Remus sat at his desk and rummaged trough his drawers. He got up and went to his shelf, selecting a red book call "Effective Detectors: Is There a Spell on You?" Hermione sat and played with her thumbs until Remus had found what he was looking for. "Hermione, what exactly do want to do if we do find that you have an enchantment on you? There are several choices." Hermione looked up, and asked, "What are my choices, Remus?" He leafed through the book and said, "It looks like we have three options. I can dispel it immediately and we will never know who put it on you, we can leave it until it wears off or…" Hermione had the feeling that neither choice was her style. She was not intending to ride this out. "What's my last choice?" "It's tricky Hermione, and maybe hard for you to mentally manage. The spell will let you clearly see the enchantment as soon as someone tells you what it really is. It may be purely in your mind, or based on some kind of physical being. If you are lucky, enough to see the enchantment when someone else is around and they tell you, you will be able to switch between the enchantment and reality. It takes a lot to balance this option Hermione, if it even works." Hermione nodded. "I want to do that."
Remus looked at her seriously. "Hermione, you're seriously emotionally overloaded as it is. I don't know if I should do this." Hermione stood up and walked to his desk. She looked him hard in the eye. "Remus, what else am I supposed to do? Let this person get away with it, or let it overload me until it wears me down?" He smiled, "Oh, Hermione if only you were a little older…" She shook her head. "If only things were different. But they aren't, and nothing can change until this is all over." She looked away, her eyes tearing up. The magical world had changed her life, made it so much more dangerous. She talked to her parents via flu powder every night now just to make sure they were okay. Ron had failed to mature again this year and Harry was still not over his godfather's death. She blinked and she felt Remus standing behind her. He was not sure what to do, she knew.
She turned around, put her arms around his shoulders and he hugged her. "Hermione…" She shook her head as she let go and wiped the tears away with her robe sleeve. "Do it for me Remus. This is one less complication in my life. You know I need that right now." He nodded and let go, and went to his desk. He pulled out a pensieve and handed it to her. "First you should really try to empty your mind of any extra worries." Hermione had to laugh, "Which ones do you think are extra?" He looked at her seriously, "Hermione, I won't do it unless you empty your head a bit." She took her wand out and began to draw out the thoughts. Victor, Harry, Ron, her parents and the Weasley family, her prefect duties came one after the other and dropped into the bowl.
When she opened her eyes, the bowl was almost brimming over. She raised her eyebrows as Remus chuckled and handed her a small silver brooch with a black stone in it. "What's this?" she asked as she pinned it to her uniform. "I put a counter-spell on that brooch while you were emptying your mind. Concentrate on the memory of that boy." She did so, and she heard Remus say, "Ah." "What?" she asked. "The stone turned blue, which confirms that there is an enchantment on you. You need to wear it from now on and hopefully you will be able to see that boy. Then you must get someone you trust to tell you the truth to tell you what it is. What you do after that is your choice." She asked, "How do I turn it off?" "You touch the stone and concentrate on the fact the enchantment is only in your mind. Remember that I told you this enchantment is mostly in your mind? This brooch acts as a sort of switch for your mind, while you focus on either ignoring or embracing the spell."
Hermione nodded and picked up her bag to leave. "One last thing, Remus. Did you mean what you said about me being older?" Remus responded in kind, "Did you mean what you said about after this is all over?" Hermione smiled, "An answer for an answer? Yes, I did." "So did I." She nodded and walked out, shutting the door behind her. She did not have time to think about Remus, Victor, or Harry now. Mostly she just wanted to sleep but there was still the DA meeting later on, and she had not even made it through the last of her classes. Granted Potions had been cancelled but she was tired and it wasn't even the end of a normal day. Of course, she thought, today hadn't exactly been a normal day.