The Only Ones Who Know: The Official Version
Chapter 1 of 2
TeaOliHermione and Severus are the only ones who remember what should have happened.
Reviewed1 March 2012
“This place is full of decay and Darkness.”
Hermione ignored the hand gloved in black leather. “Not yet.”
“They aren’t real.”
“They were.”
“No longer.”
“I remember them, Severus.”
“As does my ghost. Stop wasting time. You made your choice.”
“I didn’t know what would—”
“You knew there would be consequences.”
“Saving someone who deserved to live seemed worth anything.”
“Until you condemned your children to non-existence. Come.”
She stood, allowing her husband to guide her from the place that would have been her home.
Neither saw the grey figure, swathed in black tatters, rising from the leaf mould.
Disclaimer: They still belong to Jo Rowling.
A/N: I've borrowed them in order to see what they'd do with a bit of a dark-ish love story. This is the official version posted to the grangersnape100 LiveJournal community for the Dementors Challenge. Next up: the original (preferred) version. Many thanks to linlawless for beta-reading both.
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Hm...how did Hermione end up creating a Dementor in the process of changing time? There's nothing to indicate that Ron died instead of Severus, and Rose and Hugo no longer exist...so did Severus's ghost somehow become a Dementor, or is it simply that Dementors are created when someone goes back in time and changes events so that they happen in a different way (history which has already happened is destroyed)?
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Thanks for reading and caring enough to ask questions!Unfortunately, I'm afraid I didn't understand what you mean by the first question, and I'm not entirely sure if what I perceived as a second question is a question at all. If you'd like to rephrase, I'd be happy to answer what I can answer, but I don't give spoilers in review responses.Just so you know, this drabble is part of a series of three (I honestly can't remember which this one in the publishing order), so things might be clearer if all three are read together in publishing order (which, if remember correctly, was reverse chronological order).
Very dark and interesting. Now to check out the other version.
I am certainly intriqued. Do continue. (:
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Thank you. I'd hoped to intrigue a reader or two.
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Thank you. I'd hoped to intrigue a reader or two.
What a perfect pre-Hallow's Eve piece!
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Thank you!
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Thank you!
sort of parallel universe. they know what would have happened. spooky , since no one knows that.No one knows what he would have had if he had taken the other road. they must have read JKR's epilogue...sadly she took her road and it didn't seem to end in happieness. I would have wished that for them. pity.
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Thank you for the "spooky". Having learnt through reading JKR's epilogue would likely have been a comfort. Alas, all knowledge was gained and/or retained by in fic means.But it's also important to remember that happiness is relative and not quantitative. It's the same for sadness.
Response from salvamea (Reviewer)
so your story/ending doesn't necessarily mean the characters are sad.We just meet them in a moment when they are remembering that things could have gone different ways?
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
In parts one and three, we are meeting them in moments of remembering. That is a perfect way to phrase it.
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Thank you for the "spooky". Having learnt through reading JKR's epilogue would likely have been a comfort. Alas, all knowledge was gained and/or retained by in fic means.But it's also important to remember that happiness is relative and not quantitative. It's the same for sadness.
Response from salvamea (Reviewer)
so your story/ending doesn't necessarily mean the characters are sad.We just meet them in a moment when they are remembering that things could have gone different ways?
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
In parts one and three, we are meeting them in moments of remembering. That is a perfect way to phrase it.
So what was that grey figure?
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Thanks for reading. The answer to your question is in the name of the challenge.
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Thanks for reading. The answer to your question is in the name of the challenge.
yep, spooky indeed.
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Phew! I'd hoped.
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Phew! I'd hoped.
hmmm... sad, really.
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Yes. Happiness is not always pure.
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Yes. Happiness is not always pure.
Oooh very creepy
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Thank you. That is what I was attempting to achieve.
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Thank you. That is what I was attempting to achieve.
Still spooky. :0
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Not spookier? :)
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Not spookier? :)
Spooky! :)
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Then my work here is done. Until the next two parts of the series appear, that is.
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Then my work here is done. Until the next two parts of the series appear, that is.
Yep, still just as creepy, even more so, because it leaves so much to the imagination.
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Oh, thank you. That is why I like this version better.
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Oh, thank you. That is why I like this version better.
Haunting. So much in so few words.
Response from reader76 (Reviewer)
So she can see or feel the imprint of her life with Ron even though she accidentally gave it up to save Severus, probably not knowing she would end up with him romantically when she saved his life. And a heartbroken Ron is going to seek revengs?
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
No revenge going on. Just decay and Darkness.
Response from reader76 (Reviewer)
So she can see or feel the imprint of her life with Ron even though she accidentally gave it up to save Severus, probably not knowing she would end up with him romantically when she saved his life. And a heartbroken Ron is going to seek revengs?
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
No revenge going on. Just decay and Darkness.
Very strange, would have been her home, but isn't now. His ghost is rising, and he is there to see it. The children; Rose and Hugo, with Ron? but do Hermione and Severus, have any children together? Looking forward to the other version. 
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
I have a policy not to spoil deliberate mysteries, so I will only thank you for asking the correct questions.
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
I have a policy not to spoil deliberate mysteries, so I will only thank you for asking the correct questions.
Would it have been her home... Or was it her home... eerie.
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Definitely "would have been".
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
Definitely "would have been".
So Hermione gave up the hope of ever having children with Severus; And she's married to Severus; but they might be dead; and there's dementors living somewhere in the open? I can't wait to read this other version!
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
No. Yes; no. Not really. I don't think it will help you understand any better, unfortunately.But thanks for taking the time to read!
Response from TeaOli (Author of The Only Ones Who Know)
No. Yes; no. Not really. I don't think it will help you understand any better, unfortunately.But thanks for taking the time to read!