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WARNING: Mature themes brought up so if you are less than 18 and / or easily triggered by mature content DO NOT READ THIS STORY. You have been warned.

A/N: Hey guys, I saw some of you a little upset about how Severus reacted to Hermione's pregnancy. Don't worry this chapter will explain everything. Thanks a lot, to my reviewers. Good reading. J1974

Chapter 17

Hermione was sitting at the living space table when the boys came back two hours after. She was quietly sobbing her head in her arms. She felt a reassuring hand pat her back and she raised her head. Harry saw her puffed red eyes and took her in his arms consoling her.

"Hey 'Mione. What's going on? Tell me. Did he come?" he asked his hand wiping away the tears streaks that had flow onto her cheeks.

"He came. When I told him that I was pregnant, he asked me if I was going to get an abortion. I can't have one Harry. I can't abort that child. It is the result of our love Harry. He doesn't want to have anything to do with it. He just told me that if I ever needed money I could ask him and left. He didn't even call me Hermione when he left. Oh, Harry I don't know what to do anymore. I am lost without him." She said. As soon as she was finished, she resumed crying.

"I know you probably don't want to speak about it for now but did he tell you why? Hermione" he asked looking into her eyes.

"He told me that he couldn't be someone a child could look up to. He told me that he had done too much bad things in his life. I tried to argue with him but he just left me there." She said her voice full of sadness.

Harry felt that her breathing was rapid and her heart beat was very quick. He was no medical expert, but he knew that she was having a panic attack and that wasn't something healthy for her or the baby.

"Hermione, you need to take big breaths in. I know that it is hard but you need to calm your breathing and heart rhythm. It isn't good neither for you nor for the baby. Breathe in. Breathe out. Come on. That's better. Why don't you go rest a little while Ron and I prepare a good lunch for you." He felt her relax into his arms. She nodded and had helped her get up before guiding her to her bunk bed.

"What did I tell you? I knew you were ruining her life by keeping this child. You should abort it while you still can and get your life back together." Ron said through the tent fabric separating the sleeping and living quarters.

"DON'T TALK TO HER LIKE THAT. I AM FED UP WITH YOUR ATTITUDE RON. DON'T YOU THINK THAT SHE HAS ENOUGH TO GET THROUGH LIKE THAT." Harry shouted at Ron. He loved Ron like a brother. But he couldn't let him continue. He was being mean to Hermione and he couldn't accept it anymore. He needed to be there for Hermione and her baby. He went through to the living quarters and casted a muffliato on the separation and faced Ron.

"I am going to say it only once Ronald." He began using his full name to make him listen carefully "You leave Hermione alone. She needs to be reassured right now. Don't you think it is hard enough for her at the moment. If you can't provide the support she needs then don't talk to her or leave but don't make her feel worse than she is already feeling. Do you understand me Ron?" Harry had talked to him looking straight into his eyes.

"Fine" Ron said rolling his eyes.

"Can you help me prepare a meal for her. She needs to eat but she also needs to rest. We're going in one week to Hogwarts to try and find the last Horcrux. I think that it is there. Then we'll just have to defeat Nagini and we'll be able to defeat Voldemort. I know it seems easier said than done but we need to end this war quicker now." Harry said looking towards Hermione was sleeping.

"All right I'll prepare something. Go outside and reset the wards. I don't want the… Snape to come back. He has hurt her enough for the moment." Ron said refraining from calling Snape the greasy git. As he knew he wouldn't get away with it this time.

"Okay see you in a little Ron." Harry replied before heading towards the exit of the tent.

Harry recasted every single ward making sure to put an Unplottable one this time and another one that would protect Hermione and her baby during the next week by giving Magic to her and her baby. He had read somewhere that the baby got its magic from the resource of its mother's and father's. As Severus wasn't there, the baby would pump twice more Magic from Hermione and she'll have to rest a lot to replenish them.

When he returned to the tent, he saw Hermione walk in the kitchen and beginning to help Ron preparing the meal. He smiled and turned the radio before joining the both of them. They prepared the meal in relative silent. Hermione was now sitting in a comfy armchair. She had conjured it up from a simple camping chair.

They were about to set the table when she saw a bit of paper on the table

Miss Granger,

Meet me at the cabin in an hour. We have to talk about all of this. I hope I'll see you but I understand if you don't come.

