AN:/ Heyy Heyy! Welcome back to another chapter of Is It Too Late? I am so sorry I have been MIA! Real life got in the way, but I am back and I hope this chapter makes up for me being away! I don't own the rights to Harry Potter that belongs to JK Rowling! Here is Chapter 2 of Is It Too Late?
Harry's Point of View:
I groan through another day of training. I was ready to go home and sleep. Ginny most likely wouldn't be home, but lately that has been the case. She would rather go out and party, or she would have training. I honestly was second guessing myself on if I was supposed to be with her. Though I shake that off, the only other woman I had been in love with had been Hermione. And, she was my best friend and she originally had been off limits because Ronald I scoffed at his very name and claimed he was in love with her. So I never tried anything, and now I was with Ginny and she was single since Ronald cheated on her. I had wished I had the sword of Gryffindor to stab through him when she found out. She doesn't leave Grimmlaund palace much anymore, and I admit I haven't been the best of friends to her as of late to check in on her. Maybe I should before heading home just to know she is okay. All the sudden I hear whispers. Hermione had come to the ministry?! She never came here unless she was dragged. I look at the lanky man, "You said Mage Granger was around here have you seen her?" I asked him.
He looks at me with a look I have known all too well as of late the hero complex look. It was also weird to call Hermione Mage Granger, but I will store that away for later. He nods, "Yeah she um came and wanted access to the veil! No one ever says no to a mage ever! They are rare nowadays! Could I get an autograph?" he asked me.
My eyes go wide the veil! Why in Godric's name would she be going to the veil room? I rush past him and grab the closest empty lift praying to every God and deity no one stops this lift. Like happened to be on my side as the lift opens up on the department of mystery floor. I book it and break open the door. I rush to the portal and pray she isn't doing something suicidal or if she is I make it in time. But, what I see shocks to my core! My parents and Remus are standing on the platform by the veil and I look down and Hermione is laying in my godfather's arms. "What did you do?" Sirius whispers, holding her pale body close to him.
She gives him a small smile and I shake my head already feeling the tears coming to my eyes. NO! I couldn't lose her! "I gave you all back to Harry '' she whispers looking up at me. I could see death in her eyes as she coughed blood. I knew her time was coming and I had to think fast. "I loved him with everything I had more than a brother." she whispers now looking at Sirius like she was afraid to see the rejection in my eyes which was the farthest thing from the truth. Why had I let Ronald have his way? Why did I not tell her how I felt? So many chances and I blew it and now I was going to lose her!
I fall down beside them and feel a familiar hand on my shoulder. I didn't need to look up to see Remus behind me."Hermione I love you too please you can't leave me your everything to me" I whisper to her wanting to reach out and hold her in my arms and never let her go. I could feel tears fall down my cheeks. I was losing my best friend, my other half, the love of my life!
She smiles her very Hermione smile that I feel like was reserved only for me. She never smiled like that around Ron or the Weasley's. It was my smile! She reaches for my face to no doubt wipe the tears away from my face, but I don't feel her touch. I crave it, I need it, but I can see her fading before my eyes. "Live for me Harry, be happy I gave you back your family." she whispers her breath is coming out weaker blood is seeping out. I felt my heart breaking and a piece of my soul reaching out to her begging it not to leave. "I love you Harry James Potter forever" she whispers and her eyes close.
Her body like smoke as it starts to seep towards the veil. NO! I would not lose her! I quickly stood and pointed my wand towards her soul. I had one chance at this and I prayed it worked. "Framious" I shout and yellow stream of magic shoots out of my wand surrounding her soul. And then a bright light so bright I have to cover my eyes. Soon it fades and I look over and see a golden frame laying on the ground. I rush to it and lean it against the wall closest to me. She is there looking around in confusion. "Hermione?" I whisper.
She looks at me with confusion in her eyes. "Harry? What happened? What did you do?" she whispers to me.
I smiled at her, "I couldn't live without you, I couldn't let you die!" I told her.
