"Hermione, this won't accomplish anything." Draco whispered to his fellow traveler as they walked down the deserted halls of Hogwarts.
" Of course it will." Draco sighed and quickened his step. Hermione was racing down the hallway. He couldn't see her but he could hear she was far ahead now.
"I don't like this spell either. It could ware off at any time." Draco was referring to the spell Hermione put on them to make them invisible to grown ups. If Mr. Filtch were to walk by they wouldn't be seen.
"It will not ware off. It was not a easy spell but I did it right and will only ware off if you say the reverse spell." Hermione had reached the destination. She pulled on the door handle and walked in the familiar room.
As they walked among the dusty volumes and textbooks that covered the walls, Draco got an uneasy feeling. He didn't like being in the dark library, night or day it was creepy to him.
"What are we looking for anyway?" He yawned nit really wanting to be awake. Hermione had called magically into his ear until he awoke from his restful sleep.
"We are looking for that book Anika showed us. It was called 'Great Not so Great Wizards and Witches' it will be a very old book." Draco stopped.
"Why in the world are we looking for a book we don't need?" He asked upset at Hermione for waking him.
"We do need the book. I want to find out what kind of magic he used to become someone that is feared." Hermione asked pulling a book from a shelf, even though it wasn't the one they were looking for.
"Why don't you ask Anika so we can get some sleep? I can't believe you."
"I don't want her to know we are looking this up." Hermione said shortly.
"Why not? She wouldn't be too happy will she?" Draco started to feel that Hermione was keeping something from him.
"I don't think she wants us to know how powerful he is and worry about them while we are here." Draco still thought she was hiding something but didn't know what. "I actually wanted to ask her what he was doing using Voldermont' sign." Draco knew what he was doing. But he was intimidated about what Hermione would think about how much he knew about Voldermont. But in the end of his battle with his mind it was better, he thought, if she knew all she needed to.
"It was originally the sign of a great dark wizard, he name is lost, it has been passed down from one dark wizard to another. It is a sign of power and warning used to warn the opponent of the dark wizard that they are being closely watched." Hermione fell silent and he could feel her getting close.
"How did you know that?" Hermione sounded shocked.
"Well I was taught by my father all about the dark lords of history."
"Then you know who that guy was." She sounded almost excited.
"No that's one that my father never indicated. The first I heard of him was from Anika. Besides Hermione I don't think her is a great threat, but I do think I need sleep. Can we please just go to sleep and ask Anika about this later?"
"Fine lets go, but you are coming back tomorrow to find a book on transportation spells." Hermione said, her footsteps directed to the door.
"Why?" Draco asked.
"I wont to know how they are getting us that far back in time." Draco sighed. He was starting to think being friends with Hermione was hard.
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"Hermione! Hello! Are you alright?" Ron shouted at her. They were sitting in the great at the Gryffindor, but Hermione's thoughts were at the Slythern table with Draco, literally they had been discussing the information they wanted to ask Anika, Draco rather reluctantly. "You look as if you have been awake all night. Don't tell me you were studying for that potion exam. You know everything about the subject." Ron reached over her and grabbed the book she was pretending to read. " 'The book of mythology and other things that might interest you' who thinks up these titles anyway, I got one book up stairs called 'Great not so great Wizards and witches' it is full of cool bad guys, but it wouldn't catch you attention by the title. If I ever wrote-" Hermione's ears perked up.
"Do, you think I could look at that book?" Ron looked shocked but then just shrugged.
"I guess, but I want it back. I'm on this story about this witch who snuck up on this old guy and made him dance 'I maybe a tiny chimney sweep but I've got an enormous broom' in front of the town he lived in." Harry, who had been quiet, laughed slightly.
"What do you want it for? But I don't want to know if it is going to take an hour to explain."
"Good, then you don't want to know." Hermione said quietly. "Do you think you could get it for me?" Ron looked upset to having to get up.
"Don't worry, I'll get it, I have practice anyway, and I didn't bring my broom with me to breakfast." Harry said getting up from his spot and heading out the door. He came back ten minutes later, book and broom in hand.
"Thanks." Hermione said grabbing the book from Harry.
'Draco, you wouldn't believe our luck'
'What is it now?' Draco asked rather dryly that Hermione was offended, but was quick to tell him of the book.
'Ron had the book all this time' Hermione looked up and saw the expression on Draco's face change form one of boredom to one of surprise.
'Well what are we waiting for? Lets go to the bathroom' They both got up at the same time and walked out of the hall. They raced to the second floor and went into the out of order bathroom.
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"So, what does it say about him?" Draco asked impatiently. But Hermione sat on the floor in a deep calm, flipping through the book. But as she got to the back cover of the old book, the horrible truth set in.
"Its not here." She said in a far off voice.
"What do you mean? Of course he is, you didn't look well enough. Give me the book. And you call yourself a witch." Hermione was too upset to think about what he had said.
Draco opened the front page and muttered a spell. As if a wind was blowing the pages the book's pages flew from the back cover to the front. When they had all reach the front Draco's face fell. "He's not here." He sat next to Hermione on the floor. "Are you sure this was the book?" Hermione nodded. "Someone could have taken it out."
"I suppose, but why?" She really wasn't asking anyone but Myrtle felt she had to add.
"Maybe so you wouldn't find out." Draco and Hermione didn't say anything, they were both thinking about who wouldn't want them to know. If Ron had the book then it could have been accidentally torn out without his knowing. Hermione knowing Ron thought this possible. But Draco on the other hand was thinking of someone else.
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"Ron?" Hermione said casually. "Did you by any chance see anything about some guy named Damien in the book you let me borrow?" Ron thought long and hard.
"Was he the one who cut out the victim's heart and served it to their family?" He asked looking at Harry.
"No," Harry replied looking over his stare chart. "That was Dakeve the demon form Norway. Hermione is talking about the guy who tried to conquer the world, like Voldermont." Hermione was taken aback.
" Don't say that name!" Ron said back with a shiver.
"How did you know about that? I don't even know." Hermione said almost upset he knew.
"Professor Trelawney, told us how it was just like history repeating itself, and how it has been foretold, you now the usual blabber." They were sitting in the Gryffindor common room doing homework, so there was a few people were eavesdropping to Harry's story.
"What else did she say? What happened last time." Collin asked sitting next to Hermione at the table, looking excited.
"Well, there were these people who could take down whole armies with a single curse, they were trained to defend the good guys. They stood there in front of a whole army of thousands, with no other defence, the bad guys laughed at them and said they were all chicken."
" But they weren't saying that after were they?" Lavender asked sitting next to Ron.
"Nope, they blew them away with the one spell and one the war."
"Who were these people that could get the whole army down?" Collin asked. Harry had to think a minute. But then he got a look on his face, as if he didn't really understand.
"She said they were the Keys. I don't think we can really believe the old bat anyway. Imagine that kind of power, being able to defend the world from the most powerful armies, I don't think anyone is capable to have that much power." He looked around the table at the crowd of students. He laughed. "Its only a story the crazy bat told us, its probably not true anyway. Don't you think the 'Keys' would have already gotten rid of Vol- sorry He-who-must-not-be-named?" The people looked at each other then started to scatter.
"I have to go somewhere, the library. Be back soon." Hermione got up and left the room.
'Draco!' Hermione thought sending it out to Draco. It was getting easy to channel her thoughts more and more as time wore on.
'Yeah?' Draco said back he sounded happy to hear her. 'Wait, does this have to do with that book?' He said more sorry to hear Hermione.
'Yes and no, it wasn't in the book but Professor Trelawney told the third years a story about Damien, and the keys of back then' She had expected Draco to get excited but he didn't.
'And, like I believe anything that old bat says.'
'No, it sounds as if it fits with what we have been told by Anika'
'Ok now what?'
'Where are you?'
'My dorm why?'
'Lets meet.'
'Where?'
'We need to get out of the castle.' Hermione said thinking of where they could meet.
' The Quidditch pitch. No one is there now, I can see the pitch from here'
'Ok, see you there in five minutes.'
'Ok.' Hermione broke the connection on their thoughts and walked faster. She didn't know why they were going to talk they had really nothing to talk about, Hermione wanted to research prophecies. But didn't feel like explaining anything to the librarian.
She walked out to the pitch, seeing Draco halfway, he saw her and waited up for her. The sun was dipping behind the mountain and it was beginning to get cold. Hermione pulled her robes around her, scolding herself for not bringing her cloak. They sat in the stands about when to start on the research on transporting people far back in time. They decided to meet in Myrtles bathroom to look through books Hermione would get. A movement caught the corner of Hermione's eye, she was scared for a second but then realized it was just an owl. Hermione had been jumpy lately and she didn't like the uneasy feeling she had in her stomach. They talked a little about the up coming Quidditch match and whom they thought would win. Hermione usually didn't like to talk about Quidditch because the guys always talked to one another as if she weren't there, but Draco asked if she understood a term and then explained. They only stopped talking when it was so dark they could no longer see each other.
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"Did you get what you wanted from the library?" Ron asked, still pouring over his work.
"What? Oh sure." Harry looked up from his own homework.
" What's up? We hardly see you anymore, you aren't keeping something from us, are you?" Hermione looked from Harry to Ron. They also exchanged looks.
"No. Why do you ask?" Hermione didn't like the way they were looking at her.
