Chapter 1-Dodgy Showers
Scanning through the room, he saw a deserted Gryffindor common-room, nothing unusual seeing it was 11pm and he had jsut staggered in covered in mud after Quidditch practice. He didnt have fantastic eyesight, but it was enough to tell him that no-one was there-
There was a rustle of an old rotting page being turned.
Harry Potter spinned around, to see a bushy brunette with a book propped up so that you
couldn't see her face.
Harry sighed.
"Hermione, that's gonna seriously ruin your eyesight, you'll end up with glasses like me,"
joked Harry as he walked over.
"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" said a voice in monotone behind the big book.
Hermione Granger, obviously not happy with the interruption, but secretly relieved for the break,
turned around and sighed dejectedly, "I wish…I really have to finish this book
before Potions tomorrow, so I can start on the second one."
"We don't even have Potions tomorrow! Hermione-it's
Saturday, you have heaps of time before you have to finish that book, now be a
good girl and go get some sleep before your brain bursts," consoled Harry, secretly
wanting some sleep in himself.
He tugged the heavy book out of her small hands and dragged her upstairs.
As they lumbered up the stairs, Hermione, now all confused, probably due to her
lack of sleep, looked at Harry "Are you serious? Oh no…I've been reading the
wrong timetable! What else do we have tomorrow…"
Ah…don't worry, just go to sleep," and he shut the door behind her.
Warm water gushed out of the dodgy shower tap but was nevertheless massaging.
Harry closed his eyes to think. The faint whistling in the background was soothing too
he thought and chuckled. But he kind of noticed that Hermione was spending more and more
time with her nose in the books, not like she wasn't already! But just maybe a bit more than usual...
He had always thought of himself as Hermione's brother, despite the fact Hermione was always the one saving him
with her knowledge of spells, but now all he really knew was that she had had a few
family problems and just had a small fling with that playboy Malfoy, "No
biggie," Hermione had said. He wasn't sure how far they got to but whatever it was,
no-one approved of it. But everyone approved of one thing, Hermione dumped him.
Harry smiled.
The thought that Gryffindor's own little Hermione could make someone as powerful as
Malfoy humiliated.
Harry stopped smiling.
Reality hit him, then that would mean that Hermione would forever be in dept of Malfoy,
until he attacked back. The thought sent shivers up his strong spine that had years of
fracture experience. That would not be good.
"Harry, is that you?" mumbled a sleepy Ron Weasly hammering clumsily on the door, "Harry, its
past 11, if you were gonna take a shower why did you have to take that shower,
it whistles through the pipes remember? You've woken the whole dorm up dip"
In the other side of the Gryffindor tower, Hermione glared softly at the door that
shut behind her. She knew it was only Harry trying to do her good. Little did
he know that she was slowly slipping away from his grip…
She slipped on her nighties and slid under her sheets making herself warm. She softly
blew out the candle and drifted off to another unpleasant dream.
"Harry, turn the bloody tap OFF!"
Harry obediently, but guiltily turned the tap off, "I'm so sorry Ron, I've been
thinking-
"GOODNIGHT!"
He quickly pulled a robe over him and yanked the door open, "Yeh well with your
shouting you would have woken up the whole castle!" and found himself an inch
away from Ron's nose, dripping wet, "No, I'm serious-it's about Hermione,"
dropping to a whisper, quickly thinking of a excuse.
Ron rubbed his eyes in bewilderment, "Hermione? What? What's wrong?" he urgently asked,
giving himself time for the fact to sink in. Realising what he had just
said, he quickly added, "I MEAN, she's the least of your worries…"
Yeh yeh…,"muttered Harry, who wasn't very slow and noticed the small slip.
"Anyway!" he continued, closing the door, "let me get dressed while you sing the rest of
the dorm to sleep…haha sucker…"
"Grrr"
Harry got dressed and quietly stepped out into the cool yet welcoming dorm that was
draped in scarlet and gold linen, only to be confronted by a red-faced redhead.
"You better not be lying Harry, or you are sooo dead! You don't how long it
took to get them to sleep-"
Harry hopped into his bed and pulled back the curtain. Ron followed him.
"Hey Ron," dropping to a very faint whisper.
"What?? Get on with it! I do want some sleep you
know, even if you don't!" now getting very irritated.
Harry glared at him also getting irritated.
"Don't you think Hermione's been a bit odd lately?"
"Is that all you wanted to ask me?" asked Ron, not very happy.
Harry glared.
"Well, to be honest with you, no, but-"
Harry sighed.
"No, no, no, but like uh, couldn't it be…just like uh, be like uh, you know, that
time of the month?"
"Could be…I don't know, it must be a very long time of the month then!...she's just
been a bit odd lately."
"I haven't noticed because I've always thought she's odd!" whispered Ron, both quietly
laughing at his joke. "Do you want to ask Ginny? She might know" going back to serious.
"I don't know, I'm tired-can't think"
"Same, you woke me up in the first place!"
"Sorry! Forgot."
"Hmf. Should be"
Harry turned around and bade Ron goodnight, hoping that sleep would drown out his puzzled
thoughts.
The dorm was dark, so dark it was pitch black, and the odd breeze would make you think that the castle was haunted, which to be honest wasn't to far from the truth as ghosts did live there-but if you ever had trouble sleeping all you had to do was look up into the ceiling and count the infinitive stars. It was really quite comfortable and safe; after all it had been charmed so that no-one could apparate or dissapparate out. But…
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
A/N So what do you think? Ok, well this is my first chapter of my first fanfic. Please read and review, even if it only says-'read'. But if you want to hear more, please say something to let me know, and I'll write!! captainstar xx