OK I KNOW I DIDN'T LEAVE LASTE TIME WITH MUCH OF A CLIFFHANGER BUT THIS PART IS BETTER. HOPE YOU WILL REVIEW. Daniela Goncalves.
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Hermione poured over her homework. She had to finish soon. She had no idea when she was going to be sent into the past. She looked over at the wall clock. It was past midnight, she didn't know how she would be after a night of training. They had been training for a week already, and she could hardly stay awake in classes. She looked out of the window. It was dark out side; the treetops were swaying in the wind like a dance. Hermione could fell her eyelids become heavy. Just as she settled her head on her hands, she felt the too familiar warmth of her glowing bracelet.
'Hermione, are you up?' Draco's voice sounded in her ear.
'Yes, yes I'm up. Don't forget your wand.'
'Ok, see you in a second.'
"Hermione ran around her room getting her cloak and. She couldn't see ready when the five minute warning went off. She grabbed her bag and wand. She didn't understand why Anika had asked her to bring an overnight bag. They hadn't stayed past two in the morning.
Hermione looked around her room for any thing she might have forgotten.
Meanwhile
Draco gave a massive yawn.
"What are you doing up?" Crabe asked sitting up in his bed.
"Nothing, go back to sleep." And on command Crabe plopped down and fell asleep. Just in time too. The next thing Draco knew he was in the all too familiar field. Though it was dark, Draco could tell where he was, and her could tell it was Hermione at his elbow.
"You look tired." Draco said half asleep himself. "We should really work out some kind of schedule, so we can get more the a few hours of sleep." Hermione nodded, too tired to speak. They began to walk towards the manor, leaning on each other for support. Draco liked his time with Hermione; they were really starting to become friends.
The door of the manor opened after the first knock. Wynn led them to an office. The office had huge soft chairs. Hermione fell in one of the chairs. Hermione wanted to rest her eyes, she only closed them for a second and she was gone, asleep at last.
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Hermione was running hard and fast. She was looking for something, or someone. Her eyes darted from one dark side to the other. She had an odd feeling she could hardly ex-plain She knew she was getting closer to the thing she was looking for; she could feel it in the pit of her stomach. Then up ahead she saw someone, it was Draco, Hermione's new friend. He was talking to some one who was lying on the floor, oblivious of his yelling.
"Draco!" She heard her voice as if from far away. He didn't look up at her. Hermione came around to where he was standing; she saw he was talking to Hermione, but not Hermione, another Hermione. One that was asleep on the floor in the office. Slowly the darkness around her became lighter and she could make out the rest of the office. Hermione looked around she knew it was the office that she had fallen asleep in but it was different. Hermione looked around the room again. In the chair behind the desk sat a very happy Voldermont. He had a crud smile; it didn't even look like a smile more like a smirk.
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Hermione screamed. Though in reality it was no more then a whisper. She could feel Draco's strong arms lift her from the spot. She could tell he was tired. She opened her eyes.
"Hay," she said rubbing her eyes. " Sorry I fell asleep. Are we going to start now?"
"Sorry to tell you, but we are done the training for tonight." He replied in barely a whisper.
"Oh, I am sorry Draco. Why didn't you wake me?"
"Its ok, we thought you needed the sleep." Hermione was surprised. The longer she knew him the more, and closer together the surprises came.
"And what about you? And where are we going?"
"To answer both your questions, we are going upstairs, we are going to sleep here to-night."
"But what about school?" Hermione had a perfect record of attendance; accept of course when she was stuck in the hospital wing in year two, being half cat. And then again being frozen statue
"Anika said she would take care of it. We will be able to sleep in today. As long as you want." He gave her a smile. She leaned into him as they went up a set of staircases afraid of falling over the rail. Soon he kicked open a door and set her in a chair between the bed and the window, they were the only piece of furniture in the room.
"Sleep, I will be next door if you need me." He gave her a peck on the forehead and handed her the overnight bag she had brought, then he left the room. Hermione pulled on her pyjamas. Then crawled thankfully into bed. The blankets were warm and inviting.
She dreamt the same dream only it was different. This time she knew what was going to happen. She waited in the shadows, waiting for the worst person in the world, and sure enough, there he was as the room came into focus. He saw the room with delight on his cold face and triumph. Hermione couldn't understand why he was there and how he found them in the past, the only thing she knew was he was happy. She knew that wasn't a good thing. Then suddenly he looked up at her, the smile on his face grew. Then he spoke in a deep almost upset voice.
