Dr. Granger and Miss Graves

It had been weeks since Hermiones return home as Danika Graves. She spent her days in class, studying and doing projects (were there this many projects before the war?). She made sure that she had a lot of meetings with the prefects, and was happy to see that they were much more involved with the student body then before. The way she pulled that off without looking too fishy about knowing too much about the school was saying that her old school (Salem Witches Academy) was all about "school spirit" and making sure that help was given where it was needed. Now, she had people from all different houses helping others with classwork, tutoring. But also there were Flee Markets in Hogsmead, Bake Sales, and Big Sister/Big Brother programs going on with the younger students, Hermione in some research over the summer, learned that there would be less bullying if the First Years had someone older to relate to, someone they could trust, talk to, someone who would stick up for them and help them with thier homework and classwork. She didn't pay any attention to the "House Rules/House Honor" bullshit, she had a spell that was cast that would surround an upperclassmen in a certain color and a lowerclassmen in the same color to show who would be pairing up. She was glad to say that there were actually more Gryffindor/Slytherin pairs then any others. There were harsh punishments for those who treated thier little sibling like shit.
"Miss Granger, I must say that I was a little uneasy with the idea of you fooling so many people, and hurting your friends because of something that might not even be true" Dumbledore said, sitting back against his chair and smiling at her.
"I know, sir" Hermione said, looking at her hands.
"But I must say that I have never seen the school like this before, not so many hexes in the hallways, grades are going up in every house, there is money in the school field trips are going to be made, it's amazing" Dumbledore rattled on.
"Thank you, sir" Hermione said, blushing.
"Would you tell me, please, Hermione what happened with Harry and Ron that made it impossible to tell them about your fear of this "curse"?" He asked, looking over his half-moon glasses at her.
"I still love them, you know that. But...it's to horrible" Hermiones hands were shaking.
"Please" He prompted gently.
"Voldemort" Hermione spat out "Told me that I would never have children with anyone other then my truest enemy"
"I know that part" Dumbledore said.
"He thought that he was my truest enemy, and he...." Hermione broke down crying.
"He raped you, didn't he?" Dumbledore asked. Hermione shook with silent sobs.
"Y-y-yes" She sobbed.
"You don't think that the boys will understand....or...are you?" Dumbledore asked, looking at her midsection.
"NO!" Hermione screamed.
"My apologies Miss Granger, But you just said that he told you that you would only have your truest enemies baby" Dumbledore was confused.
"Voldemort was never my truest enemy, I hated him with my entire heart and soul...but I've always hated someone else" Hermione explained.
"Ok"
"I was never worried about Voldemort...I always in my heart knew that Harry would beat him. My truest enemy is someone that I realized I was in love with"
"Draco Malfoy?" Dumbledore guessed.
"How'd you know?" She asked.
"You've been clinging to him, in a good way, I think you guys would be great together. His father has been....worried about him"
"Why?" Hermione asked.
"He has no friends, no one likes him, he's got like no drive doesn't even know if he should go to college" Dumbledore shouldn't be sharing this information with another student, but he knew Hermione could help him.
"WHAT?" Hermione roared "That's so stupid, he is really smart, Professor, he could do anything and he has the money to do whatever he wants, I wanna smack him"
"Don't" Dumbledore warned, while shaking with laughter "You know most of the students here hate Danika"
"I don't care" Hermione said.
"Danika can't do this you know, Malfoy knows her and trusts her but in the long run...she's not real. You are, Hermione Granger is a real person a smart person. Someone who helped end the war, someone that has made this school amazing, we need her back"
"No, please, Professor. I can't come back, Danika can't leave, she was just starting to get along better with Draco...please how is this going to work?" Hermione begged.
"Hermione, I give you till sunday to "come home". I'll help you if you want...I can expel Danika" He grinned.
"Why?" Hermione asked "Why can't Danika do this?"
