A/N: hope you liked the first chapter! Hermione gets introduced in this chapter!
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"I've never been so insulted!" yelled an angry boy of about 17.
"Prince Draco?" said the sultan. "Leaving so soon, are you?" he asked.
"Good luck marrying her off!" said Prince Draco as he swept out of the castle.
"Hermione." Mumbled the sultan angrily. He went outside to the grounds and saw her by the fountain. Her long brown hair was tied up in an elegant, yet casual knot and she was wearing her normal clothes: they didn't look out of place in Arabia. (A/N: like Princess Jasmine.)
"Hermione!" he called. He noticed that the prince had a part of his pants ripped off.
Her tiger answered her father's call for her.
"Confound it, Rajah!" he said as he tried to pull the prince's underwear from the tiger's growling mouth. "This is why Prince Draco stormed out!" he said as he showed her the underwear.
"Oh, father," she said turning to him. "Rajah was just playing with him. You were just playing with that self-absorbed Prince Draco weren't you?" she said to her pet. She cleared her throat at her father's face.
"Dearest, you've got to stop rejecting every suitor who comes to call!" he told her.
"The law says you must be married to a prince." They said at the same time. He gave his daughter a look. She went over to the bird cage and took out a love bird to pet it.
"By your next birthday." He finished.
"The law is wrong." She told him stubbornly.
"You've only got three more days!" he said in a rush.
"Father." She said, looking at him. "I hate being forced into this. If I do marry, I want it to be for love." She said still stroking the bird's feathers.
"Hermione," he said to her in a soothing voice. "It's not only this law. I'm not going to be around forever and I want to make sure you're taken care of and provided for."
"Please, try to understand!" she said to him. "I've never done a thing on my own. I've never had any real friends." She complained. Her tiger growled. "Except you, Rajah." Her tiger went back to sleep.
"I've never even been outside the palace walls." She said.
"Hermione, you're a princess." Her father told her obviously.
"Then maybe I don't want to be a princess anymore." She yelled stubbornly as she splashed the water in the fountain.
"Merlin forbid you should have any daughters." Dumbledore muttered angrily as he went into the castle.
She went to the bird cage and let it open and all the birds flew into the sky. How she wished that she could be one of them. To just fly away from there. She got an idea suddenly and decided tonight, to put it into action.
"Don't know where she gets it from." Dumbledore muttered as he entered his office. "Her mother wasn't nearly so picky."
He saw a shadow over his desk and saw Riddle.
"My most trusted advisor, I'm in desperate need for your advice." He said to Riddle.
"My life is but to serve you, my lord." Riddle said bowing to royalty.
"It's this suitor business. Hermione refuses to choose a husband. I'm at my wits end." He told Riddle.
Dumbledore took out a piece of cheese for Riddle's rat and forced it down its throat.
"His majesty certainly has a way with dumb animals." Riddle said chuckling as Wormtail looked at him with spite. "Now, perhaps I can divine a solution to this thorny problem." Said Riddle.
"If anyone could help, its you." Dumbledore said.
"But it would require the use of the mystic blue diamond." Riddle said as he pointed at the ring on Dumbledore's pinky.
"My ring? It's been in the family for years." Dumbledore told him.
"It's necessary to find the princess a suitor." Riddle told him, as he pulled out his wand. "Don't worry, everything will be fine." Riddle said as he put a confundus charm on the sultan.
"Everything will be fine." Repeated Dumbledore in trace-like state.
"The diamond." Said Riddle holding out his hand.
"Yes, Tom. Whatever you need will be fine." Said the sultan as he handed Riddle the ring.
"You are most gracious, my liege." He said mockingly. "Now run along and play with your little toys." He said in the same mocking voice.
"I can't take it anymore!" said Wormtail as he transformed once they were out of sight. "If I got to choke down one more of that piece of cheese—bam! Wham!" he said making rude gestures. They were walking to the Chamber of Secrets.
