Chapter Two: Forming
"So what was with Harry and Ron?" Draco asked as the two made there way to the prefect meeting. Hermione didn't answer at first; she didn't even look at him.
"I really don't know at the moment. I think they're trying to be like you; in other words a sex machine. Don't ask why I don't even know." Hermione said finally.
"Strange." Draco replied. **Potty and Weasel are so weird thinking they can be like me**
"My, my some one sure is sure about them selves. Oh, and I agree they are very weird this year. They've been ignoring me all holiday!" Hermione said with amusement dripping from every word. Draco stared at her confused. "I told you I know things that people don't say." Hermione said mysteriously a small smirk crossing her lips.
"Oh! And here we are! Take a deep breath Potter and Weasel are going to be in this hell hole." Hermione said as they reached the prefect compartment. Draco laughed and smirked at what Hermione said. **Potter probably started talking with the other prefects already 'bout me and Draco so why not try this.** Hermione thought lacing her fingers with his and opening the door, but just as the door opened she pulled Draco towards her and kissed him; so that when the door opened every one inside would see them. Draco was startled by this sudden move but soon got what she was doing and kissed back quickly deepening the kiss.
The two heard gasps from the people inside and smirked against each others lips. Hermione pulled away gave him one last quick kiss before turning to meet every one's glares with a broad smirk that probably could pass as the famous Malfoy smirk.
"Hello every one!" Hermione said with false cheerfulness. "Did we miss anything?" Hermione led Draco inside the compartment while Draco closed the door.
"No Miss Granger, Mr. Malfoy we were just about to get started. Nice of you two to join us." Professor McGonagall said pursing her lips. Hermione gave her a sickeningly sweet smile like Umbridge would have and took a seat on Draco's lap.
"Alright, now that every one is here I would like you to meet the new head boy and girl, Mr. Harry Potter of Gryffindor, and Miss Leah Fairfax from Ravenclaw." McGonagall said motioning to Harry and Leah Fairfax who gave a small wave to every one in the room. "This year the prefects will have their own wing as well as the head boy and girl. Of course you will not be in the same wing as the head boy and girl though mind you." McGonagall continued noting the surprised looks on all the prefects' faces, except for Hermione who already knew what McGonagall was going to say because she as soon as she sat down she looked into the professor's mind.
"Now, I will tell you this year's passwords for the houses."
"Desire, Forbidden, Raven Wolf, and Fly Away." Hermione whispered in Draco's ear.
"Gryffindor: Desire, Slytherin: Forbidden, Ravenclaw: Raven Wolf, and Hufflepuff: Fly Away." McGonagall said looking at each pair of house prefects in turn as she spoke. Draco raised his eyebrows at Hermione who smirked at him.
"Not bad." Draco whispered once McGonagall stopped talking. This statement only made Hermione smirk even more. She then gave him a 'told you so' look as Harry stood up with Leah and they gave their little speech about what they thought they could all do over the year.
Finally after what seemed like an eternity McGonagall dismissed them back to their compartments. Draco and Hermione were the first to leave closely followed by Harry and Ron who waited to be out of ear shot of McGonagall before speaking to them.
"What the bloody hell was that all about?!?!?" Harry yelled pulling Hermione away from Draco. Hermione let out a startled cry as he yanked her away with such force that she banged right into him.
"What the bloody hell do you mean by that?!?!?!" Hermione yelled back pulling away from him and backing up and ended up bumping into Ron who was holding Draco away from her.
"You KISSED Malfoy. What the fuck is wrong with you?!?!?" Harry yelled back glaring at Hermione with the intensity to melt the wall behind her.
"You are what is wrong with me!" Hermione cried very annoyed at Harry and Ron. "You haven't talked to me for about half of sixth year then you don't even write back when I send a letter to you! I believe I'm the one who should be asking you that question!" Hermione continued pulling Ron away from Draco. "And just because I kiss a guy who I happen to be dating you FINALLY NOTICE ME?!?!?!?!?" Hermione yelled turning back to Harry and Ron. Harry stepped forward with an arm out stretched.
"Did you not hear what I said before? I told you not to touch me or I WILL cut off your shaft and make you eat it." Hermione said with such calmness that it actually made Harry stop.
"Oh, c'mon 'Mione, you wouldn't do that. We've your best mates; I doubt you would do that to us." Harry said dropping his arm and smiling at her sweetly. In one quick movement Hermione reached down and pulled a dagger from her boot.
"Would you like to test that theory?" Hermione asked dangerously calm. Harry backed up with his hands up like he surrendered.
"Alright, alright, you want us to leave you alone we will. But, we'll be back you can't hide from us 'Mione." Harry said motioning for Ron to follow him as he turned and walked in the opposite direction away from them. Hermione made a cry of disgust and slammed her fist, which still hade the knife init, into the wall. She then jerked the dagger out of the wall and stomped back to her compartment with Draco not far behind her.
"There really is not point to living when you're a girl now is there." Hermione stated as she opened the compartment door. "I swear next time they try anything I will do it and I will make it as slow as possible." Hermione declared sitting down in the seat that she sat in before sighing and gently stroking Discord, who had just jumped into her lap. Draco didn't know what to say so he just sat down and let her rant on.
"I can't believe them! The nerve of them!! They are so lucky I didn't kill them right there and then." Hermione paused and snorted with amusement "Well, actually I might not have killed them I didn't like Azkaban to dirty. They wouldn't even let me clean my own cell! But, then, oh then, it gets worse all the prisoners would make cat calls every time I walked down the halls to the conference room!" Hermione made another annoyed sound and stared angrily out the window. Draco stared at her in shock, which he notice he had done a lot of times.
