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~*~*~*~ Chapter 15: Arrival at Hogwarts ~*~*~*~
HERMIONE'S POV
I had packed all my stuff. Everything was sitting on my bed. We had been notified of what was happening. We were going after the Leaving Feast. I was walking around the school. Ron and Harry were also walking with me. We were visiting every classroom and everyone else. I just felt that it was more significant if Ron, Harry and I went together. We were after all best friends and had been the trio for a long time. It was awfully silent between us, but it was a comfortable one.
We had walked around the whole school and outside. There was only one place to visit. We had gone everywhere and now headed to a very familiar door. I pushed it open. A wailing could be heard from the end. I grinned at Harry and Ron. We walked down to where she was crying.
"We just came to say goodbye," Harry told her.
Moaning Myrtle appeared out of the cubicle. She had been crying once again in the U-bend.
"Myrtle, we're really going to miss you, you know," I told her as I stomped on Ron's foot.
"You guys were *sniff* the only ones who came to visit me" she cried at us.
Of course we hadn't come in all the time, but since second year, her bathroom had sort of become a secret meeting place for us. I stepped on Ron's foot again.
"Yeah, Myrtle. It's going to be a shame not seeing you again. I'm sure someone else will come and keep you company." Ron had a large grin on his face when he said this. We all did actually.
"Ok then. I guess we'll see you later Myrtle. Bye" I said.
"Yeah, see ya later Myrtle" Ron said.
"We might see you someday in another bathroom or something, who knows" Harry told her.
"Bye Hermione, Ron, and Harry" she batted her eyes at the later.
We ran out of there and down the hall, where we burst into laughter.
"I really hope I never see her again" Ron managed to gasp out.
We lay there for a while laughing, then the sad mood dawned on us again. We didn't have to go and see the other ghosts as they were coming with us to the new place. They added a bit of Hogwarts to the new castle.
"Hey you guys! I almost forgot! We haven't gone and said goodbye to Sir Cadogan!" I started towards the Divination room.
"Chill Mione. That loser is coming to the new castle. All the portraits are" Ron told me.
"Oh, ok then. That's all right. Do you guys want to go and sit at our tree?"
They nodded. It was a nice sunny day. We lay down underneath the usual tree. I was watching the cloud shapes through the leaves.
"You know. I'm really going to miss this place," Ron announced. We mumbled in agreement. The rest of the afternoon was spent like that on our backs, discussing our years at Hogwarts. It started to get dark.
"I think the feast is going to start. We'd better go now." We went and sat together in our usual spots on the Gryffindor table. Hilary and Ginny respected our last day and were sitting with their year level. Soon Dean, Seamus, Neville, Parvati and Lavender joined us. We sat together and talked. Dumbledore stood up.
"Now even though the year isn't over, I think many of you want the house cup to be awarded. Now the points stand as thus. Hufflepuff in fourth place, on 346 points. Raven claw in third place on 412 points. Gryffindor in second place on 498 points." There was a feeble applause from everyone. We had won the house cup for six years in a row, and in our last year we didn't win it. "And Slytherin on 503 points." There was a large roar from the table at the opposite end. I applauded politely.
"However." The whole hall went silent. "The new castle that will retain the same name as this one will be functioning as a school. Therefore, the house cup will be awarded at the end of the year as normal. I suggest you keep up the behaviour. You still have a chance of winning the House Cup, and the Quidditch Cup will continue on."
Everyone cheered. The Slytherin's looked disappointed. Harry looked alarmed.
"I didn't know the Quidditch Cup is still up for grabs! We are going to start training as soon as we get there more vigorously and more often." He began formulating strategies under his breath. I rolled my eyes and turned to talk to Lavender and Parvati and eat my dinner.
The feast came to an end. Ron, Harry, Ginny, Hilary, Draco and I made our way to the special portkey spot. McGonagall was waiting for us.
"Ok. Now I want you to hold all your possessions in one hand. Ms Granger, please hold this piece of gum and onto Harry. Harry you may hold onto Ron, Ron please hold onto Ginny. Ginny you can hold Draco and Draco, you hold onto Hilary. The portkey is due to go in twenty seconds."
