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Turning Back Time

Chapter 12

It was June. Already. And th plan still wasn't near completion.

"In order to break the curse and go back in time, you must bring at least one person back from the future by their own will. Then you must brew a potion, the potion is called " curse of love" , you must take a sip from the potion, with you hands connected to the being from the future. The potion will take 8 months to brew. The potion will not work unless you do one thing. You must break a curse, that was still wished upon a person before you went back in time. The curse however, must be broken by true love."

They had more than one person from the future come at their own will, tat being Harry Ron and Neville, so that was fine. The potion didn't even take that long to brew so it was already done. But the thing that still made no sense was: break a curse by using true love that was not broken before. They had come up with somewhat of a conclusion. Lets say a witch had a spell cast upon her that every time she would go into the water, she would turn into a fish. If we took that witch ack in time fond her true love and somehow they would break the curse, and then when she went back in time, or not, she would no longer turn into a fish when she went into water. It seemed problematic, but how can true love break a curse like that?

Ginny sat in the library, her knees crossed in front of her. She looked down at the darkness in between her two legs and looked at it with sadness in her eyes. Did anything matter anymore? Harry wasn't Harry anymore... He was someone- something else... and Sirius, I thought Sirius was different, but I was wrong about that, too... Sirius isn't even happy anymore... he's been a wreck ever since Arrabella left and he doesn't even tell us why. And Harry's in love with Luna... Luna Lovegood. I thought he really loved me, but that was just my imagination. I never had much until I came to Hogwarts. No real friends. But without him, without Harry Potter, I might as well be completely alone... I just. love. him. so. much.

"Ginny?" came the voice of Neville "Are you alright? You're, you're crying." Ginny looked up in surprise. And so she was. She wiped away the water droplets from her face and smiled up at Neville.

" I didn't even notice you were here." she said simply. Neville weakly smiled and looked down sadly.

" Not a surprise." he said " No one ever notices me. No one ver acknowledges my existence. Like I have no real purpose. People just look down a you instead of up."

"..."

Ginny's eyes widened. She knew exactly what he was talking about. People never acknowledged her into about her fith year. No ne liked her, admired her seems the better use of the feeling. She was looked down upon on her family because she was the youngest; and not only that, but a girl. But the most painful part of it was never being noticed by Harry. It took a stupid love potion until he noticed her. Only by a curse, a spell, a potion. That's why he noticed her. Ginny tried to hide the fat and pretend it wasn't true, but it was. In sixth year she gave him a love potion. That's why he left her at the end. Not because he was worried, she'd get hurt. Because he didn't love her anymore. She was just put into more danger with no protection. Maybe she would die, but why did it matter. Why did it matter when the most precious person in the world to you couldn't feel the same way about you. It was like she was alone. Without him she is alone. Harry isn't even Harry anymore...

" I'm just like you." Ginny said weakly after a long pause.

"No you aren't." Neville said firmly. Ginny looked at him with slight confusion " B-because I notice you." Ginny looked up at Neville with both a look of surprise and warmness in her eyes.

"Because I notice you. I asked you to the ball, remember?"

Ginny smiled. She had fun that night. More fun than anyone else and it was because he was with her, Neville was.

He took a seat beside her and placed her hands in hers and began rubbing them softly.

" Thank you, Neville."

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Hermione sat at the large long Gryffindor table in the middle of the huge hall. She sipped her pumpkin juice and slightly grimaced as it didn't taste quite the same as it usually did. Hermione shrugged Must of one bad again... it does that a lot... the thought, nodding her head.

Just as she was about to get up and leave she saw a letter fall down onto her empty plate. Hermione looked down at the letter in disgust, remembering what the last letter she got from Snape resulted to.

Dear Hermione,

I am sorry about what happened. I was being silly and foolish. You helped me realize that. If you could ever show some sign of forgivenes (which I imagine isn't possible) then please come to the north tower again at night. I'm truly sorry, Hermione.

Yours,

Severous

Hermione almost smiled. She hadn't told anyone about what happened. If Ron and Harry had found out, Snape would probably be dead.

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" Remus, no." Came Lily's firm voice.

" But Lily-"

"No."

" I'm doing this because I love you." Remus said firmly, trying to look Lily in the eyes.

"Bit why does it matter that you're a werewolf?" she said furiosly " Why does it matter when no one has to know?"

Remus sighed deeply "What about a family and a job? I'm too dangerous to take care of a child and- how would anyone ever accept me to work for them. I'm a monster." Lily didn't say anything, she just looked down at her two trembling hands.

"What if you got hurt?" Silence.

"It doesn't matter if I'm with you." she said, holding her bottom lip with the bottom ringe of her teeth." Not being with you is so much more painful than a flesh mark. Becaus the pain on flesh can heal, but the pain here can never heal." When she said the word "here" she cluched the spot on her chest where her heart would be.

Then lily looked up and ran towards Remus and put her arms around him and rested her head on his shoulder. "P-promise me something." she said, her voice shaking "D-don't l-leave me. D-don't leave like Arrabella did." Tears rolled loosely down her face and fell onto Remus. His shoulder blade on his jacket had been torn, so his left shoulder was visible. A scar was there, like two bite marks. As Lily's tears fell down onto Remus's shoulder, one hit where his scar was engraved. Remus slightly winced as he felt something sting on his houlder. He then bit his lip hard, leaving a small trace odf blood to trickle down from his lip.

"Lily." he said " I will never leave you. And we're going to get Arrabella. I promise." Lily continued crying but she had a wide smile on her face "Thank you, Remus. You picked the right answer." They slightly chuckled and began thinking about how they were going to free Arrabella from that horrible prison that called themselves the Ministry.

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Ron, Harry and Hermione walked down the hall and chattered and laughed.

"Oh! I have to go se Severous-" Hermione clutched her hand over her last word. She wasn't supposed to tell them... she was only supposed to say "somewhere".

"Severous?" asked Ron in a bit od Disgust. Hermione scowled at his tone of voice. She didn't kno why. He spoke like this every day. It was as if her actions were being done without her even knowing.

"As in Snape?" Harry asked his one Eyebrow raised.

"His name is Severous." Hermione said firmly. Why was she doing this? The only time she called his Severous was when she was around him, so it didn't look like she was being rude.

" Sorry..." Harry said sarcastically, slightly chuckleing.

" You better be! You know it's rude to call someone you interact with in a positive way by calling them by their last name." Hermione said matter-of-factly.

" Positive?" Harry asked disgusted " I hate Severous snape, you know that. And the last time I checked so did you."

"Well then Harry-" Hermione was interuppted by Ron coming in between them.

"Guys, stop it. I don't what you're saying Hermione. Snape is just... He's a horrible, horrible person, ok?" Hermione glared at Ron as if he were speaking a foreign tongue.

"Maybe you know nothing about me, Ron. Maybe he knows-"

" He's a murderer Hermione! Be sensible. You don't even know him."

" How do you know? How do you know what I do in my spare time? What I did when you weren't here? I was with Severous. And-and he understood me more than anyone. H-he knew what I was going through. He understands me more than anyone else."

"Hermione, let's just go, okay? Forget about him. Do what we usually do and pretend that nothing happened-"

" You know what, Ronald?" she said, nearly yelling " On your very, very best day you are not half the man that he is."

"What? Why, Hermione?"

"Because maybe I love him more than you." and with that she ran as fast as she could, heading towards the north tower, hoping to find the one person that could bring her to light through all of this darkness...

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Yes... I like making Hermione suffer... ok! so! hope you liked the chappie! Keep reviewing! thanks so much! two more chapters! woot!

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