26 The Mysterious Blonde
Harry was sitting in the castle's highest tower staring into the fire, waiting for her. If she didn't bring him any good news he would make sure she knew she had failed him once again. He heard the familiar scuff on the floor and understood that Nagini had returned from her hunt.
"Is she on her way?" Harry asked her as she crept up and around the back of his fauteuil. She just nodded and put her head down on his lap so he could pet it. No less than five minutes later he heard two pair of feet walk up the long way to the tower. A knock was heard on the already half opened door and it whined as it was pushed by someone.
"M-my Lord?" He heard Wormtail's pathetic little voice call out to him.
"What is it Wormtail?" He hissed calmly at him.
"S-she's..."
"I've told you a hundred times to SPEAK UP!" He wasn't really angry; he just enjoyed watching the worthless little man crumble in fear for him. He looked out of the corner of his eye over his shoulder to see that the rat had fallen to his hands and knees in a bow.
"Y-yes My Lord, I'm sorry My Lord."
"Stand up you fool and tell me what you want." Wormtail did as he was told in what must have been in a millisecond.
"Master, s-she has arrived."
"Well what are you waiting for? Bring her in and then get the hell out of my sight." He looked down at Nagini again as he scratched her under her chin, hearing Wormtail leaving the room in haste. Harry heard the door open once more and the footsteps stopped right behind his back. "Come so I can see you." She moved and Harry could now see the young beautiful blonde woman in her twenties with ice blue eyes and thin lips. "Well?"
"My Lord." She said in her American accent "I'm not really there yet but I can feel it is close… that the book is in the school."
"If you felt it on the train then OF COURSE IT IS IN THE SHOOL NOW" He shouted but then calmed his voice with some remaining anger. "Or do you think the student that has it threw it out while they were riding on it?"
"No My Lord, I'm sorry."
"You told me this summer that you would have it here with me by Christmas- that is in two weeks and I don't see how you will keep that promise as most students will go on holiday in a week. I need that so I can have the potion before the school year is over. I NEED THAT BOOK!"
"I-I'm sorry master; I didn't think it w-would t-take this long to find the p-person who has it. But I feel it calling to me so, so strongly now..." She immediately stopped talking when he put his hand up and turned to Nagini and started to speak to her in Parseltongue.
"I think I need to punish her, my beauty; why don't you go down and make sure no one disturbs me until dawn." Harry waited for Nagini to leave before closing the door with a wave of his hand. He stood up and walked over to the young woman and put his hand around her throat, choking her.
"I don't tolerate things like this." He hissed in her ear. "When someone is supposed to bring me something I expect them to bring them to... me... in... time." He squeezed his hands a little harder and she let out an increasing gurgle. "I have to punish them whom disappoint me; let's see if my theories of you being a better fuck than Bell are right."
Harry woke up with a start and sat bolt up in his bed breathing like he had run a marathon. His clothes were soaked with sweat and he could feel it dripping down his back.
What had he just dreamt about? Something about Voldemort... no he had been Voldemort; Nagini had been there, plus Wormtail and a woman he had never seen before. She had failed Voldemort in something, something about a book and a potion. Did she say that a student had it?
Harry ran his hands over his face and up through his messy black hair trying to remember his dream. Voldemort wanted a book for something and the woman said something about sensing it on the train and here at the school. Or was it at another school? They had practically said Hogwarts but what other school could it possibly be if not Hogwarts? Did that mean that the woman was here searching for it or was there a Death Eater in the castle? He had to wake Ron up and tell him about it and see what he thought.
Harry flew his tangled covers off himself and pulled away his curtains to get out of the bed. When he stood up and was about to walk over to Ron's bed, he saw that the curtains were back and the bed empty. Damn it; he had forgotten that he was with Hermione (a thought that he really didn't want to think about at this moment). Feeling annoyed at his best mate not being there when he needed him most, he crawled back into his bed knowing that he wasn't going to be able to go back to sleep as he would be thinking about his dream and cursing his shagging best friends.
He felt warm, well rested and so, so comfortable and not ready to wake up yet as he held his eyes closed. His face was buried in her hair and neck and he inhaled the sweet scent of vanilla. Her back was pressed against his chest and his left arm was wrapped around her naked form pinning her as close to him as possible. He stroked his big hand up and down her flat stomach and knew she was awake as she moaned as he then cupped her left breast with it, playing with her nipple.
