Chapter Ten – All for one, and one for all

Hermione sped through the corridors of St. Mungos, she was still feeling light headed, but she pushed it aside. She was grateful that she was still wearing her normal clothes otherwise she wouldn't have been able to get out of the hospital as easy as she was.

Her mind went back to when she stunned her boys. She didn't want to do it but she had no choice. They would thank her in the end, however she struggled to convince herself of that. They had looked at her with such disbelief. When she entered the ground floor, she spotted the fireplaces that lined one of the walls. Some people were exiting one of them, so she picked and empty looking one. Grabbing some of the floo, she prayed that Dumbledore would be in his office in Hogwarts.

'Hogwarts –Professor Dumbledore's Office.' She said, while throwing the floo powder in. She was pulled away from St. Mungos, and found herself zooming past hundreds of grates.

She floomed out of Dumbledore's office and relieved a held breath. There sitting at his desk which she had seen numerous times before was Dumbledore.

'Miss Granger, would you like a seat?' he said pointing to an empty chair opposite his table.

'Thanks' she said, picking herself up from the floor.

Harry and Ron slowly managed to come out of their paralytic state. When they were fully mobilised, they had exactly the same idea as Hermione. Harry knew she was going to see Dumbledore, why, he had no idea. They floomed into his office to see Hermione and Dumbledore in a heated argument. They were both standing and shouting at each other. Neither of the boys had ever seen Dumbledore so angry, he almost had fire in his eyes.

Hermione had tears pouring down her face, her eyes were blood shot and showed just how tired she was. She was standing to try to match how intimidating Professor Dumbledore was making her feel.

When Hermione had told him about her idea, Dumbledore had exploded, saying it was not an option. Hermione believeing that this was the answer to all their prayers, didn't believe him, and tried to make him understand why she thought it was such a good idea.

Dumbledore was desperate for her to understand that the solution Hermione had come up with was out of the question, it could destroy everything, and he wasn't prepared to do that.

What happened next surprised Harry and Ron, that they were rooted in their spots for several moments. Dumbledore swept around his desk and grasped Hermione by the shoulders and shook her hard, trying to get her understand.

Harry snapped out of his shock, and leapt forward, he pulled the old man off Hermione and protectively held Hermione. Ron stood in front of them. Dumbledore slowly turned around and took a deep breath.

'Hermione, there is no way your idea will work, please don't go through with it.' He said once he had calmed down slightly.

'It's the only idea any of us have thought about; I don't care whether you don't support this decision. I'm going through with it, both of us will. Now I'm going back to the Burrow, I'm really tired.' Hermione shakily stood up and made her way back to fireplace. Tears slowly subsiding, she grabbed some floo powder, 'i'll see you two back at the burrow,'

When she disappeared, the two boys looked at Dumbledore, 'just try to persude her not to go through, please.'

Harry and Ron just walked towards the fireplace and flooed to the burrow, when they arrived, and they noticed Hermione had disappeared again. Harry assumed that Hermione had gone up to bed, even though it was eleven in the morning. While walking through the kitchen Ron grabbed a few rolls of bread, thinking that she would probably be hungry.

When they reached the top of the stairs they turned towards Ginny's room. When they walked in Hermione was scribbling down something on some parchment, her tired eyes stretched to the door when Harry and Ron came in.

'Come on Hermione, come and stay in our room, you wont be alone, and maybe when you feel better you can tell us what's going on.' Ron said, as Harry slowly placed his arms around Hermione's shoulders. She stood up and allowed Harry to gently steer her the right way to Ron's room, her hand still clasped the parchment, which Harry assumed had some connection with everything that had been going on.

When they got to Ron's room, Harry gently manouvered Hermione onto his bed, where after removing her coat, she immediately fell asleep.

Harry prised the parchment out of her hand and smoothed it, Ron had made his way over, and pulled the parchment slightly his way, so that they could both read what Hermione had been scribbling away at.

Harry looked at his sleeping angel and turning back to the writing.

Key Words

Balance. Worlds. Switch. Voldem-

That was all that was on the piece on parchment. Harry and Ron had no idea what those 4 words meant.

Ron took a large bite of the bread roll, and turned to Harry, 'What the hell is that on about?'

'I have no idea, but when she wakes up, we'll find out.'

Hermione slowly woke up, she was still tired, but she always struggled sleeping during the day. The first thing she noticed was Harry sitting on the end of her bed. She smiled at him, and he replied.

'Hey, you feeling better?' Harry asked wondering whether she would be better enough to tell them what was going on.

'Yes, I'm really hungry though.'