"You, Hermione Granger, went to Azkaban?" Draco asked. Hermione nodded.
"It was only for a week or two because I was charged for the attempted murder of. umm. What's his name. help me out here, it rhymes with tear." Hermione said looking thoughtful thinking of the guy's name.
"Lear? George Lear? One of the Dark Lords right hand man?" Draco said startled by what Hermione was saying.
"Yes! That's it! Well, actually it was him who attacked me I was just accused of defending my self! That is such bull shit! I mean the ministry didn't even look at the fact that he is a Death Eater and that I'm a mudblood! I had no way of winning the trial was so unfair! But then you should have seen my parents! They were like 'oh, our reputation is ruined! Thanks to our stupid daughter! Why couldn't she be a good girl like every other girl her age!'" Hermione moaned mimicking her mother's woeful voice. Hermione laughed softly to herself and looked at the floor. She looked up at Draco who was watching her. Their eyes met and Draco couldn't help at all but just stare right back. Hermione eyes were cold and hard but there was something about them that just made him get lost in them. Hermione searched Draco's eyes and saw that they softened when her piercing eyes met his. Hermione sensed a feeling that she couldn't place flowing through Draco's mind even though he didn't know it was there. It seemed kind but then again she could be wrong about that, she was before when Lear attacked her. Hermione stood suddenly and walked over to Draco and bent over so that they were eye level.
"Don't worry." Hermione said placing a cold hand on his cheek. "I won't kill you, or try to hurt you in any way, because you and I. let's just say that we're in the same boat." Hermione continued softly running her hand down his jaw bone removing her fingers one by one till only her index finger was left under his chin. She turned quickly and sat back down on her seat, taking out her note book and writing for the rest of the train ride.
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The lights flickered but Draco ignored it for he knew it was Hermione who was making the lights flicker again. The train was slowing, they were almost at Hogwarts when Hermione finally stopped writing and summoned a large blanket to hang in the middle of the compartment so that they could change. Hermione changed quickly simply pulling her robes over her cloths and sat down. A few minutes later Draco took down the blanket changed in his robes. Hermione put the blanket away and stood just as the train stopped not moving with the movement of the train. Draco stood as well and gathered his things as Hermione did the same and they left the compartment. Hermione traveled with a perfect grace as if she were gliding over the ground. People parted and let her pass as they too moved down the hallway out of the train. Everyone seemed to want to get as far enough away from Hermione as possible. But, Draco was intrigued by this and followed close behind her out of the train. Once they put their bags in the pile that would be taken up to the dorms Hermione stood face up letting the rain to run down her face and neck, she then held her arms up and twirled before walking towards the carriages. **You know I think Granger might have gone insane.** Draco thought as he followed Hermione to the carriages.
"You'll know when I'm insane when I were hot pink with flowers in my hair and go around singing the Spice Girls and saying things like 'girl power'." Hermione said as she found an empty carriage. Draco laughed and smirked at Hermione's answer.
"You should be careful what you think around me because I can hear it." Hermione said playfully sitting down and crossing her legs. Draco shook his head and sat down across from her.
"You shouldn't live in the past. It'll destroy you if you do." Hermione said breaking the silence that had settled over them. Draco looked at her confused.
"What do you mean by that?" Draco asked turning his head to look at her. Hermione didn't look at him she just kept looking out the window.
"You live in the past. You let your past consume you; you let it take over you so you can't have a future. It's very sad watching someone so powerful destroy themselves because they live in the past. I'm not living in the past, but. that isn't very hard to tell though, I've gotten over Harry and Ron. I don't want anything to do with them now, all I want to do I seek my revenge on them." Hermione said no emotion in her voice, still not looking at Draco. He didn't answer for a while he just looked out the window thinking, it seemed to him that Hermione wasn't listening to his thoughts so he allowed them to run freely.
"I guess you're right, I have been living in that past all this time. I always remembered what my father had told me and I always went by it." Draco finally replied looking over at Hermione, who was still looking out the window.
"You know what? I've been thinking about Voldermort. He hasn't attacked since 5th year. I have a feeling though that he will do something sometime this year." Hermione said completely off topic from what she had said earlier.
"Are you sure it's just a feeling or do you know that something is going to happen?" Draco asked a small amount of concern creeping into his voice. Hermione looked at him, her pupils had gotten larger and covered the beautiful brown of her eyes.
"I know so, but don't worry he's not after you. I really don't know who he's after but that person is in this school." Hermione stated after a moment of concentration. Hermione's pupils started slowly to become smaller until they were their normal size again.
"How do you know all that?" Draco asked as they neared the gates.
"I saw it, I can have premonitions. I can also do a whole lot of other stuff, but you don't need to know about all that. But you will in do time so don't wear your self out thinking about it." Hermione told him as if she were speaking to a small child.
"Hermione," Draco started after silence had taken hold of them again. Hermione looked up at the mention of her name.
"Yes?" Hermione asked when he didn't continue. Draco still didn't answer and Hermione attempted to look into his mind but his thoughts were blocked. Hermione smirked **So, Draco has finally wised up and closed his mind to me. Smart lad.** Hermione thought smirking even more.
"What?" Draco asked when he noticed her smirk.
"Nothing, nothing, it's just that you closed your mind to me so I won't know what you want to say." Hermione stated. The carriage lurched to a stop and Hermione opened the door to get out but stopped before she actually did.
"What did you want to say to me anyway?" Hermione asked curious.
