A/N: Ok, to start out, this is by far the most depressing thing I have ever written in my life, I'm a happy person, it doesn't matter how angry I am, I always see the glass as half-full, not empty, so this chapter was difficult for me to write. But anyways, ok please update, constructive criticism is welcome, and you know if you want to flame me, I won't take it too personally, well okay I'm lying, but I won't send the mob out! Tootles! :)
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Hermione and Lavender left that night, and when Harry found out he was devastated. The Hogwarts express was leaving that day, and Harry was going to visit his parents, and as sad as he was, he couldn't help but be excited. When he stepped onto King's Cross, he didn't see his parents so he began to walk around with hopes of seeing them. He felt a hand on his shoulder and spun around to find Mrs. Weasley staring at him.
"Hello dear! Your parents are this way!" she said leading him off the platform and out into the parking lot. When she stopped Harry saw his mother immediately, he broke out into a smile and ran for a hug.
"Nice to see you too, sweetheart!" Lily said. "Grab your trunk, and let's head home." Lily said turning towards the car. Harry smiled both inwardly and outwardly it was their home, his home. Harry had always had the Dursley's to call home, but it was just a home in the physical form, but for Harry home was always Hogwarts, where people are that love you, not like the Dursley's that hated him. Now Harry had another place to call home, a place where he had parents, a family, and for the first time in his life, he was looking forward to Christmas. As Harry headed home, he couldn't help but smile, despite the problems with his relationship with Hermione, he was, for the first time since he could remember, truly happy.
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Hermione sat in the front pew of her local church, watching the priest give the sermon. Since she arrived there people had come up to her and told her how sorry they were that this had happened. People that she didn't know, partners of her parents, family she never knew she had. People, who she would have known, if she had not gone to Hogwarts.
As the day went by, Lavender stood by her side and saw the struggle in her eyes. She was thinking about whether or not she should go back to Hogwarts or not. Lavender knew this struggle, she had faced it once, after the rise of Voldemort, her parents had expressed their concern about her being Hermione's roommate, but ultimately left it up to her and she had returned. She hated letting her friend go through this alone, but she knew she had to.
Lavender excused herself as they entered Hermione's house, well, it wasn't even hers anymore, they had sold it and she had to be out before next week. Hermione headed up to her bedroom and opened the door surveying the room. The walls were covered with Gryffindor things from her past years at school, the school that kept her from her parents. She walked over to her bed and looked at the picture of her, Harry and Ron in third year. She picked it up and fingered Harry's face, then Ron's. They were her life now, and she didn't even have Harry anymore. In a rage she flung it across the room watching it shatter. As she fell onto her bed and began to cry she looked at the pieces of glass on the floor, they were obviously beyond repair, just like her life.
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Lavender heard the noise upstairs and ran immediately. When she opened up the door she saw Hermione curled up on her bed crying her eyes out.
"Hermione…" Lavender began
"I loved them so much!" Hermione sobbed.
"What?"
"My parents, I loved them so much, and they didn't even know it, they died because of me, because I was so selfish, that I didn't think of the consequences of dating Harry!" Hermione said still curled up on her bed.
"What are you talking about?" Lavender asked, coming closer.
"I killed my parents!" Hermione said squeezing her eyes shut. When she didn't hear a response she looked over to where Lavender had been, only to see nothing.
"Get up!" she heard from beside her, and felt Lavender pulling her out of bed.
"Lavender…what are you doing?" Hermione asked incredulously.
"Hermione, I understand you lost your parents, and I understand you won't get over it…ever, but I will not stand around and watch you pity yourself. I refuse to watch you screw up your life by blaming yourself." Lavender said.
"WHAT LIFE?" Hermione screamed, "I DON'T HAVE A LIFE ANYMORE! I lost my parents because I wanted to be happy, and I lost Harry because I wanted him to be happy. I have nothing anymore and you know what, I regret the fact that I ever met Harry, because for once in my life, he's right, he only ended up hurting me in the end!"
Lavender couldn't believe what she was hearing, "You can't mean that…"
"Of course I can, and I don't even know why I thought bringing you here would help things…" Hermione said, "You have no idea what I'm going through, you have no clue what it's like to lose someone close to you!"
Lavender's rage just skyrocketed when she heard this, "You know NOTHING about me!" she said in a tight voice, "You don't know what it's like to be me and you don't know what I have been through to become the person that I am today." Lavender said walking towards the door and pulling it open, "And you haven't lost everything, you're just too blind to see what's right in front of your face!" she said walking out of the door and slamming it shut. Hermione knew she was right but she couldn't help but cry harder, she had chased the only other person who still cared about her, and as she fell asleep her body racking with tears, she didn't hear the door open and close and the footsteps of someone creeping upstairs.
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Harry was really getting use to this family thing! He had always had the Weasley's, but this was different, it was his family, not Ron's. Despite his happy surroundings he couldn't but let his mind drift to Hermione. He was to go back to school in a few days and he hadn't heard anything from her or about her. He had kept in touch with Ron, but apparently he hadn't heard anything from Lavender or Hermione, and it was worrying him.
"Harry?" He heard his mother call up the stairs, "Harry, get down here, NOW!" Harry could hear the panic in her voice and ran down the stairs.
"What, what is it?" Harry said seeing the looks on their faces. He saw that Lavender, Sirius and Remus were in the background in addition to his parents.
"Do you know where Hermione is?" Lily asked Harry.
Harry looked at her, "Last I heard she was going to her parents' funerals with Lavender, why has something happened?"
