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Memories of Deception	By : professorflo Category: Harry Potter > General > General Views: 20868 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Disclaimer: See Chapter 1
A loud bang made her jump, shaking her awake from where she had fallen asleep with her head on her hands. Blearily she sat upright, the pages of the notebook she had been reading sticking to her face for a moment, until gravity pulled it back down to the bench. Shit, what's the time? How could I fall asleep when there's so much to do?
Checking the wall clock she realised it was a minute past midnight. The battle's just begun then. There were no windows in the room or she would have run to one to see that was happening outside. Gods I must have slept for almost ninety minutes. She hadn't realised how tired she was, but now she thought about it she had probably been awake for over 24 hours, what with the early morning she'd had, plus two jumps back in time.
She felt a lot better for having had even that small amount of rest. Her brain seemed a little less fuzzy too. Only two hours before I need to go, and I still need a solution. She looked down at the notebook on the desk in front of her. Snape had written a lot but she'd speed-read a good deal of them, only slowing for the comments she thought were important. She'd almost reached the end when she'd fallen asleep and from what she'd read so far, Snape was not too far from a viable potion.
Doing her best to ignore the loud bangs and shaking of the castle underneath her, she set to finishing the notebook.
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Ten minutes later she had reached the end, having read the notes for the last few trials more thoroughly than the rest. Excitement was bubbling up in her. Snape had been so close to succeeding with the last tested potion, there only being one small problem, and he had changed the method accordingly. It could work…
So she had a way to cure him… well, the potion had a good chance of succeeding, but she still needed to raid Snape's cupboards for some other potions; Draught of the Living Death, Dittany for his neck, as well as some other generalised healing potions. She could do with a bit of pepper-up potion for herself. Her nap might have helped a bit, but she didn't want to risk falling asleep again. She pushed herself to her feet and padded across to the cupboard. She quickly found the potions she needed, as well as an extra phial for the anti-venom. Placing them all down on the desk she took the pepper-up potion, feeling instantly invigorated, and picked up the empty phial.
She carefully poured the correct dosage that the notebook had instructed and corked the phial, before casting an unbreakable charm on the glass. Placing it with the others she eyed the collection of potions. She could really do with her bag about now, but she'd left it with Luna. How was she going to carry them all? She'd have to transfigure something into a bag, and try to remember the charms she had used before.
She ran into the bedroom and returned with one of Snape's socks. A few minutes later she had a small black shoulder bag that was far bigger on the inside than it was on the outside, and she'd cast a silencing charm over it too so the sound of clicking glass wouldn't give her away. Placing all the phials in the bag, she cast a quick weightless charm over the bag as well.
One problem down, two to go… If only I had Harry's invisibility cloak. Actually, that's not a bad idea… She'd last seen Luna stuffing it back in to her bag after Harry's confrontation with Snape. But where is she now? Hermione knew that while she might get away with Luna seeing her it would be a mistake for her to let anyone else spot her. Harry would realise something was up pretty quickly, and her past-self was still with Ron, but Luna had a knack of understanding things without being told. Even if she said something to anyone else it would be easily brushed aside as Luna's usual dottiness.
Hermione looked up at the clock. It read 12:20. Where were we at that time? I think I was still down in the Chamber of Secrets with Ron, so Luna must be with Harry at Ravenclaw Tower still. But how do I get to her without Harry or anyone else seeing me?
Suddenly the perfect answer bloomed in her head. "Tiggy," she called. The diminutive elf pooped into existence beside her.
"Miss needs Tiggy?"
Hermione opened her mouth to reply, then snapped it shut as she took in Tiggy's appearance. She had what looked like shredded tea towel wrapped around her head like a bandana, and held a large kitchen knife in each hand. She also seemed agitated. Quickly the elf tucked the knives in the back of her tea towel and grinned up at Hermione sheepishly. "Why are you dressed like that?" Hermione asked. "What's going on?"
"Harry Potter's Kreacher has come to Hogwarts," she replied excitedly, bouncing up and down. "We'ses going to fight and help get Sir back."
"Sir? You mean Professor Snape?"
