The Hope Spell.
By: Princess Lalaith
"Harry Potter" and "Card Captor Sakura" Crossover.
Disclaiming: I don't own Card Captor Sakura, nor Harry Potter, snif; If I owned any of them now I would be on a vacation around the world, and not sitting here in my house writing this(luckier for you).
Chapter 23.- The Perfect gift.
The doors on the Great Hall opened slowly as the newly formed couple entered the place, which was almost empty, except for Sakura, Shaoran, Tomoyo, Eriol, Ron and Ginny.
"Hermy-chan," Tomoyo asked grinning: "Did you got to meet your secret admirer?"
Hermione immediately noticed her friend's intentions, and answered:
"Yes I did, in fact, he's right by my side." And with that she kissed Harry on the cheek.
"What?!" Ron yelled, almost falling from his seat.
"Kawaii!!" Sakura yelled with a big smile.
"Oh no, I don't believe this, I just don't." he murmured.
"You better pal, because it is true, from now on Hermione is my girlfriend." Harry said smiling.
Ron looked really shocked.
The rest just smiled.
Looks like your wish came true. Sakura mind-talked.
Yeah, it did. Hermione replied absent-minded, as she hugged Harry.
Harry hugged her too, without noticing what was going on between the mind of his girlfriend and her friends.
"Where's Sakura?" Ginny suddenly asked.
"Maybe she decided to finish her Valentine's Day in a private place." Tomoyo suggested with a sweet smile.
And I think we should follow her idea, my beloved hime. Eriol mind-said.
"And I must be leaving too." Tomoyo said as she left by a lateral door.
Without saying a word Eriol left right after her by another door and found her a couple of hallways after.
"Come on Ron, you need to help me with an essay I'm missing." Ginny said.
"Me? Why me?" Ron asked, refusing to leave the new couple alone.
"Yes you, because you're my brother." Ginny answered as she pulled Ron to the door. Then she let him go and added. "But I can ask my boyfriend if you prefer."
"Your what?!" Ron shouted half-shocked.
He knew Ginny had gone out with a few guys, but from that to having a real boyfriend!
With that Ginny ran away, knowing that Ron would immediately follow her. It didn't matter if she had to reveal her secret, as long as Harry and Hermione had some time alone.
"Looks like we're alone?" Harry murmured looking around.
"Yeah." Hermione nodded.
"Did you know about Ginny's boyfriend?" Harry asked.
"Yes I did." Hermione answered. "She told me just when they started going out officially as a couple."
"Is Colin, isn't he?" Harry asked.
"How did you know?" Hermione looked quite surprised he had found out.
"It's quite obvious." Harry replied.
Hermione was about so say something when Harry talked again:
"And Tomoyo is dating Prof. Eriol, isn't she?" Harry said, it was more an affirmation than a question.
Hermione looked at him rather shocked.
"Tomoyo, and Er...I mean, Prof. Hiiragizawa, they just..." Hermione was trying to think as fast as she could, some good lie.
"Don't try to lie to me Hermy." Harry said. "And don't worry for your friends, I won't say anything." He smiled. "In fact I think they do a really beautiful couple."
Hermione smiled, at least she didn't have to worry for her friends' relationship.
"You really appreciate them, don't you?" Harry asked suddenly.
"Yes I do, very much." Hermione answered.
"You've been getting with them a lot lately." Harry continued. "You almost never are with us anymore." He seemed sad.
"Oh Harry, I'm so sorry, really." Hermione said hugging him. "It's just that I befriended them, and I had been so happy, I never imagined you would feel bad because of it." She kissed him in the cheek. "I promise I'll be with you more time from now on."
"Won't them get mad?" he asked. "If you don't go on with them, your secrets?"
Hermione stood silent, she wasn't planning on telling Harry about what she and the Asians did, that they were sorcerers; she hadn't yet talked that out with her friends.
"Don't worry." Harry said calmly. "I'm not asking you to tell me your secrets. I understand if there is something you don't wish to tell me, yet. I just want you to know I'll be here for you, always, for whenever you want to tell me; I won't push you."
"Thank you Harry." She said hugging him tightly.