"Because in the end it is not Danika. You. Are. Not. Danika!" Dumbledore said, he was getting a little mad at Hermione for trying to hide who she really was "You are Hermione Granger, that's who needs to be here"
"Okay, Professor. If we are done here, I need some thinking time" Hermione stood and without waiting for a dismissal she walked out of the office.
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"I'm glad Danika will be leaving" Ginny said, laying on Hermiones bed.
"Why?" Hermione asked.
"Because Hermione, you are different when you are her. You've got great ideas and you have done wonderful things, but you are meanand hateful to me in the halls and Harry and Ron" Ginny explained.
"No I haven't" Hermione protested, sitting up angrily.
"You made Luna cry yesturday" Ginny snapped "You made Lavender cry last week and Parvati two weeks before that"
"I did?" Hermione asked, deflating back to the bed on her back and looking at the roof.
"Yes, you did. Your turning in to some hateful monster and you don't even know it" Ginny said softly.
"I've been trying to get together all nice and cozy with Draco" Hermione reasoned.
"Have you been dillusional too?" Ginny asked.
"What do you mean?"
"Why do you think you have this freetime? Draco has been avoiding you, he sleeps in the common room, eats either earlier than everyone else or later, and only hangs out with you when you find him alone...didn't you notice that?" Ginny looked at her friend in concern.
"Sure, yeah...a little" Hermione said faintly.
~~~~~~~Next Day~~~~~~~~
Hermione finished the last touches of the "Danika" charm. She couldn't stop last nights conversation with Ginny from replaying and replaying in her memory. Did everyone hate her as much as Ginny has said?
As she walked in to the Great Hall she saw Draco stand quickly and walk to the door when he passed her she asked if he wanted to study later and he told her that he was busy. Pansy gave her a stuck up superior look and walked off after him. Danika's eyes scanned the room and she noticed that where ever she looked, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and even Slytherin, the people she looked at averted thier eyes. As she sat at the table by herself, Danika tried to remember the last six weeks that had gone by, but she couldn't there was nothing in her memory. She remembered her Saturday nights with Ginny, talking and laughing, she remembered all her meetings with Dumbledore, she even remembered making some of the awsome rules that were now in place...but nothing else.
Her classes went by her in a mass of colorful blurs. She did not hear what the teachers said, didn't take notes nor listened to any 'friends' she just moved around like a zombie. She had just walked in to the Great Hall when she got an urge to just close her eyes, she couldn't keep them open anymore, her head was swimming it was like trying to hear from under water, her arms and legs were weighed down and moved slowly Danika could hear her heart beat perfectly in her ears and then...she was asleep.
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Ginny's blood-curdling scream rang out through the when she noticed that something was happening to Danika/Hermione. She was just going to walk by and whisper that she looked tierd and see if she was okay, when all of a sudden her eyes rolled back in to her head, a sweat broke out over her skin, and she just dropped to the ground. Madame Pomfrey was there so fast it was almost like she apperated there, she quickly put something under Danikas head, and then she muttered under her breath and a second later they were gone.
Ginny walked out of the hall, when she was out of the line of vision she took off and ran as fast as she could to the Hospital Wing. The door, however, was closed and she had to wait for almost an hour. Then the door opened and Dumbledore stood there smiling sweetly at her.
"I knew that you would be here" He greeted.
"Sir, is she okay?" Ginny asked in a rush.
"We're not really sure, we don't know what it could have been that caused this" As he spoke he nodded to a group of students, telling her that he couldn't say anything out there.
"Can I see her, sir?" Ginny asked.
"Good idea, I will come with you" He said moving aside for her to pass. They went in to the hospital wing and the minute the door was closed, Ginny ran to her friend, she dropped to her knees next to the bed and took "Danika's" hand.
"Sir, what is it?" Ginny asked
"I think that it is the charms that she has been using on herself. She said it herself in the summer, they were new spells that she made and hadn't tried them before on anyone else and not for a long period of time" He explained.
"So being Danika has been like killing her?" Ginny asked.
