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Chapter 2: I always get what I want
Hermione awoke the morning she was to be taken to the cabin. Her stomach was turning and she felt nauseas. She pulled on her clothes and grabbed the suit cases that she'd packed the night before. Her mother smiled at her as she dragged them down the stairs.
"Ready?" she asked.
Hermione nodded and grabbed a piece of toast from the table. As her mother drove through the rain she kept glancing over at Hermione. "It won't be that bad," Mrs. Granger insisted. "You'll be fine. Ignore him if you have to."
"You obviously don't know Draco Malfoy," Hermione stated. "Because if you did, you'd know that he makes it almost impossible to ignore him."
"Oh, come on now," Mrs. Granger said. "I'm sure you'll be fine."
Hermione turned and stared out at the rain as it smacked roughly against her window. "Where are we going exactly?"
"Your Headmaster told me to drive to this address and you'd Floo to the cabin," she said handing Hermione a piece of parchment. In curvy looped letters were the words "12 Grimauld Place." Memories flooded Hermione's mind and she closed her eyes. The address reminded her of Sirius. She hadn't been as close to Sirius as Harry was, of course, but she still felt sad when she thought about it.
After a long drive, the car stopped and Hermione's mother looked confused. "But where is it?" she asked.
"Don't worry, Mum," she said. She looked up and saw Draco standing under an umbrella looking annoyed. He seemed to be trying to guard his luggage from the rain because he had it stacked up behind him.
"Is that him?" Mrs. Granger questioned.
"Yeah."
"Oh, he's cute," she said.
"Ew, Mum!"
"Well, he is!" Mrs. Granger laughed.
Hermione pulled her jacket over her bushy hair and climbed out in disgust. She walked over to Draco. She waved goodbye to her mother as she drove off. Not even attempted to get under Draco's umbrella, Hermione shivered in the cold of the rain. Draco seemed to notice because, however reluctantly, he moved closer to her and adjusted the position of the umbrella.
"Thanks," she murmured. They stood awkwardly in the rain in front of the Black house. It had appeared out of nowhere. "Is it locked?"
"No," Draco said sarcastically. "I'm just standing out here getting rained on for my health."
Hermione ignored the comment and bundled her jacket around her. She could feel the water hitting the ground and bouncing back onto her jeans. She shivered again.
Draco looked at her for a moment and the sighed. "Here," he said abruptly shoving his jacket at her. "Will that shut you up?"
Hermione took the jacket and held it onto her chest like a blanket. It smelled just like Draco. After just a few more minutes Dumbledore Apparated in front of them. He took a key out of his pocket and unlocked the door. They walked into the dark, dry room. It wasn't much warmer until Dumbledore lit a fire with his wand. Hermione and Draco huddled in front of it and warmed up.
"So sorry it took so long," Dumbledore apologized. "I got caught up with some things at the school. Now, once you're warmed up I'll just let you Floo to the cabin."
After hovering over the fire for a while, Hermione and Draco prepared themselves to travel through the fireplace to the cabin. Dumbledore held out a tin can with the shiny white powder in it and each of them took a bit of it. Draco went first. He threw the powder in the blazing fire. The flames erupted and turned green. He put his luggage in, stepped inside himself, and said, "Dumbledore's cabin!"
Hermione did the same as Draco. When she stopped spinning she came out from a fireplace into the cabin. Draco was standing in front of her looking around the cabin with a look of despise on his pale face. Hermione looked around too. But she thought the cabin was nice. It wasn't too small or too big. There was a living room with a couch, coffee table, and a squishy chair in the corner. To the left was a nice kitchen with a counter separating it from the living room. To the front of the living room were two doors. Hermione supposed those were the bedrooms.
Dumbledore's smiling head appeared in the fire. "Well," it said. "Here you are. I'm sure everything will be fine. Remember I'll be checking in periodically to see how things are. The food and things will magically re-stock when you get low. The bedrooms are over there," his head motioned toward the two doors. "Good luck." He disappeared.
Hermione picked up her luggage and set it in front of the two doors. Draco did the same. They each opened a door and peered into the rooms. At the same time they said, "I want that one." Each pointed to the larger room on the right.
"Oh, come on!" Hermione said. "I'm a girl. I need a bigger room."
"What does you being a girl got to do with anything?" he asked. "I'm used to larger living space. I think you should let me have it."
"No," Hermione said persistently. "I won't. We need to figure out a logical way to decide."
"I'm getting the bigger one," Draco said stubbornly. "I always get what I want."
"Malfoy," Hermione replied. "You can't always get what you want. You need to learn that now." She looked around the room and saw a stack of Chocolate Frog Wizard trading cards on the coffee table. She picked them up and shuffled them. "We'll draw a card and whoever has the more powerful wizard gets the big room. Okay?"
Draco reluctantly nodded. Hermione shuffled the cards and spread them face down on the coffee table. She drew her card first and looked at it. It was some witch from the eighteenth century. She sighed. Draco picked his card and got Merlin.
"I told you I always get what I want," he said with a smirk.
Hermione sighed and dragged her luggage to the smaller room. She lay on her bed and picked up her book. She decided to unpack later. She rolled over and saw another door on the far wall beside an empty dresser. It led straight to Draco's room.
Oh great, Hermione thought. She rolled over again so her back was to the door. She read silently until she drifted off to sleep.
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