"What the fuck is Malfoy doing here?!" Hermione demanded from her bed, which she was now sitting in as she looked around the room furiously. "And why aren't you in your bed?!" She demanded immediately after and Harry sat on the end of her bed instead. "Him being here is an accident. However I think there is something he would like to say to you." Harry soothed and Hermione scowled in Draco's direction. "I would like to apologize for being a major-" He started to apologize but Hermione cut him off, "Dick?" She offered. "I was going to say bigot, but dick will suffice. I can't change the past, but I would like to move on and hope that we can be civil if not friendly towards each other for Ginny's sake." Draco said quickly. It took a moment for Hermione to process the information but quickly raised her wand, raising an eyebrow in a scary manner, "And why, pray tell, is it for Ginny's sake?" Hermione inquired scarily. Draco gulped and spluttered, "Because we are together, in mutual love without the use of a love potion or the imperious curse which we have both joked about on numerous occasions?" He offered but Hermione twisted her wand over her finger, walking over to him and now holding it underneath his chin. "Try again." She demanded angrily and he gulped again. "Please can I date your friend, I really like her, and I PROMISE My intentions are pure." He offered, closing his eyes and bracing himself for the slap that never came. "Ginny told me weeks ago, whilst I'll admit, I was seething, I trust her judgement." Hermione grinned as Harry pulled her back into her own bed. "I missed you so much." Harry smiled as he kissed her. "Hello? Guys! I also just appeared out of thin air!" Neville said and Hermione laughed.
"So how come you're here anyway Neville? Not that I'm not happy to see you, its jut I expected to see... Well, you I guess. How's the war anyway?!" Hermione asked, as the reality of the other... reality? dawned on her. "I did it Hermione, I defeated lord Voldemort" Harry said grinning. "Again." Hermione added as she leaned in to kiss him. "I helped... I actually contributed quite a lot actually." Neville said, smiling proud. "I also sort of helped," Malfoy shakily added, which caused all three student to stare at him as if he'd grown a third eye. "Voldemort stayed at your house..." Neville said slowly. "It's a little bigger than a house," was the only argument Draco had, he should have gone without. "You said his name" Hermione said suddenly, trying to get the conversation as far away from Malfoy Manner as possible, and failing miserably. "Yeh, I'm not scared anymore. Once I realised that the more we act in fear of the name, the more fear the name itself possesses, I decided that I would no longer be afraid to use the name, and it would no longer be scary." Neville answered, still smiling naively. "Once you realised? YOU REALISED? Neville, not to sound harsh, or anything but I'VE BEEN TELLING YOU THAT FOR YEARS!" Hermione snapped, n=but her anger was short-lived as the group of people coughed from beside her. "Of course, Harry, these are your parents..." Hermione introduced.
"No more please father! I don't want to do all of this pure-blood ritual nonsense! I want to be a healer! I want to help people! I want to marry the women I fall in love with, not someone you decide is good for me." Lucius shouted back at his father, who hit him in return. "You dare talk to me like that child! You are my lesser! You don't not speak to me unless I tell you... to speak to me! Do you understand?!" He demanded. Lucius just got up off the ground, "NO! I refuse to live by your standards father! I will not marry that Bellatrix witch! I am in love with Narcissa, I don't care if she's not the heir. I LOVE her. And I will not have you dictate my life ANY LONGER!" Lucius fought back but it was no use. His father kicked him hard in the shin, before punching him in the face. Grabbing his wand as his son fell to the floor. "MUGGLE OR MAGIC?" He demanded, and Lucius pleaded, "Muggle, please father, Muggle!" He begged. "Filthy blood traitor, I bet youd go muggle in a heart beat. Look at you. You're pathetic and as far as I am concerned, I HAVE NO SON! CRUCIO!" He shouted and Lucius screamed on the floor. His back arching in the agonising white pain that filled his body. "CRUCIO!" his father screamed again before kicking him repeatedly in the ribs. "You disgust me child!"
