Well, here it is,chapter 6.Better late then never…

That night, Hermione was having a rather enjoyable dream about flying on a cloud, when suddenly she was back on Earth. She whirled around trying to discover why she wasn't on her fluffy cloud anymore when she noticed a crumpled figure about 10 feet away. When she ran to inspect the person she realized it was Ginny. "Oh my gosh! What happened to you Gin?" She asked as she bent down to look closer at her friend. Ginny looked pail , her robes where torn and bloody in places and there where scratches all down her face.

Her eyes suddenly opened and she gasped " You've got to help me Hermione," she grabbed a startled Hermiones arm " He's got me under the Imperious…please help me...I don't want to…" her eyes closed and her head suddenly fell to the side as if she was to weak to even hold it up.

Hermione shook her friend. Now she was no longer just worried but extremely alarmed, " What is it Ginny? Whose got you under the Imperious? What do they want you to do? " she asked urgently.

Ginny opened her eyes slowly, and Hermione was startled to see that they were full of tears. " I'm so sorry….I didn't know it was him…he looked like one of us…Lucias Malfoy…" her voice seemed to be getting weaker " I'll be okay…warn the others…the seven deadly sins…I'm sorry, I'm so weak…I tried to fight…"

A mist seemed to be forming around both of them and Hermione could no longer see her friend anymore, only hear her voice and her shallow sobs. " Ginny! Where are you? Ginny!" She screamed her friends' name.

" So sorry…" came a faint answer and then there was silence.

" Ginny! No! Ginny! Come back"

" Wake up, wake up! Or do you want to wake up the whole of Hogwarts?"

Hermione opened her eyes . She was shaking all over. Next to her on the bed was Draco who had been swatting her with a paw, trying to get her to wake up. Although trying to look like he didn't care, his eyes were filled with worry. " Are you okay? He looked into her eyes.

She stared at him" What are you doing in my bed Malfoy?"

" Er… you woke me up! You were screaming like a banshee! Gees!" he held a paw over one ear "So…why were you shouting for Ginny to "come back"?"

Hermione sat up straight. She was still shaking and the picture of Ginny asking for her help and warning her would not get out of her head. " You can tell me. I won't tease you. I promise." Draco looked at her with serious eyes.

Hermione debated with herself if it was really wise to tell Draco Malfoy about her experience. But then again, he was a cat. Who was he going to tell ? She also needed desperately to tell somebody about her dream, she would never be able to go back to sleep now, and she didn't want to wake Harry or Ron. They would be seriously pissed off at being woken in the middle of the night and would probably tell her that it was all just a dream anyway. But it had felt so real.

She turned to Draco, " Fine, but if this ever comes out I will turn you into a …a…a…jellyfish" Draco raised his eyebrows at her ( okay, technically cats don't have eyebrows but you know what I mean) " and don't think I can't do it, cos I can."

" I never said you couldn't."

" But you implied it with that look."

" I'm a cat, that look could have implied a lot of things."

"Ugh, do you ever say exactly what you mean?"

" Perhaps, now are you going to tell me why you were screaming or not?"

" Why do you care anyway?"

" I want to go to bed and I don't want to be woken up by your screaming again."

" Fine, I'll tell you. I saw Ginny…she looked terrible…she said she was under the Imperious…by your father!" she looked at Draco sharply but his expression remained carefully neutral.

" She was asking for help…and telling me to warn everybody…of something…and then she just disappeared."

" What did she warn you about?"

" What was it now?…the seven…er… something with seven" she scrunched up her face trying to remember what Ginny had said "now I remember, she said to warn everybody of the seven deadly sins. I wonder what that's all about."

But Draco was looking highly alarmed. " Are you sure that's what you heard? Positive?"

"Yup."

Draco was looking as if she had announced that the world was about to end, in other words, utterly horrified. " Then we are in deep trouble!"

" So you don't think its some crazy dream?"

"No."

" Why?"

" The seven deadly sins is a real curse which can only be created by dark magic. Not many people actually know it, its such an old curse, one of the only people who knows how to do it is my father!" he cringed " But its really powerful though!"

"And what does it do?" Hermione asked as she started to feel the dread seep into her bones.

" All it takes is for one 'infected' person to touch another person and the curse starts spreading like wildfire. All its takes is for an infected infected person to touch you and you've got it too."

" And what exactly is 'it'?"

"I'm telling you, it's horrible, one of the seven deadly sins takes over your own personality and totally controls what you do. The seven sins are greed, anger, lust, indulgence, pride, sloth and envy. By the end of the week you'll be dead."

Hermione looked shocked " But how can something like pride or envy kill you?"

" Well, envy for instance. In the later stages you'll be so envious of other peoples possessions that you will do anything to get them. Including murdering people. You will be so focused on getting other peoples things that you will stop eating or functioning normally in any way. Like I said, it takes over who you are and theres nothing you can do about it once your infected.

" But isn't there anything you can do about it?"

" Not as far as I know."

" But somebody must have stopped it the last time it was used"

" I spose so."

" And why hasn't your father used this curse before? Why now?"

" I don't know why now, but I do know that people who know it are very afraid to use it. In the end it usually ends up infecting them too."

" I see."

" All I know is that animals and animagi are immune to it."

" The last person to find a cure for this curse must have been an animagi then."

" Could be."

"So, you'll be immune to it then, being a cat and all."

"Yeah, to bad you're not an animagi, it's the only thing that would save you." Hermione looked at her hands on the duvet.

" You're sure theres no way we can stop Ginny, if she is the originally infected person, from infecting somebody else."

" There is no way you can stop her."

Hermione looked as if she were having an inward struggle . " And being controlled by Lucius would also explain the way she 's been acting. On the train and the whole of yesterday." She paused. " Look Draco, we're going to have to work together if we want to save Hogwarts and find the cure." She looked at him coldly for a moment " Unless of course you don't want to find a cure."

"Of course ,I do."

"Uh-hu." She looked doubtful.

" I'm tired of always being what my fathers wants me to be. I can be my on person. Or cat in this case."

Hermione looked slightly startled. " Well I hope you keep that attitude for a while, cos we're going to need it."

She took a deep breath. " Look, I'm going to show you something that nobody knows about me and you're not to tell anyone. If you say a word about this to anyone I'll hurt you bad, I swear. And just know that I'm only showing you this because we need to work together if we're going to find a cure in time."

Draco eyed her warily." What is it?"

" This," she said and turned into a largish brown owl.

So who knew, shes an animagi ! And most probably an illegal one at that! Anyway she's starting to trust Draco, sort of, if you don't count the threats! Next time we see Hermione and Draco running or in Hermiones case flying all over the place trying to find a cure and we also see the deadly sins taking effect on several people including Ron and Harry. Well rr people! Cheers!