"I can't believe you were paired up with him," said Harry with a slight
curiosity on his face.
"Yeah, of all people, why him?" asked Ron as he wrinkled his forehead. Hermione headed her way towards the big red couch in the Common room and spoke with a very gloomy voice, "This is the worst day I've ever had in my life! First, we were teamed up to that Head Clan Hunt. Bad thing it's graded! I have no choice! I can't just ignore it! Then came that stupid potion said we were compatible. How am I supposed to live with that?"
Harry felt quite sleepy already so he stood up from his chair and headed to the boy's dormitory, but before stepping on the staircase, he said," Maybe we should all go to sleep now. We have some researching to do tomorrow ok?" then the other two hurried themselves and went to their own rooms.
Hermione stepped in and closed the door. Her eyes are already itchy, "I probably tired my eyes so much today." she told herself.
Even with tired and heavy eyes, she saw an owl outside her window.
"What the?" she said with a bit of a shock.
"A letter? I wonder who it comes from." She opened the parchment quickly and read: "Meet me at the library tomorrow, we have to discuss our work."
She quickly realized " This is from Malfoy! Even if he won't tell me, I really am planning to go to the library by myself and do the activity by myself as well!" she muttered furiously.
"What a tight competition this is?" said Madam Pince to one of the Ravenclaws.
"Since the opening of the event, a lot of students are flowing from here to there in my library! They should do this more often," she said very proudly.
"Oh men! I should have been here a lot earlier! Now some of the books I should be reading will probably gone!" said Hermione while walking towards the shelves of books.
" All of them are gone! How will I do it?" she asked herself very nervously. She continued to look for books until she saw an old thin book entitled Potions of Time by Mindy Gobledy. "It looks creepy," she said to herself.
She decided to head onto the corner where nobody can see her. She turned the pages and saw the heading "Go back in time Potion", she found it interesting so she read the contents of that part. " This potion can enable you to take a peek onto the past. You may go wherever you want and whatever time you want to be in the past or stay in the past. Suddenly, a glint of joy came unto Hermione's face and said, "I got it! I will go to the past where I can unfold my ancestry!" as she turned on her way back to the table, someone blocked her and caused her book to fall on the floor.
"Malfoy!" shouted Hermione.
"So? How are you going to do it? I bet your muggle ancestry will be shocked if they knew you were meddling with our kind," said Malfoy.
" What do you care? I'm going to do my work by myself so stop interrupting me!" she shouted as she walks towards the table.
But Malfoy blocked her again and said, "You won't succeed if you won't work with me, and if you won't work with me, you won't win and if you won't win, you'll have a low grade."
Hermione gave a stare to Malfoy and said, "You're right. But please promise me to cooperate and do well just for this week. Just for this week."
Malfoy didn't answer and moved away. Hermione continued her way to the table and browsed the book once more.
"This is going to be tough work. There are lots of difficult materials needed for this one." She said as she saw Malfoy coming her way.
He sat at the chair beside her and asked, "Need any help?" Hermione didn't answer. "C'mon don't think twice. Do you need something?" he asked, "Pretty much." She said, "We need to have these things," she said while pointing to the ingredients.
"No problem!" he said, "I can just get it from professor Snape. You know how much he wants me to seize whatever I want," said Malfoy.
"Thanks!" she said, " If you'll have the thing get ready tomorrow then we could probably do it tomorrow night" she said hopefully.
Hermione woke up the next day. She's still feeling tired but thinking about the stuff she still needs to accomplish makes her jump out of bed at once. As she have already cleared up her sight, she decided to take n some fresh air.
So she opened her window but to her surprise, she saw another piece of parchment in the window.
"Why is it so many people writing me lately?" she asked herself.
She opened it up and read it. "I've got hem all. Professor Snape gave me everything. He said the potion you found is difficult to do but knowing you, I thought we don't need his help anymore. Draco Malfoy"
"Great!" she said gladly, "I never thought he would really cooperate well."
She went downstairs and ran towards the great hall.
"I need to meet him now! We must prepare the potion today or else we won't be able to win."she told herself as she tried to look around where she might see Malfoy.
"He's not here. He's probably in the great hall by now."she said to herself. She went in the great hall's door and as she went in, she saw Draco standing in front looking a bit disappointed.
"What took you so long?" he asked, "We must hurry if you want to try the potion tonight."he said.
"I know! Sorry I'm late. Let's just not waste anymore time."she said looking a little bit frustrated on what she have done. " We could have finished it earlier if I woke up early!" she angrily blamed herself.
"I know just the right place where we can perform our potion."said Malfoy as he proudly fixed his cloak.
