AUTHOR NOTE: Hermione has a timely encounter and get s a bit of an upgrade.
Johnathon Deller: Thanks. Glad you enjoyed them
Bezerklittlecook: True the relationship between Angela and Hermione was rather complicated. I know the stories are a bit formulaic but it was the shtick I went with. And yeah some of them could be expanded out and I may do so someday, or I may not. Which again if anyone wants to take a crack at it go ahead. Just send me a link if you do so I can see how you did it.
Stevem1: Yeah not every marriage is a fairy tale. As for harems and multiple co-monogamous relationships they are pretty much like any other in my experience, it all depends on the people involved and how willing they are to work on things. But glad you're enjoying.
Yuiopdon: I have some other ideas that go off the formula in the notebook. I'll expand them in due time I think.
Darksnider05: Well I was trying to intimate that harry was going to try and play the social game but in less than 10k words sometimes things get compressed too much.
Dennisud, officerdonNZ, n0wa5t3r: Thanks.
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Consciousness slowly returned to Hermione. She felt strange and a slight chill on her body. She smelled the strong tang of antiseptic and ozone. Listening she heard the rhythmic beeping of monitoring machines and an air flow device. She was curious as to what sort of hospital would leave her naked and exposed.
It wasn't until she went to open her eyes and move her body that she began to feel a panic as she could do neither of those things. She couldn't even scream. What had happened to her. How was she going to live. The beeping must have been her heart monitor as it started to increase.
She heard someone come into the room and rapid steps to her bedside.
"Hermione. Please relax. The neural pathways must not have fully integrated into the wetware of your body. Just calm down and relax. Breathe with me okay. In, out, in out." The female voice chanted. Hermione tried to do as she said and soon was feeling a bit calmer.
She tried to open her eyes again and this time they slowly blinked into clarity. She was looking up at a soft white ceiling. Slowly stiffly she managed to turn her heard to see a tall slender woman with brilliant green eyes and silken blonde hair smiling at her. A little box outlined her face and suddenly she knew this woman was named Selina Daris, age 28, medical technician 3rd grade, Granger Institute.
Granger Institute? That caused more confusion until she felt a data flow that told her all kinds of information about the Granger Institute and how it had been founded in the year 2005 by Harry and Hermione Potter to support magical and technological research in support of the integration of the wizarding and magical worlds. She blinked several times until all the data went back to sleep or wherever it came from.
"Okay. Welcome back. Just relax and don't try to speak yet. You've been through a major trauma and your mind and body are trying to balance out as they integrate. I'm glad it has worked out so well."
Hermione nodded as she started feeling sensation spreading back through her body. The woman was poking and prodding her, in a few sensitive places that made her wonder just how much trauma had she gone through.
"Okay I'm detecting autonomous nerve impulses and feedback synchronization in all of her extremities. I think we have full integration."
"Okay Hermione could you please raise your right arm?" A disembodied male voice called out over a speaker of some kind.
Hermione frowned at being on display briefly but since they were medical professionals it was only briefly. She went to slowly raise her arm and it flew up. She felt it like it had moved from one position to the other with no in between movement at all.
"What?" She cried out in surprise.
"Okay slow it down. Think about moving in a more normal way."
Hermione furrowed her brow and slowly lowered her arm. They had her do that with all her extremities until she was allowed to sit up. Carefully as she felt an energy in her muscles that was like a coiled tight spring.
"Careful. There's been a few enhancements made."
"What kind of enhancements?"
"Well I'll let the Director explain most of that. She knows about all of the various things that have happened and has been waiting for you." She said holding out a jumpsuit.
Hermione hopped off the table and found herself smashing into the wall on the side of the room. Shaking her head as she picked herself up.
"Let me guess I'm stronger?"
chuckling, "Stronger, Faster, more durable, more endurance, among a lot of other things yeah."
"great dad would love me now."
"I'm sure he loved you before this."
"I know but he's a sci-fi geek."
"Yeah I know."
"Oh. I guess since this place is named the Granger Institute and Harry and I started it you know a lot about me?"
"You're regarded as a hero ma'am."
Hermione felt odd at being called ma'am by someone almost twice her age. Getting dressed and sliding the slippers on she nodded as the woman led her out of the room. Walking down several corridors they passed through several sets of doors and two airlocks before coming into a more administrative section instead of a working hospital area. She saw plenty of other people walking around and doing things she didn't understand. Some of the devices seemed to be magical, some technology and some strange blending of the two. What was more curious was that she could stare at an item or person and then suddenly know almost everything about them.
Her escort tapped on a door marked temporal operations director. Entering the room Hermione saw a tall austere woman with graying red hair and a smattering of pale freckles. Reaching for whatever part of her mind had been supplying the information she discovered she was talking to Madison Weasley. Age 45. She smiled then frowned. Trying to figure out what the date was she saw a clock floating in front of her that said it was 1534hrs on May 7th 2321.
Stopping walking she stared at that date. She felt her mouth drop open and all the blood rush out of her face.
