September 1st 1994
Harry and Ron were chatting with Ginny when they saw Hermione come through the barrier onto 9 and ¾. She must have been running very late as the Weasley's had been early and still among the last to board the train.
Ron started laughing after staring for a second slack jawed at Hermione's new look. She was a lot shorter and more petite than she had been when Harry had last seen her. She had been sick all summer so couldn't join them at the World Cup which was something Harry had been worried about.
When she walked up she glared at Ron, "What's so funny?" She hissed out at him. Her voice had gone up in pitch which just made Ron laugh even harder.
"Oh my god Herm what happened to you? You look like a first year and if your voice goes up in pitch any higher only dogs will be able to hear you."
She shook her head at him and stomped onto the train. Harry noticed that her trunk was floating a few inches off the ground and not actually being drug by her.
"Uh Ron you might want to calm down and not make fun of her. I don't think she's going to run to the bathroom crying this time."
Ginny nodded her agreement as she had noticed the trunk as well.
Catching up with Hermione they found her comfortably reclining across the seats in the compartment. She looked up when they came in and glared at Ron. He started to walk in but his pants fell down around his ankles causing him to trip. She giggled at that and Ron glared at her.
"I think I'll go see what Neville's doing." He said pulling his pants up before marching off.
Harry and Ginny sat down carefully. Harry studied his best friend a bit more closely. She was sitting there letting him do so. Her eyes had golden glittery flecks in her burnt honey brown eyes. Her hair had golden highlights in its brown and instead of being a curly frizzy wave it was smooth rivulets cascading down to her shoulders. Her ears had slight points to them.
"So what do you think Harry?"
"I think you changed somehow this summer."
She smiled and hugged him, "Yeah I was working with a disappearing potion and cheated by setting some of it in the microwave. Well that was bad and I basically am a fairy now."
"What? Cool. But you look mostly human. I mean different, cute."
"Thanks Harry but this is my human form. Or as close to it as I can get without using other glamours and stuff. But they get tiresome. So do I look like a first year to you?"
"No not really. I mean you're smaller than you were, all over, but you still look like a teenager."
Ginny looked at her friend and shook her head, "No you look like a cute petite teen. I mean you still have curves that a first year don't have."
"Thanks yeah. I'm a B cup. Unless I use magic to make them bigger this is my normal size. I stand four foot tall too. Again this is my human normal form. If I take my fairy form my proportions stay the same only I'm like four inches tall."
"Whoa. That's small." Harry said imagining it.
"Yeah you wanna see. Only thing is my clothes don't shift with me. I'm working on an outfit of some kind but I need to study a few more runes because they are the most useful for enchanting objects."
"You can't just use a charm to change them when you shift?"
"I can shrink them after I change but I have trouble getting them to shrink with me. I might need to keep practicing but I just managed to maintain this form for an extended duration recently."
"So how do you look as a fairy?"
She looked at Ginny who shrugged, "Okay shut the curtains and lock the door."
Once the steps had been taken Hermione disrobed completely. Harry had begun to look out the window when Hermione smacked him across the back of the head, "Hey you might as well look okay. I don't really mind. I've spent most of the summer naked."
Harry took a breath and turned around to look at Hermione. She smiled and stood in the middle of the compartment where she made sure Harry saw everything before she stood up holding her arms out. She began to shrink and shift as her features changed a little bit. Large iridescent dragonfly wings unfurled from her back as she used them to fly up to Harry and kiss his nose when she was done shifting. Landing in his lap she looked up at him.
"So what do you think?" She said in her high pitched reedy voice.
"Uh wow Mione. You look neat."
"Thanks plus guess what I'm still a witch and can do magic just wandlessly. Plus the Fairy magic doesn't activate the trace."
"Nice."
"Yeah really."
She flitted around the compartment for a time. Landing on Ginny and crawlign in her cleavage causing the girl to laugh as Hermione's wings tickled her she said.
Coming back to Harry she landed in his lap then shifted into her human form so she wound up straddling him. "So uh you wanna be my boyfriend?"
"Uh uh. You're naked sitting my lap. What do you expect me to say?"
"Well yes?"
"Uh yes." Harry managed to stammer out as parts of his anatomy began to react to her sitting in his lap.
Hermione began kissing him on the lips. Ginny said she'd go see how Ron was doing only for the two of them to not even notice. She sighed as her hopes of being Mrs Harry Potter flew out the window.
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By the time they arrived at the station Harry and Hermione had fully certified that they were each other's. When she came back to Human she stood a little bit taller at 4'6" a measuring charm reported but otherwise she was still slender and willowy.
She found Ginny and asked her to keep it secret which the red head agreed. Ron wasn't the only one who insulted and made fun of her but Neville and Harry as well as Ginny remained her friends. She also had a small blonde Ravenclaw come up to her one day.
"Hello fairy girl."
"Excuse me?" Hermione asked quickly.
"You have the aura of a fairy. Don't worry I won't tell anyone."
"Thank you who are you?"
"I'm Luna Lovegood. Can I be your friend?"