"Never mind it wasn't important." Draco told her. Hermione nodded and claimed out with Draco like always close behind her, watching her move slowly but quickly through the crowd as they parted to let her by with out saying a word to her but casting disgusted glares at her. Hermione kept her indifference and kept on walking up the stairs. Draco walked beside her thinking of what he was about to ask her in the carriage. **Don't be stupid, she would have told you a logical answer for her change.** a little voice in Draco's head told him. He told it to be quiet as he thought for possible reasons as to why she was so different from her book worm days in past years. They walked in silence until they reached the doors to the great hall. Hermione froze and didn't move. Students swarmed around them careful not to get too close her. Draco felt an energy radiating from her and wondered if the other students had felt it.
"What is it?" Draco asked after a while and most of the students had already gone into he great hall for the big feast.
"I can't go in there." Hermione stated looking at him with worried eyes.
"Why not? Aren't you hungry?" Draco asked confused as to why she wouldn't go in.
"I don't want to face them. I hate it when they stare at me. I know that they are going to be staring at me because I'm different from them now. I stand out. I can't bear to feel their eyes on me." Hermione explained looking pleadingly at Draco as if he were forcing her to enter the great hall. Draco said nothing.
"Um. do you want to sit with me? You could most certainly pass as a Slytherin. No one will notice you I swear." Draco said placing a hand on her shoulder. Hermione nodded, thinking over his comment. It was true she didn't really look like herself really anymore. She looked as if she were someone else, someone who didn't go by the name of Hermione Granger.
"Ok, but if anyone asks who I am tell them that my name is Gwen Ravenwolf." Hermione said stepping towards the door. Draco smiled at her and nodded before pushing open the door. They were the last ones to enter the hall and all the students watched them as they entered. Draco slipped his hand in hers and gave her a reassuring squeeze to try and clam her for he felt her tense when she felt the eyes of all the students and teachers watching them.
Thankfully when they reached the Slytherin table there was two empty seats next to each other so Hermione wouldn't feel awkward sitting there. The only down side was that the seats were next to Pansy Parkinson to the left of the two seats and one of Draco's good friends Blaise Zambeine. Draco took the seat next to Pansy knowing Hermione would not be too happy having to sit next to that slut, so Hermione sat next to Blaise who eyed her up and down with a raised eyebrow.
"So Draco, who's your friend here." Blaise asked giving Hermione a sly smile. Hermione rolled her eyes but didn't say a word.
"This is Gwen Ravenwolf, a new addition to the Slytherin family and the second Slytherin prefect." Draco told Blaise giving him a warning look that Blaise promptly ignored.
"Gwen, that's a lovely name. My name is Blaise Zambeine welcome to the Slytherin house. Are you in seventh year or first year?" He asked her. (A/N: I'm going to start calling Hermione Gwen until dinner is over just so you know. And so you won't get confused.)
"I'm in seventh year. Blaise right?" Gwen said in a dead but seductive voice. Blaise nodded and eyed her hungrily.
"Later why don't I show you around the Slytherin common room later so we can get better acquainted?" Blaise asked unconsciously licking his lips. Gwen gave him a seductive smile but shook her head. Gwen eyed him up and down before smirking at him with a raised eyebrow.
"Rushing things aren't we? My mother always told never to do anything on a first date." Gwen said in the same voice causing Blaise to snort with laughter.
"Do you always do what your mother tells you?" He asked mockingly.
"No, maybe that's why I got kicked out of my other school." Gwen said sarcastically. Blaise looked at her with a surprised look with raised eyebrows.
"What a bad girl we are now aren't we? If I may what school was it?" Blaise asked placing a hand on her cheek. Draco noticed this and anger bubbled up inside him. He didn't know where it was coming from it wasn't like he loved her or anything. They are just friends in a weird sort of way. Draco felt slight relief when Gwen removed Blaise's hand from her cheek.
"That, love, is something you don't need to know." Gwen told him. And just as she got the sentence out Dumbledore stood up and announced in the new first years as they came into the hall looking terrifiedly (A/N: hahahahaha I think I just made up a new word!!) around the room at all the faces watching them. Gwen leaned over to Draco and whispered.
"One by on the yard gnomes pick away at my sanity." Draco smirked and suppressed his laughter. "Oh, and one more thing your friend Blaise. He's a very out there type person and people think I'm strange! He's trying to get me to sleep with him! How crazy is that?!?!" Gwen whispered again sounding slightly annoyed. "But two can play at that game!" she declared and leaned back over so she could watch the sorting ceremony.
The ceremony came and went uneventfully except for the fact the Blaise attempted to put his hand on Gwen's knee, but other then that everything was boring. When the last name was finally called, and sorted into Slytherin, the food popped up and Gwen felt the hot glares of Harry and Ron upon her. She looked up and they motioned from her to come to them. Gwen sighed and stood.
"Excuse me for a moment will you boys?" Gwen said sweetly and left the table and walked over to the Gryffindor table. As soon as she left and was out of ear shot Blaise leaned over to Draco.
"Why didn't you ever tell me that you knew her? Se is so damn hot! I can't wait till." Blaise trailed off with a dreamy look on his face.
"Don't you dare try anything." Draco said harshly glaring at Blaise.
"Are you with her or something? Cause if you are I'll back off." Blaise said in his defense.
"No, I'm not with her but-." Draco was cut off when Blaise perked up and smiled devilishly.
"Good, now she will be all mine." Blaise said rubbing his hands together. Drao sighed in defeat and turned back to his food.
"Good, I'm glad she's not with you, Drakey, because you know that you're mine." Pansy said placing a hand on his knee. Draco pushed it off forcefully.
"Don't touch me woman!" Draco cried in disgust. Pansy rolled her eyes as if she didn't hear and went back to her food as well.
