The Parchment
Chapter six: The incident in the infirmary
A/n: Oh my so sorry about that parchment incident. I placed that as a picture because I placed a Malfoy seal at the bottom of that parchment. Don't worry, posted a new one that must be up by November 30,
They were in the air for a pretty long time. Malfoy was right, it was deep.
Suddenly Hermione sensed the air getting thinner
'Were reaching the ground' she thought.
With a very strong thud they had landed, and on a very hard marble floor. Hermione could feel her head spinning, she could no longer feel Malfoy's arms around her waist; she felt very vulnerable.
"Malfoy, Lavander" she whispered as she got up. Her body was hurting, and she could have sworn that she heard a crack when they landed.
Hermione crawled around to find a trace of Malfoy, or Lavander. She stretched her arm over the cold marble floor as she tries to feel their presence. Finally, she felt a soft fabric brush the tip of her fingers. She tugged the cloth, it was a velvety sleeve of a robe. Hermione reached further. She had felt a human presence.
"Malfoy?" she said.
Hermione heard a groan escape the figure. It was Malfoy, his body was numb because of the fall. It seemed that he had broken some of his bones. Hermione reached for her wand in her pocket.
"Lumos"
"Oh my god," she exclaimed slightly. She let a gasp escape her. Malfoy's face was dripping blood that was trickling from numerous gashes on his head. His silvery blond hair covered them. He was unconscious now, probably from the fall.
Hermione didn't know why, but she let a single tear roll down her features as she watched the piteous boy. She knew that she could not do anything.
"I'm sorry" she whispered.
Hermione suddenly felt an ache in her chest. Her breathing suddenly became quicker and quicker until she finally fainted.
~~*
The next morning.
"Where could she be?" asked Ron as he was talking to Harry in the common room that morning.
"Hey you guys, have you seen Lavander?" came Parvati's shrill voice through the room as she approached Harry and Ron.
"No" said Harry "How about you Parvati, have you seen Hermione?"
"No not all night, she was supposed to be with Lavander, helping her with a project for astrology,"
"Something's wrong" said Ron nervously.
~~*
The three didn't come down to breakfast, instead, they headed to Professor Sinistra's office.
"Went out ages ago," said the portrait of a night hung outside Professor Sinistra's office. "and she looked extremely apprehensive,"
"Any idea where she might have gone" asked Harry.
"Try the Headmasters office"
"Thank you sir.knight"
Harry, Ron and a very worried Parvati rushed to the tower of the headmasters office quickly. They were surprised to see that the goblin statue blocking the door was open.
"Something must really be up, the headmaster must be expecting someone," said Harry.
The three of them paced quietly up the stairs that led to the circular room. Harry could just hear Professor Sinistra's voice from where they were standing.
"Harry," whispered Parvati
He turned to her and gestured her to keep quiet.
"Shh," he said
"Oh Albus, I don't know where they could have gone, I just sent them to the library to bring the trunk of enchanted books and equipment, and."said Professor Sinistra between sobs.
"I'm, sure we would be able to find them," said Dumbledore.
"We must, we have to inform their parents also. The Grangers must be owled so as the Browns, oh they will be so worried. And you know how Lucius Malfoy can be," said Professor Sprout
"Malfoy?" said Harry as he looked at Ron. "He must have been with them,"
"Slimy git, Let me at em," exclaimed Ron
"Severus, are you sure that the whole palace was searched?" said Dumbledore
"Yes sir, the north and east towers are now being searched for the second time by the prefects and the headboy, and the only place where they haven't gone is the-"Snape trailed off and the other teachers looked at him.
"The dungeons!" they all said.
Just then, Harry heard footsteps approaching them. He soon found himself looking at the infirm figure of Professor Mc Gonagall.
"Students, what are you doing here?" came her unusually yielding voice. "Nevertheless, you might as well here this" with that, she directed them in to the circular room.
"Professor Mc Gonagall, children, please come in." said Dumbledore.
