Disclaimer: Yes, you caught me I'm JK Rowling in disguise. I wrote all the Harry Potter books. I am making millions off of my successful books. Not. I'm just borrowing her characters and playing with them a little. It's not my fault she hates H/Hr romantically so we all have to write our own stories! Thanks a lot Rowling, lol.
A/N: Hey guys! I'm gonna answer some questions from reviews…so here goes.
SwishAndFlick31: Lol. His name is Jon because JONathon. Lol. I'll see what I can do about the Ron fit! Lol. :) Side effects? I don't remember saying anything about them, but in ur review if you tell me what you thought I was saying bout side effects, I can straighten that out! Oh, and your questions not stupid-im not sure how many more chapters I'll write. Probably only a couple more! Maybe I'll have a better idea by next chapter!! Thanks! :)
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Ps. I've been sick these past two days, so I haven't had to go to school. Going to school might put me a little back on how fast I get these chapters out, but I am a reader as well as an author so I understand that you don't wanna wait too long to read the updates. I promise I'll get them out as quick as I can!
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Hermione walked into the dining hall and made her way towards their normal spots at the Gryffindor table. She saw Harry, Ron, Seamus, Dean, Ginny, Lavender and Jon at the table.
"Hey guys." She greeted them as she sat down. They all looked up to her. Everyone but Harry was afraid to say anything to her after her little `outburst' the night before.
"Hey Hermione." Harry said smiling at her, breaking the silence. Ron realized that he was being stupid not to talk to her and said, "How are you feeling?"
"Good, Ron, much better." She answered with a smile, sitting down next to Harry. They all looked at her. "Guys, I know that you all heard what happened last night, but I'm fine. It was just a dream." She rolled her eyes. Harry smiled and hit his shoulder with hers on purpose. They all looked at each other and laughed.
"Sorry, there, Hermione, we just didn't want to make you mad or anything." Seamus spoke up. Ginny laughed and added, "Yeah, sorry, I'm glad you are feeling okay!" She flashed her a smile.
Jon looked at Hermione and smiled. "Hermione, I'm glad you're alright. When I heard what happened I was worried."
"I'm fine, Jon." She said, "Thank you." Harry rolled his eyes at Jon's comment. At least he didn't have to worry anymore. He knew Hermione would be sweet to Jon and if Jon had asked her to go out with him she might have considered it. But now that Hermione and Harry had there little `talk' this morning, he was reassured that Hermione loved him. Though he knew Hermione could never love him as much as he loved Hermione. It was impossible for anyone to love anyone as much as he loved Hermione.
"So, Hermione, I was wondering if you would like to go to Hogsmeade with me today." Jon spoke up nervously.
Everyone looked at Harry and Hermione. Harry kept a calm enough face on, even though his fists were clenched underneath
the table. Hermione saw his reaction and put her hand under the table and put in on top of his. She looked at him and
smiled.
"Actually, Jon, I'm sorry but, well, Harry and I…we promised a friend we'd visit them. So, they're only expecting us. I'm sorry, maybe some other time." She said, just to make him feel better. She squeezed Harry's hand to reassure him of that. He smirked and looked to Jon, "Sorry." He said, not sounding as sincere as he intended. Jon nodded, "Oh. Okay. Yeah, some other time." He said in a low, disappointed time. Seamus looked at Harry and had to use every muscle he had to not laugh at the expression on his face. Dean looked at Seamus and tried not to laugh as well. When Jon was finally forced to leave to table because Professor Snape needed to see him, everyone burst out into laughter.
"Oh... Come on…" Ginny tried to say in between her hard laugher, "Be…Be…Be nice. Let's not…laugh." But it was no use, everyone was still cracking up. Hermione stopped and tried to compose herself.
"Seriously, though guys he just has a little crush on me. We shouldn't be so harsh." She said choking back laughter.
"A little crush, Mione, he's obsessed!" Harry exclaimed still laughing. Hermione broke out into another spell of laughter.
"Ok, Okay guys. Whoa. We're done. We're done." Lavender said, silencing them all. After a couple random short laughs, everyone composed themselves.
"Well, we should probably get to the carriages before they all leave us behind, eh?" Seamus asked.
They all agreed and walked out to the carriages. Hermione reached out and held Harry's hand. He turned and smiled to her and she shrugged. He pulled her hand to bring her closer to him, their shoulders touching. She laughed and Ron turned around to see his best friends and rolled his eyes. He didn't know that they had talked to each other already, but he knew the events of last night had certainly changed their relationship. He had had a major crush on Hermione for a long time, but gave up on it basically because he knew it was no use when it came to competition with Harry for her heart. He had won it long before she ever realized. As goes with Harry's. Harry had had a lot of failed relationships because of Hermione. Cho had broken up with him because she was jealous of Hermione, as did a few others. Eventually Harry pulled his head out of the clouds, and realized that he loved Hermione. Ron at least appraised him for that. Ron, Harry and Hermione scooted in a carriage. Seamus, Dean, Lavender and Ginny shared the one behind them.
