DISCLAIMER:: I do not own anything save the storyline.

ABOUT:: This is in response to a contest at The Hideaway (link in m profile)

CONTEST RULES:: Using any HP characters you like, write a 200 word drabble about someone receiving flowers MUST INCLUDE: a feather

Wow, I had no idea how hard it was to keep something under 200 words… I had to cut SO much!! Well, here's the final result

"Tears and Roses"
Hermione prowled the grounds of Hogwarts like the lioness she was, frightening everyone away with a glare.
"How DARE he say that! Why, I ought to beat in his empty red head!" her voice raged as she slumped in the middle of the lawns and placed her head in her hands, tears gliding down her cheeks as she recalled the argument

Hermione prowled the grounds of Hogwarts like the lioness she was, frightening everyone away with a glare."How DARE he say that! Why, I ought to beat in his empty red head!" her voice raged as she slumped in the middle of the lawns and placed her head in her hands, tears gliding down her cheeks as she recalled the argument

"You're WHAT?" Ron had cried
"Having dinner with Draco," Hermione had mused in a light tone, "You may want to clear out your ears, that's the third time I've repeated it"
"After everything he's done? Everything he's SAID? He's a bloody Ferret Hermione!" He took a breath as his face turned a shade of red to rival his hair, "and a ferret is a weasel, and weasels are slimy gits with no right to even speak to you" If he thought he was making sense, that boy was very much mistaken.

Hermione had stormed out, only to find herself as she was now, stirred from her present state but a white feather landing on her lap. Looking up, Hermione saw a bolt of emerald speeding away as a beautiful bouquet of pink roses drifted down towards her.
Draco.