"Harry, I was wondering if you could tell me if you saw Ms. Granger or Ms. Brown in your tower last night?"
"No sir, Parvati says that they didn't sleep in the dormitory last night"
"Is this true Ms. Patil?"
"Yes sir" Parvati said in her trembling voice.
"Oh my, I should have never let them go alone" said Professor Sinistra sobbing even more.
"Now, now its not your fault Stella," said Dumbledore comfortingly.
"Where's Hermione?" darted Ron.
"Actually, that's why were all here isn't it?" said Dumbledore "It appears that Ms. Granger, Ms. Brown and Mr. Malfoy have gone missing while taking a trunk over to the library last night,"
"Then why don't you look for them," spat Ron.
"Were currently in that process at the moment, rest assure that they will be found safe and sound" guaranteed Dumbledore to them.
"Now children, you must get back to breakfast, so you would not be late for your classes"
The three of them went down to the great hall. Worried and apprehensive all they could do was take the teachers word for the safety of their friends.
~~*
"Urgh" groaned Hermione as she positioned her body up from the cold marble floor where she had been sleeping on. Excuse me, did I say she, I meant they. Hermione looked behind her and she saw Malfoy's body, still limp, broken against the floor. His wounds were still there, blood still dripping from them. Hermione tore a piece of the sleeve of her robe and dabbed it lightly on his face and where the blood was pooling around him.
Hermione could clearly see his face now; it was certainly brighter from the sunlight beaming down from a diminutive window at the upper potion of one wall of the room they were in. 'Sunlight? Its morning oh no I'm late. Where's Lavander?' she thought.
Hermione turned her attention to a dark corner of the room, there was a statue; and in front of it. a sheet of cloth, no it was Lavander.
"Lavander," Hermione called as she approached the figure.
"Lavander," she said again as she knelt down to see if she was all right. With all her strength she pulled Lavander up so that she could see her face.
"Oh my," she exclaimed. Lavander was injured much, much worse than Malfoy. Her auburn robe was shredded and torn that it exposed her flawed skin. Blood flowed out of a gash in her chest.
"We have to get out of here," Hermione whispered. She pulled Lavander carefully over to where Malfoy was and banded some of her wounds with pieces of her ruined robe.
"Argh," Malfoy stirred. Hermione looked at him suddenly and approached him.
"My whole body aches," he muttered.
"Malfoy, You shouldn't get up, your wounds are still raw."
"Uh, Granger, where are we?"
"I don't know," said Hermione suddenly having that faint pain in her chest again. She fell on to the marble floor. She felt all the strength leave her at that moment.
"Granger," said Malfoy in a surprisingly concerned tone. He leaned over to Hemione and laid her head on his lap.
"I think that you should be more worried about Lavander, Malfoy" said Hermione in a faint drawl. Malfoy turned to see Lavander's bruised and battered body behind him. Just then, they heard a loud bang as the door of the room crashed open. There standing with seemingly troubled yet slightly disgruntled faces were Professors Snape, Mc Gonagall and Sinistra.
" Children!" called Professor Sinistra as she rushed to the three.
"Oh my, " said Professor Mc Gonagall when she ran to them. Hermione could hear her boots clapping against the marble floor as a last thing that she could remember before passing out in Malfoy's hands.
~~*
"Thanks Poppy, I don't know how they survived, that fall was about fifty feet, it's a miracle that they stayed alive, even after one night." Hermione could hear Professor Mc Gonagall saying, as she opened her eyes in the hospital wing.
"Yes, it is rather shocking. To think that Mr. Malfoy's scull was cracked seriously, his brain could have been damaged."
Hermione let out a soft gasp at this.
"And I hear Ms. Brown's grievance the most severe of all, is this true Poppy?"
"It sadly is Minerva, apparently she had several broken bones and most of them punctured other organs. Particularly her diaphragm that was punctured by one of her broken ribs, and there was a vast crack in her breast bone, nothing that my potion could not fix"
"Excellent, then she will be in class soon?"
