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Chapter 7- Planning
Hermione's POV
"Hermione!" Draco said softly. "Hermione, wake up!"
I groaned and rolled over, regretting already telling Draco to wake me up in the morning. He wouldn't give up, though, so I carefully slid my feet to the floor, giving him my most deadly glare. Satisfied, he grinned, stood up, and left me on my own to grab my robes and trudge sleepily downstairs.
When I got to the common room, I saw that Hannah was in our bathroom, so I decided to lie down on my couch and wait for her. That was a mistake. Before I knew it, I awoke to the feeling of someone staring at me. I opened my eyes to see Draco standing above me, grinning wickedly. "I'm going, I'm going!" I groaned. I practically fell off the couch, got up, and walked into the bathroom, aware of Draco smirking at me the whole way. I slammed the door and turned on the shower.
I drowned my sleepiness in the hot water, and inhaled the scent of my shampoo, feeling very relaxed. It wasn't until I turned off the water and dried myself that I realized I had left my robes on my couch. "Dammit," I mumbled. I slipped on a fluffy red terry robe and tied the gold sash around my waist. Feeling self-conscious, I crossed my arms over my chest and crossed the common room to my couch, snatched up my robes, and retreated back to the bathroom. My back was turned, so I didn't see Draco blush slightly pink as he watched me.
After dressing, drying my hair, and applying some makeup, I re- entered the common room to find everyone ready and waiting for me. I smiled at the room, then left for breakfast through the map painting.
When I reached the Great Hall, I walked over to my usual place at the Gryffindor table. I plopped down between Harry and Ron, and lay my head on my arms. I still felt a little groggy. That potion Madam Pomfrey gave me must have been a strong sleeping potion, because I had no problem at all getting to sleep last night.
"Hermione!" Harry and Ron chorused. I looked up at their beaming faces.
"God, Hermione, you gave us a scare!" Ron cried. "I'm so glad you're alright!"
Before I knew it, I was swept up into a hug by Harry. "Me too," he murmured.
"Well, I'm fine now, so you can just relax," I said, slipping out of Harry's grip. I could feel my face flush slightly, and hoped that no one noticed. I glanced at Harry and saw that he was blushing, too.
"Hermione..." Ron started, staring puzzled at me. "What was that all about?" Obviously Harry hadn't told him that I didn't remember what had happened. I looked at him, a question in my eyes.
"I went right to sleep last night," Harry smiled sheepishly. "I thought you could tell him."
Ron looked concerned. "Tell me what?" he asked anxiously.
"I don't remember what happened." I told him. He stared at me like I was crazy.
"You don't remember?" he cried. "How could you not remember, Hermione? It was awful!"
"I know, I know, that's what I've been told, but..." I shook my head as if to clear my thoughts. "I just don't know..."
"It's okay. I think it's probably better that you don't," Ron said, wide-eyed. That was exactly what Draco had said last night.
"Yeah... Draco told me." Harry's eyes darkened at the mention of Draco. "So does anyone know what happened in Dark Arts class after I left?"
"Yeah," Ron said. "Right after Draco ran out with you..." He stopped when he saw my eyebrows shoot up in surprise. "What?"
"Draco brought me?" I questioned, making sure I heard right. Harry was scowling furiously.
"Well, yeah. Didn't he tell you?"
"No..."
"Oh. Well how did you think you got there?" I hadn't really thought about it. I guess I assumed Harry brought me, but looking at Harry's expression, I didn't say anything about it. I just shrugged, so Ron continued. "Anyways, after he picked you up and left, and Harry ran after you, everybody erupted. The girls were screaming, the guys were all running around; it was chaos.
Professor Hayes finally seemed to come to her senses-" Seeing my confused look, he stopped and sighed. "You really don't remember anything, huh? Okay, well as soon as you... you know, collapsed, she just sat there, frozen on her desk. I don't know what was going on in your head, exactly, and neither do you, but she must have been telling you to do the Cruciatus curse on somebody." We were all silent. Performing an Unforgivable Curse on another human being was one of the worst things you could ever do in the wizarding world.
