The next few days were passed quite dully,filled with tears and pain on Harry's part, he now had no connection to his family. It was time for all the students going home to leave for the train station, this was a cold but bright day. Three days after the funeral. The sun was shinning as Harry and Hermione walked Ron to the carriages all three bundled up in big scarfs and travelling cloaks. Ron wearing a look that suggested he didn't know wether to be excited or sad.
"Bye Ron! Have a harry Christmas!" Hermione said enthusiastically while giving him a bone crushing hug.
"Bye Hermione you too!"He replied finally having made up his mind to be excited.
"Bye Ron mate, have fun visiting Charlie." Harry said patting his bestfriend on the back.
"See ya Harry" he said smiling. "Oy! Ginny are you coming?" he yelled at his sister's general direction.
"Yes Ronald...Would it KILL you to HELP me!" she yelled back frustrated.
"Fine" he answered and left his friends momentarily to help his little sister.
They returned and put Ginny's things in the carriage along with Ron's and a few other people's things. The not-so-horseless carriage was about to leave as the ones in front were already moving towards the gates. "Write to me Ginny" Hermione said pulling the younger girl into a quick hug "Ok" she said climbing into the carriage. "Bye!" everyone yelled waving. Harry and Hermione waited until the carriage had turned the corner after exiting through the gates before turning on their heals and going back up to the common room. The walk was pretty quiet both minds wandering to the same grounds, 'What are we going to do for two weeks by ourselves?'.
The common room was even emptier than any other year Harry had stayed. Hermione and him counted the people who had stayed. they could count them on one hand and have fingers left over : They were the only two Gryffindors who had stayed. They set straight to work on their holiday homework and completed it within 4 hours. Well Hermione had finished in three but then proceded to read over Harry's work. They had gotten all of that out of the way and it was now diner so they made their way down to the great hall.
"Hermione can you pass the bread please?" Harry asked the only other occupant of his table. The other houses had plenty of people left over, gladly Malfoy wasn't one of them.
"Sure" she said picking up the small basket and handing it to him "here you go".
"thanks" Harry said taking a piece of bread and buttering it "So what do you want to do this evening?" he asked politely after having swallowed his bite of bread.
"Oh i don't know" she said looking at her plate. "Maybe we could just see what pops up in our minds."
"Yeah..." Harry answered just as an idea popped into his mind "Do you want to go to the room of requirement?"
"What for?" Hermione asked curiously raising her eyebrows.
"You'll see...it's a surprise!" he exclaimed as he was finishing his meat pie.
The two friends walked up to the common room where Harry suggested going to change into very comfortable clothes. "Alright" Hermione had said to his suggestion but seemed to doubt what he was going to take her to do. When she came down she found Harry just where he had been when she had gone up five minutes earlier only dressed in baggy torn and faded blue jeans and a black hooded sweatshirt with what seemed to be a red shirt underneath. Harry in turn was faced with Hermione dressed in some denim blue jeans that were tight but not skin-tight. That complimented her short, not-exactly-thin frame. Accompanied by a Forest green hoodie.
They took the Marauders Map and The invisibility cloak and were off. The long walk to the seventh floor corridor was very short to them today, they talked and laughed all the way up to the blank patch of wall accross from the unique tapistry. When they had arrived, Harry asked Hermione to stand aside and paced three times infront of the wall thinking 'A theater... movies, popcorn...just a comfortable night in'. When he opened his eyes he saw a door on the patch of wall that had been blank. He walked over to it and walked in, The inside was a typical living room it was blue but it was a dark room so you didn't really notice. With a big screen TV and a table full of popcorn and candy with a stack of DVDs to put in at their choice. There was everything he could have wanted including what looked like a very comfortable sofa which was a home to many many pillows.
He left the room to get Hermionein the hall, he knew it would meet her approval, she entered looking nervous but all that melted away from her eyes as she saw the interior "wow"she wispered "Harry how did you manage to imagine this?" she said with a big smile gracing her features. "this is great! What movies do we have?"she asked "Oh I dunno"he answered "let's find out". They went over to the huge pile and looked quickly through them...so many titles most of them Harry had never even heard of. Her mione seemed to know most of them and finally decided on...a bunch of chick flicks. Harry smiled because he had somehow known she would.
