Beyond Twilight
Author Notes:This was a fanfic done as a challange on WIKTT,about haveing Hermione give an honest recount of the War with Voldermort. Please do read and review.
Disclaimer: Harry Potter doesn't belong to me, I wish it did, but I am content playing with it. ^_^
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Order of the Golden Lioness
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Dear reader,
I find myself taking on this task, both out of willingness for the truth to be let out, and for those I lost during the War,I feel they would appriciate all the trouble that I will no doubt go through,the pain I will dredge up from my very soul and the chance to glimpse ghosts that need to be laid to rest.
All this said,I hope this book will reflect the War in the best account possiable.
Yours,
Hermione k Granger.
They say that War can happen on the spur of the moment, but this one was already being wagged on a silent front, like a large game of chess, with pieces changing sides on occassion and the fear that one feels often being that of the unknown, for awhile it was hard to know who was on what side, as the line grew even more blurred and strained.
I was witness to the darkness and the light, I stood in the middle of the terror with a stright face, for I was caught in the midst on more then one side.
I had been ordered by the Order of the Golden Lioness, an organization that no one really knew exsisted, except Professor McGonagall, Headmaster Dumbledore and two other girls, Lysbeth Rynolds and Kylie Rosewood, both also members of this sisterhood if you will.
I could not very well tell Harry or Ron of my involvement, nor of the fact that my mission was to spy on out Potion Master, for the Sisterhood feared that prehaps he had returned to the folds of the Death Eaters and had forsaken his pact with Headmaster Dumbledore.
Reguardless of what a certain female report would like to report, the Potion Master of Hogwarts was loyal to the cause,through it all, I would know because I was there.
Now all of this double crossing ,triple crossing made so little sense to me personally, and I did what I did out of dedication to all those that wanted to achieve something to be a mage, and not live in fear of the fact that Lord Voldermort might rise and try to destroy them.
The sisterhood's job was to simply put to spy on men in important positions.This sisterhood often but not always were trustworthy memebers of Gryffindor, but we had in the past recruited Slytherin and Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff's were highly rare in this case.
It wasn't a glamourous job, and we rarely were to recieve recognition for our work, but that really never bothered me. I continued my studies and my secret job.
I preformed my job without a hitch, except some how someone leaked out that I was in fact a member, and I was cornered by my Potion's Professor one night when I was helping him work on a Potion for Remus Lupin who had in the final years of my schooling, returned to teach Defense Against Dark Art's again.
It was because of this I was saved, when both Lysbeth and Kylie were killed at a Death Eater dark reval, all three of us had been caught seperately and brought before the snake man, his reptilian eyes had gone over us like we were unworthy of his attentions, he had his inner circle torture Kylie first, for it had been her work that had gotten, Horton Lestrange expelled from Hogwarts,thus one less spy in the ranks.
Lysbeth,her tortures were prolonged and horriable, I shall never forget them as long as I live.The nightmares are still with me to this day, I awake in a cold sweat and in tears from time to time.
This too would have been my fate,had Severus Snape the right hand man of Voldermort, not stepped foward, removed his mask and looked me directly in the face.He claimed me as his personal spy to the Sisterhood, and said that I was under his instruction,no one was told as I was ferreting out information for him, on my personal order.
How he discovered information on my Order,I will never know,but then a most dreadful thing had occured,but it was something I had to roll with and endure.
To prove my loyalty I was to be given the Dark Mark, it was something I feared more then death itself, but in that same light I wanted to live, so I accepted. I knew that with two minds working against Voldermort, that prehaps we would be able to engineer his fall.
I recieved his Dark Mark and soon I was more accepted by the Slytherin of Hogwarts and I was then an interest to Draco Malfoy, Draco being a part of the Death Eaters as well as another Order, I still know very little about, though it was through him I discovered that there was to be an attack on Hogwarts, and sure enough Professor Snape also backed that statement up, so I did the one thing I consider very brave and very stupid.
I let it be leaked so that there were very few students here when the attack occured, and then the part I will bear my own demon's for, I allowed Goyle to take the fall for the information being leaked.
War is never a kind or forgiving force.
On March,3rd 1998 at excactly 4 am, it truely began,The Ministry of Magic was the first attacked so they were disoriented and not able to deal with the three attacks that followed, One in France, One in Germany and the last in Hogsmead itself,those children that had gone into Hogsmead for the weekend, nothing could be done for them, I was busy in Hogwarts,when I finally heard about it.
