Chapter 11

Harry

          Hermione was on a plane home, home to her friends and family, and back to her regular life.  She sent letters to her parents and Ron telling them that she is coming back.  She didn't say why.  She just said she was coming home. 

          The plane landed and she got off.  She took her luggage and greeted her parents at the car. 

          "Hi Honey, how are you?"  Asked her mom, Hermione could tell her mom really missed her and hated that she was away for so long.

          "I'm okay, just glad to be home, you know." Said Hermione, she didn't want to tell them about Victor.

          "So, how was Siberia?" Asked her dad while he grabbed her bags.

          "Cold.  Um, mom, dad, can you drop me off at the Weasly's?"

          "But why!" Her mother cried out, "You just got home, don't you want to spend some time with us?!"

          "I do mom, but, Harry is at the Wizarding Hospital and I want to see him."

          "Okay, we'll take you there."

          The Granger family got in the car and drove off to Weasly's.  Hermione was glad she would see Ron, she had so much to tell him.  And she couldn't wait to see Harry.

Later

          Hermione knocked on the Weasly's door.  No answer.  She knocked again and Ron opened it.

          "Hermione!" He said.  He was so happy to see his friend.

          "Hi." Hermione gave him a big hug.  "I missed you."

          "I missed you too." Ron's ears went pink, immediately. "So, uh, how was Siberia."

          "It was cold."

"Did you find Victor?"

"Yeah."

"What happened?"

"Um, can we go somewhere private to talk about that?"

"Sure, we can go to my room, I put a seal on it so no one can hear anything in it."

          Ron and Hermione walked up the winding staircase and entered Ron's room.  He still had posters up of his favorite Quidditch team, and he had his school books scattered on his desk top.  His owl, Pig, was zooming around his room.  Ron walked over to the window and opened it.  Pig zoomed out.

          "Okay, so what really happened in Siberia?"  Asked Ron, very concerned.

          "Well, we met and he was real nice.  And when I told him that I still had a crush on him, and when I told him I thought of him, he said he did too, but he never finished his sentence.  And then I said that I loved him and I now knew that he loved me too so I gave him a kiss on the cheek and ran off before he even got to tell me-"  Hermione paused, thinking of the moment.

          "Before he told you what?"

          "That he had a girlfriend."

          "What?"

          "Yeah.  He was dating this girl named Natalie and he really loved her.  He also said that just because I was here didn't mean he was going to ditch his girl and stuff like that.  I would never think that he would hurt me."

          "But Hermione, he didn't know you where going to come, he didn't even have a chance to tell you he loved someone else, but that's okay."

          "Are you implying that it's my fault?  That my heart is broken because it's my fault?"

          "No, I just mean, it's life."

          "Don't you think we should just go visit Harry now?"

          Ron nodded.  They got in the car with the rest of the family and drove into Mungo's.  Hermione entered, she wasn't shocked by its interesting décor, but she was more shocked when she entered Harry's room. 

          His eyes where yellow, he had spit on his face, his hair was more untidy than usual, he was shaking, he kept on yelling out his parents names, crying for them to come and help him.  He then screamed in pain, he stopped shaking, his eyes rolled back.  The Healers started crowding around him.

          "What's going on?"  Asked Hermione to Ron.

          "Because of his disease, he sometimes thinks he is James, his dad, the night 'You-Know-Who' killed him.  The Healers say that once in a while, he feels some of the pain that 'You-Know-Who' inflicted on his parents."

          "That's terrible."

          "Yeah, it is, but it doesn't last long.  He will go back to the state you saw him in a minute ago."

          And sure enough, Harry was back to his shaking condition and his yellow eyes.

          "Good news though, they almost found a cure.  The Healers say that if they can have Harry reliving his dad's death while they perform, um, perform-"

          "The Avada Kedevra curse."

          "Yeah, then he'll start to come back and get better."

          "But what if that doesn't work?  What if it kills Harry?"

          "They say it's better to be dead than to live with the virus."

          "Oh god."

Chapter 12  coming soon!