A Better Tomorrow
by AngelzGaze
"And attempt of murder?" Draco looked up. Hermione had snuck inside his room and now was charging at him with full speed. And before Draco realized it, Hermione had tackled him down.
"What are you doing?" he smirked. "I didn't know you wanted me that bad."
"Just for that I'm going to hit you a hundred more times then I would have," she growled. And in a snap she was hitting him right and left and right and left and right and left and right and left and..... well I think you get the point.
"Ok! Ok! MERCY!!!!! Come on Granger! You can stop now!"
"Fine." Hermione got up and gave Draco the most hateful look you could ever imagine. So hateful....... it made Draco laugh. "What are you laughing about?"
"Nothing," he smirked. "It's just that who knew Goody-Shoes-Granger could be so hateful." Hermione opened her mouth to say something, but quickly closed it and turned around and stomped back to her room.
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Chapter 3: Hidden Beneath a Sheet of Paper
Hermione flopped down on her bed, covered her head with a pillow, and screamed as loud as she could. "Ok, now I feel much better," she said to herself as she got up - but said no more because she knew most likely Draco would be listening in.
She sat on her bed for a while and then suddenly remember something - the book. Quickly and quietly she left the Head Boy/Girl's Room and walked to the Gryffindor Dormitory. Sure enough the book was right there in front of the Fat Lady's Portrait. Hermione picked it up and headed back to her room right away. As soon as she got to the statue of the wizard, she said the password and walked right in. Hermione went to her room, sat on her bed, and studied the book's cover.
"Couldn't have thought of a better title I suppose," she said quietly to herself as she read the title, 'Think You Have An Element Power?', once more. Hermione opened the book to the first page and yet again, before she could even glance at the page, she was interrupted.
"Ms. Granger?" said Professor McGonagall as she knocked on the door.
Hermione jumped up and quickly shoved the book into the closet. She opened the door and followed Professor McGonagall to the couch. She sat down and waited as the professor went to get Draco. As they both returned McGonagall motioned for Draco to sit on the couch beside Hermione.
"I'd prefer to stand," said Draco. Professor McGonagall gave a piercing look. "Ok. Ok. I'll sit." Draco sat on the couch.
"This book has a list of all your responsibilities," stated Professor McGonagall as she handed them both a small paperback book. "It also lists what is expected of a Head Boy and Girl. I trust that both of you will read this book over and over. Also, I hope the two of you have put aside your differences and are getting along by now. Are you?" Silence. "Are you?"
"But of course, Professor," said Draco blandly. Hermione nodded.
"Good. Dinner is at 7:00. We'll be expecting both of you there. Goodbye." Professor McGonagall turned and left. Hermione laid her book next to the lamp. She got off the couch, started off toward her room, and opened her door.
"Granger," said Draco. Hermione turned around.
"What do you want?"
"My book, I want my book back," he replied, irritated.
"What book?"
"You know what book."
"Seriously, I don't know what you're talking about."
"Don't play games, Granger. I don't have time for that. I know you have it. You left to get it minutes ago. Just give me my book."
"What if I don't want to......."
"You don't even want to know."
"Oh really?"
"Yes really," replied Draco.
"Well, you know what? I think I just might keep it. It seems like a very interesting read. I'll probably give it back to you eventually. Who knows? It might take hours, days, weeks, even....." Draco suddenly dashed to Hermione's room and before Hermione had time to react he had slammed the door shut.
"Good thing you talk a lot and have bad time reaction," shouted Draco from the other side of the locked door.
"LET ME IN!!!!!"
"Not until I find MY book."
"What's so important about that book?"
"Mind your own business!"
"If you don't let me in I'll.... I'll.... I'll mess up the things in your room." The door opened. 'Ha' thought Hermione 'that got him to listen.'
"No need Granger. I got what I need. You should have known the first place I'd look is in the closet," Draco smirked as walked out of the door with the book in his hand.
"Give it to me!" she demanded as she tried to grab the book. Unfortunately she only grabbed hold of the paper cover. The cover of the hardcovered book instantly ripped off and Hermione realized it was a fake. The REAL title of the book was as clear as day, right there in big silver letters, 'The Works of Shakespeare'.
