A/N- Sorry it took meeh so long to put up this chapter! Give me a break!
I'm just a teen trying to do good in school! Plus if my grades go down, i
won't be able to go on the computer. Which is bad cuz i can't get my
stories up! Also, I know the characters are a little OCC, what what's a
fanfic if the characters can't b a little OCC? Right? anyways, on with the
story!
Make a Mountain out of a Molehill
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What happened before:
"Why did you save me?" Draco whispered, half to himself.
Hermione looked into his eyes and saw that she could not answer his question. After a few minutes of a silence that held thousands of questions, waiting to be answered, Hermione spoke. "Come on, we should be heading back. It's lunch and then the first task." she said softly.
Draco looked at her and just nodded. As the stood up, their hands brushed gently, causing their hearts to beat faster than usual.
"Why am I feeling this way?" Draco thought as he headed out the door.
"Why am I feeling this way?" Hermione too thought as she headed the other way back to the room.
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Chapter 4: The First Task
Once Draco walked into the room (Hermione went in first so that it wouldn't seem so obvious), they ate a little lunch. Then Dumbledore announced that it was time for the first task. They walked around the castle until they came in front of a blue doored room. He opened it and they all saw that it was a classroom with a magical screen in the front of the room. There in the front of the class was Snape. On the floor was rows of numbers which went from 1 to 10. There were 9 rows of numbers in all.
"Hello everybody." Snape greeted. Everyone greeted back a hello. "Ok, the first task is a test of memory. Each of you, please stand on one of the number 5's. I shall show you a picture, then I shall show you the same picture with one thing different. You will have to tell me what the one difference is. If there is no difference, write that down. On each number, there is a small whiteboard and a whiteboard marker. When I tell you to, you will put up your boards and show me your answer. If you are right, you will move one number up. If you get the answer wrong, you will move one number down. If you are at number one, and you get the answer wrong, you are out of the game. Every person you get to finish all the numbers, you win 100 galleons. (A/N-I kno in the real show they usually give out 1,000; remember, galleons are gold so really, it's worth more... right?) Everyone understand?" Snape looked around. Ron raised his hand. "Yes Mr. Weasley?"
"Yah, um, can you repeat all that?" Ron asked, jokingly. Snape just glared at him.
"Anybody else?" Snape asked. There were none so they started the game.
Draco looked up at the screen and saw a still picture of a quiddich game with Harry and him. Then the picture switched. At a glance, it looked like there was no difference, but if you looked a little closer, you would notice that in the first picture, the left wing of the snitch was tucked into Harry's hand while on the second picture, the right wing was tucked in. "Hey, this is pretty easy." Draco thought as he wrote his answer down.
Draco glanced over at Hermione and saw her eyes light up and she writing down the answer. He smiled at her. As if feeling his eyes on her, Hermione glanced at Draco. Their eyes met for a little while, but the "moment" was broken once she gave him a questioning look. Draco just grinned wider and then raised his board for Snape had called for the answer.
After the first question, Brandon, Ginny, Harry, Ryan and Oliver went down to number 4 and everyone else went up to 6. Then after the second question, Ginny, Brandon, Ron, Ryan, Draco and Kathleen were on number 5, Harry and Oliver were both on 3 and Hermione was the only one on 7. Then Ginny, Ron, Harry and Kathleen were on 4, Brandon, Ryan and Draco were on 6, Oliver was on 2 and Hermione was on 8. After 5 more questions, Ron had lost the game first and then came Oliver. Brandon, Harry and Kathleen were all on number 7, Ginny was on 3, Ryan was on 10, and both Hermione and Draco had won. After a few more questions, Ryan and Brandon had won, Harry was on 2, Ginny was on 6 and Kathleen was on 9. Finally the game ended with Ginny winning, adding another 100 galleons into the pot.
"Ok! We now have a total of 500 galleons in the pot! But I have another surprise for the 5 winners. I have a question to ask, about one of the pictures we have gone through. Whoever can write down the correct answer first gets an exemption. Ok, are you ready?" Snape said as Brandon, Ginny, Ryan, Draco and Hermione got a board to write their answer.
"Ok, here is the question. On the 4th picture, which was the Hogwarts Lake Picture, who was the person feeding the squid?" Snape asked. All 5 people quickly wrote down their answer. Ginny, Draco, Hermione and Brandon all put their boards up at the same time first.
