Chapter 20

After Ebony mentioned to me that Draco apparently doubted that I and the others were 'true goths,' I knew that it was time for the blonde boy to go. He was clearly trying to get rid of us, but there was no way that I was going to allow him to succeed. I wasn't really sure that Ebony liked him that much anyway. After all, she kissed Harry that day in class when she thought that Draco was missing. Perhaps Harry was the key to getting rid of Draco.

I wanted to find out a little more about whether or not Ebony honestly had feelings for Draco, or if it was simply that she thought her new goth persona would be well complimented by a pureblood bigot of a boyfriend. But I knew that if I asked her as 'Bloody Mary' she would tell me how in love she was with Draco. Therefore, I had to find a roundabout way to go about this. After convincing Ron to help me out, we were both back in our wig and oversized coat disguises.

"Hermione, you know this is silly, right?" Ron asked. They were standing outside Ebony's bedroom. "This close she's bound to know it's us."

"Not if we flip our collars up like this to hide our faces," I countered.

"Why do we need disguises at all? Why can't you just go and ask her this yourself?"

"Because I don't want her to think I'm sleeping with Neville! Can you imagine how awkward that could get for the both of us?"

"Okay yeah, let's do it this way," Ron agreed quickly. "But what do you need me for?"

"You know what? Nothing. Just wait there, I'll do this myself." I knocked on Ebony's door.

"Loopin! What the hell are you doing?" Ebony asked when she opened the door. I resisted the urge to roll my eyes.

"Um, hey. Can I borrow some condoms?" I asked, using a voice that was much lower and scratchier than my normal one. Ebony had been a virgin before Draco. I figured that if the real Ebony honestly liked Draco, she wouldn't have a ton of condoms because she wouldn't be expecting things to be purely physical all the time. I knew they were sexually active, and it wouldn't surprise me to know that she had at least some condoms. But I wanted to know how many she kept around at one time so that I could try and gauge just how much sex she thought she was going to be having.

"Eww! So you can go have sex with your 6-year-old girlfriend? No way!" Ebony exclaimed before slamming the door in my face. That didn't go as well as I'd hoped it would.

I turned around and immediately bumped into Ron, knocking him over and landing on top of him.

"Ow!" Ron yelled.

"So sorry!" I exclaimed. Just then, Dobby the house elf walked by.

"Miss Granger! Mr. Weasley! What has happened?" he asked, clearly concerned.

"We're alright, Dobby," I said as I rolled off of poor Ron. "We just-"

Suddenly, Ebony came out of her room. Dobby seemed frightened by her threatening goth appearance and ran off. Ron and I quickly made sure our collars were covering our faces.

"WTF! Is this why you wanted condoms?" she asked. Apparently she thought that Ron and I were having sex in the middle of the corridor.

"Well, you didn't give me any!" I exclaimed, still kind of hoping to get a peek at her condom supply.

"You could have told me," Ebony said. She pulled out a camera and took a picture of us.

"What was that for?" asked Ron.

"Blackmail," she replied simply before running off.

"Freak," Ron muttered. I punched him in the arm before getting up off the floor.

It took a little convincing, but I got Harry to agree go to the upcoming MCR concert with Ebony. She clearly had some sort of feelings for him, or she wouldn't have kissed him that day. Surely Harry was the perfect wedge to drive Ebony and Draco apart. The plan was simple; Harry was to pick up Ebony for the concert. Meanwhile, the rest of us were going to make sure that Draco didn't make it. This way Harry could flirt a little with Ebony without Draco around and hopefully make her realize that her current boyfriend isn't the guy she really wants.

Millicent, Ron, and I were pretty sure that the 3 of us together could take down Draco. After all, Harry and Millicent had kidnapped Draco that one time with just the 2 of them. It appeared that kidnapping Draco had just become a regular thing for us.

"There he is," Millicent whispered. We moved quickly, eager to intercept him on his way to meet Ebony for the concert.

"Hey, Draco," I said.

"Ugh, you three aren't coming to the concert are you? I personally arranged for them to come and make up for the last concert so that I could be alone with my boyfriend. You lot are a buzzkill," said Draco.

"No, we're not going to the concert," Millicent confirmed.

"And neither are you," Ron said. The three of us quickly grabbed Draco, catching him off guard. Before he had a chance to react, we had him locked inside a closet.

"That should hold him," I said after putting a powerful locking charm on the doorknob.

"Let me out, you filthy mudblood!" Draco shouted. He was pounding on the door.

"Later," Ron promised. And we did let him out a little later. He even had enough time to catch the end of the concert. And to see his girlfriend having a nice time with another man.