Ok, yeah it's been awhile! But I haven't forgotten all of you! Nor have I forgotten this fic! I've been having kind of an all around writer's block, not to mention my mind is just swamped because I have a Civics exam on Monday! Eek! Also I had two MAJOR projects due just this past week in civics not to mention my other classes and there is just this strain happening. Plus my marks are kind of slipping to the seventies and that's not good, I need an 80 average so I have to pull myself together. Forgive me please. I've responded to some of your AWSOME reviews!
Dracos-naughty-lil-girl- yep it does hurt. I love all the reviews I get from you! But in all seriousness it isn't Hermione's fault, sort of, I mean you could be obliviated right now and not even know it. Then one day someone will walk up to you and your life will be forever changed…lol I'm losing my focus.
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Obliviate
Chapter 8 Sulking Never Solves Anything…Ron Does!
The last three years, he'd been searching, looking, waiting, hoping, for just one glimpse, one conversation, one kiss from Hermione. He'd spent the better part of three years traveling around the globe as an Auror, but everywhere he went he would look high and low for her. Now he had found her, he'd found his Hermione, and she…she…he couldn't fathom why she didn't seem to know him, but it was eating him inside.
He was currently bound in his office chair, quite uncomfortably he might add, and silencioed. He couldn't really blame Harry for doing this to him. Heck, he would have done it to himself now that he thought about it.
When they had arrived back at the office Harry undid the Silencio he put Draco under back in the muggle realm that's when he started to rant. He had screamed about going back to get her and how Harry was an idiot and how he threatened to apparate out of the office to get her himself. That was when Harry warded the office against apparation, and Draco started throwing hexes at his friend. Harry called for more help and Harry and three other Auror's took Draco down and that was how he ended up like this; in an empty office, bound to a chair, wandless, silenced, and tormented.
Draco didn't understand this. Why couldn't she remember him? It was Hermione; that he knew. He could recognize those eyes anywhere, the hair, the nose, the lips. He was getting ahead of himself. Confound it all, why couldn't she remember him? Was she faking it? No, she was never a really great liar, she would always fidget her hands, bite her lower lip…how he missed those lips. He shook his head. No, I can't think like this, it'll only hurt too much.
Harry sat with Ron Weasley in an extra office talking while Draco was confined in theirs.
"So you really found her?"
"Yeah, we did." Ron beamed at this. Harry shook his head sadly.
"So why isn't she here? What's wrong?" Ron asked.
"She…it was…Ron, she didn't know who we were." Harry choked out in disbelief.
"What do you mean Harry?" Ron asked.
"What I mean is…is…she has no idea what Hogwarts is, who we are, she thinks…she thinks she's a muggle." Harry said still in a choked up state.
Ron Weasley sat listening to his friend explain about how he and Draco had left when the scanner alarm went off all the way to the part where he dragged Draco away. Ron was in a state of shock. He remembered Hermione from Hogwarts and had missed her terribly over these last three years. The office walls were his only solace for he let his gaze wander and he was engrossed in deep concentrated thought.
How was it that Hermione didn't remember them? She was the brightest witch of her age; she could cast circles around most older and experienced wizards when she was only in school, even at the age of 11 she had showed enough ability for her to skip ahead into another year. He loved Hermione; she was like his baby sister, like Ginny. When Hermione disappeared it felt like it would if Ginny had left.
His thoughts swayed to Ginny. Ginny had been a complete and udder mess when Hermione had disappeared; she sent owls to find her, stayed awake day and night, she made herself catch so many colds from deprivation of sleep and so much stress. Finely they had gotten her to bed. She was almost as bad as Draco was. At least she would talk to them, Draco isolated himself. He would stay up all night; Ron knew this because Ginny and Draco would stay together as sort of an all night vigil for those unable to sleep. He and Harry had also been sick with worry, however, they knew Hermione wouldn't want them to make themselves sick and they were too busy taking care of Ginny and Draco that they had no time themselves. When they did though it was always her; Ron would lay awake at night wondering about her.
Luna had been a help, she had taken care of Ginny with Harry to try and calm her down. She had helped him take care of Draco as well.