"No, not really killing her" Dumbledore said "it was doing something else"
"Dr. Jekyle And Mr. Hyde" Said a voice behind them.
"Excuse me?" Asked Ginny
"It's a muggle story" Said Severus Snape "It was about a man that created a potion that made him in to another man known as Mr. Hyde. The doctor was a kind, generous man, but Mr. Hyde was evil and more she or less got off on hurting and killing people"
"Sounds like you just read it" Ginny mused aloud
"Actually I did" He said "I read it once when I was a boy, I never thought about it again. Then Danika Graves shows up, she was acting like Hermione a little, she had her handwriting, and her brains. Then she started to act horrible, but the next day it was like nothing happened the day before. It woke up a memory in me, I found the book and read it again...it was like her, how she was acting. I knew that I should have said something sooner, but I figured you had your reasons"

Ginny watched her friend for a couple of hours, and was starting to nod off when the hospital door opened and Ron and Harry ran in. Harry hugged her and sat next to her looking at Danika. But he didn't look angry or surprised or even angry he was looking at her in sadness and a little confusion.
"What's wrong, Harry" Ginny asked.
"You knew" He accused
"Knew what?" She asked
"That it was Hermione" He answered "And you didn't tell me"
"She made me promise, I'm so sorry" She answered.
"I'm suppose to be your boyfriend, you were should have told me and then I would figure something out" He snapped.
"WHY?" Ginny yelled "Because your a man?"
"No, because she is MY friend" Harry said.
"Oh..okay I see it now, she's your friend not mine I should keep my nose out of your business" she snapped "Well from now on I'll stay out of your business and you stay out of mine...we're over"
"That's not what I meant" Harry started to say then stopped "Yeah, that's probably better" a minute later he walked off and Ron followed.
Ginny sat back down. Ever since she was 11 years old she had been in love with Harry, all she wanted was to be Mrs. Harry Potter, she never thought that he was a complete caveman. But she should have figured, the only men in his life had been an abusive uncle and an ex-con, neither of which were what you would call a "ladies man". Ginny loved Sirius and would not try to change him but that did not make him father of the year. She leaned back in the chair and let out a sigh, what was she suppose to do about him, she was completely lost.
"You've been sitting here for hours" Snape said, making her jump.
"Yes, well she's my friend" Ginny answered, there was some ice in her voice.
"You think I have no friends to worry about if something like this were to happen?" He guessed.
"Well" was her only answer
"On the contrary Miss Granger, I may not have a lot of friends, but I do have at least one" He said, sitting down.
"I'm sorry, sir but I'm not having the best day and I really don't feel like fighting with you" Ginny said.
"Who was fighting" He asked
"Nevermind" She said
"Have you ever been dancing on Saturday night at the Witchey Room?" He asked suddenly.
"No, why?" Ginny looked at him confused.
"Potter wasn't a very good boyfriend, huh?" Snape smirked.
"No, Snape it had nothing to do with his boyfriend skills. My money issues kept me from going dancing" Ginny said, angrily.
"A real boyfriend would have bought you a beautiful silvery-blue floor length gown and and brought you ballroom dancing" He said
"Whatever" Ginny said, she was too busy blushing.
Snape laughed and walked out, Ginny rolled her eyes and went back to wondering what the hell she was going to do about her unfortunate situation with Harry. However, Hermione started to move around on the bed and as she did the charm started to get rubbed off. Slowly and piece by piece Hermione came back and Danika dissapeared, after another few minutes her beautiful brown eyes opened and she focused on Ginny.
"What happened?" Hermione asked.
"Danika fainted" Ginny said, moving closer and taking her hand.
"Am I?" she asked
"Your Hermione again, and Harry and Ron know your secret" Ginny said slowly.
"No"
"Hey, it was hurting you, being Danika was hurting you" Ginny explained.
"Yeah, I figured it would" Hermione said without any emotion.
"I'm gonna get Dumbledore" Ginny stood

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