[Locked][Backdated to Remus & Sirius' Entrance Day]

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[OOC: Locked to the Harry Potter cast. Remus, Sirius, Hermione, and Harry. Two separate threads and then Harry and Hermione will run in to interrupt the menz! :D jrkela; Excited!]Harry does not exactly want to leave his godfather alone. However, he has to tell Hermione what has happened. He has no idea that she has similar news to give to him so

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Harry's best friend, however, has always been known for keeping a cool head about herself, regardless of chaotic circumstances. Hermione does like to think she covers all her bases, as it's rather important to use one's resources. All of one's resources when they're in one's grasp.

And so.

While she's off finding Harry in that determined way of hers, she simultaneously writes him an entry in case her attempts to find him prove unsuccessful.

Hopefully, she locked the entry appropriately.

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Harry clearly does not read the entry as he is too busy running around the Tower looking for her. It would be smarter if he did actually read his journal, and they could meet up that way, but he is apparently going to keep running around.

Eventually, Harry sees her and he calls out, having no idea that she's looking for him with just as much fervor. "Hermione! I've been looking all over for you," he says, and he'll have to take a moment to try to catch his breath. "Something's happened. Sirius-- He-- I ran into him on the street. He fell... through the Rift."

There's a smile pulling at the corners of his lips because this is a good thing. It really is. They have another opportunity to get to know one another, to be close as they should have been before it was taken away from them both.

It's good.

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At some point they will collide. There is only so much ground to cover in the Kashtta Tower. Hermione is breathless, eyes widening in anticipation. She looks like someone that might burst if she does not say what she means to say. "Harry!"

She stops directly in front of him, hands reaching out to steady him.

This turns out to be a wise move, as she later has to steady herself. The shock is clearly written on her face. Shock and something that reaches beyond it.

"Oh, Harry. That's incredible, I'm so..." Hermione's ecstatic expression returns to the urgency with which she sought him out previously.

"I've been looking for you, as well," and the fervor in her own expression deepens. "Sirius... wasn't the only one to fall through the Rift, Harry. Only hours ago, I ran into Professor Lupin. Much younger than when we first met him, but it is him."

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Harry is too caught up in his own excitement to recognize the look on her face until after he has already blurted out his own news. The thought that she could have something just as pressing to say, it's what slows him down and keeps him from saying anything further just yet.

He hesitates for that one moment, watching as her expression shifts from shocked to ecstatic to urgent again. Harry braces himself, and there isn't any way at all that he could prepare himself for the news that she is about to deliver.

Harry reaches for her to, and they are both steadying one another as she says it.

Sirius wasn't the only one to fall through the Rift.

Shock hits him, and it keeps him rooted to the floor. His hand tightens on her arm, not painfully so... but this isn't...

"He-- Really? I never-" Harry has to find his breath again before he can properly react to all of this. "I had imagined maybe Voldemort falling through one day but never-- I never thought I'd see either of them again, but they're both... they're both here, Hermione

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"Really," Hermione says with a breathless laugh, and the laughter is swiftly cut off at what he says next. She smacks him in the shoulder. "Harry, what an awful thing to imagine!"

Not that she blames him for it, considering his fortune, but still. They are sharing what can be seen as good news. There is no need to bring You-Know-Who into this. Unless he is actually setting foot in Chicago, Hermione won't think of it.

Harry is safe from him here and that is all that matters. "Honestly, I don't want to even contemplate it and you shouldn't, either!"

Especially when confronted with the news he's just given her. Sirius, she can scarcely believe it. The Rift can't be all bad if it has given Harry his godfather back, it simply can't. Her eyes well up and she is so, so happy for him.

Hermione flings her arms around him for a tight hug. Sirius and Lupin both met an end that was not deserved. As terrible as it is to think they have been taken from their universe it's far better than prison and death, isn't it? She is grasping at the silver

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Harry winces when Hermione smacks him. She is small but she is powerful when she wants to scold you. It never hurts so much as it's like a reminder. It's her scolding without as many words, and he shrugs, glancing at the floor under his feet before he looks back at her.

"I will try not to imagine it as much in the future," he says, trying to make light of it though it honestly is a terrible thing to imagine.

They are all safe from Voldemort here, and Sirius and Remus' deaths were both caused directly or indirectly by Voldemort. They can't be reached by the deatheaters here, by Bellatrix (and he'll always remember hearing Hermione scream), by all of it.

Harry hugs her back, tightening his arms around her back and honestly smiling. He doesn't-- It's easy for him to see the silver lining in this situation, seeing Lupin's corpse and Sirius falling through the veil

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"I would appreciate it if you did," Hermione says, in that not-quite-a-lecture-yet tone that is honestly too relieved to be anything but. She is bossy, certainly, but Harry also can't be faulted for the thought process. It stands to reason anyone from their universe could fall through the Rift at any time.

They have proven just now two people from their universe fell through on the same day. It still isn't a thought she wants him to linger on, aside from the fact it makes her skirmish as it is.

There is much to be thankful for now to let it be ruined by Voldemort. Hermione's deepest hope is to see him safe and unscathed, and while she has learned that didn't quite come true, it is true hereShe must hold onto that. Change what she can change, and refuse to be crippled by what she can't change. And who she can't be with

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Harry tries to hold back the laugh at the sound of her voice. It is difficult, because he has actually missed it and he's in such a good, joyous mood. "If you'd appreciate it, then why wouldn't I... try my best to do so?"

Never mind all the times that he has done things that he would know very well she would not appreciate.

He is too thankful, too lost in all of these gifts that the Rift has given him to think much about the possibility of Voldemort any time soon

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Hermione will simply give him a look, as he very well knows what she means when she states she'd appreciate it. The Honestly goes unspoken, but it hardly needs to be said aloud when the look speaks for itself. It is, however, impossible to remain so stern-looking when there is such good news.

She's smiling and restless and--

Just as quickly the smile slowly starts to fall from her face. The excitement has dissipated when looking into the logical facts of the matter.

"Harry, if they're both much younger than when we met them, and if Sirius was still in... Azkaban, that must mean--" she cuts herself off rather abruptly, turning her back on Harry to what's caught her attention. She doesn't stop her train of thought because she does not have the words to finish. She stops because of the commotion down the corridor.

If they're both young and Sirius hasn't cleared his name amongst them, that must mean Lupin believes him the killer of Harry's parents... doesn't it?

Oh, schnap.

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Harry hears that Honestly. He is going to act as though he hasn't actually heard it, and there is plenty of good news to distract them both from any sternness or appropriate reaction to said sternness. Harry is rather grateful.

It isn't until the smile falls from her face that he loses the one on his as well, and he seems to be putting the pieces together as she's saying it out loud.

That must mean that Lupin will want him dead should they run into one another.

He steps past her at the sound. There is one moment where he waits, trying to figure out what it is. The possibilities in the Tower, in Chicago are endless, and there is no guarantee that it's his godfather and Lupin having found one another.

However, there's no guarantee that it isn't either. If there's commotion, Harry's instinct is to run toward it to see if he can help. It's why he only pauses for that moment before he glances at Hermione and sprints toward the sound of it.