Everyone in the room thought that the sound of Hermione's crying was heartbreaking. She had only been heard doing that once during first year. She had always been known to get angry, pissed off, in the hexing mood, but never to actually cry in a big group of people.

"Hermione." Neville asked trying to calm her down as she remained weeping in her own hands. Covering her face from view. Neville had never been comfortable with the way that girls always seemed to cry around him but he was still trying to help Hermione out. She had always been nice to him when other people weren't at the beginning of their Hogwarts days and still kept on helping him in his school work like she did so many others.

"Harry…he's in the hospital wing?" Hermione said trying to catch her breath through the tears.

"Harry's…where." Neville shouted. Everyone who wasn't already looking started to look over.

"He's in the…"

"I know that but how.."

"There was house Quidditch tryouts today and a bludger came and…" she demonstrated with her hands shakily what happened.

"You okay."

"Yeah, I just need to speak to McGonagall right now."

"Then go Hermione. You need to besides she's our counselor."

Hermione got up and walked down to her office. She was about to say the password when she realized that she has a class so she turned around and headed towards the Transfiguration classroom. She saw that right now she had 6th years.

"Headmistress McGonagall can I speak with you for a moment." Hermione asked.

"Not right now…Whenever you like." Headmistress McGonagall said seeing the look on her face.

"Thank you." Hermione said pulling up a chair and sitting down. She propped herself up on one arm and began talking.

"As you know today was the Gryffindor house Quidditch tryouts."

"Yes how did those go?"

"Not to well."

"Really what went wrong?"

"WHAT WENT WRONG, what do you mean what went wrong…Harry's…in the hospital wing…why because your student Joel Stevens went and smacked Harry with a bludger to the head. So now he's in there fighting for his life and I have no idea what to do."

"Ms. Granger I assure you I will look into the best recovery methods for Mr.Potter but I must tell you that no one by the name of Joel Stevens has ever stepped foot into this school."

"Your telling me that some unknown person has access to the school and no one knows how. I thought that you assured us that this school was safe for reentry. I am not having a repeat of what happened to Dumbledore. I don't care what happens but I want the O.O.P over her from G.P as soon as possible before I make sure they don't even have a headquarters to say they knew what it looked like."

"Ms.Granger there is no need to act this way. We don't even know what's going on."

"Oh… that's perfectly clear. I'm just making sure that you know that it needs to get fixed before it gets worse."

With that Hermione walked out of her room and back to hers and began to plan. She wasn't going to stand around and watch everything crumble beside her. She was either going to get this under control or put a dent in the plan to defeat Voldemort, but one thing for sure she wasn't going to sit idol and wait for Scrimgeour to take his tactless version of action. She took the plans that she had drawn up for Harry and added to it some thoughts and other possible comments that would help them out. She then headed over to the Great Hall for lunch and grabbed Ron and Neville along the way to talk to them in private to the other end of the table.

"What the hell is with you Herms?"

"Don't call me that! I hate that."

"Why didn't you tell me then."

"There's this whole thing about trying to be nice to people after you tell them the have an I.Q. of -1."

"Wait you never told me that…I don't even know what that is."

"Well then you don't need to be worried about it then….Well as I was going to say I need your help."

"Help with what?" Neville asked.

"Well the whole Voldemort thing we've found a way to kill him last year and we need you to do it. We need to find five bits of his soul that he's hidden in items that are sentimental to him. These are called horcruxes and we have to destroy them."

"Well then what do you need me for? I'm not the most handy at spells as you know." Neville said.

"Yeah…" Ron started before being interrupted by Hermione.

"I have no idea what you're talking about and besides I trust you with this and that's what matters."

"Hermione what are you doing? Harry told us not to tell this to anyone." Ron said disbelievingly.

"Harry is incapacitated at the moment and can't make this decision. Besides he would want this, we all need this over and done with."

"So what is it that you're not telling me?" Neville asked.

"Well you saw Dumbledore's hand last year right." Neville nodded. "He got it like that from the horcrux. It has powerful curses cast on it so it will be dangerous."

"You can count me in." Neville said.

"Do you know where one of these things is?" Ron asked.

"Yeah it's at Godric's Hollow."

"How are we going to get there?" Neville asked.

"Don't worry about that just eat up. We have a long day ahead of us." Hermione said.

