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A/N: This chapter may give you some more insight to what the meeting was about so here is chapter 9.
"Pomfrey? How is he?" Menerva asked as she walked into the Hospital Wing.
"We may need to take him to St. Mungos, I'm not sure if I can help him here." Madam Pomfrey said.
"You have to help him; you can't just let him die." Hermione busted out. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said it like that, but you have to do everything you can for him."
"I have. Honestly I don't know what else to do. I've tried everything. I'm not even sure what did it, and until I know that there is nothing I can do. That is why we have to take him to St. Mungos."
Draco stepped around the bed and placed his arm around her waist as tears began to spring to her eyes. "It'll be ok, Hermione, St. Mungos will figure it out. Trust me I know from experience. Though, Madam Pomfrey, I'm pretty sure that it wasn't a vampire that did this. If it had been Dumbledore would surely be dead or turning." he took Hermione's hand in a comforting way and squeezed it.
"You're right Mr. Malfoy. We will take him to St. Mungos." Menerva said to Madam Pomfrey. "Draco go get Snape, Lupin and Tonks."
At first Hermione wondered why Lupin and Tonks were needed when they would be too far away to get there in time, but then she remembered that the worked here too, Lupin was a DADA teacher, he taught the younger years while Snape taught the older ones and Tonks helped Menerva in Transfiguration. Draco let go of her hand and kissed her cheek before walking out and getting the teachers.
"Ma'am? I was wondering, is there anything I can do?"
"I'm not sure Hermione, but for now stay here with Pomfrey I need to go to Albus' office to search for more evidence." McGonagall left the room.
Hermione stood stock still as she watched over Dumbledore's lifeless body. "Come on ol' man, you have to pull through. You're not supposed to die." a lone tear rolled down her cheek. "Wake up, please. Tell us what happened." she pleaded with him as if he was awake and talking face to face with him.
"Help me prepare him for the journey. He'll need to bandaged the wound and we should probably give him some medicine in case he is in any pain."
Hermione nodded. "But what about his seizures? Shouldn't you give him something for that?"
"Yes." she began rushing around her little office space and grabbing unknown vials of liquid and even pills.
Hermione watched as the poor, scared, and worried woman franticly tried to uncap the bottles but to no avail she was shaking too much. "Here let me help you." Hermione stepped forward and took two of the vials from Madam Pomfrey and began pouring the brown like liquid into a small cap by Dumbledore's bed. "Is this all." Madam Pomfrey nodded.
"Hermione, we have to call Harry." Draco's shaky voice came from the door.
Hermione spun around to see him, Lupin, Tonks, and Snape in the doorway. "Fine, let's go. We'll owl him."
"No you must floo to his house now and then meet us at St. Mungos with them." Lupin said.
Hermione nodded and walked to the door passing them and taking Draco's hand. "Come on." she walked out.
"Use Dumbledore's fireplace it's the only one accessible by floo powder." Snape said.
Hermione and Draco walked off in the direction of Dumbledore's office meeting McGonagall on the way.
"I suppose you have gotten my message?"
"Yes." Hermione said.
"Good now get to it."
They walked the rest of the way and noticed that Menerva had left the door open for them. They walked in and straight over to the fireplace.
"I hate doing this." Hermione mumbled as she stepped into the fireplace with a handful of floo powder and spoke "Harry Potter's House". The familiar green flames engulfed her and spun her around and then spit her out onto Harry's living room floor.
"Hey Harry." Hermione said as she picked herself up and looked over to the couch where he was laying watching TV with Ginny. "Oh and hi Ginny." she scowled at her.
Not more than two minutes later Draco was spit onto the same spot Hermione had just picked herself up from. "I agree with you, I don't like it too much. Oh hi Harry, Ginny." he nodded to each as he spoke their name.
"What are you doing here?" both Ginny and Harry asked at the same time.
"Well we have news from Hogwarts. But first where's Ron, he needs to be here?" Hermione quickly said.
"In his room. What happened?" Harry asked.
"Wait here Draco I'll go get Ron, don't tell them anything till I get back." Hermione walked through the kitchen and then into the other hall down it and to Ron's room. She knocked on the door. "Ron? Ron open the door we need to talk to you."
