Title: Hermione's Helping Hand

Ron's Wedding

Hermione sent the diary to the Ministry, with hopes that they would read it and it would prove that Severus didn't know that Dumbledore was suppose to die, and that he deserved all the charge to be cleared from his record. Meanwhile, the castle was getting ready for another wedding, this time, between two people that didn't want to get married. Mrs. Weasley had arrived to see how things were going and Flur and Bill were present for everything.

Hermione showed the babies off and told them that she was expecting again. Everyone, but Mrs. Weasley like this. Hermione sensed this at once, though she couldn't understand why Mrs. Weasley didn't want her to have them.

" Don't worry about her," Mr. Weasley told her, when she told him what she had seen. " Molly gets like that."

" But why?"

" I have no idea," Mr. Weasley answered. " But I think it might be due to the fact that she thinks that you had your children for poor reasons."

" And why's that?"

Mr. Weasley shrugged his shoulders.

Two days later Ron and Luna were married. It was a small wedding, not as fancy as the Potter wedding had been, and Severus did show up for it. Hermione didn't understand why, but she didn't dare ask. It was only after most of the guests were talking, did Severus pull Hermione to the side and explain.

" I sense dark magic!" he told her.

" What! Where?"

" Not here, in her!"

He pointed to Luna, who was chatting with Minerva.

" What do you mean by that?"

" I don't know!" Severus said, looking frustrated. " But I think we should keep an eye on that child of hers."

" And why?"

" Because I don't trust it!" he answered, and then he moved on.

After the wedding was over, which Ron said that he wanted to continue to stay in Gryffindor tower, the guests left, and Hermione was able to talk to someone other then Severus. She told Remus what Severus had told her.

" What does he mean by that?"

" I don't know!" Hermione said. " But I think that her child was conceived by dark means."

" And who does Severus think did it?"

Hermione shrugged.

" He never said anything like that," Hermione told him. " He just said that he sensed darkness inside Luna and that he didn't trust the baby."

" Anything else?"

Hermione shook her head.

" Well I'll watch out for anything usual happening, then report it to the Ministry."

" All right, thanks."

And Hermione hurried off.

The next morning a notice was brought up to the board. It was in the same type that had been used for the practice tests during their sixth year. Harry, Ron, and Hermione hadn't taken their tests yet and they were nervous.

" Do you think we'll do all right?" Ron asked.

" I hope so," Hermione said. " I would hate failing this, like I failed at flying."

" Me to, I mean, on the apparition test," Harry said.

Hermione looked at the list and it stated that everyone that wanted to take the test had to go to the Ministry three days before their N.E.W.T tests. Hermione took out her pen and wrote her name, Harry and Ron followed suit.

" Well let's get to the library," Hermione said. " We've got that essay for Charms and I would like to get it done before Professor Flintchly decides to give us detention until term ends."

" Amen to that.'

And they were gone.

However when they arrived at the library, Madam Pince was closing the door. When Ron asked why, she told him that Remus wanted it closed after a certain time. Both Harry and Hermione didn't understand why.

" Because that's what he wants and he's the Headmaster," Madam Pince said. " Now go on and find something else to do."

" I wish we could," Harry muttered, when Madam Pince had disappeared.

Since they couldn't go to the library, Hermione had to rely on her Charms book for the answers. It gave it, but not in a lot of details. Both Harry and Ron complained about this.

" I don't know why they give us such little details?"

" Because the Author didn't know what he was talking about!" Ron snapped, as he wrote something that the book said was connected to what they needed.

Once they were done, they parted ways, and Hermione returned to her quarters. Severus was busy making some Herbology work, putting in that a first-year didn't know what a Devil Snare was if he put his mind to it. Hermione shook her head. Like in Potions and Defense Against the Dark Arts, in Herbology, Severus Snape was brutal.

Hermione turned in early so that she could get a head start on her work. She needed all the sleep that she could get from now on. In a few days she would be going, along with most of the students, to the Ministry. She had no idea how they were going to do this, but she figured that it would be, at most, worth a look.