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Ch. 3 A Discovery

After holding a teachers meeting, Dumbledore and the others decided to continue school and keep an eye out for the people who poisoned the antidotes. They had a faint idea that it was connected to Voldemort because the potion was so advanced and unknown, but they had no proof, so they just had to keep an eye out. In the meantime Harry and Draco were floated over to a safer, private part of the hospital ward for protection while Dumbledore and the others looked for ways to help them. Hermione and Ron were given rights to the restricted section and to Dumbledore's private library to help find a cure for the potion or any way to help. So far they had found nothing.

"This is hopeless!" Ron shouted frustrated.

"Don't give up Ron! Harry's counting on us." Hermione said near tears.

She and Ron had been in the Gryffindor Common room for the past 5 hours searching through books for a cure.

"I know, but I've been through all these books before. There's nothing in them." Ron said with a frown.

"I know, but we could have missed something. What time is it?" Hermione asked.

"Six-o-clock. Why?" Ron replied.

"I need to feed Crookshanks, that's all." Hermione said.

"Oh, all right. Take a little break. You've been working really hard." Ron said sweetly. Hermione got up and kissed Ron.

"Thanks for caring." She said.

"Your welcome. Better hurry and feed the terror. He might attack me again." Ron said jokingly.

"Yeah." She replied as she walked out to her doom room. Approaching her bed where Crookshanks was sitting, she saw a big black book right next to him.

"What's this Crookshanks?" Hermione asked.

Crookshanks meowed and nudged the book towards Hermione. Taking the hint she grabbed the book. As she looked at the book she recognized it as her advanced divinations book her parents had gotten her for her 13th birthday when she had decided to take divination studies. She had forgotten she had it after she dropped out of Trelawney's class.

"You want me to read this Crookshanks?" Hermione asked.

Crookshanks meowed loudly and purred. Hermione took that as a yes and opened the book. As she looked through the book she saw many interesting chapter titles, such as 'Seeing Tragedies? Here's What to Do' and 'What to do if you see the end of the world.' But there was one that caught her eye. The title was 'Ghosts, Spirits, Souls, and other thoughts of the other world.' Then she remembered that Harry was a soul right now and may soon head to the other world. She turned to the part about souls and started reading.

'The soul is still a mystery to most wizards. It is considered the spiritual part of all living beings that goes to the after life. It is also the part that gives people their intelligence, personality, and all around attitude. Souls cannot be seen or heard by normal witches or wizards unless aided by difficult potions or spells. Some gifted seers and some intelligent animals can sometimes hear souls but it is very rare. Souls have also been known to posses willing people to give farewells and messages to the living.'

Hermione looked, but couldn't find any more about souls. She sighed and thought about what she had read. If souls could poses willing people, maybe there was some hope. Maybe. She ran down the stairs to Ron and let him read the paragraph. After a brief second they decided to go tell Dumbledore about what they had read.

They ran to Dumbledore's office, said the password (Never Ending Gobstoppers), and showed him the book. As he looked at the chapter his eyes got a bright twinkle and he told them to follow him. He led them out of his office and up to the North tower, right to Trelawney's incenses filled room.

A.N: Hey guys!
I hope to continue this fic in either spare time or whenever I get stuck on my other fic. This is technically a secondary fic, so bare with me.

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