Chapter Summary: In which a pensive is used; the truth is seen and a mission is started.

Disclaimer: See Chapter One for full disclaimer

A/N: Once again, I've fast-forward through time in this chapter. I'm doing it because it's getting toward the end and I need certain things to happen before I end it. I hope I don't confuse anyone. And it's a bit late and I apologise for any mistakes.


Chapter Ten - Pensives

Hermione was more than happy to help them get Snape's pensive. It was easy for her to do since Snape had taken to going away every weekend without her. Hermione didn't mind it much; it gave her time to visit Molly and have tea with her.

She wasn't doing it to get on Ron's good side. She was doing because she truly liked Molly's company and Hermione knew that Molly missed Ginny.

Remus had set it up for Hermione to come and stay at the loft during one weekend. He had tried, several times, to tell Morgan what they were planning but the time never seemed right. He didn't quite know how she'd take his idea so he figured he'd tell her after Hermione arrived.

It was a late Friday night when Hermione arrived at the lot. Harry answered the door since Morgan was napping and Luna was busy with Nicholas. They made small talk and Hermione told Harry that Snape had taught her how to use the pensive and she'd be happy to show Morgan how to do it.

They were in the middle of having tea when Remus showed up. He frowned when he saw Hermione, knowing that he'd have to tell Morgan what they had planned.

Morgan, on the other hand, already knew about it since Luna had told her. After all, they were best friends and never kept anything from each other. She took the news well, even though she was a tad upset with Remus for not being honest with her.

Hermione used all day Saturday to teach Morgan about the pensive and how to extract her memories. By Sunday morning, Morgan was ready to use the pensive and all of them were anxious to solve the mystery.

Luna spent most of the morning trying to find a child minder to watch Nicholas while they used the pensive. She didn't think he needed to see what they were going to do. But no one was free and Luna had begun to think that she wouldn't be able to go. That was until Ron showed up.

He was there to see Harry and was surprised to see Hermione there. They explained to him what they were about to do. Ron, who understood the impotency of it, offered to watch Nicholas for them.

After Ron took Nicholas to a different room, Morgan started the process of putting her memories, from that day, into the pensive. When she was finished, she looked at all of them and sighed. "Ready?" she asked.

Everyone nodded and prepared to go into her memories. For Harry, Hermione and Remus, who all had done it before, it was a piece of cake. But for Morgan, it was all a bit unnerving.

When they stopped falling, they were outside of Morgan's grandmother's house. They looked at the other Morgan, who was sitting on the steps.

"Is Ginny here yet?" asked Remus, looking around.

"No," said Morgan. "She'll be here in a few seconds though."

A loud pop sounded and they turned around to see Ginny standing there. It was bittersweet for all of them to see her, so alive and happy. They quietly watched as Ginny and the other Morgan spoke and walked into the house.

"How long do you show her the house until the attack?" asked Hermione as all of them walked into the house.

Morgan, who was busy watching herself show Ginny the sitting room, turned and looked at Hermione. "Not long," she answered.

Hermione nodded her head just as a loud thud came from upstairs.

"What was that?" asked Harry.

"Probably some animal. There's a lot of them in the woods and sometimes they wander up to the houses," said the other Morgan, pulling her wand out. "I'll go check on it while you look around some more."

"This is where my memory gets fuzzy," said Morgan as all of them watched the other Morgan walk out of the room.

Luna turned and watched Ginny walk into the study and disappear. She wanted to follow her but since this was Morgan's memory, she wouldn't know what Ginny was doing while she was in the other room.

"Let's follow her," said Remus.

They stepped out into the long hallway but it was completely dark.

"I think this is where I block it out," said Morgan.

"Well, if you concentrate hard, you'll be able to push through and your memories will show us what happened," explained Hermione.

Morgan sighed. She had a bad feeling about it and didn't want to go any further. It felt as if something bad would happen once they saw what had attacked her and Ginny.

"Morgan," said Remus, touching her arm. "We have to know what's out there."

She nodded her head and closed her eyes. She pictured the day she'd been there, months before, and thought hard. Soon, the hallway reappeared and they could see the other Morgan, standing at the bottom of the stairs.

"Come on," said Harry, motioning them to follow him.

