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Close Quarters	By : kelstar Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Hermione Views: 2994 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 1-Close Quarters
- 2-Dumbledore's Letter
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Disclaimer: I own nothing you read here, it all belongs
to J. K. Rowling.

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Molly Weasley was cleaning
up when Professor McGonagall next spoke, �Right let�s get started.� She went to the Pantry and pulled out a
large stone basin, with runes around the sides. She then asked �Miss Granger?
If you please?� Hermione pulled
on the necklace and took it from around her neck, where she then handed it to
Professor McGonagall. The Professor
uncorked the vial and poured the contents into the basin. The mixture had settled at the bottom of the
basin when Professor McGonagall said, �Shall we?� and Hermione, Harry and Ron
together with Professor McGonagall entered the pensieve.

They were in Professor
Dumbledore�s Office � now Professor McGonagall�s. Professor Severus Snape was there with Professor Dumbledore. Snape shouted, �I will not! I would rather die!� �If you don�t my boy,
you will definitely die.� The then headmaster said. �Exactly my plan.� Exclaimed Snape. Professor Dumbledore was sitting serenely at his desk, whilst
Snape was standing across from him with a heavy scowl on his face. �Severus, I am old. Harry will cope without me, but the order
will still need you. Not just that but
you deserve a chance to find happiness when this is all over.� Snape snorted, �If I survive that long! It doesn�t make any sense, I will probably
die anyway, you are like a grandfather to Potter, he looks to you for guidance,
and I dare say he loves you. As much as
I hate to sound like I care, I think Potter has lost enough already. I will not kill you, I will die that night
from breaking the vow.� � You will do
it Serverus, you must. I am too old and
slow to continue, it will be my time � not yours. I will prepare Harry, and I will make arrangements for after my
death so you can continue to work for the order. You will do as I ask not because I am ordering you to, but
because I am asking you to trust me to know that this is the right way to deal
with this situation.� Snape�s shoulders
slumped, defeated. With tears in his
eyes he made one last plea. �What about me Albus, I don�t want to do this to
you, you are the closest thing to a father I ever had. I care about you, I can�t do it, it will
pain me too much.� �You are strong Serverus,
and you will do it. Think of it as
putting me out of my misery, as when I return from my mission that night, the
potion I will have consumed will be slowly killing me in a most agonising way
anyway. You would be showing me
mercy.� Snape hung his head, �Of course
Albus, as you wish then.� �Good, now
don�t be sad, I will give you more details about what is to happen once I have
figured it out.� With that Snape turned
and stalked out of the room, robes billowing.

Time to go I think,
Professor McGonagall pulled the three friends out of the pensieve. All three had tears streaming down their
face. �Now, now, chin up young ones, we
still have much to do before we win this war.
We will morn when it�s over.�
Professor McGonagall said bracingly. �We will make a start in the
morning. Now off to bed with you.� The three said their goodnight, and in
solemn silence the went to bed, where they all spent a few hours processing
what they saw before falling into a fitful sleep, nervous about what was to come.

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The next morning found
Hermione, Harry and Ron talking intently around the breakfast table. Hermione had retrieved the memory and placed
the pendant back around her neck for safe-keeping until the time came to hand
it over to the appropriate people � if such a time ever came about. The trio were discussing that memory, and
also trying to ignore that the boys would be going off on a separate mission to
Hermione, and that they would be parting after breakfast. They all pulled out their letters to
compare, and noted the only difference between all three was the names at the
top and the tenses as it applied to them.
Hermione�s read:

Dear Hermione,

If you
are reading this, I have recently died.
I know this must be a hard time for all of you. Just know that I am
proud of you and know you will all do well in your lives and in the upcoming
war. As I have always said, you three
have the thing Tom lacks, that is love.
This is a strong magic that cannot be underestimated.

I need you all to do some things for me. Harry, Ron, I need you two to find the
remaining Horcruxes and destroy them. I
have left a map with Professor McGonagall, she knows all about these letters by
now, and has her own instructions. This
map has only one Horcrux on it, I am relying on Hermione to figure out where the other is. The will also be instructions on what this
Horcrux is, what it does, how it�s protected and how to destroy it, again
Hermione will have to find all this out about the last one. Good luck boys, I know you can do it. It will take a while and a lot of
travelling, but I know you can do it.

Hermione,
as I mentioned above I need you to do some research, but there are some other
things I need you to do. What I am
asking you to do is quite big on its own, so here goes. First, you will have noticed that there is a
pendant with your letter. Keep it safe,
it is one of my memories, and it is very precious. It will explain a few things, so when you meet up with Professor
McGonagall, you can watch it, then you must keep it safe until the appropriate
time, which I�m sure you will figure out when that is. Secondly, I need you to go and sit your
NEWTs very soon, and begin a Potions Masters course. Professor McGonagall will
organise these things for you. I think
you will be able to handle the super intensive course that takes six months (a
normal masters course takes two years).
Once you are a Potions Master, I need you to start developing a potion
that will weaken Tom, using love, because as I mentioned above, love is a very
powerful magic that Tom has underestimated.
I trust you will find the answer.
The last thing I must ask of you is to hide Professor Snape in the
safe-house I will provide you to live in, as he will be a wanted man until you
present my memory to the right people.
I know this last thing will seem the most difficult, believe me,
Serverus put up quite an objection, but I believe you are the best person to do
this, and I wouldn�t ask if it wasn�t important.

So
there it is my young friends, my dying wishes for you. I hope you see your way clear to doing
this. If you agree, make your way to
headquarters to meet with each other and Professor McGonagall who will have
further instructions. Farewell, and
good luck. Know that I hold each of you
in a dear place in my heart, and that I have every confidence in all of your
abilities.

Yours
in Love and Friendship

Albus
Dumbledore

Professor McGonagall
appeared for breakfast then, and asked �Are you all ready to start the next
phase of your lives?�
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