A Look in the Mirror
A/N I thought this might make an interesting story. I had a dream about it, so I thought that I would just start writing. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own harry Potter. if I did, I would be rich.
Chapter 1: Exploring
I sat in the Gryffindor common room in one of the big, squishy armchairs in front of the fireplace. I was very eagerly reading The Tales of Beetle and Bard for about the fifteen millionth time, dressed in my cute new red and gold cotton pajamas and curled up under a blanket.
"Hey Hermione!" I jumped at the sound of Ginny's voice. By the way she said "hey", I knew that she was up to mischief.
"No," i said sternly, not taking my eyes away from the page of my book.
"But why not?"she whined. "You haven't even heard what I was going to say." I finally looked up at her pleading face, trying very hard not to give in to the smile playing at my lips.
"I know that you are going to say that we should go do something that will without a doubt get us into some kind of trouble."
"But Hermione...ever since the war ended, there hasn't been anything exiting happening. I mean, its been soooooo boring! There isn't anything to do around here! I just thought that we could go exploring the castle or something."
"It's good that nothing exiting has happened. I mean, do you really want another war?"
"You know what I mean! Please Hermione! Pretty please with a cherry on top?" Ginny got down on her knees in a begging position with a puppy dog pout on her face.
"All right, all right!" I said laughing.
"Yay!" she exclaimed, and she dragged me out of the chair.
"So, where are we going?" I asked. Ginny stopped and turned around.
"Well, first of all, we need to get the invisibility cloak from Harry."
"OK. Won't he want to go with us though?"
"Maybe........"
"Was that your plan? To get time with Harry?"
"No it was not! I cannot believe that you would even think of such a thing!"she exclaimed in semi-sarcastic defensiveness. I gave her a look.
"OK, OK. Maybe that was part of my plan. But another part of my plan was to get Ron to come too," she said quietly, winking and nudging me.
"Ginny!" I whispered loudly and smacked her on the shoulder.
Ron was a touchy subject with me at that time. After we had kissed, and after the battle was over, nothing happened. At first it was very awkward between us. Neither of us wanted to make that first move, so I was waiting for him to do it, but that didn't end up happening. At times it still was awkward, but Ron and I had formed a sort of friendship type thing. We definitely were not as close as we had been before, but we could still joke around with each other, and things like that. The only problem was that I still had feelings for him, and there was nothing I could do. Once you're past the "friend" stage, even the awkward kind, you can't do anything about your feelings for the other person.
"If Ron is going, then I'm not sure I want to go." I slowly admitted.
"Hermione! You have to come! Especially if Ron is coming! You just have to get over yourself and tell him how you feel!"
"Ginny, how many times do I have to tell you? I can'ttell him. It's too late! Besides, he probably doesn't even like me that way anymore!"
"Come on! You know-" she was cut off mid sentence by the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs from the bows dormitory.
Harry, Ron, Dean, and Seamus all came down the stairs.
"Hey girls! What are you doing?" Harry asked us.
"Well," Ginny began(somewhat flirtatiously, might I add.)" Hermione and I were just about to go exploring the castle. Do you guys wanna come?"
"Yeah! That'd be great!" Ron, Harry and Seamus all said at the same time."Sorry, I can't. I have to study for the potions exam." Dean said sadly, and then he sulked back up the steps, somewhat over exaggerating his sadness. I don't think that Dean ever got over Ginny.
"Oooooooooh, we wanna come!" Parvati said, reffering to herself and Lavender. Although I wasn't always very fond of Lavender, she had made it clear that she didn't like Ron anymore by going out with seamus...again. So I forgave her and we were friends-sort of.
"Uh, I don't think that all of us are going to fit under the invisibility cloak," I said, hoping that some people would back out of the plan.
"Well can't you just use a spell and make it bigger, Hermione?" Ron asked, smiling his adorable crooked smile.
"I guess I could," I mumbled. I performed the spell, and before I knew it all seven of us were under it, making our way through the castle. Every now and then, someone would step on my foot, or Lavender would let out an annoyingly girly giggle or squeal of excitement. She can be nice and all(if she wants to), but MAN that girl is annoying!
Anyways, after about five minutes of wandering the halls and going up and down stairs, we came to a long dark hallway with a large metal door at the end of it. We made our way to the door, finding that it was locked.
"I think we should go in," seamus whispered.
"I don't know....there must be a reason that it's locked," Ginny whispered back. That was odd. Ginny was NEVER the voice of reason.
"Ah, what harm could it do?" Harry said, and with that, I pulled out my wand and unlocked the door.
We walked into a large dark roon, with a large mirror in the far corner. We saw that there was no one in the room, so we pulled off the cloak. Harry slowly walked over to the mirror with a look of dissbeleif on his face.
"What is it mate? Wait a minute. Is that-"Ron stopped short.
"The mirror of Erised!"
A/N I hope you like it so far!!!! Review please!!!!