"Since when have you been feeling like this?" Harry asked.

"I don't know a week or two I guess."

"Isn't that a little long to feel wierd. What your passing off as wierd could be a serious problem. What happens if it's not just a little thing and every second is killing you."

"Harry I'm already scared! I don't need you literally breathing down my neck telling me I need to check up on it okay. I planned on doing that once we got to school...:Look around we're getting there aren't we."

"It just worries me."

"It worries me too but we can't do anything right now. Let's just go inside, sit down and relax."

"Okay... Are you planning on apologizing to Ginny?" Harry asked.

"No not really I haven't thought about it." Hermione told him opening the door.

"Why not? I thought that was you talking strangely because of how you feel."

"No that's my strangeness opening up unwantedly about how I REALLY feel. I wasn' t actually going to tell her but that's how I felt about the situation. I'm sorry if I hurt her feelings but I'm not going in there to say sorry about something I really meant."

"So no apologies." Harry asked

"No apologies."

Hermione opened the door to the compartment and sat back down silently stroking Crookshanks absently.

"Are you going to apologize to her?" Ron asked still holding Ginny as she cried.

"Not really." Hermione said trying her best to maintain her calm.

"What do you mea..."

"Ron just don't bother her about it okay. She's not feeling a hundred percent okay." Harry said before they started their usual fighting.

"What...is she pregnant?" Ron said.

Harry looked over at her shocked she had also turned her head and their thoughts seemed to be running on the same thoughts.

"I..."

"Shee..."

"But...I...can't be...you know pregnant...I just can't be..."

"Give me one good reason as to why you can't be." Ron said.

"I just can't it's impossible it's not possible for me to be you know..."

"So your saying that three...four...hell maybe five weeks ago that you two haven't had sex." Ron said.

"I'm not saying that you aren't right I'm just saying that it's impossible we have and had protection !" Hermione said not giving in to his logic.

"Yes, except for that one time." Harry said.

"What time are you talking about?" Hermione asked.

"New Years remember I asked you about it and your exact words were screw it. I just want you."

"I forgot all about that." Hermione said now looking down at her fingers. " I guess it is possible but I still don't actually want to be."

"I thought that you said that you did." Harry said.

"Don't get me wrong I do. I know I do just that whole family thing. It's just too early overall. I mean we've been married what about six months I think that's a bit too soon. Then there's the aspect of the war. Do you really want to have to raise and care for a child in the time of war. It would be very hard. We could do it we are very capable of handling that it's just the timing is all wrong." Hermione said.

"Weren't you the one who said that there is no way of predicting that kind of thing."

"Of course I know that. I'm just saying. I'd be happy if I was pregnant trust me to that. It's just if I had the option of picking a time in which I would carry a child this time would be at the bottom of the list."

"I get it now and I feel the same way." Harry said.

"Thanks for agreeing now can I go to sleep I'm tired again." Hermione said as she stretched herself out leaning over onto Harry's lap. She adjusted herself and fell into a peaceful sleep.

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"Hermione wake up. I'm taking you to Madam Pomfrey."

"What are we doing here?" Hermione asked.

"You never woke up coming back from the train. You were already sleeping and wouldn't wake up. You hit me a few good times so I ended up carrying you back here. We found the stone by the way."

"How? And why didn't you bring me?" Hermione said sitting up in the bed remembering that she was now back in their room.

"We couldn't bring you. You were sleeping like a rock that hits back if you touch it. As for how we basically went to visit Hagrid. He told us that Fang was let out hunting some days before and he picked up the stone. It was the same color as you showed us in the picture. Mind you it's scratched with teeth marks but I don't think that that affects it that much."

"I refuse to go to the hospital wing."

"You're going even if I have to take you there kicking and screaming."

"I don't want to go."

"You're going."

"What if I said that I believe I'm pregnant and just drop it. I don't want Madam Pomfrey to find out."

"I don't care if she knows but I do care about your health."

"I still don't want to go."

"Hermione I'm taking you right now. Either your going to walk with me normally or I'm going to carry you there."

"Okay...I'll go I just don't really like being there."

"I'll be there with you the whole way. I just want to know so if we need to start planning things to fit around a baby."

"I see your logic Harry. Come on let's go before I change my mind."

She walked out of the room and slowly walked the path to the hospital wing. She was regretting with each step her decision to let herself walk there. It would have been easier just to let Harry carry her and protest the whole way there. So much easier but in a way she wanted to know so she said nothing. The only question on her mind was How is Madam Pomfrey going to react to this?

"I see your back in the hospital wing again Ms. Granger. Do you enjoy your visits here?" Madam Pomfrey said while attending to another patient.

"Madam Pomfrey can we speak to you for a second?" Hermione said.

"You're speaking with me now!" Madam Pomfrey said tending to anothers cuts.

"No I mean in private to discuss something."

She stopped what she was doing and followed Hermione into her office.

"What is it Ms. Granger and be to the point I don't have time."

"I need a gynecological examination..." Madam Pomfrey looked at her wierd but she continued "...in particular the pregnancy test."

"You want me to what!" Madam Pomfrey asked.

"I want you to perform the pregnancy spell that you told us about in fourth year when you gave us all the talk you know what I'm talking about."

She said nothing she was most likely in shock but never the less she performed the charm. It glowed a deep fuschia pink. Hermione knew that automatically that meant that yes she was pregnant. She didn't exactly jump for joy as she normally would of of course. The look that Madam Pomfrey had given her before scared her enough so she was treading lightly on the subject.

"You can go now." Madam Pomfrey said.

Hermione and Harry moved walked out of the hospital wing and eventually they were out of Madam Pomfrey's sight. Madam Pomfrey though had other plans she threw some floo powder into the fireplace and began talking animatedly with the Headmistress.

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"I feel different." Hermione said.

"How do you feel 'different'?" Harry said.

"I don't know. Maybe it's knowing that all of this is real and that we're not just depending on a maybe."

"See I told you that you would feel better if you went to her but you refused to go."

"I repeat what I said earlier I don't like being in the hospital wing unless completely necessary."

"Well I can honestly say you'll be there a lot more often now."

"What for?" Hermione said.

"I don't know maybe a thing called a check up or something like that. I don't even know if they have them here in the wizarding world but if they do I know I'm going to make sure you go to every single one."

"Are you trying to torture me."

"You see it as torture but I see it as help from a husband who cares."

"Thank you for caring but I can take care of myself with some help from you without help from Madam Pomfrey. I just don't feel completely comfortable trusting her with something so personal."

"You trust her with your life what are you talking about?" Harry asked.

"I'm talking about that sure I trust her with my life but are you willing to trust her with someone's who isn't even bigger than a mouse."

"For now let's just go back upstairs get dressed so I can eat. I'm super hungry."

"Okay I'm perfectly okay with that idea."

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"Hey Hermione, Harry how are things?" Ron said.

"Great." Hermione said getting her plate together. She took a bite of it and swallowed.

"What the hell are you eating?" Ron asked.

"It's a mixture of eggs, bacon, and the peanut butter and jam that ties it all together." Hermione smiled and took another bite.

"How can you eat that with a smile on your face when that doesn't even look right?" Harry asked.

"It tastes good though...do you want to try it she said holding out the plate to the both of them and letting them try a spoonful."

"It's very chunky." Harry said trying hard to say something that sounded positive but still not swallow it at the same time.

"Thanks." Hermione said.

Ron didn't say anything however he decided that he might try to feed it to someone else's animal when they weren't loToking but he also was considering the welfare of the pet. What he would do with he didn't know.

A/N: Thanks for all the reviews that you gave me last chapter that was just amazing. Thanks for all the encouragement