Healing the Broken

Chapter 26- Ron Gets His Man Period

Previously in Healing the Broken -Harmione fanfic...

"No no, Hagrid you've got it all wrong. Ron was joking, i'm not gay, and neither is he- I'm dating Hermione."

Hagrid sighs with relief. "Yeah, tha' sounds a bit more... right. The two of yas together sounds right."
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"I need the two to take care of Grawp." Hagrid says the last part quietly.

"Of course we can help you." Harry responds.
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"Hermione did you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

He stares at the bushes some more, waiting for another rustling. "Nothing. I must've just... I dunno. Nothing."
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Harry hears the rustling again. This time he whips around and yells "Stupefy!"

They both gasp when they turn the person over- it was Bellatrix Lestrange.
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Hagrid hadn't wanted to lie about where he was going- he had told them that he was going to get parts to finish fixing up Hogwarts, which was wrong. He had actually been called to the Ministry for a trial.

A trial for housing a giant.
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Now on with the story!!!

Hermione screams before Harry clamps a hand over her mouth. He grabs her hand and uncups her mouth slowly, whispering in her ear "Sh. We don't want the things in the forest to know we're here."

Hermione nods. "Okay. It's okay- Bellatrix is stunned. I don't know how on earth she's here, when we all saw her get killed, but... she is." She takes a deep breath, and then regains her steady, reassuring confidence. "Harry, I'll watch her- you go check the surrounding bushes for any more Death Eaters."

"Right." Harry turns and heads into the bushes, checking the perimeter for any more people. He was checking a particularly frustrating area- there was lots of sticks pointing out here and there and large, thick boulders for him to trip on. Not to mention he couldn't see Hermione and Bellatrix, which made him uneasy. What if something happened to her?

Just as he's about to call back to her and ask if she's still alright, her voice sounds. "Harry?"

Her voice is soft and timid, and all of Harry's senses go on alert. "What's wrong? Is everything okay?"

"Yes... well, no, er... I don't know. Bellatrix isn't Bellatrix anymore." Harry could hear her gears inside her brain working, and so he steps out of the bushes and comes to a stop next to her to peer down at Bellatrix. But she was right, it wasn't Bellatrix anymore. Her features were starting to shift into a man with dark hair.

Harry frowns. "What is going-"

"Polyjuice Potion!" Hermione says suddenly, making Harry jump. "This man- Rodolphus, I reckon, used a Polyjuice Potion to look like Bellatrix. Sort of gross that he somehow had access to her hair, but-"

Then a groan escapes from the mouth of Rodolphus, and he sits up, blinking and bleary eyed. Before he can say anything, Hermione whacks him over the head with a tree branch and puts him in a Full- Body- Bind.

"Hermione- you knocked him out and tied him up?" Harry says. "Nice job."

"I have lots of practice."

"Really?"

"No."

"Oh."

"Let's get back to the point- I reckon Rodolphus was only dressed up as Bellatrix so that he could scare us... and torture us, obviously. Because the Death Eaters that held my parents captive were never caught- I only escaped- BLIMEY!" Hermione hollers, and Harry jumps for the second time. "Harry, they were never caught! The Death Eaters that tortured me were never caught- I only apparated to safety! Which means that they're still out there.... blimey why didn't I think of that?" She demands, slapping a hand to her face. Harry is reminded strongly of all of the days back in their previous years at Hogwarts, when Hermione freaked out like this over homework- actually, she still reacted like that, to this day.