Noonlight by Twisted Silver

Chapter Two

As Hermione chased after Crookshanks, she heard a voice behind her.

"Oi, Granger!" Shouted the cold, high voice of Draco Malfoy. She stood up with Crookshanks in her arms, and turned to face her enemy.

"What do you want, Malfoy?" She shot at him.

"Oh, nothing much…" He said innocently, but nothing could hide the evil grin that spread its way across his face. "Just that there's a prefect meeting in about five minutes at the front of the train. Better go and get the Weasel."

Hermione sneered at him and headed towards the end of the train to get Ron.

By the time she reached the carriage, Ron and Harry warned Hermione that there was only two minutes left until the Prefects meeting was to be held.

"Ron?" Hermione ventured as she opened the compartment door

"What?" He responded through a thick mouth full of sweets.

"We've got a Prefects meeting at the front of the train," she answered demandingly with only a minute left to get from one end of the train to the other, she grabbed Ron's robes and started to drag him out of the carriage. At the last minute, she turned and said "Oh, sorry Harry! We'll be back soon?" And without a backward glance, she started to steer Ron down the corridor as fast as she could.

As they slid back the door of the prefect's carriage, they saw, with great surprise, that there was no one there. Ron looked at Hermione, and stated, with slight concern in his voice, "Hermione, where is everyone?" But Hermione couldn't hear Ron's questioning, she was thinking through everything that had just happened, then she turned to Ron.

Without a backward glance, she ran down the corridor calling out, "Ron! Come on, Ron! It's a trick, Ron! Hurry!"

The two frenzied students sprinted down the corridor, Ron ahead, towards the corridor next to the compartment where Harry sat…

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