A/N- Yeah, I know that I just posted the last one, but I know all of you wonderful readers want the next part. Anyway, I hope you like this. More of the prophecy is revealed in this chapter. (Or, sort of revealed. What they are supposed to do, I guess.) Enjoy!
Bonded Together ~05~
When Hermione got up the next morning, Draco was already dressed and ready to go.
"Hurry up and get ready, Hermione. Potter, Weasley, and Ginny are waiting for us in the common room."
"Good morning to you too, Draco," Hermione said, sitting up.
"Oh, yeah, good morning Hermione. Now, get ready." Hermione muttered the separating spell, and went into the bathroom. She took a very quick shower, and was ready within the ten minutes. When she walked out of the bathroom, Draco stared at her.
"What?" Hermione asked.
"Oh, I've never known a girl to get ready that fast," Draco said. "Come on, they are probably wondering what is taking so long." They walked out into the common room, where indeed Ron, Harry, and Ginny were waiting for them.
"What took you so long?" Ginny asked.
"I slept late," Hermione told her.
"Is that a record?" asked Ron, innocently.
"Oh, shut up, and let's go," Hermione said. "Ginny, when is that meeting with Dumbledore anyway?" she asked as they were walking to the Great Hall.
"After breakfast," Ginny answered. They walked the rest of the way there in silence, and then went into their respectable dinning places. After they were all done eating, they met in the entrance hall. Soon afterwards, Professor Dumbledore came out, and told them to follow him. They went up to his office, where he told them to sit down.
"As you may know, Lord Voldemort has kept a low profile these last couple of years," Dumbledore began, with everyone except for himself and Harry flinching at the name Voldemort. "I and many others have been planning a defense against him. However, when Harry, Ron, and Ginny were looking up information about the Bond Together potion, they came across this prophecy." Dumbledore then handed Hermione and Draco a sheet of paper with the prophecy written on it.
When the Messenger and the Dragon become bonded,
The evil one will become powerless.
At that time, the heir marked with lightning, the boy marked with fire,
The girl with the star on her forehead,
And the Messenger and the Dragon will defeat him,
When the world is looking grim."
"You see, Hermione and Draco, everything fits. Hermione, your name comes from the god Hermes, who was the messenger for the gods. Draco, your name comes from the Latin word for dragon. Harry is the heir marked with lightning, Ron is the boy marked with fire, and Ginny is the girl with the star on her forehead. You five are the key for defeating Voldemort," Dumbledore told them, a serious look on his face.
"But, Professor, it also says that the evil one will become powerless, and that we are going to save the world when it is looking grim. How could the world be looking grim, if the evil one is already powerless?" Hermione asked, curiously.
Professor Dumbledore held up that morning's Daily Prophet. The headlines were You-Know-Who starts attacking. 20 Wizards and Muggles dead. Hermione clapped a hand to her mouth, and Ginny turned pale. Harry and Ron looked at each other with fire in their eyes, and Draco turned a queer shade of green.
"What's the matter, Malfoy? Can't stand the thought that your precious master murdered so many people?" Ron growled at Draco, looking at him with the utmost loathing.
"No, Weasley," Draco said in a quiet voice. "He is not my master."
Everyone looked at Draco in shock. "Are you serious, Malfoy?" Ron asked.
Draco nodded. Dumbledore then smiled. "I am glad, Mr. Malfoy. Now I know that we can help save the wizarding world from Voldemort. This is what we will need to do…"
When they came out of the meeting, an hour later, they all felt a bit better about themselves. They were all very nervous, however. Thank goodness their training didn't start until after Christmas break. Dumbledore had told them that the LAV (League Against Voldemort) would try and hold Voldemort and the Death Eaters off until they were done training. Until then, they were to act like they knew nothing, and enjoy themselves until training started. That could definitely be arranged.
As Draco and Hermione were walking to the next class, they were both deep in thought about everything that was going on. Draco was fuming at himself for telling his least favorite people his true feelings about Voldemort. Hermione was trying to figure out why Draco didn't like Voldemort, since his father, (this is something that not many people know, but it helps when you are involved in the YLAV [Youth League Against Voldemort]) was his left-hand man. (Pettigrew being the right hand man.) They were so lost in thought that they nearly walked passed the Charms classroom.
