Chapter 3: Unbelievable
Hermione woke up on Sunday morning, her dreams of Hogwarts and the Burrow and of her old friends still fresh in her mind.
She took a shower and got dressed in her uniform, then she remembered it was Sunday. "Damn." she muttered, she took of her uniform and biffed it on the floor.
She looked in her closet and pulled out a pair of jeans and a t-shirt with a muggle band on it.
Hermione tried to tie an elastic in her hair and walk across the room at the same time and failed, AKA she fell over a chair .
She swore loudly, now laying beside her bed, her arm bleeding from being hit against the metal post of the bed.
Something under her bad caught her eye, it was a large wooden box, Hermione pulled it out and flipped it open, there lay her wand, a pair of robes and an old photo album.
Hermione pulled out her wand and pointed it at her torn arm, the cut left, blood gone, just a small white line that soon also disappeared.
She put it back in the box, but instead of closing the lid, she pulled out the photo album.
On the first page there was a picture of her, Harry and Ron, next page, second year photos, next third year, then forth, then fifth, there were also pictures taken at Grimauld Place.
She sighed seeing a picture of Sirius wearing a Santa hat and singing Christmas carols, she remembered the past three Christmas' she had here, all celebrated by herself, no presents, no family, no friends, nothing.
Hermione flipped through the remaining pages, she saw pictures of her last day at Hogwarts with Harry, Luna, Ginny, and Ron.
Things were never that good, but they had dipped to an all time low.
She put the album back onto the box forcefully, as if had bitten her and was about to close the lid when something else caught her eye, the newspaper, the last thing she knew about the magical world.
She read the front page over and over again, her name, dead at 19 it said.
Then Hermione noticed something, Ron wasn't there, he was supposed to die to! Hermione immediately regretted thinking that, he was probably in the paper a few more days on.
She sat there pondering all that had happened, her life had been ruined, and she didn't even know why.
Thats it! She thought she would at least find out why! Thats it!
She grabbed her wand and stood up, she made sure her door was locked and hen she stated plainly.
'leaky cauldron' she concentrated really hard then spun.
The sensation of going threw a really small pipe came over her and then
crack
When she opened her eyes she was no longer in her sad little apartment. She was standing in the musty lighting of the Leaky Cauldron.
People didn't really notice her, only a few even bothered to look up. What had she expected? A welcome home party with all of her dearest friends? No, things wouldn't be that easy and she knew it.
Hermione was instantly regretting coming here, it had been three years. She was disregarding Dumbledore's orders! One part of her was frightened but another said 'So what? You came here to find your friends and thats what your going to do!'
She went outback and pressed the correct bricks with her wand, they led to the opening of Diagon alley, she would have to go to Gryngotts to get some money, she had muggle money in her pocket and she could get it exchanged there.
She noticed as she walked around that Diagon alley was its old self, no warning posters, just happy displays.
Hermione went around, puzzled, then she came across Weasleys Wizard Weezes, she ran so fast towards it she almost smucked into the door.
There was a poster of some Quidditch thing on it, Hermione pulled open the door, the shop was as crowded as ever!
Hermione scanned the crowd looking for a flicker of red, anything, then she saw it, she recognized Fred, he had a pony tail now, much like Bill, he was demonstrating something in a box, but then he caught sight of Hermione and dropped it.
The boy he was showing it to looked unhappy when Fred left him and walked over to Hermione.
"Hermione?" Fred choked
she nodded and Fred gave her a big hug.
"George, GEORGE!" Fred yelled
George, who had shorter hair then Fred saw them, he gave Hermione a hug to.
"They said you were dead!" George exclaimed.
"I know, I'm on my way to see Dumbledore right now, I needed to go to the bank to get a ticket and I saw the shop and I just..." Hermione wavered on, Fred and George looked shocked about something.
"Dumbledore?" Fred asked.
