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A/N:
Oh.
My.
God...
I've read HBP... How could JK do this to us D/Hr shippers? Nyooooooooo! Die, Ron! :eyes gleam evilly and brings out evil bunny slippers of doom, then suddenly switches back to normal:
I can't believe she put Ron and Hermione together! Well, it was pretty obvious that it was coming, but still, why not Harry/Hermione? I prefer that to Ron/Hermione! :complain, complain, complain:
I shall always be a Draco/Hermione shipper! T.T :sobs: Even though it'll never be canon…
And that screwed my story up. Le sigh. Just ignore the 6th book okay? Dumbledore doesn't die, and Ron and Hermione don't get together. ;;
On a happier note... WHOA! I reached 116 reviews! So happy! :Dances around like crazy: Thank you so much!
Can you guys read my new story? It's called Noughts and Crosses. Ha, advertising.
Thanks to my new muse Blu, who helped me… well, somewhat… Ah, but our plans will be revealed in time… patience… This chapter has a darker feel to it, which fits it into the category of 'angst'.
Also, thankies go to the people who added me or my story to their favourites list… What really buggs me is that most of them didn't review! T.T
I'm sorry about the VERY long wait, I feel so evil! I have a BETA now, but she's at Cairns so she's not able to do the job this time… Well, extra cookies for the patient people… :grins:
Is that all?
Yep, let's go...
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Special thanks to my muse Blu
(.Starrehstarr.). Everyone must applaud NOW!
Or else you won't get any cookies… Heh heh
Also, thanks to Mage (Eternal Phoenix)
For offering to beta my story,
with it's hideous grammatical errors… lol
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Chapter 7
Teardrop of blood
Last time on Born the Day You Kissed Me
Hermione pushed her way through the statues and suits of armours, which blocked her way. A slight tapping on her back made her turn around. A pair of silver eyes stared back at her quizzically. "Wrong direction Mudblood" the sneering voice echoed down the hall. "Head Common Room's thatta way."
"Maybe I want to sleep in Gryffindor Tower tonight then!" she retorted, fury flashing through her eyes.
Draco's eyes held an amused spark for a second, before smirking. "Well, still…" he shrugged and said "Gryffindor Tower is that way. You're heading towards the Ravenclaw's dorms."
"URGH!" she threw up her arms and walked off haughtily. Then she jumped behind a suit of armour and waited for Draco to pass before going out to carry her evil, evil plan…
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Unit 25
Willa Cather
You may recognize the name of the author Willa Cather. She is known for her realistic novels, which depict the lived of American settlers on the prairie and in other sections of the country. Do you ever wonder how authors get the ideas for their stories? Well, Willa Cather's inspiration came from first-hand experience.
Willa Cather was born on December 7, 1873, the first of seven children. She spent her early years in Rock Creek Country, Virginia. When Willa was nine, she and her family left Virginia for Nebraska. Young Willa learned a great deal about the prairie during those two years. She saw many homes made out of sod-
"Blah!"
Hermione pelted the book across the room. It was past 8 and her arranged meeting with Draco was at 7:30. She had been sitting here in the exact same spot for over 30 minutes reading the same piece of text over and over again, since there was nothing else to read. All the Units before had been read by her, and she had already answered the questions, thus doing all her Muggle Studies homework until December, or somewhere close to that. The walls of their meeting place were bare, as if Draco had wanted to torture her by not having any books in the room. There was a table, and two chairs, and basically, it was a very plain room.
They had arranged a meeting in an abandoned classroom, quite close to Snape's dungeon. She retrieved her book and sighed, before turning the page backwards to the unit before. Soon after, she heard hurried footsteps down the hallway.
"Took him long enough" she muttered, a scowl on her face. The patter passed through the hallway and stopped, as Dean Thomas stuck his head through the door and bid her hello. Hermione grinned back at him and turned back to her book. Then she wondered if she should have done the prank on him. "No" she thought. "Like Ginny said, I've done enough for a while… Just spread it throughout the year. I wonder why Ginny wanted me to stop… Hmmm…" Her thoughts went on like that until a while. A few minutes later she heard a loud crashing sound emitted from Snape's dungeon, almost as if Dean had fallen off his chair while doing a vile task for Snape. She got up and went to the dungeon door, thinking to check in on him quickly, to see if her hunch was correct.