"Morning my love." He whispered in her ear and started to kiss her neck softly. He felt her grab his hand and turn around in his arms so that she was facing him and snuggling into his neck. He hugged her tighter as she put her arms around his back and tangled her leg with his. He could hear her inhale his scent on his neck as she whispered good morning to him in a sleepy voice. "Let us never leave this bed."
"Mmmm that sounds very nice but I'm afraid we have classes soon and have to go down to get some breakfast first, which I think will get you out of bed for pretty quickly." He could feel her chuckle against this throat rather than hear it.
"I would rather starve myself again if it means spending all my life in bed with a naked you." He said in a husky voice.
"I think that is the most beautiful thing you have ever said to me." They both started to laugh but Ron soon stopped as he felt Hermione's breasts bounce against his chest. He could feel his cock start to twitch and he knew Hermione could feel it too as she stopped laughing quite abruptly. It was soon fully erect as they started to kiss and his hands had wandered up to her breasts, massaging them. He felt her hands wander up to his chest and was quite shocked by the force she had used to push him on his back. He opened his eyes to look at her as she straddled his waist as both moaned loudly as she slowly lowered herself on him.
He opened his eyes as she started to rock her hips and saw the most beautiful sight he had ever seen. The most beautiful woman in the world, the woman he loved was sitting there with her long brown hair falling over her naked shoulders and bouncing breasts. She let out a loud moan as she rode him and he watched himself go in and out of her for a couple of minutes before his dazed eyes locked on hers.
Hermione grabbed his hands that had been on her hips and led them up to her breasts where he started to massage them with his hands. She threw her head back but he couldn't tear his eyes from her as he felt the familiar feeling of his release grow closer with every thrust.
"Oh my God Ron! It feels so good! I can't... I'm gonna... OH YES ROOOOOON!" Suddenly Ron felt her muscles contract around him (it felt so good) that before he knew it, he was coming. Hermione fell flat on top of his chest that was rising up and down as he was breathing hard. Ron looked down at his girlfriend and just saw the top of her head but could feel her breathing just as hard as he was as he felt her chest against his stomach.
"Is... is it common... for a woman... to come... the second time?" He said between breaths. He felt her smile against him and felt the pride rise before she even spoke.
"The book said... that it would... take a couple... of times for the woman... to have an orgasm." Nope the pride didn't stop rising and he couldn't help a smile slip over his cheeks. "Stop looking so smug." She said but she hadn't looked at him before she said it so he tried to deny it even though he knew he was never going to fool her.
"I'm not looking smug." He said but couldn't wipe the smile off his face. This made Hermione look up but instead of scolding him, like he thought she would, she smiled back and reached up to kiss him.
"I think it is best for us to get up before that smile of yours starts to tear up the extremely handsome face of yours." She pecked him one last time before she threw the covers off of them to stand up and start to search for her clothes. He watched her as she picked up her sexy nightgown she had worn for him yesterday, loving the view of her as she bent down.
"I love this."
"What?" She said and turned around to face him. He got up and walked over to her.
"That we are comfortable enough to walk around naked in each other's presence." He saw her blush and look down on herself and then up and down his naked frame.
"I love it too." He bent down and kissed her but she stopped him by putting a finger to his lips. "As much as I could do this all day with you, Love, I'm afraid we need to get some clothes on as classes will start in less than one and a half hours." She pecked him and again started to look for her clothes. He just sighed as he much rather would have spent the whole day with her here but soon bent down to put on his boxers to get ready to leave.
Harry walked into the Great Hall, stopping to look up and down the Gryffindor table to see if he had spotted his friends. Ah! There they were- in the front! He started to walk towards them and saw that they were sitting very close (even for a couple) and saw that their hands just as their legs were entwined together under the table. Ron was whispering something in her ear and Hermione blushed and giggled into her hand before turning to Ron to kiss him lightly. Harry didn't care though as he marched over there and sat down in front of them hard so that they would know that he was present.
"Where the hell were you all night?"He whispered to them harshly as they broke their gaze from each other long enough to look at him but not losing the look of the happy daze in their eyes. "I thought you would be back last night!"
"I'm sorry Harry but I told you and Ginny that we wanted some..." Harry could see a deep blush creep up her cheeks as she once again turned to Ron and smiled. "... some… private time." Ron blushed now too.