Hermione felt something calm and comforting coming from this girl. A sense of love and honesty that made her happy to be her friend.
"Yes you can be my friend. Now how would you like to meet the rest of my friends? They would love to be your friend too I bet."
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Luna became their friend, even though Ginny already knew her. With Hermione transforming into her fairy form in front of them quite often. Neville blushing until he got used to it. She did manage to get a pair of knickers to transform with her at least. She said that was sufficient for now.
She also learned how to turn invisible which came in handy when she decided to flit around the castle and see what was going on.
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Harry woke up one night with a light pressure on his chest after a small buzzing noise.
"Wah? What's going on?" He asked grabbing his glasses off the headboard as he heard a light giggle come from the gentle weight on his chest.
"Hermione what are you doing in here?"
She shrugged, "I got bored and wanted to see what you were doing. Having a good dream apparently." She said walking down his abdomen to the tent pole in the blankets and leaning on it. Harry gave a shudder as she did that.
"Uh yeah. I was dreaming about you ok."
"Yeah." She was biting her lip again, which Harry had figured out indicated she was deep in thought, then flitted into the air, "take your blankets off and expose yourself Harry. Please."
"Uh why?"
"I wanna do something. Okay?"
Looking at the four inch tall fluttering girlfriend of his he was curious what she wanted to do but willing to play along. Soon he was bare and she landed walking down to his privates.
Laughing she gave it a hug with her entire body. "Well if I had a size fetish this would be wonderful." She said as Harry gave a groan.
"Geez Mione you're not even as tall as it is. What are you going to do?"
"I wanna experiment. You don't mind helping me further my empirical research do you?"
"Uh no but I don't want you getting hurt either."
"Thanks dear."
She hugged him again then began to jump up and down. After only a few minutes she was coated in the resulting emission.
"Oh geez wow. Talk about messy situations. She said before she cast a cleaning charm on herself and Harry. He was panting too hard to do more than chuckle a bit. When she shifted to her human form and was pressing against him he stopped chuckling and got very serious.
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Hermione took to frequently visiting Harry in his dorm invisible and flying. As she was able to crawl under doors and join him in bed she didn't get caught. For long private conversations and some fun times. Although she never tried the fairy form fondling again, declaring it way too messy.
She did tease Neville one morning while he was getting dressed but she left most of that to Ginny as she had begun to consider Neville as her boyfriend more than anyone else.
Ron though kept having issues. His shoe laces tying together, his trousers falling and other little pranks. Until he blew up on his brothers horribly one day when she confessed to him what was going on. He stopped talking to her.
The Tri-wizard tournament came to Hogwarts and Ron stopped talking to Harry after his name came out of the Goblet. Harry was not bothered by that as he missed Ron but was not going to change if Ron refused to understand.
Hermione's ability helped greatly when it came time to figure out the first task as she discovered the dragon's even before Hagrid showed them to Harry. Hermione had tried to figure out a way for her to be able to help Harry during the first task but the rules said he had to be able to do everything himself without outside help during the task itself. However until the whistle blew to begin the task he could have others advise, and help him. So she snuck into the tent in fairy form helping him with a few last minute spells and ideas when she saw what sort of dragon he had to face.
Harry managed to barely retrieve his egg but hadn't been as foolish as to try and out fly a dragon. Especially one that was scary as frak. Fortunately Hermione's plan had worked mostly. He had to to make a few modifications on the fly but was still glad when she ran up to him in her human form.
The Yule Ball was amazing as Hermione looked beautiful. She was able to talk to the fairies that were being used as decorations which irritated her. Especially when she caught Draco and his friends torturing one. Coating them in ice she and Harry helped the fairy back to its clutch. She said they would defrost by morning.
She noticed in her fairy form her magic was far more powerful than in human but she didn't want to flit around the school as a fairy. Not just because Snape would have loved to take her wings for potion ingredients but after Draco and his cronies tortured the one at Yule she did not trust them to do something worse with her.
Harry eventually figured out his egg with the help of Cedric. Hermione apologized as she didn't recognized the merspeech, it was one of the languages she didn't do. Which was ironic when she wound up at the bottom of the lake as Harry's hostage. He worked fast and rescued her. Krum had danced with Pansy Parkinson to the annoyance of Draco. Even more so when she wound up on the bottom of the lake. Cho was rescued by Cedric. The small blonde girl he had seen with the French champion had not been rescued as the Half-Veela girl had been overcome by the kelpies in the lake being a fire and air based creature her magic went haywire underwater.
Harry had just about ran back into the lake when the mer-folks brought her to the surface. Harry felt rather sheepish thinking that the hostages were actually in mortal peril.
The third task was handled by Harry readily and he arrived at the cup alone. He went to the graveyard where he encountered Riddle and witnessed his rebirth. He managed to escape and return. Everyone swarmed around him and there was no distractions that caused Harry to be led off alone.
The fake Moody pulled Harry aside as he was heading for the dorms from hospital unaware that Hermione was sitting in his pocket in fairy form having visited him. When she heard Moody transform into Crouch she popped out of the pocket and stunned him. Telling Harry to go get Professor Dumbledore she watched him.
