I was going to start on chapter 4 of my other story, but after reading over
chapter 24 I thought that maybe I should write another chapter for this
story. Since I am sorta at a crucial point in this story and that was a
very emotional little bit there and stuff. Hehehehe wasn't it cute though
how thick Ron is, he's a jerk and he's dumb and its soo funny and yah okay.
Story writing time ey?
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Chapter 25- picking up the pieces
Ron sat on the floor of the gryffindor common room with his head in his hands and cried. He couldn't remember the last time he had cried and that scared him.
(Let's have sum POV's)
~*Ron's POV*~
I can't believe it; I've screwed my girlfriend's life! It's my entire fault and I'm such a jerk I didn't even notice! How could I be so stupid as to forget a simple charm? I have to find Hermione; I have to see if she's okay! She probably won't ever want to speak to me again!
~*Hermione's POV*~
I NEVER WANT TO SPEAK TO Ron AGAIN! (tee-hee) I can't believe he didn't notice I know Ron's a bit thick sometimes but Dean was practically spelling it out for him and he still didn't see. Why couldn't I have fallen for a smarter guy? Poor Ginny, she's going through exactly the same thing as me, but at least she has a good, smart boyfriend who saw what was coming and helped her through it. I have Ron! Fat lot of good he is! Now I have to go up to the owlery and owl mum. Somehow I have to tell her that I'm pregnant, god I hope she understands. Luckily she isn't a witch, coz if she was I'm sure she'll be sending a howler. Won't Mrs. Weasley be impressed? Two pregnancies in the one family she's got her work cut out for her. I wonder what her reaction to Ginny will be? Ginny IS only 15!
~*Ginny's POV*~
Oh god, that did not go well! Fred and George caused such a huge scene, and Ron is so embarrassed. He's such a hypocrite, there he was abusing Dean while his own pregnant girlfriend stood right beside him. And the owl telling mum that I'm pregnant is on its way. I shudder to think of her reaction, although she may be slightly pleased, a new baby to bring up! I just hope like hell that the poor baby doesn't have red hair. That's my one prayer for my little baby, red hair is the plague of my life I'll do anything to shelter my baby from that!
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Hermione ran from the Gryffindor tower with tears streaming from her eyes, she ran around the castle not sure where her feet were taking her and not sure that she wasn't running in circles. Finally she stopped and sunk to the floor, she cried and cried. Letting all the emotions from the last week flood over her robes and the floor. She sat crying steadily for 15 minutes before she realised that she was soaking wet. She looked at the wet stone floor and her soaking wet robes and realised she needed to do something and keep her mind off her SUFFERABLE IDIOTIC GIT OF A BOYFRIEND!
She stood up and walked towards the owlery, as she got there she pulled out the 3-day-old letter from her robe pocket and addressed it to her mother. Madam Pomfrey had offered to write to Mrs. Granger for her but Hermione felt she needed her mother to hear it from her. she had written and re- written the letter at least 15 times before she was happy with the way it sounded. She had intended to send it that day but she couldn't bring herself to attach the letter to an owl and send it away.
Now she was up here she couldn't back down, she needed to tell her mother before she got too far into the term, she needed to know what her mother thought she should do.
She attached the crumpled letter to a school owl and sent it away, then she walked out of the owlery. She sat down on the floor and cried a fresh batch of tears. "Damn my whirlwind emotions!" she cursed to herself.
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Ron got up off the floor. He walked out of the tower and made for the library. He didn't have much time to loose; he needed to find Hermione as soon as he could so that they would have more time to talk.
As soon as he walked into the library he questioned Madam Prince as to whether she had seen Hermione come in.
"Sorry dear, she hasn't been in this evening. I'll let her know you're looking for her if I see her" she said, she had a certain soft spot for Hermione and she wanted to help the Weasley boy find her. He seemed worried.
He stormed out of the library after hastily thanking Madam Prince for her help. He ran franticly around the school calling her name, and then suddenly a thought came to him.
He altered his course to the Gryffindor tower and ran inside as quick as possible. He climbed the stairs to the boys' dormitory and shouted for Harry.
Harry climbed out of his bed and put his finger to his lips.
"Shut up Ron! Draco's trying to sleep and it think Ginny is too!" he hissed, but then his face softened at the sight of Ron's angst.
"What's wrong Ron? Have you found Hermione? What do you need?" he asked softly as he closed to hangings around his bed.
"I need your map Harry, it's the only way I can find Hermione quickly, searching the school doesn't help, she could be anywhere!" he whispered hurriedly.
"Sure Ron, it's in my top drawer, you can use it just make sure you put it back in my drawer." Said Harry as he climbed back into bed with Draco.
"Thanks mate!" whispered Ron as he ran from the room.
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Hermione sat outside the owlery crying bitterly. (A/n: I kno, it's soppy and crying-y at the moment but things will get better) she lay her head in her hands and listened to the soft hoots of the owls in rhythm with her slow sobs. Her breath began to slow down and she soon fell into a deep sleep. Just before she lost consciousness, she heard large feet stomping towards her, and a familiar voice calling her name.
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He traced his finger around the map looking for the name he needed. There were a lot of students in the school and black dots were darting in every direction. Ron had trouble focusing as he looked for Hermione's name.
Finally he saw it, not moving outside the owlery. He stuffed the map into his pocket and ran towards the large grey tower, willing his legs to get there faster then they were.
Finally he rounded the corner and spotted her. She was sitting just outside the owlery door with her head in her hands Ron could tell by the movement of her back that she was sobbing. As he came closer her sobbing stopped, and her head fell violently forward.
