A/N: I'm going to have another fluff chapter after this chapter. Trust me you will like the fluff chapter : )
Chapter ten: Time flies.
(Edited)
Year Three
"Wow the choir has been practicing." Hermione said to Harry as the Choir went to take their seats, it was tradition for them to sing at the beginning of year feast.
"Yeah." Harry said as something hit the back of his head. Harry turned around to face what ever it was.
Draco Malfoy was at the Slytherin table laughing and imitating passing out. "Is it true you fainted? You actually fainted?" The Slytherins next to him didn't hold back their laughter.
"How does he know?" Harry asked angrily as he looked back at the table.
"Forget it Harry, its not worth it." Hermione said glaring at Draco, she hadn't expected him to say anything. The fact that he had said something upset her, she was so upset that she got up in the middle of Dumbledore's speech and went straight to the common room.
"Hermione!" Ginny Weasley called after her.
"What?" She asked and spun around to face the girl.
"What was that for? That's not like you." Ginny said clutching a package that was in her hand.
"Oh its nothing." Hermione said dismissing it.
Ginny glared at her, "Well any ways, McGonagall wanted me to give you this." She handed the package to Hermione who's eyes grew wide when she realized what was in the package. "How about I go up to the common room with you." Ginny said and both girls walked up to the common room.
"Fortuna Major." Hermione said to the Fat Lady.
"Yes indeed." The portrait said and swung open a bit to forcefully.
They both walked in and sat down on the couch in front of the fire place. "Do you want to talk about what upset you?" Ginny asked.
"No not really." Hermione said, "I am so stupid how could I have trusted that git." Hermione whispered but Ginny had exceptionally good hearing.
"What git?" Ginny asked grinning, she knew she was onto some thing. As soon as Ginny said that Hermione's bag started vibrating loudly. Hermione had forgotten to put it on silent.
"OH FOR THE LOVE OF MERLIN SHUT UP YOU GIT!" She shouted making Ginny go silent as Hermione picked up the bag and threw the bag at the wall.
"Um, Mione… so the bag is a git?" Ginny sounded confused.
"No not the bag." She said picking it up and taking out the book and opening it.
Drake: I am sorry Mione. It said. It just slipped, in a intentional way. I didn't mean to make you mad.
"Slipped in an intentional way my eye." She grumbled at it.
"Don't tell me the book talks to you…" Ginny said apprehensively, she had learned not to talk to books the hard way.
"It's not the same Gin, I charmed this book and another one so that I could talk to my git of a best friend who apparently says things accidentally but in an intentional way." Hermione explained and the sighed. "Maybe knowing someone for seven years doesn't mean a thing, especially if I can tell him something and then he goes and tells his friends.
"Knowing someone for seven years does make a difference, and I'm sure he didn't mean to."
"Oh, he meant to." Hermione sighed looking at the words on the page, more had appeared.
Drake: I know you're reading this. I really am sorry, you know how hard it is to stay mad at me.
Hermia: I'm not mad I'm just disappointed in you. I told you that about Harry in confidence and then you made a joke about it. Hermione finally replied and looked up at Ginny
"Mi, I'm sure everything will be okay, He's your best friend, and even if you wont tell me who he is, and being your other best friend I am here for you ." Ginny said as the rest of the Gryffindors came into the room.
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Hermione sat on her bed with the curtains closed and was looking at the time turner McGonagall had given her. It had a circular golden frame with another golden frame in side of the first one, inside of the second frame was a magically charmed piece of glass with little stars carved out of it and an hour glass in the center it all that was turned by a little knob on the side of it. The entire mechanism was strung onto a long golden chain that would extend to greater lengths when needed.
Hermione knew that when she turned the little hour glass it would take her back in time in order to help her attend all of her classes. She also knew how dangerous it was to use time turners. Bad things happen to wizards who medal with time, very bad thing.
She put the chain around her neck and it adjusted to fit loosely around her neck and then she tucked it into her shirt so no one could see it. It was just another secret she could add to the list.
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"How can you go to three classes at once?" Ron asked, mouth full of food, the next morning at breakfast.
