Draco sat up in his bed. Perspiration dripping down his cheeks. Unlike Hermione he didn't have the legacy of forgetting his dreams. As he looked around the room he knew no one would be awake, it was the dead of the night; the other boys never had nightmares to wake them in the middle of the night. With Crabe snoring on one side, and Goyle barking in his sleep, it was a wonder he had been able to sleep at all. He recalled his dream, it was the same each night, but it still horrified him to she that smile on that creepy face.
His father had taught him all he knew about Voldermont, he remembered once after beating after, he said that he was one of Voldermont's closest advisers. Draco had a feeling of forbidding knowing more then his father. What would happen when spring break came, would his father beat out the information he had? Would he put the controlling spell back on him? Draco felt a knot in his stomach.
He had fought the controlling spell before but that was when he only knew little information, it is harder to fight the spell when you know more then you should.
But an even greater feeling was the one of distrust Hermione had against him. Though she said nothing he could tell there were times she felt uncomfortable. He didn't understand why, but he didn't want to ask.
A loud bang outside the room snapped him out of his thoughts. He grabbed his wand and crept to the door, he was surprised there was any one else awake, it was usually him and the moon. He pulled the door open to reveal the dark spiralling staircase that led to the cold common room. As he went down the stairs he looked over the railing he saw the last person he would have ever guessed:
Rita Skeeter.
He went down the rest of the stairs two at a time, sliding to a stop at the bottom. The reporter started and looked at Draco in a funny way.
"Your that Malfoy boy aren't you? The one I got all the scoops from last year." She asked noticing the awkwardness of her being in the Slythern common room in the middle of the night, when she had been banned from the Hogwarts grounds.
"Yes I am, what are you doing here?" She waved her hand as if it were a casual situation, her metallic nail polish flashing in the dim light of the low burning fire.
"Oh, me I'm just looking around. Why are you up so late." She added curiously eyeing him.
"How did you get in here?" He asked ignoring her question. " Where did you get the password?"
"I got my ways." I think you should get out. Before I get Professor Snape." She sat at one of the lopsided tables.
"I don't think I will leave. I have to find something out." She took out a nail file and went to work on her nails.
"Like what?" Draco asked getting upset at her determination.
"Like why a pure blood wizard would hang about with a mudblood, in the middle of the night. Or why worse enemies would walk around like old friends." Draco stood shocked for a second before regaining his voice, which came out as high pitched as possible.
"What-what are you talking about? I have no idea of what you are talking about." But Rita took no notice to him.
"But you guys aren't always here in your beds. And you aren't anywhere else in the castle, except when you are in that bathroom with the ghost who wont tell be anything." Draco made a mental note to thank Myrtle. " So where were you?" She smiled to herself.
"I wonder what your father would say." Draco didn't see how she would prove anything so he played dumb.
"I don't know what you are talking about. Maybe you should leave, you know I have classes in the morning." She gave a sigh and stood up. Draco was happy she was going to leave.
"You know, I will find out what you are doing." She went to clip her purse shut when her sleeve slipped up showing Draco one of the worse things he could think of at the moment. The dark mark. His stomach tightened, he had seen the mark a thousand times, his father had one, but every time it gave him the creeps. "Even if it kills me." She walked up to the wall that held the hidden door and left Draco standing there.
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"Are you sure? It could have been a birth mark or a tattoo." Hermione said lacing her boots tighter, she didn't want to fall down on the way up the mountain. Draco had pulled her away from the group to tell her.
"Yes I'm sure. It isn't the most common thing but I have seen my share of Dark Marks, and that was one. Any way she in trying something, I can feel it." Hermione looked up the path, Harry and Ron were a fare way ahead, and she didn't know how they were going to get back into the group.
"Of course she is trying something, she writes gossip, she has to build lies an everyone to keep her job. Come on she would even write about shoes if she thought there was something to the soles that no one knew about. What's more she isn't allowed at Hogwarts, we can just tell Dumbledor that she was in the school and he will fret about her." With that she turned and ran to catch up.
