Hermione Granger

Hermione Granger is the daughter of the late John, and Tanji Granger therebye making her the the only surviving member of her family. She was the daughter of Muggle parents Mr. and Mrs. Granger who were both killed in their small farm outside of Hogwarts during the opening days of the Hogwarts Civil War. Hermione Granger is unique in that she is a Christian which is a rare thing to be in a region this far north.

She learned, at the age of eleven, that she was a witch and had been accepted into Hogwarts. Hermione began attending the school when she was eleven, almost twelve, and was sorted into Gryffindor House. An academically brilliant student, Hermione became best friends with fellow Gryffindors Harry Potter and Ron Weezly in her first year of school. When they first met on the Hogwarts Express, Harry and Ron thought of her as obnoxious and self-centred, a belief that she only furthered as the school year went on, besting them in every class. However, when Ron and Harry saved her from a troll, she took the blame for them and became their friend. This close relationship between the three survived two wars and the deaths of many in their families but has become shaken by the growing love between Harry Potter and Hermione Granger. Hermione would become embroiled in conflict and death, but it was the realization by her that Harry Potter was being sacrifised by Dumbledore that led her to change her course completely. Hermione would be unable to get Dumbledore to change his mind so instead she went to the library and was able to uncover a large amount of information about the Deathly Hollows. Learning everything she could she would come to realize that the only way she could stop Harry's death would be to gather all the deathly Hollows she could and bring them together in order to destroy their power over Harry. Hermione would leave the lands of Hogwarts and travel westward to the lands of the Kingdom of Alcase where she learned she would find the first of the deathly hollows. In Alcase she would join the forces of the Kingdom of Alcase during a massive battle against the chaos forces of John Orsinio where she would save the life of Talbot Von Orsinio and thus allow him to defeat John Orsinio and rout the chaos army. Following this Hermione would travel westward where she would meet with the True Sons of Lucerne force called the Circle of Magi led by Bill Lovie of whom had the second part of the Deathly Hollows. When she was inside Orleans she posed as Alice Lovie to the nearly demented Bill, and this allowed her to see into the mind of the troubled former king and gain intimate access into the city. Her access led her to understand that Myctism the next deathly hollows was always on Bill Lovie and that it would always be attatched to him as long as he was living. Knowing she would need to kill him, she would assist her friend Logan Lerman and his sister in their plans of taking control of Orleans. She would sabotage the defences of the Circle of Magi secretly while the forces of Lucerne, and Ashley Lermans forces took control of the lower levels, and she would nearly fail in her task when she attempted to save Logan. She would arrive in the top tier of the tower when the final fight went down, and it was her precense that blinded Bill for a moment and led to Sophia hitting him in the shoulder with her sword slashing him quite badly. She would hold his hand alongside Sophia as he died, and once he passed away she would take Myctism from his body and leave the ruins of Orleans for her next stop in the Valley of Lucerne.

Hermione Granger is a POV character for a chapter of the End of Darkness, a chapter in the Rise of Lucerne, and a significant portion of the School of Magi and it is through Hermione that we learn most of the inner workings of the Hogwarts region. As the onl POV character from the Hogwarts region outside of Harry Potter she is the main character of the Hogwarts theater of the story thus making her departure all the more critical. In the first chapter of Westros we see that Hermione is a major POV character as she travels throughout Europe eventually landing in Orleans.

Early History

 * "Born into poverty her life should have went the way all poor women's lives went. She should have married a farmer's son, and lived her life being a farmers wife, but instead she was born with Magi powers. That Magi brought her into a world that she couldn't have ever imagined she'd be."


 * -Harry Potter

Not much is known about Hermione's life before she entered the wizarding world. She was the only child of John, and Tanji Granger, who were both healers in the town of Jortin of Lorraine. They were "quite ordinary" and "a bit bemused" by their odd daughter but quite proud of her all the same. She realized quite early though during her youth that she had Magi powers, and her parents were uncharacteristically supportive of a thing that was usually descived by parents as a curse or worse. Her parents took her at the age of seven to visit the vast Magi Kingdom of Hogwarts and she was introduced to many of the teachers while there and this was the main reason her parents decided to send her to stay at Hogwarts while they saved up money so they could come as well. Her parents would sit her down on their return from Hogwarts, and tell her that she needed to leave this place so that she could have a better life, but they also made her very aware that they were not leaving her as they were going to Hogwarts as well once they could save up the money. She was saddened to be leaving her parents but they promised her that they would be coming eventually so she only had to be alone for a little while and this life was far greater then the one that was left for her in Lorraine. She would pack her bags at the age of eight years old and leave the only home she had ever known to leave for the Kingdom of Hogwarts.



Coming to Hogwarts
Main Article : Hogwarts


 * "Hogwarts was a magical place in every sence of the word. Run by people who seemed to truly care about the ones they were leading it created a world that wasn't filled with the inequalities I had grown to feel were normal back in Lorraine."


 * -Hermoine Granger

Hermione Granger enjoyed her years as a pupil at Hogwarts, and took assignments, classes, and school rules very seriously. Her favourite subject was initially Charms, and later Arithmancy, and the only areas of study that gave her trouble were Flying and Divination. Some students, such as Terry Boot, wondered why Hermione was sorted into Gryffindor house rather than Ravenclaw, given her keen mind. Hermione admitted that the Sorting Hat did consider putting her in Ravenclaw. Being sorted into Gryffindor, Hermione would share a dormitory with Lavender Brown, Parvati Patil, Fay Dunbar and another girl. During these extremely early days she kept mainly to herself as she was seen by many to be of such intelligance that it was annoying to be around. She was emotionally hurt by this as she didn't mean to be a snob and she honestly didn't want to come off as one.



The Triumverate
See Also : Harry Potter, Ron Weezly

"From that moment on, Hermione Granger became our friend. There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them."

-Ron Weezly

The Triumverate were not always close, and it took many close encounters for the three to finally become as close as they have. While Ron, and Harry started off as friends and Harry was always polite to Hermione there was an almost bitterness between Ron and Hermione due to Rons who found many things difficult due to his lack of natural intelligence on their level. Hermione Granger attached herself to Harry and Ron, following them around and trying to prevent them from breaking school rules and getting into trouble.



The Troll

 * "That was the first time we nearly died, and a part of me was so scared in that moment that I thought that everything elce in the world would be nothing compared to that moment. As if the danger of that Troll would some how create in me a defence against everything elce that would ever threaten me. I was wrong."


 * -Hermione Granger

The friendship between the three was solidified when, on Halloween during their first year, the three were forced to confront a mountain troll, that had been set loose in Hogwarts in the earliest attempt on Harry's life. Unaware that a troll was on the loose in the school, Hermione had spent that day crying in the girls' bathroom after overhearing Ron making unkind comments about her. The troll made its way into the bathroom she was in, and Harry and Ron came to her rescue, and proseeded to fight the Troll. None of the three had any experiance fighting anything of that magnitude so the fight was extremely chaotic with the Troll nearly killing the group several times, but their quick thinking kept them alive. As the fight looked to be going against them Ron was picked up by the Troll who prepared to kill Ron, but before he could Harry stabbed it through the foot with a wooden post, and the Troll fell over from this. With the troll falling on its stomach Harry climbed on its back and shot it behind the head where Hermione screamed to him it had weak armor. With the troll lying dead the group stayed quiet for several minutes as Harry checked on his two friends, and though they didn't know it the Triumverate would be formed by these moments. When Professors Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape, and Quirinus Quirrell arrived at the scene, Hermione covered for the boys, claiming she was fighting the troll because she had thought that she could fight one, having read a great deal about them, and that Ron and Harry had merely come to help her escape. From that point on, the three students were best friends.

