Of Elves and Schoolwork
Of Elves and Schoolwork

A/N: Something dreadfully horrible happens… Voldemort escapes from his glass jar! What kind of havoc will he wreak? Oh, it's much worse than… well anything really!!

Hermione's POV

Hermione was just rousing, when what felt like a very tiny fist, hit her in the nose! She cracked open her eyes and--

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH!" She screamed. The miniature Lord Voldemort was standing on her chest! He started making a lot of squeaking noises. Now she regretted Dubledore giving her her own private bedroom. Nobody could hear her scream now…

"P-please be q-quiet, I-I mean you n-no harm!" Hermione stuttered. She grabbed her wand off her bedside table and whispered "Sonorus!" to make his voice louder.

"I am Lord Voldemort, feel my wrath!" the little thing screeched, and started attacking her hand.

"Ouch! You little --" She then smacked him right on the head with her hand. He got a rather bemused expression on his face, staggered around and fell on her stomach. He appeared to all pretensions, dead. Then he sat up.

"I am Lord Voldemort, feel my wrath!" He screamed again and started attacking her hand.

"Grr…" Hermione growled. She grabbed her wand again and shouted "Stupefy!" But the little bugger, being so small, dodged it, and it hit her instead.

3 hours later

Hermione was standing, but could not move otherwise. She looked at Voldemort. He was-- at eye level with her?

"What the--" Hermiones' thoughts were cut off by what Voldemort said.

Ha ha! You are my size now, Hermione!" He told her. Apparently he had taken her wand and shrunk her too. The little git--

"Why did you shrink me?" Hermione asked. She had somehow uncovered hidden bravery. "When will I be able to move again?" She asked.

"Now, now, now, you don't want to feel my wrath again do you?" He asked.

"How did you get out of you jar?" She was asking another question.

"I got out through one of the holes. It took me hours to make it big enough for me to slip through" He said simply.

"Mortow Otiseloco!" He said. She could now move freely again. She made a grab for her wand.

"Ah, ah ah! I'll give it to you in a minute!" Voldemort drawled. Then after about ten minutes he handed her her wand.

"Thank you. Can I go out and explore?" She was trying to be friendly.

"I suppose… Be back here at midnight" He said. Hermione wondered why he was being so nice.

"NO WAND" he said. Drat… Now she couldn't at least make her voice louder. And- Oh no… all she was wearing was her black lacy nightgown that barely reached her knees. She was going to have to climb up and down steps…

"Go, now, before I change my mind!" Voldemort shouted. He had the wand, so Hermione did as she was told. She took a big breath, and jumped off her bed. She landed flat on the floor.

"Ow…" She moaned. She had forgotten that she had wood flooring… Thank God that she had laid down carpet where she landed though. It broke her fall, but she still hurt. Next time she would crawl down. She broke into a painful run towards her bedroom door. She was just small enough to slip under it. She looked around. Everything was HUGE. Well, it sort of had to be, because she was only 5 inches tall now. She looked down at he watch. It was half past eight. All the students would be rushing out at any time…

There was a great rumbling noise.

"Oh no" She thought. If being slammed into a wall in front of 2 boys was bad, then this was a hundred times worse…

Hermione didn't know how she survived all the Gryffindors stampeding towards her. She was large enough to be noticed, but her voice was still tiny, so nobody really noticed their 5 inches-in-height house mate. She ran as fast as she could after everybody had left towards the portrait hole. She threw herself up against it, and it cracked open enough to let her out. She jumped out of the hole, and smashed into the ground again. Luckily enough, nothing was broken.

"SOMEBODY HELP!" She screamed, but it only came out in a large squeak. At this rate, people would think that there was a mouse in the castle. She got an idea.

"I'll run to the great hall, and see Dumbledore!"She thought. Maybe he could make her voice louder, maybe even enlarge herself… But then, Voldemort did like to use irreversible spells… She started running yet again down the hall. Then she hit one of the rickety stair cases. She crawled down, step, by step, and then-

"Oh no!" She said. The missing step was right in front of her. Maybe she could jump it? Well, she could try. She took 3 or 4 steps backward, and ran at the missing step. Right at the edge she leapt forward. She felt rather like she was flying. The next stair was coming toward her, she reached out her hand, and- missed.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH!" She screamed. She had fallen through the missing step… Where would she go? Would she die when she landed? Hermione felt like Alice in Wonderland, as she fell through the velvety blackness. Then she landed on something soft, and did a belly flop. She looked down… It was a mattress… With black sheets sheets. How did a mattress get down here? Where was she anyways? She looked beside her. It was- Draco? Yes, it was Draco, she recognized the blonde hair.

