Chapter four Different
Hermione walked on and on, her legs aching. She was just about to send out three blasts so that Draco knew she hadn't found the cow when something stopped her. A loud and rather ruffled sound came from her left and she was sure it sounded like a 'moo'.
She put her ear to the stone wall and concentrated hard. She heard it again, this time a bit louder. She ran down the corridor, at top speed, stopping every so often to put her ear against the wall. She kept at it for what seemed like hours and the mooing didn't seem to either get louder or quieter.
She was just about to give up again when a tall, blond boy stepped out of nowhere, to stand in front of her. He looked at her for a while, a very queer expression on his face, but quikly relaxed and was replaced by a lets- get-down-to-buisness look.
"Any luck? I didn't get anything." he said looking around him.
"No, not really. I keep hearing a distant mooing from inside the walls but I've been at it for almost an hour and I'm getting nowhere." she said throwing up her arms and letting them fall loosley to her sides, dangling as if they were dead.
"Hmm, interesting. Mooing you say? The walls you say? Distant you say?" he said rubbing his chin and putting on a thoughtful look. Hermione laughed.
"Yes I say." she said leaning onto the wall, but shreiked as she fell backwards. The wall had shifted to reveal a seceret door, hidden to look like the stone, Hogwarts walls. Draco immediatly jumped in after, just in time before the door closed.
Hermione scrambled to her feet and looked wildly around, Draco at her side. They were standing in what looked like a cold dungeon. Torches were hanging around the chamber, casting a ghostly light with there blue flames. Draco pulled Hermione closer to him.
They heard a soft drip drip of water and the howl of wind, rattling the only window wich was high up at the rim of the chamber wall. A nasty smell met their noses, like Nearly Headless Nick's Death day food. A low hooting of an owl was heard from somewhere deep inside the place.
Draco could feel Hermione trembling and he grasped her hand, giving it a small squeeze. She smiled up at him, but looked rather pale.
"Um, were are we?" she whispered.
"No idea, lets see if we can get out." he whispered back and began to examine the wall they had fallen in through. He patted and pushed, kicked and touched, but nothing would get the wall to open. He took out his wand and tried a few spells, but all for nothing.
"Shit! We'll have to see if theres another way out." saying this he took the teriffied girl's hand and pulled her deeper into the dungeon. They walked around the chamber a few times, poking and examining the walls and anything that looked suspicious.
Mooo! Hermione stopped dead. She strained her ears and shut her eyes, trying desperatly to hear it again. Mooo! Hermione's eyes snapped open and she took off running in the opposite direction, pulling Draco behind her. She reached the wall and started touching it everywhere. Draco was looking confused but helped her all the same.
"Rrrr, I don't understand! I heard the mooing again and it was coming from this wall!" she cried exasperatly. She kicked the wall in her frusteration and was surprised to see it melt away to reveal a colorful painting of a meadow full of green grass and a rather depressed looking cow.
Hermione yelled out happily and gave Draco a high five. The cow looked up and when it saw them it immediatly jumped up and gave a teriffied moo. It started running around in circles, mooing like mad.
"Oh God, oh God! You are people!! Stay away from me! Stay away!" the cow bellowed between horrified moos. Hermione and Draco tried desperstly to calm it but the cow just got even more scared. After half an hour of watching the cow run around in cicles, the cow flopped down onto the ground started eating the grass, as if nothing happened.
The two students exchanged strange looks before speaking to the cow.
"Hello, we...are...stu-dents." said Hermione slowly and clearly. The cow looked up and wailed.
"Oh, my dear! You must be Draco and Hermione! Oh, I'm so sorry, I thought that you want to attack me!" the cow apoligized franticly.
"Alright, alright, will you let us in? We are a bit, tired." said Draco calmly. The cow nodded and swung open the portrait. The two seventeen year olds climbed gratefuly through the hole and gasped when seeing the splendid common room.
It was a very big room, each wall was painted a different color: red, green, yellow and black. There was a roaring fire already cackling in the fireplace, sending a warm light across the whole room. There were two arm chairs, green and red. Bean bags and pillows were thrown all over the room, giving it a friendly approach.
