A/N ~ Ok, I can almost guarantee that this chapter will be rather awkward because I have no idea what to write. I do however want to finish this story and I'm only a couple of chapters 'till the end and I'm looking forward to the sequel. I have so many good ideas for the sequel, so as soon as I finish this up, I'll start posting the sequel, which should be much better.
Disclaimer ~ Don't you all know the drill by now? Oh well, I will follow suit of another excellent author and put my disclaimer in code just to add some spice to the story. NOTCBTM, TABTTGLJKR, PDSIHNMJLOEC. If anyone can decode this (I'm putting this in here just for Shannon) I'll put something in the story that you have requested. Good Luck!
Chapter 15
A couple of days later Harry and Hermione were working on Transfiguration homework in the Gryffindor common room at about 10:30pm. Suddenly a face appeared in the fire, it was Sirius. Hermione immediately stood up and said, "I'll just be leaving now then shall I."
"No, no, I want to talk to both of you." Sirius said. "Okay, I was wrong, I shouldn't have yelled at you like that Harry, and I should have considered the fact that Hermione is perfectly able to think for herself. I'm sorry for insulting your intelligence Hermione, and I'm sorry for unfairly judging you Harry. I am sorry for not being around to be a proper "father" to you Harry. I'm sure you understand why I reacted how I did, but that's really no excuse. Okay, now can we just forget about this and move on." Sirius said, letting out a huge breath.
Harry looked at Hermione, "What do you think, should we let him off the hook?" He said, smiling.
"I think we can let him off this one time." Hermione said, smiling back. "He did say that he was wrong."
"Okay, what Hermione says is law, so I guess all is forgiven. On the condition that you help us with this awful transfiguration homework, we're working on Animagi." Harry said, grinning at Sirius's face in the fire.
"Harry, you don't have to bother Sirius with your homework, I can show you how to do all this." Hermione said, pushing Harry off his chair.
"Yeah, but I never seem to get any homework done when "Harry, you don't have to bother Sirius with your homework, I can show you how to do all this." Hermione said, pushing Harry off his chair.
"Yeah, but I never seem to get any homework done when you help me study." Harry responded pulling Hermione down onto the floor next to him. She didn't say anything, instead she started kissing him.
"Oh I don't want to see that." Sirius said, sounding disgusted as he disappeared from the fire.
Hermione looked up, "I think we scared him off."
"Oh well," Harry replied kissing her again. They had a lovely snog session before actually finishing their homework and going to bed. Separately! (Really people)
The next day after Transfigurations, Professor McGonagall held Harry and Hermione after class. They walked into her office where they saw Professor Lupin sitting behind her desk. "Remus has something to tell you both." Professor McGonagall said, shooting a pointed look at Lupin, who looked visibly uncomfortable.
"Um yes. Ijustwantedtoapologizeforwhatisaidiwaswrong." He mumbled looking at his shoes.
"Remus…" Minerva said in a warning tone.
"I'm sorry, I was wrong, I shouldn't have said those things about you two. I had no right to say those things and I'm sorry." He looked up at Harry and Hermione. "I really am sorry, all those things you said last night, Harry, were true. I was being unfair and judgmental and hypocritical. I'm sorry." He turned to Minerva. "Are you happy now?"
"Yes dear." She replied. "Now get out of my chair. Oh, you two can go now, thank you for stopping in." Harry and Hermione left as Minerva sat down in her chair, and in Remus's lap as he had refused to get up from her chair.
Harry and Hermione walked out of McGonagall's office giggling like school children (well they technically are school children). "I can't believe it, never in a million years did I think that Professor Lupin and McGonagall would get together." Harry said. "Even with what I saw last night, I never would have believed it."
"Come on, let's leave them alone and go eat." Hermione said, grabbing Harry's elbow, gently leading him to the Great Hall.
"Are you sure you want to eat," Harry said mischievously, "I still have the invisibility cloak in my bag."
"While normally I'd be all for that, I have the strongest craving for a chocolate bar right now, so yes, I would like to go eat." Hermione said.
Harry got out his wand a sheet of parchment. He promptly turned the parchment into a chocolate bar. "My lady is served." He said bowing elaborately.
"Well I guess that takes care of that," Hermione said with a smile. "Now let's go find that closet."
(A/N ~ okay, I have just visited my review page to find many puzzling and frightening reviews, but no ideas! What good are you! It's 1:36 am, how am I supposed to come up with my own ideas. (Has anybody noticed that I write most of this late at night hyped up on chocolate? Explains a lot doesn't it.) Ok I will attempt to write more because I had complaints at how short the last chapter was.)
Jumping ahead a couple months to before the N.E.W.T.'s
Hermione had been studying diligently for months, she had been reading constantly and practicing spells and incantations in her sleep. And they were almost there, the N.E.W.T.'s (Nasty Exhausting Wizarding Tests). And it was now that Harry and Ron had decided to start studying.
"C'mon Herm." Ron said one lovely afternoon. "It's spring holiday, we shouldn't be inside studying for some musty old wizard test. We should be outside, practicing Quidditch or something."
"Ron, these tests are extraordinarily important to our futures. If we don't do well on them, our future jobs will most certainly reflect that. I've been studying for months, you however have just decided to begin studying, with the N.E.W.T.'s two weeks away. You need to study." Hermione said, sounding very much like Professor McGonagall. Ron looked doubtful, but he began reading the Potions book once more. The third time Hermione caught him daydreaming, however, she slammed her book down on the table and stomped off, muttering something about stupid boys not being able to concentrate on anything but Quidditch and broomsticks. Ron looked at Harry questioningly.
"What did I do?" Ron asked, sounding amazed. "I haven't seen her this mad since the time she turned me into an actual newt. Oh god, I hope that doesn't occur to her again. Why is she so mad?"
