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"Brilliant! It's Potions last thing on Friday! Snape won't have the time to poison us all!" – Harry Potter
Ginny sat in a big lazy boy armchair in the Gryffindor common room, drumming her fingers against the armrest, gazing into the fire's orbs.
Hermione was sitting next to her, with a book open, her eyes scanning each page so fast, they looked like a blur of soft brown.
An obvious Ron sat across from them, spread out on another armchair, a book open in front of him, but his eyes staring intently at Hermione.
A lazy Harry sat in another red armchair, his Potions essay sitting in front of him, but his eyes were wandering about.
Ginny looked up from the fire to see Harry's concerned eyes resting on her. She smiled to reassure him that she was all right, and saw him relax. He nodded his head in Ron's direction, and rolled his eyes at the sight of his friend drooling with eyes only for Hermione.
Ginny laughed loudly, causing Ron to turn away from Hermione, with a red face, when Hermione looked up from her book, wondering what disturbed her from her reading.
Hermione sighed. "I'm never going to get work done with you three around." She rolled her eyes, picked up her books, and made her way to the girl's staircase.
Ginny thought fast. "Hermione wait!" she exclaimed, as she ran up to join Hermione, "Can I come with you?"
Hermione looked thoughtful for a second, smiled and replied with a friendly, "Ofcourse! You're not one of those idiots" she said rolling her eyes towards Ron and Harry.
"Hey!" they protested. Hermione just smiled and started up the stairs, Ginny following close behind with her hand on her wand in her back pocket.
Just as Hermione reached for the doorknob on the seventh year girls' dorm, Ginny jumped in front of her and chuckled nervously.
Hermione looked suspiciously at Ginny, who was now standing in Hermione's way, blocking the door.
"Just what are you doing Gin?" Hermione asked in a sharp tone.
"Er..." Ginny hesitated, not wanting to get Hermione mad, "Just wanted to...come inside with you...it's been a while since I've been in your room, you know." She replied, proud of herself with coming up with such a good lie.
"Gin, you were here two days ago." Hermione shot back, her eyes narrowed and an eyebrow raised.
"Right, I'm just going to...check, whether I left my...book in here! Yes, that's definetly it." She replied hastily, and silently opened the door, her wand out.
As she took a step into the dark room, a something suddenly shot out and grabbed her leg.
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Draco rolled his eyes at Blaise, who was stuffing his face with as much food as he could in the next second. They were sitting in the kitchens, Draco obviously bored watching Blaise eat, after he had claimed that he "hadn't eaten much at dinner." Draco laughed at that one. Blaise doesn't eat much, he eats tons.
"Phsayo ushephing oudsawee zlaycirl aph winaerd" Blaise sputtered, his food flying out of his mouth as he spoke.
"Dude, chew, swallow, digest. That's the process of eating, do it." Draco said, looking down disgusted at his white shirt, now covered with bits of Blaise's food.
Blaise swallowed quickly. "Right, sorry. Anyways, I said I saw you checking out the weasley girl at dinner."
Now Draco, who was taking a sip of the hot tea from the green mug that sat in front of him, almost choked. But he, who had more manners than Blaise, refrained himself from spitting out just about everything in his mouth.
Blaise smirked. "So, it's true eh?" he taunted.
"You're crazy." Draco said simply, picking up a biscuit and dipping it into his tea.
"Maybe so. But I'm not the one in love with the girl." Blaise countered.
Draco's eyebrows scrunched together. "Blaise, I don't like the stupid mudblood loving fool?!" Draco exclaimed, his anger getting the best of him.
Blaise simply smirked while Draco sat, soaking in his anger.
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Ginny screamed. Hermione grasped for the lightswitch on the wall and pushed it up, turning on the light.
Hermione looked down at an unconcious Crookshanks, who had been stunned by Ginny.
"Oh no!" she raced to Crookshanks, picked him up and put him on her bed.
Ginny had a scowl on her face. "Next time 'mione, tell your stupid cat not to grab my ankle." She said, rubbing her ankle.
Hermione sighed and responded, "Sorry Gin, but really, you can't blame him. He was just surprised."
Ginny was just about to retort rudely, when the door bust open and a very shaken Ron ran in with his wand stretched out in front of him, and Harry trailing behind.
"What happened? Where is the culprit?" he panted, he caught sight of Ginny rubbing her ankle, with a scowl on her face, "What'd they do to you Gin? Who was it?"
Ginny glared at her brother.
Ron looked confused. "We heard a shriek...so we – "he stopped short at another glare sent by Ginny.
"Ron, Harry, it was nothing, Crookshanks was just taken by surprise," she cast a glance towards Ginny, "and sort of grabbed Ginny's ankle."
Harry, who tried to put some humor into this conversation asked, "Wow, what bit you Gin?" he stopped chuckling at his own joke when he received glares from all three of his friends.
Ginny replied, "Stupid cat basically bit me."
Hermione glared at Ginny this time and replied, "He is not stupid!"
Ginny decided not to us her foul mouth and shout at Hermione. She knew that if she wanted to keep Hermione safe from being kidnapped, then she was going to have to stay friends with her.
"You're right 'mione. Sorry about getting all worked up." She said softly, her eyes downcast.
That just about broke Hermione's heart. "No, Gin, it wasn't your fault, I'm really sorry that Crookshanks did that to you."
Silence took the room.
Ron's growling stomach interrupted the silence.
Laughter overtook the room with a stern Hermione saying, "Ron! That was rude, and how are you hungry when we just had dinner a few hours ago!"
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Wormtail cowered in the corner of a dark gleaming room.
"When," asked a deep voice, that filled the air with fear.
"As soo - soon as pos – possible, master." Wormtail answered, shivering at the darkness in the commanding voice speaking to him.
"Don't stutter at me or my kindness will disappear."
"Yes, master," Wormtail forced himself not to stutter.
"Soon as possible is not good enough. If you don't hurry up I won't be so generous anymore. Do you understand." He said, not asking, but more commanding.
"Ofcourse, master." Wormtail replied, blinking his eyes furiously.
"Good. Those who respect me and are successful receive my respect in return. Now, bring me Nurmet."
Wormtail replied with a quiet, "Thankyou, master." And fled the room, to get his co-worker, Nurmet.
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A/N: Hope you liked it! I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (x 1000) sorry that I didn't update in a LONG time. But trust me, first quarter's almost done (for school). They gave us tons of homework including – book report, group projects, projects, research paper, science fair, exams, and just normal homework too. I'm overflowing!
Well, keep on reading, and I'm really sorry if it takes so long to update, but I'm sick today and I'm supposed to be sleeping o) but I slept enough this morning for 6 hours, just woke up. So I might as well begin the 6th chapter now!
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