Disclaimer: These imaginative characters all belong to J.K.Rowling.
**Here is CHAPTER 9: a new interesting animal is introduced, Hermoine gives Harry and Ron big news, while at the same time encounters herself annoyed by two idiots. **Im taking someone's advice and gonna try spread out the dialogs more, so they are easier to read**
CHAPTER 9- A SITUATION IN MAGICAL CREATURES
DRACO'S POV
I felt a slight streak of light, so I opened my eyes and stared into the ceiling. I began to think about that odd dream I had last night, odd but wonderful. I dreamt that Hermoine came to sleep beside me. It felt so real. I felt breathing on my chest and looked down. I lifted my head up in shock and realized that is was no dream, Hermoine did come in the middle of the night and was now sleeping beside me.
I checked my watch and it was about 7, our Magical Creatures class started at 9, so we should be getting up. I lifted my head up slowly and just watched her sleep, so beautiful, so peaceful. I wondered when I started thinking like this, especially thinking about her like this, but I decided not to care, and kept breathing in her beauty.
She began to shift a bit in my arms. I brushed her cheek with my hand, and her eyes began to flutter open with a slight smile on her lips. I was sorta worried that once she woke up and remembered she was sleeping beside me she would freak out and run away, I noticed she's been doing that a lot, maybe worried to show her feelings to me, I don't know what it was. Her eyes came open and she looked up at me so I decided to speak, "Morning.." I whispered, telling myself not to kiss her or anything, just in case I scared her off.
"Hey you." she whispered back smiling. Then she just put her hand up to my cheek and said, "we should be getting up now."
She began to get up slowly, and she sat up on the couch and stretched a bit, but she still sat beside me, and I just watched her as she looked back at me. I really did not know what to say anymore with her, for fear that she might flip out and run. So I waited for her to say something first. And she finally did,
"Listen Draco, I think we should talk about some things, you know about us."
"I think your right" I replied back. Then she nodded.
"But not right now" she added "I have to get ready and meet Harry and Ron at the Griffindor tower, is that alright with you?" "Ya sure, so what about we talk tonight hmm?" I asked rapidly, showing to much eagerness, but it didn't seem she noticed, it was as if she were thinking about other things in her head.
"That sounds great!!! So I'll see you in class k?" And she happidly got up, began to walk away, but rushed back to me and gave me a quick peck on the cheek, smiled, then ran up the stairs smiling, and into her room. I couldn't help but smile myself.
HERMOINE'S POV
I was running down the hallway to the Griffindor tower as fast as I could to let Harry know about what Draco told me about the new Defence against the Dark Arts teacher. How could I be so stupid and not notice that? And how come no one else noticed? I guess we were all so surprised that she was soo pretty, that no one even noticed she didn't give out her name.
I got to the painting of the fat lady, said the password and made my way inside. I didn't see Harry or Ron there, so I decided to run up to their dormitories, I really didn't care if I was alowd there or not. I ran up the stairs, and pushed Neville out of the way apologizing but still making my way to Harry's room. I finally got there and I knocked, thankfully Harry said to come in, and thankfully he was dressed as was Ron too.
"Harry Harry Harry!!!" I yelled out making my way to him.
"Hermoine what you doing here, were supposed to go to our Magical Creatures class!" asked Ron.
"Nevermind that!" I snapped back "I got big news about the DADA teacher". I saw Harry's head whip around and turn to me.
"Well what is it Hermoine?" he pursued me to keep talking.
"Well I was talking to Draco and.." I was cut off by a surprised Ron.
"You were talking to Draco? You mean as in Draco Malfoy? Since when do you talk to him? And since when do you call him by his first name?" I looked at him with a slight snear or my face.
"Does it really matter Ron?" I snapped.
"Well I guess not it's just a bit odd." and he trailed off, as if he were in deep thought.
"Anyways, I was talking to him when I was in the library and I told him I was gonna find information on our DADA teacher. And then he asked me how I planned to do that? And then I asked him what he meant? And that's when he told me, something that I should of noticed before, he told me that the teacher never told us her name!!" unfortunatelly I didn't get the reaction I thought.
