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Back with the Boys
A/N: Just a quickie...
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Chapter 43—Back with the Boys
Harry and Ron’s sharp exhalation brought her mind back to the large mound on her abdomen. It had become so commonplace for her that she forgot exactly how long she had been away. Nearly seven months, she thought.
“Bollocks...” Harry muttered, “Ron, what have you done?”
Hermione’s head whipped around so fast that she felt slightly off balance, and she lowered herself to the low blue-covered bed as she blinked in surprise. “Ronald?”
Ron’s jaw dropped. “Wh—What?”
“What in Merlin’s name lead you to think it was Ronald’s?”
“Well—Well it couldn’t be Snape, could it? He’s just too—you would never make a mistake like that!” Harry responded, his eyes were wild with surprise.
Ron nodded vigorously. He looked completely bewildered. “Yeah, yeah that’s true!”
“No... no, Ronald, that is not true.” Her lecturing tone returned after so long in hibernation. “You see, in order to make babies you have to have sex. You and I did not have sex, Ronald.”
“But you couldn’t have possibly have had sex with him in that way!” Ron exclaimed, confusing her. “So who...”
“Okay, that’s enough!” She hefted herself off the low bed and Harry and Ron stood compulsively, their arms outstretch futilely toward her as though she might snap in half. “Watch what you’re insinutating! I am pregnant, and this baby belongs to Severus Snape!”
A silence filled the room and was only punctuated by Hermione’s heaving breaths. When she finally regained control, she lowered herself onto the blue comforter with care. Clasping her hands just below the throbbing equator of her belly, she settled back against a pillow to wait for Harry or Ron to get the courage to speak first.
As she suspected, Harry finally opened his mouth, “We’re really sorry for leaving you behind, Hermione.” It came out as more of a whisper and he didn’t meet her eyes, but it would do.
“Well, it was for the best anyway.” She responded, waving a hand over her belly. The silence dragged on as Ron crossed the small room to pensively stare out the window. Hermione fluttered her hands toward the basket and said. “Well... your food will get cold if you let it sit too long.”
Reminded and suddenly very excited, Ron whirled around and had the entire basket turned inside-out within five minutes. The boys sat on the floor, eating and groaning with pleasure. While their mouths were full, Hermione filled them in on the Order’s raids, new members, and the current horcrux theories.
“Wait a minute.” Harry interrupted. “Everyone knows about the horcruxes?”
“No, just Severus. Which is why—” She plucked the glowing blue liquid-filled vial from between Ron’s fingers. “—he made this.”
“What’s that?”
“It is a part of the separating potion that he made.” When her declaration was met with silence, she elaborated. “Do you remember the Book of Days and Ends?”
“No.”
“Uh-uh.” Ron’s mouth was full and Hermione grimaced before continuing.
“Well we only talked about it once a little over a year ago. It is the only known book of Merlin’s spells, potions, charms, and other magical notes and theories.”
Ron’s eyes widened, “Merlin!”
“Exactly, so—”
“Bloody Hell!” Harry shouted. “Snape has that book?”
“It’s been in his family for generations.”
“Then why hasn’t he used something from that book by now! Why are we still in this war if Snape has the book written by our magical originator? I think, ‘Mione, that that proves he isn’t on our side!”
Hermione let the silence fall again before very quietly saying, “Life simply isn’t that simple.”
“I think you’re overcomplicating it.” Ron added.
“Yeah.” Said Harry, nodding with a serious expression.
“It isn’t that simple.” She weighed whether or not to tell them for a moment before pushing forward. “Snape and I were bonded because of the book’s complexity.” Her voice trailed off nearly to a whisper at the end. In the quiet, Hermione could hear the clock ticking in Dudley’s room across the hall.
“Wait, what the fuck did you just say?” Ron asked almost casually.
“We were bonded because—”
“Wha’d’ya mean, bloody bonded!” He snapped.
“We tried to create a separating potion and somehow managed to be bonded instead.”
Harry tried to interrupt. “I don’t underst—”
“She and Snape created something like an unbreakable vow on their relationship!”
Harry’s reaction came swiftly, “WHAT?”
He was truly frustrating her and she quickly corrected him. “We did no such thing, Ronald!”
“Oh! Now I know she does it! Remember how I was tellin’ you that Hermione lies to us when she thinks we’re too stupid to realize she’s lying? Harry, remember? Well, she’s doing it now! Right now!”
“What are you talking about?” She exclaimed.
