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Chapter #19: The monsters amongst us.

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Hermione couldn’t believe it, she was hiding under the invisibility cloak after she used the time turner and she was able to see her boyfriend being attacked by Malfoy and Parkinson but there was nothing she could do to help him, if only she had used the time turner after she found him she could have prevented this and now time couldn’t be corrected.

Yes, even if the Department of Mysteries isn’t aware that she stole the time turner as far as she knows, the department keeps track of time and when an unexpected time anomaly happens they’re informed, that’s why she couldn't prevent what happened to Harry.

Everything started fine, he was studying and minding his own business and she couldn’t help but feel proud after hearing that he made progress on the code, she made sure to memorize everything he said as she was certain that the memories of him cracking the code were deleted too.

And then the worst part came when Malfoy entered the compartment to mock him and threaten him and all the people he considers unworthy of magic, and when Harry didn’t give him the time of the day, he made a tantrum because he was ignored and soon, he and Pansy chanted the same spell at the same time and it was too fast that Harry didn’t even have time to react.

“Sectumsempra!” They both said at the same time with wicked expressions.

But their confidence quickly disappeared the moment they realized what they’d done.

“What the…Why didn’t he take his wand out?!” Complained Malfoy as he saw Harry hugging his injury be he started to cough blood.

“Draco…Did Professor Snape teach you the counterspell?” Pansy asked with total indifference.

“Yes…But I haven’t mastered it…What do we do now? I don’t want to go to Azkaban and—” Draco’s eyes suddenly lit up.

“What?” Asked the pug-faced prefect.

Malfoy didn’t say anything, he just pointed his wand at Harry before chanting.

“Obliviate,” he said coldly, and soon, Harry’s memories were wiped out. “Let’s go, Pansy,” Malfoy smirked before he took the other prefect’s hand and they ran away from the compartment as they left Harry for dead.

Hermione couldn’t believe the indifference and the lack of humanity those two showed. Harry was right, the children were as guilty as the parents, or at least at this point they were beyond redemption Malfoy and Parkinson are adults too after all, she could only watch helplessly under the invisibility cloak as Harry bleed to death.

She witnessed the aftermath from a third-person point of view and soon, she made a movement that made the cloak fall from Harry’s trunk just like his wand and soon, he saw her past self using the time turner and at this point, the timelines united.

She wished she could be with Harry right now but she needed to make the culprits pay first, so, even with her clothes full of blood and her badge in the same state, she got back to her prefect duties and even if people in the train were looking at her weirdly she didn’t care because she was on her way to a certain destination.

Then she finally found them, Draco Malfoy, Pansy Parkinson and the rest of their Slytherin entourage were having a good time, just like she suspected, Parkinson and Malfoy were shitty prefects, she didn’t hesitate to open the compartment, it was taking her willpower to not kill stun everyone but Malfoy and Parkinson, that would give her enough time to threw them out of the train.

“G-Granger…What do you want?” Asked Malfoy in a threatening tone. “I know I’m richer and more handsome than Potter but I can’t offer you anything but a shag, take it or leave it,” Draco said and soon the rest of his friends started to laugh with the exception of Parkinson.

Hermione didn’t know if the pug-faced girl was worried that she might’ve been found out or if she was angry because Malfoy was flirting with her.

“Just joking, I don’t like mudbloods like you, especially the ones that are covered in blood that I’m sure belong to another blood traitor…Did you kill Weasley or what Granger?” Asked the blonde mockingly.

Hermione’s stoic expression suddenly became cold, it was so cold that made some of the occupants shiver.

“Harry has been attacked…He was left for dead and even if he was taken back to the hospital wing at Hogwarts…They’re not sure he’s going to survive,” Hermione said coldly.

Some of them gulped but Pansy and Draco just looked at each other and smirked.

“Why should we care about him, Granger? A shame but it’s not like we’re friends with him or something like that,” Pansy said with complete indifference.

Or at least that’s what she tried to do, Hermione saw that she was trying to hide a smirk, the audacity of this bitch was getting on Hermione’s nerves and there was nothing she wanted to do more than torture her and Malfoy until they confessed what they did but she decided to calm down.

“Oh, I’m just informing all the students but especially the Slytherins about this because I’m certain a Slytherin was the one who attacked him,” Hermione’s words caused some murmuring.

“Why do you think that?” Daphne was offended Hermione could jump to that conclusion so easily.

“Because Voldemort is back,” everyone shivered and some got angry after hearing the muggle-born say the dark lord’s name without even flinching. “We all know how your house thinks about him and also, he named some of your parents after he came back from the graveyard, your house has a good reason to attack him,” Hermione’s words were sharp like knives.

“Are you sure about it?” Asked Zabini with a concerned expression.

“Yes, but I want to avoid another tragedy,” Hermione lied. “I’d like the perpetrator to confess or if anyone has any information that could help us catch that person or persons, it would be wise to share it because right now all the people on the train have been informed about the situation, and soon they’re going to realize that they’re trapped with a dangerous person, the paranoia will start and it was better for the culprit to get captured by the Aurors rather than facing an angry mob,” Hermione was analyzing Malfoy and Parkinson’s expressions.

Bingo, she was able to see fear.

“Either way, things aren’t going to get better once we get back to Hogwarts, and even though the culprit or culprits think they got away with it, I’m sure that they won’t be able to do anything against a whole house or a small group of students,” Hermione said before sighing.

She was expecting them to confess, she knew she was being too naïve for thinking like that but she wanted to believe that there was still a bit of humanity in Malfoy and Parkinson, however, she wasn’t surprised to find out that lack that.

“Well, I better leave you to your musings, who cares about what a mud blood like me says, right? Just think about this when you’re trapped tonight in the same house as the perpetrator,” Hermione raised her blood-stained badge. “Blood is the same regardless of the person,” Hermione soon took her leave.

She left the compartment as fast as she came and the people inside were in shock, they’d never seen this side of Granger, some of them were angry at her presence while others were admiring her for what she was doing, her boyfriend was attacked and she was fighting for him, it was so romantic and wholesome in a certain way.

Meanwhile Pansy and Draco were looking at each other with smirks on their faces, there was no they could be found, or at least that’s what they think.