Hi this is my first attempt at a fanfic so don't be mean. I hope I can soon
write more. Just a little about me. I am 12 turning 13 in April 01. I enjoy
writing but was almost fearful to write Harry Potter. I hope you like
comment to me if you do. Daniela Goncalves.
Hermione felt sick. She swung her feet off the side of her bed, sitting up she could see out of the window. It was a bright winters day. One of the girls had left the windows open and she could tell it was getting warmer. The winter hadn't been too cold but there were days when they didn't go out for Herbology.
Hermione, ignoring the knot in her stomach, walked to the end of her bed to get her things before she got ready. As she walked past the window, seeing Hagrid on the ground she got a chill. It was odd seeing as though there was no breeze that morning, the trees in the forbidden forest were perfect statues. Half asleep, Hermione didn't notice. Walking into the Bathroom Hermione expected to feel the cold ceramic under her toes, but instead she felt soft moist grass. Her eyes took awhile to adjust to the new bright light. Once they did she found herself in a field of lilies. But that wasn't the strangest part. She was standing next to none other then Draco Malfoy.
Draco stared, "What the hell! Granger what did you do?" He spat at Hermione. Hermione recoiled slightly.
"What me! How do I know you aren't the one who did- whatever you did to get us here." She yelled in return, she was more afraid then angry but she didn't show it.
"Where are we?"
"I don't know." They began to look around; behind them there was a large manor. It looked big, not as big as Hogwarts, but large all the same.
"Who do you think lives there?" Hermione asked apprehensively.
"Lets find out shall we Granger." Draco stepped towards the house, but Hermione grabbed his arm. "What!" He spat. Hermione ignored is tone.
"You have no idea who lives there it could be dangerous." She looked at the house again. Two people in old style clothing walked out the front doors, a servant followed they all seemed mad. Draco wrenched his arm out of Hermione's grip and sprinted towards the people. Hermione remained for a second but then followed close behind Draco. But befor they could get close enough to the three people, the servent stepped in front.
"Stay back! State yourself." He pulled a long sward from his waist ban. Draco stopped, and threw his arm out to stop Hermione, almost protectively. Hermione stared at the sword; it looked like one she had seen in muggel studies.
"We don't know where we are! We mean you no harm." Hermione yelled back to the man now holding the sward. "Please, sir would tell us where we are I-"
"Silence!" Hermione coward behind Draco. " I don't care to help you or waste my time with you." He stuck the sward back into his waist ban and they all turned to leave.
"What was that all about?" Draco said, his voice shook slightly, but he continued to go towards the manor. Hermione stayed right next to him.
"I don't know. But did you see that sward?"
"It looked like the sward of the ages, from muggel studies." Hermione stopped. She knew Draco was close to the top of their year, but she had no idea that he knew anything about muggeles. They soon came to the door. It felt almost magical, like Hogwarts you could feel the magic coming through the walls. Once again Hermione grabbed Draco's arm as he went to knock on the door.
"What is it this time?" He didn't give her the same attitude as before, but she could hear a bored tone in his voice. How can he find this boring? Hermione thought to herself.
"We don't know what we will find in there."
"Don't worry Hermione. I take good care of you." Hermione thought she hadn't heard right. He had called her by her first name; she didn't even know he knew it.
" With what, you don't have your wand. They could be more powerful, they could out number us they could." Just then the door flew open.
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"Harry did you see Hermione? She was supposed to help me with my essay for Snape." Ron wasn't just worried about his work her was also worried about Hermione. It was noon and she was nowhere to be found. He had checked everywhere, the library, the great hall the hospital wing, even the bathroom where they had brewed polyjuice potion four years ago.
"I haven't seen her since last night." Harry was unconcerned, right at that moment he was polishing his broom. "She'll turn up she probably went to go see Hagrid, she said something about going yesterday."
"Well I got to find her." He left the common room, only to come back ten minutes later weighed down with rock cakes.