"And where is that if I may ask?" said Hermione with a question in her face.
"The potions classroom. Isn't it great? Professor Snape gave me the permission to stay there so we could perform our potion."he answered.
The serous look on Hermione's face was suddenly filled with excitement and pride. "Okay, so let's do it then!" she said very excitedly.
Without wasting any time, they ran towards the potions classroom as fast as they could. Once in a while, Malfoy would stop and wait for the slow- running Hermione.
They entered the potions classroom and it was empty with people. This was really a perfect timing or them to perform it. Draco went to Professor Snape's table and gathered all the ingredients they needed.
Hermione noticed his determination and didn't quite see his intention of ruining the whole thing. " It's not that bad after all. My wit and his talent of making Snape follow him make a perfect team."she told herself.
Draco gave her all the items while she was still browsing along the book's pages for the instructions. She began mixing the ingredients when suddenly Draco asked, "What's that potion going to do anyway?"
She looked at him in the eye and answered, " it somewhat brings us to the past."
"When the potion is ready, I will go to my past first but you must go with me and when it's you're turn, I'll also go with you. Are you okay with that? Well whatever your answer is, we must do it."she said quite bossily. Draco didn't like the tone f her voice but for his grade's sake, he'll just force himself not to get angry.
After a few ours of mixing and waiting, the potion was finally done.
"I think it's already done."said Hermione, " So, we better try it now."
"Are you ready?" asked Malfoy, "Yes" answered Hermione. "And you?" she asked, "Always ready!" he answered. Hermione gave the potion a final mix and places two scoops of each into each of the cup. She saved one for herself and gave another to Draco.
"Now, in the count of three, one,two,three!" counted Draco as they both gulped from their own cups.
Hermione's vision became blurred for a while. As she tried to touch her eyes to make her vision clearer, the blurry surrounding came into shape. She looked around to look at the place and she realized her companion was gone! She started to worry.
"What if he's trapped within time and I'll never get to see him again? What would I tell his family? They will kill me!"she said to herself nervously.
"Draco! Draco!" she yelled as she looked around where Draco might be. A very familiar voice from the back told her, "What took you so long?asked Draco.
"I don't know!"she answered. She didn't want hi to feel she was really worried about him. So she quickly moved into a new conversation.
"Now all we have to do is to look for my great great great ancestor of something."she said. Draco didn't have any idea how they would be able to find that person in that very huge place. As he was about to ask it to her, he was stopped because the look of the place was so familiar.
"Hermione! Didn't you notice? This is Hogwarts!" yelled Malfoy, "What?" asked Hermione. " This must mean that one of my ancestors attended Hogwarts!" Malfoy said nothing.
"Let's just search around and look for him of her so that all of this will be finished already."said Malfoy, feeling quite tired.
Then a girl, whom looks just like Hermione came rushing down the staircase with a guy that pretty much looked like Draco!
"Look Hermione, they look just like us!" he told her.
Malfoy was shocked. "Are you sure you did it right? I don't remember getting that close to you when we were going down hours ago."he asked Hermione with disbelief on what he's seeing.
"I promise I didn't make any mistakes. If this is the past, then probably that's my ancestor right there. Good thing your family has been attending Hogwarts long ago, now we won't go to your past anymore! We have the same past!"she said with the answer.
"Let's find out if what you say is true. Let's follow them and sneak on what they are talking about."said Malfoy.
As they were about to follow them, a curly haired boy coming from Slytherin came to them and said, "Mr. Airic Malfoy and Ms.Hermy, what are you doing here in the middle of classes? Go back to your classes immediately!" he ordered them.
"Yes Mr. Prefect."said Malfoy as they walked back where they started.
Hermione whispered, "He thought they were us! Now all we really have to do is follow them. But how can we do so if the people here can see us?"she asked. It was kind of unusual for Hermione to ask a question for she know almost everything.
Draco gave a nasty smile and said, "I thought this might come in handy" as he opened his bag and took out a very familiar cloak.
"This was my mum's gift when I was twelve."he said while spreading it out for Hermione to see.
"That's an invisibility cloak!"said Hermione with a surprise. Draco has really been helpful to her especially the things she haven't thought about.
"Okay, so let's go!"she said, "But we must really walk fast because it's kind of difficult to walk inside it especially if it has two people inside it."said Draco to Hermione.
"It's ok. I'll try to walk faster. Once we see them alone with no one around, we'll take the cloak off and tell them everything.
They spread the invisibility cloak wide and placed it over their heads and all over to their bodies.
"Come on," whispered Hermione. They walked quickly to keep up with the walking couple.
