Back at it again with a Harry Potter chapter. Quick catch up; We are onto the Deathly Hallows, they are going to be on the run from the start of August and the fight happens mid-February (I know it's meant to happen 2nd May but for the last chapter to work this is the timeline that I am working with. This chapter may be hella long but I have done it in the past, so onto the story.
HPOV:
"Hermione, where exactly are we?" Ron asked after I had disapparated the three of us to the West End district.
"The West End," I said dragging the pair of them down the busy London Street, "my dad, Tony and I went a few summers ago. Hopefully they won't come looking for us in central London." I said and turned into an empty alleyway, looking around me to ensure no one was following us or really looking.
"Hermione what are you doing?" Harry asked, as I took out my small purple beaded bag and started to put my arm into it, pulling out clothes for the boys to change into and clothes for me.
"We can't bring any attention to us so we need to blend in. I've had this bag packed as soon as I came to the Burrow." I told Harry.
"Brilliant Hermione." Ron complimented me.
"Always the tone of surprise." I said and something made noise in my bag, "that would be the books."
"Ugh I left my bag at the Burrow with all of the horcrux things in it." Harry complained, and I pulled a sad smile at him and held up the bag, "You're joking." He said pointing at the bag.
"Like I said I've had the bag packed for weeks." I told him.
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Ron and I were sitting in front of a piano that was sitting in Grimmauld place as I showed him how to play Fur Elise.
"How are we going to get the Slytherin locket off Umbridge?" Harry asked from his spot on the couch.
"Well we can't just walk into the ministry and lifted it from her; you would have to be absolutely mental to do that." Ron said, taking his fingers from the piano keys.
"That's exactly what we're going to do Ron." I said coming up with an idea.
"Hermione, unless you haven't noticed but we can't really do that." Harry said sassily.
"Remember second year? We just have to use some Polyjuice and get a few ministry workers and go in as them." I explained my plan to the two boys.
"Yeah but we don't have any Polyjuice." Harry butted in.
"Not necessarily." I said looking at my purple bag.
"You really do think of everything Hermione." Ron said moving over to where Harry was sitting and sat down beside him.
"So how will we be doing this?" Harry asked, resting his forearms onto his knees and clasping his hands.
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We devised a plan to take two male and one female ministry workers to transfigure into. We looked through the most recent daily prophet newspapers to find suitable candidates to change into. We picked people that wouldn't look too suspicious if they were to get close to Umbridge. I was going in as Mafalda Hopkirk, who was Umbridge's secretary, meaning that I had the best chances of getting the locket from her.
We went into muggle London, close to where the ministry workers would go to get into the ministry. We hid in a small room on the corner of the street and knocked out the three adults, put their hairs into the potion and changed our clothes and went our separate ways.
As I walked to the females entrance, (which like the males- was a bathroom) I thought of my dad at home. I couldn't send any owls in case they were intercepted by the ministry or death eaters. I have a target on my back by being a friend of Harry's and I didn't want one on my dad's for being in association. To the best of my knowledge, no one in the British wizarding world knows of the Avengers and the fact that my father is the Hulk.
I flushed myself down the toilet and stood in front of the new fountain that the new minister had commissioned. It had tiny statues of people at the bottom holding up the next layer. They were showing how they thought that muggles were at the bottom of the food chain and that purebloods were at the top. The person that Harry was pretending to be came up and stood next to me, and then Ron's did and we had a quick conversation going over the plan again before we went and got into the lift.
Yaxley got in and we went to the floor that Ron was working on, and told to fix Yaxley's office. Then Umbridge got in and Harry's stop was next and he got told to get off the lift by Umbridge while, her and I were going to be going down to the chambers to interrogate the muggleborns.
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Once we jumped into the fireplace and were going back to the Grimmauld place after our disguises dissolved, Yaxley had grabbed hold of Ron's foot; so I grabbed onto the other two boys, kicked Yaxley off Ron and disapparated to the forest that dad and I hiked in over the summer.
Because I disapparated in the middle of the floo network, Ron got splinched and I poured some dittany onto his cuts and helped them heal and put his arm into a sling. We got the locket off Umbridge and threw spells at it once we changed our clothes but nothing seemed to destroy the locket no matter what type of spell that Harry and I threw at it.
