Mirror Mirror2: Sirius Sins
AN:// Anubis - Messenger of the Gods of journeys, and astral travel, among many other things.Being the god of astral travel I thought it would be a perfect way to move from one dimension to another Fortuna Goddess and personification of good fortune,and patron of oracles among other things. You need a little luck to fight one such as Voldemort and live. Hecate Goddess of abundance prophecy, charms, spells, averting evil, victory, wisdom, transformations, and reincarnation among many other things as well as patron of magick it would make sense that she would protect Hermione from harm.
The next Morning
She looked around at the room she was in more closely. It was the master bedroom where Sirius had Buckbeck. The room however was clean like the hippogriff never occupied it. The bed was a queen-sized bed that belonged to her mother and father. There was the side table, vanity, bureau and matching armoire and two chairs that sat by the fireplace. She went to the armoire and opened it. To the left where her things her old school robes oddly enough the crest was not Griffyndor but Ravenclaw. Instead of her casual wardrobe of jeans and sweateres there were femine dresses and graceful robes. To her right to her surprise where Sirius’s things clothing she recognized from her time at Grimmuald Place. Her fingers then ran over the suit that he was wearing the night he was killed. Tears stung her eyes. She should have known that it was a trap. All her instincts screamed at her that it was. But Harry would not leave the only family he had left. She and Ron and others would not leave him and went with him to be sure that both Harry and Sirius would return safely. Sadly Sirius never made it out alive. She wiped the tear away and closed the door. She turned away and went to the vanity and sat down at and looked at the items. The box that grandfather kept his jewelry all was there except a cameo ring. Her mother’s antique jewelry box was there. She found the box where her parents’ antique wedding rings lay. When she opened it she saw everything that was her mothers in the box, including her great- great- great- Grandmother Taylor’s engagement ring. Her mind pounded as she desperately tried to find some sort of logical explanation for all of this.
Try as she might she could not find a logical explanation for everything that had gone on, then it occurred to her that magic is not always logical; there were many factors that made the practice unpredictable, her partner Severus told her this many times. She wished he was there with her, to guide her through the rough spots. I was obvious that she could not count on Remus he was not the same as she remembered; he had no scars on his face, and he had a cold politeness that she expected of the Malfoy family, totally opposite of the man she cared for, who was so warm and supportive. Yes this was not heaven, this was the twilight zone. She needed to gather information on this strange new world, and the best way to start is to meet it’s inhabitants. She found the clothes she had worn when she had arrived washed and mended and she put them on and she cautiously crept downstairs to investigate.
The home was Grimmauld Place but it wasn’t; it was not falling apart like she remembered it, there were signs of life. She decided to go to the first floor drawing room, it was if something was pulling her there. The witch saw the room the way that it must had looked before she seen it run down when she first came to there that summer in 95. The windows were large and gave a wonderful view, there was a grand fireplace flanked by two glass plated ornate cabinets, writing desk that housed a Boggart in the corner and an enormous tapestry of a family tree that covered an entire wall. There was a sofa and a coffee table that was not there before.
Hermione approached the coffee table first which had a scrapbook and a notebook among the papers and magazines.
The wild haired brunette opened up the scrapbook to find newspaper clippings of the wizarding newspaper
Hedmaster of Hogwarts Gellart Grindelwald found dead!
Deputy Headmaster Argus Filtch takes the post of Headmaster after the death of Grindelwald
Auror Rosier murdered the day Death Crunchers escape form Azkaban
Notorious mass murder Rodolpus Lestrange escapes prison
List of Death Cruncher escapees
Arthur Weasley
Emmeline Vane
Hestia Jones
Sturgis Podmore
Elphas Dodge
Kingsley Shacklebolt
Bill Weasley
The brunette came closer to the title of the tapestry which read “The great and noble house of Weasley” he witch came closer and was startled to find the differences between the one she knew and the one before herThe tree was as she remembered up to the time when Cedrella Black married Septimus Weasley with the exception that she was not burned out of the tree; Charlie and Ginny were. Cedrella married a second time to Rabastan Lestrange and had a daughter who apparently was adopted by the Weasleys since she had both names and so it remained until Arthur Weasley and his brothers who for whatever reason kept the name Weasley only. The relationship was far different than she recalled; Arthur was married to Emmeline Vance, there was a burn were Charlie should be, and Molly was listed as a half sister . Her research was interrupted when she heard a sound she turned to the doorway and caught Charlie and her dead best friend Ginny. Charlie Weasley, but it was not the Charlie she remembered, his hair was down to his shoulders that was tucked behind his ears exposing the missing top of his left ear, his complexion was very pale and he had hypnotic eyes. It was too much information for her brain to take, she fainted dead away.
