A/N: Here it is! The last part of my little series. I spent so long trying to write this and it still came out all wrong. Not very funny anymore. Depressing, really. Then the thing wouldn't upload!!!! Aaargh!!!! Oh well. I hope you like it!
DISCLAIMER: I do not own most of this. Draco, Hermione, Harry, Ron, etc, etc don't belong to me, they belong to J.K. Rowling, who is one of the best writers in the universe. The plot doesn't belong to me but it was originally a folk tale, and since they belong to everyone then I have some claim. Most of the text doesn't even belong to me!!! Quite a bit of this has been lifted directly from the play, written by Shakespeare, who is the best writer in the universe. ::grins at people who are looking at her strangely:: What?
THE STORY SO FAR:
Hermione and Draco have fallen in love. Pansy killed Ron. Draco was blamed, and escaped.
SCENE NINE - DUMBLEDORE'S OFFICE
**Hermione is sitting nervously on a chair in front of Dumbledore's office. Fawkes is perching on the back of Dumbledore's chair. Dumbledore himself is not in the room. **
Hermione: Why does he want to see me?... surely he doesn't think I had anything to do with... Ron... or maybe he found out about Draco and I...
**Dumbledore enters the room. Hermione starts. **
Dumbledore: Prithee, sit down Miss Granger. Now, all I wished to talk to you about was the death of your classmate, Ron. How are you holding up in that which must be a sorrowful time?
Hermione: It is hard, sir.
Dumbledore: Yes, yes. But how are you feeling?
**Hermione talks a little. Dumbledore is turning a small glass bottle around in his hands. She looks inquiringly at it. **
Dumbledore: This is a small potion, recently invented by our own Professor Snape. The drinker, upon drinking, seems to die. They will cease breathing, their pulse rate with slow and finally stop. But in 24 hours, they will wake, with no ill effects at all. Most curious.
**A bell rings. Dumbledore stands up, placing the potion on the desk. **
Dumbledore: I am wanted. You may go now, Miss Granger.
**Exit Dumbledore. Hermione pauses, then snatches up the potion. **
Hermione [Quietly, to herself.]: I'll send an owl with Hedwig to Draco this afternoon...
SCENE TEN - A ROOM AT THE THREE BROOMSTICKS
**Draco is sitting on a bed. An owl flutters in through the window, carrying a letter. **
Draco: What is this? Ah, a letter from Goyle...
Draco [reciting]: Draco,
We thought that you would be most pleased to hear the news we have. We are sad that you couldn't be here when it happened, but that Hermione Granger, the Mudblood, is... dead...
**Draco drops the letter on the floor, his mouth open. He goes very pale. **
Draco: No... no... No, this cannot be true!
**He picks up the letter, and starts to read again. **
Draco [reciting, again.]: She took some poison in the library. Fitting. She spent all of her time there. She has been laid in the Great Hall - I myself saw it.
*Draco throws the letter away, and paces up and down, obviously distressed. (Duh.) He sits on the bed, then lifts his head. **
Draco: I shall go forth to Hogwarts. Let's see for means - I remember an apothecary hereabouts, which sold a poison so strong they unfortunate wretch who took it would be dead within the minute. Oh sweet Hermione, I will lie with thee tonight, in the embrace of angels.
**Exit Draco. Hedwig flutters in through the window, bearing a letter. **
SCENE ELEVEN - THE GREAT HALL
**The Great Hall is covered in black drapes. Hermione's 'body' lies on a marble bier. Enter Draco. He walks over towards the bier, and gently strokes Hermione's cheek. **
Draco: Oh sweet Hermione! Death has no power upon your beauty. Thou art not conquered; beauty yet resides in the crimson of thy lips and cheeks... oh here, in my beloved's arms, will I set up my everlasting rest. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And lips, doors of breath, seal with a kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death.
**Draco drinks the potion, and lies down beside Hermione. **
Draco [gasping]: Oh true poison! You are quick! Thus... with a kiss... I die...
