A/N- Lets try this again
Chapter 4
Draco followed Crabbe and Goyle into the common room to get Millicent Bullstrode. Millicent was sitting on the couch with her robe over her legs, making a small world of her own, literally. With her wand she made a planet and started creating it by writing things down on parchment. Millicent looked up.
"Well, boys, have you come to see Caduto Energia? It's Italian for fallen energy."
"Why the hell is it called that?" Draco asked.
"Because the more people fall, the bigger it gets and I don't really want it to get that big."
"People fall all the time, Millicent. Anyway, what did you want me for?"
"I didn't want you, Blaise did." Millicent said as she got back to writing Italian words down. "He's out in the courtyard. Crabbe, Goyle, you better stay here." Draco rolled his eyes and went to the courtyard. Blaise was leaning on a wall lookin at the Golden Trio splashing each other at the lake. He turned around to look at Draco.
"Are you watching her?" Draco asked with anger in his tone.
"Why not, she has a nice piece of arse, Draco."
"Shut up, Blaise." Draco's hands became fists and then let go.
"Oh come on, Draco. We always used to joke about her ass. I grabbed it today if you don't mind me saying." Draco walked up to Blaise and pushed him against the wall.
"I do mind." Blaise slowly pushed Draco off.
"Oh well. Let's get straight to the razor cut. She wants me to teach you a little lesson in love, Draco." Draco was confused, he thought Hermione and him were okay now. "See, you're not supposed to cheat on your girlfriend with a girl that I also had something for. Draco kept his eyes locked on Blaise as he paced back and forth. "See Hermione has reinforced me to do this, if she teaches Maura a little lesson as well for me. A lesson with violence involved, hmm."
"She's not going to touch Maura. She doesn't have the courage to do it."
"See that's where you're wrong, Draco, because Hermione does. And because you have feelings for Maura, she will do it."
"Maura never even liked you in the first place. Making mudblood comments, she's muggle born too you know."
"So now your taking to the dirty filth of mudblood scum, treating them fair are you?"
"They're better then you obviously."
"Well they must be if they killed your great anti-mudblood father. He was better then the horrible shit you have to offer. You can't even clean up right, let alone smell like mudblood when you come into the class room." Draco felt a fist form and then swung it at Blaise. Blaise caught the fist and then punched Draco in the stomach. Draco fell back and Blaise kicked him in the stomach and then in the jaw. Draco started spitting up blood.
Hermione, Harry and Ron made there way back to the school laughing about Ron's excuse for failing the potions test; I got every answer on that damned thing right but I swear Snape hates me and didn't give me a fair grade! Hermione turned the corner to see Blaise punching Draco as hard as he could. Tears raced to Hermione's eyes as a pounding sensation started in her mind.
"Blaise, stop! You're going to kill him." Hermione ran up to Blaise and the sensation got worse. She grabbed his arm and tried to tear him off of Draco. Blaise slapped her across the face. Hermione backed away putting her hand on her face and tears streamed down. Watching Draco getting hurt wasn't her kind of fun. She didn't want this to happen.
Harry and Ron bolted towards Blaise and pried him off of Draco. Hermione ran to Draco and caught him before he fell to the ground. The throbbing in her mind was less as Blaise was farther away, but music was still playing.
"Potter get away from me." Blaise said and shoved him away. He pulled Hermione off of Draco by the hair. Hermione winced in pain but stormed back to Blaise and dragged him by the neck. He turned around and grabbed by her by the arms. Hermione closed her eyes as the throbbing in her head got to a point where it was too much. Hermione screamed and lightning struck between the two. Hermione fell back with tears flooding to her eyes.
She crawled to Draco and watched him breathe. "I love you Draco." She swallowed and closed her eyes as it started to rain. Hermione opened her eyes and started to pull Draco up slowly. As she quivered, she told herself to be strong. The lighting made her feel like she was on a cloud and about to fall through it.
Draco's Bedroom
"Why did you tell him to do that?" Draco asked in a hoarse voice.
"I didn't want it to end up this way." Hermione said. "Forgive me, Draco."
"I can't forgive you. You went behind my back and you told Blaise to do something that could have killed me." Hermione turned around.