"Well after you did it to yourself, we couldn't see any emotion on her face, and then a few minutes after you all left, she seemed to come back to reality. She stood up and yelled for everyone to calm down, and after a bit more yelling, they did. She seemed, actually... not too concerned." He shrugged. "She must've known you'd be alright. Then the next class I went to was Transfiguration, and I told McGonagall what happened, but she said she already knew, and that you could get your assignments next class."
"Thanks, Ron," I said, giving him an appreciative grin.
The time flew by after that without any incidents, and before I knew it, it was October 3rd. All of us prefects were gathered around the common room, and had nothing to do, seeing as we'd already finished our homework. Terry was sitting on his couch, and Hannah was leaning against him, with her feet hanging over the arm. Draco was sprawled over his couch, his long, lanky legs hanging over the edge, which seemed to be his favorite position. I was sitting with my back against my couch, stretching my legs. F
"Doesn't it seem like we should be doing something?" Terry asked lazily, rubbing Hannah's hair. It seemed that living together for the past month had only improved their relationship.
"Yeah..." I sighed. "But what is there to do?" I had barely gotten the sentence out when I gasped. Everyone turned to look at me. "You guys!" I cried. "We forgot about the Halloween event!"
Hannah's eyes widened, and Draco sat up. "You're right!" he said. "We need to plan that before the 15th, and then get it set up!"
I hopped up. "I'll be right back, and then we can get to work and start planning, okay?"
I ran up the stairs, got into my pajamas, a pair of silk blue bottoms with white clouds and a white spaghetti strap shirt, and grabbed some parchment and a quill. When I opened the door, I ran into a hard chest. I looked up into Draco's eyes, and he smiled down at me. "We gotta stop doing this," he muttered, and I laughed. I backed up, allowing him to go down the stairs, and followed him back down to the common room. He had changed into his pajamas, too, and was wearing black bottoms with a tight black t-shirt. Much against my will, I found myself gaping at his nice muscles. 'Maybe that's why he didn't hang around Crabbe and Goyle anymore,' I thought. They were his muscled bodyguards, but, from the looks of it, he could more than take care of himself now.
It looked as if Hannah and Terry hadn't moved. Draco resumed his position, and I lay down on the floor on my stomach, with the parchment in front of me and quill in hand. "Okay, feel free to yell out ideas!" Apparently no one had any, because it was silent. "Ooooookaaay..." I turned to see Draco, and he shrugged as best he could while lying down. Hannah and Terry were both quiet.
"Okay. Well, I was thinking, maybe we could do a haunted house?" I suggested.
Hannah, who was muggle-born also (A/N: I don't think it ever says if she is or not... She is in this fic. Forgive me) piped up. "Oh, no! I hate haunted houses!" I guess I could have expected this. She was, after all, a Hufflepuff.
Terry craned his neck to see her face. "What's a haunted house?" he asked.
"Well, basically, it's just...," Hannah tried to answer, but couldn't find the right words. "Hermione, you explain it."
"It's just a house full of scary stuff, and it's normally dark."
Draco gave a small smile. "Maybe I would like this haunted house thing."
I shook my head at him. "No, I don't think you would. They're normally pretty lame."
"Okay, fine," he pouted, and lied back down.
We were all silent again, thinking. "Oh, I know!" Hannah shouted a moment later. "We should do a costume ball!"
I beamed at her. "That's a great idea! What do you guys think?" Both Draco and Terry looked at each other, shrugged, and nodded. "Okay, great!" I was really pleased with our plan.
"Okay, so what should we have at this thing?" Draco asked.
After about an hour of writing down ideas and crossing things out, we had decided that we would have the students decide their own costumes, and that's about it. Hannah had fallen asleep on Terry's shoulder, and he was yawning. "Well, we're off to sleep," he said tiredly. "Are you two staying up?"
"Yeah," I replied. "We need to get this done, so I figure I'll just stay up a while longer." I looked at Draco, and he nodded. He was staying up, too.
He tried to get up without waking Hannah, but failed, and he helped her stumble up the stairs to her room.
I sighed, and ran my hands through my hair. "Well, so far we have:
Halloween Costume Ball
Students decide costumes
And that's it." Draco laughed, and I groaned, flopping down on the floor with my head on my arms, which made him laugh even harder.
