Chapter 13
Quidditch Part II and Wall Running
Hermione flew across the field and batted a bludger away from Millicent. She watched as it soared across the field at almost hit Ron, who started cursing at her but stopped when Madam Hooch gave him a warning.
"Hermione see if you can get Seamus away from the side of the lower ring." Amy yelled to her. Hermione nodded her head and went looking for the closest bludger. It just so happened that one was headed right for her. 'Perfect' she thought.
Hermione took aim and hit it with all of her strength. Seamus never saw it coming. It hit him directly in the side and knocked him off his broom. He hit the ground with a hard 'thud'. Right after Seamus had been hit Slytherin had made their move scoring another 10 points.
BOOING could be heard from the Gryffindor side while mad cheering came from the Slytherins. Hermione smiled proudly at Harry who was sending her death glares from across the field.
"Nice one Hermione. Poor bloke didn't even see it coming." Goyle told her. He was sitting on his broom right next to her, he was her beater partner. They were waiting for them to finish getting Seamus off the field. "Thanks. I wasn't sure it was going to make it all the way down there." Hermione said as she watched them carry Seamus off the field on a stretcher. She felt a pang of guilt since Seamus had always been nice to her, then she remember that she was playing Quidditch and got over it.
The game started again but this time the whole Gryffindor team was gearing for Hermione. They sent every bludger her way, they would kick and push her every time that Madam Hooch wasn't looking. Hermione was fine with the bludgers since if they were aimed at her then they weren't in the way of her teammates
And in a sense they just kept feeding her more ammunition. It was working well for a while they would hit the bludger to her, she'd send it back, but now her arm was starting to get tried. It seemed that Goyle had read her thoughts her flew down beside her and hit the on coming bludger just missing Harry.
"Couldn't let you have all the fun now could I?" He said to her with a smirk. She smiled back and said "Thanks I was starting to wonder when you'd get bored."
Just then Hermione saw Draco make a mad dive for the ground. She was so busy watching Draco that she forgot about the bludgers.
'CRACK' Hermione's head whipped to the side in time to see that Goyle had broken his beater hitting a bludger that would have killed Hermione. Goyle turned to Hermione. He was cradling his right arm.
"You okay Hermione?" Goyle asked. His face was contorted with pain. "Yeah thanks. You saved my ass." Hermione heard loud cheering and booing again. 'Wonder what happened now.' She turned around to see Draco in the middle of the field waving around the little golden ball in the air. They had won.
'Told you we could do it.' Draco spoke across her mind. He looked like a six year-old on Christmas morning, huge grin and all.
'I must be you secret weapon.' She told him as she sent him a wicked smile. She then remembered about Goyle and his arm. 'I think that Goyle hurt his arm pretty bad when he blocked that last bludger, so I'm going to make sure that he's okay.' Hermione waited till Draco gave her a nod and then went to where Goyle was sitting on the sidelines.
"Hey Goyle let me have a look at that arm?" It was more of an order then a request but Goyle didn't mind. He thought it was kinda nice.
"Yeah. I think it may be broken but I anit to sure." Goyle said. Hermione picked his arm into her hands and began to examine it. It was broken, that was for sure, but it was also fractured in 2 other places. She knew she could help him and she owed him that at least.
"I can fix your arm for you better then Pomfrey can but your going to have to trust me, okay?" Hermione waited for Goyle's response. She didn't have to wait to long.
"You got it Mione." Goyle said and gave Hermione a smile. Of course he would trust the smartest girl in school, he wasn't that dumb.
"Great. Now go get change and I'll meet you in the common room in about 2 hours." Hermione saw the look on Goyle's face, he looked oddly confused.
"I need the time to get what I need from my dorm and it might take a while since I have to get passed all of the Gryffindors." Goyle nodded at Hermione then headed into the boys change room. As a second thought Hermione called out to him.
"Goyle tell Draco and Sean to meet me in their dorm in 15 minutes." Hermione laughed as Goyle saluted her and continued on his way to the change room.
Hermione made her way to the female change only to stop on the outside when she heard her name being mentioned.
"Hermione has no right to be playing for them. She cost US THE GAME!!" Hermione could her Alyson yelling from just outside of the door.
Hermione had to hold back a snicker as she entered the change room. "I have the right to do what ever I want." All the chatter stopped as Hermione made her entrance.
"WELL IF IT ISN'T MISS TRAITOR HERSELF!" Yelled Alyson. She was totally peeved that they had lost to Slytherin and that the book-nook had taken her place as best Quidditch player all in one day.
"Keep your voice down you sound more like an idiot then you all ready are!" Hermione was prepared for the fight she knew was about to come, she just hoped that it didn't last to long. She had more important things to do.
"Well at least I know where my loyalties lye!" Alyson said to her.