'Well I'm not surprised, you've missed lunch, dinner, breakfast, and lunch again.'

'I think I had something during yesterday, I can't really remember though,' Hermione said rubbing her hand against her temple to try to sooth the beginning of a headache.

Harry stood up and sat next to Hermione. He looked serious at Hermione, while he stroked her check, 'Did the bastard do anything to you, just tell me,'

'What do you mean, who are you talking about?' Hermione asked, wondering whether Harry was talking about William. He was anything but a bastard.

'The guy that was carrying you, did he do anything, because I swear if he did, he wont get away with it.'

'I don't remember a guy, unless you're talking about an almost seventy year old, that was who I was with most of the time. And I doubt he could have carried me.' Hermione was really starting to get confused, and it seemed Harry was, Hermione decided to end the conversation before she got that headache that seemed to be growing in her head.

'Harry can we just leave it, I'm getting a headache, and I need to look at that list I was writing.'

'Yeah, about that list, can you explain it please, but wait for Ron, he's just gone down for some more food. You know we don't have secrets, between the three of us, and now because we are going out, I want us to be closer than before.'

Hermione took a deep breath, 'yes you're right, I want us to be closer, okay I'll tell you, but first can I have some food, I'm starving, and I also want something else.'

'Yes baby, what can I get you?' Hermione instead of repling , reached out her hand and slid it behind Harry's neck, pulling him forward she captured Harry's lips, she quickly opened her mouth, pulling his tongue with hers. Her head soon resting on her pillow, and Harry's weight was a welcome pressure against her body. One of harry's hands was tangled in her hair, while the other was resting on the side of her stomach. A small portion of her t-shirt had rustled up, leaving a small patch of skin exposed. Harry's hand lay on it, and they both enjoyed the contact of skin. Harry craving more of her creamy skin, placed his hand slightly under it, feeling the soft cotton moving above his hand, and her soft skin molded against his hand. They both reluctlently pulled apart when Ron coughed from the doorway.

'I see you're awake.' Ron said as he plonked a selection of food on the bed in front of Hermione.

Hermione turned slightly red, while grabbing some buttered toast. 'Right when you've finished you can explain what the hell is going on.' Ron said before sitting on his bed. Hermione picked up a glass of water that was placed on a shelf, she glanched on it, wondering whether it was safe to drink. Ron noticing what Hermione was probably thinking said, 'You can drink it, it's from today'.

Once Hermione had finished several pieces of bread, and her glass of water, she shook her hands against each other.

'Okay what do you want to know?' she said while looking at both boys.

'Everything, and start at the beginning.' Ron said.

'Alright, yesterday when I said I was going to a bookstore, I was partly right. I went to the oldest library. There are all the oldest books, really rare, and things people have never heard of before.

'The place is underground, anyway, I found an unbelieveable book, which I read. I got some information, that I'm going to use to defeat Voldemort.'

'Do you want to explain what it is, and the reason that Dumbledore doesn't want you to go through with it?' Harry asked. starting to agree with Dumbledore. if she wanted to take Voldemort on by herself, she had another thing coming.

'Right, in this book, it explain that we have more than one world. We have more than one world to balance everything out. Now somewhere out there, is another world, which is mirrored by ours. Basically its our world but opposite, or some of the things are. I thought that maybe we could some how get in touch with this other world, and use Voldemort as our alley in our wor–'

'What the hell, you want to become friends with Voldemort, whats happened to you. You do remember what he's like, don't you?'

'Yes, I know he's evil here, but think about it. The more evil he is here, the more good he will be in the other world.'

'God that's completated. But why do we have to use Voldemort, why can't we use ourselves?' Ron said.

'Look, if we're good in this world, then we'll be evil in the other world. Ourselves could kill us if they wanted, they wouldn't though because they would feel everything that they did to us.'

'So why does Dumbledore not want you to go through with it?' Ron asked, starting to think that it was quite a good idea.

'Because he said that the two worlds should never cross. But this is the solution, if their world is mirrored by ours then it is in trouble as well. I'm doing it, with or without you two, obviously I would like you two to help.' Hermione said hoping hey would.

'Hermione, of course we will help you, you don't need to ask us, we're always by your side.' Harry said, 'do you know what to do?'

'Well I kinda do, I'm just going to have to research what i need and i think the best way is to use potions. i had a think about it, but i probably need to go into more detail.'

Ron stuck his hand out in the middle of the three. Harry placed his on top, and then Hermione.

'All for one, and one for all' Ron shouted, he looked sheepish when Hermione and Harry started to laugh.