"Aww!" muttered Draco, "Sorry if I stepped n you foot. I'm having a hard time walking really fast."apologized Hermione as she properly placed her feet in the proper position.
They continued to follow them until the couple stopped. They can't help to overhear what they were saying.
"We can't Airic, we just can't. Your family won't agree about this. Maybe we should end this already."said Hermy with a tears in her eyes.
"But why?"asked Airic, "At this moment, we can't love each other and the people around us won't let us be. But I swear, if there's any chance in the future, maybe we can still continue this."answered Hermy, with the tears already falling on her cheeks.
Hermione don't want her plans get destroyed so she immediately got out of the invisibility cloak and yelled, "Wait! We have something to tell you! Please, we really need your help."
"Huh?"Airic looked puzzled. Hrermy also looked puzzled seeing them.
"Maybe they were curious why we look just like them."thought Draco.
"Why do we look like you?"asked Airic, Hermione answered, "It's hard to explain but we are your great great great granddaughter and grandson. We came from the future and we came here to invite you to our time. It's just for a couple of hours. We need your help please!"
Hermy and Airic looked at each other with some worries.
Airic asked Hermy, "Are we going to go?" "I don' think it's a bad idea spending hours with them. Are you?" she asked back, "Sure! It doesn't matter to me anyway. I hate my classes today so I better go with you."he answered.
"So how will we go back?"asked Draco.
"I brought some of the potion we did and we'll drink it to go back there. In their case, (pointing to Hermy and Airic) they'll also drink from it but there's something I placed in it so instead of going to they're past, they will go to the future, to our time."answered Hermione.
"Are we all ready?"asked Hermy, "Yes we are!" said all of them in unison as they drank their potion all at once. Hermione and Draco found themselves inside the potions classroom again, but this time, with Hermy and Airic.
"Now what?"asked Airic, "We will present you to our teachers and to the Headmaster."answered Draco. "Who's your Headmaster by the way?" he asked Draco, "Professor Dumbledore."he answered.
"Wow! Our Defense Against Dark Arts teacher is now a Headmaster!"said Hermy gladly. "We better not waste any more time. Let's go there already."she said.
All of them went to the great hall, running. Hemione looked so happy and excited.
"I can't wait to gain those points!"she said excitedly, "I just hope there's no one who came before us."said Draco hoping for the best.
They altogether opened the door and headed to the high table.
"Yeah, of all people, why him?" asked Ron as he wrinkled his forehead. Hermione headed her way towards the big red couch in the Common room and spoke with a very gloomy voice, "This is the worst day I've ever had in my life! First, we were teamed up to that Head Clan Hunt. Bad thing it's graded! I have no choice! I can't just ignore it! Then came that stupid potion said we were compatible. How am I supposed to live with that?"
Harry felt quite sleepy already so he stood up from his chair and headed to the boy's dormitory, but before stepping on the staircase, he said," Maybe we should all go to sleep now. We have some researching to do tomorrow ok?" then the other two hurried themselves and went to their own rooms.
Hermione stepped in and closed the door. Her eyes are already itchy, "I probably tired my eyes so much today." she told herself.
Even with tired and heavy eyes, she saw an owl outside her window.
"What the?" she said with a bit of a shock.
"A letter? I wonder who it comes from." She opened the parchment quickly and read: "Meet me at the library tomorrow, we have to discuss our work."
She quickly realized " This is from Malfoy! Even if he won't tell me, I really am planning to go to the library by myself and do the activity by myself as well!" she muttered furiously.
"What a tight competition this is?" said Madam Pince to one of the Ravenclaws.
"Since the opening of the event, a lot of students are flowing from here to there in my library! They should do this more often," she said very proudly.
"Oh men! I should have been here a lot earlier! Now some of the books I should be reading will probably gone!" said Hermione while walking towards the shelves of books.
" All of them are gone! How will I do it?" she asked herself very nervously. She continued to look for books until she saw an old thin book entitled Potions of Time by Mindy Gobledy. "It looks creepy," she said to herself.
She decided to head onto the corner where nobody can see her. She turned the pages and saw the heading "Go back in time Potion", she found it interesting so she read the contents of that part. " This potion can enable you to take a peek onto the past. You may go wherever you want and whatever time you want to be in the past or stay in the past. Suddenly, a glint of joy came unto Hermione's face and said, "I got it! I will go to the past where I can unfold my ancestry!" as she turned on her way back to the table, someone blocked her and caused her book to fall on the floor.
"Malfoy!" shouted Hermione.
"So? How are you going to do it? I bet your muggle ancestry will be shocked if they knew you were meddling with our kind," said Malfoy.
