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Chapter 7
Narrator
Harry and Ron waved to Hermione as they turned to leave to go up the stairs, followed by Ginny who gave Hermione a quick hug. Blaise watched this then ran up to Draco from behind and nearly leveled him to the ground.
"I'm going to miss you! Who else is going to tell me to shut up? Or yell when I take all the hot water? Or tell me that howling at the moon at two in the morning will only get me murdered in my sleep?" Blaise wailed.
"Everyone, nobody likes those things, Blaise," Draco said, looking at his friend with a serious face. Blaise only grinned back and shook his finger at Draco.
"Not so! What do you thin got Maddie to finally get up the guts to ask me out last year?" Blaise asked proudly.
"The fact that you were complaining that you didn't have a date in the middle of the common room?" Draco asked.
"Oh yeah… never mind," Blaise said turning around and skipping away to the dungeons.
"Mr. Zambini is quite the character," Dumbledore said with a chuckle.
"Quite," Hermione said looking around.
"Miss Granger, Mr. Malfoy, right this way," Dumbledore said gliding over the stone floors out towards the front doors. "I am sure both of you know that each year the Head Room changes it's place. Not only that but it's furniture and colors change depending on the personality of the Head Girl and Head Boy's personality. I'm sure you will be quite comfortable in there."
"Sir, is it true we will have access to our old common rooms?" Hermione asked.
"That is indeed true Miss Granger. You also have access to all of the houses' common rooms. The Great Hall, the Library, and the Kitchens are also accessible. There will be a way for you to enter each one, but alas it is only one way. If you go in through that way you must leave normally like any other student," Dumbledore said. "This is to prevent people from coming into the Heads' room, but of course I doubt that even if I asked you would not keep this room secret from your friends."
Hermione ducked her head, but Draco saw the smile through her curls. He turned back to look forward noticing that they were right next to the door that leads to the astronomy tower. Dumbledore turned right just before that door and faced a blank wall.
"Now watch carefully," Dumbledore said quietly. He pulled his wand and placed it where there was a deep crack in the bricks. He turned his wand twice clockwise then pushed in. The bricks pulled back as if cut precisely into the shape of a rounded top door.
The room lay bare, and the only life remaining from it was a roaring fire that was held in a spot clean white stone fire place, no other items were in the room. Hermione and Draco both turned to Dumbledore, expecting and answer but he was walking away.
"Professor? What's wrong with the room? Could you explain this to me? I thought you said it was ready for us?" Hermione asked. Draco stood behind her, raising one of his eyebrows and looking quietly around the blank room from the hallway.
"Oh it is indeed Miss Granger. It's more than ready for you, all you have to do is enter," Dumbledore said lightly as he turned the corner.
"Enter…" Hermione said. She shook her head before she did as Dumbledore had told her. She felt Draco right behind her, and when she turned back to see why he ad stopped she saw shock and awe on his face. "What's wrong?" she asked turning back to the room. Color was slowly seeping into the walls. Deep reds covered the walls, and paintings appeared throughout the room each with a small nameplate under it as a direction as to which one lead where. The once white and smooth fireplace became an old warn brick one. Green couches covered the floor with black chairs. A small table placed itself under a newly made window. Four chairs quickly followed its arrival. Two tall bookshelves covered either side of this table, double sided and filled to the brim with books on all subjects, and some from Hermione and Draco's luggage appeared one by one with an almost transparent pop. On the middle shelf of one of them was a portable speaker that Hermione recognized from home, though she was sure she hadn't packed it. A door appeared a little ways down from them to the right, a room opened up behind it as a white gleaming bathroom, but quickly shut itself. The dark stone floors slowly covered itself with a thick black carpet that coated the entire room. Two staircases appeared, one going around and below the fireplace and one wrapped around the other way and went above. Two doors appeared at the end of them, with Draco and Hermione's name appearing on the door. Hermione would take the one above, and Draco took below.
The two stood there, in a daze, even as the carpet disappeared beneath their feet to cover the last of the bare floor. The wall behind them closed, though a door handle was plainly visible sticking out of an otherwise normal wall. Draco was the first to move, as he slowly walked across the room, looking at the fireplace and the walls, and Hermione soon following his lead, went over to the bookcases.
"They have all of my books, even those I didn't bring," Hermione said excitedly. "I even my speaker! It must have been on my shelf at home."
"Of course you would be interested in the books," Draco said inspecting the small items lined up along the top of the fireplace ledge. "You wouldn't notice the secret passage ways or wonder about what your room must look like."
"Oh yeah, my room," Hermione said, clearly not understanding the small joke pointed in her direction. "I wonder if it's already done…" Quickly she went up the stairs and opened the door. The room was in fact, done. The walls were a navy blue, and the bed was a deep true red that stood out against the dark walls. The light came from rather strange round lamps that hung in each corner. Her trunk was lay at the foot of the bed, like it had in years before, but it was open and all of the clothes were missing. Hermione stood and noticed a large wooden dresser stood beside a large window. She walked over and opened it, a mirror hung on the door, and the clothes were hung or in small drawers under the large space for hanging. She closed it and looked out the window. The view was amazing, and looked as though she were halfway up the Astronomy tower, the way the forest rested alongside the Great Lake was breath taking. Hermione clapped her hands together excitedly and continued to explore her room. As she pulled out her ipod looking at the screen she smiled and started bobbing her head to Just Dance by Lady GaGa.
Draco slowly descended the stairs, looking up, he noticed some kind of thumping coming from the room above him. Shaking his head he opened the door to his room, the door glided away from his outstretched hand to show him dark room. All the wood was almost black, the bed was draped in black, and the carpet and walls were a deep green. He let out a sigh when he noticed his eagle owl was perched on the window sill. "Hello, Eve." The owl took his face out from under his wing, and pinned Draco in a stare. He stuck out his arm and Eve flew to him hooted softly. "Welcome home," he said softly.
The next morning an alarm woke Hermione and Draco up in the common room at 7a.m. Hermione rose slowly off the mattress and walked slowly around the room trying to wake up and stretch. It took a moment to get her bearings, before she found herself grinning like an idiot. "I'm at school," she hummed quietly quickly grabbing the first school skirt and shirt she saw and her other things before running into the common room to find the bathroom across the way.
Draco, with no intention of getting up after seeing the time rolled over until he heard someone running around outside his room. Draco sat up and felt exhaustion set in as soon as he was vertical. He seemed to realize that even if he went back to bed he wouldn't be able to sleep. Yawning he instead grabbed his uniform and headed to bathroom that was across the common room, pausing to stand in front of the fire from the warmness that seemed to surround him. A little happier he walked the rest of the way across the room.
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