Chapter Fourteen: Tom
When Mione woke up that morning, the sun was in her eyes. She quickly grabbed her wand from her night stand and shut them. She then proceeded to get ready.
An Owl flew into her room, her schedule attacked to it, she grabbed it and dismissed the flying creature. She put the paper into her bag and continued her morning ritual.
She dawned her school robes, and buttoned on her badge. When she emerged from her room five minutes later, she saw a strange boy with black hair was sitting on a chair in her common room. She immediately guessed who she was looking at.
"Tom I presume?"
They stranger looked up to see Hermione's smiling face. "That's correct, your Hermione right? 'Tis a pleasure!" He stood up and extended his hand.
She took it, expecting a shake, but instead he turned it over and started to talk. "Your far away from home, not only physically, but mentally and emotionally. You have a love , whom you don't knows exists.hum can't be me, says you know the person." He fiddled with her hand while Mione didn't know what to really do. "You hold secrets from everyone, but yourself and one person. I think that one person might be the one.but I could be wrong, it could be a girl. IT says here you have a gift.not magic, but something else. You are also to live a long life and die naturally. That's good, Voldemort won't kill you." he trailed as he studied her hand.
"Umm, Tom? Not to be rude or anything, but what are you doing?"
"Oh!" he let go of her hand. "I'm sorry, it's just that my family is of gypsy origin, and its kind of habit." He laughed.
"Its alright, I haven't ever had that accurate of a reading before."
"You've been read before? Then why do you have secrets still?"
"I hide them very well."
"I see.well Hermione-."
"Mione."
"who?"
"Mione, all my friends call me that."
"Oh! Yes well Mione, umm I should warn you.people who stay in my presence don't hold secrets from me for long, not like I pick at them or anything, its just that, I can figure things out pretty quickly." He seemed embarrassed at this, so Mione knew he wasn't bragging.
"Oh, well if you do, I would appreciate if you don't tell anyone."
"Yu could make it easier and just tell me them later.we have to leave now or we'll be late for breakfast."
"Yeah!" and Mione grabbed her book bag and walked out the portrait of the Hogworts crest and went down to the great hall.
When she entered she saw Harry and Immediately went over to say hi.
"Mione?" Harry asked.
"What is it Harry?"
"Two things."
"Firsts first."
"Why was Malfoy helping us yesterday?"
"Simple really Harry. I told him that if he didn't help we could tell the entire school how Malfoy was saved from that predicament by us." She smirked "I just played on his pride a little."
"Clever Mione, now the second, how did you like your new common room?"
"Its nice, and quiet!" she started to laugh. "But I still miss all the excitement in Gyffindor tower!"
"Mione," Ron perked up.
"Yeah?"
"the remembrance charm, what do you do besides say the charm, what's the other part, I can't remember."
"Typical! You forget a forgetfulness potion in your first year and you can't remember a remembrance charm in your seventh!" she obviously found this funny, and so did Harry. "You have to focus on the past as you do the charm Ron." She answered his question.
"Oh!" and he scribbled it down. "Thanks Mione."
"Any time."
"Mione what's that on your neck?"
"just a pendant my mother gave me, isn't it beautiful?" she showed him.
"It's a dragon." Harry said worried.
"Well of course, my mom thinks of magic in the terms of Faeries and Dragons."
"Oh."
"Also Harry, you should know Dragons Portrait wisdom of power and magic. My mother thought it quite suited me well."
"I think it does too, its just I didn't realize you liked them." Mione muttered to herself a bit. "What was that?"
"Oh I said I could have sworn I told you!"
"Oh,"
"Well, it doesn't matter now, did you guys get your schedules?"
"Yeah, Potions first thing!" Ron sneered. "Can you believe it? They usually wait until Friday!"
"Potions?" Hermione paled. "WE have to be around Malfoy so soon after that? Honestly, they should be more considerate of our feelings!"
"Yeah I know." Harry agreed. "But transfiguration is right after Mione!"
She went though her papers and grabbed out her schedule. "Yeah it is, that's good. Then Athermancy! Well, they make up for it in the long run!"
They ate breakfast and headed to the first potions lesson of the year a half an hour early.
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Draco walked into the Dungeon where potions were held as soon as it was time. He noticed that the dream pair and Mione were already sitting and laughing about something. Draco's day brightened significantly when he saw the pendant that he gave Mione on her neck.