Hermione found herself in a hallway watching a scene unfold…
Lady Voldemort was taking a glass of snake milk to her husband in the parlor of the old Riddle house where they made their home. Things were going well for them, he was regaining his full strength and their power grew day by day. He should be pleased but for whatever reason she could sense that he was deeply disturbed. They shared a deep magical connection that allowed her the same strengths and weaknesses but it did not allow her to know what he was thinking. She knew she had to find out what was trouble him and make it right or it would be hell to pay.
She softly knocks and enters when he called on her to. She sets the ale down on the table next to him
“Your food my lord. This should be your last drink before being able to move to solid food”.
“There is also a drink of ale to warm you up. Is there anything else you require?”
“For you not to try to butter me up” he replied
“My lord I don’t know what you mean” replied his wife slowly backing away from him
Her husband regards her coldly with red catlike eyes. “ You know better than to lie to me my darling wife” he said coldly in his high pitched voice. “I always know when you lie”
She flinches at his harsh tone
“I am your wife, It is my duty to know what troubles you to make it better” replied the woman, she knew that there was no point to deny it.
“No as my wife it is your duty to obey me without question. But if you must know what is troubling me Hermione Black has returned more powerful than she was before”
Lady Voldemort pulled down her hood at looked at him with her own cat like eyes. He stared at her pasty scull like features that mirrored his own. Her once black hair was down to her shoulders streaked with white her fingers long and claw like as his. Minerva McGonagall was no more she was a mirror image of her husband Albus Dumbledore. She crosses her arms and regards him as he had gone mad
“Hermione Black died two years ago. You saw the funeral, saw her put in the ground. The mudblood lovers have not the power or the balls to get her back”
“Since you are too dim witted to think about it I will tell you. This Hermione came from another world. You remember those don’t you? You remember feeling the cold don’t you? It was because of her arrival”
“That is preposterous! No witch or wizard has that type of power!”
“I saw it through Adrian’s eyes. You know how that happened don’t you? I was torn from my body that night because of your bloody incompetence! My attempt on his life bonded me to him on a lever you will never understand! Get the Bone Crunchers and find her!” at her nod he then said, “Get out of my sight”
The woman’s lips formed a tight white line almost looking like the McGonagall of old before she left the room and did as she was told.
“Not as fun as people seem to believe now is it?” replied a familiar voice behind her. She turned to see her Harry behind her dressed the day he did when he died.
Hermione did not have the energy to argue she just shook her head no.
“I am sorry Hermione I didn’t want to be a burden to anyone. However when you took my spirit in you took some of my ‘gift’ in as well.” replied the dark haired boy in a mournful tone.
“It is alright Harry, I am the one that took the potion. I voluntarily used the stone, I knew what I was getting into, please don’t blame yourself.”
The boy kissed her cheek. “ Things are strange but you will find a way to make it work. I will be around if you need me”
After hours of research Lupin had a theory of what happened to Hermione after he came and spoke to her again and took her memory. The potion master sumized that it was a freak accident that occurred when the wand magic hit her necklace that had the stone of Anubis, Hectate medallion and Fortuna medallion. The power of the gods threw her to this timeline.
It was something he heard of but never witnessed in his life before. How where they going to deal with this?
***
Hermione opened her eyes to a room she didn’t see before with Draco putting a cold compress on her forhead
“Hello Malfoy. You will never believe the dream that I had…”
She stopped dead in her tracks when she saw the man of her nightmares approach her
“You, I should have known! You stole my life now you want my sanity as well, WELL YOU CAN’T HAVE IT”
She shouted in her voice full of hatred for the man and pulled out her wand and knocked him over with a fire bolt. Lucius didn’t take out his wand to fight her. Odd he was better than that. Draco grabbed her and wrestled her wand away from her.
