Suddenly I opened my eyes. All I could see, was just a dark Gryffindor girl room with twelve large beds. Even through the dark that was binding upon me I could identify one big fiery tapestry. Girls from the 5th year (Lavender, Parvati, Lioneline and others) were in their deepest sleep and all dreamed about being great witches, having awesome and ideal husbands, and many more things that i did not wish to know.

I moaned. Only a week ago, when I came to Hogwarts I thought, ,,Oh, this year's gonna be great!'' but of course, it wasn't true. All of the teachers were telling us, how hard we must work to pass O.W.L.s . I thought, that for me it's not gonna be a problem, but it appears to be. I already didn't handle in our yesterday's homework. Hermione Granger, what the hell is happening to you! I can't concentrate on studying, I'm not paying attention to anything, and I feel sick. This is not supposed to be me. I am supposed to be great student, best apprentice in class, but I am not. Something is distracting me but I have no idea what could it be.

I got up of my bed, and looked at the clocks. 3 a.m. in the morning. Great! So now I cannot sleep too, right? I angrily decided to warm self to the fire in common room. I slowly opened the creaking door and sneaked out of the girl bedroom. As I wanted to use stairs to get down to the room, I heard voices. Male voices. I quietly came closer, so I could listen to the dialogue.

,,You mean it really? Did he say that?'' whispered the voice of Ronald Weasley. I leaned out from behind the wall. Ron's hair were bloodily red and disheveled. His blue pyjamas were too small. He probably inherited them from his brother Fred or George. But from the last summer, Ron grew up and he was young tall man. So it was obvious that its too small for him.

,,I'm telling you, he said that he's gonna get me after class and duel with me.''This voice surely belonged to Harry Potter, the boy who lived. But what were they doing here, I asked myself.I kinda' thought, they would call me if something serious was happening. Besides, we were friends.

,,But I'm not afraid of him. I'll defeat him, and show him that he's just a loser from rich family,''continued Harry.

,,Malfoy's not gonna give up. He'll cheat, I'm sure,''argued with him Ron.

This was worse than I thought. Yesterday, at potions lesson (Gryffindor and Slytherin had class together) Harry ‚,accidentaly'' poured some decotion in Draco Malfoy's kettel and it exploded. It was a revenge for some stupid things that Malfoy said to him. But Malfoy was so mad that he challenged him to duel. Firstly I was indignant of joke, but then I saw Draco's face. I was sorry for him. I don't really know what happened. And now, these two are talking about this duel in the middle of the night. Should I interrupt them, or not?

,,You can't fight with Malfoy, Harry,'' I stepped forward. I was kind of enjoying their suprised looks on their faces.

,,What are YOU doing here,''starred at me Ron. ,,In the middle of the night! This does not seem like you, Hermione. You don't usually spy on others'...you usually study at night. Oh, but now this studying method isn't working, right? You are not doing that well in school,''chuckled Ron.

,,Shut up, Ron,''said Harry. ,,But seriously, Hermione what are you doing here?''

I decided to ignore Ron's joke about me. So what, even good students can have their bad days .

,,I heard some voices, so I wanted to check it out. But hey, you cannot really fight Malfoy, Harry. It's against the rules",'' and Malfoy's yesterday's face popped into my mind again. The torturing face. Like someone was hurting him.

,,Well, why shouldn't we? HE challenged Harry to duel, remember? So now, if you'll excuse us...''

,,Stop acting like a grown up Ron! This is serious. If someone finds out that Harry and Draco are dueling, it's gonna be a big problem, and...'' I wanted to continue, but Harry broke in to my speech.

,,Listen, Hermione, I know I started this whole thing, and I must finish it. Malfoy's not gonna laugh to my face anymore.'' Then he grabbed Ron and they both went to their bedroom. All I could do was just going to sleep. But before I fell asleep, I made to myself a promise. I will stop this duel. For their sakes. After this promise, I deeply fell asleep.