Harry woke up a couple of hours later to the smell of coconut and the feeling of being very warm and comfortable. He kept his eyes closed as he felt light hair tickle his nose. Wondering what was going on he opened his eyes to see a mass of bush brown hair. It did not click at first but then the memories came swarming back to him about what happened earlier, Lavendar collapsing, Dumbledore telling them to go to the common room, and Him and Hermione crying themselves to sleep in eachothers arms. If it were not for what happened to Lavendar and not wanting to disturb Hermione he would have laughed at how cheezy the whole scenario was.

To Harry it was quite relaxing and soothing laying their in Hermiones arms, feeling her breathing and how she was snuggled so close to his own body. After a few minutes of laying their lost in his thoughts he heard Hermione whisper his name ever so softly."Yes Hermione" he whispered back.

"Are you awake?" Hermione asked.

"I spoke didn't I? How could you tell?"he questioned.

"I felt your breathing change. I have been up for a little while just thinking about what happened." She turned over so she could look into Harry's eyes for comfort.

When Harry caught sight of her face there was a tug at his heart. Her face was streaked with silent tears and he could tell she was really hurting and there seemed to be nothing he could do which killed Harry. Little did he know that just being there was a lot of comfort to Hermione. They just stared into eachothers eyes until they were awaken from dreams to reality by Dean's voice.

"Harry, Hermione, Mcgonnagal is going to tell us what happened and everybody needs to be there." With that Dean went running out of the room.

Harry and Hermione got out of bed quickly at the thought of finally finding out what happened. When they emerged from the dormitory Mcgonnagal took a look at them and were about to tell them that girls in boys dormitories was strictly forbidden when she saw Hermione's tear streaked face and thought of the two people she would have been yelling at. 'they were not doing anything in there more than comforting eachother which is something everybody has a right to have, especially with hard times ahead.' she gave one of her few smiles towards them but it seemed to have more sadness in it then happiness.

She cleared her voice and unrolled a piece of parchment which had the news on it. "attention all students. Today in Hogsmeade there was an attack on one of our students Lavendar Browne. We do not know as of now who attacked or for what reason but they left no clue for us to even start in investigating the situation. As for the state of Lavendar, sadly she is paralyzed from the neck down and will be leaving this school to go to a school meant for the disabled since Hogwarts is not equipped to deal with such situations. As of now their are new rules be instated to insure your safety. Number 1, You are not to go outside of the castle after dark without escort and permission. Number 2, there are to be no more Hogsmeade trips until further notice. Number 3, although the castle is perfectly safe use the buddy system. Always be in company with atleast one other person. These rules are not to be broken, if you do so you will be expelled immediatly. These rules will stay intact until such a time as it is safe to live without them. Good night."

When she finished no body said anything at first at the shock of this happening. Proffessor Mcgonnagal looked as if she wasn't done either. "I would like to see Ronald Weasley, Hermione Granger, and Harry Potter." That of course was everybodys cue to start talking and whispering among themselves asking eachother if they had any idea why The Trio was being talked to. Of course nobody knew but the whispering continued as the three teenagers walked by everybody silently and exited the common room with Mcgonnagal.


(A/N... well another chapter out there for the readers. I already have an idea for the next chapter and that should be up in in the next week (hopefully). I am also going to start another story soon. This story is more of my story with a mystery. the other one I am going to start today is going to be h/h fluff. I thought I would not lower myself to do just a fluff story. but I love reading them so much that I thought I would try my luck with one. Maybe more people will review it than this one. Please people R/R. I am getting close to stop writing this story but hopefully I won't have to. Well, any who thank you for those great reviews that I am getting. You have no idea how good that makes me feel. Thnx..r/r....and merry christmas and happy holidays.)