We walked around the forest and I set up the tent that I had put in the bag that was like the one that we slept in at the Quidditch match final and set up wards around it. I read through my books to see if there was anything in them to help destroy the locket. We travelled around, going from place to place so that we wouldn't be caught by the snatchers that were going everywhere to try and wrangle as many wanted and muggleborns wizards and witches.
We took turns wearing the locket, changing our moods drastically and effecting Ron a lot and then he and Harry had a shouting match in the middle of December and he walked away from us. I worked out why Dumbledore had left Gryffindor's sword to him, as it had Basilisks venom in the blade, and basilisks venom destroyed the first horcrux that Harry came across meaning that it would destroy the rest.
Harry wanted to go and visit his parents' graves at Christmas. It made me think of what Christmas would have been like this year. Clint would have said he had a mission to do to see his family, Natasha would most likely have an actual mission, Uncle Tony would invite everyone to his to have dinner like last year and we would sing Christmas carols –out of key on purpose- and we would share gifts that were stupid or really meaningful. Like when Tony found out about me he bought me a magicians set, so that I could expand on my skills.
It turns out that we were lured into a sort of trap by going to Godric's Hollow. Bathilda Bagshot, the woman that sold Dumbledore's life story, was killed by Voldemort's snake, Nargini and then the snake was transformed into Bathilda and attacked Harry and I. We disapparated away and back to the tent and inside the wards that I had put up.
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Ron didn't appear back at the tent until after New Year's and he came back, saved Harry from freezing in a small lake and retrieved the Sword of Gryffindor from the bottom of the lake. I shouted at him and then turned around to see the snatchers. I felt my eyes widen looking at the ring leader of the group, who was standing right in front of me.
"Hello beautiful." The ring leader said and I gulped.
Harry and Ron then began running through the forest and I took off after then and from working out and being taught some fighting tactics from Natasha, caught up with them and over took Harry. The snatchers were running after us and started throwing spells at us. We all threw spells back at the group, but I could see the inevitable, we weren't going to be able to outrun them so I threw a stinging jinx at Harry's face and it hit target and his face swelled up and Ron got hit with an Incarcerous and I was hit with a spell that threw me to my feet.
The snatchers gathered around us and asked for our names, I said that I was Penelope Clearwater and it checked out, Ron said a different Weasley name but Harry save a name that combined his uncle and cousins names and because it didn't check out, they had a closer look at us and saw the faint line of Harry's scar and we were immediately brought to a large manor house. It was when we went in that I discovered that it was Draco's home.
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After the whole ordeal at Malfoy Manor, we stayed at Shell Cottage and got caught up with what was happening in the Order, I also got caught up with what was happening in the muggle world. I found out what happened to Tony, destroying all of his suits and getting the shrapnel out of his chest. I really wanted to get in contact with him, or dad but I wasn't allowed to leave the cottage until I was well enough after what happened with Bellatrix.
Luna left after three days; she went to see her dad and also to go to Hogwarts to update everyone there about us. Ollivander and Griphook were resting in separate rooms in the cottage after being stuck in the Malfoys dungeons for over a year. We talked to Ollivander over the wands we had lifted from Malfoy Manor, and he was able to tell us that we had Draco and Bellatrix's wands.
Harry, Ron and I devised a new plan. We need to get rid of as many horcruxes as possible. Harry thinks that one is hiding in Bellatrix's vault after her reaction to seeing us with the Gryffindor sword. It isn't a bad theory, because she was very adamant that we had been in the vault and was most likely wanting to see what else was had lifted, if we had been in the place.
We planned to get into Gringotts by me using the last of the Polyjuice potion that I had and taking the hair that had fallen onto my jacket when Bellatrix was torturing me. Ron was going to wear a glamour charm that would make him look a bit different to fit in as a death eater and Harry was going to be walking with us under his invisibility cloak. We just need someone to get us into the vault.
We went upstairs to talk to Griphook. We went over our plan to him and asked if he would get us into Gringotts. He agreed but only if he could get the sword for doing it, be claimed that it was his as it was goblin made. Harry accepted his offer and we planned to do it at the end of the week.
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That bloody goblin! What they say is true, you can't trust goblins. We were able to get the cup, which turned out to be the Hufflepuff founder's cup. We were able to get out of Bellatrix's vault after the sea of all of the objects that had doubled itself had pushed us out of it.