We waited for twenty seconds, and then I felt a tug behind my navel. We were lifted into a blur of colour and wind. I held Harry's hand tightly, although we were magnetically pulled together anyway. In a matter of seconds we fell onto the lavishly carpeted floor of a large hall. There was a small x marked on the floor. We had landed on this x. we quickly moved out of the way waiting for the next group of people. Slowly groups of people began to emerge. They all gathered around in small groups. We told them to stand to one side. Soon enough everyone was there. Filch had come in with the last group. I handed out a map to each student. McGonagall had given me a list of room arrangements. I got the groups of four together and marked on their map where they were staying. This map was sort of the same as the marauders. It showed where everything was, but instead of showing everyone as dots, only the keeper of the map was shown on the map. As a safety precaution the map would disappear on Monday before the post. All the owls had been taken somewhere else. Once everyone had been sorted out and the six of us were the only one's left, we looked to see where we would be staying. I was staying in a room with Ginny and Hilary. Ron, Harry and Draco were staying together.
Our rooms were right next to each other. They were a bit separate from everyone else's. The rooms were wonderful. They were huge. There was a small common room in the dorm. I saw a door. It led into the boy's room. I knocked and they opened it. They looked surprised at me. I said hello and shut the door.
Our room was great. There were four gigantic beds. We decided to use the left over bed as a couch. I put all my clothes into the cupboard. The bathroom was wonderful. There were three separate showers and three separate toilets. That was good. I wouldn't have to wait for a shower in the morning. I went back into the common room. There was a large clock on the wall. The hands showed when it was class one, class two, ect. As well as all the meals. I had brought with me a lot of lollies from Honeydukes and so many bottles of butterbeer just in case there wasn't any here. Everyone had bought a little, but Draco had bought the most because of the truckload of money he owned. He would be sharing with us anyway. Speaking of, I should go and pay him a visit.
"Hey, Ginny, Hilary. I'm just popping over next door. I'll be back in a bit ok?"
"Yeah sure Mione" came their muffled replies. They were reading the witchy magazines we had bought. I knocked on the adjoining door. Draco opened it.
"Hey. I thought I'd come by and check out your rooms." There were the butterflies again. His eyes were so captivating.
"Ok Mione. Come on in." Their room was basically the same as ours. They had another door on the other side of the wall though. I opened it. There was an extra room in there. I could see someone had claimed the private room.
"So who's got the private room?" I asked Draco.
"I do," he replied.
"That's not fair. We don't have an extra room, and we are the one's who need extra space anyway!" I said to him indignantly. I turned to go back out of the room.
DRACO'S POV
I was feeling so nervous around her. It wasn't right. I wasn't supposed to feel uncomfortable with her. She looked around and then turned around to exit the room. I moved to the left to let her pass. She also stepped to the left. I quickly went to the right and so did she. She was grinning at me, and I was grinning at her. I stayed where so she could get out before me. She also stayed, expectantly waiting for me to move. I looked in her eyes. They were a nice brown with little flecks of yellow. I couldn't stand this. I stepped towards her.
"You know what? I'm sick of this whole friends thing. I don't want to be friends with you Mione." She looked at me knowingly. I grabbed the back of her head and pulled her into me. She kissed me. It was all perfect again. I kissed her mouth ferociously back. I shut the door with one hand and we sat on my bed. I lay there kissing her, happy that she didn't reject me like I thought she would.
HARRY'S POV
I looked at the clock on the wall. The hand was pointing to 'Suppertime'. I went and told Ron. He leapt up and bounded off. I looked for Draco. He must be in his room. I knocked on the door.
"It's time for supper." I heard a muffled yes and a bit of movement. "Hurry up Draco! I'm starving you know! HERMIONE?!" Hermione had just come out looking a bit flustered and Draco was right behind her.
"We kind of made up again," she explained. I rolled my eyes.
"Now hurry up. The other Professors have arrived, and they should be expecting us there."
We made our way to the Great Hall. It took a while, but we found our way. The hall looked quite different to Hogwarts. For one, the ceiling wasn't enchanted to show the sky outside. Instead it had many intricate pictures of witches and wizards. There weren't four long tables. Instead there were many other tables that seated about ten or twelve. I guessed this was in attempt to make house relations better. I could say that it was working. I saw some third year Gryffindor's sharing their table with third year Slytherin's. They were laughing and talking. In fact all the year levels were getting along. All that is except one. There was one table to the far right corner. Only about five people were sitting there. They were Slytherin seventh year, and included a glaring Pansy. She was glaring evilly at Hermione. I looked at her, and then down. She was holding Draco's hand that would explain that. I knew that Pansy had never really gotten over Draco. He had told me about her.
