Chapter 6 - realizations and explanations

Italics are Hermione's thoughts

"speech is in quotations"

Oh shit what is going on. Oh my god what happened to me? Why is everything black? I've got to get out of here. Damn, were is Emily? Hmmmmm. Did I just whimper? Bollocks I did. I have got to pull myself together and find a way out of here, and soon.

" Ok, ok, just concentrate on home and apparate out." Oh bugger, now I'm talking to myself.

"You can't apparate out of your own subconscious. That is completely illogical to say the least. I am disappointed in you Hermione, I thought that you would have figured it out by now." Hermione saw a figure approaching from the darkness, a female, probably around 5' 9" with glossy black hair and blonde highlights. Or maybe it was blonde with Black streaks, she couldn't tell the woman was sort of fuzzy around the edges making it hard to distinguish any features.

"Well that is just bloody stupid. How on earth could I be in my own subconscious? It is not possible." I think, I hope.

"Mind your language girl you have to live up to the standards of our prestigious family." Stated the mystical woman.

"OUR family, wait does that mean what I think it means."

"Yes, Hermione I am one of your ancestors. Your great great grandmother to be precise. Now that you have learned who I am, can you figure out why I am here?"

"Well I read in a book that with really REALLY ancient families the heirs have to go through a kind of course with someone who knows the power of the family, even if that person is not alive anymore. Then it said that the course helped with control but that is all I know."

"Well, you are right, I am here to teach and guide you. It is hard for one body to hold the power that we hold and even harder to keep our tempers under control. You will study with me until I believe that you are ready and able to follow your destiny. You are seventeen years of age correct?" After receiving a nod in response she continued. "hmmm, I had to be sure, it is very early to begin your passage into adult hood. I suppose it was out of need though."

"I don't understand ma'am, why did the rite of passage need to be sped up?"

"The attack on you and your sister! It put you both in a state of panic forcing us (your relatives) to come forward and stimulate both yours and Emily's powers into their fully active status."

"So Emily is going through this too? When I wake up she will be ok? Draco didn't get to her?"

"Emily is just fine, she is being trained by my older sister. I don't want to scare you but honey when you wake up there are going to be some very difficult questions to answer. One of them may be something along the lines of, How did you use elemental magic? Or something like, What did you do with Draco?"

"Umm, what DID I do to Draco?" I hope I smashed his skull so hard he doesn't remember what damn family he is from. Hmmmmm, or maybe I broke every bone in his body one at a time. Oh the things I could do to him to cause him pain. What a lovely subject to think about.

"I unfortunately can not tell you. You may never know what actually happened to him, The spell was, ...well, a little bit stronger than expected. We can not predict the results."

"Wow, that is sooooooooooooooooooo cool. So when does my training start and what does it involve? Do I get to learn new curses?" The intellectual portion of Hermione's brain sprang to life and started to think of all the new information she was going to learn.

"I'm afraid not. You have no trouble teaching your self new spells, what you need help with is meditation and control. It will take longer than normal because you are younger and more prone to influxes of emotion. This is one of the obstacles that we must overcome. Even now your temper is rising because I said that you may not be able to complete this path as quickly as other have……... Am I correct Hermione?

"Yes ma'am" This is going to be a hard. I have to keep all my emotions hidden. I may never get out of here. No, NO I will do this, I will succeed, I will.

3 weeks later………………...

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