**Draco dies. Hermione stirs. **
Hermione [vaguely.]: Where am I? Is this some wondrous dream? I am in Draco's arms...
**She looks at Draco's face, and feels for his pulse, then howls with despair. **
Hermione: Oh Draco! Didst thou not get my letter! And what's this? A cup enclosed in my true love's hands? Oh Draco, thou hast died meaninglessly...
**She grabs his wand, and mutters a spell. It transfigures into a dagger. **
Hermione: Now I will depart from this sorry world. Let all know of the reason...
**She conjures up a brief note. **
Hermione: Oh Draco, I will see thee soon...
**She plunges the dagger into her chest. Hermione dies. Enter Crabbe and Goyle. **
Crabbe: Draco?
Goyle: Oh Lord...
**Crabbe picks up the note and reads it. **
SCENE TWELVE - THE GREAT HALL
**Black drapery still covers the walls. Most of Gryffindor and Slytherin are crying. Dumbledore gets up to make a speech. **
Dumbledore: Today we are gathered in the wake of the recent loss of two of our students, Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy. A note left makes all clear - their courses of love and tidings of death.
**Gasps are heard. **
Dumbledore: And here it is writ that he bought a poison from an apothecary, and came to this hall to die beside Hermione. What has killed these two? Not by their own hands are they murdered. Gryffindor! Slytherin! See what a scrounge is laid upon your hate!
**Dumbledore sits down. McGonagall and Snape stand up, and shake hands. Warily, Gryffindors and Slytherins also make peace. **
McGonagall: Hence lie the bodies of our finest.
Snape: Sacrifices of our enmity!
**The hall is cleared. Harry is left all alone. **
Harry [sadly.]: A curse on both you houses.
**Exit Harry. **
A glooming peace this morning with it brings.
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head today:
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardoned, and some punished:
For never was there a tale of more woe
Than this of Hermione and her Draco.
A/N: Well, that's it. I've finished. I feel happy, but depressed, because I have, after all, just killed off most of the central characters of Hogwarts. I hope you enjoyed this. (Now what am I going to do? Hmm... Any suggestions?)
DISCLAIMER: I do not own most of this. Draco, Hermione, Harry, Ron, etc, etc don't belong to me, they belong to J.K. Rowling, who is one of the best writers in the universe. The plot doesn't belong to me but it was originally a folk tale, and since they belong to everyone then I have some claim. Most of the text doesn't even belong to me!!! Quite a bit of this has been lifted directly from the play, written by Shakespeare, who is the best writer in the universe. ::grins at people who are looking at her strangely:: What?
THE STORY SO FAR:
Hermione and Draco have fallen in love. Pansy killed Ron. Draco was blamed, and escaped.
SCENE NINE - DUMBLEDORE'S OFFICE
**Hermione is sitting nervously on a chair in front of Dumbledore's office. Fawkes is perching on the back of Dumbledore's chair. Dumbledore himself is not in the room. **
Hermione: Why does he want to see me?... surely he doesn't think I had anything to do with... Ron... or maybe he found out about Draco and I...
**Dumbledore enters the room. Hermione starts. **
Dumbledore: Prithee, sit down Miss Granger. Now, all I wished to talk to you about was the death of your classmate, Ron. How are you holding up in that which must be a sorrowful time?
Hermione: It is hard, sir.
Dumbledore: Yes, yes. But how are you feeling?
**Hermione talks a little. Dumbledore is turning a small glass bottle around in his hands. She looks inquiringly at it. **
Dumbledore: This is a small potion, recently invented by our own Professor Snape. The drinker, upon drinking, seems to die. They will cease breathing, their pulse rate with slow and finally stop. But in 24 hours, they will wake, with no ill effects at all. Most curious.
**A bell rings. Dumbledore stands up, placing the potion on the desk. **
Dumbledore: I am wanted. You may go now, Miss Granger.
**Exit Dumbledore. Hermione pauses, then snatches up the potion. **
Hermione [Quietly, to herself.]: I'll send an owl with Hedwig to Draco this afternoon...
