Everyone was where they needed to be. The wedding was about to begin. The music started playing and the bridesmaids, and groomsmen all walked down the aisle and parted to their spots. The song that every bride dreads began to play and Hermione and Sirius began walking down the front stairs of the castle. Once they got to the altar, Sirius let her go and took his seat. Hermione just looked at Harry and smiled.
"Today, we are all gathered here to watch Harry James Potter & Hermione Amanda Granger join in marriage. These two individuals have stuck by each other through everything imaginable."
Dumbledore went on and before anyone knew it, Harry was kissing the bride. After the wedding, there was a party in the Great Hall. There wasn't a person in Hogwarts who wasn't happy to see the two of them finally married. After the party, the Order had a meeting.
"Now, I know that you two would much rather be on your honeymoon right now but there is something major at hand." Dumbledore looked at Harry and Hermione. "Voldemort may be gone, but there are still people that he never knew was on his side. Somebody that we all know is working against us. We cannot figure out who this traitor is but we will know soon enough."
"I don't understand, why would someone be working with us to bring Voldemort down, but at the same time be trying to bring him back?"
"Good question Ron. When we find out who the person is, you can ask him-or her yourself."
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Soon, weeks and months began to pass with no further word of the traitor. Everyone had seemingly began to move on with their lives. Harry and Hermione were expecting a beautiful baby girl in September and everyone was excited. Things were finally beginning to look up for everyone, the year that nobody wanted to remember was beginning to be one they would never forget.
"Hey, have you guys decided on a name yet for the baby?" Lily asked her son and daughter-in-law.
"Well, not entirely," Harry looked at his mother, "we know that she will have Lily for her middle name. We never really agreed on a first name. Hermione, what about Elizabeth after-"
"No! I don't want this baby to have my mother's first name. I never knew her and seeing as she was stupid enough to marry my father, I don't want her to have anything to do with our daughter." She said plainly and looked away.
"Oh, well alright then. What were you thinking?"
"I dunno Harry. Any suggestions?" She looked around the room.
"If its anything like Nymphadora, I'll have to jinx you myself." Tonks laughed.
"I was actually kind of thinking about April?" Hermione looked over at Harry.
"April Lily Potter. I like it. All in favor?" He looked around jokingly and everyone raised their hands.
"Hey! What about me?" James looked at his son.
"What do you mean?"
"She gets your mothers name for her middle, what about me?"
"Shouldn't it be enough that your charming son has your name?" Everyone laughed.
"Ya, I-I guess." He sniffled and Hermione threw a pillow at him.
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As time passed by, there was still no word on who the traitor was. It hadn't even been mentioned in the recent Order meetings. It wasn't that they had forgotten about it, it was just that there wasn't really anything happening that needed to be taken into action. The due date for Hermione was slowly creeping up on them all. Lily and Tonks had come up with the idea of having a sort of, girl's day out. Lily, Tonks, Mrs. Weasley, Ginny, and Hermione all met at the Burrow. They were going to hang out there for lunch, and then go to Diagon Alley for some last minute baby items. All of the guys, (Harry, James, Sirius, Lupin, Mr. Weasley, Ron, Fred & George) were all at Grimmuald Place. They weren't really doing anything special, well, they did take a look around the entire house which took them quite a while.
"Mmm, this lunch is delicious Molly. Thank you so much!"
"You're quite welcome dear." Mrs. Weasley smiled.
"What, is Harry not feeding you at home?" Lily laughed.
"Oh no, he's feeding me." She chuckled. "But its just good to have something other than what Harry makes. I mean, its not that he isn't good at cooking, it's just that, well-"
"We know what you mean!" Mrs. Weasley and Lily said together. They had gone through this before when they were pregnant, Molly especially. "I went through it all 7 times too many!" They all laughed. Hermione suddenly stopped laughing.
"What is it Hermione?" Ginny placed a reassuring hand on her friend's shoulder.
"You better get Harry, and tell them to meet us at St. Mungos." She gave some what of a smile.
"Oh dear! I'll go and get our coats, Tonks, would you get the boys?" Mrs. Weasley was rushing around.
"Of course Molly, of course." She winked at Hermione. "Good luck you!" Then she was off. Lily and Ginny grabbed each of Hermione's arms and they apparated to St. Mungos.
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Tonks ended up apparating right into the living room where they were all sitting. The 8 men just looked at her.
"Hey! You girls have your own dam party! Leave us to ours!" Sirius glared at Tonks jokingly as Harry took a picture of the twins and Ron fighting.
"Well fine then, I just thought that I should come here and accompany Dad and Grampa over here to St. Mungos." She smiled.
"WHAT!" They all yelled at once.
"Hermione's having the baby!" Harry was yelling and running towards Tonks, shaking her.
