Title: Dance Fever and Some Bad Dreams

Disclaimer: I shall call him Draco and he shall be mine and he shall be my Draco. NO? Fine. I don't own any Harry Potter characters. And I also have two lines of dialog from the Movie CHOCOLAT. So don't sue.


~~~~~~~~~Chapter 5: Like an Angel


My heart beat faster and faster from beneath my chest. I could no longer hear Snape's yelling or the students coming down the steps. I could only hear my own breathing.


I had to wake up! HE would be coming out the shadows of my mind any second. He had all the other times. Darkness was how it always began.


First I would fall to sleep and pure darkness would invade my senses and then He would appear in front of my eyes and there would be more pain then I had ever suffered.


Suddenly everything went cold and sure enough from a corner in my mind he appeared. The malicious smirk on its face was enough to make any man or monster cry. That pale shriveled up prune of a face, with blood red eyes, and his wand peeking out from under his ink black cloak.


Voldemort slowly raised his wand to my chest and in a shrieking voice screamed, "Crusio!!" It was my turn to scream but I was the one receiving the curse. It was the same flesh ripping pain. I dropped to my hands and knees gritted my teeth in pain.


My skin was on fire and felt it was going to tear off at any second. But Voldemort lifted the curse, cackling hysterically, " Why hello again, Draco, my boy. I was very upset when I learned that you did not pay me a little visit last night."


Voldemort circled me while nonchalantly twirling his wand in his white skeleton fingers, "Didn't Dumbledor teach you that sleep is inevitable?"


Even though the curse had been lifted I could still feel the romance of the burns blistering my skin and was in too much pain to listen or care about anything he said.


"I asked you a question, boy." Using all my strength, I raised myself to sit on my heels and made an effort to plaster a phony smile on my face.


Voldemort was not amused. He raised his wand once again and opened his black hole mouth and yelled, " Draco!" Only it didn't come out in Voldemort's deathly voice. Instead it came out in a high girlish cry.


There was something strangely familiar about that voice……


Then oddly enough, Voldemort started to fade away like a ghost. And then I felt someone lightly tapping my cheeks. Moments later light was shining behind my eyelids.


And once I opened my eyes there standing over me was a girl with long sleek tresses of wavy brown hair falling from behind her eyes and dark eye lashes framing her chocolate brown eyes.


Merlin's beard she's pretty. Like an angel. Hello pretty angel- wait a second……


I blinked a couple more times and looked at those brown eyes one more time, "Granger?"

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~Herm's POV~

Stepping out of the bathroom to where Padma and Parvati where sprawled out on their beds reading some American magazine called 'Teen Beat', I asked,


"Ok, what do you think?" they both looked up and as though the two were practically synchronized, both their jaws dropped when they laid their eyes on my new sleek wavy hair. This did not really give me a huge confidence boost.


I could even feel the heat rising up my neck into my cheeks. Hastily I blurted out, " You guys are right. It looks stupid. It was a stupid idea. I'm going to go and change it back."


But before I could take one step back to the bathroom Padma and Parvati shrieked and jumped off their beds, "Don't you dare change it back!" yelled Padma.


"You look drop dead gorgeous, Hermsie." Praised Parvati as she touched my hair, " The boys are going to go crazy, wouldn't you say, Padma?"


"No doubt! You'll have to beat them off with a stick!" the twins broke out into fits of giggles, "Maybe our Hermsie will find a boyfriend this year."


"Duh she will! She'll be able to snag any guy she wants!" added Parvati waving a hand through the air with a giant grin slapped on her face. However right after she said these words, her smile fell into an overly dramatic pout, "Padma, what if……."


Parvati's eyes started to tear, "Draco going to fall for Herm!!" she wailed and ran out of the room in a burst of tears.


"Whoa." was how I responded to Parvati's overreaction, " I knew she was obsessed but that's just downright scary. And why would Malfoy ever like me? I'm a 'Filthy Muggle Born'. "

Padma's eyes were wide as she looked from the door to me. Her eyes traveled over my hair and face then eyes,


"What?" I asked having enough of her inspection. Padma shrugged with a small grin growing on her lips, " I think Parvati might have just predicted the future……"


I stared blankly at her for several seconds before I burst out laughing, "Right! Like Malfoy would fall for a Muggle born girl, who hates his guts more than any person in this school!! That's rich!"