“I know you do it, Hermione, you lie to us all the time just to further your own goals!”
Hermione’s gaze darkened, “No, I think you have me confused with someone else. I have only lied to protect secrets that were not mine to tell. I have lied to protect Harry, I have lied to protect you, Ronald, I have lied to protect my parents, I have lied to protect the Order of the Phoenix, and I have lied to protect Severus! I don’t lie to you of my own volition! I don’t lie if I have a choice, you fool!”
“The proof is in my family!” Ron turned to Harry, “The Weasley family, we’re purebloods, y’know? And there have been stories told by tradition for years. One of those stories is about Merlin and the Lady of the Lake. He loved her and he courted her and he tried to win her and she never wanted to be with him. Eventually, he was able to persuade her to be with him when she wanted to learn some of his magic and she promised to bind herself to him. It is said that that was the first Unbreakable Vow and the last time it was used to fasten a relationship.”
Hermione’s glare seemed so dark that Ron narrowed his eyes at her. “Ronald Weasley, when are you going to stop talking out of your arse?” She asked with mock politeness. “We did not create an unbreakable vow. We created a potion and I... messed it up, and we were bonded and Severus created this potion to reverse the effects. Everything—Everything!--came out of the Book of Days and Ends.”
Ron continued to frown while Harry sighed, looking back and forth between them before shaking his head and mumbling something. “I trust you, Hermione. Let’s just move on, okay?” He looked between them pointedly before continuing, “How do we use that potion.”
She explained the procedure very carefully, warning that it would be a bit difficult to remain focused if the bit of Voldemort’s soul begins to struggle. When she was satisfied, she had the boys repeat the instructions twice before finally extending the vial of separating potion to Harry’s outstretched hand. “I will hold the containment ward.”
“We know, ‘Mione!” Ron said with a chuckle. “You don’t have to repeat it nearly that much these days.”
Harry chuckled at Hermione’s comment that, “Old habits die hard.” He waved his wand in a lazy arc and the two objects flew into the room inside the same shoebox the trio had imprisoned them in months ago. Hermione lifted the top and Ron extracted the objects before handing the necklace to Harry.
Voldemort’s voice immediately emanated from the necklace and Harry grimaced as he held it away from himself. Ron followed him to the open space in the room, and nodded for Hermione to put the shield up. A faint golden shimmer domed over the boys, surrounding them and keeping Hermione separate from them. She had done it once before from the inside, so it was surprising to her how easy it felt this time.
Harry poured the separating potion into the cup, and Ron dumped the necklace into the thin pool of liquid unceremoniously, and before Hermione was really prepared for it, the protective dome pulsed outwards, forcing her to grab her wand with both hands to steady it. Another six pulses transpired as the boys began to raise their wands at the cup.
Hermione couldn’t hear what was going on, and a sudden magical wind began to kick up any loose papers and debris in the room, blowing them to be trapped on the dome, blocking her view of what was happening inside. She began to wonder what was going on inside as she got accostumed to the strenuous task of holding the dome up when a sudden electrical burst made her shriek in surprise. She almost dropped her wand, and redoubled her grip, preparing for the next one and screaming as it coursed through her arms. She was soon hit with the shock again and again and again before the room suddenly dropped to silence and stillness and the papers dropped from their place and Ron and Harry could be seen inside, laughing.
She dropped the containment ward, and Harry and Ron chuckled at her giddily.
“Wow! That was.... I just can’t believe... It’s finally done!” Harry stammered.
Ron continued to laugh as he flopped back on the bed beside Hermione. “That wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be.”
“Speak for yourself.” Hermione said as she lay back and rolled to her side, facing Harry on the other side of her. He was breathing happily. “What’re you grinning about?”
“Kicking Dark Lord ass feels so good!” He closed his eyes and Hermione stroked his hair away from his forehead where the scar looked darker and more sinister than ever before. She closed her eyes and let her mind rest while her head rested on her best friend’s chest.
Behind her, Ron sighed and lay a hand on her belly, “Four down, three to go.”
Her child kicked in response, and the boys spent the next hour stroking her belly.
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A/N: I’ll keep this short and thank you all heartily.
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Now, those of you who have been reviewing for a while, I have a task for you. Raise your right hand with the palm facing away from you, now move your hand to the right and back to the left and back to the right and back to the left. Newcomers, that was for you. Lol... Hello Danyealla-sama, Prissz, and Berkid!
