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Chapter 7

"So killed or be killed" Ron said, restating what he was just told. "I can't believe this, why didn't Dumbledore tell you sooner?"

"I guess he thought I couldn't handle it."

Ron looked at Harry and saw he looked uncomfortable.

"Hey mate, are you sure you don't wanna talk about it?"

"I'm fine. We should probably get some sleep."

Harry got up to go to bed.

"Yeah ok" Ron said standing up. He cleared his throat. "So, I met this Avery person the other day, and I don't like him."

Harry laughed. "Ron, you don't like any of Ginny's boyfriends."

"No, but this one I really don't like."

Harry just shook his head and continued up the stairs, while Ron tried to persuade Harry to see his point of view.

"I'm serious, I can tell he's bad news"

"How" Harry asked.

"By the way he looks and talks"

"Ok" Harry decided to humor him, even though he thought he was just being paranoid. "Well, what did he say?"

Ron stopped short "Uh, all he said was 'hi'... but it was the way he said it that—

Harry just looked at him weird.

"What?" Ron asked innocently.

Once again Harry just shook his head and decided against commenting. "Good night."

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Hermione woke with a start, she had a bad feeling in her chest and her dreams refused to let her sleep. She decided to go to the bathroom. Hermione looked herself over in the mirror and splashed cold water on her face. She was paler than usual.

Suddenly a pain shot in her head and she heard a voice, it was shouting.

"Come! Come!" It repeated. "Leave your positions! Follow!" It shouted over and over again," she couldn't stop it, and the pain was getting even more unbearable.

"Hermione, Hermione!"

She jerked awake. "Where am I?, Ahh.." She put her hands up to her eyes, It was morning and the sun was shining. She felt the coolness of the bathroom tiles against her body. She must have passed out. She quickly got up.

"Are you okay?" Ginny asked, her face was panic stricken.

"I'm fine" Hermione told her, but she didn't looked convinced.

"I just have a headache, that's all."

"Hermione, this is the second time—

"I said, I was fine Ginny"

"No your not," Ginny kept her voice to a whisper so the other girls wouldn't over hear. "You keep complaining about you headaches! Now I didn't tell Harry or Ron yet, but I think you should go see Madam Pomfrey before I do."

"I don't—

Lavender walked in.

"Hello" they both acknowledged her.

Lavender nodded in reply.

"I'm fine" Hermione said one last time and left.

When she was alone, she quickly performed the spell for her headache. Next she reached into her drawer and pulled out the locked Harry gave her. Seeing it again, made her smile. She put on and admired it in the mirror. It was perfect, she thought, completely flawless.

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"Phoebe, what are you talking about?" Piper asked.

"I'm saying I lied."

"Why would you lie about a premonition?"

"Because, I don' know...I saw Angel and them, and I didn't want to worry them with the truth."

Paige looked at her inquiringly. "And what exactly is the truth?"

Phoebe took a deep breath while Piper studied her.

"I saw, the girl"

"Hermione?" Paige asked.

"Yeah" She spoke quietly. "She was killed by a wizard."

"What?" Paige asked in disbefief. "No, that can't happen. My charge can't die."

"It won't come to that," Phoebe told her. "Were going to save her."

"Oh my gosh, I can't believe this," Paige went on "I have to go find her."

"No, wait Paige." Piper grabbed he arm before she made it out the door and turned her around. "No one is going to die. Were going to stop this. Now, Phoebe, when did this happen?"

"I'm not sure"

"Phoebe!"

"What? All I know is it happened at night. That means it could be tonight or a week from now."

"Please tell me you know where she was when it happened." Piper asked

"Heh, your not going to like this"

"Where was she?"

Phoebe sighed. "In a stone corridor."

"Heh, great. Just great! So all we know is that my charge dies at night, which lets see, happens everyday! And she's somewhere inside the whole fricken castle!"

"Hey! I'm sorry I can't recognize the castle, that I've been in for one day, enough to exactly pinpoint her position, but I'm trying!"

"Well maybe if you got better premonitions—

"Oohhhh, well maybe--

"Hey, Hey, Hey! Break it up! You guys, we have to stick together on this. Does the power of 3 ring a bell?" Piper looked at both of them. They both took a seat on their beds. They knew Piper was right.

"I say we do what we came here to do. Our best plan is to teach her how to control her powers, so she can defend herself when the time comes."

"Your right," Phoebe sighed. "Were sorry"

"We should probably go find her. If we just tell her who we are, it'll be easier to teach her how to use her powers" Paige suggested.

