***Hermione***
It wasn't good and I knew it. Ron's scream then silence absolute silence, at least until my parents barged in. Then Harry leaves to see what happened. Silence and another scream, this time it was Harry's. Then a thud and more silence. I couldn't stand it anymore. I took a deep painful breath and stepped out into daylight. I stepped on something soft; it made a little groaning noise. I froze then cautiously looked down. I had stepped on Harry's arm. Next to Harry lay Ron eyes bugging out mouth open and as white as death. His freckles stood out on his face and arms. Silent tears started trickling down my face until they were a steady flow. I hadn't moved at all so my tears were splashing on Harry's face. It was pure luck that they hit him on his face, because he stirred and sat up muttering, "Where did the rain come from?"
I couldn't help myself I started giggling then the laughter was caught in my throat and I started sobbing. Harry looked up bemused.
"Hermione," he said his voice full of love. "Ron's… well is Ron… he can't be…" He couldn't get the words out. He just stood up and held me looking down at his best friend's body.
"What is going on out there?" my dad called out the door. He heard my sobs and came running out the door "Hermione." He gasped as he saw us like that. Clutching each other; me crying my eyes out, Harry staring not moving at the ground. He went to Harry and pulled him away from me; Harry lost his balance and fell over. I glared at my dad and ran to Harry. Just because my dad pulled us apart doesn't mean that we can't get back together. Just as I thought that it was as if a light went on.
"Harry!" I cried. "We won't be separated. Not ever. No one, nothing can separate us!" I was beside myself in glee. I turned to Ron. I ran over and picked him up, shaking him I yelled "you hear that! NEVER!!! We'll always be together! You can't separate us!" Suddenly I lost it, I burst into tears, burring my head in Ron's cold shoulder I cried, "never…" I whispered.
***Harry***
A month later at Sirius's apartment
"Hermione," I said shaking her awake, for she had fallen asleep amongst all of her books. . "You've gotta get some sleep. Then maybe we would be able to get somewhere with this whole idea of yours."
"Coffee, Harry, that's all I need." She said looking up at me.
"Hermione," I was started to get exasperated, "you have enough caffeine in you to wake the dead and keep them awake! You've probably gotten immune to it 'cause it's obviously not working. Please just get some sleep."
Mione only heard about half of what I said because she sat up quickly and started jotting notes down on a sheet of paper muttering, "caffeine, dead, waking, awake. Ron."
She had lost it. She needed sleep in a real bed, and maybe a nice long bath just to calm herself down. Her pen stopped as she eased a crap in her hand. That was my only chance. I grabbed her and carried her to my room. I laid her down on the bed. "Stay." I ordered her. But she was already fast asleep. My godfather came up behind me and put a hand on my shoulder.
"Harry," he said watching Hermione sleep, like me, "I think she's on to something. Look at what she just wrote." He handed me the paper. I looked at it, the writing was hard to decipher but as soon as I got the hang of it it all seemed rather easy. It said:
Caffeine – drug keeps people awake
Inject caffeine into Ron, wake the dead, keep awake
The rest of it was mainly the same thing with little arrows all over the place.
"What is she on to Sirius? How does this make any sense to you? Maybe she's on to realizing just what caffeine is. There's nothing here but nonsense."
Sirius laughed. "Yes, Harry exactly. It is nonsense. I think that she's onto finding out just what lack of sleep can do to you."
We laughed and walked out of my room and into the kitchen.
"How about we let Hermione be and go down to Diagon Alley and look at the newest competitors of the Firebolt?" Sirius said.
"Sure. It beats sitting around here waiting for her to get up." I answered.
"Alrighty then. Let's take the floo powder, faster you know."
Floo powder, I shuddered. The first time I used it I ended up in Knockturn Alley. Knockturn Alley. That's it!
"Sirius," I said suddenly. "Why don't we go to Knockturn Alley instead? I'm sure that's where we could find a book old and horrible to have the three unforgivable curses in it. And if there is such a book there has to be a counter curse in it!"
He looked at me as if I'd gone crazy. Then all of a sudden he cried, "of course! Why didn't I think of it before? Remus. He's the only one with a book like that. You're father stole it from Snape when we were at Hogwarts. He wasn't interested in it though, but he refused to let Snape have it back, so he gave it to Remus."
I looked at my godfather. It just hit me. Voldemort wanted my parents dead because they had the knowledge of how to undo the unforgivable curses. But little did he know that they didn't know it at all, or didn't even have the book. Lupin had it all along. I looked at Sirius and said, "Let's go, we don't have all day!"
***Hermione***
I woke up and the apartment was silent. I looked around for Harry or Sirius but all I could find was a not written by Harry saying that they needed to go to Lupin's house. It was a matter of someone's life or their death. So I went to take a bath. I bewitched it to make a sweet smelling bubble bath with unpopable bubbles. It was wonderful. I just let my mind wonder thinking of the past 4 years at Hogwarts. They were so great… all of a sudden there where voices talking excitedly.