******* AT THE GRYFFINDORE TABLE
"What are you doing sitting at the Slytherin table?" Harry asked harshly as soon as Hermione walked over. Hermione sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Eating? And having a conversation with some new friends?" Hermione spat bitterly. "You're not my father I'll do what I want." Hermione continued glaring daggers at the two of them even though Ron hadn't said anything.
"Oh c'mon 'Mione! You know you don't mean that! How can you be friends with a Slytherin?!?!" Ron asked rolling his eyes at her.
"Watch me!" Hermione almost yelled at them before she turned and walked quickly away back to the Slytherin table. Hermione sat and Blaise quickly turned his attention to her with a smile on his face.
"Good you're back!" He exclaimed. Draco sent him a death glare and Gwen laughed at this.
"I wouldn't think of being away too long love." She said her seductively dead voice coming back to her. **God damn him!! I will not let him have her!** Draco thought furiously, Gwen turned to him and he then realized his mistake he had taken down his wall that blocked her from reading his mind. Draco turned away quickly and continued his dinner quietly occasionally swatting Pansy's hands away from him. **oh god Gwen is hot! I can't wait to- ** Gwen quickly tuned out Blaise's thoughts not wanting to know what he was thinking. Gwen's pupils dilated just then and she stared ahead of her as the sounds of the great hall died away. She saw her and Blaise in the Slytherin seventh year boy's dorms. Blaise had just put an arm around her waist and pulled her towards him and kissed her. She noticed that she didn't pull away but allowed him to kiss her and move her towards the bed. Just before she was pushed onto the bed she pulled away from him and looked into his eyes she frowned at him and pushed away from him. Blaise then grabbed her arm to get her to stay. He said something that was muted for some reason. Gwen shook her head at him and said something that was also muted and left the room. Gwen was snapped back to reality when Blaise touched her arm he was saying something but she hadn't heard. She snapped her head to look at him.
"What did you say?" She asked in her usual voice that she used with him.
"I asked you if you wanted to come down to the Slytherin common room after dinner while Draco here, is leading them down so I can show you around?" Blaise repeated looking hopeful. Gwen was silent for a moment.
"Maybe some other time hm? Just not tonight ok?" She replied sneaking a glace at Draco who looked relieved.
"Ok, whatever you want." Blaise said shrugging it off and changed the subject to something else that she didn't hear but she knew she was answering and talking to him about. She hovered invisible over the hall before floating through a wall and out into the open ground. She had cloned herself so she could do something that she had to do before she could do anything else. Her invisible self sighed and she moved towards the lake. She flew to the middle of the lake and closed her eyes and exhaled deeply as she slowly down into the water. She knew not to open her eyes when her toes hit the water or she would fall too quickly and end up drowning even though she didn't need air in this form. Just as her head was about to submerge she opened her eyes and she shot down into the depths of the lake within one minute. Her astral form moved quickly through the water looking for the cave that she had to report to. The cave was quickly found and she entered then moved upward till she hit the surface and floated out of the water becoming a solid again and drying as soon as her body parts were out of the water. She stepped onto the sandy ground that surrounded the pool of water that she had just come out of. She wore a black robe with a hood that covered her face.
"Ah, Hermione or are you going by your old name Gwen again?" came a loud but cheerful voice from the darkness from the cave. A man with the same robes but his hood was pulled down so his head was exposed walked out of the shadows. He had a friendly face and had reddish brown hair.
"Only at the Slytherin table, my lord." She replied nodding her head in a small bow.
"You may remove your hood for we are not being watched tonight." The man said and Hermione immediately pulled down her hood.
"Why have you summoned me?" She asked hopefully.
"Because you are the one ho is going to stop Voldermort. You are much more powerful then any of us here put together even your new friend Draco Malfoy thinks you are much more powerful then he thought you were. And watch out for Blaise I don't want him interfering with my only daughter." The man said. Hermione smiled when he called her 'daughter' she felt like one of them now. Before he had always called her child or Hermione or Gwen.
"Don't look so surprised my daughter. For all of the other wizards I knew you would come one day and I knew you would be the one to stop Voldermort. It is in you to do this Gwen." The man said with slight sternness in his voice. "You must become Gwen. You can no longer be Hermione of Gryffindor, for now you are what you were meant to be a higher being." The man continued looking into her eyes. "You must return to being Gwen the high goddess become what you were meant to be long ago." The man stepped closer to her and placed his hands on her shoulders. Hermione looked into his eyes.
"But, what will happen at Hogwarts everyone knows me there as Hermione I can't just all of a sudden become Gwen." Hermione countered unsure.
"Once you say that you will become Gwen the records at Hogwarts will change and say the you ARE Gwen Granger Ravenwolf. It's as simple as that. Although you will have to get your friends to call you Gwen. But if they prefer to call you Hermione then let them it doesn't matter because you will become Gwen no matter what they call you." The man answered with a calmness that gave her courage.
"My lord-." Hermione began.
"Call me father since I call you daughter." The man cut in. Hermione smiled at him.
"Father, I accept this offer to become Gwen. But, how will I know what to do when I am against Voldermort? For I do not know how to beat him." Hermione told him sounding concerned.
"Do not worry daughter, you will know." The man said and he placed a hand on her forehead and began to speak and incantation to make her become Gwen the high goddess. When he finished light glowed off of Hermione or should I say Gwen and she closed her eyes. She hugged the man and turned to leave she walked over the water and stood in the center of the small pool.
"Take care father." She called as she began sink into the water and started to become her astral form again.
"You take care as well daughter." The man said as she fully disappeared and sank fully into the water.
