Karana Belle: Hey! I hope you guys will like this story! I really do! And this is going to be a Ron/Hermione fic! They just look so cute together!

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling does...-sniff-

'Dead' Hermione

Chapter one

The fire in the Gryffindor Common Room was big, like always. There were many Gryffindors trying to finish their homework by Monday, they only had a night to do it anyway. We can see our young heroes sitting off in a corner, Ron and Harry playing chess and Hermione watching, for she had already finished her homework.

"Knight to L-4." Ron was beating Harry again, and as Ron's knight moved to the appointed spot it took out one of Harry's pieces.

"Crap. There goes my last piece besides my king." Harry looked at his broken black pieces and sighed, "You had better make this quick..."

"Harry.... you forgot to move your own piece. It is still your turn." Hermione said matter of factly, her frizzy brown hair being, well, frizzy.

Harry looked at Hermione sheepishly, raking his hands through his unruly black hair. "Oh yeah...um, King to B-2" The King obligingly moved, bracing for the impending attack. That King wasn't stupid; it knew when it was going to lose.

Ron looked at Harry and smiled, he knew he was going to win, "Knight to C-2." The knight moved. "Checkmate." Ron grinned triumphantly, laughing at Harry's face.

Harry sighed, "Am I ever going to beat you Ron?"

"You did beat him that one time in third year, Harry." Hermione smiled, trying to give him encouragement.

"Oh, so great. I haven't just played this game with Ron like over 100 times?" of course Harry said it as a rhetorical question, so Hermione just shut her mouth. No need to make a comment there.

"Uh, Harry I have a favor to ask of you..." Hermione started, she didn't particularly want to tell either of them WHY.

"Yea." Harry looked up from mending his chess pieces.

Hermione fidgeted, "Could.... Iborrowtheinvisibilitycloak."

"What? I couldn't hear you, you went to fast." Harry looked at Ron very curious.

"I think she said, 'Could I borrow the invisibility cloak.'" Ron seemed to ALWAYS know what Hermione said when she talked fast, but when she tried to explain something...for instance Krum...

"Oh! Sure, knock yourself out." Harry then went upstairs to go and fetch it. Coming back down from the boys' dormitories a few minutes later he had a bag in his arms. After all he didn't want all the other Gryffindors to see the cloak. "Here you go." Harry then yawned. Ron yawning only seconds later.

"Goodnight Mione." Ron then made his way up the staircase to his room, leaving Harry to clean up the mess made by the Wizard's Chess game.

Hermione then walked towards the portrait hole, but stopped when it opened. In walked to redheaded twins, both grinning hugely. They stopped upon seeing Hermione, it took them a while to notice that it was Hermione, after all they were still gloating over what they had down in Mr. Filch's office.

"Hello!" George smiled waving to Hermione as if they had done nothing. Fred smiled also, but he hid his hands behind his back.

Hermione noticed what Fred had done, and she raised an eyebrow, "What have you been up to?"

"What do you mean? We haven't been up to anything..." Fred tried to look innocent, but Hermione just crossed her arms, "uh, I mean we haven't been up to anything unusual."

She opened her mouth as though to reprimand them but George brushed past her, Fred following, "Bye, we have some VERY important business to attend to!" Then both boys ran up the stairs to their dorms.

Hermione just shook her head; she had more important matters at hand, matters that involved the invisibility cloak. So walking out of the portrait hole she slipped the cloak around her shoulders and over her head, disappearing from view.

She walked quickly; she only had the night to do this, only one night. She turned a corner and came face to face with Peeves, who was laughing insanely. Glad that he was preoccupied she made her way around him and continued towards the library.

Fortunately she didn't run into anyone else, like the prefects. Now don't get me wrong, she is a prefect herself, but it wasn't her night to roam the halls. SHE didn't want to get caught by her own peers.

Upon reaching the library doors Hermione heaved a sigh of relief and she opened the doors, walking into the dark room. Her eyes already accustomed to the darkness she saw rows upon rows of books, many of which she had already read, all except in the restricted section.

That is where she is heading right now, the restricted section, just so she could have a new book, even if it meant hiding it from 'eyes' or 'ears'.

She walked into the section and immediately started looking at the titles. –How to Kill Your Worst Enemy- -For the Mental Unstable: Gruesome Spells and Potions- The titles were all bizarre, but one sparked her interest, -The First Book of Spells- but it wasn't really the title that pulled her, it was the lock that was on the book. 'Why would a book have a lock on it? It doesn't look as though it could bite me or something.'

Shrugging Hermione hefted the book from its perch, it was quite light, considering the size. She picked up her wand and pointed it to the silver rusted lock, and muttered, "Alohamora."

The lock sprang open, the book coming also. When Hermione looked at the page that it had opened to she saw bolded words, -Sleeping Beauty Spell: The REAL spell that put Sleeping Beauty to Sleep-

Hermione gasped, 'wow! They have the spell that put Sleeping Beauty to sleep. That was a long time ago, no wonder they named the book –The First Book of Spells-! It probably WAS the first book of spells.'

Hermione's eyes then went down to the words on the page; she started reading them:

+You want a spell to make people sleep, in a deep sleep. Well I'm the one for you! Just say this magic word and the sleep shall come.

'Slepadora'+

Hermione tried it out and said "Slepadora" saying it, hopefully, with the right pronunciation.

Hermione felt lightheaded, she felt sleepy. 'So tired, I'm just so tired.' Then she fell to the floor, her vision turning black. If only she had read the rest of the page before saying that word.

+Have the witch, wizard, or muggle say this word and they shall sleep, for the person who says it is the one to fall. And the only way to wake up is for the counter curse to be found. Which is in the back of this book under the section: Counter Curses. +

Karana: okay! That took me a while but I had fun writing it! I hope you all like it! REVIEW PLEASE! All you have to do is press that cute little button down there. And no I wasn't talking about your belly button...