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Insanity Check! Complete	By : Talented_Mrs_Lupin Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Hermione Views: 21381 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Hermione had a busy day but she insisted that Harry should leave this up to her. She reminded him that technically George hadn’t done anything wrong other than pretending to be his brother. She dressed as normally as she usually did, at least she tried but she knew it looked odd to see her wearing something that she would never work in. A pair of blue jeans with a t-shirt and a pair of trainers (in case she had to chase him). She opened the side door leading in to the store and looked around the room for the familiar redhead that was wondering around.
“Hey George” She called.
“Hey Her-my-owninny” He called back with a grin, she was so used to seeing him look so happy and carefree that she was nervous to do this, hadn’t he proven that he wasn’t such a nice guy?
“Can I talk to you?” She asked as normally as she could as she walked closer to him. He watched her progress across the store and the way her eyes looked around it before focusing on him again. He took a deep breath and frowned before turning suddenly and took off running through the store throwing stuff on the floor behind him.
“You’ve got to be fucking joking!” She exclaimed as she too took off after him.
George had run out the door in to Diagon Alley and a few seconds behind him Hermione burst from the joke shop door and followed. She was running through the cobblestone alley, jumping over bent people and trying to push people out of the way without hurting them. She was calling to him telling him that she really just wanted to talk to him not yell at him or take him in but he continued running. She couldn’t help but be reminded of the reason why she didn’t become an Auror and that was because of the physical demands. She got close enough and launched herself forward grabbing his shoulders and using her weight and the surprise to take him down hard on the ground in an empty alley way between Knockturn and Diagon. She quickly put on knee between his shoulder blades and snatched his wand away from him, pocketing it and holding his wrists in her other hand then taking a moment to breathe.
“Merlins beard, George” She gasped “Why’d you run?!”
“You know why!” He said trying to get away from her “How the bloody hell did you get so strong?”
“Working in a mental ward will do that to a person!” Hermione said “Why’d you do it?”
“Do what?” He asked innocently.
“You’re not in trouble” She told him “If you were in trouble then Harry would be here to take you in, if I take my knee out of your back can we walk, like adults, back to the shop and talk?”
“Yes” He answered, his face was red as he wondered how many people just witnessed Hermione tackling him and taking him down. That was embarrassing.
“Okay” Hermione said as they sat down in the shop after walking back “Why did you actively help out with what Ginny and Astoria did?”
“I didn’t know” He said “Not really, I didn’t even know that Astoria Malfoy was part of it until they showed up that night to head off to the hospital” He looked at his hands “Ginny originally told me that it was a prank on you, she said that she was going to give you a potion that would make you tell the truth only about your feelings about Snape and I thought that it sounded amusing so I went along with it”
“When did you know that it was something else?” Hermione asked “And just so you know, I am going to let Harry look at my memories”
“That’s fine” He answered “Before we left for the hospital that night when I saw that Astoria was with Ginny I asked why she was there because I knew that you and her weren’t friends”
“What did they say?” Hermione pressed.
“Astoria didn’t say anything, she just stood there tapping her damn foot” George answered “But Ginny told me it was time to go and I asked why Astoria was there” Hermione nodded “That’s when Ginny said that they were finally getting revenge on the death eaters and that I should come with them”
“Why did you?” Hermione asked and he looked uncomfortable.
“I still hate Snape for what he did to my ear” He answered “But…It’s Ginny…I’ve seen what she can do and I’m not willing to cross her”
“Another person scared of Ginny?” Hermione asked more to herself than to him “I think maybe it’s time for me to talk to Harry about his relationship with her” She looked at George “I can’t promise that you won’t be arrested but you didn’t really do anything so it shouldn’t be that bad”
~~~((@))~~~
Harry was sitting at the table with Draco cooking him breakfast. He watched the blonde walk around the kitchen with his head tilted to the side considering him completely. Once his enemy, now the blonde seemed to know him better or at least as well as Hermione and she seemed to love him as well. Harry was confused by his own feelings concerning the Slytherin as well as his about him.
“Harry” Draco said “Would you like some tea?”
“Yes, please” He answered “I didn’t know you knew how to cook”
“Well” Draco answered “When it wasn’t so sure what would happen to me I considered running away in the middle of the night, I had my house-elves teach me the basics of muggle cooking, cleaning and sewing” He smiled apologetically.
