Harry Potter: Beyond the Looking Glass by madscientist

SPOILERS: Books 1 - 6
Contents: NC17
Description: The Dark Lord is destroyed, but the cost was beyond measure. Harry and Hermione survived, but their hearts were shattered in the process. Now years later, they have recovered to an extent, and gone on. The war is over, but a new threat is arising, one that could destroy all they have accomplished in the interim. What you know to be fact, might just be illusion, and illusion, fact. A sequel to Harry Potter and the Circle's End, so go read that first...along with all the one shots and stuff that are related to it.
Genre: Action/Adventure / Drama

A/N: Here we go, the first full chapter...yea!... As usual Harry and Hermione have their normal thought colors, but of course I didn't leave it there. Emilia and Xander have their own as well for reasons that will be pretty obvious. I still own nothing of consequence really. Lady Starlight has once again graciously corrected my inherent insanity, at least as much as humanly possible. So here we go, let's play.
Chapter 1: Even a bit later than that.

*******************Godric's Hollow*************************

July 1, 2015
1:30 am

Crookshanks looked up from the couch as the air in front of him shimmered slightly and his mistress appeared from out of nowhere. He stood, walking along the top of the couch until he could rub against her hand. She smiled and dropped her face to his fur, rubbing his sides, before she kissed his small, furry head, and stood. She paced over to an end table set against the wall next to the door and emptied her pockets, dropping a small folding mirror, a compact potions kit, a large folding knife, a small money bag and a folded wad of Muggle money on the table, where the gear mixed with another pile, of similar composition. She reached under her shirt, pulling out a black badge on a chain, and pulled it over her head, dropping it next to the other already sitting there.

Hermione shrugged off her black dragonhide jacket and tossed it over the back of a chair before she ghosted up the stairs. Reaching the top, she stopped at the first door she found, and peered in the cracked door. Hermione pushed it open, sliding in to kiss the forehead of the boy she found there. She knelt and picked up a pair of glasses from the floor next to the bed and set them on a bedside table next to a rosewood wand before slipping back out of the room.

She knocked softly on the next door, finding it closed. She looked down and saw a faint line of light spilling from under the door. She waited a minute more before slowly opening the door, and stepping in slowly. Hermione bit her lip, smiling as she slipped over to the bed. She picked up a large, decrepit book and marked Emilia's place and set it aside. "Mummy?" a soft voice, exactly like her own at sixteen asked, as emeralds blinked open, "I was waiting for you."

"You were?" Hermione smiled as she sat down on the bed. "Move over...

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