Chapter three
About an hour later, while people were still finishing their homework, the dormitory door creaked open. Someone peered in the room, but Hermione didn't know who as the only light source she had bothered to turn on was just to pull the shades away, letting in the moonlight. The person, at the moment she didn't really care who it was, came over to the other side of Hermione's bed and looked at her. Hermione could she in the small amount of moonlight streaming in that it was Ginny. Ginny sat on the end of Hermione's bed and looked at her. Hermione had her head turn though; she didn't really want to discuss what happened.
Hermione was sure that everyone probably thought she was crying up here and that's why they were staying in the common room a little longer then usual. But she wasn't. She was just angry; she just felt pure anger towards him. She wanted nothing more to then to get back at him. She knew she wasn't really like he had said, but is that that what everyone thought she was like too. She knew she could be a wild child and have adventures, part of the reason she was sorted into Gryffindor. It just wasn't a thing she always faulted carelessly around.
"Hermione?" Ginny asked carefully, snapping Hermione's thoughts back to earth
"Yeah Gin?" asked Hermione, not taking her eyes are from the window
"Are you ok, I mean because of... the..." she trailed off obviously not wanting to make Hermione relive the experience.
Hermione didn't really know what to say. Ginny was her best girlfriend, the one she went to with boy trouble, the one who even help her and Harry get together. She couldn't lie to her and the truth was, she wasn't fine. Their first fight had been more painful then she thought. 'Why couldn't we just fight over stupid things like who does better in class, like Ron and Lavender do?' she thought warily to herself.
Hermione took a deep breath, which ended up in somewhat of a sigh
"Yeah, I'm fine Gin"
"Don't give me 'fine Gin' I KNOW something's wrong!" said Ginny raising her eyebrows, expecting for Hermione to say something "You don't just barricade yourself in your dorm after a fight with Harry. Infact you don't even HAVE fights, so something must be up. And you KNOW you can tell me, Hermione."
Hermione didn't answer for the longest time, just listened to the wind rolling off the window. But Ginny was patient and she let Hermione take her time.
"Well..." Hermione started off thoughtfully, still staring at the window "the fight was exactly the problem."
"...What do you mean?"
"I mean he made me question who I really was. But only I know who I am, so where does he get off TELLING me that I'm doomed to be a... a HOUSEWIFE!" he words getting louder along with her anger. Hermione took a small breath a the end before continuing on a little more calmly "I just want to show him it's not true. He really hurt me back their Gin, I just want... well I s'pose I just want revenge"
"Revenge?" Ginny asked quietly in an almost disbelieve voice.
Hermione turned her head toward her friend and saw she was wearing a confused look. Hermione couldn't blame her she had never said anything like that before.
"Yeah... I s'pose I do" said Hermione quietly thinking over possibilities to put this plan into action.
"B-but Hermione... I don't think..."
"Look Gin, if you don't want to help, that's fine, but don't try to change my mind" Hermione said in the calmest voice she could use while feeling all this anger.
Ginny didn't answer for a moment and Hermione even thought she really was going to leave. But just then Ginny answered in a sort of hollow voice.
"Yeah I'll help... But why don't you ask Ron he's better at this stuff then me"
"Because" Hermione started bitterly "Of course he going to be on Harry's side, he always is. Harry was probably already explaining it to Ron, right Ginny?"
"Well... yeah, ok. So what do you- need help with then?"
"I want to-to do something to show Harry that I'm not at all what he thinks I'm like. That I can do something adventurous and totally risk taking, that one would have thought of" she replied thoughtfully.
"Then go ski diving, that's the last place most people would imagine you" said Ginny with a smirk.
"OK, one, I have to be able to do it soon you know at Hogwarts, and two, I said adventurous, not stupid Gin" Hermione said making both girls giggle slightly.
They both sat thoughtfully thinking of what would to the trick, it had to be good. It had to be something totally out of the blue.
"It's got to be something to hurt him-"
"WHAT?!?" asked Ginny sounding terrified "You want to-"
"Not physically. I mean so he knows just how painful it was for me..."
"Oh!!" said Ginny laughing and letting out a deep breath "I was going to say... Hey," started Ginny laughing, saying the first think that came to mind "Maybe you should kiss Malfoy... that'd be something, eh? Yeah right though"
Ginny was laughing really hard for a while, before she noticed that Hermione wasn't laughing with her. Ginny turned toward Hermione to see an evil smile across her face.
"Hermione?" Ginny asked in confusion "what are you thinking ab- OH, NO NO NO NO NO!!!! Hermione, you can't do THAT I was only joking!! You can't-"
"It's perfect though. it complies with everything" Hermione said so quietly Ginny almost couldn't hear.
"HERMIONE! Do you KNOW what you are saying? Your saying you want to... KISS (Ginny shook, like the thought scared her) Malfoy... besides there is NO way he's going to agree-"
"Look thanks for the idea Gin, I gotta go..." said Hermione rushing downstairs leaving Ginny bitting her lower lip for even suggesting the idea.
