Synopsis: Yule Ball was last night, Draco and Hermioen kissed under the
enchanted mistletoe. It's now December 24.
A/N: Any spelling or grammatical errors in this chapter are ALL SQUINNY'S FAULT!
Disclaimer: same
The next morning, Draco woke quickly and stuck his head out into the study. It was silent.
'Good, she's still asleep.'
He walked back into his room, and took his hawk owl, Godfrey, out of his cage. He retrieved a piece of parchment from the desk, and wrote hastily on it.
Potter-
I really need your help with something, if you'd be so kind. Please owl me back and tell me if you can go to Hogsmeade with me today, it's very important! Thanks
D.M.
He let Godfrey out the window, and hopped into the shower. When he finished, in record time, he ran back to his room to find Godfrey there with his response. He quickly unrolled the paper.
Malfoy-
Going to Hogsmeade illegally? Well, I always enjoy a bit of trouble- making, but I have no idea what you're talking about. However, since I promised Mione that I'd extend the olive branch a bit, I suppose I'll go. If you try to hex me or something, I'll get Lupin to bite you or something. Kidding!! (Sort of)
Harry
Draco shook his head, "Not exactly dying to be in my presence, is he?" he muttered to himself. Draco sent word back with Godfrey for Harry to meet him outside Draco's portrait hole in 20 minutes.
Draco dressed quickly, putting on his plainest clothes so as not to stand out in Hogsmeade while they were sneaking out. Of course, the mere sight of Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter, the two most famous 17-year-old boys in the Wizarding World, walking together in Hogsmeade was enough to attract attention.
In 18 minutes time, Draco was ready and standing outside of the portrait hole. He heard footsteps and saw Harry approaching cautiously.
"Good morning, Malfoy."
"Hey, Potter."
"So, why exactly am I sneaking to Hogsmeade with YOU of all people?"
"Ineelpthrmineesprent"
"Uh, would you mind translating that into English?"
Draco sighed, "I need help with Hermione's present," he hissed.
Harry stifled a laugh, "Sure thing, Malfoy. Let's go, then! Get under here," he said, brandishing his Invisibility Cloak.
"Wow! I can't believe you have one of these! I always wondered about the floating head thing. Impressive, Potter."
"Yeah, well," Harry said, as they walked down to the hump-backed witch, "I can't belive I'm showing it to you, much less letting you use it! Dissendio."
They both squeezed down into the passageway, and illuminated their wands.
"So, what do you want to get her?"
"I don't know. Money is not a problem, and I say this in the least Draco Malfoy way possible, by the way."
"OK, well, you're with her more than I am these days, what do you think she wants?"
"I am not with her more than you are, Potter, what's THAT supposed to mean?"
"Calm down, I was just saying that since you live with her, you're near her more often! No need to get your pretty knickers in a bunch, Malfoy," he laughed.
"I do not wear pretty knickers! ...Nor do I want to discuss my underclothes with you, no offense."
"None taken," said Harry, as he shoved the trap door up into the Honeydukes cellar.
Harry and Draco spent three hours searching around Hogsmeade, and finally had two presents for Hermione.
"Want to go get a Butterbeer?" Draco asked Harry.
"Yeah, that'd be nice."
They walked into Three Broomsticks. Draco pulled the hood of his cloak up over his head, and ordered the Butterbeers, and brought them back to the table. The two drank in silence for a few minutes, Draco with his hood up, Harry under the cloak.
"You know, Potter, if my mum and Sirius... get married or something..."
"Yeah, I know. We'd have to, like, spend holidays together," Harry said.
Draco shook his head and smiled wryly. "Funny how things work out, eh, Potter?"
Harry felt a draft or air, and looked towards the door.
"Oh, SHIT! Don't turn around," he hissed.
"What is it?" Draco whispered.
"Snape! ... With a GIRL!"
"Oooh," Draco said, "This I've got to see!" He cautiously turned around.
Snape was indeed there, with a woman who looked like she was about his age. She had jet black, poker-straight hair, and was very pretty. They both looked very serious as they walked towards a booth in the back.
"She looks vaguely familiar," Harry said.
Draco turned back to Harry, "Ol' Sev has a girlfriend, impressive!"
Harry laughed, "It doesn't really look like they're about to have a mad snogging session in the corner, though. But, whatever. So, the Slytherin Quidditch team is, oddly enough, not up to par without you this year."
"Was that a veiled complement, Potter?"