"Hermoine is that all?" Harry asked.
"Well don't you find that odd?" I surprisingly asked him.
"Well a bit, but I doubt it really means anything.I think." He replied.
"Well I think it does, so when we have class today we will see if she mentions her name, and if she doesn't, will just ask her when we get the chance, sound like a plan?" I asked again.
"Well alright" he hessitated.
"Maybe Hermoine is right Harry, it is abit odd that she didn't mention her name, usually teachers remind us over and over and over again!"
"Well alright guys, enough of the suspicious chit chat, lets just get some breakfast and make out way to Magical Creatures, we can say hi to Hagrid if we get there early!!"
"YEAH!!" they both replied at the same time. I just laughed at them and we made our way down stairs.
After breakfast the three of us went down, and outside the castle, to the grounds where Hagrid's house was. I guess Hagrid's was out and about cause he wasn't there yet, but it was natural for him to take a bit longer, I mean he was the gamekeeper, he was probaly doing some errands for the school.
We waited just chit chatting, when Ron got amazed by something.
"Oh Oh Oh, I think I saw a Maliwag."(which was a sort of rabbit but with no ears, and no long teeth or whiskers, and they were always kind of a mocha color, and they were Ron's favorite animal) "I think it's behind Hagrid's hut Im gonna go look for it, there mighty fast ya know" he said in an excited voice.
"Uh huh" replied Harry, watching Ron run off behind the Maliwag "Hold on a sec Hermoine, Im just gonna make sure Ron doesn't do anything stupid".
"Sure" I replied, laughing to myself because of Ron's excitement over the furry little thing.
I just waited, with my arms folded over my chest, and in the distance I could see some people coming, but they wouldn't be there any time soon. I turned my back to the castle facing the hut again, waiting for Ron and Harry. I soon heard some footsteps approaching me and then someone say "Hey baby!"
I turned around and rolled my eyes, it was no other then Crabe and Goyle, grinning and eyeing me with the same eyes they always did.
"Ugh, what do you two want? Leave me alone Im busy." I said wondering to myself that it certainly it would look like that I wasn't, standing there all by myself.
"So you doing anything tonight?" Crabe asked me grinning with an evil glint.
"What's it to you?" I asked with an attitude in my voice.
"Baby, come on, there is no need for that kind of talk. How about joining us two tonight for some little fun" Goyle smiled while he nudged Crabe who was also smiling.
I laughed out loud "hahaha, are you guys serious? Man, I wouldn't hang out with you two if my whole life depended on it! Hahaha!" I kept laughing, as I watched both there smiling faces become a scowl. And then they looked awfly angry. And then Crabe smirked once again and came up to me, and shocked me by putting his thick, big, grubby hands around my waist.
"Hey, this must be your once in a life time chance hun, don't act like you don't.." Crabe continued while I was trying to wriggle free and telling him to let me go and with Goyle laughing in the background.
He couldn't really continue talking, cause just then Harry and Ron were coming around the corner and Ron was talking about the Maliwag,
"Did ya see them Harry, wow there was three of them, sooo cute and fl..u.f.."Ron was cut off when both Harry and him saw me struggling with Crabbe's arms around me and me telling him to let go. Goyle stopped laughing as he saw Harry and Ron approaching.
"What do you think you doing?!!!" asked Ron, with a very angry voice.
"Ya, get off her!" And with that Harry tugged Crabe off by the collar of his robes and pushed him toward where Goyle was, while Ron came to me, very concerned thinking that they did something to me.
"Hermoine, Hermoine, are you alright? Look at me. Did they do anything to you?!?" he said so frightenly, and over exagerating while he put one arm on my shoulder and the other patting my cheek.
"Ron, come on, they didn't do anything, don't freak out, geeze!" I replied, knowing that he was flipping out unessesarily. He then pushed me slighty away behind him, and behind all the action and began yelling while most of the class arrived. It was mostly just a verbal fight. "If I ever see either of your chubby hands on her, Ill rip em' off I swear it!!" yelled out Ron.
"That's right! And if I ever hear that you guys just simply come near her, I will personally see that you guys answer to us both" Harry added. Now the four of them were just glaring at each other silently.
