Chapter 21

"If we live all our lives under lies, it becomes difficult to see anything if it does not have anything to do with these lies."

- Imamu Amiri Baraka

Hermione back flipped over the professor, with her legs apart in mid air, allowing her to land neatly and safely.

"How did I do?" asked Hermione who helped the professor get up.

"Wonderful!" he chocked. "You need better than I excepted."

"Thank you." Hermione blushed.

"Now when you get back at 8:30, we will be using weapons." Will said.

"What kind of weapons?" Hermione asked.

"Swords and arrows." William answered

"How wonderful," Hermione muttered under her breath.

Will heard this and chuckled a little. After training was over, Hermione sneaked inside her room and changed into her normal clothes before going to the Great hall for dinner. As she sat down, she noticed Ginny staring at her very weirdly.

"Whatever it is, Ginny. I'm not doing your homework." Hermione answered.

"No. That's not it." Ginny said, "But I want to talk about what I saw after you left."

Hermione stared at her best friend wondered what she meant. Then remembered her jumping down from the stairs. Hermione groaned as she mouthed to Ginny that they would talk about it later.

As Hermione was eating, she could feel someone's eyes on her. Hermione turned her head straight up and saw Professor Snape looking at her with concerned. Hermione decided to use her powers to see what was wrong with Snape.

Severus Snape was bowing down to the waxy and cold Voldemort.

"Severus, I want you to tell me everything you know about Hermione Granger." Voldemort asked.

Hermione dropped her fork onto her plate and screamed in shocked. Hermione turned her head around and saw that everyone in the Gryffindor table was staring at her. Hermione blushed and excused herself by running out of the Great Hall.

"Shit," Hermione cursed under her breath as she was pacing back and forth in the training field.

That snake Severus Snape gave the Dark Lord information about Hermione. This means, that either he is after her or Hermione has to work twice as harder in her training with William. Hermione groaned as she put her hands in her face trying to think of what to do now. It was even harder to lie to her friends and family even, Harry about where she is going and what she is doing.

"You came in here early." Said a voice.

Hermione looked up to see William wearing an almost torn shirt and sweat pants. Will sat next to Hermione on the grass and stared up at the stars. All of a sudden, Hermione saw a shooting star and smiled.

"You know my grandmother use to tell me." Hermione said, "That whenever you see a shooting star, it means that a soul is being taken."

"Funny." Will said after the long silence, "My father use to tell me that too. Now let's begin training. First, using arrows."

Will grabbed a cross bow and gave it to Hermione. Then, gave her and arrow and told her to aim for the target across from her; she took the arrow and struggled to get the arrow in the crossbow. When she finally did, she shot but the arrow only went a few inches away from her. Hermione snorted a little at how bad she was with weapons.

"Get the arrow back and stand in ready position." He commanded, "Freeze!" he yelled as he walked over to Hermione.

He came behind her and put his hands on her shoulders moving them lower and making Hermione relax a little. Hermione pull but her hand slipped and her elbow hit William right in the chest. Will made a grunting sound and gave Hermione a nervous laugh, "I'm fine."

"Are you sure?" Hermione asked in a concerned tone.

"I'm fine." He said as he stood back up laughing again nervously.

Hermione didn't feel bad for elbowing him in the chest, she would of laughed. But he was standing right next to her so she kept her mouth shut. After a few minutes, on how to shoot and stand, Hermione finally made a shot. Before Hermione could put down the crossbow, she saw a name on it. Rebecca.

"Will, who is Rebecca," asked Hermione. "Is she your wife?"

Hermione saw her teacher's face hardened when she said that name.

"Rebecca was the most talented girl in the whole world." Will began, "She was my big sister. When she turned 11, my father taught her how to use a crossbow and arrow. She too, sucked at shooting for a while but began to become a champ at it. When she was 17, she and her friends went after the Dark Lord and tried to destroy him."

Hermione's eyes were on William's eyes, who were staring up at the stars.

"I saw a shooting star, when Dumbledore told us that Rebecca was dead. I knew that she was gone but her spirit lived in her crossbow." Will said, "You remind me of her sometimes. Except you're more clumsy."

"Hey!" Hermione yelled at him.

Will started laughing and Hermione soon joined him. Later, Will grabbed two swords from the ground

"Now I suspect that the Dark Lord's new minions would probably be using weapons like swords beside their wands." Will said as he threw Hermione a sword, "You will need to be prepare."

"How wonderful." Hermione said.

After an hour of sword fighting, Hermione's body began to hurt. You could see black and blue bruises on her arms and stomach and scratches from the sword duel. Meanwhile, all Will had was just a starch on his chest. Hermione cut his torn t-shirt into two and ended up slicing him up a little bit.

"Okay. Break time is over, Granger." Will said, "Ready to go back to shooting arrows?"

Hermione groaned, "No way. Not in the mood."

"Too bad." Will said, "Because this time you will be shooting with fire on your arrows just like your ancestor did years ago."

"Really?" said a surprised Hermione.

"Yes. But I want you to put fire on the tip of the arrow and hit the same target as before. You got that?" Will asked and Hermione nodded excited to use her firepowers on the arrows just like Jane did.

Hermione put the arrow in the crossbow and thought of fire on the point of the arrow and it appeared just like that. Hermione smiled at herself and shoot the target and she made it. "Voldemort is going to wish he never met Jane nor me." Hermione said to Will smiling.

"Dawn right." Will smiled back at her.