"You won't be seeing daylight for two years."
Hermione looked at the guard impassively.
"Perhaps you'll think twice before showing support for Him."
As the guard walked away, Hermione felt his presence be replaced by the cold hopelessness of a dementor. Her memories of Harry were the first she forgot. The memories of her parents, bar one indirect memory, followed suit. She could still vividly remember the day that Professor Dumbledore informed her that her parents were dead. Brutally murdered. Dumbledore didn't tell her in so many words, in fact he did nothing to prepare Hermione for the sight that would confront her when Dumbledore took her to identify the bodies. Their bodies were covered with sheets, their mutilated faces exposed to the world. They weren't so mutilated as to prevent Hermione identifying the bodies, but enough so as to torture Hermione in her dreams for many years to come.
That was perhaps what prompted Hermione to take on a much larger role in the second war. Not one that Dumbledore approved of either. He wanted Hermione to remain in school, learn and support Harry by staying safe. It was most likely that event that caused Hermione to propose what she did to Harry. It was most likely that event that caused Harry to accept the proposal.
Albus Dumbledore had a lot to answer for because of that event.
"Hermione Jane Granger, you are hereby sentenced to two years in prison on Azkaban Island for your crime." The judges gavel fell. A lot had changed in the court systems of the wizarding world. Most of it was due to Hermione and Harry's campaigning. Hermione never thought for one moment that the system she had helped establish would be sentencing her.
Hermione had pled guilty, and consequently received a lighter sentence. She didn't plead guilty because she was remorseful, no, Hermione would never regret what she had done. She didn't agree with the law that she had broken.
The reasoning behind the many laws that had been passed since Harry's incarceration had been lame. "Drastic times call for drastic measures," the Minister, Albus Dumbledore, had announced. Aurors had been given unprecedented powers, and they were abusing them. Hermione did not know what had possessed Dumbledore to give such powers to the Aurors.
When he passed the law Hermione was stunned. So stunned that she didn't even try to fight it. Then when she broke it, as it was impossible for a true friend of Harry's to follow, the Aurors swooped on their prey. The only way she got a lighter sentence was to act remorseful as she plead guilty, it tore her up inside, but she new she'd be no help to Harry when he was finally released if she didn't do what was necessary.
A/N: I know these chapters aren't very long, but this story demands chapters of such length (or lack of). I know how people like long chapters to read, but I have tried to make these chapters longer, but knowing what this story is about, such chapters would be pointless and become boring. Plus it really isn't my style. I can be extremely verbose when the situation calls for it as you will most likely see in the later chapters of my other story, Harry Potter: Nirvana!
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Lord Kronos