Padma did her shrug thing again with that annoying grin still on her lips, "Whatever you say, Hermione. But we got to get dressed if we're going to be on time for the first class of the year."


"Which class is that again?" I asked as I pulled on my school robes


Padma answered, "Potions."

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After Padma and I calmed down Parvati from her random hysterics we were ready to head off to Potions.


As we walked down the stone steps to Potions with our books in hand, I couldn't help but notice that Parvati was doing her best to stay as far away from me as possible. Literally. Parvati made it so that Padma was always in between herself and me.


That was peachy with me. Just as long as we didn't have to talk about Malfoy anymore. Something about talking about his when it came to him liking me made me feel……frustrated for some reason.


When we came to the last steps leading to Snape's classroom I noticed there was a cluster of students all whispering and there was Snape yelling himself hoarse at Harry.


Then between a couple of people, I caught sight of Malfoy laying flat on his back and with his closed- with his eyes closed!


The sudden memory of Draco crying out for someone to wake him up and his face twisted in pain made me drop my books and run over to Malfoy.


I had to push past the small crowd that had gathered including Crabb and Goyle who looked a bit like scared poodles not knowing what to do without their master.


Pushing past those two was a bit of a struggle but after slapping Crabb and making his beady little eyes well up with tears, I was able to successfully kneel down beside him.


And then all the sudden Malfoy let out holler of pain and afterwards gritting his teeth. It was then that Snape stopped telling off Harry and turned to glare at me as if I had done something to Malfoy to make him scream.


"Granger! What did you do!?"

"I didn't even touch him." I answered. Snape gave me nasty look before yelling to all the students, "I want everybody in the classroom this instant! Go!"


Slowly all the students filed in the classroom. But I refused to leave Malfoy in this state. I had seen what he was like when he was on the train. How much pain he had been in...


So that was when I started shaking him and calling out his name before Snape could push me into the classroom, "Malfoy!" I shouted and shook. Snape looked up again from giving Harry more detentions, "Miss Granger, I asked you to go into the classroom. Now go!"


I would not give up that easily, "Draco!" I shouted louder this time and even started lightly slapping cheeks. Snape was about to sweep down on me but then Draco's silver blue eyes flicker open and Snape stopped in his tracks surprised that Draco had woken up.


I hardly noticed Snape's movements for an shameful as I am to say it, I was utterly transfixed with the blue and silver mingling within his eyes. He didn't even protest he simply looked back into my eyes and stared.


It was like he was seeing me for the first time. His eyes were curious and confused. Then an alarm went off in my head.


What was I doing?! Apparently the same alarm went off in his head for he pushed me away and snapped, "Get out of my face Granger!"


At this time all doubtfulness of his evil side had gone in a poof of smoke. There was no other side to him then what the git showed!


I stood up with my hands on my hips and barked right back, "Believe me I will never put myself in that position again, Ferret Boy!"


"Is that a promise?!" he said while pulling himself up to his feet. For some reason what he said made me furious. So without even thinking I walked right up to him and slapped him hard enough to even make my own hand sting,


"That's a guarantee……Ferret Boy." I sneered and pushed past him. All the while Snape didn't say a thing but looked stunned at Draco.


Not caring why Snape didn't take away any points from Gryffindor I walked to one of the front desks of the classroom, sat down, and received more surprised and confused looks.


I felt so……so frustrated with Malfoy for reasons I can't even comprehend. Ron showed up at my side with my books in hand, "Hey, you left your books in hall."


I grabbed them muttering words that were meant to mean 'thank you' but came out in curses. Oops. "Nice hair." Ron seemed to be trying to make things better but he was failing miserably, "So what exactly happened out there, in the hall?"


I scowled at him making him read the anger in my eyes, "I hate that stupid git."


It didn't exactly answer Ron's but I couldn't stop thinking those words. But Ron smiled and responded with, "Cheers to that!"



~TBC~

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This chappy was just getting a little long so you can think of this as a short intermission. Thanks for reading. And the next chapter will be finally dance class. I just had to get this part in the story it will become very important. Next chapter……let us dance! Much luv and keep reading and reviewing please.