Chapter Forty: Change of Scenery 2
Hermione followed the nurse as they flooed back to the school and into the infirmary.
"I've never heard of this before Ms. Granger. Twins? And one not of wizarding prowess?"
"No, Kat has power, just my biological father refused to send her to school."
"He can't evade Dumbledore dear."
"He didn't send her is all." Hermione shrugged.
"Well, she appears to have weak powers, maybe she wouldn't have broken out to much?" the nurse suggested.
"Yeah, yeah like that." Hermione said absently.
Draco eventually caught up with Hermione having eluded the other teachers long enough to get to her.
"Mione," he breathed, "A word?"
"Yeah, but quick."
"Not here." He nodded to the door
They walked out quick and stopped right outside the door.
"She's not your sister." Draco accused.
"And you know very well how and why that excuse was made."
"So that you had access to her if her father was too damn drunk to care for her, yeah I know." He sighed. "But bring her here Mione?"
"She is safe here." Mione said simply, "Plus, Dora and Ray are here, Why not Kat?"
"She'll freak and blow her cover!"
"What cover?" Mione asked, "Dumbledore knows she is a muggle." Hermione pointed out.
"True, but the rest of the school doesn't."
"It'll be fine, I'll see you in a bit Dux Draconis, just have to check in on my sis." She winked and turned on her heal, walking back into the infirmary.
Draco sighed and shook his head before walking off to the heads tower with such an air of importance that no one would stop him.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Hermione sat by Kat's bedside, her friend's hand in hers, her eyes pleading for her to wake.
"She's just in shock dear." The nurse explained again, even though Hermione knew it did no good; she wanted to make sure her friend was alright.
Poppy left to get a potion from Snape and left the two girls to themselves.
A flicker of lashes let Mione know her friend had awoken.
"Well, now who's the sleepy head?" Hermione chided.
"Mione?" Kat asked sleepily.
"Yeah, it's me." She squeezed her friend's hand, "No need to worry." Even though there was, she had lost her home and only family after all.
"Where are we?"
"My school, Hospital wing." Hermione explained.
"Your school?" Kat was suddenly awake, and sitting up.
"Well, Ms. Douglas seems you have awoken" Poppy said cheerfully re entering the hospital wing with a bottle of some green clear substance that she poured into a glass. "Drink this and I'll allow Ms. Granger to take you up to her room for the night, you go home tomorrow."
"Go on, it's alright," Hermione prompted her friend, "She's a great nurse."
Kat drank it all in one gulp.
"Very well, go on now, I know you want to leave, most people do." Poppy shooed them out and shut the door behind them.
"Well," Hermione said with a tone of Irony, "You are the first she's let out without being there for at least twenty four hours." She explained to Kat. "Come on, my room."
"Hermione? What was that stuff I just drank?"
"Just some medicine." Hermione lied. "You feinted, remember? She wanted to make sure you could stand on your own two feet."
"How did I feint?" Kat asked perplexed.
"I'll explain tomorrow if I still need to." Hermione offered as they reached the moving stair cases.
"What's going on Hermione?" Kat asked against one of the walls, looking in complete horror at the impossible sight in front of here.
"What is the big bad Kat scared?" Dora called from below them. She was already wearing her Slytherin Robes. Her staircase joined their platform. "Its no big deal Kat," she called up, "it just moves." Hermione stepped on, dragging Kat.
Once they had reached the entrance to the heads tower, Hermione and Dora looked a lot different to Kat.
After all, they weren't scared in the place that Mione called school.
"Silver, Saffron, Sapphire, Scarlet." They chanted together.
Then Mione said "Regina CORE!"
And Dora followed up with "Decem Gladius!"
The Portrait changed forming a door of which Mione opened. "Come on Kat, or do you want to stay outside all night? I'm sure peeves would have fun with that." Hermione smirked.
Kat wasn't sure what a "peeves" was, but she didn't want to find out, so she went in.
"SO, they are back!" Ron said merrily, "Kat is fine, right?"
"She doesn't know Ron." Hermione chided, "And she won't know until I talk with her, now we are going in my room, so good night," then she thought for a second and yelled back, "and no ease dropping!"
They all moaned their disappointment.
"People here are a tad off aren't they?" Kat commented once in Hermione's room.
"A tad." Hermione agreed in an odd way,
Her two owls flew in at that time.
Kat was about to scream when Hermione cast "Silentus!"
Kat wasn't sure why she could feel her windpipe and vocal cords working, and yet couldn't speak.
"You look like a fish out of water, Kat dear, don't fight it." Hermione advised. "Now, these are my owls, and no you eyes aren't fooling you, his name is Dagda and hers Istar." She pointed to the respected birds.
"Finite Incartum." Hermione swished her wand and the spell was broken.