He sat down as Snape started role. "Everyone's here." he drawled like he was angry at this fact. "Well, best get started then." He said mostly to himself, but as Draco was sitting up close he heard it clearly.
Snape stepped in front of the class and his voice grew louder "This is your first class in the new year, so I know none of you realize how tough all the teachers will be on you. This may be your last year, but there will be no partying because of it. Instead you'll find yourselves studying more then ever, since, as you all should know." He said this last part warningly to Neville. "Your Newt's will be taken this year in addition to your Exams." He glanced sneeringly at all the Gryfindor's "SO I expect from all of you by now to know how I expect this class to be run, so everyday, notes will be on the board and the potion I expect you to make, and I expect it all to be done in a classes time, if you finish early, then you may leave. No, you may not stay once done."
He said then walked over to the board, and started to write. "Ms. Granger." He said halfway though the second sentence. "You are to do nothing today, I don't want you to move of one muscle during the duration this class." And he continued to write.
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Mione looked up shocked. "But why?"
"There will be no talking or detentions will be assigned." And he started to work on something else.
Mione, being who she was, obeyed, no matter how outrageous the proposal was. But she was angry, and that anger had to go somewhere, and she had an entire class to hold it for, or she would face a detention, and loss of points in the first day.
But her anger had to go somewhere. Looking forward, Mione's anger was focused on the potions master, ad he smirked at her predicament. Harry and Ron gave her sympathy glances, but that's all, they had work they needed to do.
Mione shut her eyes, and tried to remember that night where the world opened up for her. She fuelled her eyes with her anger, and though of the thought she had in her mind when it happened first. Draco.
Suddenly she remembered what the letter had said. It said that she could see something that was never shown to any one, she could see everyone's secrets. And it worked.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
As Draco was about to start working on his potion, he was suddenly distracted by a clash. Snape must have noticed it to for he also looked up.
In front of both of their eyes, a female student was glowing a brilliant gold. Draco knew it was Mione from the time she saw he before.
Suddenly they saw where the noise was coming from. Mione was trying to get a caldron, Snape noticed that the parchment in front of her was writing all of her notes.
The ingredients were flying at her, the things that needed to be cut, were cutting themselves. Her potion was putting itself together, and Mione sat there with her pupils dilated and her body glowing.
Soon the class was over, Mione never moved an inch, but her potion and her day's work were completed. The second class ended she was released from the spell and she walked out of the room as quickly as she could.
Draco turned in his potion and walked out as well, followed by the rest of the class, who oddly enough, seemed to be untouched by what Granger just did.
He knew where she was heading, transfiguration, he needed to catch up with her, without anyone noticing, before she got there.
Amazingly, the traits that put him into Slythrin, didn't work. She was already in class and he had to pass the room by and head for herbology.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
At dinner Mione was quite shocked to find that during the entire day, no one asked about what had happened in Potions. She herself knew she was doing something out of the ordinary, however, no one else seemed to mind.
Very odd indeed.
Harry and Ron sat by her during dinner, and they talked about the new students, quidditch, and of course, to their surprise, the fact that they had no homework.
Hermione had her thoughts else where as she ate her meal. While sipping some of her grape juice, she took a glance around the hall. She found Draco picking at his food while in deep thought, she had a fairly good guess at what was going though his mind.
Her eyes continued to move since, if she locked them on Draco, eventually Harry and Ron would notice, and that's the best that would happen then. Her eyes passed the Hufflepuff table, and eventually made it to the Ravenclaw table, where she spotted Tom. A smile graced her face as she thought about how soon she would have someone whom she could actually talk to about the thoughts racing around in her head.
She Also knew that when she told him about everything, she would have to actually tell him, she couldn't let him borrow her book. After what happened today, she would be really surprised if she got sleep.
Sighing Hermione stood up and told Harry and Ron that she was tired, which was true, and that she was going to be now. One thing she noticed was that when every she did her 'trick', using as reference this incident and the one prior, is that she was always very tired afterward.
She almost made it out of the hall, but was suddenly stopped by a hand on her shoulder. Snape glared at her. "You will be dismissed form the rest of my classes Miss Granger, during the next class you are to talk to Dumbledore in his office.
And he left.
Then another hand touched her shoulder and she looked up to see Tom.
"The slimy git picking on you?"
