A/N: WOW! 15 reviews. So happy. Oh and by the way, I 4got the disclaimer in
the last chappie, but I'm sure all you guys know what it is by now! I don't
even have a ken in my story! Wot am I doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Draco90: I was thinking along the same lines as you. The whole reason I wrote this is because I find some other fics annoying, coz Draco and Hermione get together in the first chappie! Way too fluffy. But, I'll have to get them together soon bcoz I am REALLY running outta ideas fast.
Disclaimer: I only own Hilary, and I used to own a Ken, but I'm not sure where he's gone now. Hmm, oh well. I don't own anyone else. Was his name even Ken?? There was never a ken and there will never be a ken.
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HERMIONE'S POV
"Hey Mione. How was detention?" Ron asked me as I sat down. Him and Hilary had already started on breakfast.
"Um it was very boring, although it didn't go for as long as it was supposed to. I was supposed to write my essay again, but I had already done that the night before."
"Ok. Oh, hi Harry, Ginny."
They all came in at the same time. "Hang on Ron. Why were you here before everyone else? Your usually the last one down." Ron turned a bright shade of pink. I noticed that Hilary had also looked down at her plate and was poking at it.
"Oh stop it you guys. Ron asked Hilary out this morning. That's why they were early. Now come on Hilary! What did you say?" Ginny was very upfront with these sorts of things.
"Yes." It was barely audible but we still understood what she said.
"Oh! That's brilliant! Congratulations Ron, Hilary!" they smiled sheepishly at us.
"Now at last we all have som." Harry stopped mid sentence and glanced at me. The others looked horror struck. I knew what he was about to say.
"Don't worry Harry. I don't have time for a boyfriend. My school work is much more important to me."
Harry breathed a sigh of relief and continued talking. I didn't want to admit it, but I did feel pretty left out. That was the last thought I had as I headed of to first period, and I didn't think about it for the rest of the day.
DRACO'S POV
"So, do you want to make it a masquerade ball or not?" Granger was looking at me expectantly. I had just come back from detention looking forward to a nice sleep when she came out of nowhere with quills and parchment. I was glad to see that she was acting as if nothing had happened the night before.
"Malfoy, earth to Malfoy! Yes I know I'm beautiful but it's making me uncomfortable having you stare at me like that." I jerked back to life. "So, do you want the mask bit or not!?"
"Um, I don't care. Whatever."
"Right then. I think that we should ban dates. You cannot bring a date to the ball. You have to hang around with people, of course not knowing who they are, and at the end of the ball find out who the person you've been dancing with is."
"No Granger. That is too complicating. You'll have to put all sorts of charms and crap to make sure no one breaks the rules."
"Fine then. But we're still having the masks. It has to be a secret of who you are until the unmasking."
"Yeah fine. Are you done now? It's only that it's already 2.00 am and I'm exhausted."
"Fine Malfoy. Go. We've finished anyway. I'll get the prefects to be in charge of decorating, and we'll be in charge of the details, flyers ect."
"Whatever." I couldn't believe how into this whole ball thing she was. I trudged up to bed looking forward to a good sleep. Dumbledore had given me a dreamless sleep potion. I had to get ready for my father's funeral on the Sunday.
HERMIONE'S POV
Tomorrow was the last day that Malfoy was going to be mine. He was still a jerk, and that was proved when he deliberately vanished my potion when I had turned around to get something. I hadn't ever gotten a zero for anything before. I wasn't as angry, because of what I had heard, but I realized that he wasn't going to change just because he father died. I was really going to make him pay tomorrow.
"Wake up ferret, wakey wakey up." I was screaming at his door. It was 6 in the morning, and I could tell he was still asleep. I charmed a pair of bass drums to play incredibly loud, yet only be heard by him.
"AHHHHHHH! SHUT THOSE F*CKING THINGS UP NOW!"
Good start. He was already pissed of. This was going how I wanted it. "I'll shut up if you get out here now."