"What did you do?"
"Stopped you from making an idiot of yourself." Hermione told her bluntly. "This place is a tad off, yes, but we needn't worry about our surroundings now, they can wait, sit." Hermione summoned a chair for her friend, making Kat jump once again.
Once Kat had sat, she asked a rather sensible question, "Why am I here?"
Hermione sighed and sat on her bed. "To be safe, Kat do you remember anything at all that you heard before coming here?"
"Well, no. What's wrong Hermione?" she looked at her friend eagerly, "And why am I here to be safe, can't I be like that at home? I mean I have lived there most of my life and I'm perfectly fine."
"Well," she started unsure, "Your home and father are," she choked. This was something she had never done before and didn't quite know how to approach it.
"ARE?" Kat prompted, scared of something her heart had been screaming to her all night.
"Non existent." She said as calmly as possible, Kat turned pale. "You told Ray and Dora you felt something off, I felt similar earlier, so they went to check on your house since they knew of this evil, they found it attacking your home and called me by magic. Ron Hanna and I arrived as quickly as we could, so we flooed. You saw us enter by fire place, which is how one floos, it's complicated. Well, you saw us, and feinted. We couldn't save your home so," Hermione looked sad. "I'm sorry; you are here so that you may be safe."
"May I get some sleep Hermione?" Kat asked, in a zombie like way, "I need to process what you just said, and well I may sleep for a while."
"As long as it is not forever." Hermione warned.
"No, only 12 hour's maybe." Kat defended.
Hermione changed the chair into a bed for her friend, "Good night, Kat sleep well. Tomorrow, I'll introduce you to my friends."
*~*~*~*~*~~*~*
When she shut the door, she let out a large breath she hadn't been holding before that moment.
"How is she?" Draco asked emerging from the shadows.
"Tired, sleeping currently." She reported. "I don't know how she's feeling, when I looked at her." Hermione leaned against the door facing out, eyes almost brimming with tears, "It was like a death eater had kissed her." Hermione shut her eyes, tears falling. "I never expected them to be harmed." She announced. "Kat Dora Ray, I never even realized that they would ever be involved with all of this." She slumped to the ground. "I was being naïve I guess." She wiped her tears off, "They were always involved, from the start, like the rest of us."
Hermione felt warm suddenly and protected. Draco held her tight to him, "It'll be alright, everything will turn out right in the end. Isn't that what you Gryffindors are always saying?" he smiled at her, pulling back.
She smiled back, wiped off the new tears that had formed. She nodded in agreement.
"Come on, Dumbledore wants us to decorate for Halloween. Tomorrow's the ball." He moved closer to her. "What will you be?" he asked in a teasing way.
She pushed him back, "Like I'd tell you." She smirked.
"Fine," he snapped hurt, "then I won't tell you."
She smiled, and held her breath, after a while she couldn't keep it in any more and broke out laughing.
Draco soon joined her, and everything was normal again if only for a moment.
"You two coming?" Ray called up.
"Yeah!" they chorused, which sent them into another giggle round.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
The great hall looked barren from the lack of tables. Dumbledore told them to decorate and that he would reserve the image they made and re apply it at night.
Hermione cast a spell so the light changed colors.
Ron changed the window so that they were different colors.
Draco with a swish of his wand, changed the house banners so that they represented one of the four original Hogwarts royalty.
Hermione's had a lioness on top of a heart. The lioness supported a crown. The background color was red and the trim gold.
Draco's was a snake wound around a princess crown with a long sword in between. The back ground green and the trim silver.
Hanna had a badger holding a diamond with a princess tiara encircling the creature. The back ground yellow and the trim black.
Tom had a Raven grasping a staff in its talons. Over its head, not on, A crown appeared suspeneded. The back ground sapphire and the trim bronze.
"Love it Draco." Hanna commented with a mischievous grin. She took out four bobby pins and transfigured them into four thrones below each tapestry.
Ray suspended starts all over the air, so that if felt like you were going through space.
"Great." Hanna shouted, "I like it, now for the dance floor!"
Dora pointed her wand at the floor and changed it into a five star ball room.
Tom added the tables, with each houses color on equal tables.
"Now, for the little magical surprises." Hermione suggested with a grin
And they started their work, all worries forgotten for the time being. After all, the ball was meant to cheer people up, not make then gloomy and worrisome.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*
AN:
See another chappie fairly soon!
I hope you all enjoyed, since I had to edit this one bunches.
I like it better than the original, but I still don't know about Kat. I kind of did that one on impulse more than anything, so if you have any ideas let me know.
I would also like to say that I'm terribly sorry I hadn't updated sooner.
I've been pounded with loads of work so my times been sparring.
Once summer starts, I'll be fine I hope.