While they watched in an eye to eye silent battle, Draco pulled up beside me, and took a look at the four of them and said,
"Hey."
"Hello" I said taking a quick look at him and then back at the scene.
"What's going on here? Did Crabe and Goyle smell chip crumbs on Potter again?" he said in a making fun sort of voice that made me giggle.
"No not really, heehee." I answered
"Then what?" he asked again.
"Oh it was nothing really, I uhhhh..well they made a move on me." I saw Draco's eyes narrow down, and in a very subtle way he walked off towards the four. He went in between Crabe and Goyle and out of no where, he lifted his hands up to each their heads and hit them. They both turned to him, as if they were scared. I couldn't believe the control he had over them.
"What are you two idiots doing? You know that our fathers would not like us mingling with Potter and Weasley hmmm?!" demanded Draco.
"Sorry Malfoy, it's their fault for interrupting the conversation we were having with the mudblood!!" yelled out Goyle while pointing at me.
"Well since when do you two make conversation with pitiful Mudbloods!!?" he said in a meaningful voice that almost made me think that he hated me still.
And with those last words they just stayed quiet and walked away, both Harry and Ron watched them and stayed put. Draco came up to me without anyone really noticing and passed by me, stopped slighlty at my side while passing and whispered,
"I didn't mean all that about you being a mudblood, you know that right?" he asked concerned that I might be mad at him. I just smiled at him and responded by saying,
"Lets just say if no one was around, I'd kiss you right now" That response made him smirk and he just walked away to his Slitherin friends, while I walked to Harry and Ron.
DRACO'S POV
I walked off towards my so called friends, thinking to myself, how good it was to hear Hermoine saying "Lets just say if no one was around, I'd kiss you right now", which symbolized the feelings she must have for me that I guess she wasn't neglecting anymore. Pansy began to talk to me, while I watched Hermoine in the background, being hugged by Weasly and Potter, and being questioned over and over again if she was alright. Pansy wouldn't shut up, but I wasn't listening all I could think of was tonight, and I had a feeling that was still pretty far off.
**Here is CHAPTER 9: a new interesting animal is introduced, Hermoine gives Harry and Ron big news, while at the same time encounters herself annoyed by two idiots. **Im taking someone's advice and gonna try spread out the dialogs more, so they are easier to read**
CHAPTER 9- A SITUATION IN MAGICAL CREATURES
DRACO'S POV
I felt a slight streak of light, so I opened my eyes and stared into the ceiling. I began to think about that odd dream I had last night, odd but wonderful. I dreamt that Hermoine came to sleep beside me. It felt so real. I felt breathing on my chest and looked down. I lifted my head up in shock and realized that is was no dream, Hermoine did come in the middle of the night and was now sleeping beside me.
I checked my watch and it was about 7, our Magical Creatures class started at 9, so we should be getting up. I lifted my head up slowly and just watched her sleep, so beautiful, so peaceful. I wondered when I started thinking like this, especially thinking about her like this, but I decided not to care, and kept breathing in her beauty.
She began to shift a bit in my arms. I brushed her cheek with my hand, and her eyes began to flutter open with a slight smile on her lips. I was sorta worried that once she woke up and remembered she was sleeping beside me she would freak out and run away, I noticed she's been doing that a lot, maybe worried to show her feelings to me, I don't know what it was. Her eyes came open and she looked up at me so I decided to speak, "Morning.." I whispered, telling myself not to kiss her or anything, just in case I scared her off.
"Hey you." she whispered back smiling. Then she just put her hand up to my cheek and said, "we should be getting up now."
She began to get up slowly, and she sat up on the couch and stretched a bit, but she still sat beside me, and I just watched her as she looked back at me. I really did not know what to say anymore with her, for fear that she might flip out and run. So I waited for her to say something first. And she finally did,
"Listen Draco, I think we should talk about some things, you know about us."
"I think your right" I replied back. Then she nodded.
"But not right now" she added "I have to get ready and meet Harry and Ron at the Griffindor tower, is that alright with you?" "Ya sure, so what about we talk tonight hmm?" I asked rapidly, showing to much eagerness, but it didn't seem she noticed, it was as if she were thinking about other things in her head.
