"It's all my fault!".
Silence followed Hermione's statement before an uproar sounded. Everyone shouted various statements, the words blending to form a deathly hiss in the cold, shallow air. Hermione broke down in tears, sobbing heartbrokenly, knowing she was to blame. She shut down, imagining what the children were facing. In her head she saw Sirius's deranged ancestors torturing the children, cackling at their petrified screams. Hermione rocked back and forth, no longer hearing the pleading voices of her friends and family, asking what she meant, trying to calm her down, instead she was trapped inside her mind, her imagination running wild, paralysing her from the world around her!
Ronald Weasley looked at his wife, terrified at what he saw, before him was the bravest woman he knew, broken and trapped within her mind. When he and Harry had shown everyone the time turner, they never imagined that it would provoke this sort of reaction from their best friend. After Hermione had declared that it was all her fault, she had shuck violently, repeating the words repeatedly, rocking backwards and forwards continuously until she stopped, staring blankly, silently, into the nothingness, unaware of the world around her.
They tried to snap her out of it in many ways, they shouted at her, they shuck her, Katelyn, Charlie's heavily pregnant, hormonal wife slapped her and still she showed no reaction. She was dead to the world. Poppy checked her over, diagnosing her as having an internal nightmare, meaning she was locked away in her subconscious, her mind playing out her worst nightmares. The only way she could be brought out of it would be if she fought her subconscious and won…