A/N: Please don't kill me! Flames are welcome.
This chapter is inexcusably late, I know. There is NO excuse.
In October I completely lost my HP craze. It switched to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which I wrote a few fics.
But I'm back. This chapter and the next are written and will be posted a day or two apart.
On a side note, I am looking for a fic I read at least 7-8 months ago. The title began with a D, I think, but I'm not sure. It was set in the future. The trio beat Voldemort, but it cost their friendship. Voldemort threatened to put a curse on them that made them look crazy (he had used it on the Longbottoms), they each gave the others up to save themselves, but defeated him in the end. A few years later there is a copycat murderer who the ministry is trying to find, they make Harry, Ron, and Hermione come in to help them.
If any one has read a fic like this, please tell me the title.
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I have succumbed to the force. G/D will now prevail! But I'm still focusing on Hermione.
Bye.
Books and LoversGinny tossed and turned in her bed. She could not get thoughts of Draco out of her head. Not since her vision. This is wrong, she told herself over and over again, you are dating Colin. You are in love with Colin Creevey. You hate Malfoy! Stop thinking about Malfoy! Well…Draco would look a lot better in leather then Colin would [I'll give you a minute to drool…]… STOP IT!!! This is Malfoy! You're acting like a lovesick puppy over Malfoy! He is hot though, you can't deny… You're dating COLIN!!!
What does my vision mean? Am I in love with Malfoy? True, He's drop dead gorgeous, and after the whole put-his-father-in-Azkaban deal he's a fairly nice guy. And he's stopped fighting with Ron as much.
But what about Colin?
Well, I've been thinking about dumping Colin for a while, but what would everyone think if I left him for Malfoy?
Would Malfoy even like me?
She had been like this all night.
In her vision she had been standing out by the castle gates, kissing Draco passionately, and enjoying herself immensely. All of a sudden there was an explosion in the Castle. They turned to look just in time to see it collapse in on itself in a bright blast of light. The sound was deafening. Draco turned from her and had begun running full tilt for the castle. As he had his back to her she saw June 20th written across his shirt. She called out to him, "Draco, wait!" and the vision abruptly ended.
She had looked in her divination book for possible meanings, but found nothing that had made since.
A few hours before dawn she finally managed to drifted off to sleep.
Hermione woke early on Saturday morning a few days later. Tomorrow everyone would return from Christmas break and on Monday school would start. Hermione dressed and gathered some books; she was going to the library to try to get to the bottom of her memory loss and research visions.
She set her stack of books on a desk and was about to walk over to the shelves when she saw a piece of paper sticking out of her book, it was the note she had found in her shoe the night of the Ball. What the hell, I might as well see what's in those books.
Spelling and the art of witchcraft
Page 734
She took the book off the shelf and carried it over to her desk. It looked very old, in fact it was one of the oldest she had seen in the Hogwarts Library. She flipped though it until she reached page 734 and began to read:
dISALLOW:
Disallow is an ancient spell created in 2356 B.C. If cast correctly it will make someone oblivious to certain large spells around them. (Angelic Erotic, Hum Loca, Biverus Exumus, etc.) The Wizarding World Wide Spell Banning Committee outlawed it in 109 A.D. The person it is cast upon acts no differently then he or she normally does, but they will overlook anything related to the spells they are oblivious to. This spell is one of the most powerful and dangerous spells ever created. It must be cast on the eve of a full moon and at roughly the same time as the spell it is set to ignore. The only ways to break the spell are to show the enchanted one irrefutable evidence that the spell being blocked exists or that this spell was cast on them. This spell will also hinder memory.
Now that was informative, Hermione thought, I doubt it was cast on me though. Wait! That could be a sign of the spell! OR, I could just be being paranoid. Let's say it is cast on me, just for the benefit of the doubt, what spell would it be protecting? Wait, how can I find out anything about this! I can't even acknowledge it's presents yet! Arrggh!
Lost in her thoughts, she failed to hear Terry come up behind her. She felt arms encircle her and Terry put his head on her right shoulder. "Hey." She said.
"Hey" He replied. Looking down at the books spread across the desk. "What are you doing?"
"At the Christmas Ball someone stuck a note in my shoe. It had two titles on it and a few other things on it. I thought I might see what they are before I got caught up in school work."
"Um-hum." Terry replied, kissing her ear.
She giggled and turned so his lips met her mouth instead of her ear. A voice inside her screamed, DON'T! But she ignored it. She had better things on her mind.