SCENE TEN - A ROOM AT THE THREE BROOMSTICKS
**Draco is sitting on a bed. An owl flutters in through the window, carrying a letter. **
Draco: What is this? Ah, a letter from Goyle...
Draco [reciting]: Draco,
We thought that you would be most pleased to hear the news we have. We are sad that you couldn't be here when it happened, but that Hermione Granger, the Mudblood, is... dead...
**Draco drops the letter on the floor, his mouth open. He goes very pale. **
Draco: No... no... No, this cannot be true!
**He picks up the letter, and starts to read again. **
Draco [reciting, again.]: She took some poison in the library. Fitting. She spent all of her time there. She has been laid in the Great Hall - I myself saw it.
*Draco throws the letter away, and paces up and down, obviously distressed. (Duh.) He sits on the bed, then lifts his head. **
Draco: I shall go forth to Hogwarts. Let's see for means - I remember an apothecary hereabouts, which sold a poison so strong they unfortunate wretch who took it would be dead within the minute. Oh sweet Hermione, I will lie with thee tonight, in the embrace of angels.
**Exit Draco. Hedwig flutters in through the window, bearing a letter. **
SCENE ELEVEN - THE GREAT HALL
**The Great Hall is covered in black drapes. Hermione's 'body' lies on a marble bier. Enter Draco. He walks over towards the bier, and gently strokes Hermione's cheek. **
Draco: Oh sweet Hermione! Death has no power upon your beauty. Thou art not conquered; beauty yet resides in the crimson of thy lips and cheeks... oh here, in my beloved's arms, will I set up my everlasting rest. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And lips, doors of breath, seal with a kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death.
**Draco drinks the potion, and lies down beside Hermione. **
Draco [gasping]: Oh true poison! You are quick! Thus... with a kiss... I die...
**Draco dies. Hermione stirs. **
Hermione [vaguely.]: Where am I? Is this some wondrous dream? I am in Draco's arms...
**She looks at Draco's face, and feels for his pulse, then howls with despair. **
Hermione: Oh Draco! Didst thou not get my letter! And what's this? A cup enclosed in my true love's hands? Oh Draco, thou hast died meaninglessly...
**She grabs his wand, and mutters a spell. It transfigures into a dagger. **
Hermione: Now I will depart from this sorry world. Let all know of the reason...
**She conjures up a brief note. **
Hermione: Oh Draco, I will see thee soon...
**She plunges the dagger into her chest. Hermione dies. Enter Crabbe and Goyle. **
Crabbe: Draco?
Goyle: Oh Lord...
**Crabbe picks up the note and reads it. **
SCENE TWELVE - THE GREAT HALL
**Black drapery still covers the walls. Most of Gryffindor and Slytherin are crying. Dumbledore gets up to make a speech. **
Dumbledore: Today we are gathered in the wake of the recent loss of two of our students, Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy. A note left makes all clear - their courses of love and tidings of death.
**Gasps are heard. **
Dumbledore: And here it is writ that he bought a poison from an apothecary, and came to this hall to die beside Hermione. What has killed these two? Not by their own hands are they murdered. Gryffindor! Slytherin! See what a scrounge is laid upon your hate!
**Dumbledore sits down. McGonagall and Snape stand up, and shake hands. Warily, Gryffindors and Slytherins also make peace. **
McGonagall: Hence lie the bodies of our finest.
Snape: Sacrifices of our enmity!
**The hall is cleared. Harry is left all alone. **
Harry [sadly.]: A curse on both you houses.
**Exit Harry. **
A glooming peace this morning with it brings.
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head today:
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardoned, and some punished:
For never was there a tale of more woe
Than this of Hermione and her Draco.
A/N: Well, that's it. I've finished. I feel happy, but depressed, because I have, after all, just killed off most of the central characters of Hogwarts. I hope you enjoyed this. (Now what am I going to do? Hmm... Any suggestions?)