"Nope, just releasing me from the suffering of his classes for some reason."
Tom smiled and started to walk, Hermione followed him "So," he started "You going to tell me tonight, or make me wait a bit?"
"Tonight, and I hope you don't have a class first thing,, because this will take a while."
"It might not take as much time as you think, I just met you, so a lot of things might not need to be corrected." He smirked, making Hermione realize how close he was to guessing her thoughts.
"Yes, well you are going to have to tell me your secrets too, just to be fair."
At this Tom laughed. "Got it." And they went up to their common room, and started to talk.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Draco saw Snape Approach Hermione, and he hoped she wasn't in trouble, but from the looks of it she wasn't. He just whispered something to her and she nodded.
He also saw the head boy walk up to her and ask her a question that was probably funny, then they left.
Draco felt a bit jealous, but knew that she had just met this guy, for he was never mentioned in her book, so he really didn't worry. But this didn't stop him from being angry for no reason.
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AN:
I am so sorry about having this out so late, but it took me a bit to write. I hope this clears up some misunderstanding a few of you have.
Also, one thing I heard about, nearly in every other review was: What is the understand granger part about?
Well the Latin translates latterly to "Understand Mercury" but as we all know from the fact of her Journal thing, that Mercury is Hermione.
So its understand Hermione, but since Draco is suppose to be being mean, its Granger.
Now it means that Hermione is saying how wonderful it is how they re all getting along, well at least not going to each other throats. Malfoy is telling Hermione to Understand that it's simply because of the situation that they are in, that they are not fighting.
Hope that helps!
If not, you really don't need to get it.
Well any how, I want you all to know that this story is going to be talking a backseat to homework, and to the other stories I read. :P I like reading and its easier than writing, not to mention that there are some a some stories and Hermione and Draco on the net.
I hope you realize that I will get my stories out ASAP.
This includes "Fly", "Raven", and of course, this one.
But it may take a bit, 'cus I have been negating the other two U.U poor stories!
Well you all know the saying Read and Review, so I hope to see your inputs.
P.S. there is something that is going to happen that you'll all love later! ^_^ I hope I get there soon. (Not in next chapter, it may take a few)
Well, byes!
Relena
When Mione woke up that morning, the sun was in her eyes. She quickly grabbed her wand from her night stand and shut them. She then proceeded to get ready.
An Owl flew into her room, her schedule attacked to it, she grabbed it and dismissed the flying creature. She put the paper into her bag and continued her morning ritual.
She dawned her school robes, and buttoned on her badge. When she emerged from her room five minutes later, she saw a strange boy with black hair was sitting on a chair in her common room. She immediately guessed who she was looking at.
"Tom I presume?"
They stranger looked up to see Hermione's smiling face. "That's correct, your Hermione right? 'Tis a pleasure!" He stood up and extended his hand.
She took it, expecting a shake, but instead he turned it over and started to talk. "Your far away from home, not only physically, but mentally and emotionally. You have a love , whom you don't knows exists.hum can't be me, says you know the person." He fiddled with her hand while Mione didn't know what to really do. "You hold secrets from everyone, but yourself and one person. I think that one person might be the one.but I could be wrong, it could be a girl. IT says here you have a gift.not magic, but something else. You are also to live a long life and die naturally. That's good, Voldemort won't kill you." he trailed as he studied her hand.
"Umm, Tom? Not to be rude or anything, but what are you doing?"
"Oh!" he let go of her hand. "I'm sorry, it's just that my family is of gypsy origin, and its kind of habit." He laughed.
"Its alright, I haven't ever had that accurate of a reading before."
"You've been read before? Then why do you have secrets still?"
"I hide them very well."
"I see.well Hermione-."
"Mione."
"who?"
"Mione, all my friends call me that."
"Oh! Yes well Mione, umm I should warn you.people who stay in my presence don't hold secrets from me for long, not like I pick at them or anything, its just that, I can figure things out pretty quickly." He seemed embarrassed at this, so Mione knew he wasn't bragging.
"Oh, well if you do, I would appreciate if you don't tell anyone."
"Yu could make it easier and just tell me them later.we have to leave now or we'll be late for breakfast."
"Yeah!" and Mione grabbed her book bag and walked out the portrait of the Hogworts crest and went down to the great hall.
When she entered she saw Harry and Immediately went over to say hi.
