Author's Note: I thought to myself last night….'Why not update again?' So here it is! I hope you like it as much as I do. Anytime I am going to do a memory sequence for Hermione and Mags I will do it in italics so that there is less confusion. I will remind you when we get there as well.
Disclaimer: Hey! I NEVER said anything you recognize from the books is mine! I am just borrowing it!
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"I have the idea!!!" yelled Cho as she ran down into the Prefect Common room.
Her three fellow Prefects looked up at her eagerly. They had all been trying to come up with a theme for three days, and with studying (and snogging in Draco and Hermione's case) their brains were slowly fizzling.
"Crystal Wonderland! We can do the Entire Great Hall in muted silver and gold. Cover the floor in non-skid ice and have all kinds of statues and what not. What do you all think?" Cho asked eagerly.
"I vote yes." Replied Hermione with a grin.
"So do I." Said Justin and Draco together.
Soon they were all making lists and talking up a storm. They wanted to get this all done as soon as possible. They only three weeks to get all of this together. The ball was scheduled to take place the night before everyone left to go home for the holidays. SO this gave them a very limited time frame to pull this off.
"Okay, so I have to ask since no one else is asking. Are you related to that new potions student teacher?" Justin asked as the put the finishing touched on the posters to hang in the corridors.
"She is my cousin on my mother's side. We have always been very close." Hermione replied while adding a little more animation to her poster.
"So she is this very powerful with relative we never knew you had?" Draco said in a disbelieving tone.
"You never asked Draco."
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In another part of the castle Mags was finishing her unpacking when she heard laughter float through her window. She went over to see the Hufflepuff Quidditch team practicing. Her own new broom rested in the corner. A Firebolt Supersonic. Her old broom was…. well best not to go there now. She leaned against her window and let the memories flow over her. The school, her family, and almost every friend she had ever had were dead. And she had been powerless to stop them. Just like before.
Angrily wiping tears from her eyes she went back to the mundane task of unpacking. Then she came upon a set of snowy white velvet robes with 'VQ' embroidered on the right lapel. Her face went blank and she sat down lifelessly as the more painful memories came on full force.
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Hermione and Draco were sitting in her room talking to each other before bed, which was becoming a habit with them. They sat in front of her fire, her leaning against his chest and him running a hand through her hair absent-mindedly.
"So, when you saw that dagger today in potions, you looked a little freaked out dear." Draco said after 45 minutes of small talk.
Hermione shrugged and made sure he could not see her blush, "It was an old family heirloom I never thought I would see again. Kinda weirded me out for a moment." Inside she was hoping he would leave it at that. But was she ever that lucky? Evidently not.
"No, that wasn't the kind of shock I saw on your face. It was more 'the world is ending' shock I saw on your face.
"Look Draco. There are things that I can never share about my family. That dagger is one of them. So do us all a favor and forget you ever saw it. Otherwise we are all gonna be screwed. And no I so DO NOT mean that literally.
Draco just there and looked at her in shock.
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The next morning was Saturday and so Mione sent Draco and Justin from the kitchens to get them some breakfast. Cho was not up yet. And Mione took this opportunity to write her cousin an owl…
'Draco is catching on.'
No sooner was the bird in flight than Justin and Draco returned with food and juice and soon the four of them were having a lovely little picnic. Suddenly there was a banging on the Gryffindor door. Hermione gave a deep sigh and headed over to open it.
"Mione! Harry is taking me out tonight to Muggle London and you said you would help!" Ginny cried out almost frantic.
Hermione waved over her shoulder to the other Prefects and allowed herself to be pulled in the dorm.
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Mags opened the letter from Hermione and let it fall to the ground as she took off running for Headmaster Dumbledore's office. The secret had been kept for too long.
When she got to the Gargoyle she muttered, "Limeade" and the door slowly revolved open. Soon she had been carried up to the office of Albus Dumbledore. She knocked and waited.
"Come in." came the old voice and so she stepped into his inner sanctum.
"Professor you need to know the truth about Hermione and I. This may take awhile." Mags said after exchanging a few pleasantries.
"I already know…"
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Hermione was resting on Ginny's bed watching her run around like a chicken with its head cut off.
"Ginny luv. You already have a dress. Why not work on your hair instead?" she suggested helpfully.
Ginny turned and stuck out her tongue at Hermione, "You are just SO helpful. Maybe I should just let you go and snog with Malfoy. Lord knows he might love your stating of the obvious."
"I AM NOT WITH DRACO!! I do not know but whoever started the rumor, but I wish they would concentrate on their love lives and not mine."
"Oh I don't know how we got that idea! Maybe it was they way you two acted at the Fall Ball, or how you two are almost as inseparable as the Trio. Maybe it is the way you two look at each other. Or it could be my brother and Harry walked in on the two of you trying to swallow each other whole in an old classroom." Ginny said, pausing to look at Mione with one eyebrow raised.
"Okay, so we are something, I just don't know what yet!" Mione groaned, " And we are not here to discuss my confuzzling romantic life. We are here to get you ready for a romantic evening with YOUR lover boy."
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AN: The memories for Mione and Mags will be coming soon! And when they do remember they will be in italics. I hope you liked it. It really didn't move much of anywhere, I needed a filler chapter.