The Trapdoor
On one night, she followed them as they were leaving Gryffindor Tower to duel Draco Malfoy. Unknown to Harry and Ron was the fact that Draco was too afraid to challenge them and because of this he had gone to Argus Filch and told him that Harry and Ron were going to the third floor to cause mayham. When they arrived at the dueling spot they were spotted by Argus Filch of whom demanded to know what they were doing up there and before he could say anything elce they bolted away from him and ran upstairs. They were chased by Argus Filch, acting on a tipoff by Malfoy, into the third floor corridor — forbidden to students — where they came face-to-face with Fluffy, a three-headed dog belonging to Hagrid. Later on, she argued that her spying was to their benefit when she pointed out the dog had been standing on a trap door, which Harry and Ron had not noticed. After using Magi to cause the dog to fall asleep they moved the god again with Magi before descending into the trap door. After going through the trapdoor, a long drop led to a chamber filled with Devil's Snare, planted by the Herbology teacher, Professor Sprout. The Devil's Snare was designed to entangle and suffocate any intruders, especially quickly the more the intruder attempts to escape. As the Snare is sensitive to heat and light, Hermione used a charm that created a jet of Bluebell flames to free Ron. As they attempted to turn back a Magi wall appeared behind them leading to them having no choice but to go down.

The Birds

 * Hermione: "These birds... they can't be here just for decoration."


 * Harry: "They're not birds! They're keys! Winged keys."


 * — Harry and Hermione upon entering the chamber of winged keys.

A downward sloping passage led to another chamber filled with flying keys, charmed by Professor Flitwick. A large wooden door led to another chamber. The door would not open with the use of any charm such as Alohomora, one needed the correct key to get through. To pass, one had to use the broomstick provided to catch the correct key. However, once airborne, the other keys will try and attack the pursuer. The group attempted to ride broomsticks which were on the ground in order to reach the keys but they continued to fail at this until finally Harry was able to reach the top of the room and made a death defying jump in order to reach the correct key, and then survived the jump after Hermione slowed his fall with Magi. When the group finally managed to get the key and get into the next room a man in a dark robe appeared in front of them. When they attempted to raise their wands against him he disarmed the group and proceeded to tell them a story.

Hearing a Story

 * Hermione_Granger7.jpg"Dear children there was once a young wizard that wanted to live forever. This young wizard wanted to live forever so much that he spent his entire families wealth, and all of his time creating a stone which while the user held would make him stop aging. This man would use this stone to prolong his life until one day a thief stole it from him in the night. This theif would take the stone and sell it on the market to a man who took the stone to a school. This school would hide the stone for years and years, but the man never forgot the stone, and finally caught the trail of the stone, and when he did he attempted to get it back, but he discovered their were obstacles in his way. You three have passed three of the obstacles, and if you wish to surive you will pass the rest, and when you reach the end you will give me the stone or you will die."


 * -Unknown Man

The man would proceede to tell them that story before making them perfectly aware of the fact that they were going to die, unless they did what he wanted and got him the stone. The three attempted to resist him, but he was far to powerful in that moment and they were pushed back again. With no hope the three agreed to his demands and told him that they would get him the stone. With this the man would pick up their wands and hand them back to the three before he pushed them through a door and into the next room.



Playing Chess

 * Ron: "You see it, don't you, Harry? Once I make my move, the Queen will take me. Then you're free to check the King."


 * Harry: "No. Ron, NO!"


 * Hermione: "What is it?"


 * Harry: "He's going to sacrifice himself."


 * — Harry, Ron and Hermione in the chess chamber

The next chamber was dark and resembled a graveyard, it contained a Human Chess Game, enchanted by Professor McGonagall. To defeat the game, one had to play themselves across the board and checkmate the King according to the rules of Chess. One cannot simply walk across the board and pass, so an adequate knowledge of Wizard's Chess was needed to complete this task. Ron had come to love chess during his time at Hogwarts and was one of the best in the entire school so he was able to defeat the game quite easily, but on the checkmate move he was forced to sacrifice his player and this injured him, but he was able to continue on with the rest of them as they continued on.

Hermione's Logic

 * Hermione_Granger_5.jpgone: "This isn't magic - it's logic - a puzzle. A lot of the greatest wizards haven't got an ounce of logic, they'd be stuck in here forever."


 * Harry: "But so will we, won't we?"


 * Hermione: "Of course not, everything we need is here on this paper. Seven bottles: three are poison; two are wine; one will get us safely through the black fire and one will get us back through the purple"


 * — Hermione and Harry discussing the Logic Chamber

The next obstacle guarding the Stone was a logical riddle set by Professor Snape. Upon entering the chamber, the doorway through which one entered was blocked by a purple flame. The other entry way leading to the Philosopher's Stone, was blocked with black flame. A table with seven bottle of differing shapes sat in the middle of the room. Each bottle contained a liquid, but the bottles were not labelled with their contents. Three were poison, two contained nettle wine, one contained a potion to safely traverse the black flame, and the last contained a potion that allowed passage back through the purple flames. The riddle, when properly worked out, revealed the contents of each bottle, and therefore which one was safe to drink to allow onward progress:

"Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind, Two of us will help you, whichever you would find, One among us seven will let you move ahead, Another will transport the drinker back instead, Two among our number hold only nettle wine, Three of us are killers, waiting hidden in line. Choose, unless you wish to stay here for evermore, To help you in your choice, we give you these clues four: First, however slyly the poison tries to hide You will always find some on nettle wine's left side; Second, different are those who stand at either end, But if you would move onwards neither is your friend; Third, as you see clearly, all are different size, Neither dwarf nor giant holds death in their insides; Fourth, the second left and the second on the right Are twins once you taste them, though different at first sight."

As Professor Quirrell presumably travelled through the chamber to reach the Mirror of Erised, he must have had to take the Black Fire Potion himself, and, as there was only enough potion for one person in the bottle, that would have used it all up. However, he may have taken some of the potion with him when he entered the chambers, and drunk that instead. Another possibility is that the bottles had had a Refilling Charm on them.

Final Obstacle

 * Harry: "You!"


 * Quirrell: "Me, I wondered whether I'd be meeting you here, Potter."


 * — Harry Potter discovering Professor Quirell in the seventh chamber

The final obstacle was the Mirror of Erised, designed and set by Albus Dumbledore. The only way to obtain the stone was to look into the mirror, see yourself having it, but not using it. Most people would see themselves using it, such as turning things to gold, crafting Elixir of Life, or giving it to someone. It was at this moment that the man in the dark robe appeared again and this time he revealed himself as Proffesor Quirrell and told the three that he was unable to get the stone from the mirror, and the only person he believed that could was Harry Potter and it was for this reason that he had Draco Malfoy lure the three of them into the tunnel. Quirrell asks for help from his master to get the Stone, and a snake-like voice tells him to use the boy. Harry is told to look into the Mirror. Under threat Harry is forced to look into the mirror. He sees his reflection pull the Stone out of his pocket and put it back in, and Harry feels it drop into his own pocket. He lies to Quirrell about what he sees, telling him instead that he sees himself shaking hands with Dumbledore, after winning the House Cup for Gryffindor. The snake-like voice tells Quirrell Harry is lying and Quirrell takes his turban off to show Harry what lies on the back of his head. As Quirrell turns around, Harry is shocked to see another face where the back of Quirrell's head should be. The face has red eyes and a snake-like slit where the nose should be. Harry realises this is the face of whoever this Lord Voldemort is, and Voldemort demands Harry give him the Stone. Harry refuses and runs, but Quirrell seizes him. However, the contact with Harry's skin burns Quirrell and causes him to have boils all over the area in which Harry touched him. Harry grabs Quirrell's face, then his arm, and holds on, with the blinding pain in his head building, until he feels the arm wrenched away before he blacks out.

He awakes in the hospital wing with Dumbledore there, telling him Quirrell did not succeed at getting the Stone, and indeed the Stone has been destroyed.

Goblet of Fire
Main Article : Triwizard Tournament



The Goblet of Fire would become the moment of divergence for the region of Hogwarts, and would bring about the destruction of the fake peace and the illusion was finally broken that Lord Voldermorte wanted peace for the lands of Hogwarts. Hermione was very close to Harry Potter so she was obviosly very close to the forefront of the Civil War as the forces of Lord Voldermorte and the forces of Hogwarts silently battled it out for victory. The lives of Hermione Granger and the rest of the Triumverate were still at this point quite idolistic as most of the wizard world of Hogwarts had no idea that Tom Malfoy had become the sadistic man that he had become. The first strikes against the realm of Hogwarts would come silently and it would all begin during the normal event hosted in Hogwarts called the Triwizard Tournament. For Edward Cullen he was beggining to become homesick, while his friend Hilary was beyond just wanting to go home, she was crying nearly every night, and only the excuse of the Triwizard tournament brought them any kind of peace.

