"What do you see?" Harry asked as he twisted his wand over his fingers nervously. "I see myself. With my parents and Luna. Only we're all older, and she's holding... she's holding a baby. Our baby. And we're smiling and I'm a professor at the school. And we're happy." Neville answered, staring into the mirror and smiling at what he saw. "What are you going to tell Luna?" Harry asked, shattering the illusion of perfection. "What are you going to tell Ginny?" Neville snapped back angrily, immediately regretting it. "Me and Ginny broke up." Harry said, understanding where his friend was coming from. "How come?" Draco asked curiously, as he stood in front of the mirror, smiling at his own idea of happiness. "I'm in love with someone else," Harry answered honestly. "Granger of course, does that mean that Ginny is open to date whoever she pleases?" Malfoy asked, shifting on his feet slightly and not daring to look up. "That's not up to me, it's up to her... And Ron." Harry said humorously, this will not end well. "What do you see Harry?" Draco asked, purely out of curiosity, he had brought them here and he now had a right to know. "I see me and Hermione. We're getting Ice-cream, I think. We must be, there's ice-cream on her nose. Remus is there. And Tonks, and Teddy,my kids are there, I think they're my kids. She looks like my mum. Bu my mum isn't there because she's dead in this reality..." Harry trailed off. In this reality. If we're to go back in the past, then I can save my parents! I can have them... He thought and the image changed.
"No, it's gone. I'm with my parents. We're at the station. I'm with... Sirius, only he's got a son. Our age. I see Ron walk past and I shift away with them... Hermione is there, but she's alone. She's..." This isn't what I want! I want Hermione and I want my parents! I want the fist and the second He thought frustratedly. The image changed again. "It's stuck. Stuck in between the two images I saw. I can't have both. It's either my parents or Hermione." Harry said as he stared at the mirror in shock.
"We have a small party, just the fi-oh right yeh," James started to say but counted six. He looked around, hoping that nobody had noticed what he was saying, but unfortunately, he was the loudest there, and he burst out that idea in the silent common room. "That sound like a great idea!" Hermione praised, noticing his mistake. "But there's six isn't there? You, me, Hermione, Remus, Sirius and Peter" Lily asked, also spotting the mistake. "Yeh, so now we have a problem. Only five people are allowed in the common room at any one time. Unless Dumbledore added an extra space for the extra occupant though that's doubtful... I could always ask him?" James suggested, but Hermione shook her head. "He might be busy... But we could always invite two of them and not tell the third?" Hermione suggested instead and the other two head students nodded in agreement.
"Dibs Remus" Lily shot out and James raised an eyebrow. "It's just he's sensible, and I can actually talk to him..." she answered meekly. "Yeh and Peter creeps me out... a LOT. So we should invite Sirius!" Hermione added. James nodded, "We should pretend they have detention if Peter notices they're gone." James said, hating that he had to hide something from one of his friends, but glad that he wasn't coming - he wasn't very good at social interaction. He just creeped people out.
"So what are you going to do Potter?" Draco asked, as he eyed up Ginny in the mirror. "I... I dunno. I can't risk just hoping that Hermione will make it back to this time. I have to go back, to make sure she's safe. But if I do, I won't end up with her. The happiest scenarios are with her and without my family, or with my family and without her and siriusly what is in that mirror?! Because it looks A LOT like you're checking out the occupant..." Harry asked, siriusly scared for Draco's mental health. "My future wife. Pure blood to make the family happy. Not that it matters, father's dead, us and mother are dancing on his grave" Draco answered smiling. "Who is your future wife?" Neville asked suspiciously, Luna was the most beautiful person he had ever met, and if Draco was even considering marrying her, he would have to break his face. "Only the most beautiful person I have ever met." Draco answered smirking-until, of course, Neville punched him in the face. "MERLIN! You're with Luna, I was talking about Ginny!" Now it's Harry's turn to punch him in the face. "MERLIN! You said you were happy for her to date who she pleases!" Draco shouted back at Harry. "Oh I am. I just really wanted to hit you, it didn't seem fair that everyone else is allowed to, first Hermione, then Neville, and Merlin knows that Ron is going to do a great deal of hitting every time you look in her direction..." Draco flinched at the mention of Ron and Harry smiled. "I've made my decision. I'm going to see if Hermione is okay, and I'm going to figure out a way that we can be together!" He pledged as he turned to the mirror, smiling at Hermione and waving his wand, "Dextrum Iniuriam"
"Sirius, Remus! Hey" Hermione smiled as she called the two over to her, leaving Peter to stand by himself in front of the tree. "So we're having this little party type thing, just a little get together, you two and me, Lily and James. Only problem is Peter can't come..." She said as the two stood with her. "He creep you out too?" Sirius asked, it was a common problem, "Yes, but that wasn't the problem... It's the whole 5 people being the maximum capacity thing." Remus nodded in understanding. Whilst Sirius just winked, "I get it, It's got nothing to do with the fact that he creeps you out." He winked again and walked off chuckling. "He doesn't get it, but I don't want to shatter the illusion..." Remus said quickly before heading back to a pouting Peter Pettigrew.
"Are they coming?" James asked quickly and slightly out of breath, stood by the sofa. Hermione looked at the two. Lily was leaning back against the arm of the sofa, also slightly out of breath. "No way! I know why you guys sent me. You just couldn't wait to get it on could you?!" Hermione said laughing.