When the attack finally hit Hogwart's there was a mist of suspision every where and people were at each other's throats, it was a darkness that even I could see no light in, but as always I found my way,with the help of my friends.
This of course was just one of many attacks on Hogwarts, targeting Headmaster Dumbledore, the only other person, that I knew that had power enough to face down Voldermort.
For his part Voldermort never showed himself, to those in Hogwart's prehaps he felt it above him, prehaps not but his Dark Reval's became much darker.
It was during this time that Ginny Weasley was inducted into the Sisterhood,I had gone to McGonagall and explained to her the whole situation and showed her the fact I had been marked, I didn't right not telling her.
Little did I know who Ginny Weasley's mission was, Draco Malfoy also a proclaimed Death Eater and follower to Lord Voldermort, I had seen him at revals and I felt that there was no bringing him back from the darkness he had been enveloped by, I admit even I could be wrong.
Ginny fell in love with the golden haired Slytherin, the two began to work together,still I said nothing for I felt there was a good reason for all of it.
Who ever said Love transends all things, should be given an award of some kind for he was very right.
The Order of the Golden Lioness had members world wide,even Professor Sprout had been recruited in her youth to it as well.She was often there for Ginny and I know that Ginny told her more then she told anyone else on the subject, but what ever secrets Professor Sprout possessed passed on with her, in the second attack.
Her words to me, were this I was the one to find her.
"There is no shadow with out light, and light with out darkness is blindness." those words came to mean much in the next year of the battles we endured.
She wiped her tears as she looked down at what she had just written and sighed softly, these days alot of it was hazy in her dreams and memory.All she knew was that she needed more information on what happened, with the Death Eaters and then the final battle and only one man possessed any idea,not even Dumbledore knew everything. He wouldn't know Severus had kept something from him, for there own sake.
She would have to do the hardest thing in the world for her, face the man who had saved her life,when at that time she only wanted to die and be left alone.
How would he take to her wanting to take a stroll down memory lane, would he go along with it. She wasn't sure, all she knew was she had to and if she didn't she'd never be able to complete the book, and another realization came to her, she herself would never be able to move out of the shadows to finally feel the sunlight on her face, if she didn't do this.
Draco had planned this, Once a Slytherin Always a Slytherin she thought to herself in mild amusement
Author Notes:This was a fanfic done as a challange on WIKTT,about haveing Hermione give an honest recount of the War with Voldermort. Please do read and review.
Disclaimer: Harry Potter doesn't belong to me, I wish it did, but I am content playing with it. ^_^
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Order of the Golden Lioness
************************************
Dear reader,
I find myself taking on this task, both out of willingness for the truth to be let out, and for those I lost during the War,I feel they would appriciate all the trouble that I will no doubt go through,the pain I will dredge up from my very soul and the chance to glimpse ghosts that need to be laid to rest.
All this said,I hope this book will reflect the War in the best account possiable.
Yours,
Hermione k Granger.
They say that War can happen on the spur of the moment, but this one was already being wagged on a silent front, like a large game of chess, with pieces changing sides on occassion and the fear that one feels often being that of the unknown, for awhile it was hard to know who was on what side, as the line grew even more blurred and strained.
I was witness to the darkness and the light, I stood in the middle of the terror with a stright face, for I was caught in the midst on more then one side.
I had been ordered by the Order of the Golden Lioness, an organization that no one really knew exsisted, except Professor McGonagall, Headmaster Dumbledore and two other girls, Lysbeth Rynolds and Kylie Rosewood, both also members of this sisterhood if you will.
I could not very well tell Harry or Ron of my involvement, nor of the fact that my mission was to spy on out Potion Master, for the Sisterhood feared that prehaps he had returned to the folds of the Death Eaters and had forsaken his pact with Headmaster Dumbledore.
Reguardless of what a certain female report would like to report, the Potion Master of Hogwarts was loyal to the cause,through it all, I would know because I was there.
Now all of this double crossing ,triple crossing made so little sense to me personally, and I did what I did out of dedication to all those that wanted to achieve something to be a mage, and not live in fear of the fact that Lord Voldermort might rise and try to destroy them.
The sisterhood's job was to simply put to spy on men in important positions.This sisterhood often but not always were trustworthy memebers of Gryffindor, but we had in the past recruited Slytherin and Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff's were highly rare in this case.
It wasn't a glamourous job, and we rarely were to recieve recognition for our work, but that really never bothered me. I continued my studies and my secret job.