"Almost. But, it was too easy of a win, really. I mean, last year, atleast you put up a fight! That fifth year girl, what's her name? Marjorie Flint. She's not very good."
"Well, Potter, we WERE winning up until you got the Snitch at the last game sixth year."
"Yes, and you proved to be an amiable match, even I could see that you actually might not have bought yourself on to the team."
"Gee, thanks, Potter."
"Your Beaters are-"
"Well, well, well," came a voice from behind them. "Mister Malfoy and Mister Potter, I assume judging by the dent in the seat, how interesting to see you two in Hogsmeade on a day that Hogwarts students are not allowed to be here!"
"Uh, h-hello Professor Snape." Draco stuttered.
Harry slid the cloak off, and looked guiltily up at Snape.
"So, our Head Boy and our resident celebrity are breaking school rules, how original!"
"Please, sir," Draco said, "Potter was just helping me pick out a present for my mum." Draco smiled slightly, because he knew what good of friends Snape and Narcissa were.
"Well, where are they?" Snape questioned.
Draco held up the two bags next to him.
"Well, why would you bring Potter along to pick out a gift for your mother?"
"Well, uhhhh..." Draco began.
"Because I was going to see what she liked so I could help Sirius pick something out for her!" Harry broke in.
"Well, since I am feeling benevolent, you two will serve a detention with me, since it is not officially off school time until tomorrow, and you are out of bounds. I will not, however, tell the Headmaster or Professor McGonagall. I will not take points away from you, either. Now, I expect you to get back up to the castle and you should be there within the next half hour before I stop being so jolly, yes?"
"Thanks, sir!" Harry said, astonished.
"Bye, Professor Snape," Draco said, yanking Harry out the door. "Wow, I can't believe he let us off that easily!"
They rushed back through Hogsmeade under the cloak, and back through Honeydukes, and finally, out of the witch.
"Well, THAT was eventful. But now we'll have to do detentions! We can't very well tell people why. We have to make up a good excuse," Harry said.
"Well, we can't say that we were fighting, or Hermione'll blow up, and we can't say that we were doing something together, because people will think it's weird."
"How about we were both going to throw stinkbombs in Filch's office and we got caught?"
"Brilliant! OK, well, I'm going to run back to my room, and go to lunch. I'll see you later."
"Sure thing, bye Malfoy."
"Hey, Potter!"
"Yeah?" harry said, turning around.
"Thanks for coming with me."
"No problem, she'll really like those gifts. Catch you later."
Draco walked back to his room, 'You know, Potter's not so bad after all, I guess.' He thought.
"Oxygen." He walked into the study, Hermione was sitting in her chair.
"Where have you been?" she asked testily.
"I was, uh, out."
"Out, hmm? And what's in those bags?"
"My, uh, mum's Christmas presents."
"Well, Dumbledore owled us this morning, he wants to see us on the twenty- sixth, that's the day after tomorrow."
"I know what day it is, Hermione."
"I know that! Anyway, he wants to talk to us about getting started, and he has the itinerary for the conference."
"Excellent."
"Oh, and an owl came for you from Professor Snape, I put it on your bed."
"Thanks."
"He's been scarily happy lately, hasn't he?" she said.
Draco held back his laughter, "Maybe he's found a girlfriend!"
"Oh, that's so sweet!" Hermione squealed.
"You're such a girl sometimes, you know that?"
Hermione gave him A Look. "Well, I have to balance it out with all of those other times that I'm a man," she said with a smirk.
"Yeah, speaking of which, you've got a bit of stubble on your chin, you might want to shave that off or something, you're getting five o'clock shadow."
Hermione laughed, and threw a pillow at him, "Shut up, Malfoy, or I'm going to get Vinny to beat you up."
Draco laughed, and walked into his room to put his bags down, he picked up the post from Snape, and opened it.
Mr. Malfoy-
You and Mr. Potter will be serving an extra-special holiday detention. Meet by the entrance to the Great Hall at 9:30 am on December 28th. Merry Christmas.
SS
"Merry Christmas, he says! Merry Christmas, here's a detention!"
"Hey Draco?" Hermione called from the other room.
"Yeah?"
"D'you want to go get lunch?"
"Sure thing, let me change first."
"Sure, I have to get changed, too. We'll leave in ten minutes."
Draco rifled through his clothes, now that school was over, he could wear whatever he wanted. He pulled out a pair of Calvin Klein flat-front khakis (a/n: my friend from England says 'car keys' and 'khakis' the exact same way... it's so cute!) and a blue-grey turtleneck sweater. He dressed and smiled satisfactorily at his reflection in the mirror.
