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Chapter 4

Reviving is not easy

Another day without lessons. It really was the perfect opportunity for starting the training. As Harry, Ron and Ginny also had Quidditch training today, it was even better. How comes that they were in the team? Well Professor McGonagall has lobbied for the old team to come together again at the beginning of the year. Perfect…really…so Hermione could be absolutely sure that no one would disturb her. But if she wanted to start, she first had to get some dead animals.

This should not be a big problem. Very early in the morning she left the castle and went out, took her wand and said: "Accio dead ferrets!" It took two minutes until ten of them flew towards her. A bit disgusted – even though she had had to touch dead ferrets in her third year already – she caught them and ran back to the toilette. Luckily she had not been seen otherwise it would have been quite embarrassing.

"Iiih! Why did you have to take ten, isn't one of them enough?" bleated Myrtle grimacing.

"I just wanted to have some with me so I don't have to catch them every day." Hermione said.

"Alright, alright! Just…put those creatures away!"

Hermione did as Myrtle said but, of course, kept one. The other nine were put into one of the cabins. The last ferret was laid on the ground in front of her.

"Tell me one thing…how do you want to make it that you only think about this creature and the spell?"

"Please what?"

"Well…you always think about your boyfriend, don't you?" laughed Myrtle.

"I can do it, don't worry!" said Hermine frowning. Actually Myrtle was right…it would be difficult not to think about something else. It was not easy to think about a dead ferret only.

Nevertheless she wanted and she also had to try. Somehow she would do it as she was a very gifted witch after all! So she knelt down and took her wand out of her jacket. Having her eyes closed she started to concentrate. Myrtle's titter in the background was for sure not really helping but what should she do against it?

"Recreanda!" said Hermione after a few minutes opening her eyes again. Her voice was firm, commanding and hopeful. Just as the book said. However nothing happened. The ferret didn't even flinch or moved its eyes anyway.

"Haha! Seems like it won't work!" laughed Myrtle

"It was my first try, of course it didn't work.

"How many tries do you want to take today anyway?"

"As many as it needs to make the ferret flinching at least a bit."

"So it could take some time? Well then I'll go scarring some boys in the other bathrooms. Hihi"

With these words Myrtle disappeared in a toilette. Hermione shook her head, smiled a bit and then tried again. This time the steps from the corridors were to blame that she could hardly concentrate. What if someone came in?

Several failed tries later she thought about if she should meditate an hour before starting to have the head free. But…would it really help? She doubted it.

"Come on ferret…please give me at least a little success! Flinch just once with your paw or with your eye…or with your nose. Just do something!" she whispered about two hours later. Meanwhile Harry, Ron and Ginny would have to be out for training so she hadn't to fear them coming in.

"Hihi! You're talking to a dead ferret!" Myrtle was back. With a loud laughter.

"Yeah…silly, isn't it? Maybe the others are right and I've actually gone crazy."

"Don't worry…it's nothing special. Everyone goes crazy when beloved people die."

"Mh…could be…" mumbled Hermione closing her eyes again.

Minutes passed by again until she used the spell once more. Her wand was glowing white-yellow and when the light had passed, the animal flinched its head and winked a bit. Hermione smiled bright so she didn't notice that the ferret died again after not even 30 seconds. But it didn't matter anyway at the moment. She did it! The spell worked!

"Have you seen it, Myrtle?" Hermione jumped happily.

"I have…but you see…this creature is dead again!"

"If I go on until our vacation starts, this won't happen again."

"Whatever…well…now you had your success. Don't you want to do anything different now?"

"Eh…sure, I'll go to see the rest of the Quidditch training!" Not even a minute later she left the room. Grinning. And she also left the ferret exactly were it was. Quite to the disgust of Myrtle.

When she arrived at the Quidditch field, however, her friends had already finished and they were…quite furious. As Harry explained on their way back, Slytherins had come, too and so they had almost played a real game.

"Yeah but McGonagall said that you were allowed to train on the field today!" she protested.

"Well you know, Slytherins don't take those rules too serious." said Ron.

"But it's not fair! They can be lucky that Slytherin still exists after the war…but they haven't changed at all! They are still the same idiots they've been before!"

"Why do you tell us, 'Mione? We know this. Anyway…where have you been? You promised us to come to see the training."

"Oh ehm…I really wanted to come but I've been in the library as I had to search something for charms. I think I forgot the time." She looked apologetic to them.

"Well…after all we have our Hermione back…" mumbled Ginny rolling her eyes.

"Right…okay…when you come at least to the real game, we can forgive you." Said Ron while he was looking up to the sky. It started raining. So they hurried to come back to the castle.

Back in the common room the four of them sat down in front of the fireplace. Hermione helped the boys with their homework which they still hadn't finished. Later on they, of course, also had lots of fun…just as it had to be.

The following days and weeks Hermione happened to think that it would be better if every classes didn't take place and if homework were abolished, for the first time. She only had two hours a day for training the Recreanda-spell as it shouldn't attract attention. As Ron and Harry had some problems in some subjects, she also had to help them. Otherwise they wouldn't pass their final exams.

At least she could be proud as she got better and better every day. On her first try the ferret had only few seconds to live but already short time after Halloween, it was able to run around in the room a few times and until Christmas, Hermione succeeded in bringing all ten ferrets back to life. Of course so that they could survive unless they were killed and eaten.

The other students' faces had been great when ten ferrets were running through the whole castle and had to be caught by Mr Filch one day before Christmas vacation started. Luckily Ginny laughed, too so Hermione didn't stand out with her laughter which was caused by this scene.

"So you'll come on Christmas Eve?" asked Ron when they got out of the Hogwarts Express.

"That's right. My parents leave for their own vacation and I'll come to you." answered Hermione nodding.

"It's a bit mean that they leave just at Christmas, isn't it?" asked Ginny.

"No…I understand them very well." said Hermione "See you then!"

All of them disapparated and so their ways separated for few days.

Author's note: Well...you see even Hermione has her problems with some spells ^^ Next chapter will be quite important.

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