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After a little while, Draco suggested that they wait until the first class starts and then go but after tears started coming down Hermione's cheeks again he realized that if they did this, she would miss the beginning of her class. Then Hermione said "if only we had Harry's cloak,"
"what?" Draco seemed shocked at first, but then said "oh yea, the invisibility cloak," He seemed to be remembering the time in Hogsmeade that Harry had entertained himself by playing a joke on Malfoy while under his Invisibility Cloak.
"yea, maybe I could try a summoning spell, and bring it in here through this window,"
"Hermione, that's a great idea,"
"but I don't know if I could get it here all the way from the boys dormitory, and without people noticing it, that's not very likely,"
"Hermione, you are really great at these kinds of things, just try your best,"
"oh, alright" she took out her wand and said "Accio Invisibility Cloak"
"do you think it worked?" Draco asked her.
"I really don't know, it will be a couple of minutes before it gets here, if it did work,"
The time couldn't possibly have gone any slower. It seemed like hours, but finally they saw something zooming across the sky in their direction. It looked like a huge bird, but as it got closer, they realized it was the cloak. "Hermione, you did it!!" Draco smiled and hugged her very tightly. She was extremely happy herself, and hugged him just as hard. When the cloak was even closer Hermione looked at it and said, "oh my goodness, its coming here at incredible speed, if it keeps going at this rate it could hurt us,"
Draco, who was still hugging her, moved her into the very corner of the closet and said "it'll do less damage to you now." She smiled at him, and kept watching the cloak "oh, its almost here, if only we could find some way to-" BOOM!
Hermione went unconscious as the invisibility cloak whizzed into the closet and the door flung open. Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Bundis (their new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher) walked in. Draco realized he must be under the cloak, because McGonagall and Bundis were looking all around, from wall to wall, never looking straight at him or Hermione. Draco noticed that Dumbledore looked straight at him for a split second with a questioning look and then smiled and looked away. He looked at the other teachers and said "well, I don't know what caused the sound that we heard, but I'm sure it is nothing to worry about,"
"but Albus," McGonagall started, but Dumbledore put up his hand to stop her and led them out of the closet, as he was leaving, he looked back into the closet and winked at Draco.
Draco slowly stood up, lifting Hermione with him. She slowly woke up and looked up at Draco, "what happened?" she asked. Draco told her all about the cloak flying in and how Dumbledore seemed to see right through the cloak. Hermione smiled up at him and said "thanks,"
"for what?" asked Draco.
"for trying to make sure that it didn't hurt me,"
Draco bent down as if to kiss her, when the door flung open again.
Dumbledore stepped into the closet but didn't look at all surprised when he saw them. He just stood there, his eyes twinkling behind his half-moon spectacles, and said "You might want to leave now, no one will notice, just stay under the cloak, and get to class, hurry up…" and he opened the door for them to leave, and closed the door after them. They had to separate to go to their classes. They got out from under the cloak, and went off in different directions. Hermione kept the cloak in her bag, so she could return it to Harry's bag without anyone noticing a thing, and sped off to herbology.
When she got there, Harry and Ron were already sitting at their usual table with Seamus Finnigan. There was no room for Hermione there, so she sadly went and sat with Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil. Ron looked up from the table, and Hermione could see that he would rather sit with her than Seamus. Hermione forced herself to smile at him, to tell him that she didn't blame him, and that she would rather sit with him too. The class went unusually slow that day. Hermione couldn't concentrate on the test, and kept having to look up and tell Lavender and Parvati to be quiet. She knew she wasn't doing well on this test, but it didn't bother her. She was too busy thinking about her friendship with Harry and Ron.
After class, Hermione walked to Harry and Ron's table "hi" she said. "how do you two think you did on the test?" Harry didn't answer and Ron just said "alright." They walked back to the common room very quietly. Finally, right before they said the password to the fat lady, Ron yelled, "Will you two just do something? Talk it over! You're driving me crazy!!" Harry and Hermione looked at him and then at each other. Ron said the password and went into the common room, leaving them outside the picture of the fat lady. "He's right, you know," Hermione said at last.
"About what?" Harry asked.
"Everything! We are driving him crazy, and this is driving me crazy too Harry!"
"How do you think I feel?"
They talked and talked, sitting right outside the portrait of the fat lady. After about an hour they came up with an agreement: Harry would try to get along with Draco, if Hermione promised still to be best friends with Harry and Ron, no matter who she went out with. ^_^
They went into the common room and found Ron sitting on a chair by the fire, talking to Fred and George. They walked up to him and Hermione tapped him on the shoulder. He said, "Did you work something out?" Harry and Hermione both said "yes."
"Well ?" Ron asked anxiously. They explained everything to Ron and he said, "Why didn't you morons think of that earlier?" Hermione and Harry knew he was joking so they all went up to their dormitories and fell asleep.
The next morning, Hermione got out of bed to find Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil blocking the door out of the dormitory. "Hey guys, what are you doing?" she asked sleepily.
"We need to know a few things," Parvati said
"About you…. and someone else" Lavender added
"What is it?" asked Hermione
"Well, what's going on with you?" said Parvati
"Well, I was sleeping and now I'm awake and trying to get down to have breakfast, that's what's going on, really" Hermione said, starting to get annoyed.
"Hermione, we're serious, what's happening with you and… and." Lavender trailed off.
"Malfoy!" Parvati finished for her.
"Oh, well, I don't think that's much of your business" Hermione said feverishly.
"But, Hermione, we have to know!"
"No you don't!" shouted Hermione. After a lot of annoyance from the two girls, Hermione finally said, "Draco is… Draco is nice" and she left to go to the Great Hall.
"We are going to find out what's going on with her!" Lavender said.
