Stop the Drama

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Chapter Eleven

The next morning Hermione awoke to the sun shining merrily through the window. For a moment she forgot what happened, but to her disappointment, eventually remembered.

Hermione was the only one in her room. Suddenly panic set in. Today was the day she was starting classes and would probably be late. Hermione threw on different clothes and ran down to the common room.

When she got there, Harry and Ron were sitting in two armchairs by the fire.

"Why aren't you two at breakfast?" Hermione asked, very confused.

"They were cancelled because of what happened last night." Ron answered. "They are starting tomorrow."

Hermione sat down in an armchair, feeling stupid for being so panicked. "Have you eaten yet?"

Harry shook his head. "We were waiting for you. We figured you would want to go with us because of well, you know."

Hermione nodded and started towards the door. Harry and Ron followed, without another word.

As the trio walked down the hallways, whispers followed them everywhere. It seemed that at every corner there was a group of students staring at them. Hermione tried not to pay attention to them and to not notice that her face was burning red.

When they entered the Great Hall it got even worse. People stared at them and didn't even bother to whisper.

"I heard that Harry killed Malfoy's dad." was one of the many things that they heard.

They sat down at the Gryffindor Table, next to the only people that would actually talk to them. A large brown owl swooped down and dropped a copy of the Daily Profit on Hermione's plate. She paid him one knut before ripping open the newspaper.

Hermione stared at the headline and read it silently to herself. "How can people be making ridiculous stories up? They truth is actually in here for once." she looked farther down the paper. "No wonder, it is not written by Rita Skeeter. It is written by someone named Alabaster Woodrith."

Harry and Ron looked at her, confused, before reaching for the paper and reading it for themselves.

Hogwarts Attack!

Yesterday, Wednesday September the first, a group of Death Eater's escaped from Azkaban and attacked Hogwarts. The attack was lead by none other then Ministry Employee, Lucius Malfoy. His wife and son were unavailable for comment.

In their attack they tried to get into the Gryffindor house common room. Fortunately, they were unsuccessful. They then attacked two students, Hermione Granger and Harry Potter, who were on their way back from speaking to the headmaster about information they uncovered.

When Malfoy say the two young Gryffindor's he attempted to do the killing curse on them. Dumbledore saved the two by moving a metal statue in front of them. The spell rebounded and hit Malfoy, killing him instantly. The headmaster then bounded all the other Death Eaters.

More on page 3.

Harry and Ron looked up from the story, surprised. "How do they know exactly what happened?" Harry asked. "They can't know everything, can they?"

Hermione realized what he was saying. "You're right. This is a little too truthful. They usually use a small lie to spice up stories."

Ron looked uncomfortable. "This is really weird. How does this Alabaster character know exactly what the Death Eaters and you two were doing, if he wasn't there."

Hermione's eyes widened. "Maybe he was."

YAY! Another cliffhanger! Don't you just loved them? Anyway, read and review and I might update faster (notice I said might).