"She wasn't there. Hagrid said he hadn't seen her all day." Ron pulled up a chair to where Harry sat still working on his broom. He took out a quill and parchment. "It's going to be a long Saturday." Then he began working on the essay.
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Hermione let out a little yelp. Draco just stared in disbelief. Behind the door stood a demon. It looked unlike any thing Draco had ever seen, it seemed like a redcap just inside out.
"What would you like?" It asked, its voice seemed like chainsaws scratching metal. The grip hermione had on Draco's arm was so tight he could feel the blood leaving his arm. The expression on his face didn't change from its shocked appearance but his voice was its usual sly one.
"We would like to know where we are." The expression changed on the creature's face.
"Are you the young Malfoy and Granger?" He seemed to be overjoyed.
"Yes how did you know, who we are?" Hermione asked before Draco could say anything.
"But of course we have been waiting for you all morning! Well come in, come in. We have much to ask you." Draco turned to Hermione, then back to the demon.
"Can we have a minute?"
"But of course." He gave a deep bob and left the two on the doorstep.
"What are we going to do?" Hermione was vacant of any ideas.
"Well we could go in, but I think we should take a few precautions first."
"Like what? We don't have our wands."
"What if I told you I knew a spell that you don't really need our wands for."
"Like what?"
"My father taught me how to do this spell. He uses it when he does public speaking. He attaches his thought train to my mother's train thought, and then she reads his speech to him mentally." He sighed. "Then we will be able to talk to each other."
Hermione thought about this a moment. She didn't know if she would like to hear what he was thinking. But in the short time she thought she decided to go with it. "Fine. How do we do this?"
"We have to hold hands and say 'Allocatem notionium synctally' then that's it were done." He held out his hand Hermione took it. "Oh yeah, one rule, not fantasizing about me."
"As if I would." Hermione shot back.
" I was just kidding." He smiled, she could feel his grip get tight. He was scared. "Ready? On the count of three. One, two, three." Simultaneously they said the spell. It felt like someone had put water in her ear. Then the feeling was gone. She looked at Draco.
"Did it work?"
'Yes. My spells always work.' It sounded as if he was whispering in her ear, it tickled.
'Does it work for me?' Draco nodded 'We should knock then' He nodded again and knocked on the door. At once it opened.
"Now come in, they are waiting in the drawing room, follow me." The creature led them to a large room. The walls we draped in deep plum velvet, the floor had a jade rug. There were only five pieces of furniture in the room four high back chairs facing a bay window, and one long table with draws going all around the bottom. Suddenly very afraid Hermione grabbed Draco's hand with a squeeze, he squeezed back.
"Sir, Miss. they are here they have come." A man stood up from one of the chairs, he was tall and had dazzling features. Next to him a woman stood. She was by far the most beautiful person Draco had ever seen.
"Thank you Wynn go prepare tea." The man's voice was soft and kind
"Come and sit by the window we have much to talk about."
'Draco, she looks like.'
'Lily Potter.'
"Where are we?" Draco enquired
"The question is not where you are, if that was the question the answer would be you are at Hogwarts. The question is when you are." The man replied smiling. "Now Draco if you will sit we will explain."
'How did he know your name?'
'Ask.'
'Why don't you?'
'Fine.'
"How did you know my name?" Hermione could tell the two people were wizards; she could feel the magic grow considerably when she walked in the room.
"I know all about you Draco, and you too Hermione. I know all about the keys."
"The two what?" Hermione spoke in a small voice.
"I know the knowledge of the keys would be lost in time. If you sit I will tell you all about it."
Still holding her hand Draco led Hermione to two of the chairs. They sat down. The man sat next to Draco, and the lady sat next to him.
"Who are you?" Draco demanded, Hermione squeezed his hand. She didn't think it wise to sound like his usual holier-then-now self. He painfully squeezed back, almost like a warning not to interfere.