At the Hogwarts start of term feast, Professor Dumbledore announced that Hogwarts would host the Triwizard Tournament, a recently-revived inter-school competition in which the Beauxbatons Academy of Magi, the Kirin Tor, and the Durmstrang Institute would also participate. The Beauxbatons were a school tended to and trained from the greatest Magi that the Kingdom of Alcase could find, while Durmstrang was a secret Magi school hidden in Hannover of The Empire. The Kirin Tor was the Magi fortress and organzition within the Kingdom of Lorderon, and the Kirin Tor sent the largest delegation led by Medivh. The delegation from Beauxbatons arrived in a large carriage pulled by Abraxan horses, and brought with them some thirty Magi, alongside some two hundred attendents. The delegation of Beauxbatons pupils was led by their Headmistress, Madam Olympe Maxime of whom had once trained at Hogwarts before using her long Numenorian lifespan to create the Beauxbatons Academy within Alcase. The Kirin Tor would arrive with some forty Magi and a force of some five hundred conventional forces, and would house themselves north of Hogwarts where they basically constructed a Magi tower that could store all their people.

Shortly after their arrival, the delegation from Durmstrang, under the watchful eye of their High master Professor Igor Karkaroff, arrived in a magical ship that could travel underwater. A feast to welcome the new arrivals was held in the Great Hall, where Professor Dumbledore introduced the other Tournament judges - Bartemius Crouch Sr, Vonded Forden, and Ludo Bagman - to the assembled students. After explaining the rules of the Tournament, Dumbledore unveiled both the Goblet of Fire and the Triwizard Cup to the assembled groups. Students would have until the start of the Halloween Feast the following day to enter their names. In agreement with the new rules regarding underage students entering the Tournament, Dumbledore drew an Age Line around the Goblet of Fire, of which concluded that only those over the age of fiteen could enter their names into the Goblet of Fire.

Chosen as Champion


During the Halloween Feast, Dumbledore presided over the selection of the Champions. Viktor Krum, from Durmstrang, was selected first, followed by Fleur Delacour of Beauxbatons. The Goblet selected Edward Cullen as the Hogwarts Champion, and Cerin Menathil was the only entree from the Kirin Tor and thus for this reason Cerin was selected easily by the Goblet of Fire. All four Champions left the Great Hall to receive further instructions. To the surprise of everybody, the Goblet spat out a fifth name, as Barty Crouch Jr had intended. Harry Potter, like the rest of the school, was shocked to hear his name called, and went to join the other Champions. After a heated debate, during which Karkaroff and Maxime questioned the motives of Dumbledore and the Ministry, since Hogwarts now had two Champions, it became clear that Harry must participate. Despite his not having entered his own name in the Goblet, the fact that his name had been entered and selected by the Goblet constituted a magical contract that bound him to compete. Even his age was not a real issue; the Age Line was only an effort to stop unprepared students entering and being killed. Traditionally, students as young as Harry had been allowed to compete in the Tournament.

Despite the secrecy surrounding the Triwizard Tournament, Lord Voldemort found out about it from Bertha Jorkins, a Hogwarts Magi of whome had been holidaying in Westbridge and had run into Peter Pettigrew at an inn. Pettigrew brought her before Voldemort, who, using Dark Magi, extracted from her mind information concerning the Tournament. He also learned that one of his faithful servants, Barty Crouch Jr, was still alive and under the Imperius Curse at his father's home, and this would eventually lead to his freeing. Armed with this information, Voldemort set a plan into motion. He freed Crouch Jr from the Imperius Curse, and ordered him to disguise himself as Alastor Moody, Hogwarts' new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. There, he would manipulate the Tournament as his Master commanded to achieve the Dark Lord's goal: the destruction of Harry Potter.



At some point, most likely during the night, Barty Crouch Jr, who was using Polyjuice Potion to pose as Professor Moody, bewitched the Goblet with a powerful Confundus Charm. He made the Goblet believe that there would be four schools entering the competition, then entered Harry Potter's name on a scrap of parchment under a false school name. Since no other entrant would be associated with the school, Harry's name was the only one that the Goblet could select. Thus because of this Harry was mysteriously chosen as a fourth competitor, even though he was under-age and never entered his name into the Goblet of Fire during the selection process. Many people did not believe Harry's story, including Ron believing this to be nothing but another attempt to gain fame. This caused extreme tension between the two friends. Hermione, on the other hand, "accepted his story without question," and assisted Harry in preparing for the Tournament by teaching him useful spells, such as the Summoning Charm, which Harry used in the first task of the Tournament. Besides the resentment that came from Ron for his enlistment, he also received a lot of backlash from the other students, who appeared unwilling to accept his story. Edward Cullen at this point was becoming very popular, as he was seen as Hogwarts true champion, and a generally nice guy. As Harry Potter became the subject of abuse his brother Neville attempted to stand up for him, but this only got him in more trouble and eventually Harry talked him into simply letting it go. It was during this time that Harry and Edward first came into becoming friends, as Edward didn't like the abuse he was taking, and tried desperately to get them to stop but Hilary convinced him to just keep his head down.

The First Test


The First Task of the Triwizard Tournament took place on 24 November, and the objective was to retrieve a golden egg that was being guarded by a dragon - the egg would be located within a clutch of real dragon eggs. Using Sleeping Draughts, a team of wizards, including Charlie Weasley, transported nesting mothers of different breeds to Great Britain from a dragon sanctuary in Romania. The dragons were hidden in the Forbidden Forest to stop students from discovering them. However, despite the secrecy, the Champions became aware of the task that faced them. Rubeus Hagrid, a great lover of dragons, innocently invited Olympe Maxime to watch the dragons with him, unaware that she would tell her Champion, Fleur Delacour, about them. Harry Potter was also present, again at Hagrid's request, to see what was in store for him, hidden under his Invisibility Cloak. Igor Karkaroff sneaked into the Forest to discover what was being hidden, and told his Champion, Viktor Krum. Medivh would tell Cerin Menathil after Medivh watched the Dragons in his mind using spells he had left all around the hidden forest believing that would be where anything would be hidden. Even though Cedric Diggory was not present, he was told about the dragons from Harry, who considered it unfair that Cedric should be the only one of the Champions who had no clue what the First Task was. After lunch on the day of the First Task, the Champions assembled in a tent near the arena that had been built specifically for the Task. In the tent, they were informed of the task ahead by Barty Crouch Sr. and Ludo Bagman, who would also be acting as judges alongside Professor Dumbledore, Madame Maxime, and Professor Karkaroff. Each Champion was required to dip their hand into a bag that contained miniature replicas of the various dragons they would face, and pull one out. They would then face the real version in the arena. In addition, each miniature dragon had a small number hung around its neck, indicating which order they would face in.

Fighting Dragons


Harry Potter drew the fiercest of them all, the Hungarian Horntail. On the advice of Crouch Jr (disguised as Professor Moody), he used a Summoning Charm to bring his Firebolt broomstick to him, and manoeuvred past the dragon to retrieve his egg. After the First Task, Harry and Viktor were tied for first place, with Cedric in second, and Fleur in third. The champions were told that, the Golden egg they retrieved contained a clue on how to pass the Second Task. Without it, they had little chance of succeeding. After seeing how dangerous the task was, Ron, as well as the other students, made amends with Harry, with Ron telling him, "I reckon someone is trying to do you in." He managed to escape the first task with only an injured arm.

To prepare for the second task, Harry had to open the egg he won from the dragon, but every time he did, it screeched. His rescue from that particular problem came when Cedric paid him back with the information that he would figure it out if he "take[s] a bath" with the egg. Harry followed this advice; while in the bathroom, he had an uncomfortable exchange with Moaning Myrtle, and on the way back to the Common Room, he ran into Professors Snape and Moody. The latter informed Harry of Barty Crouch Sr's obsession with catching Dark Wizards. Harry did learn that the second task was going into the Black Lake to rescue "the thing they would miss most" from the Merpeople. Harry's new problem was that he had no idea of how to survive underwater for an hour. He got his answer in the form of gillyweed from Dobby, who had come to work at Hogwarts.