Hermione knew what she needed to do. All she had to do was perform a disillusion charm, then go to the Slyitherin common through the fire. Lucky for her, the year before Ron and Harry had illegally set up a floo route between the common rooms' (they were trying to catch Malfoy, communicating with Voldemort, which they never were able to do, and decided it was just too risky)
Hermione could hear Ginny starting to come down the stair so Hermione, on the step she had stopped on, preformed the charm and quietly went into the common room. Though it didn't really matter since everyone was talking loudly already. She went towards the fireplace, where luckily no one was by, and grabbed some floo powder from a small sack Harry had left on the mantle. After she threw it in, she turned for a moment behind her. Harry and Ron were on a couch a little while away and Ginny was making her way over to them looking utterly confused of where Hermione could've gone. Just before Hermione left, she caught a few words.
"I don't get why she got so mad, I mean you were just being truthful weren't you?" asked Ron shaking his head
"I thought so..." trailed off Harry thoughtfully as Ginny stopped by them
"Have you seen Hermione come through her?" asked Ginny
"No... Why? Is Hermione not upstairs?" asked Harry standing up, obviously alarmed at Hermione not being there. Ginny hesitated before she spoke again.
"Uh- No, it's just the dorm door was locked, so she's probably sleeping, never mind I was just wondering"
"OH- ok" said Harry a little calmer taking a seat again
Hermione took one last look before whispering the words. Suddenly the room around her was spinning and she came out onto the Slytherin common room. There were only four other people in the common room, but no one she knew and they were all under their 6th year. Hermione had never been in the Slytherin common room before; it was decorated in the Slytherin colors. There was a huge painting of a long green snake over the two staircases. And beside that and a bunch of pictures of Salazar Slytherin himself, it basically was the same. But Hermione didn't have much time to look around anymore; instead, she quickly took the stair that lead to the boy's dormitory. Hermione went to the last door, knowing it must be the 7th year. She peered in the crack that was open between the door, but couldn't see much of anything. She did see Malfoy though on a bed close to the window. He hadn't pulled the hangings over his bed. She couldn't see much of him though besides his head, since it was the only thing stick out of the silk green covers embroidered with a silver snake. But she saw enough to notice he wasn't wearing a shirt.
Hermione quickly tore he gaze away, wondering why the heck she had been looking so intently. Instead she, slowly and quietly made her way over to his school bad by his bedside. She shuffled through it for a while, not knowing exactly what she was looking for. Finally she found just the thing that would work. She took the green leather book from his bag; happy that her plan was finally unfolding just the way she wanted it to!
About an hour later, while people were still finishing their homework, the dormitory door creaked open. Someone peered in the room, but Hermione didn't know who as the only light source she had bothered to turn on was just to pull the shades away, letting in the moonlight. The person, at the moment she didn't really care who it was, came over to the other side of Hermione's bed and looked at her. Hermione could she in the small amount of moonlight streaming in that it was Ginny. Ginny sat on the end of Hermione's bed and looked at her. Hermione had her head turn though; she didn't really want to discuss what happened.
Hermione was sure that everyone probably thought she was crying up here and that's why they were staying in the common room a little longer then usual. But she wasn't. She was just angry; she just felt pure anger towards him. She wanted nothing more to then to get back at him. She knew she wasn't really like he had said, but is that that what everyone thought she was like too. She knew she could be a wild child and have adventures, part of the reason she was sorted into Gryffindor. It just wasn't a thing she always faulted carelessly around.
"Hermione?" Ginny asked carefully, snapping Hermione's thoughts back to earth
"Yeah Gin?" asked Hermione, not taking her eyes are from the window
"Are you ok, I mean because of... the..." she trailed off obviously not wanting to make Hermione relive the experience.
Hermione didn't really know what to say. Ginny was her best girlfriend, the one she went to with boy trouble, the one who even help her and Harry get together. She couldn't lie to her and the truth was, she wasn't fine. Their first fight had been more painful then she thought. 'Why couldn't we just fight over stupid things like who does better in class, like Ron and Lavender do?' she thought warily to herself.
Hermione took a deep breath, which ended up in somewhat of a sigh
"Yeah, I'm fine Gin"
"Don't give me 'fine Gin' I KNOW something's wrong!" said Ginny raising her eyebrows, expecting for Hermione to say something "You don't just barricade yourself in your dorm after a fight with Harry. Infact you don't even HAVE fights, so something must be up. And you KNOW you can tell me, Hermione."
Hermione didn't answer for the longest time, just listened to the wind rolling off the window. But Ginny was patient and she let Hermione take her time.
"Well..." Hermione started off thoughtfully, still staring at the window "the fight was exactly the problem."
"...What do you mean?"
"I mean he made me question who I really was. But only I know who I am, so where does he get off TELLING me that I'm doomed to be a... a HOUSEWIFE!" he words getting louder along with her anger. Hermione took a small breath a the end before continuing on a little more calmly "I just want to show him it's not true. He really hurt me back their Gin, I just want... well I s'pose I just want revenge"
"Revenge?" Ginny asked quietly in an almost disbelieve voice.
