"...Hello?" Malfoy was just staring into space

"Um... hello? Malfoy?" she tried to gain his attention.

"Look if your going to go all funny and not talk again then I'll just go, I thought you wanted to talk to me but I guess I thought wrong" Hermione snapped getting impatient.

"NO, don't go" Draco said in a small voice

"Well what do you want to talk to me about then?"

"Arr... um... nothing, sorry I wasted your time" and with that Draco got up and ran to his dorm.

'Man that was really weird' Hermione thought as she clambered back down the stairs to meet up with Harry and Ron down at the lake

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Hermione was tired after her last class, she still hadn't properly recovered from the curse. Hermione said she would meet Ron and Harry for dinner and she slowly walked off to her dorm.

Hermione collapsed into an armchair; the fire was nice and warm compared to the bitter wind blowing outside.

Hermione was suddenly awoken by the portrait door slamming

"Oh sorry"

"Draco... tell me why you hate your dad so much"

"If you had bean stuck living with that monster for all of your life then you would understand why" Draco replied in a smooth dangerous voice

Hermione watched as he stormed off into his room and she was about to fall back asleep when there was a hammering on the portrait door.

At the door were Ron and Harry

"Why didn't you meet us for dinner?" Ron demanded

"I was tired and I must have fallen asleep"

"Hermione what's going on with you lately, you've been really tired and you keep skipping meals?"

"I know I've just been staying up and reading too late"

"Hermione don't give us that crap, stop lying to us and tell us the truth" Ron snapped, he didn't like Hermione lying to him or Harry

"I...I"

"Just tell us the truth," Harry said a little more kindly

"I... I can't"

"What do you mean you can't" Ron once again demanded

"I just can't"

"Hermione what's going on with you, we hardly ever see you anymore and when we do its only in class, your always tired and you keep skipping meals" Harry exclaimed in a worried tone.

"has this got anything to do with Malfoy? I'll kill him if he's done anything to you!"

"NO Ron he hasn't done anything to me" hermione replied

"Come on Hermione we're you friends you can tell us what's going on"

"but that's the thing Harry, I can't because you and Ron would hurt hi..." Hermiones' voice trailed off when she realised what she was saying

"Who is he, what did he do?" Ron demanded

"See that's what I mean, that's why I can't tell you, now if you excuse me I'm really tired so I'm going to go off to bed" and with that Hermione left

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"Thankyou" Draco said

"For what?" Hermione replied, too busy paying attention to a book to really be listening to Malfoy.

"For not telling Harry and Ron last night"

"You where listening to our private conversation?"

"Well I... I wanted to see if you would ar... tell them"

"Nothing, nothing gave you the right to eavesdrop on my private conversation, NOTHING!" Hermione yelled at Malfoy and she stormed off to breakfast.

'Gees, what's up with her, must be the wrong time of the month' Draco thought to himself

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Draco was just on his way to breakfast when he was hit over the head and knocked out.

"God he's heavy"

"I know what did he do suddenly put on a hundred pounds?"

Draco awoke in an old classroom that looked like it hadn't been used for fifty years, he tried to get up and leave but he found he couldn't move because his hands and feet where tied.

"All right Malfoy, it's time...