Hermione, feeling equally glad to be able to wear her Muggle clothes, put on a pair of jeans and a light purple sweater. She swept her hair up into a messy bun, and happily slid her feet into her tennis shoes, glad to not have to wear her school shoes.
She met Draco in their study, and they walked down to the Great Hall.
"So, uh, Hermione, I'm having dinner tonight with my mum and Lily if you'd like to come. Harry and Sirius might come later, if that makes you feel better."
Hermione smiled at Draco, "Thanks, I'd love to have dinner with your family, Draco."
They entered the Great Hall, to see that all but one of the house tables had been removed. Harry, Ginny, and Ron were there, as were Professors Dumbledore, Snape, McGonagall, and Sprout. Hagrid was also sitting with the other professors. A few other students were scattered around the table, but most had gone home. Hermione and Draco plopped down next to Ron.
"Hello mates!" Hermione said.
"Well, if it isn't Hogwarts make-out king and queen!" Harry said with a laugh.
Hermione and Draco just exchanged devious smiles and shrugged.
Harry was about to make another joke when Maya joined the group.
"Hello everyone!" she said cheerily.
"Hi Maya," Ron responded, reddening a bit.
"So, tell us how you're enjoying Hogwarts so far," Hermione prompted.
"Oh, I'm really liking it! I can't wait to start Care of Magical Creatures, I love that kind of thing, but we didn't have it at my old school. I hope we learn about dragons, I love them."
"Well, Ron knows LOADS about dragons!" Ginny broke in.
"Really?" Maya asked.
Ron blushed even harder, "Well, only what I picked up from my brother, Charlie, he works with dragons in Romania."
"Wow, that's so fascinating! Maybe I can meet him sometime!"
The group sat chatting for about 30 minutes, when Harry finally stood up.
"Well, I have to wrap some presents, so I'll see you lot later!"
"Ooh, so do I!" Ginny exclaimed.
"Yeah, me too," Draco grumbled.
"I'm all done," Hermione said smugly.
"Me, too," Ron said.
"Oh, you're done, Ron?" Maya asked.
"Mm hmm."
"D'you think you could, maybe, show me around the paddocks down by Hagrid's hut?"
"Yeah, that'd be fun!"
So, Ron set off with Maya to go outside, Harry and Ginny walked back to Gryffindor tower, and Hermione and Draco made their way back to their room.
As soon as they got inside, Hermione and Draco went to their rooms. Hermione plopped down on her bed. Thirty seconds later, she heard a knock on the door. She went to get it, stopped, turned around, and grabbed something. She opened the door.
"Hermione, do you have any-"
She shoved her bag of wrapping paper at him, "Knock yourself out."
He laughed, "Thanks Hermione."
She smiled, nodded, and closed the door.
A/N: Please r/r!! I'd love you forever and ever if you did!!!! And, look, ma, NOT a cliffhanger! I like them, so I'm going to start using them again. Dostoevsky used cliffhangers, you know!! Anyhoo, now that I have my Favorite Stories thing up, I'm not really going to list all the ones I like in each a/n, but if you want really awesome fics, go check out my favorites list, b/c all the fics on there are GREAT!!
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A/N: Any spelling or grammatical errors in this chapter are ALL SQUINNY'S FAULT!
Disclaimer: same
The next morning, Draco woke quickly and stuck his head out into the study. It was silent.
'Good, she's still asleep.'
He walked back into his room, and took his hawk owl, Godfrey, out of his cage. He retrieved a piece of parchment from the desk, and wrote hastily on it.
Potter-
I really need your help with something, if you'd be so kind. Please owl me back and tell me if you can go to Hogsmeade with me today, it's very important! Thanks
D.M.
He let Godfrey out the window, and hopped into the shower. When he finished, in record time, he ran back to his room to find Godfrey there with his response. He quickly unrolled the paper.
Malfoy-
Going to Hogsmeade illegally? Well, I always enjoy a bit of trouble- making, but I have no idea what you're talking about. However, since I promised Mione that I'd extend the olive branch a bit, I suppose I'll go. If you try to hex me or something, I'll get Lupin to bite you or something. Kidding!! (Sort of)
Harry
Draco shook his head, "Not exactly dying to be in my presence, is he?" he muttered to himself. Draco sent word back with Godfrey for Harry to meet him outside Draco's portrait hole in 20 minutes.