"I didn't mean for it to get out of hand. I didn't want it to happen after we made up but it did. So I guess I should leave now."
Hermione closed the door as she left and grabbed the blade on the top of the bookshelf that was right next to Draco's room. She threw it across the room and it hit the wall.
Hermione walked out of the common room and went to the Gryffindor tower. She found Maura doing her homework by herself. She didn't look back at Hermione.
"You know what you've done, Maura?" Maura still didn't look back.
"Hermione, I'm quite aware of what happened, but it wasn't my fault. Draco was the one asking for it. I knew I was risking a friendship and taking a chance. He was going to rape me instead if that makes you feel any better."
"Draco wouldn't rape anybody, he'd stop himself."
"And he did but it still didn't help that he wanted to do that."
"Oh shut it Maura, you know you could have stopped him. Your one of the best witches here and when it comes to magic you stand out like a chicken with its head cut off!" Maura turned around and stood up.
"You don't get it Hermione! He pushed me down on the bed and then took my clothes off. I didn't have my wand. It was like half of me against two people! I'm like half of nothing without my wand. It was different though, he liked me more then you for that few hours that we were together near the lake. Because he could tell me things about you that he could hardly tell himself, Hermione. But sex between us meant nothing. It meant absolutely nothing." Maura said through clenched teeth. She had tears running down her face already.
Hermione didn't have anything to say and she was supposed to teach Maura a lesson. Well Maura was teaching Hermione a lesson. It was something that Hermione had to deal with for a few days alone. For friends at this moment was too much to deal with.
Hermione walked from class to class with no one, wondering if this was how it was going to be for the rest of her days at Hogwarts. She did her work though and she did her duties and did what needed to be done, but she felt she needed to breakaway from this place she knew very well as a cage.
She looked at the gates of Hogwarts and pushed them. But they didn't open. She sighed and looked back at the sun. It was out many of Hermione's alone days. Why did she have to share the sunny days alone though?
Hermione had a lot of walks through the woods finding trees that made houses for fairies and from time to time she was see foxes or wolves. But they didn't harm her for some reason.
Hermione walked around in the woods one day in early October and saw a fox with bright brown eyes. It walked up to her slowly and sniffed the smell on her skirt. It backed away with its tail between its legs and its ear down. Something was strange about the forest animals. They were scared of Hermione.
"Hermione," A familiar voice said. Hermione turned around and saw Harry. They hadn't spoken in three days. "What are you doing out here?" He asked. The fox started to growl. She looked back and the fox started whimpering.
"Trying to be alone and figure some things out."
"You don't mind if I help do you?"
"No, I could always use help from a best friend, actually probably my only true friend." He grinned.
"Can I ask why that fox is being like that though?" Hermione sighed.
"You don't remember do you?" Harry was puzzled. Hermione thought hard about the past and suddenly changed into her wolf form. The fox backed away and images of Ginny Weasley kept appearing in her mind causing it to ache. Hermione closed her eyes and fell back onto the ground as her normal self.
"GINNY!" Hermione yelled. The fox changed its form to Ginny Weasley.
"I was wondering when you would come around to knowing it was me. Sorry Harry, acting like a fox means you have to- well you get the picture."
"You listened to me, Ginny. You're the only one who knows everything."
"I haven't told a soul if that makes feel better. At least you know you got your feelings out."
"Yeah but I didn't know it was you." Ginny pulled her up with one hand.
"So you can't trust me?"
"Well- Ginny!" Ginny let her fall a little and then brought her back up. "Yes, I can."
"That's what I thought. Still feel like Harry's your best friend?"
"Both of you are my best friends, I just....I don't know anymore. I wanna do so many things but every time I try to take another step towards it, it's almost like the ground under my feet falls and it takes so much more energy to get back on my feet."
"Well what do you want to do?" Harry asked.
"I don't know, go swimming in the ocean, run with the wind, and float on a cloud, sleep under a palm tree, get on a speeding train and not have to look back." Hermione grinned slightly. "I wanna feel something different then what I've been feeling lately but I don't know another feeling. I wanna be happy again!"
"Then be happy." Ginny said.
