Hey guys! I hope you are ready for the next chapter! I find this one a little crazy. Tell me what you think please!
~Isis
~~ Chapter Beginning ~~~
The next morning the group got together in the dining hall for breakfast and some more talk. It was time for the next part of the story.
"So where were you that night Dad?" Harry said after he had eaten most of his food.
"Smooth Harry." Neville snickered earning a punch in the arm from Harry.
"Well Lions don't beat around the bush, we charge forward." Harry answered puffing up his chest playfully.
Hermione looked like she knew that he was going to ask the question in such a blunt manner while Sirius and James looked at him in Astonishment and apprehension, respectively, for asking the question in such a blunt manner.
James sighed and put down his fork, eggs forgotten. "I was on a mission for Dumbledore. He said it was top secret, but I don't care anymore."
Dumbledore frowned top secret meant top secret.
"What was the mission?" Harry asked eyes wide.
"I had to go bring Remus back from the werewolf camps. Dumbledore said he was no longer needed there." James sighed.
"Why would he send James?" Remus wondered. "That would not be safe at all."
"Probably wanted to get him killed." Sirius muttered.
Hermione and Sirius both looked shocked and upset at this news. It was Hermione who spoke first.
"Did you question why?" She asked apprehensively.
"Oh Oh! That was a mistake!" Daphne cried excitedly.
Several people around her laughed at her unslytherin response and excitement. She just rolled her eyes before putting her ice queen mask on.
Harry, Hermione, Luna and Neville looked at her and nodded, causing her eyes to soften a little.
"I didn't see a need to. In those days you didn't ask Dumbledore questions, he knew what he was doing and was light." James sighed. "Why?"
Hermione frowned, 'wizards can be amazingly stupid and have no common sense.' she thought to herself.
"STUPID MUDBLOOD." Voldemort hissed pounding his fists against his bubble.
Hermione snorted in his direction. "This coming from an average half blood."
"How dare you!" Voldemort hissed. "Where did you hear that! I will kill whoever told you!"
"Its in the school books stupid." Hermione muttered with a roll of her eyes, causing Voldemort to scream in outrage.
Bellatrix looked at Voldemort questioningly. Lucius just looked shocked at this news, as did most of the other people in the hall. Severus shrugged, he had already known Voldemort was a half blood.
"You didn't ask why he was no longer needed there!" Sirius said incredulously. James shrugged in response. "I know everyone thought he was all powerful, including me, but I would have asked why, if it was so important to get the were-wolves on our side, Remus was brought home after only two days at the camp!" Sirius said slamming his fist on the table. "Are you that thick!"
"I had a baby at home! I was lacking sleep and didn't think!" James jumped up from his chair in anger, glaring at the other man.
"I DID TO!" Sirius stood up and pointed at Hermione.
"I still think it is strange Sirius is your dad." Harry whispered causing Hermione to roll her eyes.
"I can attest to the fact that Hermione is 100% Mine and Dans." Emma spoke up. "I still have the stretch marks."
"Mom." Hermione spoke gently. "For a powerful witch or wizard, faking the memories and the aftereffects of birth would be no problem."
Emma looked faint at the idea, as did Dan. "So you really could be a half blood?" Dan asked quietly.
Hermione smiled. "No, I am really yours, I did a DNA test."
Dan and Emma shook their heads but smiled before pulling Hermione into a hug.
Harry looked between the two older men. "Enough." He said quietly.
Sirius and James both shot a look at Harry, seeing his expression they both sat, anger diminishing.
"You made a mistake, placed your trust in the wrong man and didn't question what you were told to do." Harry said to James before looking at Sirius. "You made a mistake as well, letting everyone believe you were the secret keeper. And come to think of it, you were not there either. Where were you when your family needed you Sirius?" Harry's anger was apparent.
"Check." Bill spoke up. "Putting your trust in someone without questioning their decisions is bad."
"I was at the store. Lily wanted some new pajamas, hers all had baby drool on them. I was going to surprise her, so on the way home from work I stopped and get her a new set of silk ones, some chocolate, and a bundle of flowers." Sirius' eyes flashed dangerously. "I didn't know James had gone on a mission or I would have been there."
"Aww how nice of you Black." Severus sneered.
Sirius just turned away from him with a roll of his eyes muttering "Childish."
Hermione placed her hand on his arm, calming him. "Did you tell anyone James?" She asked gently.
James looked down once again. "No." He sighed. "It was supposed to be quick and I thought it would be a nice Surprise to bring Remus home for dinner, Lily loved him."
Harry looked shocked. "Another one!"
"Harry!" Hermione admonished smacking Harry on the back of his head.