"Yes Mrs Potter. I take it you just discovered the clock calendar function?"
"That date. Its three centuries into the future."
"Yes and so are you. If you'd like to sit down I'll try to explain."
"Please do."
"Okay let me begin by saying you are not dead. You were not dead either. Although when we brought you forward you were dying."
"How? The spell that Dolohov hit me with?"
"Yes. Even though you silenced him the spell was still strong enough to burn your body from the inside out. As the spell is designed to kill its target slowly."
Hermione raised her hand to her chest. "So how did I get here?"
"Well we had been researching time travel as part of our interstellar drive projects. So the facility was in a protected time stasis field at the moment the timeline shifted. Which was fortunate as its a rather unpleasant dystopia outside the field."
"How did the timeline shift?"
"We are not certain how or why. From what we've been able to figure out in the original timeline you barely survived the battle at the ministry and the war. Married Harry potter and founded the Granger Institute. For the last three centuries we had peacefully integrated the magical and mundane worlds, heading out into the solar system and are just getting ready to send the first interstellar ship to Alpha Centauri."
"Okay that sounds like a good thing."
"Yes it does. 90 days ago we activated a static time bubble as part of the drive test. We think that may have caused some of the troubles as several of our personnel vanished and suddenly on our communications beacons the outside world had shifted and changed. A dark empire ruled by a harsh and tyrannical Dark Lord existed. We have not been able to physically exit the time field but all of the data we have managed to gather indicates that your death was the catalyst for this change."
"My death? Why my death?"
"Because the Dark Lord outside this facility is Harry James Potter. A dark king ruling over a conquered Earth. After your death he lost his moral compass. He had no reason to hold back or listen to Dumbledore and began a scorched earth campaign against both sides. He took Dumbledore's army and turned them loose. Those who would not join him he slaughtered. Eventually he began to dabble in immortality to ensure that the peace her had developed would remain. As he's the Master of Death that's not difficult for him to do."
"So you brought me forward and dumped me in this, whatever it is?"
"Your new body is a nano-molecular bio-mimetic gel over a depleted promethium skeleton. It has all of the normal biological functions simulated right down to your internal organs and sweat glands. All under your conscious control, although you can let it run automatically. You have an enhanced quantum memory core that is integrated into your prefrontal cortex allowing you instant recall and recognition. You can even use poly-juice and your body will adapt. As all of it is magically reactive. So you are still a witch with a fully functional magical core."
"Yeah but I'm not alive. Am I?"
"Well aside from any philosophical questions which are not my department I would say if you are capable of asking that questions that answers it.
Holding her hand up, "Yeah but I mean having a child or breathing or any of the other biological functions?"
"According to the schematics of your body you are a fully functional female. That you will be able to have children, although you can control your fertility and prevent getting pregnancy unless you willingly choose to do so. No monthlies. When I said you can take full conscious control over your body functions I meant it."
"And eating and related to that?"
"Well yes you can eat food, drink, absorb energy from sunlight through your bare skin, absorb electricity, absorb power from the ambient magical energy. The schematics of your body is amazing."
"Great so I'll be an immortal."
"I have no idea. I know as of 90 days ago I had never encountered or met you. Which if you were an immortal I would think might have occurred."
"I guess."
"One other thing happened 90 days ago when we activated that field. A data file that was time locked and security sealed to you and your magical aura appeared in our computers. I hope it can answer your questions better than I can ma'am."
"Okay so how do I access this."
"Well according to the data you just place your hand over the black plate and think about it."
"Don't you know?"
"No. Part of the data file for your body and information to place in your database appeared at the same time we activated the drive. With instructions on what we were supposed to do."
"Okay." Hermione shook her head and did as they said she should. Within microseconds she was in the Gryffindor common room.
"Whoa this is realistic."
"Thank you. I worked hard to get the look and feel right. I thought you'd like to have someplace familiar to sit and chat over this."
Hermione turned and saw a middle aged version of herself sitting calmly at the study table.
"You did very well. Or should I say I did?"
"Probably best to think of us as two separate people. At least it will make the verb-pronoun-tense agreement structure make sense easier."
"True. So what happened?"
"Their experiment messed things up. It caused ripples through space-time that basically un-wove the fabric of space-time. So we wound up having a predestination paradox and a bootstrap paradox both occurring with us."
"Great so like when we did the time-turner in third year to save Sirius."
"Yeah only think over three centuries worth of echos."
"Great so I have to go back in time to repair the stability of the temporal loop and ensure that things work out."
"No you are going to break the loop. This is the 475th iteration of the loop. I am fucking tired of doing the same thing over and over. So I developed the body you are now in. I'm still a hundred percent organic. Well technically you are too. But there is a data file in there on how to fix anything that happens. Which as tough as you are it would take a lot to do. Dragon fire won't do more than give you a serious sunburn. We're talking fiendfyre or the AK or a nuke. Try and avoid those."