I rolled over to my back with my arms under my head and glared at him. "Okay," he said. "Let's get down to business." I nodded, and got up to sit cross-legged on my couch, facing him. "Let's start with food," he suggested. "I think we should have punch to drink, maybe with some candy from Honeydukes. What do you think?"
"I was thinking we could have some potato chips or something, too." He raised one eyebrow at me, and I explained that they were a muggle food, very popular. Surprisingly, he agreed; I had expected him to reject 'Mudblood food' right away. "Okay," I said, trying to keep the surprise out of my voice. I wrote our food selections down on my parchment.
"How about music?" I asked. We discussed that for a while, and decided on a mixture of Muggle and wizard music. We got a few more things covered, and I tried to stifle a yawn, but Draco caught it.
"Hey," he said, looking at me. "How about we call it a night? We got a lot covered tonight, and we have till the 15th."
"Yeah, okay," I agreed, standing up and stretching. "You wanna keep this?" I asked, holding out the parchment to him.
"Sure," he replied, and took it, following me up the stairs.
"Goodnight," I called over my shoulder as I went into my room.
"Goodnight," Draco muttered softly. I climbed into bed and under the covers, and was asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.
A/N: AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! I'm so excited. Only like 19 more hours until I get to go see the second Harry Potter movie. It's not near as good as the books, but I'm looking forward to it all the same. What? Oh, right, the story! Uh.... This was kind of a pointless chapter, but I felt like I needed to get another one done. Hopefully the next one will be more... relevant. PLEASE review! I love reviews. ( Thanks to the people who did:
Starrynights13- Lol, thanks for the review!! I would've updated sooner but ff.net was down last night. (
Dragoness666- Thank you!! I'm glad I have a new comer!! (
Darcel- *wince* Yeah, I know... I'm sorry!!! My friend reminded me of that after I posted that chapter, but I didn't wanna fix it and tell people they had to re-read it... Can you forgive me?? I'll try never to let it happen again, promise.
Demonstar- I know they rule!!! OMG they're my favorite. I'll have fluff soon, I hope, but I need to lead gently into it, cause I'm always afraid to make Draco too OOC, which I think I'm doing anyways, but... yeah.
Chapter 7- Planning
Hermione's POV
"Hermione!" Draco said softly. "Hermione, wake up!"
I groaned and rolled over, regretting already telling Draco to wake me up in the morning. He wouldn't give up, though, so I carefully slid my feet to the floor, giving him my most deadly glare. Satisfied, he grinned, stood up, and left me on my own to grab my robes and trudge sleepily downstairs.
When I got to the common room, I saw that Hannah was in our bathroom, so I decided to lie down on my couch and wait for her. That was a mistake. Before I knew it, I awoke to the feeling of someone staring at me. I opened my eyes to see Draco standing above me, grinning wickedly. "I'm going, I'm going!" I groaned. I practically fell off the couch, got up, and walked into the bathroom, aware of Draco smirking at me the whole way. I slammed the door and turned on the shower.
I drowned my sleepiness in the hot water, and inhaled the scent of my shampoo, feeling very relaxed. It wasn't until I turned off the water and dried myself that I realized I had left my robes on my couch. "Dammit," I mumbled. I slipped on a fluffy red terry robe and tied the gold sash around my waist. Feeling self-conscious, I crossed my arms over my chest and crossed the common room to my couch, snatched up my robes, and retreated back to the bathroom. My back was turned, so I didn't see Draco blush slightly pink as he watched me.
After dressing, drying my hair, and applying some makeup, I re- entered the common room to find everyone ready and waiting for me. I smiled at the room, then left for breakfast through the map painting.
When I reached the Great Hall, I walked over to my usual place at the Gryffindor table. I plopped down between Harry and Ron, and lay my head on my arms. I still felt a little groggy. That potion Madam Pomfrey gave me must have been a strong sleeping potion, because I had no problem at all getting to sleep last night.
"Hermione!" Harry and Ron chorused. I looked up at their beaming faces.
"God, Hermione, you gave us a scare!" Ron cried. "I'm so glad you're alright!"
Before I knew it, I was swept up into a hug by Harry. "Me too," he murmured.
"Well, I'm fine now, so you can just relax," I said, slipping out of Harry's grip. I could feel my face flush slightly, and hoped that no one noticed. I glanced at Harry and saw that he was blushing, too.