"Hey!" Harry complained. "That wasn't me!"
Sirius and James both growled at Harry causing him to shrink back in his chair. "No." James' voice was filled with venom. "She loved him like a brother."
"Honestly Harry." Hermione said soothingly, trying to lessen the bite from James' words. "Men and Woman can love each other without being in love with each other."
Harry looked at her and smiled in thanks. "Right."
James sighed. "I am sorry Harry, it is a sore spot for me. Having her love Sirius and Me at the same time was just too much then, it still is."
Harry nodded in acceptance. "What happened next?"
"Well I was with Remus, I had just told him Dumbledore wanted him back. Come to think of it, he looked at me like I was crazy. Anyway, I had just told him that when I felt the wards around the house fall. I must have said something because Remus tried to follow me, he didn't know the address though. So I was able to go directly to the house, he had to go a few blocks away and wait to be shown the house. He knew where we were staying, just not the address." James rambled off looking lost in thought.
"When I got there one side of the house was gone, green smoke was rising into the air. I ran upstairs to the nursery calling out to Lily. When I reached her a smile was on her lips her arms spread wide, like she was shielding you guys. You were both in the cribs crying. I knew she was dead." A few tears ran down his face. "I stepped over her body and cradled you both in my arms. I couldn't look at her again and ran down the stairs, trying to hold in my grief, but it was so much. At the bottom of the stairs I fell to me knees. You both were whimpering and it was too much. I had never had to take care of you before."
A few people shifted uncomfortably, Harry looked sad.
*Flashback*
"James?" Dumbledore's voice cut through the fog around James head.
"Albus." James gasped looking up at the older man.
"What happened?" Dumbledore asked kneeling down to look James square in the eyes.
"I-I. O God. Lily. Lily is dead." James broke off as sobs racked his body.
Dumbledore stepped over him and walked up the stairs, taking in the wreckage and the lifeless form of Lily Potter. After a quick decision he vanished one crib, making it look like there was one child in this room. It would not be good for people to find out that this woman had Multiple partners.
"Wow you are a bastered." Dan said to Dumbledore.
Dumbledore looked sadly at the screen. "It seems I am."
Dumbledore approached James after he was done removing all of little Hermione's things from the house.
"Let me have them James." Dumbledore commanded softly.
James handed Hermione over easily but when it came to Harry it was harder to let him go.
"Wait." Harry said angrily. "Why would he do that?"
"Jealousy can make people do things they normally wouldn't do." Sirius said softly. Harry nodded in understanding.
Once the old man had both babes in his arms he gave James a vile.
"It is calming potion, it will help you think clearer, keep the rest of your family safe." He said soothingly.
James quickly drank the potion down. When the last drop touched his lips James went limp. His body was cold to the touch, and going rigid. Dumbledore gently placed the two bundles on the floor before positioning James to look like he had fallen. James eyes stares straight ahead. It looked for all the world that James Potter had died.
"Wow." Charlie muttered. "Wizards really don't have any common sense"
"Charlie!" Molly shrieked. "That is no way to talk about your. Well yourself!"
*Present Time*
"The only problem." James said after a moment. "Was that whoever made the potion wasn't as good as they thought. Something went wrong and I could remember everything that happened. I remember him telling me that the two of you could not know each other, that Harry had to go live with the Dursleys," Hate dripped off his words at the other families name. "How Hermione would be adopted by the muggles. How you both would have your magic bound."
Hermione gasped in horror at this Information. "We were bound?"
Harry had more important things on his mind. "What about you Sirius? You didn't feel the wards!"
Sirius shot Harry a look before taking a deep breath. "Of course I felt the wards fall. I was in an anti apparition area, and I couldn't have done anything anyway." His voice trailed off sadly.
"Why?" Harry pleaded after a moment. Hermione looked at Sirius before sighing sadly looking back down at the table.
Sirius looked at Harry, trying to figure out how to answer his questions.
"He couldn't." Hermione whispered. "He couldn't do anything at that moment because moments after the wards fell Lily died."
"What does her dying have to do with him not being able to go to the house?" Harry asked in confusion. James looked at Sirius as well, he wanted to know where the black haired man had been and what he had gone through too.
"I felt her die." Sirius whispered a few tears escaping his closed eyes. "Its part of the bond. I felt her die, I felt a part of me slip away. I couldn't breathe, couldn't move, Not until the pain of loss lessened."
"Yicks." Dan muttered. "That sounds painful."
Sirius nodded. "I have seen people die and the emotional pain that brings is bad, I can't even imagine the pain of feeling someone die."
"I would bet it would hurt more if you were bonded to them as well." Emma muttered to the nod of several people.