Relena~
Hermione followed the nurse as they flooed back to the school and into the infirmary.
"I've never heard of this before Ms. Granger. Twins? And one not of wizarding prowess?"
"No, Kat has power, just my biological father refused to send her to school."
"He can't evade Dumbledore dear."
"He didn't send her is all." Hermione shrugged.
"Well, she appears to have weak powers, maybe she wouldn't have broken out to much?" the nurse suggested.
"Yeah, yeah like that." Hermione said absently.
Draco eventually caught up with Hermione having eluded the other teachers long enough to get to her.
"Mione," he breathed, "A word?"
"Yeah, but quick."
"Not here." He nodded to the door
They walked out quick and stopped right outside the door.
"She's not your sister." Draco accused.
"And you know very well how and why that excuse was made."
"So that you had access to her if her father was too damn drunk to care for her, yeah I know." He sighed. "But bring her here Mione?"
"She is safe here." Mione said simply, "Plus, Dora and Ray are here, Why not Kat?"
"She'll freak and blow her cover!"
"What cover?" Mione asked, "Dumbledore knows she is a muggle." Hermione pointed out.
"True, but the rest of the school doesn't."
"It'll be fine, I'll see you in a bit Dux Draconis, just have to check in on my sis." She winked and turned on her heal, walking back into the infirmary.
Draco sighed and shook his head before walking off to the heads tower with such an air of importance that no one would stop him.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Hermione sat by Kat's bedside, her friend's hand in hers, her eyes pleading for her to wake.
"She's just in shock dear." The nurse explained again, even though Hermione knew it did no good; she wanted to make sure her friend was alright.
Poppy left to get a potion from Snape and left the two girls to themselves.
A flicker of lashes let Mione know her friend had awoken.
"Well, now who's the sleepy head?" Hermione chided.
"Mione?" Kat asked sleepily.
"Yeah, it's me." She squeezed her friend's hand, "No need to worry." Even though there was, she had lost her home and only family after all.
"Where are we?"
"My school, Hospital wing." Hermione explained.
"Your school?" Kat was suddenly awake, and sitting up.
"Well, Ms. Douglas seems you have awoken" Poppy said cheerfully re entering the hospital wing with a bottle of some green clear substance that she poured into a glass. "Drink this and I'll allow Ms. Granger to take you up to her room for the night, you go home tomorrow."
"Go on, it's alright," Hermione prompted her friend, "She's a great nurse."
Kat drank it all in one gulp.
"Very well, go on now, I know you want to leave, most people do." Poppy shooed them out and shut the door behind them.
"Well," Hermione said with a tone of Irony, "You are the first she's let out without being there for at least twenty four hours." She explained to Kat. "Come on, my room."
"Hermione? What was that stuff I just drank?"
"Just some medicine." Hermione lied. "You feinted, remember? She wanted to make sure you could stand on your own two feet."
"How did I feint?" Kat asked perplexed.
"I'll explain tomorrow if I still need to." Hermione offered as they reached the moving stair cases.
"What's going on Hermione?" Kat asked against one of the walls, looking in complete horror at the impossible sight in front of here.
"What is the big bad Kat scared?" Dora called from below them. She was already wearing her Slytherin Robes. Her staircase joined their platform. "Its no big deal Kat," she called up, "it just moves." Hermione stepped on, dragging Kat.
Once they had reached the entrance to the heads tower, Hermione and Dora looked a lot different to Kat.
After all, they weren't scared in the place that Mione called school.
"Silver, Saffron, Sapphire, Scarlet." They chanted together.
Then Mione said "Regina CORE!"
And Dora followed up with "Decem Gladius!"
The Portrait changed forming a door of which Mione opened. "Come on Kat, or do you want to stay outside all night? I'm sure peeves would have fun with that." Hermione smirked.
Kat wasn't sure what a "peeves" was, but she didn't want to find out, so she went in.
"SO, they are back!" Ron said merrily, "Kat is fine, right?"
"She doesn't know Ron." Hermione chided, "And she won't know until I talk with her, now we are going in my room, so good night," then she thought for a second and yelled back, "and no ease dropping!"
They all moaned their disappointment.
"People here are a tad off aren't they?" Kat commented once in Hermione's room.
"A tad." Hermione agreed in an odd way,
Her two owls flew in at that time.
Kat was about to scream when Hermione cast "Silentus!"
Kat wasn't sure why she could feel her windpipe and vocal cords working, and yet couldn't speak.
"You look like a fish out of water, Kat dear, don't fight it." Hermione advised. "Now, these are my owls, and no you eyes aren't fooling you, his name is Dagda and hers Istar." She pointed to the respected birds.
"Finite Incartum." Hermione swished her wand and the spell was broken.
