Man, do I love to rewrite chapters. This better be the first and only time I re-do this chapter; the first one I re-did….like four times! Anyways yeah as you can see I'm re-writing this chapter because it sucks! Yep, I hope you will all enjoy it better.
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Chapter 2
5th year, it seemed, was the dullest year or Hermione Granger's life. For most of it, all she did was read; she may read a lot during the school year but just not that many books. The rest of the year was 'entertained'by Minister Fudge's pawn, professor Umbridge; or more known by some students, professor Umbitch. Hermione had to admit; in all her life had she hated learning so much, more specifically she hated learning from professor Umbitch!
Moreover so, she wasn't the only one to ruin her year; just a single thought of a boy with black unruly hair, emerald eyes and a lightning scar on his forehead made her depressed and lonely. Sure she had Ron but he wasn't much of a help even if he did puck up the courage to ask her out. All he did was fight with her and remind her of Harry.
It was only when she went to professor McGonagall for some extra classes and teachings when she found out that she too believed in Harry's innocence and that a small handful of people believed in Harry's innocence. That was when a small light of relief filled inside of her when she found out that professor, McGonagall, Hagrid, Neville, Luna, Sirius, Lupin, Tonks and even Draco Malfoy was on Harry's side; well, not really, but he did think that Harry didn't have the guts to kill anyone.
That was really all that happened that year, nothing big or special like the usual.
It was like she relived the entire 5th all at once as she said goodbye to Mrs. And Mr. Weasley and walked on the train with her two friends, Luna and Neville waving goodbye to everyone through the windows. Finally the train started to move, faster and faster until the people on the platform were just blurs; she sighed.
'Another boring year at Hogwarts we go' she thought as she, Neville and Luna started to drag their luggage down the narrow corridor looking for an apartment.
"Where did Ron go?' asked Neville as they passed a compartment full of excited and nervous first years
"I don't know" said Luna as they waked passed a bunch of girls in 6th year from Hufflepuff gossiping about summer and whatever else girls talked about those days "Hermione, did you see where he went?"
"No" said Hermione dully passing by some Slytherins laughing probably at some stupid joke
"Alright, let's look for him while we search for a compartment" said Neville having some difficulty pulling his luggage
"Weren't we already doing that?" asked Hermione getting irritated by not seeing any empty compartments
"Oh, I uh...I didn't know" said Neville regretting speaking
"Oh Neville" said Hermione as she sopped and turned to Neville "I'm sorry, it's just that there is no more empty compartments that's making me irritated"
"I didn't say you were irritated" said Neville as Hermione nodded smiling slightly at him before she turned and continued walking
"I know you didn't, I'm just saying" said Hermione
"Anyways can you believe we are already in sixth year, they just go by too fast for me" said Neville as Luna shook her head
"That's for you to say, I'm in my fifth year" she said
"Don't worry Luna, when we finish school we'll still keep in touch" said Hermione as Luna smiled widely making her look even dreamier then she already was. Hermione had to admit, the fifth year Ravenclaw was odd but she did have a good sense of humor and she was interesting. When Hermione had first met Luna Lovegood on the Hogwarts Express, she immediately thought she was loony but completely changed when she found out she believed in Harry.
"Thanks Hermione" said Luna before Hermione stopped abruptly making Luna hit her foot on Hermione's trunk while Neville did the same with Luna's luggage "Ouch, why'd you do that?"
Hermione didn't answer, she just looked in a compartment with complete disgust, they both turned to look in the direction she was staring at. There in the compartment was both Ginny Weasley and Seamus Finnegan snogging each others brains out. Before they could continue their way walking Seamus and Ginny noticed them breaking out the kiss
"Do you mind?" asked Seamus a little irritated as Ginny elbowed him in the ribs
"Hey guys" said Ginny smiling as Seamus rubbed his ribs
"Hey Ginny" said Hermione, Neville, and Luna in unison
"Hey Seamus" said Neville "how was your summer?"