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Hermione walked to Transfiguration with Harry and Ron. They made it just in time for the bell.

Professor Mcgonagall walked in seconds after they did.

"Good Morning class. Today, we are going to work on specifics. Someone name a color."

Someone yelled out "Green!"

"Green, alright, now a type of drink...okay pumpkin juice. Okay now, watch my wrist movement and repeat after me...Sescantava"

Everyone repeated in unison while following the movement.

Then she changed the book into a green goblet filled with pumpkin juice. "Okay, now you try."

Hermione got it on her 3rd try. They used the rest of the period to practice.

"Neville...Neville! Stop! Your going to blow something up. Now watch again." Hemrione did the wrist movement slowly as his eyes followed her hand.

"Everyone pack up!" Mcgonagall shouted over the class, seconds later the bell rang signaling the end of the period. "Everyone stay seated! I have your test scores to handout. Once you get it you may leave."

"Potter, Brown, Malfoy, Weasly, Patil, Parkinson, Thomas..." and the names kept going.

"You guys can go ahead I'll catch up when I get my test." Hermione told them.

"Alright, we'll meet you in the common room."

"...and Ms. Granger." She was the last one. "Ms. Granger, I called you last for a reason, we need to talk."

"About what Professor?"

Mcgonagall handed her the test.

Hermione froze. Her question was answered as soon as she saw the circled red number at the top of the paper.

"Are you alrigh—

"A 'D'?" she was in utter disbelief.

"Ms. Granger is there something going on you care to tell me about?"

Hermione swallowed and then shook her head. "No...I'm fine" She wasn't about to tell Professor Mcgonagall about her problems, and still, she didn't find it as an excuse.

"Ms. Granger I know about your powers. They can be troublesome, so I'm willing to give you a make up"

Hermione was silent.

"Ms. Granger?"

To Hermione that didn't seem fair, but then again who cared if it was fair? She would get the make-up and bring her grade up. "That won't be necessary Professor, I'll do better next time." She took her test and shoved it inside her book. "I'll just be going." She wanted to get out of there as soon as possible, and Professor Mcgonagall didn't say a word to stop her.

She went into the girls bathroom and shut herself in a stall. She put the toilet seat down and sat their with her knees up. I just need time to think...What happened to me?...I can do better...

She heard the door open and a group of giggling girls walk in. Oh great, she thought. She had better get out of there. She was just about to open the stall door when something made her stay put.

"I can't believe you like Harry." It was Cho's voice.

"Yeah, I know, he's so perfect." It was Parvati.

Hermione was about to gag. Perfect? Hardly! If they only had a clue about what was happening in his life.

"But I don't know what to do."

"Well Hogsmeade is this weekend, you should ask him to go. Oh, but wait..." her face turned sour, "watch out for that Granger girl.

"What a freak."

"Arietta." Hermione whispered. Oh, she hated her, she was the one who turned them all in for the D.A. meetings.

"and a complete know-it –all" Cho added. "It's like she thinks she owns Harry, she's always bossing him around."

"Hermione waited for Parvati to respond. Something like "No she's not," or "I don't think so," but nothing, only silence.

"Are you sure it's okay for me to like Harry, since you and him—

"Oh, no." Cho said almost at once. "I don't like him any more, plus if you date him then you have to be around that Hermione girl, and I can't stand her.

"Well I don't think Harry's obsessed with her."

Thank you, Hermione thought.

Parvati saw their blank stares so she added, "But she can be controlling—

Hermione rolled her eyes, That's it—Hermione opened the stall with a bang. "You might wanna check who's actually in the stalls before you start gossiping. Cho, I'm surprised you didn't think of that first, I thought Ravenclaws were suppose to be clever. You know, sometimes I think you belong in hufflepuff." Hermione knew she ticked a nerve. She knew Ravenclaws hated Hufflepuffs, just as much as Gryffindors hated Slytherins. "Oh, and girls, don't flatter yourselves about Harry, you really think you have a chance?"

Hermione left quickly before they could say anything. She had a smirk on her face. That felt good. Hermione turned the corner thinking about what had just happened and ran straight into guess who? Draco Malfoy.

Oh, this is getting old, she thought.

"Well if it isn't Ms. Know-it-all"

She had had enough of that saying today, so decided not to pick up her books and turned on Malfoy.

"You didn't meet me this morning."

"Oh, that"

"I said for only five minutes and you couldn't even do that."

"Well, I thought is was only 5 minutes, so it couldn't be that important." He said.