"What for?" he asked embracing her as well.
"For being so comprehensive, so understanding, so caring." She listed. "That's why I love you so much."
They both kissed tenderly and timidly.
Hermione blushed a little, she hadn't got used to the fact that she really was Harry Potter's girlfriend, the one an only, and that he loved her as much as she him.
"Why don't we just...lose ourselves?" Harry asked in a childish voice.
"I would love to." She said smiling.
And with that, both of them ran off.
.
Meanwhile Sonomi was sitting in her bedroom, with the bouquet of red carnations next to her. In her hands was a note:
I never knew what love was until I knew you.
I never knew what pain was until you left me.
I never imagine I could wait so much, but I've waited for you.
Now I don't want you to leave me ever again,
I love you too much to live without you.
Sonomi just looked at those words over and over again, it was almost like a miracle. Words she had wished to hear, or see so many times along all those long and painful years, but now she was afraid of seeing, afraid that it would mean a new phase of pain would soon start.
She took one of the carnations in her hands as she remembered something...
---Flashback---
Something that had happened long ago, twenty-five years ago. When Nadeshiko and Sonomi where studying fifth year.
It was Valentine's Day and Lily, Nadeshiko and Sonomi had received each a red carnation. James got jealous, after all Lily was his girlfriend and he hadn't sent that flower. Nadeshiko didn't care, she was still innocent(naïve). Sonomi just looked at the flower absent-mindedly, she knew exactly who had sent them.
Later that day she met with a certain black-grassy-haired Slytherin boy.
"Why did you sent the flowers?" she asked directly.
"How do you know it was me?" a fifteen-year-old Severus Snape asked back.
"Lets just say I have my ways." Sonomi replied, still waiting for an answer.
"I just wanted to do it." Severus said pretending to be annoyed.
"You always tried to pretend to be the bad guy, but that's just a facade, I know it." Sonomi said with a bright smile.
Severus now seemed really shocked, although he was still trying to hide it.
"You shouldn't be sending Nadeshikos to a lady who already has a boyfriend." Sonomi said.
"Nadeshikos?" Severus asked.
"Red carnations." Sonomi explained. "You'll make James jealous and mad."
"I couldn't care less what that Potter thinks or does, he could go and die right now, for all I care." Severus said.
"Probably one day your wish will come true." Sonomi said. Then she thought. 'But with more tears than we would wish.'
Severus looked at her trying to find out if she was joking, but Sonomi rarely joked with things as life and death, being an only child and having lost her parents, the only family she had were her grandfather and Nadeshiko, her cousin.
"Anyway." Sonomi said, decided to go back to the original theme of conversation. "You should never do a love proposal to three girls at the same time, less of all if they are friends."
"Love proposal?" he asked.
"Nadeshikos...Red carnations, they symbolize eternal love." Sonomi explained.
"I don't sent them because of that." Severus replied. "I just think they're beautiful flowers." Then he added in a low voice. "All beautiful ladies should have a beautiful flower."
But Sonomi heard him nevertheless.
And then Nadeshiko stayed in Japan to marry Fujitaka, and she started dating Daniel.
But anyway Severus never stopped sending her red carnations.
---End of Flashback---
Sonomi looked firmly at the flowers, a single tear falling from her cheek.
"Severus..." she sighed.
She tried to get her feelings in order.
'I love Daniel, of course I love him and I always will. He's the man of my life, my soul-mate, but...' she didn't knew what to say anymore.
Suddenly she raised her head, he felt something, a very familiar presence.
"Sonomi, my beloved Sonomi." A voice called her.
As an ethereal figure appeared from thin air, right in front of her.
"Daniel..." Sonomi murmured, gasping.
.
That evening Hermione was in the Room of Requirement. She had told Harry to go meet her there, she had a surprise for him, a very special surprise.
And meanwhile Hermione had taken some chalk and drew a circle in the stone floor. Then she put some white candles in the perimeter and lit them.
"And now... the last." She murmured as she took from her pocket a little jar with silver powder. She remembered...
