Curious and Curiouser

2: Add a Little Life

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"Could it bring her back?"

"No," Hermione responded more forcefully than she had meant to, she saw Harry wince, "no," she repeated again, softer this time. "Of course not Harry, you know as well as anyone that no magic can truly raise the dead, you can bring back a shadow of who they were or you can reanimate a corpse but you can't really bring them back." She finished rather lamely, quoting their late headmaster.

"Then what-" Harry began, but this time it was Ron who interrupted him,

"-Mate, that was a longshot, to begin with, I mean, c'mon Harry, you held the resurrection stone, you spoke to your parents and Sirius and Remus, you spoke to Dumbledore! You know that whatever Hermione's doing its got nothing to do with raising the dead mate."

Hermione flashed Ron a grateful look.

"Yeah Harry, the dead are well and truly dead, but right now," She took a breath, "right now we can protect the living."

Hermione excused herself soon after that awkward exchange, claiming she needed to get some rest before an early start the next morning. She sighed to herself as she crawled into bed thinking to herself, clearly, that had been Harry's question, not Ron's, the driving force behind it had been emotional, had they asked Ron's question she was sure she would have ended up saying far more than she was comfortable with.

But she hadn't even really spoken about her research, because Harry really was way off, she wasn't trying to bring back the dead.

But yes she mused to herself as her eyes fluttered shut, bringing Lily Potter nee Evans would solve quite a few mysteries.

You see, all those years ago when she had sacrificed herself to save her son, it was her love for him that protected him from that killing curse, but the protection that continued to last until he turned 17, that was curious.

In loving her son Lily Potter saved his life once, but something else, something deeper had saved Harry time and time again when he encountered Voldemort, or bits of his soul.

The only conclusion that Hermione had been able to come to was that Lily Potter had somehow cast a blood magic charm on herself and Harry and that somehow Albus Dumbledore had been aware of the charm, and knew that the only way to keep Harry safe would be for him to live with his aunt, a woman who shared his mother's blood.

But blood magic like so much else was looked down on by many in the wizarding community as dark magic, and it was by no means an easy feat to cast such a charm, so this led Hermione to another conclusion, Lily Potter had somehow been researching blood magic for some time before her death. How though Hermione couldn't be sure, she had scoured the Hogwarts library in search of what Lily might have been able to get her hands on but all she had found were a few vague references to Blood Locks in the restricted section but that hadn't been helpful.

Harry had told her and Ron that both of his parents had been wandless when Voldemort had killed them which led Hermione to yet another conclusion, Lily Potter had cast her blood magic charm before Voldemort entered their home that Halloween night because as skilled as a witch or wizard may be to cast a spell as complex as a blood charm without a wand for the first time was a recipe for disaster.

Now Hermione didn't share the same views as her fellow witches and wizards when it came to things like blood magic, she believed that the knowledge shouldn't be restricted just because some people had used it for nefarious purposes and that it was intention that ought to be condemned as evil and not action.