A/N: You know the drill by now, I hope. This is a repost not a new chap.

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A/N: Thanks to everyone who reviewed and likes my story! This one is really short, an interlude of sorts. I've been watching Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and who else loves when they're in the hospital wing and Mione slaps Harry's hand out of the way when they are about to use the time turner. I just love it!

Previously

Draco woke up first. He got up from his very comfortable positions on the couch in her room, and looked around. He saw Hermione in her bed, as was Ginny. Blaise had taken the other couch. He walked to Hermione's side of the bed and looked at her. She was so calm. He kissed her forehead, left a note that he had gone home and for her to keep his jacket.

He didn't notice her smile and open one eye as he left.

Chapter Seven Interlude aka Big Cats and Little Dragons

When she heard the door close, Hermione got out of bed and padded noiselessly to the door and peeked through the crack, Draco was headed for the bathroom she had shown him last night.

She grinned mischievously and went back in the room.

A moment later a large panther walked out of the room. If one didn't know better, one would think the panther was smiling. It stalked out into the hall and headed in the same direction as Draco. When it reached the bathroom, it peeked just its abnormal silver eyes around the edge of the door and saw Draco splashing water on his face. It slowly withdrew its head.

Draco walked out of the bathroom and down the hall. He rather thought he heard someone following him but when he turned to look no one was there.

When he got to the main fireplace in the front hall, the one used for flooing, he heard a soft growl. He spun around and found a large black panther looking at him from just a few feet away.

He was frozen in his place as the panther approached him. It took him several long seconds to remember than he was just as dangerous as this panther.

In the blink of an eye Draco had become a large, dark green dragon. The term large is used loosely. He wasn't even half the size of a real dragon and he was only slightly larger than the panther in front of him. What made him look bigger though was the long tail and huge leathery wings protruding from his back.

He reared onto his back legs spreading his wings wide and locking his eyes, which were, oddly, their normal silver, with the panther's eyes, which were not the normal hazel of a panther but silver like his. The panther yawned as if it was bored, and Draco noticed that the panther's teeth were silver as well.

And then the panther rose on its back legs as well but didn't stop and suddenly the front legs reached up and the fur disappeared and turned into slightly tanned arms stretching over a head that was now furless as well. In the span of half a second the panther had turned into a stretching Hermione. She continued her stretch, which Draco noticed was rather…cat like.

Draco too transformed back into himself and stared at her stunned.

"Morning," she said.

She didn't seem to be stunned at his being an Animagus; she actually seemed to have been expecting it.

"A dragon, huh? Should have known. Draco…dragon, duh. What's your special marking?"

"Uh it's a, the silver line down my spine. It's the same as the line down the back of the tattoo I have at the base of my neck. What about you?"

"Same here, the markings being the same as my tattoo I mean. It's the eyes and teeth, they're silver."

"Where's your tattoo?"

"Wouldn't you like to know."

Draco was silent for a moment, and then asked the real question that had been bothering him.

"But how did you know I was an Animagus?"

"Well, you remember the paper we did on Animagi at the end of last year in Transfiguration? The one where you and I were the only ones who got full marks, not to mention extra credit for information that only someone who has experienced it or talked to in depth with an Animagus would know. And, as I asked you if you knew an Animagus that would leave the first option, which was that you, yourself, are an Animagus."

"Oh, well, that explains it."

"How come you weren't going to stay for breakfast?"

"Mum, I told her I'd be back early if not before. I don't want her to be worried."

"Oh, okay, go then. I'll see you later," and she gave him a quick kiss on the cheek before turning to go wake Ginny and Blaise.

A/N: So…how did you like it? The whole Animagus thing is going to become part of the story later, so I figured I might as well introduce it now. Not the longest, by far, but it got the job done (thank you secretspells311) so go review and hopefully the next chapter will be up soon!

Kat