"Hey Mione!" Ginny was waving enthusiastically at us. Our table had us six and six others. There were a couple of seventh year Hufflepuffs, a Ravenclaw sixth year, whom I recognised to be Michael Corner. I gave him a cold look. There were also a couple of sixth year Slytherin's that Hilary was chatting happily to. Draco gave them a nod. We sat down and began to eat. There wasn't much. We didn't usually have supper; it was only because Dumbledore needed to talk to us. I grabbed a piece of cake and a glass of water. After we had eaten a little, in Ron's case, a lot, Dumbledore stood up and loudly cleared his throat.
"Welcome students, to the new, temporary Hogwarts." Everyone applauded and cheered.
"As you can see, the tables are not the usual four house tables you sit at. We have made them smaller in a bid to improve inter-house relations, as I've explained why. This brings me to my next point. Now all the mail going out of here has to be written in a way that people intercepting them cannot understand what you are saying. You will be continuing you regular classes, but they will run for shorter time frames. This is to allow time for a new class. You will all be doing a class on duelling. This will run for half the time of a normal lesson, but it is compulsory for all. For seventh years, you will take duelling classes for half the day. This means that your normal classes will be cut in half. The NEWTS are still going to be given, as are the OWLS, but these will be done at the end of this year to allow for your duelling classes. Now I want you all to get a goodnight sleep. Tomorrow you have the whole day to clearly and properly remember and be able to make your way around the castle. That is all." Everyone got up.
"I wonder where Hagrid's going to be staying, because he doesn't have his hut" Hermione asked thoughtfully.
"We haven't gone to see him in ages. Let's go now," I told the others. I had been neglecting visiting him, and I really missed him. We got up and made our way up to the Head's Table. Hagrid was sitting at the end. He gave us a huge smile and wave as we approached him.
"Ye guys haven' been ter see me in ages!"
"Yeah, we're sorry Hagrid. How are we going to continue our Care of Magical Creatures classes?"
"Well, I got me own li'l hut on the grounds. Our lesson's 'll be pre'y borin."
"That's ok Hagrid. I'm sure they'll be fine." We continued talking for quite a while. Soon we were the only ones left in the hall. It was quite late and we had to go to bed. There were new rules in place. No one could be out of their rooms from midnight until 6.00 the next morning. It was 11.45 now. We quickly said goodbye to Hagrid and made our way to the dorms. When we reached the rooms I kissed Draco goodnight, as did Hilary and Ginny. We went into our room. I was changed into my pyjamas quite quickly. We sat around after that eating marshmen (marshmallows which were shaped like snowmen) and read our witchy magazines. We each had a subscription to a different one, and they'd be getting sent in every week.
HILARY'S POV
I hadn't told the other guys, but we had gotten special rooms a little separate from everyone else as an added precaution to me. I knew that Voldemort would want to kill me even more now, because I could retrieve the baby. Our rooms had much more protection than all the others. The only people that could enter were either of the six of us. We also had the adjacent door, just in case I needed to get out of the room. The room Draco was staying in had also been specially designed. It was far more protected than the others. The only reason I wasn't staying in it was because there was safety in numbers. Draco would be staying in it as a kind of decoy. Well, Mione and Ginny were reading the magazines and were chewing down on lollies. I'd better eat them before their gone. I pushed my thoughts aside and concentrated on the page I was reading. 'How to tell he loves you.'
HERMIONE'S POV
It was a beautiful morning. I had studied the map closely, and found out that the setting was exactly like Hogwarts. I imagined Dumbledore did this to make it easier for the students to get around and memorise where they were going. The only thing that was different was the placement of the rooms and the non-existent house common rooms. I got changed into my brown suede skirt that ended at my knees and put on my knee high black boots and white jumper. I pulled my hair into a knot and went downstairs to eat. Draco and I were planning to explore the castle together after breakfast. I entered the hall and looked around for him. He was sitting with a blonde girl. As I drew nearer I realised that the blonde girl was Pansy. I sat next to Draco and gave him a kiss. I looked at Pansy. She was glaring daggers at me. I smirked at her and got some pancakes. We talked for the rest of the morning, by which Harry, Hilary and Ginny had joined us. Pansy wasn't saying much. I knew she had a boyfriend, but she broke up with him because she still wanted to be with Draco. Her ex had gone home because his parents were death eaters. I knew I had to keep a close watch on Draco. Pansy was pretty, there was no doubt about that, and she was a hell of a lot curvier than I was.