He opened the door. "What the hell do you want Granger?" his eyes were still closed. I could fix that. I poured a bucket of cold water on top of his head. He yelped and looked at me. He was in short short teddy bear boxers. I quickly grabbed a camera and took a picture. He saw me and realization dawned on him. With that I fled of with him in pursuit, laughing into my room and locked it.
"If you want the picture back, then you had better be dressed and ready in five minutes. There's no need for a shower because I already gave you one!" with that I dissolved into tears of laughter. I could hear him walking back to his room, cursing and stomping.
Five minutes later he came out to the common room. I had blown the picture up so it was about the size of a regular book. On the top I had magicked words to shine and say 'Drowned Rat Ferret." The rat was deliberately crossed out. He looked at me with pure hatred in his eyes.
"Don't worry Malfoy. I won't show it to anyone. But I want something in return." I was serious now. "You are not to call me 'mudblood' for the rest of the year. If you say it, this picture is going public. By the way, I didn't know you like teddy bears. Takes away the whole 'Snake King' thing doesn't it?"
"Well, I didn't have anything else, because I unlike you, wash my clothes. And I don't usually have people storming into my room with blackmail tools."
"Yeah, you probably have sluts storming in looking for other 'tools'." And with that I walked out. It was really good to have the last word over Malfoy.
RON'S POV
(A/N: the rest of the gang haven't really been involved, so I'm going to write some on them as well.) Mmmm, pancakes and muffins, pumpkin juice and bacon, eggs and toast, this is the stuff that I like most! I was sitting at breakfast this morning. Hermione was sitting across from me talking to Hilary and Ginny about something. Harry was sitting next to me discussing quidditch tactics with one of the Gryffindor beaters. It was a routine in the morning. I would be too busy concentrating on breakfast and wouldn't speak to anyone for ten minutes. The rest would talk amongst themselves and then I would join in one of the conversations after my ten minutes. Hmm, who should I talk to? Well the girls were talking about the ball, so I ruled them out. Harry was too busy talking to the Gryffindor beater, so I decided to argue with Dean who was next to Hermione about Ballfoot, or whatever that muggle sport was. With anticipation in my mind, I finished my breakfast and turned to Dean.
GINNY'S POV
"I can't wait for the ball! Do we have to match out dates?" I asked Hermione all this. I wanted Harry and I to look wonderful.
"Yes, well I suppose you do, but you still have to disguise yourself! It makes it even more fun. That means that I can come over to your room for make up and stuff, but we have to get changed separately so we can't tell at the ball who is who."
Hermione sounded very excited about this. I felt a bit sorry for her. The other day when Harry had pointed out that Mione was the only one with out a boyfriend; I saw the look of her face. She really did feel left out. I had made Harry pay so dearly for what he had said.
Speaking of Harry, I looked at him. He looked so cute when he was serious. I listened half in to Hilary and Mione's conversation, and checked Harry out at the same time.
HARRY'S POV
I was talking to Derek Chino. He was a beater on the team, and his skills weren't up to scratch. He was good, but we still hadn't found a pair as good as the Weasley twins. The quidditch team, or the school just wasn't the same without them. Well, I suppose we'll get a pair like them soon enough. Seems to be a tradition at Hogwarts. The clock chimed. I had a class on this morning, even though it was Saturday. There weren't any classes scheduled, but I did have advanced DADA with the DADA teacher. I was the only one doing this because Dumbledore felt that I had to develop my fighting skills more, for the day I had to face Voldemort.
Since the day that the ministry believed that Voldemort was back, the whole of the wizarding community was on stand by. We were waiting for any signs of Voldemort. There had been minor disappearances here and there, which alerted everyone, but nothing had happened to the wizarding world as yet. It was speculated that he was gaining together a massive army, ready to fight the Ministry and all magical institutions everywhere. Everyone was on guard. We all knew why Dumbledore had gotten an Auror to teach DADA. And it was even more obvious because he was teaching us about hexes and defence spells. The Aurors had once again been given permission to use the Unforgivable Curses against death eaters and people associated with Voldemort.
