AN- thanks to all the reviewers you guys are awesome! The best! The greatest! I'm back at school now after my two weeks holiday so it's back to doing homework instead of thinking up theories and story twists sorry! Some of you may have noticed I tried to fix up the first 2 chapters I just spread it apart a bit. Anyway on with the story!
The next few days passed slowly for Harry and Hermione both walked around in deep thought. Hermione was in her room getting ready for the day. Today they were going to Diagon Alley for the reading of Sirius' will. It was to be held in Gringotts since he had been cleared of all charges. Hermione somberly made her way downstairs where she saw Harry sitting on the couch.
"Harry?"
"Morning 'Mione" Hermione went and sat next to Harry.
"How are you?" she asked concerned.
"Well…you know I assume your going through the same thing"
"Yea"
"What did we do to deserve this Hermione?" Harry asked loudly "What did we do that was so wrong that we had to be punished like this?"
"It's unfair isn't it." She whispered "I'm glad you're here though Harry, I don't know what I would do without you"
Harry embraced Hermione tightly and whispered in her ear, "I'm not going anywhere 'Mione I promise"
"I hope not Harry cause I don't think I could survive. I love you"
"I love you too Hermione" the two sat comforting each other for a long while before heading down for breakfast.
Later that morning
"Harry you really should eat something it is going to be a long day" Minerva said concerned
"I'm fine. When do we leave?"
"Now if everyone is finished"
"Okay I'll just go grab my coat" Harry stood and quietly left the hall.
"Are you finished Hermione?"
"Yup"
"We should get going then. I'll meet you at Professor Dumbledore's office."
"Okay, I'll just go get Harry" Hermione stood and exited the hall through the same door Harry had walked through only minutes earlier.
Hermione found Harry climbing out of the portrait hole just as she was about to go in.
"Are you ready" She said quietly.
"No…but I don't really have a say in the matter."
"I'll just go grab my coat. Wait for me here?"
"Sure" Harry waited patiently at the portrait as Hermione somberly walked up to the girls dormitory. In a few minutes Hermione came back down and walked out of the common room. Before she could walk 2 steps some strong arms wrapped around her.
"Thank-you Hermione"
"I love you Harry and I will be beside you all day."
"I know and I appreciate it. A lot." Harry gave her one last squeeze then grabbed her hand like it was some lifeline. Together they made their way to the headmaster's office.
The reading
"I, Sirius Black, being of sound mind and body do hereby state the following as my last will and testament. As executor in charge of the Black estate, with full ownership of the properties and funds therein, I bequeath the following:
Firstly I would like to make it clear that any of my dear cousins cannot contest for anything of the following:
To Mr. Remus Lupin I leave all the gold in vault 210 as well as a room in the 'Noble and most Ancient house of Black'.
To Albus Dumbledore I leave the sum of 15,000galleons. I would like would like you to keep using headquarters as headquarters for however long it is needed.
"To Nymphadora…"
"Humph" said Tonks
"…Sorry Tonks… I leave everything in vault 543 to make up for the poor way my family treated you…you were my favorite cousin by the way.
To Minerva McGonagall I leave the sum of 15,000 galleons to say sorry for all the grey hair I caused along with Remus, James and the other one, it might be enough to pay for all the hair dye." Everyone laughed appreciatively at this statement. " I would also like you to be in charge of the vault 994. It is for the Gryffindor Quidditch team to buy brooms and equipment as long as you don't make Harry captain.
"Like hell! Keep it!" she said angrily
"I bet you just told me to keep it didn't you? Well I suppose you can have both (Harry as captain and the money) it was just so that everyone knew he wouldn't be made captain because of it
To the Weasleys I leave everything in vault 650. You deserve it.
To Fred and George Weasley I leave a special book that you will find in the 650 vault as long as you don't show your mother.
To Ron Weasley I leave an extra 1000 galleons for stealing (or trying to) your pet rat.
To Hermione Granger, you may have all the books in the library at headquarters. I also leave 1000 galleons for being so good to my godson. He needs you, look after him.
"Lastly to Harry James Potter. I leave you everything in vaults 330, 789,521 and 46. I also leave you the black manor and everything in it. You may come across some inventions and trunks in the vaults, which I'm sure Remus will be happy to show you. There is also a few of your parent's possessions, which I collected from their house. I have left the matter of your guardianship out of the will so far and ask that you let Albus deal with it, I have already discussed it with him. I wont you to know Harry that if I died protecting you, you shouldn't feel guilty about it, and it's what I wanted. Don't beat yourself up hopefully I died in action and not at the hands of the ministry. I love you Harry and I don't think I ever told you that. I'm sorry for not being around for you in the first 13 years of your life, please forgive me. I also want to say sorry for frightening you in your 3rd year. Look after yourself Harry I'll be watching over you with James and Lily.
All my love Sirius.
Hermione gently squeezed Harry's hand as the tears flowed freely down his cheeks. He squeezed her hand back to let her know he was fine and stood and left the room.
Back at Hogwarts
"Harry?" Hermione asked concerned as they landed back in Dumbledore's office via portkey along with Minerva and Albus.
"I'm fine 'Mione…I just need some time to myself" he said quietly then walked out of the office.
"He'll be fine Hermione…why don't you come down to my room and we can have a cup of tea or something? Hmmm?" Minerva asked kindly
"Sure." Hermione left the office heading for her mother's private quarters. Minerva followed leaving Albus in the office by himself.