"Why did you have to do that for?" shouted Draco angrily as he quickly covered the title with his hands. A tint of pink appeared on his cheeks. Draco hastily turned around and stomped to his room. Hermione stood there totally shocked. Draco reading a muggle author's stories? It was unthinkable.............
"Malfoy wait!" Hermione called. Draco paused for a microsecond, but then kept on walking. Hermione waited, but turned around and walked to her room as Draco slammed his door. She sat on her bed. Hermione seriously thought Draco thought he had an Elemental Power. Suddenly Hermione jumped up, she walked to a box and grabbed a bunch of books out of it. They included the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Robert Lewis Stevenson, and many more. She then walked out of her room and set them right in front of Draco's door. Without knocking or anything, Hermione quietly walked back to her room, grabbed her favorite fairy tale book, sat on the floor, and began to read.
Hermione loved fairy tales. She turned to 'Beauty and the Beast' her favorite of all. She also loved the Beauty and the Beast Disney movie. Hermione could absolutely relate herself to Belle. Hermione started humming faintly. Then she started to sing softly.
"Tale as old as time. True as it can be. Barely even friends, then somebody bends unexpectedly. Just a little change, small to say the least. Both a little scared. Neither one prepared, Beauty and the Beast." She had a beautiful voice. She suddenly jumped up. "Ever just the same, ever as before, ever just as sure as the sun will rise!" she bursted out. "Tale as old as time. Tune as old as song. Bittersweet and strange. Finding you can change. Learning you were wrong. Certain as the sun rising in the east. Tale as old as time. Song as old as rhyme, Beauty and the Beast. Tale as old as time. Song as old as rhyme, Beauty and the......." She stopped suddenly. There was a knock at her door. She slowly opened it.
"Malfoy?"
"Yes me. Nice to know you made a little song about us. Though I wouldn't like to be referred as 'the Beast' and to tell you the truth you shouldn't nickname yourself 'Beauty'. How conceited." Hermione blushed.
"That song wasn't about 'us'! It's from a Disney movie!" Hermione said irritably.
"A what?" asked Draco
"A movie by Disney."
"Ok. Whatever you say Granger, and pigs fly." Hermione grabbed her wand, whispered a few words, and all of a sudden tiny pigs with wings flew out of her wand, around Draco's head, and out the door. Hermione smiled cheesily at Draco. Draco just glared.
"Anyway..." His voice became softer. "Thanks for the......"
"Books?"
"Yea," said Draco quickly. "Well, I better be going so you can keep fantasizing. Just keep dreaming up those cute little love songs about how you would love for us to be a couple. Oh, I mean keep dreaming up those 'Disney' songs, as you so call them." He turned around. "Poor thing," he whispered loudly. "She actually thinks there could be a chance for her." And with that he left.
"I'M NOT MAKING THIS UP! DISNEY MOVIES DO EXIST!" screamed Hermione after him. "DON'T FLATTER YOURSELF MALFOY! LIKE I WOULD EVER MAKE UP A LOVE SONG ABOUT US!"
Disclaimer Poem:
I don't own Harry,
Hermione, or Ron
Hey I said it
I'm not an ex-con
I haven't stolen,
taken or sold
Anything from JKR's
stories she has told
So please don't sue
I don't own anything at all
Oh and since you've read the story
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*A/N* Chapter is really short I know - next one will be longer I promise! Yup, I'm really sorry I haven't written in quite a while - I know second time yet. It's just that I haven't had the time. I'm been just really busy with school and all. I'm REALLY, REALLY sorry! Oh and to clarify something - in the first chapter when I wrote "Hermione dropped to the floor. She absolutely sure what the news was. She tried very hard not to cry as she walked on. She decided just wander around collecting her thoughts together." She knows because she heard the teachers talking about how one of the teachers needed to tell her something and that they needed to 'break it to her easily' - meaning it was probably bad news. Hermione knew that the news concerned her parents and since it was bad, her parents were most likely passed away. Does that make sense?????
Well anyway thank you everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *blows out kisses to fans - that is if there is any........... there is, right?*
Hee hee...... well I'm going to start on Chapter 4 right when I post this! Until then, bah bye!
