The next morning a refreshed Hermione wiggled her way out of Harry's arms. She wanted to get an early start on the Vanishing Cabinet. The idea of being able to travel between her parents' house and Grimmauld place was tantalizing, but when she'd woke up she'd thought about the reverse; Harry coming to her house and then from there being able to get out into the muggle world. "I need this fixed today since tomorrow we leave," She thought. That gave her pause as well. Ginny's potions would also be done today. She shook her head at the thought of the young redhead she'd thought had been her friend. Finally she let the thoughts go so she could concentrate on the task at hand.
"This has got to be it," Hermione said a few hours later as she climbed out of the cabinet. When everyone moved closer, she pointed at a series of Runes inside the front edge of the cabinet. "I couldn't see it too well in the dark, but finally I notice this scratch cutting through that Rune," She pointed out the almost unnoticeable very fine line that ran through a box with a semi-circle in it. "That would make this Rune set unstable," Each of the others stuck their head in and looked.
It took a couple of hours to repair the wood and recarve the Rune but finally it was complete. Dobby was sent to collect more spiders to do the next test with. When Sirius showed them the still moving spiders in the mirror a few seconds later everyone was excited.
"I'll test it now," Harry exclaimed as he put the mirror in Hermione's hands before he jumped into the cabinet and pulled the door shut.
"HARRY JAMES POTTER!" Hermione screeched into the mirror when he took it from Sirius a few seconds later. "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING? YOU COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED!"
"Or worst expelled?" Harry asked sheepishly into the glare of his wife.
The glare only lasted for a few seconds before she rolled her eyes and shook her head. "You know we should have tested it more before doing that," Hermione said. "You...you really could have been injured or killed. I... will... not... lose... you," She said defiantly.
"It would have taken all day, besides we know it works now," Harry said.
"Fine," Hermione said in a tone that let Harry know that it really wasn't. "Now let's at least test the coming back with the spiders before you attempt it."
"You beat Malfoy you know," Harry said when he climbed back out of the cabinet a few minutes after the spiders' successful journey. "What took him months you did in three days," He said. He really didn't want his wife to be angry at him.
Hermione blushed at the praise. "Luna helped. I'd never been able to finish if she hadn't been checking other possibilities at the same time."
"I only discovered what wasn't wrong," Luna said in her dreamy voice. "You're the one who found out what was broken."
"But you recognized what wasn't wrong," Neville said. "That makes you brilliant as well."
"Well I am Ravenclaw," Luna reminded her boyfriend. "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure."
"And your wit is my greatest treasure," Neville said.
"But I thought you said my boobies were," Luna replied in a voice that was all Luna.
Neville reddened as Harry and Hermione did their best to hide their grins.
"So you're saying you like my mind and my body equally?" Luna asked unperturbed.
"We'll just go over here for a while guys," Harry said as he took Hermione's arm and led her away from Neville whose blush now was probably reaching his toes. As they walked away they could hear Neville trying to stammer out a response.
They eventually decided to have a late lunch before going to Dumbledore. As they sat around the table eating off a large platter of various types of sandwiches and drinking pumpkin juice the conversation returned to the pureblood agenda and what might happen in the future.
"Look at what was happening after the darkness we saw," Hermione said. "I'd bet that Mr. Malfoy in the future would have never been punished. Draco either."
"Surely Lucius would have went to Azkaban," Harry said. "I mean he might have fallen out of favor with Voldemort at the end, but he'd still done enough to earn a kiss."
"His money Harry," Hermione reminded him. "He'd claim the imperius again and with enough money in enough hands he'd be believed. Did you see him and his family after the battle? Sitting in the Great Hall with no one bothering them."
"He and Narcissa didn't fight."
"SO? He was a known Death Eater, someone who had supported Voldemort for years," Hermione exclaimed. "Does one night of not fighting make up for all they did?"
Do you really think it might happen again?" Harry asked. "I mean, even with Voldemort gone, we'll still have what he believes in?"
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