Chapter Three: Mysterious Encounter
The night had fallen upon the heavily perfumed Hogwarts castle. In the Gryffindor common room Hermione was huddled in a big armchair and was studying for the next day's Arithmancy quiz. She and Ron had just explained everything to Harry, who now looked dazed. They all wanted to know who had taken out the Shadows and Souls book before Hermione had taken it out. It was certainally against the rules to ever put a spell like that on paper, and then even leave it in a book for everyone to find it. Maybe that person left it there by accident, who knows what they were up to, really.
"I forgot my notes in Herbology, I should really go and get them now" said Hermione as she stood up from her armchair.
"Okay...umm.. Hermione... if you're not back in half an hour we'll go looking for ya" said Ron, as he struggled not to say something else that he would have regretted to say in front of Harry.
"Do want us to come with you?"Harry asked his bushy haired friend.
"Ah, no it's ok, I won't be long" she replied and began walking away.
As Hermione walked across the common room she heard Lavender tell Seamus that she liked him and instantly knew that all the embarassment that everyone had gone through today was all her fault. Then Hermione walked through the portrait hole and out into the corridor. It was unusually dark and creepy, and the girl was slightly scared. Then out of nowhere someone or something grabbed her and covered her mouth so she wouldn't be heard if she screamed.
"Don't struggle, you'll only make it harder for yourself" whispered the stranger into her ear.
Hermione tried to break away, and tried to reach the wand in her sleeve but her arms were locked by someone stronger than her. Hermione then realised she was being dragged into a dark empty classroom. Before she knew what had happaned, the intruder locked the door and took her wand away from her. It was all confusing and sudden, she didn't even have time to wonder who this person might have been. Her heart was racing and she was scared to death, with her pale face bathed in the moonlight that crept in through the open windows. In a moment she was freed from the powerful clutches of the mysterious stranger. Pointing the wand at Hermione he muttered something in a soft boyish voice.
Hermione realised that her feet felt as heavy as if they were made of lead, she tried to run, but she couldn't break away from the ground, she was denied of that simple request. Thousands of questions were running through the frightened girl's mind. What was she to do? Who was this person she couldn't see in the dark? Why did this person do this? And just before Hermione realised she wanted to scream for help, the stranger said something.
"Don't scream... please... Hermione" the whispery voice pleaded.
"Who are you?" Hermione let out.
The dark figure that she couldn't see stepped into the moonlight. Instantly Hermione saw that this was a boy, a boy her age, a boy she had never seen before, a boy who had sandy hair and attractive hazel eye, eyes which had an intense piercing gaze. He was wearing navy robes, something told Hermione that this boy should be a student at Hogwarts, but was not.
"Finally I'm near you, I've been awaiting this for a long time" said the boy, ignoring Hermione's question.
"What's your name, and why are you doing this?" she requested from him.
"I'm Orlando, Orlando Filch, I'm Filch's son, a squib like him. The fact that I don't have magical powers may be the reason why he's so mean to all the students. He's bitter about it... he reckons I should have gone to Hogwarts... but my name wasn't on the magical children's list... and Dumbledore couldn't do anything about it. I came up here to visit my dad a few weeks ago-" said the sandy haired boy as he took several steps toward Hermione before she abruptly interrupted his speech.
"How did you cast that spell then? If you're a squib" asked Hermione with a shudder in her voice.
"Over time we can learn a few simple spells... but that is all. I don't like being around students, so I hid in empty classrooms... I observed... observed all you magical kids... how lucky you all are... how happy you all seem... and as I observed I began to notice YOU, you enchanted me with your beauty and smarts. I sneaked around the school just to steal a glimpse of you... it's obsession... I feel like my head could explode any minute, I had to know what it was... did I really love you? I swore to myself that I would never love one of those students, those happy magical students. I couldn't beleive it... I needed to hear myself say it out loud, to say the truth... then I realied something... what if I could make a truth spell, of course I couldn't do it myself..."- Orlando began playing with Hermione's hair-"I found a spell... a spell that would embarass the whole school and help me find out the truth about my feelings, the spell doesn't affect the one who casts it, I didn't want to hurt you... so I sneaked it into one of your library books... hoping that you would cast it."
"You... uh... you LOVE me? How can you? You don't even know me" said Hermione who was stunned by everything and didn't know whether she should slap Orlando in the face or not.
