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CHAPTER16- The Horror Of The Night
-Laying unconscious by the wall was indeed Draco Malfoy.-
The two gazed at him until Hermione finally spoke…
"H-Harry? Are you c-crying?" She asked totally surprised but horrified at the same time.
"Oh, er, no…I was just…It's just sweat from the humidity in the room…Really…," He stammered. And then he added dreadfully. "What are we going to do with him!?"
"OH! I don't KNOW!," Hermione bellowed in fear of the fact that she and Harry would both be expelled.
"We are in SO much trouble!," She added painfully.
Harry stood there gazing at Draco…
"We…We have to find Dumbledore…I hate to say it…but we'll get caught if we don't."
Hermione sighed loudly. "Oh. All right. Grab your cloak… Right…Let's go…"
"Hold on! What do we do with him.," Hermione asked Harry as they pulled the cloak over them in a hurry.
"Leave him there…COME ON!," Harry choked out trying to pull Hermione along his side.
Both of them hurried along the steps to the stone gargole, which moved over when they whispered the password.("APPLE DUMPLINGS")
As they moved up the steps, they could hear the voices of someone inside.
"DUMBLEDORE! The kid is sneaking out at night! I know it! I heard something come out of the portrait! He was there, Dumbledore… I heard-
"Calm down, Severus…" Said Dumbledore.
"We must not accuse someone that we do not see-
"YOU NEVER LISTEN TO ME!" Snape howled. At this, Harry and Hermione shivered slightly hearing Snape yell at Dumbledore so loudly. He had never shown Dumbledore how much he could shout at people.
"I'll catch him! You wait and sit you're ---
"I knew it!" Snape scowled.
"Someone's right here! I can feel something!," Snape bellowed as he swung open the door.
Snape began feeling his way around the staircase as Harry and Hermione jumped against the wall.
Closer, Closer, Closer, he came to them and then with a swift wasp from Snape's arm.
Dumbledore's hand grasped Snape's arm just before he had clutched the cloak that Harry and Hermione were in.
"Severus, you have no proof that Harry was wandering outside his commonroom. And did it ever occur to you, Severus, that Harry is indeed a prefect. In case you didn't know, and it's ok if you didn't…"
He said as calm as he had been before. "That prefects are always allowed to enter certain UN-restricted rooms…The prefects bathroom…?" Said Dumbledore as Snape began to clench his fists.
"I will let you go, and then you are to go back to the dungeons and get some sleep in." He added as Snape began to march down the stairs.
As soon as he had left, Harry and Hermione instantly removed their cloaks to see a Dumbledore looking as if they had been there all night. He was not surprised at all.
"Well…Harry…and…Hermione?" He asked and she nodded still looking miserable and fully worried.
"Please sit down…I want you to tell me what happened as I know you have come to me for a very important reason…Please tell me what happened."
Hermione and Harry both exchange horrified glances at each other waiting for someone to speak.
"Professor Dumbledore.," Said Harry trembling with terror.
" Er…I was visiting the prefects bathroom…when I heard-er- screams from inside."
Dumbledore nodded politely for him to continue.
"I heard, -er- saw…Hermione and Draco Malfoy. Draco was pointing his wand at her…threatening her…," Said Harry shivering uncontrolably.
Hermione was trembling with fear and Dumbldore had his eyes wide open through his glasses.
"And then" He continued.
….Silence…
Harry struggled desperately to get the last few words out…
"He tried to kill her…"