"Let's see, Draco wrote down George Weasley, which is wrong, Ginny wrote down Bill Weasley, which is wrong, Hermione and Brandon both put down Sirius Black, which is correct. Since you both put it down the same time, I will ask you one last question." Snape said as Ryan, Draco and Ginny put down their boards and moved to sit in one of the seats in the back of the room where all the others were sitting.
Hermione and Brandon both uncapped their pens and got ready to write down the answer.
"Ok, on the 2nd picture where there was a picture of Draco, Blaise and Crabbe, Draco was not looking toward the camera. What was he looking at?" Snape asked.
Hermione thought for a little while, then gasped. She knew the answer. Brandon was still figuring out the answer to the question. Hermione remembered the picture clearly, Blaise and Crabbe (they were both going out in 7th year) had their arms around each other, smiling at the camera clearly. Draco was about a foot away from them, looking toward his right. At the very right of the picture, you could see part of a person, cut off by the end of the picture. To any other person, it would seem like any other pretty girl, but Hermione knew better. For the girl in the picture was her.
"And Brandon has the answer right! The answer was a girl on the right side of the picture! Please come up here Brandon!" Snape said.
Hermione mindlessly made her way to the seats and sat between Ryan and Draco.
"You alright?" Draco whispered questioningly to the confused looking Hermione.
Hermione snapped out of her thoughts, "Huh? Oh yah, I'm fine." Draco gave her a questioning look and then turned back to watch Brandon and Snape enter a door in the corner of the room.
"What do you think they're talking about in there?" Ryan whispered over to Hermione. Hermione shrugged and took a real look at Ryan. And caught up in the game, she never noticed this. Ryan was hot! He looked like he worked out, he had these deep eyes that you could get lost in, and he had this picture perfect smile that anybody could fall in love with.
"Do those things hurt?" Hermione laughed as she pointed to Ryan's spikey hair.
Ryan laughed along, "Go ahead, touch them." Hermione reached over and felt the top of his spikes. They flattened with her touch. They both laughed along as Hermione touched the spikes.
Meanwhile, Draco was watching the whole scene jealously. Yes, he could tell how good looking Ryan was. "But he's not as good looking as me." Draco thought jealously.
Meanwhile.....
Snape had lead Brandon into the room.
"Ok Brandon, I have two choices for you. You could either get the exemption, or you could give the exemption to someone else and add 500 galleons into the pot." Snape told him.
Brandon thought carefully, "Hmm, I don't know...."
"Ok then, how about 1,000 galleons?"
Brandon still looked a little unconvinced.
"Fine, 2,000 galleons and that's my final offer." Snape said.
Brandon thought for a while. "I guess it is a pretty good offer. I could always give it to---" he thought.
"Ok then, I'll take the offer." Brandon said.
"Ok, the pot now stands at 2,500 galleons. Who will you give the exemption to?" Snape asked. Without a second thought, Brandon whispered his answer into Snape's ear.
Back outside......
Hermione was talking to a relived Draco. Just then, Snape and Brandon entered back into the room.
"Ok, I have just talked with Brandon. I have given him a choice of getting the exemption or giving the exemption to someone else and adding 2,000 galleons to the pot." Everybody started to whisper to each other once Snape said 2,000 galleons.
"And Brandon chose to add the galleons to the pot. And he chose Ginny to get the exemption." Snape said as he handed a circle to Ginny that said in fancy letters, EXEMPTION. "Now that the task is over, you may go." Snape said and the room slowly emptied.
Hermione quickly went out the room and then rushed over to the library. As it did when she was back in school, the library usually helped her when she had a lot of things on her mind. Usually it was boy problems or the N.E.W.T.s. The picture of Draco from the task flashed back in her mind. She could still remember the day clearly.
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"Do you two ever talk about anything else besides quiddich?" Hermione said irritabally as she, Ron and Harry walked in the front lawns of Hogwarts. Harry and Ron ignored her.
"Hey Granger." Draco said behind her. Hermione turned around along with Harry and Ron.
"What do you want Malfoy?" Ron spat.
"I wasn't talking to you Weasley." Draco rolled his eyes and then turned back to Hermione.
"Do you think I could talk to you for a second?" he asked nicely.
"Not without us around, that's for sure." Ron said glaring at him.
"Ron I can handle this for myself." Hermione said annoyed. "Sure, I guess so." she and Draco walked around the front lawn, away from the two dumbstruck boys.
