A/N: Again, I'm sorry this took so long, but it's almost over and plus schools ending soon so I'll definitely get to finish it the way I want to without worrying about stupid school. I am planning on making a sequel to this, but I want to know people's ideas first, so please feel free to share things with me! R&R!
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Ron gasped; Lavender screamed. Harry couldn't believe what he was looking at, Lucius Malfoy was dead, Draco had said he had killed him. This was impossible.
"Impossible!" Hermione said, "You are dead!"
"Yes, it would seem that way, wouldn't it? But then again, I believe Potter was also?" Lucius drawled. Harry stepped towards Lucius, "I wouldn't do that if I were you!" he said, then with the wave of a hand, Lucius took off the invisibility cloak and revealed a bound and tied Draco, and Lucius was holding a sword to his throat. "It would take one second, and his head would be gone, do you really want another life on your hands."
Harry was looking at Draco, it didn't matter how many times that boy had told him he was changed, he had never believed him, until now, looking into his eyes Harry saw the person he had been looking for inside Draco all along, "What do you want?"
"I want the book, and her." Lucius said motioning towards Persiam.
"The book's gone!" Harry said, "Draco burned it!"
"But the book isn't gone, at least not completely!" Lucius said, his eyes falling onto Hermione. "One of you knows where that book is, or how to reveal it."
"None of us do!" Ron said, "Or else we'd have it and would have killed you already."
"It would appear that way wouldn't it?" his gaze remained on Hermione, "Awfully pretty for a mudblood, aren't you?"
Something about what he said made her look at him, his eyes, weren't the eyes of someone that hated her, his eyes, were…blue. "You…said that to me before!" she said slowly
"Did I?" he said raising one eyebrow. Hermione's eyes turned to Draco and she saw the look in his eyes. With one swoop Hermione took the sword from Lucius and turned to Persiam, shocking everyone.
"Hermione what are you doing?" Lavender asked stepping in front of Persiam.
"Lavender, move!" Hermione said not moving.
"Yes, Lavender, move!" Lucius said stepping forward. Lavender looked to him but didn't move. He smiled, "Oh, yes!" with a wave of his hand Lucius' radioactive blond hair turned grey, and his stiff demeanor became that of an old man.
"Dumbledore?" Harry said stepping forward.
"I'm sorry Harry, but for once, can you understand, this isn't about you!" he said taking Harry by the shoulder and ushering him towards the opposite side of the cave, with Ron in tow, but Lavender remained in place.
"Lavender, she is not your Aunt, you need to move…" Hermione said, "or I'll make you!" Suddenly, Lavender stepped aside and walked over to where Ron was. "Well, that was easier than I thought it was going to be." Hermione, not noticing Persiam's move, was caught off guard when the sword was knocked out of her hands.
"No swords…this is between you and me, no weapons are needed!" Persiam said her eyes turning black, "We end this, now!"
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Sirius couldn't name the last time he felt like everything was ok, and today was no exception. Sirius hadn't seen anyone, not Hermione, not Dumbledore or Harry; Sirius hadn't even heard from Lily and James for a month, it was time to get to the bottom of this. He walked, stormed, to his office and stepped into the fire place and throwing down floo powder he shouted out `Godric's Hollow'. When he stepped out, he saw no sign of anyone, he headed upstairs and began calling their names, and when he heard no response, he began searching for them. They weren't in the basement, nor were they on the ground floor. As Sirius made he way up the stairs, he had the flashes of the night so long ago that had killed his best friends, and landed him in Azkaban for 12 years.
Sirius instinctively made his way to what would have been Harry's nursery. He pushed the door opened and surveyed the room, it looked exactly the same, the bed, the walls, they were exactly the way they had been the night of the attack.
"I haven't the heart to move any of it!" Sirius heard from behind him, he turned to see Lily leaning against the wall. "James, wants to keep it, he says maybe we'll have another child, but I told him we'll have one, but he had to have the child; he forgot the idea immediately." Lily said laughing to herself.
"He just wanted to be the father he didn't get to be." Sirius said fingering the baby toys around the crib.
"I know, but we couldn't raise a child, and having another child won't replace the time we missed with Harry, and I think that is something James seems to be missing. I love him to death, but he can be so dense sometimes." Lily said, "Anyway…"
"Did you tell him?" Sirius asked.
Lily looked up, "Tell who, what?"
"Harry, did you tell him about his past, for the last seventeen years, that's all he's ever wanted to know, a link to his past. To everything he missed!"
"I missed just as much as he did!" Lily said
"Yes, and you had it explained to you, he is still missing everything before he was born." Sirius said
"Well, why didn't you tell him?" Lily asked putting her hands on her hips, when he didn't answer she continued, "You didn't want him to know either!"
"Not true, I did want him to know, I…he had just been through so much, and this would just further confuse him, and give him one more thing to burden." Sirius said
"Exactly why I don't think we should tell him!" Lily said
"Tell who what?" a voice said from the doorway, they turned to see James standing here.
"I think we should tell Harry about everything, our childhood, school, Snape…everything!" Sirius said
"Why?" Lily asked, "All it is going to do is burden Harry more!"
"Wait a second…that is not why you don't want to tell Harry, and you know it!" James said.
"Oh, here we go again, James, Sirius you really need to get over this whole grudge with Snape, Dumbledore trusts him, why can't you?" Lily asked.
"I'm not having this argument with you!" James said
"Why, because you know I'm right?" Lily asked as James and Sirius walked away.
"I'm, going to Hogwarts, Dumbledore said he needed to talk to us, but I'm assuming you want to stop by and see your old pal, Sev, right?" James said making his way out of the nursery with Sirius in tow, "And you're wrong, I'm not going to have this argument with you because YOU know you are wrong," James said stepping into the fireplace with Sirius, "and you just won't admit it to yourself!" he said, then with a flash he was gone.
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Hermione and Persiam had been fighting for a while now, and it was visible they were both tiring; unfortunately Persiam had the upper hand.
"This seems somewhat familiar!" Persiam said taking a punch from Hermione
"That was different then!" Hermione said dodging a punch from Persiam, but not expecting her kick, and falling down to the ground.
"This is no different!" Persiam said pinning Hermione to the ground, "You made the same mistakes last time, and you will not win this time! Nothing has changed, good will never triumph over evil!"
"This time it is different!" Hermione said again.
"Enlighten me, how?" Persiam said putting her hands around Hermione's neck.
"This time, she has friends!" Harry said swinging the sword and effectively severing her head from her body.
"No!" Lavender screamed trying to run after her, as if she could fix it. "Harry, how could you!"
"Now, Lavender…" Christian tried.
"Lavender…" Hermione said in Persiam's voice, "Lavender, I'll be all right, I'm free now, I can be with Christian, do not mourn for me, it will do nothing! I will miss you, but it is my time to move on!" she said.
"But, I don't want you to leave, I love you!" Lavender said crying.
"I know, but you have someone else to love now, and besides, this body wants me gone, she is already slowly dying, and the longer I stay in here, the slower she will heal." Persiam said. "And besides, I'm positive that everyone wants their Hermione back." Hermione closed her eyes and in an instant Persiam's ghost stepped out of her body, Hermione fell back and shook her head.
"Whose brilliant idea was it to have ME possessed?" Hermione practically yelled.
Persiam smiled, "Now you'll hear what I've been hearing this whole time!" Christian walked over to Persiam and took her hand.
"Ready to go, luv?" he asked.
She smiled, "Oh yeah!" and before Lavender could say goodbye, they were gone.
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