The Second Task



 * "My task seemed impossible until my friend Neville taught me a method for holding my breathe under water using a weed. My life relied on the skill of Neville Longbottom, and a weed..."


 * -Harry Potter

All four Champions assembled on the shore of the lake, and were told that they had one hour to retrieve that which had been stolen from them from the merpeople's village, and return. The Champions entered the water; Harry had to eat the gillyweed, which gave him gills to breathe underwater, and webbed hands and feet to allow him to swim faster. Both Fleur and Edward utilised the Bubble-Head Charm, while Viktor partially Transfigured himself into a shark. The four Champions headed through the lake to the village; although Fleur was forced to retire when she was attacked by grindylows. Harry reached the village first to find that the "item" that had been stolen from each Champion were people close to them. Placed in an enchanted sleep, then tied to the tail of a stone Merperson, were Harry's best friend, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, who had been Viktor's date to the Yule Ball, Edward's best friend Hilary Swift, and Fleur's younger sister, Gabrielle. Concerned for the safety of all the "hostages", Harry refused to just take Ron and go. Edward arrived shortly after and rescued Hilary, followed by Viktor. Viktor's partial Transfiguration had left him with the head of a shark, and he found it difficult to free Hermione. Harry passed him a sharp rock to cut her bonds with, then Viktor left carrying Hermione and headed for the surface. With no sign of Fleur, Harry made the decision to rescue both the remaining hostages himself. Although the merpeople objected and tried to stop him, Harry managed to free himself, and dragged Ron and Gabrielle to the surface.

"Ron wrapped me in a tower, and in that moment I was half discusted that they had led us into such real danger, and the other part of me was downright excited that I had survived."

-Harry Potter

Back on shore, Harry learned from Ron that none of them had ever been in real danger, and that he should have just rescued him and got back as quickly as possible. Edward, the first Champion back, had arrived one minute outside of the one hour time limit, followed by Viktor in second place. Harry was third, and, because she did not finish, Fleur was in last place. Despite finishing third, Merchieftainess Murcus informed Dumbledore that Harry arrived at the hostages first, and only his desire to see them all safe had stopped him from finishing first. After a conversation with his fellow judges, which included Percy Weasley deputising for the ill Mr. Crouch, it was decided that Harry, for showing moral fibre, would be awarded second place. Edward scored forty-seven points, Harry scored forty-five points, Viktor earned forty points, and Fleur came last with twenty-five points. After the first two tasks, Harry and Edward were tied for first place, with Viktor second, and Fleur third.

Preparing for the Final Task
A month before the final task, the Champions were shown the beginnings of the challenge. They were told the third and final task was going into a maze filled with obstacles to find the Triwizard Cup. On the way back to the castle Krum took Harry aside to ask him something. Thinking that this was something important, Harry went with him. Krum then asked Harry about his relationship with Hermione, in whom Krum was deeply interested. Harry told him that there was nothing between him and Hermione and that she was just a friend.

To prepare for the final task, Harry, Ron, and Hermione used vacant classrooms to practise spells and jinxes. In Divination class between two of these study periods, Harry dozed off dreaming about Voldemort and left the classroom in a disturbing fashion. Rita Skeeter had witnessed this event, and she wrote on the day of the final task, that Harry was disturbed and dangerous. This did nothing to boost Harry's morale, but when he spent the day with Bill and Molly Weasley, they cheered him up when they also came to watch the final task as his substitute family.

The Final Task
On 24 June, the Third Task was to navigate a maze grown on the Hogwarts Quidditch pitch. The maze was populated by various obstacles and dangers that each Champion had to overcome. Crouch Jr, as Professor Moody, was entrusted with placing the Triwizard Cup at the centre of the maze. While doing this, he enchanted the Cup to be a Portkey that would be activated by touch. Edward and Harry, tying for first place after two tasks, were to enter the maze first, followed by Viktor, and then Fleur. The first Champion to successfully navigate the maze and reach the Cup would be declared the winner.

During the task, Edward encountered a Blast-Ended Skrewt, which he barely escaped from. Harry had to deal with a Boggart in the form of a Dementor, and overcame an odd golden mist which turned things upside-down. Crouch Jr, however, was leaving nothing to chance. Using Moody's magical eye, he watched events unfold in the maze, keeping the more dangerous obstacles out of Harry's path. He also Stunned Fleur, and placed the Imperius Curse on Viktor. He used Viktor to attack Edward with the Cruciatus Curse in order to clear Harry's path to the Cup.

Harry encountered the Blast-Ended Skrewt that had attacked Edward, then heard Edward being tortured, and rescued him by Stunning Viktor. Edward and Harry parted company, and Harry had to answer a riddle from a sphinx to continue on into the maze. Edward and Harry joined forces to defeat an Acromantula, before they both arrived at the Cup together. After an argument over who deserved to win more, they decided to take the Cup together, since it would still be a Hogwarts victory. Touching the Cup at the same moment, they activated it as a Portkey, and were transported out of the maze and into the graveyard.

The Graveyard



 * "I didn't know what had happened. One minute I was arguing Edward about who was the deserving winner, and then the next minute I was in some dark and depressing graveyard surrounded by sinister looking men."


 * -Harry Potter

The two had been transported to the graveyard in Little Hangleton, the Malfoy's family's final resting place, where Lord Voldemort was waiting. The two boys who had been on such a high from their success were now suddently in a graveyard surrounded by a series of robed men with clearly hostile intentions towards them. Edward of whome was the older of the two attempted to understand what was heppening but Tom Malfoy had no intention of entertaining Edward Cullen so he moved on. On Voldemort's order, his servant Gragorix stunned Edward Cullen, and grabbed Harry.



First Face to Face

 * “Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember the truth.”


 * -Ghost to Harry

When Harry saw Tom Malfoy at first he was shocked because he knew of this man, and he knew of the influence that Tom held. After watching them knock Edward Cullen uncontious he became horrified that someone of his power would be after Harry, and this led him to beg to understand what was happening. At this point Tom believed he had won and thus he took time to explain to Harry what his plans were, and told him of why he was being ambushed. Following this angry exchange Lord Voldermorte attacked Harry emotionally and the two had a heated argument before finally Tom raised his wand. Harry and Voldemort engaged in a brief duel, but their wand cores connected and created the effect known as Priori Incantatem, and the "echoes" of Voldemort's past victims emerged from Voldemort's wand. They helped Harry to escape from Voldemort by distracting the Dark Lord, giving him enough time to reach Edward Cullen's knocked out body, then Summon the Portkey to him and return them both to Hogwarts.

Betrayed
Returning to Hogwarts with Edward Cullen, Harry was promptly whisked away from the crowds by Crouch Jr, still in the disguise of Professor Moody. While the assembled crowd learned what happened in the graveyard from the waking form of Edward Cullen, Hermione realised that something was amiss with Moody, since she believed that Moody would never have taken Harry away from the tragic scene.

In his office, Crouch Jr started to question Harry on what had happened, and how it felt to stand in the Dark Lord's presence. Unnerved by Moody's seeming adoration of Voldemort - something that went against everything he knew about Moody - Harry was rescued by Hermione who in her panic at seeing Harry in any kind of danger had convinsed Professors Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape to follow her, and from the outside of the door they listened to the argument so that they knew for a fact that their was bad things going on. The effects of Crouch Jr's Polyjuice Potion wore off, since, in the excitement, he had neglected to take it at the proper time to maintain his cover. Crouch Jr was questioned under the effects of Veritaserum, and he revealed Lord Voldemort's plan to resurrect himself, and Crouch Jr's involvement in getting Harry to the graveyard.

Aftermath



 * "Viktor was murdered by Lord Voldemort... The Ministry of Magic does not wish me to tell you this.. It is my belief, however, that the truth is generally preferable to lies, and that any attempt to pretend that Viktor died as the result of an accident, or some sort of blunder of his own, is an insult to his memory."