"I'm not." Hermione looked up.
"It says you have Divination, Arithmancy, and muggle studies all at nine o'clock, how are you going to pull that off.
"Don't be silly, I cant be three places at once." she said snatching her schedule away from him.
"But…"
"Oh look," Hermione said looking down at her paper. "Mary Hopkirk died this morning." Hermione said changing the subject.
"What does that have to do with any thing?" Ron asked.
"Absolutely nothing." She got up, smiled cheerfully and walked way.
"She has gone loopy she has." Ron said and then continued to stuff food in his face.
Hermione walked down to the lake and sat down under a tree. It was a really sunny morning. She closed her eyes and took in a deep breath and when she opened the Draco was sitting next to her.
"Hi Drake." She said turning her head to look at him. She was still kind of upset with him.
"I'm sorry, you could have made it clearer that you didn't want me to say anything." He smiled playfully. Hermione's stomach did a flip when she saw him smile that way, and in a way it confused her.
"Wow you cut straight to the point." She smiled. "It was implied." She explained.
"Oh, see I didn't realize that since it was implied." He said and then they sat in an awkward silence until the first bell rang.
"So I will see you later." He said picking up his bag.
"Okay see you later." He smiled and watched him walk away. Once he was out of sight she took out her time turner and took her self back in time. It was going to be a long year, She started walking to her class.
On the way there she thought about the strange feeling she got when she was around Draco. She hadn't ever felt that before so she didn't know what It was, but I made her feel good inside. She wondered if he got that feeling as well but she doubted that he did. She hardly realized that she had reached the divination tower.
She walked in during Professor Trelawney's opening speech. Hermione walked un noticed to a seat next to Ron and Harry.
Professor Trelawney walked up to Ron and took Harry's cup after a few minuets. "You have a deadly enemy…" She said.
"Well everyone knows that." Hermione said making Ron jumped.
"When did you get here!" He shouted.
"I have been here the whole time, Honestly Ron pay attention." She looked back at the professor. "And it is true every one knows about you know who."
She just ignored Hermione and looked back at the cup.
"An attack… This is not a happy cup dear boy." She said making people snicker and Hermione rolled her eyes. "Danger is in you path and…" She screamed and threw the cup across the room. "Oh Dear Merlin." she said flopping onto an armchair and gaining another eye roll from Hermione.
"What?" Harry asked.
"You have… The grim." She said ominously.
"The grin what the hell is a grin?" Someone in the back of the room asked.
"Not the Grin you nimrod, the grim." Someone else said.
"What's the grim?" Harry asked.
"My dear boy, it is the giant spectral dog that haunts church yards, it means most cretin death." The woman said as the bell rang through the school.
Hermione walked over to the cup that somehow didn't brake and picked it up. She peered inside of the cup. "I don't think it looks like a Grim." she said flatly and Trelawney surveyed her with dislike.
"I perceive very little aura around you. Very little receptivity to the resonance of the future."
Hermione looked at the woman and her facial expression showed anger. She grabbed her bag and threw the cup onto the ground, which caused it to shatter, and she left the room.
"Um, did I say something to upset her?" The woman asked.
"I would say so." Draco Malfoy said from the back of the room and Trelawney just looked at him with a funny look on her face.
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Hermione made her way down to Care of Magical Creatures. She had very little patience for Divination, it was a pointless class in her opinion and she would be dropping it since it wasn't worth her time." She had the knowledge of three class and the memories and even injuries she had received at any given point.
Hagrid wasn't even at the classes location when she was even the first student to arrive. She sat down on a log and waited for other people to show up.
It was ten minuets before any one did show up and it was a Slytherin student Lilyanna Rinaldee she gave Hermione a disgusted look and sat down on a log as far away from Hermione as she could manage.
Everyone else started to show up soon after that. Harry and Ron came to stand next to where she was sitting.
"Hermione are you okay?" Harry asked.
"Just peachy," She snapped "and so are you. That woman is full of, as Luna would put it, Nargles!"