"That's what you get for taking the piece from its spot in the puzzle. You know who I am?" Hermione nodded. "Now I am your worst nightmare. You put the piece back or I'll visit you frequently." He then turned back to the room and the show of worry sweeping over Draco's face.
She woke up in a cold sweat. All at once forgetting the dream. She was suddenly afraid of the room. She couldn't see the corners clearly. The room was dark and she couldn't stand it. Grabbing her wand she went into Draco's room. He was fast asleep. Hermione walked up to the side of his bed. Almost afraid to wake him.
"Draco." She whispered, his eyes snapped open. "I'm scared." He lifted a corner of his blankets, Hermione crawled under them. He put an arm around her. She felt safe, safe enough to fell fast asleep almost right away. Before she fell asleep Draco gave Hermione a good night squeeze. Hermione squeezed back. She was really starting to like him, in the big brother sense.
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They work up way past noon. Hermione and Draco were both pulling tightly on each other's pyjamas when Wynn nudged Draco to awake him.
"Miss and Sir have to get up now." He said in a loud voice, the sound of his voice, even in a whisper, was unbearable. Draco jerked awake, hermione still fast asleep next to him.
"Do we have to wake her up?" He whispered to Wynn.
"Its ok I'm up." Hermione sighed into his pillow, which she had grabbed halfway into the night. She yawned and stretched.
"Are you awake then?" He said. He didn't feel as tired as he was, but he was still tired.
"I wish I could sleep forever." Draco laughed. Wynn shook his head.
"Be careful as to what you wish for miss. It just may come true, besides who will save the world?" Hermione and Draco laughed and sat up. The room was full of sunlight. Hermione was so tired she could have easily slept on.
"Why do we need to get up? I thought we could sleep as long as we needed." Draco slid his arms around his knees resting his head on them.
"Anika says you must eat, then you may go back to sleep." Wynn went to the hall and come back with a tray, of food. Hermione wasn't all that hungry, but Draco was, he ate a few helpings of everything. After they ate Wynn disappeared back into the hall, the two sixteen year olds fell fast asleep once more.
It seemed like only second had they fallen asleep were they once again awoken. But it was a lot more then a second, it was now dark. They didn't wake because anyone had poked them, but because they were finally well rested.
"Good afternoon. Did you sleep well?" Anika asked as they sat down at the dinner table.
"Yes, thank you. But might I ask, how are we able to be here without upsetting anything in the future?"
"Its moderately simple. Here it's a leap year. Today doesn't happen in your time until tomorrow."
"Oh ok." Hermione was happy to finally be caught up on her sleep. " How much longer are we going to be training?" She asked not expecting the answer.
"We are finished. You will go back to your life at Hogwarts. We will call on you once a week to keep you up to date." Hermione and Draco looked at each other. They were overwhelmed with joy, they both almost jumped.
"I think there is a change in you two. When you came you were not close, I am glade that you are two likeable people. Some people wouldn't have been able to get through the training as you have. Congratulations. We will send you back in twenty minutes. Hermione you will be doing your homework at the same desk as last night, and Draco you will be sitting at the end of your bed. I won't you to remember to tell no one. Even though you can't use your powers involuntary, you can still be tricked." She gave a sigh. " Go and get ready to leave, I have to prepare something."
Back in the room where they slept, Hermione and Draco were talking about lifting the spell that allowed them to communicate.
"I think we should keep it. We might need it, yes I wont to keep it." Draco paced the room again.
"Do you think Potter will wise up eventually?"
"No, and I don't want him to. This is something only we can do. That's another reason; we can discus this without anyone hearing us. And we won't have to meet anywhere be-cause we will be able to do this much easier."
"Fine, we will." Draco said finally stopping and turning to Hermione, but before he could say anything he was sitting at the end of his bed.
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Hermione woke up. For the first time in a long she felt like everything was normal again, or as normal as it could get at Hogwarts. She washed up and went to the great hall. She sat with Harry and Ron. She felt sorry for Draco at the Slytherin table, ever since they had begun to go back in time her had felt less and less comfortable, at his own table. Hermione looked over at him, he and Goyle had just gotten into some sort of fight. There was yelling and shoving. In past times Draco would have gone for his wand but he didn't. Instead he stormed out of the hall. Everyone was staring. After he left the room went into a steady murmur. Hermione waited a minute then left after him. She knew where to find him. They had been meeting in moaning Myrtle's bathroom to practice their new spells.