"This must be the Slytherin sleeping quarters!" She thought. If Draco had been intimidating at her regular height, it was nothing compared to what he was now. That, and he wasn't like Harry- He was about 6 feet tall! She crawled over his back, and stood in front of his face.

"Why isn't he up?" She usually saw him at the Great Hall in time for breakfast. Maybe he had been up late.

Draco's POV

He felt like somebody was watching him. But that was absurd. He had made his father ask Dumbledore for his own private room the previous year, so nobody could be looking at him- unless Pansy had snuck in here again. He opened his eyes.

"H-Hermione?" He said. He just had to be dreaming, he just had to be. He rubbed his eyes. Yet again he saw a 5 inch tall Hermione Granger. She squeaked.

"Hold- hold on, I'll…er make your voice louder" He said. "Sonorus!"

"Thank you" She said.

"Hey, nice lingerie" He grinned. She scowled at him.

"It isn't funny!" She shouted. "Do you know how scary you look?" She asked.

"Hey, look, I haven't had a chance to get in the shower this morning-" He smiled at her unmistakable frown.

"You know what I mean! You are 6 feet high! I'm only 5 inches tall!" She was still frowning. "You could very well squish me like a bug!"

He decided to turn the conversation.

"How did you get that small anyway?" He asked. A small spasm crossed her face.

"Voldemort escaped from his jar! He came into my private room, and started attacking my hand, and when I tried to stun him, he dodged it, and it hit me instead. When I finally came to, I was his height, and I don't know how he did it" She said all of this in one breath. Poor thing, she must be really scared.

"How about I carry you around till I find Dumbledore?" He suggested. He kind of missed kissing her, and he didn't think that he really could when she was that small. Instead, she reached up to him face and gave him a small peck on the lips.

"Thank you. Can we go now? I really hate being this small" She said.

"Well, do you mind if I take my shower?" He asked. He was trying to be nice.

"I suppose" She sat down on his bed. "You don't have any owls, or cats or anything in here do you?" She looked nervously over her shoulder.

"No. All I have is an owl, and he stays in the owlery. You can just sit here on my bed, and well… do whatever you want" He felt bad for her. It must really suck to be that small. He stepped out of bed. All he was wearing was boxers.

"DRACO!" Hermione screamed, and covered her eyes. He quickly pulled on his black bathrobe.

"Ok, better, Miss Frightened-over-nothing?" He smiled at her. She had probably never even seen boys' boxers.

"Yes" She was red in the face, Draco could see it even from where he was standing.

"Well, I'm off to my shower"

Hermione's POV

She took a look around his room. It was pretty, well to say the least, strange. His had black sheets, and bedspread, he had a black ornate dresser that looked like it was older than Dumbledore. His walls were white, which contrasted very well with his black bedspread. And he had decorated his walls with a strange assortment of items. One one wall there was a huge hand painted silver snake, that represented Slytherin. That took up the entire wall. Another wall seemed to be dedicated to his family. Cruel as he was-or used to be- he still seemed to miss his family. There was a picture of himself on what appeared to be his 3d birthday, and he was grinning at the camera holding a toy broomstick. The strange thing was, only half of these pictures were moving. That was odd, they were a pureblood family (With lot's of gold, mind you) and some of these had been taken with muggle cameras. Oh well, moving on, the next wall was adorned with- herself? Yes, there were hundreds of pictures of her on this wall. This particular wall was on his right, in the direction he had been sleeping. Perhaps this had been what he had stayed up late for last night. Most of these pictures are ones that had been taken of her, Harry, and Ron. Then there were some that she couldn't ever even remember posing for. She would question Draco about this later. On the last wall there were drawings. Very good drawings at that. Hermione never knew that Draco was an artist. But then again, she never really did know much about him, because he had always kept to himself, and his cronies, Crabbe and Goyle. There was a drawing of a dragon, a black unicorn, 3 fairies sitting on a leaf, and a hippogriff. She stared at the picture of the fairies. The one in the middle looked distinctly like her. And there was another picture. Draco had obviously drawn it last night too. It was of her, when she was at the Yule Ball. It was almost like looking at a photograph, it was drawn so well. She stared at this particular picture until he got out of the shower.

