Everything he Is

by

SilentConfession

The trio hurried down to the Great Hall, they knew something was up, Harry hadn't received so many stares since last year when he defeated Voldemort. And frankly it was unnerving him.

"Oi, Harry, the Daily Profit!" Ron said and grabbed it out of a cowering first year's hand and started to read the front-page headlines.

"RON!" Hermione reprimanded, he shrugged his shoulders and continued reading, his frown deepening with each word he read.

"What is it mate?" Harry asked impatiently,

"Another Death Eater attack this time in Surrey, a muggle family of five murdered last night. It appears the ones that are still out there are continuing You-Know-Who's dirty work." Ron spit out, Hermione took the paper and opened it to the story and gasped,

"I can't believe it! After all you've done! Listen to this 'With these increasing attacks on muggle and wizard family alike a question we've got to ask ourselves, did Harry Potter actually defeat He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named? Or is he still out there?" Hermione ground out, her brow furrowing in anger, Ron looked equally as mad, where as Harry gave his two best friends a look of worry. "Oh don't worry about it Harry, its just the Profit trying to make a story at your expense, you'd think they'd have learned after your fifth year!" Ron nodded fervently but Harry looked unconvinced,

"What's our first class?" Hermione asked, quickly changing the subject before Harry could dwell on the headlines. Ron dug into his bag and come up with a wrinkled schedule,

"We have Potions together." Ron said squinting to read it,

"Oh," Hermione glanced at the staff table and noticed Snape giving her a glare,

"I take it you won't be attending?" Harry smirked; Hermione shook her head and handed the newspaper back to the first year. The girl gave Hermione a look of wide-eyed fear and flounced away, her thin blonde hair bouncing behind her.

"I'm not that scary!" Hermione pouted, Harry and Ron snickered as they sat down in the three remaining chairs at the Gryffindor table.

"I wouldn't be so sure of that." A voice whispered into Hermione's ear, she jumped and whipped around to face a grinning freckled face man. She glared at the face before turning back around in her chair and grabbing come cheerio's for breakfast. Harry and Ron hid smirks behind their hands and stuffed some toast into their mouths. "Oh come now Hermy! Everyone knows you are," he said, "when your angry I mean you are." He added after seeing Hermione's shoulders tense.

"Fred," Harry whispered, "just leave." 'Fred' gave Harry an evil glare before sauntering off toward the staff table.

"Well, I'll see you two later, I'm going to the library to do some research." Hermione said after finishing her cereal before she left she gave Harry a meaningful look who gave her a thumbs up and continued with his own breakfast.

Hermione quickly made it to her sanctuary, and started browsing the books skipping over the books she'd usually pull out and going on to the section of spells and hexes. "Wow…" Hermione muttered and pulled out a huge book, 101 spells that you'll never need, (unless of course your up for some revenge) Hermione smiled and brought the book to a far corner table and started to look through it.

One and a half-hours later Hermione smiled to herself content on the list of things she had gotten written down. Hermione looked at the clock, there was still half hour left of class, after that she had to go to Ancient Runes and then lunch where she could tell Harry and Ginny about some of the stuff she had written down. Maybe they could make sense of it… she shrugged her shoulders and decided to go and grab her textbook from her dormitory and head off to the fifth floor where the Ancient Runes classroom was.

Since she was the first one at the door she shrank down to the floor and waited,

"Ah Miss Granger, what are you doing here?" Sir Nicholas asked swooping down beside her,

"I'm waiting for class to end," the ghost nodded, but didn't leave,

"As I've heard, you've had some troubles with pranks this year?" He asked innocently, Hermione looked over at the Ghost,

"Well, yes I have, quite troublesome if I do say so myself."

"I do say, those twins do stir up trouble where ever they go, though always good for a laugh they are." Sir Nick nodded absently,

"Erm… right, I suppose if you're not at the receiving end of their jokes." Hermione declared bitterly,

"Well I must leave you, have a pleasant term." With that Nearly Headless Nick glided away. Just then the class started piling out of the classroom, after the last one left Hermione wondered in noticing the professor a her blackboard writing some notes, quickly Hermione sat her self down and took out some parchment and started coping it all down.

As the class went on Hermione quickly forgot all about her revenge on the twins as she listened to the Professor's lecture and was actively writing down everything she was hearing. When the Professor gave them theirassignment for the night, Hermione nodded and started on it, but didn't get very far because the bell rang for lunch. As most of the student rushed out, Hermione stayed back and walked up to the Professor's desk,

"Excuse me, Professor?" Hermione said, "but how long do you want this essay?"

"Well, Miss Granger, as long as you feel is necessary." Hermione nodded thanked the teacher and headed out for lunch. She seen Harry, Ron, and Ginny and hurried over to them, pulling Harry and Ginny with her and telling Ron that they needed to talk about something. Ron gave the three of them an untrusting look,

"Ron you'd rather stay here, all we're doing is talking about homework, beside, if you stay here you can talk quidditch with Seamus." Hermione lied as Ginny and Harry followed Hermione to the end of the table. Once seated Hermione handed the two of them her list, soon a wide grin was plastered on Ginny's face,

"Bloody brilliant Hermione! This is going to be amazing!" Ginny gushed happily, Hermione smiled weakly, Ginny noticed this, "You have no idea what we could do with this, do you?" Hermione shook her head a little embarrassed, Harry let out a snort of laughter but tried covering it with a fit of coughing, Hermione glared at him.