" This." Harry said, talking the Marauder's Map.
"Have you been spying on me?" She said furiously. " I can't believe you have been spying on me." Ron looked at Harry before responding.
"It was an accident, we couldn't find you anywhere so we used the map. But you didn't show up at all some times. But other times you were on the second floor." He looked over to Harry, who continued.
"Sometimes you were alone and then sometimes you were not." Hermione felt a knot in her stomach; they knew she had been with Draco. " Hermione, you should have told Malfoy has been bugging you, we would have done something sooner." Hermione was surprised; she had thought the gig was up; slowly she let a breath of relief out.
"Well, I didn't wont you guys to get mixed up with anything as unimportant as Malfoy." Calling Draco by his last name gave her an uneasy feeling now, though at one time it was second nature. "You two have other things to worry about, anyway, I put him in his place."
"Is that why you left tonight, to tell him off? What did he say? Did you curse him."
Hermione allowed herself to let a laugh out, but she knew it was wrong to talk about Draco with the guys, they would just scold him. That would make her feel like a traitor.
"I am tired, I'll just go to bed. See you guys in the morning." As she turned to leave, a familiar, tickle entered her ear.
'Nice save'
' I feel horrible lying to them'
' Don't worry I have a strange feeling that this will be over sooner then we think' Hermione bit her lip.
'Me too.'
Hermione said goodnight to Draco and went into her dorm, she fell into a sleep that was all but restful.
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Hermione kept waking thinking she should have told the guys the truth. She looked over to the wall clock; it was still pretty early she opened her mental connection with Draco.
'Are you awake?' She asked willing him to be awake.
' I don't think I have fallen asleep for a whole night since we left Anika and Jonah's house.'
'Me neither.'
' So what did Potter use to spy on you?' Hermione didn't feel like telling Draco would help her felling of betrayal.
' That's a secret.'
'Ok, but it wouldn't happen to be the famous Marauder's Map would it?' Hermione was surprised.
'How…what…how do you know about the map?'
'Snape, he is always talking about 'Potter and that blasted map' he usually says Potter takes after his father. I wondered if Snape had gone mad, now I know.'
'Well Snape is still mad, but he is right about the map. I would think he had better things to do then go around insulting Harry.' Draco's laugh sounded in her ear, it was the same laugh she had grown to hate, the same laugh that had haunted her for years, and she felt that she might be doing the wrong thing by teaming up with Draco. How does she know that his father had him under a spell all these years? She suddenly felt uncomfortable.
' Well I suddenly feel tired, I should try to sleep, we have to go up a mountain tomorrow with Hagrid for care of magical creatures class. I don't want to be falling asleep while we climb.'
' Alright, night then.' The connection broke and Hermione fell back into her pillow, she didn't have the slight idea what she was getting into. And worse as time wore on she could feel that the time when she had to use her new powers were coming closer. Still think about it she fell asleep. But this time she didn't dream about anything, which in the morning wouldn't bother her, because she didn't know that she had been having dreams at all. By the time she woke up her drams were forgotten. Not only by her, but also the person she shared them with.
Draco.
Ok This was not the best of my work but I will try harder and then we shall see what happens, next week. Till then. "Hermione, this won't accomplish anything." Draco whispered to his fellow traveler as they walked down the deserted halls of Hogwarts.
" Of course it will." Draco sighed and quickened his step. Hermione was racing down the hallway. He couldn't see her but he could hear she was far ahead now.
"I don't like this spell either. It could ware off at any time." Draco was referring to the spell Hermione put on them to make them invisible to grown ups. If Mr. Filtch were to walk by they wouldn't be seen.
"It will not ware off. It was not a easy spell but I did it right and will only ware off if you say the reverse spell." Hermione had reached the destination. She pulled on the door handle and walked in the familiar room.
As they walked among the dusty volumes and textbooks that covered the walls, Draco got an uneasy feeling. He didn't like being in the dark library, night or day it was creepy to him.
"What are we looking for anyway?" He yawned nit really wanting to be awake. Hermione had called magically into his ear until he awoke from his restful sleep.
"We are looking for that book Anika showed us. It was called 'Great Not so Great Wizards and Witches' it will be a very old book." Draco stopped.
"Why in the world are we looking for a book we don't need?" He asked upset at Hermione for waking him.
"We do need the book. I want to find out what kind of magic he used to become someone that is feared." Hermione asked pulling a book from a shelf, even though it wasn't the one they were looking for.
"Why don't you ask Anika so we can get some sleep? I can't believe you."
"I don't want her to know we are looking this up." Hermione said shortly.
"Why not? She wouldn't be too happy will she?" Draco started to feel that Hermione was keeping something from him.
"I don't think she wants us to know how powerful he is and worry about them while we are here." Draco still thought she was hiding something but didn't know what. "I actually wanted to ask her what he was doing using Voldermont' sign." Draco knew what he was doing. But he was intimidated about what Hermione would think about how much he knew about Voldermont. But in the end of his battle with his mind it was better, he thought, if she knew all she needed to.
"It was originally the sign of a great dark wizard, he name is lost, it has been passed down from one dark wizard to another. It is a sign of power and warning used to warn the opponent of the dark wizard that they are being closely watched." Hermione fell silent and he could feel her getting close.
"How did you know that?" Hermione sounded shocked.
"Well I was taught by my father all about the dark lords of history."
"Then you know who that guy was." She sounded almost excited.
"No that's one that my father never indicated. The first I heard of him was from Anika. Besides Hermione I don't think her is a great threat, but I do think I need sleep. Can we please just go to sleep and ask Anika about this later?"
"Fine lets go, but you are coming back tomorrow to find a book on transportation spells." Hermione said, her footsteps directed to the door.
"Why?" Draco asked.
"I wont to know how they are getting us that far back in time." Draco sighed. He was starting to think being friends with Hermione was hard.
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"Hermione! Hello! Are you alright?" Ron shouted at her. They were sitting in the great at the Gryffindor, but Hermione's thoughts were at the Slythern table with Draco, literally they had been discussing the information they wanted to ask Anika, Draco rather reluctantly. "You look as if you have been awake all night. Don't tell me you were studying for that potion exam. You know everything about the subject." Ron reached over her and grabbed the book she was pretending to read. " 'The book of mythology and other things that might interest you' who thinks up these titles anyway, I got one book up stairs called 'Great not so great Wizards and witches' it is full of cool bad guys, but it wouldn't catch you attention by the title. If I ever wrote-" Hermione's ears perked up.
"Do, you think I could look at that book?" Ron looked shocked but then just shrugged.
"I guess, but I want it back. I'm on this story about this witch who snuck up on this old guy and made him dance 'I maybe a tiny chimney sweep but I've got an enormous broom' in front of the town he lived in." Harry, who had been quiet, laughed slightly.
"What do you want it for? But I don't want to know if it is going to take an hour to explain."
"Good, then you don't want to know." Hermione said quietly. "Do you think you could get it for me?" Ron looked upset to having to get up.
"Don't worry, I'll get it, I have practice anyway, and I didn't bring my broom with me to breakfast." Harry said getting up from his spot and heading out the door. He came back ten minutes later, book and broom in hand.
"Thanks." Hermione said grabbing the book from Harry.
'Draco, you wouldn't believe our luck'
'What is it now?' Draco asked rather dryly that Hermione was offended, but was quick to tell him of the book.
'Ron had the book all this time' Hermione looked up and saw the expression on Draco's face change form one of boredom to one of surprise.
'Well what are we waiting for? Lets go to the bathroom' They both got up at the same time and walked out of the hall. They raced to the second floor and went into the out of order bathroom.
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"So, what does it say about him?" Draco asked impatiently. But Hermione sat on the floor in a deep calm, flipping through the book. But as she got to the back cover of the old book, the horrible truth set in.
"Its not here." She said in a far off voice.
"What do you mean? Of course he is, you didn't look well enough. Give me the book. And you call yourself a witch." Hermione was too upset to think about what he had said.
Draco opened the front page and muttered a spell. As if a wind was blowing the pages the book's pages flew from the back cover to the front. When they had all reach the front Draco's face fell. "He's not here." He sat next to Hermione on the floor. "Are you sure this was the book?" Hermione nodded. "Someone could have taken it out."
"I suppose, but why?" She really wasn't asking anyone but Myrtle felt she had to add.
"Maybe so you wouldn't find out." Draco and Hermione didn't say anything, they were both thinking about who wouldn't want them to know. If Ron had the book then it could have been accidentally torn out without his knowing. Hermione knowing Ron thought this possible. But Draco on the other hand was thinking of someone else.
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"Ron?" Hermione said casually. "Did you by any chance see anything about some guy named Damien in the book you let me borrow?" Ron thought long and hard.
"Was he the one who cut out the victim's heart and served it to their family?" He asked looking at Harry.
"No," Harry replied looking over his stare chart. "That was Dakeve the demon form Norway. Hermione is talking about the guy who tried to conquer the world, like Voldermont." Hermione was taken aback.
" Don't say that name!" Ron said back with a shiver.
"How did you know about that? I don't even know." Hermione said almost upset he knew.
"Professor Trelawney, told us how it was just like history repeating itself, and how it has been foretold, you now the usual blabber." They were sitting in the Gryffindor common room doing homework, so there was a few people were eavesdropping to Harry's story.
