AN: Sorry about not posting sooner I needed a vacation from all the writing. Anything you recognize is not mine.

Ron POV

I stared in horror at Harry and Hermione as blood seeped through their clothes. Hermione had tears running down her eyes and Harry was clutching at his arm his face pale.

"What happened?" Harry asked through clenched teeth.

"Splinched!" Hermione gasped more tears pouring down her cheeks. "Dittany – small bottle – bag – hurry!"

I scrambled around and grabbed her little beaded bag thrusting my hand inside. One object after another grazed my fingers. It was amazing how much Hermione had fit in here. There were books and clothes, canned foods and games, shoes and something that shocked me when I tried to grip it.

"Quickly!" Harry gasped pressing his hands against the spot Hermione had been splinched. I grabbed my wand and pointed it at the bag.

"Accio Dittany!" A small brown bottle zoomed out of the bag into my hand. Harry was holding Hermione close to him her eyes shut.

"She passed out." Harry whispered his face paler than I had ever seen it. I quickly unstoppered the bottle and poured a few drops on the skin. A moment later the skin healed and Hermione's body seemed to relax.

"What happened?" Harry asked taking the bottle from me and pouring a few drops of Dittany onto his arm. He shuddered and blew out a breath as the skin grew back.

"Yaxley had caught a hold of me before we disapparated. He would have been with us in the Forest of Dean. I shook him off and apparated us away. Unfortunately you two were splinched in the process." Hermione groaned and her eyelids fluttered.

"How do you feel?" Harry asked pulling her against his side. She gripped his arm and I frowned. They looked a little too comfortable together.

"Wonderful." Hermione muttered, an impish smile spreading across her face.

"Wonderful?" Harry asked lifting an eyebrow in question. Hermione smiled again and pulled out a heavy gold locket. I sat up in shock my stomach swooping happily.

"We have a horcrux." I whispered my eyes widening.

"And we have a basilisk fang." Hermione said a large smile spreading across her face. I whooped happily and went to hug Hermione when Harry beat me to it. Harry wrapped his hands around her tightly a soft smile on his face. I clenched my teeth and glared at them. What the hell was going on with them? Harry was supposed to be in love with my sister and Hermione with Harry's godfather. I shook my head, no they didn't care about each other like that. They couldn't... could they?

Neville POV

I walked into the great hall holding tightly to Hannah's hand, her whole body seemed to be shaking in fear. She was nervous, we all were. Life at Hogwarts would be dreadful now that Snape was the Headmaster.

I walked over to the Gryffindor table clutching tightly to Hannah's hand. We sat next to each other ignoring the other tables. Ginny and Luna sat across from us firm looks of determination on the faces.

"What are the chances we'll get yelled at for not sitting at our house tables?" Hannah asked her eyes darting around nervously.

"Rather likely." Ginny said shoving her hair over her shoulder.

I barely listened as a new teacher smiling darkly sorted the first years. All I could do was stare at Snape. He sat in his chair as if it bored him to do so. How could he possibly do this? Stand to be where the greatest wizard of our time had sat only a year before.

The food appeared on the table and I ate sparingly of the wonderful food before me. It was quieter in the great hall than usual and it seemed all the houses except Slytherin were smaller than usual. Muggleborns. There weren't any in the school. The most notable was Hermione.

The food was gone and Snape stood up slowly a small gleam in his eyes. "Welcome to another year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You will find that there will be some changes this year." Ginny and I exchanged a dark look, we had known something like this would happen. "First, we will be having two new teachers this year. Professor Amycus Carrow will be in charge of what used to be Defense Against the Dark Arts which will only be Dark Arts now and Professor Alecto Carrow will be the new Mudblood – I mean Muggle Studies teacher which will be mandatory."

"SHE KILLED SARAH!" A little girl yelled eyes wide. It was deadly quiet for one moment then everyone started to talk at once. I turned to Luna and Ginny my mouth open in shock.

"I thought she looked familiar." Hannah whispered.

"Death eaters -"
"Merlin what are they doing here?!"

"Can they really allow this?"

"I wanna go home!"

"SILENCE!" Snape boomed his voice echoing around the room. Everyone stopped talking at once. "Miss Thompson you have just demonstrated rule number two. Professors Carrow will be in charge of discipline and the old punishments."

I dropped my head into my hands my stomach doing flips. Hogwarts had changed already. I watched as Filch came forward to grab the girl. He pulled her up smiling nastily at her.

"NO!" I yelled jumping up my eyes flashing. She was not going to be whipped if I could help it.

"Stand down Neville." Seamus whispered his eyes fearful. I turned to glare at him. How could he stand it? How could anyone stand it?

"No! Leave her alone." I yelled glaring at Filch.

"Mr Longbottom." Snape purred his eyes glittering. "Please come forward."

I walked forward slowly glaring at Snape. He stared back a small smile on his face. Could this possibly be the same man I had dueled last year? Snape nodded and Alecto walked forward and gave a small giggle. "Crucio!"

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