"Unfortunately, Minerva, she is currently in a comatose, and it might take a couple of weeks or more for her to recover,"
"We must really inform her parents," said Professor Mc Gonagall in a serious manner. "And how about, Ms. Granger?"
"It appears that Ms. Granger was the least to obtain injury, I don't know how her body could have endured not getting bruised or battered except for some internal injuries, but." she trailed off. "The headmaster suspects that Mr. Malfoy must have held her before the fall, seeing as he was damaged pretty severely by the impact."
"Mr. Malfoy? Nonsense, they have never been of good.acquaintances and as I have heard from one of the students, he wouldn't touch her with a ten-foot pole,"
"Yes, but didn't you find her cradled in his hands?"
"Well yes but.that was utterly only because of the situation. I beg to differ, I mean it was an emergency after all-"
They were interrupted by Hermione's faint groan. She didn't want to be talked about further by the teachers, it was getting really exasperating.
"Oh, my dear," said Madam Pomfrey as she rushed to the student's bedside.
"I'm glad to see that you're fine,"
Hermione flickered her eyes pretending to have just woken up.
"What time is it?" she asked politely.
"Its nine o'clock my dear," said Madam Pomfrey.
"Oh no I'm late for class," Hermione exclaimed
"No, you mustn't get up. Do not worry, your friends will be up later to bring up your homework." said Madam Pomfrey, "Speaking of which, here they are right now,"
Hermione glanced over to the door of the hospital wing, and sure enough, there was Harry and Ron.
"Now boys, you have five minutes" she could hear Madam Pomfrey mutter to Harry and Ron.
"Hermione," came Ron's concerned voice through the curtains.
"Shh," she said "You'll wake Lavander"
"Oh, how is she?" questioned Harry.
"Bad," said Hermione miserably "I regret it, not having helped her right after the fall,"
"And you do not regret, Malfoy having helped you?" Harry asked silently, making sure what he had said had not reached Ron's earshot. Hermione looked shock.
"How did."
"Dumbledore, I've heard him talk to Professor Snape," "So do you?"
"Does she what Harry?"
"Nothing Ron,"
"Here's this days homework Herm," said Ron cheerily. "Snape's been horrible these days, giving us such homework to deal with,"
"Honestly Ron, we've taken this up before, haven't we? What do you find so hard about engroment potions, and disendus serums and truth potions, they are so easy to concoct." said Hermione in mock disbelief of how easy the lessons were.
"Yeah, Ron we've taken this up before" said Harry chuckling.
"It's a conspiracy, there all out to get me! Help me!"
"Ron stop acting so childish, besides you must not have been listening all this time to what we've been discussing in class," said Hermione promptly.
"Oh Hermione, give it a break! Your in bed and you still act so *intellectually*"
"Would you stop it, you two" said Harry "You're both acting so childish, I don't think we'll ever reach the day you two wouldn't argue, nor will we reach the time... TIME! Oh no C'mon Ron Quidditch practice,"
"See you Herm,"
Hermione sat in surprise as the two boys ran out of the hospital wing.
"Boys." she murmered "Quidditch, what's so great about the sport anyway?"
"What's so wrong about Quidditch?" came a voice from behind the curtains.
Hermione jumped. "Malfoy?"
"The one and only Granger."
"If you're going to start pestering me by saying that accursed word again, think of doing it some other time when my ribs aren't cracked and my organs aren't functioning abnormally"
"I don't want to pester you in my condition Granger, not in my condition. Though I would like to recover soon. soon enough to exasperate you more"
"Uhgh" Hermione moaned.
"How's your head Malfoy?"
"How do you think it is? It's hell, I can't think up a good insult without it hurting"
"Good," assured Hermione
"What?!"
"It's good, good to know that this will be a quiet week for me to be able to rest in peace, without you bothering me."
"Rest assure Granger, I guarantee you it will not"
"Shut up Malfoy,"
~~*
Hermione had such an awful week in the infirmary being harassed by Draco Malfoy.
