Walking
down the stairs still dressed in her dressing gown, Hermione shuffled
into the kitchen with her empty mug, Molly was sitting at the table
next to Ginny, with a piece of parchment in front of them.
"Morning." Hermione said before letting out a yawn.
"Someone's tired this morning." Molly said, chuckling.
Hermione smiled,
"Sirius stole the cover off me that's why.
Do you mind if I help myself to some toast?"
Molly's eye's
widened and eyebrows went automatically up,
"He stole the
cover from you!" She asked, shocked.
Nodding slowly
Hermione began to realise what she had said,
"Oh no! Not
like that! This morning, he got from his bed and took
my cover from me!" She quickly recovered.
Molly merely
smiled weakly and got up from the table,
"I'm afraid you
will have to finish it on your own now Ginny dear, Oh and of course
Hermione, you can help yourself to the bread." She gave Hermione
a sincere smile before walking through the kitchen door.
Whilst
waiting for the toast to pop up Hermione walked round to Ginny and
peered over her shoulder,
"Oooh, your doing charms
homework, you're so lucky! I'm quite obviously going to fail this
year now I've missed so much work."
Ginny scoffed, "Never
say 'Homework' and 'Lucky' in the same sentence again Hermione.
Anyway you haven't even missed that much, only about a month or so.
Dumbledore has let me, Ron and Harry off school since your return and
I'm loving it!"
Hermione frowned,
"Well as long as
my return isn't causing a detrimental effect on your schoolwork."
Ginny look up at her, puzzled,
"Then what? You wouldn't
have returned?"
Hermione smiled,
"Since when did
you become so literal?"
"Since Harry. I think he wanted
a replacement female friend. And I was it." Ginny replied
casually, returning to her homework.
"Replacing me so quick?
Hmm, were you up when he left with Sirius?"
Ginny nodded
slowly, then quickly turned around when she heard a door shut
upstairs.
"Will you complete your story now?" She
suddenly asked. Hermione was taken aback, then Ginny smiled and
added,
"Mum told me I couldn't ask you, so I was waiting
for her to go upstairs to clean out the spare room so I can ask.
Please tell me Hermione! What happened after you went to Dumbledore?"
Hermione looked down and took a deep breath in, she could not blame Ginny for being curious, but still felt strange about reliving all the events that had passed by. After a quick glance at Ginny's pleading face, she sighed and began to speak.
"Within
two hours of sending the owl I heard a knock at my bedroom door,
Dumbledore was standing there, with my bemused parents standing
either side. He told me straight away that we must get to the
ministry of magic to uncover Sirius' prophecy, I readily agreed and
told my parents I would explain everything on my return.
Dumbledore
instantly transformed one of my books into a portkey and within
seconds we were standing in the ministry of magic. Your dad was
there, I think he had authorized the portkey from the inside. Anyway,
he led us down through to the restricted area, the exact way we had
come before to Sirius' death. But this time it did not take us long
to get to the room. Dumbledore knew exactly where we were going, and
we managed to enter the room within minutes. Everything was the same,
the rows beyond rows of prophecies, each with their own name and
story to tell. It chilled me down to the bone being there again, the
candles offering no warmth. I followed Dumbledore through the
corridors of glistening orbs until he stopped at a particular isle,
nodding for me to go forward. I cautiously stepped through and began
to score the isles for a name.
Then I saw It.
Sirius Black
and Hermione Granger"
