Hearts Combined
~* Here's the next chapter. I've decided not to wait another day to write this one. Don't forget to review and tell me what you think! I'm putting a lot more effort into this fic than I have been in the others, so hopefully it should do pretty well! *~
Disclaimer ~ I do not own any original Harry Potter Characters. I own the Prefects - Tony Waters, Allison Ashby, Mitchell Taylor, Samantha Daily, Joel Reiley and Phillip Cassady. I also own Anivatria who will be making an appearance later on in the fic.
Chapter 2 ~ New Common Room
Hermione and Draco were waiting for at least ten minutes before the first two Prefects arrived. They were the Slytherin Prefects, Samantha Daily and Joel Reiley. This might have been because the Slytherin Common Room was closest to the Entrance Hall than the others. Draco struck up a conversation with Samantha and Joel, leaving Hermione by herself against the railing.
Hermione stood there admiring her beautiful badge. She wondered why Dumbledore chose this year to change the system, and the badges. There must have been a good reason, maybe to commemorate Harry some more. At remembering this, Hermione looked over to the golden statue being moulded in the middle of the Entrance Hall. Professor Flitwick was working extremely hard on the statue, which Hermione recognised as a male lion, on it's hindquarters, batting at something with it's front paws. At the bottom, there was a plaque, which Hermione moved a bit closer to read.
To Mister Harry Potter
Who died in battle with the Dark Lord Voldemort
We Will Remember Him
The Boy Who Lived
Hermione wondered why it was written as "The Boy Who Lived", when Harry had died. Then she remembered what was written in all those books on The Rise and Fall of The Dark Arts, how Harry was referred to as "The Boy Who Lived", when he was just a baby.
Hermione watched as Professor Flitwick used his wand to shape and mould the lump of gold into a male lion. With each flick of his wand, the "lion" looked more and more like a lion. Hermione thought it reminded her of Harry already, and when it was finished, she would have to struggle not to cry whenever she passed it.
Ginny and Phillip came walking down the stairs at that moment. When Ginny saw the Lion, she almost burst out into tears. Hermione hugged her.
'Hi Ginny, hi Phillip.' She said, greeting her fellow Gryffindors.
'Hey Hermione,' Phillip said. 'Congratulations on making Head Girl.'
'Thank you Phillip. Congratulations yourself. Dumbledore doesn't just pick any old students to be Prefects you know.' Hermione said to the boy.
'Do you have any idea why they called us all down here?' Ginny asked Hermione.
'No, they haven't said anything to us as of yet.' Hermione replied.
'Oh, I guess we'll just have to wait for the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw Prefects then.' Ginny said, busying herself by admiring her Prefect Badge.
Ginny walked over to Professor Flitwick, and looked up at the giant lion statue. It was at least five meters tall, and it towered over Professor Flitwick and Ginny. Ginny knelt down to read the plaque, and started to sob lightly.
Allison Ashby and Mitchell Taylor were the next two Prefects to arrive, and they were followed closely by Luna Lovegood and Tony Waters, who were deep in conversation about something or other.
When he had finished with the Statue of the Lion, Professor Flitwick left the Entrance Hall. A few minutes after he had left, Professor Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, Professor Snape, Professor Sprout and Professor Sinestra came in. They were the heads of each house. Professor McGonagall for Gryffindor, Professor Snape for Slytherin, Professor Sprout for Hufflepuff and Professor Sinestra for Ravenclaw.
The Prefects, Hermione and Draco gathered around the five Professors. It was Dumbledore that spoke, not surprisingly.
'You ten students will have your own, special Common Room.' Dumbledore began. This caused murmurs between the Prefects, however, Hermione and Draco had expected as much, seeing as there had been so many other changes made this year.
'If you will follow me please, I will take you to your new Common Room. Your luggage has already been taken up there.' Professor McGonagall said, and she took off up the stairs. The Prefects, Hermione and Draco followed her, however, the other four Professors left, leaving Professor McGonagall by herself with the ten students.
They followed Professor McGonagall up to the sixth floor, and down a few twisting corridor's, until she finally stopped in front of a large portrait, bearing Hermione, Draco, Luna, Tony, Allison, Mitchell, Samantha, Joel, Ginny and Phillip. The portrait was of them in front of a large mountain, with a beautiful sparkling blue river snaking around them. It was rather beautiful. The grass in the painting glistened a brilliant green, and the river sparkled like diamonds.