The officers at Gringotts starting firing spells at us, as we were intruders. "How are we going to get out here?" Ron asked looking to Harry and I. I bit my lip in thought and began to look around me for any ideas, but it wasn't until I looked straight at the dragon that it came to me.
"I have an idea but it's absolutely mental." I told the pair.
"What is it?" Harry shouted over to me. I looked to the dragon in the centre of the room. I threw a bombarda at the metal railing, and it broke off. I took a few steps back before running and jumping onto the back of the dragon. I moved around to avoid getting hit with any spells.
"That is absolutely metal." I heard Ron say then the two boys jumped and got onto the back of the dragon as well, and I fired another bombarda at the chains keeping the dragon to the floor and it flew fire at everyone on the ground and then looked up at the sky light that looked to be millions of feet above us and it began to climb up the walls before shattering through the floor and blowing more fire before crashing through the sky light and began flying away for the magical part of London and into the muggle bit.
Whenever it was flying over water, we all jumped off its back. We swam over to the small island and got dried off and into dry clothes.
"What are we going to do now?" Ron asked while he was changing.
"We need to find the other horcruxes." Harry told him, biting his bottom lip.
"But we don't have anything to destroy them with." I said to him, questioning his thought pattern.
"I have a feeling that another one is in Hogwarts." Harry said, making Ron and I look confused at him, "Think about it, he made two of them from objects to do with Hogwarts founders, there's only one founder he would touch willingly." Okay now he made sense.
"But Harry we can't just walk into Hogwarts or apparate." Ron said thoughtfully.
"Well we can just go to Hogsmeade and travel from there." Harry thought up.
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We apparated to Hogsmeade, which set off alarms all around us and we hid behind some tables away from the people that went out to see what set off the alarm. We heard a door behind us open and a 'pisssst' coming from behind us. We spun around to see a man that resembled Dumbledore at the Hogs Head and waving his hand for us to come over to him. We moved quickly whilst ensuring we weren't seen into the Hogs Head. The man offered us food and something to drink while explaining who he is, which turned out to be Aberforth Dumbledore which explained why he looks like Dumbledore.
He told us that we were crazy for showing up at Hogsmeade and that we shouldn't be doing the task that Dumbledore set out for Harry to do. Harry gave off at him for dissing Dumbledore, and then he went over to the painting of a girl that he had hanging over a fireplace and saying, "You know what to do." And see walked down a path in her painting and turned into a tiny dot in the painting.
"That's your sister right, Ariana?" I asked him, pointing over at the painting. He nodded that it was and then Ron said, "She's coming back."
"And she's bringing someone with her." Harry said, walking over to the painting to get a closer look and then it swung open to show Neville standing in a tunnel.
"Alright Aberforth." He said, nodding his head in the man's direction, "Well aren't you three a sight for sore eyes." He said looking over the three of us.
"Hi Neville." Harry greeted the boy. Neville said something to Aberforth before turning us and telling us to come with him and he explained what had happened so far at Hogwarts and what it was like with Snape as Headmaster.
Once we got to the end of the tunnel, Neville opened the door at the end and told the people in the room, that he had a surprise and I heard Seamus complaining about Aberforth's food and then Neville stepped aside to show the three of us standing behind him and everyone starting clapping. It turns out that we were led into the Room of Requirement and there were loads of students there. There was all of Dumbledore's Army and others that must have joined to get protection.
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Harry, Ron and I donned Gryffindor robes and hid in the group that was to march to the Great Hall for a talk from the Headmaster. The changes that Snape has made to Hogwarts were vastly different to what they were before. It felt more like a prison opposed to a welcoming school, or home for a few people.
We went into the Great Hall, which had been cleared of the usual long tables and benches to accommodate the students who all stood in their house with an aisle separating the houses from one another.
"It has come to my attention that Harry Potter was witnessed at Hogsmeade tonight. If anyone has been in contact or spoken to him, I wish for you to step forward. Now." Snape said, once everyone was in the room and settled down. After he said it, everyone starting turning to one another, whispering about Harry.
Harry and Ron were standing in the same row as me but not together to help avoid being caught. Harry poked his head around and nodded to the two of us and we started moving away from our house.
"It seems Headmaster," I started saying, and I heard the doors behind me open and knew that the order had arrived, "that even with your exhaustive defensive strategies you have a bit of a security problem." Snape looked absolutely baffled by our show of strength and that we were there, waiting in the shadows.