"Thanks. Back to this breaking the loop thing?"
"Okay. Previous to this I've been going back to the battle of the ministry and trying to fight it differently. We can't. I always get injured, survive it, they pull me forward heal my wounds and send me back. This time I gave you an upgrade. Use it well."
"So you can't tell me anything?"
"Well since you're going back to the tri-wizard and preventing Riddle from getting a body to begin with anything I tell you would be useless. I have installed a data file on the horcruxes, everything Dumbledore knows, who the Death Eaters were. Basically everything I have been able to uncover ever about him."
"Okay and its in here?" She said tapping the side of her head.
"Yeah. Basically your mind is user friendly and all you have to do is just think about it. Call up the data. You also have a targeting reticule, IFF, among a few other things."
"Oh wow. Great. And if something changes in the database?"
"It'll update with a thought. Like I said your brain is very user friendly. And I made sure that they couldn't Asimov you or put in any secret directives. Your soul is basically infused into that new body."
"Oh. Okay. But what about children or dying or growing old?"
"There is an aging protocol. Its mostly cosmetic so you wont have to worry about arthritis or anything. And you can self-terminate unlike the one in the movie. But yes you can have kids and grow old and die and go on to the next great adventure as Albus called it."
"Gee thanks. Dad's going to go nuts about this."
"Well I might be choosy about who I tell this to. One trying to convince them and two if you did what kind of tests they would do."
"True. I'd rather not wind up a guinea pig."
"Yeah you can tell Harry about some of this. I think he'll be okay. Although I tried to explain the predestination paradox and the time loop one night to him. He grabbed Ron and Neville and went on a drinking bender that had the aurors dragging them home three days later. Luna and Ginny were not amused."
Hermione chuckled. "Well yeah I can see that."
"Okay well I don't have anything else in this briefing. Just look at the data files, keep your head up and take care of Harry. I know you'll do your best."
"I have one more thing. Do I need to create the Granger institute and all or should I just not do that. So we can break the cycle totally?"
"Do what you think will be best. I'm done. So you can decide for yourself. I grant you free will again." She smiled sadly.
Hermione chuckled at the older one of her. "So will I see you again?"
"Only in the mirror dearie. I copied as much of my knowledge as I could so in some ways we'll be together."
Hermione got up and hugged the data file version of her.
"Shh its okay. Now go save the world."
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Hermione was standing in the transport chamber waiting. "Uh how is this going to work?"
"Well we are going to send you back to the exact same quantum temporal coordinates as the you from that frame of reference. When you arrive your new self will overlay the old self and she will cease to exist while you take her place."
"I really am beginning to hate time travel." Hermione sighed as she stood in the chamber.
"Sorry. It is a rather interesting learning curve. You either get used to it or you have a psychotic break and don't worry about it anymore."
"Well let's get to it."
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Hermione woke up on August 18th 1994 according to her internal clock. She looked over and saw Ginny sleeping in the bed beside her. She sighed and expanded her hearing to find Ron and Harry snoring in the next room. Arthur and the twins across the tent. They had all gone back to the tent to sleep as the game was still going on and from the cheers and cries it was still apparently going on.
She never did understand the fascination with the game but then it was a bit too free form for her liking. Harry liked it and was very good at it so that was her only interest.
Standing up she did some stretches and apparently an internal diagnostic routine which was going to take some getting used to. She didn't notice anything out of the ordinary so she bent over Ginny and looked at her. Using her as a test. Her vision suddenly had all kinds of data and stats. Which she thought about filtering and organizing as she was looking at Ginny she snapped her eyes open with a start. "Gahh." She recoiled and reached for her wand beside her on the floor.
Hermione whipped her hand down and back snatching the wand before Ginny had even moved more than an inch. She giggled and then handed it to Ginny.
"Mia not funny. I had a weird dream. Just don't do that again."
"Okay no problem. Sorry." She bent over and kissed Ginny on the nose then went off to get cleaned up.
Outside the bedroom she thought about it and at this point her and Harry were still friends. Ron was clueless and Ginny still had a partial crush on Harry. That was all going to have to change.
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Hermione stepped outside while everyone else got dressed and ready. She was looking around and analyzing people. She was amazed at her new found abilities. She could see sharper, zoom in and focus on what someone yards away was doing. Sense the ambient magic energy, as well as potential threats.
"Hey Mia breakfast is ready."
Hermione smiled as the new world begins today. She walked in and saw Harry sitting at the table. She had not bothered with a bra today so her t-shirt made it a bit obvious. Ron was watching her walk in so she smirked at him as she sat in Harry's lap draping herself over him. Before taking his face in her hands and kissing him on the lips. He resisted for a moment then kissed her back.
The twins were silent for a moment then began to applaud and whistle. Ginny had dropped her coffee mug and Ron started choking causing them to break apart and watch Arthur tend to him.
"Bloody Hell Hermione whats all this?" Ron sputtered.
"Well I've been thinking and I claim Harry as my boyfriend. You don't mind do you Harry?"
