Date: 22 May 1999 Characters: Hermione Granger, Harry Potter Location: Grimmauld Place Status: Private Summary: Hermione and Harry have a late night talk. Completion: Complete
She was still feeling the aftereffects of her visit to Azkaban. That was the only explanation Hermione could come up with for the nightmares she'd had the past few nights. Last night had been a rehash of the night Ron had left her and Harry. And tonight's was even worse. It was sixth year and Ron had never recovered from his poisoning. Instead of Dumbledore's funeral, it had been Ron's that she and Harry had attended. I never told him, her dreamself kept repeating to Harry. I never told him the truth.
After twenty minutes of laying in her bed staring up at the ceiling, followed by another twenty spent fruitlessly poring over her notes from the encounter with the Dementor, she'd finally given up and crept downstairs to the kitchen. Maybe some tea would help calm her, she thought as she set the kettle to boiling and sat at the table, hands pushing back her hair to cradle her head.