"Lovely Emma Watson, we have a question for you." said the Interviewer. Emma smiled and said, "Let's hear it then."
"What was your favorite line in the movie franchise; Harry Potter?"
Emma giggled as she gazed at her fellow castmates who were looking at her, smiling, "Uhm-" she cleared her throat and faced them, "If you two don't mind, I'm going to bed before either of you comes up with another clever idea to get us killed, or worse. . . Expelled." She said in a bossy 'Hermione' tone.
The room filled with applauses and cheers. Emma smiled, very pleased with herself. As she gazed upon the two boys sitting beside her, "Woaw you still got it in you Em." Rupert said between his chuckles.
Dan shaked his head and patted softly the shoulders of his bestfriend, "After all these years." he chuckled.
Across the room, she caught the familiar blue eyes of the person- which was grinning from ear to ear on her. It was Tom.
After their conference, the casts along with the producers and directors had their dinner in a private restaurant. Emma excused herself as she was going to the loo.
Emma went out of the comfort room after minutes of retouching her make up, out of the corner of her eye, she noticed something was glowing. Out of curiousity, she went near the small odd looking stone at the tiled floor and examined it. It looks something more like glowing, really glowing.
"What's this?" She muttered, but before she placed back the stone she was holding, she felt two strong arms dragging her from behind. She was about to scream yet she saw the pair of familiar blue orbs staring at her.
The man let go of his grasps and faced her. "Tom! What the hell?" Emma cried. "Sorry Em, but I need to talk to you- Er what's that?" Tom asked curiously eyeing at the glowing stone.
"Oh this? I don't know I just saw it a while ago- It looks. . . strange." She said look at the stone. Tom took the glowing stone from the floor and watched carefully at it, "What kind of rock is this, It's-" but before he could finish, he stopped and carried one of his hands towards his chest, clutching it. Emma took the stone from his hand and drop it.
Obvlious by the fact that the stone magically dissapeared at it hit the floor, when it's quite impossible to happen, she looked at him with a worried face, "Tom?! Tom what's wrong?" Emma started to panic when she saw her friend turing pale, "I- I can't- breathe-"
Emma was about to go near him when she felt her lungs squeezing inside of her, she stopped by her tracks and started breathing heavily. She also was oddly feeling the same as him. She can't breathe also.
She felt Tom's blue orbs staring at her as both of them closed their eyes, seeing nothing but black.
Earlier at Hogwarts..
"Hermione where are you going?" The brunette gazed towards his bestfriends and arched a brow, "I'm off to the library." She said.
"Blimey! At this hour? It's late." Harry said. The brunette looked at him and rolled her eyes, "Harry, we have a quiz tomorrow for Transfiguration. I still have to study." She spat as she turned heading towards the library.
"Study?! She always ace her tests even without studying! Merlin!" She heard Ron exclaimed. Shaking her head, she went inside the school library, recieving a greeting from Madam Pince, their librarian.
"Good evening dear, what are you doing here at this late of hour?" Madam Pince asked. She didn't even need to ask it, as if Hermione doesn't come here everynight to read and study.
The brunette just smiled, "I just need to finish studying, don't worry Madam Pince, It's just for a bit the I'll be on my way." She answered politely.
The library nodded and gave her a smile, "Okay dear, don't take long, we don't want you to sleep in here again, okay?" She gave her a wink causing Hermione to giggle and went towards her spot in the library.
Some nights, the brunette ends up sleeping in here making Madam Pince levitate her towards the hospital wing- considering that the librarian can't enter the Gryffindor common room- so she can let Hermione continue sleeping in a comfortable position.
And hour after her reading, Hermione kept murmuring some certain notes Professor McGonaggal gave them, "What was it! I forgot- erm it was-" suddenly the brunette widened her eyes. She cannot believe she had forgotten what her Professor told them before.
"Oh no! Oh no no no!" She kept shaking her head and thought harder. She can't forget it. She need to remember it otherwise her notes would be incomplete. She cannot finish studying without it.
Suddenly she straightened up. She heard a loud thump behind her, and-
"Boo!"
