Day 10: Character action: A character must read a book
This is a continuation of Day 1's story with Hermione helping Draco to woo Ginny. :)
For the second time in as many days, Hermione found her dinnertime study session interrupted. Much to her dismay, it was also interrupted by the same person. She sighed heavily as she set down her book and stared across the table at Draco Malfoy. "Yes?" she requested testily.
He tapped his fingers against the table in a very un-Malfoy like indication of nervousness. "Well?" he asked impatiently. "Did you find anything out?"
"Yes."
"And?"
Hermione sighed a second time. "Draco Malfoy, I swear to you that if this is some elaborate scheme to piss off Harry and Ron, that I will personally castrate you with a plastic knife?"
Draco lifted an eyebrow in amusement. "Impressive, Granger." At the pointed glare he was receiving, he raised his right hand. "I solemnly swear that I am not trying to piss off Potter and his boyfriend."
The brunette rolled her eyes. "I suspect that's the closest you'll get to addressing them respectfully, so I suppose I'll just have to go with it."
"You would be correct."
She smiled slightly and leaned forward in her seat. "Okay, I asked her the questions on your list."
"And?" he asked, obviously losing patience.
With a slight smirk, she said, "And you were right. She is more like you than I thought." Hermione slid a small piece of parchment from between the pages of her book and handed it to him. "I used a Quick Quotes Quill to record all of her answers as we were speaking. Everything you need is here."
After glancing down the list of responses, Draco locked eyes with Hermione. "Thanks for this," he said with more sincerity than she had ever seen from him. "I mean it."
As the blond boy bolted from the library, she continued to read the assigned chapters from her History of Magic textbook. Subconsciously, she smiled. She knew she had done the right thing by helping Malfoy.