"Mione, I want you out on the pitch at three this afternoon."
"Huh, what? Sorry Harry, what did you just say?" I'd been so wrapped up in my thoughts I didn't hear him.
"I said that we have quidditch training at three this afternoon and I expect to see you out there on time."
"Harry! It's the first day here! Give it a rest. We have like a month before the next match!"
"A month is not enough. You are going to be out there at three and no excuses."
With that he got up and headed off to wake Ron.
"Come on Draco. Our time has been shortened now." He got up with me and we set off. We had a good four hours before I had Quidditch.
There wasn't really much to explore. The castle was basically the same, and the outside grounds weren't very interesting. There was a makeshift forest, but it was only a bunch of trees together. The lake was quite small. It was big enough to swim in all right, and the squid wasn't there which was a bonus. I took Draco's hand and we made our way back to the castle. Lunch was being served. We went in and sat down. It was so nice outside.
"Hey Draco. Do you think they'd mind if we took our food outside. It's so dull in here with the enchanted ceiling.'
"I don't think so." We both grabbed a plate filled with food and a jug of pumpkin juice. Not many people were there yet, so no one would see us. We went outside and sat beside the lake.
"Do you know what this reminds me of?" Draco asked.
"Yeah. When we were at Hogwarts and had our picnic." He smiled at me. We finished our lunch. I still had an hour to go before training. We went back to his room and sat there. I leaned over and kissed him. We made out for a long time. He was a good kisser.
DRACO'S POV
This was bliss. She was a good kisser. Must have practised with Krum. Bad thought, bad thought. I concentrated on her mouth and holding her. She was nice and thin, with curves, but not as many as Pansy. Another bad thought! I pulled her down onto the bed. I kept kissing her. I rubbed her tummy with my hand. My hand started moving up with a mind of it's own. I suddenly felt a hand grab mine and pull it away. My eyes snapped open. Hermione was looking at me awkwardly.
"I don't think we should be going there yet. After all, we just made up yesterday."
"Yeah, I'm sorry Mione. I don't know what came over me." she smiled at me.
"I have to go to Quidditch training. I'll meet you back here after." She quickly kissed me and went to her room.
I was so relieved that she didn't get upset or anything at me. I had of course, slept with quite a few girls, even Pansy, but with Hermione I wanted to make it work. I got up and went out. A nice long swim should do the trick. Hermione and I had discovered a swimming pool a little walk away from our rooms. I put on my board shorts and grabbed a towel. No one knew about where we lived, unless they walked along it, so there a slight chance I would be seen by anyone. The pool looked great. Mione had told me that she would be back in about three hours. I decided to hang about in the pool for two hours, and then get dressed.
Two hours passed uneventfully. Finally I decided it was time to leave. I grabbed my towel and quickly dried myself. My wand was in a special pocket in my shorts. I slung the towel over my shoulder and headed back to my room.
On my way I saw Pansy coming this way. She hadn't seen me yet. Pansy and I were great friends, even more so because she wasn't associated with the dark side. She was wearing tight jeans and a small low cut top.
"Hey Pansy." She looked up at me and smiled.
"Hi Draco. Is there a pool here or something?"
"Yeah. I just discovered it with Hermione today." I saw her smile falter slightly.
"Oh ok. Well I might go and have a look then" she said to me as she made her way there.
"Yeah. It's just past that door there and too your left." I looked over my shoulder as I said this, and when I turned around Pansy had grabbed my neck and slammed me into the wall.
What the hell!?
I tried to push her away, but with the incident with Hermione just before, I just lost control. I grabbed her and pulled her closer, kissing her as hard as she was kissing me. My hands started to run all over her, as did her hands. I opened my eyes for a minute to see we weren't going to run into anything. What I saw made my heart stop. Hermione was running away from us.
"Hermione! It's not what it looks like!" I yelled after her. I saw her turn into her room and slam the door. Pansy sheepishly let go of me.
"I'm really sorry Draco, I don't know what came over me."
"Just go away Pansy. I don't want to see you again."
With that I stormed of to find Hermione.