With the way she was sitting Harry had complete confirmation that she had no bra on. Hermione noticed he was becoming very happy about that, "Uh yeah. Sure I'll be your boyfriend."
She kissed him deeply again. "Oh good."
Ginny sighed and sat down.
"Well now that this drama has been settled we'd better eat quickly and get back to the game."
Hermione shrugged, "They won't win until close to dinnertime. Ireland wins but Bulgaria gets the snitch."
The twins scoffed while Ron bellow no way among other things
"Oh and how do you know that Mia?" Ginny snorted.
"A simple statistical analysis of the play and techniques during the game."
"Yeah right you want to make a bet on that?" The twins asked.
"Sure If I'm wrong I'll sing the Hogwart's song on the table in my underwear, If I'm right you'll do it."
"Fine." She held her hand out. All the Weasleys except Arthur shook her hand. Arthur just shook his head.
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Sitting in the Minister's box Hermione made sure to keep track of Harry's wand. Going so far as to take it and tuck it into her own belt when Harry wasn't looking. She scanned the area but didn't see Barty or any ripples of an invisibility cloak.
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That evening her, Harry and Arthur were entertained by the Weasleys standing in a row on the table in their skivvies singing the Hogwarts school song. Ginny had put on a bright red and gold matched set she had gotten she said from some money she had earned.
Hermione say in Harry's lap watching them put on their impromptu show but kept watching the clock. She knew the real show was going to start any minute now. She had given Harry his wand back and told him to hold on to it.
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Hermione had pretended to got to sleep like everyone else only she got up and went outside carefully. Her enhanced low light vision letting her move quietly through the tent. She had been thinking about what she would do and had decided that mercy and kindness would not work. These people would be back out in a few months and causing death, mayhem and torture to people. She would end them.
She checked the data files and the auror reports and began to move towards where the trouble had begun. She got there just as the Death Eaters began their appearance. Chanting their slogans and vile words they began to levitate the muggles. She activated combat mode and hoped that she had no glitches.
The world slowed down as she moved through the crowd of Death Eaters. She pulled the wand from the one that had been levitating the family and reversing it stabbed him in the left eye hole of his mask. She spun around and used her hand as a knife edge crushed the throat of another so hard he collapsed instantly. One tried to get a spell off at her but the jet of red light moved agonizingly slow from her perspective. Another one launched a gout of green light at her. She shoved the tall one to her immediate left in front of her causing him to take the spell and drop. She grabbed a nearby cast iron skillet and launched it at the one who had tried to AK her. The clang it made as it impacted him so hard that his head rocked backwards could be heard from yards away. The last one that had been standing nearby received a tent pole through his rectum hoisting him high into the air like a mockery of a scarecrow.
The rest of them had decided to run or apparate away. Hermione ran back to the tent where everyone was just waking up and coming out to see what had happened. She paused and made sure she was clean and shook off the combat mode.
"Hey what's going on? I thought I heard a commotion that sounded like screams?"
"Yeah. So did I. Where have you been?"
"Oh I couldn't sleep. The sight of Ron in his briefs gave me a nightmare so I thought I'd walk it off."
Everyone laughed and since the commotion seemed to be over went back in. Hermione was grumpy because while she had saved people's lives and taken out several Death Eaters Barty had escaped.
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The next morning everyone was awaken by aurors asking questions. Apparently Lucius Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, Nott and Macnair all had been killed in full Death Eater regalia by an unknown assailant.
"Blimy a tent pole up the arse! Whoever did that he must have been a beast!"
"How do you know it was a guy who did that?" Hermione huffed.
"Cause men are stronger."
Ginny rather loudly disagreed with that, "Oh yeah I can brew a strength potion that would make me as strong as Hagrid. So chill out Bro."
"Really Ron just because girls may be softer doesn't make us weak."
"Oh yeah right."
"I bet I could beat you arm wrestling." Hermione smirked at Ron.
"Yeah right. What're the terms."
"Loser has to wear their underwear on their head until dinner."
"You're on."
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Molly greeted her returning family happily and worriedly as the prophet had talked about the minor riot and lamented the deaths of so many members of wizarding society.
"Ron why are you wearing your Y-fronts on your head?" She asked though when she saw him as everyone else stood around snickering.
"Its a new muggle fashion Hermione was teaching me."
"Yes Mrs Weasley. Its all the rage in London."
"Well this isn't London get them off and go put them on properly."
Hermione laughed but nodded, "It would be a good idea Ron."
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Hermione was not thrilled when they got to the school and saw Barty Crouch pretending to be Moody. She would not be gentle with him that was for sure. He was the one that put Harry's name in the Goblet and ensured that he would win so they could use his blood in the ritual that would bring back Voldemort.
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One evening not long after their return to school, on her way back from the library where she had pretended to be doing research she was accosted by Draco and his goons. All three of them had their father's outed as Death Eaters at the riot and they were not happy about it. They ahd followed her so she went down an empty little used corridor to test them.