Draco dressed quickly, putting on his plainest clothes so as not to stand out in Hogsmeade while they were sneaking out. Of course, the mere sight of Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter, the two most famous 17-year-old boys in the Wizarding World, walking together in Hogsmeade was enough to attract attention.
In 18 minutes time, Draco was ready and standing outside of the portrait hole. He heard footsteps and saw Harry approaching cautiously.
"Good morning, Malfoy."
"Hey, Potter."
"So, why exactly am I sneaking to Hogsmeade with YOU of all people?"
"Ineelpthrmineesprent"
"Uh, would you mind translating that into English?"
Draco sighed, "I need help with Hermione's present," he hissed.
Harry stifled a laugh, "Sure thing, Malfoy. Let's go, then! Get under here," he said, brandishing his Invisibility Cloak.
"Wow! I can't believe you have one of these! I always wondered about the floating head thing. Impressive, Potter."
"Yeah, well," Harry said, as they walked down to the hump-backed witch, "I can't belive I'm showing it to you, much less letting you use it! Dissendio."
They both squeezed down into the passageway, and illuminated their wands.
"So, what do you want to get her?"
"I don't know. Money is not a problem, and I say this in the least Draco Malfoy way possible, by the way."
"OK, well, you're with her more than I am these days, what do you think she wants?"
"I am not with her more than you are, Potter, what's THAT supposed to mean?"
"Calm down, I was just saying that since you live with her, you're near her more often! No need to get your pretty knickers in a bunch, Malfoy," he laughed.
"I do not wear pretty knickers! ...Nor do I want to discuss my underclothes with you, no offense."
"None taken," said Harry, as he shoved the trap door up into the Honeydukes cellar.
Harry and Draco spent three hours searching around Hogsmeade, and finally had two presents for Hermione.
"Want to go get a Butterbeer?" Draco asked Harry.
"Yeah, that'd be nice."
They walked into Three Broomsticks. Draco pulled the hood of his cloak up over his head, and ordered the Butterbeers, and brought them back to the table. The two drank in silence for a few minutes, Draco with his hood up, Harry under the cloak.
"You know, Potter, if my mum and Sirius... get married or something..."
"Yeah, I know. We'd have to, like, spend holidays together," Harry said.
Draco shook his head and smiled wryly. "Funny how things work out, eh, Potter?"
Harry felt a draft or air, and looked towards the door.
"Oh, SHIT! Don't turn around," he hissed.
"What is it?" Draco whispered.
"Snape! ... With a GIRL!"
"Oooh," Draco said, "This I've got to see!" He cautiously turned around.
Snape was indeed there, with a woman who looked like she was about his age. She had jet black, poker-straight hair, and was very pretty. They both looked very serious as they walked towards a booth in the back.
"She looks vaguely familiar," Harry said.
Draco turned back to Harry, "Ol' Sev has a girlfriend, impressive!"
Harry laughed, "It doesn't really look like they're about to have a mad snogging session in the corner, though. But, whatever. So, the Slytherin Quidditch team is, oddly enough, not up to par without you this year."
"Was that a veiled complement, Potter?"
"Almost. But, it was too easy of a win, really. I mean, last year, atleast you put up a fight! That fifth year girl, what's her name? Marjorie Flint. She's not very good."
"Well, Potter, we WERE winning up until you got the Snitch at the last game sixth year."
"Yes, and you proved to be an amiable match, even I could see that you actually might not have bought yourself on to the team."
"Gee, thanks, Potter."
"Your Beaters are-"
"Well, well, well," came a voice from behind them. "Mister Malfoy and Mister Potter, I assume judging by the dent in the seat, how interesting to see you two in Hogsmeade on a day that Hogwarts students are not allowed to be here!"
"Uh, h-hello Professor Snape." Draco stuttered.
Harry slid the cloak off, and looked guiltily up at Snape.
"So, our Head Boy and our resident celebrity are breaking school rules, how original!"
"Please, sir," Draco said, "Potter was just helping me pick out a present for my mum." Draco smiled slightly, because he knew what good of friends Snape and Narcissa were.
"Well, where are they?" Snape questioned.
Draco held up the two bags next to him.
"Well, why would you bring Potter along to pick out a gift for your mother?"
"Well, uhhhh..." Draco began.
"Because I was going to see what she liked so I could help Sirius pick something out for her!" Harry broke in.
"Well, since I am feeling benevolent, you two will serve a detention with me, since it is not officially off school time until tomorrow, and you are out of bounds. I will not, however, tell the Headmaster or Professor McGonagall. I will not take points away from you, either. Now, I expect you to get back up to the castle and you should be there within the next half hour before I stop being so jolly, yes?"