"Wouldn't you rather know who you are?" The woman asked sweetly.
"No. I would like to know who I am talking first."
'Don't get them upset'
'Don't worry, its ok.'
'It wont be ok if they curse us'
'Shhh'
"We are the last remains of the first attempt of the keys."
"I meant names. If you don't mind"
"We are called Anika and Jonah."
"What do you mean we are 'keys'?" Hermione asked, finally finding her voice once again.
"I was hoping we could get to that. The keys were at first masses of ignited stones that the great ruler would use during a battle to defeat the 'evil'. Then they became people that could be taught to absorb the power sent against them. They could defeat a whole army. We have been calling on the decedents of the keys for years, before a fight or great war would start. We called on you to train you to help the right side. But we need to know what side you are on first." Hermione looked at Draco.
'Don't look at me like that. I don't follow my father.' Hermione was surprised.
'Sorry'
"We are on the side of the good." Hermione said confidently. "Both of us."
"Good! I can tell you are not lying. I don't believe you have your wands." The woman spoke in a near whisper they had to strain their ears to hear.
"No. We don't."
"Fine, we will send you back, for one half hour, collect your wands and a change of cloths. Don't forget what you are there for, and make sure you are out of site from anyone after twenty-five minutes. Don't tell anyone, it is important they don't know."
Draco nodded, Hermione followed his lead.
'I'm scared'
'Me too'
"Ready?"
"Yes."
"Yes."
"O.K thirty minutes."
"Bye."
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Hermione opened her eyes she was in her dormitory. She thanked god it was empty.
She rushed around the room grabbing things here and there. She dumped her homework out on her bed and began to fill the bag with her things.
'Hermione' Hermione jumped, she had forgotten the spell.
'Yeah Malfoy?'
' What the hell do I bring?' Hermione laughed to herself.
'Clothes, um your wand for sure and your toothbrush.'
'Ok, thanks. And Hermione.'
'Yeah?'
'Call me Draco. We are going to be working together. Like it or not.'
'We better hurry Draco, get ready.'
'Are you telling me what to do now?'
'Damn right I am.' They both laughed.
"There you are, Hermione. We have been looking for you everywhere." It was Ron. What he was doing in the girls dormitory Hermione didn't know.
'What is he doing here' Hermione thought Draco stopped laughing.
'You can't tell Weasly anything'
'I know, I know I have to get rid of him'
'Hurry up we have. fifteen minutes.'
'Ok.'
"Where have you been?" Hermione thought hard.
"Just around. Why?"
"I need help with Snape's essay. Its brutal." Ron flopped down on her bed looking at her homework. "Can I use yours to copy?"
"Yeah, go ahead." Hermione knew this wasn't her usual attitude towards his homework but she didn't have time.
'Ten minutes Hermione."
'I'll get rid of him.'
" Can you leave? I have to get changed."
"Ok, see you into the common room." Hermione let out a sigh as the dormitory door closed behind Ron.
'Finish getting ready and get into the bathroom, it's the perfect place to get sent back.'
'So you are the one giving the orders now?'
'You better believe it.' Hermione grabbed her wand and left the dormitory and went straight to the girls' bathroom.
'How much time do we have left?' Hermione asked as she paced the bathroom.
'Five minutes. Doesn't this feel odd to you.'
'What?'
'This, we are about to go back in time to learn to save the world.'
'I'm really trying not to think right now, but the thing that is confusing me is that it had to us.'
'What do you mean?'
'Well you know. we are not the best of friends you know, I don't even think you like me as a friend.' There was a silence it was odd not having him whisper in her ear.
'Hermione I.' The sentence was cut off as they traveled back to the field of lilies. This time they were not alone. Anika and Jonah were standing there waiting for them.
"Shall we get started?" Anika seemed to have taken over at this place. They began to walk to the Manor.
