MONDAY: VAMPIRES/WEREWOLVES
Hello Everyone, this is hpfangirl71 and I'll be your host this week. The theme I've chosen to start the week out is a personal love of mine, so today's them will be Vampires/Werewolves, You can post any prompts as long as they include one of those two creatures within the prompt. There are a ton of fandoms out there that have vampires and/or werewolves within ( Read more... )
"Mrs. Granger," says the Professor, and she really does seem tired and quietly upset, compared to the time she told her and her husband that their daughter was a witch. "I'm afraid that your daughter has been bitten by a werewolf."
Jean stares in incomprehension for she knows not how long. She has accepted that Hermione is a witch, and has been proud of all of her brilliant daughter's achievements, but this... this...
They were supposed to keep her safe. All of those wizards and witches, with all of their power, were supposed to keep Hermione safe.
"Are you saying," she says at last, "that my child might be a werewolf?"
"I'm sorry, Mrs. Granger, but there's no question that she is."
Jean hasn't been quite sure what she's feeling, but now she decides that it's fury. "How did this happen?" Her voice is so cold that there might as well be ice in it.
McGonagall does not flinch, although her lips do become a little thinner. "In part it was recklessness on the part of the werewolf; he had been taking a potion to keep the wolf under control, and this time he forgot." It is clear from her expression and tone of voice just how unimpressed she is by that. "Rest assured that he shall not go unpunished."
"But it's not his fault!" Hermione interrupts. "He was... It was my fault. I shouldn't have been in the Forest."
"No, Miss Granger, you should not have been," says McGonagall. "But that does not absolve Mr. Lupin of blame."
Hermione screams as something leaps from the darkness and collides with her. It is large and furry and yellow-eyed; it is the werewolf, and it has frightful fangs that are ripping into her, and now its frightful claws as well. She doesn't know what to do, and she's screaming and crying...
Suddenly it's gone. She doesn't know why until she hears it growling, and sees it approaching Harry, who stands wild-eyed with his wand raised high. She has to do something.
She starts hitting the werewolf with every useful spell she can remember, and Harry is doing the same, and the werewolf is retreating now, even as it glares with mad eyes.
"Hermione," says Harry, and there is something anguished in his voice and on his face. "Hermione! You..."
She hurts and all she can think of is fire, so she places her wand to her wounds and says, "Incendio!" She cries out as the fire burns her
"Hermione," Harry gasps. He's moving towards her, his hands held out as though he wants to stop her, as if it isn't too late for that.
"I, I had to stop the bleeding," she says. "I couldn't think, and... It's cauterisation, Harry. We still have to save Sirius!"
Jean sees the hint of tears forming in Hermione's eyes, and all of her fury gives way to concern - for the time being, because she will not be forgiving the so-called magical world for this.
She steps up to her wonderful, brilliant, hurting daughter and wraps her in an embrace. "Oh, Hermione," she says. "We'll get through this, my brave darling."
Hermione's only reply is her sobs.
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