************ Author's notes!!!!!
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"So what was with Harry and Ron?" Draco asked as the two made there way to the prefect meeting. Hermione didn't answer at first; she didn't even look at him.
"I really don't know at the moment. I think they're trying to be like you; in other words a sex machine. Don't ask why I don't even know." Hermione said finally.
"Strange." Draco replied. **Potty and Weasel are so weird thinking they can be like me**
"My, my some one sure is sure about them selves. Oh, and I agree they are very weird this year. They've been ignoring me all holiday!" Hermione said with amusement dripping from every word. Draco stared at her confused. "I told you I know things that people don't say." Hermione said mysteriously a small smirk crossing her lips.
"Oh! And here we are! Take a deep breath Potter and Weasel are going to be in this hell hole." Hermione said as they reached the prefect compartment. Draco laughed and smirked at what Hermione said. **Potter probably started talking with the other prefects already 'bout me and Draco so why not try this.** Hermione thought lacing her fingers with his and opening the door, but just as the door opened she pulled Draco towards her and kissed him; so that when the door opened every one inside would see them. Draco was startled by this sudden move but soon got what she was doing and kissed back quickly deepening the kiss.
The two heard gasps from the people inside and smirked against each others lips. Hermione pulled away gave him one last quick kiss before turning to meet every one's glares with a broad smirk that probably could pass as the famous Malfoy smirk.
"Hello every one!" Hermione said with false cheerfulness. "Did we miss anything?" Hermione led Draco inside the compartment while Draco closed the door.
"No Miss Granger, Mr. Malfoy we were just about to get started. Nice of you two to join us." Professor McGonagall said pursing her lips. Hermione gave her a sickeningly sweet smile like Umbridge would have and took a seat on Draco's lap.
"Alright, now that every one is here I would like you to meet the new head boy and girl, Mr. Harry Potter of Gryffindor, and Miss Leah Fairfax from Ravenclaw." McGonagall said motioning to Harry and Leah Fairfax who gave a small wave to every one in the room. "This year the prefects will have their own wing as well as the head boy and girl. Of course you will not be in the same wing as the head boy and girl though mind you." McGonagall continued noting the surprised looks on all the prefects' faces, except for Hermione who already knew what McGonagall was going to say because she as soon as she sat down she looked into the professor's mind.
"Now, I will tell you this year's passwords for the houses."
"Desire, Forbidden, Raven Wolf, and Fly Away." Hermione whispered in Draco's ear.
"Gryffindor: Desire, Slytherin: Forbidden, Ravenclaw: Raven Wolf, and Hufflepuff: Fly Away." McGonagall said looking at each pair of house prefects in turn as she spoke. Draco raised his eyebrows at Hermione who smirked at him.
"Not bad." Draco whispered once McGonagall stopped talking. This statement only made Hermione smirk even more. She then gave him a 'told you so' look as Harry stood up with Leah and they gave their little speech about what they thought they could all do over the year.
Finally after what seemed like an eternity McGonagall dismissed them back to their compartments. Draco and Hermione were the first to leave closely followed by Harry and Ron who waited to be out of ear shot of McGonagall before speaking to them.
"What the bloody hell was that all about?!?!?" Harry yelled pulling Hermione away from Draco. Hermione let out a startled cry as he yanked her away with such force that she banged right into him.
"What the bloody hell do you mean by that?!?!?!" Hermione yelled back pulling away from him and backing up and ended up bumping into Ron who was holding Draco away from her.
"You KISSED Malfoy. What the fuck is wrong with you?!?!?" Harry yelled back glaring at Hermione with the intensity to melt the wall behind her.
"You are what is wrong with me!" Hermione cried very annoyed at Harry and Ron. "You haven't talked to me for about half of sixth year then you don't even write back when I send a letter to you! I believe I'm the one who should be asking you that question!" Hermione continued pulling Ron away from Draco. "And just because I kiss a guy who I happen to be dating you FINALLY NOTICE ME?!?!?!?!?" Hermione yelled turning back to Harry and Ron. Harry stepped forward with an arm out stretched.
"Did you not hear what I said before? I told you not to touch me or I WILL cut off your shaft and make you eat it." Hermione said with such calmness that it actually made Harry stop.
"Oh, c'mon 'Mione, you wouldn't do that. We've your best mates; I doubt you would do that to us." Harry said dropping his arm and smiling at her sweetly. In one quick movement Hermione reached down and pulled a dagger from her boot.
"Would you like to test that theory?" Hermione asked dangerously calm. Harry backed up with his hands up like he surrendered.
"Alright, alright, you want us to leave you alone we will. But, we'll be back you can't hide from us 'Mione." Harry said motioning for Ron to follow him as he turned and walked in the opposite direction away from them. Hermione made a cry of disgust and slammed her fist, which still hade the knife init, into the wall. She then jerked the dagger out of the wall and stomped back to her compartment with Draco not far behind her.
"There really is not point to living when you're a girl now is there." Hermione stated as she opened the compartment door. "I swear next time they try anything I will do it and I will make it as slow as possible." Hermione declared sitting down in the seat that she sat in before sighing and gently stroking Discord, who had just jumped into her lap. Draco didn't know what to say so he just sat down and let her rant on.
"I can't believe them! The nerve of them!! They are so lucky I didn't kill them right there and then." Hermione paused and snorted with amusement "Well, actually I might not have killed them I didn't like Azkaban to dirty. They wouldn't even let me clean my own cell! But, then, oh then, it gets worse all the prisoners would make cat calls every time I walked down the halls to the conference room!" Hermione made another annoyed sound and stared angrily out the window. Draco stared at her in shock, which he notice he had done a lot of times.
