"WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?!" Harry was furious and would have pound Malfoy to a pulp if it wasn't for Hermione.

            "I-I-I…I mean, what do you care Potter?"

            "WHAT DO I CARE?  WHAT DO I CARE?  SHE'S ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS AND YOU'RE WONDERING WHY I CARE?"

            "Calm it Potter.  That mudblood's going to be all right.  It's just, it's just, well, umm…"

            "YEA MALFOY?  WHAT IS IT JUST?  Is it just, ummm, hold on let me think…A DEATH CURSE!!!???"  Harry went over to Malfoy and grabbed his shirt from the neck.  "If you as just put any spell on my Hermione, I'll have your head for it!"

            "Whoa, whoa, whoa, Potter.  Since when is it my Hermione?  She's not yours Potter."  Malfoy said spitting out his words.  "No one ever named her yours Potter.  She has the right to pick whom she belongs to.  And if she is as smart as she says she is, she wouldn't choose you!"  Harry stood stunned at what his mortal enemy had just said to him.  Was it a warning?  Did this mean that…no it couldn't mean that!  Harry's head began to spin and his vision blurred.  At a distance, he heard Ron's far away voice calling to him.  He heard Ginny sobbing right next to him, yet she seemed so far away!

            "Harry! Harry?  Harry! Can you hear me Harry?  Malfoy!  This is all your fault!  You took away both of my best friends!  Why don't you just get me too while your at it?"

            "What is going on here?  Malfoy!  Weasley!  What is-huh! Oh my god! What happened?"  Professor McGonagall stood above Harry looking down at him and Hermione with a worried expression.  Then Harry heard all these voices.  Voices with fear and shock in them.  So many voices.  So many voices.  Then it all blacked out.

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            "How are you feeling Harry?"  Hermione bent over Harry in the hospital wing.

            "Hermione!  You're ok!  What happened?" 

            "Calm down Harry!  Yea, I'm okay.  But how are you?  I don't even remember.  For, if you remember, I too was not awake at the time."

            "But, Hermione, why where you in the halls anyway?  It was way past curfew."

            "Oh.  Umm, I was just heading back from the library.  I was doing some research."

            "But the library.  It was in the opposite…"

            "Ok Harry.  You need your rest.  I'm just gonna go back to the dormitory.  I'll send Ron later.  Feel better!"  Hermione ran out of the hospital wing leaving a very curious Harry lying in his hospital bed.  The library was in the opposite direction!  Why had Hermione lied to him?  Why was Hermione being so jumpy?  Was she hiding something?

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"Harry, the stair cases always change.  You know she was probably at the library!  She was probably so into a book she was reading that she didn't realize what time it was!"  Ron said walking to Hagrid's hut.

"No.  There was no staircase near that hall.  Besides, she's read every book in that library and no new ones have came out since 1672!  I don't know why she's acting so strange Ron!"

"So what's it with you?  She's not your responsibility.  Hey, maybe Dumbledore gave her some new gadget she's not allowed to tell us about!"

"No.  I think its something worse Ron."

"NO!  You don't mean?"

"That's exactly what I mean."

"But who could it be?"

"For some reason, I think it's Draco Malfoy!"

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ok. shortie.  As usual.  O well.  im tired, your tired, LET'S JUS GO TO BED!!  Well not together, but, yea you know what I mean ;)