When Hermione opened the door with the out of order sign, Hermione heard Draco banging on a stall door; one of his ways of letting off steam was to hit something. Draco had said it was his father's favourite; he usually hit Draco. He had shown her a scar he had gotten when his father had thrown him through a window, when he found Hermione had beaten him for head of their year.
"Draco, are you ok?" Draco looked at Hermione, he was actually smiling. "What hap-pened?"
"The funniest thing. I stood up for you when Goyle said a certain comment, we won't go into detail, and we got into a fight." Hermione laughed.
"I think this is absurd, we should be able to be friends. I think we should walk into that hall and go sit together at the Gryffindor table."
"Why not, the Slytherin table would just die."
"I wouldn't do anything like that." Moaning Myrtle had left her toilet. She floated in be-tween them. A look of fake wisdom planted on her pearly white face.
"Why not?" Draco asked evenly, he had gotten used to her butting in. Even though he said things about her after leaving the bathroom, he never said a thing in front of her. Hermione was starting to think he was an ok guy.
"Why would you want to upset anything more then it already is? Do you think they will accept friends, with one on one side of the broomstick, and the other so far on the other?"
Hermione looked at Draco. His face was resolute. He looked to Hermione then back at Myrtle.
"I don't care!" He turned and stormed out of the bathroom, grabbing Hermione on the way out.
"What are you doing? Where are we going? You're hurting me." They stopped in the hall, some passers were staring. He let go of her arm and started off down the hall.
"I'm going outside." He called to her over his shoulder.
"Wait up. I'm coming."
'Aren't you afraid someone will see us together?'
'You know that's not how I feel.' They were now walking down the hall together.
'How do you feel?'
They stopped in the middle of the hall.
"Draco, your like a big brother to m-" But Hermione's was cut short, there was a pain in her right wrist, it was the bracelet, but this time it was different this time it was more painful. Draco looked down at his own wrist. He looked alarmed. It wasn't there time to go in was a day before they were to get called.
'Something's wrong' they looked all around them. They saw a door of an empty classroom ajar. They ran to it and shut the door, it was the DADA room and Hermione could see that they were going to start defence on vampires, their new teacher, Miss McNally had set up a row of garlic and stakes on a desk at the front of the classroom. Just as she picked up one of the stakes, the room around her changed. But this time they were not in the field they were in the house. They had never been brought straight to the house. Something was wrong. The air that was usually filled you bright magic vibes, were full of hateful and destructive spells. They looked at each other, then in one second they headed towards the large room where they had been training. Draco looked around the room, he didn't see a thing. He was about to leave when he heard Hermione's shriek. She was looking up. A look of pure terror on her face, reluctantly Draco looked up, he too gave out a yelp. There suspended from the end of a rope was a skull, with a snake twisting in its mouth.
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"Hermione, can you hear me? Wake up." Draco's voice was far away, Hermione's head was throbbing, where she hit when she fainted after seeing the skull. How? She asked herself coming around. How did Voldermont find her and Draco in the past? What did he know that Anika hadn't told them?
Hermione opened her eyes. Draco's face swam into view; a look of concern was on his face. He gave a smile when he sew she had awoken. When she tried to get up he gently pushed her back onto the floor.
"Sorry you can't get up, I have very strict orders that you don't move until Anika gets back."
"Where is she?"
"She went to go investigate the sign."
"So do we know what happened or am I just going to lay here for the rest of my life."
"Nothing happened, Anika was just as shocked as we were."
"Then who called us back?"
"We don't know. I could be anyone." He said all this in a depressing tone, but Hermione had the feeling he wasn't bothered by what they found.
Anika walked in with the snake. She looked at the two children and sighed.
"Well it's who I thought it would be."
"Who?" Draco and Hermione said at once.
"Damien." She looked at the children as if she expected them to have some sort of reaction.
"Who?" Hermione asked, feeling stupid for the first time.
"What do they teach you at that school? Damien is the most powerful dark wizard."