'Hermione, when I was mean to you it was because my father was controlling me.' Hermione was shocked Draco went on. 'He forced me to be mean to any muggel born and muggel lovers. Sorry if I hurt your feelings'
'Its ok.'
They came to the door of the house. Jonah opened the door. The smell of brewing potion met their nostrils. Hermione felt uneasy, she had had bad experiences before.
They were led into a large workroom, there were many cauldrons brewing all over the room. Behind each cauldron, to Hermione's disgust, were house elves.
"First thing we do is concentrate your power, and give your wands absorbing powers. So they can withstand a curse, but you have to learn to block first. Jonah will work on your wands, give them to him." The two handed their wands to Jonah, and left the room with Anika. She led them to a room near the workroom, the room was completely empty.
It was as big as the Hogwarts entrance hall. Draco looked like he had seen bigger.
A second after they entered the room, Jonah came in the room with the wands in hand, they seemed to have a glow to them, he handed them the wands and smiled.
"Now, shoot each other with the worst spell you are capable of."
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"I found her." Ron said sitting next to Harry, who had just begun his work.
"Really, where was she?" he asked only half interested.
"In her dormitory."
"Is she coming down? Snape's essay is really hard."
" Yep, she just has to get changed."
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"What? We will hurt each other." Draco locked shocked.
"No, you wont. I have done the necessary spells on your wands. They will absorb any negative spells thrown at them."
"What if it doesn't work?"
"Its my spell, my spells always work."
'I think we should, but Draco, nothing too powerful.'
'Don't worry. It sounds like their trying to get us to hurt each other.'
'For some reason I trust them.' Draco looked at Hermione, she couldn't tell what he was thinking, his face showed no emotion at all.
"Ok, Draco, you go first." Anika said, she almost sounded worried, this made Hermione uneasy. Draco could see her shift uncomfortably. He thought about what she would say if he told her how he really felt about her, how he had liked he since the first day on the train. How he often cursed his father's name for keeping him under his control. Draco raised his wand, the first spell he could think of that would not hurt Hermione. The first spell was the tickling spell Harry had once used on him in the hall. He preformed the spell, as soon as the spell left his wand, Hermione's wand shot up to admit his spell. At first there was a scream, in seemed to come from the wand in Hermione's hand, then there was a burst of laughter. It filled the air around the walls in the empty room.
"That was great, now Hermione its your turn."
They worked on new spells and defensive spells. It was hours before they stopped to have lunch. After lunch they went right back to training. They trained for a few more hours; once they stopped for dinner it was cold because they worked right through dinnertime.
"Wait," Hermione said while walking to the big room after dinner. "Won't the people at school worry about us never being there where they left us I mean aren't we going to train during the week?"
"We will finish now and you will go home. You will not return tomorrow. But you will come on Monday, while everybody is asleep."
"Collect you things and go into the drawing room. Wait for us there, we have to get some thing."
Draco and Hermione grabbed their things and headed to wards the drawing room. Hermione remembered how scared she felt this morning; it was like one hundred times worse now.
"I bet I'll be famous after all this." Draco gave Hermione a half smile after sitting down in one of the high backed chairs.
"I guess you get what you always wanted then." Hermione sat next to him.
"It doesn't look so great from this point of view."
"How do you mean?"
"There will be a lot of dark wizards after us Hermione. They will all want to kill us. If they don't use magic, they will kill us with some muggel thing."
"This is a good opportunity to help the moral side Draco, we can defeat Lord Voldermont. We have enough power to win a war. Remember we're in this together."
"What good is it to win the war if you lose all you friends and family. Why do you think there is war Hermione? There are usually two sides in a war, the power hungry side and the side that is taking care of their family and friends. I fight on the good side, I will lose everyone."
Hermione didn't know what to say, she was grateful that Anike came in.
"Its time to go. I will give you these bracelets." She handed them each a clear glass bracelet. "They will glow, five minutes before we will be bringing you back here. Be out of sight. Get ready."