"What else did she say? What happened last time." Collin asked sitting next to Hermione at the table, looking excited.
"Well, there were these people who could take down whole armies with a single curse, they were trained to defend the good guys. They stood there in front of a whole army of thousands, with no other defence, the bad guys laughed at them and said they were all chicken."
" But they weren't saying that after were they?" Lavender asked sitting next to Ron.
"Nope, they blew them away with the one spell and one the war."
"Who were these people that could get the whole army down?" Collin asked. Harry had to think a minute. But then he got a look on his face, as if he didn't really understand.
"She said they were the Keys. I don't think we can really believe the old bat anyway. Imagine that kind of power, being able to defend the world from the most powerful armies, I don't think anyone is capable to have that much power." He looked around the table at the crowd of students. He laughed. "Its only a story the crazy bat told us, its probably not true anyway. Don't you think the 'Keys' would have already gotten rid of Vol- sorry He-who-must-not-be-named?" The people looked at each other then started to scatter.
"I have to go somewhere, the library. Be back soon." Hermione got up and left the room.
'Draco!' Hermione thought sending it out to Draco. It was getting easy to channel her thoughts more and more as time wore on.
'Yeah?' Draco said back he sounded happy to hear her. 'Wait, does this have to do with that book?' He said more sorry to hear Hermione.
'Yes and no, it wasn't in the book but Professor Trelawney told the third years a story about Damien, and the keys of back then' She had expected Draco to get excited but he didn't.
'And, like I believe anything that old bat says.'
'No, it sounds as if it fits with what we have been told by Anika'
'Ok now what?'
'Where are you?'
'My dorm why?'
'Lets meet.'
'Where?'
'We need to get out of the castle.' Hermione said thinking of where they could meet.
' The Quidditch pitch. No one is there now, I can see the pitch from here'
'Ok, see you there in five minutes.'
'Ok.' Hermione broke the connection on their thoughts and walked faster. She didn't know why they were going to talk they had really nothing to talk about, Hermione wanted to research prophecies. But didn't feel like explaining anything to the librarian.
She walked out to the pitch, seeing Draco halfway, he saw her and waited up for her. The sun was dipping behind the mountain and it was beginning to get cold. Hermione pulled her robes around her, scolding herself for not bringing her cloak. They sat in the stands about when to start on the research on transporting people far back in time. They decided to meet in Myrtles bathroom to look through books Hermione would get. A movement caught the corner of Hermione's eye, she was scared for a second but then realized it was just an owl. Hermione had been jumpy lately and she didn't like the uneasy feeling she had in her stomach. They talked a little about the up coming Quidditch match and whom they thought would win. Hermione usually didn't like to talk about Quidditch because the guys always talked to one another as if she weren't there, but Draco asked if she understood a term and then explained. They only stopped talking when it was so dark they could no longer see each other.
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"Did you get what you wanted from the library?" Ron asked, still pouring over his work.
"What? Oh sure." Harry looked up from his own homework.
" What's up? We hardly see you anymore, you aren't keeping something from us, are you?" Hermione looked from Harry to Ron. They also exchanged looks.
"No. Why do you ask?" Hermione didn't like the way they were looking at her.
" This." Harry said, talking the Marauder's Map.
"Have you been spying on me?" She said furiously. " I can't believe you have been spying on me." Ron looked at Harry before responding.
"It was an accident, we couldn't find you anywhere so we used the map. But you didn't show up at all some times. But other times you were on the second floor." He looked over to Harry, who continued.
"Sometimes you were alone and then sometimes you were not." Hermione felt a knot in her stomach; they knew she had been with Draco. " Hermione, you should have told Malfoy has been bugging you, we would have done something sooner." Hermione was surprised; she had thought the gig was up; slowly she let a breath of relief out.
"Well, I didn't wont you guys to get mixed up with anything as unimportant as Malfoy." Calling Draco by his last name gave her an uneasy feeling now, though at one time it was second nature. "You two have other things to worry about, anyway, I put him in his place."
"Is that why you left tonight, to tell him off? What did he say? Did you curse him."
Hermione allowed herself to let a laugh out, but she knew it was wrong to talk about Draco with the guys, they would just scold him. That would make her feel like a traitor.
"I am tired, I'll just go to bed. See you guys in the morning." As she turned to leave, a familiar, tickle entered her ear.
'Nice save'
' I feel horrible lying to them'
' Don't worry I have a strange feeling that this will be over sooner then we think' Hermione bit her lip.
'Me too.'
Hermione said goodnight to Draco and went into her dorm, she fell into a sleep that was all but restful.
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Hermione kept waking thinking she should have told the guys the truth. She looked over to the wall clock; it was still pretty early she opened her mental connection with Draco.
'Are you awake?' She asked willing him to be awake.
' I don't think I have fallen asleep for a whole night since we left Anika and Jonah's house.'
'Me neither.'
' So what did Potter use to spy on you?' Hermione didn't feel like telling Draco would help her felling of betrayal.
' That's a secret.'
'Ok, but it wouldn't happen to be the famous Marauder's Map would it?' Hermione was surprised.
'How…what…how do you know about the map?'
'Snape, he is always talking about 'Potter and that blasted map' he usually says Potter takes after his father. I wondered if Snape had gone mad, now I know.'
'Well Snape is still mad, but he is right about the map. I would think he had better things to do then go around insulting Harry.' Draco's laugh sounded in her ear, it was the same laugh she had grown to hate, the same laugh that had haunted her for years, and she felt that she might be doing the wrong thing by teaming up with Draco. How does she know that his father had him under a spell all these years? She suddenly felt uncomfortable.
' Well I suddenly feel tired, I should try to sleep, we have to go up a mountain tomorrow with Hagrid for care of magical creatures class. I don't want to be falling asleep while we climb.'
' Alright, night then.' The connection broke and Hermione fell back into her pillow, she didn't have the slight idea what she was getting into. And worse as time wore on she could feel that the time when she had to use her new powers were coming closer. Still think about it she fell asleep. But this time she didn't dream about anything, which in the morning wouldn't bother her, because she didn't know that she had been having dreams at all. By the time she woke up her drams were forgotten. Not only by her, but also the person she shared them with.
Draco.
Ok This was not the best of my work but I will try harder and then we shall see what happens, next week. Till then. "Hermione, this won't accomplish anything." Draco whispered to his fellow traveler as they walked down the deserted halls of Hogwarts.
" Of course it will." Draco sighed and quickened his step. Hermione was racing down the hallway. He couldn't see her but he could hear she was far ahead now.
"I don't like this spell either. It could ware off at any time." Draco was referring to the spell Hermione put on them to make them invisible to grown ups. If Mr. Filtch were to walk by they wouldn't be seen.
"It will not ware off. It was not a easy spell but I did it right and will only ware off if you say the reverse spell." Hermione had reached the destination. She pulled on the door handle and walked in the familiar room.
As they walked among the dusty volumes and textbooks that covered the walls, Draco got an uneasy feeling. He didn't like being in the dark library, night or day it was creepy to him.
"What are we looking for anyway?" He yawned nit really wanting to be awake. Hermione had called magically into his ear until he awoke from his restful sleep.
"We are looking for that book Anika showed us. It was called 'Great Not so Great Wizards and Witches' it will be a very old book." Draco stopped.
"Why in the world are we looking for a book we don't need?" He asked upset at Hermione for waking him.
"We do need the book. I want to find out what kind of magic he used to become someone that is feared." Hermione asked pulling a book from a shelf, even though it wasn't the one they were looking for.
"Why don't you ask Anika so we can get some sleep? I can't believe you."
"I don't want her to know we are looking this up." Hermione said shortly.
"Why not? She wouldn't be too happy will she?" Draco started to feel that Hermione was keeping something from him.
"I don't think she wants us to know how powerful he is and worry about them while we are here." Draco still thought she was hiding something but didn't know what. "I actually wanted to ask her what he was doing using Voldermont' sign." Draco knew what he was doing. But he was intimidated about what Hermione would think about how much he knew about Voldermont. But in the end of his battle with his mind it was better, he thought, if she knew all she needed to.
"It was originally the sign of a great dark wizard, he name is lost, it has been passed down from one dark wizard to another. It is a sign of power and warning used to warn the opponent of the dark wizard that they are being closely watched." Hermione fell silent and he could feel her getting close.
"How did you know that?" Hermione sounded shocked.
"Well I was taught by my father all about the dark lords of history."
"Then you know who that guy was." She sounded almost excited.
"No that's one that my father never indicated. The first I heard of him was from Anika. Besides Hermione I don't think her is a great threat, but I do think I need sleep. Can we please just go to sleep and ask Anika about this later?"
"Fine lets go, but you are coming back tomorrow to find a book on transportation spells." Hermione said, her footsteps directed to the door.
"Why?" Draco asked.
"I wont to know how they are getting us that far back in time." Draco sighed. He was starting to think being friends with Hermione was hard.
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"Hermione! Hello! Are you alright?" Ron shouted at her. They were sitting in the great at the Gryffindor, but Hermione's thoughts were at the Slythern table with Draco, literally they had been discussing the information they wanted to ask Anika, Draco rather reluctantly. "You look as if you have been awake all night. Don't tell me you were studying for that potion exam. You know everything about the subject." Ron reached over her and grabbed the book she was pretending to read. " 'The book of mythology and other things that might interest you' who thinks up these titles anyway, I got one book up stairs called 'Great not so great Wizards and witches' it is full of cool bad guys, but it wouldn't catch you attention by the title. If I ever wrote-" Hermione's ears perked up.
