(Hello! I'm back in writing…at the moment…sorry I haven't updated for a while, but I have only just realised that I had up loaded a chapter wrong….then everything went wrong…….so I am going to write this and (hopefully) put it up almost straight away. I would like to say thank you to my reviewers, and dedicate this chapter to FalseHope, Kei and F75!

Anyways on with the story!)

Chapter 7.

The meeting with Professor Dumbledore had gone well enough for Hermione's liking, the only down side was that Hermione still didn't have her memory back, which was bothering her the most no end. Dumbledore had said that he couldn't do anything about the mysterious amnesia that had come over Hermione. He had also said that she wouldn't serve detention with Professor Snape, as it wasn't her fault that she couldn't remember what had happened any more the he could, although there was this weird twinkle in his eyes, symbolising that he knew more about the current situation that she didn't.

Walking back to Gryffindor Tower, Hermione thought about what Professor Halliwell might tell her tomorrow lunch, she knew that the professor had a great amount of power, if the demonstration in Defence was anything to go by, but she had healed two people on the spot, and Hermione had read almost all the books in the library (barring the Restricted Section) and had not come across any reference to this type of magic before.

When she entered the common room, she expected it to be practically full as it was only nine-thirty, but the only people that occupied the room was Harry, Ron and his little sister Ginny, who was dozing off to sleep on the couch in front of the fire. Ron was beating Harry in a game of Wizards Chess, Ron was winning as usual.

She shook Ginny awake, whilst saying, 'Hi,' to Harry and Ron. She took the Invisibility Cloak out of her front pocket and handed it back to Harry, who took it with great care as it was one of his only links to his father.. Oddly enough, the boys didn't ask how her little rule-breaking escapade had gone. Which was good in a way, because of her amnesia, but it also hurt, for the reason that she would always ask how their adventures went if she wasn't on joining them. There was a peculiar pang in her stomach from it, but it went away again before it had time to fully register.

Tired from her outing and trying to remember what had happened in the clearing, she went up to bed, dragging Ginny along with her, who was almost asleep again. Hermione fell asleep almost straight away, as soon as her head had hit the pillow of the magnificent four poster bed, despite all the confused thoughts and questions currently circulating her thirst-for-knowledge mind.

The next morning, she made sure that the other girls were awake again, before heading down to the common room, she once again pulled out her battered copy of, 'The Hobbit,' hoping to get through at chapter or two more before the boys came down. When they did finally arrive, Hermione had gotten through the amount intended and a little more, this filled her with pride inside knowing that she could challenge her self and beat the limit she had set her self. She knew it was a silly thing really, but none the less, this still filled her with a little happiness inside.

Lessons that day had gone rather slowly, in Hermione's mind. This was because she was looking forward, with a great anticipation, to her meeting with Professor Halliwell. The Professor had owled her during breakfast, to arrange the meeting time of twelve-thirty, so that they could discuss the power within the teacher, and Hermione's questions about how the Professor had healed both her and Professor Snape on the spot, which, although more possibilities had been opened up to the young muggle-born witch, she had yet to read anything about instant healing such as she had witnessed. Hermione knew that healing took time, even with Madame Promfey's excellent skills, it still took a while for what ever needed healing to heal.

When lunch had finally arrived, she skipped the tempting quick meal that her stomach would dearly love, in favour of heading straight to Professor Halliwell's office. She practically ran there, desperate for the answers she presently wanted. After rounding the corner, she came to a halt, in order to regain her breath as to make it look like she had not just run around half the length of the castle to be at the Defence teacher's office door.

(A/N: how was that? Truthfully? If it doesn't make sense please tell me, I know there wasn't much interaction with other character's in this chapter, but it was coming of the top of my head………so I'm sorry? Well I do hope you enjoyed it, I apologise from the delayed updating-I hope to increase the updating as I am on summer holidays…if I can get the computer of my twin who is coming over for a while…lets hope huh?

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Ryan

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