"Mud-blood! You're going to pay."
She stopped and turned. Setting her book bag on the ground she smiled at Draco politely. "Pay? I'm going to pay for what?"
"My father got killed at the World Cup."
"Oh yes I read about that. How unfortunate."
She let him push her against the wall. "You are all alone in this corridor. Shouldn't have taken this short cut."
"Oh no. What are you going to do to me. Rape then murder me. Oh help help." She sarcastically deadpanned.
Crabbe and Goyle looked confused as this was not the way victims were supposed to act. Draco though apparently didn't realize the danger he was in. "Actually yes that is exactly what we are going to do to you bitch!"
"I don't think so." She said activating combat mode and kneeing him in the groin with her full force. Her knee broke through his genitals, causing them to explode into a red paste, into his pelvic bones shoving the red paste up into his abdominal cavity. His pelvis was broken by her force as was both shoulders she had pulled down on to help drive her knee in deeper. She tossed him on the floor several feet away as he laid there whimpering and gurgling.
Crabbe and Goyle got scared but instead of running they drew their wands and both tried to hit her with cutting curses. She side stepped their spells and grabbed Goyle's head in her arm, with a single twist his head was turned around looking at his own back before she wrenched it completely off his body. She spun back around and punched Crabbe so hard in the chest her hand penetrated through his chest wall and she ripped his still beating heart out, tossing it several feet away she cast a cleanign charm on herself and picked up her book bag.
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Reaching the Gryffindor common room she double checked herself. Not seeing Harry or Ron she asked where they were.
"Oh they went on up to bed. They talked about since tomorrow is Saturday getting up and getting some flying in." Katie Bell said.
"Oh okay. Thanks."
She turned and went up to the boys dorm.
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The guys were sitting chatting about brooms and which one was the fastest or the best at maneuverability when Hermione entered the room. Seamus jumped into his bed as he was in his underwear. Ron stared at her in shock.
"Mione what are you doing up here?" Harry asked in confusion.
She walked over putting her book bag on the night stand and began disrobing. "I believe its called sleeping with my boyfriend?"
"Uh uh. uh." Harry had apparently had his brain cease functioning.
"I said sleep Harry. Nothing more."
Ron had backed away slowly but he was watching as she began to pull her uniform off.
"Just how far are you going Hermione?" Neville asked in a quivering voice.
"Just down to my knickers. They're just boobs guys. Don't you look at Playwitch magazine?"
"Mom burned the last one George tried to bring in the house."
"Oh good grief." She said reaching that level of near nudity. "See these are breasts. These are the nipples on the breasts. When you do get a girl do not focus on just these but pay attention to all of these." She said running her hands over the parts she was referencing.
Neville looked like he had lost the capacity to move. Ron was breathing hard and nodding while Seamus and Dean just starred in open mouthed astonishment.
"Harry dear. Move over."
Harry obeyed rapidly and made room for Hermione. He was confused but he was not going to argue with this. She got into bed and shut the curtains. Casting a locking and silencing charm on them.
"Sorry Harry for being so forward but I needed to talk to you, alone and without any eavesdroppers."
"Oh. Okay." He said slightly disappointed.
She laughed softly, "If you're a good boy I'll let you touch things before we go to sleep."
"Oh oh okay." He said shaking his head to look her in the eyes.
She began to explain to him what had happened to her. Where she had been. What her enhancements were. She had not even left out that she was the one who had killed several people already. Harry was disturbed a little bit by that but when he found out Draco had threatened to rape her he calmed down and swore to never tell anyone.
"So you're not freaked out that your girlfriend is some kind of biological super assassin from the future?"
"I guess not. I mean you're not going to go after anyone that isn't a Death Eater."
"No no I'm not."
"Okay and they really deserve to die."
"Yeah that's what I was thinking. So about the tournament you don;t want to get your name put into it do you?"
"I'd really rather not."
She smiled and pulling him into an embrace sighed, "Good. Now I think you deserve a reward."
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The next day the three Slytherins were found dead in the corridor. There was a massive wave of shock and surprise among the student body. Whispers and rumors but since no one could determine what happened and the aurors and professors were not speaking about it things settled back into an uneasy quiet. Although some of the Slytherin girls especially seemed to be a lot more relaxed and happier after a few days without Malfoy and his goons.
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The boys got used to her sleeping with Harry. Soon not even reacting badly when she walked into or out of the showers. The other girls laughed at her boldness but didn't tell the professors as they didn't seem to be concerned.
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Hermione had accessed the data banks for Barty Crouch Junior and discovered that he was a very nasty piece of work. Having rape, torture and arson as his favorite crimes du jour.
She came up with a good idea and one evening as he was heading back to his office she came out of an alcove. She had unbuttoned her shirt down to her belly button and rolled her skirt up high enough to be dangerous.
He stopped and in his Moody persona chuckled,
"Miss Granger You might want to button up before you catch a cold."
