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Changes Two Chap 6
Hermione's wand slips from her hand as Severus gives her arm a hard yank pulling her against his side, pressing his wand against her throat the potions master glares at Sirius. "One wrong move Black and Ms. Granger will effectively cease to exist."
The dog's growls grew even louder but he made no other move.
Hermione purses her lips as she attempts to think of a way out of the situation but her mouth decides to run off before her brain can catch up, a problem she's been dealing with quite a bit recently. "This is about the jinx isn't it?" She asks smirking when he presses the wand harder against her throat. "Oh yes, this is defiantly about the jinx. So, did you come on your own, or does Dumbledore know that his new Defense teacher got hexed by a girl?"
Using Snape's diverted attention to her advantage Hermione jams her elbow into his side and twists away calling her fallen wand as she does so before swatting Snape's own wand across the room with an expelliarmus. Gripping the familiar piece of holly and leveling it at Snape, Hermione ignores Sirius as he transforms back into form and grabs Snape's fallen wand. "And once again you've been bested by a girl. Tell me Severus, how exactly are you such a wonderful spy when you continue to underestimate your opponent?" Hermione taunts before letting loose a gasp as her wand is pulled from her fingers. Damn it! "Incarcerous!" She yells before summoning her wand back as thick ropes appear midair and wrap themselves around Severus Snape's body effectively binding him. "Now are you going to behave or am I going to have to use a full body bind yet again?"
"Again?" Sirius echoes glancing at the teenage girl who merely rolls her eyes as a grin splits his face.
"Tell me Ms. Granger why would a know-it-all like you risk everything to raise him from the dead? If those incompetent fools ever do get the evidence they need then you'll be sure to receive the dementor's kiss immediately."
"And I'm sure you'd bring the popcorn." Hermione replies crossing her arms over her chest. "Sirius is back because Harry's acting like an idiot and, as much as I can't believe I'm going to say this, he needs Sirius to look out for him and keep him in line." She finishes closing her eyes as she finishes, hearing Snape's snort she opens her eyes and glances at Sirius' smirking form.
"I can't believe you just said that." The animagus announces his smirk turning into a grin when the witch jerks her head away settling her gaze on Severus once more.
"Besides, I have nothing to fear from the ministry, there's no evidence of me doing any black magic because I didn't do any black magic. I didn't bring anyone back from the dead, Sirius fell into the veil alive and a simple summoning spell pulled him out, that's it."
"That's it? You're joshing right?" Sirius asks staring at the girl incredulously. "A simple summoning charm?"
Hermione huffs irritably leveling her ex-lover with a scowl. "What'd you expect, a blood rite?"
"Well something more complicated than an effing accio!"
The time traveler opens her mouth to retort but lets loose a disgruntled scream as two more cracks sound throughout the house. Pointing her wand at the two newest intruders Hermione lets it drop to her side when she realizes it's just Nymphadora Tonks and Fred Weasley. Spinning on her heel the former teacher fights the urge to stomp her feet as she heads for the stairs. "I'm going to get dressed!" She informs everyone moodily.
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As Hermione finally manages to pull on some regular clothes she sinks onto the edge of her bed and buries her face in her hands. Things really did go to hell didn't they? "Go away." She commands as someone knocks on her bedroom door.
Ignoring her, the door swings open to reveal a laughing Fred. "Nope, sorry, can't, Dumbledore's orders, we got an emergency meeting." He informs the girl as his twin appears at his side.
"Oh, let me guess, in my living room." Hermione replies tartly lifting her head to glare at the boys before dropping her head once more, feeling contrite. "Sorry, I've had a bad week."
"I'd say that's an understatement-" Fred answers.
George grins as he also puts in his five cents. "Though you're hiding it quite well-"
"In fact we'd have never even of known-"
"If it weren't for Snape being tied up downstairs-"
"Bravo by the way couldn't have done it better ourselves."
At the classic twin retort Hermione shakes her head chuckling softly before escualting into full blown laughter. It wasn't really that funny and her laughter did seem a bit hysterical, but her week had been bad, and she did deserve a break every now and then. "Did you come up with that all on your own?" She baits with a grin. "Or did you have help?"
Both twins shrug in sync before changing the subject. "So how does it feel to hex Snape?"
"Rather uplifting actually." Hermione admits climbing off of her bed. Looking over her former students she purses her lips before bringing attention to the most pressing matter at hand. "Now, where is this emergency meeting supposed to be?"
Fred and George exchange grins before answering in unison. "In your living room."
"Oh bleeding hells!"
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Hermione scowled as she entered her living room only to find it filled with an odd assortment of witches and wizards, some were sitting on conjured furniture but many were standing, such as Remus and Sirius who were leaning against the entranceway. Her scowl only deepened as she realized someone had let Snape loose and given him his wand back.
"You're pouting." Sirius informs her amusement ringing through his voice.
"Bite me!" Hermione snaps ignoring everyone's gasps before blushing as a smirk appears on the animagus' face.
Sirius' smirk widens as the realization of what she said causes the witch to blush even more. "Is that an invitation?" He asks quietly ignoring Remus and the twin's startled looks. It wouldn't be the first time after all; he had bitten her quite a few times actually. Allowing his eyes to once again rake over her form as the meeting begins, he has to admit that while she wasn't as taunt as she used to be-or would be-was-whatever- she was still petite, and in shape, and armed with certain curves that-
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Remus glanced at his friend before narrowing his eyes as he follows his line of vision before letting loose and exasperated sigh. Honestly, now is not the time to be undressing a girl with your eyes. He mentally states before stomping on the dog's toes.
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"It was just a simple summoning charm." Hermione states for the fourth time ignoring Sirius' yelp not too far away.
"Then why'd it explode?" Moody growls, staring at the girl with both eyes.
"It didn't." Hermione answers stiffly. "Most likely the withdrawal of Sirius created a magical disturbance which upset the veil's balance causing it to implode; no doubt the resulting shock waves then rippled outward causing the explosion that apparently shook an entire block."
"Nearly leveled an entire block." Snape corrects meeting his student's glare with one of his own.
"The point is…" Hermione bites out turning her attention back to Dumbledore. "I'm fine, Sirius is fine and someone needs to tell Harry before he goes off on the next grand adventure and gets himself killed. Agreed?"
"Agreed." Dumbledore answers before pausing a moment. "Unfortunately, due to the destruction at the ministry it won't be wise for the public to find out about Mr. Black's return just yet."
"Then keep him in his animagus form, I doubt anyone will think twice about Hagrid taking in yet another stray." Cracking her neck she turns her attention to Snape once more. "That is if Snape thinks he can keep it a secret long enough." She adds referring to Remus' reveal to the world in her third year.
"I don't think that will be a problem."
TO BE CONTINUED…
Please Review! So what do you think? I'm sorry it took so long but things have been hectic. Anyway, the ministry now wants our dear bookworm to pay but of course they have to prove she did something first. And poor Remus is stuck trying to keep Sirius in line, don't worry though the Hogwarts gang is gonna show back up soon. Bye!