She scoffed. "You don't even care about this project, you don't do anything—

"Hey I want an 'A' as badly as you do!"

"Well then maybe you should—

"What's that?" Malfoy asked pointing behind her.

She turned around sharply to see what Malfoy was looking at. Her eyes lit up in horror as she saw her test had fallen out of her book, and was in clear view to any passerby. "Oh no," she made a move towards it but "Accio paper!" Malfoy was too quick for her.

He caught the paper in his hand. "Oh my god, Hermione Granger got a 'D'? Well, bloody hell I knew this day would come."

"Malfoy give it back."

"Are you serious? I think I'm going to have this framed!" She chases him into an empty classroom.

"Malfoy stop it, I said give it back." Hermione tried to grab it, but unsuccessfully.

"Better yet I think I'll have it copied and pass it out to the whole school."

Hermione pulled out her wand. "Give it back or else."

"Oh really? You think you can hex me?" he pointed his wand at her too.

"I know I can."

"Wow, are you sure Granger? Harry and Ron aren't here to protect you."

"So? I don't need them."

"Really, hmm...you don't have any other friends, correct?"

Hermione was silent. She looked back up at him and fidgeted under his gaze.

"Exactly, without them your nothing."

"Shut up or I'll hex you"

"Wait I thought I had to give you the test back or you would hex me."

"Shut up and give me the test back." Hermione stated through gritted teeth.

He smirked, he loved playing around with her. "Fine have it your way." He ripped the test in half and held out the bottom portion, while he held the top one, which had her name and test score.

"Expelliramus!"

Hermione didn't know what she was doing, it was just instinct. She didn't catch Malfoy's wand, it just went flying to the side. She went to retrieve her test. She found the bottom half, and was desperately searching for the top half—

"Looking for this?" he held up the top part of the test. "I'ts going to take more than that to keep me down." He laid his eyes on his wand in the corner. "Wand!" he called, and his wand came flying to his hand. "Hmmm...now what's a good duplicated spell?"

"Heh" she smiled bitterly, "You know I've put up with all your insults and attempts to make my life miserable over the years, and I've tried for it not to get the best of me, but it does. And now, I'm finally pushing back.

You don't do anything, you're lazy, and I cant stand you! You are nothing but a spoiled little rich kid, who goes running to dear old daddy for everything! But daddy's in Azkaban now isn't he!?"

Once it had left her mouth Hermione knew she had made the biggest mistake ever, but it was too late now. The next moment something hit her hard in the chest and she was sent hurdling backwards as she lost hold of her wand. She hit a bookcase and crumbled to the floor as an avalanche of books toppled on top of her.

Wand or not, she could still defend herself when she was mad. She uncovered herself and with a forceful thurst of her arm Malfoy went flying sideways.

He recovered quickly and looked at her in shock. "What the—

Once again she had realized her mistake. She had exposed herself. Obviously when she was mad, she didn't think.

"I always knew you were a freak."

"Shut up, you're the one who called for your wand earlier."

"Hah!" He laughed. "I'm a Malfoy! Of course I called for my wand." He saw her look of confusion. "You really think I'm not capable of something that simple? Malfoys are surrounded by black magic."

"Black Magic?" Hermione wasn't sure she was hearing right.

"That's right Granger, Black Magic. It's been in the family for generations. It's always surrounded us. That's why Malfoys are stronger that ordinary wizards.It's in our blood."

Hermione was silent. Malfoy was deeper than just evil she thought.

"Everyone knows that." He said. "You mudbloods, and your limited knowledge of magic. It's people like you who infect the wizarding world. You taint it with your pathetic blood."

"Shut up."

"Don't you get it? You don't belong here!"

She didn't want to argue. "Give me my wand." She tried to change the subject when she remembered she didn't have it, and noticed Malfoy was holding her wand the whole time.

"No, you don't deserve a wand. Magic isn't a gift to you, it's a curse."

"Give me my wand!" she said even louder.

"and a burden" he added.

"No it's not!" he was just trying to get in her head. That's what Malfoy does. He prefers to mess with your mind than duel.

"Really?" he sneered. "Have you ever thought about it?"

"What?" He was right. Hermione was quiet as thoughts filled her head. When her life was well, normal, she never worried about her life. She was never put in life and death situations, where her or her friends could be killed. Also because of what she was, her parents were endangered too. Voldemort killed muggle-borns and their families fifteen years ago, what's to stop him from doing it now? Plus with her powers, it was just too much to worry about it was just making her life worse. It would have been so easy to just give it all up, to turn away. Then she could have a normal life again. She could spend more time with her parents—No, what was she thinking. This is what Malfoy wanted. It's not a burden she told herself and she seemed to snap back to reality.