"Oh Barty. I won't catch a cold. Not with someone as big and warm as you are."
She was analyzing his poly-juice remaining from the magical energy he was bleeding off she figured he had at most fifteen minutes left.
"Hmm. Might want to get you a magical eye if you're thinking I'm Barty Crouch."
"Oh I have magic eyes Barty Crouch JUNIOR." She emphasized.
Barty looked around the corridor then drawing his wand pointed at the office. "IN there little girl."
"Oh goodie we're going to play a game daddy?"
He chuckled, "Kinky little bitch aren't you?"
"Oh you don't know the half of it." She purred heading into the office.
Once they were in side and the door locked she made a tactical analysis. "So where do you want me. Here or over a desk. Do you wanna spank me?" She was using a childish lisping voice trying to keep him distracted so that when he began to change she would pounce.
"Crucio." He cast.
She had expected that and turned off the pain receptors in her body. The spell hit her and she dropped writhing and moaning letting her shirt fall open. When he released the spell she panted in mock arousal, "OH daddy that felt goood!"
"Good Merlin's Balls you're as messed up as Bella."
She got up on her hands and knees grinning, "Really? That's a bit disturbing."
He began to twitch and make gurgling noises as the Poly juice wore off. He reached into his pocket to swig more but Hermione leaped and grabbed the flask. She squeezed and it was crushed.
He tried to hold onto the wand but his hands began to shake as his body shifted and reduced in form. She was not sure but he sounded like he was saying very rude things as he returned to his normal form.
She waited until he was panting after wards before she took the false leg and spinning it around choked Barty against the wall with it. Breaking his neck and crushing his throat. When he stopped moving she calmly took and stuck him to the wall. She opened the trunk and levitated the real Moody out and put him on the bed. Finding him merely dehydrated and underfed she left some water beside the bed and let him rest. They would find him in the morning.
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Their fourth year went very well. Harry's name was not called and their dancing at the Yule ball was fun and enjoyable and among everyone else. She went up to the seventh floor and opened the room of hidden things and tossed in a couple cases of Fiendfyre. Causing everything in the room to be destroyed. Leaving nothing but an inches deep layer of greasy ashes on the floor, walls and ceiling.
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The summer over their fifth year Hermione took a trip to a little house in Little Hanging. House was technically too good for the description. It was a shack. She tore through the protections and found the ring. She slid it into a package and sent it to Umbridge's house with a note that it was an ancient Slytherin Pure-Blood ring that wold signal to all who knew that the wearer's blood was the purest of the pure.
When Umbridge got the package and read the note she hastily slipped the ring on. She took only a few weeks to die in Saint Mungo's from a horrible rotting curse that was like a combination of radiation poisoning, necrotizing fasciitis and a neurotoxin. Dumbledore found the ring and recognizing it for what it was used the sword of Gryffindor to destroy it. He was forewarned about the curse by Umbridge's death so did not put the ring on.
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Vernon opened the door to find a rather nicely dressed young brown haired female standing on the door step.
"Hello sir. I was wondering if I could speak to you please?"
"Well I don't have a lot of time."
"Oh its very important I speak to you about the salvation and preservation of your life."
Looking at her long tanned legs highlighted by her shorts and her tight t-shirt he did not expect her to be a missionary although his mind did go into places with that word.
"Uh young lady take your tarts and go someplace else." he then slammed the door. Petunia huffed in agreement.
Hermione got mad and shoved her hand through the door then ripped it off the hinges throwing it through the windshield of his nice new car. She then calmly walked into the room.
"Vernon I did warn you. OH hello Harry." She brightly said. "Go pack dad said you can spend the summer with us."
"Uh sure thanks." Harry said going back upstairs.
"Now. I am Harry's girlfriend. I will know every time you insult Harry, every time you abuse Harry or neglect him. And that includes your friends Dudley."
"You're not supposed to use magic outside school."
"I'm not using magic. This is just good old natural me. You want me to use magic?"
The Dursleys all shook their heads. "Oh good. I really was hoping you wouldn't be as stupid as I think you are."
Harry came back down with his things. "I'm ready Hermione."
"Oh good. Now you have a nice day Vernon, Petunia. And remember I didn't work up a sweat breaking your door. Imagine what I could do if I got angry. You wouldn't like me if I was angry." She said as she took Harry's hand and walked out.
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She and Harry paraded on long walks all over Crawley until like she thought would happen Peter Pettigrew showed up to capture them. She blurred into action capturing him before he could shift into his rat form and escape.
Peter awoke trussed in the garage of a house he did not recognize. He was bound very tightly but sneering began to shift into his rat only he did not feel the pull of the magic to do so.
"Problem Peter?" he heard Harry Potter say from behind him.
"Oh Harry. I'm so glad you're okay. Did you know there was a traitor."
"Shut up Pettigrew." Hermione said walking around in front of him. "I have several questions and since you owe Harry I let him decide on how I was going to be allowed to encourage you to cooperate."