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~*~*~*~ Chapter 15: Arrival at Hogwarts ~*~*~*~
HERMIONE'S POV
I had packed all my stuff. Everything was sitting on my bed. We had been notified of what was happening. We were going after the Leaving Feast. I was walking around the school. Ron and Harry were also walking with me. We were visiting every classroom and everyone else. I just felt that it was more significant if Ron, Harry and I went together. We were after all best friends and had been the trio for a long time. It was awfully silent between us, but it was a comfortable one.
We had walked around the whole school and outside. There was only one place to visit. We had gone everywhere and now headed to a very familiar door. I pushed it open. A wailing could be heard from the end. I grinned at Harry and Ron. We walked down to where she was crying.
"We just came to say goodbye," Harry told her.
Moaning Myrtle appeared out of the cubicle. She had been crying once again in the U-bend.
"Myrtle, we're really going to miss you, you know," I told her as I stomped on Ron's foot.
"You guys were *sniff* the only ones who came to visit me" she cried at us.
Of course we hadn't come in all the time, but since second year, her bathroom had sort of become a secret meeting place for us. I stepped on Ron's foot again.
"Yeah, Myrtle. It's going to be a shame not seeing you again. I'm sure someone else will come and keep you company." Ron had a large grin on his face when he said this. We all did actually.
"Ok then. I guess we'll see you later Myrtle. Bye" I said.
"Yeah, see ya later Myrtle" Ron said.
"We might see you someday in another bathroom or something, who knows" Harry told her.
"Bye Hermione, Ron, and Harry" she batted her eyes at the later.
We ran out of there and down the hall, where we burst into laughter.
"I really hope I never see her again" Ron managed to gasp out.
We lay there for a while laughing, then the sad mood dawned on us again. We didn't have to go and see the other ghosts as they were coming with us to the new place. They added a bit of Hogwarts to the new castle.
"Hey you guys! I almost forgot! We haven't gone and said goodbye to Sir Cadogan!" I started towards the Divination room.
"Chill Mione. That loser is coming to the new castle. All the portraits are" Ron told me.
"Oh, ok then. That's all right. Do you guys want to go and sit at our tree?"
They nodded. It was a nice sunny day. We lay down underneath the usual tree. I was watching the cloud shapes through the leaves.
"You know. I'm really going to miss this place," Ron announced. We mumbled in agreement. The rest of the afternoon was spent like that on our backs, discussing our years at Hogwarts. It started to get dark.
"I think the feast is going to start. We'd better go now." We went and sat together in our usual spots on the Gryffindor table. Hilary and Ginny respected our last day and were sitting with their year level. Soon Dean, Seamus, Neville, Parvati and Lavender joined us. We sat together and talked. Dumbledore stood up.
"Now even though the year isn't over, I think many of you want the house cup to be awarded. Now the points stand as thus. Hufflepuff in fourth place, on 346 points. Raven claw in third place on 412 points. Gryffindor in second place on 498 points." There was a feeble applause from everyone. We had won the house cup for six years in a row, and in our last year we didn't win it. "And Slytherin on 503 points." There was a large roar from the table at the opposite end. I applauded politely.
"However." The whole hall went silent. "The new castle that will retain the same name as this one will be functioning as a school. Therefore, the house cup will be awarded at the end of the year as normal. I suggest you keep up the behaviour. You still have a chance of winning the House Cup, and the Quidditch Cup will continue on."
Everyone cheered. The Slytherin's looked disappointed. Harry looked alarmed.
"I didn't know the Quidditch Cup is still up for grabs! We are going to start training as soon as we get there more vigorously and more often." He began formulating strategies under his breath. I rolled my eyes and turned to talk to Lavender and Parvati and eat my dinner.
The feast came to an end. Ron, Harry, Ginny, Hilary, Draco and I made our way to the special portkey spot. McGonagall was waiting for us.
"Ok. Now I want you to hold all your possessions in one hand. Ms Granger, please hold this piece of gum and onto Harry. Harry you may hold onto Ron, Ron please hold onto Ginny. Ginny you can hold Draco and Draco, you hold onto Hilary. The portkey is due to go in twenty seconds."