"It's not my fault! I've never tried doing this kind of thing before!" Hermione grumbled,

"No matter." Ginny reassured, and for the rest of lunch the three of them bent the parchment whispering explanations and plans.

"Best get to class, wouldn't want to be late now would you?" Snape drawled, from behind them, the three of them covered the parchment and glared at Snape. The greasy professor swept away but not before taking ten points off for rudeness. The three glanced around and noticed they were the last ones in the Great Hall, Ginny giggled and told Harry and Hermione she better go, Hermione waved her off and the two made there way to Transfiguration.

Throw yourself against the wall.

Hermione glanced around; wondering where this command came from, there was no way she was going to listen to it, no matter how badly she felt like she had too.

I said throw yourself against a bloody wall and hard!

This time Hermione felt compelled to answer it and threw herself against the closest stone wall. She staggered back shaking her head slightly; She lifted a hand shakily to her head and swore she could feel a dent.

"You okay Hermione?" Harry inquired reaching for her arm to steady her,

"I'm… I'm fine." Hermione replied, a muffled laugh was heard, the two whipped around to see Malfoy and his cronies come from behind a tapestry,

"Walk much mudblood?" Malfoy sneered, Crabbe and Goyle sniggered behind him, Hermione glared at him as much as she could, but a headache was forming and she was finding it quite distracting.

"Shove it Malfoy." Harry warned grabbing his wand, Malfoy sneered and sauntered off.

"You want to go to the Hospital Wing?" Hermione shook her head,

"I'm fine Harry!" Harry gave her a look that clearly said you-just-hit-a-bloody-wall-you-are-so-not-all-alright! Hermione rolled her eyes, "Come on before we're late," Harry shrugged his shoulders and they hurried to the Transfiguration room.

"Today, we are going to take notes on Human transformation and wand movements, and if all goes well, we might try some in tomorrow's class." McGonagall began her lecture, Hermione had her quill ready and stared writing everything down, fervently trying to ignore the pounding in her head. She looked over at Harry when he nudged her, he held out a note to her, she quickly grabbed it before anyone noticed and opened it up.

Notice Malfoy isn't here?

He was right, Hermione thought when she glanced around the room, he had this class with them and he clearly wasn't here.

"I wonder where he is?" Hermione mouthed at Harry who shrugged his shoulders.

"Miss. Granger, care to share it with the class?" Hermione stared wide-eyed at her professor.

"Erm… well you see professor, I had an… an accident in the hallway, and well I'm not feeling so swell." Hermione blurted out,

"I can see that." McGonagall said critically, "Go to the Hospital Wing Miss Granger, have that bruise on your head checked out. Mr. Potter will give you the notes from this class." Hermione nodded, gathered up her stuff and quickly left the room.

"Why Miss Granger, where did you get that?" Hermione looked around uncomfortably; there was no way she was going to say she got it from smashing herself against a wall.

"I'm not sure…" Hermione said not meeting Madame Pomphrey's eyes.

"Oh well lets have a look at it, lay down over here." The nurse started muttering to herself looking over Hermione bruise, about a half hour later, Hermione felt perfectly fine, but Pomphrey wouldn't let her out, claiming she needed her rest. Hermione closed her eyes, trying to figure out how she came to fee like she had to hit that wall. Soon after Hermione's eyes snapped open, she looked toward the door where she heard the sound, a deep moaning… before she could ponder it further Snape burst through carrying Malfoy in his arms, her eyes widened at the sight of Malfoy and the large gash on his right arm.

"Poppy!" Snape boomed, "Poppy!" Pomphrey came hurrying out,

"Oh dear, what happened?"

"I don't know, I just found him in an abandon classroom like this." Hermione watched the scene in interest, "and Miss. Granger looks fine, does she have to be here?"

"Oh yes, Miss. Granger you are free to leave." Hermione nodded and left the wing. Hermione rushed down the corridors, Malfoy never far from her mind, how is that he doesn't show up for Transfiguration and then he ends up in the Hospital Wing with a huge gash on his arm? And he was found in an abandon classroom at that! Suddenly Hermione stopped, and whirled around, a strange feeling that something was going to go very wrong overtook her she started to shake.

She heard a cruel laugh from the shadows, Hermione's eyes widened in fear and she shot off down the hallway.

"Yes… run little girl… but you cannot hide forever."

Authors Note: I'm really sorry about this. but i'm going away, andwill have very limited computer access. i will be back about once a month, xmas break, spring break, and summer though. and will try to update as much as i can then. But i'm making no promises. I'm really sorry about the inconvienance of this and hope you continue reading my stuff and reviewing. You all made me want to skip my holidays and just write this chapter for you, which unfortunatly didn't happen. sorry for it taking like FOREVER! hope this chapter makes up for it. :)

thanks to all my reviewers, i love you all, every reviewi get, i just have to smile and beam. Keep it up. (i would answer ever single persons review, but recently i've heard this rumor that someone did that recently and their story got deleted :( so i don't want that to happen to me, new rule... can someone tell me if its true?)

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