"Thanks, sir!" Harry said, astonished.
"Bye, Professor Snape," Draco said, yanking Harry out the door. "Wow, I can't believe he let us off that easily!"
They rushed back through Hogsmeade under the cloak, and back through Honeydukes, and finally, out of the witch.
"Well, THAT was eventful. But now we'll have to do detentions! We can't very well tell people why. We have to make up a good excuse," Harry said.
"Well, we can't say that we were fighting, or Hermione'll blow up, and we can't say that we were doing something together, because people will think it's weird."
"How about we were both going to throw stinkbombs in Filch's office and we got caught?"
"Brilliant! OK, well, I'm going to run back to my room, and go to lunch. I'll see you later."
"Sure thing, bye Malfoy."
"Hey, Potter!"
"Yeah?" harry said, turning around.
"Thanks for coming with me."
"No problem, she'll really like those gifts. Catch you later."
Draco walked back to his room, 'You know, Potter's not so bad after all, I guess.' He thought.
"Oxygen." He walked into the study, Hermione was sitting in her chair.
"Where have you been?" she asked testily.
"I was, uh, out."
"Out, hmm? And what's in those bags?"
"My, uh, mum's Christmas presents."
"Well, Dumbledore owled us this morning, he wants to see us on the twenty- sixth, that's the day after tomorrow."
"I know what day it is, Hermione."
"I know that! Anyway, he wants to talk to us about getting started, and he has the itinerary for the conference."
"Excellent."
"Oh, and an owl came for you from Professor Snape, I put it on your bed."
"Thanks."
"He's been scarily happy lately, hasn't he?" she said.
Draco held back his laughter, "Maybe he's found a girlfriend!"
"Oh, that's so sweet!" Hermione squealed.
"You're such a girl sometimes, you know that?"
Hermione gave him A Look. "Well, I have to balance it out with all of those other times that I'm a man," she said with a smirk.
"Yeah, speaking of which, you've got a bit of stubble on your chin, you might want to shave that off or something, you're getting five o'clock shadow."
Hermione laughed, and threw a pillow at him, "Shut up, Malfoy, or I'm going to get Vinny to beat you up."
Draco laughed, and walked into his room to put his bags down, he picked up the post from Snape, and opened it.
Mr. Malfoy-
You and Mr. Potter will be serving an extra-special holiday detention. Meet by the entrance to the Great Hall at 9:30 am on December 28th. Merry Christmas.
SS
"Merry Christmas, he says! Merry Christmas, here's a detention!"
"Hey Draco?" Hermione called from the other room.
"Yeah?"
"D'you want to go get lunch?"
"Sure thing, let me change first."
"Sure, I have to get changed, too. We'll leave in ten minutes."
Draco rifled through his clothes, now that school was over, he could wear whatever he wanted. He pulled out a pair of Calvin Klein flat-front khakis (a/n: my friend from England says 'car keys' and 'khakis' the exact same way... it's so cute!) and a blue-grey turtleneck sweater. He dressed and smiled satisfactorily at his reflection in the mirror.
Hermione, feeling equally glad to be able to wear her Muggle clothes, put on a pair of jeans and a light purple sweater. She swept her hair up into a messy bun, and happily slid her feet into her tennis shoes, glad to not have to wear her school shoes.
She met Draco in their study, and they walked down to the Great Hall.
"So, uh, Hermione, I'm having dinner tonight with my mum and Lily if you'd like to come. Harry and Sirius might come later, if that makes you feel better."
Hermione smiled at Draco, "Thanks, I'd love to have dinner with your family, Draco."
They entered the Great Hall, to see that all but one of the house tables had been removed. Harry, Ginny, and Ron were there, as were Professors Dumbledore, Snape, McGonagall, and Sprout. Hagrid was also sitting with the other professors. A few other students were scattered around the table, but most had gone home. Hermione and Draco plopped down next to Ron.
"Hello mates!" Hermione said.
"Well, if it isn't Hogwarts make-out king and queen!" Harry said with a laugh.
Hermione and Draco just exchanged devious smiles and shrugged.
Harry was about to make another joke when Maya joined the group.
"Hello everyone!" she said cheerily.
"Hi Maya," Ron responded, reddening a bit.
"So, tell us how you're enjoying Hogwarts so far," Hermione prompted.
"Oh, I'm really liking it! I can't wait to start Care of Magical Creatures, I love that kind of thing, but we didn't have it at my old school. I hope we learn about dragons, I love them."