"That sounds great!!! So I'll see you in class k?" And she happidly got up, began to walk away, but rushed back to me and gave me a quick peck on the cheek, smiled, then ran up the stairs smiling, and into her room. I couldn't help but smile myself.
HERMOINE'S POV
I was running down the hallway to the Griffindor tower as fast as I could to let Harry know about what Draco told me about the new Defence against the Dark Arts teacher. How could I be so stupid and not notice that? And how come no one else noticed? I guess we were all so surprised that she was soo pretty, that no one even noticed she didn't give out her name.
I got to the painting of the fat lady, said the password and made my way inside. I didn't see Harry or Ron there, so I decided to run up to their dormitories, I really didn't care if I was alowd there or not. I ran up the stairs, and pushed Neville out of the way apologizing but still making my way to Harry's room. I finally got there and I knocked, thankfully Harry said to come in, and thankfully he was dressed as was Ron too.
"Harry Harry Harry!!!" I yelled out making my way to him.
"Hermoine what you doing here, were supposed to go to our Magical Creatures class!" asked Ron.
"Nevermind that!" I snapped back "I got big news about the DADA teacher". I saw Harry's head whip around and turn to me.
"Well what is it Hermoine?" he pursued me to keep talking.
"Well I was talking to Draco and.." I was cut off by a surprised Ron.
"You were talking to Draco? You mean as in Draco Malfoy? Since when do you talk to him? And since when do you call him by his first name?" I looked at him with a slight snear or my face.
"Does it really matter Ron?" I snapped.
"Well I guess not it's just a bit odd." and he trailed off, as if he were in deep thought.
"Anyways, I was talking to him when I was in the library and I told him I was gonna find information on our DADA teacher. And then he asked me how I planned to do that? And then I asked him what he meant? And that's when he told me, something that I should of noticed before, he told me that the teacher never told us her name!!" unfortunatelly I didn't get the reaction I thought.
"Hermoine is that all?" Harry asked.
"Well don't you find that odd?" I surprisingly asked him.
"Well a bit, but I doubt it really means anything.I think." He replied.
"Well I think it does, so when we have class today we will see if she mentions her name, and if she doesn't, will just ask her when we get the chance, sound like a plan?" I asked again.
"Well alright" he hessitated.
"Maybe Hermoine is right Harry, it is abit odd that she didn't mention her name, usually teachers remind us over and over and over again!"
"Well alright guys, enough of the suspicious chit chat, lets just get some breakfast and make out way to Magical Creatures, we can say hi to Hagrid if we get there early!!"
"YEAH!!" they both replied at the same time. I just laughed at them and we made our way down stairs.
After breakfast the three of us went down, and outside the castle, to the grounds where Hagrid's house was. I guess Hagrid's was out and about cause he wasn't there yet, but it was natural for him to take a bit longer, I mean he was the gamekeeper, he was probaly doing some errands for the school.
We waited just chit chatting, when Ron got amazed by something.
"Oh Oh Oh, I think I saw a Maliwag."(which was a sort of rabbit but with no ears, and no long teeth or whiskers, and they were always kind of a mocha color, and they were Ron's favorite animal) "I think it's behind Hagrid's hut Im gonna go look for it, there mighty fast ya know" he said in an excited voice.
"Uh huh" replied Harry, watching Ron run off behind the Maliwag "Hold on a sec Hermoine, Im just gonna make sure Ron doesn't do anything stupid".
"Sure" I replied, laughing to myself because of Ron's excitement over the furry little thing.
I just waited, with my arms folded over my chest, and in the distance I could see some people coming, but they wouldn't be there any time soon. I turned my back to the castle facing the hut again, waiting for Ron and Harry. I soon heard some footsteps approaching me and then someone say "Hey baby!"
I turned around and rolled my eyes, it was no other then Crabe and Goyle, grinning and eyeing me with the same eyes they always did.
"Ugh, what do you two want? Leave me alone Im busy." I said wondering to myself that it certainly it would look like that I wasn't, standing there all by myself.
