The Inevitable post-DH fic

[lady_karelia]

Well... it's a start. Not beta'd yet, but I kind of felt the need to put this out in the open right now... DH Spoilers, for sure! Disclaimer: Rose and Hugo do not belong to Hermione. Oh, hang on, wrong start. I’m JKR. No, not right either. You get the idea.

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Chapter I

His eyes were unmoving, but Hermione noticed his hand crawling feebly towards his robe pocket.

She followed Harry out of the Shrieking Shack, hurrying back to the Great Hall. As she stood next to Ginny, looking disbelievingly at the dead bodies on the floor, the scene they’d just left entered her mind. His death is unnecessary... I need to do something....

Slowly, as to not draw attention, Hermione left the mourning crowd. The moment she reached the door and turned a corner, she started running towards the entrance doors. Looking around carefully for a moment, ensuring nobody was watching her, she cast a Disillusionment Charm on herself, then another one for good measure. Then she checked her robe pocket for essence of dittany before running to the Whomping Willow, down the tunnel and back to the Shrieking Shack.

Snape was still lying on the floor, but his eyes were open, and he looked at Hermione as she entered the room. She knelt down next to him and showed him the phial with essence of dittany. “If you manage to sit up, I can pour it onto the bites, Professor,” she said, slightly out of breath.

Snape tried to move into a sitting position, but only managed with gritted teeth when Hermione pulled him up. She applied the potion and stood up again.

“Be safe, Professor.” That said, she turned and hurried back to the Great Hall.

The entire act must have taken barely ten minutes, Hermione realised as she re-entered the Great Hall and joined the Weasley family, who were huddled around Fred’s body.

“Alright, love?” Ron asked her, putting his arm around her shoulders and pulling her closer. She nodded and leaned into him, feeling securely caught in the safety net Ron had lately become to her.

Comments

[ginny-weasley31.livejournal.com]

Oh, very nice. And this will be multi-chaptered?

~is hopeful~

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I've written about two chapters and have the outline for the rest - maybe 5-6 chapters.

Thanks!

[amsev.livejournal.com]

More, please. Pretty-please?

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I promise there'll be more. :-)

Thanks!

[firefly-124.livejournal.com]

Excellent start!

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

*icon love*

And thank you!

[firefly-124.livejournal.com]

lalaweasley made it. Glad you like it.

Do you have a title for this yet? I've added it to my post-DH fic link post as "Untitled" for now. Or is the title "The Inevitable Post-DH Fic"?

::ducks for cover::

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

No title yet. Definitely not what you suggest *snicker*. I don't know why I haven't come up with one yet, it's very unlike me, but alas...

I'll let you know as soon as I have one!

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

I have a title now and even edited the post to reflect. :-) Title is "Choices".

[firefly-124.livejournal.com]

Cool. I've edited the link in my post accordingly.

[sbrande.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Beautifully done.

More please? :)

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yes, more will come. Am writing. :-)

[ozratbag2.livejournal.com]

Ah, all these lovely ficlets coming out. Very nice start. :)

I think all our bunnies were as pissed off as the rest of us. :D

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

You're so right about the bunnies, LOL!

[apythia.livejournal.com]

Oh goood beginning! I can't wait to read more. I knew I could count on fandom to rectify canon!

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

LOL! Thanks. With this kind of canon, the plot bunnies started biting half way through reading it...

[little-beloved.livejournal.com]

Oooooh! More, please!

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

:-) I've finished the first chapter now, and as soon as I'm done with the second, I'll send it off to NSS for beta reading.