As she came to, she recognized the place and bed she was laying on, she was in the hospital wing. How did I get here? Last thing I remember I was walking to the great hall and I ran into Eden. Now to find out how I got here, "Madame Pomfrey, where are you, what happened?" she called out to the seemingly deserted room. She climbed out of bed and glanced around, and then she saw a brown paper bag and a note. She picked it up; this is what it said-

Mrs. Granger

You are likely very confused about what has happened. All will be explained, come to the room of requirements at precisely 7:04 and require a room with myself and the new 7th yr Slytherin, Eden.

Best wishes,

Headmaster Albus Dumbledore

Ps- I left some lemon drops in a bag on your bedside table, enjoy!

Oh great, probably another one of his plans glances at clock holy shit it's already 6:59 I better go. She hurried out of the hospital wing, rushed up a staircase, down a few corridors, through a secret passageway and arrived at a completely blank portrait, she began to think Dumbledore, Eden, Dumbledore, Eden, Dumbledore, Eden,.......whilst picturing the two of them and all of a sudden a door appeared.

She opened and climbed inside to see Dumbledore, Eden, and a very ill looking hippogriph sitting on a large pile of pillows eating chocolate frogs from a pile that kept popping up with more as the were taken, and a large bottle of what she could only assume was truth potion.

"Okay, someone had BETTER tell me what's going on" she yelled at the happy, yet ill, group of people. "Calm yourself Ms Granger" stated the Headmaster peacefully "if you will have a seat we can explain why we asked you to come here" oh great now I have to pretend to be calm and sit down she thought, but she did sit down.

"I know you likely have some questions so just go ahead and ask away" Dumbledore began. "Okay first thing, how did I end up in the hospital wing?" she asked them. "well, after we ran into each other in the halls, you kept calling me professor Snape so I thought you might need to see Mdm. Pomfrey so I walked up there with you, but right as we reached the door you blacked out. I was called on urgent business to the headmaster's office and left you in the capable hands of Pomfrey" said Eden.

"Okay, thanks for doing that, but why do you remind me so much of professor Snape? Everything about you does, your eyes, your hair, your hands, the way you dice things, even the way you walk reminds me of him, what happened to him professor? Just as we were getting closer all of a sudden he's gone, poof, no more Severus" she said as her eyes filled with tears.

"that's one reason we brought you here, we discovered a prophesy, kept in a secret part of the department of mysteries, it said that you and Severus were destined and crucial to winning the war against Voldermort, so we were forced to decrease his age to the point where you would consider him as an option. We feared that with him as your teacher you would never look at him, that way, Severus is Eden and Eden was Severus." Dumbledore explained to her.

"Hermione, please don't hate me, I was forced to keep it secret through a wizard's oath, stopping me from telling you about this, believe me, I wanted to" Eden reached out and put his arms around her "don't try to comfort me, I can't believe you would do that to me, I sat up all night for almost 2 weeks worrying about you!" and she broke into tears he expected her to run, but she was so happy about him being back that she snuggled closer into his warm chest.

He held her, securely wrapped in his arms until her tears ceased. Then the hippogriph, who was named Rodney by the way, cleared his throat loudly, and Dumbledore handed Hermione a very worn piece of parchment and it said-

Two lovers shall discover the great solution

It shall free all from a greater evil

The joining of those two must be

Complete and thorough

All who are capable must help

Those two create a love greater than

All evil from which will come many great things

"so you mean to tell me I have no choice but to be joined to Eden and work to discover away to defeat Voldermort?" she said. When Hermione saw the insulted look on his face she hurriedly said "no, not that I don't want to but I hoped our relationship might take a normal path, anyway, how long do we have?"

"The war will probably begin in a few months, so just a few days, I hope it is alright" Dumbledore responded. "Yeah, I guess we can, if it's alright with Hermione" said Eden. He could see her eyes light up the way they did when she was thinking. Then she said "well today is Friday and tomorrow is the next Hogsmeade weekend so we could go to town and get anything we'll need, then Sunday morning we can tell everyone, and Sunday evening have the ceremony, what do we need?"

"You need enough flowers for two crowns and a bouquet plus a white shift dress and plain white slacks for Eden" Dumbledore said "and I suppose I'll perform the ceremony for you?"

"Of course", they said in unison. They walked off towards Hermione's head girl room to catch up on each other's lives.