Hello! Okay, you know what, this is the second chap of my first fic so it will probably suck...just letting you know...but anyway, just read and review. Umm, I don't think...only type. By the way, this fic, I'm deciding if it will have a happy ending, or a sad one. I might have to kill off a few people. But I swear that I won't give you any hints...oh fine, maybe a little.
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Hermione stepped out into the light of Diagon Alley. She loved the bustling feel of it, all the smells and sights. She still couldn't get over the fact that Muggles had absolutely no idea Wizards and Witches existed.
It was three weeks after her letter. She had planned to meet the Weasely family and Harry at the Leaky Cauldron.
Putting down her purse on a table outside, she sat down in the sunlight. Pulling her book, Memoirs of a Geisha, out of her purse, she sat reading.
"Ew, a beaver!" Hermione visibly stiffened. She kept reading, however, and did not pay attention to the annoying person standing behind her.
"Mudblood, have you gone deaf?" She didn't answer even so.
Then, the worse thing happened. Draco Malfoy sat down in the seat next to her.
Hermione scowled into the pages of her book, but as though she were trying to teach a spoiled child a lesson, did not make eye contact or speak.
Draco grinned to himself, and looked around. 'Worthless Muggle tricks...' He thought. 'So easy to break them. Almost pitiable.' Pulling his wand out of his robe he said, "Come on Granger..." she did not "come on", so he said, with a hint of sarcastic pity in his voice, as though what he was doing truly hurt him, "Fine."
A small river of white came out of the end of his wand, straight at Hermione's head.
"What are you doing?!" She screamed. She brought a hand up to her head and felt it. "Wha-Cat ears?! Oh my god, Draco Malfoy, you have got a nerve!!"
"You have got a nerve!" He mimicked her in a high, girly voice.
"Ohhhh...you better stop!! Fix this right now!!!" Her white cat ears were attracting a lot of attention.
"Fix this right now!" He leaned back on the chair.
"You know what, fine. Fine." She pulled her wand out of her jeans pocket and aimed it at him.
So he turned into a ferret.
"Hey, what did you do?" Interesting. So he could still talk, eh?
"You're a ferret. What else is new?"
"Change me back!!"
"Umm...no."
"Come on!!!"
"And...?"
"Change me back!"
"Draco Ferret Malfoy, are you begging?"
"No."
Hermione faked emotion. "Oh, but Malfoy, you look so darling!!! Oh, all right, I'll change you back..." She pulled out her wand and pretended to cast a spell. "Oh my god, it didn't work!!! I'm sorry, but you'll be stuck like that for the rest of your ferrety life...such a pity."
"Mudblood..." He growled.
"Fine. Only because I see Harry and Ron." Her voice returned to its normal pitch.
She changed him back and grabbed her purse, changing her cat ears and banishing them to oblivion.
"See ya, and, definitely WOULDN'T want to be ya." She walked towards Harry and Ron.
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Hermione browsed around Flourish and Blotts with Ginny.
"Oy, Hermione, I see some interesting divination books over in that corner, I'll be right back, okay?"
"Sure Gin. I'll still be over here."
"Okay." Ginny walked toward a particularly remote and musty corner of the book shop.
Hermione meanwhile, browsed by the wall on the east side, looking just for anything interesting.
She reached a book entitled 'The Darkness In Light'. Pulling it off the shelf, she opened the plain leather volume. On the inside cover there was picture of an ornate symbol, a circle of thorns around a red crescent moon, with a black ribbon-y swirl around the tips.
It looked horribly familiar...so very familiar.
'But I can't place it...' She thought. She turned the next few pages.
She was just reading something when she felt a hand grab her wrist and an arm snake around her waist.
"You must be brave, doing that to a Malfoy."
'What an annoying bastard, he must be stalking me or something.' She sighed and brought her free hand to her temple. She hadn't even noticed him walk up. "Malfoy, I know you like me that much, but, please, for the sake of the children, stop stalking me, okay?"
He almost seemed taken aback. "Stalking? Why no, Mrs. Granger, I wasn't stalking you...simply walking by."
The reply was huffy and annoyed. "Well then get away. Go back to the toilet that you came from."
"I would have thought, that you, Hermione Mudblood Granger, would know that it is physically impossible for a toilet to give birth to a human."
"Who said you were human? I didn't...in fact, that wasn't even the implication." She wrenched herself away from his arm, which was quite a task, and tried to walk away, but found he was still holding on to her wrist.
"Let go of me Malfoy, I have places to be." she said angrily.
"Oh, and I suppose that's why you were browsing slowly through a bookstore...umm, yeah, right." He grinned roguishly at her.