"How dare you!" Harry began to shout, "How dare you stand where he stood! Tell them how it was that night. Tell them how you looked him in the eye, a man who trusted you…and you killed him. Tell them!" Harry then whipped out his wand and pointed it to Snape, who also took his wand out and pointed it at Harry, but before either to perform a spell, McGonagall stepped in front of Harry and they had a quick duel before Snape flew away like a coward.
McGonagall lit the lights to brighten up the dark atmosphere and she had a quick talk with Harry until a loud shrieking scream began, coming from one of the Ravenclaws. Harry practically ran over to show a small second year, on the ground with her hands over her ears. Before Harry could talk, he put his hand to his forehead (read: scar) and then someone else on the other side of the room started screaming too and then Harry spun around and moved away from the Ravenclaws when suddenly a voice started to speak in everyone's minds.
"Give me Harry Potter. Do this and none of you shall be harmed. Give me Harry Potter and I shall leave Hogwarts untouched. Give me Harry Potter and you will be rewarded." Giving the creepiness of the voice and from the looks of it, the voice was speaking to everyone in their head was Voldemort everyone turned to look over to Harry.
"He's right there. Somebody grab him!" the voice of Pansy Parkinson shouted out, cutting the silence after Voldemort's short speech. After she said that Ginny stepped forward and grabbed onto Harry's hand. Ron and I stood to stand beside him, and then one by one the original members of Dumbledore's Army stood with him. McGonagall got Flitch to gather the Slytherins and put them into the dungeons.
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"What about the Chamber of Secrets?" Ron said suddenly stopping in the middle of the hallway; we were walking around the school to help give it protection.
"What about it Ron?" I asked him, standing beside him.
"Well, that's where the Basilisk is and as you said the venom is what is in the sword and because we can't get to the sword, why not use the next best thing?" Ron explained to me.
"Ron, that's actually…very clever of you." I said, surprised that he had thought of that at all.
"Always the tone of surprise." He said jokingly to me. We then went to go and tell Harry of Ron's idea and he handed us the Marauders Map so that we could find him later on. We made our way down to the girls bathroom and down into the Chamber of Secrets. We found the decomposed basilisk and grabbed a few of the fangs so we can destroy the rest of the horcruxes.
I took out the Cup of Hufflepuff from my bag and set it between the two of us on the ground. I took out one of the fangs and handed it over to Ron, because he's destroyed one of the horcruxes before. He pushed the fang into my hand, shook his head and told me to do it.
I bit my lip and stabbed the cup with the fang and a big flume of black smoke came out and then Ron pushed it into the small pool of water in front of us and the water rose up and formed Voldemort's face before falling down and soaking the two of us to the bone. We looked to each other and hugged one another, meaning we only had two more to destroy.
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The war was over. We won in the end. I was battered and bruised again, well a bit more than the fight in New York but I was on a more equal playing field this time. We lost Harry and then he came back. Saved Draco's life from going up in flames. Saw the death of the woman that tortured me that day in Malfoy Manor, being killed by someone that I saw as a mother figure. But we lost so many. The people that labelled me the godmother of their child and seen as part of my family where lying on the floor and the boy I had a crush on when I was younger was lying next to them.
Harry had owned all of the deathly hallows; he owned the invisibility cloak, the elder wand answered to him and in his snitch (gifted to him by Dumbledore) he had the resurrection stone. He explained what happened in the forest after watching Snape's memories.
Harry and I stayed with the Weasley's to go to all the funerals that we were asked to go to, to help with getting Hogwarts back together again and to help the ministry. I had to get home to see my dad and the others, they haven't seen or heard from me since last July and it's now February.
At the tower, Tony had a fireplace made in the lounge area for me that I got connected up to the floo network. I packed my things and said that if they needed me I was a letter or fire call away. I bid my good byes, went to the Weasleys fireplace and lifted some floo powder and threw it in and calling out, "Avengers Tower, New York" and was swept away and came out of the fireplace in the lounge. I did a forward roll out and stood up, covered in soot to see dad and Tony sitting on one of the couches in front of me with their eyes opened wide.
"Daddy, I'm home."
Thanks for reading this chapter of Hermione Banner, I only have one more chapter left and then I have something else in the works for this character. But this is the last Harry Potter style chapter in this story. Thanks to all the reviews, favourites and follows this story. I don't own anything.
Emma X