"Do, you think I could look at that book?" Ron looked shocked but then just shrugged.
"I guess, but I want it back. I'm on this story about this witch who snuck up on this old guy and made him dance 'I maybe a tiny chimney sweep but I've got an enormous broom' in front of the town he lived in." Harry, who had been quiet, laughed slightly.
"What do you want it for? But I don't want to know if it is going to take an hour to explain."
"Good, then you don't want to know." Hermione said quietly. "Do you think you could get it for me?" Ron looked upset to having to get up.
"Don't worry, I'll get it, I have practice anyway, and I didn't bring my broom with me to breakfast." Harry said getting up from his spot and heading out the door. He came back ten minutes later, book and broom in hand.
"Thanks." Hermione said grabbing the book from Harry.
'Draco, you wouldn't believe our luck'
'What is it now?' Draco asked rather dryly that Hermione was offended, but was quick to tell him of the book.
'Ron had the book all this time' Hermione looked up and saw the expression on Draco's face change form one of boredom to one of surprise.
'Well what are we waiting for? Lets go to the bathroom' They both got up at the same time and walked out of the hall. They raced to the second floor and went into the out of order bathroom.
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"So, what does it say about him?" Draco asked impatiently. But Hermione sat on the floor in a deep calm, flipping through the book. But as she got to the back cover of the old book, the horrible truth set in.
"Its not here." She said in a far off voice.
"What do you mean? Of course he is, you didn't look well enough. Give me the book. And you call yourself a witch." Hermione was too upset to think about what he had said.
Draco opened the front page and muttered a spell. As if a wind was blowing the pages the book's pages flew from the back cover to the front. When they had all reach the front Draco's face fell. "He's not here." He sat next to Hermione on the floor. "Are you sure this was the book?" Hermione nodded. "Someone could have taken it out."
"I suppose, but why?" She really wasn't asking anyone but Myrtle felt she had to add.
"Maybe so you wouldn't find out." Draco and Hermione didn't say anything, they were both thinking about who wouldn't want them to know. If Ron had the book then it could have been accidentally torn out without his knowing. Hermione knowing Ron thought this possible. But Draco on the other hand was thinking of someone else.
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"Ron?" Hermione said casually. "Did you by any chance see anything about some guy named Damien in the book you let me borrow?" Ron thought long and hard.
"Was he the one who cut out the victim's heart and served it to their family?" He asked looking at Harry.
"No," Harry replied looking over his stare chart. "That was Dakeve the demon form Norway. Hermione is talking about the guy who tried to conquer the world, like Voldermont." Hermione was taken aback.
" Don't say that name!" Ron said back with a shiver.
"How did you know about that? I don't even know." Hermione said almost upset he knew.
"Professor Trelawney, told us how it was just like history repeating itself, and how it has been foretold, you now the usual blabber." They were sitting in the Gryffindor common room doing homework, so there was a few people were eavesdropping to Harry's story.
"What else did she say? What happened last time." Collin asked sitting next to Hermione at the table, looking excited.
"Well, there were these people who could take down whole armies with a single curse, they were trained to defend the good guys. They stood there in front of a whole army of thousands, with no other defence, the bad guys laughed at them and said they were all chicken."
" But they weren't saying that after were they?" Lavender asked sitting next to Ron.
"Nope, they blew them away with the one spell and one the war."
"Who were these people that could get the whole army down?" Collin asked. Harry had to think a minute. But then he got a look on his face, as if he didn't really understand.
"She said they were the Keys. I don't think we can really believe the old bat anyway. Imagine that kind of power, being able to defend the world from the most powerful armies, I don't think anyone is capable to have that much power." He looked around the table at the crowd of students. He laughed. "Its only a story the crazy bat told us, its probably not true anyway. Don't you think the 'Keys' would have already gotten rid of Vol- sorry He-who-must-not-be-named?" The people looked at each other then started to scatter.
"I have to go somewhere, the library. Be back soon." Hermione got up and left the room.
'Draco!' Hermione thought sending it out to Draco. It was getting easy to channel her thoughts more and more as time wore on.
'Yeah?' Draco said back he sounded happy to hear her. 'Wait, does this have to do with that book?' He said more sorry to hear Hermione.
'Yes and no, it wasn't in the book but Professor Trelawney told the third years a story about Damien, and the keys of back then' She had expected Draco to get excited but he didn't.
'And, like I believe anything that old bat says.'
'No, it sounds as if it fits with what we have been told by Anika'
'Ok now what?'
'Where are you?'
'My dorm why?'
'Lets meet.'
'Where?'
'We need to get out of the castle.' Hermione said thinking of where they could meet.
' The Quidditch pitch. No one is there now, I can see the pitch from here'
'Ok, see you there in five minutes.'
'Ok.' Hermione broke the connection on their thoughts and walked faster. She didn't know why they were going to talk they had really nothing to talk about, Hermione wanted to research prophecies. But didn't feel like explaining anything to the librarian.
She walked out to the pitch, seeing Draco halfway, he saw her and waited up for her. The sun was dipping behind the mountain and it was beginning to get cold. Hermione pulled her robes around her, scolding herself for not bringing her cloak. They sat in the stands about when to start on the research on transporting people far back in time. They decided to meet in Myrtles bathroom to look through books Hermione would get. A movement caught the corner of Hermione's eye, she was scared for a second but then realized it was just an owl. Hermione had been jumpy lately and she didn't like the uneasy feeling she had in her stomach. They talked a little about the up coming Quidditch match and whom they thought would win. Hermione usually didn't like to talk about Quidditch because the guys always talked to one another as if she weren't there, but Draco asked if she understood a term and then explained. They only stopped talking when it was so dark they could no longer see each other.
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"Did you get what you wanted from the library?" Ron asked, still pouring over his work.
"What? Oh sure." Harry looked up from his own homework.
" What's up? We hardly see you anymore, you aren't keeping something from us, are you?" Hermione looked from Harry to Ron. They also exchanged looks.
"No. Why do you ask?" Hermione didn't like the way they were looking at her.
" This." Harry said, talking the Marauder's Map.
"Have you been spying on me?" She said furiously. " I can't believe you have been spying on me." Ron looked at Harry before responding.
"It was an accident, we couldn't find you anywhere so we used the map. But you didn't show up at all some times. But other times you were on the second floor." He looked over to Harry, who continued.
"Sometimes you were alone and then sometimes you were not." Hermione felt a knot in her stomach; they knew she had been with Draco. " Hermione, you should have told Malfoy has been bugging you, we would have done something sooner." Hermione was surprised; she had thought the gig was up; slowly she let a breath of relief out.
"Well, I didn't wont you guys to get mixed up with anything as unimportant as Malfoy." Calling Draco by his last name gave her an uneasy feeling now, though at one time it was second nature. "You two have other things to worry about, anyway, I put him in his place."
"Is that why you left tonight, to tell him off? What did he say? Did you curse him."
Hermione allowed herself to let a laugh out, but she knew it was wrong to talk about Draco with the guys, they would just scold him. That would make her feel like a traitor.
"I am tired, I'll just go to bed. See you guys in the morning." As she turned to leave, a familiar, tickle entered her ear.
'Nice save'
' I feel horrible lying to them'
' Don't worry I have a strange feeling that this will be over sooner then we think' Hermione bit her lip.
'Me too.'
Hermione said goodnight to Draco and went into her dorm, she fell into a sleep that was all but restful.
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Hermione kept waking thinking she should have told the guys the truth. She looked over to the wall clock; it was still pretty early she opened her mental connection with Draco.
'Are you awake?' She asked willing him to be awake.
' I don't think I have fallen asleep for a whole night since we left Anika and Jonah's house.'
'Me neither.'
' So what did Potter use to spy on you?' Hermione didn't feel like telling Draco would help her felling of betrayal.
' That's a secret.'
'Ok, but it wouldn't happen to be the famous Marauder's Map would it?' Hermione was surprised.
'How…what…how do you know about the map?'
'Snape, he is always talking about 'Potter and that blasted map' he usually says Potter takes after his father. I wondered if Snape had gone mad, now I know.'
'Well Snape is still mad, but he is right about the map. I would think he had better things to do then go around insulting Harry.' Draco's laugh sounded in her ear, it was the same laugh she had grown to hate, the same laugh that had haunted her for years, and she felt that she might be doing the wrong thing by teaming up with Draco. How does she know that his father had him under a spell all these years? She suddenly felt uncomfortable.
' Well I suddenly feel tired, I should try to sleep, we have to go up a mountain tomorrow with Hagrid for care of magical creatures class. I don't want to be falling asleep while we climb.'
' Alright, night then.' The connection broke and Hermione fell back into her pillow, she didn't have the slight idea what she was getting into. And worse as time wore on she could feel that the time when she had to use her new powers were coming closer. Still think about it she fell asleep. But this time she didn't dream about anything, which in the morning wouldn't bother her, because she didn't know that she had been having dreams at all. By the time she woke up her drams were forgotten. Not only by her, but also the person she shared them with.
Draco.