"Fun as usual" said Seamus sighing
"Oh well mine was rather good actually; gran took me to France to visit my aunt" said Neville smiling "the food there is really good"
"Thanks for the tip Neville" said Ginny "so do you guys want to sit here or what?"
Hermione noticed Seamus give her an incredulous look before looking at the trio standing in the corridor, silently pleading for them to leave "No thanks Ginny, we were actually looking for Ron, have you seen him?"
"Yeah he's just further down the corridor" said Ginny as Hermione nodded
"Thanks Ginny" said Hermione "See you later"
"See you" said Ginny before he trio continued to walk down the corridor and finally found Ron sitting in a compartment alone reading an article in a magazine about the Chudley Cannons
"Hey Ron" said Hermione entering the compartment as Ron looked up startled
"Oh there you are, I've been waiting forever for you guys" he said as he stood up and gave Hermione a hug "hey Herms"
Hermione mentally rolled her eyes at her given nickname, she despised it so much yet she let Ron use it just to keep him happy before he blows up on her. He leaned back on the hug a bit and gave her a quick peck on the lips.
They had been currently dating since mid spring of last year. Not that Hermione could call it dating; it was more arguing than dating. Their first date went horribly wrong; both Ron and Hermione had gotten in a fight that day because of...you guessed it, Harry. It was such a stupid, pathetic, silly thing; all Hermione asked him is if he was starting to believe Harry was innocent. He said he didn't which caused a row between them.
Of course like always, he apologized later telling her that he was being arrogant and a prat; not even believing he was telling the truth she forgave him anyways with a warning.
"How was your summer?" asked Hermione breaking away from his hug before she put her luggage on the shelf as Luna put hers next to Hermiones but Neville seemed to be having some difficulty
"Oh the usual" said Ron as he sat down "George's and Fred's taunts, mum picking up on everything I do and Ginny getting a new boyfriend"
"So we see" said Luna as Ron looked at her confused a bit
"Huh?"
"We saw Ginny and Seamus snogging their brains out" said Neville struggling still with his luggage and Trevor who jumped out his pocket
"Neville, do you need help?" asked Hermione as Neville turned his head slightly to look at her
"Yeah" he said nodding slightly as Hermione looked at Ron expecting him to help Neville but Ron just picked up his Quidditch magazine and continued reading
"Ahem….Ron?" said Hermione as Ron looked up at her
"What?" he asked slightly annoyed
"Can you help Neville? You're the tallest one here" she said as she beckoned to Neville making him sigh
"Can't you just use magic, we are allowed to used magic on the train you know" he said as Hermione rolled her eyes before she took out her wand, muttered a spell with a flick of her wand and the luggage flew out of Neville's cramping hands and onto the shelf
"Accio" she said before Trevor flew into her hands as Neville took a seat; she passed the large toad to him before putting her wand away
"Thanks Hermione" said Neville putting Trevor back in his pocket
"You're welcome Neville" said Hermione glaring at Ron
"So Nev….how was your summer?" asked Ron before Luna took out the Quibbler and flipped it upside down as Hermione rolled her eyes
'Yet again, he's not being a gentleman to even ask me about my summer; not that I care that he does anyways' she thought looking out the window as blurs of green, brown and blue were passing by 'he can be so thick sometimes, to tell the truth I don't even have that kind of feelings toward the red headed prat. Sure he's my first boyfriend but he's not my first love or crush.'
There was Victor Krum who was probably one of the first guys to notice her beauty but so was Harry. There was something about Harry that made her think she was the most important girl in the whole school. Not even Cho could come close to the feeling she has.
Hermione sighed as she got up from her seat and looked in her luggage and took out the Dailey Prophet; one look at the large, bold headlines made her gasp loud
"Oh my bloody god!" she yelled as Luna, Neville and Ron looked at her
"What is it Hermione?" said Luna putting down the Quibbler but she didn't answer she just gawked at the paper in front of her; she let out a small smile before she fainted into Ron's arms. He rested her down on the seat before grabbing the Dailey Prophet and read out loud.