They stepped into the room and watched the other Morgan. She stepped onto the landing and looked at the steps. Then they heard a low growling.

"What is that?" asked Hermione.

Before anyone could answer her, the creature jumped out and knocked the other Morgan back, onto the floor. They could hear her head hitting the hardwood beneath it.

"Is that a werewolf?" asked Luna, moving closer to Harry.

"Yes," answered Remus as he gripped his hand around his wand.

They watched as the werewolf mounted Morgan and placed its massive paw on her throat. Luna almost jumped forward to help her but then remembered it was a memory and there was nothing she could do.

"I couldn't breathe," whispered Morgan as she placed her hand on her throat. "There's more coming."

All of them turned toward the hallway and saw at least eight more werewolves. They turned their attention back to other Morgan and the werewolf that had attacked her.

"Why isn't it attacking you?" asked Harry as the werewolf sniffed at the other Morgan and then growled at the rest of the werewolves.

"I don't know," said Morgan.

The other werewolves left the room just as the memory started to shift.

"This is where I loose consciousness," said Morgan.

All of them watched in silence as the memory stopped shifting. In front of them laid the other Morgan but now Nicholas was standing over her, slapping her face.

"Ginny!" yelled the other Morgan, standing up and stumbling a bit.

"No!" cried Nicholas, grabbing her arm. "We don't have time!"

"I don't know if I can watch anymore," said Morgan, rubbing her stomach.

"It'll be all right," said Remus, taking her hand.

They watched as the other Morgan took off her robe and placed it around Nicholas before walking toward the sitting room.

"I think this is when I find Ginny's body," said Morgan, looking at the rest of them.

"You may not want to see this Hermione," said Harry, touching her arm.

"I'll be all right," reassured Hermione before following them to the sitting room.

When they arrived, the other Morgan was telling Nicholas to floo to her flat. They watched Nicholas run to the fireplace and disappear within the green flames. They then turned back toward the other Morgan.

She was working, desperately, on Ginny. She took her jumper off and placed it over Ginny's body and started to rock herself.

"I'm sorry, Ginny. I really am. I tried to help you but I couldn't," cried the other Morgan.

"Oh! Merlin!" said Hermione, turning away from Ginny's body. She had no idea how bad it really was.

"I want to leave," said Morgan. "We know what happens next."

"Seen enough?" asked Harry, looking over at Remus.

"I have," said Remus, who was in deep thought about the werewolves they'd seen.

They carefully pulled themselves out of the pensive to find Ron waiting for them. He gave them a look, hoping they'd found something out.

"Where's Nicholas?" asked Luna as she rubbed her hands together.

"He's sleeping," said Ron. "What happened?"

Remus motioned for Ron to sit down. He didn't quite know how he was going to tell Ron about what had killed Ginny, since he didn't understand it himself. Maybe what Professor Harrison had said was the truth.

"I don't know how to explain it to you Ron but your sister was killed by a pack of werewolves," said Remus.

Ron furrowed his brow. "Werewolves? But I thought she was killed in the middle of the day!"

"She was and it wasn't even a full moon," said Remus. Ron gave him another confused look. "I don't know how to explain it because I don't even understand it."

"Maybe what Professor Harrison told us was the truth," said Luna, walking back in with some tea. "Maybe some werewolves can shift on their own."

"What are you lot bloody talking about?" asked Ron. "Since when can werewolves shift on their own? They need the moon for that, right?"

Remus sighed and took a cup of tea from Luna. He sat next to Morgan, who was sitting on the couch with Hermione. "Professor Harrison, who works for Oxford, believes that long ago werewolves taught themselves to shift at will. I didn't believe him but now I don't know."

"This is too much," said Ron, shaking his head. "Is there anyway we can find out for sure?"

"My memories have confirmed the fact that this Professor Harrison was right. Now we just need to find these werewolves before they kill someone else," said Morgan.

"Do you think they have a pattern as to who they attack?" asked Hermione.

Harry looked over at her and thought for a moment. "There might be. Don't you think they would have attacked Nicholas' neighbours too when they killed his uncle?"

"True," said Remus, scratching his chin. "I think perhaps we need to do a search of our own."

"What do you propose we do, Remus?" asked Luna.

