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---- Severus Snape left the great hall glumly, thinking about how he was going to make Sirius Blacks life a living hell, "maybe he'll eventually quit!' he thought to himself gleefully.

Being so rapt up in how to make Blacks life a living hell he didn't see the crumpled form lying on the ground in front of him.

Tripping over the prone body and landing right on top of it with a great 'thunk'; he could barely hear the moan that came from the body beneath him.

---- Sirius Black had seen Snape leave the great hall and was running to catch up to him so that they could research a way to strengthen the Wolfs Bain potion for Remus Lupin.

Turning the last corner that leads to the dungeons, where Snape lived, he saw the pile of bodies in the middle of the corridor.

Thinking it was just some seven years that had gotten a bit too carried away; he grabbed the person on top by the scruff of the neck pulled them off the floor. Sirius was extremely surprised that in his hand he held Snape, looking down at the body on the floor he saw a very close to naked Hermione.

Snarling he threw the professor in his hand against the wall and held him there by a arm underneath the chin.

"You really are a sick bastard, what the hell do you think you're doing?" shouted Sirius

"You really are a stupid dog, you now that? Look dumb ass I was going down to my room when I tripped over her," snapped Snape

Relaxing his arm a little, not realizing he had Snape at least a foot off the floor, Sirius asked, "Then why the hell didn't you get off her?"

"Because I was trying to do it with out causing her more pain. I don't know if you realized, but she has a dislocated shoulder."

Sirius took a closer look at the body on the floor, trying not to stare at the not so flat Hermione, he realized that she had a huge gash on her forehead as well as a black eye.

The list of her injuries kept going, deciding that he had looked at her too long he released Snape, that he had not realized he still held, he walked over to her took of his cloak and wrapped it around her body.

Picking her up in his arms he started walking telling Snape over his shoulder to go and get Dumbledore.

Walking as fast as he could trying not to shake the unconscious body in his arms.

It taken him longer then he had hoped to get to the hospital wing. The trip had been long due to the fact that Peeves had gotten in his way. Sirius could not have drawn his wand, because of Hermione in his arms, but he did silently make a promise to himself that he was going to get the poltergeist back for slowing him down.

By the time he got there, Dumbledore and Snape were waiting.

All Snape did was raise one of his greasy brows, feeling the need to explain himself he told them the difficulties he had had with Peeves.

Saying nothing more after that he quickly walked over to the hospital bed Madame Pomfrey was waiting beside and laid her down.

The Mediwitch quickly shooed him away and closed the curtains, so that she could begin her examination on her first patient of the year.

The three of them stood there for what seemed to be like forever in Sirius' mind. The Mediwitch came out about 15 minuets later and told the waiting wizard what information she could gather by looking over Hermione's body.

"She has been raped and badly beaten, telling by how much blood there is she was probably a virgin. She has dislocated her left shoulder and the gash on her forehead might leave a scar. As good as I am, I plan on letting the gash heal on it's on because of the risks to her. She has a concussion and will probably sleep for three days, more than a week I think it would be safe to say she has gone into a coma. To say whether or not she'll remember what happens, well we'll have to find out when she wakes up. The bruises are easy enough to fade away ever though she'll still feel them. The only thing I can do is relocate the shoulder, give her a birth control potion, fade the bruises and give her a dreamless sleep potion. When she wakes up I can give her something to ease the pain, but that sums up what I can do for her."

Having said that the Mediwitch turned around and went back to her patient, leaving no room for either questions or arguments.

The three wizards stood there staring at the closed curtains.

"Well, I think I can say that this is easily that this is the worst first day in decades," said the headmaster being the first one to absorb what had just been said by the Mediwitch.

"Albus is there a potion or charm that we could use to find out who her attackers were," question Sirius.

"There is, but to do the spell Miss Granger has to give her consent and also has to be awake. If what Poppy says is true and Miss Granger does not wake for three days then the evidence of her rape that would have helped us find out who it was, would be of no use. And most importantly the charm needs to be done within 24 hours," replied Dumbledore looking very glum.

"Who would do this? She's always had the highest grades in the school, but that does not mean she'll get raped. I can't think of any other reason why somebody could do this," questioned Snape who had finally snapped out of his daze.

"Well the only thing we can do is keep this a secrete and maybe when she wakes up she'll be able to tell us what happened," answered Albus.

"What if she does not remember, I don't want her to feel like she's haunted by the past. I've been there and I don't want that for her, she's to young for something this devastating to happen to her. And most of all if it happens that she does not remember, how the hell are we supposed to tell her what happened. 'Oh great you're awake and by the way your not a virgin anymore because you were raped, now get to class,' Yah I bet she'll take that well." Sirius could see no easy answer for the young witch. "Should we just erase her mind of this evening completely?"

"Yes let's do that, so that for the rest of her life she'll always have this feeling in the back of her mind that things just don't add up," Snape replied sarcastically. "That answer easily proves that you do not know Miss Granger very well, she asks to many questions to be satisfied with an easy answer"

"I think I'll have to agree with Severus on that, Miss Granger would never be happy until she knows every detail. I'm sure you'll find that out when she's back in class," Dumbledore had said this with a slight twinkle in his eye. "All we can do know is wait until she wakes up and deal with it from there."

Having said that the Headmaster left the Hospital wing.

Deciding there was nothing he could do at the moment with Hermione still unconscious and not really wanting to talk to Snape about what he had originally gone looking for him for, Sirius quickly left the Hospital wing.

Severus was slowly going through his own personal list of suspects so he did not notice the new DADA professor leave. Shaking his head unable to even find Gryffindor guilty in his mind he left the Hospital wing.

Madame Pomfrey had finished with Hermione a while ago so the only movement in the Hospital wing was the slow rise and fall of Hermione's chest.

A/N: I know I said the chapters would be longer but not yet. I would like to thank all those reviewers again for helping with my ego, this truly does mean a lot to me.

Next chapter Hermione wakes up! The only question is whether she remembers or not.

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