"Never heard of him." Draco said. Hermione was happy to know she wasn't the only one lost.
"Come with me, I'll show you." She led them to a room filled with books, of all shapes and sizes. Anika pulled a book of the shelf and began to flip through the pages. Hermione and Draco took the opportunity to look around. Hermione found many books that caught her eye, one titled 'When you need to get rid of diamonds and fast' and another 'why do long spells when we have the shortcuts?'
"Here we are," Anika said snapping Hermione out of her thoughts. " 'Damien who has no record of a last name is the most powerful dark wizard known to exist' and then it goes on. There is a picture." Hermione and Draco moved over to the book. And staring up at them, was none other then a replica of lord Voldermont.
"Are you sure that's Damien? Because that looks a lot like our bad guy."
"He is right, that looks a lot like Voldermont."
"No he is Voldermont's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather"
"They look the same."
"Yes, well if you are powerful enough you can bestow an descendant with your look and a great part of your power. It was first used to keep the memory of an evil being in the world long after you are gone. But unfortunately, you unleash hell to the future."
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"Where were you?" Ron asked as Hermione sat down next to her in the great hall. They were having lunch. But Hermione felt she couldn't eat after finding that there were two bad guys after her at the same time. She looked over at Draco before answering; he looked pale and was sitting away from Crabe and Goyle.
"I was in the library." She hadn't been too worried about Ron and Harry finding out, she knew they trusted her. Even though they wouldn't let go about the time-turner.
"We checked you weren't there." Harry said grabbing the pumpkin juice from the center of the table.
"We must have missed each other. I think we should get a head start on those essay professor Binns told us we were going to do. She wanted to change the subject.
"Why? We have a whole two weeks." Ron moaned, Hermione was upset he never took school seriously. And he still passed with fine grades.
" Yes let us all fail because you want to wait." Hermione glared at him.
" Fine! But you better help me." Hermione sat back in her chair, sometimes she felt like she was carrying the two of them through school. But she didn't mind much.
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Ok I don't know what to say about the next part. It will be mainly about Hermione and the past. Won't say anymore. I hope you like. Please remark. I will get to the next part of the story soon. There seemed to be a lot of tired seines in the story that is mainly because I have been so tired lately. I will get well rested and the characters will be alert.
Daniela Goncalves
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Hermione poured over her homework. She had to finish soon. She had no idea when she was going to be sent into the past. She looked over at the wall clock. It was past midnight, she didn't know how she would be after a night of training. They had been training for a week already, and she could hardly stay awake in classes. She looked out of the window. It was dark out side; the treetops were swaying in the wind like a dance. Hermione could fell her eyelids become heavy. Just as she settled her head on her hands, she felt the too familiar warmth of her glowing bracelet.
'Hermione, are you up?' Draco's voice sounded in her ear.
'Yes, yes I'm up. Don't forget your wand.'
'Ok, see you in a second.'
"Hermione ran around her room getting her cloak and. She couldn't see ready when the five minute warning went off. She grabbed her bag and wand. She didn't understand why Anika had asked her to bring an overnight bag. They hadn't stayed past two in the morning.
Hermione looked around her room for any thing she might have forgotten.
Meanwhile
Draco gave a massive yawn.
"What are you doing up?" Crabe asked sitting up in his bed.
"Nothing, go back to sleep." And on command Crabe plopped down and fell asleep. Just in time too. The next thing Draco knew he was in the all too familiar field. Though it was dark, Draco could tell where he was, and her could tell it was Hermione at his elbow.
"You look tired." Draco said half asleep himself. "We should really work out some kind of schedule, so we can get more the a few hours of sleep." Hermione nodded, too tired to speak. They began to walk towards the manor, leaning on each other for support. Draco liked his time with Hermione; they were really starting to become friends.
The door of the manor opened after the first knock. Wynn led them to an office. The office had huge soft chairs. Hermione fell in one of the chairs. Hermione wanted to rest her eyes, she only closed them for a second and she was gone, asleep at last.
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Hermione was running hard and fast. She was looking for something, or someone. Her eyes darted from one dark side to the other. She had an odd feeling she could hardly ex-plain She knew she was getting closer to the thing she was looking for; she could feel it in the pit of her stomach. Then up ahead she saw someone, it was Draco, Hermione's new friend. He was talking to some one who was lying on the floor, oblivious of his yelling.