I preformed my job without a hitch, except some how someone leaked out that I was in fact a member, and I was cornered by my Potion's Professor one night when I was helping him work on a Potion for Remus Lupin who had in the final years of my schooling, returned to teach Defense Against Dark Art's again.
It was because of this I was saved, when both Lysbeth and Kylie were killed at a Death Eater dark reval, all three of us had been caught seperately and brought before the snake man, his reptilian eyes had gone over us like we were unworthy of his attentions, he had his inner circle torture Kylie first, for it had been her work that had gotten, Horton Lestrange expelled from Hogwarts,thus one less spy in the ranks.
Lysbeth,her tortures were prolonged and horriable, I shall never forget them as long as I live.The nightmares are still with me to this day, I awake in a cold sweat and in tears from time to time.
This too would have been my fate,had Severus Snape the right hand man of Voldermort, not stepped foward, removed his mask and looked me directly in the face.He claimed me as his personal spy to the Sisterhood, and said that I was under his instruction,no one was told as I was ferreting out information for him, on my personal order.
How he discovered information on my Order,I will never know,but then a most dreadful thing had occured,but it was something I had to roll with and endure.
To prove my loyalty I was to be given the Dark Mark, it was something I feared more then death itself, but in that same light I wanted to live, so I accepted. I knew that with two minds working against Voldermort, that prehaps we would be able to engineer his fall.
I recieved his Dark Mark and soon I was more accepted by the Slytherin of Hogwarts and I was then an interest to Draco Malfoy, Draco being a part of the Death Eaters as well as another Order, I still know very little about, though it was through him I discovered that there was to be an attack on Hogwarts, and sure enough Professor Snape also backed that statement up, so I did the one thing I consider very brave and very stupid.
I let it be leaked so that there were very few students here when the attack occured, and then the part I will bear my own demon's for, I allowed Goyle to take the fall for the information being leaked.
War is never a kind or forgiving force.
On March,3rd 1998 at excactly 4 am, it truely began,The Ministry of Magic was the first attacked so they were disoriented and not able to deal with the three attacks that followed, One in France, One in Germany and the last in Hogsmead itself,those children that had gone into Hogsmead for the weekend, nothing could be done for them, I was busy in Hogwarts,when I finally heard about it.
When the attack finally hit Hogwart's there was a mist of suspision every where and people were at each other's throats, it was a darkness that even I could see no light in, but as always I found my way,with the help of my friends.
This of course was just one of many attacks on Hogwarts, targeting Headmaster Dumbledore, the only other person, that I knew that had power enough to face down Voldermort.
For his part Voldermort never showed himself, to those in Hogwart's prehaps he felt it above him, prehaps not but his Dark Reval's became much darker.
It was during this time that Ginny Weasley was inducted into the Sisterhood,I had gone to McGonagall and explained to her the whole situation and showed her the fact I had been marked, I didn't right not telling her.
Little did I know who Ginny Weasley's mission was, Draco Malfoy also a proclaimed Death Eater and follower to Lord Voldermort, I had seen him at revals and I felt that there was no bringing him back from the darkness he had been enveloped by, I admit even I could be wrong.
Ginny fell in love with the golden haired Slytherin, the two began to work together,still I said nothing for I felt there was a good reason for all of it.
Who ever said Love transends all things, should be given an award of some kind for he was very right.
The Order of the Golden Lioness had members world wide,even Professor Sprout had been recruited in her youth to it as well.She was often there for Ginny and I know that Ginny told her more then she told anyone else on the subject, but what ever secrets Professor Sprout possessed passed on with her, in the second attack.
Her words to me, were this I was the one to find her.
"There is no shadow with out light, and light with out darkness is blindness." those words came to mean much in the next year of the battles we endured.
She wiped her tears as she looked down at what she had just written and sighed softly, these days alot of it was hazy in her dreams and memory.All she knew was that she needed more information on what happened, with the Death Eaters and then the final battle and only one man possessed any idea,not even Dumbledore knew everything. He wouldn't know Severus had kept something from him, for there own sake.
She would have to do the hardest thing in the world for her, face the man who had saved her life,when at that time she only wanted to die and be left alone.
How would he take to her wanting to take a stroll down memory lane, would he go along with it. She wasn't sure, all she knew was she had to and if she didn't she'd never be able to complete the book, and another realization came to her, she herself would never be able to move out of the shadows to finally feel the sunlight on her face, if she didn't do this.
Draco had planned this, Once a Slytherin Always a Slytherin she thought to herself in mild amusement