Harry pointing at the calendar and raised his eyebrows at Ron. "I would have thought you would have learned when not to annoy her by now. You've only known her for what, all of seven years." Harry said without sympathy. "I've figured out that it's best just to stay out of her way and do what ever she says. Oh, and having chocolate on hand usually helps." Harry smiled and turned back to his book. "She'll be back in a little bit, just let her cool off for a trifle." And just as Harry had said, Hermione returned in about 15 minutes. When she returned, Harry gave her a peace offering of a chocolate bar, and she appeared to be mollified. They returned to studying and all was as it should be.
Two weeks rolled around and they took their N.E.W.T.'s. As usual, Hermione scored the highest, Harry and Ron were both satisfied with their slightly above average marks. The Gryffindor Quidditch team won the Quidditch cup, and Gryffindor won the house cup and again, all was as it should be.
A/N ~ Well, that was short, but it wasn't too bad for being written with WRITER'S BLOCK (I have to put it in all caps because it is evil). Don't worry. The next chapter is Graduation and that will be nice and long. Remember what I said about breaking my code. It's actually pretty easy, so the first review I get with the correct disclaimer will get to pick something to go into my sequel. For example if Shannon won, she would probably have Snape be gay in the sequel. But, luckily for the rest of fanficdom, she is never online and reviews my stories like never (hint to Shannon). Oh well. I'm going to post this and go to bed because it is now about 2:05 EST. Good night everybody.
Ha. Fooled ya, did you really think that I would forget my thanks section. Never!
Thank You to ~
Lily Malfoy ~ Thank you, if you think this is good, read Cassandra Claire's Draco stories and Lori's PoU and STNE.
Kate Angua Potter ~ Interesting name. Yes, tisk tisk Minerva. On the subject of Lupin and Minerva, and I know I've said this before, disregard what I previously said about the gutter and allow your mind to wander freely. Now Harry and Hermione are behaving themselves.
A-man ~ Thank you, I liked Chapter 11 as well.
The Harper ~ I can't wait until I finish either, I want to work on the sequel!
Brokenflower ~ Yes it was short, and so is this one, but chapter 16 is going to be long so, hey, we take what we can get. H/H rulez of course. And WRITER'S BLOCK must be going around 'cause everyone seems to have it.
Leap ~ Yeah, I guess I could have had that cause a whole lot of problems, but I would rather get to the last chapter and get to the sequel. Trust me on this one, the last chapter is going to be good!
Hermione Potter ~ Yes they are, and that was why I spent several chapters yelling at them. They realize this and won't disobey me again. At least not until they're married. No, they are getting married after graduation, not before. Snogging is kissing, and I use it instead of kissing 'cause it's more fun to use than kissing. I think it's British slang, it's used regularly in Harry Potter fanfics.
Sara ~ Yes fluff is good, and it's supposed to be cute and make you feel all happy inside. I have reached one reader. I have accomplished my goal. And now I can go home. Not really, I have to finish.
Pool ~ It's always nice to have new readers, thanks for reviewing.
Amy ~ no advice, What good are you?!? Just kidding. And no, I don't think I'll kill anyone. Not anyone I like anyways. Now it's up to you to figure out whom I like. Hehehe.
Michi Yuy ~ Yea! Another new reader. Thanks for your great reviews!
Hermione's Daughter ~ Well, you've kinda got it backwards, but I'm not going to say anymore because that will totally give away the ending. But there is no way that Hermione is getting pregnant. She's got too much to do to have children. There is no way that she has time to look after whiney annoying kids and live her dreams. I know I sound very mean, but I really don't think that Herm is the kinda girl who wants to settle down and have children. Minerva never had children (and she's not going to either). So just FYI neither Minerva nor Hermione are going to have children in my fics.
Sporker Man ~ Unfortunately I am not British, I am American, I live in Ohio. Thank you for your nice review. It would be cool to be British, or French, wait no, the French just have a cool language, they can't fight. Now the Brits have or at least had a great Navy. And really cool uniforms (thinking Revolutionary War here). And very sweet accents. Hehehe. Ok, I should really sleep. It is now 2:30am EST. Oh my.
Zippo ~ The answer to your question can be found at my handy dandy webpage so pop on over to it and look up the answer. There are a couple different views. And I haven't written about Hagrid or the ghosts because they aren't an significant part of the story and I suck at writing dialogue so I won't write it for more characters than I need to.
Polgara la Fae ~ I like your name. Do you read Eddings. If not, you should. Yes sometime it is better that way.
Laura Xoria Walton ~ You took time out of Florida to read my story! I feel loved! Sorry, I forgot about the short jokes. No, it doesn't. My music is better. Anything that comes out of Shannon's mouth is wrong and gross. Since when was this chapter your idea? Hmm? And I know you read the A/N's, duh. And I warned people about your story in my profile, I changed it. And I don't know why Humperdinck is killing Buttercup even though he needs an heir, he's insane. He has a machine that sucks the life out of people year by year. This was written by a man who used the phrase 'he's been mostly dead all day.' Luv ya too, your lil sis Cass.
Griff ~ My always faithful reader. Okay okay, I didn't skip straight to graduation. I am an H/H shipper too. Forever and always. And no, Herm is not going to go out with Ron just to dump him, she's going to stay with Harry. Just you wait, there will be a plot in the sequel, I promise.
And thank you to Kerry who is a friend from school who has been chatting with me online at 2 o clock in the morning 'cause she's as crazy as I am. And thanks to Lady Sachi who said that she will help me as soon as she finishes a research paper for school. Fun fun. And thanks to Shannon even though she doesn't give any helpful advice, she just tells me to make Snape be gay. I may have to write her her own special fic where Snape is gay, just to make her shut up. Hmmm. Well I'm spent so goodnight.