"You ready?", Asked Ginny knocking at the door.
"Yes, come in!" Replied Hermione as she fixed her earings. The whole scene almost seemed to be a parallel to the one she had with her mum before Harry's graduation ball, she hoped it wasn't a bad sign.
"Heyy" Ginny said softly before flopping down on the bed, gown and all. They were in a huge rented castle that probably used up a lot of the weasley's money because it was gorgeous. The place looked like any other ordinary castel on the outside but the inside of it was mind-blowing. There were white marble walls and velvety red curtains with dozens of chandeliers. But one of the most uniques thing was the paintings that covered the walls and the ceilings - paintings of different stories, about love and marriage. It was simply the perfect scenery.
Hermione turned around, her dark red gown trailing on the floor. It didn't have a sleeve and little butterflies made of fabric sat elegantly on the collarbones of the dress as it extended down to her legs. It had little designs covering all over it, which were only visible when up close and made the dress more beautiful than before. Ginny smiled as she sat on the bed in a rather unlady-like manner with her silver brides-maid gown which shimmered with all the sequins and glitters Fleur had put on it. It wasn't puffy like Hermione's and clung to her body, topped with a perfect pair of silver heels.
"Ready to go?"
"Yep" she said as she stood up from the bed with a grunt, holding on to Hermione's arm for help.
They walked out the room, hand in hand with their heels clicking on the floor and their gowns trailing behind them.
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"Why do I have to wear this" whined Ron as he looked at his frilly suite
"It's a special robe! It's the wedding remember?" Retorted Mrs.Weasley
"But none of the others are wearing one!"
"That's cause we don't have many of these!"
"You mean we don't have many suites so you're making me wear this thing and said it's the other way around just to make me feel better?"
Mrs.Weasley shushed him as she adjusted his tie. That was when Harry knocked on the door,
"Ron? It's me, Harry. Can I come in?"
"Oh ofcourse darling" chimed Mrs.Weasley
He opened the door but stopped in his tracks when he saw a sulking Ron in a really frilly suite while Mrs.Weasley smiled so bright she could've beat the sun.
"I know, I know" groaned Ron as Harry cracked a smile
"I look like great aunt Tessie!" he suddenly said out of the blue, before sniffing his arm and going, "I even smell like her"
Harry burst out laughing as Mrs.Weasley ignored the comment and started adjusting and fussing with Ron's suite.
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The ball started as each and every person were mingling and dancing with each other, other than the introverted royals and nobles of course. They could be seen in the background listening to mucic with their earbuds in or hanging out in small groups. Hermione loved to talk to them usually. Most of them, not all, were book worms and they would frequently exchange their book recommendations and reviews. But she couldn't do that, she wasn't "Hermione". She was "Ruby", one of the nobles from the groom's side. Her polyjuice potion changed her completely, her once bushy hair turned into slick straight black hair and her skin looked almost as pale as Draco's. Her eyes were grey instead of its usual brown colour and she overall looked like one of those vampires you could find in teenage books.
She looked around, wondering what to do. Ginny already went off with the other brides maids, muttering to herself about how this is a pain in the ass. Ron and Harry weren't here yet, and if they were she didn't see them. She was alone.
She sighed before sitting on an empty chair in a table that was unoccupied as she tapped her fingers on it and waited for the others to come.
"Mi-Ruby!" Came a voice near her as Ron and Harry walked towards her and sat down.
"Woah, you look really different" stated Ron who hadn't seen Hermione's polyjuice potion form unlike Harry.
Hermione shrugged nonchalantly,
"It's fine,I guess"
[Time skip]
"I do." Said Fleur with a tint of her French accent as they kissed, everyone clapping and smiling for the newly weds with bright smiles on their faces. The four of them stood in a group in the crowd, Ginny was not happy with the wedding but she still clapped and congratulated them like any good sister.
Suddenly a loud shriek was heard as a patronus appeared in the middle of the room, Kingsley's patronus. Kingsley was one of Sirius's top and most trusted advisors, he used to be present in every single court sessions and balls. Many people tumbled backwards, the panic arising at the mysterious patronus as fear etched their faces. The weasley's had the eyebrows furrowed as they tried to calm their guests down.
"The ministry is destroyed" Kingsley's voice resonated from the patronus, "Flee while you can, you-know-who is taking over!"
This was the moment when chaos struck as death eaters who had followed Kingsley's patronus burst in. The weasley's had always been against the death eaters council for years which would mean not just them but all the guests would be in trouble for supporting the Weasley's and being friends with them. Everything was a panicked blur as Hermione's heart beat fast when Harry's hand grabbed hers and Ron's and they apparated out of the ball.
Hermione grunted as they stood in the middle of a street, the three of them pushing their way to the sidewalk as they tried to catch their breath while in total shock.
Ron was the first to speak,
"What.just.happened"
"The deatheaters are taking over" said an exasperated Harry
"Shit"
Said Hermione rubbed her nose bridge,
"Well what do we do now?!"
"Hocruxes" replied Harry
"What?"
"Hocruxes, it's something Sirius told me about. The only way we can stop whatever's supposed to happen is by taking down the deatheaters, and if we want to do that we have to kill you-know-who. Killing him would be the main way to get to them, and the only way we can do that is by killing the 7 hocruxes."
"What the heck is a hocruxe"
"I think I read about them somewhere in the forbidden section of the library" chimed in Hermione
Harry raised an eyebrow at this as Hermione replied,
"Don't ask. Anyway, from what I know hocruxes are one of the ways people have been able to stay alive for years. Their basically life lines, a person splits their soul and stores a part of their soul in an object. This object is then called a hocruxe and the reason why they do this is because it basically makes them invincible. If we kill the actual person, nothing would happen. They wouldn't actually be "dead" because a part of their soul would be in a hocruxe and they could come back to life sometimes too. The only way to truly kill this person would be to first destroy the hocruxe and then kill the person. But not many people know or use hocruxes, it's a horrible thing to do. You actually have to murder someone in order to create a hocruxe. And 7 hocruxes? I don't think anyone done something so disgusting before."
"Well he did. 2 of these hocruxes have already been destroyed - Tom riddles diary and his ring. We destroyed the diary in 2nd year, remember? And the ring was destroyed by Dumbledore."
"Well that's great. 2 down, 5 to go. Yay." said Ron sarcastically
"I think I might know where the rest of the hocruxes are." Replied Harry, ignoring his comment.
"Really"
"Sirius told me. I think he knew that something like this was going to happen, so he told me to be safe incase he wouldn't be able to destroy the rest."
"Well we don't have Sirius now, there's no one to help us. No Sirius, no Lupin, no Penny. No one. We're on our own." Said Hermione bitterly.
"Well what are we standing here for then? Let's get going." Said Ron.
"Right" replied Hermione as she fished her bag, pulling out clothes and handing it to the boys.
"Wha- how did all this fit in there?"
"It's a undetectable extension charm, this might look like a small bag but it has way more space inside."
They hurried of to an aisle trying to find some place to change from their frilly ballgowns and suites before someone noticed. By now Hermione had gotten used to sudden changes of events, for the past few weeks that's all that has been happening. But she never expected the events to be this huge and this fast.
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