'This is your new Common Room, and will be that way until the end of the year, where your things will be removed and replaced with the new Prefects and Heads.' Professor McGonagall said. 'You will have to think of a password which will remain for the rest of the year.'
Each and every student there began to think of what their password could be. Hermione looked around at her fellow Prefects, and Draco, and got an idea.
'How about Rainbow Jellybeans?' Hermione said.
'What's a Jellybean?' Samantha asked.
'It's a Muggle sweet, which is very similar to Berty Botts Every Flavour Beans, but not "every flavour", only the nice flavours.' Hermione answered.
'I don't think so.' Joel said coldly.
'I agree with Joel.' Samantha said.
'Let's have a vote.' Hermione suggested. 'All those who want Rainbow Jellybeans to be their password?'
Everyone put up their hands except for Samantha, Joel and Draco. Hermione smiled.
'That's that then.' She said. 'Our new password is Rainbow Jellybeans.' As Hermione said "Rainbow Jellybeans", the portrait swung open to reveal a short tunnel, with lots of portraits hanging in it. Hermione saw a portrait of Harry, smiling and waving at her and Ginny. Hermione struggled to hold back her tears.
When the ten students and Professor McGonagall came to the end of the tunnel, everyone (excluding the Professor) gasped.
The Common Room was beautiful. It had polished wooden floorboards, with four rugs. Each rug was in each corner. There was a blue and bronze one with ravens on it, a red and gold one with lions on it, a green and silver one with snakes on it, and a black and yellow one with badgers on it. One wall was covered intirely with a beautiful antique bookshelf, filled from top to bottom with books. This was very high, because the Common Room ceiling was very high, at least seven meters, on estimate. There was a large Fireplace in the centre of the wall opposite to the bookcase. On each side of the Fireplace, was a door. One door had a snake and a raven on it, and the other had a lion and a badger on it. On the wall opposite to the tunnel, where they had come in from, there were five staircases. On top of one, there were the names "Samantha Dailey & Joel Reiley", another one had "Luna Lovegood & Tony Waters", there was "Allison Ashby & Mitchell Taylor", one which had "Ginny Weasley & Phillip Cassady", and the last one had "Hermione Granger & Draco Malfoy".
By the fireplace, there were six loveseats (A/N ~ two person seats). One was Red, with two golden cushions, one was Blue, with two bronze cushions, one was Green, with two Silver cushions, one was Yellow with two Black cushions, and the other two had all the house colours, one which had silver cushions, and the other had gold cushions. The golden cushions on the red loveseat had the names "Ginny" written in red on one, and "Phillip" written in red on the other. The silver cushions on the green loveseat had the names "Samantha" written in green on one, and "Joel" written in green on the other. The black cushions on the yellow loveseat had the names "Allison" written in yellow on one, and "Mitchell" written in yellow on the other. The bronze cushions on the blue loveseat had the names "Luna" written in blue on one, and "Tony" written in blue on the other. Lastly, on the couch with all the house colours and Gold Cushions, "Hermione" was written in red on both of the gold cushions, and on the one with Silver Cushions, "Draco" was written in green on both of the silver cushions. All the names were written beautifully in cursive, calligraphy handwriting.
On the wall between the staircases, there were some stained glass windows, each with either a picture of a snake, lion, raven or badger on them.
Professor McGonagall watched as her students looked around the Common Room.
'It's beautiful Professor.' Hermione said.
'This will be your home for the upcoming year.' Professor McGonagall said. She gestured to the two doors on each side of the fireplace. 'They lead to second entrances to your house common rooms. The door with the snake and the raven leads to two more portraits, one of Salazar Slytherin, and one of Rowena Ravenclaw. There, you will need to say the regular password for that common room to enter. This is the same for the door with the lion and the badger, but with Godric Gryffindor and Helga Hufflepuff.' Professor McGonagall explained. 'Also, those staircases with your names over them lead to your bedrooms. Is there any questions?' Professor McGonagall finished. When no one spoke, she left the Common Room.
Everyone fanned out in different directions to admire how beautiful the Common Room was. Hermione looked at the names above the staircases, one in particular; "Hermione Granger & Draco Malfoy". Out of curiosity, she left the Common Room, and headed up those stairs, where she came to a single door. It was wooden, and had beautiful patterns carved into it.