---Flashback---
"Here is what you asked for Hermione-san." Eriol said giving her the little jar. "Be really careful with it, you've got to use it all and follow each and every step I told you or it won't work."
"I know Eriol, I know, you've explained it to me at least ten times." Hermione said as she took the jar and carefully put it in her pocket.
"And I would tell you ten more times if I wasn't in so a hurry." Eriol replied. "You're got to be really careful, I don't wasn't something to go wrong and you to get hurt." He added in an undertone Hermione barely heard: "Tomoyo-hime would kill me."
"Don't worry Eriol." Hermione said. "I'll be really careful with it." She sighed. "I just want to give Harry a very special gift."
Eriol just nodded and said. "Just remember, be careful." And he left.
---End of Flashback---
That had been the previous day. Before she knew Harry was her Secret Admirer; but now she was more than sure of what she pretended.
She opened the jar and threw the powder to the circle, then she put her hands together, as in a plea as she canted:
"Gates of Life and Death,
Passage between worlds.
Open now your doors.
I summon the power to call for those
That aren't anymore between us.
Cross the line,
To this world of life.
Come here...I call for you
Come here...I request you
Come here...I summon you
Come now."
A thick mist seemed to come from the circle. Hermione tried to keep her concentration as she repeated the last four lines over and over again.
Eriol had told her this was a very powerful and difficult Enchantment, and he was right, put she wasn't going to give up; she wanted to give Harry something very special and she was going to do it.
.
A couple of minutes later Harry entered the Room of Requirement, it was furnished as the Common Room, with sofas, carpets, and a working chimney. He saw Hermione sitting in a love seat, fanning herself with a piece of paper, she looked really exhausted.
"Hermy, what happened to you?" Harry asked, concerned.
Hermione looked at him and smiled.
"Happy Valentine's Day Harry." She said as she signaled him to his back.
Harry looked really puzzled as he turned around.
"Oh my God..." was all he could say, as he almost fainted.
There, behind him...where...his parents.
"Hello Harry, dear." Lily said as she hugged him. "I'm so happy to see you."
"I'm...I'm happy too..." Harry said. "I't just that...I'm...I'm..."
"Surprised? Shocked?" his father, James, tried to finish for him.
"A little of both I think." Harry said.
He immediately turned around to see his smiling girlfriend.
"Hermy, how...?" he didn't even knew exactly what he wanted to ask.
"Lets just say there's something good in befriending Sakura and co." Hermione replied with a mysterious smile(which she had probably borrowed from Eriol), and tried to appear as innocent as possible(which she was probably learning from Tomoyo or Sakura).
"This is the best gift someone has ever given to me." Harry said hugging Hermione tightly and kissing her tenderly.
"Wow..." Hermione said as she recovered her breath. "If you're going to react that way each time I give you a gift I think I'll do it more often." She smiled.
"Em...." James interrupted.
"Mom, dad." Harry said turning around, with a hand still around Hermione's waist. "I already introduced Hermione to you, but as a friend, now I do it as my girlfriend."
"I'm really happy for you, for both of you." Lily said smiling.
She had a look of: 'I-knew-it'.
"Thank you." Hermione said smiling.
"Since when?" James asked interested.
"Since this morning." Harry answered.
They chatted for a few hours. Dobby, the house-elf found them and brought food and tea to them(they had skipped dinner).
.
Hours later, past midnight, Harry fell asleep. Hermione took that as a sign that she should finish the visit.
"Thank you very much." Lily told Hermione when she stood up.
"What for?" Hermione asked, puzzled.
"For being with Harry, for loving him so much." Lily answered.
"And for bringing us here." James added.
Hermione turned to look at him, doubtful.
"The first time we came, a sorcerer brought us." James explained. "About your age. He said he was a professor."
'Eriol.' Hermione thought.
"But this time it was you who brought us and we thank you for that." James finished. "For giving us the opportunity to be with Harry."
"I love your son with all my heart." Hermione replied sincerely. "I would do anything to make him happy."
"We know." Lily answered.
With that both spirits stepped on the circle.
Hermione again stood with his hands in pleading way and chanted:
"I thank you for coming.
You now may leave.