'Do you want to take the spell of Hermione?'
'No, we might need it.'
"Bye."
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Hermione felt sick. She swung her feet off the side of her bed, sitting up she could see out of the window. It was a bright winters day. One of the girls had left the windows open and she could tell it was getting warmer. The winter hadn't been too cold but there were days when they didn't go out for Herbology.
Hermione, ignoring the knot in her stomach, walked to the end of her bed to get her things before she got ready. As she walked past the window, seeing Hagrid on the ground she got a chill. It was odd seeing as though there was no breeze that morning, the trees in the forbidden forest were perfect statues. Half asleep, Hermione didn't notice. Walking into the Bathroom Hermione expected to feel the cold ceramic under her toes, but instead she felt soft moist grass. Her eyes took awhile to adjust to the new bright light. Once they did she found herself in a field of lilies. But that wasn't the strangest part. She was standing next to none other then Draco Malfoy.
Draco stared, "What the hell! Granger what did you do?" He spat at Hermione. Hermione recoiled slightly.
"What me! How do I know you aren't the one who did- whatever you did to get us here." She yelled in return, she was more afraid then angry but she didn't show it.
"Where are we?"
"I don't know." They began to look around; behind them there was a large manor. It looked big, not as big as Hogwarts, but large all the same.
"Who do you think lives there?" Hermione asked apprehensively.
"Lets find out shall we Granger." Draco stepped towards the house, but Hermione grabbed his arm. "What!" He spat. Hermione ignored is tone.
"You have no idea who lives there it could be dangerous." She looked at the house again. Two people in old style clothing walked out the front doors, a servant followed they all seemed mad. Draco wrenched his arm out of Hermione's grip and sprinted towards the people. Hermione remained for a second but then followed close behind Draco. But befor they could get close enough to the three people, the servent stepped in front.
"Stay back! State yourself." He pulled a long sward from his waist ban. Draco stopped, and threw his arm out to stop Hermione, almost protectively. Hermione stared at the sword; it looked like one she had seen in muggel studies.
"We don't know where we are! We mean you no harm." Hermione yelled back to the man now holding the sward. "Please, sir would tell us where we are I-"
"Silence!" Hermione coward behind Draco. " I don't care to help you or waste my time with you." He stuck the sward back into his waist ban and they all turned to leave.
"What was that all about?" Draco said, his voice shook slightly, but he continued to go towards the manor. Hermione stayed right next to him.
"I don't know. But did you see that sward?"
"It looked like the sward of the ages, from muggel studies." Hermione stopped. She knew Draco was close to the top of their year, but she had no idea that he knew anything about muggeles. They soon came to the door. It felt almost magical, like Hogwarts you could feel the magic coming through the walls. Once again Hermione grabbed Draco's arm as he went to knock on the door.
"What is it this time?" He didn't give her the same attitude as before, but she could hear a bored tone in his voice. How can he find this boring? Hermione thought to herself.
"We don't know what we will find in there."
"Don't worry Hermione. I take good care of you." Hermione thought she hadn't heard right. He had called her by her first name; she didn't even know he knew it.
" With what, you don't have your wand. They could be more powerful, they could out number us they could." Just then the door flew open.
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"Harry did you see Hermione? She was supposed to help me with my essay for Snape." Ron wasn't just worried about his work her was also worried about Hermione. It was noon and she was nowhere to be found. He had checked everywhere, the library, the great hall the hospital wing, even the bathroom where they had brewed polyjuice potion four years ago.
"I haven't seen her since last night." Harry was unconcerned, right at that moment he was polishing his broom. "She'll turn up she probably went to go see Hagrid, she said something about going yesterday."
"Well I got to find her." He left the common room, only to come back ten minutes later weighed down with rock cakes.
