom Riddle's diary can be sure to do the job.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione are bestowed gifts from Dumbledore's will. The first snitch Harry ever caught, the tale of Beedle the Bard and his deluminator.

They witness Bill and Fleur's wedding interrupted by a Patronus.

"The Ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming."

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Harry Ron and Hermione are seen safe hiding out in Grimmauld Place. Harry and Hermione noticed that a room belonged to Sirius's deceased younger brother, Regulus Arcturus Black, who had been a Death Eater. Seeing his name on the door, they realize he may be the R.A.B. who signed his name to the false locket that Harry and Dumbledore recovered from the cave. Hermione remembers that there had been a locket in the cabinet in the drawing-room of the house the last time she'd been there. Unfortunately, the locket is no longer there.

Kreacher appears in view as Harry summons him. Kreacher reveals that the locket is gone.

"Gone?" "What do you mean, it's gone?" Harry asked.

"Mundungus Fletcher," croaked the elf. "Mundungus Fletcher stole it"

Kreacher then begins the story of how the locket came to be in Kreacher's possession.

"Master Regulus joined the Dark Lord. So proud, so proud, so happy to serve ...

And one day, a year after he joined, Master Regulus came down to the kitchen to see Kreacher. ... he said that the Dark Lord required an elf."

"So Kreacher went to the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord did not tell Kreacher what they were to do but took Kreacher with him to a cave beside the sea. And beyond the cave was a cavern, and in the cavern was a great black lake ..."

"There was a b-basin full of potion on the island. The D-Dark Lord made Kreacher drink it ..."

The elf quaked from head to foot.

"Kreacher drank, and as he drank he saw terrible things ... Kreacher's insides burned ... He made Kreacher drink all the potion ... He dropped a locket into the empty basin ... He filled it with more potion."

"And then the Dark Lord sailed away, leaving Kreacher on the island ..."

"It was a little while later ... Master Regulus came to find Kreacher in his cupboard one night, and he asked Kreacher to take him to the cave, the cave where Kreacher had gone with the Dark Lord ..."

"M-Master Regulus took from his pocket a locket like the one the Dark Lord had. And he told Kreacher to take it and, when the basin was empty, to switch the lockets ..."

Lupin is shown in the images trying to join the hunt when he reveals that he is scared because

"Tonks is going to have a baby."

The trio finds out that Mundungus gave the locket to Umbridge. They are seen plotting to break into the ministry to retrieve it.

A fray of images flies by until they are shown on the floor of a forest with Ron bleeding from being splinched. They have the Locket but are unable to return to Grimmauld Place. The Locket makes the trio weak and drains their energy. Hermione discovers that the sword of Gryffindor would be able to destroy it. However, their excitement is short-lived when Ron's temper fuelled by the Horcrux drives him to leave.

Harry Is then seen following a Patronus to a frozen lake where he proceeds to try and get the sword of Gryffindor. He is luckily saved by Ron when the Horcrux attempts to drown him.

Hermione is seen furious at Ron.

"One thing I would like to know, though. How exactly did you find us tonight."

"The Deluminator."

The trio is seen talking to Luna Lovegood's father, discovering what the Deathly Hallows are. Harry accidentally sets off a taboo that results in them being taken to Malfoy Manor. Draco tries to pretend they aren't who they are but to no success. Bellatrix recognises them and the sword.

Then the horror begins.

Hermione is on the floor, screaming a gut wrenching scream. Bellatrix Lestrange is above her shouting at her to tell her what else she stole from her fault. She is shown casting the cruciatus curse over and over again. A knife in her hand as she carves Mudblood into her arm. Hermione lying.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione with the help of Dobby the house elf escape but Dobby didn't make it.

Harry is seen having a vision of Voldemort breaking into Dumbledore's grave and stealing the wand. The one third of the Deathly Hallows.

"Hermione did that really happen" Harry asked, shocked as most members had tears streaming down their eyes. Hermione was leaning against Severus as he had an arm wrapped around her. However, they weren't in tears compared to everyone else. Except for Mad-eye. Despite just watching Hermione get tortured the pair were in a consideringly good mood. It was always tough watching someone you care about die but seeing someone so young be in a constant amount of pain. And having to listen to their screams as they are in agony was a whole different feeling.

"You just saw it yourself," Severus snipped.

"How long did that happen for?" Neville asked. Having known what long term exposure to the cruciatus could do to someone, he was concerned for his friend.

"I was told it was just over an hour," Hermione replied.

"You shouldn't have been able to survive." Mad-eye stated as his eye whirled around between both Hermiones wondering what it is about her that allowed her to survive what has killed many before her.

"I almost didn't," Hermione admitted.

"What she did to your arm. Is it still there?" Jean asked. Hermione then began to roll up the sleeve on her left arm and then ran her wand over it, revealing the world Mudblood under a glamour.

"Yep, I will permanently have the word Mudblood cut into my arm." Hermione said. Then she started giggling softly before covering her mouth with her hand then turned to her husband. "Seems fitting in a way. What with your dark mark. Now we are a matching set."

"Yes. the big bad Death Eater and the pure Gryffindor muggleborn. Quite a pair aren't we," Severus jokes.

"In a twisted way it reminds me of Romeo and Juliet."

"Except we aren't dead." Severus stated, noticing one huge difference between the two couples.

"Not yet." Hermione said while biting her lip, trying not to smile.

"Don't try to be the eternal pessimist. It doesn't suit you."

"And yet the perpetual optimism is a great look on you." Hermione teased as Severus smirked.

"How can you possibly make light of what happened to you. Either of you. You were tortured," Ginny asked, slightly concerned over her friend's well being in the current moment.