The professors knowing about her fairy form did not react but called Aurors causing her to have to retreat to the dorms. Crouch was taken into custody where he was accidentally killed by a hungry Dementor.
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Hermione had discovered that while fairies couldn't apparate they could fly very fast and far as well as ride on owls so she was with Harry that summer and had him take the Knight Bus to visit her when she couldn't visit him. Her parents wanted to meet him and said he was a very nice boy and approved of him.
They were spending the afternoon together at the movies when the Dementors came to Little Whinging and killed the Dursleys. This left Harry homeless so the Grangers took him in to Hermione's great happiness. Her fairy abilities letting her join Harry most nights tot he point her parents finally gave up and just said they could share a room as long as they didn't give any grand-kids.
The fifth year at Hogwarts brought a troll to the school in the guise of a person. Dolores Umbridge was a horrible horrible creature that everyone agreed needed to be dealt with. Hermione using her abilities began to work on gas-lighting the witch until she was casting at shadows. The twins jumped on the bandwagon and helped Hermione with her pranking not knowing it was her.
Umbridge eventually went too far and in her panic and anger cast an unforgivable Imperious on Fred in front of too many people to get him to reveal who the pranksters had been. Fudge was unable to sweep that under the rug and she went away to Azkaban.
When Voldemort tried to use the mind link to make Harry think Sirius was in trouble she was able to get him to calm down and contact the professors to talk to Sirius. After some miscommunications they managed to get the Death Eaters to fall into a trap from the Order that not only cleared Sirius by exposing and capturing Pettigrew but revealing that Voldemort was back.
Hermione had protected Harry with her magic sitting on his shoulder or flying near him, her small size and high speed making it incredibly difficult to hit her. She had flown under Bellatrix's legs and cast a stupefy straight up her skirt. Lucius she tore through his robes and out the other side showing he wore Scottish underwear under his robes. That allowed Ginny to throw a shrinking charm and Luna to cast a common sewing spell sticking him with pins all over.
Voldemort fled though when faced with the full and combined might of the entire Order and Ministry forces that had arrived. He abandoned his Death Eaters to their fates.
Dumbledore had Harry help him get Slughorn to tell him how many Horcruxes Riddle had created which with Hermione's help casting Glamours he did.
This allowed Dumbledore to teach Harry about the Horcrux and the history over Riddle over a weekend and they began to work on hunting them. They figured out that they had a link to the school or the Founders.
Hermione found the locket at Grimmould by talking to Kreacher fairy to elf. As the Order had seen her at the battle. Ron was shocked that she was a fairy but did not apologize for his words or actions. Having started dating Lavender who was less mature and more flighty but more fun and at least normal. He said that last just before Ginny hustled him out of the room lest Hermione turn him into a frog.
Harry and Dumbledore retrieved the ring with Harry preventing Dumbledore putting it on. They managed to destroy it without destroying the stone within which seemed important to Dumbledore.
Hermione had begun to flit around the castle searching for clues and found the come and go room's room of hidden things version. She called the others and they found the Diadem which was destroyed soon to the disappointment of Luna.
Seeing that Bellatrix was Riddle's third in command Dumbledore used wartime powers to interview her under veritaserum and deep mind probe. They discovered the cup in her vault and after some negotiations with the Goblins they were given it to destroy.
The final battle came the summer of 1996. The order was at full strength as was the Ministry. They fought through Hogsmeade when Harry was hit with an AK as Hermione had been knocked down by a blast of cold iron dust.
Neville killed the snake with the sword of Gryffindor just before it managed to eat Hermione. When asked how he got the sword he said Dumbledore told him to use it. He helped clean the dust off Hermione who returned to her strength at about the same time Harry woke back up from his conversation with his parents he had in the afterlife.
Neville and Harry struck at the weakened and Mortal Voldemort at the same time so closely that it was impossible to tell which struck him down a spell from Harry or the blade from Neville. Either way Voldemort's headless body fell to the ground lifeless and the wizarding world celebrated.
Hermione's secret being irretrievably revealed during the battle she finished her schooling flitting back and forth in forms. Her uniform being enchanted to change with her under orders from Professor McGonnegal.
After school her and Harry settled in a nice house in the country not far from Wales. Out in the wilderness and with plenty of other fairies and magical creatures for Hermione to get to know and associate with. Her and Luna developing a magical creatures preserve to protect them. Ginny Longbottom helping them eventually after her Quidditch career so she would have an easy commute from her home.
Harry and Hermione had several kids whose fairy abilities manifested at the same time their magic did. Her pregnancy did not inhibit her form shifting at all. Harry found it funny to see a heavily pregnant four inch tall fairy.
Ron had married Lavender and they had several kids but he failed out of Auror Academy and wound up manager of the Hogsmeade joke shop while she worked at the Three Broomsticks. They had 6 kids together and seemed happy enough.
Luna married someone named Scamander who had lived in America she met on a field expedition to Canada.
All in all being married to a fairy Harry would later remark was not all that bad. Even if she did find new and interesting ways to make his life entertaining.