Hermione came back to reality
"You didn't..." Fred started
"Hear." George finished
"No, what happened?" Hermione asked
"He's in St. Mugos, there was an impostor, he was at Hogwarts."
"When?" Hermione demanded
"He came about three years ago, then Mcgonigal noticed something, it wasn't him, it was Lucius Malfoy using the Polyjuice potion."Fred said
"There was some prophesy about something, and they got the person to leave, then they were gonna make the person join them." George said
"But with Lucius getting caught they didn't get to!"
"Dumbledore, or, er, Lucius, told me to leave." Hermione said shocked
Fred and George exchanged looks.
"Then the prophesy was about you..." Fred said
"It said that this person, of muggle blood would be the cleverest of them all, same age as the boy to be destroyed, she would kill him if the dark lord got to her." George recited
"But, they caught her, she had her wand snapped."
"Then it must have been a mistake... she was caught after Hermione, er, left."Fred started
"Lucius must've panicked and sent her, being the smartest witch in the year." George finished.
"He must've confused it, the girl ended up being the same age as You-know-poo, but she didn't kill him, or Harry." George said.
Somehow Hermione understood .
"Were is Harry and Ron?" Hermione asked
"Well, Harry is head of Aurors and Ron is..." Fred went and retrieved the paper from the front door, it showed a Quidditch player zooming around.
"Thats Ron?" Hermione asked in disbelief
"Yeah say, hes training right now, so I don't think anybody can reach him but, the whole family is going to his game tonight... you should some." George said
"Alright..." Hermione said
"What about Harry, and Ginny? And Neville and Luna, and, and everybody, are they all alright?" Hermione asked
"Hell yeah, Luna Lovegood runs the Quibbler now, and Neville and his wife are currently expecting."Fred said
"A baby." George clarified
"What about Ginny and Harry?"
"Oh, well there Ginny and Harry, there getting married this winter." Fred said.
Hermione beamed. She had always known they would end up together!
"So, lets get going, the game will be starting soon and we wanna get good seats." George said clapping his hands together.
They got to the pitch before anybody else.
Except a messy black haired boy and a fiery red headed girl who were sitting in the top stands.
Hermione ran as fast as she could get down to them, just before she reached them she stopped and flung her arms around their heads.
"Guess who!" She said
They turned and Hermione recognized the green eyed boy with a scar and the brown eyed girl.
"Hermione?" Harry asked calmly.
"No, Santa Claus." Hermione said rolling her eyed.
Harry jumped up, fell, then got back up again and gave Hermione a big hug.
"They said you were dead." Harry said, his eyes watering
"No, really." Hermione said sarcastically, she hugged him back, then when that ordeal was over Ginny enveloped her in a hug.
"I missed you so much." Hermione said , standing back and wiping away tears that started to stream down her face.
Then, a girl with straight brown hair and way too much makeup on came clicking down the stands, she wore high heels and very tight robes
"Harry, Ginny." she nodded at both of them and then looked at Hermione
"And who are you?" She asked rather rudely
"This is my best friend Hermione Granger." Harry said, not bothering to hide the snideness in his voice.
"Hm." she said before turning and walking down to the pitch
"Ron's latest girlfriend." Ginny said glaring at the back of the girl.
Hermione tried to smile, but she didn't do a very good job of it. Somethings inside of her snarled. What had she expected? For him to wait for the dead? They hadn't even been going out very long when she had ... left.
"Her name is Alamasha" Harry pronounced the last word with so much hate.
They talked, Hermione explained what had happened to her and they explained all about there life.
The war had ended, all that were left were a few death eaters that would be rounded up in no time, Harry had killed Voldemort.
Ginny invited Hermione to be her made of honor.
The stands started to fill up and Hermione, Fred and George took seats beside Harry and Ginny, the rest of the family were all surprised and gave her huge hugs and talked her ear off, (yes even Percy) and most of them cried (not Percy), then the game began ...
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