"It's...it's not that simple." Hermione turned and looked over the lake. "There's more to it. There's more then just becoming happy in the snap of fingers." Hermione turned back around. "I have to go do I should have done something a long time ago." Hermione went back to the castle. She and Blaise hadn't talked much, but they would today.
Hermione walked to the Great Hall where she would find Blaise talking to Pansy Parkinson. "Blaise," He turned around and smiled. He walked up to her.
"Hermione, can't you see I'm talking to Pansy?"
"I don't care. I need you to forgive Maura so I can forgive Draco." Blaise looked back at Pansy and smiled.
"No," Hermione slapped him.
"Do it, Blaise!"
"You don't get it, your not doing anything for me."
"I don't give a damn. I love Draco."
"I love Pansy."
"Do it or else I'll slit her throat while she's sleeping."
"Your crazy, Hermione." He turned half away around but Hermione grabbed his tie and whipped out her wand. It was pointed at his throat.
"I'd go to a mental hospital for Draco. That's how much I love him. Do it Blaise. I'm serious."
"Pansy, excuse me for a second." Hermione dragged Blaise out and pushed him into a dark corner.
"If you don't Blaise I will kill Pansy and then paint your name around the whole school in her own blood." Blaise was frightened and removed Hermione's hand from his tie.
"Alright but come here for a second." Hermione knew whatever he had in store for her she'd have to do it or else he wouldn't forgive Maura. She went closer to him and he pulled her by the neck. He breathed into her ear giving her the chills. "You'll be sorry for ever making threats towards Pansy though." Hermione pulled away with a clenched fist around her wand.
"How so? You're going to kill Draco?"
"That's another idea."
"You sick fuck." Hermione spat and went back to the dormitories. She saw Draco doing his homework. He glanced at her and then got back to his homework.
"I love you." She whispered. Tears sprang to her eyes. He looked at her. "Don't you remember when you told me that you thought it was possible for someone to go crazy and go to a mental hospital for loving someone so much? Don't you remember you thought it was possible for me to know every part of your body language by heart and to cry every second you're away from me? I'm not always crying on the outside, but I'm still dying every second I'm away from you."
"Why do I need to remember?"
"Because you loved me and I know you still do. You have to forgive me Draco. I forgot that he was going to do that. I told him before we made up. I need to feel your love again."
"No, no you don't, Hermione. I wasted my time on something that wouldn't last."
"You have to give me another chance. I may have screwed up too many times to count but Draco; you have to understand that I was the only virgin in my dormitory last year until we had sex and I wanted to try new things. But even when I was kissing Brad, I was only thinking of you and how we could be in love again."
"Blaise could have fucking killed me, Hermione, and it was your fault!" He stood up throwing his papers everywhere. He walked up to Hermione. "It's better if you don't ruin it more because I could have been dead because of you right now." Draco made his way to walk out.
"I died for you though, Draco!" He turned back around and pushed Hermione against the wall.
"No you didn't. There was a spell that stopped you from hitting that boulder. You didn't die for me."
"Draco, please."
"Please what, Hermione?"
"Please me." Hermione shut her eyes and let the tears flow down her face. Draco let her go and watched her fall down with her back against the wall. "I only wanted to make you happy the first time we met because I knew it would be hard. But I care about you, Draco." Hermione felt him grab her hands and pick her up off the floor.
"It's pathetic crying over me so I'll give you another chance." Draco wiped away her tears but she still cried even though she was happy. "What the bloody hell is wrong now?"
"I have a feeling that you won't kiss me like you used to anymore." Draco rolled his eyes and sighed. "Or you'll never beg to make love again, or-" Draco was kissing her like he used to. Hermione quickly reacted and put her hands on his neck. Draco turned her around and pushed her towards the couch. But the arm was in the way so it would be fairly uncomfortable. Draco pushed her into his room. She fell onto the bed with him against her.
Draco ran one of his hands down to the bottom of her skirt. He ran his hand under and pulled off her silk underwear. He slipped them down a little but unbuttoned her skirt first. He pulled it off of Hermione and then threw it aside. Hermione began to unbutton his shirt and he started on hers. Draco slipped the shirt out from under Hermione and threw it aside like she had done with his. Draco came in for a few kisses before taking off her satin bra.