That was when the chaos had started, as if it hadn't already. Voldemort made his presence known again and had started attacking more and more people. The Order tried their hardest to stop him. Harry, Ron, Draco, and Luna were officially sworn in as members; however as Ginny was still in attendance at Hogwarts Dumbledore and his parents, not to mention the rest of the Order, felt that considering that she was still a student and her current state of sadness and sickness that they should wait until next year. Ginny protested but gave in quicker then usual because she was weakened from lack of sleep, food, and was getting colds as common as once every week or two. She was admitted to St. Mungo's a month before school started.
Then the final battle started to approach fast. Ron's eyes found Harry's. It appeared Harry had been in deep thought as well.
"I miss her." he said.
"Me too Ron, me too." Harry sighed.
"How's Draco?"
"He is a mess. Can you blame him? If that was me and Ginny had gone missing, I wouldn't be able to live Ron, and I can't…I can't…" Harry trailed off.
"I know, if that had happened to me and Luna, I wouldn't be able to live either. I'm actually surprised I'm still alive right now actually. It's hard to believe I still can breathe sometimes." Ron said.
"We were so close. What's happened to her?"
"I don't know, but we are going to find out, and fix it." Ron said determinedly.
"I say we got let Malfoy out now, I think he could use a couple drinks…I wouldn't mind some myself." Harry said sighing.
"Yeah, but I'm going to go see Luna and come here again in the morning."
"I'm going home to see Ginny as well, we will figure this out Ron, we will." he said reassuring not only Ron but himself.
"Yeah we will, we'll get our 'Mione back." Ron said smiling sadly.
Hermione lay in her bed snuggled between the sheets. She rolled slightly to the side of her bed to check the time.
10:30
Not bad for going to sleep. Usually she wouldn't even get to her bedroom before 11:30. She rolled back into a snuggled position and allowed sleep to slowly over take her body while the thoughts of today ran in the back of her mind like a movie being replayed over and over again.
She was lying down in the greenest grass she'd ever seen. She took a breath in and smiled, loving the smell of the outdoor surround her senses. She opened her eyes leisurely and tilted her head backwards slightly to find she was near the base of an oak tree. The sun was shining through the branches which were covered with new green leaves.
She sat up slowly and was amazed at what she saw. It was an ancient castle. Enormous, huge, humungous, gigantic, so many words couldn't even describe it's amazing enchanting look. She felt drawn towards it. It feels like home, she thought to herself.
She heard footsteps behind her and made to turn around but a pair of hands closed over her eyes. She kept telling herself to whip away and run but she sat there as the person snuggled into her and brought their mouth close to her ear as they kept their hands on her eyes.
"Guess who?" the person murmured in a deep unnatural voice. She laughed, why the heck am I laughing? She asked herself why she was letting this happen, this must be another dream! This is unlike the others I've had before though. She heard herself speak as she swayed her body in the person's arms…most certainly a man.
"Hmm…Ron?" she smiled.
"No." the voice replied indignantly.
"Oooo…Harry?" she said as she began to smile even more, though she didn't even know why.
"No…" the voice said getting irritated.
"Oh, your that one guy I had sex with two nights ago…um, Kenny something." she smirked as she felt the arms around her tense slightly.
"You have one more chance before I dump you into the lake." the voice threatened.
"I think I know who it is…he's really sexy, cute, smart, and a great kisser. Wait, Anthony Goldstein is in the hospital wing," she said. The person moved to pick her up to dump her, "Draco I know it's you I'm just teasing."
"So you kissed Goldstein huh?" he asked putting her down. She took his face in but it was blurry, all she could see were these stormy light green-greyish eyes.
"Like a year ago…and we didn't even date after, we decided to just be friends." she explained.
"I think Goldstein is going to spend a bit more time in the hospital wing then he expected to." he said glancing at the hospital.
"Don't you dare hurt him Draco, I've kissed Ron and Krum, you going to hex them now?" she pointed out.
"Eventually." he smirked.
"Come off it, you know I love you." she smiled as she turned to sit back down but he grabbed her hand.
"You what?" he asked.
"Oh god, did I just…I don't think I've ever said that to you before have I?" she stammered.
"No…no you might have forgotten to mention that little point. Wait…you love me?" he asked.