There was a big, oak desk at one corner wich held supplies of all sort. (parchment, ink, quills etc.) A giant bookcase was placed in the opposite corner, holding what looked like, every book ever written.
Hermione sighed and walked over to the red couch, falling into it comfortably. Draco felt like exploring and decided to do so. He noticed that there were two doors on each side of the room. He chose to go through the one on the right. He opened the door to reveal a staircase leading up. He took two steps at a time and was at the top in no time.
There was a hallway that had three doors, one with a Griffindor lion, one with the Slitherin snake and one with a bubble wich he suspected led to the bathroom. He walked through the one with the snake, eager to see how his room would look like.
The room was simple and plain. It looked just like his old dormitaries but with only one bed. His four poster had green covers, pillows and curtains. The window curtains were also green and he noticed that his walls were painted a creamy color of green.
He just noticed that practicly everything in his room was green. The room also held a bookcase, dresser, desk, night table and a balcony. He smiled and walked through the doors leading to the balcony.
He was glad to see that he had a very nice view of the lake, wich glistened in the moonlight. He sighed and wondered what Hermione was doing.
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Hermione watched the blond haired Head boy dissapear through the door. She just had time to see a staircase before the door closed shut. She sighed pushed herself off the armchair. She jumped over all the pillows and made her way to the other door, were she suspected her room would be. She was surprised to see a hallway that had three doors, one with a book on it, one with a pear on it and one with a wizard's hat.
She wondered where theses doors led and decided to find out herself. She first opened the door with the book and was delighted to see that it led to the library. She stood in the doorway watching Madam Pince rumage through books and sleepily put them on the shelf.
Hermione realized that it must be very late. She closed the door quietly and opened the next one. (the one with the pair) She was surprised to be in the school corridor, facing the portrait with the fruit bowl. She smirked and tickled the pear, watching it squirm and wiggle before opening the portrait to reveal a very busy looking kitchen.
The house elves all stoped what they were doing and looked at Hermione. In seconds every elf was curtsying and bowing, running up to her and asking if they may help. Hermione was still not to happy with the way elves are enslaved but she didn't want to let them down, not when she just arrived.
Dobby came over to her and squeaked with joy before jumping up and down.
"Hello Miss! How is miss faring?" he asked with a toothy grin.
"Hello Dobbly, I'm fine thanks. How is your sock collection going?" she said with a warm smile. Dobby, if that were possible, widened his grin. He bent down and pulled up his shorts to reveal about twenty different colored socks, one on top of each other.
Hermione laughed and patted his head.
"Um, do you think you could get me some coffee Dobby?" she asked sweetly. Dobby bowed and hurried off, coming back seconds later caring a steaming mug of coffee.
"Thanks Dobby, I'll come visist you some time." she said scrambling through the portrait. The house elves waved and bid her goodbye as she left.
The griffindor girl found herself facing the door she had came from, standing in the hallway. She walked over to the last door, with the wizard's hat. She opened it eargerly and gasped when she saw an empty Great Hall. She smiled. At least they had it close to the Great Hall, everything was pretty close from there. Their common room wasn't exactly close by, if you call the nineteenth floor, close.
She shut the door and walked back to the common room. If her room wasn't there...then it must be in that other door Draco went through. She went up to it and went through it. She saw the staircase and went up it.
When she got to the top, she saw onther three doors. Each had either a snake, lion or a bubble, wich she suspected led to the bathroom. She went through the one with a lion on it and was surprised to see the room looked just like her old dormitary, exept everything was scarlet and red. She decided to visit Draco and see what his room looked like.
She went out of her room and knocked on the door with a snake. She heard a 'come in' and opened the door.
Draco was sitting on his bed and reading a book. He smiled when he saw Hermione, even though he knew it was her. Hermione looked around the room and noticed that it was identicle to hers exept it was green. She smiled at Draco and went over to sit on his bed.
"Hey, do you know that we have doors leading to the library, kitchens and the Great Hall?" she said grinning.
"Really? Ah, thats good. At least we won't have to go nineteen floors and back to go to breakfast." he said releived. Hermione stared at him for a minute then looked away.
