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1994, Year 3 at Hogwarts, March 12th
I think something is wrong with Hermione, but it is in a good way. I'm not complaining as normal Hermione would NEVER slap Malfoy or walk out on a lesson. She's just not having a good day.
We've just become friends again as well. She hugged me. It was rather weird and wet. But she was crying.
I'm lying in bed, thinking about stuff that has happened today – because it was really strange. In a moment of sudden boredness, I sneak over to Harry's trunk and pull out the map. Harry is sleeping well. (Good because we have the Quidditch Final tomorrow and for once Harry isn't saving the school from You-Know-Who or lying asleep in the Hospital Wing).
I light my wand and whisper "I solemnly swear I am up to no good." Inky lines cover the map and I can see the many names of people in the dormitories. Filch is lurking near the Astronomy Tower and Peeves is floating around the Third Floor classroom. Lupin is walking up and down in his office and Snape is haunting the dungeons. I see her. Sitting in the first classroom you come to after leaving Gryffindor Tower. It's Hermione.
"Mischief managed." The lines disappear and I put the map in Harry's trunk and take out the Invisibility Cloak. I cover myself and walk quickly towards the classroom, ignoring the yells of Sir Cadogan.
I open the door and Hermione looks round at me, but she can't see me. She blinks and says "Harry?" she sounds tired. In the light, she looks tired but in the light of her wand, she just looks yellow.
"Uh..no." I say and I close the door and pull off the invisibility cloak off me.
"Oh." She hasn't forgotten our fight about Scabbers. She starts to cry.
"Don't cry." I say and she sniffs and looks at me. "You were really cool today, punching Malfoy and walking out on Trelawney. I couldn't do that."
"I'm sure you could, but she hasn't said your mind was hopelessly mundane, did she?" she huffed.
"Well no. But she hasn't heard me make fun of Divination. I don't do it right in front of her."
"It is a very woolly subject. Much worse than Ancient Runes or Arithmancy."
I decide not to question the amazing ability to go to 3 lessons at the same time. Instead I snigger.
"What?"
"You work too hard." I say it quietly.
She says nothing but a weird look comes over her face.
"Didn't think you would care. I mean, you hated me until today." She smiles.
"Never hated you. Hated your cat."
"Same difference." She states and I have to laugh. I walk up to the desk she is sitting on, pull another next to it and sit down.
"You should sleep, I mean you'll never complete your homework if you sleep on it like you did today."
She frowns. "I was thinking about what I did to Malfoy."
"It was brilliant." I say but she begins to cry once more. "If this is about the fact that Cheering Charms might be in the exam then it doesn't matter." She crys harder.
"Buckbeak?" she nods and I place an arm round her, slowly.
"I'm going to bed." She whispers.
"I'll go too. We should go under the cloak because I don't know where Filch or Snape is." We both get under the cloak and there is a small space between us. I hope that we will never have to go under as a three again.
We get to the portrait hole and Hermione whispers an insanely complicated password to the damn knight. He opens and we both walk into the deserted common room.
"You're really nice Ron. When you aren't being an idiot." She smiles and gently, slowly (I think she is hesitating) places her lips on mine – but soon I cannot feel them anymore and Hermione is as red as my hair. She places a hand over her mouth and runs up to her dormitory.
I smile and fold up to the Invisibility Cloak. Hermione was acting strange today.
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