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Chapter Seven: The attack

"Hey, Hermione." Harry greeted, sitting down beside me at lunch.

"Hey, Harry." I smiled at him. He looked a little nervous. "Harry, I am really sorry about the kissing thing."

"Hermione, it is fine. I understand." Harry nodded. "So, are you going home for Christmas?"

I shook my head.

"No, I don't think my mother would like that very well." Then, like it had been cued, a owl came swooping down and dropped a letter in front of me. I looked to see it was from my parents. I looked from it to Harry curiously.

Dear Hermione,

I just want you to know you are welcome to come home for Christmas. I want you to and so does your father. We all have some things to talk out. I hope you will be able to come.

Love,

Mom

I smile and felt a tear slide down my eye.

"I take that back." I said, not looking up from the letter. "I am going home."

It felt good to just lay in my own bed again. To look up at my own ceiling. I had fogotten what a great view I had from my room window.

"Hermione, Sweetheart! Come down for dinner!" I heard my mother's voice ring up the stairs. It kind of made me mad. She was acting like nothing had happened. Like it was just a normal Christmas. Sighing, I made my way down the stairs.

The smell of ham rushed over me and I smiled. I loved this. A perfect Christmas.

"Sit, Honey." My mother jestered toward a chair. I did as I was told and smiled and we joined hands and my father said grace.

Boom! We let go and turned around quickly to see what had made the noise. BOOM! It went again. We got up and dashed into the living room. BOOM! This time several people came bursting in through the front door. They were in hoods and I knew right away they were death eaters.

"Mom! Dad! We have to get out of here!" I exclaimed, but my father didn't move.

"Now wait just a damn minute here! You can't just come charging in here like…"

"Who are they?" My mother asked in a worried tone. The dark hooded people walked closer. I saw a glit of golden hair through one of the coats. Could it be? Nah, impossible. Wasn't it?

"Mom! Dad! Now!" Neither of them were listening. My mother had the phone calling the police and my father was ready to fight them. I knew he couldn't thought. They had wands and my father didn't. He didn't seem to get that.

"Dad! No! They have wands!" They hadn't acted yet though. Maybe they are just here to scare us.

"No, Hermione! I want these fools out of my house!" He demanded and the first hooded get came near him.

"Avada Kevrea!" A green light flashed and my father fell to the ground, motionless.

"DAD!" I screamed and tears streamed down my face. I saw another green light and heard my mother fall beside me. That only left one more. I ran upstairs and locked myself in my room. What had just happened? Were they still down stairs? Were my parents really dead? This couldn't be real! This had to be a dream! No wait, a nightmare. I heard footsteps coming up the stairs. Oh no! They were coming after me. I held my stomach, which was killing me, as was my back. This couldn't be good for the baby. I saw my door swing open with a flash of red light. I hurried and apparated out of there and to the Leaky Cauldron.

I sat at the bar, crying, trying to figure out what had just happened and what I was going to do. Both my parents were dead and it happened in less than a minute. I had fifty bucks saying Malfoy was one of the ones that were hooded. I know he is supposed to be dead, but I just can't shake the feeling he is still out there. I had to tell someone. But who?

"Hagrid! Open up!" I yelled, beating on his door.

"Hermione." He smiled as he opened the door. The smile soon faded. "What's wrong?" I explained to him what had happened.

"Hermione, I am so sorry. Any idea who the death eaters were?" I shook my head. I couldn't tell him my Malfoy theory. He would just think I was losing it. Maybe I was, but he didn't need to know it. "Well the Ministry will find out." He gave a firm nod. I wasn't so sure though. They hadn't caught very many death eaters yet. Who said they will catch these? "You should go back on up to the castle and get some sleep. No one deserves this on Christmas." I shook my head.

"I have to go back home."

"Hermione, no! It isn't safe. You are staying at the castle where we can make sure you are okay."

Weeks past after that. I got told how sorry everyone was and if there was anything they could do to tell them. I hated that line though. They couldn't bring back my parents or kill the death eaters who killed them so why did they even bother asking? I spent the next few weeks in the Room of Requirements thinking and crying. My mom and I were just getting back to normal and then she is ripped away from me. I feel empty inside. Why did I get out of there? Why didn't I stay and die too? At least I would be with them.

I was tempted to slap myself for even having that self centered thought. I had a baby to think about. I couldn't be thinking like that. I was seventeen and I could take care of myself. So step one was to stop the crying and the negitive thinking. Step two was to get my life back on track. My grades had slipped a bit since the incedent. Okay, I could do this.

Taking a deep breath, I left the Room of Requirements in search of Luke.

"Hey, Hermione. Aren't you a sight for sore eyes." Lucas smiled, hugging me. "Are you feeling alright?"

"Yeah, I am fine." I replied with a nod.

