Chapter 3

Recreanda

Hermione and Ginny have been in the library for more than an hour now. The latter had fallen asleep on her chair few minutes after her friend had started her search. Luckily, as Hermione found an interesting book. It was called 'The forbidden Spells of our World' and the contents were showing a chapter on Life and Dead. Perfect.

The brown-haired girl kind of hugged the book. Smiling. It really was perfect. She shortly turned around to Ginny. When she noticed that her best friend was sleeping, she casted a spell on the book so it shrank. Of course in a quiet voice. Now she was able to put it into her pocket and then she woke up Ginny so that they could leave the library.

The next day there were no lessons. Thank god. So Hermione was able to leave so early that no one would notice. She was really exited when she ran down the corridor to the safest place in Hogwarts: Moaning Myrtle's Toilette.

After a short chat with the ghost-girl she took the tiny book out of her pocket and made it growing to its normal size. She sat down on the floor and opened it trembling. Trembling because she was so exited. First of all she was going to read the introduction as she had to know how forbidden spells are and how they are punished if someone finds out.

Within this book you can find every spell which belongs to the so called 'Forbidden Spells of our World' as the book-title says. Forbidden spells are very powerful spells which exceed the limit normal spells have to stay in. So it is for example possible to decide over life and death as shown in chapter 16. […] Even though the spells are forbidden, their use won't be punished by the ministry. The reason is that all of the spells can be a terrible punishment themselves if they are used the wrong way.

"Great!" mumbled Hermione and smiled. /"This means there is no need to fear coming to Azkaban."/ Her heart did a little skip while she searched for the right page in chapter 16. The spell was to be found on the last page. Luckily the page still existed! As Hermione had to notice, some pages were torn.

„M…Myrtle…have you ever heard of a spell called Recreanda?" asked Hermione some time later.

"No, what is it supposed to do?" she moaned.

"Well…it's a forbidden spell." She showed the book to Myrtle tapping against the cover.

"So maybe you shouldn't go on reading when it's forbidden?"

"…It can revive the dead…if you do it right."

Myrtles eyes widened. "And you want to do that? Who is the lucky ghost?"

"Fred. Fred Weasley. My late boyfriend. He died in the battle. This happened not even a year ago…so it would work if I read right." she answered.

"Mh…maybe you should train the spell first or something might go wrong." Somehow one could hear a little trace of sarcasm in her last five words.

"Could I do it here?"

"Why here?"

„No one comes in…no one would notice it. And that's exactly what I want. No one understands me…so I want to do it secretly and then surprise them."

"Ha-ha!" Myrtle laughed bad "Well…okay, do it here. I wonder how many people you'll kill for this."

"Myrtle! I won't kill anyone…I think I'll try to revive animals. I can steel some dead ones from Hagrid."

"What a pity…"

Then, Hermione turned away from Myrtle and went on reading. Frowning. The spell was really complicated. If the intonation and the voice weren't completely correct, there would be a catastrophe. And of course you need to concentrate. You're only allowed to think about the spell and the person who is to revive otherwise it would go wrong.

/"If the Recreanda-spell really works…it could bring two people back to life in one step. His…and mines, too…"/ That's what she thought when she came back to the common room. The book was tiny and in her pocket again. Her bright smile was traitorous…but she didn't notice at all.

"Hey!" called Ginny from the other edge of the room.

"Hi Ginny!" said Hermione wondering why her best friend seemed so happy. She should get an answer few moments later. Namely in this moment Ginny came to her.

"You're smiling again…that's a good sign! It's a real smile…you can't imagine how much I missed it. You look terrible when you're sad…or even crying."

"Ehm…I know…thank you…eh…"

"I'm sorry that you didn't find anything yesterday…but as I can see it was good." she whispered in her ear. The reasons for this were Harry and Ron who sat only about two meters away playing wizard chess.

"It's okay…I give up now. I mean…developing a spell on my own? Me? That won't be good at all!"

"Right…say…were have you been anyway? I haven't seen you for breakfast."

"I had been downstairs before you even awoke. Then I went to Professor McGonagall to tell her that there's no need to worry any longer because I finally let him go."

"That's great, really. Do you come upstairs with me? George has sent an owl with some sweets."

"Sure I do!"

So they ran upstairs immediately. They laughed and ate the sweets. It was like before the battle and all the fear. Hermione knew, however, that this wouldn't happen so often in the future as she wanted to start training the Recreanda-spell the following day.

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