“That’s smart” Harry said “Not that you wanted to run. But that you were willing to learn without magic just so you could survive”
“I actually enjoy muggle cooking” Draco informed “It’s a lot like mixing Potions. Reading directions, finding the right heat to cook at, mixing the right amount of ingredients in to the food at the right time…” He smiled “I enjoy it”
“Might explain why I suck at cooking” Harry said with a laugh “It appears that the only time I can make a potion is when someone’s life depends on it and the only time I can cook is when Hermione’s really upset about something”
“That shows that you really can do potions and cooking” Draco pointed out “You just need to lose the reason but keep the interest and you wouldn’t mind it so much”
“Harry” Hermione greeted as she walked in to the apartment “You dated Ginny for years”
“Yeah” He said “Thank you for pointing out the obvious”
“How did you not notice that she was a lunatic and don’t lie to me” She warned “I am well able to see through lies”
“I didn’t notice it right away” He answered “She started to get angry over the smallest things, she had potions lab at the burrow, in the attic that I wasn’t allowed to go in to” He shook his head “I just let it go, thought that it was normal, then she went to play Quidditch and things got better…for me anyway”
“What do mean?” She asked.
“Her team members made complaints to her coach that she was attacking them in the locker room” He told her “The coach never caught her which is why she was never kicked off the team but she brought it to me in hopes that I would know about it”
“Did you?” She asked.
“No!” He answered angrily “There were unexplained injuries that were reported to us but after questioning everyone involved with the injuries and/or the accusations against her but no one was talking. They all made her out to be the best player, best friend anyone could ask for so really what could the Auror’s do in a situation that no one would talk in?”
“Did you guys think that there was a situation?” Hermione asked and he leaned back in his seat looking at his breakfast.
“I don’t know” He said honestly “I think some did, I know that I didn’t want to believe that there was one but a lot of those injuries aren’t hard to get in practice but the coach even said that most of the time the girls weren’t injured and then would leave the locker room with these serious injuries”
“Like what?” She asked.
“Broken fingers, toes, ankles, ribs” He ticked off “One girl had a cracked skull, that one almost got caught but she claimed that the crack in the stonewall had been there before and that blood was from her leaning against the wall”
“Could be true I guess” Hermione said “But knowing what I know about Ginny now I’d venture to say that it isn’t true”
“The girl had a concussion and her right eye was so messed up that she had to leave the team for good” Harry said “I did a little investigating to get a feel for this girl to find out why she didn’t seek immediate medical attention when it happened”
“Did you find out why?” Hermione asked already knowing the answer.
“No” He said “But I did learn that she was MVP in the Quidditch world, four other teams wanted her, best Keeper that the Holy Head Harpies ever had and she knew it. The few team members that would actually talk about the incident told me that she was always telling them that they weren’t good enough to play with her and they made her look bad”
“When Ginny feels threatened…” Hermione led.
“She attacks first and asks questions later” Harry finished.
“I need to talk to Molly” Hermione said “I need to know what has her so afraid of her own daughter and then I should probably talk to George” She caught a letter that came her way from an owl.
Dear Hermione,
I thought you’d like to know that Mr. and Mrs. Dais have dropped Cami off like you requested. She is a handful, has been here for two hours and has already made me want to quit. I may need your help. Also, Snape has finished the antidote, we’ve administered it and Lucius has woken up.
-Bridget
“Draco” Hermione said “Your father is awake”
“Can I see him?” Draco asked standing.
“Yes” Hermione answered “Tell Bridget that I will be there in an hour or two and tell her to lock Cami in her room”
“Will do” He said walking off to get dressed.
“I’ll go with him” Harry said “Are you coming?”
“Not right away” She answered “I’m going to talk to Molly”
~~~((@))~~~
The burrow was quiet when Hermione entered it, there were toys on the ground in the living room so she knew that Victorie was there. A haggard looking Molly walked in to the living room and looked at Hermione with a sigh and led the way in to the kitchen where she put the kettle on for tea. She was avoiding Hermione’s eyes as she busied herself with tea, the scones and finally she sat down and lowered her eyes.