We waited for twenty seconds, and then I felt a tug behind my navel. We were lifted into a blur of colour and wind. I held Harry's hand tightly, although we were magnetically pulled together anyway. In a matter of seconds we fell onto the lavishly carpeted floor of a large hall. There was a small x marked on the floor. We had landed on this x. we quickly moved out of the way waiting for the next group of people. Slowly groups of people began to emerge. They all gathered around in small groups. We told them to stand to one side. Soon enough everyone was there. Filch had come in with the last group. I handed out a map to each student. McGonagall had given me a list of room arrangements. I got the groups of four together and marked on their map where they were staying. This map was sort of the same as the marauders. It showed where everything was, but instead of showing everyone as dots, only the keeper of the map was shown on the map. As a safety precaution the map would disappear on Monday before the post. All the owls had been taken somewhere else. Once everyone had been sorted out and the six of us were the only one's left, we looked to see where we would be staying. I was staying in a room with Ginny and Hilary. Ron, Harry and Draco were staying together.
Our rooms were right next to each other. They were a bit separate from everyone else's. The rooms were wonderful. They were huge. There was a small common room in the dorm. I saw a door. It led into the boy's room. I knocked and they opened it. They looked surprised at me. I said hello and shut the door.
Our room was great. There were four gigantic beds. We decided to use the left over bed as a couch. I put all my clothes into the cupboard. The bathroom was wonderful. There were three separate showers and three separate toilets. That was good. I wouldn't have to wait for a shower in the morning. I went back into the common room. There was a large clock on the wall. The hands showed when it was class one, class two, ect. As well as all the meals. I had brought with me a lot of lollies from Honeydukes and so many bottles of butterbeer just in case there wasn't any here. Everyone had bought a little, but Draco had bought the most because of the truckload of money he owned. He would be sharing with us anyway. Speaking of, I should go and pay him a visit.
"Hey, Ginny, Hilary. I'm just popping over next door. I'll be back in a bit ok?"
"Yeah sure Mione" came their muffled replies. They were reading the witchy magazines we had bought. I knocked on the adjoining door. Draco opened it.
"Hey. I thought I'd come by and check out your rooms." There were the butterflies again. His eyes were so captivating.
"Ok Mione. Come on in." Their room was basically the same as ours. They had another door on the other side of the wall though. I opened it. There was an extra room in there. I could see someone had claimed the private room.
"So who's got the private room?" I asked Draco.
"I do," he replied.
"That's not fair. We don't have an extra room, and we are the one's who need extra space anyway!" I said to him indignantly. I turned to go back out of the room.
DRACO'S POV
I was feeling so nervous around her. It wasn't right. I wasn't supposed to feel uncomfortable with her. She looked around and then turned around to exit the room. I moved to the left to let her pass. She also stepped to the left. I quickly went to the right and so did she. She was grinning at me, and I was grinning at her. I stayed where so she could get out before me. She also stayed, expectantly waiting for me to move. I looked in her eyes. They were a nice brown with little flecks of yellow. I couldn't stand this. I stepped towards her.
"You know what? I'm sick of this whole friends thing. I don't want to be friends with you Mione." She looked at me knowingly. I grabbed the back of her head and pulled her into me. She kissed me. It was all perfect again. I kissed her mouth ferociously back. I shut the door with one hand and we sat on my bed. I lay there kissing her, happy that she didn't reject me like I thought she would.
HARRY'S POV
I looked at the clock on the wall. The hand was pointing to 'Suppertime'. I went and told Ron. He leapt up and bounded off. I looked for Draco. He must be in his room. I knocked on the door.
"It's time for supper." I heard a muffled yes and a bit of movement. "Hurry up Draco! I'm starving you know! HERMIONE?!" Hermione had just come out looking a bit flustered and Draco was right behind her.
"We kind of made up again," she explained. I rolled my eyes.
"Now hurry up. The other Professors have arrived, and they should be expecting us there."
We made our way to the Great Hall. It took a while, but we found our way. The hall looked quite different to Hogwarts. For one, the ceiling wasn't enchanted to show the sky outside. Instead it had many intricate pictures of witches and wizards. There weren't four long tables. Instead there were many other tables that seated about ten or twelve. I guessed this was in attempt to make house relations better. I could say that it was working. I saw some third year Gryffindor's sharing their table with third year Slytherin's. They were laughing and talking. In fact all the year levels were getting along. All that is except one. There was one table to the far right corner. Only about five people were sitting there. They were Slytherin seventh year, and included a glaring Pansy. She was glaring evilly at Hermione. I looked at her, and then down. She was holding Draco's hand that would explain that. I knew that Pansy had never really gotten over Draco. He had told me about her.