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Chapter 43—Back with the Boys
Harry and Ron’s sharp exhalation brought her mind back to the large mound on her abdomen. It had become so commonplace for her that she forgot exactly how long she had been away. Nearly seven months, she thought.
“Bollocks...” Harry muttered, “Ron, what have you done?”
Hermione’s head whipped around so fast that she felt slightly off balance, and she lowered herself to the low blue-covered bed as she blinked in surprise. “Ronald?”
Ron’s jaw dropped. “Wh—What?”
“What in Merlin’s name lead you to think it was Ronald’s?”
“Well—Well it couldn’t be Snape, could it? He’s just too—you would never make a mistake like that!” Harry responded, his eyes were wild with surprise.
Ron nodded vigorously. He looked completely bewildered. “Yeah, yeah that’s true!”
“No... no, Ronald, that is not true.” Her lecturing tone returned after so long in hibernation. “You see, in order to make babies you have to have sex. You and I did not have sex, Ronald.”
“But you couldn’t have possibly have had sex with him in that way!” Ron exclaimed, confusing her. “So who...”
“Okay, that’s enough!” She hefted herself off the low bed and Harry and Ron stood compulsively, their arms outstretch futilely toward her as though she might snap in half. “Watch what you’re insinutating! I am pregnant, and this baby belongs to Severus Snape!”
A silence filled the room and was only punctuated by Hermione’s heaving breaths. When she finally regained control, she lowered herself onto the blue comforter with care. Clasping her hands just below the throbbing equator of her belly, she settled back against a pillow to wait for Harry or Ron to get the courage to speak first.
As she suspected, Harry finally opened his mouth, “We’re really sorry for leaving you behind, Hermione.” It came out as more of a whisper and he didn’t meet her eyes, but it would do.
“Well, it was for the best anyway.” She responded, waving a hand over her belly. The silence dragged on as Ron crossed the small room to pensively stare out the window. Hermione fluttered her hands toward the basket and said. “Well... your food will get cold if you let it sit too long.”
Reminded and suddenly very excited, Ron whirled around and had the entire basket turned inside-out within five minutes. The boys sat on the floor, eating and groaning with pleasure. While their mouths were full, Hermione filled them in on the Order’s raids, new members, and the current horcrux theories.
“Wait a minute.” Harry interrupted. “Everyone knows about the horcruxes?”
“No, just Severus. Which is why—” She plucked the glowing blue liquid-filled vial from between Ron’s fingers. “—he made this.”
“What’s that?”
“It is a part of the separating potion that he made.” When her declaration was met with silence, she elaborated. “Do you remember the Book of Days and Ends?”
“No.”
“Uh-uh.” Ron’s mouth was full and Hermione grimaced before continuing.
“Well we only talked about it once a little over a year ago. It is the only known book of Merlin’s spells, potions, charms, and other magical notes and theories.”
Ron’s eyes widened, “Merlin!”
“Exactly, so—”
“Bloody Hell!” Harry shouted. “Snape has that book?”
“It’s been in his family for generations.”
“Then why hasn’t he used something from that book by now! Why are we still in this war if Snape has the book written by our magical originator? I think, ‘Mione, that that proves he isn’t on our side!”
Hermione let the silence fall again before very quietly saying, “Life simply isn’t that simple.”
“I think you’re overcomplicating it.” Ron added.
“Yeah.” Said Harry, nodding with a serious expression.
“It isn’t that simple.” She weighed whether or not to tell them for a moment before pushing forward. “Snape and I were bonded because of the book’s complexity.” Her voice trailed off nearly to a whisper at the end. In the quiet, Hermione could hear the clock ticking in Dudley’s room across the hall.
“Wait, what the fuck did you just say?” Ron asked almost casually.
“We were bonded because—”
“Wha’d’ya mean, bloody bonded!” He snapped.
“We tried to create a separating potion and somehow managed to be bonded instead.”
Harry tried to interrupt. “I don’t underst—”
“She and Snape created something like an unbreakable vow on their relationship!”
Harry’s reaction came swiftly, “WHAT?”
He was truly frustrating her and she quickly corrected him. “We did no such thing, Ronald!”
“Oh! Now I know she does it! Remember how I was tellin’ you that Hermione lies to us when she thinks we’re too stupid to realize she’s lying? Harry, remember? Well, she’s doing it now! Right now!”
“What are you talking about?” She exclaimed.
“I know you do it, Hermione, you lie to us all the time just to further your own goals!”