After catching up Hermione was thinking about what Draco said Rita said. How did she known about them meeting. How did she know the passwords? The windows in the Gryffindor tower magically closed after 12:00 so she couldn't get through being a beetle.
And they had always used a charm to see where the nearest person was. She was in such deep thought that she tripped over a rock, falling over backward and bumping into a tree, hitting her head, seeing feet running towards her before becoming unconscious.
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Waking up Hermione knew she wasn't on the mountain anymore. White curtains surrounded her. As she tried to sit up a rush of dizziness came over her and she fell back into her pillow. She could see someone was fighting with Madame Pomfrey to see her.
"There is no point. She is asleep just come back later." Hermione wanted to have someone to distract her from the pain her head was issuing.
"Its ok Madame Pomfrey, let them in." Hermione said hoping she would allow it.
" Fine go then!" Madame Pomfrey said, then stomped to her office muttering about in being a hospital not a common room. Expecting to see Harry and Ron, Hermione was surprised to see Draco come around the curtain and sit next to her bed, sporting a new black eye. He seemed worried.
"How are you? Are you ok?" His voice had a note of panic. Hermione would have laughed if her head weren't about to explode. But she did her best to smile.
" Yes I'm fine, what happened to your eye?" He shifted uncomfortably. Then gave a half smile.
" Well when you hit your head I knew that they would need to do a test to see what's messed up in there, she I had to take the spell off. Well when I pointed my wand, Weasley jumped me." Hermione couldn't help laughing. It was so painful that she had to grab her head, tears of pain falling down her front.
"Aren't they going to fix my head? It feels like they didn't do anything." Draco rolled up his sleeves.
"What hurts you Draco will fix it." Hermione looked at him before removing her hands. His eyes actually looked worried.
" What are you some sort of expert all of a sudden?" He gave a half smile. Then shook his head.
" No I know only one spell, and it only works while I'm in the room, because my wand has to be no more then five feet away from the injury." He took out his wand and softly tapped her head, muttering a spell the Hermione couldn't hear. All of a sudden it felt like her head was frozen, and as if tiny centapids were walking over her head. It stopped almost as soon as it started. And the pain was gone. It felt as if there was never any pain.
"Thanks," Hermione said sitting up, happy that she didn't get dizzy " What did you guys learn today on the mountain?" Hermione hoped they didn't cover anything they were going to have on a test. She remembered third year when she forgot to take a charms class and they covered a test subject.
" We looked around for a long time trying to find these things called Clabbert, but no one could find one. When we about to leave we found a Crup. They are like muggel dogs. It was funny because Katie Bell tried to pet it and it snapped at her. And Hagrid said they are good pets to wizards but they are aggressive toward muggels." Hermione's heart fell. She had always wanted to see a Crup but they are rare, especially if you are looking in muggel areas.
" Did Hagrid say it was going to be in the final test or something?" Draco shook his head.
"But Hagrid did take it home, to his hut and Fang started to bark at it. So Fang is at one side of the hut and fork-that's what he called it because of its tail-is on the other." Hermione was happy she would be able to see the creature, but didn't like the feeling of it being tied up. "Hagrid said that we will just have to go up the mountain next week. Potter and Weasly got your homework for the rest of the day. I, don't know if I was sitting in the hospital wing my head split open, I would take a brake from work." Hermione smiled, it was funny how much Draco reminded her of Ron.
"You sound just like Ron you know. Always looking for a way of getting out of homework." Draco smiled though Hermione could tell he didn't like being compared to Ron. " What do you have against Ron anyway?" She asked not expecting a good answer, not even an answer.
" I was being controlled by my father, Weasly's father and my father had a childhood fight and didn't want me to be in the midst of a Weasly." Hermione had temporarily forgotten about Draco's father. But now she could tell he was all right, he was a friend and he was someone she trusted.
Madame Pomfrey came in and gave Hermione a goblet of sleeping syrup for her and told Draco that he had to leave in five minutes. Once she left and Hermione knew she was out of earshot she turned to Draco.
