What Happens In the Room of Requirement

Authors Note: I just thought I would say that When I am writing my stories I am imagining that I am right there while it is all happening. I hope you enjoy them just as much as I do, Enjoy!

Chapter 38:

" This is Ridiculous!" Draco Said to Blaise.

" I get it though" He said shrugging. " It is supposed to bring light and something cheerful for us instead of darkness." McGonagall walked toward Draco while he ate, well barely ate.

" Excuse me, I am sorry to interrupt you Draco,but I wanted you to host a prefect meeting to coordinate duties for the ball, and assign out patrolling assignments for this term."

" But Hermione is Head Girl and this should really be done with her there"

" Mr. Malfoy , you are still the Head boy no matter what Miss. Granger's condition. You are to lead the meeting like always ,and come up with a reasonable schedule, and you are to show up at the ball. I need you all to have happy memories at this school ,and not just dark ones. Attendance is Mandatory, do you understand me?" Draco nodded feeling defeated. Draco pushed his plate away and left to sit with me in the infirmary.

Harry looked over at Ginny, and Ron kept stuffing his face as if her was un affected by any of this.

" Ginny I am sorry that I doubted you." She looked up from her bread pudding. " You saw it happen didn't you?"

" Yes Harry." She sighed " And I'd hoped as my friend you would believe and support me, and not just jump right to calling me crazy."

" I never thought you were crazy?" She raised an eyebrow at him. " Ok, I did but why now?"

" I don't know" she shrugged, and continued to pick at her food. " All I can think about is Hermione all alone in the infirmary. I bet she is trying so hard somewhere to bring her self back by reading every book possible." She laughed trying to hide the pain. " You know I am just glad that she is not alone. This whole time since the battle ended Draco Malfoy stayed with her, and so had Blaise Zambini. Imagine that two Slytherin's who have once stood for something horrible can love a Gryffindor." Harry must have felt so bad. Ginny grabbed Harry's hand.

" Look Harry who are we kidding?" he looked at her hard. He knew what she was going to say, even though he was still not mentally prepared for this speech. " I have always had the idea of you and I together, and maybe thought that we could… but I cant wait for you to regain your sanity from after everything , when my happiness is on the line as well. Harry there is some one else. I have fallen for Blaise Zambini, I am going to go to the Ball with him, and right now he is where I should be, with Hermione." She got up and made her way to the infirmary.

Draco sat down in his usual spot next to me.

" McGonagall wants me to put everything together for the back from the holiday ball with out you. It feels so weird and wrong with out you." He sighed. She made a speech today in the Great Hall for the feast. Telling everyone of our battle. She thinks this ball will bring some light in our lives." he snorted to mock her words. " Your may light." He put his head in his hands. Blaise stood behind him now as he continued to speak to me. " You have to wake up. Please wake up because I want to go to the ball with you. Ok so this is me Draco Malfoy asking you to the ball. I want to show you off to the world. Can you do that for me?" Draco was so hopeful, and I wished I could scream yes at him, and jump in his arms, but no matter how hard I screamed he could not hear me. I was only inside my mind, looking out onto life as it just passes me by. Draco Grabbed my hand and the moment he had my blood presure began to race. Draco noticed this and thought I was waking up.

" Hermione?" Then as soon as it sped up it went back down.

" What was that?" Blaise asked hoping Draco would know. He looked around for Madame Pomphrey, but she was no where to be found.

" It means there is a sign of life in her. I asked her to go to the ball with me and I think it was her trying to respond."

" I don't know mate , I wouldn't get your hopes up."

Just then Ginny came back in. She heard Draco getting hysterical from my sudden rise in pulse. I had no idea how I did that, but if only I could do that again.

" What's going on?" She asked as she stood next to Blaise.

" Her pulse rate, it speed up"

" What does that mean?" She looked around for Madame Pomphrey as well. " Where's Madame Pomphrey?" Blaise shrugged and Draco seemed un phased by her question.

" She is coming to, I just know it! She is coming back!" Draco was so ecstatic he was now pacing. Blaise put a hand on his friends shoulder to stop him, and try to calm him down.

" Calm down mate, we don't know it means any thing." Draco shook his head he refused to believe it was nothing, and I had to believe that as well.

" No, I told her I wanted to take her to the ball and show her off to the world. I told her she needed to come back to, and not leave me alone. Then her pulse rate sped up. She was telling us something." He tried to persuade them. Blaise looked unaffected or changed in his mind, but Ginny perked up.

" Wait Malfoy may be on to something"

" Thank you"

"Don't you see? It's the first sign of life she has made in weeks, and knowing Hermione she is already trying like hell to bring herself back." Draco couldn't control his smiles, and Blaise still unsure said nothing ,but put and arm around Ginny to comfort her. The three of them stayed by my side taking turns to leave to get some rest.

Harry and Ron were walking the halls late at night. They had been fighting with themselves to go see Hermione. Ron wasn't sure if he could face Hermione laying there in a comma especially since the last time he talked to her was when she told him she was not in love with him, but someone else. Harry still found it hard to see his friend because Ginny had been right the whole time and he refused to see it because of his own pride.

" I know its hard given the circumstances, that she doesn't love me, but she is still my friend, our friend, and she would want us there?" Ron stuttered as he paced the halls with Harry.

" Yea , she would want us there, even though we haven't been very good friends to her lately."

" That doesn't matter. I don't care if this other love of her life is there or not I am going to see her." Ron made up his mind but he was still un aware that Draco was the love of my life. Harry knew but did not say any thing, because this was hard enough as it was.

" Lets go" They both agreed and made there way to the infirmary. Along the way Harry spotted a group of Ravenclaw's and his attention was else where for the moment.

" Hold on Ron there is something I need to do first." Ron stopped and watched as his best friend walked straight over to the group. He walked straight up to Luna Lovegood, who was staring at her feet to notice Harry coming toward her.

" Hi Luna" Luna smiled and then looked up at Harry.

" Hello Harry" She said dreamily.

" Uh" He scratched the back of his head. He was nervous. " So I haven't seen you around ,how have you been?" She shrugged.

" I have been around. I know you have had a heavy mind lately, The narquills told me." Harry laughed he loved listening to Luna speak. She seemed crazy to everyone ,but it was like she was really smarter than us all.

" Look Luna I just wanted to apologize about earlier at the beginning of term." She suddenly looked really sad. " Not about kissing you, but about just ignoring you afterward." she smiled and looked at her feet again. " That was wrong of me to do. I never meant to string you along like that. I had been waiting for the idea of Ginny and I for so long that I didn't realize that I was not in love with her." She nodded. " Luna you are my friend, but I am hoping you will be more. Will you go to the Ball with me?" Luna started to blush and giggled.

" I would love to Harry"

" That's Great really" He leaned in and gave Luna a kiss on the cheek. " I have to go check on Hermione, but I will talk to you later.

" Yes, ok, Good bye Harry" He stayed and watched Luna round the corner and then walked back over to Ron who was now Grinning.

" What?" Harry asked.

" Nothing , man"

" Shove off I like her"

" I said nothing" They both chuckled and made there way to the infirmary.