Hermione’s gaze darkened, “No, I think you have me confused with someone else. I have only lied to protect secrets that were not mine to tell. I have lied to protect Harry, I have lied to protect you, Ronald, I have lied to protect my parents, I have lied to protect the Order of the Phoenix, and I have lied to protect Severus! I don’t lie to you of my own volition! I don’t lie if I have a choice, you fool!”
“The proof is in my family!” Ron turned to Harry, “The Weasley family, we’re purebloods, y’know? And there have been stories told by tradition for years. One of those stories is about Merlin and the Lady of the Lake. He loved her and he courted her and he tried to win her and she never wanted to be with him. Eventually, he was able to persuade her to be with him when she wanted to learn some of his magic and she promised to bind herself to him. It is said that that was the first Unbreakable Vow and the last time it was used to fasten a relationship.”
Hermione’s glare seemed so dark that Ron narrowed his eyes at her. “Ronald Weasley, when are you going to stop talking out of your arse?” She asked with mock politeness. “We did not create an unbreakable vow. We created a potion and I... messed it up, and we were bonded and Severus created this potion to reverse the effects. Everything—Everything!--came out of the Book of Days and Ends.”
Ron continued to frown while Harry sighed, looking back and forth between them before shaking his head and mumbling something. “I trust you, Hermione. Let’s just move on, okay?” He looked between them pointedly before continuing, “How do we use that potion.”
She explained the procedure very carefully, warning that it would be a bit difficult to remain focused if the bit of Voldemort’s soul begins to struggle. When she was satisfied, she had the boys repeat the instructions twice before finally extending the vial of separating potion to Harry’s outstretched hand. “I will hold the containment ward.”
“We know, ‘Mione!” Ron said with a chuckle. “You don’t have to repeat it nearly that much these days.”
Harry chuckled at Hermione’s comment that, “Old habits die hard.” He waved his wand in a lazy arc and the two objects flew into the room inside the same shoebox the trio had imprisoned them in months ago. Hermione lifted the top and Ron extracted the objects before handing the necklace to Harry.
Voldemort’s voice immediately emanated from the necklace and Harry grimaced as he held it away from himself. Ron followed him to the open space in the room, and nodded for Hermione to put the shield up. A faint golden shimmer domed over the boys, surrounding them and keeping Hermione separate from them. She had done it once before from the inside, so it was surprising to her how easy it felt this time.
Harry poured the separating potion into the cup, and Ron dumped the necklace into the thin pool of liquid unceremoniously, and before Hermione was really prepared for it, the protective dome pulsed outwards, forcing her to grab her wand with both hands to steady it. Another six pulses transpired as the boys began to raise their wands at the cup.
Hermione couldn’t hear what was going on, and a sudden magical wind began to kick up any loose papers and debris in the room, blowing them to be trapped on the dome, blocking her view of what was happening inside. She began to wonder what was going on inside as she got accostumed to the strenuous task of holding the dome up when a sudden electrical burst made her shriek in surprise. She almost dropped her wand, and redoubled her grip, preparing for the next one and screaming as it coursed through her arms. She was soon hit with the shock again and again and again before the room suddenly dropped to silence and stillness and the papers dropped from their place and Ron and Harry could be seen inside, laughing.
She dropped the containment ward, and Harry and Ron chuckled at her giddily.
“Wow! That was.... I just can’t believe... It’s finally done!” Harry stammered.
Ron continued to laugh as he flopped back on the bed beside Hermione. “That wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be.”
“Speak for yourself.” Hermione said as she lay back and rolled to her side, facing Harry on the other side of her. He was breathing happily. “What’re you grinning about?”
“Kicking Dark Lord ass feels so good!” He closed his eyes and Hermione stroked his hair away from his forehead where the scar looked darker and more sinister than ever before. She closed her eyes and let her mind rest while her head rested on her best friend’s chest.
Behind her, Ron sighed and lay a hand on her belly, “Four down, three to go.”
Her child kicked in response, and the boys spent the next hour stroking her belly.
~~~~~~~~~
A/N: I’ll keep this short and thank you all heartily.
1-- catysmom
2-- Queen_Celestia
3-- slytherin-princess
3-- meankitty69
3-- Lady_of_Clunn
4-- johanna3030
5-- pstibbons
6-- sslover
6-- doodle/deaudle
7-- openthedoor
Now, those of you who have been reviewing for a while, I have a task for you. Raise your right hand with the palm facing away from you, now move your hand to the right and back to the left and back to the right and back to the left. Newcomers, that was for you. Lol... Hello Danyealla-sama, Prissz, and Berkid!