"Hey Mione!" Ginny was waving enthusiastically at us. Our table had us six and six others. There were a couple of seventh year Hufflepuffs, a Ravenclaw sixth year, whom I recognised to be Michael Corner. I gave him a cold look. There were also a couple of sixth year Slytherin's that Hilary was chatting happily to. Draco gave them a nod. We sat down and began to eat. There wasn't much. We didn't usually have supper; it was only because Dumbledore needed to talk to us. I grabbed a piece of cake and a glass of water. After we had eaten a little, in Ron's case, a lot, Dumbledore stood up and loudly cleared his throat.
"Welcome students, to the new, temporary Hogwarts." Everyone applauded and cheered.
"As you can see, the tables are not the usual four house tables you sit at. We have made them smaller in a bid to improve inter-house relations, as I've explained why. This brings me to my next point. Now all the mail going out of here has to be written in a way that people intercepting them cannot understand what you are saying. You will be continuing you regular classes, but they will run for shorter time frames. This is to allow time for a new class. You will all be doing a class on duelling. This will run for half the time of a normal lesson, but it is compulsory for all. For seventh years, you will take duelling classes for half the day. This means that your normal classes will be cut in half. The NEWTS are still going to be given, as are the OWLS, but these will be done at the end of this year to allow for your duelling classes. Now I want you all to get a goodnight sleep. Tomorrow you have the whole day to clearly and properly remember and be able to make your way around the castle. That is all." Everyone got up.
"I wonder where Hagrid's going to be staying, because he doesn't have his hut" Hermione asked thoughtfully.
"We haven't gone to see him in ages. Let's go now," I told the others. I had been neglecting visiting him, and I really missed him. We got up and made our way up to the Head's Table. Hagrid was sitting at the end. He gave us a huge smile and wave as we approached him.
"Ye guys haven' been ter see me in ages!"
"Yeah, we're sorry Hagrid. How are we going to continue our Care of Magical Creatures classes?"
"Well, I got me own li'l hut on the grounds. Our lesson's 'll be pre'y borin."
"That's ok Hagrid. I'm sure they'll be fine." We continued talking for quite a while. Soon we were the only ones left in the hall. It was quite late and we had to go to bed. There were new rules in place. No one could be out of their rooms from midnight until 6.00 the next morning. It was 11.45 now. We quickly said goodbye to Hagrid and made our way to the dorms. When we reached the rooms I kissed Draco goodnight, as did Hilary and Ginny. We went into our room. I was changed into my pyjamas quite quickly. We sat around after that eating marshmen (marshmallows which were shaped like snowmen) and read our witchy magazines. We each had a subscription to a different one, and they'd be getting sent in every week.
HILARY'S POV
I hadn't told the other guys, but we had gotten special rooms a little separate from everyone else as an added precaution to me. I knew that Voldemort would want to kill me even more now, because I could retrieve the baby. Our rooms had much more protection than all the others. The only people that could enter were either of the six of us. We also had the adjacent door, just in case I needed to get out of the room. The room Draco was staying in had also been specially designed. It was far more protected than the others. The only reason I wasn't staying in it was because there was safety in numbers. Draco would be staying in it as a kind of decoy. Well, Mione and Ginny were reading the magazines and were chewing down on lollies. I'd better eat them before their gone. I pushed my thoughts aside and concentrated on the page I was reading. 'How to tell he loves you.'
HERMIONE'S POV
It was a beautiful morning. I had studied the map closely, and found out that the setting was exactly like Hogwarts. I imagined Dumbledore did this to make it easier for the students to get around and memorise where they were going. The only thing that was different was the placement of the rooms and the non-existent house common rooms. I got changed into my brown suede skirt that ended at my knees and put on my knee high black boots and white jumper. I pulled my hair into a knot and went downstairs to eat. Draco and I were planning to explore the castle together after breakfast. I entered the hall and looked around for him. He was sitting with a blonde girl. As I drew nearer I realised that the blonde girl was Pansy. I sat next to Draco and gave him a kiss. I looked at Pansy. She was glaring daggers at me. I smirked at her and got some pancakes. We talked for the rest of the morning, by which Harry, Hilary and Ginny had joined us. Pansy wasn't saying much. I knew she had a boyfriend, but she broke up with him because she still wanted to be with Draco. Her ex had gone home because his parents were death eaters. I knew I had to keep a close watch on Draco. Pansy was pretty, there was no doubt about that, and she was a hell of a lot curvier than I was.
