The Girl Who Lived Again
By Fairydust Future
This story is mine, the characters and the world belong to J.K. Rowling. This is just hobby writing work as a fan of the Harry Potter Series. I do not intend to earn any monetary profit from this work. However if still J.K. Rowling or the publishers of the Harry Potter series have an issue with my posting this, please contact me and I'll remove the work.
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Despite the Dark Lord falling, a lot of Death Eaters escaped. They rallied once again to systematically wipe out all those related to the Order of Phoenix. This happened within months, as soon as their guard went down thinking they were safe from the Dark Lord's tyranny. When Harry and Hermione are attacked, Harry goes down fighting and Hermione, with little Teddy in her arms ends up years in the past. Now she has to decide to either let history play itself or to turn everything upside down and forge a new path.
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Chapter 1
"Run Mione! Get out of here!"
"Not without you Harry!" she shouted over the mayhem.
"There are anti apparition wards all over the place! You'll need a distraction to even have the chance to get out! I can't lose him too Mione, you need to get out of here now!"
"And I can't lose you! You are the only family I have left!"
"I'll be right out after you but you need to go NOW"
Before she could convince him otherwise, Harry Potter started running in the opposite direction, firing one spell after another.
And she ran, not caring about the numerous injuries that were hurting her almost to the point of being unbearable, holding the little crying one year old tightly to her chest. She had almost reached the door when a hex caught her leg and brought her crashing down on the floor. Her reflexes forced her to hold and wrap the child in her arms protectively rather than use them to stop her fall.
It was with horror she saw the gold chain free out of her blouse with the fall and the time-turner attached to it crash into the floor while she fell on top of it.
Before she could feel the pain from the glass cutting into her skin, she heard the words "Avada Kedavra" and turned to see the boy who lived, and lived again, fall to his knees with a blank look on his face.
"NOOOO!" She heard herself shout, before it all went dark.
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Hermione Granger woke up with a start and had to immediately close her eyes because of the blinding light.
"Oh dear wait a minute!" Someone said out loud. "Now open your eyes dear"
Hermione slowly opened her eyes again and took in the sight before her in the dimmed light. She was still in Grimmauld place.
"What was she doing in Regulus Black's room," she wondered.
Kreacher certainly made sure the room remains the best maintained in the entire God forsaken place. They rarely went in there but this looked much less dated than before. And then it all came crashing back to her! The breaking of the wards, intruders firing hexes to kill, anti apparition! HARRY! Oh my God, no no no, TEDDY! Oh my God TEDDY! And she leapt out of the bed she was in, frantically trying to figure out where her wand was, where Teddy was!
"Where is Teddy? What did you do to him? I swear I'll kill you if you harm a hair on his head!" She picked up the vase on the table as a weapon and lunged at the old lady in front of her!
" Stupefy", she heard a male voice call out from behind her and it all went dark again.
The next time she woke, she was bound to a chair and instead of the old lady, she came face to face with a man, a wizard, considering the wand in his hand. She had never seen him before and yet he looked familiar.
"Welcome back to the land of the living Miss… "
"I'm sure you know very well who I am you b****** ! WHERE IS TEDDY?"
"I actually do not know you. I can understand why you would think I do but let me assure you my brother goes through enough of floozies like you for me to no longer be interested in who he slags around with. And assuming by "Teddy" you are referring to the kid, well he is sleeping in the other room with my house-elf keeping an eye on him. I assure you he is safe. So if you would kindly tell me why you decided to drop into my home, half dead, bleeding all over mothers carpets, with a death grip on who I can only assume is my brothers illegitimate spawn considering that you were able to get through the Black family wards, well I can release you and you can be on your merry way out of my home"
"What?" Hermione's eyes widened.
"Oh he does go for the dumb ones!" he sighed exasperatedly.
"If you are looking for Sirius, he is with the Potters so I would greatly appreciate if you get out of this house before my mother comes back and I get to witness a murder in my own home."
"What?" She felt dumb, not understanding a word of what he was saying.
"I called a healer to sort out your injuries. I had to pay her extra mind you , not just for discretion but also because the patient attacking the healer was not covered in her existing clause. She said you had slicing hexes all over your legs and would have bled out of your life if you had not been treated immediately. You also had glass embedded in your chest. Probably from some trinket on your chain. She says it will take a while to heal and you might be left with a scar." Didn't have clothes to change you into so she scourgified you to get rid of the blood on your clothes."
