Disclaimer: Just like to repeat for all who missed it the first turn around; JK Rowling owns everything Harry Potter. I am not her so I do not own Harry Potter.

Author Note: This is the second chapter of Harry Potter: War and Peace

Welcome back dear reader, I thank you for continuing on to read this second chapter.

As I write this, I am more confident about my writing of this story. I also like to point out that different POVs of other Characters will be shown in this story. The one annoying thing about the whole Harry Potter (well at least on my mind at this moment) is the fact it never offered someone's point of view for more then a chapter at a time or rather just events we had to see to move the story along or so the reader is not confused later on.

Two songs I suggest to listen to if you read this chapter along with it:

Maybe I'm Amazed– Paul McCartney & Wings

I'll be your crying shoulder – The Goo Goo Dolls

Anyways, I hoped you enjoyed the first chapter and this chapter as well. Please review, don't flame, and most of all enjoy.

Thank you,

James Remus Black

Chapter 2: Revelations and Promises

Luna Lovegood was smarter then she let on. She may always talk about weird animals that people don't exist, they'd be surprised that at least half of them actually did exist. She was in many ways like Hermione Granger she thought as she took in the scene of Hermione hovering over Harry Potter's bedside at this moment. She knows both were given a choice of where to go, but then again if Luna had met the great Harry Potter who turned out to be a great friend knowing he was probably bound for Gryffindor, she might of ended up there too. She would of most definitely been the smartest witch of her generation, again if it weren't for that brown bushy haired girl, not that she minded.

Hermione and her friends accepted her for who she were. They didn't call her Loony, and when they did it wasn't mean spirited. Like when the twins joke and call Harry the chosen one. Although this war will be no longer a laughing matter. The fight at the Department of Mysteries was a clear sign of that. Again, Luna Lovegood was smarter then she let on.

She saw the looks that Hermione and Harry gave each other at times. Like for example, Luna could see the love and sorrow in Hermione's eyes as she watched Harry's unconscious body, and when Hermione went down at the Ministry she could see it in Harry's eyes. The next time that even comes close to happening, the Death Eater that did it won't live to see that spell end result. Luna Lovegood rose from her nearby seat to tell Hermione to take a nap in the bed next to Harry, she had to make sure Hermione didn't destroy herself in the process. She was the only one of the other four to actually to get permission to come in here from Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall.

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Hermione Granger wasn't exactly sure when she first loved Harry Potter; or when she realized it. It could have been when she first met those emerald green eyes of his on the train all those years ago. It could have been when it was his idea (she learned this later from Ron himself) to go to the bathrooms to find Hermione, and to charge straight on against that troll, risking his own life to save hers.

She remembered again being told by Ron about in the 2nd year when she was petrified, and when Harry wasn't doing the required things he was here in the hospital with Hermione, talking to her. Hermione remembers it all, as she had heard but not saw or could not talk when it was happening around her. She heard him say how it was all his fault and his promises to make sure she is safe.

She remembered in their third year when Harry fought back the hundreds of dementors, and when they saved Sirius Black. She was afraid of flying, but not when she was with Harry on Buckbeak. Holding on to him and enjoying flying for the first time truly. She also remembered when he fell from his broom, the fear that he was hurt and perhaps worse tore through her until she learned he was alright.

Fourth year; The Tri-Wizard Tournament. If there is anything Hermione hates more then Dumbledore right now it's that and Voldemort. Harry being forced into that tournament as bait for Tom Riddle and taking the bait he did. What she could get out of Harry's sobbing later was that he tied him to a tombstone and took some of his blood with that cut. Voldemort was back, Cedric was dead, and Harry somehow escaped. The fact Harry was alive made her happy for a moment, but she saw how badly he fought to break down then. A clear difference from her social life that year with Viktor Krum who was nice and all, but a fleeting passerby in her opinion now, not even a pen pal anymore. She remembers clearly about how much Viktor complained one day how much she talked about Harry and feared for him, and got mad at her.

Then Dumbledore sent him back to the Dursleys to mentally suffer even more. She had pleaded with Dumbledore not to do so but he did anyways. That was the feeling of hatred for Dumbledore began to build up inside of her. Fifth year wasn't too overly worse except for a few things. Dolores Umbridge was a annoying pain the whole year until Hermione's idea that involved the centaurs got rid of her she thought with a small smile at that scene. Then there was Cho Chang who for some reason Harry fawned over that year, and Hermione being the good friend encouraged him. She was happy to know on St Valentine's day about Harry's date with Cho going terribly wrong although she felt bad for Harry. Then there was Voldemort and Snape's mind raping him the whole year, until finally the image of Sirius being tortured entered his mind.

She knew Harry couldn't stand the thought of losing Sirius; his godfather. One of the last few people in his life who he could truly call family and friend. He was reckless she had admitted to herself now but she couldn't blame him. So she did for him what he did for her so many years ago;recklessly fly into the face of danger. They had all gotten injured although thankfully not serious ones. She could not say the same for Sirius, who flew through the veil. She didn't know if Sirius was exactly dead or not, considering there was no record of someone ever going into the veil, although there was a feeling he wasn't coming back.

Now she knew the Prophecy and what it foretold. How Harry was the only one who could destroy Voldemort once and for all. The weight of the world on his shoulders tonight only gotten bigger. Harry, through all his might that wasn't what broke him. What broke him was all of that, pushed with the fact Dumbledore would let Severus Snape who had given Voldemort the first part of the Prophecy all those years ago. It led to Harry having that scar, and Harry being a Orphan. Dumbledore rewarded Snape with the job of Potion's Professor for sixteen years although he was a former Death Eater. He had let Snape mind rape Harry, tease him about his father for five years, and basically make Harry's life a living hell whenever possible.