Ok This was not the best of my work but I will try harder and then we shall see what happens, next week. Till then.
" Of course it will." Draco sighed and quickened his step. Hermione was racing down the hallway. He couldn't see her but he could hear she was far ahead now.
"I don't like this spell either. It could ware off at any time." Draco was referring to the spell Hermione put on them to make them invisible to grown ups. If Mr. Filtch were to walk by they wouldn't be seen.
"It will not ware off. It was not a easy spell but I did it right and will only ware off if you say the reverse spell." Hermione had reached the destination. She pulled on the door handle and walked in the familiar room.
As they walked among the dusty volumes and textbooks that covered the walls, Draco got an uneasy feeling. He didn't like being in the dark library, night or day it was creepy to him.
"What are we looking for anyway?" He yawned nit really wanting to be awake. Hermione had called magically into his ear until he awoke from his restful sleep.
"We are looking for that book Anika showed us. It was called 'Great Not so Great Wizards and Witches' it will be a very old book." Draco stopped.
"Why in the world are we looking for a book we don't need?" He asked upset at Hermione for waking him.
"We do need the book. I want to find out what kind of magic he used to become someone that is feared." Hermione asked pulling a book from a shelf, even though it wasn't the one they were looking for.
"Why don't you ask Anika so we can get some sleep? I can't believe you."
"I don't want her to know we are looking this up." Hermione said shortly.
"Why not? She wouldn't be too happy will she?" Draco started to feel that Hermione was keeping something from him.
"I don't think she wants us to know how powerful he is and worry about them while we are here." Draco still thought she was hiding something but didn't know what. "I actually wanted to ask her what he was doing using Voldermont' sign." Draco knew what he was doing. But he was intimidated about what Hermione would think about how much he knew about Voldermont. But in the end of his battle with his mind it was better, he thought, if she knew all she needed to.
"It was originally the sign of a great dark wizard, he name is lost, it has been passed down from one dark wizard to another. It is a sign of power and warning used to warn the opponent of the dark wizard that they are being closely watched." Hermione fell silent and he could feel her getting close.
"How did you know that?" Hermione sounded shocked.
"Well I was taught by my father all about the dark lords of history."
"Then you know who that guy was." She sounded almost excited.
"No that's one that my father never indicated. The first I heard of him was from Anika. Besides Hermione I don't think her is a great threat, but I do think I need sleep. Can we please just go to sleep and ask Anika about this later?"
"Fine lets go, but you are coming back tomorrow to find a book on transportation spells." Hermione said, her footsteps directed to the door.
"Why?" Draco asked.
"I wont to know how they are getting us that far back in time." Draco sighed. He was starting to think being friends with Hermione was hard.
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"Hermione! Hello! Are you alright?" Ron shouted at her. They were sitting in the great at the Gryffindor, but Hermione's thoughts were at the Slythern table with Draco, literally they had been discussing the information they wanted to ask Anika, Draco rather reluctantly. "You look as if you have been awake all night. Don't tell me you were studying for that potion exam. You know everything about the subject." Ron reached over her and grabbed the book she was pretending to read. " 'The book of mythology and other things that might interest you' who thinks up these titles anyway, I got one book up stairs called 'Great not so great Wizards and witches' it is full of cool bad guys, but it wouldn't catch you attention by the title. If I ever wrote-" Hermione's ears perked up.
"Do, you think I could look at that book?" Ron looked shocked but then just shrugged.
"I guess, but I want it back. I'm on this story about this witch who snuck up on this old guy and made him dance 'I maybe a tiny chimney sweep but I've got an enormous broom' in front of the town he lived in." Harry, who had been quiet, laughed slightly.
"What do you want it for? But I don't want to know if it is going to take an hour to explain."
"Good, then you don't want to know." Hermione said quietly. "Do you think you could get it for me?" Ron looked upset to having to get up.
"Don't worry, I'll get it, I have practice anyway, and I didn't bring my broom with me to breakfast." Harry said getting up from his spot and heading out the door. He came back ten minutes later, book and broom in hand.
"Thanks." Hermione said grabbing the book from Harry.
'Draco, you wouldn't believe our luck'
'What is it now?' Draco asked rather dryly that Hermione was offended, but was quick to tell him of the book.
'Ron had the book all this time' Hermione looked up and saw the expression on Draco's face change form one of boredom to one of surprise.
'Well what are we waiting for? Lets go to the bathroom' They both got up at the same time and walked out of the hall. They raced to the second floor and went into the out of order bathroom.
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"So, what does it say about him?" Draco asked impatiently. But Hermione sat on the floor in a deep calm, flipping through the book. But as she got to the back cover of the old book, the horrible truth set in.
"Its not here." She said in a far off voice.
"What do you mean? Of course he is, you didn't look well enough. Give me the book. And you call yourself a witch." Hermione was too upset to think about what he had said.
Draco opened the front page and muttered a spell. As if a wind was blowing the pages the book's pages flew from the back cover to the front. When they had all reach the front Draco's face fell. "He's not here." He sat next to Hermione on the floor. "Are you sure this was the book?" Hermione nodded. "Someone could have taken it out."
"I suppose, but why?" She really wasn't asking anyone but Myrtle felt she had to add.
"Maybe so you wouldn't find out." Draco and Hermione didn't say anything, they were both thinking about who wouldn't want them to know. If Ron had the book then it could have been accidentally torn out without his knowing. Hermione knowing Ron thought this possible. But Draco on the other hand was thinking of someone else.
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"Ron?" Hermione said casually. "Did you by any chance see anything about some guy named Damien in the book you let me borrow?" Ron thought long and hard.
"Was he the one who cut out the victim's heart and served it to their family?" He asked looking at Harry.
"No," Harry replied looking over his stare chart. "That was Dakeve the demon form Norway. Hermione is talking about the guy who tried to conquer the world, like Voldermont." Hermione was taken aback.
" Don't say that name!" Ron said back with a shiver.
"How did you know about that? I don't even know." Hermione said almost upset he knew.
"Professor Trelawney, told us how it was just like history repeating itself, and how it has been foretold, you now the usual blabber." They were sitting in the Gryffindor common room doing homework, so there was a few people were eavesdropping to Harry's story.
"What else did she say? What happened last time." Collin asked sitting next to Hermione at the table, looking excited.
"Well, there were these people who could take down whole armies with a single curse, they were trained to defend the good guys. They stood there in front of a whole army of thousands, with no other defence, the bad guys laughed at them and said they were all chicken."
" But they weren't saying that after were they?" Lavender asked sitting next to Ron.
"Nope, they blew them away with the one spell and one the war."
"Who were these people that could get the whole army down?" Collin asked. Harry had to think a minute. But then he got a look on his face, as if he didn't really understand.
"She said they were the Keys. I don't think we can really believe the old bat anyway. Imagine that kind of power, being able to defend the world from the most powerful armies, I don't think anyone is capable to have that much power." He looked around the table at the crowd of students. He laughed. "Its only a story the crazy bat told us, its probably not true anyway. Don't you think the 'Keys' would have already gotten rid of Vol- sorry He-who-must-not-be-named?" The people looked at each other then started to scatter.
"I have to go somewhere, the library. Be back soon." Hermione got up and left the room.
'Draco!' Hermione thought sending it out to Draco. It was getting easy to channel her thoughts more and more as time wore on.
'Yeah?' Draco said back he sounded happy to hear her. 'Wait, does this have to do with that book?' He said more sorry to hear Hermione.
'Yes and no, it wasn't in the book but Professor Trelawney told the third years a story about Damien, and the keys of back then' She had expected Draco to get excited but he didn't.
'And, like I believe anything that old bat says.'
'No, it sounds as if it fits with what we have been told by Anika'
'Ok now what?'
'Where are you?'
'My dorm why?'
'Lets meet.'
'Where?'
'We need to get out of the castle.' Hermione said thinking of where they could meet.
' The Quidditch pitch. No one is there now, I can see the pitch from here'
'Ok, see you there in five minutes.'
'Ok.' Hermione broke the connection on their thoughts and walked faster. She didn't know why they were going to talk they had really nothing to talk about, Hermione wanted to research prophecies. But didn't feel like explaining anything to the librarian.
She walked out to the pitch, seeing Draco halfway, he saw her and waited up for her. The sun was dipping behind the mountain and it was beginning to get cold. Hermione pulled her robes around her, scolding herself for not bringing her cloak. They sat in the stands about when to start on the research on transporting people far back in time. They decided to meet in Myrtles bathroom to look through books Hermione would get. A movement caught the corner of Hermione's eye, she was scared for a second but then realized it was just an owl. Hermione had been jumpy lately and she didn't like the uneasy feeling she had in her stomach. They talked a little about the up coming Quidditch match and whom they thought would win. Hermione usually didn't like to talk about Quidditch because the guys always talked to one another as if she weren't there, but Draco asked if she understood a term and then explained. They only stopped talking when it was so dark they could no longer see each other.
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"Did you get what you wanted from the library?" Ron asked, still pouring over his work.
"What? Oh sure." Harry looked up from his own homework.
" What's up? We hardly see you anymore, you aren't keeping something from us, are you?" Hermione looked from Harry to Ron. They also exchanged looks.
"No. Why do you ask?" Hermione didn't like the way they were looking at her.
" This." Harry said, talking the Marauder's Map.