"We should probably get some butte beer or something for the celebration..." James said as he sat beside Lily on the sofa, Lily just smiled, biting her lips slightly. "We should probably clean the place up a little bit too..." James suggested as Lily leaned closer, wrapping her arms around his neck, smiling now. "We should probably do something..." James suggested a final time before giving into her scent, she smelt of lavender and it was intoxicating. He was literally breathing her breath, she was so close, and he wanted her soooo bad. "We should probably kiss..." James said and Lily closed the gap in between them, catching his lips with her own and pulling him back, "We should definitely kiss." She answered, finally breaking the kiss. "We should definitely do that again." James smiled, playing with a button on her shirt, undoing it slowly, before moving to another. "Mmmm, that sounds like a good Hermione!" James stopped in confusion, "A good Hermione? Oh shit, Hermione!" He said as he jumped up, Lily scrambling to redo the buttons he pulled undone. "Are they coming?"
"I can NOT believe you guys! James, well actually yeh, that makes sense. But Lily?! You're smarter than this. Can't believe he persuaded you too... No way! You did this?!" Hermione said in shock, smiling slightly. "You! Have ruined her!" Hermione said, pointing at James, he just smiled at the floor, raising his hands in mock apology. "I am APPALLED!" Lily giggled embarrassed, "Lets go get the boys ready for their 'detention'" She smiled nervously.
"I can't get a good enough view to hex them!" Bellatrix complained from round the corner of the Gryffindor tower entrance. "I know they're definitely going to be here!" She shouted, "He, he told me, that his heart belonged to another!" Narcissa cried beside her. "Yes yes, now moving on..." Bellatrix smirked, good for nothing Severus Snape, still hung up on the Evans girl. "I. I. I really liked him!" Narcissa cried again. Bellatrix turned round sharply, "YOU are a black! You deserve better! You deserve Lucius Malfoy." She promised, and Narcissa wiped her tears,"You're so lucky to have it all sorted out, and you're right, I do deserve better. Plus I guess he's kind of cute." Narcissa answered smiling. "Who's that?" Bellatrix shouted, pulling Cissy back to the real world. "That girl? Oi Potter!" Bellatrix shouted as the girl fell to the floor having another fit.
The pain is immense. Burning. All over my scars. The scar down my arm. MUDBLOOD!
She's standing over me again. With that knife. That dagger. She's crouched beside me now. Taunting and laughing and taunting and CRUCIO! Another round of white pain filling me. flashing right through me. "I don't know!" I scream. It's a lie. I'm lying and I know it, but she can't. She can't know. I can't do that to Harry, I love hiCRUCIO! Another round. I don't know how much more I can take. All I know is I want it to stop. I'm breathing heavily, my throat dry and scratchy from screaming. I can't take anymore. I'm not sure I can even scream again. And that's when I scream. I scream as she drags he knife-her dagger across my arm MUDBLOOD because that is ALL I am. I am just a MUDBLOOD. I can hear something. In the distance, but I'm loosing conciousness. I know that much. The world around me is blurred and fading. HARRY. I can hear Harry. And I can feel the white pain again. It fills me again. And my arm. It's like it's on fire. And I see her standing over me again. And andother round. "I don't know!" I scream. It's a lie. I'm lying and I know it, but she can't. Another round! MUDBLOOD because that is all I am. I am just a MUDBLOOD. I can hear something. HARRY. I need this pain to stop. My eyes flicker open, back in the real world. I see Harry and I know it's going to be okay. I kiss him but he pulls back. I am just a MUDBLOOD. "Hermione, are you okay?! She hallucinating. Lily, she thinks I'm him!" I hear in the distance. My eyes flicker shut again, shut in that world but open in another, as the pain fills me again. I can hear something. HARRY. "Hermione are you okay? Of course you're not! Piss off Bellatrix, we need to get her to the infirmary!" My eyes flicker open. Ginny! No, Lily. It's Lily and James. and Bellatrix? She's standing over me again. And the white pain fills me again. And it burns. It burns so much. The pain is immense. Burning. All over my scars. The scar down my arm. MUDBLOOD! And it stops.
"This happened the other day, in the infirmary as well, I don't know what's happening. We need to get Dumbledore, but first we need to get her help." Lily said as she ran with her wand raised, levitating Hermione with James. "It started when Bellatrix cam over. Maybe it's like shock? Bellatrix did that scar on her arm. The one that started bleeding, there was so much blood..." James rambled. He was scared for Hermione. She was unconscious and barely breathing and there was so much blood.
Hermione's eyes flickered open and the first thing she saw was Harry. James, she corrected herself. Blinking and sighing. Until she opened them again, green eyes. "Harry!" She shouted in delight as she wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling him in for the biggest hug she could muster. He had a different sort of greeting in mind however, a greeting that came to light as she pulled back and he kissed her. Her arms wrapped around his neck again as they kissed as if they hadn't seen each other in decades... well. \cough/ Hermione pulled back smiling at Harry's frown. "Neville?! and... Mafoy..." James and Lily looked at each other perplexed. "So that's my son?" James asked.
A/N: The italics paragraph will become clear later if not now, and all the Sirius puns are intended 'Siriusly' Do you think the trippy italics paragraph was too much? I think I may have repeated stuff too many times but ah well... I hope you liked it anyway, and hopefully you'll review? :) And also, where are you guys reading from? - So I can make updating more convenient
A/N2: Oh my, that was a massive mistake, hopefully nobody noticed, but ah well if they did. I accidentally for one sentence paired Neville and Ginny up. WOOPS! The next sentence contradicted, correctly pairing up Neville and Luna. Also, add me on BBM - 7C13AB7E