"Well obviously I do love you, I heard myself say it... and now I know it's true"- He paused and sighed- "I never imagined that I could ever love a witch."
"Why do you hate us so much? There's no need to" said Hermione as she patted Orlando on the shoulder.
"I don't really know, I'm just jealous that I don't have the powers that you have" said Orlando, looking up at the bright silver moon.
"There's no need to be jealous... you seem so alone... you should try to make some friends. Oh and why did you bind my feet to the ground? Couldn't you just approach me like a normal person would?" let out Hermione as she looked down at the wand in the boy's hand.
"I.. uh.. I'm sorry about that... it was just easier for me this way. Are you saying that you could be my friend?" he answered as he pointed the wand at Hermione and sparks flew out of it.
"Yeah sure... you could be my friend, come around tomorrow. You'll meet Harry and Ron and everyone" said Hermione through her smile as she lifted her feet off the ground to check if she could.
"Oh.. but I'm leaving tonight, I just needed to know what my feelings were.. that's all.. that's why I did this tonight" said Orlando sadly and reached toward Hermione to give her a first and last kiss. He then stepped back.
"Good bye Hermione" he said and without more warning than that, the sandy haired boy ran out of the classroom.
Hermione was startled, she didn't know what to think or what to do, standing there for a moment looking at the door that Orlando had ran out of. She realised that she didn't have a chance to say goodbye and ran out into the corridor to catch up with him. The corridor was empty, and he was gone. Deciding that she might see him on the way to the Herbology area she paced away. He was not in sight, nowhere to be found, out in the Hogwarts grounds she walked to the Herbology greenhouses. Walking in the path of the silver moonlight she thought and she wondered, and decided that this was going to be her secret, something for her heart to keep.
"Goodbye Orlando." she whispered into the wind which was not perfumed any longer.
*The End *
Note from the Author: I hope you all liked my little fan fiction. When I started it I had an entirely different idea of how I was going to write it. It was going to be just a stupid comedy without a storyline, but as you see here it's turned out to be more like a drama, and not very funny at all. It was too hard to make it funny anyway. This is also my first fan fiction and it probably shows, hey? he he And I hope that the next fan fictions that I write will be better :)
The night had fallen upon the heavily perfumed Hogwarts castle. In the Gryffindor common room Hermione was huddled in a big armchair and was studying for the next day's Arithmancy quiz. She and Ron had just explained everything to Harry, who now looked dazed. They all wanted to know who had taken out the Shadows and Souls book before Hermione had taken it out. It was certainally against the rules to ever put a spell like that on paper, and then even leave it in a book for everyone to find it. Maybe that person left it there by accident, who knows what they were up to, really.
"I forgot my notes in Herbology, I should really go and get them now" said Hermione as she stood up from her armchair.
"Okay...umm.. Hermione... if you're not back in half an hour we'll go looking for ya" said Ron, as he struggled not to say something else that he would have regretted to say in front of Harry.
"Do want us to come with you?"Harry asked his bushy haired friend.
"Ah, no it's ok, I won't be long" she replied and began walking away.
As Hermione walked across the common room she heard Lavender tell Seamus that she liked him and instantly knew that all the embarassment that everyone had gone through today was all her fault. Then Hermione walked through the portrait hole and out into the corridor. It was unusually dark and creepy, and the girl was slightly scared. Then out of nowhere someone or something grabbed her and covered her mouth so she wouldn't be heard if she screamed.
"Don't struggle, you'll only make it harder for yourself" whispered the stranger into her ear.
Hermione tried to break away, and tried to reach the wand in her sleeve but her arms were locked by someone stronger than her. Hermione then realised she was being dragged into a dark empty classroom. Before she knew what had happaned, the intruder locked the door and took her wand away from her. It was all confusing and sudden, she didn't even have time to wonder who this person might have been. Her heart was racing and she was scared to death, with her pale face bathed in the moonlight that crept in through the open windows. In a moment she was freed from the powerful clutches of the mysterious stranger. Pointing the wand at Hermione he muttered something in a soft boyish voice.
Hermione realised that her feet felt as heavy as if they were made of lead, she tried to run, but she couldn't break away from the ground, she was denied of that simple request. Thousands of questions were running through the frightened girl's mind. What was she to do? Who was this person she couldn't see in the dark? Why did this person do this? And just before Hermione realised she wanted to scream for help, the stranger said something.