Hermione listened to him talk and the minute he said "glass", something clicked. She looked down her bandaged chest and the familiar hanging silver chain, there was no time-turner attached to it!
"Oh my God!" She gasped.
" 'God?' Oh Merlin, you are not pure blood are you? My mother really is going to Avada you!"
Hermione looked up and before she could make sense of what was happening, she heard a piercing cry.
"TEDDY!" She heard herself scream. "Unhand me! TEDDY!" Her magic began swirling around her!
"Kreacher!"
"Yes Master"
"Bring the baby here"
Kreacher nodded and popped out before popping back with a bundle emitting ear piercing cries in his arms!
Before Hermione could get over the shock of a clearly much younger Kreacher calling the stranger "Master", she felt her bonds vanish and rushed to take Teddy in her arms.
"Shhh sweetheart, it's okay it's okay! I'm here, I'm here, you are okay, you are safe, it's going to be okay, it's going to be okay." She kept repeating and swaying Teddy lightly until she could hear him calm down and stop screaming.
She looked down and saw leftover tears on his cute little face. He had changed his hair colour to match hers and she couldn't help the tears falling out of her own face.
Teddy looked up at her with his big round eyes, still watery. "Meeni" "Arry?"
And that finally broke her. She fell on her knees and couldn't stop crushingly hold Teddy while her tears kept falling.
"Harry" or rather "Arry" was the first word the one year old had learnt to say. Harry, her first real friend, her only family left, he was gone, and she was all alone, clearly years back if she were to look at Kreacher.
She slowly dried her tears and began clicking together the pieces in her mind. The time-turner broke, she got transported somewhere, she is still in Grimmauld place, this is Regulus Black's very much seemingly in use bedroom. That means the person in front of her is… "Regulus Black" she said out loud.
He did not seem surprised by her recognition. He spoke of a brother. Oh God Sirius is alive! He is with the Potters! Regulus thinks Teddy is Sirius's baby! Why? The wards! Noone but a Black could enter it in this time, she assumed. Teddy had Black blood through Tonks.
"Thank you for your, eh, hospitality, sorry to bother you, if you could hand over my wand to me, I'll get going."
"Not so fast" Regulus said calmly while watching her and Teddy with a fascination on his face.
"Who are you and does my brother know you have birthed his spawn?"
Hermione was taken aback by the blunt question.
"This is not Sirius's baby. And who I am is of no concern to you. Could I please have my wand back." She needed to get out of here. She had no idea what exact year this was, she didn't want to end up being in the same house as death eaters and who knows, maybe an invited dark lord. That thought brought a chill down her spine and a phantom prickle on her marked arm.
"Do you think I'm an idiot? This house allows only black blood and those accompanying black blood family. Your son is a Metamorphmagus, a known Black family trait. And you decide to come to Grimmauld place when you are in trouble. So tell me why you are not with my idiot of a brother right now?" he almost shouted but couldn't hide the concern towards the end.
"Teddy is not my…. Sirius is not his…. " She took a deep breath. "You know what, you can think what you like. As I already said, thank you for your help, I appreciate it, now give me my wand and I'll be on my way" she said forcefully.
Teddy seemed to have fallen back to sleep after tiring himself out with all the crying and probably feeling safe now that he was held firmly to her chest once again.
"As you wish" he said resigned, handing over her wand to him.
He seemed to look longingly at Teddy and something within her mellowed. This was the guy who defied a homicidal dark lord, most possibly just to avenge his house elf. And he got killed for it. She really needed to know the year, maybe she can do something about it. Or maybe not, bad things happen to those who meddle with time! But on second thought, what kind of a world would she be saving? One without Sirius, Professor Lupin, Fred, Harry? Oh Harry! No she couldn't think about that right now! she once again blocked out the image of Harry lest she breaks down once again right there. She had to stay strong for Teddy, he depended upon her, they both had just each other in this time!
"Thank you", she said while pocketing her wand.
"Regulus" she said slowly, "You are a good person. I'm sorry I can't tell you more about us but he isn't your nephew. He does have distant Black blood but you wouldn't know his parents. Coming here was just an accident. Goodbye Regulus. I'll appreciate if you'll keep this meeting to yourself. You take care of yourself," she said with a small smile on her face.
He seemed to be taken aback by what she said but she really didn't have time to deal with that. Facing an alive Walburga Black was the last thing she wanted to do so she held Teddy closer to her and apparated to the first safe place she could think of.
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