"Harry Potter on the Loose!" said Ron incredulously his face slowly turning red
"What?" said Luna and Neville in unison before Ron continued.
"Harry Potter, who was life-sentenced to Azkaban for committing murder has broken out of Azkaban yesterday early in the morning. Harry Potter is known to be very dangerous and insane, contact the Ministry ASAP if you see him anywhere-"
As Ron continued reading the article Hermione started to stir; her eyes fluttered open to see Ron, Neville and Luna reading an article in the Daily Prophet, just then it hit her, Harry escaped Azkaban! She quickly sat up making the standing trio jump before she snatched the Prophet from Ron's hands and read the article fast paced; she couldn't count how many times she read but when looked up the three with a large grin and with tears burning her eyes.
Both Neville and Luna looked glad to see that Harry had finally escaped that torturous place but Ron's face was completely red and full of anger and disbelief
"I can't believe…I CAN"T BELIEVE IT!" he yelled slamming his fist on the compartment wall "I can't believe that sick bastard escaped Azkaban!"
Her large grin slowly slipped from her face "What? How can you say that Ron? Harry is your best friend" she said
"He was my best friend Hermione…was" he said before snatching the Prophet back and ripped it in half and threw it to the ground "now he's nothing more to me than a lying traitor!"
Now Hermione's temper was raising "Ronald Billius Weasley! Who the bloody hell gave you that pathetic idea that Harry was murderer?" she yelled; Ron opened his mouth to reply but she put her hand up to stop him "wait don't answer that, I already have my answer. The git who gave you that idea was Dumbledore! That manipulator gave you the idea to blame Harry for a murder he didn't commit!"
"How can you say that Dumbledore is a manipulator Hermione? He's helped us through so much shit through the years!" yelled Ron his ears red as an apple "At least pay some respect to him will you!"
"I have for your information! For the past five years I have respected him but now, he has crossed the line and so have you too Ronald!" yelled Hermione right in his face
"How have I crossed the line?" he asked stupidly as Hermione rolled her eyes with a soft growl
"You think that Harry is a murderer!" she yelled irritated "he is innocent and always has been!"
"How would you know that he's innocent? Huh? I don't recall you being transported with him and the body of Cedric to…wherever they were taken and then being brought back!" said Ron as Hermione glared at him
"I would happen to know he is innocent because I know him better than you, Dumbledore or anyone else at Hogwarts! You don't even notice him, If he was sad or angry!" she said as Ron scoffed
"Yes I have-"
"No you don't Ron! You don't know that he sometimes never used to eat food or that his grades were degrading because of his depression-"
"He wasn't depressed" said Ron as Hermione shook her head
"There you go, you never knew he was depressed because you were so caught up with jealousy of Victor and obsessed with food! Food, Victor, food, Victor, FOOD...VICTOR!" she yelled as Ron growled "And let's not forget about your stupid Quidditch, your other pathetic obsession!"
She picked up his Quidditch magazine and ripped it in half, "HEY!" yelled Ron as he grabbed the two halves
"To late Ron, unless you know some good magic to repair it your too late" said Hermione smirking
"I thought you liked Quidditch" he snarled at her "you now own Harry's Firebolt, you should love it"
"THAT IS NOT THE POINT! Besides the reason being that I'm on the bloody team is because of that stupid Firebolt!" said Hermione
They kept going at each other as Neville and Luna watched them scream at each others faces, their heads going left to right as if watching a tennis match.