“What in Merlin’s name are you doing Hermione that is my brother!”
Brother?She thought and looked at him, his eyes were different, there was no coldness.
Instead of coldness there were warm and compassionate the way that she remembered from Dumbledore. Dear Merlin it was not a dream
A red head entered the room dressed in jeans and leather jacket, Narcissa Malfoy behind her with an apron much like Mrs Weasley, with Harry, a man that looked just like him, Adrain Percy,Lavender Brown, a Chinese girl, Justin Fitch Flanery, Fleur Deleacour, Pansy Parkinson and Sirius Black.
It came to her that the woman with red hair was Lily Potter from the picture that she saw in Harry’s possession.Lily came over and put her arms around Hermione in a protective almost possessive manner and glared at Sirius when he tried to approach her. Sirius then stalked off to his wine cellar once again.Pansy Parkinson of all people approached her and sat on her other side. Hermione looked back at Harry and saw the man next to him must have been James from photos and that Remus and Sirus always said that he looked very much like his father. She noticed that Harry’s eyes were hazel like James and no scar how could this be?. She paused then realized that James was not wearing glasses, something he always did the few photos that she saw of him. Hermione was startled to see that Adrian Pucey was the one with the lightning type scar on his forehead.
Fitch and Madame Pomfrey entered the room followed by Remus
“Alright everyone leave this room right now, this girl has gone through enough shocks for one day. Pansy you may stayI know that you are worried for your best friend”
‘You heard the man everyone out!” said the old nurse in her most authoritative tone.
She then turned to Pansy
“Pansy dear get the bag of chocolate in my room if you will” Pansy nodded and went to get the remedy. At least Madame Pomfrey and chocolate being a remedy was the same, small comforts in all the shock. Her closest friends are not her friends, the people that are dead are alive and the enemy is her friend. She needed a drink a good strong one. If things were the same she knew that Remus kept firewisky in the cumbered that held the dishes. As she descends she heard a slap to the back of the head and a yelp of pain.
“What the bloody Hell was that for Padfoot?” exclaimed Sirius
“You are such a berk that is why. You are acting like a jealous husband that is not your bloody wife! Lily was trying to help Hermione and you act like she is going to seduce her into their past relationship! She was trying to do what was best for her, it is obvious from what Lupin said she had gone through a lot of shock, dealing with you would be another one. And to add insult to injury you look at her memories without her knowledge or permission!”
The whole thing was too much for her. The brunette grabed the invisibility cloak that was on the hook next to the door and ran into the night. She somehow ended up at Shell Cottage, the cottage Bill bought it to live in when he was engaged to Fleur, Fleur unfortunately died and he moved on with Tonks in this house. It was a beautiful sea side cottage with an airy backyard and a small garden in the back. There was two levels, the upper had three small bedrooms. For decorum Remus and Hermione had one and Bill and Tonks had another other leaving the last for the few guests that stayed there. On the full moon Tonks and Bill’s room was the room Tonks and Remus used, protected by charms to keep the wolves contained. The downstairs had a kitchen and a sitting room. The sitting room was changed into a type of room to pass the full moon on Severus’s insistence. At first they only went there during the transformations and lived at the Burrow were the Order headquarters had moved to. Towards the end of the war Bill and Tonks asked them to move in permanently, and they became the only family Hermione had or ever wanted.
Severus reluctantly helped Hermione create a complex mix of charms to lock the outer door and to protect the people inside for Tonks and Hermione’s sake, he could care less about what happened to Bill and Remus. Hermione told Severus about Bill being mauled and the uncertainty of what it would mean to him. There was no such thing as a half werewolf and no one knew if Bill will change or not, it was an uncertainty that had to have some sort of plan in case of trouble. It the worst times of the war, but it was the happiest she had ever been with Tonks, Bill, and Remus. It was here in the garden that Remus finally admitted how deeply he loved her and went on one knee and proposed.
The house was in shambles like it was never used, rooms empty except for a dirty mattress. The beautiful garden Bill maintained was no longer there the door was almost torn from it’s hinges. It was just as empty and cold as she felt. She sank down and lay on the mattress.She looked down at her vest and simple tee shirt, dirty jeans and combat boots. It was only two days since she ended up here but it felt like an eternity. The only possessions she had were her wand and her rings. She had no cloths, no money, no job and no friends. She felt the inside of her vest were she had her hidden pocket. She still had her wedding ring from Severus in there as well as her engagement ring from Remus. They were valuable enough to sell if she had to but the money could only get her so far. She needed a job to continue to support herself and to do that she would have to show her face. She however was dead and it would not be a good idea to show her face to let the other side know that she was alive.