"Well that's too bad because I had a dream about Voldemort last night; but if you don't think that is important then I guess I don't have to tell you!" He said and reached for a piece of toast. Both of them had now turned their full attention to him and saw Hermione let go of Ron's hand which made Ron frown at her and then scowl at Harry.
"You should not have those dreams anymore Harry. Why don't you go and just ask Professor Snape to teach you Occlumency again?"
"First- because it's Snape we are talking about; second, because I sucked at it and third because it was horrible and the dreams can be helpful like this one." He snapped at her.
"Ok calm down both of you and let's not discuss this in the Great Hall." Ron interrupted them. Harry saw Hermione cross her arms over her chest but didn't say anything else. "Tell us what your dream was about Harry." Harry took a deep breath and leaned over the table to whisper about the blond woman that had met with Voldemort in some kind of castle. The woman was still searching for the book that she had told him was with a student here at Hogwarts- that she could feel it here.
"It is here at Hogwarts? With a student?" Hermione asked, seeming to have forgotten about their little fight for now.
"Yeah that's what she said; she said that she could feel it here and that she was searching for it."
"B-but then that must mean that she has come here to search for it." Ron said looking around the hall to see if something was amiss.
"Yes I think there is a Death Eater among us." He answered him.
"D-do you think she's using Polyjuice Potion to turn into one of the students or...?" Hermione tried but was cut off by Harry.
"Yes that's exactly what I think. The problem is… that I don't know her name, otherwise I could have checked it out on the Marauders Map to find out if she is back." Harry said.
"We can still do that." Hermione said. "I know everyone's name; if I look at the map and see a name that I don't recognize we will know where and whom she is supposed to be in a couple of moments."
"That's brilliant Hermione!" Harry said and saw a pleased smile creep up her cheeks. "But we'll check it tonight. I'll bring it down to the Common Room tonight and we'll wait until everybody has gone up to bed." They both nodded and leaned back as Harry could see Hermione's hand slide back under the table towards Ron. Ron smiled and Harry understood that Hermione had taken his hand again as he hadn't smiled since she had let it go.
"And Harry..." Hermione said. "... you have no right to say when we are allowed to have alone time just as we are not allowed to tell you when to have alone time with Hannah, alright?" He knew she was right.
"Sorry, I have no desire to control any others' alone times. It's just that this is so important and I wanted to tell both of you right away." However, before anyone could say anything else they heard someone running towards them; Harry turned his head to see who it was just before Ginny came up to Hermione's side and grabbed her free arm with both of her hands.
"I need to speak to you!" She said and pulled Hermione's arm.
"What? Why?" Hermione asked as she tried to take her arm back but was unsuccessful.
"Just come with me." Harry saw Ginny tug her arm again.
"All right, all right." Hermione started to get up but didn't walk away before turning Ron's head towards her to give him a kiss. Harry never thought he would witness from Hermione Granger, even less in the Great Hall, kissing Ron Weasley in public. When Ron and Hermione broke away both he and Ron looked after her as she and Ginny left the hall, Ron with a dazed kind of dreamy face and Harry with a shocked one. When Harry looked over at Ron again he was still looking at the door with the same face. Harry had to reach over the table and smack him on the back of his head to get his attention.
"Can you stop drooling for a second?" Harry laughed as he saw Ron's blush creep up his ears but a smile as well. "So eh... something really good had to have happened last night for her to do that right?" Harry asked a bit curious even though he knew it was Ron and Hermione he was talking about.
"Yeah, something really good." Ron said. Harry smiled at him and went back to his breakfast "Harry… I know that you don't want any details or anything but you are my best mate and I really want to share this with you." Harry stopped chewing his piece of bacon to look up at his best friend over his glasses.
"All right but please no details." He said and started to chew his food again and was just about to swallow when Ron spoke.
"We did it last night." Every single piece of bacon in Harry's mouth went the wrong way and could feel his eyes watering as he coughed and tried to reach for his glass of pumpkin juice. When he had reached it and poured it all down his throat he started to calm down. "Are you all right mate?"
"No!" Harry said. "You can't just spring that up on the guy who is practically a brother with the girl you are talking about. How would you like it if I told you I had slept with Ginny last night?"