"Well you may know where your loyalties, but I know where the loyalty of my house are!" Hermione said. Alyson just gave Hermione a dumbfounded look.
"What do you mean? Gryffindor has always stuck behind you! When Malfoy was making your life a living hell who stood behind you?" Alyson said as she threw all her things into her locker.
"You're right they did stand behind me. HIDING!! All you ever said was 'leave her alone' or 'sod off Malfoy', not once where you fight with me or putting yourselves on the line for me!!" Hermione watched as Alyson and the rest of the team said nothing. There was nothing that they could say.
"That's what I thought. Now stay out of my way." Hermione brushed past them and into the Slytherin side of the lockers.
Amy was sitting on one of the benches tying her boots. "Hey Mina. Heard you giving them hell nice job. I would've jumped in but I thought you didn't need me." Hermione was so relieved that someone had her back but also was waiting to jump in and aid her at a moments notice.
"That's good to know. Thanks." Hermione went to her locker, grabbed her stuff and got changed. She had a lot to do tonight and very little time, so she had better get a move on she thought.
Hermione found herself running full speed to get to Draco's dorm. She was running 5 minutes late because of her little encounter in the dressing room.
She was so pre-occupied with her thoughts that she forgot to say the password has she head right to the wall/door the Slytherin common room.
'WHAM'. Hermione had run right into the wall at full speed. She rebounded right on her back with a dull 'thud'. "That hurt like hell." Hermione said out loud.
"Well it looked like it did from here Ms. Granger." Hermione turned her head to the side slowly as to not agitate the headache that she already had.
"It was way worse then it looked Professor Snape." Hermione wasn't planning on moving until the next century, her head was pounding and her ass was killing her as well.
Snape was having a hell of a time holding in his laughter. He had been on the way to the common room when he had Hermione run full blast into the wall without say the password. He decided to take pity on her, since she had played exceptionally well today.
"Ms. Granger would you like some help?" Snape waited as Hermione slowly turned her head back to him. She wasn't going to rush any movement at the moment.
"Only if you can get what feels like a hammer to stop hammering my head." Hermione said as Snape walked toward her pulling out a small vile.
"That I can do." He popped the cork out of the vile and held it to her lips. "Drink this and tell me what color you see." Hermione nodded to the best of her ability. Snape poured the potion into her mouth.
Hermione felt her eyes get heavy until they finally closed. She waited as she felt the potion course through her veins. Then she saw the color yellow.
"I see yellow." Hermione felt the pain leave and her vision clear. She felt as if the potion had given her a sudden burst of energy. She snapped her eyes opened but shut them again as she was greeted with a painful dose of light to her eyes.
"Careful Ms. Granger. Give your eyes sometime to adjust." Snape said. 'Yellow? I have never heard of someone seeing yellow. I must consult the book.' Snape thought as he waited for Hermione to be fit enough to continue on to what ever she needed to do.
Hermione opened her yes slowly this time. She was still on the floor in front of the wall that leads to the Slytherin common room. Snape was hovering over her, making sure that she was alright. This still surprised her still because she wasn't used too dealing with a caring Snape.
"Feeling better Ms. Granger?" Snape asked Hermione. She sat up and checked herself out. She had no other injuries besides the minor ones that she had gotten during the Quidditch game.
"Yes I'm fine now Professor. Thank you for your help." She said as she got up. She noticed that Snape was still looking at her oddly.
"Is there something else Professor?" She asked him. Snape seemed to snap out of the daze he was in and then looked at Hermione.
"Yes, but are you sure that you saw the color yellow?" Snape had to be sure that she had told him the right color or she could send him on a wild goose chase for something that didn't even exist.
"Yes I'm 100% positive that it was yellow." Hermione said. She thought that his question was a little bit odd, but this was Snape and he seemed full of surprises lately.
"Well then on your way Ms. Granger." Snape said then as a second thought added. "Oh and try not to run into anymore walls. It's not good for your health." Snape said then continued on his way.
Hermione shook her head and laughed. She was not planning on running into any more walls. It hurt too much. She walked up to the wall again and laughed again at how funny she must have looked to have just run full speed into a concrete wall.
"Dragons Hide." Hermione said and then carefully walked through the wall, not taking any more chances that may cause her to repeat her earlier encounter.
Once she was through the wall with no problems she dashed her way to Draco's, being careful yet again not to run into anything. She pushed open the door and walked in.
"Well look who decided to show up!" Draco said as he got up from his position on the bed.
AN: Sorry it took me so long but I just didn't feel like writing for a long time so I just stopped, but fear not. I have found new encouragement to write! I hope that you enjoyed this and the next chapter will be up in less then 2 weeks I promise!! If you're interested check out the new fic I started on Troy. Keep the Reviews coming. It's what guilts me into getting the chapters out faster!!