"Why do you think Dumbledore gave us such a...far away and hidden room? It's like he doesn't want anyone else but us to know were it is." said Hermione, while looking up at the ceiling thoughtfuly. Draco just shrugged and threw his book onto the ground noisely, making Hermione jump.
"Sorry." he said while not looking at her. She nodded and sighed.
"Wow, this is fun." she said sarcasticly and standing up. Draco didn't want her to leave and told her so.
"Don't worry, I'm not leaving, just out onto the balcony." she said while digging in her purse. She took out a small, white paper box, wich doubtlessly held her cigarettes.
"Can I borrow a sweater?" she asked while looking around. Draco tossed her his grey over sized sweat shirt. She caught it an hastily pulled it over her head. It looked good on her and Draco suspected that she would look good in anything you give her to wear, even if it were a clown suit.
She thanked him and walked out onto the balcony. Draco watched her take out a cigarette and put it in her mouth, then take out a lighter and light the cigarette. He could not beleive that the Hermione he used to know was now standing in his sweat shirt, on his balcony, smoking. She blew out the smoke slowly and walked around a bit. After a few more minutes he saw her drop the cigarette and stomped on it.
She opened the door and jumped inside. Draco felt the cold air that followed her into the room, flow over his already very cold body. Hermione took off his sweater and held it.
"Sorry, it probably smells. Do you want me to put it out on the balcony?" she asked, holding out her hand as if to take the sweater. Draco definatly didn't want her out there on the cold balcony in nothing but a tank top, she might get sick.
"No, no don't, it's okay." he said quikly. She just raised her eyebrows and shrugged. She threw him his sweater.
"Okay, if you want it to smell, fine with me." she said before yawning. She looked at her watch, one o' clock in the morning.
"Oh damn! It's one o' clock in the morning! We really should go to sleep." saying this she, picked up her purse and walked over to the door. She looked back at him and smiled.
"Night Draco." she whispered.
"Night Hermione." he whispered back.
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a/n Okay, how was that? I hope you all enjoyed it! I have nothing interesting to say exept: thanks to.
White-Nights: Thanks for reading! I promise to get the next chapter out tomorrow! bblond07: Thanks for agreeing with me! And thanks for reading!
Hermione walked on and on, her legs aching. She was just about to send out three blasts so that Draco knew she hadn't found the cow when something stopped her. A loud and rather ruffled sound came from her left and she was sure it sounded like a 'moo'.
She put her ear to the stone wall and concentrated hard. She heard it again, this time a bit louder. She ran down the corridor, at top speed, stopping every so often to put her ear against the wall. She kept at it for what seemed like hours and the mooing didn't seem to either get louder or quieter.
She was just about to give up again when a tall, blond boy stepped out of nowhere, to stand in front of her. He looked at her for a while, a very queer expression on his face, but quikly relaxed and was replaced by a lets- get-down-to-buisness look.
"Any luck? I didn't get anything." he said looking around him.
"No, not really. I keep hearing a distant mooing from inside the walls but I've been at it for almost an hour and I'm getting nowhere." she said throwing up her arms and letting them fall loosley to her sides, dangling as if they were dead.
"Hmm, interesting. Mooing you say? The walls you say? Distant you say?" he said rubbing his chin and putting on a thoughtful look. Hermione laughed.
"Yes I say." she said leaning onto the wall, but shreiked as she fell backwards. The wall had shifted to reveal a seceret door, hidden to look like the stone, Hogwarts walls. Draco immediatly jumped in after, just in time before the door closed.
Hermione scrambled to her feet and looked wildly around, Draco at her side. They were standing in what looked like a cold dungeon. Torches were hanging around the chamber, casting a ghostly light with there blue flames. Draco pulled Hermione closer to him.
They heard a soft drip drip of water and the howl of wind, rattling the only window wich was high up at the rim of the chamber wall. A nasty smell met their noses, like Nearly Headless Nick's Death day food. A low hooting of an owl was heard from somewhere deep inside the place.
Draco could feel Hermione trembling and he grasped her hand, giving it a small squeeze. She smiled up at him, but looked rather pale.
"Um, were are we?" she whispered.
"No idea, lets see if we can get out." he whispered back and began to examine the wall they had fallen in through. He patted and pushed, kicked and touched, but nothing would get the wall to open. He took out his wand and tried a few spells, but all for nothing.
