Chapter 6: Turn on the Light

Hermione was waiting up in bed for Ron to turn up. She had already been asleep and then woken up at two, well it was getting to half two, she was worried, but before she could touch her arm to contact him he was there.

'Hi 'mione,' Ron greeted her with a kiss on the lips. 'Sorry I'm late but luna went off on a jaunt saying boys aren't allowed to go off and have all the fun. Too me ages to work out where she was coming at.'

Hermione chuckled at Rons predicament, 'so lover boy, what you come here to tell little ol me?' Hermione acted.

'Oh you know the usual, Harry and Ginny are in the chamber as we speak, making sure its safe and liveable, so tomorrow night we all meet up there.' Ron acted like it was any other conversation, but Hermione was gob smacked. 'She has gone down there after all this time and her memories?'

'Yes, it's the worst for her, hence the reason of dragging Harry down there as well. That and I think they are going to start having happy memories of the place after tonight.' A slow smile crept up his face. 'You know I have good memories of this room so far, what about making them extrodinary?'

'Ron please never try that line again that was awful, but the result is the same.' She smiled and threw the duvet off for Ron to get in.

As Ron was sliding down the sheets he noticed that Hermione had no clothes on at all.

'Erm mione, do you always sleep naked?'

'Only when you're around, don't know why, all my clothes disappear when your near.' The rhyme ended.

'oh ok,' with a swish of his wand, all his clothes were off, and folded on the back of the chair.

'you have been reading, ohh come here.' Their two naked bodies pressed against one another the feeling of touch reassuring the smell of the other better than any calming draught.

Ron broke the silence, 'Do you ever wonder if you will get bored of just being naked with each other, tired and not want to do it again?'

'Not really, if it was anyone else I wouldn't even be naked, but with you I feel safe, I trust you, you immature prat.' She smacked him lightly and held a secret smile.

'oh I'm the immature one am I, being mr self constrained, while miss is playing? Double standards my love?'

'oh certainly.'

They cuddled and kissed until they fell asleep.

Come six in the morning, 'Ron wake up, time for you to move your arse out of here.' Hermione nudged Ron, no response.

I wonder

Hermione wrapped her arms around him and she flamed to his room, with a still sleeping Ron. She laid him in his bed and tucked him in. She quickly returned to Ron with his clothes, then kissed him on the lips then she left.

Hermione stood naked in her room, she went to sit down at her desk and opened a book on Occulmancy. How to Occlude your mind, well it would certainly come in useful. For the rest of the day, Hermione practiced and went through sorting her memories in rough categories. She also had a few scary memories she loved that she could use as her shield. Midday came and went then night fell. She kept going till midnight, whence she left her room for the chamber of secrets.

She landed close to a large snake skin tube….Oh …how bloody big is this thing? Looking at the Basilisk, then her attention was taken to the chamber itself then the rooms off the side. She read the door plaque 'Hermione is reading,' there was another that was similarly decorated with 'Luna is cooking.' A smile crept on her face, she turned to inspect the rooms on the other side. She soon found out they were all the same, each with a double bed and bedside units, a set of drawers and a wardrobe. Just to make it real swish, each room had a shower and mini hot tub.

Harry, Ginny, when you two get married, I am going to find you a really nice present.

Hermione went back to the study to find any other information on occluding the mind or legemacy. Low and behold she did, four books two by Salazar himself and two from Godric.

I suppose that makes sense, know your enemys defences to know their weaknesses, um might use that later.

She opened up the book by Godric, inside the cover was a scrawl

To Arran Potter

Hope this brings you some peace and quite from the married life.

Love Godric

'Ok that's way too weird, that must be Harrys family, but that means Harry is a descendant, ow wow.' Hermione put the book down revenant on the sofa that one could only assume was Harry and Ginnys as it was all messed up. Looking through the Slytherin book there was a lot of help on learning from scratch. It also appeared that some people were better using legimens as an attack to keep people out of their own mind.