"Hermione is that you?"
"Yes Ron now get out here so we can talk." she heard him get off his bed and walk to the door. When he opened it she grabbed his arm and pulled him into the living room. "Now Draco you start."
"Dumbledore is being sent to St. Mungos." Draco just jumped right in, not even worried about the consequences.
Harry shot up off the couch which caused Ginny to fall to the floor, no one helped her up. "What do you mean? What happened?"
"He means exactly what he says Harry, and we aren't quite sure what happened. When we came home today we went to see him and found him laying on his office floor in his blood with two bite wounds in his neck. Madam Pomfrey didn't know what to do so we are sending him to St. Mungos." she paused wondering if this was the time to tell them what McGonagall had told her earlier but decided against it. Saving it for a better and brighter time.
"We are here to take you with us to St. Mungos, on McGonagall's orders." Draco said.
"We'll apparate though, I can't stand another flooing." Hermione stated.
They all nodded and then within seconds were at St. Mungos. Tonks was sitting in the waiting room they appeared in and stood quickly.
"This way." She started walking down a hallway to a door at the end.
When they walked in the room they were meet with silence. A healer was leaning over Dumbledore's body and examining the bite mark on his neck. McGonagall, Lupin, Snape, and Pomfrey were all standing around waiting for a possible clue. The healer stood and nodded to them and walked out.
"What the hell!" Harry said. "Should she be telling us something?"
"Calm down Harry, she'll be back, she's done this for the past fifteen minutes." Snape snapped.
Harry glared at him before walking over to Dumbledore's body. "This must have something to do with what he was talking about. This isn't normal. How could something have gotten into his office? His office? The most highly guarded office in all of Hogwarts?"
"We are trying to figure that out." Lupin said.
Hermione began tapping her foot on the ground thinking. "Well are we just going to stand around all day or what?"
"What do you mean Miss Chantry?" a man behind her asked.
She turned around to look into the eyes of a menacing looking man. He stood maybe about 6'5", he had hazel eyes, and light red hair.
"Hey Ginny doesn't that look like one of our uncles." Ron whispered.
"Yeah, and what did he mean by Chantry?" she whispered back.
Draco leaned closer to Hermione, "He has your eyes." he whispered.
Hermione gulped she now realized who this man was, her brother. "Who are you?"
"Travis my sweet sister, Travis Lei Chantry." his voice was annoyingly suave and much like her fathers.
"I thought you were in Azkaban?"
"I was but not anymore."
"Did you escape or did they let you go?"
"My time was up. So how as your life been?" He took a step closer but instead of touching Hermione he sat in the chair beside her. "Something tells me Mum and Dad kept this from you, didn't they?" she nodded. "Well don't be alarmed. I won't hurt you."
"How did you know where I was?"
He smirked. "In our family no one ever goes missing. We can always sense one another." he smirked again as he noticed Draco standing protectively beside her. "Ah… Draco how nice to see you again."
Draco grimaced at this but didn't seem too faltered. "Yes Travis, it's been a long time hasn't it. What's it been, four years?"
"Yes I believe so. And I see you've taken a liken to my sister." he almost spat the last statement.
Hermione looked around the room to see all eyes on her no one speaking no one moving except the three by the door.
"There is one thing I don't get, Travis. Why did you get put in jail?" Draco asked smirking his all to normal Malfoy smirk.
"Oh I just got caught, it was pure accident. In fact I say it was a set up. I never did kill anybody." he snickered. "I may have been on his side the last couple of months of the war but I had always held my family dear to me."
Hermione noticed a small flick of sadness in his eyes. "Were you the one who-?" her voice cut off as tears welled in her eyes. "The one-?" she tried again.
"Don't trouble yourself with trying to say it sweetie, it would cause too much pain, but yes it was me." he paused. "But I was under the imperious curse. If I could have done anything to stop myself I would have believe me,"
McGonagall stepped forward. "Travis, I think you should leave."
"Why, Mrs. McGonagall I haven't seen you in ages. I see you still look as wonderful as ever."
She blushed. "Travis, don't try to sweet talk me into letting you stay, we need you gone so we can discuss matters that do not concern you."