"You, Hermione Granger, went to Azkaban?" Draco asked. Hermione nodded.
"It was only for a week or two because I was charged for the attempted murder of. umm. What's his name. help me out here, it rhymes with tear." Hermione said looking thoughtful thinking of the guy's name.
"Lear? George Lear? One of the Dark Lords right hand man?" Draco said startled by what Hermione was saying.
"Yes! That's it! Well, actually it was him who attacked me I was just accused of defending my self! That is such bull shit! I mean the ministry didn't even look at the fact that he is a Death Eater and that I'm a mudblood! I had no way of winning the trial was so unfair! But then you should have seen my parents! They were like 'oh, our reputation is ruined! Thanks to our stupid daughter! Why couldn't she be a good girl like every other girl her age!'" Hermione moaned mimicking her mother's woeful voice. Hermione laughed softly to herself and looked at the floor. She looked up at Draco who was watching her. Their eyes met and Draco couldn't help at all but just stare right back. Hermione eyes were cold and hard but there was something about them that just made him get lost in them. Hermione searched Draco's eyes and saw that they softened when her piercing eyes met his. Hermione sensed a feeling that she couldn't place flowing through Draco's mind even though he didn't know it was there. It seemed kind but then again she could be wrong about that, she was before when Lear attacked her. Hermione stood suddenly and walked over to Draco and bent over so that they were eye level.
"Don't worry." Hermione said placing a cold hand on his cheek. "I won't kill you, or try to hurt you in any way, because you and I. let's just say that we're in the same boat." Hermione continued softly running her hand down his jaw bone removing her fingers one by one till only her index finger was left under his chin. She turned quickly and sat back down on her seat, taking out her note book and writing for the rest of the train ride.
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The lights flickered but Draco ignored it for he knew it was Hermione who was making the lights flicker again. The train was slowing, they were almost at Hogwarts when Hermione finally stopped writing and summoned a large blanket to hang in the middle of the compartment so that they could change. Hermione changed quickly simply pulling her robes over her cloths and sat down. A few minutes later Draco took down the blanket changed in his robes. Hermione put the blanket away and stood just as the train stopped not moving with the movement of the train. Draco stood as well and gathered his things as Hermione did the same and they left the compartment. Hermione traveled with a perfect grace as if she were gliding over the ground. People parted and let her pass as they too moved down the hallway out of the train. Everyone seemed to want to get as far enough away from Hermione as possible. But, Draco was intrigued by this and followed close behind her out of the train. Once they put their bags in the pile that would be taken up to the dorms Hermione stood face up letting the rain to run down her face and neck, she then held her arms up and twirled before walking towards the carriages. **You know I think Granger might have gone insane.** Draco thought as he followed Hermione to the carriages.
"You'll know when I'm insane when I were hot pink with flowers in my hair and go around singing the Spice Girls and saying things like 'girl power'." Hermione said as she found an empty carriage. Draco laughed and smirked at Hermione's answer.
"You should be careful what you think around me because I can hear it." Hermione said playfully sitting down and crossing her legs. Draco shook his head and sat down across from her.
"You shouldn't live in the past. It'll destroy you if you do." Hermione said breaking the silence that had settled over them. Draco looked at her confused.
"What do you mean by that?" Draco asked turning his head to look at her. Hermione didn't look at him she just kept looking out the window.
"You live in the past. You let your past consume you; you let it take over you so you can't have a future. It's very sad watching someone so powerful destroy themselves because they live in the past. I'm not living in the past, but. that isn't very hard to tell though, I've gotten over Harry and Ron. I don't want anything to do with them now, all I want to do I seek my revenge on them." Hermione said no emotion in her voice, still not looking at Draco. He didn't answer for a while he just looked out the window thinking, it seemed to him that Hermione wasn't listening to his thoughts so he allowed them to run freely.
"I guess you're right, I have been living in that past all this time. I always remembered what my father had told me and I always went by it." Draco finally replied looking over at Hermione, who was still looking out the window.
"You know what? I've been thinking about Voldermort. He hasn't attacked since 5th year. I have a feeling though that he will do something sometime this year." Hermione said completely off topic from what she had said earlier.
"Are you sure it's just a feeling or do you know that something is going to happen?" Draco asked a small amount of concern creeping into his voice. Hermione looked at him, her pupils had gotten larger and covered the beautiful brown of her eyes.
"I know so, but don't worry he's not after you. I really don't know who he's after but that person is in this school." Hermione stated after a moment of concentration. Hermione's pupils started slowly to become smaller until they were their normal size again.
"How do you know all that?" Draco asked as they neared the gates.
"I saw it, I can have premonitions. I can also do a whole lot of other stuff, but you don't need to know about all that. But you will in do time so don't wear your self out thinking about it." Hermione told him as if she were speaking to a small child.
"Hermione," Draco started after silence had taken hold of them again. Hermione looked up at the mention of her name.
"Yes?" Hermione asked when he didn't continue. Draco still didn't answer and Hermione attempted to look into his mind but his thoughts were blocked. Hermione smirked **So, Draco has finally wised up and closed his mind to me. Smart lad.** Hermione thought smirking even more.
"What?" Draco asked when he noticed her smirk.
"Nothing, nothing, it's just that you closed your mind to me so I won't know what you want to say." Hermione stated. The carriage lurched to a stop and Hermione opened the door to get out but stopped before she actually did.
"What did you want to say to me anyway?" Hermione asked curious.