She used her telekinis, and to her amazement, her wand went out of Malfoy's grasp and went to her. The minute she got it she left.

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The door burst open and inside was Gunn, Spike, Angel and Wesley.

"Professor Pryce? I want to change partners. I have to." Malfoy had drawn the last straw and she couldn't take it anymore.

"Ms. Granger you're bleeding."

"What?" Hermione looked down at her arm. She hadn't even noticed it till now, and she didn't even feel it.

"I'm fine. Please let me change partners."

He sighed. "I'm sorry, no switching, there is no one else to switch with. Come, let's get you to the hospital."

"Then I'll do it myself."

"Ms. Granger it is a group project. You would have to get your partner to agree to do it by himself as well. But if he doesn't then you'll have to work together."

Yes, she thought, of course Malfoy would want to do it by himself. "I can do that, Thank you. I'll tell him right awayahhh!!" There was no warning, her head just exploded with pain.

"Ahh, my head" She opened her eyes. There was a blinding white, then she realized she was in the hospital. Her robes had been changed and she was lying in the bed.

She shot straight up. "What happened? What are you guys doing here?" she saw Harry, Ron, and Ginny sitting around the bed.

"You blacked out." Ginny said.

"Again." Harry added.

"Wha—she sighed in defeat, and slumped back against her pillows.

"I told them." Ginny said.

"And I can't believe you didn't." Ron replied.

"Ahh, Ms. Granger your awake. How are you feeling?"

"I have a headache." She answered.

"Here, drink this." She held a glass up to her mouth, and Hermione drank. The hot, thick liquid poured down her throat slowly.

Madam pomfrey seemed about ready to leave, when she turned around. "A headache didn't give you that cut."

"What?" Hermione looked down and saw her arm was bandaged. Now that she was conscience, she could feel it sting. "Oh, I fell."

Madam Pomfrey eyed her carefully. She was not convinced, but did not push the matter any farther.

"Very well dear, you rest. All of you out."

"But we—

"I said out, shoo!"

They barely made it out of the doorway before she closed it on them.

The door had only been closed a minute, then it reopened.

"I said ou—"Madam Pomfrey started but turned to see, Paige, Piper and Phoebe."

"Oh," she said. "Ms. Granger needs her rest."

"Yes we know, and were sorry, but we only need to talk to her for a little bit." Phoebe told her in a baby voice, holding her thumb and index finger and inch apart to emphasize 'a little'.

Madam Pomfrey looked reluctant but finally she replied.

"You have 5 minutes." And she walked out the door.

They all walked over to Hermione's bed. "Wow, she's strict, huh?" Phoebe stated in hopes to lighten up the mood.

"I suppose," Hermione replied. "Did you need help with something? I'm afraid I can't show you around—

"Wha—No." Paige said. "Actually we came to talk about you."

"Oh, I'm fine—

"No, not about that, about something else."

Hermione looked confused.

"Well I suppose we should tell you who we are first." She looked around to check if the room was empty and it was so she began. "Were the Charmed ones."

Hermione looked like she was about to laugh, but the suddenly it dawned on her. "Oh, no wonder you all look familiar. I've read about you, yes, I did a whole report and—wait, what are you doing at Hogwarts?"

"Well since you read about us, you know what a charge is, right?"

"You have a charge at the school? That's so exciting, who is it?"

"You're my charge."

"What?" Hemione laughed. "But I don' t need protection." Then her face turned serious. "Do I?"

Paige looked at her sincerely. "Don't worry, nothing is going to ha—

"Oh my god, something terrible is going to happen to me isn't it?"

"Honey no, were here to protect you, evil doesn't stand a chance against us."

"Well that's comforting." She slumped back against her pillows. Seconds later, she sat back up. "Who are those other people? You know, the other ones I showed around."

"Oh, them." Piper said. "There...just..visiting."

Paige rolled her eyes at Piper. "You promise you won't tell?" she asked Hermione.

"Paige! I mean, Paige, honey, what are you doing?"

"I'm being honest."

"Well it's not really your decsion to tell her or not."

Paige thought about it and concluded if Angel wanted people to know who they were, he would tell them. "Yeah, just visiting." She replied with a nervous laugh.

Now it was Piper's turn to roll her eyes.

"Heh, what she means is," Phoebe started, "is that, we can't tell you. There's some information we can't share with you."