She pulled the corners of her mouth up in a false smile. "Umm, yeah, in fact, that is exactly what I was supposed to be doing...so LET GO!"
"Oh, alright Mudblood...but wait..." Here he paused and cast a spell, the familiar ribbon of white.
"Oh you goddamned asshole!! You just wait, where the- WHERE THE FUCK IS MY WAND?!" She stuck her hands in her pockets to search for it when he let go of her.
Halfway out the door he said, "Looking for this perhaps? Here, but I warn you, those ears will last for five whole hours no matter what you do. Handy little spell, wouldn't you say? Oh, and you look absolutely darling!!! No, really, you do." He walked out the door into the alley, smirking.
Hermione didn't even bother following him...she tried every counter curse she knew, but still couldn't get rid of the ears. 'Damn it!!! That stupid little ferret...he'll get what's coming to him...'
Ginny tapped Hermione on the shoulders. "Draco Malfoy really is cute yeah? Mmm..."
"Oh my god Ginny, you traitor!!! I can't believe that! Look!!! Look at what he did!!!"
"Oh come on, his badness only adds to the appeal...and you look good like that anyway. Are you going to buy that book?"
Suddenly Hermione felt herself saying yes, but she was meaning no. She could feel herself paying for it, and she even tried to stop herself, but she couldn't. Why not? Why couldn't she stop?
"Ah...Miss Granger. I thought you already had two copies of The Introduction to Complex Healing Spells? Oh well, one more can't hurt, can it?"
Whoa...what? This was a book no where on the subject of healing spells. She felt so confused...
Strange...she could almost hear a faint voice saying, "In your beginning is your end..."
But then, she was in the sunlight, and somehow forgot all about the controlling force that had taken her over, as she and Ginny ran towards Harry and Ron, who were waving.
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Oh....Scary!! Not. Anyway...this chapter was boring wasn't it? Yeah, well next chap they'll be at school so don't worry. Oh my gosh, it's like 2:00...I have to go, see ya!! By the way, the 'In your beginning is your end', it's supposed to be 'my' not 'your', by T.S. Elliot. Oh well...review and I'll luv ya!!!
And in normal circumstances, I would write down everyone's name but I can't because something at Ff.Net is fucked up so I don't know exactly who or how many of you reviewed...so I can only say, to all of you, Thanks, I'm glad you liked it, and I'll upload tomorrow. And that's for people who didn't review either.
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Hermione stepped out into the light of Diagon Alley. She loved the bustling feel of it, all the smells and sights. She still couldn't get over the fact that Muggles had absolutely no idea Wizards and Witches existed.
It was three weeks after her letter. She had planned to meet the Weasely family and Harry at the Leaky Cauldron.
Putting down her purse on a table outside, she sat down in the sunlight. Pulling her book, Memoirs of a Geisha, out of her purse, she sat reading.
"Ew, a beaver!" Hermione visibly stiffened. She kept reading, however, and did not pay attention to the annoying person standing behind her.
"Mudblood, have you gone deaf?" She didn't answer even so.
Then, the worse thing happened. Draco Malfoy sat down in the seat next to her.
Hermione scowled into the pages of her book, but as though she were trying to teach a spoiled child a lesson, did not make eye contact or speak.
Draco grinned to himself, and looked around. 'Worthless Muggle tricks...' He thought. 'So easy to break them. Almost pitiable.' Pulling his wand out of his robe he said, "Come on Granger..." she did not "come on", so he said, with a hint of sarcastic pity in his voice, as though what he was doing truly hurt him, "Fine."
A small river of white came out of the end of his wand, straight at Hermione's head.
"What are you doing?!" She screamed. She brought a hand up to her head and felt it. "Wha-Cat ears?! Oh my god, Draco Malfoy, you have got a nerve!!"
"You have got a nerve!" He mimicked her in a high, girly voice.
"Ohhhh...you better stop!! Fix this right now!!!" Her white cat ears were attracting a lot of attention.
"Fix this right now!" He leaned back on the chair.
"You know what, fine. Fine." She pulled her wand out of her jeans pocket and aimed it at him.
So he turned into a ferret.
"Hey, what did you do?" Interesting. So he could still talk, eh?
"You're a ferret. What else is new?"
"Change me back!!"
"Umm...no."
"Come on!!!"
"And...?"
"Change me back!"
"Draco Ferret Malfoy, are you begging?"
"No."