They sat on the sofa together, Harry leaning in the corner on the armrest and back of it with Hermione laying back against him. ' I could get used to this' he thought as he smiledto himself before starting the 5 movie marathon. Harry was surprised to see that he didn't mind most of those movies. They had been cuddled up on the sofa through the whole 8 hours of video they had watched.
Harry looked down at his watch 'WOAH!' he mentally yelled 'It's 1:30!' he looked up at Hermione and smiled guiltily. "I lost track of time" he said apollogetically.
"It's ok Harry we'll just go under the cloak" she answered with a smile and a slight wave of her hand.
"Um...err...slight problem there..."he started "I left the cloak in my trunk "he took a small step back and raised his hands in surrender." I'm sorry!"
Hermione did not look pleased, she hated being out after hours and she hated breaking rules. "Harry!" she shrieked "how could you have not brought the cloak or WAIT" she said quickly pacing and moving her arms around wildly. Harry looked at her questionningly as she said "The map" she said "you have the map right?" she asked all this quickly. Harry didn't know how to tell her that he didn't have the map with him either.
"Um...Hermione dear, I don't have the map either" he said apologetically "we have two options, go running around the castle without protection or anything OR we could spend the night here."
"HARRY!" she yelled once again. "How could this happen it's late and we're stuck and there aren't even any beds!" Harry stared in awe as two beds appeared in an extended corner of the room. "We'll get caught and it's all your fault!" she paused "No what am I saying?" she asked herself while pacing back and forth in the room. "I should have reminded you, Harry are you paying attention?" she stopped and looked at him.
"Hermione look in that corner" he said, pointing to said corner. On a table in between the beds sat two very comfortable looking P.J.s and then there were the beds themselves, one had a powder blue comforter and the other one had a bottle green one. Hermione eyed them carefully.
"Did you put those there?" She asked him slowly.
"No i think you did" he answered and elaborated when he saw the confused look she was throwing him. "when you said there weren't any beds they just appeared."
"ok" she said as she nodded. She walked over to the powder blue bed and sat on it, "it's so comfy!" she exclaimed all traces of anger gone. "Come check it out.
He complied, and sat on the bed opposite her "wow" he said "you're right!"
She picked up one of her pillows and jumped onto him with great force, knocking him back as she pounded his face and laughed as he began to tickle her. They stayed up late just throwing pillows and tickling each other finally falling asleep fully clothed together on Harry's bed slightly tangled up with each other.
The next morning Harry woke feeling like a 5 pound weigh was sitting on his chest. He looked up, 'Hermione' he thought as he saw a mass of curly brown hair surrounding a soft light face. He slowly moved his left hand up to his face to better examine the small watch he wore. ' 6 am' he thought 'no one's up yet and it's not against the rules to walk the halls now' he decided to wake Hermione up and get them back up to Gryffindor tower.
"Hermione" he said shaking her slightly "Wake up" she made a noise somewhere between a growl and a moan. "Hermione" he said a little louder this time. She rolled over and turned her back to him. "Hermione, love get up!" he said in a clear voice. She woke up fully as she hit the floor having rolled right off the bed.
"Ouch!" she groaned "Harry did you push me off?"
"Me? No way!" he said laughing at her "I tried to wake you up i called your name and you rolled right off"
"Stop laughing it's not that funny" she said and seeing he wasn't going to stop she muttered "Honestly"
" Sorry 'Moine" she said finally getting all his laughter to leave him "We should go thought. That's why I tried to wake you it's only" he paused looking at his watch "6:15" and we could get in without worry, if anyone saw well it's no big deal because it's not against the rules." he finished professionnally. "Ready to go?"
"Yeah" she answered and got up off the floor.
They entered the common room to find it empty, "well it isn't surprising"she said "there is only one other person here" Harry had agreed with her. They hadn't met anyone except Nearly Headless Nick on the way back who was not interested to hear about why they weren't in their respective dormitories. 'Wonder what he thinks we were up to' Harry wondered 'Well I know what i would havewanted to be doing' he finished the thought and mentally kicked himself, this wasn't a time to turn into a hormone crazed teenager.
Well I hope you liked this chapter... but i have a question to ask all of you...Have you ever read the French version of the Harry Potter books the translaters did a really bad job...Hogwarts is known as Poudlard...UUUURRRGGGGHHHH
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