I Say Yes
Summary: Kagome Higurashi had only ever wanted to have a normal life. Get married, have kids, go to work, nice friends...normal. Easier said than done...right? Wrong! In fact, it was really simple, well, most of it was. With a newly placed Marriage Law placed between her world and the magical world...what can she do though...life isn't a fairytale, and dreams don't come true...do they?
Anime: InuYasha/Harry Potter
Pairing: Kagome/Lucius – Hermione/Draco
Genre: Romance/Hurt/Comfort
Rated: M
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What was she thinking!?
Hermione Granger
Her name lay on the parchment, scrawled neatly with the magic penmanship of the Subnotatio charm, right beneath the signatures of the ministry officials, the Minister and the Ministers advisors. She had sealed the fates of all of the witches and wizards. She knew that Shacklebolt would try to obtain Harry and Ron's signature as well, but with her name in the list already signed, she also knew that they weren't necessary.
"...I can't believe I just did that."
"We are grateful that you did, Miss. Granger,"
Hermione turned and glared at Timothy Nott, "What is it that makes you so willing to sign this scroll and pass the Marriage Law? I know for a fact that Theodore isn't in a relationship, so wont he be under the influence of the law? Because, for your son to marry a muggle..." She smirked, something which was somewhat offset on her normally intelligent features, she didn't pull cocky off to well, "...she'd be your daughter-in-law…his children would be your grandchildren, they would be half-bloods...you and your family would be...oh, what was that word...ah, Blood-traitors!" She snapped.
Tim's eyes were wide with the shock of being verbally attacked by a little girl no older than his son, and her words had hit him hard. "You are right, Miss. Granger, as always...but I will learn to deal with it, what more can I do, what more can be expected of me?"
So that hadn't been what she'd expected, but then, not much had been going the way she'd planned as of lately. Hermione sighed, "It must be bad if you, Mr. Malfoy and Mrs. Zabini are going along with this, but be forewarned, if I find out that any harm has come to the muggles, or even the Witches and Wizards dragged into this, you will all regret the passing of this law."
Hermione apparated away without another word, leaving the three adults to contemplate the promise in her words, not completely sure of how genuine her threat was.
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Hermione didn't return to her home, or return to the burrow; no, instead she was at the gates of Hogwarts, walking towards the school, she made her way inside and smiled in content. She had been coming to Hogwarts despite classes not being in session yet, since the end of the war, since the loss of Remus...Tonks...Fred...and her Potions Professor...Severus Snape...
"Back so soon, Miss. Granger? School doesn't start for another week,"
Hermione smiled, "Sir Nicholas, I just needed to get away from the world for a bit."
The ghost gave a sad smile, "Then I'll leave you to your thoughts," he bowed and left through a wall.
Walking towards the stairs, Hermione stared up at the ascending steps before walking. She made her way to the top of the castle, to the tower where two of the greatest wizards, greatest men Hermione had ever known...had died...
Stopping at the door of the tower, she stared; she could still feel the presence of the Slytherin Prince. "Professor..." She always came to this tower to think, but it rarely helped, she would see her professor lying on the floor, bleeding, dying...crying...
It had been the first time she'd seen him cry...and the last. She hated herself, because like the rest of the school, teachers included, she hadn't given him the time of day. "I'm no better than Voldemort..."
"I'm sure that's an exaggeration, Miss. Granger...could you not think of anyone else with a bad reputation to compare yourself with? Bellatrix Black perhaps?"
Hermione turned sad eyes to her professor and Headmistress, McGonagall. "He was the only one I could think of," she confessed, "still though..."
McGonagall sighed as she stepped closer to the girl, "May I ask what brought on this diverse comparison between you and...Voldemort?"
"Professor Snape...he was used by most, if not everyone...Headmaster Dumbledore...Voldemort...even the students at Hogwarts..."
"I hardly think-"
"We did!" Hermione interrupted her new Headmistress. "We did the same to all of our Professors though, even our Parents, and our Siblings...We are selfish...but...you know...he wasn't." Hermione sat down in the spot where Snape had been attacked by Nagini, where he had died; tears started falling from her eyes, a curse she was content to deal with every time she visited the tower. "He fell in love...there is no crime in that, he was bullied and hurt, he became lost, he had Voldemorts word that no harm would come to Lily...Voldemort lied. Professor Snape realized his mistake...it was trust...he should never have trusted anyone..."
McGonagall frowned, "What do you mean, Dumbledore saved-"
"NO!" Hermione yelled, more tears falling from her now closed eyes, "No...I respected Dumbledore, and in some ways...I still do...but when Snape went to Dumbledore, he pleaded for Lily's life, and like Voldemort, Dumbledore said he would make sure nothing happened to her, but like I said, she was killed, and Snape had been the one to find Lily, James...and Harry...the child Lily had given her life for."
McGonagall wanted to say something, to comfort the girl before her, but nothing she said would be able to reach the girl, because she knew that none of her words would matter. She didn't know the Potions Master nearly as well as Hermione did, in fact, she was sure that, at this point, Hermione, Harry and Ron were probably some of the only few who knew him so well, perhaps even Draco Malfoy, but she was seriously starting to doubt that Dumbledore had even known him.
"Snape swore to protect Harry, but when he saw Harry for the first time in ten years, well...ten years' worth of sorrow came crashing down on his shoulders. Then he saw his eyes, it was his childhood all over again. James in body; that was what caused most of his hatred towards Harry, but it was his eyes that he'd see at the end of the day, those eyes reminded him of what he'd lost, and why he was doing what he was doing. It was for Lily...and then it was for Harry...for Ron...for me...and for the rest of the students at Hogwarts."
"What do you mean?"
"What I mean is that he could never forgive James, and he felt that Lily would never be able to forgive him...I realized, unconsciously...that he had become protective of us..."
"How so?"
"In our third year...he shielded me from...Remus...when he transformed...he was always helping us, in his own way...he was always watching out for us...but there was nothing in it for him, it was all for Hogwarts, his students, Lily...and Harry." Hermione finished, tears streaming down her cheeks as she recalled his memories and let them play out in her own mind. She, Harry and Ron had all seen the memories...and she had even gone as far as to keep the tears he'd shed in a small bottle, sealed and conserved in a crystal vial that hung around her neck.
"You seem to know more about Severus than I ever did, I am ashamed to admit that I never fully trusted him, even after his death I didn't...but..."
"I think it was the walk..."
"Excuse me?"
Hermione smiled sadly, trying to wipe away her tears, "...he had an evil walk..."
McGonagall gave a light chuckle, though it lacked the cheer implied. "Let's go speak on different topics, perhaps I can talk with you about the Potions Position, I wanted to have a word with you anyways."
Hermione nodded and stood, leaving with McGonagall, neither noticed the shadowed figure watch them from a far with sad and heartbroken eyes.
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Me: Next chapter brings Kagome in! Hope you guys enjoy!