"Hermione are you okay?" Harry asked.

No response. Mrs. Granger pulled Harry aside.

"She has a lot of thoughts going on in her head. She may not seem like it but she loves Hayden very much. It takes a while to get used to things."

"Are you sure? I mean she's barely said two words to the baby and I'm worried that she's kind of rejecting her. I know, it's very wrong for me to think about it like that as she loves almost everyone."

"Harry I went through the same thing with Hermione, but I never told her that. I admit that in a way I was scared of her and put in my mind that it was better if I just did nothing that way I wouldn't mess up someone's life. I think that you can watch someone self destruct, or look away even and not feel guilty, you might feel sorry for them but not guilty. I didn't want to mess her up and then feel even worse that I was the reason that she was that way. My mother, Hattie by the way straightened me out, she had an sassy quality about her so she did it in character. Anyway that's how you have the young woman that stands before us."

"Why didn't you ever tell me this before? Why didn't you ever tell Hermione this? It really could have really helped and still could and I'd really appreciate it if you talked to her."

"Don't you really get through to her?"

"I have a feeling that this is a mother-daughter conversation and I have no place trying to give it."

"I'll give it a shot." Patricia said. " Hermione dear can I talk to you for a second?"

Hermione looked up for a second before walking over. They sat in one corner as she started talking the words seemed to have an immediate effect on Hermione as she started talking back with her. She started shakin as to which Harry assumed she was crying. She hugged her mum and sat there for a few more minutes. Over her shoulder Patricia smiled and winked at Harry.

"Thanks Harry for being patient with me and I'm sorry."

"Don't say sorry to me say sorry to her."

"Hi, iu'm your mum and I love you even though I'm acting strange." and kissed her tiny cheek.

"So you ready to head over to the store?" Hermione asked.

"Sure."

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"Do we have any money?" Hermione asked.

"Here." Harry said passing her Hayden so he could check his jean pockets. "Umm. All I have is galleons but I have an idea."

"Harry don"t do anything stupid."

"Define stupid?"

"Anything that gets us into trouble."

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"Harry where in the world did you get all that money?"

"I went to the pawn shop."

"And what did you pawn?"

"A galleon."

"But galleons are only worth 5 pounds in the muggle world."

"Yes, but the fellow thinks that it's some kind of ancient writing on it. He gave me 1500 pounds."

"Harry what am I going to do with you."

"We have the money now let's go."

Hours later they were done with all their shopping.

"Why is there so much stuff?" Harry asked.

"It's only two bags."

"We shrunk everything down except for the carrier!"

"Okay but they had some good deals on stuff for her and we're set all the way up until she's a year old."

"I think the clerk nearly had a heart attack racking up all our stuff. A year's worth of diapers they must think we're going into hiding. Not to mention the stuff that you got for us."

"I got jeans, a skirt, and a top. The rest of here is mostly Hayden's and then after that comes your stuff."

"So what do you want to do now?"

"Well we can go get some ice cream and then head back to Hogwarts. I also think that you need to get your apparating license it's illegal you know to do it without one."

"You choose now to scold me about that?"

"I chose now to remember to scold you about that."

"I think I saw a shop over there. What do you want?"

"Vanilla."

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"Do you think that they missed us much?" Harry asked.

"Well, we weren't gone that long we left here around noon and its five so they can't really say..."

"WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU TWO BEEN!"

"Shhhhhhhhh." Hermione started. " We just got her to sleep and your yelling woke her up."

"Hermione everyone has been looking for you. They wanted to know what movie is on tonight."

"Ron, right now I have a baby to take care of I could care less about what movie the rest of them wanted to see."

"It's one of your commitments and besides some other people wanted to talk to you about other subjects."

"You know what I'll go upstairs and unpack, take care of a few things and then talk with everybody about this."

"I'm sorry."

"Tell that to the sleepless nights I'm going to have."

Hermione unpacked the stuff while he got Hayden ready for bed. Remembering her promise to address everyone about the meeting. Harry was about to lay her down to bed but Hermione said no as he had a questioning look on his face.

"Hermione?"

"Look we both know that she's not going to sleep so I'll take her with me so you don't have to worry about what's happening while your finishing up everything for the night. She kissed him briefly before departing to the Great Hall.

"I know that we are supposed to have the daily movie and it hasn't been put up yet. I'm here to let you know that, yes, this is one of my priorities and I have a greater one now and the two people in charge of it, Harry and myself will be busy. So we put the position onto the prefects of last year so don't worry too much about it."

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"I see you two have decided to grace us with your presence." Ron smiled at them.

"Ron, you've seen Harry all week!"

"I know it's you I haven't seen and I have yet to see my best friends child."

"I'm sorry Ron but I had to get out of there you know how much I've seen of one room. It's impossible and what am I doing ours of feeding, and burping, and changing, and nearly fainting from fumes."

"Here you want some milk?" Ron asked.