I didn't even realize that I had reached the door of the DADA classroom. I walked in and took my wand out. This was one of the two added classes I had to do. I was still being taught Occlumency, except by Dumbledore. Snape refused to teach me after the incident in fifth year. Terence was standing there waiting for me. He insisted that I called him that out of class because Professor sounded too formal.
"Hello Harry. Is there any reason it took you a while to notice I was standing here?"
"Um, sorry Pro. Terence. I was just lost in thought. You weren't here when I first came in, so I was just thinking."
"Care to share?" I nodded my head. "Alright then. Let's start on the Shield Charm. I know that you still haven't mastered it. Yet, you are getting there."
I practised all the hexes that I had been taught. I was perfect at every single one. Everyone that is except the Shield Charm.
"You have to keep practising Harry. It is vital you don't let your training slip away. I think that's enough for today."
I thanked him, said goodbye and headed off to lunch. That afternoon I was just going to relax for a couple of hours, and then go to quidditch training.
HERMIONE'S POV
Harry had just left for his advanced DADA classes. I was so jealous to hear that Harry could take extra classes and I couldn't. I looked over at the Slytherin table. Today was the last day that I got to boss Malfoy around. I had to make the most of it. I knew that he had quidditch training on today. I saw him get up to walk out of the hall. Alone. Perfect.
"Ok, I have to go to the library and do some homework now. Seeya guys later!" they all said bye and I walked out of the hall. "Hey, Malfoy. Stop." He stopped dead in his tracks. I could hear him groan. "Ok, first things first. I need you to dress up like a little girls doll, lipstick, make up, little girly clothes and everything. Secondly, you are going to get on your broom at quidditch practice and fly around singing all the nursery rhymes you can think of. After that I want you to purposely sabotage your training session. Then after all that, at 5 to 12.00 I want you to run around the quidditch pitch three times singing a song of your choice. The only thing you can hold while your nude is a quaffle. That's all. Oh, and by the way. This is all to have been completed before 12.00 midday. Good Luck! Oh, I forgot. If anyone asks why your doing what your doing, say that you have the urge, and you've always wanted to do it. you know how true that is."
With that said I went of to find Ron, Hilary and Ginny. I had rented a wizards video camera to capture all this on tape so Harry wouldn't miss anything. I knew that the Slytherin training session started at 9.30. It was 9.45 at the moment, so we headed out to the quidditch pitch quickly and sat in the stands.
We saw the Slytherin team come out. Malfoy came out with a little baby dress, a bow in his hair, and awful looking make up. He was singing loudly and shrilly. I quickly turned the camcorder on and began to tape. It was hilarious. He looked like a complete fool. Soon word had gotten out what was happening, and what looked like the whole school came out to see him. It was slowly nearing 5 minutes to midday. We waited in anticipation. 11.55. He should start right about now. Instead he stopped singing and came over to where I was sitting.
"Guess what 'mudblood'?" I looked at him in shock. He was smirking back at me.
"Our quidditch game finished at 5 to 12. You just rounded it off." He sneered at me and flew of to the changing rooms.
"Damnit. I can't believe I didn't think of that!" the big finale was ruined.
"Don't worry Mione. He still made a jerk of himself in front of the whole school." Hilary smiled at me encouragingly.
"Yeah I guess. Oh well. That's the end of tormenting Malfoy. I was really beginning to enjoy it." Everyone left the grounds still chortling and laughing. I knew that Malfoy was going to be the topic of conversation for quite a while. Well, he always was quite the attention seeker, and he's gotten what he wants, I thought to myself with a smirk. We walked into the castle and went of to find Harry and show him the tape.
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A/N: Phew! My longest chapter yet! I have sore shoulders now from all that typing. Well, at least I managed to post pone the much awaited D/Hr moment. (pats myself on the back). Neways, I'll update again really soon. Keep those reviews coming!
