"Oh my God! Did Pansy and Blaise do this to you?"
On Harry's stomach and back was the most horrible thing anyone could have ever seen.
Big blue, black, and green bruises were EVERYWHERE. His whole back was covered in dried up blood.
Harry nodded while looking at the floor.
Hermione sent a Patronus to Professor McGonagall telling her what she discovered.
The Professor sent one back saying that she told the Ministry and asking if Hermione needed Madam Pomfrey to help clean him up.
Hermione replied no and looked at Harry.
Hermione knelt down so she was at Harry's height and looked at him in admiration. She couldn't believe all that he had been through in not even one full day of being de-aged.
"Harry, can I ask you one thing?"
"Go ahead Mione."
"Why didn't you want Draco to give you a bath?"
"Well, he's nice and all, but I feel like if we were the same age that you and I would be better friends than me and Draco."
Hermione smiled at him. If only he knew how true this was.
"Do you still want me to give you a bath? Or if you want I can give you a sponge bath."
"Sponge bath, please."
After giving poor Harry a sponge bath (she found a lot more bruises on his bottom) Hermione dressed Harry and brought him over to their main house. (A/N From now on I'm going to refer to Hermione and Draco's 'house' as the main 'house'.)
It was only seven thirty and Harry and Ginny were playing in Ginny's room.
Draco sat on the couch doing a particularly hard piece of Potions homework.
Hermione plopped down next to him and remarked, "It's been a long day."
Draco looked up from his homework and replied, "It sure has. Hey um, why did Harry want you to give him a bath?"
"That's what I wanted to talked to you about.
After I took off his shirt I realized that we never even checked to see what they did to him. It was bloody awful. Bruises everywhere and his back was covered with blood."
Draco whistled. "Man, those two hurt him bad."
Hermione nodded, "Yeah I know. Uh, Draco, can I ask you something?"
"Yeah…"
Hermione took a deep breath. This was it. This was when she was going to confront him about the kiss.
"Draco, why did you kiss me earlier today?"
Draco blushed redder than Ginny's hair and that's saying something.
"Well, um, I u-uh just wanted to. Granger, I um, like you."
"Good! Because I like you too ;)"
Then she kissed him on the cheek and walked upstairs to Ginny's room yelling over her shoulder, "Goodnight Draco!"
Draco didn't respond and instead touched the spot Hermione had kissed him.
"She likes me." Draco whispered to himself.
"She Likes Me." Draco said it a little louder.
"HOLY CRAP! SHE FREAKING LIKES ME!" Draco couldn't control it anymore and screamed it out to the world. Or rather, the empty common room.
Just then Hermione popped her head out at the top of the stairs and said, smiling, "Yes, Draco, I do like you."
"So, my lovely girlfriend, shall we put the kids to bed and spend some time snogging?"
Hermione laughed. "Sure, but I don't recall you asking if I wanted to be your girlfriend."
"Oh yeah. I knew I forgot something. Mione, will you please be my girlfriend?"
"Fine. Only because you insist." teased Hermione.
The newly found couple wanted nothing more to do than to snog the daylights out of each other, but the children had placed a burden upon them.
"Can we please sleep in the same room together?" asked Harry.
"I guess if its ok with Mione."
What will our dear bookworm say?
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