Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter…and if I did then well...hmm…I wonder…

AN: Here's the second part. I may put chapter one and two together since they're both pretty short. Well I hope you enjoy.

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Ch. 2: Blueberry Medicine?

"Myrtle! You scared me half to death!" –Harry Potter

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Harry walked or rather ran to Myrtle's bathroom. He stopped when he got to the door. He put his hands on his knees trying to regain his breath.

"Man *gasp* that's a long *gasp* way to run." He stood up and slowly opened the door. He jumped back as Myrtle's head came through the door. "Myrtle! You scared me half to death!"

"I come out here to tell you something and…and then you insult me." Myrtle cried sadly.

"No, no I didn't mean that. It was just a figure of speech! Honestly! Now would you be kind enough to tell me if Hermione's in here?"

"So now you're saying I'm not kind! How rude! *sniff* you're just like everyone else…" She floated back to her stall and you could here light crying sounds.

Harry rolled his eyes and stepped into the bathroom, looking around for Hermione. He held in a gasp as he saw Hermione in the corner of the bathroom, her knees up with her arms wrapped around them and her head down. He could see her shake slightly as she cried. "Hermione?" He said softly.

She looked up, tears streaming down her face. She smiled slightly. "H...Harry what…what are you doing here?" She asked shakily.

" I came…I came to see if you were alright." He said taking little steps towards her.

"Even if I said I was alright, you'd still pester me." She said smiling. He smiled back. She wiped away her tears, though it didn't help much as fresh tears would replace the old ones. "H…Harry…I can't do this anymore."

Harry had gotten close to her by now and bent down to her level. He reached out his hand and put it over hers. She held back a sob and flung her arms around Harry's neck, crying into his shoulder. Harry wrapped his arms around her; he stroked her hair with one hand and whispered into her ear, trying to calm her down.

In between her crying she told Harry everything that happened. She was so worked up with school that she didn't have much time to relax. It didn't help that people were asking for her help constantly.

Harry looked guilty when she told him she couldn't stand it when people asked for help anymore. When she was done Harry lifted her head with his hand. Leaning his forehead on hers he said softly, "Hermione, you don't have to help everyone you know. People ask for your help because you're so friendly towards them. And anyone and everyone who makes fun of you is jealous."

Hermione snorted. "Jealous ha…jealous of what."

"Of your intelligence your…uh…beauty and your friends." He wiped away some of her tears as she smiled. "Hermione don't let people get to you, I know it isn't easy. You're a strong girl. You may deny it like you did in the first year, but you're stronger than me…maybe not physically, but emotionally, magically, and intelligently more stronger than I am."

"Harry don't…" He put a finger to her lips.

"I'm telling you the truth 'Mio (so it's not like everyone else's nickname for her…that's the point ^_^). No matter how much you deny it you know it's true too." He laughed at her face and pulled her into a hug.

"Promise me Harry…that you'll never leave me." She said tiredly.

He was confused, but nodded. "I promise "Mio. I promise." He watched her fall asleep in his arms. "Let's get you to Madame Pomfrey. I'm sure she can give you something to help you relax." He said as he kissed her forehead. Struggling he managed to get her on his back. Chills went up and down his spine as her warm breath tickled his neck. He walked down the corridors as quickly as possible, hoping not to run into anyone.

"I see the famous Harry Potter helps Mudbloods too." Malfoy sneered as Harry walked past him. Harry stopped and turned around angrily. Hermione woke up do to the quick jerk.

"H...Harry?"

"Shh…go back to sleep."

"Of course Mudbloods always have to be told to do something before they do anything right." Malfoy smirked.

"Harry let's just go…"Hermione pleaded.

"No…I'm tired of his mouth." Harry started to pull out his wand.

"Awe poor Potter has to use magic to fight his battles." Malfoy mocked with fake sadness.

"Actually I don't have to," The next thing Malfoy knew was he was flat on his back, his eye in pain. "But I guess you'd rather show people that I hurt you." Harry smiled, lifted up Hermione a bit and walked away.

"I can't believe you did that!" She whispered.

"Neither can I."

"Thank you. Harry."

"It was nothing."

"But it was something…" She was cut off.

He shook his head. " 'Mio…that won't stop him. If anything, it will only make him worse."

Hermione nodded. As silence ensued Hermione nodded of to sleep. When Harry (met Sally ^_^ ehehehe ^_^;;;) got to the hospital wing he laid Hermione on the bed. Madame Pomfrey walked in.

"Harry why?" She started to ask until she looked on the bed. "What happened?" she said referring to Hermione.

Harry began to retell the story that Hermione told him. When Harry was finished Madame Pomfrey looked over at Hermione concerned.

"That is what I expected, but it usually never goes this far." Harry looked confused.

"May I ask, what it is you're talking about?"

"Oh well, you see Ms. Granger is just really stressed out with school and everything, its strange because it is only the beginning of the year and yet it seems her stress has turned into a depression like state. Meaning she's in the middle of both at the moment." Madame Pomfrey explained.

Harry nodded even though he still didn't quite understand. Pomfrey walked into her office and came back out moments later with a small bottle of, what looked like, blueberries. Harry gave her a questioning look.

"These, Harry, are the only things I have for her. It helps with stress and depression. I'm afraid though there are some consequences if you don't follow the directions. Which is why I'm a bit reluctant to give these to her, but it's the only thing that will help her now."

"What will happen?" Harry asked worriedly.

"I'm not quite sure. All I can tell is she must only take one a day. That's it. If she misses, or takes more than she should have…she will…well…she will turn into an animal I'm afraid."

"What!?"

"I don't know it's only happened a couple times. I'm sorry I can't give you any further information." With that Pomfrey left after handing the bottle to Harry.

Harry looked down at the bottle then to Hermione, he repeated this process a couple times before he put it into his pocket and walked over to her. He bent down slightly and moved a piece of stray hair from her face. "Please get better." He said softly and then picked her up, one arm under her bent legs and the other supporting her back as she unconsciously dug her head into Harry's chest. He then proceeded to carry her back to the girl's dorm.

When he got to the common room he sighed noticing no one was up. He had trouble walking up the stairs to get to the girl's room, but when he did he leaned on the door breathing hard. "Mio' you aren't that heavy, but carrying you that far…man." He said more to himself then anything. Suddenly the door opened and Harry fell onto the floor Hermione going with him. He grunted as she landed on him. "Ow…" He said after a while. He then heard someone giggling.

"Sorry 'bout that one Harry." Lavender said.

Harry struggled to sit up with Hermione replied, "That's alright."

"How is she?" Lavender asked concerned.

"She's ok. Stressed and depressed…Pomfrey gave me something for her to take, but I'm keeping it so I can make sure that she gets the right amount or else...well...it won't be very fun." Harry said as he laid Hermione on her bed and covered her up.

"How can you two be so blind."

"Huh?"

"Nothing never mind." Lavender said as she walked Harry out of the girls' dorm.

"Oh by the way, what happened with you and Ron?" He asked.

"N…nothing important." She stuttered and blushed.

"Right then, I'll just have to ask Ron."

"Night Harry." Lavender said walking back in the girls' dorm.

"Night." Harry said as his thoughts drifted and holding the bottle of medicine tightly in his hand.

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Ok so that chapter wasn't that good either…I swear to you there's more action and romance in the next one!

I have a question though. Why is it that some of you that write these stories put the speech with apostrophes (' ') instead of quotation marks ("")? I mean speech is usually put in quotation marks. It is a bit more difficult to read when it's in apostrophes. I'm not ragging on any of you I'm just curious ^^; Sorry if it offended you or something.

R&R!!!