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Chapter #18: Bloody hell.

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Hermione was stunned, she was having a hard time believing the scene that was in front of her was real, Harry, the love of her life, the person she loved the most aside from her parents was lying on the floor of the compartment over a pool of blood as he tried to cover a clear injury while he was coughing blood.

“Harry!” She screamed desperately as she ran as fast as she could to try to save him.

“M-Mione!” Harry said with a weak tone.

“Harry…Who did this to you? Tell me please!” Begged Hermione.

She wanted to do many horrible things to the person or persons who did this to her love.

“I-I don’t know…” He said before he coughed more blood. “I have no memory of the past five minutes!” His words shocked Hermione.

Someone obliviated him, she wanted to find the people who did this, maybe if she hurried up she could still catch them, however, seeing Harry in this state quickly made her change her priorities, her vengeance could wait for later, first, she needed to do something to stop the bleeding.

She didn’t think twice and quickly took out her cloak as she was wearing it over her muggle clothes, and soon, she ripped the thing to wrap Harry’s stomach on it and it didn’t take too long for her hands to get tainted with his blood, it also didn’t take too long for her prefect badge to get tainted with his blood but Hermione didn’t give a shit about it.

“Don't rest baby, don’t stop talking, the help is coming!” Hermione said with a fake smile.

“Y-Yes…Hermione…Your badge…I’m sorry it got dirtied,” Harry said weakly as Hermione reached for something on Harry’s trunk.

“D-Don’t worry about it, baby…It’s just a badge and AHA!” She said triumphantly as she took a mirror out of Harry’s trunk.

“But you love your badge!” Harry couldn’t help but blame himself but Hermione ignored him.

“Sirius Black, Sirius Black, Sirius Black!” Hermione said desperately and soon, the wornout-looking wizard appeared on the other side of the mirror.

“Mione? What’s going on? It hasn’t been too long since you two said goodbye, I can’t believe you guys are missing me already, where’s Harry—” Sirius tried to joke but he was quickly stopped by Hermione.

“I have no time for this Sirius Orion Black…Harry has been hurt, he’s bleeding, someone attacked and obliviated him, we need help, we’re on compartment sixty-nine!” Hermione said with tears in her eyes.

She didn’t want to do it but she decided to move the mirror so the older wizard could see Harry’s current state..

Soon, Sirius’ playful expression changed to a scared one.

“I’ll send a message!” He said desperately before he sent a Patronus.

Hermione decided to let the older wizard take care of that while she was pressing her hands on Harry’s stomach.

“Mione…I love you…” He said weakly.

“Me too…I love you too but don’t say it like that…You're not dying, you're going to make it!” She couldn’t stop the tears any longer.

“Ah…My Mione…You were the best thing…That happened in my shitty life,” he said before losing consciousness.

Hermione panicked, she needed help and no one was coming, or at least that’s what she thought before the train was suddenly stopped and the place was suddenly stormed by two members of the order, Kingsley and Tonks were here and they were with Madam Pomfrey.

“Please step aside Miss Granger,” the nurse said in the most polite way possible.

The nurse wanted to playfully annoy Harry just like she usually does at the start of the year as he usually spends the first few days there, however, seeing the current state of the Potter heir, she decided to not waste time and soon, she started to work.

“Come on Hermione, he's going to be alright,” Tonks said as she placed an arm on Hermione’s shoulders.

But the younger witch didn’t say anything, she was standing there with a lost expression as she stared at the figure of her almost lifeless boyfriend lying on the floor with lots of blood under his body.

And speaking about blood, her hands were tainted with his blood too just like her white blouse and blue jeans, her boyfriend’s blood was on her and she trembling at the sight of her blood-covered hands. Harry has indeed been through many dangerous situations that have put his life in danger, however, this is the first time Hermione feels like he could truly die.

She didn’t know for how long Madam Pomfrey worked, however, she did it so flawlessly that Hermione was finding it hard to believe, the bleeding was stopped but Hermione knew this wasn’t the end, he lost so much blood, his life was still in danger.

“It was a great decision to use your cloak to cover his injury Miss Granger, the thick layer and the materials helped reduce the loss of blood by almost fifty percent the usual rate in a case like this,” the nurse sighed as she tried to cheer up the young witch.

But Hermione still had a lost expression, it’s clear that she was in shock, so the Aurors and the mediwitch in the end could only sigh.

“He’s still in danger, we’re going to apparate with him back to Hogsmeade and then we’ll take him back to the castle,” the nurse said to the Aurors who nodded.

Kingsley suddenly lifted Harry’s body with his wand and took him outside.

“Come on Hermione…Come with us,” Tonks tried to make the brown-haired witch feel better.

Surprisingly, Hermione just shook her head.

“I’m sorry guys…I still have my prefect's duties,” Hermione said as she picked up her blood-stained prefect badge and put it on her blood-stained blouse.

“At least let me help you clean up,” Tonks tried to help her but Hermione declined the offer.

Hermione also picked up her cloak but she decided to not put it on her body, she clearly wanted the world to see how she looked with all the blood on her robes.

“I need to find who did this…Also…I’m a prefect, even if Harry weren't the one attacked, I would do the same if this happened to anyone else,” Hermione said with a fake smile.

However, she had other plans, she was going to find out who did this. The older people in the compartment looked at her with concern but in the end, they decided to let her do it, maybe the shock value would make the culprit confess or maybe if someone has information after seeing Hermione they could provide some, so, in the end, they nodded and one minute later the Hogwarts express started to move once again.

Hermione couldn’t believe it, she was finding it hard to believe how things escalated to this, many ideas were running through her head about the culprit’s identity, maybe this was an attempted assassination by the ministry, or maybe the dark lord sent one of the Slytherins to finish the job, either way she couldn’t help but blame herself for not being here with him.

However, she suddenly heard something coming out of Harry’s trunk, it was his wand and she couldn’t help but sob, it was clear that whoever did this was someone Harry trusted, it was either that or he was tricked or worse, he was still fearing the ministry could destroy his wand at any moment, it seems like he even forgot the spare wand Sirius gave him.

She wanted to find whoever did this but she had no idea how to do that and then, her eyes lit up, as she saw his invisibility cloak, she also remembered the time turner on her neck, she could get back and see who did this and even thought that couldn’t be used as proof, at least she would know who not to trust.