"Shit! We'll have to see if theres another way out." saying this he took the teriffied girl's hand and pulled her deeper into the dungeon. They walked around the chamber a few times, poking and examining the walls and anything that looked suspicious.
Mooo! Hermione stopped dead. She strained her ears and shut her eyes, trying desperatly to hear it again. Mooo! Hermione's eyes snapped open and she took off running in the opposite direction, pulling Draco behind her. She reached the wall and started touching it everywhere. Draco was looking confused but helped her all the same.
"Rrrr, I don't understand! I heard the mooing again and it was coming from this wall!" she cried exasperatly. She kicked the wall in her frusteration and was surprised to see it melt away to reveal a colorful painting of a meadow full of green grass and a rather depressed looking cow.
Hermione yelled out happily and gave Draco a high five. The cow looked up and when it saw them it immediatly jumped up and gave a teriffied moo. It started running around in circles, mooing like mad.
"Oh God, oh God! You are people!! Stay away from me! Stay away!" the cow bellowed between horrified moos. Hermione and Draco tried desperstly to calm it but the cow just got even more scared. After half an hour of watching the cow run around in cicles, the cow flopped down onto the ground started eating the grass, as if nothing happened.
The two students exchanged strange looks before speaking to the cow.
"Hello, we...are...stu-dents." said Hermione slowly and clearly. The cow looked up and wailed.
"Oh, my dear! You must be Draco and Hermione! Oh, I'm so sorry, I thought that you want to attack me!" the cow apoligized franticly.
"Alright, alright, will you let us in? We are a bit, tired." said Draco calmly. The cow nodded and swung open the portrait. The two seventeen year olds climbed gratefuly through the hole and gasped when seeing the splendid common room.
It was a very big room, each wall was painted a different color: red, green, yellow and black. There was a roaring fire already cackling in the fireplace, sending a warm light across the whole room. There were two arm chairs, green and red. Bean bags and pillows were thrown all over the room, giving it a friendly approach.
There was a big, oak desk at one corner wich held supplies of all sort. (parchment, ink, quills etc.) A giant bookcase was placed in the opposite corner, holding what looked like, every book ever written.
Hermione sighed and walked over to the red couch, falling into it comfortably. Draco felt like exploring and decided to do so. He noticed that there were two doors on each side of the room. He chose to go through the one on the right. He opened the door to reveal a staircase leading up. He took two steps at a time and was at the top in no time.
There was a hallway that had three doors, one with a Griffindor lion, one with the Slitherin snake and one with a bubble wich he suspected led to the bathroom. He walked through the one with the snake, eager to see how his room would look like.
The room was simple and plain. It looked just like his old dormitaries but with only one bed. His four poster had green covers, pillows and curtains. The window curtains were also green and he noticed that his walls were painted a creamy color of green.
He just noticed that practicly everything in his room was green. The room also held a bookcase, dresser, desk, night table and a balcony. He smiled and walked through the doors leading to the balcony.
He was glad to see that he had a very nice view of the lake, wich glistened in the moonlight. He sighed and wondered what Hermione was doing.
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Hermione watched the blond haired Head boy dissapear through the door. She just had time to see a staircase before the door closed shut. She sighed pushed herself off the armchair. She jumped over all the pillows and made her way to the other door, were she suspected her room would be. She was surprised to see a hallway that had three doors, one with a book on it, one with a pear on it and one with a wizard's hat.
She wondered where theses doors led and decided to find out herself. She first opened the door with the book and was delighted to see that it led to the library. She stood in the doorway watching Madam Pince rumage through books and sleepily put them on the shelf.
Hermione realized that it must be very late. She closed the door quietly and opened the next one. (the one with the pair) She was surprised to be in the school corridor, facing the portrait with the fruit bowl. She smirked and tickled the pear, watching it squirm and wiggle before opening the portrait to reveal a very busy looking kitchen.
The house elves all stoped what they were doing and looked at Hermione. In seconds every elf was curtsying and bowing, running up to her and asking if they may help. Hermione was still not to happy with the way elves are enslaved but she didn't want to let them down, not when she just arrived.
