The room itself had not changed but different things were in place instead of her normal roomies things. One suitcase she looked at was labelled with Lilly Evans in gold paint. Harry's mother, well at least she new at least one of the girls she would be sharing a dorm with. She ran over to her suitcase and opened it, looking at all her things that she had bought. Personally, ouch, this decade hurt, well at least it wasn't the 80's; she shuddered to think if it had been. Well at least her hair would have been in.
There was a commotion down stairs and she knew that dinner must be over. Running down the stairs she tripped and fell head over heels into the arms of a stunned Sirius's. How embarrassing, her face started to turn bright red so it looked like a tomato. In the corner of her eye she saw Draco in a silent fit of laugher. Rolling her eyes she looked up at the person whom she had fallen head over heels for.
Sirius.
Then at that moment there was a scream, Sirius put her down looking guilty. That's when she saw her, Brittany Edwards. Now you didn't think a guy that hot would ever be single now did you?
"What the hell do ya think your doing Sirius? I mean honestly what the bloody hell do ya think ya doing?" Came a very snobbish voice. The girl standing in front of her was a stunningly beautiful girl of her age, but her face was covered with horrid black eyeliner and mascara, her pretty green eyes hidden. She had her school shirt nearly undone only leaving two buttons done up and her hair was died an unnatural blonde. And she was chewing loudly on a piece of bubblegum.
"Well what do you have to say for ya self? Ya two timing basted!"
'Two timing?' Hermione thought.
"Oh and whose ya new slut? Look Sirius this is the Last time!" The girl shrieked. Sirius look was of a calm sort of annoyance. (sorry for language)
"What are you talking about? And whom are you calling a slut? Look in the mirror Brittany. I mean if you don't trust me then maybe we shouldn't be together."
"Oh not again Sirius, ya always come runnin back to me in a few days any way! I mean ya like a lost puppy." She smiled with satisfaction.
"That may be, but for now lets call it quits honey." With that he marched off to the dormitory. Then Brittany turned on Hermione.
"Oh and what do you think you were doing even touching a guy like him?" She looked her up and down. "I mean honestly you think you have a chance? I mean look at you! Your fat and damm ugly! Look at your hair! I'd kill myself if I woke up looking like you." She gave a snort as if to say 'you're pathetic' and walked up to the dormitory.
Hermione felt tears forming in her eyes. By now the whole dormitory were gazing up from there groups, staring at her, she ran out of the common room and headed down to the lake. Draco started after her, all these Gryfindors were unnerving, he had said worse things to her, but he had felt more protective over her in this time, mainly because she was the only person he knew. He sighed, oh Merlin he was going to regret this, he ran after her.
Hermione jumped into the water, it was cold yes, but refreshing, she felt something coming closer to her and a cold firm grip grasp her from behind
"Shh!" She heard a familiar voice say. She turned slightly and saw the outline of a very tall male. The moonlight shone on his face and she realised that it was Draco.
"What are you doing here?" She escaped his arms and swam further away from the bank.
"Do you really think I would let you come out here by yourself in this state?" He sighed, "Well actually I would, but honestly I wasn't staying in a room by my self full of Gryfindors. You do know that this water is bloody freezing don't you?"
Hermione giggled somewhat. Malfoy, the Malfoy had just jumped into a freezing cold lake on a winter's night for her, Hermione. That was at least worth something.
"I'm sorry." She sighed, she hated how some girls could wear anything and look absolutely stunning.
"Hermione your…your pretty alright? That cow that said things to you couldn't talk she was ugly as. Kinda like a rat really." He said, he felt like he was about to faint it took a lot out of him to say something like that to her.
She blushed. Why was Draco saying all these things just to make her feel better?
"Hum, I'm meant to believe a slytherin?" She started swimming back to shore, him closely following.
"But I'm not a slytherin I'm a gryffindor." He yelled at her from across the water. She reached dry ground and looked down at her robe was fully soaked. She started to remember the cold and shivered, she was so stupid to have gotten into frezzing cold water in the winter, at night!
