There's been a double dose of Dramione from me this week with my back to back updates, which is generally a rare occurrence for me these days. I'll try to be consistent with these updates, but you never know when I'll be handing out chapters like how Oprah handed out cars. Enjoy the chapter and please, let me know what you think since any feedback is appreciated.


Once Hermione had gotten over the initial shock of communicating with somebody through her notebook, she immediately set out to get to the bottom as to why and how this was even possible. There was just no way that communicating with someone through a notebook made any sense to Hermione, even in a world of magic. She was quick to put her investigative cap on and got to work to find out what was going on.

After some consultation with Flitwick and McGonagall, Hermione discovered that there was actually a thing such as twin books that were able to correspond with each other in certain parts. Hermione had discovered it in a book on magic that had been lost to history, with the magic on twin books being so ancient that there had only been a handful discovered in recent centuries. Nobody alive in this age knew how they worked; people just knew that it was possible.

With this information in mind, Hermione felt a lot more at ease to know that she wasn't communicating with some form of Dark Magic. Hermione was actually quite chuffed at the fact that she had discovered a piece of magic that had been lost to history. Something like this book deserved to be studied and evaluated so that it could be figured out how they worked. It would have to take some incredibly advanced magic and skill to figure that out, and even though Hermione was the brightest witch of her age, she doubted that she was powerful enough to pull out an ancient piece of magic from a rusty old book.

Since Hermione delved into the mystery of the book, her next focus was on who the identity of her mysterious sender was. All Hermione could figure out from their one interaction was that they were a Hogwarts student like she was. They hadn't given her any indication as to what gender they were, what house they were in or even their blood status. It didn't help that half of their conversation had disappeared, so it wasn't like Hermione could go back over it to analyse their correspondence. The only thing that Hermione knew for certain was that her sender was clearly going through some sort of difficult time and that they must've had some big secrets in their book if they were threatening to kill someone over it.

That fact unnerved Hermione, since as much as she was an open-minded person, she didn't want to be communicating with the wrong sort of people. Namely those select individuals who did not care for her existence and supported the same maniac that is the epitome of anti-muggle. But Hermione's curiosity had been well and truly spiked in their one conversation, and she was just dying to figure out more about her sender. So for ages she stared at the book that sat on the end of her bed, deciding if whether or not she should go for it.

Deciding to throw caution to the wind, Hermione pulled out a quill and turned to the middle page that was now blank before she started writing in it. Not knowing if whether or not her sender would respond, Hermione wanted to write everything down on one single page.

Dear Anonymous,

I know that you said that you wanted no further correspondence with me, but I figured that you would at least want to know how it is that we were able to communicate with each other through a book. So as it turns out, there was an ancient and powerful magic that was once used to connect books together like how ours is. It is the kind of magic that has been lost to history, so nobody that is alive today can understand how this phenomenon is possible. There have been other books like ours discovered in recent centuries, but from what I understand those are preserved and it is extremely rare to find them. The chances of us finding these books in a shop at Diagon Alley are quite literally one in a million.

With that all written and done, there is something else that I wish to say. You might not want anything to do with me, but I want something to do with you. I would have no ulterior motives to wanting to communicate with you since it's not like I know who you are. We don't have to know each other's names if that is a suitable arrangement for you. I don't know why, but I find the thought of exchanging correspondence with someone through a magical notebook to be endearing. Who knows, we might be able to learn from each other along the way?

This might sound incredibly selfish and imposing of me, but I also just want someone to talk to. I'm feeling a lot of things right now, things that I can't really talk to my friends about because it concerns them and I don't really have anyone else to talk to. And you seem to be going through your own tough times, so maybe we could help each other? As I said, we don't have to know who we are if that makes you comfortable and we can keep our problems as discrete as possible.

Regards,

Your Recipient

Writing a letter seemed like a very formal thing to do, but Hermione wanted to handle this situation as best as she could. There was no telling who could be on the other end of the book, and as much as her curiosity had been spiked, Hermione wasn't sure if she even did want to know who they were. But the opportunity to have someone to vent her current frustrations to without them knowing who she was seemed like a good one to take. So long as she remained as discrete as possible, they wouldn't know who she was.

To Hermione's surprise, it was only a few moments later when another set of words appeared on the book. After holding her breath, Hermione slowly picked the book up and read her senders response.

Dear Recipient,

I'm gonna be honest and say that when I first realised that there was obviously something wrong with this book after our initial interaction, I tried to get rid of it. I did everything in my power to get it away from me but every time I threw it away, it would always end up back in my possession. I then tried destroying it, but the damn book was too powerful for that as well. Every other page that wasn't the one that allowed me to communicate with you was able to be broken, but these two middle pages seem to be indestructible. So I guess that it does help knowing how this works to some degree.

