Hermione bolted upright in bed and coughed. 'Oh dear,' she thought to herself as the violent fit subsided, 'Madame Pomfrey isn't going to be very happy with me.' This was the third time this year she'd allowed herself to become this sick. She wondered what disease she had this time. She threw off her bed coverings and swung her feet to the left. Dazed, she stared at the ground trying to remember what she had been doing. Then she giggled.

          "Slippers are to the right, Herm…" she sneezed, giggled again, and then rolled to the right. After three tries, she was standing with her slippers on the right feet.  "Where was I going?" Hermione whispered to herself, mindful of the other girls in the dormitory. The answer came to her fevered mind swiftly. She was going to see Dobby. The why of the answer didn't bother her quite yet.

          Hermione climbed out of the Common Room and started wandering down hallways and staircases. She came to a glaring statue of a one-eyed witch. 'That's the statue I want,' Hermione told herself. She pulled out her wand and coughed. "Dis-Dissendium," she said tapping her wand on the witches hump.

          An opening appeared which she crawled through. "Lumos!" She called into the dark cavern. The light lit the path, as she stumbled her way through the passage and into the storeroom of Honeydukes. She looked around bewildered. 'This isn't where I wanted to go…' she thought as she climbed the stairs to the back entrance of Honeydukes. She looked around and then doubled over as a violent coughing fit hit her again. Hogsmeade sure looked different in the dark. Hermione righted herself and started walking. If she could only remember why she was there…

A/N: Yes, this is a bit short. Think of it as a teaser for the rest of the story. I leave you to contemplate where she's going and who she might meet (as well as how she'll get better) as I go to figure out what I really want to happen in this story.

Disclaimer: I don't own any characters, but be mindful the plot (or current lack thereof) is mine. Don't copy, it might make me angry  J