"Draco!" She heard her voice as if from far away. He didn't look up at her. Hermione came around to where he was standing; she saw he was talking to Hermione, but not Hermione, another Hermione. One that was asleep on the floor in the office. Slowly the darkness around her became lighter and she could make out the rest of the office. Hermione looked around she knew it was the office that she had fallen asleep in but it was different. Hermione looked around the room again. In the chair behind the desk sat a very happy Voldermont. He had a crud smile; it didn't even look like a smile more like a smirk.
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Hermione screamed. Though in reality it was no more then a whisper. She could feel Draco's strong arms lift her from the spot. She could tell he was tired. She opened her eyes.
"Hay," she said rubbing her eyes. " Sorry I fell asleep. Are we going to start now?"
"Sorry to tell you, but we are done the training for tonight." He replied in barely a whisper.
"Oh, I am sorry Draco. Why didn't you wake me?"
"Its ok, we thought you needed the sleep." Hermione was surprised. The longer she knew him the more, and closer together the surprises came.
"And what about you? And where are we going?"
"To answer both your questions, we are going upstairs, we are going to sleep here to-night."
"But what about school?" Hermione had a perfect record of attendance; accept of course when she was stuck in the hospital wing in year two, being half cat. And then again being frozen statue
"Anika said she would take care of it. We will be able to sleep in today. As long as you want." He gave her a smile. She leaned into him as they went up a set of staircases afraid of falling over the rail. Soon he kicked open a door and set her in a chair between the bed and the window, they were the only piece of furniture in the room.
"Sleep, I will be next door if you need me." He gave her a peck on the forehead and handed her the overnight bag she had brought, then he left the room. Hermione pulled on her pyjamas. Then crawled thankfully into bed. The blankets were warm and inviting.
She dreamt the same dream only it was different. This time she knew what was going to happen. She waited in the shadows, waiting for the worst person in the world, and sure enough, there he was as the room came into focus. He saw the room with delight on his cold face and triumph. Hermione couldn't understand why he was there and how he found them in the past, the only thing she knew was he was happy. She knew that wasn't a good thing. Then suddenly he looked up at her, the smile on his face grew. Then he spoke in a deep almost upset voice.
"That's what you get for taking the piece from its spot in the puzzle. You know who I am?" Hermione nodded. "Now I am your worst nightmare. You put the piece back or I'll visit you frequently." He then turned back to the room and the show of worry sweeping over Draco's face.
She woke up in a cold sweat. All at once forgetting the dream. She was suddenly afraid of the room. She couldn't see the corners clearly. The room was dark and she couldn't stand it. Grabbing her wand she went into Draco's room. He was fast asleep. Hermione walked up to the side of his bed. Almost afraid to wake him.
"Draco." She whispered, his eyes snapped open. "I'm scared." He lifted a corner of his blankets, Hermione crawled under them. He put an arm around her. She felt safe, safe enough to fell fast asleep almost right away. Before she fell asleep Draco gave Hermione a good night squeeze. Hermione squeezed back. She was really starting to like him, in the big brother sense.
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They work up way past noon. Hermione and Draco were both pulling tightly on each other's pyjamas when Wynn nudged Draco to awake him.
"Miss and Sir have to get up now." He said in a loud voice, the sound of his voice, even in a whisper, was unbearable. Draco jerked awake, hermione still fast asleep next to him.
"Do we have to wake her up?" He whispered to Wynn.
"Its ok I'm up." Hermione sighed into his pillow, which she had grabbed halfway into the night. She yawned and stretched.
"Are you awake then?" He said. He didn't feel as tired as he was, but he was still tired.
"I wish I could sleep forever." Draco laughed. Wynn shook his head.
"Be careful as to what you wish for miss. It just may come true, besides who will save the world?" Hermione and Draco laughed and sat up. The room was full of sunlight. Hermione was so tired she could have easily slept on.
"Why do we need to get up? I thought we could sleep as long as we needed." Draco slid his arms around his knees resting his head on them.
"Anika says you must eat, then you may go back to sleep." Wynn went to the hall and come back with a tray, of food. Hermione wasn't all that hungry, but Draco was, he ate a few helpings of everything. After they ate Wynn disappeared back into the hall, the two sixteen year olds fell fast asleep once more.
