Chapter 3

Hermione took Severus' hand and slowly prepared herself for the torment of the pensieve. She felt the familiar tug of her face and she dragged Severus down to a small little cemetery in the country.
"Oh god professor, it's the family lot." She pointed out a small fenced in graveyard a few metres away.
"But why are we over here? The lots over…oh god, they can't bury me in the lot! Oh this is horrible! Why can't I be in the lot like the others? Why didn't mum and dad put me in the family lot?" Hermione looked shocked and saddened by her parent's decision to move her out of the lot. Severus looked over at her, equally shocked at her statement.
"Miss Granger, you're funeral wasn't prepared by your parents. Didn't you know about what happened to them?" Seeing the look on her face, he presumed Dumbledore hadn't told her. He didn't want to be the one to break it to her.
"Err, umm, Miss Granger, Dumbledore didn't tell you? Oh of course not. Well, I didn't want to be the one to tell you, but your parents, well, they were killed by You-Know-Who." He took Hermiones hand in his and walked her toward the congregation. Hermione saw Ron, Harry, Ginny, Neville and Luna sitting in the front row, crying quietly. She looked around further and saw her professors sitting behind her remaining family. The priest looked very annoyed, as if this funeral was going to weigh him down for life. She felt sad as the funeral began. Neville and Ron stood up and talked, but none of her family stood to talk. She began to cry as her casket was dropped into the hole and covered with dirt. She was gone, no coming back now. It was then that the realisation hit her that she would never had children, or be married, or live to be very old and knit things for her grandchildren. Severus slowly wrapped his arms around her and let her sob in his arms. It seemed like an eternity before she let go and slowly whimpered
"Lets go back now Miss Granger, we still have things to see." She felt the tug of the pensieve and found herself back on the heavenly plains.