 * —Dumbledore speaking to all of the students of Hogwarts, and the students who went there for the Tri-Wizard Tournament



Death of her parents
It was during the lead up the the civil War in Hogwarts that the life of Hermione would become entrapped in the violence of the coming conflict. Seeing how close Hermione was to the chosen one Harry Potter Voldermorte ordered her death. Unknown to the deatheaters was that she was staying with Harry Potter and not her parents in Lorraine. When the deatheaters arrived at her home they killed her parents but were unable to find her so they left. When the night of violence finally ended Harry and Hermione attempted to find Ron but couldn't so they went alone in an attempt to find Hermione's parents who they didn't know were already dead.



Journey Home
As the two travelled to the small farm of her parents they travelled through the country as to avoid being discovered and this was the first time of what would become almost every night where they would fall asleep together in an attempt to stay warm. It took them two days to reach her farm but when they did they could see the fire coming from the farm hours away. Hermione broke into a run when they saw the fire, and it was all Harry could do to keep up with her. When they arrived at the farm they saw that the house was burned down, but when there didn't appear to be any sign of bodies there was a brief hope that they survived the fire. This hope faded when they saw the bodies of her parents and their servents hanging from a tree in the back of their farm.

After discovering the hanging bodies of her parents Hermione was overcome with grief and Harry and Hermione basically just lay against a tree for hours as she cried herself into Harry's shoulder. When she finally calmed down her emotional state caused her to kiss Harry and although they both quickly pulled back that was the moment between the two that their mindset changed. Hermione was emotionally exhausted and so she passed out, and while she was passed out, Harry got her parents, and servents bodies down from the tree and used his Magi to dig their graves and clean them up.



Saying Goodbye
When Hermione woke she discovered Harry standing by the edge of the graves and she silently thanked him by kissing him. The two stood silently infront of the graves of her parents before they once again began kissing. This time it became more heated and it only stopped when Harry pulled back and stopped them.

"Whatever I feel for you doesn't matter because I know that my best friend loves you too and I love him too much to make him feel the pain that I feel without you."

-Harry Potter

Following this Harry showed Hermione the piece of clothing he had found, and she used her Magi to discover its owner was a Deatheater named Gragorix Lux. With this knowledge the two packed themselves and headed towards the location of Gragorix Lux who was - according to their Magi tracking - in the town of Haris west of her parents farm. It wasn't even a days walk so they arrived at Haris later that day and when they did Harry barged into the tavern and taunted the Deatheater by challenging his power.



Duel with Gragorix Lux
See Also : Gragorix Lux


 * "He deserved to die. That was the first person I ever needed to kill, and looking back on that I shouldn't have forced Harry to do what he did. I should have taken a moment and really thought all this through. What did I gain by chasing this guy across the Kingdom? Would his death bring anything back for me? Would it do anything other then just relieve me of a moments pain? Since the anwser was no to everything I just look back and see all the killing I've done and can't help but wonder if I would have still done it all if I hadn't sold my soul that day."


 * -Hermoine Granger

Gragorix Lux wasn't a weak Magi and he believed that if he was able to kill Harry Potter or at the least capture him he would gain unimagenable power with Lord Voldermorte. One of the deatheaters with him attempted to stop him because he knew that only Lord Voldermorte would accept being the one to kill Harry, but as he stepped in front of Gragorix he was felt a knife stab him as Gragorix killed him. He came out of his room and unleashed a barrage of spells at Harry which he deflected but caused him to fly out the wall of the tavern. With Harry momentarily out of commision Hermione overcome with rage at the man who was involved in the killing of her parents attacked Gragorix. Hermione was no match for Gragorix and was struck with a table launched at her by Gragorix. Just as Gragorix was about to kill her Harry came to and returned inside where he suprised Gragorix by launching the killing curse at him, which instantly killed Gragorix. In this moment Harry had no time to actually think about the fact that he had used a killing curse instead of the hundreds of other spells he could have used as Hermione could be hurt. As Harry appraoched her she should have felt fear towards Harry since he just unleashed the killing curse but instead she was nearly overcome with lust and love for him, and only through her strongest will power did she not kiss him when he leaned down to pick her up.


 * "When I picked her up I can remember how scared I was to see her face. I was so worried she would look at me different after seeing me killing him. But when I finally looked down she had this look of pure love on her eyes. Noone ever made me feel as loved as she did in that moment surrounded by all that bad."


 * -Harry Potter

Harry quickly picked up Hermione and got her out of the tavern which would soon be overrun with Deatheaters. He used a potion that he found on Gragorix's body to summon a gryphon which flew them away from the town and back towards Hogwarts. As the two rode back to Hogwarts Hermione understood far more then Harry did that things between the two had changed, and that when they got back her relationship with Ron would be tested like she never though it would be.



Harry's Sadness

 * "That was the first time I came to really have a fear of people bringing me news. Before that I was just a boy whose parents were going to live forever, and then in a single conversation everything was dangerous. Everything held some sort of dangerous double meaning for me after they died."


 * -Harry Potter

Harry steared the griphon and Hermione basically spent the rise crying into his back and hugging him with everything she had. As Hermione and Harry arrived in Hogwarts on the griphon they were met by Ron who they expected to be upset about being left behind but instead he simply silent gave Harry a hug before whispering in his ear that something terrible had happened.


 * "Harry you have to promise me that you won't do anything stupid once I tell you this because after everything thats happened you know I'll follow you, and after everything thats happened I have to believe were just not a match for him. What he did...Its something...I just can't fathom how someone could have so much hate in them."


 * -Ron Weezly

When Harry promised that he wouldn't do anything stupid Ron told him that basically everyone in his family was dead, and that their massacre was the work of Tom Malfoy. As Harry begin to lose control, and begin openly saying that he would go after Tom he was reminded by Ron that he had promised and that between the three of them a promise meant everything. As Hermione attempted to hug him he became discusted with himself for what he felt he had done to Ron, and he recoiled before running into the woods nearbye where he was followed not by one of the Triumverate but instead he was followed silently into the woods by Ginny Weezly.

War with The Empire
Main Article : Hogwarts war with The Empire

Following the Chaos that was the Civil War in Hogwarts there was a brief period where there was peace but this lasted for less then a few months, and it became a moot point when Hogwarts begin recieving letters from the Empire asking for their surrender. This came as a shock as the two parties had usually shared a common interest, and that interest had been for mutual trade and never towards annexation but clearly something had changed. For Hogwarts they met this calls with returns saying that they were basically confused as to what had happened, and thus they wished to remain friends and trading partners but the responce to this implied very clearly that the Empire wasn't going to let their agression just go down and thus those inside Hogwarts reformed their defences and prepared for the coming offensive.



Preperation
Scouts that had been placed throughout the countryside begin reporting back to Hogwarts that a truly massive army was incoming towards the fortress in numbers in the hundreds of thousands. Believing that the army would first attempt to establish control of the region the defences were prepared for the eventuality that they had more time to prepare but to their suprise the army made its way directly towards the fortress with only small splinters moving towards the mini castles scattered throughout the kingdom. When they were only a day away from the fortress they sent one last letter to Hogwarts basically stating that if they didn't surrender they would all die within the fortress, and to this letter Hogwarts simply burned it and did not respond. The next day the army of the Empire arrived on the outskirts of Hogwarts and begin ensircling the fortress. While the Empire was doing this Harry Potter led a large contingent of Dumbledore's army through the tunnels beneath the fortress, and they made their way behind the lines of the attackers. Serius Black, and Severus Snape led the main tier of defences at the massive bridge, while in the open fields of the western block the defences were led by Dumbledore, and Megonagal. The plan for Hogwarts was basically to use massive summoned creatures to block the attackers while the overwhelming Magi of the people was used against the basically exposed troops of the Empire. The Empire's commanders present wanted to shell the fortress for two days before attacking and through this to wear down the defenders, but the overall commander didn't think this neccessary and simply ordered that the troops to move forward and mass the Hogwarts defenders.

The Attack
The forces of the Empire at the breaking of mornings light advanced completely against the defenders with the largest forces moving against the eastern lake opening, and the western field, while thousands also attacked across the massive bridge in the north.



