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In High Demand Chapter 34
"Oh for the love of Merlin!" Ginny exclaimed as she read through the old tome that Luna had in front of them. "What does this mean?"
Luna smiled at her future sister-in-law and shrugged. "I'm honestly not sure what everything means, but this part is pretty self explanatory," she replied, pointing at a section.
"Well, how do we find out?" the red head asked.
"We should probably take it to someone who understands things like this," Luna replied.
"Do you think we should tell Hermione?"
"She's on bed rest," a voice said, startling the girls.
"Bloody hell, Ron! Don't sneak up on people like that!" Ginny exclaimed, slapping her brother's arm as he came and sat beside Luna at the table they had taken up in the back of the library.
"You can sneak up on me any time, Lover," Luna said dreamily, leaning over and planting a mind blowing kiss on his lips.
"Oh, would you get a room!" Ginny exclaimed, irritated.
"Someones got her knickers in a twist," her brother teased.
"Yes, well, I think that you might too, once you read this. If you can understand it, that is."
Ron threw a not-so-nice gesture towards his baby sister before reading what was in front of them. His eyes grew bigger with each passing paragraph.
"Bloody hell," he whispered, leaning back in his chair.
"Exactly!" Ginny agreed, throwing her hands up in relief, finally getting the reaction she was wanting.
"What are we going to do?" he asked.
"I don't have a clue."
"It's not our decision to decide what to do," Luna said calmly, causing both of the red heads to look at her like she was mental.
"It may not be our decision, but I'm not going to let anything happen to," Ginny started.
"Nothing is going to happen," Luna promised.
"How do YOU know!" Ginny exclaimed. She loved Luna with all of her heart, but she was one of the strangest people she had ever known. Most people would be so confused and upset after reading something like that, especially when it had to do with people you love.
"Don't yell at her," Ron warned his sister quietly, grabbing his fiancee's hand. "Love, why do you say that?"
"This is a decision that will be thought over with much research, especially since a certain witch is involved. We need to know about the part we don't understand," Luna replied.
"We should probably let Hermione read this," Ginny said, gathering the book and the pieces of parchment that they had been writing notes down on.
"I don't think that they will let you give that to her until she's off bed rest," Ron informed her, stopping his sister in her tracks.
"Who won't?" she wondered, putting on hand on her hip in a very Molly Weasley type way.
"Where should I begin?" he asked with a smirk.
Ginny growled angrily, slamming the book back down on the table.
"That's a very old book," Luna informed Ginny.
"Sorry," the red head mumbled. "So what do we do now? I can't just sit here and do nothing."
"We should go let someone read this and explain the parts we don't understand," Ron replied.
"Who?" Ginny wondered.
Luna smiled and stood, gently gathering the materials that Ginny had dropped. "I think that I have an idea," she said, walking toward the library exit, leaving Ron and Ginny little left to do but follow.
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Hermione sighed, bored almost to the point of tears. She had been by herself, in her room, for most of the day. Professor McGonagall had kicked everyone out a few moments after Madam Pomfrey had informed her of Hermione's bed rest. She had sent Irina off to her new classes, Draco off to his, and the twins were banished to the shop, not to return until the next day. Mitzi had been the only living creature she had seen or been able to talk to and even she had left for awhile at one point.
It was mid-afternoon when Hermione decided to take one of her hours of work. She reached over to her night stand and pulled out a notebook of parchment and her favorite quill, deciding to finish a paper she had started a few weeks earlier.
After a few minutes of work there was a quite pop that startled the young witch.
"Mitzi, I just start about fifteen minutes ago, I promise. Please don't make me stop," she begged, not looking up from her work.
"I's know that you just started, Ms. Hermione. I's not going to stop you," the little elf promised.
Hermione looked up from her work and smiled at the small creature and noticed a big box with a massive ribbon on top. "What's that?"
Mitzi smiled brightly and snapped her fingers, levitating the box toward the bed. "It's a present for yous."
Hermione's eyes widened. "For me? What for?"
"There's a card for yous," Mitzi replied, handing the card over as Hermione placed her notebook of parchment aside.
She opened the card and began reading.
My Dearest Hermione,
I just wanted to apologize for the way things transpired a few days ago. That is most certainly NOT how I wanted things to go and it's completely my own fault. I am so sorry. I hope that you can find it in your heart to give me another chance.
I was informed that you've been placed on bed rest. I feel that this is, in part, my doing. I know that you have several things that you feel that you need to do and that you get bored extremely easily. Please except this gift that I sent with Mitzi. It should help you with the boredom when they won't let you work from bed.
I hope to hear from you soon.
I love you,
Viktor
Hermione sat the card down and looked over at the massive box that sat beside her bed.
"Can it be placed on my bed?" Hermione asked.
"Oh, no Ms. Hermione! Yous can sit on the side of your bed and opens it, though," Mitzi answered, magically moving the box closer.
Hermione sat up and twisted her body around, carefully placing her feet between the bed and the present. She pulled to bow carefully off of the massive box, setting it aside before moving to the beautiful wrapping paper. She carefully pulled at the paper, moving her finger underneath the seems, revealing a box.
"I's will open the rest of the way with magic, if that's alright with you, Ms. Hermione. It would be bad if Miss got hurt while opening gift," Mitzi said, looking at Hermione for permission.
Hermione raised an eyebrow, but nodded, curious as to what could possibly be in that box that could hurt her. Mitzi snapped her fingers and the cardboard disappeared. The contents of the box, which had obviously been shrunk, started moving themselves about, expanding to their full capacity.
"Oh my!" Hermione exclaimed, shocked.
"Dos you likes it Ms. Hermione? Dos you?" Mitzi asked, jumping around excitedly.
"I can't believe that he would spend so much on me," she whispered.
Mitzi smiled and patted Hermione's leg. "He loves you."
Hermione couldn't believe that Viktor had bought her a muggle television. It was expensive to get it converted to be able to play in a magical building. And the TV itself must have cost him a fortune, seeing as it covered half of the wall.
"He really does, doesn't he?"
Mitzi nodded, grinned and snapped her fingers, revealing another box, about the size of a shoe box. "Here is something thats goes with that."
Hermione shook her head and opened the box that had been placed on her lap. She gasped when she saw at least 25 DVDs, one catching her eye immediately.
"He remembered."
"Of course, he remembers, Ms. Hermione. Any wizard who truly loves his witch remembers her favorite things," Mitzi replied, gently lifting the box from the young witch's lap and moving it to the entertainment center that held the magical electronics. She quickly picked up the first DVD of the set and put it in the device.
"Ms. Hermione needs to rest now," the house elf insisted, moving to the bed to help Hermione to relax back on her pillows. Mitzi placed the remote controls on the night stand and popped out of the room, leaving her to her thoughts.
Thank you to SiriuslyMe3 for beta reading this for me. :) I hope you like this chapter, everyone. Sorry it took so long, but life has been crazy. My grandpa is in the hospital in Missouri, meaning my mother went up there to be with them, meaning that I'm momma to my little brother and sister until she gets back. Please review...they will get me through watching my siblings play Lego Harry Potter 4-7. :) (I love HP, as you can tell, but video games and I do not get along.) Happy Reading.