Several flames all appeared at the same time, Black, Green, White, Blue and Red. The gang was here and in their cloaks as well. Ginny walked over to Hermione and presented the cloak she had made. Hermione kissed Ginny on the cheek then put the cloak on.

'Wow this is cool, and no eyes can see in?'

'Nope, plus think team or unit.'

Hermione suited thoughts to words and she felt a difference in the cloak. 'Ok what happened? Have you pranked me?'

'No, the hood and shoulders are now your colour. Sorry to say, yellow.'

'Ginny Weasley damn you. I wanted black or red, yellow. What the good is yellow? Nevermind, lets see the rest of us in the same way.'

Everyones shoulders and hoods turned to their flame colour.

'Ok is it just me or does that look quite smart?' Hermione opinioned.

'No we do look good, better when all in black but as a fighting unit attacking other black cloaked units, we will rock.' Harry voiced.

We should get a photo done, like as a unit and one as friends in the black cloaks, but the hoods down.

'Kretcher?' Harry called and a crack the house elf was there. 'I want you to get a poleroid camera, and no one is to see or hear you understand?'

'Yes, Kretcher understands filthy mudblood master.' He was gone.

Hermione grabbed Harry's attention. 'I think you should look on the inside cover of that book Harry.'

Five minutes later Harry sat down quite hard. 'Well that explains Dumbledore's cryptic of "only a true Gryffindor could have pulled that out of the hat." I mean so that sword belongs to me any how. Oh this is such a weird fucked up situation. Does explain why he came after me, it's the old family rivalry. Fighting because we always have.'

Ginny placed a comforting hand on Harrys lap, 'Harry dear, your rambling. Concentrate on the here and now, please, we are all here for you tonight.'

Harry came back, 'sorry guys, just a mind fuck there. Erm right, plans for this war then. Any suggestions?'

Rons arm was up first, 'er yeah, well we want to hit Azkaban first and hit any death eaters inside before tom gets them. That and release any innocents. 2nd get malfoys home. Gin you had the next one.'

'er yeah, to keep everyone guessing, attack the bones resident, either act as death eaters or as ourselves. No killings just kidnap Susan, reasons will be explained later. Luna?'

'Well I did think about the prophet, but no, more like a mock battle at Gringotts, with their full approval. We can try and breach their defences, see what cracks we can find. Neville?'

'St Mungo's, kill my parents. Its no life for those who have had their soul taken or left trapped in their mind. It works with Ginnys keep them guessing tactic at the very beginning, but later can be seen as an act of mercy by a vigilante group. That's it for me, oh and Greg and Goyles houses, burn them. Hermione?'

'Yeah, Blaize Zabini, we should grab him, no one knows which side he is on, so hopefully it will force the family away from tom, that and Blaize and Susan can keep each other company.'

Harry noticing it was back to him, 'Ok, now Neville caught Bella the other day, but as you know it was too late for his gran. Then still on the same day he takes a piece of Tom, and we got six new recruits. So look for reports of people disappearing. We have the bodies in a cold storage, it would be good to know who was their family. Now Neville, have you gained anything out of Bella?'

'oh yeah lots, I now know how to swear in four other languages, but as for real info, four new names to the death eater list of family supporters.'

Chuckles were heard when Neville commented about swearing.

'That's good, about the swearing that is and the other one. Right Hermione and Ginny could you go through any info Ginny has scrapped together about who was a death eater and who was suspected, then write a list of family names and next to them show the family tree. Ron and Luna could you do the same thing for people that we know or suspect in either the order or not involved in this war. Neville and I will work on an order for the attacks and what needs to be done once we return to Hogwarts.' Harrys orders were obeyed instantly, this worried him, when the hell had he taken charge? He would ask Ginny another time.

Hermione walked into the study with Ginny following. 'So how you want to do this Ginny?' she offered Ginny the chance to lead the small group.

'Well one large bit of paper, a family name on the left and their tree flowing away to the right. Since they are mostly pure bloods there should be a lot of cross over. I think we should go back to Grinderwalds time though in terms of who was on what side. Let me go and get a pure blood family history book from home.' Ginny flashed away in a blazing red.