"Hermione!" he gasped as he ran towards her.
He lifted her head by the chin and tilted it back, her eyes were closed and she was barely breathing.
He put one hand under her knees and the other behind her head and lifted her up slowly. He carried her steadily, but as quick as he could to the medical wing.
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"Mr. Weasley? What has happened?" gasped Madam Promfrey as Ron ran into the medical wing and slung Hermione onto the nearest vacant bed.
"I, I don't know! I oh god the baby!" he yelled and looked desperately from Madam Pomfrey to Hermione then back to Madam Pomfrey.
"Calm down Mr. Weasley, what exactly did you see happen?" she said soothingly as she began to arrange Hermione properly on the bed.
"Okay," said Ron calming down slightly. "We were in the Gryffindor tower, and Fred and George were there. They said they thought Ginny was pregnant and I lost my head and lunged at Dean, he's the father you see. And then Dean eventually told me Hermione was pregnant and I, I didn't know. And then I asked her if it was true and she ran off crying. And then I ran off after her and I found her outside the owlery and as I walked up to her, her head fell and I picked her up and she was barely breathing. And she seemed to have been crying lots and it's all my fault, if I was a good boyfriend I would have noticed the signs and known she was pregnant! HELL, if I were a good boyfriend I never would have gotten her pregnant! This is entirely my fault! Is she going to be okay? Is the baby going to be okay?" Ron rushed as he sat down by Hermione's bed and held her hand lightly.
"Calm down Mr. Weasley, yes it may be your fault that she is pregnant. But calm down, she is not seriously ill. She should be fine, I think!" sighed madam Pomfrey as she began to take Hermione's weak pulse.
"I think, that she has just been over-exhausted and has fallen into a slight coma, believe me I will be able to bring her round and I'm sure there will not be any permanent damage to your girlfriend or your child." She added soothingly as she handed Ron a glass of water.
"The worst thing is for you to get sick, she needs her strength to look after herself, we don't want her to have to worry about you as well okay?" she said as she pushed Ron out the door.
"Now she needs her rest, I will send for you if there is any change in her condition. For the good or the bad!" and she closed the door in Ron's face.
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Harry and Draco sat up in their bed talking about the pregnancies in the Weasley family.
"I can't believe they're both pregnant at once, that is so bizarre!" said Harry as he snuggled up to Draco.
"Yeah, it's pretty lucky for them, I mean if they both keep the babies. Then they can sorta go through it together. But if I were Hermione I'd shoot Ron for being so thick! Even I knew she was pregnant!" said Draco.
"WHAT?!" Yelled Harry as he sat up and looked at his boyfriend, "You knew and you didn't tell me, even though I was worrying sick about what was wrong with her?"
"Oh Harry, I'm so sorry. I didn't realise you didn't know. Of course I wasn't sure. But the books I read pretty much summed up all her symptoms as pregnancy." He said cuddling Harry, trying to get the raven-haired boy to forgive him.
"Yeah, I suppose it was rather obvious now that I think about it. I should've known." Said Harry as he fell back into Draco's arms.
"Harry love?" asked Draco, looking down at the boy in his arms.
"Hmm?" answered Harry.
"Wouldn't it be cool if one day we could get pregnant?" Draco sighed lovingly.
"Yeah, that'd be so cool. **Sigh** sucks to be gay ey?" sighed harry.
"Well, Harry, when I was reading about pregnancy. There was a certain thing I read. It may be handy, well not now of course. But when we're older, a way we could, well produce an offspring or two." Said Draco.
"What?" asked Harry intrigued. "How?" he sat up and looked at Draco's sweet face, holding his hands.
"Well, it's sort of. Lets me just explain what happens. I don't know if you'll like the idea and it will be very hard, but if we really wanted children it would be the only way. They would be our own blood.
Okay, first a potion is brewed. It's really complicated and has lots of rare ingredients and I think it takes about a year to brew. And then on the first full moon after it's brewed, we have to drink a certain amount and then we have to choose a virgin girl." Draco paused to wait for Harry's reaction.
"A virgin girl for what exactly?" asked Harry, a questionable look on his face.
"Well, we feed the potion to the virgin. And then we both have to sleep with her the next day, and then she gets pregnant with our child. So it will have her DNA too, but it has sort of both of our sperm. It's complicated, but it would be our child, and the girl's child." Draco looked at Harry.
"Oh, I see. Well it's sounds like a good idea, if we ever get to that stage in our relationship when we feel we want children. Of course that will be years off now." He said as he kissed Draco lightly on his cheek. Draco let out a sigh of relief.
"Oh, so you think maybe one day we could have kids that way? Some people don't like the idea of bringing someone else into the relationship, but the potion ensures that the child is not just one of ours, it is both of ours." Said Draco as he lay Harry down on his stomach.
Harry lay his head down on Draco's tight stomach and looked up into his steely eyes.
"I love you Draco." He sighed and closed his eyes.
"I love you too Harry." Said Draco and he rearranged himself to lie down next to Harry.
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Ron waited outside the medical wing until Madam Pomfrey walked out to go to bed.
"Mr. Weasley! What are you doing here? It's nearly midnight. Hermione's fine now off to bed with you, I don't want you getting sick!" and she pushed in the direction of the Gryffindor tower.
Ron mumbled an apology and stumbled back to the GT (Gryffindor Tower) numbly.
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The next morning Harry woke up and smiled at the sleeping blonde beside him. He still got a happy feeling in his stomach when he woke up in Draco's arms. He pushed Draco across the bed slightly and climbed out of bed.