Classes that day passed without much trouble, as with the next day. However, that weekend was a different matter.
Draco got up a little bit earlier than Hermione. He had the best prank to pull on her. He quickly got ready, and then cast another separating spell. Then, he turned and ran as fast as he could out of the Gryffindor common room, and out of the castle. Draco stopped running at the edge of the forest, then waited. When the ten minutes were up, he held on tightly to a tree branch.
Hermione was jerked awake by something dragging her out of bed. It took her a couple moments to figure out what was going on, and during that time she was being dragged out of her and Draco's room, and out of the common room. Thankfully, there was no one else up. Hermione tried not to say anything, but after getting dragged down flights of steps it was kind of hard. "DRACO! WHERE ARE YOU!" Hermione shouted as she was being pulled outside. "YOU ARE GOING TO PAY FOR THIS!"
Draco saw her coming and broke into a peal of laughter. She looked so unbelievably hilarious, in her pajamas, hair all messed up, getting dragged towards him. She then saw him, when he was a couple feet away from her.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?" Hermione shouted, so mad at that moment that she wanted to wring his neck. Draco looked at her innocently, and said "Good morning, Hermione. I trust you slept well?"
"Oh, SHUT UP Draco! Answer me. What on earth did you think you were doing?" Hermione said, glaring at him.
"Hmm, well, I was taking a walk," Draco answered, with a grin on his face.
"Oh really. Then why didn't you cast another separating spell, and why were you hanging on t0 the tree?" Hermione snapped.
"Nothing," said Draco very slowly. "I'm going to go now." With that, he took off towards the castle, Hermione following him very closely. (Draco had cast the separating spell.) When he saw that Hermione was close behind him, he quickly muttered appareo dold paries. (Appear invisible wall.) Almost immediately, an invisible wall appeared in front of Hermione. She walked right into it, and then fell backwards, unconscious. Draco heard her run into it, and he quickly turned around as she was falling. He rushed over to her, and discovered that she was unconscious. Draco picked her up gently, and carried her into the castle. When she still wasn't awake when they got to the castle, Draco began to panic. He quickly brought her up to the hospital wing.
"Madam Pomfrey!" Draco called once they got up there. She came out of her office, and surveyed the two critically.
"What happened, Mr. Malfoy?" Madam Pomfrey asked, as she was walking over to them.
"Hermione is unconscious. She ran into something," Draco said, in all essence, telling the truth.
"Well, put her on a bed," Madam Pomfrey said, running to get her wand. Draco gently set Hermione on the nearest bed. Madam Pomfrey came back out, then told Draco to step aside. She started examining Hermione, and muttered a few healing charms. Hermione had a bump on her head, and according to Madam Pomfrey, she would be out for a couple hours.
Great. Now I'm going to be sitting in here for a couple hours. I probably won't be able to go to Hogsmeade, either.
"Well," said the little voice in his head, "If you wouldn't have played such a dumb prank, you wouldn't be sitting here."
Oh, shut up! Draco thought bitterly.
"I'm right, though, aren't I?" said the voice.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever you say. Draco sat there for five hours while Hermione was out. He summoned his homework, and started doing that until Hermione woke up. It was 12:00 noon when she woke up.
"What the…" Hermione said groggily, trying to sit up. Almost immediately, her head started hurting. She lay back down, and looked at Draco. "Draco, what happened?" she asked.
"Well, you ran into a…something," Draco told her, not wanting her to know that he is the one that put the wall there. "You've been out since about 7:00."
"Oh, that explains this huge bump on my head," Hermione said. She sighed. "I guess we won't be going to Hogsmeade, huh?"
"No, sorry," Draco told her.
They sat in silence for a couple of minutes, then Hermione said, "Have Harry, Ginny, or Ron come by?" Draco shook his head. "I wonder why?"