Luv Raynacch XOXOXOXOXOXOXOX
Quidditch Part II and Wall Running
Hermione flew across the field and batted a bludger away from Millicent. She watched as it soared across the field at almost hit Ron, who started cursing at her but stopped when Madam Hooch gave him a warning.
"Hermione see if you can get Seamus away from the side of the lower ring." Amy yelled to her. Hermione nodded her head and went looking for the closest bludger. It just so happened that one was headed right for her. 'Perfect' she thought.
Hermione took aim and hit it with all of her strength. Seamus never saw it coming. It hit him directly in the side and knocked him off his broom. He hit the ground with a hard 'thud'. Right after Seamus had been hit Slytherin had made their move scoring another 10 points.
BOOING could be heard from the Gryffindor side while mad cheering came from the Slytherins. Hermione smiled proudly at Harry who was sending her death glares from across the field.
"Nice one Hermione. Poor bloke didn't even see it coming." Goyle told her. He was sitting on his broom right next to her, he was her beater partner. They were waiting for them to finish getting Seamus off the field. "Thanks. I wasn't sure it was going to make it all the way down there." Hermione said as she watched them carry Seamus off the field on a stretcher. She felt a pang of guilt since Seamus had always been nice to her, then she remember that she was playing Quidditch and got over it.
The game started again but this time the whole Gryffindor team was gearing for Hermione. They sent every bludger her way, they would kick and push her every time that Madam Hooch wasn't looking. Hermione was fine with the bludgers since if they were aimed at her then they weren't in the way of her teammates
And in a sense they just kept feeding her more ammunition. It was working well for a while they would hit the bludger to her, she'd send it back, but now her arm was starting to get tried. It seemed that Goyle had read her thoughts her flew down beside her and hit the on coming bludger just missing Harry.
"Couldn't let you have all the fun now could I?" He said to her with a smirk. She smiled back and said "Thanks I was starting to wonder when you'd get bored."
Just then Hermione saw Draco make a mad dive for the ground. She was so busy watching Draco that she forgot about the bludgers.
'CRACK' Hermione's head whipped to the side in time to see that Goyle had broken his beater hitting a bludger that would have killed Hermione. Goyle turned to Hermione. He was cradling his right arm.
"You okay Hermione?" Goyle asked. His face was contorted with pain. "Yeah thanks. You saved my ass." Hermione heard loud cheering and booing again. 'Wonder what happened now.' She turned around to see Draco in the middle of the field waving around the little golden ball in the air. They had won.
'Told you we could do it.' Draco spoke across her mind. He looked like a six year-old on Christmas morning, huge grin and all.
'I must be you secret weapon.' She told him as she sent him a wicked smile. She then remembered about Goyle and his arm. 'I think that Goyle hurt his arm pretty bad when he blocked that last bludger, so I'm going to make sure that he's okay.' Hermione waited till Draco gave her a nod and then went to where Goyle was sitting on the sidelines.
"Hey Goyle let me have a look at that arm?" It was more of an order then a request but Goyle didn't mind. He thought it was kinda nice.
"Yeah. I think it may be broken but I anit to sure." Goyle said. Hermione picked his arm into her hands and began to examine it. It was broken, that was for sure, but it was also fractured in 2 other places. She knew she could help him and she owed him that at least.
"I can fix your arm for you better then Pomfrey can but your going to have to trust me, okay?" Hermione waited for Goyle's response. She didn't have to wait to long.
"You got it Mione." Goyle said and gave Hermione a smile. Of course he would trust the smartest girl in school, he wasn't that dumb.
"Great. Now go get change and I'll meet you in the common room in about 2 hours." Hermione saw the look on Goyle's face, he looked oddly confused.
"I need the time to get what I need from my dorm and it might take a while since I have to get passed all of the Gryffindors." Goyle nodded at Hermione then headed into the boys change room. As a second thought Hermione called out to him.
"Goyle tell Draco and Sean to meet me in their dorm in 15 minutes." Hermione laughed as Goyle saluted her and continued on his way to the change room.
Hermione made her way to the female change only to stop on the outside when she heard her name being mentioned.
"Hermione has no right to be playing for them. She cost US THE GAME!!" Hermione could her Alyson yelling from just outside of the door.
Hermione had to hold back a snicker as she entered the change room. "I have the right to do what ever I want." All the chatter stopped as Hermione made her entrance.
"WELL IF IT ISN'T MISS TRAITOR HERSELF!" Yelled Alyson. She was totally peeved that they had lost to Slytherin and that the book-nook had taken her place as best Quidditch player all in one day.
"Keep your voice down you sound more like an idiot then you all ready are!" Hermione was prepared for the fight she knew was about to come, she just hoped that it didn't last to long. She had more important things to do.
"Well at least I know where my loyalties lye!" Alyson said to her.