Death she could handle, being the only survivor of her friends she could handle,But to be thrown into a world where everything she knew was thrown into chaos was worse than death in her opinion. Her world was turned upside-down, the ones deeply loved did not know her, or want her, and the one she least expected to want her did. The worst was that some of her friends and a man she loved who were brothers and sisters in the side of light had turned to darkness. What was she going to do?
***
Sirius decided after his fiftieth drink of firewisky that he would get his wife back if he could make this Hermione love him. In order to do that he needed to understand what she had gone through. It was a selfish move and it drove her away. The memories that he saw continued to haunt him after he saw them.
I’m Hermione Granger… I’m Molly Weasley dear and this is my husband Arthur so nice to meet you…
Who is that? Professor RJ Lupin. How is it that she knows everything? It’s on his suitcase Ronald…
He was their friend and he betrayed them. HE WAS THEIR FRIEND!!. Let him come, when he does I will be readyfor him, and I will kill him…
Mcnair sharpening his wepon to kill buckbeack…
Harry Hermione run! He’s the grim, he’s an Animagus…I WOULD HAVE DIED, DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY MY FRIENDS…
Welcome back to Hogwarts. This year we play host to three schools that will participate in the Tri wizard Tournament”…
”I don’t think you met my brothers Charlie and Bill have you…
“He’s back Voldemort’s back. He killed Cedric… I just couldn’t leave him there”…“
“They’ve got Sirius!”
…Watching helplessly behind a rock as Sirius was hit from behind by the killing curse and falling into the strange black veil before Harry’s shocked eyes…
Holding Remus as he wept for his last remaining friend…
“Miss Granger can I have a word?” asked Dumbledore as they returned from Sirius’s memorial service. “Of course Professor.”
Hermione follows the professor to his office at Hogwarts.
“There of something of great importance that I must ask you Miss Granger. I know that Professor Snape and yourself are not always on the best of terms but I need you to put that aside to help me with something.”
“What is the problem sir?” asked Hermione.
He lifted up his sleeve to show his shoulder with just a hint of black.
“I am very sick Miss Granger, in all likelihood I will not survive past next year.
I have lived a full life, and as honorable as I could make it. However there is something that I must do before I pass on. I must finish what I started with Harry and very little time remains. I must know all there is to know about the magic of the Hecrux and the Deathly Hollows so I can teach it to Harry. He is the one that can end this, I am certain of it. I refuse to leave this life without giving Harry the tools to succeed.”
Hermione sat in shocked silence. Then she finally asked, “ Is there no way to help you sir?”
“Possibly, but there is no time to do it. I am at peace with it. I however am not at peace with the idea of Voldemort. Years ago I saw what he would become and I was not able to stop him. I refuse to leave this life without contributing to his destruction.”
“You can count on me sir”
“I must also ask that you tell no one about this. It is imperative that no one knows.”
“Yes sir”.
“I must be off now. Good evening Miss Granger”
…. She was sitting in the order headquarters in the spy proof study with Snape.
“You want me to do what?” She asked in total shock. “Marry me, and live at Knockturn Alley.”
At the look of her shocked face, he said “only a marriage of connivance my dear we will be under the names of Tobias and Jane Prince.”
She swallowed and only nodded. Standing in front of her parish priest Joseph Day as he married them. Severus putting a simple gold band with a green stone in the middle, his mother’s ring.
He then smiled “You Granger women and older men he teased before he kissed her on the cheek and left…Feeling the DA coin in her pocket activate and calling for help…
She felt arms pulling her backwards and a hand clapping over her mouth. “ It is only I Hermione. The death eaters will be here any moment now. The most difficult task that we feared will in all likelihood happen tonight.” he kissed her on the neck and disappeared. …
The fight between the Order and the death eaters…Harry’s mournful eyes as he told her Bill was mauled by Greyback…
Holding Remus as he wept for his mentor and father figure. Staring at Dumbledore’s coffin racked with guilt that she was unable to tell the truth. Promising Harry that she will be there with him till the very end…Sadness and regret when Fleur was found dead in an alleyway from a death eater attack…
”You are what?” asked a shocked Snape.