Gryffindor Tower
"What the fuck, Harry? You said you had forgiven me." Maura yelled.
"That doesn't mean were going to snog and fuck around all day. Oh and I have something to keep in mind, Maura, 'A kiss doesn't mean that we're going to be together'. Remember that Maura? You don't take my breath away with everything you do, Maura; you only take it away when we're yelling at each other."
"That's bullshit, Harry. You know you liked me and wanted to do me, Seamus said he heard you in your sleep and changed your sheets the day after we made out."
"That doesn't mean I was thinking of you, Maura. It could have been Ginny, Cho Chang, hell, it could ever be Pansy Parkinson, but you don't know. You don't know how to keep a relationship going!"
"Then why was I going out with Matt for 2 years?"
"Because he felt sorry for you!" Maura trembled and blinked. Harry couldn't believe what he had just said. "I didn't mean that, Maura and you know it."
"Then why did you say it?" Maura turned around and started for the stairs but Harry grabbed her.
"Because, I wanted you to feel like I did when you had sex with Draco. But I wasn't thinking." Harry pushed her against a wall and kissed her neck. He had his arms above her and she grabbed them and put them in the existing space between the two.
"Just don't do it again, Harry." She put a hand on his neck as they started to passionately make out. Maura slid down the wall with Harry and put her legs up. Harry grabbed her waist and pulled himself closer to her body. Finally his knees were touching the wall and her legs were around his waist. Maura was sitting on his lap.
"Harry!" Harry pulled away from Maura's lips and turned to see Ron and Amy laughing and running away. Harry smiled at Maura and kissed her softly once more before getting up.
"I don't think we should do this here." Harry said helping Maura up.
"What are you suggesting?" Maura asked blushing.
"I'm not sure." Harry said laughing.
"If Mr. Potter wants sex, then we will have to do it in your room because you'll slide down the stairs getting to mine."
"Naw, we can't, I have too much work. Lets sit on the couch and you can help me."
Draco's Bedroom
Hermione's fingernails dug into Draco's back. Surprisingly, he'd never done her so rough. Not even the first time they had sex. Draco looked down at Hermione, who was closing her eyes.
"Are you okay?" Draco said sounding exhausted.
"Fine," Hermione breathed out. Hermione moaned as he went in deeper and finally she let out a yell. Draco lay on top of her for an hour before he at last caught his breath
"You have new tricks I see," Hermione said. He looked up and smiled.
"Did you like them?"
She nodded and was speechless. Draco raised himself a little bit and sucked on her face. Hermione rolled him over and lay next to him.
"I don't know why, but every time I have an orgasm my nose feels all tingly after, like when water gets in it." Hermione said. Draco raised an eyebrow and smiled at her.
"We need to fight more, I think."
"Why, so you can get your daily dose of sex?"
"You're on the ball."
"You mean your balls?"
"Well if you want to be, go right ahead." Hermione moved closer to him and licked his chest. It gave him the chills. Hermione giggled.
"You taste like cologne."
"You've tasted it before?"
"No, but you know how you can smell through your mouth?"
"Do I smell good?"
"Sure, but most of the stuff I licked up was sweat."
The next day Maura and Harry were spotted coming in the Great Hall by....everyone. When they sat down, they instantly started making out. Hermione rolled her eyes.
"Are any of you guys going to Hogsmeade today?" Hermione asked.
"No, are you?" Harry said between kissing Maura. Ron, Ginny and Amy said the same.
"There's too much work to do, besides, we can go to Hogsmeade whenever." Ginny said.
"Me and Draco were planning on having a party tonight." Harry and Maura stopped kissing.
"Are you serious?" Ron asked. "Draco like hates all of us except you."
"No he doesn't. You guys, they'll be other people."
"Like who, Crabbe and Goyle?" Maura asked.
"No, like Brad and Kyan and their girlfriends." Amy spit her drink out.
"They, of all people, have girlfriends. Last time Kyan had a girlfriend was you Hermione and that only last for what, 3 days? And Brad never has luck with girls." Amy said.