"Well, more than likely they think that we are sleeping in. They probably went down to Hogsmeade already," Draco said, not really believing what he was saying. He knew very well that they were sitting in the Gryffindor common room wondering where Hermione and himself were. Draco dismissed that thought and continued talking with Hermione for a little bit.
When Madam Pomfrey told him that Hermione had to stay in the hospital wing that night for surveillance, Draco went to the Gryffindor tower to get Hermione's homework, and to tell Harry, Ginny, and Ron where they were and that Hermione was all right. Just as he thought, they were sitting by the fire, looking worried. When they saw Draco come into the room, they immediately hounded him.
"Where is Hermione, Malfoy?" Harry demanded.
"Back off, Potter. She is in the hospital wing. We had a little accident this morning, and she ended up with a bump on her head," Draco explained to them.
"And how did she get a bump on her head, Malfoy?" said Ron, losing his patients.
"She ran into something," Draco told them, not telling them what she had run into.
"What?" said Ron, in a deadly calm whisper.
"Um, something," Draco said.
"Tell me RIGHT NOW, or I will give you a new facial accessory," Ron said.
"Why should I?" Draco scoffed.
"This is why!" Ron then punched Draco in the face, which would turn into a black eye.
"CALM DOWN RON!" shouted Ginny. "What matters now is that we know where Hermione is. Now we can go visit her."
Suddenly, Draco tensed up. He quickly cast a separating spell, then hurried to get the stuff of Hermione's he needed.
"What's your hurry, Malfoy?" sneered Ron.
"I only have one more separating spell! If I don't hurry, Hermione will get dragged towards me, or vice versa," Draco answered, hurrying to the portrait hole. He dashed up to the hospital wing, and made it there just in time, after being stopped by McGonagall on the way up.
"Draco, what happened to your eye?" Hermione asked as he sat down on the bed next to her.
"Oh, this? Well, Weasley punched me because I wouldn't tell him what you ran into," Draco answered a bit sheepishly. "Why?"
"Oh, um, no reason, I guess. Why does it matter?" Hermione asked.
"It doesn't," Draco answered quickly. They sat in silence, and then Harry, Ginny, and Ron came in.
"Hermione, there you are! I was worried," said Ginny with a concerned look on her face.
"How long have you been waiting?" asked Hermione, curiously.
"Since 9:00," answered Harry.
"I see. Well, here I am," said Hermione. They all laughed, and then Madam Pomfrey came in.
"Mr. Weasley, Mr. Potter, and Miss Weasley, you must leave. Miss Granger needs her rest," Madam Pomfrey said, shooing Harry, Ginny, and Ron out. "You can see her when she gets out tomorrow," she added as she shut the door. "Miss Granger, that is quite a nasty bump you have. I want you to take it easy. That means lay down, and no homework! I'll bring you your medicine in a moment." With that, she went back to her office, returning a couple moments later with a bottle of a purplish liquid. "Here you are. This should help your head hurting so much." She then gave Hermione a spoonful of it.
"This tastes like lemon juice, the nasty, concentrated kind," Hermione said, making a face.
"Well, it will help you feel better. Now lay back down. I'm sure that Mr. Malfoy would love to read you something." Draco made a face. "I'll be in my office if you need anything," Madam Pomfrey said as she walked back to her office.
Draco looked at Hermione, who said very sweetly, "Draco, would you be a dear and read to me from the Mystical Transfiguration book?"
Draco made a face, but complied. He still felt guilty about putting her in the hospital in the first place. He read for about 15 minutes, and then Hermione fell asleep. He closed the book, and started his own homework.
A/N- I know, I know, it is shorter than the others. I'm sorry. The next chapter will be longer, I promise. Hmm, I've been reading over what I have written in all 5 of these, and saw how much they swearing there is. **Scolds herself for swearing so much** And if you want to be alerted when I write the next one, put me on author alert. Anyway, please review! I'll love you for it! Thank you to everyone who has reviewed all of my stories. Or everyone who, like me, reads a bunch then reviews them overall. I hope you enjoyed this one. The romantic part is coming up in the next one, I promise. Oh, and Sanna, I have it here again if you caught it! (Anyone else know what I am talking about?) Thanks again, and pretty please review!
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