Western Field
The attack on the western field was always going to be the most numerous, and this had more to do with the fact that the commanders of the Empire believed so strongly in their superiority in numbers that the western field offered the largest of the attack avenues so thus the most troops were sent in. Nearly fifty thousand troops were on this side, and they prepared to attack in three waves with the first wave consisting of some 15,000 troops. In the defences by this point Dumbledore, and the nearly two hundred Magi with him had summoned to them thousands of elementals of which were hidden carefully in small creveses throughout the fields thus conceiling them from view and in this way they would create a massive shock value when they first appeared.

Lake Hogwarts
Lake Hogwarts expanded a large proportion of the eastern approach but there was a small series of locks, and islands that allowed the attackers to attempt an attack that of all the attacks would prove to be the most dangerous, and in the end the most devestating in terms of overall percentage lost. The Empire over the night had constructed hundreds of small boats which they would use to transport the force of some 10,000 in the first wave to the series of small island castles that dotted the lakes locks, while another force of 15,000 would make the attack on foot directly against the locks through the canals that were open to the ground. As an added attack angle a group of some 2,000 unarmored troops were prepared to swim to the first series of locks with the goal of being light skirmishers that would hopefully augment the attack, and would be armed by small equipment boats that would be sent along with the attack.



The Suprise Attack
With the forces of The Empire being destroyed in the eastern locks, and massacred in the northern approach the overall commanders saw only one true oppurtunity and that was to throw all of their reserves into the battle on the western front which while being devestating for them casualties wise was the only one that they were even advancing into. But while they continued down this path of thought they could not see that the force led by Harry Potter and his friends was now only minutes away from their command base in the northern approach. The command base had been constructed beneath a hilltop which turned it into a valley, which they believed was a nice spot to conceal themselves but they didn't anticipate it would allow an enemy force to advance almost secretly to its outskirts. With the reserves spread throughout the region the commanders were defended by a small force of only some two thousand troops and by this point some of those had been sent to the northern approach to attempt to keep the defenders there locked down meaning there was only some 1,000 troops left in the command base to defend. Harry, Hermion, and Ron gathered themselves and their force and begin encircling the command base with their full force of some three hundred Magi, and they begin silently over the next few hours they each summoned elementals to them which brought their force to some two thousand meaning they were about to attack the command base with complete suprise and have the numbers advantage. Waiting till night Hermion, Harry, and Ron settled into the hilltop and laid together in what was perhaps one of the last moments that the Triumverate would ever have with complete trust and love for eachother. Together they talked about everything they had been through, and they promised themselves that when they were done they would try to just be students again.



The Massacre and Retreat
As night fell the Triumverate were awoken by Neville Longbottem of whome told them it was time. With this decleration the group made the sign that the time was now to attack and with this the entire force advanced over the hills and into the valley beneath. The Triumverate moved silently as did the rest of the force, and all around there was the bright hue of different colored elementals as the elementals followed their summoners into a massacre that would send reverberations throughout Europe, and lead to a further series of massacres that would prove to be a marking point in history. The group was able to reach the camp without any problem and they all silently took down any sentries that were present, and then once they were litterly touching the hundreds of tents they unleashed the elementals into the camp while the Magi waited on the outskirts and killed anyone able to escape the inforno of the elementals. Over the next few minutes the force of some 1,000 troops along with the nearly another 1,500 commanders, administrators, servents, and aristocrats were massacred leaving no survivors. With the command base annihilated they burned the remains to the ground to make sure everyone was dead before they then sent Magi messages to the defenders in Hogwarts that the command structure was gone.



Conflict with Lavander Dumbledore
See Also : Lavander Dumbledore

With her and Harry now involved in a full out love affair the two were taking more and risks in their attempt to be together. They began to go almost religiously to the forbidden forest and proceeded to make love in their hopeless persuit of eachother. On this day though they would be caught by the growingly dangerous fellow army member Lavander Dumbledore, who had followed the two into the forest. Luckily she confronted them while they were just kissing but Hermione quickly realized that Lavander was dangerous and because of this she pulled out her wand just in time to deflect a spell which then hit Harry full in the chest and knocked him backwards. Now distraght that Harry was hurt she unleashed a massive wave of spells at the mismatched Lavander who was beaten quite badly by the superior Hermione.


 * "When Harry was hit by that spell my whole world appeared to flash before my eyes, and where I usually found my control to be something I could easily maintain I felt a level of anger I didn't even know existed ebbing from me. As I smashed her with spell after spell meant not to kill but to cause her extreme pain I cared nothing for her. She barely existed to me in the sence of being a real person. In that moment she was just the girl that had hurt the love of my life."


 * -Hermione Granger

The Breaking of the Triumverate
Main Article : Dead Grails


 * "We three had lived basically the entirety of our lives side by side. An entire life spent together, and in one instance the center of each of our worlds was gone. No words were said in that moment because I know we all knew what had happened. There's nothing like the loss of something to make you understand how much it meant to you. I wanted my world back, and the look in Ron's face told me that it was gone. It was lost to him now, the image of what we were. I have no doubt that me and Harry would be the same, but even though I didn't love him as he deserved my love for Ron was true, and without him it just didn't make sence in the same way that it had."


 * -Hermione Granger

Following the attack between Lavander, and Hermion Lavender would tell Ron about the events of the attack and the fact that she had een the two of them together. With the situation between the triumverate standing in very bad shape, the time came for the three of them to come together and decide what they were going to do about the actual situation in Hogwarts as opposed to the conflict between the three of them. Despite the love the three shared for eachother, the damage was quickly spreading into the core of the friendship and it was becoming a case that their was real hate breweing between Harry, and Ron. The Three plan to meet at their secret home in the fortress of Marni where noone can find them. Hermione goes to see Harry to tell him that she loves him, and whatever happens between the three of them she will always love him. When she arrives the two as they always do lose themselves into eachother, and make love. After they are done, she prepares to leave, but she sees Harry putting on a necklace and when she sees the necklace she recegnizes the necklase as one of the Dead Grails.


 * Albus_Dumbledore.jpg"In my persuit of knowledge I had come across a book called The Nefarion. In this book I learned what true evil was, but I also had read about a pendent with the symbol of Mordor on it. It was the image from the book that had shined in my mind when I saw the necklase that Harry had put on. Seeing it on his neck made my heart skip a beat. Made me nearly fall down, and only Harry steadying me kept me from falling over. He begged me to tell him what was wrong, but all I said was where did you get that pendent?"


 * -Hermione Granger

Hermione had read at the library a book called The Nefarion which has chronicled a terrible truth about three items. The Nefarion told a story about a book, a sword, a ring, and a pendent that were the complete construction of the Dark Lord Sauron. The book was the first of the three, and the book was so violent in their writings that anyone that read it became lost in its views. This book had passed down throughout the life of Europe, and had destroyed all that had read from it. The next was the sword which the book said had been taken in ancient times by a truly honorable Knight who recegnized its evil, and had sacrifised himself by killing himself on the sword, and then barrying it in the mountain he had wandered into. The final item was a pendent which held a very recegnizeable icon of Mordor on the front, and was the most nefarious of the three because it allowed any who had bound themselves to it, to be completely unable to die. Only through the destruction of the other two items could end the darkness of the pendant's power. Harry held her close, but she eventually pushed him back and said she didn't want to upset Ron in case he came by. Harry could tell something was wrong, but he let her go, and when she walked out she immediatly made her way towards Albus Dumbledore of whom had given Harry the pendant. When she arrived in his office his doors, and elevator led her right to him, as he was expecting her, and when she saw him she didn't know what to say.

Confronting the Truth
Main Article : Conversations between Hermione Granger, and Albus Dumbledore


 * Hermione_Granger_Large8.png"Looking at the man that for so long had been the moral center of our lives and not seeing that same great man was a painful thing. I just stood there staring at him waiting for him to tell me why it happened. I thought he would have an explanation. I thought he would say he was sorry. I thought he would say a thousand things to make the situation seem real. But instead he stood up from the desk walked over to me and said to me that he was sorry Harry had to die."