"So Malfoy, what do you want to talk to me about?" Hermione asked. She was being civil to Draco, after all, he was being civil to her.
"Well...." he started. How could he explain it to her? How could he tell her how much he had loved her ever since the first day he saw her? Well, I guess he'd have to start by the beginning...
"Draco!!! Glad to find you man!" Crabbe said putting an arm around his friend.
"Yah! Goyle is gonna take a picture of us!" Blaise said in a hight pitched voice.
"Later, I'm talking to--" Draco started as he worked his way out of Crabbe's grasp.
"It's ok Draco, I'll just talk to you later. I can see you're busy. I understand." Hermione said as she waved good-bye and walked away.
Draco looked at her dumbstruck as the flash of the camera went off. "You called me Draco..." he whispered in wonder.
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Hermione wondered what he was going to talk to her about. They never really had a chance to talk to each other after that. The war came and then it was hard to talk to anybody about anything else but who died, and the war. She sighed.
"You alright?" asked a voice behind her. There was Ginny and Brandon.
"Yah, I'm fine." she sighed.
"Is it about the exemption? I only had to choose one person and all and---- " Brandon was cut off.
"It's ok Brandon, it's not about the game." Hermione said.
"What is it about? Come on, you can tell me anything. You're like my adopted sister remember?" Ginny said.
Hermione gave her a small smile, "I was just thinking about all the memories we had here. We were so innocent and nieve."
Ginny snorted, "Since when were we innoncent and nieve? Definately not when we were in Hogwarts. Being best friends with Harry has it's consiquences." All three adults laughed.
"So Brandon, I don't remember you..." Hermione searched her mind.
"Oh, remember when we had that knowledge contest between all of the houses? It was me, you, some girl in Slytherin and some guy in Hufflepuff." Brandon said.
"Oh!! I remember that! You said you wanted to be some sort of wizard architect when you grew up." Hermione said.
"Yup! And I accomplished my goal!" Brandon said proudly.
"I'm proud of you." Hermione said as Brandon blushed.
Ginny grinned, "Anyways, I'll catch you later Mione." She hugged her friend and she and Brandon said goodbye and exited the library.
Hermione decided to go somewhere else to think. She walked up to the astronamy tower and was surprised to see somebody else up there.
"Draco, I didn't know you would be up here." she said as she walked up to the railing right next to him.
"Yah, well, I needed some time to think." he shrugged as he looked at the ground below in silence.
Hermione also looked at the grounds and closed her eyes to feel the wind run through her hair.
Draco was silently watching the beauty, stealing a glance of her here and there to etch into his brain forever. "I thought this crush was over with." he thought as he snuck another glance at her. "Well you came back here to see if it was over, remember?" another side of his head said back.
"Draco?" Hermione said softly, breaking into Draco's thoughts.
"Hmm?"
"Remember in 7th year, when you wanted to talk to me about something?" she asked.
How could he not remember? It was the first time he had heard her say his name... his real name, not just Malfoy, or ferret boy. He never knew how wonderful his name could sound until he heard her say it.
"Yes." Draco added, not looking at her.
"Why?"
Draco looked into her eyes, as she did to him. The sun was setting and it displayed a romantic and perfect enviornment for the best and perfect kiss. His heart yearned for it. But his head overrulled it and instead of advancing toward her and carring her beautiful self to an empty room, he spoke.
"Would you like me to show you?" he asked.
Hermione gave him a confused look but nodded. He held out his hand and Hermione placed her's in his. "How warm his hand's feel in my cold hands." Hermione thought. Next to her Draco was just thinking the same thing. "How warm her hands feel in my cold hands." And behind their retreating silluettes, the sun sank lower and lower into the horizon, as if telling of a new adventure that was about to happen....
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A/N- Ooooo, now we know that Draco has a little crushy-crush on Hermione, but does Hermione have a crushy-crush on Draco? Or does she have one for the equally hot Ryan? Who do you think the mole is? Don't you think it's kinda suspicious that Brandon would give away an exemption? I mean, even I wouldn't give away an exemption. Who's that confident that they would pass the quiz? And where is Draco leading Hermione? Will all these questions be answered in the next chapter? We'll rind out soon enough! All you have to do is review (yah, press that button on the bottom left hand side) and in your review, try to answer this question:
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Make a Mountain out of a Molehill
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What happened before:
"Why did you save me?" Draco whispered, half to himself.