Hermione opened the door, to reveal a large room. It was separated into two halves only by the colour change. On one side, the walls were red, and the carpet was gold. There was a king sized, four poster bed, with red curtains that draped around the bed. There was also a beautiful red rug in the middle of the floor. There was a large wooden wardrobe, with "Hermione" written on it in golden letters. next to the wardrobe, there was a wooden door, which had a female bathroom sign on it (A/N ~ The little people on the doors of public bathrooms), but instead of being blue, it was gold.
On the other side was exactly the same, except that the walls were green, the carpet was silver, the curtains on the four poster bed were green, and the rug was green. On the wooden wardrobe on the green side, "Draco" was written in silver letters, and on the wooden bathroom door, there was a male bathroom sign. Hermione suspected that they were bewitched so that only people of that gender could enter the specified bathroom.
The door in which Hermione had entered, was exactly in the middle of the wall. There were two windows on the opposite wall. One just on the red part of the wall, and the other right next to it, but on the green part of the wall.
There were two large, soft arm chairs. One was green with silver trimmings, and the other one was red with golden trimmings. Hermione noticed her trunk at the end of her bed, and Crookshanks was curled up on her bed, napping.
Hermione crossed her side of the room, which was ten meters long (Draco's side was also ten meters long), and opened the door to her bathroom.
She was greeted with a pleasant surprise. There was a cabinet which was made of marble, and it had diamond trimmings. On top of the cabinet, on the wall, was a long mirror, with diamonds trailing around the edge. On the cabinet, there was a sink cut out, and a nozzle, with a cold water tap, and a hot water tap. The toilet gleamed pearl white, and the flusher was a pure large diamond. The shower took up one entire wall, which was five meters. She stepped into the shower, and gazed around at the beautiful white tiles, and there were more diamond trimmings around the shower. Hermione fell in love with the bathroom at once. Her eyes fell onto the floor where there was a beautiful red and gold lion rug. There was also a towel rack, with two fluffy, red towels hanging up on it.
Hermione stepped out of the bathroom, to find Draco in the room, on his side, admiring the room. Their eyes met for a few seconds, and then Hermione tore hers away, and looked at her wall, the one that the exit door was on. She almost burst into tears right then and there, because on that wall, there was a life sized picture of Harry, waving and smiling at Hermione. On the wall next to the picture of Harry, there was a framed piece of parchment. Hermione walked over to it.
Dear Hermione
If you are reading this, I am dead. I asked Dumbledore to give this to you, and one to Ron, if I was to die. Just letting you know not to be upset, because I died doing something that I was destined to do, fighting Voldemort. I was put on this Earth for that purpose, and that purpose only.
I just really wanted you to know, that I love you as a friend Hermione, even though I never told you. You and Ron meant everything to me, and I never took either of you for granted. I enjoyed your company each and every day during the last few years at Hogwarts.
Hermione, I know that you'll go on to be a great Witch, and I finish this letter letting you know that I am happy now. I am finally with my parents, which is something I've been wanting for as long as I can remember now.
You are an excellent Witch, an excellent person, and most of all, an excellent friend. You have the potential to go as far as you want. Good luck for the future.
Love Always,
Harry James Potter
When Hermione had finished reading the letter, she was crying openly. Draco walked over to her, and hugged her. He didn't know why, or how he could possibly be capable of hugging one of his enemies from the past 6 years at Hogwarts, but she HAD just lost one of her best friends, and she needed support.
Hermione didn't know how long she cried, staying in Draco's arms for a long time, even after she'd finished crying.
Eventually, Hermione and Draco broke apart, and there was an awkward pause, until Hermione checked her watch, 11.45pm.
'I don't think we have classes tomorrow do we?' Hermione said finally, breaking the silence.
'Um, not that I'm aware of.' Draco said.
'Well, I'm going to bed anyway, just in case we do need to be up early for classes tomorrow.' Hermione said, disappearing into her personal bathroom to change into her pyjama's.
When she emerged from the sparkling bathroom, Draco was already in bed. his owl, Quinton, was perched on a wooden perch.
'Isn't he going to live in the owlery?' Hermione asked Draco.
'I don't think so.' Draco replied, as Hermione crawled into bed. She pulled the side curtains shut, but left the one at the bottom of her bed open.
'Night Draco.' She said.
'Night Hermione.' Was the reply.
Hermione gazed at the picture of Harry, which was now soundly sleeping, and silent tears ran down her cheeks. She was surprised that she still had some tears left. A few minutes passed, and Hermione fell asleep, crying over Harry.