It seemed like only second had they fallen asleep were they once again awoken. But it was a lot more then a second, it was now dark. They didn't wake because anyone had poked them, but because they were finally well rested.
"Good afternoon. Did you sleep well?" Anika asked as they sat down at the dinner table.
"Yes, thank you. But might I ask, how are we able to be here without upsetting anything in the future?"
"Its moderately simple. Here it's a leap year. Today doesn't happen in your time until tomorrow."
"Oh ok." Hermione was happy to finally be caught up on her sleep. " How much longer are we going to be training?" She asked not expecting the answer.
"We are finished. You will go back to your life at Hogwarts. We will call on you once a week to keep you up to date." Hermione and Draco looked at each other. They were overwhelmed with joy, they both almost jumped.
"I think there is a change in you two. When you came you were not close, I am glade that you are two likeable people. Some people wouldn't have been able to get through the training as you have. Congratulations. We will send you back in twenty minutes. Hermione you will be doing your homework at the same desk as last night, and Draco you will be sitting at the end of your bed. I won't you to remember to tell no one. Even though you can't use your powers involuntary, you can still be tricked." She gave a sigh. " Go and get ready to leave, I have to prepare something."
Back in the room where they slept, Hermione and Draco were talking about lifting the spell that allowed them to communicate.
"I think we should keep it. We might need it, yes I wont to keep it." Draco paced the room again.
"Do you think Potter will wise up eventually?"
"No, and I don't want him to. This is something only we can do. That's another reason; we can discus this without anyone hearing us. And we won't have to meet anywhere be-cause we will be able to do this much easier."
"Fine, we will." Draco said finally stopping and turning to Hermione, but before he could say anything he was sitting at the end of his bed.
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Hermione woke up. For the first time in a long she felt like everything was normal again, or as normal as it could get at Hogwarts. She washed up and went to the great hall. She sat with Harry and Ron. She felt sorry for Draco at the Slytherin table, ever since they had begun to go back in time her had felt less and less comfortable, at his own table. Hermione looked over at him, he and Goyle had just gotten into some sort of fight. There was yelling and shoving. In past times Draco would have gone for his wand but he didn't. Instead he stormed out of the hall. Everyone was staring. After he left the room went into a steady murmur. Hermione waited a minute then left after him. She knew where to find him. They had been meeting in moaning Myrtle's bathroom to practice their new spells.
When Hermione opened the door with the out of order sign, Hermione heard Draco banging on a stall door; one of his ways of letting off steam was to hit something. Draco had said it was his father's favourite; he usually hit Draco. He had shown her a scar he had gotten when his father had thrown him through a window, when he found Hermione had beaten him for head of their year.
"Draco, are you ok?" Draco looked at Hermione, he was actually smiling. "What hap-pened?"
"The funniest thing. I stood up for you when Goyle said a certain comment, we won't go into detail, and we got into a fight." Hermione laughed.
"I think this is absurd, we should be able to be friends. I think we should walk into that hall and go sit together at the Gryffindor table."
"Why not, the Slytherin table would just die."
"I wouldn't do anything like that." Moaning Myrtle had left her toilet. She floated in be-tween them. A look of fake wisdom planted on her pearly white face.
"Why not?" Draco asked evenly, he had gotten used to her butting in. Even though he said things about her after leaving the bathroom, he never said a thing in front of her. Hermione was starting to think he was an ok guy.
"Why would you want to upset anything more then it already is? Do you think they will accept friends, with one on one side of the broomstick, and the other so far on the other?"
Hermione looked at Draco. His face was resolute. He looked to Hermione then back at Myrtle.
"I don't care!" He turned and stormed out of the bathroom, grabbing Hermione on the way out.
"What are you doing? Where are we going? You're hurting me." They stopped in the hall, some passers were staring. He let go of her arm and started off down the hall.
"I'm going outside." He called to her over his shoulder.
"Wait up. I'm coming."
'Aren't you afraid someone will see us together?'
'You know that's not how I feel.' They were now walking down the hall together.
'How do you feel?'
They stopped in the middle of the hall.
"Draco, your like a big brother to m-" But Hermione's was cut short, there was a pain in her right wrist, it was the bracelet, but this time it was different this time it was more painful. Draco looked down at his own wrist. He looked alarmed. It wasn't there time to go in was a day before they were to get called.