Hermione scooted in next to Harry on the same side, he put an arm around her and she rested her head on his chest. It happened so nonchalantly and slow your would be surprised. However, even as friends, the trio, especially Harry and Hermione, were like that a lot. It wasn't weird or abnormal, it was just…them. But this time, for some reason, Ron knew was different. Hermione sighed.
"Anything you two want to tell me?" Ron asked raising an eyebrow. Hermione and Harry looked confused. Until Hermione had light bulbs turn on in her head, "Oh!" She exclaimed shooting up from Harry's arms.
Harry realized it too. "Ron, I told her." He said smiling. Ron smiled, surprisingly happy for his friends.
"Wait a minute! You knew?!" She asked Ron surprising.
"Of course. I am the man's best mate!" Ron exclaimed. They all laughed. She returned to her position on Harry. And kissed him on the corner of his mouth, "And I love him too." He leaned in and kissed her.
"Uh…guys please. Not in front of me!" Ron complained sticking out his tongue at the two.
Harry shrugged, "I can't help it if I can't keep my hands off of her." Hermione slapped him in the arm.
"Don't even talk like that in front of me!" Ron said pretending to gag. All three of them smiled and returned to their serious expressions. Ron broke the silence.
"So you're…"
"Yeah."
"And he…"
"Yeah."
"How soon?" Ron asked as Harry and Hermione shrugged. They were talking about the appointment they had with the doctor. By asking `How soon?' Ron meant how soon until they got to go through with the process. Of course, Harry and Hermione had no idea. They were nervous and anxious about the appointment.
They all sat in silence until they arrived in Hogsmeade.
"Well, uh, good luck." Ron wished them nervously. He was anxious and nervous for his friends, too.
"Thanks." Hermione said.
"We should meet up later, at the Three Broomsticks after our appointment?" Harry asked.
"Yeah, sure, um…your appointments at 11:00, so…at 3:00?" Ron asked. They nodded and smiled as they split up.
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Harry and Hermione walked down the road, hand in hand, in silence. Right before they walked in the door to the office, Harry stopped and turned to Hermione. Hermione took a deep breath, almost looking like she was going to cry.
"So, we're actually doing this?" He asked her.
She nodded, "I guess we are."
He shook his head, "I can't believe this is actually happening." She nodded in agreement. She felt a tear come to her eye. She had no idea why she was about to cry, but she was.
He pulled her close to him, kissed her, and held her. "It's okay, love, we can do this. You are Harry Potter's girlfriend now." She melted into his arms, and then pulled away abruptly. She laughed at his comment.
"We just gotta get this over with, Harry, I can't just sit out here. Let's go." She kissed him.
He kissed her back, and she got lost in time while she was kissing him. Several minutes she pulled away, "C'mon. We're gonna be late if we don't get in there." She said smiling. He laughed and kissed her one last time before they took deep breaths, took each others hands and walked through the door. The walked to the young and bubbling receptionist at her desk, who looked only a year older than them.
"Hi, um, we have an appointment with Dr. Graham at 11:00." Hermione told her.
"Name?" She asked looking at them annoyed.
"Harry Potter." Harry answered. The once annoyed receptionist looked up from her work, wide eyed and smiling.
"Oh! Of course Mr. Potter, I'm sorry I didn't recognize you!" She exclaimed picking up her phone, punching a button and saying, "Dr. Graham, I have Harry Potter here to see you!" She said into the phone. She smiled, said "Sure", hung up and looked at them. "He'll see you now."
Hermione took another deep breath and looked at Harry, who squeezed her hand. "It's okay, love." He told her. At these words the receptionist's face fell, as if she had some sort of crush on the boy-who-lived. Hermione laughed to herself. Didn't everyone?
They walked into the hallway and entered a big, bright, plush office. They saw a man who obviously was Dr. Graham, sitting at his wooden desk. He had light brown hair, blue eyes, and glasses and was wearing a black suit. He looked up from his work, dropped his pen, took off his glasses and stood up extending a hand. Harry shook it.
"It's an honor to meet you, Mr. Potter." Dr. Graham greeted him smiling.
"It's Harry. And it's nice to meet you, too. This," He said gesturing to Hermione, "is my girlfriend, Hermione Granger."
The doctor smiled and shook her hand. "Nice to meet you, Ms. Granger."
"Nice to meet you, too." She said, sitting down with Harry in the chairs in front of his desk. Dr. Graham sat down, too.
"Lucky Man." The doctor said, smiling, referring to Hermione.
"Don't I know it." Harry said smiling at Hermione. She rolled her eyes. He looked away from her, returned to his serious expression as the doctor addressed him.
"So, what can I do for you Harry?" Dr. Graham asked, sitting back in his chair.