"She wasn't there. Hagrid said he hadn't seen her all day." Ron pulled up a chair to where Harry sat still working on his broom. He took out a quill and parchment. "It's going to be a long Saturday." Then he began working on the essay.
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Hermione let out a little yelp. Draco just stared in disbelief. Behind the door stood a demon. It looked unlike any thing Draco had ever seen, it seemed like a redcap just inside out.
"What would you like?" It asked, its voice seemed like chainsaws scratching metal. The grip hermione had on Draco's arm was so tight he could feel the blood leaving his arm. The expression on his face didn't change from its shocked appearance but his voice was its usual sly one.
"We would like to know where we are." The expression changed on the creature's face.
"Are you the young Malfoy and Granger?" He seemed to be overjoyed.
"Yes how did you know, who we are?" Hermione asked before Draco could say anything.
"But of course we have been waiting for you all morning! Well come in, come in. We have much to ask you." Draco turned to Hermione, then back to the demon.
"Can we have a minute?"
"But of course." He gave a deep bob and left the two on the doorstep.
"What are we going to do?" Hermione was vacant of any ideas.
"Well we could go in, but I think we should take a few precautions first."
"Like what? We don't have our wands."
"What if I told you I knew a spell that you don't really need our wands for."
"Like what?"
"My father taught me how to do this spell. He uses it when he does public speaking. He attaches his thought train to my mother's train thought, and then she reads his speech to him mentally." He sighed. "Then we will be able to talk to each other."
Hermione thought about this a moment. She didn't know if she would like to hear what he was thinking. But in the short time she thought she decided to go with it. "Fine. How do we do this?"
"We have to hold hands and say 'Allocatem notionium synctally' then that's it were done." He held out his hand Hermione took it. "Oh yeah, one rule, not fantasizing about me."
"As if I would." Hermione shot back.
" I was just kidding." He smiled, she could feel his grip get tight. He was scared. "Ready? On the count of three. One, two, three." Simultaneously they said the spell. It felt like someone had put water in her ear. Then the feeling was gone. She looked at Draco.
"Did it work?"
'Yes. My spells always work.' It sounded as if he was whispering in her ear, it tickled.
'Does it work for me?' Draco nodded 'We should knock then' He nodded again and knocked on the door. At once it opened.
"Now come in, they are waiting in the drawing room, follow me." The creature led them to a large room. The walls we draped in deep plum velvet, the floor had a jade rug. There were only five pieces of furniture in the room four high back chairs facing a bay window, and one long table with draws going all around the bottom. Suddenly very afraid Hermione grabbed Draco's hand with a squeeze, he squeezed back.
"Sir, Miss. they are here they have come." A man stood up from one of the chairs, he was tall and had dazzling features. Next to him a woman stood. She was by far the most beautiful person Draco had ever seen.
"Thank you Wynn go prepare tea." The man's voice was soft and kind
"Come and sit by the window we have much to talk about."
'Draco, she looks like.'
'Lily Potter.'
"Where are we?" Draco enquired
"The question is not where you are, if that was the question the answer would be you are at Hogwarts. The question is when you are." The man replied smiling. "Now Draco if you will sit we will explain."
'How did he know your name?'
'Ask.'
'Why don't you?'
'Fine.'
"How did you know my name?" Hermione could tell the two people were wizards; she could feel the magic grow considerably when she walked in the room.
"I know all about you Draco, and you too Hermione. I know all about the keys."
"The two what?" Hermione spoke in a small voice.
"I know the knowledge of the keys would be lost in time. If you sit I will tell you all about it."
Still holding her hand Draco led Hermione to two of the chairs. They sat down. The man sat next to Draco, and the lady sat next to him.
"Who are you?" Draco demanded, Hermione squeezed his hand. She didn't think it wise to sound like his usual holier-then-now self. He painfully squeezed back, almost like a warning not to interfere.
"Wouldn't you rather know who you are?" The woman asked sweetly.
"No. I would like to know who I am talking first."