"Sadly I wasn't the only one. It happened, more often then what is shown here. It was a part of war. But we survived, I survived what she did to me. She tried to break me and all I did was tell her lies. I am permanently scarred, but I wear this scar proudly. I am proud of who my parents are. I am not ashamed nor do I have any reason to be," Hermione explained.

This caused David and Jean to exchange looks with one another. They both had tears streaming down their faces, however, it was David that was much more noticeable with his red eyes and blotchy cheeks.

"How did we get so lucky as to have such a great daughter," Jean asked as she looked on proudly.

"We made that," David said proudly as he bragged about his accomplishment. And his role in the creation of his daughter.

"Damn straight we did." Jean said as she and her husband high fived one another. They had always made a good team, the pair worked well together and Hermione was proof of that.

A loud crash is suddenly heard from above followed by a meow. Hermione suddenly got up and went off to investigate what everyone presumed to be her cat Crookshanks newest form of mischeif. She didn't need to go, however, she used her cat as an excuse to leave so that everyone could say what they were holding back while she was in their presence.

"How is she handling all of this so well. Even you for the matter don't seem affected. You just watched her get tortured and yet you didn't even bat an eye." Tonks asked. Severus sighed before answering.

"You all are experiencing this for the first time. You are forgetting that this would have taken place four months short of three years from now," Severus reminded the group. "For her this happened seven years ago. I didn't even know that this happened to her until months after we began a relationship, five years ago. Nonetheless, she spent years moving past this. On her own and with my assistance." Everyone took this information in. "I admit she still gets the occasional nightmare, however, for the most part she has accepted this aspect of her life. Don't get me wrong it hasn't been easy but nothing worth living for ever is. Then Severus turned to the Hermione in the room before he continued. "And she's a fighter."

"What would have happened if she didn't survive?" Fleur asked.

"Well I doubt that the war would have ended when it did. It would have taken years and countless more deaths."

"No, what I mean is what would have happened to you. If she didn't survive, you two wouldn't be together," Fleur corrected her question.

"Well I certainly wouldn't be here right now. I probably wouldn't even be here in Britain either.

"If I was still alive to begin with then I would probably be in a cabin in the woods somewhere on the other side of the world by now." Severus said quickly already knowing the answer to this question for he has thought about it in length to begin with. "There was nothing keeping me here until I connected with her. I had nothing to stay for. Nothing to live for, Noone to fight for. I do now, all because I love her."

"Okay there is one thing I want to say," Tonks said with her arms crossed over her chest as she had a look of disdain on her face. Her hair was flared red with anger before she suddenly smacked Lupin on the back of her head.

"Oww, what the hell Dora." Lupin complained as he squinted away from the upcoming attacks.

"You know what you did. You tried to leave me," Tonks cried indignantly.

"In my defence this hasn't happened yet," Lupin said in his defence as he held his hands up in surrender.

"Yet, so you mean when I end up pregnant, you would still try to leave." Tonks is an intelligent person though she doesn't often flaunt it and most people underestimate her due to her clumsiness, She is aware that the reason why Remus would try to avoid a relationship with her was because of his fear of his Lycanthropy and his fear of passing his condition onto others. Nonetheless, the fact that she sympathised with him she wasn't going to take that sitting down especially if a child was involved.

"Tonks…"

"No you are sleeping on the couch tonight." Tonks said proudly feeling that if her point wasn't made then it will be tonight. She knew that werewolves tended to be territorial with their mates and Remus was no exception especially now that he has accepted her. He will be really needy tomorrow, it's in his nature, he won't be able to help it. He will be apologetic and Tonks will willingly accept his apology. She hasn't waited this long to lose him over a possibility of him leaving in an alternate version of the future.

"I have a question: is it a requirement for death eaters to turn traitors? Bill Weasley asked. "First you, Malfoy and now Regulus." Wondering if those they assume are the bad guys are really just victims. Are these death eaters more than just the monsters he was told as a child. Sometimes it is hard to remember that these are humans as well.

"I simply wanted power at a time when I had none of my own. But I wasn't willing to take power from others not at the cost of their lives. So I turned. But make no mistake I joined willingly, unlike Draco who was forced into this, he didn't get a say. He did it simply to protect his family," Severus explained. He hesitated before continuing. "Regulus wanted to make his family proud. But he wasn't willing to be subjected to the darkest of magic to do so. I believe he also did it because despite your differences and your falling out, "Black, you were still his brother and he wanted you to be proud of him."

"How can you be sure?" Sirius asked, still not sure how to process his little brother's redemption arc.

"He once told me he wished that the sorting hat made a different choice."

"Speaking of the sorting hat making different choices, perhaps the sorting hat should have placed you in Slytherin, Albus," Mad-eye said. "I want to know why you never sought to mention that you have the most powerful wand in the world Dumbledore."

"It didn't seem important to mention," Dumbledore said passively avoiding eye contact.

"Not important, it could be used as a weapon against You Know Who." Mad-eye exclaimed.

"No it couldn't. The wand is powerful, however, its power lays in the wielder not the wand itself." Dumbledore said wisely, "The wand can be defeated.

"But Voldemort wants it." Tonks stated, confused.

"And he is a fool, just as I was a fool, when I set out to own it. I only still use it to this day as a reminder of my foolishness and what it cost me.

Author's Note: I plan to have this story completed and published by Next Thursday. I am also working on a Sequal/Prequal series adjacent to this story. Where It takes place in the summer before the Marauder's seventh year. Where they watch the memories. I would love suggestions of which characters to include in that fic.