Chapter 10

Hermione woke up in a hospital room, next to her was Harry, and Neville and on the other side Luna Colin and Denis. They were been checked by the healers. She checked her watches, and found that they had been out for four hours.

It was a good thing she had monitored their actions at the ministry, because right now they hadn't completed the task. They still had two things to worry about. The last of Voldemort horcruxes and the two youngest Weasleys.

She waited untill they returned to Hogwarts, and after she made sure that Mrs Pomfrey left the infirmary, and the four other students were asleep, she took the special time turner she had nicked at the ministry, and gave it two tours.

Unlike the standard time turner, this one took you to a day back. And she choose to go back for three days, to be able to rest before begigning her actions.

When the spining stoped, she left the infirmary quickly, and headed to the shack under Harry's cloack, where after cleaning the bed she called Winky, and asked her to stop anybody from entering, before she adjusted her watch, and took the sleeping draught.

When she woke up, she found she had slept for twelve hours, so she had a day befor the attack to complete her tasks.

She went to her dorm, to fetch the wand and the potions needed, before leaving Griffindor tower, and heading to the dungeons, she still had a task to do.

Last year with Barty Crouch jr here, Harry and Hermione had asked their elves to nick any restricted ingredients from Snape stores. When the imposter was discovered all the suspision went toward him, and Hermione had been able to brew several restricted potions, specially a new version of polyjuice which last from two to eight hours, given the amount of ingredients used. It was explained in some of the potions books she had bought, and was used in aurors trainings.

The night before the attack, she and Harry had cheked the map when they were discussing the last details of the attack. To their surprise a second spot of Hermione Granger was on the map, it was with the two youngest Weslays, and they were heading to the great hall, while some of the Slytherins were heading in the opposite direction.

Harry and Hermione were both surprised by that. For them it means just one thing, she had time turned. It was the only explanation, but both knew that it was something really important that made her do it, so they waited. Two hours exactly they received a not by Dobby, telling them what happened.

Hermione had polijuiced as Harry, and had led Ron and Ginny, to an embuscade by the slytherins. It had been the only solution to leave them both behind without raising too many suspicions. The two Weasleys were stuck at the infirmary with four Slytherins for a week minimum, and Harry had a week detention with Snape.

So now that she was about to do it she knew exactly what to do. She took the polyjuice special form, she choose it to last for three hours, to be safe, and headed to meet with the two Weasleys. She complained that she didn't saw Ron as before because he had been pretty busy with Quiditich training, while Harry was stuck at the common room. It had been all she needed to say to have Ron lanch on a one sided conversation about quiditich, and how he wanted to improove the team tactics next year. Ginny rejoined them, as she saw it was an opportunity to have Harry alone.

Hermione guided them to the great hall careful to reach it at the same time as the slytherins. Next thing they knew Malfoy lanched some insults about blood traitor, and Ron lost his calm. Hermione had a hard time keeping a strait face, and her effort made her face red which was interpreted as a form of anger.

The fight that followed was the worse hogwarts had seen this year. Six students ended in the infirmary, Ron had the bones in his right arm and foot melting, and would need a week in the infirmary, while Ginny had the half left side of her face burned, and would need at least four days there. The slytherins weren't any better, they too suffered from cutting curses, burnes, breaking bones, and the such. Surpisingly 'Harry' was the only one unscathed. But he received a week detention from Snape.

It was even better than what Hermione had hoped for. Now she had just to destroy the last horcrux, right at the beginning of the ritual, to get ride of Voldemort once and for. She headed to the ROR and asked for a pensieve, and she reviewed the ministry battle, she wanted to see if she would help while time turned or not. Effectively she noticed several stunning spells, that hit their target just before a cutting curse, or a reducto, and she knew that she was the one firing them.

She woke up early in the morning, and set up to finish the identification potion she would need, before packing it with enaugh basilic venon to destroy the last horcrux.

She left the school at noon via Dobby express, and waited under Harry's cloack, in the lobby, untill the death eaters show up, then she saw her group arrival, and the battle that resulted. She had a hard time at keeping out of it, but she helped every time she felt her help needed. When she noticed that Voldemort arrived, she set to began her task. She threw the wand in the identification potion, and waited untill it was ready. She was relieved that he didn't add any new one, and she put the wand in the basilic venon just as Harry began the had finally ended. They were free of Voldemort.

Hermione waited untill the group was transported with Dumbldore to the hospital to moove. She was surprised to notice some corpses lieying there. Something had happened, she was curious to find out what, but knew that it was the right time.

She called Winky once again and asked the elf to take her to the shack.

