Chapter 25

"Dreams release the soul's love urge".

- Annette Elisabeth Von Droste-Hülshoff (1797 - 1848)

Then Hermione felt something sharp in her stomach and knew that it had to be some kind of blade because it was so sharp and the pain…..it was hurting her. Suddenly, she started to chock on her own blood. Over the pain from her stomach, Hermione felt a sharp rip and warm wetness began to spread through her shirt with alarming speed. Hermione couldn't hold back the scream of agony when the blade was released.

"HERMIONE!" yelled a male's voice.

Abruptly, a crushing blow struck Hermione's chest and she felt herself flying backwards, and then heard the crunch of her back as it hit a tree. Slowly, Hermione fell down to the ground trying to breathe slowly and ignoring the pain in her body. Hermione's eyesight began to blur as she felt the blood from her head sucked away her consciousness away with it. She saw the Death Eater walked towards her slowly, all Hermione could do was moan in pain.

"Harry." She mourned "I love you". Her eyes closed and then she drifted.

"HERMIONE!" yelled Will again.

William couldn't believe his eyes. For a moment, he saw Hermione crawling away, the next minute he sees Hermione get stab by a knife. He saw Hermione choking on her own blood and feeling the pain from her stomach. Will was about to run towards the Death Eater and Hermione but saw him put Hermione in his arms and disappear in a flash.

Will fell down to his knees and punches the ground with both of his hands. He couldn't believe, he let them take Hermione. No! He didn't want to believe at all. First, Rebecca and now Hermione. Then, Will felt warm arms around his body, he looked up and saw the headmaster eye's looking sad.

"Harry," Hermione mourned, "I love you."

Harry stopped reading and looked up to see who was calling him.

"Harry, you okay mate?" Ron asked who was sitting next to him near the fire.

"Yeah. I just thought I heard Hermione calling me." Harry answered.

"Maybe you're hearing things." Ron suggested.

"Maybe." Harry mumbled but wasn't a hundred percent sure.

"Miss. Granger has been kidnapped by a Death Eater, a couple of minutes ago." Ablus said as he sat down on his chair across from the other professors, "Will gave me information of what happened."

"What did they do to her?" Professor McGonagall said.

Everyone turned their heads to Will who was standing near the window watching the rain hit the floor a million of times at once. Then, Sirius and Remus came in as Rafael and Sammy and soon transform back to their adult self. Everyone was waiting for Will to answer of what happened to Hermione.

"I was waiting for Hermione to begin her training, but she was five minutes." Will began to tell the story, "I thought maybe she would be at Hagrid's but when I got there, Hagrid and I heard Hermione screaming. A Death Eater was chasing after her and suddenly, he stabbed her with a blade."

Professor McGonagall gasped and just like the professors she couldn't picture their students get stabbed by a blade.

"I saw and heard Hermione screamed in anguish when he released the blade from her stomach….he then pushed her to a tree making her fall down to the ground." Will continue on with the story, "I was about to run towards the two but he disappeared along with Hermione in his arms unconsciousness."

"Why was Miss. Granger in the forest in the first place?" asked Snape.

"I know why." A female voice said.

It was a ghost from the Gryffndor Room; she had curly blonde hair and blue eyes wearing 18 century clothing.

"She and Harry Potter gotten into a fight before dinner." The ghost said, "He said that she was being distance for a month now and she couldn't tell him why."

"The training." Will said.

"What training?" Both Remus and Sirius said at the same time.

"Please continue." Professor Dumbledore asks the woman ghost politely.

"Hermione was telling Harry that she loves so much and would never hurt him but he didn't believe her at all. She said that he was breaking her heart and Harry said that their relationship was over." The ghost said, "I followed Hermione after she ran off from the room and I saw her hiding behind a statue watching you two." The ghost said pointing to Remus and Sirius.

"She saw me and Sirius transform into Rafael and Sammy." Remus said, "Let me guess, that was when she ran out of the castle."

"You didn't see her face!" the ghost yelled, "It was a face that was destroyed in the inside. She was heartbroken."

"Thank you, madam. You may leave." Ablus said and the ghost left the room. "Bring Harry in here please."

There was a point of pressure against her head. It hurt. Then, as that pain broke through the darkness, other pains came, stronger ones. Hermione cried out, gasping, breaking through the nightmare. Hermione then felt a new pain, a scalding pain that was overshadowing everything else.

"Harry!" Hermione screamed, finally breaking through the darkness, her eyes fluttering open.

She saw a bright, white light. She noticed that she was in an unfamiliar room, a green and silver room. The wall beside her was covered with paintings of green snakes. The pillows were flat and lumpy. Death shouldn't be this uncomfortable. Hermione sat straight up, saw bandages all over her hands, and felt another bandage around her head and chest.

"It's about time you wake up." said a familiar voice.

Hermione turned her head around and saw him, Voldemort, sitting down at a chair wearing his black cloak, not far where Hermione was lying.

"How are you feeling?" he asked as he stared at Hermione.

Hermione didn't answer him but tried to move into a comfortable position but cringed and moaned.

"What hurts?" he demanded anxiously, standing up and walking towards Hermione which actually surprised her.

"Why do you care?" she asked lying back down.

He didn't answer her but stared at Hermione with no emotion in his eyes. His eyes! They were blue, but how did they turn to his normal eye color? However, Hermione became aware of the sharp aching in her stomach. And recall the blade that went through her.

"Why are you staring at me like that?" Hermione asked, "It's annoying."

"You definitely remind me of Jane." Voldemort chuckled, "You also look like her, her smile, her eyes, and her face, everything except for the hair color. Did you know that you also had her powers?" he asked.

"No." Hermione lied, "But I'm guessing we have something in common besides our looks. We both hate you….what you do to innocent people."

When Hermione said that she saw Voldemort's eyes turn to black all of a sudden and he grabbed onto Hermione's wrist.

"I suggest you watch your mouth….or else I will send my Death Eaters to torture you." He said twisting her wrist making Hermione close her eyes.

"You wouldn't do that," Hermione opened her eyes staring at him, "Because you wouldn't handle the image of Jane getting torture in pain… crying….screaming."

Voldemort growled as he released his grip on Hermione and slammed the door as he left. Leaving Hermione feeling alone and bruised.

"Harry, where are you?" Hermione whispered before she shut her eyes and drifted off to sleep.