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~* I know, it's shorter than the first chapter, but it's longer than I normally make my chapters! Please review and tell me what you think guys! *~
~Gryffindor Gal~
~* Here's the next chapter. I've decided not to wait another day to write this one. Don't forget to review and tell me what you think! I'm putting a lot more effort into this fic than I have been in the others, so hopefully it should do pretty well! *~
Disclaimer ~ I do not own any original Harry Potter Characters. I own the Prefects - Tony Waters, Allison Ashby, Mitchell Taylor, Samantha Daily, Joel Reiley and Phillip Cassady. I also own Anivatria who will be making an appearance later on in the fic.
Chapter 2 ~ New Common Room
Hermione and Draco were waiting for at least ten minutes before the first two Prefects arrived. They were the Slytherin Prefects, Samantha Daily and Joel Reiley. This might have been because the Slytherin Common Room was closest to the Entrance Hall than the others. Draco struck up a conversation with Samantha and Joel, leaving Hermione by herself against the railing.
Hermione stood there admiring her beautiful badge. She wondered why Dumbledore chose this year to change the system, and the badges. There must have been a good reason, maybe to commemorate Harry some more. At remembering this, Hermione looked over to the golden statue being moulded in the middle of the Entrance Hall. Professor Flitwick was working extremely hard on the statue, which Hermione recognised as a male lion, on it's hindquarters, batting at something with it's front paws. At the bottom, there was a plaque, which Hermione moved a bit closer to read.
To Mister Harry Potter
Who died in battle with the Dark Lord Voldemort
We Will Remember Him
The Boy Who Lived
Hermione wondered why it was written as "The Boy Who Lived", when Harry had died. Then she remembered what was written in all those books on The Rise and Fall of The Dark Arts, how Harry was referred to as "The Boy Who Lived", when he was just a baby.
Hermione watched as Professor Flitwick used his wand to shape and mould the lump of gold into a male lion. With each flick of his wand, the "lion" looked more and more like a lion. Hermione thought it reminded her of Harry already, and when it was finished, she would have to struggle not to cry whenever she passed it.
Ginny and Phillip came walking down the stairs at that moment. When Ginny saw the Lion, she almost burst out into tears. Hermione hugged her.
'Hi Ginny, hi Phillip.' She said, greeting her fellow Gryffindors.
'Hey Hermione,' Phillip said. 'Congratulations on making Head Girl.'
'Thank you Phillip. Congratulations yourself. Dumbledore doesn't just pick any old students to be Prefects you know.' Hermione said to the boy.
'Do you have any idea why they called us all down here?' Ginny asked Hermione.
'No, they haven't said anything to us as of yet.' Hermione replied.
'Oh, I guess we'll just have to wait for the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw Prefects then.' Ginny said, busying herself by admiring her Prefect Badge.
Ginny walked over to Professor Flitwick, and looked up at the giant lion statue. It was at least five meters tall, and it towered over Professor Flitwick and Ginny. Ginny knelt down to read the plaque, and started to sob lightly.
Allison Ashby and Mitchell Taylor were the next two Prefects to arrive, and they were followed closely by Luna Lovegood and Tony Waters, who were deep in conversation about something or other.
When he had finished with the Statue of the Lion, Professor Flitwick left the Entrance Hall. A few minutes after he had left, Professor Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, Professor Snape, Professor Sprout and Professor Sinestra came in. They were the heads of each house. Professor McGonagall for Gryffindor, Professor Snape for Slytherin, Professor Sprout for Hufflepuff and Professor Sinestra for Ravenclaw.
The Prefects, Hermione and Draco gathered around the five Professors. It was Dumbledore that spoke, not surprisingly.
'You ten students will have your own, special Common Room.' Dumbledore began. This caused murmurs between the Prefects, however, Hermione and Draco had expected as much, seeing as there had been so many other changes made this year.
'If you will follow me please, I will take you to your new Common Room. Your luggage has already been taken up there.' Professor McGonagall said, and she took off up the stairs. The Prefects, Hermione and Draco followed her, however, the other four Professors left, leaving Professor McGonagall by herself with the ten students.
They followed Professor McGonagall up to the sixth floor, and down a few twisting corridor's, until she finally stopped in front of a large portrait, bearing Hermione, Draco, Luna, Tony, Allison, Mitchell, Samantha, Joel, Ginny and Phillip. The portrait was of them in front of a large mountain, with a beautiful sparkling blue river snaking around them. It was rather beautiful. The grass in the painting glistened a brilliant green, and the river sparkled like diamonds.