Hermione looked into his eyes and saw that she could not answer his question. After a few minutes of a silence that held thousands of questions, waiting to be answered, Hermione spoke. "Come on, we should be heading back. It's lunch and then the first task." she said softly.
Draco looked at her and just nodded. As the stood up, their hands brushed gently, causing their hearts to beat faster than usual.
"Why am I feeling this way?" Draco thought as he headed out the door.
"Why am I feeling this way?" Hermione too thought as she headed the other way back to the room.
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Chapter 4: The First Task
Once Draco walked into the room (Hermione went in first so that it wouldn't seem so obvious), they ate a little lunch. Then Dumbledore announced that it was time for the first task. They walked around the castle until they came in front of a blue doored room. He opened it and they all saw that it was a classroom with a magical screen in the front of the room. There in the front of the class was Snape. On the floor was rows of numbers which went from 1 to 10. There were 9 rows of numbers in all.
"Hello everybody." Snape greeted. Everyone greeted back a hello. "Ok, the first task is a test of memory. Each of you, please stand on one of the number 5's. I shall show you a picture, then I shall show you the same picture with one thing different. You will have to tell me what the one difference is. If there is no difference, write that down. On each number, there is a small whiteboard and a whiteboard marker. When I tell you to, you will put up your boards and show me your answer. If you are right, you will move one number up. If you get the answer wrong, you will move one number down. If you are at number one, and you get the answer wrong, you are out of the game. Every person you get to finish all the numbers, you win 100 galleons. (A/N-I kno in the real show they usually give out 1,000; remember, galleons are gold so really, it's worth more... right?) Everyone understand?" Snape looked around. Ron raised his hand. "Yes Mr. Weasley?"
"Yah, um, can you repeat all that?" Ron asked, jokingly. Snape just glared at him.
"Anybody else?" Snape asked. There were none so they started the game.
Draco looked up at the screen and saw a still picture of a quiddich game with Harry and him. Then the picture switched. At a glance, it looked like there was no difference, but if you looked a little closer, you would notice that in the first picture, the left wing of the snitch was tucked into Harry's hand while on the second picture, the right wing was tucked in. "Hey, this is pretty easy." Draco thought as he wrote his answer down.
Draco glanced over at Hermione and saw her eyes light up and she writing down the answer. He smiled at her. As if feeling his eyes on her, Hermione glanced at Draco. Their eyes met for a little while, but the "moment" was broken once she gave him a questioning look. Draco just grinned wider and then raised his board for Snape had called for the answer.
After the first question, Brandon, Ginny, Harry, Ryan and Oliver went down to number 4 and everyone else went up to 6. Then after the second question, Ginny, Brandon, Ron, Ryan, Draco and Kathleen were on number 5, Harry and Oliver were both on 3 and Hermione was the only one on 7. Then Ginny, Ron, Harry and Kathleen were on 4, Brandon, Ryan and Draco were on 6, Oliver was on 2 and Hermione was on 8. After 5 more questions, Ron had lost the game first and then came Oliver. Brandon, Harry and Kathleen were all on number 7, Ginny was on 3, Ryan was on 10, and both Hermione and Draco had won. After a few more questions, Ryan and Brandon had won, Harry was on 2, Ginny was on 6 and Kathleen was on 9. Finally the game ended with Ginny winning, adding another 100 galleons into the pot.
"Ok! We now have a total of 500 galleons in the pot! But I have another surprise for the 5 winners. I have a question to ask, about one of the pictures we have gone through. Whoever can write down the correct answer first gets an exemption. Ok, are you ready?" Snape said as Brandon, Ginny, Ryan, Draco and Hermione got a board to write their answer.
"Ok, here is the question. On the 4th picture, which was the Hogwarts Lake Picture, who was the person feeding the squid?" Snape asked. All 5 people quickly wrote down their answer. Ginny, Draco, Hermione and Brandon all put their boards up at the same time first.
"Let's see, Draco wrote down George Weasley, which is wrong, Ginny wrote down Bill Weasley, which is wrong, Hermione and Brandon both put down Sirius Black, which is correct. Since you both put it down the same time, I will ask you one last question." Snape said as Ryan, Draco and Ginny put down their boards and moved to sit in one of the seats in the back of the room where all the others were sitting.
Hermione and Brandon both uncapped their pens and got ready to write down the answer.
"Ok, on the 2nd picture where there was a picture of Draco, Blaise and Crabbe, Draco was not looking toward the camera. What was he looking at?" Snape asked.