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The door creaked softly as it was opened, and the room was dark. A soft flickering glow filled the room; a candle was on, the chair overturned in front of a cauldron. I couldn't see Dean anywhere.
"Dean?" I called to him softly. There was no answer, and there was no movement in the room either.
I groped along the wall, searching for the cord that opened the shutters that boarded the room. Finally my hand brushed against it and I yanked the cord.
Moonlight streamed through the room, filling its glow over the floor. It flickered over, lighting up the room.
The scene before me made gasp out loud; my heart skipped a beat, my breath suddenly stop. The noise was what I had thought it to be, he had fallen out of his chair, but it was so much worse than that.
Dean's body lay next to the toppled chair; dark crimson, almost black blood was starting to pool underneath him, its dark edges creeping outward. His sepia coloured eyes were glassy and wide, staring up at the ceiling, a look of finality in them. The cloth he was polishing the cauldron with was clutched in one hand, while the other looked as if he had been clawing at his torn throat. More blood trickled from the gaping wound.
A knife lay on the table next to the essays that were for homework. Blood was everywhere, splattered across the essays, glaringly dark against the fraying pieces of parchment. The crimson droplets seem to glow in a strange pattern on the dark cauldron which was in front of him. I shivered and picked up the knife, my fingers only loosely gripping the blade of the knife.
A strange pattern was engraved into the grey handle of the knife, a snake with emerald eyes and on the opposite side a raven with glaring sapphire ones. In the middle was a Triquetra1 symbol, bright silver against the dull grey steel of the handle.
I turned the knife around tentatively, like it would suddenly gain a will to attack me for some reason. Yet, it stayed stock still and normal. A lion with blood red ruby eyes decorated the side, connected with the raven and a badger with black opals for eyes dominated the other side. In the middle, where the Triquetra symbol was on the opposite side, was another Wiccan symbol. I recognized it as the Triple Moon Pendant2, three silver moons stuck together on end to form one shape, representing the Virgin, the woman and the crone. In the middle was a rainbow moonstone, pulsing with some strange glowing light.
Footsteps pounded down the hallway, and ragged breathing was heard. I spun around, slamming the knife down on the table in the process. I looked into the steel grey eyes of Malfoy and shivered. In the past few weeks his hair had grown, and he might have looked like his father if he grew it longer. He raised an eyebrow slightly at the bloody room and stared at me.
"What's this Granger?" he questioned.
"I-I really don't know… There was a knife here, wait, let me get it" I answered in an unusually high breathless voice before turning back to show him the knife.
It was gone. One second before I had turned around, it was there, but now…
In its place was an ornate silver pendant. I quickly recognized it to be the Triquetra that was on the knife. Besides that, the rainbow moonstone in the middle was the only resemblance to the knife. I gasped, and I picked it up to show it to him.
"It's gone" I said. "But it was this. Probably."
He looked at me strangely, and held out a hand.
"Pass it Granger"
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I ran down the corridor, cursing wildly under my breath as I fought the urge to stop running and take a proper breath. I knew it really, I was late. Very late. I picked up speed as I reached the classroom and I accidentally crashed into the door.
"Crap" I looked around; a part of me hoping that Granger didn't see it. I composed myself and walked into the room, but no one was there. A book lay discarded on the floor, which read 'Advanced Muggle Studies'. I sighed and wondered where the Mudblood had gone, probably to the library, I thought. Until I heard faint gasps come from Snape's dungeon. Wait… scratch that. She is definitely not in the library.
I dashed over to Snape's dungeon, wondering what was going on.
Granger had her back to me, and she was obviously staring at something. The room was flecked with blood, a chair was overturned. 'Has Granger committed murder?' I wondered, before dismissing the theory, she was obviously surprised by the way her shoulders were rigid.
Then, she finally sensed my presence and turned around, slamming something down in the process. Her face seemed paler then usual, and she looked breathless and shocked, something which I never pictured her to do.
"What's this Granger?" I asked sharply.
She shivered slightly, before answering "I-I really don't know… There was a knife here, wait, let me get it"
I raised an eyebrow as she turned around. Then she let out a gasp of shock.
