"HARRY!!!!!" Hermione yelled in a shrieking voice.
"RRRRRROOOOOOONNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!"
"What in the world is she going on about?" Ron asked stuffing a
pillow over his ears.
Harry sat up just in time to see Hermione practically crash straight
through the door and land with a bounce on Ron's bed.
"Will you two wake up this is so exciting," Hermione screeched.
"Hermione, right now the most exciting thing I can think of is
sleep," Ron mumbled, "lots and lots of sleep."
"What are you talking about Hermione?" Harry asked Hermione.
"Oh, will you three shut up!?" Seamus yelled, throwing a pillow at
them.
Hermione was already dragging Harry and Ron down to the common room.
Ron sat down sleepily on one of the sofas. He was tilting over just when
Hermione dropped a six pound book into his lap. He took in a deep breath of
air, the wind knocked out of him. Hermione plopped down next to him, as did
Harry.
"As you both know," Hermione started, " I never break the rules
unless I am with you two. " Harry and Ron nodded. " Well there was one
time, and I don't know how Malfoy found out about it, but I used what's
called a Duplicator Spell. I was horribly sick with the flu and we had a
potions exam and a transfiguration test and I just couldn't miss it."
"Hermione is this story going somewhere?" Ron asked with a huff.
" Of course," Hermione replied. " Anyways I only knew one way that I
would be able to stay in bed and take both tests. A duplicator spell allows
your whole body to spread in half so there are two of you. Both exactly the
same and with all the same memories. The other part of you only last for
four hours then it fades out. I had to use it even though I could have been
expelled. Of course it all worked out fine though. But it has to be what
Malfoy did it just has to be."
Harry and Ron looked at her in awe, there eyes wide and mouths
drooping. They didn't know what to be more surprised about that Hermione
had actually broken a major rule or that it was what Malfoy did.
"Bravo Granger bravo," the three heard a nasty voice from behind
them. " How did you do it?"
Suddenly Hermione was pulled from the sofa and into thin air. She
tried to grasp at anything that was around her and succeeded in pulling the
in pulling the Invisibility Cloak off Draco.
Harry and Ron jumped upand lunged toward him. He mutter something
then pointed his wand at Hermione.
"Crucio."
Hermione's painful scream cascaded around the room. Ron went to run
to her but Draco stepped in front of her.
"No, no Weasley," he smirked," now I know how precious your Mudblood
girlfriend is to you but if you keep trying to kill me she will be dead
before me."
Ron glared at him but took a step back. Draco lifted the curse from
Hermione and she collapsed, barely conscious, to the floor. Ron and Harry
winced but made no move. Draco stalked around Hermione like a vulture
circling its victim.
"Pitiful," he spat out," so sadly pitiful."
He put his wand into the air and muttered something. Then he pointed
it at Harry and Ron. Before they knew it they were back against the wall.
Held with invisible chains. Soon they saw the portrait hole open. Releif
flooded through Harry and Ron until they saw who it was. A whole pack of
Slytherins, boys mostly. They formed a circle around a helpless Hermione.
Crabbe, Blaise, and Goyle looked expectantly at Draco. He nodded. Then,
they attacked her. Ripping at her robes, pushing her further on the ground,
holding her down with muscular grips. Blood came from her scratchs and she
used all her energy to scream for help. Harry and Ron watched in horror as
Hermione was hit and beaten. Then they slowly stopped pushing and punching.
The circle went tighter as Draco entered the circle.
"Hold her," he ordered to Blaise and Goyle. Even if she wanted
Hermione couldn't move.
Draco took a long red tipped quill and turned over Hermione's right
arm. On the lower part in scratch deep scroll her wrote "MUDBLOOD".
Hermione screamed as the heat ran through her arm. After that the pain
stopped and the Slytherins left. Draco walked past Hermione whispered
something in Hermione's ear and kissed each of her eyelids. Before he
walked out he released Harry asnd Ron.
They fell to the ground in a heap. Untangling themselves they rushed
over to Hermione. The damage wasn't as bad as they thought. She would be
severely bruised and she had a few small scratches but what really was bad
was her arm. Blood came from the scratches and her skin was puffy. Ron ran
and got three towels, a soaked cold one, a soaked warm one, and a dry one.
He ran back to the common room and wiped Hermione arm with the cold towel.
Then with the warm one and wiped it off with the dry one. The scars no
longer bled but were deeply imprinted in her skin.
"Go get the invisibility cloak," Ron ordered Harry. He picked
Hermione up in his arms. "We are going to see Dumbledore."