'My that person is an expert, he harasses me by just his eyes, the way he looks at me, by his lips, the way they curl into such an evil grin every time I lay my eyes on them. Why does he do this/ he's supposed to like me right?' she thought as she rubbed her forehead. 'Why am I thinking about that bloody git anyway, There are more decent things in this world to think about like. FERRETS that's it.'
"Hermione!" came Ginny Weasley's voice screeching through the Gryffindor common room as she ran towards Hermione.
"Ginny, so glad to see you"
"You too Hermi, we were so worried. Did you receive my gifts?"
"Oh yes, loads of them"
"Huh? I only sent one, a box of chocolates I believe"
"Only one then who sent all those flowers and chocolates and sweets and."
"A secret admirer" suggested Ginny.
"Nonsense," said Hermione weakly.
'My only admirer I know is. Ooh do I have to say it. Malfoy, there. and *he* was at the infirmary with me that time' Hermione thought, uncertain of what she *should* be thinking.
~~*
"Hell, double potions today," Ron moaned as they were eating at the Gryffindor table.
"It could be interesting, you know. Were learning about truth potions today and I'm sooo excited about learning how to concoct it."
"Clam it up for once Hermione, if Snape let's us drink that potion. Some of our darkest secrets would be revealed, and I'm sure you have something that you surely wouldn't want anybody to know about Hermione," said Dean.
"Well."
Hemrione trailed off. What if she did, what if their while class found out that Draco Malfoy had a crush on her, what if the whole school found out. What if he was asked to drink the potion and he blabbed that fact out to the whole world.
She sat thinking about it then, she finally decided to leave the room.
A/n: Oh my what's gonna happen? Don't worry the truth won't be revealed. yet. Keep on reading.
P.S.; the writing on the piece of parchment is finally fixed or I think it is, You might want to check it out.
P.P.S.: In the next chapter, there will be a potion that will be introduced. That potion is the Thermopytlae Serum, this, when drank will reveal the deepest darkest secrets of the drinker whose blood must be added to the potion before it is to be drank. Snape will elaborate later anyway thanks!
Chapter six: The incident in the infirmary
A/n: Oh my so sorry about that parchment incident. I placed that as a picture because I placed a Malfoy seal at the bottom of that parchment. Don't worry, posted a new one that must be up by November 30,
They were in the air for a pretty long time. Malfoy was right, it was deep.
Suddenly Hermione sensed the air getting thinner
'Were reaching the ground' she thought.
With a very strong thud they had landed, and on a very hard marble floor. Hermione could feel her head spinning, she could no longer feel Malfoy's arms around her waist; she felt very vulnerable.
"Malfoy, Lavander" she whispered as she got up. Her body was hurting, and she could have sworn that she heard a crack when they landed.
Hermione crawled around to find a trace of Malfoy, or Lavander. She stretched her arm over the cold marble floor as she tries to feel their presence. Finally, she felt a soft fabric brush the tip of her fingers. She tugged the cloth, it was a velvety sleeve of a robe. Hermione reached further. She had felt a human presence.
"Malfoy?" she said.
Hermione heard a groan escape the figure. It was Malfoy, his body was numb because of the fall. It seemed that he had broken some of his bones. Hermione reached for her wand in her pocket.
"Lumos"
"Oh my god," she exclaimed slightly. She let a gasp escape her. Malfoy's face was dripping blood that was trickling from numerous gashes on his head. His silvery blond hair covered them. He was unconscious now, probably from the fall.
Hermione didn't know why, but she let a single tear roll down her features as she watched the piteous boy. She knew that she could not do anything.
"I'm sorry" she whispered.
Hermione suddenly felt an ache in her chest. Her breathing suddenly became quicker and quicker until she finally fainted.
~~*
The next morning.
"Where could she be?" asked Ron as he was talking to Harry in the common room that morning.
"Hey you guys, have you seen Lavander?" came Parvati's shrill voice through the room as she approached Harry and Ron.
"No" said Harry "How about you Parvati, have you seen Hermione?"