"No thanks coffee, tea, juice, soda anything but that."

"So why don't you come down here everyday like Harry does."

"I don't want her to catch colds from everyone else here."

"It's the perfect chance to build up an immune system like mine .The perfect Ron..."

"..Weasley Immune System. With absolutely no flaws." Harry and Hermione finished for him.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"It means that what you just said is bloody crap. Ever since I can remember you talk about your perfect immune system and even if I believed it then why do you get a cold EVERY flu season!"

"It's a perfect time for thinking as we have done some thinking about Hayden!" Harry said.

"You're not going to give her up are you."

"No! What gave you an idea like that. We love her too much."

"Actually we decided the godparents."

"So who are they!" Ron asked excitedly.

"Well your my best mate so I consider you to be more of like Uncle Ron."

"Sweet, but still who is the godparents."

"Well I always thought of them I just didn't think Hermione would approve but I found some good points to work in and knocked almost everybody else out of the running."

"He's really good at grovelling to, and begging, and has really good thank you's."

"You really went of your rockers didn't you, you got Forge."

"It's not completely insane, they can keep a business running and I believe they could instill good qualities into Hayden."

"Hermione you never were a good liar."

"Of course I'm not but I believe in Harry that he would do what's best--what in the..."

"You forgot that today is tomorrow didn't you?" Ron said looking over to where she was looking with Hermione to where Harry was arguing with Madam Pomfrey.

"Huh?"

"You know that Madam Pomfrey was back. You know what she's probably doing right now is discussing the problems she has with Harry delivering the baby."

"How would she know about that?"

"You know you may not be the stick figure that you once where but your dropping your weight mighty fast."

"Madam Pomfrey I still don't see the need for you to do a check up she was perfectly fine when I delivered her. There's absolutely nothing wrong."

"Yes, there is something wrong especially with you delivering baby's. Mr.Potter you aren't all high and mighty and unlike me you don't have the proper education to be able to do this type of thing."

"Madam Pomfrey is this really necessary as Harry stresses to you."

"She needs to be authorized and certified."

"She is in the muggle world and that's all we need. I've studied read up on things how to do it. Do you really think that I would just plunge into the unknown and endanger Hermione and Hayden. Fine if you want to go ahead and do a check up go ahead but no needles."

"Okay."

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"Well I can see you have done a fine job!" Madam Pomfrey said sarcastically.

"What do you mean?" Hermione asked.

"I mean that she has an infection."

"That can't be true we check her almost every minute." Harry said.

"Thankfully I caught it before it got to that point but its extremely dangerous for a baby especially this young to catch a cold."

"It's just a cold though." Hermione said. "In the muggle world colds are common things for any baby especially to have the hiccups."

"I completely agree with her. Though it's nothing to be taken lightly I refuse to make a big deal out of this. Is there anything that we need to give her."

"Yes, is there anything that that we should do?"

"Here," she said passing them a blue bottle. "Take this and give this to her. I suggest that instead of feeding her the normal way as you have been give her it in a bottle and mix this in. It's easier for her to take and she won't refuse it."

"Thanks."

They walked past Madam Pomfrey and thanked her for all her help. When they got back to the room and layed her down to sleep.

"So Harry what do you want to do for the rest of the day?"

"Get on with the rest of our lives."

Hermione sat up, he might mean something simple but it was all in the way that he said it, distant, an air of seriousness at the same time, and it was final. There was no going back, what he said came straight from the depths of his mind.

"Harry what are you talking about? I have an idea but I just want to be sure before I jump to conclusions."

"Hermione, we know each other well enough to know, that you know what I mean."

"But, Harry. Do you think that we're ready for this. I mean I just as in yesterday had Hayden. I don't think that we should rush anything now. We should just keep things flowing the way we want it. Learn how to be stable not only for ourselves but for her."

"Hermione, don't promise something that you can't guarantee. Yes, she is the pride and joy of my life, you both are and you know that. We can't continue to live like this, I can't continue to live like this. Yesterday we snuck out of here to go buy things and to visit your father we shouldn't have to do that. This is the longest that we've ever spent in the castle and its starting to get to me."

"Yeah, I know. I miss Grimmauld Place too. Even though we've only been in there for less than a month as ours officially I still miss it."

"How long to we intend to stay here? With each passing day I realize that though we don't want to be rooted here we get rooted here on our own. The harder that we fight to stay here is the less that we fight outside, to be outside in the open, to face the real world the one with Voldemort. Voldemort is a part of our lives and will always be a part of our lives. Whether we defeat him the choices that we make afterwards will always revert back to him. We will always say that after Voldemort we decided to make this life option because of something that we realize. In his own sick way, Voldemort is teaching us something. I want to be an auror and you want to be an unspeakable after all of this there might not be a need for aurors or they might drop the requested number either way nothing is set in stone. Hayden, yes, she will have a good life, and she should she deserves it, to live a full one the one that we never got to live. Have the childhood that everyone should have, the one that we were robbed of. Whether that will be with us though is a different question."