"Clam yourself, Wormtail." Said Riddle after he spoke the password. "Soon, I will be sultan." He reminded his "pet."
"Then I'll be the one stuffing cheese down his throat!" said Wormtail as he slid down into the secret room under the castle.
On the other side of the castle, a lone figure was crossing the grounds and heading toward the village.
Rajah stopped the figure before it climbed the gate to go to the magical town.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Rajah." It was Princess Hermione. She was wearing a brown cloak and she had her hood up to hide her tiara.
"But I can't stay here and have my life lived for me." She told the sad tiger. "I'll miss you." She said as she hugged him and put one foot on his back to climb over the gate. "Goodbye." She whispered before she climbed over to the other side.
The next day, Harry and Ron were doing their usual morning shopping. Well, they were trying to steal again so they could brew more of the potion. Some of the ingredients were in Hogsmeade, but they were going tonight for the others.
"Ok, Ron, go!" urged Harry. They were going to steal some mandrake juice from one of the shopkeepers.
Ron went inside the store, took some random object and ran out. The shopkeeper saw him and ran outside to try and catch him. Meanwhile, Harry went inside and sole what was needed along with some candy. He couldn't resist.
"Hey, mate." Said Ron when they were safely on the top of one of the buildings. Harry handed him a chocolate frog and Ron bit the head off.
Meanwhile, Hermione was smiling at everything and everyone she saw. There were so many interesting things! She couldn't decide what she wanted to do first. Go into Honeydukes or the Three Brommsticks for some butterbeer.
She accidentally bumped into a man giving some free sample of Pepper Imps, and he swallowed them making him breathe fire. She jumped back and the hood of her cloak slid off her hair to reveal her tiara.
Harry saw her from atop the Qudidditch Supplies store. Ron was waving his hand in front of him, but to no avail. Ron looked to see what was keeping his best mate occupied and he rolled his eyes when he saw it was another girl.
She had put the hood back up to hide her tiara before anyone noticed. Luckily, no one did. She saw a little boy looking inside the candy store and she decided to get something from it. She took one of the candies from the shelf and gave it to the boy.
"You'd better be able to pay for that." Said the crabby storeowner.
"Pay?" she asked.
"No one steals from my store." He told her. She finally understood what he meant and said that she didn't have any money.
"Thief!" he exclaimed. Some people were already starting to look.
"If you'd let me go to the castle, I could get some from the sultan." She told him.
"Do you know what the penalty is for stealing?" he asked her as he pointed his wand and was about to say a curse when Harry decided to step in.
"Thank you, kind sir." He said to the man. "Where have you been, I've been looking all over for you." He asked her in a loud voice.
"What are you doing?" she asked him in a whisper.
"Just play along." He whispered back.
"You know this girl?" the owner asked Harry.
"Sadly, yes." He lied. "She is my sister. She's a little crazy." Hermione was taken aback.
"She said she knew the sultan." Hermione thought that there was no way out of that one, but she was wrong.
"She thinks that my friend is the sultan." He lied smoothly. Deciding to play along, she bowed in front of Ron and said, "Oh, wise sultan, how may I serve you?"
He patted her on the head and Harry took another chocolate from the shelf and presented it to the man.
"Tragic, isn't it?" he said referring to Hermione. "But no harm done." He said giving him the candy.
"Come along, sis. Time to go see the doctor." Harry said as he picked her up from the ground.
"Hello, doctor, how are you?" she said to a seer.
"Not that one." Harry told her. "Come on, sultan." He said to Ron. When he mock-bowed, some money and food slipped from his pockets, and he quickly ran with Harry and Hermione in the lead before anyone caught them.
Back in the Chamber of Secrets, Wormtail was helping Riddle with a spell to create a storm.
"Cant we just wait for a real one?" whined the rat.
"Save your breath." Riddle snapped.
"Yes, evil one." Said the former Marauder as he put more energy into the spell.
"Part sands of time; reveal to me the one who can enter the cave." Riddle recited as he put the blue diamond in the middle of the wands.