"Well, Ron knows LOADS about dragons!" Ginny broke in.
"Really?" Maya asked.
Ron blushed even harder, "Well, only what I picked up from my brother, Charlie, he works with dragons in Romania."
"Wow, that's so fascinating! Maybe I can meet him sometime!"
The group sat chatting for about 30 minutes, when Harry finally stood up.
"Well, I have to wrap some presents, so I'll see you lot later!"
"Ooh, so do I!" Ginny exclaimed.
"Yeah, me too," Draco grumbled.
"I'm all done," Hermione said smugly.
"Me, too," Ron said.
"Oh, you're done, Ron?" Maya asked.
"Mm hmm."
"D'you think you could, maybe, show me around the paddocks down by Hagrid's hut?"
"Yeah, that'd be fun!"
So, Ron set off with Maya to go outside, Harry and Ginny walked back to Gryffindor tower, and Hermione and Draco made their way back to their room.
As soon as they got inside, Hermione and Draco went to their rooms. Hermione plopped down on her bed. Thirty seconds later, she heard a knock on the door. She went to get it, stopped, turned around, and grabbed something. She opened the door.
"Hermione, do you have any-"
She shoved her bag of wrapping paper at him, "Knock yourself out."
He laughed, "Thanks Hermione."
She smiled, nodded, and closed the door.
A/N: Please r/r!! I'd love you forever and ever if you did!!!! And, look, ma, NOT a cliffhanger! I like them, so I'm going to start using them again. Dostoevsky used cliffhangers, you know!! Anyhoo, now that I have my Favorite Stories thing up, I'm not really going to list all the ones I like in each a/n, but if you want really awesome fics, go check out my favorites list, b/c all the fics on there are GREAT!!
It's really quite a task thanking all of you, BUT since you guys review and I love reviews, I do my best to thank you guys, and thanks to everyone for sticking with me on this, really, you guys are the best! So, here we go:
~Nuada, Dark Fire Goddess, Kalendria, Khatt, Fleur Delacour, Kstar74, LilyAyl, hemlock, Angelwenh, Nepchoon, Darkangel009988, kat, JoeBob1379, Caitlin, Sara,
Bad Gurl who is too lazy ta sign in, Yoshi, Epequa, Night Spirit, hermione malfoy, akiri pie-chan, *kittykat*, annchan, bubblegirl, Meghan, ruby moon, j.j. alan, jordan, pinkloofa, Alisha, ~*vkn*~, animemelonhead, Tigre, Holly, Chrissy, Lyra, Icy Stormz, ryoko, katelyn, Akira, Bunny, carrie, Lillium, angel, Lena, Sana, grizzystar, SoleilPetal, delphi, kat097
Fleur- LOL, I'm glad I'm more entertaining than drunken people ( I think...), Rachel- You CRIED??? Wow, that's so flattering! At what part? Thanks!, Jenna- The best story you've read? Jeez, thanks, that's quite kind of you to say! Rachel Hunt- gald to see you back!, LuLLuBaby- Wow, thanks for saying that, but no, I have no plans on becoming a writer, I think my writing is really bad, and I'm not just trying to be humble!, JennyKT- D/Hr forever!! I hope I'm doing ok!, Iscriptikus- I'm glad you think my writing of the characters is good, that really means a lot to me! No need to know - LOL, that's an awesome suggestion!, hermioneG89- Maya is gonna be a kiiiind of big part in the story, I mean, she'll prolly be a little bit smaller than Ron is currently, I keep adding in these subplots which just make this story longer, lol, but I felt bad giving everyone else a partner, and not Ron, b/c I just love Ron, he's too cute!, Shaz Kay Gee Bee- I hope Maya is going to be ok with you, lol, I'm gonna do my damndest not to make her Mary Sue, but I don't think she will be, she's not chipper and spritely or anything! Star Johnson- HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!
Finally, of course, to my favorite Fluff-Queen Squinny, whom I've emailed about 500 times today- Ahhhhhhh... I have nothing to say, really, but you're the greatest!! "You're Harry Potter! I'm Hermione Granger. And, you are? Ron Weasley. Pleasure" I don't know why I just put that... I love Rupert Grint! Anyhoo, ur da bom persun an' I totully luv u, dat's da truth! DOWN WITH ONLINE SLANG!!! ~waves and smiles down~ it's -15 (your weird) degrees here, how's the beach?? December=WINTER! Here, now I'll post so you can review!!