"Hermione..." Ron started, staring puzzled at me. "What was that all about?" Obviously Harry hadn't told him that I didn't remember what had happened. I looked at him, a question in my eyes.
"I went right to sleep last night," Harry smiled sheepishly. "I thought you could tell him."
Ron looked concerned. "Tell me what?" he asked anxiously.
"I don't remember what happened." I told him. He stared at me like I was crazy.
"You don't remember?" he cried. "How could you not remember, Hermione? It was awful!"
"I know, I know, that's what I've been told, but..." I shook my head as if to clear my thoughts. "I just don't know..."
"It's okay. I think it's probably better that you don't," Ron said, wide-eyed. That was exactly what Draco had said last night.
"Yeah... Draco told me." Harry's eyes darkened at the mention of Draco. "So does anyone know what happened in Dark Arts class after I left?"
"Yeah," Ron said. "Right after Draco ran out with you..." He stopped when he saw my eyebrows shoot up in surprise. "What?"
"Draco brought me?" I questioned, making sure I heard right. Harry was scowling furiously.
"Well, yeah. Didn't he tell you?"
"No..."
"Oh. Well how did you think you got there?" I hadn't really thought about it. I guess I assumed Harry brought me, but looking at Harry's expression, I didn't say anything about it. I just shrugged, so Ron continued. "Anyways, after he picked you up and left, and Harry ran after you, everybody erupted. The girls were screaming, the guys were all running around; it was chaos.
Professor Hayes finally seemed to come to her senses-" Seeing my confused look, he stopped and sighed. "You really don't remember anything, huh? Okay, well as soon as you... you know, collapsed, she just sat there, frozen on her desk. I don't know what was going on in your head, exactly, and neither do you, but she must have been telling you to do the Cruciatus curse on somebody." We were all silent. Performing an Unforgivable Curse on another human being was one of the worst things you could ever do in the wizarding world.
"Well after you did it to yourself, we couldn't see any emotion on her face, and then a few minutes after you all left, she seemed to come back to reality. She stood up and yelled for everyone to calm down, and after a bit more yelling, they did. She seemed, actually... not too concerned." He shrugged. "She must've known you'd be alright. Then the next class I went to was Transfiguration, and I told McGonagall what happened, but she said she already knew, and that you could get your assignments next class."
"Thanks, Ron," I said, giving him an appreciative grin.
The time flew by after that without any incidents, and before I knew it, it was October 3rd. All of us prefects were gathered around the common room, and had nothing to do, seeing as we'd already finished our homework. Terry was sitting on his couch, and Hannah was leaning against him, with her feet hanging over the arm. Draco was sprawled over his couch, his long, lanky legs hanging over the edge, which seemed to be his favorite position. I was sitting with my back against my couch, stretching my legs. F
"Doesn't it seem like we should be doing something?" Terry asked lazily, rubbing Hannah's hair. It seemed that living together for the past month had only improved their relationship.
"Yeah..." I sighed. "But what is there to do?" I had barely gotten the sentence out when I gasped. Everyone turned to look at me. "You guys!" I cried. "We forgot about the Halloween event!"
Hannah's eyes widened, and Draco sat up. "You're right!" he said. "We need to plan that before the 15th, and then get it set up!"
I hopped up. "I'll be right back, and then we can get to work and start planning, okay?"
I ran up the stairs, got into my pajamas, a pair of silk blue bottoms with white clouds and a white spaghetti strap shirt, and grabbed some parchment and a quill. When I opened the door, I ran into a hard chest. I looked up into Draco's eyes, and he smiled down at me. "We gotta stop doing this," he muttered, and I laughed. I backed up, allowing him to go down the stairs, and followed him back down to the common room. He had changed into his pajamas, too, and was wearing black bottoms with a tight black t-shirt. Much against my will, I found myself gaping at his nice muscles. 'Maybe that's why he didn't hang around Crabbe and Goyle anymore,' I thought. They were his muscled bodyguards, but, from the looks of it, he could more than take care of himself now.