She let out a small shriek as she looked behind her. "What the bloody hell, Malfoy?!"
The blonde platinum haired boy laughed. "You should've seen your face! Granger that was priceless!"
She rolled her eyes with that, "I have no time for playing around, Malfoy. I still have to finish this! We have a quiz tomorrow." She sneered as she turned around facing her books again.
Draco snorted, "As If you need to study." Hermione gave him a look with that, "What are you saying?" She asked.
He shrugged, "Hey no one calls you the brighest witch of our age, for nothing, you know." He answered casually. Hermione can't help but blush with that, "I'm flattered Malfoy, really." She turned back at him, "but I need to remember the note Professor McGonaggal told us earlier. Any idea what was it?"
"How do I know? I just slept the entire period." He shrugged. The brunette rolled her eyes with that, "Typical." She muttered.
"Oi, I still ace my grades even though I don't listen you know." He rolled his eyes. Hermione just shook her head with that. "Whatever makes you sleep at night, Malfoy."
Draco chuckled then stopped upon hearing somethimg unusual across of the room, he suddenly grabbed her arm making her stand up, "Where the hell are you taking me?" She asked as she was dragged by the pale boy infront of her.
Draco ignored her and looked around searching for the librarian or any student there, but oddly- no one was there, not even Madam Pince. Weird.
He continued dragging Hermione until they reached the place where the sound came from. The Restricted Section. "I swear to Merlin, Draco Lucius Malfoy! If you don't tell me what's going on, I will make you wake up bald tomorrow."
Malfoy glared at her and placed a finger above her lips, "Keep your damn mouth shut." He spat, "Listen." He continued.
Silence filled the air as the brunette looked at him with bewilderment. Suddenly they heard a clanging noise coming from the dark section of the room. "Let's find out what that was." Hermione muttered as she took her wand out and pointing it at the lock of the gate, "Alohomora." She muttered and the door lock snapped open.
"Wait- what?!" cried Draco. "I don't know, Granger. I think it's not safe. Er- how about we tell Madam Pince about this and-"
Hermione rolled her eyes as she looked at Draco who just stood their outside the restricted section, "Oh don't be such a wuss!"
"You calling me a wuss?!" Malfoy exclaimed. "Duh." Hermione said. "How dare you-"
"- Oh just shut up and follow me." The brunette spat as she went near him, she took his arms and dragged Draco inside. "I'm not sure this is-"
"- Oh be quiet, Malfoy!" She hissed. "Damn your stupid Gryffindor morals." Malfoy spat still sticking beside Hermione as his eyes roamed around the creepy dark room.
"Lumos." Hermione muttered causing the tip of her wand to light. "Here-" she said as she followed the strange sound.
"What the bloddy hell is that?" Malfoy's eyes widened as both of them caught sight of a stone just across the corner of the dark room- it was shining brightly.
"I- I don't know." Hermione muttered but went near it anyways. "Granger, don't." Malfoy spat as he took a hand of his friend who was slowly walking towards the glowing stone.
"Malfoy, we'll just examine it and bring it to the headmaster, it looks strange but I don't think it's something serious."
Rolling his eyes, Draco nodded as both them slowly walked near towards it.
"Curious little bookworm." He muttered, the brunette rolled her eyes. She slowly picked up the stone from the ground and looked at it, furrowng her eyebrows. "Merlin- what is this?" Malfoy snatched the stone away from the brunette's hand and examined it on his own.
Before the brunette could even answer his question, she felt a strange feeling on her chest, her heart suddenly sting and it was painful. "Oh sweet Salazar what happening to you?!" Malfoy worriedly cried as he dropped the stone and took Hermione into his arms. "Draco-" then she closed her eyes.
"Granger? Granger! Hey- Hermione what's-" he closed his eyes tightly as he felt a sudden pain on his abnomen, he clutched his stomach using his free hand, then his heart began to ache. Malfoy turned weak until he felt his knees on the floor dropping Hermione slowly on the ground as breathed heavily trying to gain more air but it was no use- he closed his eyes again and saw nothing but pitch black.