"Mr. Weasley, please follow me." Professor McGonagal said. Ron stood. He had been tutoring Lireal in History of Magic (And learning quite a lot himself); she was learning an overview of Magic from Some of the students.
"Yes Professor. Real [pronounced re-el] we can finish later."
"Fine with me." She replied. He turned toward the Professor and followed her through a door into her office. To his surprise Hermione, Harry, Dean, and Seamus were all in there seated around her desk. He sat in a vacant chair and she said,
"We just received the news that Lavender Brown and her parents were in a muggle car accident… Lavender didn't make it."
"No!" Cried Hermione. She stood and ran from the room.
"I'll go find her." Seamus said and he left.
"God." Dean said.
Harry started to blink a lot and Ron put his head in his hands. He then sat up strait and said, "Screw the world!" And ran from the room. Behind him heard McGonagal say Go after him. He kept running. When his feet stopped he was, surprisingly, in professor Trelawnley's classroom. He walked over to Lavender's chair and stared at it. In their fifth year she had started taking, a serious look into divination, and was really serious about it. She had even thought of getting a job as a seer at the Ministry.
He kicked the chair as hard as he could.
She would never get a job at the Ministry.
She would never graduate.
She would never smile again.
He would never see her again.
The chair crashed into the wall and fell to the ground, broken into a hundred pieces.
Hermione sat in the hall crying. Lav was dead. Lavender was dead. Her roommate was dead. The Brown girl was dead. She was the last Griffindor girl in her seventh year.
That last one stuck. She repeated it. Out loud.
"I'm the last Griffindor girl in my year. I'm the last one. "
"You are." She looked up.
"Screw you," she said calmly.
"Right back at you Herm." Seamus said.
She tried to give him a weak smile, but failed miserably. Just then Ron ran by right by them. A moment later Dean followed him. Seamus stood as if to follow but Hermione said, "Do you think dinner is ready yet? I'm starved."
"Maybe… do you want to go see?"
"On second thought, no, I want to find Terry. Which way is Ravenclaw?"
"That way," Seamus pointed. "You want me to walk you?"
"Yeah. What about Harry? We can't leave him with McGonagal."
"I'll take care of Harry." Hermione spun round. Natosha was standing right behind her. She had been creeping down the hall that Seamus said lead to Ravenclaw.
"Natosha?" Hermione said.
"Yeah, what."
"Nothing. Just… don't hurt Harry. I care about him."
Natasha's face hardened and she said, "Don't care Hermione, he's mine. You're not allowed to care."
Hermione was livid, "Not allowed to care?! I was his best friend for six and a half years and I'm not allowed to care?"
"The key word there is was, not 'is', was. Stay away from him."
"What's up? Natosha?!" Harry had come out of the professor's office.
"Hermione and I were just talking. Bu-Bye" She turned and, taking Harry's arm, walked down the hall.
"Arrgghh!" Hermione Marched in the opposite direction, which happened to be away from Ravenclaw Tower.
Seamus jogged behind her.
Ginny was standing in a hallway staring at the wall. "Why?" She asked herself, "Why couldn't life be simpler?" She was avoiding Colin. She felt she was cheating on him, just by thinking about Draco, no, scratch that, MALFOY. His name is MALFOY! She wondered what he had seen in his vision.
Some else was walking down the corridor. He- she could tell it was a he by the way he walked- stopped right behind her. "What did you see?"
She spun around. It was Draco.
"When?" She asked, trying to keep her voice steady.
"The other night, when we were performing that spell. You screamed 'Draco Wait!' and I was wondering why."
"N-no reason." She said, trying not to look at him.
"You're lying and you know it."
"I-I am not!"
"You're also stuttering."
"I-I'm not!"
"Yes, you are." He said in an utterly calm voice.
She slapped him.
He stared at her.
What happened next happened so fast that it was almost a blur. Almost.
He grabbed her by her shoulders and kissed her fiercely. Pulling back a moment later he looked into her eyes.
They were normally a deep bluish-green, but now they were bright blue. She had tears in them.
He dropped his arms, turned, and began quickly walking down the hall. He had just forcibly kissed the girl he had been madly in love with for two years and therein ruined any chance he might have had with her. Plus the entire Weasley clan would be out for his blood.
"Wait! Oh, Please wait!" She cried desperately.
He stopped dead.
She ran up behind him and he turned around. She punched him and the blow landed squarely on his left eye.
And then she kissed him.
Kissed with a capital K.
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