Chapter 6: Roommates
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Weeks went by and September faded in to Mid-October. When Hermione awoke there was a delivery owl on her bedside table. She untied the note from its leg and stroked it absent-mindedly before it flew off. The letter was from Dumbledore, saying there would be a Prefects meeting that morning. It was a Saturday so she wouldn't miss any classes. She pulled on her school uniform and went down to the Prefects' Meeting Room.
"Hullo", said Orlando after everyone was seated. "Today we wanted to finalize some things about the dance, and then Professor Dumbledore has a surprise for you. Now back to the dance, Muggle formal wear or dress robes for the dance?"
The majorities voted for Muggle formal wear. "Since we're wearing Muggle clothes, I think it would be a good idea to listen to Muggle music as well," said Hermione. "You see I've found a way to play Muggle CDs without a CD player, which means they can be played at Hogwarts! I have my Cds with me, and I bet a bunch of the other Muggle-born students could owl home for theirs."
"Sounds great to me", replied Ariel who was also Muggle-born. Hermione's motion passed. Then Dumbledore who had been sitting quietly in the back corner of the room said,
"And now for the surprise! Follow me everyone!" his eyes twinkling with boyish delight. They followed him to a painting of a colonial woman wearing a pale blue dress and a powered-white wig. "Lothlòrien." said Dumbledore. And then as he stepped through the door, "I thought would enjoy that. Amazing book really. The things Muggles dream up...." They were in a hallway none of them had ever seen before. "These will be your new living quarters," he continued, "We found this corridor over the summer."
"Why didn't we move in sooner??" asked the 5th Huffelpuff Prefect.
"We wanted to wait and see if you all were ready for the responsibility of your own rooms," replied Dumbledore. "So now me must assign roommates. You will each have a separate bedroom, pairs of twos will share parlors, therefore there may be some boy/girl pairs." The Prefects glanced around the room nervously hoping they wouldn't be paired with someone they didn't like. "Now the most logical way I could think of to do this is to draw names from a hat... or so to speak. All of your names have been written on pieces of parchment and put into the sorting hat. It will call out the names of the two people in each pair. When your name is called, please step forward so I can assign you to your room."
The sorting hat paired the students fairly quickly, and in five minutes the Prefects had been sorted into pairs of twos and assigned to rooms. As luck would have it (or maybe just me) Hermione and Draco were assigned as "roommates". Dumbledore showed the pairs to their rooms, wrote down their password, and left them to themselves. Hermione and Draco were assigned to a room at the end of the hall, behind a statue of an Egyptian goddess. When Dumbledore asked for their password Hermione answered "Vertical Horizon", before Draco could open his mouth.
"I'll leave you to explore your new habitat", said Dumbledore before he left. The statue sprung aside to reveal a cozy looking room, colored in deep shades of green with mahogany accents.
"It's not a total loss", said Draco surveying the room. It was the first time he had spoken since they had been paired.
"What are you talking about?!? It's positively GORGEOUS!" and then
turning to him added, "Although I could imagine a better color scheme..."
"Ha-Ha, you're too hilarious. The colors actually make it a bit homier. Too bad I'm sharing it with you." retorted Draco, smirking mischievously.
Gladiator. "Passwords, dears" said the woman smiling sweetly.
Draco looked at Hermione with an evil grin before replying, "mudblood". As Draco stepped through the entrance to his room he could hear Hermione say, "ferret". He let his anger out in one deep sigh. Both rooms were decorated identically. They had rather large
four-poster beds with thick deep green; velvet drapes, and the posts were Greece
goddesses carved out of mahogany wood. The rooms also contained mahogany
wardrobes and mahogany dressing tables. After Hermione had had a good look around her room, she exited it through the portrait hole, into the parlor. Draco was sitting on the
large, squashy, green, couch, waiting for her when she came out.
"I was wondering... why did you choose Vertical Horizon for the password?" Hermione noticed that he hadn't said our.
"Vertical Horizon is my favorite band.""Ahhh... a Muggle thing. I should have known."
"Well it's not like your password's exactly neutral either!"
Draco shrugged, "I never said it was".
"Hypocrite!"
"Know-It-All!"
"Stuck-Up!"
"Goody-Two-Shoes!"
"Death Eater!"They were now within inches of each other. Draco's clear grey eyes suddenly became very stormy and flashed dangerously. "What did you say?" before she could answer or move his crushing grip was on her shoulders, pinning them painfully to her sides. "I asked you what you said, mudblood!" Hermione whimpered, she could feel his tense muscles shaking. "Don't EVER call me that again! I never have been, and will never be a Death Eater! I suggest you keep your fat mouth shut about what you don't know anything about!" He then released her. Hermione ran back into her room, fell onto her bed with her face buried in her pillow, and wept. A few hours later she heard a knock on her door. It was Draco. "Hermione... I'm...I'm... sorry. I don't know why I went off like that. Please come out here and talk to me." When she didn't answer he tried again. "Please Hermione..." he sounded like he meant it. "Give me fifteen minutes!" she yelled back.
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