Hermione turned her head toward her friend and saw she was wearing a confused look. Hermione couldn't blame her she had never said anything like that before.
"Yeah... I s'pose I do" said Hermione quietly thinking over possibilities to put this plan into action.
"B-but Hermione... I don't think..."
"Look Gin, if you don't want to help, that's fine, but don't try to change my mind" Hermione said in the calmest voice she could use while feeling all this anger.
Ginny didn't answer for a moment and Hermione even thought she really was going to leave. But just then Ginny answered in a sort of hollow voice.
"Yeah I'll help... But why don't you ask Ron he's better at this stuff then me"
"Because" Hermione started bitterly "Of course he going to be on Harry's side, he always is. Harry was probably already explaining it to Ron, right Ginny?"
"Well... yeah, ok. So what do you- need help with then?"
"I want to-to do something to show Harry that I'm not at all what he thinks I'm like. That I can do something adventurous and totally risk taking, that one would have thought of" she replied thoughtfully.
"Then go ski diving, that's the last place most people would imagine you" said Ginny with a smirk.
"OK, one, I have to be able to do it soon you know at Hogwarts, and two, I said adventurous, not stupid Gin" Hermione said making both girls giggle slightly.
They both sat thoughtfully thinking of what would to the trick, it had to be good. It had to be something totally out of the blue.
"It's got to be something to hurt him-"
"WHAT?!?" asked Ginny sounding terrified "You want to-"
"Not physically. I mean so he knows just how painful it was for me..."
"Oh!!" said Ginny laughing and letting out a deep breath "I was going to say... Hey," started Ginny laughing, saying the first think that came to mind "Maybe you should kiss Malfoy... that'd be something, eh? Yeah right though"
Ginny was laughing really hard for a while, before she noticed that Hermione wasn't laughing with her. Ginny turned toward Hermione to see an evil smile across her face.
"Hermione?" Ginny asked in confusion "what are you thinking ab- OH, NO NO NO NO NO!!!! Hermione, you can't do THAT I was only joking!! You can't-"
"It's perfect though. it complies with everything" Hermione said so quietly Ginny almost couldn't hear.
"HERMIONE! Do you KNOW what you are saying? Your saying you want to... KISS (Ginny shook, like the thought scared her) Malfoy... besides there is NO way he's going to agree-"
"Look thanks for the idea Gin, I gotta go..." said Hermione rushing downstairs leaving Ginny bitting her lower lip for even suggesting the idea.
Hermione knew what she needed to do. All she had to do was perform a disillusion charm, then go to the Slyitherin common through the fire. Lucky for her, the year before Ron and Harry had illegally set up a floo route between the common rooms' (they were trying to catch Malfoy, communicating with Voldemort, which they never were able to do, and decided it was just too risky)
Hermione could hear Ginny starting to come down the stair so Hermione, on the step she had stopped on, preformed the charm and quietly went into the common room. Though it didn't really matter since everyone was talking loudly already. She went towards the fireplace, where luckily no one was by, and grabbed some floo powder from a small sack Harry had left on the mantle. After she threw it in, she turned for a moment behind her. Harry and Ron were on a couch a little while away and Ginny was making her way over to them looking utterly confused of where Hermione could've gone. Just before Hermione left, she caught a few words.
"I don't get why she got so mad, I mean you were just being truthful weren't you?" asked Ron shaking his head
"I thought so..." trailed off Harry thoughtfully as Ginny stopped by them
"Have you seen Hermione come through her?" asked Ginny
"No... Why? Is Hermione not upstairs?" asked Harry standing up, obviously alarmed at Hermione not being there. Ginny hesitated before she spoke again.
"Uh- No, it's just the dorm door was locked, so she's probably sleeping, never mind I was just wondering"
"OH- ok" said Harry a little calmer taking a seat again
Hermione took one last look before whispering the words. Suddenly the room around her was spinning and she came out onto the Slytherin common room. There were only four other people in the common room, but no one she knew and they were all under their 6th year. Hermione had never been in the Slytherin common room before; it was decorated in the Slytherin colors. There was a huge painting of a long green snake over the two staircases. And beside that and a bunch of pictures of Salazar Slytherin himself, it basically was the same. But Hermione didn't have much time to look around anymore; instead, she quickly took the stair that lead to the boy's dormitory. Hermione went to the last door, knowing it must be the 7th year. She peered in the crack that was open between the door, but couldn't see much of anything. She did see Malfoy though on a bed close to the window. He hadn't pulled the hangings over his bed. She couldn't see much of him though besides his head, since it was the only thing stick out of the silk green covers embroidered with a silver snake. But she saw enough to notice he wasn't wearing a shirt.
Hermione quickly tore he gaze away, wondering why the heck she had been looking so intently. Instead she, slowly and quietly made her way over to his school bad by his bedside. She shuffled through it for a while, not knowing exactly what she was looking for. Finally she found just the thing that would work. She took the green leather book from his bag; happy that her plan was finally unfolding just the way she wanted it to!