"Stay with me." Draco looked around.
" I can't, Pomfrey said I had to leave." He didn't seem to want to go but knew he had to.
" Silly, we can use the invisible charm, she wont be able to see you. Only grownups can't see you. Come on, she didn't give me anything and the only thing keeping me from exploding is your charm." Draco looked from side to side before nodding. He quickly did the charm and a faint glow surrounded him. The spell had worked and, Justin time too, just then Madame Pomfrey cam around the curtain.
"Oh good. I like it better when they listen, not like Potter who is here until I drag him. Ok now dear you lie back, the potion will go to work any second now, don't want you falling of the bed." Hermione gave a huge yawn, resting her head on the pillow.
" Thank you." She said before closing her eyes. The last ting she felt was Draco taking her hand and squeezing it in his. Hermione was glade to have Draco as a friend; he was always so nice to her. And the fight they had a few weeks ago never happened again.
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Harry woke up, and threw his pillow at Ron.
"Was is it?" He asked raising his head off his pillow. He picked up a coroner of his hangings up so he could see Harry pulling on his socks.
"We have t give Hermione her homework before breakfast, Madame Pomfrey said to go straight there." Ron sat up.
" I don't want to even think about what would happen last time we thought Hermione would like a break from work." Harry cringed.
" Remember, she started to yell and blamed us that she was 'so far behind' and it was only one day." Harry finished. He could hear Dean laughing into his pillow.
" That sounds like Hermione alright." Harry opened his hangings wider so he could see dean's bed.
"Sorry Dean did we wake you?" Ron said throwing his pillow at Neville waking him up mid-snore.
" No we have to get up anyway, me and Seamus have to go to McGonagall for detention." He then threw a pillow at Seamus who muttered something about Quiddtich fouls before sitting up.
" What did you do?" Ron asked pulling his hat onto his foot, before realizing it.
" We got mad at Mrs. Norris for catching us looking for the Slytherin door, and we gave her a few Hiccup freely mice, and she got sick, and started to hiccup non-stop. She McGonagall has us washing the floors in the transfiguration room, without magic." Ron patted his back sympathetically, he knew way to well how hard it is to clean without magic.
" We should hurry, Hermione will wake up soon and have a fit if her homework isn't ready for her." Harry said grabbing his bag and Hermione's books; leaving the dorm room with Ron they met Fred and George on their way to tell Dean and Seamus to hurry. Apparently they were in on the Mrs. Norris incident.
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Hermione opened her eyes to see she was still in the hospital wing, and to feel that Draco was still by her, and his spell on her. He still had her hand in his hand tightly. Hermione was sitting for two minutes when she heard Harry and Ron come in. Panicking she shook Draco awake. He opened his eyes tiny slits.
"What is it Hermione?" Then he too heard the boys coming over to the bed. He let go of Hermione's hand and ducked under the bed, pulling sheets down the side so no one could see him. Hermione saw that his wand was sitting next to her pillow and stuffed it under the covers. Feeling a little pain in the back of her head as if the blankets smothered the spell.
Harry and Ron came around the curtain, Harry's arms heavy with books. Hermione was upset to see they didn't have her astronomy books. "How are you feeling Hermione?" Ron asked taking Draco's seat next to the bed. Harry putting the books down on the bedside table turned his attention to the window.
"It is really hot in here, can I open the window?" He asked walking to the window.
"Yes sure. What time is it?" Asked Hermione wondering how long she had slept.
"Almost 7:15, want to know what happened yesterday? I gave Malfoy a black eye!" Said Ron proudly. "He didn't even fight back! I bet he was just scared." Hermione felt Draco poke the thin mattress, telling her to change the subject, but Hermione wanted to know Ron's point of view.
"Why, what happened?" She asked, playing innocent. Another poke in her back.
"He pulled out his wand trying to curse you! You should have seen him, he got this look on his face, I think he was trying to pay you back for telling him off." Harry gave a little laugh.