"You are most definitely not okay." Harry concluded as Hagrid walked into the clearing and informed everyone how to open the books, Neville didn't listen. Hermione heard Draco laughing uncontrollably as the book attacked the boy. Hermione couldn't help but smile at that knowing that he loved watching a book attack people, He had laughed at Blaze Zabini when that had happened to him last month. Draco had told Hermione about a time that he had been attacked by one.
"What's so funny?" Ron asked her.
"I think the books are funny, barbaric, but funny." Hermione said quietly.
"Oh yeah very funny, they rip your head off and every thing, only an idiot gets attacked by one." Draco said to Hermione.
"Oh, you're one to talk." She said in a clear confident voice, "A little birdie once told me you were attacked by one a few years back. How did that go?" She asked flawlessly. The look on his face didn't falter once, but she knew he got the point. In return for him telling something she hadn't wanted to be told she had told something he didn't want other people to know. They were now even. She knew he wasn't mad at her from the look in his eye, he totally understood.
"Did some one get that on tape?" Ron asked "I would have paid my life savings to see that."
"Which is how much? Four, five sickles." Pansy sneered from Draco's side. Ron turned tomato red.
"Now look 'ere everyone, this 'ere is Buckbeak an 'e is a hippogriff." Everyone except Hermione and Draco turned to look.
"So I assume I am forgiven?" He asked quietly.
"Yes Drake, yes you are." She said smiling and then they both went to stand by their friends.
"Who wan's ter go firs'?" Hagrid asked and every one except Harry and Ron backed up. He glared at Hermione.
"Sorry Harry but um, I don't fly." Hermione said.
"Ron, how bout you go firs'."
"Um okay." Ron said stepping nervously forward but ran away when one tried to bite him Roars of laughter emitted from the Slytherins.
"Oka, then, 'Arry yer up." Hagrid told him.
Hermione watched as Harry approached the Hippogriff. The creature reacted differently than it had with Ron. It even let Harry ride it.
She listened as The Slytherins went on about how easy it would be to approach it and then Drake went and got him self injured. Of course he had to over react so that people thought it was more serious than it was.
"You have to take him to the hospital Hagrid!" Hermione said frantically.
" Right, I best be doin tha'" Hagrid said picking the boy up off of the ground. "class dismissed." He said carrying him away.
"Hermione?" Ron asked.
"What?" She asked turning around to face him.
"Why do you care if he needs to go to the Hospital, he is a git and you are a Gryffindor."
"Um, I'm a Gryffindor and I don't want Hagrid to get in trouble." She said at random and somehow managed to shut him up. "Lets go to lunch." She said and started to walk towards the castle.
"I think the cheese has slid off of her cracker." Ron Whispered.
"Ron you need to stop quoting stuff out of Stephen King Movies." Harry said. " They make you sound Loony."
Hermione was tired of all the close calls. She constantly had to lie and cover things up, it was simply irritating.
She walked into the great hall a few seconds before Harry and Ron did and she went to sit next to Ginny.
"Hello Ginny, how are you today." Hermione asked.
"I'm doing well, how about you?" Ginny said just before taking a bite of her chicken parmesan.
"Okay I guess, I forgave my dear old friend, not with out giving away a secret of his, but he understood." Hermione told her smiling.
"That's good." Ginny said as Harry and Ron sat down across from them. And they all sat in silence
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Defense against the Dark arts classes were always fun, Lupin had a good way of teaching things. The only really eventful thing about it, happened when they were learning about Boggart's. Everyone thought it was fun to see what other students were afraid of.
Neville is afraid of Snape, who he dressed in his grandmothers clothes. Parvati is afraid of mummies. Seamus is afraid of banshees. Pansy is afraid of rats. Dean is afraid of Snakes. Padma is afraid of clowns. Hermione afraid of Dementors. Ron is afraid of Spiders and Harry is also afraid of Dementors.
But it was when Draco went that it became interesting. Hermione watched as he stood there looking at what had been Ron's spider when it transformed. Hermione expected it to be his father or something a long those lines but it wasn't. What they all saw before him made everyone want to scream and hide under a rock.
