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Chapter 24: When the daughter helps the mother
Hermione was more than happy to return to Storybrooke soon. She loved Hogwarts sincerely and deeply, but this city had something more precious to her heart: a family, a real family. There was Henry who stayed in her mind as well. It was stronger than her, Hermione kept thinking of the young man. True, he was her brother, adoptive but still. She should not think of him in such a way. Before, her mind was turned to Ron. Yet the Gryffindor had come to understand that he was more of a brother to her and that anyway, it was not a boy made for her.
After much research in the reserve, and despite her first impressions of failure in the field. Hermione had finally found a tiny book in a dark, dark corner of the room. This book was a key on many elaboration of antidotes unique to the magical pathology of the person. The young woman had come up with a list of what she needed and how she should prepare the potion. She still had to recover the ingredients that made her badly defects.
"You should ask Professor Snape." Proposed Luna.
"I thought about it, you know. However, I do not see why he would help me, I'm not from his house and it's well known that as a Gryffindor, he does not appreciate me."
"Even if it seems like a crazy idea, I think it's the only way to get everything you need." Ginny added.
"He's still an expert on potions, Mione." Harry started. "And even if I do not like to admit it, the success rate of your potion will increase if you have the help of Snape for the elaboration."
Hermione nodded, looking at Ron, waiting for something he could say. The wizard seemed too much inked in his article on any Quidditch team. Following the advice of her friends, she advanced to the dungeon of her potions teacher. It had never been a place she had enjoyed in the castle, but for once, she went there looking for help and not as a simple Gryffindor extending her knowledge. She knocked on the door, waiting for an invitation to come in.
"Who is it?" Sounded a voice on the other side of the door.
"Professor? It's Miss Granger. I'm sorry to bother you but I'll need you for a personal project."
Hermione thought that by posing as being unable to do anything, Snape would jump at the opportunity to show her that he knew more than she did. He opened the door and the young woman could not repress a recoil.
"And what is this project Miss? It interests me greatly, especially if you think you are too bad to succeed alone."
Bingo! Hermione knew how to make his ego twist, all that remained was to stay, for once, in her position as a student dependent on her teacher. A very difficult thing for the teenager.
"It's related to ... to my biological mother, teacher. She is a witch who, for some reason, has taken a potion of sterility in her youth. According to her, it has no antidote. So I'm trying to create one."
"Your biological mother? So you are not a muggleborn?"
"I only know it recently, but indeed. It's a very long story that, I'm sure, does not interest you so much. But I really need you for the potion."
Snape was greatly tempted to help her with her potion. Certainly, all the potions of sterility he knew had fairly simple antidotes despite some ingredients difficult to obtain. He was curious to know what the potion in question was. He wanted to ask the Gryffindor a lot of questions, but he did not want anyone to think he was interested in a 'red and gold' life.
"Do you have the ingredients of the potion? And how to prepare it of course."
For any answer, she handed him her parchment.
"Strange, I do not know this potion ... I see you have another parchment, what is it?"
"The ingredients of the antidote, I deduced them by reading a book on the subject. But preparing the potion is not something I can improvise."
He gave her a small nod. It was obvious that a 4th year did not have the necessary knowledge to improvise such a thing. Even if he had to admit that Hermione was an extremely promising witch, something he would never admit to her, she was still a young student. Rogue would then take up this challenge, officially for the sake of proving to her that she does not know everything but informally to study what the young woman was capable of apart from her band of idiots which served her as friends. After two study sessions on the subject, Hermione and Snape realized the potion she kept with her until she left for the train that brought her back to her mother.
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During Hermione's class, some things had happened in town, Cruella and Ursula had been living there for a short time. It was not Regina's taste that was fearing for her children's life, just like Robin's. With the arrival of her daughter soon, she would have to be careful that her two former accomplices do not break the relationship they had built.
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It was in this context that Hermione arrived in the city. Having insisted not to disturb Regina with this long journey, she had been brought by Arthur Weasley. After a few steps in the city with her suitcase in hand, she came face to face with the two witches who immediately recognized Hermione's features resembling those of Regina.
"This is the prodigal daughter of our great friend." Smiled Ursula.
"May I know who are you?"
"Ursula and Cruella, we are your mother's friends. So she did not have the decency to tell you about us? Yet, from our side, we have so much to tell you about your dear mother." Cruella added with a dark face.
Hermione groaned and prepared to say that she did not want to know anything from the two women, but her mother materialized next to them.
"Come back to Hermione again and I swear you'll be expelled from the city as quickly as you got there."
"We were just giving a little history lesson to your daughter, my dear!" Exclaimed Cruella.
For any answer, Regina led Hermione by her side and teleported them to the other end of the city. It was not the reunion that the old Queen had hoped for, but at least she had her daughter by her side and was going to train her to defend herself. After all, you had to expect everything with two of the three Queens of Evil in these streets.