"Well…yeah…yeah I do Draco." she said shyly stumbling over her words. A wave of emotion came over her, and when you are hit with so much emotion and you have no idea why you have it its very disorienting and can make you distraught. Her mind was flashing with these emotions, yet she was sure none of this showed for some reason, it was like being inside a movie.
He cupped her cheek in his hand and stroked it with him thumb as he brought his lips to hers in a gentle loving kiss.
"I love you too 'Mione." he whispered to her.
Then he pulled her into a more passionate kiss as a wave of emotions flowed through her again; they felt somewhat familiar but yet they were unrecognisable, she couldn't remember feeling this in her life before.
He pulled her protectively into his chest with his arms wrapped around her. She felt his chin rest on her head as the wind softly whistled through the leaves and the sun was shining brightly on them.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
"Ugh…" Hermione groaned as she slammed down the snooze button on her alarm clock. She slowly sat up huddled in her blankets. She sat in bed for a while then got up to get ready for work with the dream still playing in her head.
Harry sipped his coffee thoughtfully with Ron by his side. Both of them were going to do a full out research about Hermione today and find any clues they might have missed. The office was silent and the stress level would be through the roof if measured on a scale. Luckily, for Harry and Ron, Draco had taken the day off sick, which would be reasonably understandable, due to the fact that the love of his life doesn't know who he is.
The untied Draco yesterday after their discussion and to Harry's surprise he was silent. He didn't say barely two words. He told Harry and Ron that he needed to go home to be alone and apparated away. Harry had felt terrible for Draco at that point, more so then he had ever been. Harry and Ron both missed Hermione and loved her like a best friend/ sister. However, Draco was in love with her, so in love that Harry was surprised that Draco kept living everyday. Harry didn't know how he did it, but he had to admire and pity the man.
"Well Ron, I think its best we get started on this." he said putting down his cup and grabbing a thick file. He handed half the pile to Ron and kept half for his self. This would be a long day. After five hours of repeating sentences typed differently to make it sound different, Harry was starting to feel like it was hopeless.
"Hey Harry I'm going to go through the letter files again." Ron said grabbing a bunch of slightly crimpled papers.
"Alright, but don't expect to find much, those papers didn't give away much." he said shuffling through a couple papers in his hands not taking his eyes from the sentences on them.
They were silently working for about another half an hour when Ron hollered out shouting to Harry.
"Oi! Harry!" he called suddenly.
Harry trudged over and saw Ron holding Hermione's letter to Draco. He had gotten his own, and nobody had really wanted to show anyone theirs from her. Ginny had only just showed Harry hers after their quick honeymoon. The Aurors and everyone searching for Hermione decided to try and work off clues from the letters but nothing worked. They gave no detail of her whereabouts. So why was Ron so excited?
"What is it? Ron we've looked at those letters a thousand times, nothings in there." Harry said sadly.
"Read this line here Harry." Ron said.
"Alright- I will always remember you, in my heart, forever. Yeah so? It's sweet but how does that help us?" I asked impatiently.
"You thick headed idiot! Look, she says 'in my heart' like she is singling it out. Maybe she only will love him in her heart because she can't remember him in her head!" Ron exclaimed.
"I still don't think I follow you…" I said unclear. What was he on about?
"Harry look carefully at the punctuation. If there was one thing we learned from Hermione was about how different punctuation and phrasing could hint at clues or even show you what the author is writing about, sort of like foreshadowing." Ron explained.
"So you mean her memory of us I gone?" Harry asked.
"Yes. Apparently that is an important aspect. One thing though, is how…" Ron pondered.
"Obliviate, it has to be, remember Lockhart? Something along those lines." Harry finally concluded.
"But one can't perform Obliviate on themselves…someone has to do it, so who would help her?" Ron asked.
"I don't know…but we better tell Malfoy this." Harry concluded as he apparated to Draco's with Ron close behind.
Authors Note: Alright the guys figured it out…well most of it. It is pretty obvious because of the dream in the first chapter who the person who obliviated Hermione is…I probably should have made it harder to guess…but I had to have some dramatic irony. Hermione had another dream…why is she getting these memories…I don't know but something is happening. Hope you all liked this chapter! Review :)!