'Don't get them upset'
'Don't worry, its ok.'
'It wont be ok if they curse us'
'Shhh'
"We are the last remains of the first attempt of the keys."
"I meant names. If you don't mind"
"We are called Anika and Jonah."
"What do you mean we are 'keys'?" Hermione asked, finally finding her voice once again.
"I was hoping we could get to that. The keys were at first masses of ignited stones that the great ruler would use during a battle to defeat the 'evil'. Then they became people that could be taught to absorb the power sent against them. They could defeat a whole army. We have been calling on the decedents of the keys for years, before a fight or great war would start. We called on you to train you to help the right side. But we need to know what side you are on first." Hermione looked at Draco.
'Don't look at me like that. I don't follow my father.' Hermione was surprised.
'Sorry'
"We are on the side of the good." Hermione said confidently. "Both of us."
"Good! I can tell you are not lying. I don't believe you have your wands." The woman spoke in a near whisper they had to strain their ears to hear.
"No. We don't."
"Fine, we will send you back, for one half hour, collect your wands and a change of cloths. Don't forget what you are there for, and make sure you are out of site from anyone after twenty-five minutes. Don't tell anyone, it is important they don't know."
Draco nodded, Hermione followed his lead.
'I'm scared'
'Me too'
"Ready?"
"Yes."
"Yes."
"O.K thirty minutes."
"Bye."
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Hermione opened her eyes she was in her dormitory. She thanked god it was empty.
She rushed around the room grabbing things here and there. She dumped her homework out on her bed and began to fill the bag with her things.
'Hermione' Hermione jumped, she had forgotten the spell.
'Yeah Malfoy?'
' What the hell do I bring?' Hermione laughed to herself.
'Clothes, um your wand for sure and your toothbrush.'
'Ok, thanks. And Hermione.'
'Yeah?'
'Call me Draco. We are going to be working together. Like it or not.'
'We better hurry Draco, get ready.'
'Are you telling me what to do now?'
'Damn right I am.' They both laughed.
"There you are, Hermione. We have been looking for you everywhere." It was Ron. What he was doing in the girls dormitory Hermione didn't know.
'What is he doing here' Hermione thought Draco stopped laughing.
'You can't tell Weasly anything'
'I know, I know I have to get rid of him'
'Hurry up we have. fifteen minutes.'
'Ok.'
"Where have you been?" Hermione thought hard.
"Just around. Why?"
"I need help with Snape's essay. Its brutal." Ron flopped down on her bed looking at her homework. "Can I use yours to copy?"
"Yeah, go ahead." Hermione knew this wasn't her usual attitude towards his homework but she didn't have time.
'Ten minutes Hermione."
'I'll get rid of him.'
" Can you leave? I have to get changed."
"Ok, see you into the common room." Hermione let out a sigh as the dormitory door closed behind Ron.
'Finish getting ready and get into the bathroom, it's the perfect place to get sent back.'
'So you are the one giving the orders now?'
'You better believe it.' Hermione grabbed her wand and left the dormitory and went straight to the girls' bathroom.
'How much time do we have left?' Hermione asked as she paced the bathroom.
'Five minutes. Doesn't this feel odd to you.'
'What?'
'This, we are about to go back in time to learn to save the world.'
'I'm really trying not to think right now, but the thing that is confusing me is that it had to us.'
'What do you mean?'
'Well you know. we are not the best of friends you know, I don't even think you like me as a friend.' There was a silence it was odd not having him whisper in her ear.
'Hermione I.' The sentence was cut off as they traveled back to the field of lilies. This time they were not alone. Anika and Jonah were standing there waiting for them.
"Shall we get started?" Anika seemed to have taken over at this place. They began to walk to the Manor.
'Hermione, when I was mean to you it was because my father was controlling me.' Hermione was shocked Draco went on. 'He forced me to be mean to any muggel born and muggel lovers. Sorry if I hurt your feelings'
'Its ok.'