"Have you been spying on me?" She said furiously. " I can't believe you have been spying on me." Ron looked at Harry before responding.
"It was an accident, we couldn't find you anywhere so we used the map. But you didn't show up at all some times. But other times you were on the second floor." He looked over to Harry, who continued.
"Sometimes you were alone and then sometimes you were not." Hermione felt a knot in her stomach; they knew she had been with Draco. " Hermione, you should have told Malfoy has been bugging you, we would have done something sooner." Hermione was surprised; she had thought the gig was up; slowly she let a breath of relief out.
"Well, I didn't wont you guys to get mixed up with anything as unimportant as Malfoy." Calling Draco by his last name gave her an uneasy feeling now, though at one time it was second nature. "You two have other things to worry about, anyway, I put him in his place."
"Is that why you left tonight, to tell him off? What did he say? Did you curse him."
Hermione allowed herself to let a laugh out, but she knew it was wrong to talk about Draco with the guys, they would just scold him. That would make her feel like a traitor.
"I am tired, I'll just go to bed. See you guys in the morning." As she turned to leave, a familiar, tickle entered her ear.
'Nice save'
' I feel horrible lying to them'
' Don't worry I have a strange feeling that this will be over sooner then we think' Hermione bit her lip.
'Me too.'
Hermione said goodnight to Draco and went into her dorm, she fell into a sleep that was all but restful.
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Hermione kept waking thinking she should have told the guys the truth. She looked over to the wall clock; it was still pretty early she opened her mental connection with Draco.
'Are you awake?' She asked willing him to be awake.
' I don't think I have fallen asleep for a whole night since we left Anika and Jonah's house.'
'Me neither.'
' So what did Potter use to spy on you?' Hermione didn't feel like telling Draco would help her felling of betrayal.
' That's a secret.'
'Ok, but it wouldn't happen to be the famous Marauder's Map would it?' Hermione was surprised.
'How…what…how do you know about the map?'
'Snape, he is always talking about 'Potter and that blasted map' he usually says Potter takes after his father. I wondered if Snape had gone mad, now I know.'
'Well Snape is still mad, but he is right about the map. I would think he had better things to do then go around insulting Harry.' Draco's laugh sounded in her ear, it was the same laugh she had grown to hate, the same laugh that had haunted her for years, and she felt that she might be doing the wrong thing by teaming up with Draco. How does she know that his father had him under a spell all these years? She suddenly felt uncomfortable.
' Well I suddenly feel tired, I should try to sleep, we have to go up a mountain tomorrow with Hagrid for care of magical creatures class. I don't want to be falling asleep while we climb.'
' Alright, night then.' The connection broke and Hermione fell back into her pillow, she didn't have the slight idea what she was getting into. And worse as time wore on she could feel that the time when she had to use her new powers were coming closer. Still think about it she fell asleep. But this time she didn't dream about anything, which in the morning wouldn't bother her, because she didn't know that she had been having dreams at all. By the time she woke up her drams were forgotten. Not only by her, but also the person she shared them with.
Draco.
Ok This was not the best of my work but I will try harder and then we shall see what happens, next week. Till then. "Hermione, this won't accomplish anything." Draco whispered to his fellow traveler as they walked down the deserted halls of Hogwarts.
" Of course it will." Draco sighed and quickened his step. Hermione was racing down the hallway. He couldn't see her but he could hear she was far ahead now.
"I don't like this spell either. It could ware off at any time." Draco was referring to the spell Hermione put on them to make them invisible to grown ups. If Mr. Filtch were to walk by they wouldn't be seen.
"It will not ware off. It was not a easy spell but I did it right and will only ware off if you say the reverse spell." Hermione had reached the destination. She pulled on the door handle and walked in the familiar room.
As they walked among the dusty volumes and textbooks that covered the walls, Draco got an uneasy feeling. He didn't like being in the dark library, night or day it was creepy to him.
"What are we looking for anyway?" He yawned nit really wanting to be awake. Hermione had called magically into his ear until he awoke from his restful sleep.
"We are looking for that book Anika showed us. It was called 'Great Not so Great Wizards and Witches' it will be a very old book." Draco stopped.
"Why in the world are we looking for a book we don't need?" He asked upset at Hermione for waking him.
"We do need the book. I want to find out what kind of magic he used to become someone that is feared." Hermione asked pulling a book from a shelf, even though it wasn't the one they were looking for.
"Why don't you ask Anika so we can get some sleep? I can't believe you."
"I don't want her to know we are looking this up." Hermione said shortly.
"Why not? She wouldn't be too happy will she?" Draco started to feel that Hermione was keeping something from him.
"I don't think she wants us to know how powerful he is and worry about them while we are here." Draco still thought she was hiding something but didn't know what. "I actually wanted to ask her what he was doing using Voldermont' sign." Draco knew what he was doing. But he was intimidated about what Hermione would think about how much he knew about Voldermont. But in the end of his battle with his mind it was better, he thought, if she knew all she needed to.
"It was originally the sign of a great dark wizard, he name is lost, it has been passed down from one dark wizard to another. It is a sign of power and warning used to warn the opponent of the dark wizard that they are being closely watched." Hermione fell silent and he could feel her getting close.
"How did you know that?" Hermione sounded shocked.
"Well I was taught by my father all about the dark lords of history."
"Then you know who that guy was." She sounded almost excited.
"No that's one that my father never indicated. The first I heard of him was from Anika. Besides Hermione I don't think her is a great threat, but I do think I need sleep. Can we please just go to sleep and ask Anika about this later?"
"Fine lets go, but you are coming back tomorrow to find a book on transportation spells." Hermione said, her footsteps directed to the door.
"Why?" Draco asked.
"I wont to know how they are getting us that far back in time." Draco sighed. He was starting to think being friends with Hermione was hard.
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"Hermione! Hello! Are you alright?" Ron shouted at her. They were sitting in the great at the Gryffindor, but Hermione's thoughts were at the Slythern table with Draco, literally they had been discussing the information they wanted to ask Anika, Draco rather reluctantly. "You look as if you have been awake all night. Don't tell me you were studying for that potion exam. You know everything about the subject." Ron reached over her and grabbed the book she was pretending to read. " 'The book of mythology and other things that might interest you' who thinks up these titles anyway, I got one book up stairs called 'Great not so great Wizards and witches' it is full of cool bad guys, but it wouldn't catch you attention by the title. If I ever wrote-" Hermione's ears perked up.
"Do, you think I could look at that book?" Ron looked shocked but then just shrugged.
"I guess, but I want it back. I'm on this story about this witch who snuck up on this old guy and made him dance 'I maybe a tiny chimney sweep but I've got an enormous broom' in front of the town he lived in." Harry, who had been quiet, laughed slightly.
"What do you want it for? But I don't want to know if it is going to take an hour to explain."
"Good, then you don't want to know." Hermione said quietly. "Do you think you could get it for me?" Ron looked upset to having to get up.
"Don't worry, I'll get it, I have practice anyway, and I didn't bring my broom with me to breakfast." Harry said getting up from his spot and heading out the door. He came back ten minutes later, book and broom in hand.
"Thanks." Hermione said grabbing the book from Harry.
'Draco, you wouldn't believe our luck'
'What is it now?' Draco asked rather dryly that Hermione was offended, but was quick to tell him of the book.
'Ron had the book all this time' Hermione looked up and saw the expression on Draco's face change form one of boredom to one of surprise.
'Well what are we waiting for? Lets go to the bathroom' They both got up at the same time and walked out of the hall. They raced to the second floor and went into the out of order bathroom.
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"So, what does it say about him?" Draco asked impatiently. But Hermione sat on the floor in a deep calm, flipping through the book. But as she got to the back cover of the old book, the horrible truth set in.
"Its not here." She said in a far off voice.
"What do you mean? Of course he is, you didn't look well enough. Give me the book. And you call yourself a witch." Hermione was too upset to think about what he had said.
Draco opened the front page and muttered a spell. As if a wind was blowing the pages the book's pages flew from the back cover to the front. When they had all reach the front Draco's face fell. "He's not here." He sat next to Hermione on the floor. "Are you sure this was the book?" Hermione nodded. "Someone could have taken it out."
"I suppose, but why?" She really wasn't asking anyone but Myrtle felt she had to add.
"Maybe so you wouldn't find out." Draco and Hermione didn't say anything, they were both thinking about who wouldn't want them to know. If Ron had the book then it could have been accidentally torn out without his knowing. Hermione knowing Ron thought this possible. But Draco on the other hand was thinking of someone else.
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"Ron?" Hermione said casually. "Did you by any chance see anything about some guy named Damien in the book you let me borrow?" Ron thought long and hard.
"Was he the one who cut out the victim's heart and served it to their family?" He asked looking at Harry.
"No," Harry replied looking over his stare chart. "That was Dakeve the demon form Norway. Hermione is talking about the guy who tried to conquer the world, like Voldermont." Hermione was taken aback.
" Don't say that name!" Ron said back with a shiver.
"How did you know about that? I don't even know." Hermione said almost upset he knew.
"Professor Trelawney, told us how it was just like history repeating itself, and how it has been foretold, you now the usual blabber." They were sitting in the Gryffindor common room doing homework, so there was a few people were eavesdropping to Harry's story.
"What else did she say? What happened last time." Collin asked sitting next to Hermione at the table, looking excited.