Draco mumbled in his sleep and fumbled around for harry. He woke up with a start when he noticed his boyfriend was gone.
He threw open the hangings and looked around for Harry. He was standing by the wardrobe looking for clothes.
"HARRY!" he yelled almost loud enough to wake Ron. (If he had been sleeping :| ) "Where are you? what are you doing?" he called out in the sweetest most babyish voice he could manage.
"Oh Draco, stop whining! Come on, I'm having a shower and it's still pretty early, so come on get your things and join me." Harry laughed as he walked towards the bathrooms.
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After their shower, Draco and Harry walked hand in hand down to breakfast. When they entered half the school was already there, it was still early and most of the Gryffindors, who very much enjoyed their sleep, were still in bed.
Harry and Draco sat down at the almost empty Gryffindor table and began to pile their plates with food. Soon enough streams of students came in and joined them and the hall was soon enough filled.
Ron and Hermione walked in with their arms around each other smiling lovey- dovey smiles at each other, Madam Pomfrey had awoken to find Hermione sitting up in her bed looking refreshed and healthy. Harry was glad they had finally made up. Hermione and Ron sat beside Harry who was, as usual, perched on Draco's knee. Ginny and Dean sat on the other side.
They were all sitting down together, chatting away like they were back in second year with no real problems to speak of. Back when their lives weren't so complicated.
Suddenly all the chatter stopped and the great hall doors were thrown open with a great thud. Large clomps from shoes were heard and Harry almost suspected that their 4th year DADA teacher "Mad-eye" Moody was back.
When he turned to face the door, however, he was surprised to see an unfamiliar girl standing in the doorway.
"Hi," she said shyly. The hall was more silent that Harry had ever remembered it, the girl was wearing black combat style boots that came up to her knee with a thick heels. She had a dirty denim mini-skirt on and an army green tank top. She was wearing lots of silver bangles and a black studded collar around her neck. Her attire and stance made her look threatening and tough, but then Harry looked up to her face.
She had long chocolate brown hair that fell down near her shoulders. It was dead straight with light brown, honey, rust and cherry coloured streaks running though it. She had a huge smile on her face, obviously amused that the entire school including the staff were staring at her and looking her up and down.
Her eyes shone brightly when she smiled and she had small dimples either side of her mouth. Her face was innocent and sweet, and she was really beautiful. It threw off her bad girl image that she tried to achieve with her clothing.
Finally Dumbledore clapped his hands for attention but not silence as the school was already in complete silent awe of the girl standing in the doorway.
The whole school turned around as Dumbledore beckoned the girl towards the front of the hall.
"Ladies and Gentlemen. I wouldn't usually introduce a new student like this in front of you all. But since she is here now, let me introduce you to Alyssa Trinity Absinthe. She is our new Gryffindor 6th year. Will everyone please make her feel very welcome?"
The entire Gryffindor table erupted in applause and cheers and Alyssa put on this cute smile and curtseyed before taking a seat near Ginny and Dean.
"Hey!" said Ginny offering her hand to the new girl. "I'm Ginny Weasley, and this," she pointed to Dean sitting next to her "Is Dean."
Alyssa shook her hand and smiled. "Hey, I'm Alyssa, although that was already mentioned. I transferred from Bloomsbury Academy, near LA I lived in LA too. Until I got kicked out of Bloomsbury!" she said laughing.
"You were expelled?" gasped Hermione, and Ron, Harry and Ginny all laughed, she sounded like the old Hermione all right.
"Yeah, they though I didn't show good behaviour and that I made the school look bad. They warned they'd kick me out when they caught me in the storeroom with the pool-cleaning boy. It was an idol threat because they said the same thing when I was caught in the storeroom with my best girlfriend. It was a girl's school, so the only guys we could screw were the maintenance staff. I wasn't very popular after I got caught with Jake though; they fired all the male ground staff. And then I though I'd could get away with it when I got caught in the storeroom with the ex-pool- cleaning boy AND my best friend. But apparently that was the last straw, and then Hogwarts was the only school that would take Me." she looked around at the shocked faces of the Gryffindors.
Draco began to clap. "Wow you're my kinda girl Alyssa!" he said laughing, then Harry hit him in the stomach. "ugh, urghf I was kidding Harry calm down!" he laughed.
"Oh god," said Alyssa staring at them. "I mean, I knew hogwarts had a pretty bad reputation and all. I mean everyone at my old school talked about how there was this killing here a couple of years back, and how they don't care about people dating. And I knew it must be pretty bad if they took me in after my reading my record. But I never knew it was like this." She gestured her arm to the couples spread openly around the school, in each other's laps, feeding each other fruit, kissing in open public. Looking at it from an outsider's prospective it would look pretty bad.
"Hey! We aren't that bad. There are some pretty hot guys here. Although, that isn't all you're into so there's some pretty hot girls too." Said Draco, kissing Harry's cheek lightly.
"That's sooo cute, you guys are so openly gay! It's adorable!" sighed Alyssa as she watched Draco and Harry stare lovingly at each other.
"It's a pity too," she added and they looked at her strangely.
"Why is that?" asked Harry, holding Draco tighter.
"Well yeah, your boyfriend, sorry didn't catch his name, is right. There are some pretty hot guys at this school, but the two of the hottest I've seen so far are sitting in each other's arms. It's kinda sad for us girls." She sighed.
"Yeah, it upset us a little bit," said Ginny. "But," she added, lowering her voice to a whisper and leaning towards Alyssa. "It does have some benefits." She winked at Alyssa in a sort of 'I'll tell you about it later' type way.