"No not all night, she was supposed to be with Lavander, helping her with a project for astrology,"
"Something's wrong" said Ron nervously.
~~*
The three didn't come down to breakfast, instead, they headed to Professor Sinistra's office.
"Went out ages ago," said the portrait of a night hung outside Professor Sinistra's office. "and she looked extremely apprehensive,"
"Any idea where she might have gone" asked Harry.
"Try the Headmasters office"
"Thank you sir.knight"
Harry, Ron and a very worried Parvati rushed to the tower of the headmasters office quickly. They were surprised to see that the goblin statue blocking the door was open.
"Something must really be up, the headmaster must be expecting someone," said Harry.
The three of them paced quietly up the stairs that led to the circular room. Harry could just hear Professor Sinistra's voice from where they were standing.
"Harry," whispered Parvati
He turned to her and gestured her to keep quiet.
"Shh," he said
"Oh Albus, I don't know where they could have gone, I just sent them to the library to bring the trunk of enchanted books and equipment, and."said Professor Sinistra between sobs.
"I'm, sure we would be able to find them," said Dumbledore.
"We must, we have to inform their parents also. The Grangers must be owled so as the Browns, oh they will be so worried. And you know how Lucius Malfoy can be," said Professor Sprout
"Malfoy?" said Harry as he looked at Ron. "He must have been with them,"
"Slimy git, Let me at em," exclaimed Ron
"Severus, are you sure that the whole palace was searched?" said Dumbledore
"Yes sir, the north and east towers are now being searched for the second time by the prefects and the headboy, and the only place where they haven't gone is the-"Snape trailed off and the other teachers looked at him.
"The dungeons!" they all said.
Just then, Harry heard footsteps approaching them. He soon found himself looking at the infirm figure of Professor Mc Gonagall.
"Students, what are you doing here?" came her unusually yielding voice. "Nevertheless, you might as well here this" with that, she directed them in to the circular room.
"Professor Mc Gonagall, children, please come in." said Dumbledore.
"Harry, I was wondering if you could tell me if you saw Ms. Granger or Ms. Brown in your tower last night?"
"No sir, Parvati says that they didn't sleep in the dormitory last night"
"Is this true Ms. Patil?"
"Yes sir" Parvati said in her trembling voice.
"Oh my, I should have never let them go alone" said Professor Sinistra sobbing even more.
"Now, now its not your fault Stella," said Dumbledore comfortingly.
"Where's Hermione?" darted Ron.
"Actually, that's why were all here isn't it?" said Dumbledore "It appears that Ms. Granger, Ms. Brown and Mr. Malfoy have gone missing while taking a trunk over to the library last night,"
"Then why don't you look for them," spat Ron.
"Were currently in that process at the moment, rest assure that they will be found safe and sound" guaranteed Dumbledore to them.
"Now children, you must get back to breakfast, so you would not be late for your classes"
The three of them went down to the great hall. Worried and apprehensive all they could do was take the teachers word for the safety of their friends.
~~*
"Urgh" groaned Hermione as she positioned her body up from the cold marble floor where she had been sleeping on. Excuse me, did I say she, I meant they. Hermione looked behind her and she saw Malfoy's body, still limp, broken against the floor. His wounds were still there, blood still dripping from them. Hermione tore a piece of the sleeve of her robe and dabbed it lightly on his face and where the blood was pooling around him.
Hermione could clearly see his face now; it was certainly brighter from the sunlight beaming down from a diminutive window at the upper potion of one wall of the room they were in. 'Sunlight? Its morning oh no I'm late. Where's Lavander?' she thought.
Hermione turned her attention to a dark corner of the room, there was a statue; and in front of it. a sheet of cloth, no it was Lavander.
"Lavander," Hermione called as she approached the figure.
"Lavander," she said again as she knelt down to see if she was all right. With all her strength she pulled Lavander up so that she could see her face.
"Oh my," she exclaimed. Lavander was injured much, much worse than Malfoy. Her auburn robe was shredded and torn that it exposed her flawed skin. Blood flowed out of a gash in her chest.
