CHAPTER 8

They returned to Bill and Ellen's house to find Hermione sitting in the kitchen with a cup of tea and in deep thought looking out the kitchen window. She finally looked up and noticed the three of them. Harry took her hand and smiled at her "I do hope that your daydream had a fairly nice looking bloke with Black hair and green eyes somewhere in it?"

Hermione looked at him and then gave a sly grin "Maybe?" Hermione couldn't help but laugh at Harry's surprise for her cheek. He had no time to respond as Hermione got up and straddled his lap and then proceeded to give Harry a very passionate kiss. Hermione leaned back with a smile "What do you think?"

Harry still kept his arms around her as he tried to focus once more "What was the question?" he said to her.

Hermione grinned at him "Good response Potter." She told him.

Bill cleared his throat to get their attention "We have some things to discuss as a family and some decisions to make." Hermione didn't move from her seat on top of Harry. Bill said "It would help if the daughter got off her husband so she could listen."

Hermione ignored him and began to play with Harry's hair with a smile on her face "I am listening and this is calming and soothing to both of us so please continue on."

Ellen spoke up "The three of us have been talking today and we have arrived at some conclusions and a course of action for all of us."

Hermione didn't look at her as she responded "Harry and I have a mission to take care of for the next few years."

Bill replied "We know. Harry has been very forth right in informing us today about many things."

Hermione looked into Harry's eyes "You told them about the things that will probably happen to us?"

"He didn't have to really as a local thug who wanted to be the next bad guy held me hostage and wanted to kill Harry." Ellen stated. This caused Hermione to turn slightly in her seat to look at her mom.

"Harry took care of it, I take it? Hermione said calmly.

Ellen and Bill looked at each other before Ellen said "Thanks for your concern!"

Hermione rolled her eyes and looked at her mother "First mum, as you are sitting here in one piece it is obvious that whatever happened had a very happy ending. To get upset now about something that already happened is a waste of time and lastly you were with Harry Potter who would die rather than allow anything to happen to innocents and those he considers family."

Ellen seemed shocked "Oh, I think I see your point."

Bill asked carefully "Do you want to know what happened to the wizard that attacked us?"

Hermione looked at Harry "I am sure that whatever Harry did to him was justly deserved and done to send a message. I am quite positive he hoped to prevent future transgression against his family."

Bill stated carefully "You seem to have quite a bit of faith in Harry." Hermione smiled and nodded her head.

Hermione got up from her seat and sat in her chair "I read the journal that Harry's mum left him. It was a very interesting read. She was a Seeress, of sorts, but only with her direct family. She saw three things in Harry's future that disturbed her greatly. First, that he would be left alone as a child and he would be placed in a home without love for him. The second thing was that Voldemort would come after him repeatedly until Harry could defeat him for good.

The last thing she saw that directly related to Harry was what she called being with Herman's knees as she believed." Harry laughed as he heard this.

"You know she was probably quite despondent about that one. I knew immediately who it meant." Harry gave a smile after saying this.

Hermione snickered "Yes, well Herman's knees would play quite a roll in Harry's life. To include being with him for the rest of his life. The thing is that Herman's knees are to be threatened multiple times as Harry was going to be challenged by various dark wizards' wanting to make a name for themselves."

Bill interrupted her here "This is the part where we are right now. Harry has told us some of this but I think you need to know that we do not plan on returning to dentistry."

Hermione looked at her mother who was nodding her head and then to Harry who was watching her reaction to this "Ok, what do you plan on doing?"

Ellen smiled "Well, we want to do some traveling but before we go and do that we have some things we are going to do before we go. Your dad unfortunately is getting old and…"

Bill looked hurt by her words before speaking out "Hey, I kindly remind you that your birthday is only a few months behind mine."

Ellen laughed at his expression before she continued "So we have decided that we both want to get in shape by doing some running every morning, then starting karate, before trying our hand at learning to shoot rifles and Hand guns."

Bill added in "With silencers!"

Harry then added "Maybe we should join them Hermione it sounds kind of fun?"

Hermione looked between the three of them "Nope, not buying it. What are you up too?"

Bill said with all seriousness "I … and your mother are very concerned about my waistline growing on a trip like this. We thought the exercise would do me some good."

Hermione talked out loud to herself "Let's see you will be exercising to get in shape, taking karate to learn hand to hand combat, and weapons training? Hmm what does all that mean? Hermione looked at mum "Would it be so that you can join me and Harry?"

Ellen really grinned after Hermione said this "Oh I never thought of that. It was so kind of you to ask us to join you as I think it is a splendid idea."

Hermione looked at Harry "Did you invite them?"

Harry sat up "I argued against it. I also a found out where you got your stubborn streak from, it was inherited from your mum and dad."

Hermione huffed "I am not stubborn!"

Harry, Ellen, and Bill all said at the same time "Rightttttt?"

Hermione blushed and then added "That was down right creepy." Hermione looked at them "Ok so maybe… just a maybe mind you, I might be a little bit stubborn."

Harry piped in "I only agreed because it would help keep you safe as I know you won't leave my side. So if you are trained better, I would feel better about all of it."

Hermione replied "Ok, Harry I can understand your feelings about me and why you would want me to train but how did my parent's get involved?"

Harry chuckled "You are somehow under the impression we are able to stop them, we can't. Besides after all we did to find them do you really want to?" he declared.

Hermione sighed "No, not really I did miss them terribly."

Bill smiled "Good then that is settled. We will go with you."

Ellen cleared her throat "Now let's get on to the other stuff we need to research for, how to best protect the non-magical adults." Ellen paused "Harry states that nobody has really studied what form of energy magic is. If magicals can see spells then it has to be some form of energy."

Hermione shook her head "It has been studied a lot actually back in the twelfth century but nothing ever came from it."

Bill asked her "When was a study done using current muggle technology and science."

Hermione head popped "Never that I know of."

Bill continued "If we found what magic was there is no telling what we could do with this understanding and knowledge. We need to research Physics in particular and look for ways to quantify things."

Ellen continued for Bill "For instance Harry states that electronics equipment doesn't work well with magic why?" It seems to me that magic spells have some electric current running through them to cause the electronics to quit."

Hermione looked intrigued "I forgot how backwards the wizarding world is or could be. Most wouldn't have considered even trying to understand what magic is, they would just accept it."

Harry looked deep in thought "How can we even begin to understand what magic is until we are able to measure it? We also need to know the precise effect Magic has on mundane electronics."

Hermione sat up straighter in her chair "I guess we have a lot of training and research to do to get our act together."

Harry looked around "We need to keep our contact with the magical world to a minimum. I don't want another repeat of today and the best way to avoid that is to avoid the magical side of things." No one at the table gave Harry any argument.