Not even ten minutes after the fight, Jade had come to. The staff and aurors decided to question him in Dumbledore's office. Harry – as Spider-Man, with his injuries taken care of by madam Pomfrey, even if she'd rather have him stay in the hospital wing – was also asked to come with, along with the prefects.

Harry noticed how Jade gazed at him where he sat, chained against a chair.

"You surely understand the damage you caused this school and its residents", said Dumbledore to Jade.

Jade didn't respond. Harry knew he was stalling – just staring at Dumbledore with a blank expression.

"Tell me why Lord Voldemort would send another Death Eater to my school", said Dumbledore – no response.

Harry felt the anger slowly building up inside him.

Feeling like he had put up with enough for one day, Harry quickly walked up to Jade. "I don't have the time for this."

"Calm down. The man may be a criminal, but he still deserves…"

"He doesn't deserve anything!" Harry punched Jade across the face. "You hired this man to work here! Do you have any idea how much pain that caused everyone? Do you have a single clue what this nutjob did to my life? I went through time and space to stop him from ruining everything! He wanted me! Not Ron Weasley, not you – me! Everything he ever did was to get to me."

A few minutes went without anyone uttering a word. Tears were running down Hermione's face where she stood.

"The boy is smarter than you, Albus", Jade cackled. "Are you going to let that stand?"

"Quiet", Dumbledore ordered, and then looked directly at Harry. "I understand that you're upset, as I believe all of us are after this tragic day."

Harry simply crossed his arms, staring down at the floor.

"Is this true, Wilfred?" Dumbledore asked, looking at Jade.

"Yes. The boy's genes are unique. I mean, look at him. He's already healed enough to walk properly", Jade said with a small malicious smile.

Dumbledore looked at Harry again. "You still need to put personal matters aside. As headmaster of this school, I demand reasoning behind these events."

"Arthur Weasley", Jade said nonchalantly.

"What about him? He's been dead for over six months", said Dumbledore.

Jade smiled. "No. I arranged his death so no one would come looking around if he went missing. Ever since I worked with him all those years ago – trying to cure him – I knew he had something extraordinary in his blood. I created a formula that could unlock the true potential of it. But without his exact genes, the formula was useless! So I…"

"So, you used Ronald Weasley – keeping him captured for days – torturing him and experimented on him", Dumbledore ended. "What about Draco Malfoy? Why exploit his current state? You very well know his father is in Azkaban."

"You really want to know it all, don't you Albus?" Jade smiled.

"Tell him", Harry grabbed Jade's throat.

He didn't need more stalling.

Jade rolled his eyes. "Draco served his purpose – for a while. I injected a prototype of the formula into him… he caught on fire. It did not come out as intended, but it was beautiful.

But with allies, the spider was powerful. I needed him weak. Draco drove a wedge between the spider and his friends. Yes, spider. Draco used polyjuice potion – disguised as you and did what he had to do."

Harry felt a scorching fury inside of him, but he managed to keep himself from punching Jade into the ground.

He exchanged looks with Hermione.

"But I am a man of science", Jade said. "Naturally, I injected a prototype of the formula in myself before testing it on anyone else. It gave me strength, speed and agility – but nothing close to what you possess. I truly wish to know how you achieved something so unique."

Harry let go of him.

"I was bitten by a radioactive spider", Harry said without looking at him.

Jade scoffed. "Amazing. You should be dead."

"Where is Arthur now?" Dumbledore interrupted.

"The spider knows. He's been there before."

Harry frowned, but of course they couldn't see it behind the mask. Was he talking about the hidden room in the dungeons?

Arthur Weasley was indeed locked up in the back of the hidden room, where Harry didn't go last time.

Mr Weasley seemed half-dead, barely breathing. His skin was in an odd color almost greenish, probably after the experiments.

They brought him out and immediately sent him to St Mungo's for treatment. The days that came after, dealt with the consequences of the battle. Much to Hermione's discontent, classes were cancelled for the two upcoming weeks.

Not longer afterwards, Draco was found alive, and was expelled from Hogwarts and fined a large payment fee for the damages and trauma he had caused.

Harry however thought his punishment wasn't severe enough – after all, he had worked together with Jade all along.

While Draco was expelled and sent back home, Jade himself was put in Azkaban for the rest of his life – even if the Ministry wanted him to be executed for his actions. Along with all of this, Spider-Man and Ron were declared heroes for saving Hogwarts from disaster, and Hermione as assisting hand.

After each head-line Harry read, following the battle, more and more he could forget the awful events he had witnessed.

He glanced down at the front head-line in the latest issue of The Daily Prophet, saying: Spider-Man and Ron Weasley saves Hogwarts from disaster!