"Never mind it wasn't important." Draco told her. Hermione nodded and claimed out with Draco like always close behind her, watching her move slowly but quickly through the crowd as they parted to let her by with out saying a word to her but casting disgusted glares at her. Hermione kept her indifference and kept on walking up the stairs. Draco walked beside her thinking of what he was about to ask her in the carriage. **Don't be stupid, she would have told you a logical answer for her change.** a little voice in Draco's head told him. He told it to be quiet as he thought for possible reasons as to why she was so different from her book worm days in past years. They walked in silence until they reached the doors to the great hall. Hermione froze and didn't move. Students swarmed around them careful not to get too close her. Draco felt an energy radiating from her and wondered if the other students had felt it.
"What is it?" Draco asked after a while and most of the students had already gone into he great hall for the big feast.
"I can't go in there." Hermione stated looking at him with worried eyes.
"Why not? Aren't you hungry?" Draco asked confused as to why she wouldn't go in.
"I don't want to face them. I hate it when they stare at me. I know that they are going to be staring at me because I'm different from them now. I stand out. I can't bear to feel their eyes on me." Hermione explained looking pleadingly at Draco as if he were forcing her to enter the great hall. Draco said nothing.
"Um. do you want to sit with me? You could most certainly pass as a Slytherin. No one will notice you I swear." Draco said placing a hand on her shoulder. Hermione nodded, thinking over his comment. It was true she didn't really look like herself really anymore. She looked as if she were someone else, someone who didn't go by the name of Hermione Granger.
"Ok, but if anyone asks who I am tell them that my name is Gwen Ravenwolf." Hermione said stepping towards the door. Draco smiled at her and nodded before pushing open the door. They were the last ones to enter the hall and all the students watched them as they entered. Draco slipped his hand in hers and gave her a reassuring squeeze to try and clam her for he felt her tense when she felt the eyes of all the students and teachers watching them.
Thankfully when they reached the Slytherin table there was two empty seats next to each other so Hermione wouldn't feel awkward sitting there. The only down side was that the seats were next to Pansy Parkinson to the left of the two seats and one of Draco's good friends Blaise Zambeine. Draco took the seat next to Pansy knowing Hermione would not be too happy having to sit next to that slut, so Hermione sat next to Blaise who eyed her up and down with a raised eyebrow.
"So Draco, who's your friend here." Blaise asked giving Hermione a sly smile. Hermione rolled her eyes but didn't say a word.
"This is Gwen Ravenwolf, a new addition to the Slytherin family and the second Slytherin prefect." Draco told Blaise giving him a warning look that Blaise promptly ignored.
"Gwen, that's a lovely name. My name is Blaise Zambeine welcome to the Slytherin house. Are you in seventh year or first year?" He asked her. (A/N: I'm going to start calling Hermione Gwen until dinner is over just so you know. And so you won't get confused.)
"I'm in seventh year. Blaise right?" Gwen said in a dead but seductive voice. Blaise nodded and eyed her hungrily.
"Later why don't I show you around the Slytherin common room later so we can get better acquainted?" Blaise asked unconsciously licking his lips. Gwen gave him a seductive smile but shook her head. Gwen eyed him up and down before smirking at him with a raised eyebrow.
"Rushing things aren't we? My mother always told never to do anything on a first date." Gwen said in the same voice causing Blaise to snort with laughter.
"Do you always do what your mother tells you?" He asked mockingly.
"No, maybe that's why I got kicked out of my other school." Gwen said sarcastically. Blaise looked at her with a surprised look with raised eyebrows.
"What a bad girl we are now aren't we? If I may what school was it?" Blaise asked placing a hand on her cheek. Draco noticed this and anger bubbled up inside him. He didn't know where it was coming from it wasn't like he loved her or anything. They are just friends in a weird sort of way. Draco felt slight relief when Gwen removed Blaise's hand from her cheek.
"That, love, is something you don't need to know." Gwen told him. And just as she got the sentence out Dumbledore stood up and announced in the new first years as they came into the hall looking terrifiedly (A/N: hahahahaha I think I just made up a new word!!) around the room at all the faces watching them. Gwen leaned over to Draco and whispered.
"One by on the yard gnomes pick away at my sanity." Draco smirked and suppressed his laughter. "Oh, and one more thing your friend Blaise. He's a very out there type person and people think I'm strange! He's trying to get me to sleep with him! How crazy is that?!?!" Gwen whispered again sounding slightly annoyed. "But two can play at that game!" she declared and leaned back over so she could watch the sorting ceremony.
The ceremony came and went uneventfully except for the fact the Blaise attempted to put his hand on Gwen's knee, but other then that everything was boring. When the last name was finally called, and sorted into Slytherin, the food popped up and Gwen felt the hot glares of Harry and Ron upon her. She looked up and they motioned from her to come to them. Gwen sighed and stood.
"Excuse me for a moment will you boys?" Gwen said sweetly and left the table and walked over to the Gryffindor table. As soon as she left and was out of ear shot Blaise leaned over to Draco.
"Why didn't you ever tell me that you knew her? Se is so damn hot! I can't wait till." Blaise trailed off with a dreamy look on his face.
"Don't you dare try anything." Draco said harshly glaring at Blaise.
"Are you with her or something? Cause if you are I'll back off." Blaise said in his defense.
"No, I'm not with her but-." Draco was cut off when Blaise perked up and smiled devilishly.
"Good, now she will be all mine." Blaise said rubbing his hands together. Drao sighed in defeat and turned back to his food.
"Good, I'm glad she's not with you, Drakey, because you know that you're mine." Pansy said placing a hand on his knee. Draco pushed it off forcefully.
"Don't touch me woman!" Draco cried in disgust. Pansy rolled her eyes as if she didn't hear and went back to her food as well.
