Chapter Thirty Four: Planning

When Hermione woke up that morning after, she got dressed and she placed the necklace around her neck, and felt it glowing with a warm power. She touched the pendant.

'I am here child.'

'Call me Mione.' She suggested

'I am here Mione. Don't worry, they don't know.'

'Can I tell my friends of you?'

'I'd prefer not now, but perhaps later.'

'Alright. I'm going to breakfast now.'

'Fare well Mione.'

'By the way, what do I call you?'

'I'm not named, if you wish me to have one than you choose.'

'I'll think on that, bye.'

And she ran down to the great hall.

Draco and the others were already down there. It was around 6:15 in the morning. The sun was up and shinning, something that couldn't be said about the residents of the castle.

Then again, that's what the foursome was hoping for.

"You're late Mione!" Hanna called accusingly.

"Sorry, I had trouble waking up." She walked quickly over to where they were. All the tables were out of the way, not including a single small one that the four were sitting at.

"I think we have figured out a good prank to practice the time we need for putting all the tables as one." Draco stated.

"But I thought that we would just have them change tables."

"That one is too risky and hands on. This way, they don't have a choice." Tom pointed out.

"Good point. Well Mione the Idea is.How about we paint the entire hall a single color?" Hanna suggested.

"But what color?" Mione pointed out. "If it's too blue then Ravenclaw has advantage, Too green or silver, Slytherin and same for Hufflepuff and Gryffindor."

"Purple and black?"

"No Slytherin." Draco pointed out.

"Orange?"

"Too Gryffindor!"

"What if we did olive with it?"

"YUCK!" Both girls shouted.

"Brown?" Hanna Suggested.

"Plain."

"White and Black." Draco suggested.

"Perfect." The other three chimed together.

"Now we need to make it outrageous." Hermione Added.

They planned.

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Breakfast started and the four were already at their house table eating calmly.

Ron noticed and decided to talk to Mione later.

Harry sat down in front of Mione and faced her.

"Can I talk with you Mione? It's important." He asked simply.

"Sure. One sec." She finished eating and Harry finished a side of a toast sandwich, and they walked out of the hall.

"What is it Harry?"

"I was wondering about something."

"Yes?" she prompted.

"Your necklace changed."

She knew that wasn't it. Harry normally had to build up courage to talk with her now a days.

"Really." She looked down at it to see the tail of the dragon supporting a gem that changed colors. "I hadn't noticed."

"Maybe it's cursed." He sounded worried. And as he stepped forward she noticed suddenly that he was wearing a black onyx dragon on his neck.

"Harry." She pointed at his.

He blushed and quickly hid it.

"Don't worry about me. Hagrid maybe, not me."

Harry faced her.

"You know what it is?"

"I have a good guess." She shrugged to indicate that she wasn't sure.

Harry sighed. "You won't get me in trouble will you?"

"Harry! I'm appalled! Why in the world would I tattle on you for anything?!"

"Just checking, I'm a dragon keeper Mione."

"The dark Devil from the other day?"

"How did you guess??" He stepped back at looked at her oddly.

"Remember the Crystalline?"

"Don't tell me."

"It's the gem here."

She pointed at the multicolored stone.

"But you've had your necklace forever!"

"Yes, but it fulfilled the requirements."

"But it wasn't given to you by a dragon."

"Harry,"

"It didn't come from your mom?"

"Talk to Ron, Tell him I gave him permission for a week from now, now I have to go." And she went back into the Hall tears down her face.

She really hated lying and keeping things from people close to her.

"Mione!" Harry called out to her. She stopped and looked at him. He was looking at the floor. "How is it that you know everything about me, yet I know absolutely nothing about you!"

"Whens my birthday."

"September 15th."

"My favorite color?"

"Sage."

"My dish?"

"Macroni casserole."

"See, you know some things."

"Not everything."

She nodded in agreement.

Tonight that would change.

She walked over to her table grabbed her stuff and looked at the Slytherin table, quickly catching Draco's eyes, and then leaving.

Harry walked in after she had left and sat by Ron.

"Ron."

"Yeah Harry?" he looked up from his plate of food.

"Hermione gives you permission for a week from now."

He nodded in a comprehending way. "I thought she would soon. Twenty second, at seven, meet me near the fourth corridor, where the picture of the roman gods is?"

"Sure."

"Good, come on or we'll be late."

And they left for class.

"Ron, what did she mean by permission?"

"You'll see."

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In the next few day's the Royalty planned. And planned. Still Planning, Ron came up one night and approached Mione.

"Why did you make it a week from then? Harry's thinking his brains away."

"We have something to do in this week. I couldn't have Harry putting us back." She answered.

The other three continued to look up spells and charms.

"He's your friend! He matters more then whatever you four do up here!"

"Yes, but he can wait! This cannot!" She stood up.

"What are you doing anyway?"

"A simple test. We need to see how long and what we have to do for the pranks later on."

"And your testing what?"

"How long we can remain in the hall while working before we are caught."

Ron looked at his friend oddly. "You know how risky that is?"

"Yes."

"Then why do it?"

"So it wont be risky when it counts."

"Counts?" Ron placed a hand on her shoulder. "What is the reason behind your pranks Mione?"

"Nothing, just the commencement of seventh year pranks. All muggle schools have them." Hermione quickly answered.

"Though once we are done with this school." Draco started.

"They won't be able to go on with their biased and prejudiced lives any longer, no matter how hard they try!" Hanna finished.

"We are planning what others fear." Tom added.

"All under Snape's hooked nose!" they shouted together.

"you know, I reckon that you all have lost your crackers." Ron stated simply. "Harry better not hear of this, or you know what he'll say." He warned Hermione.

"I know perfectly well what Harry will do; he'll insist on joining us."

"We can't let Potter do that, or the plan wont work." Draco stated simply.

"One of each house only!" Hanna announced. "Other wise the majority house will be suspected of plotting it all."

"And they would be wrong to take all of the credit." Hermione finished.

"Alright then, I'll leave you four be. Mione?"

"hmm?"

"when will Ray and Dora be back?"

"After they finish with what they are currently doing."

"Muggle School." He provided.

"How did you know?" Hann gazed at him accusingly.

"Ray told me everything."

"She must be quite taken with you."

"She is."

"And what do you plan to do about it?"

"Ask her to one of the balls."

"In what sense?" Draco asked suggestively, earning a smack in the back of his head by Mione.

"Ignore the Dragon." She said to Ron, who looked at her oddly.

"Dragon?"

"Draco is short for Draconis which means Dragon. Draco is also the name of the serpent dragon constellation." Draco explained.

"I see." He stood and waved. "I'm going to bed, so I'll see you four later."

After he left Mione sat back down.

"So where are we about?"

"Found all the means I need to transfigure." Draco stated.

"I know all the spells." Hanna offered.

"Charms." Tom added.

"I just finished the schedule." Mione stated after adding a few words. "Tomorrow's Friday."

"Then it's set."

And they all went to bed.

Hermione gave Harry a few days afterward so that she could regain her strength to talk with him. Everyone would be wiped out on Saturday. It was a good thing that they all knew the homework from earlier in the week thanks to them all offering it. So they had no homework for the weekend.

Tomorrow was going to be fun

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AN:

Hay! 34 out and about! I hope you all realize what's going on in this section.

Update:

First trial - getting Dora and Ray to be witches.

Reason- To see how well they can work together, and what they can get away with.

First Test- Painting the great hall.

Reason- to see how much time they have on their hands before getting caught at night.

Anyways, I'm glad you all are enjoying!

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Relena