Hope you are well,

Severus Tobias Snape

She read the letter twice before the paper lit red and inflamed itself burning the message contained in it. A tear fell into her now empty hands and she saw Ron and Harry were now looking at her.

"He wants to talk. I don't know if I'll be strong enough alone. Could you come with me? Both of you. I know we haven't been in the best of terms Ron but your still my friend. I trust you with my life." She asked her voice pleading Ron

"I don't think you should go 'Mione. It would only break your heart further if he tells you once again he doesn't want to have anything to do with this pregnancy." It was Harry who had talked.

"I think he is right Hermione. You need to think a little about you and your baby. Too intense emotions could make you lose the baby. I think this little one has already been through enough. The Polyjuice Potion, the escape from Gringotts, his behavior earlier…" Ron said putting a hand on her shoulder.

"I just feel so lost. I just don't know what to do. One part of me wants to feel him in my arms comforting me but the other one never wants to see him anymore. He has hurt me too much for the moment." She said.

"Trust us Hermione. We want nothing but the best for you, don't go Hermione. You need to rest. Eat and then you'll go for a nap." Harry said bringing her a bowl of the soup they had prepared.

She drank the soup and listened to the boys speak in silent. She fell asleep into the armchair and Harry covered her with a warm blanket. The boys conjured two other armchairs and a small table and began playing chess without a sound. The chess piece moving with a tap of their wand on the piece and the case they wanted it to go on.

"It's been two hours. Do you think we should wake her up?" Ron asked looking at Hermione's stomach. He knew that it was still too early for her to show signs of her pregnancy but since he knew she was pregnant, he thought something had changed in her.

He shook the thought away and played for another two hours with Harry before tidying the board and pieces.

"Hey boys. I didn't disturb you did I. You should have woken me up." Hermione said looking at both of the boys her eyes still heavy with sleep.

"No worries 'Mione. We played chess for a little while. We wanted to talk to you about something." Ron said. "we are going to go to Hogwarts. Harry thinks that the last Horcrux is there. We thought about going next week, but we think that earlier it's done the best it is for you and…"

"the baby" Hermione finished. "Ron, Harry there is not only the both of us involved in this. We're talking about a war. We can't just go into a war because of my pregnancy."

"We need to have it finished as quick as possible though Hermione. We're not doing this only for you, we think that tomorrow or even tonight is the best way for us to finish Voldemort. Once we have found the last Horcrux, we will have to finish the snake and then we'll be able to get rid of him. Rid of Voldemort." Harry said

"Are you sure this is a good idea? I also want to have this war done with. Let's go then. Let's go in a few hours." Hermione said.

"Wait, Hermione, you remember the healer that came when I was injured?" Ron asked, she nodded. "We could ask him to come and check you. I don't want you to go if we are not perfectly sure you don't risk either yours or your baby's life"

"This is war Ron, I am as much in risk as everyone in this room. I am pregnant. Not handicapped for Merlin's sake." She said cutting his little speech.

"Okay, you're the boss" Ron replied knowing better than crossing a pregnant woman and worse a pregnant witch.

"Okay let's say in three hours here. Let's pack then." Harry said.

Two and a half hours later, they were all inside the living quarters. The boys had insisted for Hermione to stay in the armchair for at least one more hour so she could get all the rest she needed. She had tried to argue with them but to no avail. They had given her a volume on Defensive Spells and had read it for two hours before going to the bathroom and prepare herself. She had taken her most comfortable sweat shirt and placed charms on it to protect her baby. She wasn't called the brightest witch of her generation after all.

"I am ready when you are boys." She said. They looked outside the tent and saw that it was already dark outside. They held hands and the three of them Apparated away. They arrived at Hogsmeade and immediately an alarm blared off.

"Come here." They heard a voice say on their left. They all raised their wands and followed to where they had heard the voice come from.

They entered a small cabin. A large cloaked figure closed the door and looked at them. Had they had not seen Dumbledore's body last year on the pavement of the school yard. They would have thought he was standing before them.

"I am sorry to ask that, but who are you exactly?" Harry asked politely.

"My name is Aberforth Dumbledore" the man replied.

"Sir. I know we barely met, but we need to get into Hogwarts. Do you know anyway we could get in without attracting too much attention to us?" Hermione asked to the man

The man turned to a painting above the chimney. "You know what to do" with that, the girl depicted on the painting turned away and walked onto a sinuous path until she was a mere dot on the painting and then disappeared.

