Chapter 17- Breakfast is the Most Important Meal of the Day

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Hello everyone, okay so I have taken a week as I said I would! Yay for me! I am on holidays in a weeks time and I am so happy. Thankyou to everyone who wished me a happy birthday, I had a fantastic day! I have great news, I have started to write a joint story with Arwen, it is a Draco/Hermione/Ron and so far it is pretty cool…if I do say so myself! The ideas are mostly Arwen's and I think you should all check it out! Anyway on with the story.

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IMPORTANT WARNING: Although this story is mostly pg-13 this chapter have some moments which could be construed as R rated. It has some sexual references, okay don't say I didn't warn you!

Disclaimer: sometimes I have dreams that I own the Harry Potter franchise but that is all they are…dreams, wahhh

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Draco picked up the package and turned it over in his hands. 'At least she opened it.' he thought distractedly. Finally he called to his owl.

"Take it back." He said coldly, "back to where it belongs"

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Hermione, Ron and Harry came clattering down the stairs together, laughing over a letter Fred and George had sent them. They entered the great hall and saw that, apart from Malfoy, it was completely empty. They took their usual seats and piled up their plates with wonderful Christmas breakfast foods. They felt happier then they had felt in a long time...

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They were wrapped up in their own little world and it was perfectly obvious that at that moment they didn't need anybody else. An overwhelming jealousy struck Malfoy and his fists began to clench and unclench out of view under the table. The three friends were laughing uncontrollably about something and as they quietened down Ron leaned over and gently wiped away some stray crumbs of toast which had ended up on Hermione's cheek. She grinned at him and returned the favour by wiping a smudge of jam off his nose, they all started laughing again. Before he knew what he was doing Draco had leapt to his feet knocking his chair over in the process.

"You're disgusting!" he shouted slamming his fist down on the table and making all the crockery jump.

Three pairs of eyes, wide with astonishment, looked up at him. There was a long pause and then-

"What do you mean?" Hermione softly voiced the question that the three of them were thinking.

"You three, and especially you two!" he pointed at Ron and Hermione, "you play this 'oh we are such good friends but it is all platonic and blah, blah, blah' but none of it is true!"

"What are you talking about?" Ron growled also standing up, "because I'm warning you now Malfoy if this has anything to do with your warped and twisted imagination thinking that Hermione and I are a couple." Even as he said it he blushed a deep scarlet.

"So you want to deny it?" Draco sneered.

"There's nothing to deny." Ron countered

"Oh so everything I saw last night didn't happen?" the blonde snarled sarcastically.

"Come on Malfoy, out with it. If you want to accuse Hermione and Ron of something then say what it is." Harry entered the fray getting out of his seat and standing near Ron in case he had need to hold him back.

Draco took a deep breath and a nasty smile curved his lips.

"I saw the weasel and the mudblood shagging on the floor of Granger's dormitory."

"WHAT?!" Hermione was the last one to her feet but now she jumped out of her chair as if a filibuster firework had gone off under her. Harry and Ron were both staring at him speechlessly and for the first time Draco began to think that maybe he had been wrong.

"That's nonsense Malfoy," Harry said practically, getting over his initial shock, "I was there…"

"You were there too?!" it was an extremely un-Malfoy-like thing to do but Draco's cry had most certainly been a shriek.

"Let me finish," Harry said calmly, "what I was going to say was I was there with them all night and nothing like that happened."

"Enlighten me!" Draco scowled, "what exactly did happen?"

"We slept." Harry answered coolly.

A triumphant gleam appeared in Draco's eyes. 'Ah a perfect opportunity to break up the golden trio! Let Harry think Ron and Hermione have been up to things that he doesn't know about and let's see how long their friendship lasts.'

"What exactly did you see, Draco?" asked Hermione

"You want me to go into the sordid details? Why Hermione I never picked you as the type."

"Answer me!" she snapped.

"I don't like to repeat it." said Draco primly, "anyway you were there you don't need me to replay it all blow by blow, if you'll pardon the expression." Draco knew instantly that he had gone too far. Perhaps it was Hermione's strangled cry of disgust or perhaps it was Harry's pale white face with two little dots of anger on his cheeks that alerted him to this, but most likely it was the roar that Ron gave out and the fact that he dived across the table and grabbed him by the neck.

"How dare you! You filthy, stinking, ferret!" Ron screamed into his face squeezing Draco's neck tightly. Draco's air was being constricted, his eyes were beginning to bulge and he could hear voices from, what seemed like, very far away…

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Harry and Hermione whilst still trying to get over what Draco had said raced around the table and tried to get Ron off Malfoy.

"Come on Ron get off him, this isn't going to solve anything. If you get caught like this then you'll be expelled." Harry yelled trying to unclench his best friends hands

"Ron, please, please just let go." Hermione whispered into his ear pulling at one of his arms. They continued like this until Harry let go of his hands and instead gripped Ron's jaw and forced the red head to look into his emerald eyes.

"Listen to me." He ordered, "think about Hermione, I can't protect her on my own." This seemed to break through Ron's enraged state and he began to loosen his hands.

Finally he stood up and put his hands in his pockets, refusing to meet Harry or Hermione's eyes. Draco also stood up, massaging his neck with a grimace.

"So we'll call it a draw then?" he said lightly wincing as he felt the bruises beginning to blossom under his fingers.

The three Gryffindors ignored him and began to walk out of the great hall. Before he knew what he was doing Draco hurried after them and grabbed Hermione painfully by the arm.

"Wha…?" she started but she was cut off as his lips smashed against hers.

'What is wrong with me?' Draco thoughts to himself, 'do I have a death wish?'

Hermione struggled hard against him. She didn't like it. This kiss wasn't like the other times, it was hard and cruel. He was only doing this as revenge, to incite her friends and she wasn't having any of it. She kicked him hard in the shins but in answer all he did was crush her tighter to him and continue to maul her mouth. 'This isn't right!' Hermione's mind screamed at her, 'this isn't how it is supposed to be.' Draco suddenly looked into her brown eyes and was surprised to see how terror filled they were. They were crying out to him 'why are you doing this to me?' the rage he had felt a few seconds before left him and he released her suddenly and pushed her away. Harry grabbed Hermione around the waist and pulled her out of the way just as Ron's fist knocked the Slytherin out cold.

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Well what did you all think? A pretty eventful chapter, no? I am on 15 favourites lists! Wow my oh my! Thankyou to everybody! And especially to these people:

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