"So you doing anything tonight?" Crabe asked me grinning with an evil glint.
"What's it to you?" I asked with an attitude in my voice.
"Baby, come on, there is no need for that kind of talk. How about joining us two tonight for some little fun" Goyle smiled while he nudged Crabe who was also smiling.
I laughed out loud "hahaha, are you guys serious? Man, I wouldn't hang out with you two if my whole life depended on it! Hahaha!" I kept laughing, as I watched both there smiling faces become a scowl. And then they looked awfly angry. And then Crabe smirked once again and came up to me, and shocked me by putting his thick, big, grubby hands around my waist.
"Hey, this must be your once in a life time chance hun, don't act like you don't.." Crabe continued while I was trying to wriggle free and telling him to let me go and with Goyle laughing in the background.
He couldn't really continue talking, cause just then Harry and Ron were coming around the corner and Ron was talking about the Maliwag,
"Did ya see them Harry, wow there was three of them, sooo cute and fl..u.f.."Ron was cut off when both Harry and him saw me struggling with Crabbe's arms around me and me telling him to let go. Goyle stopped laughing as he saw Harry and Ron approaching.
"What do you think you doing?!!!" asked Ron, with a very angry voice.
"Ya, get off her!" And with that Harry tugged Crabe off by the collar of his robes and pushed him toward where Goyle was, while Ron came to me, very concerned thinking that they did something to me.
"Hermoine, Hermoine, are you alright? Look at me. Did they do anything to you?!?" he said so frightenly, and over exagerating while he put one arm on my shoulder and the other patting my cheek.
"Ron, come on, they didn't do anything, don't freak out, geeze!" I replied, knowing that he was flipping out unessesarily. He then pushed me slighty away behind him, and behind all the action and began yelling while most of the class arrived. It was mostly just a verbal fight. "If I ever see either of your chubby hands on her, Ill rip em' off I swear it!!" yelled out Ron.
"That's right! And if I ever hear that you guys just simply come near her, I will personally see that you guys answer to us both" Harry added. Now the four of them were just glaring at each other silently.
While they watched in an eye to eye silent battle, Draco pulled up beside me, and took a look at the four of them and said,
"Hey."
"Hello" I said taking a quick look at him and then back at the scene.
"What's going on here? Did Crabe and Goyle smell chip crumbs on Potter again?" he said in a making fun sort of voice that made me giggle.
"No not really, heehee." I answered
"Then what?" he asked again.
"Oh it was nothing really, I uhhhh..well they made a move on me." I saw Draco's eyes narrow down, and in a very subtle way he walked off towards the four. He went in between Crabe and Goyle and out of no where, he lifted his hands up to each their heads and hit them. They both turned to him, as if they were scared. I couldn't believe the control he had over them.
"What are you two idiots doing? You know that our fathers would not like us mingling with Potter and Weasley hmmm?!" demanded Draco.
"Sorry Malfoy, it's their fault for interrupting the conversation we were having with the mudblood!!" yelled out Goyle while pointing at me.
"Well since when do you two make conversation with pitiful Mudbloods!!?" he said in a meaningful voice that almost made me think that he hated me still.
And with those last words they just stayed quiet and walked away, both Harry and Ron watched them and stayed put. Draco came up to me without anyone really noticing and passed by me, stopped slighlty at my side while passing and whispered,
"I didn't mean all that about you being a mudblood, you know that right?" he asked concerned that I might be mad at him. I just smiled at him and responded by saying,
"Lets just say if no one was around, I'd kiss you right now" That response made him smirk and he just walked away to his Slitherin friends, while I walked to Harry and Ron.
DRACO'S POV
I walked off towards my so called friends, thinking to myself, how good it was to hear Hermoine saying "Lets just say if no one was around, I'd kiss you right now", which symbolized the feelings she must have for me that I guess she wasn't neglecting anymore. Pansy began to talk to me, while I watched Hermoine in the background, being hugged by Weasly and Potter, and being questioned over and over again if she was alright. Pansy wouldn't shut up, but I wasn't listening all I could think of was tonight, and I had a feeling that was still pretty far off.