Hermione looked back over to Travis who stood up, "I'll be waiting in the lobby. When you're done in here we can talk. I promise." he kissed her hand and left.
"Hermione Ann Granger, who the hell is he and what the hell is going on?" Ginny shrieked.
"That is none of your business, and it's Chantry not Granger." Hermione turned to McGonagall. "Ma'am, has the healers told you anything about his condition?"
"No Hermione, but I presume they should here shortly. The healer should be coming back soon, but until then we must speak on Hogwarts business." she paused to collect her thoughts. "Now since I am Deputy Headmistress I will be sitting in for Albus, the teachers will go on about there daily routine but will keep an eye out for anymore unlikely things, the students as I have said earlier are not to find out about this. I have talked with the healers and they have told me that once we have gone they will owl us when Albus is well again. Until then we will let them take care of everything." she looked over to Harry and Ron. "Now I think that there are other things that need tending to as of now so be off with you five." she motioned for Harry, Ron, Ginny, Hermione, and Draco to leave the room.
"Ok Hermione, spill." Ron said.
"No, not with her here." she pointed to Ginny.
Ginny mouth fell open. "What why me? What did I do?"
"You slept with him." Hermione accused. "I don't feel like talking to you right now. And to think I was your friend, well actually your kin."
"What!" Ron practically screamed.
"Yes Ron I know, I thought the same thing when I found out. It turns out that Chantry's are kin to the Weasley's. Oh and Draco do you perhaps know where the Chantry Manor is?"
"Yeah it's not too far from mine." he paused. "At least now I see where you get your bad side from."
"How do you know him anyways?" she said stopping.
He bowed his head in shame. "Let's just say I learned a lot of my tricks from him."
Harry stepped towards Hermione and pulled her away from Draco. "So you're brother is evil?"
"I guess he was I don't know. I just met him today, and I only just found out who I truly am today. But I have to talk to him, I have to learn more about my family." She stormed off in the direction of the waiting room and found Travis sitting in on the chairs leaned back eyes closed. "Will you answer any question I want you to answer?"
"It depends." he opened his eyes and put all four of the chairs legs back on the floor. "What do you want to know?"
"How come I never heard of you?"
"I don't know, Mum and Dad always talked about telling you about me but I guess they never did." he opened his mouth to say something else but was interrupted.
"How old are you?"
"28."
"Are we the last Chantry's?"
"Yes."
"Are you sorry for what you did?" This would be her last and final question. If he answered this one right she would except him as her brother but if not then she would just have to run away.
"When you're in prison in Azkaban you begin to think about things, like what the world would have been like without you, or were your friends and family happy that you weren't there to say anything to them when they playfully joked about you. But as much as I thought about this and thought about just telling them to give me the kiss of death, I knew that Mum and Dad would have wanted me to get out and help you with anything you needed or just be there for you, so I keep my head up and stayed to myself. When I look back on it now I know that turning to his side was wrong and letting the imperious curse control me was even worse. If I could I would take it all back." he paused thinking of what else to say.
Hermione reached forward and hugged him. "Finally. I'm not alone anymore." she whispered into his leather jacket.
He hugged her back slightly taken aback by her sudden movement and stroked her back gently. "Don't worry, I'm here, and I don't plan on leaving anytime soon."
She let him go and sat down beside him, she was still a little put off by all this but she was willing to give him a chance. Draco and them came around the corner and sat down with them.
"So did you learn enough, Miss Know-It-All?" Draco said playfully.
"For now." she paused as the healer that was in the room earlier walked by and went towards Dumbledore's room. "Come on you guys let's go."
Everyone, except Travis, got up and followed the healer down the hall. They walked back into the gloomy room and took their seats waiting for her to speak. McGonagall held onto her hat twisting it with worry.
"It was a snake. The poison has got into his bloodstream quite quickly and we are working on a drought to remove it. There's not much we can do for him at this point but to wait for him to pull through on his own the snake's poison was very strong, in fact we aren't even sure what kind of snake it was, presumably one enhanced by dark power. Nonetheless we will do all we can." she paused. "Now if you'll excuse me I must go check on my other patients."