When the girl returned, she was now followed by another figure. It was limping excitedly towards the trio. It approached the border of the painting until filled it completely. That's when it opened revealing a large hidden passage.

"Neville" screeched Hermione while running towards him. She was so happy to see him.

They all went around to hug each other and after they had said their goodbyes and thank you's to Aberforth, they climbed into the passageway and closed the painting before walking down into the passageway.

Hermione's stomach fluttered lightly. She wasn't sure if it was her child or her own organs, but she then realized that she was getting closer from Severus and closer towards the ending of the war.

"Things have changed a lot in here since you left Hogwarts. The Death Eaters have been all over the place and Snape is being his usual greasy git self" Neville said. Hermione flinched a little in anger at how Neville had called the love of her life but she didn't say anything.

"We have been waiting for you for quite a while actually." Neville said before opening a door "Hey, look whose here"

"It's Harry. HARRY POTTER." A boy standing in the furthest corner of the room said

"Won Won" A girl said. Hermione had immediately recognized who the girl was but it took a few seconds for Ron to understand she was calling him. It had been of course Lavender Brown.

"Hermione" a red-haired girl screeched as she threw herself towards Hermione.

"Hey guys listen up. There's something that we need to find" Harry said standing on a makeshift table. "Something – something that'll help us overthrow You-Know-Who. It's here at Hogwarts, but we don't know where. It might have belonged to Ravenclaw. Has anyone heard of an object like that? Has anyone ever come across something with her eagle on it, for instance?"

He looked into the crowd towards where most of the Ravenclaw where standing.

"Well there is her lost diadem. I told you about it, remember, Harry? The lost diadem of Ravenclaw?" Luna said in the ever-unconcerned voice she always spoke in.

"Yeah, but it's the lost diadem of Ravenclaw Luna. It hasn't been seen in 3 centuries at least." A boy in Hufflepuff said.

"I could take you up to the Ravenclaw Common Room to begin looking for it" Luna said again.

"Yeah let's go" Harry said, he turned then to his friends "Ron go with Hermione to the Chamber of Secrets and destroy the Goblet. Now" they were heading towards the exit when an alarm blared.

ALL STUDENTS TO THE GREAT HALL NOW

"If we don't go now we will be in great trouble. Quick Harry get into those robes and follow us into the great Hall." Neville said as the other member of the Dumbledore army pulled their robes on.

A few minutes later, they were all lined up inside the great hall, Severus Snape, the new headmaster was standing in front of them all where the teacher dining table would normally be.

"It has come to my attention that earlier this evening, Harry was sighted in Hogsmeade" Snape began his voice more menacing than ever before. A murmur spread across the students "Now" he said and the silence came back over the students. "Should anyone, student or staff attempt to aid mister Potter, they will be punished in a manner consistent with the severity of their transgression, furthermore any person found to have knowledge of these events who fails to come forward we'll be treated as equally guilty" he had placed an emphasis on the equally that made everyone shiver.

"Now then if anyone here has any knowledge of Mr. Potter's movements this evening. I invite them the step forward. Now" he had walked through the rows of students trying to see if Harry was indeed present. As he said his final word, he had stopped right in the middle of the room and looked around him his voice more threatening than ever.

At that moment, Harry got out of the Gryffindor's row of student and looked at Snape with all the hatred he could manage.

"It seems despite your exhaustive defense strategies, you still have a bit of a security problem headmaster" at those words every single Order member came through the large double doors. "And it seems rather extensive"

Severus looked at Hermione who was standing just beside Kingsley and Ron. He wanted to run up to her, to tell her that he would be there for her until his dying breath, that he wanted this child with her. But he stayed there in the middle of the great Hall staring blankly at Harry.

"How dare you stand where he stood? Tell them how it all happened that night. Tell them how you looked him in the eye. A man who trusted you. And killed him. Tell them" Harry said to him.

Still looking at Hermione, he drew his wand from his pocket. Harry was pushed way by McGonagall who drew herself her wand pointing it towards Snape's chest. Followed an epic dual between the two of them. They threw curses at each other's. As Snape was about to defeat the Transfiguration teacher. He took his robe in one hand and disappeared in a loud crack out of the hall.

"Coward, coward. You didn't even stay there for battle." McGonagall shouted after him.

With a flick of her wand, she restored the room's brightness and every Hufflepuff's, Gryffindor's and Ravenclaw's cheered and clapped.