Much Longer Chapter…thanks for all the reviews. Oh yeah. A lot of this chapter is going to be Hermione POV, sorry to anyone who doesn't like that. Thanks for all the reviews and a special thanks to Eliza for some help on the ending of this chapter.
Chapter 15
The Past is Back
Than night Hermione had the strangest dreams. Hours past and she kept having the same dream, over and over again. They weren't that strange until the end
Dream
All three of them were their, Harry, Hermione and Ron. It was a lot like old times, you could tell they weren't mad at each other. Each of them looked very weak, like they could hardly walk. Hermione's face was full of scratches, but no blood was coming out. The place they were at was very dark; you hardly could see what was in front of you. Each of them had a scared expression on their face, even though it seemed like whatever action happened was over.
"Hermione, are you sure you're alright." Harry asked looking very worried at her.
"Yeah of course," she said still with a slight bit of fear in her voice. "I'm going to run up ahead, we need to find a way home." Hermione slowly limped along, leaving the two young men alone, giving them a chance to converse.
"Harry you should really go and talk to her."
"Yeah, sure but…"
"This is your one and only chance to make it. Go and talk to her, mate."
Harry ran up in front to make it up to Hermione, who wasn't that far ahead of them. It still was very dark, and it seemed like they were walking back into the forest
"Are you sure you're alright Harry?"
"Yeah, just a few cuts and scrapes. You're the real one we should be worried about."
"I'm fine."
Silence then struck them, as they kept walking more and more into the forest.
"Oh look their goes Sirus," said Hermione pointing to a black dog that roamed the forest.
"Hermione I need to…"
"HERMIONE!"
Hermione jumped. She was being awakened by Ginny.
"Sirus?" she said with a very confused look on her face, like what the-.
"What?" Ginny asked, confused.
"Nothing, Nothing" Hermione said her voice getting lower and lower.
"You were starting to scare me. You moved so much I'm surprised you didn't fall off your bed. You were sweating a real lot to. What were you dreaming about?"
"I don't remember," Hermione said, lying. She knew her dream was a little freaky and she had no idea where it came from. She wanted to figure out if this dream meant something, but she didn't want to tell Ginny. It was definitely too confusing. "I'm going to go back to sleep."
Ginny turned away and went back to her bed to fall asleep. She knew that whatever happened to Hermione had to be something serious or really weird if she didn't tell her.
After lots of tossing and turning, Hermione finally fell asleep. Still she kept having the same dream. The more she saw it, the more she wondered about it. Why did she keep thinking this? Did it mean anything? She knew it had to have meant something, or else why would she have it in the first place. Finally, she just decided to get up because she was getting sick of thinking about it, she had to figure something out.
After a lot of thinking, she decided to ask Ron for his divination book, even though she knew nothing about divination. The dream would not get out of her mind; she had to figure out if it meant anything. She knew Ron was going to need an explanation for it though. Of course knowing her friends like the back of her hand, she was right.
"Why do you want my divination book? You quit divination remember?"
"Yeah, I know. It's just that, I had a weird dream." Hermione told Ron the whole dream, leaving out no details. Ron of course became a concerned.
"Did you tell Dumbledore?"
"Ron, it was freaky, not scary."
"Have you had any of these 'dreams' before?"
"Yeah, once. I told Dumbledore about it. He said it could have been a vision, even though I was told I'm not good at divination. But it can't be, because Sirus isn't alive, so I have to find out what it means." (Don't want to get anyone's hopes up, Sirus isn't coming back)
"Okay, I'll give you my book later; I don't have it with me right now."
"O shoot," Hermione said recognizing the time. "I have to go, see you next class." She got up and walked out of the Great Hall, leaving Ron alone.
Harry sat from the other side of the table, just staring at them. He was lost in his own mind, wishing he was with them, with Hermione.
"Harry, Harry are you alright?"
"Yeah, yeah." He said, being pulled from his dream-like state. "I've got to go." Harry got up from the table and walked through the Great Hall, wanting to catch up to Hermione. He was walking as fast as he could, without trying to cause a big commotion. He needed to talk to her; he needed to set things straight. He made it out to the entrance hall and looked up and down; Hermione was no where in sight.
"Hey, mate." Ron said after finally catching up with Harry.
"What are you following me?"
"Uh…If that's what you want to call it. Look, I need to talk to you."
"I don't want to talk to you."
"Why are you acting so jealous?"
"I am not jealous."
"Yeah you are. You need to cool it before Hermione finds out you like her, you should just tell her."
"Why? It's not like you to aren't dating."
"Nothing, absolutely nothing is going on between me and Hermione. You would no that if you would at least talk to her."
"Thanks for the news" Harry said sarcastically.