"It didn't look like he was going to curse you, it looked like a reverse spell to me." Ron scoffed.
"Well, whatever it was, I gave him a black the size of a pear." This time it was Hermione who laughed.
"It wasn't that big. It wasn't even bigger then a Knut."
" How would you know?" Ron said upset that it wasn't his day to show off.
"He came in here to get it checked." Harry looked at his new watch; he bought it after the Triwizard tournament.
"We should go get breakfast. You want us to come at lunch?" She felt another poke in her back.
"No, its ok I'll be fine." Harry looked at her a second and then turned to leave.
"See ya, we will come back after last class. Madame Pomfrey said you would be able to come out by then." Ron said following Harry out of the room, giving a tiny wave. Draco was about to get out from his hiding place when he heard Madame Pomfrey come into the wing. She called from halfway across the room.
"Miss Granger, your medication has come in, I'm sorry you had to wait I didn't realize I had run out." Before she came around the curtain Hermione shoved Draco's wand under the bed. A second later she could feel his spell being taken off of her. Swarmed with a sudden rush or pain and dizziness she fell into her pillow.
Madame Pomfrey smiled at her and handed her another goblet that was giving off a faint smoke. "Take this dear, you will feel better in a second." Hermione took the goblet and drank it in one swallow.
It felt a lot like taking pollyjuice potion, only the feeling was only in her head, and it only took a few seconds to subside.
"Now rest, I forbid you to do any work, until after lunch. I don't care, I'm even going to take your quill." With that Madame Pomfrey snatched up her quill and left. After a second Draco emerged from under the bed.
"I better go." He said putting his wand into a pocket. " I'm going to be late." He started off but Hermione grabbed his arm.
"Thanks for staying." Then she gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"Its ok. I'll be back at lunch ok. See you then." He gave her a big brother kiss on the forehead and left. Then two seconds later he came back.
"You want to put the spell back on, I can tell you our classes as they go." He said.
"Sure. I don't wana have to rely on Harry's notes again." They quickly did the spell and Hermione felt the connection come again. Hermione didn't realize the comfort she had being connected to Draco before but she defiantly felt it now. Draco squeezed her shoulder and left.
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His father had taught him all he knew about Voldermont, he remembered once after beating after, he said that he was one of Voldermont's closest advisers. Draco had a feeling of forbidding knowing more then his father. What would happen when spring break came, would his father beat out the information he had? Would he put the controlling spell back on him? Draco felt a knot in his stomach.
He had fought the controlling spell before but that was when he only knew little information, it is harder to fight the spell when you know more then you should.
But an even greater feeling was the one of distrust Hermione had against him. Though she said nothing he could tell there were times she felt uncomfortable. He didn't understand why, but he didn't want to ask.
A loud bang outside the room snapped him out of his thoughts. He grabbed his wand and crept to the door, he was surprised there was any one else awake, it was usually him and the moon. He pulled the door open to reveal the dark spiralling staircase that led to the cold common room. As he went down the stairs he looked over the railing he saw the last person he would have ever guessed:
Rita Skeeter.
He went down the rest of the stairs two at a time, sliding to a stop at the bottom. The reporter started and looked at Draco in a funny way.
"Your that Malfoy boy aren't you? The one I got all the scoops from last year." She asked noticing the awkwardness of her being in the Slythern common room in the middle of the night, when she had been banned from the Hogwarts grounds.
"Yes I am, what are you doing here?" She waved her hand as if it were a casual situation, her metallic nail polish flashing in the dim light of the low burning fire.
"Oh, me I'm just looking around. Why are you up so late." She added curiously eyeing him.
"How did you get in here?" He asked ignoring her question. " Where did you get the password?"
"I got my ways." I think you should get out. Before I get Professor Snape." She sat at one of the lopsided tables.
"I don't think I will leave. I have to find something out." She took out a nail file and went to work on her nails.
"Like what?" Draco asked getting upset at her determination.
