(5th year at Hogwarts)
I barely noticed how empty the Library was today, as I settled down in a seat next to a window. The leaves surrounded the trunks of empty trees that seemed cold and shaken.
"This year has started off strange." I thought. We were only a month into a new school year, and I had started to feel a strange sort of emptiness building inside of me. I took a look around the eerie library, the only people other than I were a Hufflepuff boy and Ravenclaw sitting at a desk together, holding hands. "How sweet." The emptiness was building up once more.
I buried my self into the book about Ancient Ruins, wondering how it would feel if someone else would be here studying with me. But I was Hermione Granger, a smart and independent young woman, I didn't need others to help me accomplish what I wanted to. I stormed out of the library, after hours of detailed hard work.
"Oi, Hermione!" Ron exclaimed as soon as I set foot into the Common Room, "Could you help me with my Potion's Assignment, it's due tomorrow and I didn't get started!"
I sighed, "I was in the library all this time, getting my work done, why couldn't you have come and asked me for help then?"
"How was I supposed to know you were in the Library?" Ron asked.
"Where else would Hermione be?" Harry almost laughed.
I looked over at Harry, who was sitting on a window-sill, not even looking over when he said that.
"I'm not always in the library!"
"Please 'Mione?" Ron smiled.
"Fine, but I'm just helping!" I sighed, "Honestly, you'd think a 5th year would be able to do a simple Potion's assignment! Look at Harry! At least he's trying!"
"Actually, 'Mione," He mocked Ron, "I didn't get started either."
"Oh, I give up!"
Helping Ron with his Potion's assignment was truly a drag, and all Harry seemed to do was stare out the window.
"Harry, er, what are you looking at?" I asked curiously after helping Ron a bit.
He realized I was there, and then sort of twitched, "Uh, er, you know, the sky is nice this time, of day. But that reminds me, I gotta go finish that Potion's assignment, thanks Hermione!" He patted my shoulder then ran up to the boy's dormitories.
"What a spaz!" Ron laughed on the floor.
I sat in the same position Harry was on the window-sill.
"I dunno what's so good about this, view, all I can see it the Ravenclaw Tower…."
It hit me then, who was that girl Harry asked to the Yule Ball last year?
"Ravenclaw tower, eh?" Ron asked still looking at his assignment, "Must be because that one girl, what was her name? Eh, 'Mione?"
"I dunno, I'm trying to think of it…."
"Eh, not a big deal, I'll ask Harry later," He yawned, "But what's the purpose of a Bezoar?"
"Your still not finished with the assignment? Give it here!"
Ron smiled as he watched me as I finished his homework.
"I dunno what I would do without you!"