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"Harry..."

If he hadn't seen the moving lips, Harry wouldn't have believed it. That was Hermione Granger's voice coming out of Voldemort's mouth!

Everyone around seemed to have come to a standstill. Was this some kind of trap?

But Harry immediately knew that this was his Hermione, somehow trapped inside the mad man's body. He could somehow sense her presence in front of him.

Voldemort's body looked at itself, shocked… It touched its face and let out a high pitched scream that sounded just like Hermione's.

"Harry, what happened? Why am I in Voldermort's body?"

Harry desperately wished that he had answers to her questions. He looked around him. Everyone else was looking at the sight in front of them with shock. No one seemed to believe their eyes. They all thought that this was all a trick. They looked at the person with disgust and hatred.

Harry wanted to reach out and comfort her. He wanted to tell her that it'll be alright. But could he comfort the body of his parent's murderer? Could he look past the fact that it was just Voldemort's body? He stared at those pleading eyes. It took just one second for Harry to take his stand.

This was Hermione, his best friend, and the woman he was in love with. He simply could not abandon her just because she's trapped inside a killer's body.

Harry held out his hand. "It's alright Hermione. I know it's you. We'll figure out a way to solve this... As always…"

It felt awkward when a sickly hand held him but that thought was lost when suddenly there was a flash of blinding light and Harry fell backwards and felt a weight fall on top of him.

The first thing Harry noticed was that his left hand was touching something soft. He opened his eyes and saw two shiny brown eyes staring back and a smile he could recognize anywhere…

"Harry…"

"Hermione! You're back! I was so scared…"

"Yes. Umm… Harry, your hand is on my…"

Harry realized that he was definitely not holding Hermione's arm. He immediately let go and Hermione got up from on top of him. Everyone around sighed with relief. Voldemort's body lay motionlesson the ground. McGonagall came forward and castsome spells on Hermione to check for any signs of dark magic on her. She found none and turned towards the body, checking for any signs of life.

"Hermione!"

Harry got up and saw Ron walking towards them, his expression forbidding.

"What the bloody hell were you doing on top of him?"

"Ron… I just fell after I got sucked out of Voldemort's body…"

Ron yanked Hermione by her forearm and shook her roughly.

"YOU ARE MINE. You'll have nothing to do with him. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?"

Harry could see that Ron's grip was hurting her and he couldn't stand that. He pushed Ron away from her and stood in between them. He put a protective arm around her and felt good when he noticed she leant towards him.

"She's NOT a property."

"You stay out of this Potter… I know you broke up with my sister and now you're after what's mine… You always get the best… Now you want the silly bookworm too?"

Harry felt Hermione shaking. But he soon found out that it was not out of fear, but rage. She had her wand out within seconds and was pointing it straight at Ron's face.

"Did you just say 'what's' yours? I am a 'what' to you? And as far as I remember, this 'silly' bookworm saved your ungrateful arse numerous times. You know what? You're not worth my time. I don't know why I even bothered to care about you when all you ever did was frigging berate me whenever you got the chance. Now get out of my sight before I hex you to hell"

"You can't hurt me. You love me."

"Not anymore. You had your chance Ron and you blew it worse than Seamus's spells."

"But that kiss…"

"That meant nothing. I thought I could find love in that kiss. But all I found was lust and smugness. Did you think I wouldn't notice? You were looking at Harry to see whether he got jealous or not."

"No…. That's… that's not true… Hermione, I love you…"

"You never loved me Ron. You've only wanted to conquer me. Now, leave… I'm done making excuses to forgive you…"

Harry could see that Ron wanted to protest. But even the teaspoon brained redhead had enough sense to back away from Hermione's wand range.

Hermione lowered her wand and turned towards Harry. He could see tears threatening to spill from her eyes. Her moved forward and hugged her. She buried her face on his chest and sobbed softly while Harry rubbed her back.

After some time, Hermione looked up. She wasn't crying anymore. Harry wiped the tears from her cheeks with one hand. His other arm was still around her. She smiled at him. They were so close together. Harry could almost count her eye lashes. He glanced towards her lips. They looked so kissable, so tempting. Was it just him, or was Hermione actually staring at his lips too? He leaned forward…

"Ah-hem"

Someone cleared their deep throat and Harry and Hermione split apart in seconds.

Dammit! Harry inwardly cursed Kingley.

"Harry, as much as we are happy to see Hermione safely back, we have to attend to something important. Lucius Malfoy has recognized that book as the one Voldermort was desperate to destroy. That book seemed to have caused him great trouble. We need to find out what bother him so much."

Suddenly, Hermione gasped.

"Harry. It's the Deathly Hallows' symbol!"

"Where?"

"On the cover. Can't you see?"

Harry stared at the book. He saw nothing.

"Hermione… there's nothing on the cover. It's plain black."

"But it's so clear…"

Everyone else, with eyes squinted eyes, tried to look at the book.

Then she realized that only she could see the symbol. She turned the pages and found runes scribbled on them.

Harry saw Hermione stare at the blank page of the book with high concentration. But she wasn't staring. She seemed to be reading something that only she could see. She looked so adorable when she was on her bookworm mode. And her eyebrows furrowed in the cutest of ways.

Suddenly, Hermione looked up at him with a thousand watt smile which disarmed Harry off his senses. She was so excited that she was almost jumping up and down..

"Harry! We need to get Professor Snape's body!"

Everyone just stared at her….

We are all in very serious trouble…

A/N: I'm a fan of ridiculously happy endings... So, this is in no way over... The little small writing box it crying... It won't stop unless you write a review in it...