"Didn't you make out with Brad though?" Ron asked.
"It's called friends with benefits."
"Are you guys going to come or not?"
"Yeah, we should invite other people too." Amy said.
"Not too many because our dorms aren't that big." Hermione said.
That night, Hermione came back from dinner and put her stuff down. Behind her she felt Draco's hands drift around her stomach. Hermione turned around and saw him smiling. She kissed him and put her tongue in his mouth. Draco pushed Hermione against the wall and nibbled her face down to the beginning of her chest. Hermione giggled. Draco looked back up.
"We're playing truth or dare tonight."
"Is that your favorite game, because you like making girls kiss each other?"
"No, I like kissing you." He pinned her up against the wall and kissed her once more.
Soon everybody started arriving, nobody but the ones Hermione had invited came. Brad's girlfriend was about Hermione's size except she had black shiny hair and green eyes. Her name was Molly. Kyan's girlfriend was little bit shorter and skinnier then Hermione. She had blonde hair and blue eyes. Kyan's girlfriend's name was Evette.
They sat around a table drinking and making stupid jokes. Draco wasn't the loudest thank goodness.
"So Draco, how have you been this year?" Kyan asked.
"Good, except the fact that my hag grandmother teaches here now."
"Oh shut up, she's nice." Hermione said.
"Well, it's almost midnight. What now?" Amy said tapping her fingers across the table.
"Truth or dare." Draco said. Everyone smiled. Everyone got down on the floor and Draco of course got to go first.
"Amy, truth or dare?"
"Truth,"
"Have you and Ron ever fucked in a bathroom?" Amy blushed.
"Yes," she mumbled. Draco laughed.
"Truth or dare, Harry?"
"Truth,"
"Who were you thinking about when you first jerked off?"
"Cho Chang, everybody knows that."
"Go, Potter." Draco said.
"Draco, truth or dare."
"Oh come on, Harry. He's already gone." Hermione said.
"So what." Harry said. "Have you ever fingered Hermione in class?" Harry asked. Hermione flicked him off.
"Of course I have. Maura truth or dare?"
"Dare,"
"I dare you to make out with Hermione." Hermione grinned and so did Maura. They took a sip of their beer before getting closer. Hermione moved in for the first kiss. Maura put her hand on Hermione's neck and then stuck her tongue in her mouth. Maura fell back on the ground with Hermione on top of her.
"Oh shit," Draco whispered. Hermione took a moment to breathe and then dove back in to kiss Maura. Maura flipped Hermione over right before they make out ended she licked Hermione's face. Maura got off of Hermione laughing and went back to her spot. Maura bit her lip and looked around. Brad was whispering something to Molly.
"Brad," He looked at Maura and was shocked. "Truth or dare."
"Dare," Maura looked at Amy.
"Take Amy's thong off, kiss her and then put it back on." Brad looked at Amy and smiled. Molly grabbed his butt and smiled as he got up. Amy stood up in front of Brad smiling. This brought back old memories.
"Well don't just stand there, do it." Maura said. Brad got down on his knees and looked up at Amy as he slid his hands up her legs and grabbed her thong. He slowly pulled it down and Amy pulled her legs out of and then got down on her knees. She moved closer to Brad and kissed him. She pulled away fast and then kissed him again, this time with tongue. He put his hand on her leg and it sneakily drifted up to her groin. Amy pulled away a smiled. She stood back up and let Brad get closer to put her thong back on. She blew him a kiss when she sat back down.
"Molly, truth or dare."
"Dare,"
"Give Ron and lap dance." Ron was very excited now. Ron sat on the couch as Molly rubbed herself all over him. Ron even kissed her a few times.
"Kyan truth or dare?" Molly asked.
"Truth?"
"Other then Evette, who would you like to fuck the most?"
He thought and looked around. "Hermione," Hermione blushed remembering their past relationship.
"Hermione, truth or dare?"
"Truth,"
"When was the last time you and Draco got it on?"
"Yesterday," Hermione said proud of their healthy relationship.
"Evette, truth or dare?"
"Truth,"
"Do you love Kyan?"
"Of course."