The image showed Harry helping Hermione through the passageway from Hogwarts to the Shrieking Shack.
"There he is!" said Riddle in triumph. "My diamond in the rough!"
"That's him?" asked Wormtail as he was shot back into the wall because of the force of the spell.
"Let's extend him and invitation to the castle, shall we?" Riddle asked mockingly.
"Swell." Said Wormtail coughing as Riddle laughed evilly.
"Almost there." Harry told Hermione as he helped her get to the whomping willow.
She tripped on a root and Harry caught her in his arms. They stared at each other until Ron cleared his throat. He was waiting for them.
"I want to thank you for stopping that man." She said to him.
"Forget it." He said waving her apology. "This is your first time in Hogsmeade, huh?" he asked her as he prodded the knot on the tree.
"Is it that obvious?" she asked.
"Well, you do kind of stand out." He told her. She blushed at his compliment, but came to his senses when he was trying to hold the knot for her.
When he saw that she was already next to him, she said she was a fast learner and went down the tunnel with him.
"Watch your head there." He warned her as she ducked.
"This where you live?" she asked in awe.
"It's not much," he said going upstairs. "But, it has a great view." He told her as he pulled the moth-eaten curtains to reveal Hogwarts castle.
"The castle looks pretty amazing, huh?" he asked her.
"Its wonderful." She said with no emotion as she sat on a chair.
"I wonder what it would be like to live there." Harry said as he imagined. "Have servants and valets."
"Sure, people would tell you where to go and how to dress." Hermione said offhandedly.
"Better than here. Always scrapping for food and ditching the Slytherins." Said Harry as Ron rolled his eyes.
"You're not free to make your won choices." Said Hermione, thinking.
"Sometimes you feel..." said Harry as he thought of the right word.
"You're just…" said Hermione.
"Trapped." They said at the same time. They looked at each other and smiled. They understood one another. Harry broke the silence.
"Where are you from?" he asked handing her an apple, but not without doing a trick with it.
"Doesn't matter. I ran away and I'm not going back." She told him catching the apple.
"Really? How come?" he asked curiously.
"My father is forcing me to get married." She told him. It was the truth.
"That's awful." He commented. Ron was trying to fall asleep as it was almost sundown. "That's not fair. I wish there was something I could do to help."
"That's very sweet." She told him. His face was inching closer to hers. She felt her heartbeat quicken. Their faces were getting closer and closer until—
"There you are!" said a voice from the passageway. It was a Slytherin.
"There after me! There after you?" Harry and Hermione said at the same time.
"My father must've sent them." She muttered. Ron had already jumped out the window.
"Do you trust me?" Harry asked her quickly.
"Y-yes." She told him. He grabbed her hand and told her to jump. They landed right next to Ron. He was already hiding in a pot, but the Slytherins had seen Harry and Hermione.
"We just keep running into each other, don't we Potter?" sneered Snape. Harry elbowed him and told Hermione to run for it.
But they way was blocked. Ron didn't move. He would get them out of the dungeons later.
"Let him go!" Hermione demanded.
"Look here, a mudblood." Sneered Snape once more as he knocked her to her feet.
"Unhand him!" she yelled again. She lowered her hood to reveal her crown. "By order of the princess!"
"Princess Hermione!" gasped Snape.
"The princess?" Harry said to himself. Ron was thinking along the same lines.
"What are you doing outside the castle? And with this half-blood?" Snape asked her.
"That's not your concern." She told him. Harry was now beginning to understand everything that she had said, forced marriage, feeling trapped. "Do as I command! Release him!"
"I would, princess, but my orders come from Riddle. You'll have to take it up with him." Snape informed her, as he bowed out of the street.
"Believe me, I will." She said more to her as she crossed her arms and gave a stare that would give Riddle a run for his money.
A/N: whew! Another chapter! 8 pages! Hope you liked it! Please tell me of it was good or not. Next chapter comes in Carpet and Genie. See who they are in my version next time on Aladdin: HP style!
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