"It's gone" she answered. "But it was this. Probably."
She held out a pendant, which was shining eerily. I looked at her as if she was strange, of course, she must be delusional.
Straight after I touched the necklace, I felt a jolt of pain. The rainbow stone pulsed, as if it was winking up innocently at me and saying, "Who, me?"
I pushed past Granger and observed the room. One of the Gryffindors (probably one of Potty's followers) was lying on the ground, blood seeping outwards from his back. Yes, I am Draco Malfoy… Master of Description… Well, any normal person could tell that I was being sarcastic there…
When I turned my gaze back onto her, she shivered again and said "I'll go get Dumbledore."
I just shrugged in response, and went on inspecting the room. Suddenly, as if on impulse I turned around, and saw writing on the wall. Shiny, glowing writing. It read:
'To defy the other, they would not survive
To destroy the other, they do strive
Come enter the realm between Earth and Death
Comply you not, then take last breath'
Scribbled underneath that was:
'Can you deny your destiny when the lineage lies in your blood?
How can you accept your fate… When you keep on turning away?'
I gasped, feeling uneasy. The message was obviously to me. Then I smirked faintly, of course Father had something to do this… But why kill a Gryffindor was beyond me. Wait… wasn't that person a Mudblood? Yes, great combination. Mudblood and Gryffindor. Perfect reason to kill someone it seems.
A golden owl flew through the window. Channery.
Written in Dumbledore curling script read
'We will be coming down after I finish my appointment with Professor Snape'
I sighed and sat myself down onto one of the chairs that wasn't flecked with blood, and prepared myself for a long wait…
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Sandra flapped her wings in annoyance. "Zareth. Come over here." Her brother made his way towards her. "Did you send the message yet?"
The lanky black haired Zareth nodded, before asking his sister a question.
"What did the murderer write on the wall? He was causing some difficulty so I couldn't write my message at all that quickly… Please, can you tell me? You never tell me anything." He glared defiantly at his sister.
Sandra led him to the scrying pool. "See for yourself…"
Zareth looked inside with interest; Sandra had never let him look inside the pool before. He read the words scribbled on the wall, and shook his head.
"This is not good."
Sandra nodded, before replying "It doesn't help that they hate each other…"
Zareth sighed. "You're right. Hey… are you up for some matchmaking?"
Sandra rolled her eyes at her brother's childish self.
"No. Let nature take its course."
Zareth frowned briefly, before nodding. "I suppose it's for the best" Zareth sighed and went back to writing the paper that was due last week on Angel History.
Then he suddenly shrugged and thought,
'It wouldn't hurt to give them some help…'
A/N: Ha-ha. Something about that last sentence means that I'm planning something. Right? Ha ha ha…
This is to clear some things up.
1 A Triquetra is a word derived from the Latin tri- ("three") and quetrus ("cornered"). Its original meaning was simply "triangle" and it has been used to refer to various three-cornered shapes. Nowadays, it has come to refer exclusively to a certain more complicated shape formed of three vesicae piscis, sometimes with an added circle in or around it.
In modern times, the symbol has again been appropriated, this time by neo-pagans or "Wiccans", who claim the original Celtic or Norse origins of the Triquetra.
The symbol has become especially popular due to its use on the cover of the "Book of Shadows" used by the three sisters on the American TV show Charmed.
Link to the image: http/img322.imageshack.us/img322/9702/triquetraplain1du.jpg
2 Link to image: http/img322.imageshack.us/img322/5858/tmp8tv.jpg
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Finally finished.
Guess what? I just realized the uncanny resemblance of the chapters name to the password to the Head common room… lol
Anyway, guess what? Tom Felton is a proven D/Hr fan! :dances around:
Found it off someone else's author's note, just wanted to show you guys
Basically, the question went something like this:
Q: So, who do you think Draco will end up with, girl - or boy wise?
Tom: Well, I still think Hermione's going to turn bad and go out with Draco.
Ha-ha lol! Yay, go Tom
This info was gotten from 10 Ways to Kill Draco Malfoy and it's by Drakulya. Great story by the way, definitely worth checking out! Well, that's all!
Next Time,
Sierra