Chapter Two; The Island of Lost Souls
Note; I just wanted to say thank you for keeping your patience with me as in doing two fanfics at once is quite challenging for me. Anyway, enjoy the second chapter!
Later on that morning Ron went to go visit Hermione in the library. "Blimey Hermione you've been down here for hours? Don't you have any classes today?" he asked her.
"Yes I have, but I found a way to make it work." She responded without taking her eyes off the page of her book.
"Don't tell me that you've been using that rutty old time turner again. You know how dangerous it is to travel through time." He told her.
"I know, that's why I haven't been. I cloned myself instead." She told him still lost inside her book.
"Haha, very funny." Ron told her.
"I'm not joking!" she exclaimed as she finally looked up at him.
"Alright then tell me what's so important that it's caused you to miss your classes, conjure up a clone, and miss Valentine's day with your boyfriend which is AKA me!" he cried.
"This, take a look at what I found." She began before she turned the book around and showed it to him. Above the paragraph there was a picture of Harry's battle with Voldemort and destroying him in the end with the Elder Wand.
"That's Harry." Ron realized before she turned the book back around.
"I know, I don't want to tell him this before I know for sure, but I think there's a chance that Voldemort might still be alive." She explained.
"Well I don't understand how he possibly could be, I mean Harry's already destroyed him three times now. Once when he was a baby, once down in the dungeon, and once with the Elder Wand. With maybe the exception of the last one, neither time he knew exactly what he was doing I might add." Ron told her. "Besides, we've destroyed all the horcruxes remember?"
"I know but according to this there is another way. Voldemort's soul could be trapped in an alternate dimension. We learned about it in defense against the dark arts. When a witch or wizard dies they have an option to come back to earth as a ghost or go into the spirit world. Which if they're able to find the light they either go to Heaven or Hell depending on how they've lived their lives." She explained.
"But what happens if they don't?" Ron asked her.
"They go to the island of lost souls which is somewhere between this life and the next." She began before she took a rather large pause. "They could also go there if they have unfinished business and they're not ready to die yet. Which means they're only half dead." She told him. "They can come back if they find a human body to possess."
"So you're saying,.." Ron began.
"I don't think Voldemort's the only one who could still be alive." Hermione began with a shake of her head. "I think Harry's parents have been held prisoner there." She told him.
"You really think so?" Ron questioned her as she suddenly slammed the book shut.
"Well think about it Ron, it all sort of fits doesn't it? Harry's father died to protect him and his mother, and his mother died to protect him. I think it's pretty obvious how much they loved him and would do anything in their power to be inside his life for as long as they could and watch him grow up." She told him.
"So let's just say for a moment here that you're right, and Harry's parents are alive. What are we supposed to about it?" he asked her.
"Well the only way to get through the island of lost souls is to do a séance. But I don't think that it's a good idea." she replied.
"Why not?" he questioned.
"Because if we do a séance then all of the souls trapped inside the other dimension will merge into this one." She said.
"But that's good isn't it? It means that Harry's parents will come back."
"No, because all of the souls will come into this world and that means Voldemort will come back and might try and posses Harry." She explained.
"Well shouldn't we at least tell him and let him decide?" Ron questioned.
"Let me decide what?" Ron and Hermione let out a startled petrified shriek as they turned around and saw Harry walking over to them.
"Harry," Hermione began loudly anxiously while suddenly feeling her heart start to pound against her chest. "what are you doing here?" she asked him.
"Well I suppose that I should ask you the same thing." He began. "I just came back from the qudditch pitch watching Ginny's practice and I saw you there, and when Ginny asked you if you had finished your studying yet she told me that you have been here for hours, but that was impossible because you were in transfiguration this morning." He told her.
"Now what I want to know is, why?" he asked her. "Have you been using the time turner again?"
"No, I cloned myself because I'm doing some really important research." She told him.
"What's it about?" he asked her as Ron turned and looked at her.
"Face it Hermione, Harry's caught you red-handed so you might as well tell him." He said.
"Tell me what!?" Harry cried impatiently as Hermione took a deep breath and sighed heavily.
"You might want to sit down because this might come as rather a shock to you." She said.
"Try me!" he exclaimed.
"Well I have this theory based on what Ginny and I learned in defense against the dark arts a few weeks ago." She began.
"She thinks that Voldemort is still alive in some spirit land." Ron blurted out.
"It's the island of lost souls Ronald, and Harry,.. I think your parents are still alive." She told him.