Hermione thought for a little while, then gasped. She knew the answer. Brandon was still figuring out the answer to the question. Hermione remembered the picture clearly, Blaise and Crabbe (they were both going out in 7th year) had their arms around each other, smiling at the camera clearly. Draco was about a foot away from them, looking toward his right. At the very right of the picture, you could see part of a person, cut off by the end of the picture. To any other person, it would seem like any other pretty girl, but Hermione knew better. For the girl in the picture was her.
"And Brandon has the answer right! The answer was a girl on the right side of the picture! Please come up here Brandon!" Snape said.
Hermione mindlessly made her way to the seats and sat between Ryan and Draco.
"You alright?" Draco whispered questioningly to the confused looking Hermione.
Hermione snapped out of her thoughts, "Huh? Oh yah, I'm fine." Draco gave her a questioning look and then turned back to watch Brandon and Snape enter a door in the corner of the room.
"What do you think they're talking about in there?" Ryan whispered over to Hermione. Hermione shrugged and took a real look at Ryan. And caught up in the game, she never noticed this. Ryan was hot! He looked like he worked out, he had these deep eyes that you could get lost in, and he had this picture perfect smile that anybody could fall in love with.
"Do those things hurt?" Hermione laughed as she pointed to Ryan's spikey hair.
Ryan laughed along, "Go ahead, touch them." Hermione reached over and felt the top of his spikes. They flattened with her touch. They both laughed along as Hermione touched the spikes.
Meanwhile, Draco was watching the whole scene jealously. Yes, he could tell how good looking Ryan was. "But he's not as good looking as me." Draco thought jealously.
Meanwhile.....
Snape had lead Brandon into the room.
"Ok Brandon, I have two choices for you. You could either get the exemption, or you could give the exemption to someone else and add 500 galleons into the pot." Snape told him.
Brandon thought carefully, "Hmm, I don't know...."
"Ok then, how about 1,000 galleons?"
Brandon still looked a little unconvinced.
"Fine, 2,000 galleons and that's my final offer." Snape said.
Brandon thought for a while. "I guess it is a pretty good offer. I could always give it to---" he thought.
"Ok then, I'll take the offer." Brandon said.
"Ok, the pot now stands at 2,500 galleons. Who will you give the exemption to?" Snape asked. Without a second thought, Brandon whispered his answer into Snape's ear.
Back outside......
Hermione was talking to a relived Draco. Just then, Snape and Brandon entered back into the room.
"Ok, I have just talked with Brandon. I have given him a choice of getting the exemption or giving the exemption to someone else and adding 2,000 galleons to the pot." Everybody started to whisper to each other once Snape said 2,000 galleons.
"And Brandon chose to add the galleons to the pot. And he chose Ginny to get the exemption." Snape said as he handed a circle to Ginny that said in fancy letters, EXEMPTION. "Now that the task is over, you may go." Snape said and the room slowly emptied.
Hermione quickly went out the room and then rushed over to the library. As it did when she was back in school, the library usually helped her when she had a lot of things on her mind. Usually it was boy problems or the N.E.W.T.s. The picture of Draco from the task flashed back in her mind. She could still remember the day clearly.
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"Do you two ever talk about anything else besides quiddich?" Hermione said irritabally as she, Ron and Harry walked in the front lawns of Hogwarts. Harry and Ron ignored her.
"Hey Granger." Draco said behind her. Hermione turned around along with Harry and Ron.
"What do you want Malfoy?" Ron spat.
"I wasn't talking to you Weasley." Draco rolled his eyes and then turned back to Hermione.
"Do you think I could talk to you for a second?" he asked nicely.
"Not without us around, that's for sure." Ron said glaring at him.
"Ron I can handle this for myself." Hermione said annoyed. "Sure, I guess so." she and Draco walked around the front lawn, away from the two dumbstruck boys.
"So Malfoy, what do you want to talk to me about?" Hermione asked. She was being civil to Draco, after all, he was being civil to her.
"Well...." he started. How could he explain it to her? How could he tell her how much he had loved her ever since the first day he saw her? Well, I guess he'd have to start by the beginning...
"Draco!!! Glad to find you man!" Crabbe said putting an arm around his friend.
"Yah! Goyle is gonna take a picture of us!" Blaise said in a hight pitched voice.
"Later, I'm talking to--" Draco started as he worked his way out of Crabbe's grasp.
