A/N: Hope you enjoyed. There will be more R or M rated material, meaning language and sexual content.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything you recognize, anything you don't would be a product of my overactive imagination.

Chapter 7: Saying Goodbye

Hermione woke early the next morning next to her lover; she looked across the bed and saw Aidan watching her.

"Morning luv" he said.

"Morning baby, how long have you been up?" she asked sleepily

"About twenty minutes"

"Why'd you let me sleep?"

"You were tired last night, you need your sleep"

She nodded and asked,

"What time is it?"

"Around 9" he said after looking at his wrist.

She smiled and kissed him before getting up and going into the bathroom. She climbed into the shower and started to wash her hair. She was about to wash herself when Aidan climbed into the shower stall behind her. He took the cloth from her hand and ran it over her back. He continued to wash her back and kissed her neck at the same time. She turned around and captured his lips with her own. They turned the kiss into a battle of tongues and moans. He lifted her onto his hips and she twisted her arms around his neck, continuing the kiss. He stepped out of the shower and sat her down on the counter beside the shower. She smiled at him and they continued to kiss while Hermione ran her hands down his chest and onto his back, as he rubbed his hands up and down her back. She jumped limberly off of the counter and led him to the bed. She lay him down and slithered up his naked body until she encountered what she was looking for.

It was half and hour later when Hermione was back in the shower finally getting ready for the day. Aidan was in the bedroom waiting for Hermione to return so he could get into the shower. He would have shared the shower with her but she had been adamant that they not get distracted… again. She entered the bedroom and smiled as Aidan got up and entered the room from where she had just exited. Hermione went to her armoire and took out a black dress and a pair of shoes. She then went to the dresser and pulled out her knickers. She dressed quickly and then with a wave of her wand her hair was dry and hung in curls down her back. When Aidan came out of the bathroom and dressed while Hermione sat down and applied her make-up by hand. Although she had spent the last six years as a practicing witch she still had many muggle ways about her. He kissed the top of head and then went to the door.

"I'll be back with the other Herms; I need to get to some fresh clothes"

"Alright Aidan, I'll be in the common room in a minute"

Aidan left the room and entered the Gryffindor Common Room to find Harry, Ron, Ginny and his brother all sitting on the couches.

"Hiya" Aidan said.

"Where have you been" Holden asked.

"None of your bloody business Holden" Aidan said.

Holden looked at his brother as he ran up the stairs and into his dorm room.

"Weren't those the clothes he wore yesterday?" Ginny asked.

"Yeah, they were. Do you think that he was with Hermione?" Ron asked

"I think that would be the logical answer" Harry answered.

A few minutes later Aidan re-entered the common room and sat down beside Harry.

"So, is everyone ready for breakfast? Hermione is waiting for us?" he said and stood up. His friends and brother also stood up and followed Aidan to the Head girls' common room. As they entered Hermione came down the stairs in the black dress which hugged her curves and a black cloak over her arm. She smiled at her friends and went to Aidan, who put his arm around her waist.

"Everyone ready? Remember boys we have to leave before eleven" she reminded Harry and Ron.

The two boys nodded and they all exited through her portrait and to the Great Hall. They ate their breakfast and when the Headmistress stood and left the Hall. Hermione, Harry and Ron all stood and after Hermione and Harry kissing their partners goodbye followed.

In the Entrance Hall there were several Slytherins talking to the Headmistress.

"I do not understand why you want to see your parents" McGonagall was saying.

"Headmistress, I was the one who suggested that if they wanted to say goodbye they should come today" Hermione explained.

"Ms. Granger, I know you believe that they have a right to say goodbye but do you think that they may help any escapees?"

"Headmistress, I think that if they wanted to help their parents escape, they would have done so already and without permission" Harry said.

"Harry's right Headmistress" Ron agreed.

"I know, alright, I give you all permission to accompany us all to the Ministry. You are to apparate to the lobby" she explained and led her students to the apparition point.

When the Hogwarts students appeared into the Ministry Professor McGonagall led them down into the deeper depths where not one of the new visitors had been before. The Headmistress then showed Harry, Ron and Hermione into a separate room before leading the other to the individual cells down the hallway. In the room that the Golden Trio now populated there were two separate cells, one for Professor Snape and one for Draco Malfoy. Harry went to the cell holding their professor and looked in on a man drowning in his own sorrow. He had tear stains down his face but no new tears occupied the space. His shoulders were hunched and he let out a dry sob when he saw his old students.

"I'm sorry Harry, I'm sorry… please forgive me… all I need is forgiveness… it's all I beg for" the man wept dryly.

"You murdered Albus Dumbledore" was all Harry said.

"I did it all for him… everything was for him… believe me Harry it was what he wanted"

"He wanted to die?" Harry asked angrily.

"No…no… everything else… ask him Harry, ask him" he said through his dry tears and sobs.

"I can't ask him you dolt, you fucking killed him"

"No… no I didn't… please believe me, I didn't kill him. Look where the werewolf plays every moon" Snape said before passing out.

Harry turned to Hermione and Ron who were looking at Draco Malfoy without compassion.

"What do you think he meant by that Hermione?"

"I'm not sure Harry, maybe…" she stopped.

"Maybe what Hermione?" Ron asked turning away from the other cell.

"Maybe he's not dead… maybe he's in hiding. Were does the werewolf play? What is that supposed to mean?" Harry asked.

Just then a bell rang over head and a guard entered each of the cells and led out the criminals. The Golden Trio left to get into the viewing room before the final details were sorted. When they entered they discovered that the under Death Eaters and most of the inner circle were to be put to death first and then there would be the major traitors. Last to die would be Professor Severus Snape. They also learned that the Ministry was to be using a drug of sorts that Muggles used in the United States as the method of 'murder'.

Harry and his friends watched as the worlds remaining evils died quietly until the only ones left were Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape. The younger Malfoy was distracted while they strapped him into the chair as he was trying to look at the door. He finally gave up and was about to rest his head back against the headrest when the door flung open and a man wearing bright yellow robes and sporting long silver hair and a long silver beard walked into the room. Harry turned and gasped out the name of the man they had thought they would never see again.

"Professor Dumbledore…"

A/N: Hope you enjoyed it and its' little twist at the end. Don't you love it when something just pops into your head when you're writing and it ends up being a really good idea? Anyway, I'm off to school in 1 day so I hope I'll get this fiction done either before I go or before school starts in Sept.