"Like why a pure blood wizard would hang about with a mudblood, in the middle of the night. Or why worse enemies would walk around like old friends." Draco stood shocked for a second before regaining his voice, which came out as high pitched as possible.
"What-what are you talking about? I have no idea of what you are talking about." But Rita took no notice to him.
"But you guys aren't always here in your beds. And you aren't anywhere else in the castle, except when you are in that bathroom with the ghost who wont tell be anything." Draco made a mental note to thank Myrtle. " So where were you?" She smiled to herself.
"I wonder what your father would say." Draco didn't see how she would prove anything so he played dumb.
"I don't know what you are talking about. Maybe you should leave, you know I have classes in the morning." She gave a sigh and stood up. Draco was happy she was going to leave.
"You know, I will find out what you are doing." She went to clip her purse shut when her sleeve slipped up showing Draco one of the worse things he could think of at the moment. The dark mark. His stomach tightened, he had seen the mark a thousand times, his father had one, but every time it gave him the creeps. "Even if it kills me." She walked up to the wall that held the hidden door and left Draco standing there.
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"Are you sure? It could have been a birth mark or a tattoo." Hermione said lacing her boots tighter, she didn't want to fall down on the way up the mountain. Draco had pulled her away from the group to tell her.
"Yes I'm sure. It isn't the most common thing but I have seen my share of Dark Marks, and that was one. Any way she in trying something, I can feel it." Hermione looked up the path, Harry and Ron were a fare way ahead, and she didn't know how they were going to get back into the group.
"Of course she is trying something, she writes gossip, she has to build lies an everyone to keep her job. Come on she would even write about shoes if she thought there was something to the soles that no one knew about. What's more she isn't allowed at Hogwarts, we can just tell Dumbledor that she was in the school and he will fret about her." With that she turned and ran to catch up.
After catching up Hermione was thinking about what Draco said Rita said. How did she known about them meeting. How did she know the passwords? The windows in the Gryffindor tower magically closed after 12:00 so she couldn't get through being a beetle.
And they had always used a charm to see where the nearest person was. She was in such deep thought that she tripped over a rock, falling over backward and bumping into a tree, hitting her head, seeing feet running towards her before becoming unconscious.
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Waking up Hermione knew she wasn't on the mountain anymore. White curtains surrounded her. As she tried to sit up a rush of dizziness came over her and she fell back into her pillow. She could see someone was fighting with Madame Pomfrey to see her.
"There is no point. She is asleep just come back later." Hermione wanted to have someone to distract her from the pain her head was issuing.
"Its ok Madame Pomfrey, let them in." Hermione said hoping she would allow it.
" Fine go then!" Madame Pomfrey said, then stomped to her office muttering about in being a hospital not a common room. Expecting to see Harry and Ron, Hermione was surprised to see Draco come around the curtain and sit next to her bed, sporting a new black eye. He seemed worried.
"How are you? Are you ok?" His voice had a note of panic. Hermione would have laughed if her head weren't about to explode. But she did her best to smile.
" Yes I'm fine, what happened to your eye?" He shifted uncomfortably. Then gave a half smile.
" Well when you hit your head I knew that they would need to do a test to see what's messed up in there, she I had to take the spell off. Well when I pointed my wand, Weasley jumped me." Hermione couldn't help laughing. It was so painful that she had to grab her head, tears of pain falling down her front.
"Aren't they going to fix my head? It feels like they didn't do anything." Draco rolled up his sleeves.
"What hurts you Draco will fix it." Hermione looked at him before removing her hands. His eyes actually looked worried.
" What are you some sort of expert all of a sudden?" He gave a half smile. Then shook his head.
" No I know only one spell, and it only works while I'm in the room, because my wand has to be no more then five feet away from the injury." He took out his wand and softly tapped her head, muttering a spell the Hermione couldn't hear. All of a sudden it felt like her head was frozen, and as if tiny centapids were walking over her head. It stopped almost as soon as it started. And the pain was gone. It felt as if there was never any pain.