"Sorry Harry I really didn't know you thought of her like that." Ron said and put his hands up as if someone was pointing a gun at him. "Well I knew you thought of each other as brother and sister but... a bit like a friend's brother and sister and not actual siblings."
"Ron, both of those tell you that the one so called brother doesn't want to hear his best friend have sex with his so called sister."
"Oh, sorry mate." Ron gave him a half smile as he lowered his hands and turned back to his breakfast, but almost looked up at once and pointed his finger hard at Harry. "And don't you ever again talk about anyone having... you know what with my sister!"
"I won't and I'm glad you see my point now." Both of them returned once again to their breakfast but soon Harry started to think about what Ron and Hermione had done. He and Hannah had never really gotten close to having sex; hell he had never even touched her breasts. He hadn't really thought about it until now actually. What did that tell about him; never thinking of taking things to the next level with your girlfriend at the age of 16 has to be something wrong with that. "Hey Ron, I'm going to pretend that it isn't Hermione we're talking about here but I have to ask you- how did you know you wanted to be with her?" Ron just stared at him.
"I don't know, I love her so of course I wanted to be with her."
"But how did you know that you were in love with her?"
"I don't know Harry I just realised it one day and that's that." Both of them were quiet for some time before Ron spoke again. "Are... are you asking me this because you're thinking about taking your relationship with Hannah a bit further?" Harry thought about saying yes but knew that wasn't the truth.
"No, I'm asking because I want to know why I haven't thought about it and not actually feeling any excitement about doing so."
"Well I'm not an expert in feelings and stuff like that Harry, that's more Hermione's thing, but it sounds that maybe Hannah is not the girl you want your first one to be with."
"Yeah, maybe. I have to think about it a bit I think." Both boys fell quiet once again but soon Harry's curiosity took over his brotherly instincts about Hermione. "So... how was it?" He asked. He saw Ron get his dazed, dreamy face back as he answered.
"Amazing!"
"Ginny what is it that is so important that you have to rip my arm off?" Hermione asked as Ginny refused to let go of her arm even though she was going with her willingly. Ginny didn't answer her but just kept dragging her down hall after hall, not even stopping to look at her when she spoke. The halls were getting thinner with people at every corner they turned as Hermione was just about to ask her one more time where she was taking her and what she wanted to talk about when Ginny suddenly stopped and opened a door to an empty classroom. She pushed Hermione in front of her kind of hard into the room and Hermione turned towards her just in time to see her close the door after her.
"I know that it is my brother we are talking about here but I'm gonna ignore that because I have to ask you how it was!" At fist Hermione didn't understand what the younger girl was talking about and just stared up at her excited face.
"How what was?" She asked feeling kind of off.
"Oh don't play dumb with me Hermione." Ginny said as she sat down on a chair behind one of the desks. "I could see how close you and Ron were sitting at breakfast with your tangled legs and arms. And you were particularly glowing every time you looked at him or touched him, which was the whole time. I am not stupid and I could just guess that you had sex for the first time last night." Hermione was in shock and couldn't say anything for a while, but when she finally regained her voice, she stuttered very badly.
"B-but... but how...I... we..." Hermione stopped attempting to speak as the girl in front of her was now giggling behind her hand. She took a deep breath and sat down on a chair herself before she said without looking at her boyfriend's sister. "Ok yes we had sex." She heard a squeal and the next thing she knew was her face was buried in Ginny's long, dark, red hair as she hugged her.
"I knew it! So tell me how it was, but please no details mind you as it is my brother we are talking about and I can't ignore it that much." Ginny said as she sat down on her knees in front of Hermione.
"Well it was... it was... eh..." She struggled to find the right words for it without giving away any details. "Hot I guess." Ginny just raised her eyebrows.
"Hot you guess? Ok you can give me a little more than that I think."
"Oh ok. Well when he first entered me..."
"OK NOT THAT MUCH!" Ginny shouted and covered her ears for a few seconds.
"Sorry Ginny but I don't know what the right words are for not giving you too much or too little. Maybe if you let me think a bit I can try again." Ginny nodded and Hermione started to think and after a couple of minutes she thought she maybe had it. "Ok well at first it was kind of painful but that was over pretty quickly. And after that I have no better words than bloody amazing."
"Really? Even though it was my clumsy brother who has no tact whatsoever?" Hermione didn't look at Ginny when she said this, but instead looked at the floor a few inches beside her as she felt a smile grow on her cheeks.
