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Strange Happenings
Hermione woke up. She was laying in her bed under the covers, her head was pounding. This is what it must feel like to have a hangover, she mused. Wondering how she got into the bed, she got up and went to the bathroom to splash some water on her face. By the amount of sunlight coming in her window, she guessed that it must have almost been noon.
She pulled out a pair of jeans and a cute tee-shirt to wear, and set them on her bed. Glancing at herself in the mirror she noticed that looked horrible. Her hair was disheveled, and there were enormous bags under her eyes. Then she noticed something extremely peculiar, she was wearing a small lacey black tank top and a very scandalous pair of shorts to match. She would never wear something like this! How had it gotten on her. Before she had assumed that some one came into her room and put her into her bed but this was going too far!
She quickly changed out of that outfit and into her normal unrevealing clothing. She brushed her hair and did a quick straightening charm that she had learned. She put on more makeup than usual so she could hide those horrible bags. Finally feeling somewhat satisfied she walked out of her dorm.
Malfoy was sitting in the common room. "Hey Hermione! Feeling better? That's good! You should find Potter and Weasley, their really worried."
"Worried?"
"It's not like Hermione Granger to sleep late, so they came up to me and asked me if I knew where you were. I told them that I thought you were still sleeping, and I didn't want to wake you because you had been out late, probably overworking at the library or something, but that I'd send you to the when you woke up." Because of his new friendship with Hermione, Malfoy had begun to be more tolerable to the rest of the trio, at least in matters that concerned Hermione.
"Late?"
"Yea, you were out for a long time, I ended up going to sleep before you came back, and…Hermione? Uh, are you alright? Herm?"
"Huh? What" Hermione answered snapping out of a daze, "I'm fine, just fine." She turned around and walked away. How could she have come in late; she never went out. Malfoy just must have assumed that since I wasn't in the Common Room, that I must not have been there. But then how did I get into my bed, and…
"Mione!"
Hermione was ripped away from her thoughts by the sound of a familiar voice. Ron and Harry ran up to her.
"Hey Mione! How do you feel? We heard you were up late last night studying."
"Oh yeah, I got carried away again. You know how it is." She didn't know why but something told her to go along with the library thing.
Harry pulled her close and kissed her on her forehead. She giggled and snuggled in close to him. She was so tired and his shoulders were so supportive and warm…
"Hermione!!"
"Huh?"
"You just feel asleep on your feet!"
"Oh, I did? I'm sorry. I'm just so tired." Why was she so tired?
They decided to head down to the Great Hall because it was almost time for lunch. Hermione managed to stay awake the whole way there and all through lunch, but she wasn't as lively as she usually was. About half way through lunch Neville Longbottom came in carring an issue of that day's Daily Prophet.
"Did you guys hear what happened in Hogsmede?"
"No, tell us Neville."
"Some one went through last night and completely ransacked the village! Here look!"
He pushed the paper in front of the trio. On the front cover was a picture of Hogsmede; it was a mess. All of the buildings had been covered in debris, there was garbage thrown about on the street, everything that would have normally sat outside the shops were torn up, everything was broken! There was one particularly bad shop, the front window had been smashed and the merchandise had been strewn about carelessly, it was called Roberta's Robes, it was the most popular clothing shop for teenagers.
"That's horrible!" Hermione started, "Who would do such a thing?"
"They think that it might have been some kind of wild animal that got out in the night," Neville informed them. "The Ministry has ordered all nearby cities to construct a curfew and lock in for the safety of the public. Personally if I lived there, I'd aparate somewhere else and stay there for a good long time!"
"Seriously! And with it being so close to Hogwarts, why haven't they said anything? Or done anything?" Ron stammered.
"Honestly Ron! Haven't you ever read Hogwarts: A History? One dose not simply walk into Hogwarts! We are all perfectly safe, the staff probably didn't see the need to alarm us all when we have a holiday."
"Now Hermione, theres no need to act like that! But she is right Ron, we are perfectly safe here." Harry said putting his arm around Hermione. She looked at him and smiled.
Just then Lavender tumbled in. She was dripping wet and snow clung to her hair and jacket. She was out of breath, "Guys, hurry! We need your help!" Everybody began to get nervous.
"Lavender what is it what's wrong? What happened to you?"
"Snow fight! Slytherins against Gryffindors! There hasn't been a fight this big in the whole history of Hogwarts! Come on we need Reinforcements!" Lavender was trying to assure them that this matter was of utmost importance. A breath of relief was released from the group.
"So what do you say guy?" Harry asked.
"I say lets kick some Slytherin butt!" was the reply he got from Ron. With that they all got up and ran out of the Hall and into the snow.
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