" What do you care? I'm going to do my work by myself so stop interrupting me!" she shouted as she walks towards the table.
But Malfoy blocked her again and said, "You won't succeed if you won't work with me, and if you won't work with me, you won't win and if you won't win, you'll have a low grade."
Hermione gave a stare to Malfoy and said, "You're right. But please promise me to cooperate and do well just for this week. Just for this week."
Malfoy didn't answer and moved away. Hermione continued her way to the table and browsed the book once more.
"This is going to be tough work. There are lots of difficult materials needed for this one." She said as she saw Malfoy coming her way.
He sat at the chair beside her and asked, "Need any help?" Hermione didn't answer. "C'mon don't think twice. Do you need something?" he asked, "Pretty much." She said, "We need to have these things," she said while pointing to the ingredients.
"No problem!" he said, "I can just get it from professor Snape. You know how much he wants me to seize whatever I want," said Malfoy.
"Thanks!" she said, " If you'll have the thing get ready tomorrow then we could probably do it tomorrow night" she said hopefully.
Hermione woke up the next day. She's still feeling tired but thinking about the stuff she still needs to accomplish makes her jump out of bed at once. As she have already cleared up her sight, she decided to take n some fresh air.
So she opened her window but to her surprise, she saw another piece of parchment in the window.
"Why is it so many people writing me lately?" she asked herself.
She opened it up and read it. "I've got hem all. Professor Snape gave me everything. He said the potion you found is difficult to do but knowing you, I thought we don't need his help anymore. Draco Malfoy"
"Great!" she said gladly, "I never thought he would really cooperate well."
She went downstairs and ran towards the great hall.
"I need to meet him now! We must prepare the potion today or else we won't be able to win."she told herself as she tried to look around where she might see Malfoy.
"He's not here. He's probably in the great hall by now."she said to herself. She went in the great hall's door and as she went in, she saw Draco standing in front looking a bit disappointed.
"What took you so long?" he asked, "We must hurry if you want to try the potion tonight."he said.
"I know! Sorry I'm late. Let's just not waste anymore time."she said looking a little bit frustrated on what she have done. " We could have finished it earlier if I woke up early!" she angrily blamed herself.
"I know just the right place where we can perform our potion."said Malfoy as he proudly fixed his cloak.
"And where is that if I may ask?" said Hermione with a question in her face.
"The potions classroom. Isn't it great? Professor Snape gave me the permission to stay there so we could perform our potion."he answered.
The serous look on Hermione's face was suddenly filled with excitement and pride. "Okay, so let's do it then!" she said very excitedly.
Without wasting any time, they ran towards the potions classroom as fast as they could. Once in a while, Malfoy would stop and wait for the slow- running Hermione.
They entered the potions classroom and it was empty with people. This was really a perfect timing or them to perform it. Draco went to Professor Snape's table and gathered all the ingredients they needed.
Hermione noticed his determination and didn't quite see his intention of ruining the whole thing. " It's not that bad after all. My wit and his talent of making Snape follow him make a perfect team."she told herself.
Draco gave her all the items while she was still browsing along the book's pages for the instructions. She began mixing the ingredients when suddenly Draco asked, "What's that potion going to do anyway?"
She looked at him in the eye and answered, " it somewhat brings us to the past."
"When the potion is ready, I will go to my past first but you must go with me and when it's you're turn, I'll also go with you. Are you okay with that? Well whatever your answer is, we must do it."she said quite bossily. Draco didn't like the tone f her voice but for his grade's sake, he'll just force himself not to get angry.
After a few ours of mixing and waiting, the potion was finally done.
"I think it's already done."said Hermione, " So, we better try it now."
"Are you ready?" asked Malfoy, "Yes" answered Hermione. "And you?" she asked, "Always ready!" he answered. Hermione gave the potion a final mix and places two scoops of each into each of the cup. She saved one for herself and gave another to Draco.
"Now, in the count of three, one,two,three!" counted Draco as they both gulped from their own cups.
Hermione's vision became blurred for a while. As she tried to touch her eyes to make her vision clearer, the blurry surrounding came into shape. She looked around to look at the place and she realized her companion was gone! She started to worry.
"What if he's trapped within time and I'll never get to see him again? What would I tell his family? They will kill me!"she said to herself nervously.
"Draco! Draco!" she yelled as she looked around where Draco might be. A very familiar voice from the back told her, "What took you so long?asked Draco.
"I don't know!"she answered. She didn't want hi to feel she was really worried about him. So she quickly moved into a new conversation.