"Well, there were these people who could take down whole armies with a single curse, they were trained to defend the good guys. They stood there in front of a whole army of thousands, with no other defence, the bad guys laughed at them and said they were all chicken."
" But they weren't saying that after were they?" Lavender asked sitting next to Ron.
"Nope, they blew them away with the one spell and one the war."
"Who were these people that could get the whole army down?" Collin asked. Harry had to think a minute. But then he got a look on his face, as if he didn't really understand.
"She said they were the Keys. I don't think we can really believe the old bat anyway. Imagine that kind of power, being able to defend the world from the most powerful armies, I don't think anyone is capable to have that much power." He looked around the table at the crowd of students. He laughed. "Its only a story the crazy bat told us, its probably not true anyway. Don't you think the 'Keys' would have already gotten rid of Vol- sorry He-who-must-not-be-named?" The people looked at each other then started to scatter.
"I have to go somewhere, the library. Be back soon." Hermione got up and left the room.
'Draco!' Hermione thought sending it out to Draco. It was getting easy to channel her thoughts more and more as time wore on.
'Yeah?' Draco said back he sounded happy to hear her. 'Wait, does this have to do with that book?' He said more sorry to hear Hermione.
'Yes and no, it wasn't in the book but Professor Trelawney told the third years a story about Damien, and the keys of back then' She had expected Draco to get excited but he didn't.
'And, like I believe anything that old bat says.'
'No, it sounds as if it fits with what we have been told by Anika'
'Ok now what?'
'Where are you?'
'My dorm why?'
'Lets meet.'
'Where?'
'We need to get out of the castle.' Hermione said thinking of where they could meet.
' The Quidditch pitch. No one is there now, I can see the pitch from here'
'Ok, see you there in five minutes.'
'Ok.' Hermione broke the connection on their thoughts and walked faster. She didn't know why they were going to talk they had really nothing to talk about, Hermione wanted to research prophecies. But didn't feel like explaining anything to the librarian.
She walked out to the pitch, seeing Draco halfway, he saw her and waited up for her. The sun was dipping behind the mountain and it was beginning to get cold. Hermione pulled her robes around her, scolding herself for not bringing her cloak. They sat in the stands about when to start on the research on transporting people far back in time. They decided to meet in Myrtles bathroom to look through books Hermione would get. A movement caught the corner of Hermione's eye, she was scared for a second but then realized it was just an owl. Hermione had been jumpy lately and she didn't like the uneasy feeling she had in her stomach. They talked a little about the up coming Quidditch match and whom they thought would win. Hermione usually didn't like to talk about Quidditch because the guys always talked to one another as if she weren't there, but Draco asked if she understood a term and then explained. They only stopped talking when it was so dark they could no longer see each other.
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"Did you get what you wanted from the library?" Ron asked, still pouring over his work.
"What? Oh sure." Harry looked up from his own homework.
" What's up? We hardly see you anymore, you aren't keeping something from us, are you?" Hermione looked from Harry to Ron. They also exchanged looks.
"No. Why do you ask?" Hermione didn't like the way they were looking at her.
" This." Harry said, talking the Marauder's Map.
"Have you been spying on me?" She said furiously. " I can't believe you have been spying on me." Ron looked at Harry before responding.
"It was an accident, we couldn't find you anywhere so we used the map. But you didn't show up at all some times. But other times you were on the second floor." He looked over to Harry, who continued.
"Sometimes you were alone and then sometimes you were not." Hermione felt a knot in her stomach; they knew she had been with Draco. " Hermione, you should have told Malfoy has been bugging you, we would have done something sooner." Hermione was surprised; she had thought the gig was up; slowly she let a breath of relief out.
"Well, I didn't wont you guys to get mixed up with anything as unimportant as Malfoy." Calling Draco by his last name gave her an uneasy feeling now, though at one time it was second nature. "You two have other things to worry about, anyway, I put him in his place."
"Is that why you left tonight, to tell him off? What did he say? Did you curse him."
Hermione allowed herself to let a laugh out, but she knew it was wrong to talk about Draco with the guys, they would just scold him. That would make her feel like a traitor.
"I am tired, I'll just go to bed. See you guys in the morning." As she turned to leave, a familiar, tickle entered her ear.
'Nice save'
' I feel horrible lying to them'
' Don't worry I have a strange feeling that this will be over sooner then we think' Hermione bit her lip.
'Me too.'
Hermione said goodnight to Draco and went into her dorm, she fell into a sleep that was all but restful.
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Hermione kept waking thinking she should have told the guys the truth. She looked over to the wall clock; it was still pretty early she opened her mental connection with Draco.
'Are you awake?' She asked willing him to be awake.
' I don't think I have fallen asleep for a whole night since we left Anika and Jonah's house.'
'Me neither.'
' So what did Potter use to spy on you?' Hermione didn't feel like telling Draco would help her felling of betrayal.
' That's a secret.'
'Ok, but it wouldn't happen to be the famous Marauder's Map would it?' Hermione was surprised.
'How…what…how do you know about the map?'
'Snape, he is always talking about 'Potter and that blasted map' he usually says Potter takes after his father. I wondered if Snape had gone mad, now I know.'
'Well Snape is still mad, but he is right about the map. I would think he had better things to do then go around insulting Harry.' Draco's laugh sounded in her ear, it was the same laugh she had grown to hate, the same laugh that had haunted her for years, and she felt that she might be doing the wrong thing by teaming up with Draco. How does she know that his father had him under a spell all these years? She suddenly felt uncomfortable.
' Well I suddenly feel tired, I should try to sleep, we have to go up a mountain tomorrow with Hagrid for care of magical creatures class. I don't want to be falling asleep while we climb.'
' Alright, night then.' The connection broke and Hermione fell back into her pillow, she didn't have the slight idea what she was getting into. And worse as time wore on she could feel that the time when she had to use her new powers were coming closer. Still think about it she fell asleep. But this time she didn't dream about anything, which in the morning wouldn't bother her, because she didn't know that she had been having dreams at all. By the time she woke up her drams were forgotten. Not only by her, but also the person she shared them with.
Draco.
Ok This was not the best of my work but I will try harder and then we shall see what happens, next week. Till then. "Hermione, this won't accomplish anything." Draco whispered to his fellow traveler as they walked down the deserted halls of Hogwarts.
" Of course it will." Draco sighed and quickened his step. Hermione was racing down the hallway. He couldn't see her but he could hear she was far ahead now.
"I don't like this spell either. It could ware off at any time." Draco was referring to the spell Hermione put on them to make them invisible to grown ups. If Mr. Filtch were to walk by they wouldn't be seen.
"It will not ware off. It was not a easy spell but I did it right and will only ware off if you say the reverse spell." Hermione had reached the destination. She pulled on the door handle and walked in the familiar room.
As they walked among the dusty volumes and textbooks that covered the walls, Draco got an uneasy feeling. He didn't like being in the dark library, night or day it was creepy to him.
"What are we looking for anyway?" He yawned nit really wanting to be awake. Hermione had called magically into his ear until he awoke from his restful sleep.
"We are looking for that book Anika showed us. It was called 'Great Not so Great Wizards and Witches' it will be a very old book." Draco stopped.
"Why in the world are we looking for a book we don't need?" He asked upset at Hermione for waking him.
"We do need the book. I want to find out what kind of magic he used to become someone that is feared." Hermione asked pulling a book from a shelf, even though it wasn't the one they were looking for.
"Why don't you ask Anika so we can get some sleep? I can't believe you."
"I don't want her to know we are looking this up." Hermione said shortly.
"Why not? She wouldn't be too happy will she?" Draco started to feel that Hermione was keeping something from him.
"I don't think she wants us to know how powerful he is and worry about them while we are here." Draco still thought she was hiding something but didn't know what. "I actually wanted to ask her what he was doing using Voldermont' sign." Draco knew what he was doing. But he was intimidated about what Hermione would think about how much he knew about Voldermont. But in the end of his battle with his mind it was better, he thought, if she knew all she needed to.
"It was originally the sign of a great dark wizard, he name is lost, it has been passed down from one dark wizard to another. It is a sign of power and warning used to warn the opponent of the dark wizard that they are being closely watched." Hermione fell silent and he could feel her getting close.
"How did you know that?" Hermione sounded shocked.
"Well I was taught by my father all about the dark lords of history."
"Then you know who that guy was." She sounded almost excited.
"No that's one that my father never indicated. The first I heard of him was from Anika. Besides Hermione I don't think her is a great threat, but I do think I need sleep. Can we please just go to sleep and ask Anika about this later?"
"Fine lets go, but you are coming back tomorrow to find a book on transportation spells." Hermione said, her footsteps directed to the door.
"Why?" Draco asked.
"I wont to know how they are getting us that far back in time." Draco sighed. He was starting to think being friends with Hermione was hard.
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"Hermione! Hello! Are you alright?" Ron shouted at her. They were sitting in the great at the Gryffindor, but Hermione's thoughts were at the Slythern table with Draco, literally they had been discussing the information they wanted to ask Anika, Draco rather reluctantly. "You look as if you have been awake all night. Don't tell me you were studying for that potion exam. You know everything about the subject." Ron reached over her and grabbed the book she was pretending to read. " 'The book of mythology and other things that might interest you' who thinks up these titles anyway, I got one book up stairs called 'Great not so great Wizards and witches' it is full of cool bad guys, but it wouldn't catch you attention by the title. If I ever wrote-" Hermione's ears perked up.