It looked as if Hannah and Terry hadn't moved. Draco resumed his position, and I lay down on the floor on my stomach, with the parchment in front of me and quill in hand. "Okay, feel free to yell out ideas!" Apparently no one had any, because it was silent. "Ooooookaaay..." I turned to see Draco, and he shrugged as best he could while lying down. Hannah and Terry were both quiet.
"Okay. Well, I was thinking, maybe we could do a haunted house?" I suggested.
Hannah, who was muggle-born also (A/N: I don't think it ever says if she is or not... She is in this fic. Forgive me) piped up. "Oh, no! I hate haunted houses!" I guess I could have expected this. She was, after all, a Hufflepuff.
Terry craned his neck to see her face. "What's a haunted house?" he asked.
"Well, basically, it's just...," Hannah tried to answer, but couldn't find the right words. "Hermione, you explain it."
"It's just a house full of scary stuff, and it's normally dark."
Draco gave a small smile. "Maybe I would like this haunted house thing."
I shook my head at him. "No, I don't think you would. They're normally pretty lame."
"Okay, fine," he pouted, and lied back down.
We were all silent again, thinking. "Oh, I know!" Hannah shouted a moment later. "We should do a costume ball!"
I beamed at her. "That's a great idea! What do you guys think?" Both Draco and Terry looked at each other, shrugged, and nodded. "Okay, great!" I was really pleased with our plan.
"Okay, so what should we have at this thing?" Draco asked.
After about an hour of writing down ideas and crossing things out, we had decided that we would have the students decide their own costumes, and that's about it. Hannah had fallen asleep on Terry's shoulder, and he was yawning. "Well, we're off to sleep," he said tiredly. "Are you two staying up?"
"Yeah," I replied. "We need to get this done, so I figure I'll just stay up a while longer." I looked at Draco, and he nodded. He was staying up, too.
He tried to get up without waking Hannah, but failed, and he helped her stumble up the stairs to her room.
I sighed, and ran my hands through my hair. "Well, so far we have:
Halloween Costume Ball
Students decide costumes
And that's it." Draco laughed, and I groaned, flopping down on the floor with my head on my arms, which made him laugh even harder.
I rolled over to my back with my arms under my head and glared at him. "Okay," he said. "Let's get down to business." I nodded, and got up to sit cross-legged on my couch, facing him. "Let's start with food," he suggested. "I think we should have punch to drink, maybe with some candy from Honeydukes. What do you think?"
"I was thinking we could have some potato chips or something, too." He raised one eyebrow at me, and I explained that they were a muggle food, very popular. Surprisingly, he agreed; I had expected him to reject 'Mudblood food' right away. "Okay," I said, trying to keep the surprise out of my voice. I wrote our food selections down on my parchment.
"How about music?" I asked. We discussed that for a while, and decided on a mixture of Muggle and wizard music. We got a few more things covered, and I tried to stifle a yawn, but Draco caught it.
"Hey," he said, looking at me. "How about we call it a night? We got a lot covered tonight, and we have till the 15th."
"Yeah, okay," I agreed, standing up and stretching. "You wanna keep this?" I asked, holding out the parchment to him.
"Sure," he replied, and took it, following me up the stairs.
"Goodnight," I called over my shoulder as I went into my room.
"Goodnight," Draco muttered softly. I climbed into bed and under the covers, and was asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.
A/N: AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! I'm so excited. Only like 19 more hours until I get to go see the second Harry Potter movie. It's not near as good as the books, but I'm looking forward to it all the same. What? Oh, right, the story! Uh.... This was kind of a pointless chapter, but I felt like I needed to get another one done. Hopefully the next one will be more... relevant. PLEASE review! I love reviews. ( Thanks to the people who did:
Starrynights13- Lol, thanks for the review!! I would've updated sooner but ff.net was down last night. (
Dragoness666- Thank you!! I'm glad I have a new comer!! (
Darcel- *wince* Yeah, I know... I'm sorry!!! My friend reminded me of that after I posted that chapter, but I didn't wanna fix it and tell people they had to re-read it... Can you forgive me?? I'll try never to let it happen again, promise.
Demonstar- I know they rule!!! OMG they're my favorite. I'll have fluff soon, I hope, but I need to lead gently into it, cause I'm always afraid to make Draco too OOC, which I think I'm doing anyways, but... yeah.