"Well, Dr. Graham, this is a bit hard for me to ask of you." He started, Dr. Graham looked intrigued as he continued, "But Hermione was researching potions and such, and she came across a serum you created. A serum that when drank, can enable you to visit with, well, people who are deceased. This is a lot to ask of you, but of course, as you know, I never really knew my parents. And would like to take advantage of your potion. Hermione's parents were killed last year in a Death Eater attack, and me, feeling partially responsible for their death," He earned a look from Hermione that said, `How many times do I have to tell you I don't blame you!' He ignored it and kept going, "would like for her to also. I know this is a lot to ask, but it would mean a lot to me and to Hermione if you could do this for us." Harry sighed, ending his pitch, ready for anything. However, he was not ready for what the doctor said next. The doctor looked surprised and taken off guard, but he composed himself.
"Well, Harry, normally, I would deny this request…but, after hearing that pitch, and because it's, well, you…I will approve your request. I will make duplicates of the potion for both you and your girlfriend." He smiled as he told them. Hermione's jaw dropped. Harry's grin widened and he looked at Hermione who was smiling and biting her lip now.
"Really?" Harry asked, thinking he was dreaming.
"Really. Consider it a personal favor. Normally it would take me a few weeks to create it, but for you I think I can do it a few days." He smiled and wrote something down on a notepad.
"Oh, thank you so much, Dr. Graham. You really have no idea how much this means to me!" Hermione exclaimed excitedly. Harry grinned at her exclamation.
"Oh, it's nothing. Really, I'm very much honored to do this for you, Mr. Potter and your girlfriend. But there are a few things we need to discuss before you leave today."
Harry nodded, so Dr. Graham continued, "First of all, the potion will be drunk by itself. Nothing else should be eaten that day, or drank. I will make 2 potions per each of you, in case something should happen to one, which is highly unlikely. You will simply say the full and complete names of the people you wish to visit before drinking the potion in one sip. Whoever takes the potion will slip into a kind of `surreal' state with the people you named. You will have exactly one full hour to visit with them. They are not memories, nor made up people. They are the real, you can touch them. They will know that they died; they will know who you are, of course, a little about you, depending on when they died. They will remember everything about before they died, and a little about after. It's hard to explain it. You see, it's almost like they're just waking up from their death and visiting you, well they're spirits. Do you even remotely understand?" He asked chuckling.
"Yes, Sir, I do." Harry chuckled. Hermione's eyes were twinkling.
"Good. Now, we will need to set up an appointment. How about Wednesday? Is night or day better?"
"Night." They both said in unison, they would have to sneak out.
"Alright then, how's 8:00?" He asked them.
"That works." Harry agreed.
"Good." The doctor nodded and penciled them in a calendar. He stood up as they stood up and they walked to the door. Hermione couldn't control herself. She hugged the doctor.
"Thank you, thank you so much this means so much to me!" He hugged her back and smiled.
"Thank you." Harry said shaking his hand, chuckling at Hermione's response.
They bid him good bye as they walked out of the office door. Hermione was trying to compose herself as she bounced out of the office with Harry's arm around her. The receptionist tipped her head over to watch the two walk out the door.
Once out the door, not caring that people were watching, Hermione screamed and jumped into Harry's arms. "I love you. I love you. I love you!" She exclaimed. He laughed and hugged her.
"I love you, too." He told her. She pulled away as an annoying photographer from the Daily Prophet snapped a picture. But neither of them cared.
"Harry, he said yes! He'll do it!" She screamed again and kissed him. He shook his head.
"I can't believe it either!" He said. "I'm so glad we get to do this." He kissed her. "I love you, Hermione."
"Oh, I love you, too." She told him, "Oh! We have to go find Ron! We have to tell him!"
"Yeah, lets go, he'll be at the Three Broomsticks." He took her hand and they walked happily to the pub.
Once inside, they scanned the tables for their best friend. They found him sitting next to Luna Lovegood. He had an eerie and goofy grin on his face as he looked at Luna. They looked at each other for a moment in confusion, but shook their heads and walked to the table. They quickly slid in.
Ron noticed there presence and smiled, "Oh, hey guys. Luna and I were just…"
"Ron! He said he'd do it!" Hermione exclaimed not wanting to waste any more minutes waiting for him.
Ron's jaw dropped and his eyes grew huge, "HE DID!"
"Yeah, he did, both of us. Wednesday!" Harry told him. Luna looked confused but didn't ask. She had just
kissed Ron Weasley; she didn't want to be nosy.
Ron jumped out of his seat and hugged his two friends, "I'm so happy for you, two!" He exclaimed.
They all laughed and sat down, enjoying their company and chatting, drinking butterbeer.
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They didn't talk about the big news until the three of them were alone in the common room.
They were all excited and chatty. Hermione couldn't help but feel the happiest she had in a long time. Harry was ecstatic as well, but he was more happy that Hermione was so happy. Just seeing her so excited made him happy.
Neither of them could wait until Wednesday.
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