Hermione faked emotion. "Oh, but Malfoy, you look so darling!!! Oh, all right, I'll change you back..." She pulled out her wand and pretended to cast a spell. "Oh my god, it didn't work!!! I'm sorry, but you'll be stuck like that for the rest of your ferrety life...such a pity."
"Mudblood..." He growled.
"Fine. Only because I see Harry and Ron." Her voice returned to its normal pitch.
She changed him back and grabbed her purse, changing her cat ears and banishing them to oblivion.
"See ya, and, definitely WOULDN'T want to be ya." She walked towards Harry and Ron.
~*~*
Hermione browsed around Flourish and Blotts with Ginny.
"Oy, Hermione, I see some interesting divination books over in that corner, I'll be right back, okay?"
"Sure Gin. I'll still be over here."
"Okay." Ginny walked toward a particularly remote and musty corner of the book shop.
Hermione meanwhile, browsed by the wall on the east side, looking just for anything interesting.
She reached a book entitled 'The Darkness In Light'. Pulling it off the shelf, she opened the plain leather volume. On the inside cover there was picture of an ornate symbol, a circle of thorns around a red crescent moon, with a black ribbon-y swirl around the tips.
It looked horribly familiar...so very familiar.
'But I can't place it...' She thought. She turned the next few pages.
She was just reading something when she felt a hand grab her wrist and an arm snake around her waist.
"You must be brave, doing that to a Malfoy."
'What an annoying bastard, he must be stalking me or something.' She sighed and brought her free hand to her temple. She hadn't even noticed him walk up. "Malfoy, I know you like me that much, but, please, for the sake of the children, stop stalking me, okay?"
He almost seemed taken aback. "Stalking? Why no, Mrs. Granger, I wasn't stalking you...simply walking by."
The reply was huffy and annoyed. "Well then get away. Go back to the toilet that you came from."
"I would have thought, that you, Hermione Mudblood Granger, would know that it is physically impossible for a toilet to give birth to a human."
"Who said you were human? I didn't...in fact, that wasn't even the implication." She wrenched herself away from his arm, which was quite a task, and tried to walk away, but found he was still holding on to her wrist.
"Let go of me Malfoy, I have places to be." she said angrily.
"Oh, and I suppose that's why you were browsing slowly through a bookstore...umm, yeah, right." He grinned roguishly at her.
She pulled the corners of her mouth up in a false smile. "Umm, yeah, in fact, that is exactly what I was supposed to be doing...so LET GO!"
"Oh, alright Mudblood...but wait..." Here he paused and cast a spell, the familiar ribbon of white.
"Oh you goddamned asshole!! You just wait, where the- WHERE THE FUCK IS MY WAND?!" She stuck her hands in her pockets to search for it when he let go of her.
Halfway out the door he said, "Looking for this perhaps? Here, but I warn you, those ears will last for five whole hours no matter what you do. Handy little spell, wouldn't you say? Oh, and you look absolutely darling!!! No, really, you do." He walked out the door into the alley, smirking.
Hermione didn't even bother following him...she tried every counter curse she knew, but still couldn't get rid of the ears. 'Damn it!!! That stupid little ferret...he'll get what's coming to him...'
Ginny tapped Hermione on the shoulders. "Draco Malfoy really is cute yeah? Mmm..."
"Oh my god Ginny, you traitor!!! I can't believe that! Look!!! Look at what he did!!!"
"Oh come on, his badness only adds to the appeal...and you look good like that anyway. Are you going to buy that book?"
Suddenly Hermione felt herself saying yes, but she was meaning no. She could feel herself paying for it, and she even tried to stop herself, but she couldn't. Why not? Why couldn't she stop?
"Ah...Miss Granger. I thought you already had two copies of The Introduction to Complex Healing Spells? Oh well, one more can't hurt, can it?"
Whoa...what? This was a book no where on the subject of healing spells. She felt so confused...
Strange...she could almost hear a faint voice saying, "In your beginning is your end..."
But then, she was in the sunlight, and somehow forgot all about the controlling force that had taken her over, as she and Ginny ran towards Harry and Ron, who were waving.
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Oh....Scary!! Not. Anyway...this chapter was boring wasn't it? Yeah, well next chap they'll be at school so don't worry. Oh my gosh, it's like 2:00...I have to go, see ya!! By the way, the 'In your beginning is your end', it's supposed to be 'my' not 'your', by T.S. Elliot. Oh well...review and I'll luv ya!!!
And in normal circumstances, I would write down everyone's name but I can't because something at Ff.Net is fucked up so I don't know exactly who or how many of you reviewed...so I can only say, to all of you, Thanks, I'm glad you liked it, and I'll upload tomorrow. And that's for people who didn't review either.