"Mione?" Harry asked.
"What is it Harry?"
"Two things."
"Firsts first."
"Why was Malfoy helping us yesterday?"
"Simple really Harry. I told him that if he didn't help we could tell the entire school how Malfoy was saved from that predicament by us." She smirked "I just played on his pride a little."
"Clever Mione, now the second, how did you like your new common room?"
"Its nice, and quiet!" she started to laugh. "But I still miss all the excitement in Gyffindor tower!"
"Mione," Ron perked up.
"Yeah?"
"the remembrance charm, what do you do besides say the charm, what's the other part, I can't remember."
"Typical! You forget a forgetfulness potion in your first year and you can't remember a remembrance charm in your seventh!" she obviously found this funny, and so did Harry. "You have to focus on the past as you do the charm Ron." She answered his question.
"Oh!" and he scribbled it down. "Thanks Mione."
"Any time."
"Mione what's that on your neck?"
"just a pendant my mother gave me, isn't it beautiful?" she showed him.
"It's a dragon." Harry said worried.
"Well of course, my mom thinks of magic in the terms of Faeries and Dragons."
"Oh."
"Also Harry, you should know Dragons Portrait wisdom of power and magic. My mother thought it quite suited me well."
"I think it does too, its just I didn't realize you liked them." Mione muttered to herself a bit. "What was that?"
"Oh I said I could have sworn I told you!"
"Oh,"
"Well, it doesn't matter now, did you guys get your schedules?"
"Yeah, Potions first thing!" Ron sneered. "Can you believe it? They usually wait until Friday!"
"Potions?" Hermione paled. "WE have to be around Malfoy so soon after that? Honestly, they should be more considerate of our feelings!"
"Yeah I know." Harry agreed. "But transfiguration is right after Mione!"
She went though her papers and grabbed out her schedule. "Yeah it is, that's good. Then Athermancy! Well, they make up for it in the long run!"
They ate breakfast and headed to the first potions lesson of the year a half an hour early.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
Draco walked into the Dungeon where potions were held as soon as it was time. He noticed that the dream pair and Mione were already sitting and laughing about something. Draco's day brightened significantly when he saw the pendant that he gave Mione on her neck.
He sat down as Snape started role. "Everyone's here." he drawled like he was angry at this fact. "Well, best get started then." He said mostly to himself, but as Draco was sitting up close he heard it clearly.
Snape stepped in front of the class and his voice grew louder "This is your first class in the new year, so I know none of you realize how tough all the teachers will be on you. This may be your last year, but there will be no partying because of it. Instead you'll find yourselves studying more then ever, since, as you all should know." He said this last part warningly to Neville. "Your Newt's will be taken this year in addition to your Exams." He glanced sneeringly at all the Gryfindor's "SO I expect from all of you by now to know how I expect this class to be run, so everyday, notes will be on the board and the potion I expect you to make, and I expect it all to be done in a classes time, if you finish early, then you may leave. No, you may not stay once done."
He said then walked over to the board, and started to write. "Ms. Granger." He said halfway though the second sentence. "You are to do nothing today, I don't want you to move of one muscle during the duration this class." And he continued to write.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Mione looked up shocked. "But why?"
"There will be no talking or detentions will be assigned." And he started to work on something else.
Mione, being who she was, obeyed, no matter how outrageous the proposal was. But she was angry, and that anger had to go somewhere, and she had an entire class to hold it for, or she would face a detention, and loss of points in the first day.
But her anger had to go somewhere. Looking forward, Mione's anger was focused on the potions master, ad he smirked at her predicament. Harry and Ron gave her sympathy glances, but that's all, they had work they needed to do.
Mione shut her eyes, and tried to remember that night where the world opened up for her. She fuelled her eyes with her anger, and though of the thought she had in her mind when it happened first. Draco.
Suddenly she remembered what the letter had said. It said that she could see something that was never shown to any one, she could see everyone's secrets. And it worked.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
As Draco was about to start working on his potion, he was suddenly distracted by a clash. Snape must have noticed it to for he also looked up.
In front of both of their eyes, a female student was glowing a brilliant gold. Draco knew it was Mione from the time she saw he before.
Suddenly they saw where the noise was coming from. Mione was trying to get a caldron, Snape noticed that the parchment in front of her was writing all of her notes.