There, in the middle of the room, was a girl unrecognizable to any one. She was lying on the floor haphazardly and most obviously dead. She was about their age and only one thing about this girl stood out. It was her bracelet. It was the same silver and green glass heart bracelet she saw every day, she watched as the figure twitched and went to stand up, it wasn't just a dead body it was an Inferi.
"Riddikulus." He said but nothing happened there really wasn't a way to make this funny. "Riddikulus!" He said again but nothing happened. It stared at him with dead vacant eyes. It was like a seeing the Zombie of a loved one.
Hermione felt tears sting her eyes as she realized losing her was his biggest fear. It was so horrible to watch him suffer this she wanted to run up to him and tell him she was ok and it was just a boggart. She knew she couldn't do that, since no one even knew they were friends.
"Draco," Pansy said. "Its just a boggart." But he couldn't take it any more and he ran from the room.
"What has you so tore up?" Harry asked Hermione who had tears running down her cheeks. Every one else was upset but Hermione was taking it the worst , well after Draco of course.
"Cause I know who the girl is. I never imagined his biggest fear would be loosing her." Hermione said her voice was thick and upset.
"Who was it Mione?" Harry asked.
She thought about her words carefully for a few minuets before answering him. "She wouldn't want me to tell you. Harry you just have to understand that."
"I do understand Hermione, it just doesn't concern you. Does it?" He asked still confused that she cared.
"No I guess not." She said walking from the room.
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Hermione and Draco didn't talk for several days, since Draco was embarrassed about what the class had seen. Hogsmede weekend come and gone, and she hadn't even seen or talked to him there.
When they got back to the castle from Hogsmede village The fat Lady had disappeared from her torn up portrait. When they had found her she told them that Sirius Black had come into the school and attacked her.
All of the students from every house had been told to go to the great hall, and told them that they would be staying the night there while the school was searched.
Hermione, Ginny, Harry, Ron and a Girl named Luna had taken their large squashy purple sleeping bags over to a corner and sat them down on the ground.
"You don't think he's still in the school do you?" Luna asked.
"Dumbledore wouldn't have us here if they didn't think he was." Hermione said solemnly just before her bag buzzed. She reached for it and pulled the book and a quill out and opened it.
"What is up with you and that book Hermione?" Ron demanded furiously. "You pay more attention to it than you do to us."
"Leave her alone about it." Ginny snapped. "It's her business not yours."
Hermione smiled at Ginny, thankful that she had such a great friend.
D: Hi Mione, sorry I haven't talked to you much lately. That whole scene from the other day was pretty embarrassing.
She noticed he had changed the name on his.
Mi: It's okay I understand. she said changing hers as well.
D: so you're not mad at me.
Mi: How can I be mad at someone whose worst fear is losing me? Its sweet : )
"Hermione why are you smiling like that?" Harry asked.
"I didn't know I was smiling any particular way." She said, she was happy to have her best friend taking to her again. She saw Ginny smile at her knowingly. She had talked to Ginny about how her friend hadn't been talking to her because of something that had happened to him. She hadn't gone into specifics.
"You looked like you were attacked by Nargles." Luna said. They all smiled at her comment.
"Lights out!" Percy Weasley said as he turned off the light. Every one slid into their sleeping bags, but only Hermione and Draco didn't try to go to sleep.
D: yeah, so I'm guessing you made the connections.
Mi: Yeah, I saw the bracelet and I knew, I have seen that bracelet everyday for almost seven years now.
D: That's what I figured.
Mi: Draco, Do you remember when I was petrified last year?
D: Vividly.
Mi: I heard what you told me, how you couldn't lose me.
D: I meant every word of it.
Hermione looked up and looked over to the Slytherin area and saw him looking at her and she smiled and then wrote.
Mi: I know you did, and you're my best friend too. Good night Drake.
She said putting her book back into her bag and then slipping farther into her sleeping bag and falling asleep on the soft squashy ground
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A/N: And there is the end of a really long chapter. I am looking forward to writing the next one, I am almost positive that you will love it!. Fun, Fun, Fun! Review! I love Reviews!