"Well you may know where your loyalties, but I know where the loyalty of my house are!" Hermione said. Alyson just gave Hermione a dumbfounded look.
"What do you mean? Gryffindor has always stuck behind you! When Malfoy was making your life a living hell who stood behind you?" Alyson said as she threw all her things into her locker.
"You're right they did stand behind me. HIDING!! All you ever said was 'leave her alone' or 'sod off Malfoy', not once where you fight with me or putting yourselves on the line for me!!" Hermione watched as Alyson and the rest of the team said nothing. There was nothing that they could say.
"That's what I thought. Now stay out of my way." Hermione brushed past them and into the Slytherin side of the lockers.
Amy was sitting on one of the benches tying her boots. "Hey Mina. Heard you giving them hell nice job. I would've jumped in but I thought you didn't need me." Hermione was so relieved that someone had her back but also was waiting to jump in and aid her at a moments notice.
"That's good to know. Thanks." Hermione went to her locker, grabbed her stuff and got changed. She had a lot to do tonight and very little time, so she had better get a move on she thought.
Hermione found herself running full speed to get to Draco's dorm. She was running 5 minutes late because of her little encounter in the dressing room.
She was so pre-occupied with her thoughts that she forgot to say the password has she head right to the wall/door the Slytherin common room.
'WHAM'. Hermione had run right into the wall at full speed. She rebounded right on her back with a dull 'thud'. "That hurt like hell." Hermione said out loud.
"Well it looked like it did from here Ms. Granger." Hermione turned her head to the side slowly as to not agitate the headache that she already had.
"It was way worse then it looked Professor Snape." Hermione wasn't planning on moving until the next century, her head was pounding and her ass was killing her as well.
Snape was having a hell of a time holding in his laughter. He had been on the way to the common room when he had Hermione run full blast into the wall without say the password. He decided to take pity on her, since she had played exceptionally well today.
"Ms. Granger would you like some help?" Snape waited as Hermione slowly turned her head back to him. She wasn't going to rush any movement at the moment.
"Only if you can get what feels like a hammer to stop hammering my head." Hermione said as Snape walked toward her pulling out a small vile.
"That I can do." He popped the cork out of the vile and held it to her lips. "Drink this and tell me what color you see." Hermione nodded to the best of her ability. Snape poured the potion into her mouth.
Hermione felt her eyes get heavy until they finally closed. She waited as she felt the potion course through her veins. Then she saw the color yellow.
"I see yellow." Hermione felt the pain leave and her vision clear. She felt as if the potion had given her a sudden burst of energy. She snapped her eyes opened but shut them again as she was greeted with a painful dose of light to her eyes.
"Careful Ms. Granger. Give your eyes sometime to adjust." Snape said. 'Yellow? I have never heard of someone seeing yellow. I must consult the book.' Snape thought as he waited for Hermione to be fit enough to continue on to what ever she needed to do.
Hermione opened her yes slowly this time. She was still on the floor in front of the wall that leads to the Slytherin common room. Snape was hovering over her, making sure that she was alright. This still surprised her still because she wasn't used too dealing with a caring Snape.
"Feeling better Ms. Granger?" Snape asked Hermione. She sat up and checked herself out. She had no other injuries besides the minor ones that she had gotten during the Quidditch game.
"Yes I'm fine now Professor. Thank you for your help." She said as she got up. She noticed that Snape was still looking at her oddly.
"Is there something else Professor?" She asked him. Snape seemed to snap out of the daze he was in and then looked at Hermione.
"Yes, but are you sure that you saw the color yellow?" Snape had to be sure that she had told him the right color or she could send him on a wild goose chase for something that didn't even exist.
"Yes I'm 100% positive that it was yellow." Hermione said. She thought that his question was a little bit odd, but this was Snape and he seemed full of surprises lately.
"Well then on your way Ms. Granger." Snape said then as a second thought added. "Oh and try not to run into anymore walls. It's not good for your health." Snape said then continued on his way.
Hermione shook her head and laughed. She was not planning on running into any more walls. It hurt too much. She walked up to the wall again and laughed again at how funny she must have looked to have just run full speed into a concrete wall.
"Dragons Hide." Hermione said and then carefully walked through the wall, not taking any more chances that may cause her to repeat her earlier encounter.
Once she was through the wall with no problems she dashed her way to Draco's, being careful yet again not to run into anything. She pushed open the door and walked in.
"Well look who decided to show up!" Draco said as he got up from his position on the bed.
AN: Sorry it took me so long but I just didn't feel like writing for a long time so I just stopped, but fear not. I have found new encouragement to write! I hope that you enjoyed this and the next chapter will be up in less then 2 weeks I promise!! If you're interested check out the new fic I started on Troy. Keep the Reviews coming. It's what guilts me into getting the chapters out faster!!
Luv Raynacch XOXOXOXOXOXOXOX