Hermione couldn't help but wonder where Harry was and what he was doing. Today had been hard on all of them but on Harry in particular. Ron hadn't made matters any better either.
Flashback
Harry was standing by the door waiting for Hermione when he saw Ron walking towards him. Ron had obviously not seen him thought Harry as Ron walked past not saying anything to him. "Ron" Harry said loudly
"What?" he said angrily
"I…uh…just wanted to know if you got my letter?" Harry asked uncertainly.
"Yea I did Thanks" Ron replied stiffly
"Oh…well you didn't reply so I was just wondering if you were okay with it?"
"It's not like you would change your mind about her if I weren't. Just leave me alone Harry. I'll see you later." With that Ron stalked off his ears red.
"Harry?" Hermione was behind him she had heard the conversation, Ron couldn't have been more tactless on day like this, especially when Harry was already upset. "Harry, don't listen to him."
End of flashback"Hermione?" Hermione stopped day dreaming and looked at her mother.
"Are you okay? You looked a little lost dear."
"Oh I was just thinking. I'm fine. Honestly."
"Poppy said you might get like this. You still haven't recovered fully from the Department of Mysteries."
"I'm fine! I was just thinking about Ron." She stated.
"How did things go with him today?" Minerva asked then said the password to get into her rooms "lioness".
Hermione sat in her favorite seat on the couch while Minerva sat beside her with her legs curled under her. "You must have noticed"
"I noticed he wasn't sitting with you two at the table. I also saw him walking away from you and Harry just before the reading"
"Yea. He seemed really angry. I knew he would be like this! As if Harry wasn't already feeling sad, he just ignored him then when Harry did talk to him he got all angry and upset."
"Hmmm, maybe you should just let him have some more time to think about it. He will come to his senses." Minerva wrapped her arm around Hermione who was now leaning on her shoulder.
"We – the three of us – have been through so much he cant just let it all go, especially now."
"He will be back Hermione. You're right you have been through far too much. He cares for you and Harry, he wouldn't have gone all the way too the ministry if he didn't."
"I know. We were so stupid that night"
"You were doing what you thought was right. In this case yes it was a little bit stupid. What happened? Albus told me most of it but I was still weak and can't remember most of it. When I found out I almost had a heart attack, the healers told him not to surprise me like that when I was in that condition. Then you went to your parents and we never got to discuss it. Have you talked to anyone about what happened?"
"No one other than professor Dumbledore"
"Would you like to tell me about it? You don't have to but you shouldn't keep things bottled up."
"Well after your accident Harry had a vision, kind of like the one with Mr. Weasley. So he ran around the school trying to find a member of the order. He went to the hospital wing looking for you since professor Dumbledore wasn't here. When he got there madam pomfrey told him you weren't there. He almost went spare. Of course we tried to contact Grimmauld place to see if…if Sirius was all right. We completely forgot about Snape being in the order, although the way he treats us it's no wonder we forgot the slimy git."
"Hermione" Minerva said surprised by the hatred Hermione held for the potions professor.
"Then me and Harry led Umbridge into the forbidden forest where she got taken away by the centaurs. That was after she caught us using her floo. Harry and I were trying to think of a way to get to London when Ginny, Ron, Neville and Luna showed up. Harry told us that he would take a thestral to London while we remained here. Of course we weren't going to do that and finally he let us come with him. I had tried to tell him it would be a trap but he wouldn't listen, I wasn't going to let him go by himself so decided to go anyway. We got there and Harry showed us the way into the place with all the prophecy's because he had been seeing the way into it all year.
"All year?"
"Yea he was having these dreams about doors and long corridors all year. He thought they were just about feeling trapped and lonely. Anyway we were in this aisle and found one with Harry's name on it. Then Lucius Malfoy and his gang came up beside us and cornered us. Lestrange broke some of the prophecies with her wand then Harry stood on my toes and told me to smash the shelves when he said now. I told all the other's as Harry tried to keep the death eaters distracted. When Harry said now we all smashed as many prophecies as possible. Then I heard Harry yelling at us to run then all of a sudden he grabbed my robes and began pulling me with him. We ran around trying to get away from them. There was only Harry and Neville and I, the others had gone the wrong way. The death eaters found us and all three of us got hit with impedimenta. I got thrown across the room and hit a bookshelf and all these books fell on me. Then I silenced one of the men and he hit me with that curse. I can't really remember too much, I can sort of remember what happened after cause I could still hear a little bit. Harry came over to me and kept trying to tell me to wake up. I don't really know what happened after that you'd have to ask Harry. Apparently Neville carried me for a while then left me with Ron, Ginny and Luna while him and harry went to fight. I just remember waking up in the hospital wing and Harry not being there. I could see the others, but not Harry, I thought…I thought he might have died. Dumbledore came and talked to me for a while and explained everything about what had happened after I was knocked out. It was terrible mum I don't want to have to go through anything like that again."
"That's what you've been saying for the last 5 years dear"
"I know and every year it gets worse. Please don't leave me again, when I woke up and you weren't there I was so scared."
"I wont. I promise I wont go running into Dolores Umbridge in the middle of the night any more."
"I think she was scared that if she did it during the day you would hex her into next week"
"I would have too. No I won't go anywhere, you're stuck with me for a while yet."
" I wouldn't have it any other way," Hermione said smiling hugging Minerva fiercely.
A/N – that's it again for another chapter see ya soon I hope I got a little stuck with writers block for a while!