"What did you do?"
"Stopped you from making an idiot of yourself." Hermione told her bluntly. "This place is a tad off, yes, but we needn't worry about our surroundings now, they can wait, sit." Hermione summoned a chair for her friend, making Kat jump once again.
Once Kat had sat, she asked a rather sensible question, "Why am I here?"
Hermione sighed and sat on her bed. "To be safe, Kat do you remember anything at all that you heard before coming here?"
"Well, no. What's wrong Hermione?" she looked at her friend eagerly, "And why am I here to be safe, can't I be like that at home? I mean I have lived there most of my life and I'm perfectly fine."
"Well," she started unsure, "Your home and father are," she choked. This was something she had never done before and didn't quite know how to approach it.
"ARE?" Kat prompted, scared of something her heart had been screaming to her all night.
"Non existent." She said as calmly as possible, Kat turned pale. "You told Ray and Dora you felt something off, I felt similar earlier, so they went to check on your house since they knew of this evil, they found it attacking your home and called me by magic. Ron Hanna and I arrived as quickly as we could, so we flooed. You saw us enter by fire place, which is how one floos, it's complicated. Well, you saw us, and feinted. We couldn't save your home so," Hermione looked sad. "I'm sorry; you are here so that you may be safe."
"May I get some sleep Hermione?" Kat asked, in a zombie like way, "I need to process what you just said, and well I may sleep for a while."
"As long as it is not forever." Hermione warned.
"No, only 12 hour's maybe." Kat defended.
Hermione changed the chair into a bed for her friend, "Good night, Kat sleep well. Tomorrow, I'll introduce you to my friends."
*~*~*~*~*~~*~*
When she shut the door, she let out a large breath she hadn't been holding before that moment.
"How is she?" Draco asked emerging from the shadows.
"Tired, sleeping currently." She reported. "I don't know how she's feeling, when I looked at her." Hermione leaned against the door facing out, eyes almost brimming with tears, "It was like a death eater had kissed her." Hermione shut her eyes, tears falling. "I never expected them to be harmed." She announced. "Kat Dora Ray, I never even realized that they would ever be involved with all of this." She slumped to the ground. "I was being naïve I guess." She wiped her tears off, "They were always involved, from the start, like the rest of us."
Hermione felt warm suddenly and protected. Draco held her tight to him, "It'll be alright, everything will turn out right in the end. Isn't that what you Gryffindors are always saying?" he smiled at her, pulling back.
She smiled back, wiped off the new tears that had formed. She nodded in agreement.
"Come on, Dumbledore wants us to decorate for Halloween. Tomorrow's the ball." He moved closer to her. "What will you be?" he asked in a teasing way.
She pushed him back, "Like I'd tell you." She smirked.
"Fine," he snapped hurt, "then I won't tell you."
She smiled, and held her breath, after a while she couldn't keep it in any more and broke out laughing.
Draco soon joined her, and everything was normal again if only for a moment.
"You two coming?" Ray called up.
"Yeah!" they chorused, which sent them into another giggle round.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
The great hall looked barren from the lack of tables. Dumbledore told them to decorate and that he would reserve the image they made and re apply it at night.
Hermione cast a spell so the light changed colors.
Ron changed the window so that they were different colors.
Draco with a swish of his wand, changed the house banners so that they represented one of the four original Hogwarts royalty.
Hermione's had a lioness on top of a heart. The lioness supported a crown. The background color was red and the trim gold.
Draco's was a snake wound around a princess crown with a long sword in between. The back ground green and the trim silver.
Hanna had a badger holding a diamond with a princess tiara encircling the creature. The back ground yellow and the trim black.
Tom had a Raven grasping a staff in its talons. Over its head, not on, A crown appeared suspeneded. The back ground sapphire and the trim bronze.
"Love it Draco." Hanna commented with a mischievous grin. She took out four bobby pins and transfigured them into four thrones below each tapestry.
Ray suspended starts all over the air, so that if felt like you were going through space.
"Great." Hanna shouted, "I like it, now for the dance floor!"
Dora pointed her wand at the floor and changed it into a five star ball room.
Tom added the tables, with each houses color on equal tables.
"Now, for the little magical surprises." Hermione suggested with a grin
And they started their work, all worries forgotten for the time being. After all, the ball was meant to cheer people up, not make then gloomy and worrisome.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*
AN:
See another chappie fairly soon!
I hope you all enjoyed, since I had to edit this one bunches.
I like it better than the original, but I still don't know about Kat. I kind of did that one on impulse more than anything, so if you have any ideas let me know.
I would also like to say that I'm terribly sorry I hadn't updated sooner.
I've been pounded with loads of work so my times been sparring.
Once summer starts, I'll be fine I hope.
Relena~