"Now all we have to do is to look for my great great great ancestor of something."she said. Draco didn't have any idea how they would be able to find that person in that very huge place. As he was about to ask it to her, he was stopped because the look of the place was so familiar.
"Hermione! Didn't you notice? This is Hogwarts!" yelled Malfoy, "What?" asked Hermione. " This must mean that one of my ancestors attended Hogwarts!" Malfoy said nothing.
"Let's just search around and look for him of her so that all of this will be finished already."said Malfoy, feeling quite tired.
Then a girl, whom looks just like Hermione came rushing down the staircase with a guy that pretty much looked like Draco!
"Look Hermione, they look just like us!" he told her.
Malfoy was shocked. "Are you sure you did it right? I don't remember getting that close to you when we were going down hours ago."he asked Hermione with disbelief on what he's seeing.
"I promise I didn't make any mistakes. If this is the past, then probably that's my ancestor right there. Good thing your family has been attending Hogwarts long ago, now we won't go to your past anymore! We have the same past!"she said with the answer.
"Let's find out if what you say is true. Let's follow them and sneak on what they are talking about."said Malfoy.
As they were about to follow them, a curly haired boy coming from Slytherin came to them and said, "Mr. Airic Malfoy and Ms.Hermy, what are you doing here in the middle of classes? Go back to your classes immediately!" he ordered them.
"Yes Mr. Prefect."said Malfoy as they walked back where they started.
Hermione whispered, "He thought they were us! Now all we really have to do is follow them. But how can we do so if the people here can see us?"she asked. It was kind of unusual for Hermione to ask a question for she know almost everything.
Draco gave a nasty smile and said, "I thought this might come in handy" as he opened his bag and took out a very familiar cloak.
"This was my mum's gift when I was twelve."he said while spreading it out for Hermione to see.
"That's an invisibility cloak!"said Hermione with a surprise. Draco has really been helpful to her especially the things she haven't thought about.
"Okay, so let's go!"she said, "But we must really walk fast because it's kind of difficult to walk inside it especially if it has two people inside it."said Draco to Hermione.
"It's ok. I'll try to walk faster. Once we see them alone with no one around, we'll take the cloak off and tell them everything.
They spread the invisibility cloak wide and placed it over their heads and all over to their bodies.
"Come on," whispered Hermione. They walked quickly to keep up with the walking couple.
"Aww!" muttered Draco, "Sorry if I stepped n you foot. I'm having a hard time walking really fast."apologized Hermione as she properly placed her feet in the proper position.
They continued to follow them until the couple stopped. They can't help to overhear what they were saying.
"We can't Airic, we just can't. Your family won't agree about this. Maybe we should end this already."said Hermy with a tears in her eyes.
"But why?"asked Airic, "At this moment, we can't love each other and the people around us won't let us be. But I swear, if there's any chance in the future, maybe we can still continue this."answered Hermy, with the tears already falling on her cheeks.
Hermione don't want her plans get destroyed so she immediately got out of the invisibility cloak and yelled, "Wait! We have something to tell you! Please, we really need your help."
"Huh?"Airic looked puzzled. Hrermy also looked puzzled seeing them.
"Maybe they were curious why we look just like them."thought Draco.
"Why do we look like you?"asked Airic, Hermione answered, "It's hard to explain but we are your great great great granddaughter and grandson. We came from the future and we came here to invite you to our time. It's just for a couple of hours. We need your help please!"
Hermy and Airic looked at each other with some worries.
Airic asked Hermy, "Are we going to go?" "I don' think it's a bad idea spending hours with them. Are you?" she asked back, "Sure! It doesn't matter to me anyway. I hate my classes today so I better go with you."he answered.
"So how will we go back?"asked Draco.
"I brought some of the potion we did and we'll drink it to go back there. In their case, (pointing to Hermy and Airic) they'll also drink from it but there's something I placed in it so instead of going to they're past, they will go to the future, to our time."answered Hermione.
"Are we all ready?"asked Hermy, "Yes we are!" said all of them in unison as they drank their potion all at once. Hermione and Draco found themselves inside the potions classroom again, but this time, with Hermy and Airic.
"Now what?"asked Airic, "We will present you to our teachers and to the Headmaster."answered Draco. "Who's your Headmaster by the way?" he asked Draco, "Professor Dumbledore."he answered.
"Wow! Our Defense Against Dark Arts teacher is now a Headmaster!"said Hermy gladly. "We better not waste any more time. Let's go there already."she said.
All of them went to the great hall, running. Hemione looked so happy and excited.
"I can't wait to gain those points!"she said excitedly, "I just hope there's no one who came before us."said Draco hoping for the best.
They altogether opened the door and headed to the high table.