As breakfast finished they all got up and left for their classes. Draco and Harry walked hand in hand to Potions, with Ron, Hermione, and Alyssa in tow.
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As Harry sunk into his seat between Hermione and Draco he sighed.
He hated potions and he hated Snape. He always tried to be on his best behaviour, but Snape always riled him up so bad he just couldn't help but retaliate.
He sunk into his chair and doodled on his parchment while Snape droned on about the potion they would have to make.
"The instructions are on the board, BEGIN!" yelled Snape in a bored voice.
Harry numbly got up and wandered over to the desk where he and Draco usually occupied. But Alyssa was already standing there.
"Hey, you're Harry right? Harry Potter?" she asked casually as she got out her instruments.
"Yeah, that's me!" he said, faking enthusiasm, he looked around the room for Draco. He was standing near the front of the room talking to Snape.
"So, did you come over here to be my partner? Or just to talk?...or did I take your place? Oh shit Harry I'm sorry I didn't know." She said as she looked at Harry's bored face.
"No, that's okay. Now that you're here there's uneven numbers. You can work with Draco and I." He said smiling as he got to work beside her.
"So, what are we making? Snape bores me to tears and I usually tune out until we have to stand up and get to work. He's such a jerk. He hates me and my friends, well except Draco." He said as Draco walked up behind him.
"Sure, he's a bit of a git my love. But he is a teacher and he isn't THAT bad. He was with me most of my childhood, he's a good man really." Said Draco as he wrapped his hand around Harry's thin muscular waist.
"Alright Draco, now let's got on with this potion. What are we making anyway?" said Harry laughing.
"We as in the three of us Harry? I'm impressed, I really didn't think you were one for a threesome. But hey, you learn something new everyday don't ya? It's a truth serum, not Veritaserum, and not nearly as powerful. But it's pretty strong. Maybe I can use it on you and see if you really wanna get kinky, that would be interesting." Said Draco as he grabbed Harry's butt on his way past.
Alyssa giggled to herself, "Now I think I understand what Ginny meant by the benefits!" she thought to herself.
They got to work on their potion as Snape began to wander around the classroom, muttering random insults at each student he passed.
At the end of the lesson they bottles their potions and left them in a special heated room in the back of Snape's dungeon to settle until their next lesson when they would try them out. Finally Harry was feed from Snape's dungeon hell. He ran from the room and right into the chest of his godfather, incognito of course.
"Mr. Blackman!" screamed Harry excitedly. Mr. Blackman was Sirius's Alias. Dumbledore had introduced him as a guest of the school who was helping assess the school finances.
"Ah, Mr. Potter, happy to be free from **whisper** Snivellus' class?" he said laughing at the students smiling wildly at him.
Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Draco were the only students who knew 'Mr. Blackman's' true identity.
"And who is this beautiful young lady Mr. Potter?" he asked looked at Alyssa strangely.
"Oh, this is a new student Mr. Blackman her name is Alyssa Absinthe." Said Harry laughing as they made their way down the hall with Sirius.
Sirius let out a gasp and then quickly recomposed himself. "Oh well, very nice to meet you Miss Absinthe. Sorry guys but I must fly, I have to see a certain DADA teacher before you take up all her time learning." He said, and Harry knew that if he weren't wearing his dark glasses he would have a very merry twinkle in his eye.
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Harry, Ron, Draco, Hermione, Dean and Alyssa made their way to Professor Calendula's DADA class. They took their seats and waited patiently.
5 minutes later the entire class was sitting around chatting and Professor Calendula still hadn't come to class. Usually she was quite prompt in coming to class but since Sirius had moved into Hogwarts, she was occasionally a little bit late.
"Where's the teacher?" asked Alyssa, leaning over Draco to ask Harry.
"Um, I guess she just a little bit preoccupied, her old highschool boyfriend just moved back to hogwarts." Harry laughed and pushed Alyssa back into her seat as Professor Calendula walked into the class looking rather disheveled.
"Morning Class" she said overly cheerful. Her face was slightly flushed and she was busy fixing her hair so it didn't look so messed up.
"Morning Professor" piped the class.
Harry laughed as Professor Calendula straightened her skirt and pulled it down slightly, as it had been rather bunched up.
During class they learn about some counter jinxing spell and when and when not to use them. At the end of the lesson she gave them no homework because she was too happy.
"Bye my children! Enjoy your break and learn as much as you can. Your education is vital my children, nurture it well!" she beamed as they left her class.
"She must be nuts about Mr. Blackman." Said Ron as they walked out into the grounds.
"Yeah, I've never seen Sirius as happy and prof. Calendula seems particularly happy and radiant." Said Harry as he inhaled the rich cold air. He loved to be outside, he loved inhaling the fresh air outside.
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***Author's Note:
I have nothing much else to say in this chapter so I think I'll end it there. I hope you like this chapter? I think it's goodish, I don't exactly know why Sirius gasped when he saw Alyssa (I hope no one minds me bringing in a new character, I have nothing to make this story interesting.) I'm thinking up some cool scenarios that would fit there. But I'm really not sure yet! Anyway, review okay? I'm thinking of starting a new story, maybe a Draco/Hermione story. People seem to like them, and my other story 'Down With Love' is pretty shit at the moment, I'm lost for inspiration. If there's anyone out there who is good at writing stories and knows the movie down with love fairly well then gimme a review. Coz you could possibly be my muse? Maybe? I really need help with that story, read the reviews.... Everyone thinks its shit, pretty much everyone. Anyway I'm thinking of taking it down and working on it more, but I dunno. Please review this chapter coz you love me! have fun and be good! Love jade xoxo
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Chapter 25- picking up the pieces
Ron sat on the floor of the gryffindor common room with his head in his hands and cried. He couldn't remember the last time he had cried and that scared him.
