Chapter 8
When Hermione awoke the next morning she found that Meredith was right, she felt absolutely horrific, she had only ever experienced a hangover once in her life and this was above and beyond that. She barely had enough time to make it to the bathroom before emptying her stomach down the toilet. Cho Chang walked in and saw Hermione.
"Are you ok?" She asked, Hermione had to hold back the hiss for this girl as all the things she did in the previous life she hasn't done yet, holding her emotions in check she muttered.
"I'm fine, just a stomach bug. Do me a favour will you, tell Harry that I'm not feeling well and that I'm going back to bed to rest"
Cho nodded and walked out Hermione crawled back to her bed and conjured a bucket if what she did in the bathroom was any type of hint of things then needless to say she was not going to enjoy the next few hours.
Cho walked down the girls dormitory stairs to see Harry sat on the settee reading a book, she walked up to him and taped him on the shoulder, and Harry turned and saw Cho standing there.
"Hi Cho what's up?" He asked closing his book
"Hermione asked me to tell you that she's not feeling very well and she is going back to bed to rest"
Harry thanked her and quickly wrote a note to Professor Flitwick, he would have to wait another day before talking to the two of them right now he had an ill girlfriend to look after.
Unlike the Gryffindor dorms boys could climb the stairs to the girl's dorms but to do so they were required to answer a question to the portrait above the stairs.
"So Mr. Potter why should I grant you access to the girls dormitory?"
"My friend is very ill and I want to help her and take care of her" Harry replied, the portrait smiled.
"Very well but first a riddle for you Mr. Potter... A man was found hung from the ceiling; there was nothing in the room that he could have used to help hang him other than the rope. All that was found was a puddle underneath him, how did he do it?"
Harry's reply was instant "Simple, he used a block of ice but by the time he was found the ice had melted hence the puddle"
The portrait nodded and with a gesture of her hand Harry was granted access to the girls dorm room, knocking softly on the door he pushed it open to find Hermione dry heaving.
"Har-Harry what are you doing up here, go away I don't want you to see me like this" she managed to stutter out before heaving again.
"No chance, you would help me if I were ill now I'm going to do the same for you" Harry said as he moved to hold back her hair.
Even though Hermione was heaving Harry still heard her whisper
"Best. Boyfriend. Ever"
A few hours later and Hermione was resting so Harry took this time to write a letter to his mum and dad
Hi Mum! Hi Dad!
Well things have been a little hectic around here, I and Hermione were attacked by a troll and we shielded ourselves but it was unlike any shield I have ever seen before.
Dumbledore is trying to convince me that the only way I'll be safe is if I go and live with Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia, needless to say I told him where to go, he is making his moves and we need to be prepared.
I thought I would let you know but I have Hermione back. My Hermione, she came back to me before the troll attacked us, who would have guessed the power of true loves first kiss, corny as well but hey you can't make this stuff up!
Miss you both loads and we can't wait to come back for Christmas break.
Say hi to everyone for me!
Harry
PS. Hermione would have wrote something but she's not very well but don't worry I'm taking care of her and nursing her back to health!
Tying the note to Hedwig Harry watched as his ever faithful companion flew off into the horizon, Harry noticed the ice starting to form on the ground. Winter was settling in.
The following morning and Hermione found herself back to normal she was thankful that it was only a one day illness. After a hearty breakfast in the great hall in which Hermione's empty stomach became content the young couple walked hand in hand to the charms classroom and to Professor Flitwick.
"Ah Mr. Potter and Miss Granger come in come in, I'm glad to see your feeling better Miss Granger" the charms master said beckoning them inside.
"Thank you sir" Hermione said, as the two of them sat down.
"I'm surprised you didn't just go to Madame Pomphrey for a potion" He said slightly confused
"Professor getting sick is a natural part of life everyone has to deal with it and we all have to live with it, if I needed a potion every time I got sick then I would become dependent on them for everything sometimes it's nice to let nature take its course" Hermione lied, but well enough to impress Professor Flitwick.
