As Hermione stood by the graves of her parents she felt a wave of guilt wash over her, this was the first time since the parents had died that she had visited their graves. After Hermione's parents were killed the order increase security on the people closest to Harry and there family's but that had not been enough in the weeks following the Grangers funeral an attack was made on Hogwarts and Ginny Wesley was kidnapped, the leader of this attack was Lucius Malfoy, after a massive search and rescue effort Ginny was pronounced dead after the search and rescue team found the bloodied remains of the clothes that she had been wearing the day of the attack.
The loss of Ginny tore the Wesley's apart and almost sent Ron insane his only saving grace was Ginny's best friend Luna Lovegood who had been with Ginny the day she was abducted, Luna had barely escaped with her life the events of that night leaving her so disturbed that she had not uttered a word since. What Hermione thought was weird was that Ron had appointed him self as her protector he and Luna became inseparable and though they didn't talk to each other they would not leave each others sides, Luna would no even eat for anyone but him. It had been Ron that had found Luna after the attack bloody and broken, he was that one that had taken her to St Mangos and sat with her as the doctor examined her, it was he who had been given the news that she had been raped and was pregnant and it was he how had comforted her as she lost the baby two months later.
As for Hermione her pregnancy was as normal as could be expected under the circumstances, stress has taken its toll and Hermione had lost allot of weight even thought her stomach continued to grow, when she lies down on her back you can clearly see the out line of the baby. On this fact Fred had become more and more concerned for his wife and there baby, Hermione was determined to carry her baby to term and at 8 and 1/4 months pregnant she felt like she had done the right thing keeping the baby.
A hand on her shoulder remained Hermione that she was not alone, turning she came face to face with her husband.
"Are you ready to go home sweetheart "Fred asked knowing how hard seeing her parents grave must be on Hermione "its getting late and we don't want you to get a cold now do we"
"No" Hermione muttered shaking her head "No we don't want that"
"Are you alright Hermione?" Fred asked tilting his head it the side
"I'm fine let's go home ok" Hermione said with a smile grabbing Fred hand in hers and heading off towards the car that was waiting for them.
As Hermione began to move she felt a gush of water between her legs and knew that it could be only one thing, her water had broken.