"We have to get out of here," Hermione whispered. She pulled Lavander carefully over to where Malfoy was and banded some of her wounds with pieces of her ruined robe.
"Argh," Malfoy stirred. Hermione looked at him suddenly and approached him.
"My whole body aches," he muttered.
"Malfoy, You shouldn't get up, your wounds are still raw."
"Uh, Granger, where are we?"
"I don't know," said Hermione suddenly having that faint pain in her chest again. She fell on to the marble floor. She felt all the strength leave her at that moment.
"Granger," said Malfoy in a surprisingly concerned tone. He leaned over to Hemione and laid her head on his lap.
"I think that you should be more worried about Lavander, Malfoy" said Hermione in a faint drawl. Malfoy turned to see Lavander's bruised and battered body behind him. Just then, they heard a loud bang as the door of the room crashed open. There standing with seemingly troubled yet slightly disgruntled faces were Professors Snape, Mc Gonagall and Sinistra.
" Children!" called Professor Sinistra as she rushed to the three.
"Oh my, " said Professor Mc Gonagall when she ran to them. Hermione could hear her boots clapping against the marble floor as a last thing that she could remember before passing out in Malfoy's hands.
~~*
"Thanks Poppy, I don't know how they survived, that fall was about fifty feet, it's a miracle that they stayed alive, even after one night." Hermione could hear Professor Mc Gonagall saying, as she opened her eyes in the hospital wing.
"Yes, it is rather shocking. To think that Mr. Malfoy's scull was cracked seriously, his brain could have been damaged."
Hermione let out a soft gasp at this.
"And I hear Ms. Brown's grievance the most severe of all, is this true Poppy?"
"It sadly is Minerva, apparently she had several broken bones and most of them punctured other organs. Particularly her diaphragm that was punctured by one of her broken ribs, and there was a vast crack in her breast bone, nothing that my potion could not fix"
"Excellent, then she will be in class soon?"
"Unfortunately, Minerva, she is currently in a comatose, and it might take a couple of weeks or more for her to recover,"
"We must really inform her parents," said Professor Mc Gonagall in a serious manner. "And how about, Ms. Granger?"
"It appears that Ms. Granger was the least to obtain injury, I don't know how her body could have endured not getting bruised or battered except for some internal injuries, but." she trailed off. "The headmaster suspects that Mr. Malfoy must have held her before the fall, seeing as he was damaged pretty severely by the impact."
"Mr. Malfoy? Nonsense, they have never been of good.acquaintances and as I have heard from one of the students, he wouldn't touch her with a ten-foot pole,"
"Yes, but didn't you find her cradled in his hands?"
"Well yes but.that was utterly only because of the situation. I beg to differ, I mean it was an emergency after all-"
They were interrupted by Hermione's faint groan. She didn't want to be talked about further by the teachers, it was getting really exasperating.
"Oh, my dear," said Madam Pomfrey as she rushed to the student's bedside.
"I'm glad to see that you're fine,"
Hermione flickered her eyes pretending to have just woken up.
"What time is it?" she asked politely.
"Its nine o'clock my dear," said Madam Pomfrey.
"Oh no I'm late for class," Hermione exclaimed
"No, you mustn't get up. Do not worry, your friends will be up later to bring up your homework." said Madam Pomfrey, "Speaking of which, here they are right now,"
Hermione glanced over to the door of the hospital wing, and sure enough, there was Harry and Ron.
"Now boys, you have five minutes" she could hear Madam Pomfrey mutter to Harry and Ron.
"Hermione," came Ron's concerned voice through the curtains.
"Shh," she said "You'll wake Lavander"
"Oh, how is she?" questioned Harry.
"Bad," said Hermione miserably "I regret it, not having helped her right after the fall,"
"And you do not regret, Malfoy having helped you?" Harry asked silently, making sure what he had said had not reached Ron's earshot. Hermione looked shock.
"How did."
"Dumbledore, I've heard him talk to Professor Snape," "So do you?"