In regards to your offer, my first reaction was to turn it down because what I have going on for me right now is stuff that I wouldn't even tell my own friends, let alone some stranger in a book. But I guess if we kept our names out of our correspondence without giving too much away, I suppose we could continue communicating if this proves to useful for the both of us.

Regards,

Anonymous

If she was being honest, Hermione had been somewhat taken by surprise when she saw that her mysterious sender had replied to her. It only made her more keen to figure out more about who was on the other end of this conversation. Deciding to throw caution to the wind, Hermione picked up her quill and started writing again.

Well, my problem comes from your typical teenage drama. You see, I have this friend who is going through some difficulties with their friendship group. For a while now, this friend has had feelings for another one of their friends. Unfortunately, they suffered a falling out that put a fracture in their friendship. We'll call the first friend Nina and the other friend Fabian to avoid confusion. If you ask me, Fabian overreacted about something that Nina did so he decided to take the petty route and found himself a girlfriend, Joy. Fabian has been overly obnoxious with his girlfriend and Nina knows that Fabian is only dating Joy to make her jealous. If anything, it's making her more angry and frustrated than jealous.

There's a problem here since Nina can't really go to anyone for help, since her best friend (who we'll call Alfie) is also best friends with Fabian. Alfie is also going through his own dramas, since he's just now realised his feelings for one of Nina's friends, Amber, who is currently dating someone that we'll call Mick. I'm also friends with Alfie so I have had numerous conversations with both of them about their respective dilemma's.

It's especially frustrating for Nina because she has liked Fabian for a long time now so to have him completely disregarding her feelings when she clearly cares about him is hurting her. She doesn't know how to handle this situation or to address her relationship with Fabian that only seems to be getting worse by the day. They're hardly speaking, and it's upsetting her a lot so she doesn't know what to do.

With a resigned sigh, Hermione sat down her quill and waited for the response. She figured that the best thing to do was to describe her problem as if it was someone else's. It wasn't that she had any shame in saying who she was, it was just clear that whoever her sender was didn't want to know that so for their sake, Hermione was keeping her name out of it. Seconds later, there was a response from Anonymous that was hardly like what Hermione had been hoping for.

When you said that you had your own troubles, that was certainly not what I had predicted. Granted, I doubt anyone can relate to the struggles that I am going through but I felt rather ridiculous sitting here while reading your petty drama. I get that it might be a big deal to you, but there really are some people out there who have more important things to worry about other than teenage angst.

If you ask me, that Fabian guy sounds like a jerk if he's intentionally trying to hurt Nina by rubbing his relationship in her face. He'd be a bigger jerk too if he knew that she liked him. That whole scheme with Joy sounds ridiculous on his part. Why even date a girl if you have no interest in her? That's just disrespectful, and I was raised to treat the women that you court with respect. Though admittedly, I'm not nice to every woman out there but I would definitely have respect for the one that I was courting and I wouldn't string anyone along for a ride like he's doing to Joy since I know what it feels like to be used.

As for that other friend of yours, he sounds like a real wuss if he's only just realising his feelings for Amber now that she's dating someone else. Why want what you can't have when you could have anything else? It might suck not to have your first choice but the dude should remember that he's clearly not her first choice. If he gets desperate enough, Alfie should take a page from Fabian's book and date someone to make Amber jealous.

Staring down at her notebook once the words had been written, Hermione couldn't help but agree with the fact that Ron was being a jerk by dating Lavender to make her jealous. It made Hermione think that if he really cared about her, then he wouldn't do something that was clearly hurting her like dating Lavender was. Then again, it wasn't like Ron had always been so emotionally understanding with feelings before.

There was another subtle clue in there about Anonymous that Hermione barely picked up on. It was when they said that they knew how it felt to be used, but Hermione didn't know if they were talking about it in the same way that Ron was using Lavender or if Anonymous had been used in a different way. Hermione did have to admit that maybe her drama wasn't that bad, especially when comparing it to what she knew other people were going through. It made Hermione think that perhaps Anonymous was going through something that they considered worse than having feelings for your best friend, and Hermione wanted to find out what that was.

You can tell me what's bothering you if you'd like.

No thanks.

Whenever you're ready.

That seemed to mark the end of their conversation for now, since Hermione spent a few moments staring at the book before accepting that Anonymous wasn't going to be divulging their secrets to her anytime soon. But that didn't mean that Hermione would be giving up, since she fully intended to get to know more about Anonymous while finding out who they were along the way.


When I first started planning this, I hadn't planned for Hermione and Draco to communicate with each other through matching notebooks but that idea sounded a lot more promising than what I had originally conceived. I'll give a shoutout if you can point out what TV show I got the names from for Hermione.