Draco reached the shore and dragged off his own wet robes, "Why are you being nice, Malfoy? What do I have that you want?" Hermione asked.
"Nothing, seriously I know when to be civil and when to be a bastard, nows not the time to be either so I'm being…well nice as you put it. Though, I will always be a slytherin and we aren't to be trusted." He took on a very a strange expression on his face, it sort of looked a bit like sadness, but Draco Malfoy was too cold to ever have that expression.
"You know you're a Gryffindor now, maybe you weren't meant to be cold and mean." His expression changed quickly, "No, I'll never be like that, it's in my blood, my family, I could never change that. I'll always have a deep down a black heart." She drew back at his words, he saw this a quickly continued, "But you never know, a woman can change a man." He smiled a cheekily at her.
She smiled back, I mean how could you not love that smile? He was dripping wet and his blonde hair hung messly, "Fine, Malfoy, a truce, until we go back to our real time."
Hermione held out her hand, Draco looked at it strangely, "What do I do?" He asked. She rolled her eyes and grabbed his hand, shaking it roughly, "there, now we have to be friends until we go back to our own time!" He nodded, "That's cool by me."
They walked back up to their Gryffindor Dorms talking about nothing in particular.
"... And that's why I've always had a fear of spiders." Draco finished. Hermione laughed remembering Ron and his fear of spiders. Then she stopped. She missed Harry and Ron so much. She pulled a photo out of her pocket that she always kept in her pocket, if it had been a normal photo it would have been drenched, but of cause it was not a normal one.
There was the three of them, together, smiling and laughing. That was the day that they all had finally become Animagus. Ron was a big black dog, Harry was a stag, and Hermione was a cat. They decided to do it when Mrs McGonagall suggested it would be very good for an auror (Sorrys don't have my book with me so don't blame me if that's spelt wrong.) to have. There were also rumours that Draco had also become an Animagus. It had been rumour that he was doing this too get information from the inside.
They reached the common room and by now there was only six people left in the room. Four of them sitting near the corner bent over something and the other two were talking quietly in the corner.
They stared at them as they came in.
"Oh Merlin, Hermione! I thought that you had gotten lost or something! Are you alright?" Came a very worried voice. Hermione looked at Lilly.
"I'm fine! I'm sorry to have worried you."
That's when Draco whispered in her ear. "I'm going to bed I'll see you in the morning." With that he walked up to his dorm. Lilly and her friend looked at her excitedly.
"Spill!" She screamed excitedly. Hermione just smiled. They walked up to the dormitory and Hermione had a quick shower then sat down on her bed. They were the only ones in the dorm.
"Hermione this is Storme, Storme this is Hermione." Lilly introduced.
"Nice to meet you, Hermione, so what's the thing between you and that new hottie?" She exclaimed. Hermione couldn't help but grin. The girls squealed at this. They talked long into the night.
Hermione woke and rubbed her eyes, throwing the blankets off she jumped out of bed and quietly went down to the common room. She screamed when she saw a very young looking Sirius sitting near the fire. She nearly had a heart attack. What was he doing at Hogwarts? Actually what was he doing alive? What was happening? Then she saw Harry coming down the stairs wondering who had screamed- wait, that wasn't Harry, and that wasn't Sirius back from the grave, everything came back to her now.
"What? What? Where's the giant killer rabbit?" Said a slightly confused James. He looked at Hermione worriedly. Sirius was up and next to her.
"Are you ok what happened?" Sirius asked. She thought quickly.
"I, I, I umm, I... saw a spider!"
"You screamed for that? What is it with girls and spiders?" James asked still half asleep. Sirius chuckled. He had obversely been up for ages and was no longer asleep. There was a thud and Draco appeared holding his head.
"Waz happenin? Is 'ermione ok?" Draco asked.
"Ermione just saw a spider." James explained. Draco's eyes widened.
"Spider? What spider? Is it dead? Where is it?" He babbled. Hermione giggled. This really was an amusing sight.