“Getting married to Remus.” She stated calmly as she sorted out the ingredients needed for the wolfsbane. It was not easy getting in contact with Severus and working out a deal so Remus and Bill could get their potions. He took her wrists pulling her away from the herbs “You are my wife! I’ll be damned if you end up with that animal”.
“I am NOT your wife! I am here because there is no other choice! The paperwork is fake! A ploy for our mission, nothing else!”
“He almost killed you and me! How could you let him near you?”
“I forgave him a long time ago. He is my friend after all. That is what friends do!”
In his anger Severus threw a handful of ingredients in the fire. She stood there in shock. There was not enough for Remus, only the small amount that was needed for Bill.
“How clumsy of me” he said in mock sorrow. He then stalked off with his robes billowing around him…
Laying on her bed broken and guilt ridden. Tonks heard her and asked her what was wrong. Without telling the details she told her about not having enough wolfsbane for Remus. She lies down next to her and put her arms around her.
“I did not tell anyone about this yet. I have been going through training to become an Animagus. I can stay with Remus when he changes to keep him calm.”
“You are an amazing friend Tonks.”…
Sitting in Kingsley’s house reading the new report after they had dinner. Hearing a strange sound, and Kingsley coming in greatly alarmed wand drawn. He grabs her arm gives her a scroll and her cloak and forces her into a room that leads to his home’s back door. She turns and sees The Lestranges advance on Kingsley. She tries to return to help him but she realizes the door was charmed shut. She looked on in shock and horror as one of her dearest friends was murdered before her eyes…
The shock and horror and all of her extended family murdered…
.performing the spell on her parents to erase their memories of the wizarding world to ensure their safety…The shock and horror when she found her parents murdered in their old house despite all of her efforts.
“I don’t understand Ginny. I worked so hard to keep them safe. How could this happen?”
She looked up at Ginny she could see her face mirror a terrible inner struggle.Then she said,
“It is probably not my place to say but I think you have the right to know. Lucius Malfoy developed an obsession with you. He was the one that killed your family and family friends and masterminded the murder of Kingsley. He was under the impression that you and Kingsley were having an affair. He somehow tricked your parents into coming back and killed them himself. He wants you vulnerable enough so that you will have no strength left to fight him when he finally comes for you.”
“It is ok Ginny. I won’t tell. I am just hurt that Tonks did not say anything me about this”
“She wanted to Mione but she was sworn to secrecy by the Order.”
…pouring the wolfsbane tea as Bill paced back and forth anxiously, then he starts to tremble. Hermione gets up and brings him to the sofa and gives him the tea. He drinks it and allows her to take him with her lying on the couch.
“It is amazing how something that disgusting works so well. Even if I get this Hermione I don’t think that you should stay with me. I would never forgive myself if I hurt you.”
“You are my friend if nothing else and I am not leaving you. Besides I made a deal with your wife and I do not intend to break it”
She held him through the shuddering and moans through the night…entering the room she had at shell cottage with breakfast for Bill, Tonks, Remus and herself. Bill after a hard night always managed to get back to bed. Tonks was asleep on Remus’s left side, Bill was at her back. She lay next to him on his right side after giving him a kiss and Tonks one on the forehead. Remus must have sensed her for his arm wrapped around her. Tonks sensed her also and opened her very blue eyes, she was always in her natural form after an Animagus transformation. She had light brown hair that was almost blond, normally worn in purple.
Seeing the dark mark hovering over the Burrow running inside to find the bodies of the Weasleys and the Tonks. The place looked like a great fight had occurred. Rodolphus, Rabastan, and Dolonov where on the floor next to their bodies.
Disapparating away with Severus over her violent protests to their flat in Knockturn Alley.
“ I didn’t see Percy’s body or anyone else of the remaining order.” She said days later with a good calming drought in her system. She was on the bed where Severus insisted that she rest. He was sitting on a chair regarding her closely.