 * -Hermione Granger

Albus Dumbledore knew that eventually he would have to deal with what he had planned, and he knew the moment she had discovered his plan that the moment was upon him. She stood in front of Dumbledore and they just waited for the other to talk before he finally stood up and walked towards her and placed his hand on her shoulder. He told her that he was sorry that Harry had to die, but it was neccessary. The two would argue and he would explain to her that the only way to kill Voldermorte was to destroy the Horcrux that binded him to this world. She begged to know why they couldn't destroy it some other way, and he said that the only thing that could destroy the horcrux was someone of the bloodline that bore its hatred into the world, and this particular time it had been the killing of the Potters meaning that the only one would be Harry Potter himself. Realizing that as long as he had the pendant he was in danger because Voldermorte would want the pendant back so she knew what she had to do. She went to the library and got Nefarion before heading to meet with the Triumverate.


 * Dumbledore_Gif1.gif"I just hoped that she would finally come to terms with the fact that I was the one she was meant to be with. He was nothing compared to what I could offer her, and she just had to see that."


 * -Ron Weezly

The three engage first in a constructive conversation but it soon becomes about what Hermione is doing with Harry, and Ron forces her hand when he gives her one minute to decide between the two of the. Hermione in her heart knows that things have changed and she now wants Harry with everything in her but she can't hurt Ron in that moment so she just walks out. As she walks out Ron bolts at Harry and begins to strangle him. Harry loves Ron and refused to hurt him, so he basically doesn't fight back and the situation gets out of hand before Hermione uses a spell to teleport Ron out of the room and into Hogwarts Castle. Realizing that she just chose Harry she emotionally walks out of the room but is closely followed by Harry who begs her not to leave.

Hermione leaves



 * "Watching her walk away was the most painful moment of my entire life. Without her I just didn't see how continueing to resist was worth it anymore. Life was just such a struggle to just stay alive, and the main reason for fighting had just walked out the door. Ron's insults to me as she rode away didn't mean a thing to me while my world fell apart."


 * -Harry Potter

Harry and Hermione get into a long and very emotionally fight which leads to them making love outside of the fortress. Harry following this attempts with everything in him to make them be together now because in his heart he knows that he needs her, but as she starts to give in to him and they begin to kiss they are interupted by Ron who steps from the shadows to reveal that he had clearly witnessed the entire thing. With the situation of the Triumverate now in shambles Hermione tells Harry that she's leaving for a time, and that when she returns they will be together one way or another. She said that she wanted his pendant so that she would have something of his, and without thinking about it Harry gave her the necklaseWith that she got on her horse and rode away from the fortress leaving Harry behind.

Entering Alcase

 * Hermione_Granger_Other_Large1.jpg"I was alone for the first time in my life, and the lonliness was a pain worse then anything I'd felt since the death of my parents. It wasn't the lack of human companionship it was the fact that I couldn't reach out and touch Harry if I wanted to. Everything that was good was just so far away, and it seemed clear to me as I searched the ruins that nothing was going to be easy on this path."


 * -Hermione Granger

Hermione would enter Alcase as the forces of the Kingdom of Alcase were battling internal chaos forces led by one of the ruling house, but for her she didn't see how truly dangerous the land was all she saw was the fact that she was seperated from everything that she loved including Harry most of all. She had teleported herself into the capital of Strasburg where she was hoping to find Leliana Orsinio of whom she had gathered had the ring because it was meant to be passed down to every female member of House Orsinio. As she searched the town she discovered that the royal family and most of the military of Alcase was in the west where they had gone to battle the forces of John Orsinio. Realizing she had to act quickly before Leliana Orsinio possibly was killed and lost the ring to the forces of evil that she might not be able to get the ring back from. Hermione would travel by horse for days, running her horse ragged until she discovered the battlefield, and the camped army of Alcase. When she waded through the thousands of bodies she wondered sadly whether she was too late, but when she was taken in by several Alcase gaurds her hope rose.

Finding the Ring

 * Leliana1.png"Seeing her alive told me for the first time that I might actually be able to do this without Harry having to die. If I could just find all the dead grails I could save him. If only..."


 * -Hermione Granger

She was immediatly taken to a low level commander, and when she was cleared that she wasn't a member of the defeated forces of John Orsinio she asked to be taken to Leliana Orsinio, and the gaurds told her where she was, and she bolted towards the area. Finding her tent she barged in without any sort of notice, and the gaurds posted at the tent didn't react quick enough and she was inside the tent with Lelliana. Once inside the tent she used Magi to close to entrances, and block herself in with Leliana. Leliana immediatly went for her sword, and as she grabbed for it Hermione saw the ring on her finger, and dropped to her knees in happiness. Leliana at this point was beyond confused but she called out for aid, and she could hear the sounds of swords hitting against the tent but as soon as they hit the cloth the sword was pushed away, and no damage was caused. As the commotion outside got more out of hand and more and more gaurds tried to get in Johanas reached the area after hearing the alert, and attempted to charge his way through the tent to no avail.

Leliana Orsinio : What sort of Magi is this?...Do you not speak women?

Hermione Granger :'' I speak...its just I never thought I'd actually find one of them. I just assumed he would have been two steps ahead of me...but you...your proof that I can save him.''

Leliana Orsinio : Save who?

"Hermione Granger : Harry.

The two would proceede to talk and Hermione showed her the book profising the danger of the ring in her company, and after realizing that Hermione meant her no harm she lowered her sword and Hermione released the spell blocking the tent. As the spell went down Johanson barged through the cloth and crashed into the tent before getting up and picking Hermione up by the neck and nearly killing her before Leliana was able to get him to release her. The three would talk, and eventually Hermione would eventually get the ring, and told them thank you for their help, and she was sorry for everything that she had caused to them. As she got on her horse to leave and everyone said goodbye the sound of trumpets went off, and as she peered towards the sound she saw a massive dark cloud on the horizon.

Second Battle of Avricourt
Main Article : Battle of Avricourt



Following the destruction of the army of Chaos in the first battle of Avricourt the forces of John Orsinio had retreated, and everyone believed they would flee completely out of Alcase, but instead he regrouped the remaining chaos forces west of Avricourt. The army of Alcase was going to chase them down, but the distraction of Hermione Granger, and the fact that a larger force being led by the King in Fabin Von Orsinio meant that the Alcase forces were in the same position camped. John Orsinio had managed to gather a larger force then in the first battle, but did it at the cost of completely surrendering his original plan of long term raiding, and occupation of the lands of Alcase as he had brought every single soldier he had available to the battle. As Fabin Orsinio reached the area John Orsinio launched his assault on the camp of Leliana, and Johanson hoping to defeat that camped army before turning against the remaining force in Fabin's army. The force of John Orsinio would bring thousands of demons along with it further augmenting its numbers, and as it appeared over the hills near Avricourt the army of Johanas, and Leliana would marshal themselves to fight against the army of Chaos. Hermione seeing a chance to flee eastward would be given the blessing of Leliana to leave them and do what she had to do, and she was nearly going to leave before she realized Harry would not have wanted her to do that, and she turned around and followed Leliana into the right flank.

Remaining at the camp the camped army would prepare themselves for the charge, and Johanas would command the center of the force, while the left flank was commanded by Isabelle Hurnia, while the right flank was commanded by Leliana and she was joined there by Hermione. Seeing this from their vantage point the royal army of Fabin would make their way towards the valley beneath them but were several hours away, and thus wouldn't be able to affect the initial assault. As the Chaos forces smashed into the army the intial charge broke pieces of the army as the demons horrified them, and the mass charge nearly caused a retreat of the army. As the army wavered Hermione would summon a gigantic yellow bird that flew over the ranks of the army and gave them heart, and this somewhat steadied them.