And the Gates of Life and Death,
The Passage between Worlds
Will now seal."
There was a flash of white light and it looked as if a huge mist was dispersing.
Hermione let herself fall on a sofa, exhausted, breathing heavily.
And just then her senses announced her that there were some people watching her.
"Hello." Hermione said with a tired smile.
"H...Wha...H-How...?" Sakura asked, although she didn't even knew how or what to ask.
"Hermione-san, Are you crazy?!" Eriol finally snapped.
"Sh!" Hermione replied.
"Don't Shhh us." Shaoran said.
"You're going to wake up Harry." Hermione said.
"Fine." Eriol said. Are you crazy?! he mentally yelled.
Hermione put her hands on her ears, although she knew it wouldn't help.
You don't need to be that loud. she mind-spoke.
You didn't understood me when I said to be careful and follow each and every step, ne? Eriol said, he seemed somehow between annoyed, mad, and concerned.
Yes I did. I did everything you told me. Hermione replied.
Iie, you didn't. Eriol insisted. 'Cause I told you the magic powder was for one spirit, not two.
Nani(What)?! Now it was Sakura's turn to mentally-scream.
Well, but it worked with both of them, didn't it? Hermione asked, trying to appear innocent.
You really are crazy. Eriol said, now he seemed disappointed. Don't you understand? If something had gone wrong you would have ended energy- drained, or even in a come-state.
I'm sorry. Hermione murmured.
No need to worry poor Hermy-chan of what could have happened. Tomoyo said calmly. Because it didn't happened and that's what counts. And Harry was happy.
He definitely was. Hermione agreed.
None of you get what really happened here, do you? Shaoran interfered.
The rest just turned to look at him.
Granger-san just used a powerful Incantation, not a spell, or an enchantment. This magic was Sorcerer's level. Shaoran explained.
That's why I gave her the Sacred Powder. Eriol added.
Hai. Shaoran said. But you just said you gave her just the part for one spirit, and she summoned two. Which means that the second spirit, she summoned it with her own energy, her own magic.
Hermione looked puzzled, she didn't understand what that meant.
Oh Kami-sama... Tomoyo murmured, finally understanding.
What? Hermione asked.
It means you have Sorceress capacities. Tomoyo explained. You're higher than a wizard, but lower than a Sorcerer, in the middle of both.
Now Hermione was really shocked and proud. She, a muggle-born witch, was over normal wizards, almost a sorceress.
This is really rare you know. Eriol said. Just about 1% of wizards have sorcerers' capacities.
I believe Potter does. Shaoran added.
Sakura nodded.
But he doesn't knows, and it isn't yet time for him to know. Tomoyo added as she noticed the look on Hermione's eyes.
But that means I'll be able to learn more powerful magic? Hermione asked.
Hai, Hermy-chan, we'll train you with more powerful magic. Sakura answered.
We should leave now, you know. Eriol said. It's late.
Could you... Hermione started signaling to Harry's sleeping body.
Move. Sakura summoned.
Move appeared and teleported them to the Gryffindor tower, and Harry to his bedroom.
"Arigato(Thank you)." Hermione said smiling, one of the few words in Japanese she had learned.
"We must leave." Shaoran said, referring to himself and Eriol.
"Just one more thing." Hermione called.
"Hai." Eriol said looking at her.
"Well," Hermione explained. "As Harry had already seen her parents, first of all I thought of summoning his godfather, but it didn't work."
"His godfather?" Eriol asked.
"Yeah, Sirius Black." Hermione said.
Eriol concentrated, looking for the soul of Sirius Black in the other world. That lasted about five minutes, when he opened his eyes again.
"There's a single reason why it didn't work." He said.
"Which is..." Hermione asked.
"He isn't dead."
I believe this is the longest chapter I've written up to now. Twice what I wrote at first. Anyway I thought this was a good way of rewarding you for having to wait a little more than the previous times. Hope you like the chapters and don't stop reading. Many more mysteries are yet to come, with this of the powers, and the deaths, and a certain conversation Sonomi will have with her dead husband. Will she accept Severus declaration of love?
You'll know that and more in the next chapter.
Arigato.