"It's ok Draco, I'll just talk to you later. I can see you're busy. I understand." Hermione said as she waved good-bye and walked away.
Draco looked at her dumbstruck as the flash of the camera went off. "You called me Draco..." he whispered in wonder.
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Hermione wondered what he was going to talk to her about. They never really had a chance to talk to each other after that. The war came and then it was hard to talk to anybody about anything else but who died, and the war. She sighed.
"You alright?" asked a voice behind her. There was Ginny and Brandon.
"Yah, I'm fine." she sighed.
"Is it about the exemption? I only had to choose one person and all and---- " Brandon was cut off.
"It's ok Brandon, it's not about the game." Hermione said.
"What is it about? Come on, you can tell me anything. You're like my adopted sister remember?" Ginny said.
Hermione gave her a small smile, "I was just thinking about all the memories we had here. We were so innocent and nieve."
Ginny snorted, "Since when were we innoncent and nieve? Definately not when we were in Hogwarts. Being best friends with Harry has it's consiquences." All three adults laughed.
"So Brandon, I don't remember you..." Hermione searched her mind.
"Oh, remember when we had that knowledge contest between all of the houses? It was me, you, some girl in Slytherin and some guy in Hufflepuff." Brandon said.
"Oh!! I remember that! You said you wanted to be some sort of wizard architect when you grew up." Hermione said.
"Yup! And I accomplished my goal!" Brandon said proudly.
"I'm proud of you." Hermione said as Brandon blushed.
Ginny grinned, "Anyways, I'll catch you later Mione." She hugged her friend and she and Brandon said goodbye and exited the library.
Hermione decided to go somewhere else to think. She walked up to the astronamy tower and was surprised to see somebody else up there.
"Draco, I didn't know you would be up here." she said as she walked up to the railing right next to him.
"Yah, well, I needed some time to think." he shrugged as he looked at the ground below in silence.
Hermione also looked at the grounds and closed her eyes to feel the wind run through her hair.
Draco was silently watching the beauty, stealing a glance of her here and there to etch into his brain forever. "I thought this crush was over with." he thought as he snuck another glance at her. "Well you came back here to see if it was over, remember?" another side of his head said back.
"Draco?" Hermione said softly, breaking into Draco's thoughts.
"Hmm?"
"Remember in 7th year, when you wanted to talk to me about something?" she asked.
How could he not remember? It was the first time he had heard her say his name... his real name, not just Malfoy, or ferret boy. He never knew how wonderful his name could sound until he heard her say it.
"Yes." Draco added, not looking at her.
"Why?"
Draco looked into her eyes, as she did to him. The sun was setting and it displayed a romantic and perfect enviornment for the best and perfect kiss. His heart yearned for it. But his head overrulled it and instead of advancing toward her and carring her beautiful self to an empty room, he spoke.
"Would you like me to show you?" he asked.
Hermione gave him a confused look but nodded. He held out his hand and Hermione placed her's in his. "How warm his hand's feel in my cold hands." Hermione thought. Next to her Draco was just thinking the same thing. "How warm her hands feel in my cold hands." And behind their retreating silluettes, the sun sank lower and lower into the horizon, as if telling of a new adventure that was about to happen....
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A/N- Ooooo, now we know that Draco has a little crushy-crush on Hermione, but does Hermione have a crushy-crush on Draco? Or does she have one for the equally hot Ryan? Who do you think the mole is? Don't you think it's kinda suspicious that Brandon would give away an exemption? I mean, even I wouldn't give away an exemption. Who's that confident that they would pass the quiz? And where is Draco leading Hermione? Will all these questions be answered in the next chapter? We'll rind out soon enough! All you have to do is review (yah, press that button on the bottom left hand side) and in your review, try to answer this question:
WHO DO YOU THINK THE MOLE IS???
Much love to:
pyroprincess4rmeverwood-i'm glad u lyke mi story! i luv ur story too!
NewSecretRose-thanks 4 the review! ur story is really good! n dnt think otherwise! im sorry u dnt like blink 182. it's ok, i cant expect everyone to like the same kind of music as me. i dnt only like rock, i like a whole other stuff. n e ways, im getting off topic here... please review ur story soon! i luv it!!!
Lara Potter- im really glad you have stuck with me ever since my first chapter! i luv u 4 that!!!!
A/N- OK!!! Now review!!!! l l l l l l V