Chapter 3 Pinch of this pinch of that

Hermione slipped on the cloak and made her way down stairs and through the portrait hole.

Harry grabbed his wand and followed her out of the common room making sure not to go to fast just incase Hermione saw him. He just kept going over in his head 'why she would steal the cloak I would have let her borrow it if she asked. What was she hiding?'

As soon as Hermione made it out of the castle she muttered "Lumos." And held her wand out in front of her so that she could see where she was going. She started towards the forest.

Harry exited the castle not far behind Hermione he could see her wand and her hand poking out of the cloak. He began to follow her after a minute he realized where she was going.

As soon as she entered the forest she slid the cloak off and held it under her arm. She moved quickly holding her wand closer to the ground. After about 5 minutes she stopped and pulled out a book after looking from the plant to the book she grinned and closed the book. She kneeled down and began to pull a bunch of the plant up.

Harry saw her crouched down from quiet a bit away. She came out here to get a plant. He couldn't believe all of her sneaking around was to get a plant. Harry just laughed because it was just so Hermione. Harry looked past Hermione and thought he saw something moving.

Hermione started putting the plants she picked into her bag when she heard something in front of her. She jumped up and held out her wand her eyes darting all in front of her where she thought she heard the sound. Nothing. She kneeled down again and put the rest of the plant in her bag when she began to hear something in front of her again. She looked again and saw nothing. She backed up and tripped over a tree root her wand flew away from her. She started to get up and go get her wand when she saw about 10 feet in front of her was a 6 foot long 3 headed snake. She stopped knowing that if she made a movement the snake might attack. Frozen she stay there as the snake slowly got closer to her raising its heads up in a striking manner about 3 feet away from her. Hermione closed her eyes and threw her arms over her face. From behind her she heard a hissing sound. Another snake she thought as she waited for the attack. Something grabbed her arm and she screamed.

"Hermione!"

She opened her eyes to a pair of green eyes staring straight into hers. "Harry!" she threw her arms around his neck and began to cry.

Harry wrapped his arms tightly around her, they stayed like that for a minute then Harry grabbed her arms and pulled her off of him. She looked up at him and his eyes were full of anger something she hadn't expected.

"What do you think you were doing!?! You steal my cloak, you come out to the forest alone and at night! Have you lost all of your senses?" Harry was so angry he was shaking.

"I .I .. I was just. just." Hermione stammered through sobs.

"You were just what? Sneaking around behind Ron and mines back, I thought that we were best friends."

"You are. I'm sorry." She lowered her head.

Harry shook her so she looked back up at him. "Sorry isn't good enough. Do you realize what could have happened if I hadn't followed you? Do you know how stupid what you did was?" Hermione looked down at her shoes silently sobbing now. "Me and Ron would have come if you just would have asked. What you did was selfish. What if something would have happened? I don't know what I'd do if something happened to you."

With that comment Hermione looked up into Harry's eyes. All of the anger had gone they were now filled concern. Harry pulled Hermione into him and their lips met. Hermione stopped crying and melted into Harry. When they pulled away she looked up at Harry and saw a tear run down his cheek and she gently wiped it away.

"Don't you ever do that again do you understand me?" he said hugging her tight.

"I won't."