"Oh, I just can't wait until Hermione sees this! She'll be so happy. And it'll happen before school starts up again. What could be better? She was right that day you know. She really was. We'll never be separated, not ever!" Harry was talking excitedly to probably Sirius. "Hey Hermione, are you awake?" He called to me.
"Yeah," I answered. "I'm in here."
I heard foot steps coming towards me. "No! Don't come in!" I called to him I heard him sigh. Alright Mione. I won't but hurry up. We desperately need to see Ron!"
"Ron? But he's dead. Have you lost it? How can we see him when he's been dead for a month?" I was starting to get a feeling that Harry wasn't telling me every thing.
"Mione, just hurry up. We'll explain everything once you get out of there." Harry answered. He sounded very excited.
So I quickly finished bath and got dressed. I walked into the kitchen were Sirius and Harry were hunched over a book pointing and whispering excitedly.
"Hello? You guys I'm ready now. Can you please tell me what is so exciting? How can we see Ron or whatever if he's dead?" I was starting to get annoyed because they were ignoring me. "Sirius! Harry! Can either of you hear me?" They were still just ignoring me. I stood there giving them dirty looks when finally Harry stood up with the book shoved it in my face and said "Read."
"Wow Harry that's a first, since when do you tell me to read something?" I grinned at him.
"Mione, just read it, then we'll explain."
I rolled my eyes at him. The book was very old and tattered; I flipped it over to see the title, The Dark Arts, All You Need to Know and More, by Tom Marvolo Riddle. I looked up at Harry. A book by Riddle? Impossible, and why on earth would we need a book like this? Harry just opened the book again and jabbed his finger at the paragraph. I sighed and read:
The Brothers to the Unforgivable Curses
As you know the three Unforgivable Curses are Avada Kedavra, Imperius, and Cruciatus. But what most people don't know is that there are brother curses that are very much like them, by looks and they way they sound. Aveda Kadavra, Imperous, and Cruchietus are the three brothers.
Aveda Kadavra: This curse makes the victim look dead in every aspect. There is a blast of green light just as there is when Avada Kedavra is preformed. Most people, Wizards and Muggles alike, can't tell that the person is actually alive. All this Curse does is stops the chest from moving and makes the body deathly pale and very cold. To perform this curse, it is very simple, all you must do is shish and flick your wand and mutter "Avada Kadavra" under your breath, saying it loudly will only knock the person out temporarily. This, like all curses, has a counter curse. It is nothing like the counter curse of Avada Kedavra, which is quite normal for a brother curse. Although this curse is a usual brother curse, one thing makes it different from all other ones, is that first you must perform the Memory Charm. If the victim is woken up with out the charm done before hand it can be fatal. Once the Memory Charm is preformed you must then say, "Awaken thee sleeper, thy has slept long enough." A person who is very dear to the victim must be there. If that person is not alive then a picture (wizarding type, not Muggle) or an item should work just as well. The person doesn't need to say or do anything; they just need to be there at all times.
I looked up once again at Harry. "Y-y-you mean, t-t-that R-R-Ron's…" I found it very hard to speak; my voice got caught in my throat.
"No Mione, he's not dead, he hasn't been. We just need to get to him, and quickly." Harry answered my unfinished question.
I finally was able to speak again, "Harry," I said something just occurring to me, "Who, who is the person? You? You're his best friend. Or would it be one of the Weasleys?"
Harry cut me off, "No, Mione, I know exactly who it is."
I started to open my mouth again but Harry wasn't done, "Hermione," he sighed, and then smiled, "he is with Dumbledore; we thought it would be best to keep him there. We brought him there when you started burying yourself in all those books, that's why you didn't know were he was."
I blushed, Harry knew me too well.
Thoughts were rushing through my head, 'did they know that he was alive all this time? Why didn't they tell me until just now? Does his family know that he's really alive? Did they know what happened to him in the first place?'
"Hermione," Harry said interrupting my thoughts, "I think we should go to Hogwarts now…"
He took the jar of floo powder and passed it around before stepping into the fire and shouting, "Hogwarts!"
We followed soon after. I, once again, was consumed by my thoughts.
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A.N. sry it took so long for me to post this chapter. I was almost done with it when I posted chapter 3, but I got a little sidetracked O:-) R/R peas pretty pretty peas?
5 and 2…… HA now u can't be mad at me, I didn't kill off Ron. Even though I don't like him all that much. (2 – Not Rupert Grint, he's really cool, but Ron, in the BOOKS (not movie, books) I think sucks cause he's really selfish and crud, but he's alive any way. So now Sasha can't kill me YAY!!!!!!