As the fighting intensified John Orisinio watched from the ranks as Johanas Hawkes wiped his way through the ranks of the chaos center forces, and then watched the Alcase forces celebrate as Johanas killed a greater demon of Slanaash. Seeing momentum change against him despite his larger force John Orsinio would charge into the left flank where Isabelle Hurnia was fighting a losing fight against a large force, and he would engage her in a duel. Granted gifts by Slanaash John was beyond the fighting ability of Isabelle and he sliced her nearly in half before tossing her head into the Alcase ranks, and causing a near rout of the left flank. As the left flank collapsed John turned his forces from attacking the left flank to moving against the center and Johanas. On the right flank Hermione and Leliana killed their enemy one after another but there was always another, and so Hermione watched as Leliana broke from the front line and cut her way through the chaos ranks making her way towards a Chaos Magi. Fighting the Chaos Magi Hermione led a charge as well breaking the chaos forces attempting to surround Leliana and her force that had broke through, and the right flank begin to be pushed back towards the dueling Leliana and Magi. The Magi and Leliana would duel for many minutes, but the Magi found his spells constantly blocked by Hermione, and as it continued Leliana finally killed the Magi and broke the right flank of Chaos. With the death of the Magi the demons begin to lose form, and after a few minutes the demons of the Chaos Army had shifted out of the real world and back into the fade where they had been summoned from. As John Orsinio made his way towards the center of the army he was engaged by his nephew Talbot Von Orsinio of whom would breifly fight him before the more trained John struck him down and left him basically fatally wounded.

With both left flanks of the two armies being overwhelmed the two victorous flanks moved to the center and engaged the already desperate fighting in the center. John Orsinio seeing Johanas kill one of his few remaining friends, and perhaps the sole remaining person he trusted would charge at Johanas, and as he was overcome by anger and rage his god himself in Slanaash would change him from his human form into a Greater Demon of Slanaash and it was in this form that John Orsinio and Johanas Hawkes would battle. An extremely formidable fighter John was only able to hold off the charge of the now demonic John Orsinio and felt himself pushed back inch by inch. Hermione Granger would have at this point reached the edge of the creek that devided the center of the army and the right flank and discovered Talbot dying on the side of the river, and without saying anything to anyone around her she would use her Magi to heal him, and pull him to the side of the river before she moved more towards the army and was pulled towards the center by Bethany Hawkes. As Johanas was knocked to the ground and about to be killed John would be smashed back from a bolt by Hermione Granger, and Bethany Hawkes of whom were able to keep John down while Johanas, and Leliana charged at him and struck him many times killing the demon and releasing John Orsinio. With John Orsinio dead, and the demons deforming the chaos forces were broken, and despite attempts by the other commanders of the army to hold them they would retreat away from the slaughter that was now ensueing on the chaos forces. By this point the cavalry of Fabin including the king himself had arrived and would charge into the retreating chaos forces wiping out the remaining parts of the army.

Ruins
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The Dagger of Lost Souls

 * Selina_Surion1.jpg"Watching someone from afar that you know has a dagger with the ability to control minds was a discunserting prospect. But as we continued to watch him it was as if he never felt the need to use the dagger. He had conflicts that he resolved with his words, and he kept the dagger nearly always hidden beneath his bed. It wasn't until he was forced to use the dagger that we even came to believe that he understood what the dagger did."


 * -Selina Surion

Alongside Hermione Granger they traveled into the Riverlands where they needed to track down a dagger in order to further their plans to gather the Dead Grails. Finding information that Kren Scarlet had obtained a dagger that matched the description the two would find him in order to obtain the dagger. The two would find him a wealthy and powerful noble, and following him for weeks Selina would come to greatly admire Kren and had a serious affection for the young man. During this time Hermione would come to explain some of her love for Harry and the fact that basically all of this while important to the continent in an unimaginable way was actually for her more about the survival of her beloved Harry Potter. Selina came to tell her of how she was one of the last of what was once a thriving Numenorian community in the lands Austria (she lied as she didn't completely trust anyone to know where her family was located) and in giving away their secrets they grew quite close. Hermione was able to use the Cloak of Neverune to allow her and Selina to enter the keep of Hearthglen where they would come to look for where the dagger was hidden by Kren.


 * Hermione_Granger_Gif_Wide.gif"Attacked in the night like the monsters they had become. We would learn for the final time the consequences of what happened when you asked for too much. Ravenholdt had asked for the stars and the gods didn't anwser them. When the gods abandoned them the demons came and acted as their saviors. For that they are forever doomed. Sometimes a god anwsers you immediatly and you thank them for what they have done, and the speed at which they have done it. Other times the gods cannot anwser you right away, and it is in these moments that the weak choose demons, and the virtuous choose patience. The Ravens should have waited. They should have waited..."


 * -Hermione Granger

As they prepared to take the knife from him at night they watched as several black robed men infiltrated his keep. Watching the men from afar they were shocked into action when the assassins would murder an old man that was wandering the halls of the keep doing his tasks. Coming out of their hiding spot they would gain on the assasins and just reach the room when the two attempted to kill Kren. Defending him against the assassins he awoke and used the dagger to mind control the assassins into stopping attacking him. He used the dagger on Hermione, ad Selina as well and from their initial anwsers and the fact that they were defending him he became convinsed of their innocense. Using the dagger further he was able to discover that the assassins had been sent by the Order of the Raven after Ravenholdt signed an alliance with Mordor, and one of their first tasks was to derail the attempts to gather the Deathly Grails. The assasins revealed to them that the Order of the Raven had sent hundreds of its finest throughout the continent in order to try and find the Grails, and that the two in the Riverlands were only a small drop in the bucket to the numbers that were on the move. As they continued to gain more information they were halted by a third assassin who appeared in the window and killed the two assassins with throwing knives before escaping out the window, and after they chased him across the roofs of the keep he too got away after he committed suicide by jumping from the top of a tower into the ground.

Harry Potter
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"She was just like the sister that I'd never had. I loved her like a sister and I reckon that's how she felt the same way about me. I thought what we had was always going to be like that and for the life of me I don't know when my feelings became so much more then just platonic love. Whenever it was doesn't matter all that matters is the pain I feel when she's not in my arms."

-Harry Potter

Hermione became friends with Harry Potter after he and Ron Weasley saved her from a Mountain Troll in their first year. They tended to get along well, though Harry occasionally became irritated with Hermione's nagging and she sometimes felt he took Ron's side when she was fighting with their other best friend. However, their only notable row was over Hermione getting Harry's Firebolt confiscated in their third year, because she felt it might be a trap.

Harry and Ron reconciled with Hermione after Hagrid scolded them for their treatment of her. Shortly afterwards, Hermione led Harry through time-travel, and together they rescued Sirius Black and Buckbeak; Hermione breaking the rules of using her Time-Turner, something she admitted was incredibly dangerous, demonstrated the strength of her friendship with Harry. The following year, Hermione was the only student who believed Harry when he told her he had not put his name in the Goblet of Fire, and spent much of the Triwizard Tournament teaching Harry useful spells and trying to reconcile him and Ron.

They grew extremely close together during the early days of the Hogwarts Civil War after they went alone to find Hermione's parents after they couldn't find Ron. During this time they became romantic for the first time although due to their love for Ron they burried this and decided to continue the way things were.

Others, including Ron (under the influence of a Horcrux), Cho Chang, Viktor Krum, Mrs. Weasley, and even Albus Dumbledore have occasionally mistaken Harry and Hermione's friendship for a romantic relationship, given their closeness and occasional expressions of affection, such as Hermione kissing Harry on the cheek after the Triwizard Tournament, usually being the first to be next to his bed whenever he is hurt or injured, choosing to stay with him rather than leaving with her love Ron, embracing him between her arms in a friendly, though usually mistaken by other people, hug whenever he is scared, angry, sad, crying, etc. But by Harry's description, they loved each other like siblings; notably, both were only children raised in the Muggle world.

For the brief time the two travelled together without Ron, during the search for the Horcruxes, Hermione and Harry experienced some "charged moments," and shared something very intense of which no one else was a part. Due to these moments the two have become gradualy more and more physically attracted to eachother, and this is bound to cause problems within the extremely strong triumverate.



Ron Weezly
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Although their relationship would have many ups and downs, Hermione and Ron Weasley were good friends for most of their years at Hogwarts, and of course, were best friends with Harry Potter, who was usually a mediator in their disputes. They tended to bicker frequently, though they usually got over their arguments, which tended to be minor or about trivial issues. As they grew older and matured, Ron and Hermione tended to fight less often and become more in touch with their feelings for each other. Hermione sometimes had the tendency of calling Ron "Ronald". Their first major falling-out was in their third year, when Ron accused Hermione's pet cat Crookshanks of eating his pet rat Scabbers.