'This is your new Common Room, and will be that way until the end of the year, where your things will be removed and replaced with the new Prefects and Heads.' Professor McGonagall said. 'You will have to think of a password which will remain for the rest of the year.'
Each and every student there began to think of what their password could be. Hermione looked around at her fellow Prefects, and Draco, and got an idea.
'How about Rainbow Jellybeans?' Hermione said.
'What's a Jellybean?' Samantha asked.
'It's a Muggle sweet, which is very similar to Berty Botts Every Flavour Beans, but not "every flavour", only the nice flavours.' Hermione answered.
'I don't think so.' Joel said coldly.
'I agree with Joel.' Samantha said.
'Let's have a vote.' Hermione suggested. 'All those who want Rainbow Jellybeans to be their password?'
Everyone put up their hands except for Samantha, Joel and Draco. Hermione smiled.
'That's that then.' She said. 'Our new password is Rainbow Jellybeans.' As Hermione said "Rainbow Jellybeans", the portrait swung open to reveal a short tunnel, with lots of portraits hanging in it. Hermione saw a portrait of Harry, smiling and waving at her and Ginny. Hermione struggled to hold back her tears.
When the ten students and Professor McGonagall came to the end of the tunnel, everyone (excluding the Professor) gasped.
The Common Room was beautiful. It had polished wooden floorboards, with four rugs. Each rug was in each corner. There was a blue and bronze one with ravens on it, a red and gold one with lions on it, a green and silver one with snakes on it, and a black and yellow one with badgers on it. One wall was covered intirely with a beautiful antique bookshelf, filled from top to bottom with books. This was very high, because the Common Room ceiling was very high, at least seven meters, on estimate. There was a large Fireplace in the centre of the wall opposite to the bookcase. On each side of the Fireplace, was a door. One door had a snake and a raven on it, and the other had a lion and a badger on it. On the wall opposite to the tunnel, where they had come in from, there were five staircases. On top of one, there were the names "Samantha Dailey & Joel Reiley", another one had "Luna Lovegood & Tony Waters", there was "Allison Ashby & Mitchell Taylor", one which had "Ginny Weasley & Phillip Cassady", and the last one had "Hermione Granger & Draco Malfoy".
By the fireplace, there were six loveseats (A/N ~ two person seats). One was Red, with two golden cushions, one was Blue, with two bronze cushions, one was Green, with two Silver cushions, one was Yellow with two Black cushions, and the other two had all the house colours, one which had silver cushions, and the other had gold cushions. The golden cushions on the red loveseat had the names "Ginny" written in red on one, and "Phillip" written in red on the other. The silver cushions on the green loveseat had the names "Samantha" written in green on one, and "Joel" written in green on the other. The black cushions on the yellow loveseat had the names "Allison" written in yellow on one, and "Mitchell" written in yellow on the other. The bronze cushions on the blue loveseat had the names "Luna" written in blue on one, and "Tony" written in blue on the other. Lastly, on the couch with all the house colours and Gold Cushions, "Hermione" was written in red on both of the gold cushions, and on the one with Silver Cushions, "Draco" was written in green on both of the silver cushions. All the names were written beautifully in cursive, calligraphy handwriting.
On the wall between the staircases, there were some stained glass windows, each with either a picture of a snake, lion, raven or badger on them.
Professor McGonagall watched as her students looked around the Common Room.
'It's beautiful Professor.' Hermione said.
'This will be your home for the upcoming year.' Professor McGonagall said. She gestured to the two doors on each side of the fireplace. 'They lead to second entrances to your house common rooms. The door with the snake and the raven leads to two more portraits, one of Salazar Slytherin, and one of Rowena Ravenclaw. There, you will need to say the regular password for that common room to enter. This is the same for the door with the lion and the badger, but with Godric Gryffindor and Helga Hufflepuff.' Professor McGonagall explained. 'Also, those staircases with your names over them lead to your bedrooms. Is there any questions?' Professor McGonagall finished. When no one spoke, she left the Common Room.
Everyone fanned out in different directions to admire how beautiful the Common Room was. Hermione looked at the names above the staircases, one in particular; "Hermione Granger & Draco Malfoy". Out of curiosity, she left the Common Room, and headed up those stairs, where she came to a single door. It was wooden, and had beautiful patterns carved into it.