"So, Hermione, what did you do wile I took my shower?" Draco, she could tell, was trying to be light in conversation.

"Just looked around" She was also being light, but there was a slight stiffness in her voice.

"How are you going to take me to Dumbledore? You can't possibly keep me in your pocket. Maybe you could explain to Harry, and let me eat at the Gryffindor table" She was really hungry, because she had barely gotten to touch last nights' dinner.

"Sounds fine to me" He had now reached to point where he was agreeing with everything Hermione said.

"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" She couldn't hold it in anymore. He looked nothing short of astounded.

"What? I just want to agree with you, so you can be happy!" he said.

"Well have a mind of your own!" Snarled Hermione. Being 5 inches tall can really get to you.

"Alright! Fine, I'll just have a mind of my own, and leave you in here!" He said. He turned on his heel and stepped out the door.

"Oh no" Hermione began to cry.

"Why do I always screw up?" She asked herself aloud. She heard the door open. She tried to recompose herself as much as she could. She had her back on him.

"What do you want?" She asked. Her own voice shook.

"Drakie-poo? Hey! Well, if it isn't a 5 inch tall Mudblood! I'd know that bush any day!" Said a high pitched voice that she did not want to recognize. It was Pansy Parkinson.

"Well, well, well. I heard this awful rumor that you kissed Drakie. Am I right?" She was using a strange combination of sourness, and satisfaction in her voice. It was a bad combination.

"Yes, as a matter of fact I did!" Hermione stood up, trying at a small attempt to make herself seem taller.

"Oh" She said in her horrid voice. "Do you know what I do to girls who kiss Drakie?" She asked. Hermione stood her ground.

"I can't believe he left me! He probably sent her in here!" Hermione was furious with Draco now.

"Just what do you do?" Hermione cocked her eyebrow at her.

"I hurt them" There was a rather evil glint in her eye that Hermione had never seen before. Pansy picked Hermione up.

"HELP!" Hermione screamed at her loudest—which was now quite loud, as her voice had magically been magnified. Pansy lay Hermione, who was now stiff with fear, in the center of her palm, raised her hand and—nothing. She opened her eyes. WHAM! Pansy slammed her hand down on top of her.

Midnight

Hermione wearily staggered into her private room. She had just spent the entire day with Pansy and her friends, Millicent Bullstrode, and Blaise Zabini. She had been hit, punched, cursed, and locked in her foul smelling purse. They had also taken off the Sonorus Charm, so all she could do now was squeak (Well to her it was talking, but to everyone else it was a squeak) She climbed on top of her bed, and found—Draco? He was just sitting there.

"DRACO!" She screamed as loudly as she could. He looked over at her.

"Hermione! I'm so glad that you're okay!" He said. "Sonorus!"

"What happened to you?" He asked.

"Pansy" The word was simple enough, but the day had been the worst of her life. He got a hardened look on his face.

"Pansy" He muttered darkly.

Draco's POV

He had been sitting on Hermione's bed so that maybe, she would come back and find him, so he could tell her that he had just stepped out of his room for a bit of fresh air (He hated being yelled at, and he found that fresh air settled him) and when he came back he would say sorry. But she wasn't there. He had been sitting here in her bedroom all day. He even skipped class to just sit in here and wait for her. She had a very well kept room. It was decorated with lavender bedspread, with white walls. On the walls were pictures of Hermione and Harry and Ron, pictures of what was unmistakably her parents. Her mother had the same bushy hair, and her father had rather large front teeth. Hermione suddenly burst in. She squeaked loudly.

"Hermione! I'm so glad your okay!" he told her. Then he performed the Sonorus Charm to enhance the volume of her voice.

"What happened to you?" He asked.

"Pansy" She said it very darkly.

"Pansy" He muttered, also darkly.

"I am Lord Voldemort feel my wrath!" Screamed an all too familiar voice.

"Stupefy! Stupefy!" He had just stunned them.

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