The next morning when Hermione woke up she felt as though Hagrid was sitting on her head. Rubbing her hands over she felt her eyes that seemed to be swollen. What had happened yesterday? What was the last thing she remembered?

Opening the door for Snape

Making small talk with Snape

Snape cutting her down

Snape walking to the door

Her completely flipping out on Snape

Oh dear Merlin had she actually yelled at Snape? And the things she said, she was so embarrassed. How was she supposed to face everyone after breaking down like that? Now they'd never get along he was definitely going to hate her! Great. Things couldn't get any better for her at the moment.

A knock at her door saved Hermione from wallowing too much over her embarrassment from yesterday.

"Come in" she said lifting her head slightly and then quickly setting it back down when it began to pound once more.

Please don't be Snape she prayed

Whew it wasn't she thought to herself.

It was Poppy. Which left the question how and why was Poppy here. And where was Snape? How did she make it to her bed when the last thing she remembered was yelling at Snape louder than she'd ever yelled at anyone before in her life?

"Hello Miss. Granger how are you feeling today?" Poppy said as she walked to the room and began fussing around Hermione's bed.

"Umm I'm okay, not to be rude but why are you here and how did you get in my room?" Hermione asked eyes closed trying to block out the pain from her head.

"Miss. Granger, my dear we've been here since your emotional break threw with Severus" Poppy said and then handed her a potion bottle.

"There you go dear drink up it's for your headache" Poppy said and once again began to fuss over her doing scans and making sure she was healthy as was the baby.

"Emotional breakthrough? And who's we?" Hermione asked after she swallowed the headache potion.

"We being, Dumbledore, Minerva and myself, emotional break through? Well you see it wasn't healthy how you were holding all your feelings in and you don't even know the full events of that night when your child was conceved. Yesterdays breakthrough could have been much, much worse had it happened later on in your pregnancy, and it also could have harmed the baby." Poppy said pulling up a chair beside Hermione's bed.

"I'm sure you read it in those books I lent you, but stress can do a strong number on an unborn baby. If Severus would have began to tell you all the events of that night you would have kept them bottled inside until you finally burst which probably would have involved wild magic that ends up draining you of your magic for a period of time. And your baby feeds of your magic to develop its own. If you had set off wild magic you could have made your child a squid." Poppy said gently as she watched Hermione's eyes grow bigger and bigger.

"I didn't know that, none of the books said anything about that happening" Hermione said

"Of course they don't my dear they never do. Most pregnancies are planned and there is little stress in the mother to bee's life. So there would be no reason to make it common knowledge, nothing to add to there child birthing worries." Poppy said with a gentle smile.

"So Professor Snape wasn't just being cruel?" She asked

"No child I went to the Headmaster with my concern for you and your child should you not deal adequately with all that's happened to you and he called Minerva in and we all sat down and had a discussion. We decided anger was the best course because no other emotion can make you really release what you're bottling up like anger can. I hope you forgive us we all just wanted what was best for you." Poppy said searching Hermione's face for a signs of anger or distress

"I understand, I guess but how did Professor Snape get pulled into this since he wasn't in the original meeting of the minds?" Hermione asked sitting up gently now that her headache had passed.

"We were trying to think of someone whom could cause you anger, not hurt. So that rules out all the Weasley's, Dumbledore, Minerva, and I it had to be someone whom you weren't that strongly connected to. We considered one of the Malfoy's but then Snape came to Dumbledore with your request wanting Dumbledore's advice. We all met and explained everything to him and though he was reluctant to do so he finally agreed. Though by what we heard from the hallway he didn't have to say much just a few choice words" Poppy said with an amused smile.

"I remember I must have had a lot of pent up thoughts towards Professor Snape and the whole situation. You were right though I most likely would have kept it all bottled up, and I would have eventually come to blame the baby." Hermione said sadness filling her face as she thought of blaming an innocent child.

"Now dear don't get down, it could and would happen to anyone in your position. But now we've taken the first steps to preventing anything like that from happening." Poppy said with a smile.

"I suppose I should write Professor Snape and tell him I'm sorry for all that I said" Hermione said musing aloud

"Now Hermione don't do anything that will build up aggression or upset you, you said those things because they needed to be said. Right now you have known reason to apologize for anything. In fact you should honestly be upset with me, Albus and Minerva because we never even considered giving you a potion to prevent the pregnancy, like you mentioned when you were speaking with Severus. We were just so shocked by the events that we let our brains get away from us. I know Dumbledore is taking this terribly, he prides himself on thinking everything threw and being all knowing and for this to happen, knocks his confidence down, which I can't say is a bad thing every once and a while." Poppy said

Hermione smiled not exactly sure how to respond.

"Well my dear why don't you go take a shower and get freshened up I'll call Bibby and have her get you some breakfast. Would you like me to contact Mr. Potter and Mr. Weasley for you? I can tell them to come by in a few hours. Would you like that?" Poppy asked patting Hermione's had gently while standing up

"That would be nice Poppy can you tell them to come over in a few hours I'd like to have a nice long soak in the tub and some light breakfast first." She said with a small smile while moving out of bed and to her closet to pick out what she was going to wear today.

"Of course dear take as long as you need" Poppy said

"if you need anything Bibby can find me in seconds" Poppy said as she left Hermione's chambers.

"Thank you" Hermione called out wanting Poppy to hear

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Hermione decided on very casual today, all she wanted to do was lie around and not be serious about anything. She still felt extremely worn out from yesterdays 'fire works' show between her and Professor Snape.

She decided on grey sweat pants with a baggy quittach t-shirt that she had gotten from Ron one Christmas, it might not have been fashionable but it sure was comfy. She headed to the bath room to have a nice soak.

Nothing could relax her more, Hermione spent close to an hour in the hot tub relaxing and thinking of nothing. By the time she got out she was pruney but that was fine she didn't plan on anyone caring about what she looked like she had no one to impress. She decided to skip the hair treatment and just throw it up into a messy bun. Slipping her gray sweat pants and ugly t-shirt from Ron on she went to find the extremely comfy socks she had received from Molly for her birthday. They were so comfortable they should be illegal.

Bibby had set up a small table and chair with a plat of toast and cup of tea under on of the elf's warming spells. That was just what her stomach wanted something with substance but not to heavy. She still felt a little out of order from last night. After finishing her meal and calling Bibby to tell her she was done and didn't need anything else at the moment.

Hermione walked over to the couch plopping herself down she noticed that the book Poppy had given her were all replaced with knew ones for her to read. She wasn't sure what time Harry and Ron were actually going to show up so she grabbed a book entitled 'So I'm going to be a mother before I take my Newts' which sounded right up her alley and began to read.

Hermione must have drifted off because she awake to the sound of a knock on her portrait door. Glancing around she noticed it was still light outside so she hadn't slept the day away and she'd never checked the time earlier so she didn't know how long she'd been out.

Figuring it was Harry and Ron she walked over to the door rubbing her suddenly stiff neck from her sleep position and began to open the door.

"You guys sure took your ti…."Hermione trailed off in shock as she saw that it wasn't Harry or Ron but someone she never would have expected in a million years.

It was Voldemort's second in command,

Lucius Malfoy