“I know why you’re here” Molly said “But you’re wasting your time, I won’t talk”
“Molly” Hermione said soothingly “I understand that you are afraid of Ginny, for whatever reason, but she is not here anymore” She reached out and took the older woman’s hand and squeezed it reassuringly “She is in Azkaban and even without further understanding of your fear of her, she will be in the prison for no less than five years more if we can prove that she is a danger to the people around her”
“I can’t” Molly whispered “It’s my fault, I should have protected her better in the war, as a child…she should never gotten the diary that she did in her first year”
“Molly” Hermione said desperately, if she was able to get Lucius friggin’ Malfoy to talk about his demons and his past horrors she could get Molly talk about her fears “Please, tell me what has you so scared of your own daughter…please”
“Hermione…” She whispered desperately.
“I can make sure that Harry has protection spells put over your house so that not even I can get in without your permission” Hermione told her “Please, if you tell me what’s happened to make you so scared I can make sure that she gets the help she needs”
“You can get her help?” Molly asked her, wiping away some tears that had collected on her cheeks.
“I can get her help” Hermione confirmed “But I can’t help her personally because of the personal history between us, now please…tell me what happened?”
“Ginny has always been so smart” Molly said “But after her first year her intelligence changed, she was still smart but there was this darkness around her. She would stay in her room, snap at everyone, pick fights with her brothers and I thought that it was normal but then I started finding the garden gnomes dead bodies all over the place” She shuddered and Hermione urged that she take a sip of her tea “They were mutilated terribly, I didn’t want to believe that it was her and when you all went off to school it stopped and I was able to pretend it had all been in my head”
“Okay” Hermione said, making notes of what she was saying.
“Christmas holiday she stayed locked in her room” Molly said “Summer would come and so wouldn’t the little dead bodies, I started finding potions that had been used on the Gnomes, dark curses…I didn’t know what to do, I was terrified to tell Arthur so I would hide the evidence and then…” She stopped and struggled to breathe normally.
“And then…” Hermione led after a few moments of silence.
“She attacked me” Molly said “It was the summer before your fourth year. I told her that I knew what she was doing and she was to stop right then, I told her that it was sick and that it better stop or I would tell the ministry!” She shook her head laughing almost manically “I am so stupid. I threatened her and all of a sudden, she backhands me and I fall…I was so shocked and scared, she kicked me a few times in the ribs then leaned over and told me that I would was no longer in charge of her and that I was to keep my mouth shut because she could make my death look like an accident”
“And after that?” Hermione asked.
“After that” Molly sighed “I made sure to never be caught alone with her, if she made food or drink I wouldn’t partake in it, I made sure not to give her reason to attack me…I turned” She sobbed “I turned my eyes away from the dead gnomes, the murdered animals…I even caught her trying to slip silver in to Remus’s tea when he came to visit just before you and Harry showed up…I dumped it out and feared being in my own house with my daughter after that” She cried for a few minutes before raising her head again “During the summer when we were all in Grimmauld Place that was the only time I felt safe, I clung to Sirius as if Ginny were a dementor and he was my patronis. I started to act out to people and pray that no one would ask me why because I didn’t think I had the strength to lie”
“And after she got out of Hogwarts?” Hermione pressed.
“She was okay for a while” Molly said “Then after she started with the Holy Head Harpies she started to freak out again, she was short-tempered, in the attic which I found she had a potions lab in there, she was making potions that I have never heard of, dark potions” She squeezed her hands together “I must have acted a little too unafraid of her because she started to show me her memories of what she did to the girls in the locker rooms, beating them, breaking bones” She leaned forward “It amazed me that there was a whole team of strong women and yet they all cowered before her, she was terrifying and I found myself…oh Hermione” She started crying again “I found myself wishing that she would just fall off her broom in a game and die, I used to wish that someone would kill her in the war…that isn’t normal!”
“I’m sorry, Molly” Hermione told her “I am so sorry, is there anything else?”
“I don’t want to talk about it anymore” Molly said sniffling “Please be happy with what I’ve told you already, I need to clean up the house and get a snack ready for Victorie for when she wakes up okay?”
“Alright” Hermione stood up “Have you talked with Ronald?”
“I have” Molly said “He is doing good, waiting for this mess to be cleaned up before he comes out of hiding, please leave him alone”
“I will” She promised. Hermione left the crooked house and walked to the apparition point before she left Ottery St. Catchpole, she landed in front of her own hospital. She smiled for merely a minute before the screams from inside broke through her happiness and she was rushing in to the manor to see what was happening.
A/N: Long time coming but I hope you like this chapter. PLEASE REVIEW!!!!
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