Draco90: I was thinking along the same lines as you. The whole reason I wrote this is because I find some other fics annoying, coz Draco and Hermione get together in the first chappie! Way too fluffy. But, I'll have to get them together soon bcoz I am REALLY running outta ideas fast.
Disclaimer: I only own Hilary, and I used to own a Ken, but I'm not sure where he's gone now. Hmm, oh well. I don't own anyone else. Was his name even Ken?? There was never a ken and there will never be a ken.
~*~*~*~ Chapter 7: The Last Torment ~*~*~*~
HERMIONE'S POV
"Hey Mione. How was detention?" Ron asked me as I sat down. Him and Hilary had already started on breakfast.
"Um it was very boring, although it didn't go for as long as it was supposed to. I was supposed to write my essay again, but I had already done that the night before."
"Ok. Oh, hi Harry, Ginny."
They all came in at the same time. "Hang on Ron. Why were you here before everyone else? Your usually the last one down." Ron turned a bright shade of pink. I noticed that Hilary had also looked down at her plate and was poking at it.
"Oh stop it you guys. Ron asked Hilary out this morning. That's why they were early. Now come on Hilary! What did you say?" Ginny was very upfront with these sorts of things.
"Yes." It was barely audible but we still understood what she said.
"Oh! That's brilliant! Congratulations Ron, Hilary!" they smiled sheepishly at us.
"Now at last we all have som." Harry stopped mid sentence and glanced at me. The others looked horror struck. I knew what he was about to say.
"Don't worry Harry. I don't have time for a boyfriend. My school work is much more important to me."
Harry breathed a sigh of relief and continued talking. I didn't want to admit it, but I did feel pretty left out. That was the last thought I had as I headed of to first period, and I didn't think about it for the rest of the day.
DRACO'S POV
"So, do you want to make it a masquerade ball or not?" Granger was looking at me expectantly. I had just come back from detention looking forward to a nice sleep when she came out of nowhere with quills and parchment. I was glad to see that she was acting as if nothing had happened the night before.
"Malfoy, earth to Malfoy! Yes I know I'm beautiful but it's making me uncomfortable having you stare at me like that." I jerked back to life. "So, do you want the mask bit or not!?"
"Um, I don't care. Whatever."
"Right then. I think that we should ban dates. You cannot bring a date to the ball. You have to hang around with people, of course not knowing who they are, and at the end of the ball find out who the person you've been dancing with is."
"No Granger. That is too complicating. You'll have to put all sorts of charms and crap to make sure no one breaks the rules."
"Fine then. But we're still having the masks. It has to be a secret of who you are until the unmasking."
"Yeah fine. Are you done now? It's only that it's already 2.00 am and I'm exhausted."
"Fine Malfoy. Go. We've finished anyway. I'll get the prefects to be in charge of decorating, and we'll be in charge of the details, flyers ect."
"Whatever." I couldn't believe how into this whole ball thing she was. I trudged up to bed looking forward to a good sleep. Dumbledore had given me a dreamless sleep potion. I had to get ready for my father's funeral on the Sunday.
HERMIONE'S POV
Tomorrow was the last day that Malfoy was going to be mine. He was still a jerk, and that was proved when he deliberately vanished my potion when I had turned around to get something. I hadn't ever gotten a zero for anything before. I wasn't as angry, because of what I had heard, but I realized that he wasn't going to change just because he father died. I was really going to make him pay tomorrow.
"Wake up ferret, wakey wakey up." I was screaming at his door. It was 6 in the morning, and I could tell he was still asleep. I charmed a pair of bass drums to play incredibly loud, yet only be heard by him.
"AHHHHHHH! SHUT THOSE F*CKING THINGS UP NOW!"
Good start. He was already pissed of. This was going how I wanted it. "I'll shut up if you get out here now."
