Hermione walked down the dark corridor at half past midnight, heading towards the library with the Marauder's map in hand, which she had borrowed from Harry. Filch and Mrs. Norris, were on the other side of the castle, and there was no one else in the area.
She whispered a quiet, "Alohomora," pointing her wand at the locked doors then entered the library, putting the map away in her pocket. Hermione hated breaking the rules but this was important to her. To score high on her N.E.W.T.s she needed to read more information on a specific dark spell. She carefully and quietly went to the back of the library to the Restricted Section. Finding it hard to read the titles on the books she whispered, "lumos." Her wand instantly lit up on the tip. She moved her wand around reading the titles of each book until she finally found it. She quickly took the book from the shelf and was about to turn to leave when another book title caught her attention.
"Pride and Prejudice? What on earth is this doing in here?" She whispered to herself as she took that book from the shelf as well. She was about to open it but got distracted by a noise near by. Hastily stuffing the books in her bag, she quietly but quickly walked away from where the noise came from. Not hearing anything else she ran the rest of the way until she reached the hallway, and retrieved the map from her pocket. She could see Filch's footprints walking towards the hallway she was in. Thankfully the Head Boy and Girl common room was just down the long dark hall. Slightly panicking, Hermione ran the rest of the way while clutching onto her bag that was threatening to open and spill all of its contents. She burst through the doors of the common room startling her roommate.
"What have you been up to Granger?" Draco asked sneering at her suspiciously as he peered up at her from the piece of parchment he was writing on.
"I was studying in the Gryffindor common room with Ron and Harry and fell asleep." She lied glaring at him, "Not that it's any concern of yours."
"Actually, as I am Head Boy, it is a concern of mine when students are out well past curfew, partaking in a ménage à trois with the dimwitted duo. Even if it is our very own Head Girl," he said smirking.
"I was doing no such…" Hermione started indignantly before stopping herself and stomping off to her bedroom without another word.
"Hey Granger wait, you dropped something." Draco said getting up from his seat to pick up the book that fell from her overstuffed bag.
"What is it?" Hermione impatiently said as she turned to see. Her eyes widened when she saw Draco holding the copy of Pride and Prejudice she got from the Restricted Section. "Oh that old thing…um I brought that from home." she explained as she watched Draco skim through it.
"You brought a book with nothing in it?"
Taking it the wrong way Hermione quickly defended the works of Jane Austen saying, "Pride and Prejudice could be the most well written, romantic book in English history!"
"The pages are blank Granger." Draco spat out as he threw the book at her.
"What are talking about? How could the pages be blank?" She asked catching the book and opening it to examine it herself. To her astonishment he was telling the truth every page she flipped through was completely blank. "Well that's odd."
"Hold on, that's not one of those enchanted…" Draco started to say just as Hermione began to speak.
"Oh, there's something written on the first page."
"Wait, Granger don't…"
"Ab initio."
And with that, they were both engulfed in absolute darkness.