A play about Hermione Granger

Scene 19 Draco Again

Hermione is on the steps of Malfoy Manor. She rings the doorbell. A stiff- looking maid answers the door)

Maid: Yes?

HG: I would like to see Mr. Draco Malfoy, please.

Maid: He won't see guests.

HG: Please tell him Hermione is here to see him. Perhaps he'll relent to see me. Maid: Yes Miss. Please wait. (She goes for a second and then returns) He says he will see you for five minutes only.

HG: Alright.

Maid: This way please. (Leads her to Draco's room and opens the door.) Miss Hermione to see you sir. (leaves and closes the door) Draco is sitting in a chair facing the window, away from Hermione. She stands just past the doorway

DM: (bitterly) What do you want? Come to break my heart again?

HG: Professor McGonagall told me about the letter you sent her and what you said about me.

DM: So?

HG: I wanted to make sure you hadn't done anything stupid. (Draco turns his chair to Hermione. His face is covered in scratches and bruises and Hermione rushes to him) Oh Draco, what happened?

DM: That's the first time you've called me Draco since Christmas vacation.

HG: What does that have to do with anything?

DM: It means a lot to me, but after I got so upset, you started calling me Malfoy again.

HG: That doesn't matter now, what happened to your face? (crouches beside him and tenderly touches his cheek)

DM: I tried to drop your ring in the forbidden forest to get rid of it. I nearly got killed getting it back.

HG: But why did you go to get it back?

DM: I realized that it was my last hope of ever having you again.

HG: Draco, that ring means nothing to me. I'd rather have you safe than anything.

DM: Is that true, Hermione, or are you just saying it to make me feel better?

HG: Well, when I was saying it I didn't mean it, but after I heard it come out of my mouth, I knew that it was the truth. I truly love you Draco, and I always will.

DM: Marry me then.

HG: Don't go starting that again, you know I can't marry you now.

DM: Why not? HG: Because, I'm still in school. Besides, I'm sixteen. I won't be seventeen until Easter break next year.

DM: So? I'm seventeen. We can be married.

HG: Draco, I will not marry you. That is final. Stop asking me!

DM: (standing up) Why not! Why can't I ask you to marry me! If you really loved me, you'd marry me! If you cared at all, you wouldn't put me through this! You don't care! You don't care at all! (breaking down, sitting again with his head in his hands) Please tell me you don't care, please tell me you don't love me anymore. Please don't put me through this again. All I want is to feel the touch of your hand against my skin. All I want is to marry you so that I can keep you forever. All I want is to love you again! (almost crying)

HG: (sitting on the floor by his feet. Reaches up and caresses the back of his neck) But Draco, I can't tell you those things because I'd be lying to you. I do care, I care very much. But I can't marry you yet. I refuse to marry you until the end of seventh year. You have got to understand that. I will not marry you.

DM: (looks up from the floor) But I won't live without you. I'll die, waste away here in this lonely house. At every door it whispers your name. I can't even sit on the bed anymore, because when I do, I see you sitting there, smiling like you always did, and my mind screams to bring back my sweet Mione. I remember everything that happened Christmas break, and it makes life so hard to bear.

HG: Draco? I think we need to sit on the bed. I think you need to sit there and know that I am still by your side.

DM: Come with me. (Draco stands up slowly, takes Hermione by the hand, and leads her to the bed. She stands there, until he pulls her down on his lap.) Mione?

HG: Yes Draco?

DM: If I kissed you, would you stop before it went farther because you'd get scared like last time?

HG: No, Draco, I wouldn't be scared, but I won't go farther because I just couldn't have a baby now.

DM: Are you still afraid that you would have to tell people you're having a Malfoy's child?

HG: I never was, but right now my focus is to finish school. I have to pay all my attention to that.

DM: Will you spend the summer with me here, sweet Mione?

HG: I'll stay with you for a few days after term ends.

DM: A few days?

HG: Yes. I have to go back to the muggle world to see my parents. After my graduation, who knows what I'll be doing? I want to spend this last summer at home. But right now, I have to go back to Hogwarts. Term isn't over yet, you know.

DM: I'll come with you, if you want.

HG: There's nothing I want more.

they leave the room arm in arm

End Scene