He opened the door. "What the hell do you want Granger?" his eyes were still closed. I could fix that. I poured a bucket of cold water on top of his head. He yelped and looked at me. He was in short short teddy bear boxers. I quickly grabbed a camera and took a picture. He saw me and realization dawned on him. With that I fled of with him in pursuit, laughing into my room and locked it.
"If you want the picture back, then you had better be dressed and ready in five minutes. There's no need for a shower because I already gave you one!" with that I dissolved into tears of laughter. I could hear him walking back to his room, cursing and stomping.
Five minutes later he came out to the common room. I had blown the picture up so it was about the size of a regular book. On the top I had magicked words to shine and say 'Drowned Rat Ferret." The rat was deliberately crossed out. He looked at me with pure hatred in his eyes.
"Don't worry Malfoy. I won't show it to anyone. But I want something in return." I was serious now. "You are not to call me 'mudblood' for the rest of the year. If you say it, this picture is going public. By the way, I didn't know you like teddy bears. Takes away the whole 'Snake King' thing doesn't it?"
"Well, I didn't have anything else, because I unlike you, wash my clothes. And I don't usually have people storming into my room with blackmail tools."
"Yeah, you probably have sluts storming in looking for other 'tools'." And with that I walked out. It was really good to have the last word over Malfoy.
RON'S POV
(A/N: the rest of the gang haven't really been involved, so I'm going to write some on them as well.) Mmmm, pancakes and muffins, pumpkin juice and bacon, eggs and toast, this is the stuff that I like most! I was sitting at breakfast this morning. Hermione was sitting across from me talking to Hilary and Ginny about something. Harry was sitting next to me discussing quidditch tactics with one of the Gryffindor beaters. It was a routine in the morning. I would be too busy concentrating on breakfast and wouldn't speak to anyone for ten minutes. The rest would talk amongst themselves and then I would join in one of the conversations after my ten minutes. Hmm, who should I talk to? Well the girls were talking about the ball, so I ruled them out. Harry was too busy talking to the Gryffindor beater, so I decided to argue with Dean who was next to Hermione about Ballfoot, or whatever that muggle sport was. With anticipation in my mind, I finished my breakfast and turned to Dean.
GINNY'S POV
"I can't wait for the ball! Do we have to match out dates?" I asked Hermione all this. I wanted Harry and I to look wonderful.
"Yes, well I suppose you do, but you still have to disguise yourself! It makes it even more fun. That means that I can come over to your room for make up and stuff, but we have to get changed separately so we can't tell at the ball who is who."
Hermione sounded very excited about this. I felt a bit sorry for her. The other day when Harry had pointed out that Mione was the only one with out a boyfriend; I saw the look of her face. She really did feel left out. I had made Harry pay so dearly for what he had said.
Speaking of Harry, I looked at him. He looked so cute when he was serious. I listened half in to Hilary and Mione's conversation, and checked Harry out at the same time.
HARRY'S POV
I was talking to Derek Chino. He was a beater on the team, and his skills weren't up to scratch. He was good, but we still hadn't found a pair as good as the Weasley twins. The quidditch team, or the school just wasn't the same without them. Well, I suppose we'll get a pair like them soon enough. Seems to be a tradition at Hogwarts. The clock chimed. I had a class on this morning, even though it was Saturday. There weren't any classes scheduled, but I did have advanced DADA with the DADA teacher. I was the only one doing this because Dumbledore felt that I had to develop my fighting skills more, for the day I had to face Voldemort.
Since the day that the ministry believed that Voldemort was back, the whole of the wizarding community was on stand by. We were waiting for any signs of Voldemort. There had been minor disappearances here and there, which alerted everyone, but nothing had happened to the wizarding world as yet. It was speculated that he was gaining together a massive army, ready to fight the Ministry and all magical institutions everywhere. Everyone was on guard. We all knew why Dumbledore had gotten an Auror to teach DADA. And it was even more obvious because he was teaching us about hexes and defence spells. The Aurors had once again been given permission to use the Unforgivable Curses against death eaters and people associated with Voldemort.