She looks from me to the veil. I look and see it growing angry. I look at my parents, Remus, and Sirius. "You cheated death, you need to get out of here Harry! Run!" she screams at me.
I grabbed her and nodded at my family. We booked it out of the department of mysteries and shut the door. I felt the heat as soon as the door closed. We had made it but just close. "Let's all meet at Grimmlaund and we can talk there there is a floo down the hall I would rather not explain to people why we are walking with four dead people who are clearly not dead, and why I have Hermione Granger stuck in a frame!" I tell them. We make it to the floo thankfully not running into anyone and make it to our destination. Hermione had made this place homey. I just wished I could have been the one to help her. Make this place our home. I set her on the fireplace and I embraced my parents who I had never known because of Voldemort. Hermione had been willing to sacrifice herself so I could have them back. I would not take this gift in vain. But, I felt a great deal of anger. I pull away and storm towards her portrait! "Hermione Jean Granger, how dare you!" I snarl! "What the fuck were you thinking! Were you not thinking of how I would feel? If I had read in the prophet you were dead? Or to hear it from my dead family you sacrificed yourself! Did you not think about me at all?" I yell at her.
The day's events are coming crashing down on me. I had almost lost her! I had almost been to late! She looks at me with sad eyes. "I always think of you Harry. My whole childhood since first year has been about you Harry. Keeping you safe! Standing beside you! Even when no one else would! Being ridiculed by your best friend and always apologizing first when it should have been the other way around! You are everything to me! I always think of you first! Harry James Potter! I was fine with dying today. It gave you the family you always wanted! You never came around anymore! I wasn't needed!" she snarls back at me.
Was this woman daft! "YOU ARE MY FUCKING FAMILY HERMIONE!" I screamed back at her.
She shakes her head at me, tears falling down her face. "I LOVED YOU HARRY JAMES POTTER WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING! IF I WAS YOUR FUCKING FAMILY YOU WOULD HAVE COME TO SEE ME! CHECKED ON ME! I WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED YOU TO THE ENDS OF THE DAM EARTH! I WOULD HAVE TAKEN THE KILLING CURSE FOR YOU! YOU ARE EVERYTHING TO ME! YOU WERE MY GOD DAM SOULMATE BUT YOU STILL CHOOSE HER!" She screams and then covers her mouth like she said something she wasn't supposed to.
I look at her in shock. Soulmate? "Kitten, what are you talking about? No one knows their soulmates unless they have seen the book of souls and only the unspeakable can look into it" Sirius says.
She shakes her head, "I have said too much I am going to try and rest for a while. Harry you should get back Ginny should be home soon and you wouldn't want her to know you were here. Or what happened today. She might go off her rocker and burn this portrait. She doesn't like you around me. I've been told well warned off enough." She covers her mouth again. "Hermione, you need to learn how to shut up" she whispers.
But, I heard her. "Warned off? Hermione what is going on. Has Ginny been telling you to stay away from me?" I snarl going to tell Ginny off. Hell maybe block all Weasley access from any Potter vaults and properties.
She sighs and nods, "Harry you have to understand…." she starts to say.
But, I cut her off, "There is nothing for me to understand Hermione the Weasleys with the exception of a few have fucked with the wrong family. I will deal with them personally! No one messes with my family!" I snarl. And I headed to the floo I needed to talk to Kingsley to let him know about the people back from the dead. I had to find a way to get Hermione out of the portrait and ask her how to complete our soulmate bond, and of course then marry her and continue the line of Potter. Thankfully I always cast a spell on myself every time me and Ginny were intimate. And, I had to proclaim war between the House of Potter and the House of Weasley. No one messed with my family and got away with it. I just am glad I wasn't too late to save Hermione.
AN: So much packed into one chapter! I am quite proud of this chapter and all the emoitions I was able to convey! Do you agree?I will update soon! You excited for the dominate angry Lord Harry James Potter? Oh I am so ready! No one messed with a Potter family!