Dobby came over to her and squeaked with joy before jumping up and down.
"Hello Miss! How is miss faring?" he asked with a toothy grin.
"Hello Dobbly, I'm fine thanks. How is your sock collection going?" she said with a warm smile. Dobby, if that were possible, widened his grin. He bent down and pulled up his shorts to reveal about twenty different colored socks, one on top of each other.
Hermione laughed and patted his head.
"Um, do you think you could get me some coffee Dobby?" she asked sweetly. Dobby bowed and hurried off, coming back seconds later caring a steaming mug of coffee.
"Thanks Dobby, I'll come visist you some time." she said scrambling through the portrait. The house elves waved and bid her goodbye as she left.
The griffindor girl found herself facing the door she had came from, standing in the hallway. She walked over to the last door, with the wizard's hat. She opened it eargerly and gasped when she saw an empty Great Hall. She smiled. At least they had it close to the Great Hall, everything was pretty close from there. Their common room wasn't exactly close by, if you call the nineteenth floor, close.
She shut the door and walked back to the common room. If her room wasn't there...then it must be in that other door Draco went through. She went up to it and went through it. She saw the staircase and went up it.
When she got to the top, she saw onther three doors. Each had either a snake, lion or a bubble, wich she suspected led to the bathroom. She went through the one with a lion on it and was surprised to see the room looked just like her old dormitary, exept everything was scarlet and red. She decided to visit Draco and see what his room looked like.
She went out of her room and knocked on the door with a snake. She heard a 'come in' and opened the door.
Draco was sitting on his bed and reading a book. He smiled when he saw Hermione, even though he knew it was her. Hermione looked around the room and noticed that it was identicle to hers exept it was green. She smiled at Draco and went over to sit on his bed.
"Hey, do you know that we have doors leading to the library, kitchens and the Great Hall?" she said grinning.
"Really? Ah, thats good. At least we won't have to go nineteen floors and back to go to breakfast." he said releived. Hermione stared at him for a minute then looked away.
"Why do you think Dumbledore gave us such a...far away and hidden room? It's like he doesn't want anyone else but us to know were it is." said Hermione, while looking up at the ceiling thoughtfuly. Draco just shrugged and threw his book onto the ground noisely, making Hermione jump.
"Sorry." he said while not looking at her. She nodded and sighed.
"Wow, this is fun." she said sarcasticly and standing up. Draco didn't want her to leave and told her so.
"Don't worry, I'm not leaving, just out onto the balcony." she said while digging in her purse. She took out a small, white paper box, wich doubtlessly held her cigarettes.
"Can I borrow a sweater?" she asked while looking around. Draco tossed her his grey over sized sweat shirt. She caught it an hastily pulled it over her head. It looked good on her and Draco suspected that she would look good in anything you give her to wear, even if it were a clown suit.
She thanked him and walked out onto the balcony. Draco watched her take out a cigarette and put it in her mouth, then take out a lighter and light the cigarette. He could not beleive that the Hermione he used to know was now standing in his sweat shirt, on his balcony, smoking. She blew out the smoke slowly and walked around a bit. After a few more minutes he saw her drop the cigarette and stomped on it.
She opened the door and jumped inside. Draco felt the cold air that followed her into the room, flow over his already very cold body. Hermione took off his sweater and held it.
"Sorry, it probably smells. Do you want me to put it out on the balcony?" she asked, holding out her hand as if to take the sweater. Draco definatly didn't want her out there on the cold balcony in nothing but a tank top, she might get sick.
"No, no don't, it's okay." he said quikly. She just raised her eyebrows and shrugged. She threw him his sweater.
"Okay, if you want it to smell, fine with me." she said before yawning. She looked at her watch, one o' clock in the morning.
"Oh damn! It's one o' clock in the morning! We really should go to sleep." saying this she, picked up her purse and walked over to the door. She looked back at him and smiled.
"Night Draco." she whispered.
"Night Hermione." he whispered back.
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a/n Okay, how was that? I hope you all enjoyed it! I have nothing interesting to say exept: thanks to.
White-Nights: Thanks for reading! I promise to get the next chapter out tomorrow! bblond07: Thanks for agreeing with me! And thanks for reading!