"Thanks," Hermione said sitting up, happy that she didn't get dizzy " What did you guys learn today on the mountain?" Hermione hoped they didn't cover anything they were going to have on a test. She remembered third year when she forgot to take a charms class and they covered a test subject.
" We looked around for a long time trying to find these things called Clabbert, but no one could find one. When we about to leave we found a Crup. They are like muggel dogs. It was funny because Katie Bell tried to pet it and it snapped at her. And Hagrid said they are good pets to wizards but they are aggressive toward muggels." Hermione's heart fell. She had always wanted to see a Crup but they are rare, especially if you are looking in muggel areas.
" Did Hagrid say it was going to be in the final test or something?" Draco shook his head.
"But Hagrid did take it home, to his hut and Fang started to bark at it. So Fang is at one side of the hut and fork-that's what he called it because of its tail-is on the other." Hermione was happy she would be able to see the creature, but didn't like the feeling of it being tied up. "Hagrid said that we will just have to go up the mountain next week. Potter and Weasly got your homework for the rest of the day. I, don't know if I was sitting in the hospital wing my head split open, I would take a brake from work." Hermione smiled, it was funny how much Draco reminded her of Ron.
"You sound just like Ron you know. Always looking for a way of getting out of homework." Draco smiled though Hermione could tell he didn't like being compared to Ron. " What do you have against Ron anyway?" She asked not expecting a good answer, not even an answer.
" I was being controlled by my father, Weasly's father and my father had a childhood fight and didn't want me to be in the midst of a Weasly." Hermione had temporarily forgotten about Draco's father. But now she could tell he was all right, he was a friend and he was someone she trusted.
Madame Pomfrey came in and gave Hermione a goblet of sleeping syrup for her and told Draco that he had to leave in five minutes. Once she left and Hermione knew she was out of earshot she turned to Draco.
"Stay with me." Draco looked around.
" I can't, Pomfrey said I had to leave." He didn't seem to want to go but knew he had to.
" Silly, we can use the invisible charm, she wont be able to see you. Only grownups can't see you. Come on, she didn't give me anything and the only thing keeping me from exploding is your charm." Draco looked from side to side before nodding. He quickly did the charm and a faint glow surrounded him. The spell had worked and, Justin time too, just then Madame Pomfrey cam around the curtain.
"Oh good. I like it better when they listen, not like Potter who is here until I drag him. Ok now dear you lie back, the potion will go to work any second now, don't want you falling of the bed." Hermione gave a huge yawn, resting her head on the pillow.
" Thank you." She said before closing her eyes. The last ting she felt was Draco taking her hand and squeezing it in his. Hermione was glade to have Draco as a friend; he was always so nice to her. And the fight they had a few weeks ago never happened again.
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Harry woke up, and threw his pillow at Ron.
"Was is it?" He asked raising his head off his pillow. He picked up a coroner of his hangings up so he could see Harry pulling on his socks.
"We have t give Hermione her homework before breakfast, Madame Pomfrey said to go straight there." Ron sat up.
" I don't want to even think about what would happen last time we thought Hermione would like a break from work." Harry cringed.
" Remember, she started to yell and blamed us that she was 'so far behind' and it was only one day." Harry finished. He could hear Dean laughing into his pillow.
" That sounds like Hermione alright." Harry opened his hangings wider so he could see dean's bed.
"Sorry Dean did we wake you?" Ron said throwing his pillow at Neville waking him up mid-snore.
" No we have to get up anyway, me and Seamus have to go to McGonagall for detention." He then threw a pillow at Seamus who muttered something about Quiddtich fouls before sitting up.
" What did you do?" Ron asked pulling his hat onto his foot, before realizing it.
" We got mad at Mrs. Norris for catching us looking for the Slytherin door, and we gave her a few Hiccup freely mice, and she got sick, and started to hiccup non-stop. She McGonagall has us washing the floors in the transfiguration room, without magic." Ron patted his back sympathetically, he knew way to well how hard it is to clean without magic.
