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A Bet to Turn Events

Disclaimer: How many time must I put this? I sooo wish that I own Harry Potter and it's characters, but I don't...:sniffs:

Chapter 7: Unplanned Meeting

As Hermione looks around, something in the corner of the room caught her eyes. It was a picture of her and Professor Snape! Hermione's eyes went wide as she rushed towards it to make sure that she wasn't only imagining things. Unfortunately, she wasn't. It sure was a picture of her and Snape, kissing passionately. As these were magical pictures, she could see movements. Professor Snape was moving his hands towards the lower part of her legs as they started to turn. She could see Snape's tongue. Hermione closed her eyes, as if would prevent Snape from doing what he was doing. When her eyes open again, she saw that both of them were on the floor, and then the picture turned black. There were inappropriate sounds that was audible though. Her eyes started to fill with tears as she struggles to read the headline of the poster. It reads:

Hermione Granger, smartest student at Hogwarts.

Well, news to you. It's all a LIE!

Look at the picture below, as they say, pictures do not lie. Granger has been seducing her male teachers to give her good grades, the tramp. Granger acts like she is a saint, but she have been...

That was all that she could take. She bolted out of the common, trying to wipe off the hot tears that were violently falling out of her eyes now. She ran, and ran, she even hit a few people, but she didn't care. She just wanted to get out of there, anywhere that she couldn't see anyone. Anywhere that no one can see her. Those posters must have been there for a long time, which would mean everyone had seen it, or heard about it.'It's not fair! That whole poster was a LIE! I'm not like that! Everyone would assume that it's true. What are my words against pictures?' Hermione's head was pounding and her heart was beating faster than ever. She gritted her teeth. She was furious. Whoever did that was the lowest of scums! After running for what seems like a year, Hermione finally slowed down. She couldn't really tell where she was, but it was away from the noise, and people. Hermione pressed her back against the wall and slid down it with a loud thud. She buried her face in her arms and started to weep loudly. She was trying to fight the tears at first, but after a while when she noticed that it didn't help much, she stopped. Tears were running out of the girl's chocolate eyes faster than ever.

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Draco Malfoy walked slowly through the corridors, trying to find a way out of there.

"Damn moving stairs..." Draco muttered under his breath.

He continued to walk blankly, from one corridor to another, not seeing any exit at all. After awhile, he got restless and sat down on the ground for a little break. Malfoy breath in and out heavily. When his breathing wasn't as hard as before, he heard something. It sounded like a squeak. He drew in a deep breath and held it in. When it was absolutely quiet, he could hear the sound better. It sounded like someone was sniffling. Malfoy got up and walks slowly towards the sound, wondering who it was that was sniffling. The blonde hair kid turned the corner to see a frizzy brown haired girl sitting on the floor with her face in her arms. He walked towards the girl. As he got closer, he noticed who the girl really was; it was Hermione Granger.

"Granger, is this where you always go when you want to create water works?" Malfoy smirked. He thought that he had imagining the sniffling before, but right now, Hermione seemed dead silent, like she was sleeping, or just in deep thoughts. He started chuckling a bit until he received the utmost hatred look from Hermione. When she had looked up, Malfoy noticed that she has been crying, and she still was. "Giving me dirty looks won't make your trouble away Granger."

Malfoy waited for Hermione to retaliate, but she didn't even make a movement. Malfoy wanted to say some more bad remarks, but he suddenly remember something, the bet that he had made with the red weasel.

He slammed his back against the wall and slid down it so that he was sitting by Hermione's side now. Of course, they were a couple of feet apart though. They both sat there in silence. After about 5 minutes, Malfoy noticed that the girl next to him started sniffling again. He thought that she would break into a bawl or something. Of course Hermione wanted to cry more than anything right now, but she would not cry in front of Malfoy. No, never in front of him, she will not give him another reason to make her life a living nightmare after this.

"W-what do you w-w-want, Malfoy?" Hermione choked his name with disgusts.

"Nothing, I'm just sitting here, after all, this school belongs to me as much as it belongs to you, Granger. Perhaps more," Malfoy sneered. Hermione twitched. She wanted to punch him so much right now.

"So, what's the water work for?" Draco tried to say this in an unconcerned way. "Making up a new holiday for your house elves, I suppose?" Draco sneered and laughed at his own unfunny joke.

"Funny," Hermione grunted.

After more silence, Hermione lifted her head and using the sleeves of her robes, she tried to dry her eyes but that seemed to cause more tears to fall down.

"What's wrong?" Malfoy found himself asking. Why did he ask that? He almost sounded like he cares.

"It's none of your concern, Malfoy," Hermione replied, trying not to break up in tears again.

"It kinda is, Granger. See, it isn't very much fun insulting someone who would just stand there and take it rather than retaliating," Draco stated.

Hermione looked at Malfoy, her expression half angry, half sad. Malfoy wasn't really sure how to react, but he just sat there, looking over at Hermione, unable to look away. He saw her beautiful chocolate eyes, and they were full of sadly and pain. Tears were still dropping down, and for the slightest moment, Malfoy forgot that he had hated her. His hand started moving towards her face and he wiped a couple of tears away. Just then, his senses came back to him, and he realized what he just did. Horrified, he abruptly stood up, shouted, "Sorry!" to Hermione and dashed away.

Hermione was more shocked at Malfoy's action then he had been. Did he really did what he just did? And more importantly, why did he do that?

"That bloody ferret must have just been trying to play with my mind again..." Hermione said to herself. "Yeah, that was it..."

Woohoo! I actually got up to chapter 7! Wow, I didn't think I'd make it this far. Anyways, sorry for the long waited update. But, I was kinda hesitant to write the beginning. I'm sorry to all of you who hate that part!>> But, at least we found out here that Malfoy doesn't hate Granger as much as it seems. :D Anyways...Thank you all my reviewers!

SoMe wEirDo- haha, it wasn't her room, they were still in the common room. There isn't anything in her room, she just had a thought that there was, but there isn't really...or is there...? haha. jk.

DCoD- Now you know who the poster was of, of course, it's kinda uh...strange. I was having writer's block, I didn't know what the poster was suppose to be, the reason for the cliffie in chapter 6, haha. But after reading your story, A Stop in Port Royal, this idea all of a sudden, just came to me. So, I blame on you! lol.

hilda- No, I didn't wanted to make Hermione naked...it would have been toooo mean!

DrAcOzGaL4eVeR- Thank you for your review! I've finally updated, yay.

PenScribbler06- Here's an update. Took me awhile huh? Sorry.

Hope everyone is still reading this story, please don't be angry at me for being a lazy writer and updated like twice a month or something. Keep reading the story, I thank you all! (especially those who leaves me reviews, make me feel better:-D