"That was a stupid question, Hermione." Harry said.
"Draco, truth or dare?"
"Dare,"
"Kiss me." Hermione became very jealous as the two got in the middle of the circle and started making out. Kyan looked at Hermione's fist and made his own. Finally they stopped and looked around.
"This is boring," Draco protested. "I wanna see more girls make out again."
"Ginny's out, I'll bring her to my bed." Hermione said. She picked up the drunk and sleeping Ginny from the floor and carried her into the bed room. She pulled the covers over her and then went into the bathroom. Hermione was looking quite pail. Her head started to throb as images of everyone in the other room died. The piano on her necklace started playing once again. Hermione felt her legs failing to keep her standing.
"No," Hermione said as she fell to the ground. She held her head and tore off the necklace, but it was slashed so quickly across her neck that it drew blood. Hermione threw it at the door and looked at the shiny bathroom. It had those visions again.
Brad looked at the bathroom door once he heard a little clink.
"What the hell," he said as he got up. He opened the bathroom door and saw water everywhere and blood mixing with it. Hermione was rocking back and forth telling herself that something wasn't real.
Draco came behind Brad with Amy behind them.
"Hermione?" Draco asked.
"Fuck off," Hermione said looked up and throwing a pair of scissors at the wall. She got up and looked back into the mirror. She screamed.
Harry rushed to the bathroom and held Hermione in his arms. He brought her into Draco's room. "Hermione, stop. You don't know what you're doing."
Brad picked up the necklace on the ground. He went into Draco's room and put the necklace back on Hermione.
"No, Brad, stop! I don't want that silly thing on."
"Hermione, you have to wear it."
"I don't want to!" As Brad put it on, he felt blood dripping from her neck. He looked at his hand then back at Hermione.
"If you don't wear it, you'll turn into something that you don't want to." Harry said. Hermione pulled away from both of the boys and walked out of the room.
"Go away; I don't need your pity."
"And what are you going to do without it, Hermione. Drift around in the woods and talk to foxes and wolves?" Harry asked. Hermione stopped.
"Harry, I don't want it now, I'm sure I'll need it later, but not now." Later that night, Hermione sighed in Draco's bed. She would have been in her own but Ginny was there and often slept in the middle of the bed.
"What's wrong, now?"
"Nothing, just if I say anything that is...vulgar, just leave alone and don't let anyone touch me."
The next day, Hermione woke up around 1. She took a shower and put on a black pleated mini skirt and a red sweater. Hermione put on her black knee-high leather boots. She pulled her hair back into a pony tail and went to Snape's office. She knocked on the door and it opened. Snape looked up disappointed.
"It amazes me how you dress, Ms. Granger."
"Is that a compliment, professor?"
"No, it is not." Hermione rolled her eyes.
"I just came here to drop off my paper."
"And it amazes me that you still pass in your assignments before everybody."
"Look, do you know where I could find Blaise Zabini by any chance?"
"He's probably at Hogsmeade with Pansy Parkinson, but what would you want to do with him? You have the best pupil in my house sharing a dormitory with you."
"Blaise and I have a deal, and I'm sure you know all about it because you and all the other professors have been watching me."
"We have not," Snape insisted "Believe what you want, Granger, but we have not. Now you may be on your way if you have nothing else to argue about."
"I do have one more thing, though." Snape huffed as if he was bored. "Why do I snap whenever I look in the mirror and see something terrible?"
"Because somebody else is invading your mind and is telling you to say what they want you to say."
Shit, this could possibly mean that they are going to make me kill my friends, Hermione thought.
"What?" Hermione looked at him wide eyed.
"Nothing, I have to go professor, thanks." Hermione left. She went to Hogsmeade and found the couple at Madam Puddifoot's, making out. Blaise could have done so much better then Pansy. Hermione went up to the table and pounded her fist on it, making the tea pot and cups and such jump. Blaise and Pansy looked up in shock. Pansy even looked a bit jealous.
"Do you mind, mudblood?" Pansy asked.
"I need to talk to your face sucker." Hermione grabbed him by his uneven tie and pulled him outside and in back of Madam Puddifoot's.
"Are you the one invading my mind?"