"It has to do with the Order, right? Or Voldemort."

"What?" they all tried to give her a blank stare.

"It's okay I know about that."

Suddenly the door opened. "You have one minute," Madam Pomfrey told them and walked back out.

"Oh, wow, how did we get so off topic?" asked Paige.

"Right, well what else is there?" Hermione asked.

"Look we don't have much time, so were just going to be straight with you. We know you have powers."

"And that you're just coming into them," Phoebe added.

"What? I don't—

"It's okay, this is why I was sent here. To help you control them."

Hermione was speechless. This was the last thing she expected, w ell, getting powers was the last thing she expected, but there was nothing she could do, somehow someway, she got them. She was actually happy that someone could help her.

"Okay," she finally muttered.

"Alright, times up!" Madam Pomfrey came bursting in. "Out you go, the dear needs her rest."

"Were going," Phoebe said, then she yelled back to Hermione, "Dumbledore wants to see you after dinner."

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It was after dinner that Hermione had been released from the hospital, although she had to beg Madam Pomfrey. Hermione went to Dumbledore's office. She found the Charmed ones in there, and Dumbledore know where to be found.

"He said we could practice here. No one will bother us." Paige told her.

"Okay" Hermione said slowly, "so what do I do?"

"Here we decided to start with the vase." She pointed. "All you need to do is to clear you head. Your emotions are connected to your powers, so you have to be calm. Just concentrate on the vase and move it."

Hermione waved her hand at it, but it stood completely still on the table.

"Okay, try concentrating harder."

Hermione nodded and took a deep breath, she once again waved her hand at the vase. It trembled at first, then slid across the table, fell off and smashed on the floor.

"I see we have a lot to work on." Paige said with a smile. "Don't worry you'll get it, it took us all awhile too. Try again." She said putting another vase on the table. "Dumbledore made lots of duplicates."

Hermione closed her eyes and relaxed. She imagined the vase moving in her head then she opened her eyes, waved her hand carefully, and the vase slid across the table gracefully, and she stopped it right before it reached the end.

Bye the end of the night, she had successfully, used her telekinesis. She used it on several inatimate objects and to Phoebe and Piper' s displeasure on living objects as well. She also got to see all of the Charmed One's powers, except Phoebe's premonitions. Which brought up Hermione's telepathy. She practiced it a couple times, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't read minds at will. Their thoughts came to her at times and at other times they didn't. She told them she was starting to get a headache, so they decided to call it a night.

Hermione slept better than she had in nights in the past. She slept so good, she over slept. She woke up at seven, breakfast was almost over. She rushed into the shower. Afterwards, she charmed her hair dry, got dressed and ran down stairs.

Hermione walked into the Great Hall met with gravely faces. She walked to see Harry and Ron hadn't touched their food.

"What happened?" she asked looking worried.

Ron put the Daily Prophet out in front of her.

She picked it up with a shaking hand. The headline said...

Reunited?

Late last night, Dementors left their positions, and departed the island, that is home to Azkaban, leaving over 150 inmates unguarded. It is a mystery to all of us. Why would these Dementors leave? Aurors are investigating the scene as we speak, and they have found no answers. Several excapes occurred over the night, as no one was around to stop these deadly fugitives. Escapes include...

Hermione looked hurriedly through the list of name. Her head was spinning. She didn't recognize the majority of names, but 5 of them gave her a sick feeling in her stomach.

...Bellatrix Lestrange, Antonin Dolohov, Rookwood, Macnair, and Lucius Malfoy.

End of chapter 7

A/N: If you didn't recognize, those were all the wizards they fought in the Department of Mysteries.

Sorry!!!!!!!!!! I know I haven't updated in like forever, but I've been so busy!! I'm taking AP classes, so I'm loaded with Homework, and I have 2 projects and 2 tests, I do sports and I take piano lessons, so I've barely had time to write. But no matter what, I promise you, I will not abandon this story!!!! Oh yeah, were getting another hurricane. JEANNE!!! It made a complete U-turn and came back for Florida. So I wanted to update before the power went out.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter!!! Review!! Tell me what you think, and if you have any ideas, for Hermione's other powers tell me!! If not, then the two she has will be it.

I'm thinking about it, and Hermione will date other guys before she dates Harry, It's just more interesting that way. I know, I know Harry and Ron weren't in here a lot, but they will be in the next chapter. This one was mostly about Hermione. Okay, so I won't forget about this story, so you cant either!!! Please keep reading and reviewing!! Thank you. Bye