"Harry do you actually listen to yourself?"

"No I hear myself think all these things in my head. The only reason that you have that shocked expression on your face is because you know I'm right. You know everything I've said is true."

"And if it is what do we do now?"

"You know exactly what we have to do. We go after Voldemort I'm not saying to do it tomorrow, tonight next week, or even next month. I'm just saying soon because time is running out and we all know that the thing he wants most is the three of us, me, you, and Hayden."

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"I feel like a bad mother."

"What's there to feel bad about?"

"I think that it's wrong that she was just born and now I'm leaving her with Dobby to go into training with you meanwhile we plan..."

"Shhh. It's a secret remember let's just go over this as planned."

Harry kissed her softly before letting go of his hold on her. Hermione reached up and kissed him back before heading outside onto the grounds.

"Okay. Hermione we just need to learn a few things. You know start running get used to getting exhausted. This is no picnic as defeating him and holding off everything else will take a long time not just one spell will complete this."

"I know Harry so what are we going to start with?"

"Do you have the monitor?"

"Yes, it's in my back pocket waiting for anything to happen. So where are we going to go running?"

"I figure about 10 times about the pond."

"You mean the pond with the mermaid's in it?"

"Is there any other pond you know of?"

About an hour later and halfway through the 10 times around Harry grabbed onto her bottom.

"Harry? What..."

"Monitor it's beeping."

"Oh, what does that mean."

Harry broke off in a run all of a sudden. Hermione followed afterwards panting even with those hours she wasn't used to the intense exercise regimen. Harry had his wand out ready to hex him with a spell.

"Harry don't as much as I want you to. He might know something!"

Harry nodded.

"What do you know about Voldemort?"

"Why would I know something?"

Harry brought out the monitor and showed a replay of the scene that he had seen.

"So why exactly were you hexing my baby?"

"That's not even a real baby lady."

"I'm sorry," Hermione said raising her voice," why were you attempting to curse my baby because I don't need a reason to get rid of you to rid of future threat. Every death eater we get now is one that we don't have to get later. I don't exactly like the word kill or to actually do it because I never have but right now I'm not in the playful mood. Now answer his question."

"Okay, the location of the camp is underground near an old land mine in a cave you have to cross water and a whole bunch of other crap. Somewhere in Finland."

"Finland is filled with people though. Not the best population but still it has a healthy amount of people." Harry said.

"It could work though, they could cast a repelling charm similar to the one used in the World Quidditch Cup and turn every muggle back and keep the forests themselves. The only problem with that is there would still be an issue with actually attacking there sure we coye. uld apparate to the outskirts but it still could be dangerous." Hermione said.

"Harry how are you doing this!" Hermione said a scared look in her eye. " I can't hear him speak. I never heard anything on the monitor because I can't hear him speak. I just hear this weird hissing. This school has a snake infestation problem."

"Hermione it's not snakes, I understand parseltongue remember so that means..."

"Harry freeze him."

After he was frozen Hermione began to talk rapidly.

"I'm so stupid, do you know exactly why the book with the Polyjuice Potion is in the restricted section?"

"No."

"There are books that just have dark spells. Then have dark potential, there is a thing that we learn in my classes that are referred to in lamens terms as 'spell and potion locks' it's extremely hard to do one and that's why most spells don't have it. Judging by how far you can go with a spell to alter it they decide whether it goes in the restricted section or not. If it has a lock and is dangerous it will still be in the restricted section. And the polyjuice potion doesn't have a lock which means that they can alter the properties of what it can do. The spell says that it transfers 'human to another human' I think that he's altered it to be able to transfer 'animal to human'."

"If we were in the muggle world it would be illegal."

"Actually it is illegal to do that here as well. You must have consent before doing it. Voldemort however is not one for laws so he would say 'screw it' and do it anyway."

"The only question is what can this person really be? What animal could he send after us."

"Harry what are you doing?"

"Of course I'm blowing it up. It's not a person so it's not like they couldn't send me to Azkaban."

Harry blew it up as he said it would and it caused sparks as if it where a firecracker before reverting back to its original form and then disappearing into thin air. You could smell the burnt scent.

"Get everyone inside now. I say we have about 15 minutes and that's tops before he comes and hunts us down."

A/N: I know this chapter is very late but it's school started and once I get back into thinks I might update sooner. Very strong might considering its my final year before I go off into the unknown soooo yeah. Hope you liked the chapter. Most likely I'm not going to write the final battle. In my heart of hearts I know that I can't write a final battle scene in my opinion in reading stories I usually skip over it anyway I know what I want to happen in it so I will give a pretty long summary of it. I realize that my 'really long summaries mean nothing but I will try to give as much as I can as to what actually happens and not actually write it. Thanks for reading this chapter.