“ The Order are in a safe house. I don’t know what happened to Percy Weasley”…
Sitting in the safehouse kitchen and watching Ron’s and Tonk’s faces as she told them what happened…
Mad-Eye’s murder when trying to move to another safe house…
The heartbreak and devastation when she found the dead bodies of Tonks and Remus in the abandoned Grimmauld Place…
The hunt for the Hecrux over many frustrating months… Watching helplessly as the visions of Voldemort prayed on Harry’s mind…
being rescued by drowning when trying to save Harry by Severus taken to her house in Winchester. Finally giving into her growing feelings for Severus and consummating their marriage despite her guilt and grief over her losses
She could not look at him as she dressed to return to the quest, if she did she could not leave him…
Finding them in the mountains…
Being taken by bounty hunters and taken to Malfoy manner. Forced to watch as Bellatrix Lestrange stabbed Ron to death when she refused to tell her anything. Hagrid was murded next pulled apart by giants before her…
Being dragged by the hair to another room and tortured.
Lucius Malfoy took her to another room when they where ready to dispose of her. There was Mrs. Malfoy beaten and bloody body on the floor. Hermione went her to try and help her but it was too late.
“ She had her uses for a while, but she had become a liability that I could no longer afford.” He advanced on her and pushed her on the bed tearing at her cloths his intentions clear. She was still weak from the torture and could not fight him as well as he could. There was a loud crash in the hallway that distracted him long enough to go to his cane that was lying on the right side of the bed. As he went after her again she used the knife hidden inside to kill him. The door burst open with a bang from a pale and haunted looking Draco Malfoy
“Come on Granger we need to go.” As he ran for the door with his mother in his arms…
Standing in the alley outside of Saint Mungo’s her hood up talking to Malfoy. “ I am very sorry about your mum Draco.”
“ I am sorry about what my family did to yours.”
“You are not responsible for the actions of your father or anyone else, only your own”
“Do you know what happened to Percy Weasley?”
“No Granger I don’t. But I can find out for you.”
“She would be so happy if you did”
He looked at her surprised. “I was her best friend Draco of course she would have told me. When you do find Percy perhaps you should take him with you into hiding.For her I will. The invitation is open for you too Granger.”
“Thank you Draco but I pass”.
“You don’t expect to survive do you?”
“No, to be perfectly honest but that is alright, my reasons for surviving are getting smaller and smaller. “
“ I am sorry for your losses however Snape is still alive.I know Snape loves you even though you married under false pretenses.
He went into his pocket and took out a chain with two medallions, a coin, and ring. “ My dad gave this to me after he killed Lupin. Too bad he was not wearing it at the time, he might have survived. This rightly belongs to you.” This chain was almost always around Remus’s neck except on a full moon. It was a medallion of Fortuna, the goddess of luck, the other was of Hectate the Greek goddess of magic, witchcraft and crossroads. “This ring is a similar idea made when I made up my mind to propose to Ginny. I know she would want you safe so you take it. The coin is hexed with a Protean charm, so you can find me if you change your mind.” She put the chain around her neck, coin in her pocket and ring on her finger.
“Goodbye Hermione. Good luck.”
“Goodbye Draco”
He kissed the inside of her wrists and Disapparates…
Dueling Peter while he was protecting the entrance of Gringotts and defeating him. The realization that killing him did not make her feel better at all…
In the tunnel behind the Hogshead bar to the school the eve of battle…
Finding Hecruxes in the school and destroying them, loosing Neville and Cho in the process… Seeing Luna in trouble as Bellatrix advanced on her.
Defeating Bellatrix but not able to save Luna who died in her arms from the injuries of the duel…
Watching all her remaining friends in the Order and school friends fall in the battle…
Realizing the snake was a Hecrux and in the Shrieking Shack with Severus…
holding the snake at bay while Harry killed him with the house sword…
The devastation when she was unable to save her love who died on her lap.
She gave the silver liquid to Harry. “Go to the pensive in Dumbledore’s office and look, everything will be explained. I hope one day you can forgive me for not telling you the whole truth.”
Harry took his wand out and gave it to her. “ Hold on to this for me.” He then kissed her on the forehead. “Nothing I see could make me turn my back on you.”
“See you at sunrise love” he said before leaving. The strange feeling that there where people in the Shack with her and the feeling of intense cold her fight then being thrown into the mirror then darkness