He and Hermione stood in the now repaired Astronomy Tower, looking out over the view and the snow fall after the first day of returning to their regular schedules.

"We still haven't talked about us", said Hermione.

"I wanted to give you time to process it all", Harry mumbled.

"I already have", she looked at him. "You did nothing wrong. I should've seen it coming. What I mean is: can you handle us being together, after what you saw?"

Quick, horrifying flashes of her dead body flew by in his mind. He would most likely remember the event that never happened for the rest of his life, but it felt so insignificant compared to the life he had gained back.

He took her hand. "Yes. That's why I came back."

She smiled. "You want to go back in? It's cold out here."

"Sure."

As they were about to enter the Gryffindor common room, Ginny almost ran into them.

"It's Ron. He's awake!"

"He is?" Harry asked, surprised to hear good news regarding Ron's state.

"Yes!"

Harry and Hermione quickly followed her to the hospital wing. And there he was, alive and breathing in one of the hospital beds and still heavily bandaged.

Both of them hugged Ron and proceeded to sit down.

"So what have I missed?" Ron asked, with a smile on his face for the first time in a very long time.

"Not much, really. You have probably heard everything by now", said Harry.

"I was talking about you two", Ron said. "Everything that happened – I can't understand how you sleep at night. Especially you, Harry."

"I don't", Harry said.

"I'm sorry", Ron looked at him with a troubled look.

"It wasn't you, Ron", Harry felt his throat getting dry just thinking about it.

Hermione grabbed his hand. "It's been tough, but we get by", she exchanged looks with Harry.

"I don't even know how you managed to go back in time", Ron said and shook his head.

"I broke time."

"That sounds mental."

"It was."

Ron's attention turned elsewhere as his whole family came rushing into the hospital wing – including a recovered Arthur. His skin wasn't greenish anymore – in fact, he looked much healthier than Harry had seen him.

"Heavens, Ron!" mrs Weasley almost threw herself over Ron as she hugged him.

One after the other they all hugged Ron. Mrs Weasley proceeded to hug Harry, Hermione and Ginny as well.

"I would thank the man in person who saved the life of both my son and myself, but he doesn't seem to be around", mr Weasley said. "I don't suppose anyone knows where he is?"

"If I heard right from Ron, it was he who saved Spider-Man", Harry said, smiling at Ron.

Ginny looked at him with raised eyebrows. "You're sure he wasn't talking nonsense as usual?"

Both Mr and Mrs Weasley seemed very surprised.

Ron smirked. "Okay I'll admit I helped him out a bit. Mom – he was about to get killed!"

Mrs Weasley kissed him on his forehead. "Oh, my boy. My brave boy."

Ginny rolled her eyes.

"Do you know this spider… man?" mr Weasley looked at Harry.

Hermione looked concerning at Harry. Her facial expression screamed "does he know?"

Harry shook his head. "No, but he stops by sometimes. Maybe I can tell him you want to talk with him sometime?"

"Yes, that would be terrific!"

As everyone kept talking to Ron and each other, Harry couldn't help but feeling a bit disconnected from the world around him.

Maybe the whole time travel thing had affected him much worse than he'd initially thought.

Several months passed, and soon it was time to return back home. Nothing crazy had happened since the day that had changed everything.

As he sat up high above the streets of London, looking down over the city in his costume, the memories of that day – or whatever it had been – were still lurking around in his head.

Hermione's body at the funeral; the heartbreaking thud as she hit the ground; Ron being sent to prison; the endless wave of Spider-Men surrounding him.

Most of it had faded away – sure, but he could still remember several moments from that horrible event.

"But I know what uncle Sirius meant", he thought to himself.

Several police sirens blared down on the street as they passed by – finally. Harry stood up.

"This should be a happy ending, right?" he thought as he started swinging his way after the police cars. "I beat the villain, brought a family back together, and saved the girl", he flew past a police chopper and let go of the web.

"But it's never that easy. Being Spider-Man always comes with a price, and that day, that price was a steep one", close to street-level, he spun another web. "What keeps me going are uncle Sirius's words: with great power comes great responsibility. As tough as it gets sometimes, I have to fight on. And the best way to honor the people I love is to never stop being... your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!"

AUTHORS NOTES

IT'S NOT OVER YET.

I felt like this was a good way to end it.

Harry may understand what "great power with great responsibility means, maybe not. The only reason he lashes out at Jade is because he pretty much killed Hermione indirectly and putting Ron in jail for the rest of his life.

Any human being would be exhausted and angry beyond comprehension in this situation.

He has learnt his lesson. But what happened with the modified time turner? Who knows?