"He was amazing Ginny. He was so afraid he would hurt me so I thought he almost didn't want to do it anymore. He was as gentle he could be and really took care of me. I couldn't have asked for more." Hermione shook her head as it started to wander off to the night before and this morning and she could feel a blush creeping up on her cheeks as she looked at Ginny's raised eyebrows and teasing smile. She didn't stop smiling though.
"I'm really happy for you Hermione, you and Ron both."
"Thank you Ginny." Suddenly Ginny stopped smiling and turned her head away.
"Do... do you think... Harry and Hannah..." Hermione knew where she wanted to go with that.
"No Ginny, I don't think they have." She spoke gently as Ginny turned back to look at her again.
"How can you be sure?"
"I can't but I've never gotten any vibe from Harry that they have had sex. Remember when he and Hannah first got together, how excited he was to have a girlfriend? Ron was a bit of the same when we got together and he acted the same way when we had eh... stepped a little further in our relationship." Ginny giggled at that. "My point is that I never have seen Harry like that after he and Hannah got together so I don't think they have taken their relationship very far."
"Ok I guess that makes sense." Hermione then watched her shake her head before she looked up at her again. "It doesn't matter anyway as I'm thinking of starting to date again."
"Oh really, who do you have in mind?"
"Well I think Dean has gotten pretty handsome lately."
"Dean? As in Dean Thomas?" Hermione asked a bit shocked.
"Yes, something wrong with him?"
"Oh no not that I know of; I think it may still be a good way to forget Harry like that." Hermione then looked down at her watch. "Oh we better go! Classes will start in 20 minutes and I have to go up and grab books and change."
Later that evening around midnight, Hermione, Harry and Ron were sitting in the best chairs and couch by the fire in the Common Room, watching as the last pair of students (a couple of 5th year girls) walked up the stairs to their dorm. When they were out of sight, Harry immediately reached into his right pocket of his robe and took out what looked like a blank piece of parchment (which they all knew very well wasn't). Harry took out his wand and pointed it at the parchment and said,
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." Suddenly ink appeared and the Marauders Map revealed itself. Harry handed it over to her and she started to lay it out on the table in front of her. They all started to look through it even though it was only Hermione who knew all the names. They started with looking at the Slytherin Common Room and saw that Malfoy, Parkinson, Crabbe, Goyle and Nott were huddled in there together but Hermione couldn't find any unfamiliar names wandering around the room. They then moved to the Ravenclaws but turned out with the same result-no unknown names. After, they checked the other two common rooms with no change and started to look over the whole map of Hogwarts to see if she was out after curfew, but didn't find anyone.
"Maybe she has gone back to You-know-who?" Ron said when they had looked in every corner of the castle.
"Voldemort, Ron. And yeah maybe- what do you think Harry?" Hermione watched Harry stand up and start to pace as he was thinking.
"But why would she do that? She gave a report to Voldemort last night."
"Maybe she found it and got the book and went to give it to him." Ron suggested.
"No I would have felt him get happy and excited then. Are you sure you recognised all the names Hermione?" Harry had stopped pacing and was looking directly at her now.
"Yes, Harry I am sure. Maybe Ron is right, she may not have gone to Voldemort to deliver the book but she may have gone to him for something else or left the castle for another purpose. I suggest that I take the map with me and check it tomorrow at lunch when she has to be here to attend classes if she is a polyujuiced student." Hermione said.
"Yeah all right let's do that." Harry said and whispered, "Mischief managed." The map then closed and folded itself up before giving it to her.
"Well I'm going to bed." She said and put the map in her bag before standing up. "I suggest that you close your eyes and ears now Harry." She heard him mutter thanks for the warning but she didn't bother to see if he had done it before leaning over to Ron to kiss him hard on the mouth for a good couple of minutes before leaning into whisper, "I will come later." With that, she pecked him once more before smiling at his shocked face and then walked over to the girls' stairs, nudging Harry on his arm on her way as if to say that he could now look and take his hands off his ears.
AN: OK what do you think about that? Does it sound exciting and mysterious or boring or what? Please tell me!
I am also all for you guessing about who our mysterious blond woman is and what you think will happen in general in this mystery as it would be exciting for me to see how you all think it will turn out!
Next chap coming up pretty soon I think if I'm not too busy with school stuff.
See you then! =)