"Oh Harry sweet calm Harry."
She pulled a very long and sharp looking knife out of a sheath on the work bench, "He wasn't very specific as to how I could encourage you."
"Just remember Hermione you're only supposed to scare him."
She smiled a very creepy smile, "Pain is scary."
"True I guess. Okay just you get to clean up any mess." He said then went back to his seat.
"So where did you leave the Homonuculus?"
"The what?"
"The ugly little man baby thing of Voldemrot."
"I don't rightly know what you're talking about."
She sighed and began to move towards his nether regions with the belt.
"He's in the upstairs bedroom of the Riddle House in Little Hangleton guarded by his snake. Other Death Eaters take turns checking on him." Pettigrew squealed while wetting himself before he passed out.
Hermione looked shocked, "This is the brilliant Death Eater that..Wow."
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Peter was wrapped in 67 layers of duct tape with his bare left arm exposed with the dark mark in plain view. He was taken and hung upside down in front of the Leaky Cauldron on the Diagon Alley side in the middle of the night. Hermione double checking that the form locking runes she had carved into his chest had not been disturbed before she wrapped him. Soon the news was all over that Pettigrew had been found alive and that he was a marked Death Eater.
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Dumbledore was very confused by the events that had been going on. Especially as they revolved around Harry and Miss Granger. Her overly bold behavior had definitely been a curious thing. The fact that it was coming at a time when it was very dangerous to be a Death Eater was a lot more than coincidental.
He was going to have to have a talk with her soon that was certain.
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Dana and Emma came home from the office to find Hermione and Harry mounting a large snake's head on a piece of wood in the garage as well as a duct tape wrapped large box that would make noises and scream and rattle every so often.
"Uh hi guys. What's going on?"
"Oh its a summer project for school dad. Magical stuff you know. Sorry. We'll get this out of here tomorrow when we have to take it up to the school."
"Oh okay. No problem. Have fun."
Emma just looked at the snake head and went inside trying not to vomit.
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The next day Dumbledore received a visit from the very students he had been wanting to see.
"Ahh Miss Granger, Harry. What can I do for you?"
She smiled. "Well here is the head of Nagini she said pulling the mounted serpent's head out of the garbage bag, and the thing in the duct taped box is Voldemort's homonuculus. That leaves only three horcruxes left and he's mortal and can be destroyed. If being a magical construct doesn't kill him in the first place."
Dumbledore sat down with a thump into his chair. "How did you find out about those things?"
"Well past me told future me when I came from the past to tell me that so I could come back in time and destroy them to save Harry."
"Oh yes that makes perfect sense." Dumbledore wondered if she had been staying with the Lovegoods briefly.
"So one horcrux is the cup of Hufflepuff and its located in the Vault of Bellatrix Lestrange. The other is Slytherin's locket and Kreacher has that in Sirius' old home that you're wanting to use as the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix. But since Voldemort will never come back you won't need to. Get those two and Voldemort can be killed.
"What about the third one?"
"Oh yeah." She stood up and stepped away from Harry with her wand drawn. "Now this may sting a bit." Harry looked at her as she said "Avada Kedavra."
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Harry woke up on a hard floor with something smelly, nasty sounding beside him. He looked over and saw a large bloody aborted fetus looking thing laying on the floor making strange noises. He rolled away form it rapidly until he encountered something firm yet soft. Looking up the thing he encountered was his mom and dad's legs. They stood there looking at him in amusement for a moment before reaching down and helping him stand up.
"Hey buddy!" His dad said hugging him.
"Mom! Dad!" Harry shouted as he hugged the both of them crying.
"What is that thing? Where am I? Am I dead.?"
"First off that thing is part of the dark lord. It was in your head and that very loving, yet dangerous, girlfriend of yours popped it out of you with an Avada Kedavra.
"SO I am dead."
"Not quite. You're kinda in between. You can go back or you could make an eternally stupid and dumb mistake and come with us."
Harry looked at his dad in confusion.
"What your father is so eloquently putting is that you have the freedom to choose you can.."
"I want to go back." Harry quickly and firmly said stepping back from them.
"Told you he was smart."
She smiled. "We understand. Good bye Harry and while I want to see you again. Let's hope its not for a very long time."
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Harry struggled to his feet to find Dumbledore hanging from the ceiling while Hermione flipped his wand back and forth between her hands.
"That hurt more than just a little sting you know." Harry grumbled as he stood.
"See I told you he'd be fine Professor." She said as she let him down.
"Yes so I see. Quite the athletic girl you have Harry."
"Yeah I know."
"So The Lestrange vault and at Grimmould place."
"Yes sir. Destroy them and he will be mortal. You'll have to let Harry strike the final blow due to the prophesy but at that point it'll be over and we can have the rest of our lives together.
"Very well." He said as he caught the wand Hermione had flipped him. He looked at the Elder wand and sighed as he could feel that it's allegiance had changed.
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September first they arrived at the school and met Luna. Met their friends and started their year.