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"How the hell did we wind up here?" Ron asked

"Where do we go from here?" Neville asked.

"Into the basement of the house!" Hermione told them.

"I thought you said it was destroyed." Ron said.

"Of course do you see anything here."

"No…just rubble." Ron said.

"Exactly." Hermione said.

"The basement is underground we just need to make a pathway." Hermione said adjusting some of the plaster on the ground. After remembering the fact that she was a witch she cast Bombarda which sent the rubble flying in all directions revealing a trap door.

"Well this is not what's expected." As she looked around and spotted immediately what she was looking for. It was the cup it sat in a corner of the room unhidden, seemingly unprotected, and just there. Neville walked up and was about to touch it when Hermione slapped his hand away.

"I told you that these were parts of Voldemort's soul did you think that you could just walk up and touch it. That things has curses how many I don't know but that's the thing we've got to figure out."

"So what can we do?" Ron asked.

"Well we just have to try all the anti-jinxes that we know."

They aimed spell after spell and nothing worked.

"It's not giving." Hermione said. After all their work a piece the size of a my fly had chipped of and that wasn't showing a whole lot of progress.

"Well what do we know about the object it's Hufflepuff's cup, it's golden…it's made of gold…ancient..I don't know Hermione cried frustrated.

"Something else we're looking for?" Neville said.

"Like what?" Hermione asked.

"Like the founders, four spells we need to use to destroy it." Neville continued. "No just four major spells. I remember this from History of Magic… I remember Bombarda is for Slytherin, Lumos Gryffindor, Ennervate Ravenclaw, and Wingardium Leviosa Hufflepuff."

"Wow and I thought that History of Magic would be unuseful at this point in my life.

Hermione in her head came up with a way to say each spell and make it work towards the horcrux. First Hermione said Bombarda the cup rattled, at Lumos it lit up at Ennervate the cup shook even more. Wingardium Leviosa and the cup was glowing in the air and with the final Bombarda there was a muffled explosion.

"There goes the soul piece but just to make sure let's cast a charm to make sure it's not dark anymore." Hermione cast revelio and as it shined she knew that it was clean. She pocketed the cup and together they walked out of the ruins of the Potter house.

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They made it back to the castle after many hours and when they got there it was just about the crack of dawn.

"Thank you guys for everything I appreciate it so much."

"Hermione you know we'd do anything for you. We've been your friends since first year."

"Well I appreciate it but now I think I'm going to go back and check on Harry. McGonagall said that she would come back and see if anything could be done so he could get better faster."

"You should change first though and clean up your cuts. People might get suspicious about where you got them and how you got so dirty."

"Yeah your right." Hermione nodded as she climbed the moving stairs towards her dormitories. She quickly showered and changed so she could go back and see Harry as soon as possible. At the entrance to the hospital wing she came across Headmistress McGonagall.

"Ms.Granger where have you been? It reflects badly on the school when one of the Heads is missing and the other is out where only heaven knows. Where were you?"

"I was out fulfilling the wishes of Dumbledore and possibly Harry. Even you have to agree with that." Hermione said.

"Could you have at least asked first?"

"Would you have let me go?"

"No but…that doesn't change the fact that we have rules."

"Sorry Headmistress I should have consulted you. Can I see Harry now? Did you find anything to help?"

"Sow down…and yes he's made progress he should be waking up any day now." McGonagall said.

Hermione ran through the doors despite the noise she knew she was making. She walked over slowly to see Harry's sleeping form. She sat down in the chair beside him and grabbed his hand stroking it slightly.

"Hey, Harry McGonagall told me they expect you to come back any day now. You know earlier when I told you to come back whenever your ready…I lied…I just can't face that you are here in the hospital wing and you're helpless. I understand your not that invincible person that everyone makes you out to be…but still you're always here for me…no matter what…even if your not talking to me…I just look in your…eyes…and I know it'll be okay…that it'll all be okay…and right now you're not here so I know it's not going to be okay…I need you here…I know it's selfish but you need to be here for all of us…everyone's counting on you…I need you everyone needs you…Just come back please." Hermione now crying into his chest.

Then she felt a hand running through her hair.

"Harry!" Hermione said pulling her head up.

A/N: And I'll leave it here till next chapter. Thanks again to all of you who review and inspire me and give me more suggestions on how to make my writing better than it is. I'm still trying to improve to everyone's suggestions so just bear with me.