"Does she what Harry?"
"Nothing Ron,"
"Here's this days homework Herm," said Ron cheerily. "Snape's been horrible these days, giving us such homework to deal with,"
"Honestly Ron, we've taken this up before, haven't we? What do you find so hard about engroment potions, and disendus serums and truth potions, they are so easy to concoct." said Hermione in mock disbelief of how easy the lessons were.
"Yeah, Ron we've taken this up before" said Harry chuckling.
"It's a conspiracy, there all out to get me! Help me!"
"Ron stop acting so childish, besides you must not have been listening all this time to what we've been discussing in class," said Hermione promptly.
"Oh Hermione, give it a break! Your in bed and you still act so *intellectually*"
"Would you stop it, you two" said Harry "You're both acting so childish, I don't think we'll ever reach the day you two wouldn't argue, nor will we reach the time... TIME! Oh no C'mon Ron Quidditch practice,"
"See you Herm,"
Hermione sat in surprise as the two boys ran out of the hospital wing.
"Boys." she murmered "Quidditch, what's so great about the sport anyway?"
"What's so wrong about Quidditch?" came a voice from behind the curtains.
Hermione jumped. "Malfoy?"
"The one and only Granger."
"If you're going to start pestering me by saying that accursed word again, think of doing it some other time when my ribs aren't cracked and my organs aren't functioning abnormally"
"I don't want to pester you in my condition Granger, not in my condition. Though I would like to recover soon. soon enough to exasperate you more"
"Uhgh" Hermione moaned.
"How's your head Malfoy?"
"How do you think it is? It's hell, I can't think up a good insult without it hurting"
"Good," assured Hermione
"What?!"
"It's good, good to know that this will be a quiet week for me to be able to rest in peace, without you bothering me."
"Rest assure Granger, I guarantee you it will not"
"Shut up Malfoy,"
~~*
Hermione had such an awful week in the infirmary being harassed by Draco Malfoy.
'My that person is an expert, he harasses me by just his eyes, the way he looks at me, by his lips, the way they curl into such an evil grin every time I lay my eyes on them. Why does he do this/ he's supposed to like me right?' she thought as she rubbed her forehead. 'Why am I thinking about that bloody git anyway, There are more decent things in this world to think about like. FERRETS that's it.'
"Hermione!" came Ginny Weasley's voice screeching through the Gryffindor common room as she ran towards Hermione.
"Ginny, so glad to see you"
"You too Hermi, we were so worried. Did you receive my gifts?"
"Oh yes, loads of them"
"Huh? I only sent one, a box of chocolates I believe"
"Only one then who sent all those flowers and chocolates and sweets and."
"A secret admirer" suggested Ginny.
"Nonsense," said Hermione weakly.
'My only admirer I know is. Ooh do I have to say it. Malfoy, there. and *he* was at the infirmary with me that time' Hermione thought, uncertain of what she *should* be thinking.
~~*
"Hell, double potions today," Ron moaned as they were eating at the Gryffindor table.
"It could be interesting, you know. Were learning about truth potions today and I'm sooo excited about learning how to concoct it."
"Clam it up for once Hermione, if Snape let's us drink that potion. Some of our darkest secrets would be revealed, and I'm sure you have something that you surely wouldn't want anybody to know about Hermione," said Dean.
"Well."
Hemrione trailed off. What if she did, what if their while class found out that Draco Malfoy had a crush on her, what if the whole school found out. What if he was asked to drink the potion and he blabbed that fact out to the whole world.
She sat thinking about it then, she finally decided to leave the room.
A/n: Oh my what's gonna happen? Don't worry the truth won't be revealed. yet. Keep on reading.
P.S.; the writing on the piece of parchment is finally fixed or I think it is, You might want to check it out.
P.P.S.: In the next chapter, there will be a potion that will be introduced. That potion is the Thermopytlae Serum, this, when drank will reveal the deepest darkest secrets of the drinker whose blood must be added to the potion before it is to be drank. Snape will elaborate later anyway thanks!