"Harry? That is your name right?" James asked slowly, as of Harry was a small child. "Yes. And you are my father?" He asked just as slow, in return. James nodded. "Are you, are you my son? Or are you James and someone else's son?" Lily asked carefully, she didn't want to intrude on someone else's family moment. "Yours." Harry answered just as carefully. Apparently not careful enough though, Lily fainted. "Sirius? and Remus?! This is soo weird, I think I need to sit down." Harry said as he sat beside Hermione. "I have some chocolate, It makes you feel better," Remus said and both students smiled, remembering their first encounter on the train.
Hermione stood at the doorway, watching the young Harry sat on the floor, staring into a mirror. The mirror of erised. She remembered reading about it in a book. The happiest person in the world could use it as a normal mirror, everyone else will only see their deepest desires. I shouldn't be here, watching him. I should leave. I have to go to the library anyway, I have to keep researching Nicholas Flamel. People might die if I don't, Harry might die if I don't. I have to go. And with that she left, wondering what it was that Harry had seen in that mirror.
"You've got her eyes. Lily's eyes I mean" James said in attempt to strike up a conversation. "You're a bully" Harry blurted. "I'm sorry but, do you know how hard potions has been? I barely passed, and Hermione's grade was in jeapordy because YOU bullied Snape in school! All of you!" he snapped again, instantly regretting it. "I never bullied him" Remus answered, shocked that Snape was a proffessor at the school, and not DADA but Potions. "No but you just stand there whilst they do, and you do NOTHING to stop them. You told me recently that, that is one of your biggest regrets. The fact that you allowed your friends to bully, it doesn't have to be a regret though. You can change that now. In Fact I'm NOT talking to any of you until you apologise!" Harry lectured as he sat back next to Hermione on her bed. The three boys stormed off out of the infirmary. "Does Dumbledore know you're here? I mean, I was in bed rest for days and you're just walking around." Hermione asked confused. "See, when I hit you, you were laying on the floor, but when I got us, we were all stood up, so we landed on out feet, and you landed laying down I'm guessing." Harry answered, upset that he'd hurt Hermione but finding the humour in the whole situation.
"Well, I guess I landed laying down, I landed on your dad actually" Hermione smiled, as she rested her head on his shoulder. "YOU!" She heard and she turned round quickly, falling off the bed. "Not so funny now is it?!" Lily laughed, but they had bigger problems, Draco was holding a barely concious Lucius up by his collar. "You sick twisted bastard, You RUINED MY LIFE!" he screamed as Hermione scrambled up off the floor, "DRACO STOP! Or I will use force!" She warned but Draco didn't let go. "Put him down NOW! Draco stop! STUPEFY!" She shouted and both boys fell to the floor in a heap. "What the fuck was that?" Neville shouted confused. "Lucius' father beats Lucius, so when Lucius grows up to have Draco, he beats him. It's a vicious cycle that needs to be stopped" Hermione answered whilst panting heavily. "How long do you reckon he'll be out for 'Mione?" Harry asked and she shook her head. "Blimey, that was one powerful spell" Lily said, befor laughing at the fact Hermione had fallen off the bed.
"So I'm dead?" Lily asked quietly, Harry nodded, "You died to save him" Hermione reassured her and she smiled, "So me and James, we...?" Harry shuddered, "Yes. And we need to make sure that happens as planned, if you don't conceive Harry on the correct date he may cease to exist. I'll work out the date if you like," Hermione said giggling at Harry's reaction, "Well, I can hardly do it." James said as he entered the infirmary.
"Snape is willing to forgive and forget if you do" He said to Lily and Snape stalked into the infirmary, Remus and Sirius following him. Lily smiled gratefully before slapping him hard across the face, "If you EVER call me OR anyone else that hateful word, Merlin help me." Lily said before hugging him, Severus smiled and hugged her back. James just coughed, "Where's my hug?" He grinned, and she hugged him too. "I think we were about to do something before we were rudely interrupted earlier" Harry winked and Hermione smiled, and kissed him.