The headmaster called them to the office that evening. "Well Harry I destroyed the locket and the Cup over the last two weeks. So you get to finish the task."
Hermione unwrapped the box to find the construct glaring at her. "You filthy little bitch. I'll."
That was as far as the creature got before Harry swung the sword down and beheaded it. The construct dissolved into a pile of dust on the floor.
"Well that's the end of that. Now if you'll excuse us sir we'll be in our bunk."
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Hermione and Harry finished out their school years. They had no problems that other magical teens did not. Harry had begun to follow the path of becoming a Healer. Having a great desire to help people and not hurt them. Hermione though started on the path of being an auror. She had been given this body and the powers and wanted to use them to help protect and preserve people's live. Harry was worried that she would vanish or something should she not found the Granger Institute but she was certain that she had broken the cycle and would be okay. Harry trusted her and their marriage came a few years after graduation. Their honeymoon in France resulted in a baby daughter 9 months later. Her pregnancy had been a choice as she had full control and wanted to have a child just in case as she confessed to herself that while she had a 99.99% probability she wouldn't vanish she could never be 100% sure.
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20 years later her and Harry had 3 children. 2 sons and a daughter. They were very secure in their careers. She had recently become the head of the DMLE and he was department head of pediatrics at Saint Mungo's. Ginny and Neville had married and Luna and Ron had managed to figure out a way to make their relationship work. Both of them fit somehow though. Hermione confessed to her friends Luna and Ginny what her physical secret was. The two of them reacted by supporting her and keeping it secret. Especially as Ginny was an Auror too after her Quidditch career. Luna kept her Quibbler going as well as an animal nature preserve in Devon.
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40 years after they graduated Hermione was still there and had begun to show some signs of middle age, at least cosmetically. She taught defense at Hogwarts after retiring from multiple terms as Minister for magic. The muggle and mundane worlds had united and integrated by then. Harry was head of Saint Mungos. They had their first grandchild and they had had two more children another daughter and son.
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60 years after they graduated Hermione had outlived her parents. Which made her sad but accepted it. She was the headmaster for Hogwarts and Harry was still head of Saint Mungo's. Their kids and grand-kids and even a great grandchild kept the Potter name going. Arthur and Molly Weasley left them and the families moved on eventually.
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120 years later and Neville left them. Followed by Ginny a few years later. Ron went a few years after his sister.
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140 years later Luna left them in her sleep. The huge combined families all considered her the one they missed the most. A few years later Harry was laying on his death bed. Hermione aside from cosmetically looking like an ancient woman felt just the same as she did when she was young.
"Hermione. You've aged well."
"Yeah I know. I had to otherwise it could have gotten a bit awkward." She chuckled kissing and stroking Harry's gray hair.
"Can you reverse the aging process?"
"Uh yeah but why?"
"I want to see you like I remembered you. How you used to be."
She sighed and stepped into the other room. Concentrating she caused the nanites to reverse the aging and soon she looked like she did when she was 17 again. She changed her dress and came out to find Harry smiling softly at her with tears in his eyes.
"You are beautiful. So beautiful."
"Thank you Harry but I was going to come with you when you crossed over."
"Please don't not yet."
"WHY?" She asked empathically.
"How much longer can you live?"
"Well my systems are starting to slow down a bit and have a few errors trickling in. The database isn't as sharp as it once was. Reaction times are off by 20% and well lets just say healing takes a lot more energy than it used to. I'd say maybe another hundred, hundred and fifty years."
"So no time at all then."
She kissed him on the forehead. "You silly prat what are you saying?"
"I'll wait for you but there is still a lot of work you can do for humanity. Take them to the stars and all sorts of things. Maybe even give them these bodies." he said holding her hand.
"I don't know. Harry I'll miss you so much."
"I'll never be gone as long as you remember me."
"I know. But I'll still miss you."
"I'll be waiting for you. Trust me."
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150 years after Harry had passed Hermione was failing. Her body had lost many functions. She was looking old now and could not reverse it. She had used her mind to build many research projects. She refused to use the term Granger Institute calling it the Potter Research Labs. She and many of the best minds eventually developed fusion then antimatter reactors. Artificial gravity and quantum communications and transport. Blending magic and technology in amazing and wonderful ways.
She saw colonies form on the Moon, Venus and Mars. Asteroids were speeding out of the solar system at high percentages of the speed of light using engines she had helped develop. The Earth was a peaceful Eden with most industry moved off world. She had asked her great great great granddaughter to take her to Hogwarts and have one last look around. The school now considered one of the foremost magical schools in the world. With only Roanoke Academy in America and Beauxbatons in Andorra being any real challenge.
She was in the great hall sitting in her wheelchair while her G^3 daughter talked to some friends when she saw a familiar face off to the side beckoning to her. She smiled and stood up. Feeling young and energetic and whole again she took the hand of the only man she had ever loved. Kissing Harry once more he smiled at her.
"Told you I'd wait. Now let's go see our friends."