(Let's have sum POV's)
~*Ron's POV*~
I can't believe it; I've screwed my girlfriend's life! It's my entire fault and I'm such a jerk I didn't even notice! How could I be so stupid as to forget a simple charm? I have to find Hermione; I have to see if she's okay! She probably won't ever want to speak to me again!
~*Hermione's POV*~
I NEVER WANT TO SPEAK TO Ron AGAIN! (tee-hee) I can't believe he didn't notice I know Ron's a bit thick sometimes but Dean was practically spelling it out for him and he still didn't see. Why couldn't I have fallen for a smarter guy? Poor Ginny, she's going through exactly the same thing as me, but at least she has a good, smart boyfriend who saw what was coming and helped her through it. I have Ron! Fat lot of good he is! Now I have to go up to the owlery and owl mum. Somehow I have to tell her that I'm pregnant, god I hope she understands. Luckily she isn't a witch, coz if she was I'm sure she'll be sending a howler. Won't Mrs. Weasley be impressed? Two pregnancies in the one family she's got her work cut out for her. I wonder what her reaction to Ginny will be? Ginny IS only 15!
~*Ginny's POV*~
Oh god, that did not go well! Fred and George caused such a huge scene, and Ron is so embarrassed. He's such a hypocrite, there he was abusing Dean while his own pregnant girlfriend stood right beside him. And the owl telling mum that I'm pregnant is on its way. I shudder to think of her reaction, although she may be slightly pleased, a new baby to bring up! I just hope like hell that the poor baby doesn't have red hair. That's my one prayer for my little baby, red hair is the plague of my life I'll do anything to shelter my baby from that!
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Hermione ran from the Gryffindor tower with tears streaming from her eyes, she ran around the castle not sure where her feet were taking her and not sure that she wasn't running in circles. Finally she stopped and sunk to the floor, she cried and cried. Letting all the emotions from the last week flood over her robes and the floor. She sat crying steadily for 15 minutes before she realised that she was soaking wet. She looked at the wet stone floor and her soaking wet robes and realised she needed to do something and keep her mind off her SUFFERABLE IDIOTIC GIT OF A BOYFRIEND!
She stood up and walked towards the owlery, as she got there she pulled out the 3-day-old letter from her robe pocket and addressed it to her mother. Madam Pomfrey had offered to write to Mrs. Granger for her but Hermione felt she needed her mother to hear it from her. she had written and re- written the letter at least 15 times before she was happy with the way it sounded. She had intended to send it that day but she couldn't bring herself to attach the letter to an owl and send it away.
Now she was up here she couldn't back down, she needed to tell her mother before she got too far into the term, she needed to know what her mother thought she should do.
She attached the crumpled letter to a school owl and sent it away, then she walked out of the owlery. She sat down on the floor and cried a fresh batch of tears. "Damn my whirlwind emotions!" she cursed to herself.
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Ron got up off the floor. He walked out of the tower and made for the library. He didn't have much time to loose; he needed to find Hermione as soon as he could so that they would have more time to talk.
As soon as he walked into the library he questioned Madam Prince as to whether she had seen Hermione come in.
"Sorry dear, she hasn't been in this evening. I'll let her know you're looking for her if I see her" she said, she had a certain soft spot for Hermione and she wanted to help the Weasley boy find her. He seemed worried.
He stormed out of the library after hastily thanking Madam Prince for her help. He ran franticly around the school calling her name, and then suddenly a thought came to him.
He altered his course to the Gryffindor tower and ran inside as quick as possible. He climbed the stairs to the boys' dormitory and shouted for Harry.
Harry climbed out of his bed and put his finger to his lips.
"Shut up Ron! Draco's trying to sleep and it think Ginny is too!" he hissed, but then his face softened at the sight of Ron's angst.
"What's wrong Ron? Have you found Hermione? What do you need?" he asked softly as he closed to hangings around his bed.
"I need your map Harry, it's the only way I can find Hermione quickly, searching the school doesn't help, she could be anywhere!" he whispered hurriedly.
"Sure Ron, it's in my top drawer, you can use it just make sure you put it back in my drawer." Said Harry as he climbed back into bed with Draco.
"Thanks mate!" whispered Ron as he ran from the room.
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Hermione sat outside the owlery crying bitterly. (A/n: I kno, it's soppy and crying-y at the moment but things will get better) she lay her head in her hands and listened to the soft hoots of the owls in rhythm with her slow sobs. Her breath began to slow down and she soon fell into a deep sleep. Just before she lost consciousness, she heard large feet stomping towards her, and a familiar voice calling her name.
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He traced his finger around the map looking for the name he needed. There were a lot of students in the school and black dots were darting in every direction. Ron had trouble focusing as he looked for Hermione's name.
Finally he saw it, not moving outside the owlery. He stuffed the map into his pocket and ran towards the large grey tower, willing his legs to get there faster then they were.
Finally he rounded the corner and spotted her. She was sitting just outside the owlery door with her head in her hands Ron could tell by the movement of her back that she was sobbing. As he came closer her sobbing stopped, and her head fell violently forward.
"Hermione!" he gasped as he ran towards her.
He lifted her head by the chin and tilted it back, her eyes were closed and she was barely breathing.
