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Chapter 13: Back Again
Hermione arrived at the portrait hole ten minutes later, the painting of the Headless Horseman spoke to her, "Ah, you are back, Miss Granger! But without your belongings, I see!"
"I'm not here to stay, just to look for something of mine." Hermione answered as the portrait swung open to reveal a common room she once shared with Draco. She left it bare and clean but how, it was lightly cluttered with Draco's things.
"I am not his maid." She reminded herself not to clean the mess. She carefully mis- and replaced the items before her, putting it back precisely where she found it, searching for the planner, but was unsuccessful. Hermione stopped and thought where it may be.
What seemed like a lifetime ago, she remembered checking it in the kitchen when she was eating breakfast. She and Draco used to always eat breakfast together in their kitchen, it was one of the few times in the day where they can carry on a conversation before rushing off to class. With school, Draco's quidditch, and Head Boy and Girl duties, they never had time to just talk, so they set aside their mornings to each other.
She looked up and down and around the kitchen and was once again unsuccessful. She left the kitchen and trotted up the stairs to her old bedroom and found it just how she left it, empty. She rushed over to her desk and wrenched the top most drawer open, with her force, the desk moved roughly forward, then back again. Something dropped from the desk and onto the floor, clangin and ringing as it went. Hermione bent down to pick up whatever was dropped, when she couldn't find it, she continued her first task. She looked around the room, under the mattress and bed, the shelves, nothing.
During the search, it hit her. The planner was in Draco's room. The day of the breakup, one of their very few free afternoons, they were studying together or, were supposed to. Draco suggested they study in his room because the common room wasn't comfortable enough. Instead of studying, they made out. Hermione blushed and smiled a little, she still couldn't believe Draco talked her out of studying. She quickly erased her expression and made her way through the adjoining bathroom and to Draco's door. Hermione slowly turned the doorknob and peered inside, and opened the door all the way. Draco's room was a MESS! Clothes and robes everywhere, books and parchment cluttered the desk and onto the floor. Hermione spotted an open ink bottle spilling onto the only visible portion of his Slytherin rug in front of this desk. She quickly restored the ink bottle to its rightful position, but didn't bother to clean the stain.
Due to this mess, Hermione decided to use magic to find her planner. She didn't before because she was used to doing things the muggle way, still. Hermione said a charm that would make whatever she was looking for glow. Too bad she put the anit-summoning charm on it. It was a very personal item and she didn't want it getting in the hands of someone else. She looked around for the glow, and spotted it very faintly in a semi-opened drawer at the desk. She dug through the parchment and quills, the glow getting stronger by the second. When Hermione finally found it, she snatched it up and was about to put all the stuff back, when she looked down at the drawer again and saw a little black book with a Slytherin snake on it. Thinking it was the little black book, Hermione picked it up and flipped through it, instead of seeing profiles, descriptions, and ratings, absorbing little things here (…no one can know…) and there (…if only there was a way…), she found entries and writing. She realized it was Draco's most prized possession, second to his Nimbus Two Thousand and One, his journal and started to put it back when a voice hissed, "WHAT THE HECK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!"
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