"Mione, I want you out on the pitch at three this afternoon."
"Huh, what? Sorry Harry, what did you just say?" I'd been so wrapped up in my thoughts I didn't hear him.
"I said that we have quidditch training at three this afternoon and I expect to see you out there on time."
"Harry! It's the first day here! Give it a rest. We have like a month before the next match!"
"A month is not enough. You are going to be out there at three and no excuses."
With that he got up and headed off to wake Ron.
"Come on Draco. Our time has been shortened now." He got up with me and we set off. We had a good four hours before I had Quidditch.
There wasn't really much to explore. The castle was basically the same, and the outside grounds weren't very interesting. There was a makeshift forest, but it was only a bunch of trees together. The lake was quite small. It was big enough to swim in all right, and the squid wasn't there which was a bonus. I took Draco's hand and we made our way back to the castle. Lunch was being served. We went in and sat down. It was so nice outside.
"Hey Draco. Do you think they'd mind if we took our food outside. It's so dull in here with the enchanted ceiling.'
"I don't think so." We both grabbed a plate filled with food and a jug of pumpkin juice. Not many people were there yet, so no one would see us. We went outside and sat beside the lake.
"Do you know what this reminds me of?" Draco asked.
"Yeah. When we were at Hogwarts and had our picnic." He smiled at me. We finished our lunch. I still had an hour to go before training. We went back to his room and sat there. I leaned over and kissed him. We made out for a long time. He was a good kisser.
DRACO'S POV
This was bliss. She was a good kisser. Must have practised with Krum. Bad thought, bad thought. I concentrated on her mouth and holding her. She was nice and thin, with curves, but not as many as Pansy. Another bad thought! I pulled her down onto the bed. I kept kissing her. I rubbed her tummy with my hand. My hand started moving up with a mind of it's own. I suddenly felt a hand grab mine and pull it away. My eyes snapped open. Hermione was looking at me awkwardly.
"I don't think we should be going there yet. After all, we just made up yesterday."
"Yeah, I'm sorry Mione. I don't know what came over me." she smiled at me.
"I have to go to Quidditch training. I'll meet you back here after." She quickly kissed me and went to her room.
I was so relieved that she didn't get upset or anything at me. I had of course, slept with quite a few girls, even Pansy, but with Hermione I wanted to make it work. I got up and went out. A nice long swim should do the trick. Hermione and I had discovered a swimming pool a little walk away from our rooms. I put on my board shorts and grabbed a towel. No one knew about where we lived, unless they walked along it, so there a slight chance I would be seen by anyone. The pool looked great. Mione had told me that she would be back in about three hours. I decided to hang about in the pool for two hours, and then get dressed.
Two hours passed uneventfully. Finally I decided it was time to leave. I grabbed my towel and quickly dried myself. My wand was in a special pocket in my shorts. I slung the towel over my shoulder and headed back to my room.
On my way I saw Pansy coming this way. She hadn't seen me yet. Pansy and I were great friends, even more so because she wasn't associated with the dark side. She was wearing tight jeans and a small low cut top.
"Hey Pansy." She looked up at me and smiled.
"Hi Draco. Is there a pool here or something?"
"Yeah. I just discovered it with Hermione today." I saw her smile falter slightly.
"Oh ok. Well I might go and have a look then" she said to me as she made her way there.
"Yeah. It's just past that door there and too your left." I looked over my shoulder as I said this, and when I turned around Pansy had grabbed my neck and slammed me into the wall.
What the hell!?
I tried to push her away, but with the incident with Hermione just before, I just lost control. I grabbed her and pulled her closer, kissing her as hard as she was kissing me. My hands started to run all over her, as did her hands. I opened my eyes for a minute to see we weren't going to run into anything. What I saw made my heart stop. Hermione was running away from us.
"Hermione! It's not what it looks like!" I yelled after her. I saw her turn into her room and slam the door. Pansy sheepishly let go of me.
"I'm really sorry Draco, I don't know what came over me."
"Just go away Pansy. I don't want to see you again."
With that I stormed of to find Hermione.