"Ugh! You, Ronald, are such an insufferable-" suddenly the door slide open and I popped Draco Malfoy
"Insufferable? Insufferable what Granger? Go on, finish your sentence!" said Draco cutting off Hermione who was seething with anger
"Malfoy, don't you dare antagonism me! Get out!" snapped Hermione as Draco cocked an eye brow
"Well someone is in a mood, what did you do Weasley? Cheat on her?" asked Draco before in a blink of an eye Hermione whipped out her wand and pointed it at Draco who immediately tensed up
"I swear to Merlin, Malfoy if you don't get out of this compartment I will curse you to the next century!" snarled Hermione as Draco sneered at her
"Fine" he said before he stepped out the compartment and slammed the door shut
"Look Hermione maybe we should ju-" started Ron but was stopped by Hermione
"I do not want to hear from you anymore Ronald, I will not tolerate you childishness" said Hermione as she put her wand away and then grabbed her trunk "For that reason being….I am done with you"
"What?" said Ron reaching to grab her arm but she jerked away "But, Hermione-?"
"Leave me alone Ron!" said Hermione walking out the compartment.
"Fine, be that way then!" he called out to her.
'"FINE!" she yelled back as Ron sat back down on his seat crimson red with anger.
"Don't worry Ron I'm sure she didn't mean It." said Neville lying knowing that Hermione did mean every word she said
"Yeah" agreed Luna nodding "Maybe she's not ready for a relationship."
"Whatever" grumbled Ron under his breath.
(HP)
Surprised to find an empty compartment, Hermione changed into her uniform, put her trunk away and sat down heavily on the couch, tears burning her eyes. She whipped them away angrily 'Stupid emotions! Why can't I control them!' she though sighing, ever since fifth year when she got extremely mad she would tear up; she hated it so much. She hated Ron so much!
'Why can't he deal with the fact that best friends should always trust each other and not be totally complete gits!' she thought sadly staring at the window with now dark images passing by; it was already getting dark 'If only Harry were here, he would have blow up on Ron for making me cry! Who am I kidding; I should of blow Ron back to the beginning of time!'
She suddenly yawned tiredly; giving in to her sleepiness she shut her eyes before saying softly to herself, "This is going to be a long year"
(HP)
"How is he doing Jean?" asked Professor Xavier, headmaster of the "Institute for Gifted Youngsters."
"He's been out for two weeks professor" replied Jean shaking her head sadly "I don't know what's wrong with him. I have checked everything to see whets wrong with him but I have found nothing"
"Have you checked his memories?" asked Xavier as Jean shook her head
"No, I'm to afraid of what to expect" said Jean sighing as Xavier nodded, she looked at him to see he was deep in thought; his eyebrows furrowed and eyes distance…..is usual expression when he was in deep thought.
'What could he thinking of now?' she thought curiously; she knew she could easily read her mind but she had respect for her mentor and didn't want to ruin his privacy. Suddenly they heard a low moan breaking Xavier out of his thoughts.
They both turned toward the skeletal boy before them…he seemed to be waking up. His eyes fluttered open for a second but quickly shut tight from the light, he let out a long exhale, "Water" said the boy, his voice raspy.
Jean immediately picked up a glass, poured some water and then put it near his mouth for him to drink. He drank it down greedily and quickly asked for more before Jean quickly gave him more water as the boy spoke
"Where am I?" he asked taking the glass from Jean and drank it down quickly
"You, Harry Potter are at the Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters" said Xavier softly as he sneaked a glance at the professor, let out a soft 'oh' and slipped back to unconsciousness.
"Poor guy" said Jean sighing for the thousandth time "I just wish I could find out what is making him like this."
Then she saw it. It was an amulet that was in the shape of a diamond; it was green and was...glowing.
"What is this" she said softly as she fingered the amulet "Professor isn't this Kryptonite?"
"Why yes it is" said Xavier rolling closer to Harry.
"Isn't Kryptonite dangerous to him? Can't he die from it?" asked Jean as she tried to take it off Harry but it was impossible.
"Yes it is extremely dangerous to him, as his parents said in the letter that he could die from it but I have a feeling that it is his mutation powers that are keeping him from dying."
"Yes that could be possible" she said as she tried again to take the amulet off. "Urge, this is impossible to take off!"
"I'll call Logan then," said Xavier and in a few minutes Logan walked in the infirmary.