He put one hand under her knees and the other behind her head and lifted her up slowly. He carried her steadily, but as quick as he could to the medical wing.
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"Mr. Weasley? What has happened?" gasped Madam Promfrey as Ron ran into the medical wing and slung Hermione onto the nearest vacant bed.
"I, I don't know! I oh god the baby!" he yelled and looked desperately from Madam Pomfrey to Hermione then back to Madam Pomfrey.
"Calm down Mr. Weasley, what exactly did you see happen?" she said soothingly as she began to arrange Hermione properly on the bed.
"Okay," said Ron calming down slightly. "We were in the Gryffindor tower, and Fred and George were there. They said they thought Ginny was pregnant and I lost my head and lunged at Dean, he's the father you see. And then Dean eventually told me Hermione was pregnant and I, I didn't know. And then I asked her if it was true and she ran off crying. And then I ran off after her and I found her outside the owlery and as I walked up to her, her head fell and I picked her up and she was barely breathing. And she seemed to have been crying lots and it's all my fault, if I was a good boyfriend I would have noticed the signs and known she was pregnant! HELL, if I were a good boyfriend I never would have gotten her pregnant! This is entirely my fault! Is she going to be okay? Is the baby going to be okay?" Ron rushed as he sat down by Hermione's bed and held her hand lightly.
"Calm down Mr. Weasley, yes it may be your fault that she is pregnant. But calm down, she is not seriously ill. She should be fine, I think!" sighed madam Pomfrey as she began to take Hermione's weak pulse.
"I think, that she has just been over-exhausted and has fallen into a slight coma, believe me I will be able to bring her round and I'm sure there will not be any permanent damage to your girlfriend or your child." She added soothingly as she handed Ron a glass of water.
"The worst thing is for you to get sick, she needs her strength to look after herself, we don't want her to have to worry about you as well okay?" she said as she pushed Ron out the door.
"Now she needs her rest, I will send for you if there is any change in her condition. For the good or the bad!" and she closed the door in Ron's face.
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Harry and Draco sat up in their bed talking about the pregnancies in the Weasley family.
"I can't believe they're both pregnant at once, that is so bizarre!" said Harry as he snuggled up to Draco.
"Yeah, it's pretty lucky for them, I mean if they both keep the babies. Then they can sorta go through it together. But if I were Hermione I'd shoot Ron for being so thick! Even I knew she was pregnant!" said Draco.
"WHAT?!" Yelled Harry as he sat up and looked at his boyfriend, "You knew and you didn't tell me, even though I was worrying sick about what was wrong with her?"
"Oh Harry, I'm so sorry. I didn't realise you didn't know. Of course I wasn't sure. But the books I read pretty much summed up all her symptoms as pregnancy." He said cuddling Harry, trying to get the raven-haired boy to forgive him.
"Yeah, I suppose it was rather obvious now that I think about it. I should've known." Said Harry as he fell back into Draco's arms.
"Harry love?" asked Draco, looking down at the boy in his arms.
"Hmm?" answered Harry.
"Wouldn't it be cool if one day we could get pregnant?" Draco sighed lovingly.
"Yeah, that'd be so cool. **Sigh** sucks to be gay ey?" sighed harry.
"Well, Harry, when I was reading about pregnancy. There was a certain thing I read. It may be handy, well not now of course. But when we're older, a way we could, well produce an offspring or two." Said Draco.
"What?" asked Harry intrigued. "How?" he sat up and looked at Draco's sweet face, holding his hands.
"Well, it's sort of. Lets me just explain what happens. I don't know if you'll like the idea and it will be very hard, but if we really wanted children it would be the only way. They would be our own blood.
Okay, first a potion is brewed. It's really complicated and has lots of rare ingredients and I think it takes about a year to brew. And then on the first full moon after it's brewed, we have to drink a certain amount and then we have to choose a virgin girl." Draco paused to wait for Harry's reaction.
"A virgin girl for what exactly?" asked Harry, a questionable look on his face.
"Well, we feed the potion to the virgin. And then we both have to sleep with her the next day, and then she gets pregnant with our child. So it will have her DNA too, but it has sort of both of our sperm. It's complicated, but it would be our child, and the girl's child." Draco looked at Harry.
"Oh, I see. Well it's sounds like a good idea, if we ever get to that stage in our relationship when we feel we want children. Of course that will be years off now." He said as he kissed Draco lightly on his cheek. Draco let out a sigh of relief.
"Oh, so you think maybe one day we could have kids that way? Some people don't like the idea of bringing someone else into the relationship, but the potion ensures that the child is not just one of ours, it is both of ours." Said Draco as he lay Harry down on his stomach.
Harry lay his head down on Draco's tight stomach and looked up into his steely eyes.
"I love you Draco." He sighed and closed his eyes.
"I love you too Harry." Said Draco and he rearranged himself to lie down next to Harry.
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Ron waited outside the medical wing until Madam Pomfrey walked out to go to bed.
"Mr. Weasley! What are you doing here? It's nearly midnight. Hermione's fine now off to bed with you, I don't want you getting sick!" and she pushed in the direction of the Gryffindor tower.
Ron mumbled an apology and stumbled back to the GT (Gryffindor Tower) numbly.
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The next morning Harry woke up and smiled at the sleeping blonde beside him. He still got a happy feeling in his stomach when he woke up in Draco's arms. He pushed Draco across the bed slightly and climbed out of bed.
Draco mumbled in his sleep and fumbled around for harry. He woke up with a start when he noticed his boyfriend was gone.