******* AT THE GRYFFINDORE TABLE
"What are you doing sitting at the Slytherin table?" Harry asked harshly as soon as Hermione walked over. Hermione sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Eating? And having a conversation with some new friends?" Hermione spat bitterly. "You're not my father I'll do what I want." Hermione continued glaring daggers at the two of them even though Ron hadn't said anything.
"Oh c'mon 'Mione! You know you don't mean that! How can you be friends with a Slytherin?!?!" Ron asked rolling his eyes at her.
"Watch me!" Hermione almost yelled at them before she turned and walked quickly away back to the Slytherin table. Hermione sat and Blaise quickly turned his attention to her with a smile on his face.
"Good you're back!" He exclaimed. Draco sent him a death glare and Gwen laughed at this.
"I wouldn't think of being away too long love." She said her seductively dead voice coming back to her. **God damn him!! I will not let him have her!** Draco thought furiously, Gwen turned to him and he then realized his mistake he had taken down his wall that blocked her from reading his mind. Draco turned away quickly and continued his dinner quietly occasionally swatting Pansy's hands away from him. **oh god Gwen is hot! I can't wait to- ** Gwen quickly tuned out Blaise's thoughts not wanting to know what he was thinking. Gwen's pupils dilated just then and she stared ahead of her as the sounds of the great hall died away. She saw her and Blaise in the Slytherin seventh year boy's dorms. Blaise had just put an arm around her waist and pulled her towards him and kissed her. She noticed that she didn't pull away but allowed him to kiss her and move her towards the bed. Just before she was pushed onto the bed she pulled away from him and looked into his eyes she frowned at him and pushed away from him. Blaise then grabbed her arm to get her to stay. He said something that was muted for some reason. Gwen shook her head at him and said something that was also muted and left the room. Gwen was snapped back to reality when Blaise touched her arm he was saying something but she hadn't heard. She snapped her head to look at him.
"What did you say?" She asked in her usual voice that she used with him.
"I asked you if you wanted to come down to the Slytherin common room after dinner while Draco here, is leading them down so I can show you around?" Blaise repeated looking hopeful. Gwen was silent for a moment.
"Maybe some other time hm? Just not tonight ok?" She replied sneaking a glace at Draco who looked relieved.
"Ok, whatever you want." Blaise said shrugging it off and changed the subject to something else that she didn't hear but she knew she was answering and talking to him about. She hovered invisible over the hall before floating through a wall and out into the open ground. She had cloned herself so she could do something that she had to do before she could do anything else. Her invisible self sighed and she moved towards the lake. She flew to the middle of the lake and closed her eyes and exhaled deeply as she slowly down into the water. She knew not to open her eyes when her toes hit the water or she would fall too quickly and end up drowning even though she didn't need air in this form. Just as her head was about to submerge she opened her eyes and she shot down into the depths of the lake within one minute. Her astral form moved quickly through the water looking for the cave that she had to report to. The cave was quickly found and she entered then moved upward till she hit the surface and floated out of the water becoming a solid again and drying as soon as her body parts were out of the water. She stepped onto the sandy ground that surrounded the pool of water that she had just come out of. She wore a black robe with a hood that covered her face.
"Ah, Hermione or are you going by your old name Gwen again?" came a loud but cheerful voice from the darkness from the cave. A man with the same robes but his hood was pulled down so his head was exposed walked out of the shadows. He had a friendly face and had reddish brown hair.
"Only at the Slytherin table, my lord." She replied nodding her head in a small bow.
"You may remove your hood for we are not being watched tonight." The man said and Hermione immediately pulled down her hood.
"Why have you summoned me?" She asked hopefully.
"Because you are the one ho is going to stop Voldermort. You are much more powerful then any of us here put together even your new friend Draco Malfoy thinks you are much more powerful then he thought you were. And watch out for Blaise I don't want him interfering with my only daughter." The man said. Hermione smiled when he called her 'daughter' she felt like one of them now. Before he had always called her child or Hermione or Gwen.
"Don't look so surprised my daughter. For all of the other wizards I knew you would come one day and I knew you would be the one to stop Voldermort. It is in you to do this Gwen." The man said with slight sternness in his voice. "You must become Gwen. You can no longer be Hermione of Gryffindor, for now you are what you were meant to be a higher being." The man continued looking into her eyes. "You must return to being Gwen the high goddess become what you were meant to be long ago." The man stepped closer to her and placed his hands on her shoulders. Hermione looked into his eyes.
"But, what will happen at Hogwarts everyone knows me there as Hermione I can't just all of a sudden become Gwen." Hermione countered unsure.
"Once you say that you will become Gwen the records at Hogwarts will change and say the you ARE Gwen Granger Ravenwolf. It's as simple as that. Although you will have to get your friends to call you Gwen. But if they prefer to call you Hermione then let them it doesn't matter because you will become Gwen no matter what they call you." The man answered with a calmness that gave her courage.
"My lord-." Hermione began.
"Call me father since I call you daughter." The man cut in. Hermione smiled at him.
"Father, I accept this offer to become Gwen. But, how will I know what to do when I am against Voldermort? For I do not know how to beat him." Hermione told him sounding concerned.
"Do not worry daughter, you will know." The man said and he placed a hand on her forehead and began to speak and incantation to make her become Gwen the high goddess. When he finished light glowed off of Hermione or should I say Gwen and she closed her eyes. She hugged the man and turned to leave she walked over the water and stood in the center of the small pool.
"Take care father." She called as she began sink into the water and started to become her astral form again.
"You take care as well daughter." The man said as she fully disappeared and sank fully into the water.
************ Author's notes!!!!!
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