'Something's wrong' they looked all around them. They saw a door of an empty classroom ajar. They ran to it and shut the door, it was the DADA room and Hermione could see that they were going to start defence on vampires, their new teacher, Miss McNally had set up a row of garlic and stakes on a desk at the front of the classroom. Just as she picked up one of the stakes, the room around her changed. But this time they were not in the field they were in the house. They had never been brought straight to the house. Something was wrong. The air that was usually filled you bright magic vibes, were full of hateful and destructive spells. They looked at each other, then in one second they headed towards the large room where they had been training. Draco looked around the room, he didn't see a thing. He was about to leave when he heard Hermione's shriek. She was looking up. A look of pure terror on her face, reluctantly Draco looked up, he too gave out a yelp. There suspended from the end of a rope was a skull, with a snake twisting in its mouth.
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"Hermione, can you hear me? Wake up." Draco's voice was far away, Hermione's head was throbbing, where she hit when she fainted after seeing the skull. How? She asked herself coming around. How did Voldermont find her and Draco in the past? What did he know that Anika hadn't told them?
Hermione opened her eyes. Draco's face swam into view; a look of concern was on his face. He gave a smile when he sew she had awoken. When she tried to get up he gently pushed her back onto the floor.
"Sorry you can't get up, I have very strict orders that you don't move until Anika gets back."
"Where is she?"
"She went to go investigate the sign."
"So do we know what happened or am I just going to lay here for the rest of my life."
"Nothing happened, Anika was just as shocked as we were."
"Then who called us back?"
"We don't know. I could be anyone." He said all this in a depressing tone, but Hermione had the feeling he wasn't bothered by what they found.
Anika walked in with the snake. She looked at the two children and sighed.
"Well it's who I thought it would be."
"Who?" Draco and Hermione said at once.
"Damien." She looked at the children as if she expected them to have some sort of reaction.
"Who?" Hermione asked, feeling stupid for the first time.
"What do they teach you at that school? Damien is the most powerful dark wizard."
"Never heard of him." Draco said. Hermione was happy to know she wasn't the only one lost.
"Come with me, I'll show you." She led them to a room filled with books, of all shapes and sizes. Anika pulled a book of the shelf and began to flip through the pages. Hermione and Draco took the opportunity to look around. Hermione found many books that caught her eye, one titled 'When you need to get rid of diamonds and fast' and another 'why do long spells when we have the shortcuts?'
"Here we are," Anika said snapping Hermione out of her thoughts. " 'Damien who has no record of a last name is the most powerful dark wizard known to exist' and then it goes on. There is a picture." Hermione and Draco moved over to the book. And staring up at them, was none other then a replica of lord Voldermont.
"Are you sure that's Damien? Because that looks a lot like our bad guy."
"He is right, that looks a lot like Voldermont."
"No he is Voldermont's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather"
"They look the same."
"Yes, well if you are powerful enough you can bestow an descendant with your look and a great part of your power. It was first used to keep the memory of an evil being in the world long after you are gone. But unfortunately, you unleash hell to the future."
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"Where were you?" Ron asked as Hermione sat down next to her in the great hall. They were having lunch. But Hermione felt she couldn't eat after finding that there were two bad guys after her at the same time. She looked over at Draco before answering; he looked pale and was sitting away from Crabe and Goyle.
"I was in the library." She hadn't been too worried about Ron and Harry finding out, she knew they trusted her. Even though they wouldn't let go about the time-turner.
"We checked you weren't there." Harry said grabbing the pumpkin juice from the center of the table.
"We must have missed each other. I think we should get a head start on those essay professor Binns told us we were going to do. She wanted to change the subject.
"Why? We have a whole two weeks." Ron moaned, Hermione was upset he never took school seriously. And he still passed with fine grades.
" Yes let us all fail because you want to wait." Hermione glared at him.
" Fine! But you better help me." Hermione sat back in her chair, sometimes she felt like she was carrying the two of them through school. But she didn't mind much.
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Ok I don't know what to say about the next part. It will be mainly about Hermione and the past. Won't say anymore. I hope you like. Please remark. I will get to the next part of the story soon. There seemed to be a lot of tired seines in the story that is mainly because I have been so tired lately. I will get well rested and the characters will be alert.
Daniela Goncalves