"What?" asked Logan rudely, like always
"Cut this" said Jean bluntly gesturing to the amulet; Logan opened his mouth to retort but Jean beat "It's impossible to take off"
He sighed looking at the frail boy as he nodded "Fine" said Logan as an Adamantium claw came out from one of his knuckles. Jean raised Harry's head as Logan started to cut the amulet.
After what seem liked hours but only minutes the necklace finally broke. As Logan handed the amulet over to Jean, they heard a moan come from the insubstantial boy.
(X)
There were voices, soft soothing voices. Harry strained to stay with that voice. "How…he? He's be- we- weeks!" He fought against the fog that had filled his mind, struggling to stay with the voice. He moaned, as he could see bright light shining through his eye lids. Cautiously he opened his eyes open but was blinded from the light; he quickly shut his eyes and let out an exhale as his throat burned.
"Water" he said, his voice raspy. He heard some bustling and shortly after something was placed to his lips, and he felt cool liquid grace his mouth. He drank it down quickly before asking for more.
"Where am I?" he asked rubbing his eyelids before a glass again was placed to his lips. He drank greedily as the water was soothing his parched mouth.
"You, Harry Potter are at Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters" said Xavier softly as the glass was taken from him
"Oh" he said softly before he slipped back to unconsciousness; images filled his mind, images of the faces of those who betrayed him, glaring angrily at him for supposedly murdering the brave Cedric Diggory. Their glares hurt him, deep inside it was killing him. The emotional pain suddenly became physical pain; his body was sore all over until he saw her face smiling at him. The images of angry faces disappeared and Hermione appeared smiling at him encouragingly. He smiled back, the pain was gone; the physical pain at least but not the emotional pain.
Suddenly he could see the bright light again through his eye lids; it didn't bother him as it did before. He didn't feel exhausted or wear…he felt alive. As if he was reborn into the world that hated and adored him at the same time.
'Now all I have to do is open my eyes and pretend that I'm back at Hogwarts, the tri-wizard tournament never happened and everyone is in front of me waiting for me to awake from my stupid dream of going to Azkaban then getting bailed out by the strangest of people' he thought as his eyes fluttered open; when the blinding white light invaded his senses, he heard someone moan and was surprised to discover it was him.
But soon his vision focused into a rough haze at the corners of his vision. One of the only gains he seemed to have gotten during his visit in Azkaban was his vision. For months he had suffered from migraines due to his poor sight, but it had cleared up, along with his vision. He couldn't explain it and there had been no one to ask, so he had counted it as a blessing in his suffering.
Then there was that insistent beeping! He turned his head to see an array of medical machines, all of them disguising the beeping culprit.
'Definitely not a magical infirmary then,' thought Harry confused that his friends weren't there standing there waiting for him to wake; instead he saw three people. The first was a bald man sitting in a wheelchair; Harry could not see any injuries on him and he wasn't exactly dressed in patient garb like himself.
The second person was also a male. His hair was dark brown, which was spiked up in all directions. His eyes were brown, but looked like they could've belonged to an animal and he also had a beard. The third person was female, she had flaming red hair, and she also had emerald green eyes that resembled his but what scared him was that she also resembled his mother.
She walked swiftly over to him and helped ease him up into a sitting position. She gently took his hand and asked him how he was feeling, but he could only stare at her and her beautifully kind face.
"It's good to see you awaken Mr. Potter. You have been asleep for a little more than two weeks" said the man
"Wow, really? That's the first time I've slept through the night in months" said Harry missing the frowns upon the trios faces before Harry looked at the man with confusion "But what I want to know is who are you?"
"I am Professor Charles Xavier, the founder of this school, and this is Logan," he said gesturing to the man "and this is Jean Grey Summers" gesturing to the woman; Harry couldn't know for sure but he could have sworn he saw the look of sadness on the face of Logan at the mention of Jean's last name.
"They are the ones who saved you from that awful place."
"I see" said Harry, taking in his surroundings.
"Mr. Potter, are you familiar with the term mutants" Xavier asked him.
