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Dramione
Draco watched as Hermione sank under the water. He didn't really care. She WAS a Mudblood after all. She would probably spell her way out anyway. If she did die, he could just say that he wasn't around when it happened, and that he would "sorely" miss her.
He snorted at his own cheesiness.
Re-focusing his attention on the bubbles coming up from where Hermione's body had once been, he sighed and stood up. Though he may be an evil Deatheater, he wasn't in the mood for death.
He turned around and walked up the stairs, getting away from the water.
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Hermione immediately started struggling, and fighting to resurface. The water was so cold and normally would have been oddly refreshing, but she had the feeling that she was stuck.
Regaining some sense, she stopped struggling. It would waste too much energy.
Slowly she opened her eyes and she was abruptly surprised by the clearness of the water.
'It must be the magic…'
Hermione looked around and found that there was nothing visible holding her down. She felt her pockets and when she found nothing, she kicked off the ground tried to break the surface of the water.
Her head went up long enough for her to get a breath of air.
She fumbled with her flailing robes and pulled her wand out of a secret pocket. She pointed it at herself, and tried to say the incantation to the Bubble Head Charm. It came out incoherent, but she was very grateful when a shield came up around her head, and filled with air. She took in a deep breath and then started racking her brain for a useful Charm that would get her out of there.
At first, a whole list of useless Spells and Jinxes came streaming into her head. One by one she picked through the spells and finally she came across one that would be of some help. The Reductor Curse.
Hermione looked around for a wall that would lead to a room that wasn't flooded. Her first option was the door to the Great Hall, but then she spotted the flow of water creeping in under the tiny cracks of the door. She wanted a room completely water-less. Something about this water seemed to hold her down.
Taking several quick breaths in a row to calm herself, Hermione looked around again, and she was immensely relieved to see another door. She squinted and was prepared to praise the Gods right then and there when she found no water entering underneath. She kicked her way over towards the said door and aimed her wand.
"Reducto!" She shouted. The curse reverberated in her ears, but she didn't care. The wall crumbled and suddenly the water flowed into the room, taking Hermione with her.
As the water started to level in the room, Hermione took off the Bubble Head Charm and stood up. She turned around to look at the damage she had made.
To her delight, it could easily be repaired with Reparo. She waded out into the hall again, and pointed her wand at the hole in the wall. She shouted to Charm and watched, slightly amused as the blocks put themselves back together.
When it was finished, she remembered Draco had been sitting on the steps when she had gone under. She glanced up at them to find no Draco. She glared and waded up the stairs.
She was going to find Draco, and she was going to TRY to give him a piece of her mind.
As she reached the next floor landing she paused to dry herself. When she was finished, she looked around the floor, and took a wild guess at which way Draco had gone.
About ten minutes later, and no Draco, she decided to go the easy way. She pulled her wand out again.
She laid it flat on her palm and muttered. "Point me to Draco." Her wand pointed behind her.
'Great.'
She turned around and walked back in the opposite direction. She walked that way until her wand turned to the left. She turned and found herself face to face with a emerald colored serpent.
As Hermione started to back away, the huge serpent started to slither towards her. Hermione uttered a small gasp. She had just hit the railing of the stairs, and the serpent didn't seem to be stopping.