The ingredients were flying at her, the things that needed to be cut, were cutting themselves. Her potion was putting itself together, and Mione sat there with her pupils dilated and her body glowing.
Soon the class was over, Mione never moved an inch, but her potion and her day's work were completed. The second class ended she was released from the spell and she walked out of the room as quickly as she could.
Draco turned in his potion and walked out as well, followed by the rest of the class, who oddly enough, seemed to be untouched by what Granger just did.
He knew where she was heading, transfiguration, he needed to catch up with her, without anyone noticing, before she got there.
Amazingly, the traits that put him into Slythrin, didn't work. She was already in class and he had to pass the room by and head for herbology.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
At dinner Mione was quite shocked to find that during the entire day, no one asked about what had happened in Potions. She herself knew she was doing something out of the ordinary, however, no one else seemed to mind.
Very odd indeed.
Harry and Ron sat by her during dinner, and they talked about the new students, quidditch, and of course, to their surprise, the fact that they had no homework.
Hermione had her thoughts else where as she ate her meal. While sipping some of her grape juice, she took a glance around the hall. She found Draco picking at his food while in deep thought, she had a fairly good guess at what was going though his mind.
Her eyes continued to move since, if she locked them on Draco, eventually Harry and Ron would notice, and that's the best that would happen then. Her eyes passed the Hufflepuff table, and eventually made it to the Ravenclaw table, where she spotted Tom. A smile graced her face as she thought about how soon she would have someone whom she could actually talk to about the thoughts racing around in her head.
She Also knew that when she told him about everything, she would have to actually tell him, she couldn't let him borrow her book. After what happened today, she would be really surprised if she got sleep.
Sighing Hermione stood up and told Harry and Ron that she was tired, which was true, and that she was going to be now. One thing she noticed was that when every she did her 'trick', using as reference this incident and the one prior, is that she was always very tired afterward.
She almost made it out of the hall, but was suddenly stopped by a hand on her shoulder. Snape glared at her. "You will be dismissed form the rest of my classes Miss Granger, during the next class you are to talk to Dumbledore in his office.
And he left.
Then another hand touched her shoulder and she looked up to see Tom.
"The slimy git picking on you?"
"Nope, just releasing me from the suffering of his classes for some reason."
Tom smiled and started to walk, Hermione followed him "So," he started "You going to tell me tonight, or make me wait a bit?"
"Tonight, and I hope you don't have a class first thing,, because this will take a while."
"It might not take as much time as you think, I just met you, so a lot of things might not need to be corrected." He smirked, making Hermione realize how close he was to guessing her thoughts.
"Yes, well you are going to have to tell me your secrets too, just to be fair."
At this Tom laughed. "Got it." And they went up to their common room, and started to talk.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Draco saw Snape Approach Hermione, and he hoped she wasn't in trouble, but from the looks of it she wasn't. He just whispered something to her and she nodded.
He also saw the head boy walk up to her and ask her a question that was probably funny, then they left.
Draco felt a bit jealous, but knew that she had just met this guy, for he was never mentioned in her book, so he really didn't worry. But this didn't stop him from being angry for no reason.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
AN:
I am so sorry about having this out so late, but it took me a bit to write. I hope this clears up some misunderstanding a few of you have.
Also, one thing I heard about, nearly in every other review was: What is the understand granger part about?
Well the Latin translates latterly to "Understand Mercury" but as we all know from the fact of her Journal thing, that Mercury is Hermione.
So its understand Hermione, but since Draco is suppose to be being mean, its Granger.
Now it means that Hermione is saying how wonderful it is how they re all getting along, well at least not going to each other throats. Malfoy is telling Hermione to Understand that it's simply because of the situation that they are in, that they are not fighting.
Hope that helps!
If not, you really don't need to get it.
Well any how, I want you all to know that this story is going to be talking a backseat to homework, and to the other stories I read. :P I like reading and its easier than writing, not to mention that there are some a some stories and Hermione and Draco on the net.
I hope you realize that I will get my stories out ASAP.
This includes "Fly", "Raven", and of course, this one.
But it may take a bit, 'cus I have been negating the other two U.U poor stories!
Well you all know the saying Read and Review, so I hope to see your inputs.
P.S. there is something that is going to happen that you'll all love later! ^_^ I hope I get there soon. (Not in next chapter, it may take a few)
Well, byes!
Relena