"Hogwarts needs its Sir now. Hogwarts is breaking. Missy must help get Sir back." She wrung her hands anxiously as the castle shuddered again around them.
"But that's just what I'm trying to do, Tiggy. I need your help."
The elf beamed. "Tiggy will do anything to help Miss and Sir." She bounced on her toes in anticipation.
"I need you to find out if Luna Lovegood is alone. If she is apparate her to an empty classroom. Make sure it's safe. Then come back here."
Tiggy disappeared without another word. With nothing to do but wait Hermione checked the potions in her bag one last time. Before a few more seconds had passed Tiggy had appeared again.
"Tiggy find Miss Luna and take her to empty room."
Yes….! "Tiggy, can you take me to her please."
Before she knew it Tiggy had reached up on gnarled hand and with a pop they apparated.
"Oh hello, Hermione," came a voice from behind her.
Hermione turned to find Luna seated on a dusty desk, her legs dangling above the floor as she looked round curiously.
"What a strange place to meet. Did you need something?" Her tone was as dreamy as usual, but her words were straight to the point and again she seemed to know exactly what was going on.
"Uh, hey Luna. I need to borrow Harry's cloak, but I need you not to mention this please. I'll give it back to him in a few hours."
Luna shrugged and opened the beaded bag that hung from her shoulder. "I'm sure he won't mind. I won't say anything." She pulled the shimmery material from the bag and jumped down from the desk to pass it to Hermione, who slung it over one arm.
"Thanks Luna... When I say don't mention it, I mean can you just not mention seeing me at all please."
"If you like…" She paused for a moment then reached out towards Hermione, who looked down confused and found Luna touching the time-turner that still hung around her neck. "I've read about them of course, but I've never had a change to look at a real one properly. I thought they were all destroyed at the Ministry."
"Oh, I… uh…"
Before Hermione could formulate a reply Luna had turned to Tiggy. "Would you be so kind as to take me back to where I was, please." She looked up at Hermione. "Good luck with whatever you came back for."
"Uh, thank you Luna," Hermione managed to stammer. "Tiggy, can you come straight back after taking Luna, please." They disappeared so quickly she was unsure if Tiggy had heard, but the elf was back again before Hermione could even breathe. "
"What can Tiggy do for Miss?"
Hermione paused for a moment as she thought. Back to Severus's rooms, they're the safest place and I know no one got in there during the battle. She looked down at the cloak in her hands. So I've got a way to hide, but how do I give him the potion? There's no time. I don't want to just sit there and watch him die all over again.
"Can you take me to the library in Professor Snape's chambers, please Tiggy." Maybe something in one of his books might give me an idea.
Tiggy reached up to grab her hand, and with a soft pop, she found herself where she'd asked to be. She had one last request for the elf.
"Tiggy, if you wish you can go and join your friends, but in about two hours I will need you to apparate both myself and Professor Snape from the Shrieking Shack into his bedroom. He will be injured, so I may need you to help me further. Can you do that?"
"Tiggy will help. Tiggy is honoured to help Miss look after Sir."
"Thank you, Tiggy. I will call when I need you."
The elf bowed and winked out of existence, leaving Hermione alone once more. Time for some research…
She deposited the cloak in Snape's chair and walked across to the nearest bookshelf. For once she didn't really know where to start. She trailed her fingers along the spines, as she walked slowly along the perimeter of the room reading the titles as she went. So many of the books were on dark magic, or on topics she was sure would be of no use.
Eventually, after having climbed up to look at some of the higher rows of books, and still at a complete loss after having flicked through and disregarded several tomes of potions and medicinal uses, a rather odd book on time that she would love to go through in detail at a later time, as well as one called 101 Uses of Transfiguration that You Never Knew Existed, she found herself pulling out a book on medical procedures.
Later she would wonder why she'd chosen to look at that particular volume, as it was not dissimilar to several she had already flicked through and found to be useless, but as she turned a page halfway through the book, and her eyes fell on the procedure described on the following one she could feel her heart begin to pound in her chest. Yes, yes! That's it! She hugged the book to her chest in excitement. It's going to work. I'm going to save him!
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