"An astute observation miss granger five points to Ravenclaw, now as for the reason I have called you hear, I had originally intended to ask you to share your memories from the incident which occurred the other night but then I realised that I can trust the two of you to tell me the truth so I am not going to ask for the memories I will however like the names of anyone who has said anything that has upset you through hurtful comments so that I can take action" Professor Flitwick asked, Hermione nodded and gave the two main names, Ron Weasley and Draco Malfoy. Writing the two names down Professor Flitwick got on with his next order of business
"With both of your permission I would like to test your core strength using the Emmrys indicator, rest assured that this information will not leave this room"
"What's the Emmrys indicator?" Harry asked having not read of it before, more surprising neither had Hermione.
"It is a goblin test used to test the magical reserves that a witch or wizard retains, it is not known to wizards as the goblin customs only grant certain people access to use it" Professor Flitwick explained
"Friends of the Goblin nation by any chance?" Hermione asked, Flitwick nodded
"Indeed, now to complete the test is simple I will ask you to send the most powerful spell you know through a shield which I shall create this will give us an indication of your magical power, from records the highest ever record was that of Emmrys himself who's power reserves tip 2000"
Both teens nodded in acknowledgement
"Miss Granger you are to go first"
Hermione stood and watched as Professor Flitwick cast the shield. Hermione raised her wand and drew on as much of her power as she could.
"STUPEFY!" The red bolt blasted through her wand and through the shield which seemed to absorb the spell
"Mr. Potter if you please"
Harry stood and raised his wand
"STUPEFY!" with both tests completed both students were about to sit down when Professor Flitwick raised his hand to stop them
"Would you both recreate the actions from the other night and cast the same spell again through the barrier" both students nodded and grasped hands
"STUPEFY!" Both shouted and both wands exploded with a red spell three times the size anyone had ever seen.
Both students said down slightly drained at having to draw on so much power in such a short amount of time.
Professor Flitwick handed them both some chocolate and sat down again
"Now this is very interesting indeed. Miss Granger your magical core reserves topped out at 1650.5, now this on its own proves that you are an incredibly powerful witch, but there is an issue here, the point five being said problem, the Emmrys indicator doesn't deal with decimal places unless there are extenuating circumstances, Mr. Potter your core reserves are 1890.5, this puts you as the second most powerful magical force in the country" Professor Flitwick explained both students smiled at the results
"What's the most powerful?" Hermione asked curiosity gaining the best of her
"Both of you together, as I already explained the two of you have decimal places between you but when I took a third reading the explanation became clear, the two of whenever you join hands have the ability to amplify each other's power to an astounding 3541, which is the added total between you both. I believe that the explanation is simple, I suspect that the two of you are soul bonded only such a feat could allow for the power of you to cumulate magical reserves nearly twice the power of Merlin"
Harry and Hermione looked at each other as if having an internal conversation before nodding to each other
"Professor before we explain anything to you we need an oath swearing you will not tell this information to anyone else, and if I may ask how powerful are your Occlumency shields?" Hermione asked
"Miss Granger there is not a person on earth who could breach my mental shields, as for the oath I will swear this for you"
After taking his wand out and swearing said oath, a flash of light later and Harry and Hermione cast privacy charms over the office
"You are correct Professor but you deserve the full story, the truth is yes myself and Hermione are soul bonded, but that is not all, we have lived this life before, we both met our angel of death, Meredith her name is scary woman but lovely at the same time, I had been killed many times before I was destined to and she was getting pissed, so she said she would send me back to my first year of life so I could live my life the way it was supposed to lived. Firstly by the survival of my parents, in my previous life they were killed and I was an orphan. I met Hermione from a young age and an agreement was struck between me and Meredith that Hermione's memories and previous incarnation of life would be returned to this time upon a kiss of true love. We are here to undo everything that went wrong in the previous life and we want to stop anyone who died dying again, we are changing history Professor and we are changing it for the better" Harry explained.
Professor Flitwick was quiet for a few minutes before finally speaking.
"You met Meredith? Lovely woman but she won't thank you for calling her scary!"
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