"Yes! Now if you'll stop shaking me before I get whiplash, the 3 of us will head over there." She picked up his coat and handed it to him. He put the camera in his pocket.
"Oh, sorry." Harry smiled and stopped shaking Tonks.
"What the hell do you mean, "The three of us"?" Sirius glared at Tonks.
"Hermione's my best friend, and I am NOT going to miss the birth of my god-daughter!" Ron yelled.
"And you think I am? She's like my daughter for crying-out-loud." Sirius glared over at both of them.
"Ya! Hermione's like a sister to both of us!" Fred and George walked over to where she was. Lupin didn't argue he just walked over along with Mr. Weasley. They all then apparated outside of St. Mungos
"Alright, I've been through this seven times! I will show everybody exactly where to go." Mr. Weasley walked into the main lobby of St. Mungos and walked up the staircase to where Hermione was along with Lily, Molly and Ginny. "After the twins, I swear I could find this place in my sleep."
They all proceeded to the hallway when they saw Molly walking. A mixture of "Molly and Mum" could be heard echoing down the hallway. They all walked over to where she was.
"Mum, what's wrong?" Ron looked at his mother and could sense that something wasn't right. She had a look in her eyes that no one wanted to see.
"Mrs. Weasley, what's wrong with Hermione and the baby?" Harry looked up at her. He knew something was wrong, he could tell.
"There um, well, they don't really know for sure-"
"What room is she in?" Harry looked at her with the saddest look that anyone had ever seen.
"She's in room number 24. Lily and Ginny are in there with her now. Go on Harry, it should be any minute now. We'll catch up." She smiled slightly.
"Wait a minute, Molly, isn't that?" Arthur looked at his wife.
"Yes." That's all she said and then they all turned around and walked down the hall until they got to Hermione's room. They could hear her yelling at Harry and they all slightly laughed. A few minutes later, they could hear the muffled sounds of a baby crying. Everyone smiled. Ginny came out of the room and got James.
"Go on Grandpa, they want to see you." She smiled and sat down in between Ron and the twins.
"How is she dear?" Molly asked her daughter.
"Well, the baby seems to be doing okay, Hermione…she's-"
"Gin, what happened?" Ron asked as he put his arm around his little sister. He could tell that something wasn't right.
"Well, we got here just in time, because the minute we got into the lobby, she just, collapsed. They brought her up here to the room and woke her up. She was so, so pale. That's when mom left the room." Everyone looked over at Molly, who was being held by her husband.
"After going through this seven times, I thought I'd gone through it all, " she smiled slightly. "But I could tell when Hermione passed out that something wasn't right. Hermione was just too pale. Arthur, all I could think about was the woman that was next to us when we were having Ginny." She started to silently cry.
"But mum, didn't she-" Fred looked at George and then at his mother and father. Him and George knew exactly what happened to that woman. "No, no, that wont happen to Hermione, it cant, it wont. She's too strong for that." George reassured himself out loud. Ron hugged Ginny who was now silently crying as well.
"Wh-what happened to the woman?" Tonks asked, because everyone else was afraid to.
"Well, she was having a very hard time. She passed out a few times, come to think of it, they had to levitate her up to the ward. She got very pale, right before the baby came. She had the baby, and the baby looked okay. He was breathing all right, and he was crying, but she, she wasn't making a sound. She died shortly after. I'm not quite sure why, or what really happened. All I know was that she had a very difficult time and she…she-"
"We know what happened." George looked up at his mother.
"Me and George here were listening. Percy was watchin Ron, and we were eavesdroppin in on the woman next to you. We heard the healer tell the husband that something just wasn't right. That the woman couldn't seem to handle it, not because of the pain, but the stress." George couldn't finish because he didn't want to think of what this could mean for Hermione and the baby, so Fred finished.
"She had been through a lot before she was even pregnant. She was attacked by Death Eaters and she had gone through the Crutacious curse several times. She was abused, in a car accident and loads of other shit. All of the curses, and traumas weren't enough to kill her, but enough so that when she went through the pain of childbirth, her body would register that pain and, in a sense shut down."
They all just sat there in silence, waiting for one of them to come out of the room with the baby and see Hermione and they'd all laugh. But no one came out of the room for another half an hour. James and Lily came out of the room, took one look at everyone and just walked away. Sirius sensed the look in Lily's eyes and followed them. The two of them were standing in a section of the hallway where everyone outside Hermione's room couldn't see them and James was holding Lily and she was crying.
"I-I can't believe that this is happening James! It can't be."
"It'll be okay hun, she'll be fine. She's fought off hundreds of Death Eaters by herself and been through so much. She's died twice already-" He realized that that was the wrong thing to say.
"-And there wont be a third." Sirius looked at them and smiled.
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