Now he was in some kind of shock, and she even didn't know how to help but be at his side in case he awoke or needed her like she knew he screamed in all his dreams last year. Being told by Ron and Neville how he always said Hermione don't die, although it wasn't always her name; it came up quite often more then anyone but his Mum.

Hermione felt Luna's hand on her shoulder, and Luna's asking Hermione to go to sleep for the first time since Harry went into shock. She promised that she would sit in between them and if anything happened she would wake her up. Hermione laid down on the bed next to Harry with Luna sitting in a chair in between. As soon as Hermione's head hit the pillow, she was out like a light.

Luna Lovegood sat in that hospital chair, looking at what she considered her two best friends. She spoke softly to herself and the two bodies next to her who most likely could not hear her, "The Cost of Friendship is never too high." With that Luna turned around, grabbed The Quibbler she was reading over the small table behind her and began to read.

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June 15, 1996 – Hogwarts's Hospital Wing; 6 AM

Hermione Granger wasn't in a very good mood. It had been three days since the attack on The Department of Mysteries, and they were suppose to go back home in three days. It made Hermione cry inside every single time she looked into Harry's eyes and saw no life in them. It was making him better and protecting him that kept her going these past three days. Since the exams were done, the grades she didn't even care about anymore she was in the hospital wing with Harry and didn't leave once. Thanks to Luna and the others she had gotten some books on shell shock, and something else that spoke out to her about wards.

She was flipping through the book on wards when a thought struck her. She left the hospital for the first time in three days, motioning for Luna who was also in the room at this time to keep watch of Harry. She ran to the one place where right now where the one man she now hated as much as Voldemort was located; Dumbledore's office.

Surprisingly, the gargoyles did not ask for a password and the door flew open for Hermione. She knocked on the second door and heard voices inside and all of a sudden Dumbledore's voice told her to come in. Hermione walked into the room and saw one of the few people she was glad to see at this moment; Professor McGonagall and the other who she hated; Albus Dumbledore.

"Headmaster, I have something I need to talk to you about. Professor McGonagall could you stay as well please?" asked Hermione.

Professor McGonagall took a seat next to Hermione in the two seats across from Dumbledore's desk. Both Professors looked at Hermione as she looked lost in thought for a moment and finally had a look of hatred on her face that she was trying to control.

"Headmaster, why does Harry stay at The Dursleys again over the summer?" asked Hermione in a innocent voice.

"Well Miss Granger, it is to protect the blood wards that Harry's mother supplied when she sacrificed herself for Harry, and her only sister lives there so that house is the obvious choice," said Dumbledore in a matter of fact tone.

"That might have been the BS excuse you used for the first fourteen years of Harry's life, but I can't believe I didn't notice the obvious until this year, I pray that Voldemort hasn't either," said Hermione.

"What do you mean Miss Granger?" asked Dumbledore in a less matter of fact voice.

"If they are blood wards, and it's Harry's blood making sure the wards work then why is he still there? Voldemort took some of his blood in the fourth year at the graveyard, he and anyone with him would be able to go onto the property," said Hermione in the same tone that the Headmaster used when he first answered Hermione's question.

The headmaster's face filled with fear and shock for a moment before his face returned to it's neutral self. The same could not be said however about Professor McGonagall. She had a look of shock on her face and then anger as she came to the same conclusion as Hermione had.

"Albus, did you use Harry as bait last summer to draw Voldemort out?!" asked Professor McGonagall.

"Minerva, I admit it was wrong to do so but it had to be done. We thought maybe if we could draw Voldemort out when he was still weak he could be taken out but again I was wrong. A old man's folly I'm afraid," said Dumbledore with a look of guilt.

Professor McGonagall and Hermione both rose to stand and the two stood at the door. Hermione turned around and looked at Professor Dumbledore.

"Harry is not staying at the Dursleys any longer. I'll find a place to put him this summer Albus, although I have one in mind," said Professor McGonagall looking at Hermione. "However, if needed be he'll stay with me, he will not be under your thumb like that anymore," said Professor McGonagall.

Albus Dumbledore just nodded at the two and motioned for them to be able to leave. A more regular thing now; Dumbledore took out a shot glass from thin air and a bottle of Firewhiskey as it began to pour a glass.

Professor McGonagall just looked at Hermione after they exited the office and Hermione nodded. Professor McGonagall off to her office to finish some paperwork. Hermione was off to write a letter to two of the most important people in her life; her parents.

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Author Note: That is the second chapter of Harry Potter: War and Peace.

Without even realizing it; I somewhat and somehow turned Dumbledore into a scheming evil character who uses Harry as a chess piece. Sad but that's the impression canon gave me through the first five books.

I know this chapter was a bit short in fact, only 2,000 words which is 1,500 less then the less chapter.

However, I felt that bringing back Harry this chapter would be a little premature, do not fret however.

The next chapter shall be bigger then the first one, and perhaps the first two combined if all goes well. This chapter was more of setting up the scene for the next chapter. Many revelations and secrets have been revealed, and the time limit until Hermione goes home is coming.

I also hope all of you liked how I characterized Luna. I felt that she is smarter then she looks being a seer and all. However she knows the clear rule to let your friends and enemies underestimate you.

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Anyways, I hoped you enjoyed the second chapter of Harry Potter: War and Peace

So please review, don't flame, and most of all enjoy the store.

(P.S: The third chapter will be either released tonight or early tomorrow, depending on my headache.)