Harry and James looked at Sirius wide eyed, Hermione let the tears fall freely down her cheeks as she hugged her Father.
"I was able to show up after a few moments. After hearing James' story I am guessing right after he vanished the vial of potion. I saw him standing over James holding you two when I was able to." Sirius sighed. "I remember holding my arms out to take you both when Dumbledore told me that Peter had betrayed us, that I needed to find him and kill him. Dumbledore used compulsion on me. I wasn't able to fight it. And by the time I was out of his control I was behind bars and it was too late."
"Compulsion sucks." Harry muttered darkly.
"You don't have a class to help teach you to counter it?" Emma questioned?
Minerva looked at her thoughtfully. "No, I wonder if we would be able to."
James placed his hand over Sirius' on the table. "We all made mistakes, we trusted people without them earning it, Never asked questions even when we thought we should have. Most of all, we let our childhood friendships control us. We all saw that Peter had no backbone, we knew we got away with too much in school. Yet we never questioned. We believed in our teachers like school children. We never grew up, never thought for yourself."
"So not growing up is a crime now!" Ron cried.
"Well if you don't grow up you won't be all you can be." Blaise said with a frown. "To grow up is to reached your full potential and have an impact on the world."
Hermione, Harry and Sirius all look at James in astonishment. "Deep Brother. Real Deep." Sirius said with a smile. James smiled back and just like that, the past was forgiven, never forgotten, but forgiven.
"What now?" Harry asked looking around the table.
"Now we take back what is ours. We fight the Dark Lord and Dumbledore." James said easily.
"Ya, that sounds easy." Hermione snorted.
"You will never defeat me you foolish traitors!" Voldemort hollered with a sick laugh.
"It should be." Sirius said a devious smile playing on his lips. "The Marauders are the best."
"I thought they were just jokers." Harry questioned.
"Sure. In School." James smiled.
"But now." Sirius spoke. "Now we grow up."
"How are we going to do this?" Harry asked.
Hermione looked at everyone a murderous smile on her lips causing the males to flinch. "The stealthy way. No more gorilla warfare. Get the troops together. I have a plan." She got up from the table to flew from the room shouting out that she was headed to the Library.
"That's murder." Dumbledore said with a frown. "Is it not better to give them a chance to come to the light side?
"Should we offer them a cookie?" Dan shot back.
"But Daddy." Hermione interrupted. "I thought that the dark side had cookies."
"True Daughter dear." Dan sad in mock sadness.
"So what does the light side have?" Neville asked feeling like he was missing something.
"Ice cream!" Emma and Luna said simultaneously.
"Well?" Harry said pulling a coin from his pocket. "I have the DA."
"Wait what just happened?" James asked in confusion.
"The girl has a plan. I am going to get Remus and a few others." Sirius said heading to the entrance. "Be back soon."
"I learned a long time ago to not question her." Harry said with a smile. "She is Brilliant, Scary, But brilliant."
James smiled back. "In that case, I will get the house ready, we need a base for operations."
The group now known as the Death Avengers stalked through the night, killing those who wore the dark mark. In the political arena laws were made. Equality was high on the list, of everything and everyone. Purebloods who did not embrace these changes were killed, their children and families unable to inherit any fortunes unless they pledged allegiance to the DA. In a matter of months the DA controlled the wizarding world of Britain, soon they spread through the world, Succeeding where Voldemort and Dumbledore failed. In a fit of Rage at Dumbledore killing Harry, Hermione Performed the newly renovated Triad ritual with Remus Lupin and Charlie Weasley, Making her all powerful. Revenge was the only thing pumping through her veins, and soon the magics of the world diminished. In her opinion the world did not deserve the gift, so because of the rituals that her parents performed, and those she performed on herself, her dreams and wants became reality. In a matter of 3 years magic was nearly extinct. With her last breath magic faded from that world.
"Wow." A few people whispered.
"Granger turner evil." Draco said with a shiver.
"No magic." Several people shivered in horror.
"A Mudblood could never do what Lord Voldemort couldn't!" Bellatrix hissed.
"I thought Voldyshorts could do anything?" Fred asked in a singsong voice.
"ITS VOLDEMORT." Voldemort screamed.
~~~~ End Chapter ~~~~
Well that is it for that world. I am not really sure why I had Hermione turn evil and rid the world of magic, but she just seemed like the type to go all crazy and blame magic for all her problems and then take revenge on everyone by taking away magic.
So tell me what you think! I have the next world already partially written! Hopefully I will have it up and edited by middle of next week!
~Isis
p.s. Thank you for all the reviews and if I haven't gotten back to you yet, I am sorry I will try to be better about that!