"No, I already told you. To tell you the truth, it's not like someone threatened or dared me into it." Hermione clenched her fist and punched him in the stomach. He coughed and backed up some.
"You are doing it, aren't you?"
"No, Ginny Weasley told me that you and Maura were dared to make out last night."
"What are you doing with her?"
"We made out this morning. Actually it was more of me making out and her struggling."
"Fuck you, Blaise. If you ever touch her again-"
"What are you going to do, Hermione? Get Brad, and Kyan and Draco and Pothead and Weasley to beat me up? I don't think so."
"I'll get Draco to rape Pansy. Show her what a real man is."
"You wouldn't dare, Hermione."
"I'll even stand there and watch Draco. Fuck, I'll probably even help hold her down." Blaise slapped Hermione. She didn't turn her head back, only looked down at the ground.
"You wanna know something, Hermione. It's not me invading that sick fucking mind of yours, I bet its Lavender Brown. That's why she's been so quiet this year. I bet it's even Potter, he's jealous of all the glory you've stolen from him."
"Are you serious?" A familiar voice said. Hermione looked behind Blaise and saw Harry and Ron. "I'm jealous of Hermione? You've got to be the dumbest pureblood I've ever met."
"Oh, are you talking about yourself, Potter? If you were smart then you would have picked Slytherin over all your Gryffindor geek friends."
"Ouch, that hurt, Zabini." Harry said. Blaise walked up to Harry and grabbed him by the collar.
"Don't fuck around with me, Potter. Just because Black is dead doesn't mean that you can be his little mini me."
"What the hell does that supposed to mean?"
"You have no fucking clue? Well let's just say my dad and a couple of friends had something to do with your mudblood mom and he tried to get her out of it with your high dad."
"My dad wasn't high and don't you even think about raping Hermione." Hermione had just realized that what Blaise was saying was that he could have raped her like his dad had done to Lily.
"Well Sirius was high, maybe he passed it on to you when he got killed. Good thing he got killed too because he made the world no better. He was a fucking lunatic and should have died at birth." Hermione walked up to Blaise and kicked him in the balls from behind. He dropped Harry and fell to the ground.
"You asshole," Hermione said. Blaise got up still holding his balls and looked at Hermione.
"Don't ever touch me again you bitch." He slapped Hermione again and then pulled on her hair. Blaise held her leg in place. "And if you do, say goodbye to Drakkie." He pushed her away and left the three in peace.
"I thought you would have called off that deal shit that you two had by now." Ron said. Hermione clenched her fists.
"Yeah well, he's not worth talking to anymore. Besides, he couldn't kill Draco if he tried." Hermione looked up as water fell down the gutter and onto the ground. She looked into the puddle knowing that she wasn't supposed to. She saw Harry and Ron being pounded against the wall. Her mind was throbbing once again. Hermione tried to breathe, but could hardly get a scream out.
"Hermione," Ron said. Hermione turned back to them.
"Get the fuck out of here, you bloody fucking assholes." Hermione said. She fell to the ground and blacked out.
Maura and Amy walked out of Honeydukes with a lot of chocolate and fudge. They saw Harry and Ron running up to them. Instantly they knew something had happened to Hermione. The world seemed to revolve around her even though she didn't want it to.
"Someone is controlling her and she's saying that if everyone isn't in their dormitories by sundown that there's going to be a raid at the school." Harry said.
"By who? Who could be that strong, that smart-"
"Voldemort!" Harry yelled over Amy's voice. The streets grew silent and all you could have heard was the wind.
"We've got to get her into the school and everyone has got to get in their dormitories or else we could all by dead by morning." Harry said much slower looking around at all the people staring. He gulped and all the people started scurrying off the street.
Maura, Harry, Amy and Ron ran to where Hermione was. She wasn't there though; she was walking up a hill like nothing had happened. Maura ran up to her.
"Hermione?" Hermione looked at her.
"Who are you and how do you know my name?" Maura bit her lip and then started shaking Hermione angrily.
"Hermione, you know me. I'm one of your best friends, Hermione!"
"I don't know you, now let me go."