Lily and James exchanged looks, "Lavender and Hermione had a fight, and Lavender left the house to calm down, but when she returned the house was a mess, and Hermione was missing!" Harry's rage was evident in his eyes as he looked at Lavender.
"You left her by herself?" Harry said in a very calm voice.
"Yes, we fought I needed to calm down, I didn't know that someone was gonna come and kidnap her, Harry!" Lavender said in a sarcastic voice. Harry seemed to be pushed over the edge; Harry lunged towards her and grabbed her by the throat and slamming her against the wall.
"Where is she?" Harry yelled at her. He was soon pulled off by his father and Sirius.
"HARRY!" Lily yelled running to Lavender, "Are you mad?" she said turning to Lavender.
"Harry, that was uncalled for!" James said turning on Harry, "I know you weren't raised well, but I had hoped that you knew better than that."
"James…" Lily said
"Hang on, I can't believe that you would do that, not only is she your friend but she is the only link to helping us find her!" James said ignoring Lily.
"James…" Lily repeated.
"Now, we have no way of knowing how to get to Hermione or anything…"
"JAMES??" Lily yelled.
"What?" he said turning to her.
"She's not waking up!"
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Hermione didn't remember much, she just heard footsteps and as an immediate reaction she hid from them. She heard them tear the house to pieces, she just hoped they would take what they came for and leave it at that, but somehow she didn't think they would.
"Where is she?" someone hissed.
"Our sources said she was here, maybe she left!" a weaker, familiar, voice said.
"For your sake you better hope she didn't get far!" She heard the other voice say followed by retreating footsteps.
Hermione waited where she was hiding, she knew that they would be close so she had to do this carefully. She opened up the closet door and stood up walking out of the closet; she quickly got the things she needed and ran out of the house, stopping and getting the things Lavender had and a few of her parents belongings before exiting her house.
She knew there wasn't much of a chance she would make it to Godric's Hollow, but she knew some place else that would take her less time to be there and be just as effective. As she ran there she could feel the panic kicking in, and every time someone looked at her she couldn't help but wonder if they were a death eater or not. She turned the corner, and looked around before stepping in between doors 11 and 13 of Grimmauld Place. After muttering a few words a door slid into place and she hesitantly entered.
"Hello?" she yelled, she felt weak and she felt her lack of sleep catching up with her. "Is anyone here?"
"Hermione?" a voice said from behind her. She spun around to see Sirius and smiled.
"Oh, Sirius!" Hermione said running to him, "You don't know how glad I am to see you! Death eaters, they attacked my house…I don't kno…"
"Hermione, Hermione! We already know, we were just searching for you, I better floo Dumbledore!" Sirius said turning to the fireplace, after a few minutes he returned, "He said we should go to St. Mungo's, to…"
"Sirius I am fine, I don't need to be checked over!" Hermione said, all she wanted right now was sleep.
"I know, but we're going anyways, so come on!" he said ushering her out the door.
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Harry was sitting down with his head in his hands; he couldn't believe what he had done. The healer said it could be days or weeks until she woke up. His parents had apparated to Hogsmeade and were going to Hogwarts to see if they could contact Lavender's family. Harry heard a noise and he looked to the door to see a sight for sore eyes standing in the doorway.
"Hermione…" Harry whispered.
Hermione walked to Lavender's bedside, "What happened?"
Harry stood and put his back to the door, "She came to Godric's Hollow, and she told us you were gone, and you don't know how good it is to see you…"
"What HAPPENED?" Hermione screamed.
"Well, she said she didn't know where you were, and I freaked out!" Harry said desperately, "I didn't mean to, it was just in a moment!"
"The healer said you may have crushed her vocal chords, he also said you slammed her head and it could be weeks before she woke up! What were you thinking?" she said turning to him, "I want you out!" she said pointing towards the door.
"You can't mean that!" Harry exclaimed.
"OUT!" Hermione yelled, when Harry didn't move she walked towards him, "I SAID NOW!" Harry suddenly went flying towards the wall only to stop before he hit it.
"HERMIONE!" she heard a voice bellow. Her eyes shifted from Harry to the woman slowly lowering him to the ground, "Harry, dear would you please excuse us?" Harry, recovering from shock slowly left the room, only leaving Hermione to face the woman.
"What did you do that for?" Hermione asked her, "He almost killed Lavender!"
"No, he didn't, and it was just an accident!" the woman said.
"Persiam, you know as well as I do what the healer said…" Hermione said
"True, but I also know one thing; the healer said you wouldn't wake up either." Persiam said, "She'll be fine, she will just be out for a while! Now onto more pressing matters, that was some display of power back there, you wish to explain that?"
"I just let my emotions get the best of me!" Hermione said not looking her in the eye.
"Oh, rubbish, you know that, that was something you have never done before and something that you will never do again!" when Hermione tried to protest, Persiam held up her hand, "Hermione, you don't understand where that power is coming from, and if you continue to use it, you will become evil, and nothing that you do or say will change that!"
"Where is the power coming from that is so evil?" Hermione asked, still confused.
"Hermione what you must understand is that the book, it like to bind itself to one person, so it can corrupt you, make you do things that with better judgment you wouldn't do, and if I hadn't stopped you, you may have killed Harry. No matter who you are Hermione, muggle or wizard, once you kill someone, there is no turning back!"
"What are you saying?" Hermione asked.
"I think its time that you talked to Harry!" Persiam said walking over to Hermione and walking her to the door.
"What about?" Hermione asked opening the door.
"Ask him about the prophecy!" she said before slamming the door in Hermione's face.
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