Hermione opened the door, to reveal a large room. It was separated into two halves only by the colour change. On one side, the walls were red, and the carpet was gold. There was a king sized, four poster bed, with red curtains that draped around the bed. There was also a beautiful red rug in the middle of the floor. There was a large wooden wardrobe, with "Hermione" written on it in golden letters. next to the wardrobe, there was a wooden door, which had a female bathroom sign on it (A/N ~ The little people on the doors of public bathrooms), but instead of being blue, it was gold.
On the other side was exactly the same, except that the walls were green, the carpet was silver, the curtains on the four poster bed were green, and the rug was green. On the wooden wardrobe on the green side, "Draco" was written in silver letters, and on the wooden bathroom door, there was a male bathroom sign. Hermione suspected that they were bewitched so that only people of that gender could enter the specified bathroom.
The door in which Hermione had entered, was exactly in the middle of the wall. There were two windows on the opposite wall. One just on the red part of the wall, and the other right next to it, but on the green part of the wall.
There were two large, soft arm chairs. One was green with silver trimmings, and the other one was red with golden trimmings. Hermione noticed her trunk at the end of her bed, and Crookshanks was curled up on her bed, napping.
Hermione crossed her side of the room, which was ten meters long (Draco's side was also ten meters long), and opened the door to her bathroom.
She was greeted with a pleasant surprise. There was a cabinet which was made of marble, and it had diamond trimmings. On top of the cabinet, on the wall, was a long mirror, with diamonds trailing around the edge. On the cabinet, there was a sink cut out, and a nozzle, with a cold water tap, and a hot water tap. The toilet gleamed pearl white, and the flusher was a pure large diamond. The shower took up one entire wall, which was five meters. She stepped into the shower, and gazed around at the beautiful white tiles, and there were more diamond trimmings around the shower. Hermione fell in love with the bathroom at once. Her eyes fell onto the floor where there was a beautiful red and gold lion rug. There was also a towel rack, with two fluffy, red towels hanging up on it.
Hermione stepped out of the bathroom, to find Draco in the room, on his side, admiring the room. Their eyes met for a few seconds, and then Hermione tore hers away, and looked at her wall, the one that the exit door was on. She almost burst into tears right then and there, because on that wall, there was a life sized picture of Harry, waving and smiling at Hermione. On the wall next to the picture of Harry, there was a framed piece of parchment. Hermione walked over to it.
Dear Hermione
If you are reading this, I am dead. I asked Dumbledore to give this to you, and one to Ron, if I was to die. Just letting you know not to be upset, because I died doing something that I was destined to do, fighting Voldemort. I was put on this Earth for that purpose, and that purpose only.
I just really wanted you to know, that I love you as a friend Hermione, even though I never told you. You and Ron meant everything to me, and I never took either of you for granted. I enjoyed your company each and every day during the last few years at Hogwarts.
Hermione, I know that you'll go on to be a great Witch, and I finish this letter letting you know that I am happy now. I am finally with my parents, which is something I've been wanting for as long as I can remember now.
You are an excellent Witch, an excellent person, and most of all, an excellent friend. You have the potential to go as far as you want. Good luck for the future.
Love Always,
Harry James Potter
When Hermione had finished reading the letter, she was crying openly. Draco walked over to her, and hugged her. He didn't know why, or how he could possibly be capable of hugging one of his enemies from the past 6 years at Hogwarts, but she HAD just lost one of her best friends, and she needed support.
Hermione didn't know how long she cried, staying in Draco's arms for a long time, even after she'd finished crying.
Eventually, Hermione and Draco broke apart, and there was an awkward pause, until Hermione checked her watch, 11.45pm.
'I don't think we have classes tomorrow do we?' Hermione said finally, breaking the silence.
'Um, not that I'm aware of.' Draco said.
'Well, I'm going to bed anyway, just in case we do need to be up early for classes tomorrow.' Hermione said, disappearing into her personal bathroom to change into her pyjama's.
When she emerged from the sparkling bathroom, Draco was already in bed. his owl, Quinton, was perched on a wooden perch.
'Isn't he going to live in the owlery?' Hermione asked Draco.
'I don't think so.' Draco replied, as Hermione crawled into bed. She pulled the side curtains shut, but left the one at the bottom of her bed open.
'Night Draco.' She said.
'Night Hermione.' Was the reply.
Hermione gazed at the picture of Harry, which was now soundly sleeping, and silent tears ran down her cheeks. She was surprised that she still had some tears left. A few minutes passed, and Hermione fell asleep, crying over Harry.
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~* I know, it's shorter than the first chapter, but it's longer than I normally make my chapters! Please review and tell me what you think guys! *~
~Gryffindor Gal~