"Oh shush up Granger! Err, I'm going back to bed." And with that Draco stormed back up to the boy's dormitories.
"Granger?" Questioned Sirius. Hermione froze. That stupid prat of a boy! He couldn't keep his mouth shut long enough!
"Err, it was my nick name at my old school because, umm the name Hermione was really common so they gave me a different name. Which was Granger." Hermione gave a warm smile. Sirius looked a little sceptical but looked as if he accepted her excuse.
"So would Hermione like to come with me to breakfast?" Sirius asked politely. James looked offended.
"What? Fine just don't invite the great James!" James scowled.
"You mean James the great prat!" Sirius joked. Hermione thought for a minute. Well she needed to talk to Draco, so she would go down later.
"Well actually you two can escort yourselves." She gave a fake yawn, "I feel like going back to bed for a while." Sirius seemed a little disappointed but James grabbed Sirius and linked arms.
"Come on buddy!" He cried and skipped with his friend down to breakfast.
Hermione sighed. She looked round before sneaking up to the boys dormitories. Who she hadn't noticed was a red haired girl watching from the top of the girl's stairs. Hermione ran up the stairs and slightly opened the boy's door.
She peered in and saw a half naked Draco cross the dorm. She whispered his name to get his attention. He looked around the room before noticing her. She called him over.
He looked at the sleeping figures of Remeus and Peter and quietly walked out of the dorm and shut the door. He was a good foot taller than Hermione and looked down at her.
"Yes Hermione you called?" He asked. Her eyes narrowed.
"You nearly blew our cover! You stupid prat! You said my real name in front of James and Sirius!" She whispered madly. He rolled his eyes.
"Don't roll your eyes at me boy!" He gave a true smile, not a snarl a smile. Hermione couldn't help but smile back.
"So is that all you wanted me for? Or was there something else?" He gave a cheeky smile.
"Oh please Draco, I'd more likely fall for Peter then you."
"Well unlikely there's still a possibility." She had now realised how gorgeous Draco looked with out a shirt. Oh god she was losing it! Suddenly he was leaning into her. Oh god! She thought. She pushed him away, Draco looked a little disappointed, she turned to leave but suddenly felt her whole body go weak, swaying a little she tried to keep her balance, but it was no use, she toppled over her senses blacking out.
Draco heard footsteps coming up the stairs. Sirius appeared in the corridor, "Oh, hey Draco, just came to get my-" He looked down at the ground surprised, he looked back to Draco, "Is that Hermione?" Draco rolled his eyes and said, "Come on help me get her up." They both pulled her to her feet just as she came too, "oh, hi Sirius! Finished Breakfast, already, gee that was quick." Hermione said wearily swaying as if tipsy.
"Draco, what did you do to her?" Sirius asked, Draco shrugged, "I was just talking, and then she kind of collapsed," Hermione rocked off balance and fell back to the ground, "Just like that."
Realising that Hermione was now out cold again, the two boys took her to the hospital wing, Madam Pomfry told the boys that she should be fine and she'd be out by that afternoon. Draco and Sirius walked down for breakfast, finding seats near James and Remus, Peter was still fast asleep.
"Where's the new girl?" Asked James who looked behind Sirius and Draco, as if Hermione was somehow hiding behind them, "She's in the hospital wing, she fainted." Said Sirius between bites. James looked up surprised, really? Why?"
"I guess from the excitement of meeting me!" Stated Sirius,
"Oh yeah!" Said James high fiveing Sirius and Draco, "You must be good!"
Lilly who was sitting further up the table had listen in when they had mentioned Hermione, and had moved closer to the four to hear.
"But," James said looking keenly at Lilly, "I'm better," He then gave a tooth filled grin. Lilly rolled her eyes and spoke, "Have you ever thought that maybe she has something seriously wrong with her? That maybe she collapsed because she is sick? And its just not your amazing looks?" Draco looked down as if ashamed, Lilly them gave James a look and walked off in the direction of the hospital wing.