I didn't even realize that I had reached the door of the DADA classroom. I walked in and took my wand out. This was one of the two added classes I had to do. I was still being taught Occlumency, except by Dumbledore. Snape refused to teach me after the incident in fifth year. Terence was standing there waiting for me. He insisted that I called him that out of class because Professor sounded too formal.
"Hello Harry. Is there any reason it took you a while to notice I was standing here?"
"Um, sorry Pro. Terence. I was just lost in thought. You weren't here when I first came in, so I was just thinking."
"Care to share?" I nodded my head. "Alright then. Let's start on the Shield Charm. I know that you still haven't mastered it. Yet, you are getting there."
I practised all the hexes that I had been taught. I was perfect at every single one. Everyone that is except the Shield Charm.
"You have to keep practising Harry. It is vital you don't let your training slip away. I think that's enough for today."
I thanked him, said goodbye and headed off to lunch. That afternoon I was just going to relax for a couple of hours, and then go to quidditch training.
HERMIONE'S POV
Harry had just left for his advanced DADA classes. I was so jealous to hear that Harry could take extra classes and I couldn't. I looked over at the Slytherin table. Today was the last day that I got to boss Malfoy around. I had to make the most of it. I knew that he had quidditch training on today. I saw him get up to walk out of the hall. Alone. Perfect.
"Ok, I have to go to the library and do some homework now. Seeya guys later!" they all said bye and I walked out of the hall. "Hey, Malfoy. Stop." He stopped dead in his tracks. I could hear him groan. "Ok, first things first. I need you to dress up like a little girls doll, lipstick, make up, little girly clothes and everything. Secondly, you are going to get on your broom at quidditch practice and fly around singing all the nursery rhymes you can think of. After that I want you to purposely sabotage your training session. Then after all that, at 5 to 12.00 I want you to run around the quidditch pitch three times singing a song of your choice. The only thing you can hold while your nude is a quaffle. That's all. Oh, and by the way. This is all to have been completed before 12.00 midday. Good Luck! Oh, I forgot. If anyone asks why your doing what your doing, say that you have the urge, and you've always wanted to do it. you know how true that is."
With that said I went of to find Ron, Hilary and Ginny. I had rented a wizards video camera to capture all this on tape so Harry wouldn't miss anything. I knew that the Slytherin training session started at 9.30. It was 9.45 at the moment, so we headed out to the quidditch pitch quickly and sat in the stands.
We saw the Slytherin team come out. Malfoy came out with a little baby dress, a bow in his hair, and awful looking make up. He was singing loudly and shrilly. I quickly turned the camcorder on and began to tape. It was hilarious. He looked like a complete fool. Soon word had gotten out what was happening, and what looked like the whole school came out to see him. It was slowly nearing 5 minutes to midday. We waited in anticipation. 11.55. He should start right about now. Instead he stopped singing and came over to where I was sitting.
"Guess what 'mudblood'?" I looked at him in shock. He was smirking back at me.
"Our quidditch game finished at 5 to 12. You just rounded it off." He sneered at me and flew of to the changing rooms.
"Damnit. I can't believe I didn't think of that!" the big finale was ruined.
"Don't worry Mione. He still made a jerk of himself in front of the whole school." Hilary smiled at me encouragingly.
"Yeah I guess. Oh well. That's the end of tormenting Malfoy. I was really beginning to enjoy it." Everyone left the grounds still chortling and laughing. I knew that Malfoy was going to be the topic of conversation for quite a while. Well, he always was quite the attention seeker, and he's gotten what he wants, I thought to myself with a smirk. We walked into the castle and went of to find Harry and show him the tape.
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A/N: Phew! My longest chapter yet! I have sore shoulders now from all that typing. Well, at least I managed to post pone the much awaited D/Hr moment. (pats myself on the back). Neways, I'll update again really soon. Keep those reviews coming!