"I think we need to go through the ministry's records for the past, let's say, ten years. We'll pull any file or record that mentions wild dogs or a pack of wolves killing or hurting someone. There might be some kind of pattern to their attacks," said Remus.

"That's going to be a lot of records to go through," said Morgan. "Wouldn't it just be easier to find Nicholas' father?"

"We know for a fact that Charles was a werewolf. He might be one of them," stated Harry. "Plus, how do we know he's still alive?"

Luna shook her head. She didn't want to think of her newfound family as murderers. "How about the Watkins?" she asked.

"Who are they?" asked Hermione.

Luna sighed. She didn't want to indulge Hermione with her family history. "They're a family that hated Nicholas' family. They killed several of his cousins and an aunt. The Ministry believed someone by the name of Emily Watkins did it," she explained.

"We looked for Emily when we found Nicholas," said Morgan, "but there's no records of her."

Hermione nodded her head and thought for a moment. "I have access to old records at Hogwarts. I can look there for her," she said.

"Thank you," said Ron, giving her a small smile. Hermione smiled back.

"It's settled then. We'll look through the Ministry's records and see what we can find," said Remus as he stood.

"I'll help too," said Ron. "Dragon taming isn't for me and my mum asked me to move back."

"The more, the better," said Remus, smiling at Ron.


The group of them would find exactly two hundred files reporting wild dog and wolf attacks. It took them a good three months to sort through all of them but they knew it was worth it.

Hermione and Ron started to grow closer as she spent less time with Snape. They both knew there was a chance that things would never be the same between them but they were still enjoying their time together.

Morgan slowly entered her final months of pregnancy and married Remus in a small ceremony at the Ministry. The searching was especially hard on Remus since he knew that if any of it ever became public knowledge, everything he'd worked for would be gone. No one would ever trust a werewolf again if they knew there was some that could shift at will.

Luna and Harry had busied themselves with making sure Tonks wouldn't find out about what they were doing. However, they underestimated her and by the second month of searching, she was helping them.

"Look at the map," said Hermione as she motioned toward a map of Scotland.

Morgan looked up from the table and eyed the map. They had been using it to track where most of the attacks had happened. She could see there was a pattern to their attacks, at least by location.

"That's the area my grandmother's house is in," said Morgan, slowly standing. She wobbled over to Hermione and studied the map. "I wonder if there's something in this area that attracts them to it."

"Like shelter or food?" asked Hermione.

"Yeah. It's that or they live in that area while in their human form."

"Do you really think they'd live and hunt in the same area?" asked Hermione as Nicholas and Ron came running through the room.

"What are you lot talking about?" asked Ron after Nicholas ran to the kitchen.

"The pattern on the map," explained Hermione.

Ron looked at the map and nodded. He was about to comment on it when Nicholas came running back in.

"I have a sleepover with Tony tonight," said Nicholas, referring to his new best friend, who lived down the street.

"Go get your stuff and I'll walk you down there," said Morgan.

"I can walk him," offered Ron. "I wouldn't want you to go into labour."

Hermione and Morgan both rolled their eyes. Nicholas came back with his bag and Ron left with him just as Tonks, Remus, Harry and Luna showed up.

"The map is finished," said Hermione.

"Good," said Remus, nodding. "We're heading out there right now. There's been another sighting. Maybe we can catch them before they leave."

"I'll get my cloak," said Morgan as Ron walked back in, out of breath.

"He made me run there and back," he laughed.

"You aren't coming with us," said Remus to Morgan.

"Why not?"

"You're eight months pregnant, that's why!"

"That's not fair!" huffed Morgan.

"We can stay here," said Hermione as she touched Morgan's arm. "We can work on the map some more."

"I guess," said Morgan.

Harry and Luna went and picked up some supplies. When they came back out to the living room, everyone told Hermione and Morgan goodbye and Disapparted.

"We should get this done," said Morgan standing. She quickly winced in pain and rubbed her lower back.

"All right, Morgan?" asked Hermione.

"Just some back pain. No big deal," she said.

Hermione nodded her head. "Lets forget about the map and make something to eat," she said.

Morgan smiled. "I am a bit hungry."

Hermione smiled back and the two of them went into the kitchen.

Coming Soon: Harry and gang arrive in Scotland and get into some trouble while Hermione and Morgan deal with problems of their own.