They came to the door of the house. Jonah opened the door. The smell of brewing potion met their nostrils. Hermione felt uneasy, she had had bad experiences before.
They were led into a large workroom, there were many cauldrons brewing all over the room. Behind each cauldron, to Hermione's disgust, were house elves.
"First thing we do is concentrate your power, and give your wands absorbing powers. So they can withstand a curse, but you have to learn to block first. Jonah will work on your wands, give them to him." The two handed their wands to Jonah, and left the room with Anika. She led them to a room near the workroom, the room was completely empty.
It was as big as the Hogwarts entrance hall. Draco looked like he had seen bigger.
A second after they entered the room, Jonah came in the room with the wands in hand, they seemed to have a glow to them, he handed them the wands and smiled.
"Now, shoot each other with the worst spell you are capable of."
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"I found her." Ron said sitting next to Harry, who had just begun his work.
"Really, where was she?" he asked only half interested.
"In her dormitory."
"Is she coming down? Snape's essay is really hard."
" Yep, she just has to get changed."
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"What? We will hurt each other." Draco locked shocked.
"No, you wont. I have done the necessary spells on your wands. They will absorb any negative spells thrown at them."
"What if it doesn't work?"
"Its my spell, my spells always work."
'I think we should, but Draco, nothing too powerful.'
'Don't worry. It sounds like their trying to get us to hurt each other.'
'For some reason I trust them.' Draco looked at Hermione, she couldn't tell what he was thinking, his face showed no emotion at all.
"Ok, Draco, you go first." Anika said, she almost sounded worried, this made Hermione uneasy. Draco could see her shift uncomfortably. He thought about what she would say if he told her how he really felt about her, how he had liked he since the first day on the train. How he often cursed his father's name for keeping him under his control. Draco raised his wand, the first spell he could think of that would not hurt Hermione. The first spell was the tickling spell Harry had once used on him in the hall. He preformed the spell, as soon as the spell left his wand, Hermione's wand shot up to admit his spell. At first there was a scream, in seemed to come from the wand in Hermione's hand, then there was a burst of laughter. It filled the air around the walls in the empty room.
"That was great, now Hermione its your turn."
They worked on new spells and defensive spells. It was hours before they stopped to have lunch. After lunch they went right back to training. They trained for a few more hours; once they stopped for dinner it was cold because they worked right through dinnertime.
"Wait," Hermione said while walking to the big room after dinner. "Won't the people at school worry about us never being there where they left us I mean aren't we going to train during the week?"
"We will finish now and you will go home. You will not return tomorrow. But you will come on Monday, while everybody is asleep."
"Collect you things and go into the drawing room. Wait for us there, we have to get some thing."
Draco and Hermione grabbed their things and headed to wards the drawing room. Hermione remembered how scared she felt this morning; it was like one hundred times worse now.
"I bet I'll be famous after all this." Draco gave Hermione a half smile after sitting down in one of the high backed chairs.
"I guess you get what you always wanted then." Hermione sat next to him.
"It doesn't look so great from this point of view."
"How do you mean?"
"There will be a lot of dark wizards after us Hermione. They will all want to kill us. If they don't use magic, they will kill us with some muggel thing."
"This is a good opportunity to help the moral side Draco, we can defeat Lord Voldermont. We have enough power to win a war. Remember we're in this together."
"What good is it to win the war if you lose all you friends and family. Why do you think there is war Hermione? There are usually two sides in a war, the power hungry side and the side that is taking care of their family and friends. I fight on the good side, I will lose everyone."
Hermione didn't know what to say, she was grateful that Anike came in.
"Its time to go. I will give you these bracelets." She handed them each a clear glass bracelet. "They will glow, five minutes before we will be bringing you back here. Be out of sight. Get ready."
'Do you want to take the spell of Hermione?'
'No, we might need it.'
"Bye."
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