" We should hurry, Hermione will wake up soon and have a fit if her homework isn't ready for her." Harry said grabbing his bag and Hermione's books; leaving the dorm room with Ron they met Fred and George on their way to tell Dean and Seamus to hurry. Apparently they were in on the Mrs. Norris incident.
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Hermione opened her eyes to see she was still in the hospital wing, and to feel that Draco was still by her, and his spell on her. He still had her hand in his hand tightly. Hermione was sitting for two minutes when she heard Harry and Ron come in. Panicking she shook Draco awake. He opened his eyes tiny slits.
"What is it Hermione?" Then he too heard the boys coming over to the bed. He let go of Hermione's hand and ducked under the bed, pulling sheets down the side so no one could see him. Hermione saw that his wand was sitting next to her pillow and stuffed it under the covers. Feeling a little pain in the back of her head as if the blankets smothered the spell.
Harry and Ron came around the curtain, Harry's arms heavy with books. Hermione was upset to see they didn't have her astronomy books. "How are you feeling Hermione?" Ron asked taking Draco's seat next to the bed. Harry putting the books down on the bedside table turned his attention to the window.
"It is really hot in here, can I open the window?" He asked walking to the window.
"Yes sure. What time is it?" Asked Hermione wondering how long she had slept.
"Almost 7:15, want to know what happened yesterday? I gave Malfoy a black eye!" Said Ron proudly. "He didn't even fight back! I bet he was just scared." Hermione felt Draco poke the thin mattress, telling her to change the subject, but Hermione wanted to know Ron's point of view.
"Why, what happened?" She asked, playing innocent. Another poke in her back.
"He pulled out his wand trying to curse you! You should have seen him, he got this look on his face, I think he was trying to pay you back for telling him off." Harry gave a little laugh.
"It didn't look like he was going to curse you, it looked like a reverse spell to me." Ron scoffed.
"Well, whatever it was, I gave him a black the size of a pear." This time it was Hermione who laughed.
"It wasn't that big. It wasn't even bigger then a Knut."
" How would you know?" Ron said upset that it wasn't his day to show off.
"He came in here to get it checked." Harry looked at his new watch; he bought it after the Triwizard tournament.
"We should go get breakfast. You want us to come at lunch?" She felt another poke in her back.
"No, its ok I'll be fine." Harry looked at her a second and then turned to leave.
"See ya, we will come back after last class. Madame Pomfrey said you would be able to come out by then." Ron said following Harry out of the room, giving a tiny wave. Draco was about to get out from his hiding place when he heard Madame Pomfrey come into the wing. She called from halfway across the room.
"Miss Granger, your medication has come in, I'm sorry you had to wait I didn't realize I had run out." Before she came around the curtain Hermione shoved Draco's wand under the bed. A second later she could feel his spell being taken off of her. Swarmed with a sudden rush or pain and dizziness she fell into her pillow.
Madame Pomfrey smiled at her and handed her another goblet that was giving off a faint smoke. "Take this dear, you will feel better in a second." Hermione took the goblet and drank it in one swallow.
It felt a lot like taking pollyjuice potion, only the feeling was only in her head, and it only took a few seconds to subside.
"Now rest, I forbid you to do any work, until after lunch. I don't care, I'm even going to take your quill." With that Madame Pomfrey snatched up her quill and left. After a second Draco emerged from under the bed.
"I better go." He said putting his wand into a pocket. " I'm going to be late." He started off but Hermione grabbed his arm.
"Thanks for staying." Then she gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"Its ok. I'll be back at lunch ok. See you then." He gave her a big brother kiss on the forehead and left. Then two seconds later he came back.
"You want to put the spell back on, I can tell you our classes as they go." He said.
"Sure. I don't wana have to rely on Harry's notes again." They quickly did the spell and Hermione felt the connection come again. Hermione didn't realize the comfort she had being connected to Draco before but she defiantly felt it now. Draco squeezed her shoulder and left.
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