He threw open the hangings and looked around for Harry. He was standing by the wardrobe looking for clothes.
"HARRY!" he yelled almost loud enough to wake Ron. (If he had been sleeping :| ) "Where are you? what are you doing?" he called out in the sweetest most babyish voice he could manage.
"Oh Draco, stop whining! Come on, I'm having a shower and it's still pretty early, so come on get your things and join me." Harry laughed as he walked towards the bathrooms.
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After their shower, Draco and Harry walked hand in hand down to breakfast. When they entered half the school was already there, it was still early and most of the Gryffindors, who very much enjoyed their sleep, were still in bed.
Harry and Draco sat down at the almost empty Gryffindor table and began to pile their plates with food. Soon enough streams of students came in and joined them and the hall was soon enough filled.
Ron and Hermione walked in with their arms around each other smiling lovey- dovey smiles at each other, Madam Pomfrey had awoken to find Hermione sitting up in her bed looking refreshed and healthy. Harry was glad they had finally made up. Hermione and Ron sat beside Harry who was, as usual, perched on Draco's knee. Ginny and Dean sat on the other side.
They were all sitting down together, chatting away like they were back in second year with no real problems to speak of. Back when their lives weren't so complicated.
Suddenly all the chatter stopped and the great hall doors were thrown open with a great thud. Large clomps from shoes were heard and Harry almost suspected that their 4th year DADA teacher "Mad-eye" Moody was back.
When he turned to face the door, however, he was surprised to see an unfamiliar girl standing in the doorway.
"Hi," she said shyly. The hall was more silent that Harry had ever remembered it, the girl was wearing black combat style boots that came up to her knee with a thick heels. She had a dirty denim mini-skirt on and an army green tank top. She was wearing lots of silver bangles and a black studded collar around her neck. Her attire and stance made her look threatening and tough, but then Harry looked up to her face.
She had long chocolate brown hair that fell down near her shoulders. It was dead straight with light brown, honey, rust and cherry coloured streaks running though it. She had a huge smile on her face, obviously amused that the entire school including the staff were staring at her and looking her up and down.
Her eyes shone brightly when she smiled and she had small dimples either side of her mouth. Her face was innocent and sweet, and she was really beautiful. It threw off her bad girl image that she tried to achieve with her clothing.
Finally Dumbledore clapped his hands for attention but not silence as the school was already in complete silent awe of the girl standing in the doorway.
The whole school turned around as Dumbledore beckoned the girl towards the front of the hall.
"Ladies and Gentlemen. I wouldn't usually introduce a new student like this in front of you all. But since she is here now, let me introduce you to Alyssa Trinity Absinthe. She is our new Gryffindor 6th year. Will everyone please make her feel very welcome?"
The entire Gryffindor table erupted in applause and cheers and Alyssa put on this cute smile and curtseyed before taking a seat near Ginny and Dean.
"Hey!" said Ginny offering her hand to the new girl. "I'm Ginny Weasley, and this," she pointed to Dean sitting next to her "Is Dean."
Alyssa shook her hand and smiled. "Hey, I'm Alyssa, although that was already mentioned. I transferred from Bloomsbury Academy, near LA I lived in LA too. Until I got kicked out of Bloomsbury!" she said laughing.
"You were expelled?" gasped Hermione, and Ron, Harry and Ginny all laughed, she sounded like the old Hermione all right.
"Yeah, they though I didn't show good behaviour and that I made the school look bad. They warned they'd kick me out when they caught me in the storeroom with the pool-cleaning boy. It was an idol threat because they said the same thing when I was caught in the storeroom with my best girlfriend. It was a girl's school, so the only guys we could screw were the maintenance staff. I wasn't very popular after I got caught with Jake though; they fired all the male ground staff. And then I though I'd could get away with it when I got caught in the storeroom with the ex-pool- cleaning boy AND my best friend. But apparently that was the last straw, and then Hogwarts was the only school that would take Me." she looked around at the shocked faces of the Gryffindors.
Draco began to clap. "Wow you're my kinda girl Alyssa!" he said laughing, then Harry hit him in the stomach. "ugh, urghf I was kidding Harry calm down!" he laughed.
"Oh god," said Alyssa staring at them. "I mean, I knew hogwarts had a pretty bad reputation and all. I mean everyone at my old school talked about how there was this killing here a couple of years back, and how they don't care about people dating. And I knew it must be pretty bad if they took me in after my reading my record. But I never knew it was like this." She gestured her arm to the couples spread openly around the school, in each other's laps, feeding each other fruit, kissing in open public. Looking at it from an outsider's prospective it would look pretty bad.
"Hey! We aren't that bad. There are some pretty hot guys here. Although, that isn't all you're into so there's some pretty hot girls too." Said Draco, kissing Harry's cheek lightly.
"That's sooo cute, you guys are so openly gay! It's adorable!" sighed Alyssa as she watched Draco and Harry stare lovingly at each other.
"It's a pity too," she added and they looked at her strangely.
"Why is that?" asked Harry, holding Draco tighter.
"Well yeah, your boyfriend, sorry didn't catch his name, is right. There are some pretty hot guys at this school, but the two of the hottest I've seen so far are sitting in each other's arms. It's kinda sad for us girls." She sighed.
"Yeah, it upset us a little bit," said Ginny. "But," she added, lowering her voice to a whisper and leaning towards Alyssa. "It does have some benefits." She winked at Alyssa in a sort of 'I'll tell you about it later' type way.
As breakfast finished they all got up and left for their classes. Draco and Harry walked hand in hand to Potions, with Ron, Hermione, and Alyssa in tow.