"Hermione!" Maura screamed. "Come on; stop playing a game with me!" Hermione tripped, fell back and hit her head on a stone. Maura screamed.
"They were attacked by each other, they're minds were invaded. They didn't know anything. The snow was bloody and so were they. That's why they can't remember what happened." Hermione spoke the words as if she hardly had any oxygen. Amy bit her lip as tears streamed down her face. Her knees hit the ground as she started crying. Maura was leaning on a tree trying to contemplate what she was saying.
"Amy, what is she talking about?" Ron asked.
"Last winter, we were all talking about how Hermione could save the world and then someone got into our thoughts and made us do crazy things to each other. We blacked it out though and when she said that I knew exactly what she was talking about. But when you guys brought us in, we heard someone saying Hermione's name." Amy tried not to cry.
"She's... not normal. She knows these things that nobody knows and-"
"Mr. Potter, I would appreciate if you didn't have so much concern. Go back to your dormitory. It's almost sundown." McGonagall said. Harry took one more glance at Hermione. She was lying on a table in Professor Snape's class room, unconscious.
Harry left and stood in the hall. He looked out the window and saw the sun falling out of his view. The lights started to flicker; the ground rumbled and screams echoed through out the school.
Draco looked up at the chandelier in the common room. It was shaking. He got up and went into Hermione's bed room. She wasn't there.
"Shit," Draco said. He exited the common room and it was pitch black in the hall. He grabbed his wand and whispered the Lumos spell. He walked down in the dark hall before he met Harry running down it. He grabbed Draco by the collar and pulled him down the hall. "What the fuck, Potter."
"You don't want to go back there, Malfoy." Draco looked back and saw a raging wave turn the corner of the school. He started to run and then ran up a stair case with Harry behind him. The wave got bigger and made its way after the two young men. They went to the 7th floor where girls and boys were panicking.
"Get out of here!" Harry yelled grabbing Parvati and Lavender and pushing them into the common room.
"Potter!" Draco yelled. Harry came back out and started pushing on a heavy book case. Draco looked back and saw the water making the door budge.
"Malfoy, help me. You don't think I'm doing this for nothing, do you?" Harry yelled over the loud creak of the door. Water splashed every where as Draco helped Harry push the book case off a secret passage. They walked in and it closed behind them. Draco and Harry could finally breathe, but not for long.
"That was very interesting, Potter." The book case began to budge and a crack started to form in the middle. Harry's eyes widened. It didn't seem like there was much hope for Hogwarts.
Harry turned and ran up the inclined plane. Draco sighed and followed. The book case split open and water raced through the dark tunnel. It hit Draco's feet and then his knees almost instantly. Harry grabbed onto a pipe and closed his eyes as the water went over his head.
Snape, Dumbledore, Honnete and McGonagall were putting things in front of the doors but it didn't help that the windows would soon break open and fill the room with water.
"How much longer?" Snape yelled over the loud crashing.
Trelawney looked at Hermione's shaking body. Trelawney bit her lip as Hermione's body started to float in the air.
"It's just starting Severus. It will take ten minutes before it's finally taking effect."
"I seriously doubt we have ten minutes, Sibyll." Dumbledore said. Trelawney looked at the windows. They began to crack and water spurted in the room.
"We'll have to leave her here, but we need to go or else we could die."
"Well won't she die, Sibyll?" Honnete asked.
"No, she's the main focus of this raging storm purpose. We have to go now!" The professors opened a compartment in the floor and slid down into it.
Hermione's body rose to the middle of the room in thin air. Her eyes opened and they were white. Lighting struck her body. She started to spin slowly and then got faster. Everything was going back to her mind.
"I can will it away," Hermione whispered. "Get out of my mind!" Hermione screamed as ghosts appeared in the room. They had swords and cloaks on...and they entered her mind. The pain was so much more then she could handle.
"Lace," One of the ghosts whispered. Why would he say 'lace'? What was so great about 'lace'? That ghost soon changed Hermione's thoughts when it came forth and swung his sword at her. Hermione turned her body only to fall into the deep water below her. She swam through an underwater window and into the hall, where it was like rushing rapids. Everything was wet now and Hermione knew that not everyone would be coming out of this alive.