"Yes umm...Jean explained to me before we escaped" said Harry as Jean smiled.
"Well that's good then" said Xavier.
"Yeah but um sir how do you know about the magical world?" asked Harry.
"Oh I guess Jean hasn't explained that yet" said Xavier "would you like to tell him Jean?" he asked as she nodded.
"Harry I know about the magical world because I am a witch myself. When I was about to go into my third year at Hogwarts I found out that I had powers...not magical powers no...I found out that I was telepathic in which I could communicate with others telepathically, read the thoughts of others, influence decisions, control minds, manipulate memories, cast my mind into the astral plane, or fire stunning mental bolts capable of knocking out or turning someone brain-dead" she said chuckling at the look on Harry's face.
"I am also telekinetic. I'm capable of grasping objects in Earth's orbit and manipulating hundreds of components in mid-air in complex patterns. I can also use my telekinesis to levitate objects, other people, or myself and project a telekinetic shield capable of withstanding missile blasts. I can also release devastating force blasts" she said proudly as Harry nodded.
"So I was brought here to learn how to control these powers without getting out of control" she said gesturing to the mansion as Harry nodded again. "I've been here ever since."
"You must be very powerful then if you can cause someone to turn out brain-dead" he said staring into her eyes.
'Up close she looks even more like mum' thought Harry
She chuckled "I'm not as good as the professor" she said staring at Xavier smiling. "He has the same powers as I have."
"What about you?" Harry asked the man named Logan staring at him.
"What...oh yeah, I have umm… enhanced healing, enhanced senses, I don't age and can't die by any weapon I know of, and I have claws" said Logan staring at him.
'That would explain why he healed so fast. But-'
"Claws?" said Harry confused, before there was a snikt sound and out came three Adamantium claws that were at least 7 inches long. Another snikt sound and the claws were gone.
"My bones are also covered in metal" said Logan as he looked at his hand were the claws used to be.
"Really?" asked Harry his eyes full of curiosity as Logan nodded.
'I wonder if I could still use my x-ray vision' thought Harry before he concentrated hard and after a few seconds he could see Logan's skeleton. Hs eyes widened and his jaw dropped slightly; Logan's bones were literally covered in meal.
"What?" Logan asked noticing the look on Harry's face.
"Can I see your hand for a second?" Harry asked Logan who looked hesitant for second before he held out his hand. Harry took and surveyed it. There seemed to be three retractable claws housed within his forearms; Harry could tell that his bone structure was extremely hard and unbreakable.
'What is it kid?" asked Logan looking at him.
"Your bone structure" said Harry letting go of his arm
"What about it?"
"It's...amazing" said Harry staring at Logan in amazement about as he thought about how this man had metal and claws inside his body.
"Yeah, amazingly painful" said Logan as both Jean and Xavier chuckled
"What?" Harry asked looking at the trio confused.
"Long story kid" said Logan grinning
"Professor, Logan, I need to speak to Harry alone" said Jean all of sudden as Xavier nodded
"Come on Logan I think we shall leave these two to talk privately" he said, as both he and Logan walked/wheeled out of the infirmary. Once they left Jean dragged up a chair next to Harry's bedside as he looked at her curiously
"Harry, I need to tell you something" said Jean softly as Harry nodded "It might come to a shock to you and you might get angry, so if you pleas, just try to stay calm"
Harry nodded again as Jean exhaled softly "Harry, has it ever come to mind that you might have living relatives, other than the Dursleys?" asked jean as Harry cocked an eyebrow
"How do you know about the Dur-"
"That's not important right now" she interrupted him "so have you ever considered the thought of having other relatives?"
"No, never" lied Harry not wanting Jean to know about his biological brother Kal-El
"Ok then, has Dumbledore ever mentioned that your mother Lily having a twin sister?" she asked as he shook his head more confused than ever
"No" he said "what exactly are you going on about?"
"Harry" she said slowly "I am your mother's twin sister"
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