"Do, you think I could look at that book?" Ron looked shocked but then just shrugged.
"I guess, but I want it back. I'm on this story about this witch who snuck up on this old guy and made him dance 'I maybe a tiny chimney sweep but I've got an enormous broom' in front of the town he lived in." Harry, who had been quiet, laughed slightly.
"What do you want it for? But I don't want to know if it is going to take an hour to explain."
"Good, then you don't want to know." Hermione said quietly. "Do you think you could get it for me?" Ron looked upset to having to get up.
"Don't worry, I'll get it, I have practice anyway, and I didn't bring my broom with me to breakfast." Harry said getting up from his spot and heading out the door. He came back ten minutes later, book and broom in hand.
"Thanks." Hermione said grabbing the book from Harry.
'Draco, you wouldn't believe our luck'
'What is it now?' Draco asked rather dryly that Hermione was offended, but was quick to tell him of the book.
'Ron had the book all this time' Hermione looked up and saw the expression on Draco's face change form one of boredom to one of surprise.
'Well what are we waiting for? Lets go to the bathroom' They both got up at the same time and walked out of the hall. They raced to the second floor and went into the out of order bathroom.
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"So, what does it say about him?" Draco asked impatiently. But Hermione sat on the floor in a deep calm, flipping through the book. But as she got to the back cover of the old book, the horrible truth set in.
"Its not here." She said in a far off voice.
"What do you mean? Of course he is, you didn't look well enough. Give me the book. And you call yourself a witch." Hermione was too upset to think about what he had said.
Draco opened the front page and muttered a spell. As if a wind was blowing the pages the book's pages flew from the back cover to the front. When they had all reach the front Draco's face fell. "He's not here." He sat next to Hermione on the floor. "Are you sure this was the book?" Hermione nodded. "Someone could have taken it out."
"I suppose, but why?" She really wasn't asking anyone but Myrtle felt she had to add.
"Maybe so you wouldn't find out." Draco and Hermione didn't say anything, they were both thinking about who wouldn't want them to know. If Ron had the book then it could have been accidentally torn out without his knowing. Hermione knowing Ron thought this possible. But Draco on the other hand was thinking of someone else.
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"Ron?" Hermione said casually. "Did you by any chance see anything about some guy named Damien in the book you let me borrow?" Ron thought long and hard.
"Was he the one who cut out the victim's heart and served it to their family?" He asked looking at Harry.
"No," Harry replied looking over his stare chart. "That was Dakeve the demon form Norway. Hermione is talking about the guy who tried to conquer the world, like Voldermont." Hermione was taken aback.
" Don't say that name!" Ron said back with a shiver.
"How did you know about that? I don't even know." Hermione said almost upset he knew.
"Professor Trelawney, told us how it was just like history repeating itself, and how it has been foretold, you now the usual blabber." They were sitting in the Gryffindor common room doing homework, so there was a few people were eavesdropping to Harry's story.
"What else did she say? What happened last time." Collin asked sitting next to Hermione at the table, looking excited.
"Well, there were these people who could take down whole armies with a single curse, they were trained to defend the good guys. They stood there in front of a whole army of thousands, with no other defence, the bad guys laughed at them and said they were all chicken."
" But they weren't saying that after were they?" Lavender asked sitting next to Ron.
"Nope, they blew them away with the one spell and one the war."
"Who were these people that could get the whole army down?" Collin asked. Harry had to think a minute. But then he got a look on his face, as if he didn't really understand.
"She said they were the Keys. I don't think we can really believe the old bat anyway. Imagine that kind of power, being able to defend the world from the most powerful armies, I don't think anyone is capable to have that much power." He looked around the table at the crowd of students. He laughed. "Its only a story the crazy bat told us, its probably not true anyway. Don't you think the 'Keys' would have already gotten rid of Vol- sorry He-who-must-not-be-named?" The people looked at each other then started to scatter.
"I have to go somewhere, the library. Be back soon." Hermione got up and left the room.
'Draco!' Hermione thought sending it out to Draco. It was getting easy to channel her thoughts more and more as time wore on.
'Yeah?' Draco said back he sounded happy to hear her. 'Wait, does this have to do with that book?' He said more sorry to hear Hermione.
'Yes and no, it wasn't in the book but Professor Trelawney told the third years a story about Damien, and the keys of back then' She had expected Draco to get excited but he didn't.
'And, like I believe anything that old bat says.'
'No, it sounds as if it fits with what we have been told by Anika'
'Ok now what?'
'Where are you?'
'My dorm why?'
'Lets meet.'
'Where?'
'We need to get out of the castle.' Hermione said thinking of where they could meet.
' The Quidditch pitch. No one is there now, I can see the pitch from here'
'Ok, see you there in five minutes.'
'Ok.' Hermione broke the connection on their thoughts and walked faster. She didn't know why they were going to talk they had really nothing to talk about, Hermione wanted to research prophecies. But didn't feel like explaining anything to the librarian.
She walked out to the pitch, seeing Draco halfway, he saw her and waited up for her. The sun was dipping behind the mountain and it was beginning to get cold. Hermione pulled her robes around her, scolding herself for not bringing her cloak. They sat in the stands about when to start on the research on transporting people far back in time. They decided to meet in Myrtles bathroom to look through books Hermione would get. A movement caught the corner of Hermione's eye, she was scared for a second but then realized it was just an owl. Hermione had been jumpy lately and she didn't like the uneasy feeling she had in her stomach. They talked a little about the up coming Quidditch match and whom they thought would win. Hermione usually didn't like to talk about Quidditch because the guys always talked to one another as if she weren't there, but Draco asked if she understood a term and then explained. They only stopped talking when it was so dark they could no longer see each other.
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"Did you get what you wanted from the library?" Ron asked, still pouring over his work.
"What? Oh sure." Harry looked up from his own homework.
" What's up? We hardly see you anymore, you aren't keeping something from us, are you?" Hermione looked from Harry to Ron. They also exchanged looks.
"No. Why do you ask?" Hermione didn't like the way they were looking at her.
" This." Harry said, talking the Marauder's Map.
"Have you been spying on me?" She said furiously. " I can't believe you have been spying on me." Ron looked at Harry before responding.
"It was an accident, we couldn't find you anywhere so we used the map. But you didn't show up at all some times. But other times you were on the second floor." He looked over to Harry, who continued.
"Sometimes you were alone and then sometimes you were not." Hermione felt a knot in her stomach; they knew she had been with Draco. " Hermione, you should have told Malfoy has been bugging you, we would have done something sooner." Hermione was surprised; she had thought the gig was up; slowly she let a breath of relief out.
"Well, I didn't wont you guys to get mixed up with anything as unimportant as Malfoy." Calling Draco by his last name gave her an uneasy feeling now, though at one time it was second nature. "You two have other things to worry about, anyway, I put him in his place."
"Is that why you left tonight, to tell him off? What did he say? Did you curse him."
Hermione allowed herself to let a laugh out, but she knew it was wrong to talk about Draco with the guys, they would just scold him. That would make her feel like a traitor.
"I am tired, I'll just go to bed. See you guys in the morning." As she turned to leave, a familiar, tickle entered her ear.
'Nice save'
' I feel horrible lying to them'
' Don't worry I have a strange feeling that this will be over sooner then we think' Hermione bit her lip.
'Me too.'
Hermione said goodnight to Draco and went into her dorm, she fell into a sleep that was all but restful.
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Hermione kept waking thinking she should have told the guys the truth. She looked over to the wall clock; it was still pretty early she opened her mental connection with Draco.
'Are you awake?' She asked willing him to be awake.
' I don't think I have fallen asleep for a whole night since we left Anika and Jonah's house.'
'Me neither.'
' So what did Potter use to spy on you?' Hermione didn't feel like telling Draco would help her felling of betrayal.
' That's a secret.'
'Ok, but it wouldn't happen to be the famous Marauder's Map would it?' Hermione was surprised.
'How…what…how do you know about the map?'
'Snape, he is always talking about 'Potter and that blasted map' he usually says Potter takes after his father. I wondered if Snape had gone mad, now I know.'
'Well Snape is still mad, but he is right about the map. I would think he had better things to do then go around insulting Harry.' Draco's laugh sounded in her ear, it was the same laugh she had grown to hate, the same laugh that had haunted her for years, and she felt that she might be doing the wrong thing by teaming up with Draco. How does she know that his father had him under a spell all these years? She suddenly felt uncomfortable.
' Well I suddenly feel tired, I should try to sleep, we have to go up a mountain tomorrow with Hagrid for care of magical creatures class. I don't want to be falling asleep while we climb.'
' Alright, night then.' The connection broke and Hermione fell back into her pillow, she didn't have the slight idea what she was getting into. And worse as time wore on she could feel that the time when she had to use her new powers were coming closer. Still think about it she fell asleep. But this time she didn't dream about anything, which in the morning wouldn't bother her, because she didn't know that she had been having dreams at all. By the time she woke up her drams were forgotten. Not only by her, but also the person she shared them with.
Draco.
Ok This was not the best of my work but I will try harder and then we shall see what happens, next week. Till then.