Hermione knew there was a list of names up in the Hogwarts Library, she flamed away in a warm yellow.

They both arrived back at the same time a few minutes later. 'Well looks like we got a long night ahead of us.' Hermione commented as they both opened thick tombs. Hermione found she could see clearer and think clearer, all the information was going into her head, into a new folder. She started adding symbols to those who had died in the conflict, like skull and cross ones for an untimely death, or a coffin from dieing of old age. What was scary was so many pure blood families had been wiped out.

'Ok Ginny, time to start on the list,' Hermione yawned.

Ginny didn't have as much info as Hermione but when Hermione looked over her work, she soon found the various references. It was six in the morning and they had half a working list.

'I'll take this home and finish it there, you get some time with Luna on potion brewing.'

'Ok' a tired Ginny responded.

They went out into the main chamber to find Harry and Neville throwing spells at each other, Harry was using Parcel tongue and some of those spells had a clear advantage over someone who didn't know what was being thrown at them. Ron and Luna stepped out of the potions lab with a piece of parchment.

'Its not good,' Rons voice carried. 'There are about thirty people who fight for the light, and a good two hundred who do nothing.'

The others looked sad but not surprised.

'We could always leave Europe, Caribbean sounds nice.' Luna offered.

'As much as I would like to, I can't, I'm the one that's got to kill him, and so I stay.' Harrys voice was heavy. He continued on with another line, 'The order for attacks is Azkaban first, St. Mungos second then Gringotts third. Then there is the wedding, after that we grab Blaize and Susan on the same night.'

Everyones heads were nodding with the list.

'Blue get the various plans some how and start the planning of the attacks, Yellow can you finish those two lists off please then mount them down here. Black could you fashion some sort of cells down here, one for Susan and Blaize when we get them, don't want discomfort. The other one really nice and damp, make sure no one can get out. White keep going with potions please and train with Red. Red will you go over and help White do the potions and get some practice wand work in as well. When down here, we should revert to colour names only, to practice for the real thing.' Harrys stoic face softned up. 'Ok everyone, take care and I will see you in two nights time here, I got to get my mind in order.'

They all gave each other a hug and kissed their respective partners and then all flamed away.

When Hermione got home and put the two lists together, she noted that before world war two, there were roughly two hundred wizarding families, each with say ten family members to make a community size of two thousand people and this was just the pure bloods, the muggle borns and half bloods made up another six thousand. Then looking at the numbers after world war two, the numbers were vastly different, a sizable portion of all the pure bloods had been lost. Then even worse was Toms first reign of terror, only a small minority of the pure blood families aligned with him wholly, but once again families were wiped out, with no one left to carry on the name. So from the beginning to end, what once started as two hundred pure blood families had been whittled down to fifty. No wonder a lot of the muggle borns and half bloods didn't want to fight, for their numbers were decreasing in the same fashion. Like there must be a crucial number of muggle borns to half bloods and half bloods to pure bloods. But it was foolish. Madness and there was the problem, one man with power and views could lead other men down the same path, never mind if it was madness or wrong. Humans were drawn to power in one form or another.

I wonder if anyone has even noticed the magic communitys decline. I wonder if Rita would be interested. Have to ask Ginny, but does mean we all must have lots of babies, well Ron will be happy until he has to discipline them. A smile crawled onto her face.

Hermione started forming several lists. One of Order members, trusted ministry officials and sympathisers. The second of known death eaters, the third one related suspected death eaters like Draco or young Goyle. The last one showed a list of names that Hermione might have been pressed into service due to the various family losses.

A good example was Madame Malkin the seamstress, she had lost her first son, and her two older sisters to the last war. She wasn't working for the order and she was from an old line therefore preservation gives to her leaning towards Toms band just to protect her second son.

Once done the list of coerced people was staggering, if only they knew how many were out there just like them.

Hermione got some sleep, when she awoke rested and well she flamed to the chamber and posted the lists on the wall, ten went back home to meditate.