Hermione's POV
"oh for god sake-"
I felt it coming on this time
Potter was being chased by the Basilisk, he ran through the pipes, evading its thousands of sharp fangs and all the while with a broken foot, how is he running with a broken foot? Oh yeah, adrenaline.
Potter came to a stop at a dead end, he was now just waiting for his end I guess, but it didn't seem like the snake could see him, its eyes were bloody... the bird! It was the bird.
Potter picked up a rock and threw it in the other direction.
The snake followed the noise, giving Potter the chance to run back to his worst enemy and the ginger. He knelt beside her
"yes, Potter the process is nearly complete. In a few minutes, Ginny Weasley will be dead, and I will cease to be a memory, Lord Voldemort will return... very. Much. Alive"
"for merlin sakes Potter" I mumbled, I hadn't fallen this time, thankfully
"Tell me what's happening" he demanded
"fine, but it's gonna confuse you, Voldemort is trying to come back, your sister is dying, the Basilisk is blind and Potter is most likely gonna die too. Make sense?" he shook his head, "thought not, now do you think this is big enough?" I gestured toward the large hole we had made in the wall of rubble he nodded and we sat in silence for a while, until it happened again
Potter was standing on the statue with a sword, and the snake was impaled... in the mouth, Ouch, that's gotta hurt.
The Basilisk fell to the ground, not gracefully in the slightest though
Potter was stabbed by one of its fangs in his arm. He crawled toward the practically dead girl
"remarkable isn't it? How quickly the venom of the Basilisk penetrates the body? I'd guess you have little more than a minute to live, you'll be with your dear mudblood mother soon harry" that's just bitchy "funny, the damage a silly little book can do... especially in the hands of a silly. Little. Girl" merlin he makes a lot of unnecessary pauses. Potter took the diary from the girl's arm
"what are you doing?" Potter lifted the fang from above the page "stop! NO!" Anger issues much
he stabbed the book, ink sprayed out of it like blood, and holes were poked in Tom's chest
"ARGHHHHHHH" oh
Potter moved the fang from one page to the other just as Tom was lunging for him. holes were being punctured in his face now too.
Potter closed the book and stabbed the whole thing, at this Tom exploded and Ginny woke up
"that was very dramatic" I smirked,
"What happened now?" I looked up at the clearly clueless and stressed ginger in front of me
"tom's dead, potters gonna die, but your sister is alive" he gaped at me
"Harry's gonna- die?" he stood up, ready to rush back to potter
"I don't suggest you do that" I sang
"and why not?"
"because for all we know there's still danger, but by all means, if you wanna die go ahead" I gestured to the hole again, he stopped and turned back to the wall before sitting
"exactly, he might not die though the bird that went by us was a phoenix, they have healing-" I was cut off by two scrambling footsteps and someone calling
"RON? RON?"
"WE'RE HERE POTTER" I shouted to make sure they went the right way, rolling my eyes
"There is so much I need to tell you-" potter started when weasel hugged weasel, we need to find better describing names for them
"I told him already, don't ask how I know what happened, I just do" each Gryffindor gaped at me
"ok? I guess... anyway, I did it, it's finished we're ok"
I snorted "I have a feeling this is just the start Potter... how do we leave this place? I don't fancy crawling up the pipes "
"Oh, we aren't climbing, we're flying" he gestured toward the phoenix on his shoulder
"oh"
Little weasel was holding onto potter, potter was holding onto weasel, weasel was holding onto Lockhart, and sadly Lockhart was holding onto me, while I held onto the bird.
*
"you all realize of course, that in the past few hours you have broken perhaps a dozen school rules"
As soon as we left myrtles bathroom snape caught us and made us go to dumbledores office. well, he made me go, potter and weasel were already going because they're 'noble'
stupid Gryffindors...
"yes sir" we chorused
"and there is sufficient evidence to have you all expelled" they glanced at each other before answering, I of course, saw this coming a mile away
"yes sir" we repeated
"Therefore, it is only fitting... that you all receive special awards for services to the school" I did not see that coming though
"Thanks, sir" Dumbledore stood up
"and now Mr. Weasley if you would, have an owl deliver these release papers to Azkaban" he stood up and walked around the table "I believe we want our gamekeeper back" weasel walked away from us and out the door
"and Ms. Zabini? If you could wait outside please?" I nodded and left the same way as weasel did but I sat on the steps. Only a few minutes after I had sat down however a very unexpected guest stomped up the stairs
"Hermione" he nodded in acknowledgment
"Mr. Malfoy" I smiled warily
he slammed the door open and I noticed the house-elf from before
"dobby! So this is your master, you serve the Malfoys?" you really shouldn't have said that potter
"I'll deal with you later" Lucius muttered to the tiny creature behind him, I cast a silencing spell around dumbledores room so no one would hear it, not even I wanted to hear the conversation that follows, to be honest.
I took the enchantment off the room when I saw them leaving
"do make sure you remember that you and your brother will be coming to our manor this year, Narcissa hasn't seen you for a while" I nodded as he set off down the spiral staircase, a minute later potter ran out and followed him down
"Ms. Zabini?" dumbledore called. I walked inside his office
"I understand that you have a new skill, am I correct?" I nodded
"yes sir... uh, do you know anything about it?"
he smiled gently, his eyes giving me that effect that he was X-raying me, it always made me uncomfortable "if I did... I would want you to find out for yourself Ms. Zabini... when have the visions happened?"
I thought for a moment "when something... when something important has happened?"
he nodded "now, off you go, you have the end of term feast to attend tomorrow and you need some rest, you have been awake all night" I hadn't realized before but now he mentioned it I felt like passing out right this second
"ok... goodbye sir"
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The Slytherin princess
Fanfictionwhat if Hermione Granger was pure-blooded and Slytherin? What if she never became friends with Ron and Harry? Travel through the years of Hogwarts with Hermione to find out what it would be like if everything changed... this book has been entered in...
