Visitors
Nothing much happened in the next two weeks, Hermione tried desperately to get back into the old Hogwarts routine but she found herself doing most of her homework the night or even the morning before lessons with Ron and Harry.
She had just had a bad potions lesson, she had to work with Neville who was hopeless and add the fact that she couldn't remember the potion ingredients just made it worse. She just wanted a quite night in bed with her new book: Famous Heroines, and then go to sleep and think of the next two days without schoolwork. That was all wiped from her mind when she entered the dormitory to find the girls huddled around Lavender who was holding a big grey ball.
"I don't know what happened," she sobbed "I called for Kestrel and she fell down and she was dead," Hermione looked for her book and then laid it on the bed, she was walking towards the bathroom when Lavender said
"and she has these teeth marks I don't think it can be a foxes-"
"What?" Hermione whirled round and looked at the owl, "Oh god" she muttered, and left for the owlry.
She got there to find owl feathers everywhere and some pretty scared looking birds.
They all hooted and some even looked as though they were trying to point out the window at the side of the room. She climbed onto the lowest beam and started her way up to the window, frightened owls flew around her head but she still tried to carry on. Hermione now holding onto the ledge was climbing outside of the window. She climbed up to the roof and she saw a dark figure, "Who's there?" she called, the figure moved closer, she recognised him as Tom Thatch he was in her DADA classes,
"Tom what are you doing up here?" she asked 'please don't let him be one!' was all she could think.
"I was getting a little snack, but now that you're here I guess I can have a full meal" he walked closer and Hermione could see the detail of his eyes and his teeth, they were long sharp canines, sharp enough to pierce human (and owl) skin.
"Oh great!" Hermione said she was unarmed and looked around. "Well I'm sorry but we have run out of human blood tonight maybe if you come back at say 7 o'clock?"
"Your not scared of me?" he enquired,
"Why should I be, this is what I do to people like you" she had found the spike out of the top of the tower and snapped it off (it was wood) she flipped over to him and he punched her, she nearly lost her balance, maintained a strong appearance and then said "Oh my god! There's more!" Tom turned around, "Where?" he was stabbed in the heart; he looked at Hermione, "You're a-!" he turned to dust.
"That's right I am"
Nothing much happened in the next two weeks, Hermione tried desperately to get back into the old Hogwarts routine but she found herself doing most of her homework the night or even the morning before lessons with Ron and Harry.
She had just had a bad potions lesson, she had to work with Neville who was hopeless and add the fact that she couldn't remember the potion ingredients just made it worse. She just wanted a quite night in bed with her new book: Famous Heroines, and then go to sleep and think of the next two days without schoolwork. That was all wiped from her mind when she entered the dormitory to find the girls huddled around Lavender who was holding a big grey ball.
"I don't know what happened," she sobbed "I called for Kestrel and she fell down and she was dead," Hermione looked for her book and then laid it on the bed, she was walking towards the bathroom when Lavender said
"and she has these teeth marks I don't think it can be a foxes-"
"What?" Hermione whirled round and looked at the owl, "Oh god" she muttered, and left for the owlry.
She got there to find owl feathers everywhere and some pretty scared looking birds.
They all hooted and some even looked as though they were trying to point out the window at the side of the room. She climbed onto the lowest beam and started her way up to the window, frightened owls flew around her head but she still tried to carry on. Hermione now holding onto the ledge was climbing outside of the window. She climbed up to the roof and she saw a dark figure, "Who's there?" she called, the figure moved closer, she recognised him as Tom Thatch he was in her DADA classes,
"Tom what are you doing up here?" she asked 'please don't let him be one!' was all she could think.
"I was getting a little snack, but now that you're here I guess I can have a full meal" he walked closer and Hermione could see the detail of his eyes and his teeth, they were long sharp canines, sharp enough to pierce human (and owl) skin.
"Oh great!" Hermione said she was unarmed and looked around. "Well I'm sorry but we have run out of human blood tonight maybe if you come back at say 7 o'clock?"
"Your not scared of me?" he enquired,
"Why should I be, this is what I do to people like you" she had found the spike out of the top of the tower and snapped it off (it was wood) she flipped over to him and he punched her, she nearly lost her balance, maintained a strong appearance and then said "Oh my god! There's more!" Tom turned around, "Where?" he was stabbed in the heart; he looked at Hermione, "You're a-!" he turned to dust.
"That's right I am"