When she arrived, she noticed that she had eight hours to spare, so she headed to the ROR. She had some research to do, and couldn't do it in the library.

She wanted to check for the law on emancipation. While Dumbldor was unconscious right now, she didn't know how long he will stay that way, and with Harry been still minor, they didn't know what the headmaster could come with.

In the books provided by the room, she found some interesting news. First Harry could claim his emancipation right now, all that was needed was the agreement of two ministry head departemnts with either the minister agreement or the head of the wizangamot, and for the agreement to be unchallenged for a year once the paperwork had been filled in either the ministry or Gringotts.

Harry had all of that, his participation in the tournement last year provid the agreement, but the bit about the challenge was frightening. Still it was a good start.

It was in the next book where she found the solution, the ICW emancipation statut. It was an old law in the chart of the ICW that all the students that had five years of magical education could claim their emancipation provid they pass the ICW standart test .

The test was in fact the international OWLS, and NEWTS, and if the student pass them with at least six OWLS and four NEWTS, he could be declared an adult, and be able to pass the international apparition test. Not only that but the student could pass their muggle tests for A level.

Hermione double checked the informations, and she found that the test could be passed at any time, the only condition was that the student must pay 200 galleons for the OWLS, and 300 galleons for the NEWTS. If he wanted to pass his muggle exams and apparition test it was another 300 galleons.

So for both of them it will be 1600 galleons to be considered adults. It would be a small price to be free.

She returned to the infirmary, and shared with Harry all she had found in the ROR. They both knew that they could pass their NEWTS, and they had practised apparition before, so they knew that they would pass the test.

The next morning, they asked Dobby to take them to the bank. There they filled the paperwork, for both of them to pass their ICW tests, gringotts would provid bank statement for their monthly tuitions for the last five years. They didn't wanted anybody noticing what they were doing, they wanted it to be a surprise for everybody.

Both of them were surprised by how easy it had been for them, they were notified that they would began the exams the next day. First they would pass the OWLS, for a week, then they would pass their Newts, for the next week. They would floo from gringotts to the ICW building in Bern, and take their exams there

The price would be payed from Harry trust vault for both of them. They were told that untill they had adult statuts they couldn't ask for a bank statement about the Potter vaults.

The next three weeks, passed quickly for them. They had to support the visit of Mrs Weasley, and her mothering attitude. She had been very furious at them for their stunt, but both Harry and Hermione suspected that it was more the fact that Ron and Ginny weren't with them, that angered her. she was placated when she found that her children were injuried the day befor the attack, and couldn't go with Harry to the ministry.

Harry and Hermione had used the time turners they had taken from the ministry, so they had in fact passed six weeks in that time,since they time turned every day to be able to pass their exams.

They choose potions, herbology, charms, transfiguration, DADA, COMC, runes, arithmancy, history, astronomy, and muggle languages. It had been a good surprise for them to find that languages was also an exams proposed in the ICW test, they neede to be profiscient in three language minimum for their OWLS, and five in the NEWTS.

The good thing about those test was that the results was immediately given to the students, so both of them knew they had succed in their OWLS, and then NEWTS.

The day after the end of the magical test they traveled once again to the ICW buildings once again, this time to take their apparition test, and portkey making licence.

Then they began the second round of exams. It had been more easy for them, and before the end of the week, they both had their A levels.

They were surprised when they found that they could have their driving licence and a passeport in the same time, and both completed the paperwork.

They would receive their final mark by the end of June, but from now on, they both were adults.

The last thing they did that day before leaving gringotts, was for Harry to claim his inheritance. He was given his family ring, and a complete review of his vaults.

He would study it before making any decisions. But the first thing he did with his new statut as head of Potter house was to recognise Hermione as his sister.

The news of the magical world, had been very interesting. The ministry group had been protected from the unwanted attention, but Harry and Hermione had both been able to have an idea about what was going on.

The number of death eaters dead was very surprising, specially Umbridge, the werewolve, and the vampires. The destruction of the dementors was also a good thing for them, but the most important thing that had happened was Dumbldore state. He was still unconscious, and his magical reserves were very low, Mcgo and Pomfrey had both been speaking about it the last week, while they tought they were alone. They both feared for the headmaster health, and for the magical world if anything happened to him, specially since the mugglebornes orientation hadn't occurred yet.

Hermione found it very suspicious since both women were talking about the new mugglebornes. Dumbldore hadn't been involved in her introduction of the magical world. It had been Mcgo that had done it, so what had these women meant. She vowed to find out. She would spend the summer searching for this new mystery.