Chapter 77: The Hope Crystal

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Hermione didn't know what to do now. True, she liked the idea that she no longer needed a wand to do magic, but people were looking at her as though she was some kind of freak. Several Professors even ran from her when she walked past them, mostly witches. At first she didn't understand why they were running from her, but then she visited the Headmaster's office and he told her, warned her, that people might treat her different then they had before. Hermione even sensed that Dumbledore was treating her differently.

"Am I a freak to you?" Hermione asked Ginny.

Ginny looked at her, her eyes the same brown that they had always been.

"No, why?"

"Because most everyone is," Hermione said.

Ginny was just about to speak when Hermione jumped up and grabbed her journal that she always kept with her. Ginny watched as she wrote something down and then closed it.

"And what was that all about?" she asked.

"A spell popped into my mind and I had to write it down," Hermione explained.

Ginny didn't say anything to what Hermione said, just sighed.

The same thing was happening to all the wizards, even Voldemort had a spell that just popped into his mind. Of course it was dark in nature and was probably as stupid as wanting to kill the next-door woman's cow. The only person that truly knew what this meant was Sheek and he wasn't talking about it, just letting it happen.

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"Do you think this is just strange?" Ginny asked her husband.

Severus looked at her, wondering what she was talking about.

"I'm talking about Hermione and the spell that just popped into her mind," Ginny explained. "She just got up and wrote a spell down, no studying or anything."

Severus took a deep breath before speaking.

"Normally I would say that it was just her know-it-all mind, but this is different. Remus's wife would never just make up a spell without doing serious work. I think that you should just let it go or you'll end up like everyone else, thinking that she's strange or different."

Ginny nodded and then asked, "Do you think that our son will be like that?"

"Yes, I do," he answered. "And that might not be a bad thing."

Ginny turned away and looked out the window.

"You might be right," she said.

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Meanwhile, for Remus, he had finally managed to sell the house that ate the dog down the road. It was hard not to include the fact that it had happened, but he figured that telling the truth was better then lying and then they find him and do something horrible to him. The money that his wife still made from the broomstick's insured that he could find another place to live and this time it would be in the wizarding village of Tom-tom. He had no idea who had named it that, but he wasn't going to start asking around.

As for other forms of good news, that came a day after Remus sold the house. Dumbledore stood up and the hall went silent. Everyone looked at him, hoping that Voldemort hadn't attacked another village or something.

"My wife, Eileen, is expecting," he told them. "I want all of you to show your support through her time and to forget that her son is a wizard that you all don't like. Thank you."

And he sat down.

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"I can't believe that the witch was allowed to get pregnant," a Ravenclaw said.

"Well I think it's nice," said Ginny, who was standing not to far from him.

He turned and glared at her.

"And I didn't ask your opinion, Snape," he snarled.

Ginny crossed her arms and looked at him.

"Five points from Ravenclaw," Ginny said, fingering something that looked like a Prefect badge, but wasn't.

He went white.

"Do you want me to give you detention with my husband?"

He went even whiter.

"Good," she said. "Now leave and don't you dare open your mouth."

He ran.

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"It felt good to take points from Ravenclaw," Ginny told Hermione. "Now I know why my husband likes it so much."

Hermione giggled.

"So what are you going to do about that spell that you wrote?"

"I was thinking about casting it," Hermione said. "And see what happens."

Ginny looked at her.

"I hope it doesn't do something that I'm going to regret."

"I hope not either," Hermione said, though the idea was still exciting.

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Note: I wonder what's going to happen. Next chapter: Hermione casts the spell, which brings Mrs. Weasley goes to the Ministry and Sheek comes to Hermione and asked for a request.