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As Harry sunk into his seat between Hermione and Draco he sighed.
He hated potions and he hated Snape. He always tried to be on his best behaviour, but Snape always riled him up so bad he just couldn't help but retaliate.
He sunk into his chair and doodled on his parchment while Snape droned on about the potion they would have to make.
"The instructions are on the board, BEGIN!" yelled Snape in a bored voice.
Harry numbly got up and wandered over to the desk where he and Draco usually occupied. But Alyssa was already standing there.
"Hey, you're Harry right? Harry Potter?" she asked casually as she got out her instruments.
"Yeah, that's me!" he said, faking enthusiasm, he looked around the room for Draco. He was standing near the front of the room talking to Snape.
"So, did you come over here to be my partner? Or just to talk?...or did I take your place? Oh shit Harry I'm sorry I didn't know." She said as she looked at Harry's bored face.
"No, that's okay. Now that you're here there's uneven numbers. You can work with Draco and I." He said smiling as he got to work beside her.
"So, what are we making? Snape bores me to tears and I usually tune out until we have to stand up and get to work. He's such a jerk. He hates me and my friends, well except Draco." He said as Draco walked up behind him.
"Sure, he's a bit of a git my love. But he is a teacher and he isn't THAT bad. He was with me most of my childhood, he's a good man really." Said Draco as he wrapped his hand around Harry's thin muscular waist.
"Alright Draco, now let's got on with this potion. What are we making anyway?" said Harry laughing.
"We as in the three of us Harry? I'm impressed, I really didn't think you were one for a threesome. But hey, you learn something new everyday don't ya? It's a truth serum, not Veritaserum, and not nearly as powerful. But it's pretty strong. Maybe I can use it on you and see if you really wanna get kinky, that would be interesting." Said Draco as he grabbed Harry's butt on his way past.
Alyssa giggled to herself, "Now I think I understand what Ginny meant by the benefits!" she thought to herself.
They got to work on their potion as Snape began to wander around the classroom, muttering random insults at each student he passed.
At the end of the lesson they bottles their potions and left them in a special heated room in the back of Snape's dungeon to settle until their next lesson when they would try them out. Finally Harry was feed from Snape's dungeon hell. He ran from the room and right into the chest of his godfather, incognito of course.
"Mr. Blackman!" screamed Harry excitedly. Mr. Blackman was Sirius's Alias. Dumbledore had introduced him as a guest of the school who was helping assess the school finances.
"Ah, Mr. Potter, happy to be free from **whisper** Snivellus' class?" he said laughing at the students smiling wildly at him.
Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Draco were the only students who knew 'Mr. Blackman's' true identity.
"And who is this beautiful young lady Mr. Potter?" he asked looked at Alyssa strangely.
"Oh, this is a new student Mr. Blackman her name is Alyssa Absinthe." Said Harry laughing as they made their way down the hall with Sirius.
Sirius let out a gasp and then quickly recomposed himself. "Oh well, very nice to meet you Miss Absinthe. Sorry guys but I must fly, I have to see a certain DADA teacher before you take up all her time learning." He said, and Harry knew that if he weren't wearing his dark glasses he would have a very merry twinkle in his eye.
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Harry, Ron, Draco, Hermione, Dean and Alyssa made their way to Professor Calendula's DADA class. They took their seats and waited patiently.
5 minutes later the entire class was sitting around chatting and Professor Calendula still hadn't come to class. Usually she was quite prompt in coming to class but since Sirius had moved into Hogwarts, she was occasionally a little bit late.
"Where's the teacher?" asked Alyssa, leaning over Draco to ask Harry.
"Um, I guess she just a little bit preoccupied, her old highschool boyfriend just moved back to hogwarts." Harry laughed and pushed Alyssa back into her seat as Professor Calendula walked into the class looking rather disheveled.
"Morning Class" she said overly cheerful. Her face was slightly flushed and she was busy fixing her hair so it didn't look so messed up.
"Morning Professor" piped the class.
Harry laughed as Professor Calendula straightened her skirt and pulled it down slightly, as it had been rather bunched up.
During class they learn about some counter jinxing spell and when and when not to use them. At the end of the lesson she gave them no homework because she was too happy.
"Bye my children! Enjoy your break and learn as much as you can. Your education is vital my children, nurture it well!" she beamed as they left her class.
"She must be nuts about Mr. Blackman." Said Ron as they walked out into the grounds.
"Yeah, I've never seen Sirius as happy and prof. Calendula seems particularly happy and radiant." Said Harry as he inhaled the rich cold air. He loved to be outside, he loved inhaling the fresh air outside.
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***Author's Note:
I have nothing much else to say in this chapter so I think I'll end it there. I hope you like this chapter? I think it's goodish, I don't exactly know why Sirius gasped when he saw Alyssa (I hope no one minds me bringing in a new character, I have nothing to make this story interesting.) I'm thinking up some cool scenarios that would fit there. But I'm really not sure yet! Anyway, review okay? I'm thinking of starting a new story, maybe a Draco/Hermione story. People seem to like them, and my other story 'Down With Love' is pretty shit at the moment, I'm lost for inspiration. If there's anyone out there who is good at writing stories and knows the movie down with love fairly well then gimme a review. Coz you could possibly be my muse? Maybe? I really need help with that story, read the reviews.... Everyone thinks its shit, pretty much everyone. Anyway I'm thinking of taking it down and working on it more, but I dunno. Please review this chapter coz you love me! have fun and be good! Love jade xoxo