"Don't scream... please... Hermione" the whispery voice pleaded.
"Who are you?" Hermione let out.
The dark figure that she couldn't see stepped into the moonlight. Instantly Hermione saw that this was a boy, a boy her age, a boy she had never seen before, a boy who had sandy hair and attractive hazel eye, eyes which had an intense piercing gaze. He was wearing navy robes, something told Hermione that this boy should be a student at Hogwarts, but was not.
"Finally I'm near you, I've been awaiting this for a long time" said the boy, ignoring Hermione's question.
"What's your name, and why are you doing this?" she requested from him.
"I'm Orlando, Orlando Filch, I'm Filch's son, a squib like him. The fact that I don't have magical powers may be the reason why he's so mean to all the students. He's bitter about it... he reckons I should have gone to Hogwarts... but my name wasn't on the magical children's list... and Dumbledore couldn't do anything about it. I came up here to visit my dad a few weeks ago-" said the sandy haired boy as he took several steps toward Hermione before she abruptly interrupted his speech.
"How did you cast that spell then? If you're a squib" asked Hermione with a shudder in her voice.
"Over time we can learn a few simple spells... but that is all. I don't like being around students, so I hid in empty classrooms... I observed... observed all you magical kids... how lucky you all are... how happy you all seem... and as I observed I began to notice YOU, you enchanted me with your beauty and smarts. I sneaked around the school just to steal a glimpse of you... it's obsession... I feel like my head could explode any minute, I had to know what it was... did I really love you? I swore to myself that I would never love one of those students, those happy magical students. I couldn't beleive it... I needed to hear myself say it out loud, to say the truth... then I realied something... what if I could make a truth spell, of course I couldn't do it myself..."- Orlando began playing with Hermione's hair-"I found a spell... a spell that would embarass the whole school and help me find out the truth about my feelings, the spell doesn't affect the one who casts it, I didn't want to hurt you... so I sneaked it into one of your library books... hoping that you would cast it."
"You... uh... you LOVE me? How can you? You don't even know me" said Hermione who was stunned by everything and didn't know whether she should slap Orlando in the face or not.
"Well obviously I do love you, I heard myself say it... and now I know it's true"- He paused and sighed- "I never imagined that I could ever love a witch."
"Why do you hate us so much? There's no need to" said Hermione as she patted Orlando on the shoulder.
"I don't really know, I'm just jealous that I don't have the powers that you have" said Orlando, looking up at the bright silver moon.
"There's no need to be jealous... you seem so alone... you should try to make some friends. Oh and why did you bind my feet to the ground? Couldn't you just approach me like a normal person would?" let out Hermione as she looked down at the wand in the boy's hand.
"I.. uh.. I'm sorry about that... it was just easier for me this way. Are you saying that you could be my friend?" he answered as he pointed the wand at Hermione and sparks flew out of it.
"Yeah sure... you could be my friend, come around tomorrow. You'll meet Harry and Ron and everyone" said Hermione through her smile as she lifted her feet off the ground to check if she could.
"Oh.. but I'm leaving tonight, I just needed to know what my feelings were.. that's all.. that's why I did this tonight" said Orlando sadly and reached toward Hermione to give her a first and last kiss. He then stepped back.
"Good bye Hermione" he said and without more warning than that, the sandy haired boy ran out of the classroom.
Hermione was startled, she didn't know what to think or what to do, standing there for a moment looking at the door that Orlando had ran out of. She realised that she didn't have a chance to say goodbye and ran out into the corridor to catch up with him. The corridor was empty, and he was gone. Deciding that she might see him on the way to the Herbology area she paced away. He was not in sight, nowhere to be found, out in the Hogwarts grounds she walked to the Herbology greenhouses. Walking in the path of the silver moonlight she thought and she wondered, and decided that this was going to be her secret, something for her heart to keep.
"Goodbye Orlando." she whispered into the wind which was not perfumed any longer.
*The End *
Note from the Author: I hope you all liked my little fan fiction. When I started it I had an entirely different idea of how I was going to write it. It was going to be just a stupid comedy without a storyline, but as you see here it's turned out to be more like a drama, and not very funny at all. It was too hard to make it funny anyway. This is also my first fan fiction and it probably shows, hey? he he And I hope that the next fan fictions that I write will be better :)