"Good. I was just headed down to Hogsmade. Wanna come with me?" He offered. I shook my head.

"I have some homework I need to get done." I explained.

"Alright. Are you sure you are alright?"

"I am fine, Luke. It has been three weeks. Trust me." He smiled and walked off.

"OWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!" I yelled. It was Januaray twenty second and I wan't due for another month. What was going on? "LUKE!" Was all I could think to yell.

"Hermione, are you alright?" Ginny asked and I shook my head.

"Get Lucas!" I demanded and she ran from the girl's dorm. I made it down the stairs where he was waiting.

"Hermione! What's going on?!" He paniced.

"It is time!"

"Oh…my…gosh! We need to get you to St. Mungo's." I nodded and he took my hand and sped me out of the room and castle.

"OW!!! Luke, it hurts!" I yelled.

"I know, Hermione. You have told me." He said kind of rudley. I mean HELLO, I was having a baby here.

After we got off the grounds we apparated to St. Mungos were I was taken in right away.

"Hermione?" The doctor asked. "What's the trouble?"

"Oh, nothing really." I said in a smartass tone. "Except I am IN LABOR!"

"Calm down, you aren't in labor."

"Yes I am. I know when I am in labor!" I yelled at her.

"Well apparently you don't because you aren't in labor. Something is going on with the baby though." The doctor said. Was she getting an attuitude with me?

"What is it then, Miss know it all?"

"Excuse me, you could lost the attuitude. I am the doctor and I know what I am doing. And I am not sure what it is. We looked at you and it seems fine." She shrugged. Another shrap pain came.

"AHHHHHHHHH!" I yelled.

"Young man, I need to to sit out in the waiting room." Lucas nodded and did as he was told. "Miss Granger, I am going to have to put you to sleep."

"No! What are you going to do to…" The last thing I saw was a flash of orange light.

I found it hard to open my eyes. When I finally did I noticed I wasn't in the same room as I was. What was going on? I wipped my eyes and sat up.

"Doctor Rogers?" I asked, looking around. No answer. I got out of the bed I was in and walked over to the door. Opening it, I didn't see anyone. Where was I? This wasn't St. Mungo's. "Hello? Is anyone here?" All of a sudden I take a blow to the stomach the throws me up against a wall. I see blood on the ground and wonder where it is coming from. I shake off the thought and scramble to my feet quickly. What did that. I look to see four hooded figures.

"How nice of you to join us, Miss Granger." One of the took off the hood. I screamed.

"Doctor Rogers?!" I excalimed and she smiled.

"The one and only. So Hermione, ready to face your death?" What kind of question is that? They know the answer. I mean who would answer yes to it? I run and hide behind a satute, still trying to figure out where the hell I am. Not to mention how I got here. I try to apparate, but no go. Why couldn't I? I heard footsteps coming my way.

"Hermione. Come out come out where ever you are." A familiar voice said. This time it was doctor Rogers though.

"Malfoy?! I knew you weren't dead!" I yelled. He smirked.

"I didn't expect you to think I was." He shrugged. "I wanted you to tell everyone so they would think you were crazy."

"Well I didn't, so your plan back fired."

"Oh no it didn't. I still get to kill you." He slying said.

"We will see about that." I went for my wand, but by that time I saw a green flash.

I sat up in the bed, drenched in my own sweat. What was with these dreams.

"Hermione? Are you okay?" Doctor Rogers asked coming into the room.

"I..I am fine. Bad dream."

"That must have been a nightmare. Your screams woke up the whole place." I blushed.

"I am so sorry. I didn't mean to disturb anyone." She laughed and waved it off.

"It is alright." She said. "I was starting to wonder if you would ever wake up. I still have no idea what was wrong with the baby before, but I couldn't find anything." I nodded.

"I understand." A sharp pain came to my stomach, this time stronger than before.

"AHHHHHHH!" The doctor rushed over to me. She pointed her wand at my stomach and said something then felt it.

"Amazing." She muttered.

"What is?" She took her cold hand off my stomach.

"Your baby… it seems to be using magic inside of you." She looked astonished.

"Is that bad?"

"Yes, very. It could kill the both of you." The doctor explained. "We will have to do a binding spell.

"What is that?" I questioned, not liking the sound of it what so ever.

"It will bind it's magic. We can give it back to it when it is born." She explained to me. I bit my lip and nodded.

"Will it hurt?" I asked.

"It shouldn't. Tell me if it does though. I have never done this to someone that was inside someone else before." Oh that was great. What if she did it wrong. I had to wonder, did most mothers go through all this when they are pregnant? She said the spell and a purple flash hit my stomach and then a blue glow came out of it.

"What is that?!"

"Just the baby's magic." Said the doctor, putting it into a jar. "It is safe here, until the baby is born."