In The Act

The sun was just starting to set on a lovely Saturday evening when Hermoine was finishing her Potions essay. It was pouring rain and Harry and Ron were still playing quidditch. They better get in here soon or I'll have to write it for them, she thought just as they walked in soaking wet.

"Where have you been?!" she exclaimed.

"Calm down Hermoine, we got a little caught up at the pitch," explained Ron guiltily.

"A little?!" she said, her temperature rising. "You promised you'd be back in an hour and it's been four!"

"Hermione-"

"Do you want to do well on your N.E.W.Ts? Because I'm not going to be there to help you when you take it."

"But-"

"I will do it for you one last time. But next time, when you're behind on homework, you better put it first, or fail." She said with a triumphant look on her face.

"Okay Hermoine, thank you." Said Harry, relieved that was over. "I need to tell you something important."

"Oh really?" she said, starting to sound interested. "What-"

The common room had suddenly just begun to fill up, leaving Hermoine in mid-sentence.

Harry didn't get into more detail until the evening. The common room was once again empty, except for Ron, Hermoine, and himself.

"Hermoine, listen, when me and Ron were walking up from the Quidditch pitch yesterday, I heard voices inside the walls again."

Hermoine gasped.

"You don't think?.."

"Hermoine, that's the thing, I don't know. But if history is repeating itself again, who could it be this time?"

"I don't know..." said Hermoine drifting off into a thinking spell. "I'm going to go to the library, you two stay here and work on your homework." Harry and Ron looked at each other, "I mean it." said Hermoine sternly.

She hurried out of the common room and emerged from behind the Fat Lady.

"I hate when she does that." said Ron, frustrated.

Hermoine doesn't know why, but she pulled a book about basilisks off the shelf and stuck her nose in it.

"There has to be something in here" said Hermoine under her breath. "Why is it doing this again?"

Hermoine was starting to get frustrated. She hated not being able to find information.

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