"Harry, stop being such a prick, you know that it is going to be you and Hermione and it always will be. You need to just go and talk to her. Let's just say that for once I'm right, and your wrong, especially to be ignoring her like this."
"Anyways, where is she?"
"I don't know, she just said that she had to go and she'd see us next class."
"How can you not know where she is, anything could happen in a matter of five minutes." Harry said, his voice slowly rising.
"Harry just calm down, don't worry. I'm sure nothings happened to her. And even if something did Hermione's strong, she can take care of herself. "
"I don't care, we have to find her. You didn't see her when the death eaters attacked her. Let's split up and find her. You can search the bottom floors and ill search the top."
"Yeah sure, said Ron, with no enthusiasm in his voice. He knew Harry was making a big deal out of this and that she was probably wherever she always is. But he didn't want to Harry to get even madder at them, so he just decided to go.
Harry climbed up the starts and starting wandering around, trying to find her. Ron started his search on the floor, looking in every question. Even though he saw absolutely no point in this, he just did it for Harry, to prove that nothing was wrong. After he finished his floors, he decided to go back down to the Great Hall to wait for Harry. When he got there he heard someone coming out of Dumbledore's office. He knew it had to be her, who else would it be? When he went over to her, and noticed she was crying.
"Hermione, what's wrong?" He asked sympathetically.
"My…pp…parents….they were….were attacked by….dd…death eaters!" Ron hugged her, trying to show her there was nothing to worry about, as he was put in this same position last year, just with his dad.
"I thought you said nothing…you liar." Harry said, emerging from the stairs, seeing Ron and Hermione hugging.
"Wait, Harry no." said Ron calling after him. "Don't worry, Hermione, everything's going to be okay." Ron said, patting her on the back.
Everyday for the rest of the week went by in total and complete silence. Hermione was very scared that her parents were going to die, that she cried herself to sleep thinking it was all her fault. Harry lay awake in his bed each night that Hermione was crying, just thinking about her. He wished that he could talk to her, console her. Its not like he didn't try to, he did, plenty of times. Its just that as soon as he went up to her, the ugly image of Ron and Hermione hugging would flash in his head, and he had to leave before he had said something horribly stupid that he knew he would regret. Along with being there for Hermione, Ron also tried talking to Harry, but nothing would ever become of it. Harry soon started avoiding Ron, because he knew that he was being stupid, but his jealous side always came over him.
Within a week before Christmas break, Hermione left school to go visit her parents. Dumbledore excused her for the week while she went and visited her parents. Hermione's parents were getting better, or at least they weren't dead, anyway. They were in a very unstable condition, though. They each had very little reaction to the world around them. Hermione found it very hard to see them in this sort of condition, but she was happy they were still alive.
Back at Hogwarts, Harry walked around the school like a loner. Even though he still had all of his other friends, he didn't feel the same, he always felt like he was alone. He mostly avoided Ron the whole time she was gone, just not wanting to have a confrontation with his 'worst enemy'. Ron also avoided Harry. He knew exactly when to quit. It seemed like he was getting absolutely no where with getting each other talking, he was definitely ready to give up, and he knew nothing was going to change.
At St. Mungo's
Hermione had been there for most of the week. The nurses began knowing her by name, since she pretty much lived there. The only time she wasn't there was when she was sleeping, at Sirius's old house. Everyday was the same route for her, straight up to the fourth floor and back down. Today instead she decided to take the stairs, instead of waiting for the elevator. After climbing about 100 stairs, she found the floor she had to get off on. She walked down the hall to the floor that lead her to her parents' hospital wing, which was like a half a mile away. A young man, around 18, turned the corner from down the hall (the opposite way she was walking)). He quickly blinked twice, unsure what he just saw.
"Hermy-one-nimy"
(Like you don't know who that is)
Hermione turned around to see the famous quiddich star Viktor Krum, her ex, standing a few feet away from her.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" she asked trying to sound happy to see him.
"I waz stuck in her because of a quiddivch accident." (Don't mind the accent, that's not my strong point)
"Oh…are you alright?" she said, playing off like she was interested.
"Yeah. But now I'm going to be living here for a little vile (while)."
"Why?"
"Vhy? I thought you'd be happy for me, for uz, ve can get back together now."
"I'm sorry Viktor," she quickly searched for an excuse. "I've got a boy friend."
"So whose vhe lucky man?"
"Uh….umm….I'd rather not say. See you around."
"No, I mean vill you please come with me for a day over vacation?"
"Alright fine" She said, not being able to lie her way out of this one. "But I have to ask my boyfriend."
"Alright, I'll owl you later"
"O joy, what have I gotten myself into," she muttered.
A/N- Yeah, a lot longer. I don't know what the lengths of the other chapters are going to be. Well the next two weeks are very stressful, as I have big tests coming up, also known as the mcas for people in mass. I will try to update though. Please Review
Kelly
