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Hey guys! This chapter is not that exciting neither is it as long as the others I have written. I'm currently experiencing writers block, so bear with me here! But I promise that I'll make the next ones more interesting!
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-Chapter 4: Suspicions-
Hermione wandered through the corridors on the 4th floor at the east wing of the castle searching for a certain raven-haired boy. It was nearly midnight and everything was silent except for the light beats of music that came from the ground floor from the Great Hall. She had been running through the corridors for a good 10 minutes but still found no sight of her best friend.
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"Hey Harry!" Ron shouted as Harry walked pass the boys' lavatory. Harry didn't turn back to look at him, instead continued walking. He was looking furious. "Harry!" Ron shouted again as he ran towards his side, "what's wrong?"
Harry glared – at nothing in particular – even harder. Ron then heard him mutter something to himself.
"Come again?" Ron said, not hearing anything, as they were nearing the Great Hall, which gave off a lot of noise from within.
"Hermione's definitely changed!" he shouted out loud, his voice rang through the hall. Even though they heard the music from outside, his best friend's voice still dominated over it. Ron stopped on the spot and looked at Harry's back as he walked towards the Oak doors to the Great Hall, muttering what seemed to be swear words that even he haven't heard before.
'Something's definitely up' he thought to himself, still standing in place and staring at where Harry was.
He breathed in deeply and then exhaled, as he turned around and went up the magical staircases in search for his other best friend. He wanted to go to the Prefects quarters but one problem was...he didn't know where it was.
"Hate myself for not listening to the greasy git" he muttered to himself as he continued up the stairs. As he reached the landing on the 2nd floor, he stopped.
'I can't believe I just said that' he thought to himself. He shuddered and made a face, then started back up the staircases to look for his other best friend.
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"I've really done it this time," Hermione said to herself as she sat down and leaned her head at the wall, which was right across a window. She stared at the dark skies in the company of the twinkling stars. She stayed like this for a time, taking in its beauty, until she smacked her forehead with her right palm. "I can't believe this!" she said a little louder than she intended.
"I can't either," said an oh-so-familiar voice from her right, which resulted her to jump on her spot. She turned to see her best friend smiling at her and then looked out the window too see what she was looking at. "What are you looking at?"
"The sky" she said in a dreamy voice.
"Why?"
"Oh Ron, can't you even appreciate anything that's around you? Take a look again, doesn't, sort of put you in a trance?" Ron looked back at the window and what it held in the outside. He squinted his eyes and tilted his head to different sides, trying to find what she was talking about. Hermione just stared at him with a look of defeat. He then wrinkled his nose, as if something foul went into his nose.
"What was it I'm looking at again?" he asked confusedly. Hermione pretended to faint and let herself fall on the floor with exaggeration. She brought herself up and shook her head at herself. "What?"
"Nothing Ron, nothing" she said still shaking her head, as she turned back to look out the window.
"Actually Hermione, there is something," Ron started in a serious tone, which caused Hermione to look at him "I saw Harry a while ago, and he looked miffed, when I asked him, he only said – or rather shouted - "Hermione's definitely changed" then continued muttering some swear words to himself, what happened?"
"Nothing, I just- I mean Draco and I- I mean," she took a deep breath "Me and Draco were in the bedroom, and Harry got the wrong idea, they then started arguing about the bedroom that-"
"Wait," he said as she stopped "both of you were in a bedroom? Together? At the same time? What were you doing in there?" he said looking at her suspiciously, just like how Harry looked when he found out.
"I was getting to that," she gave an exasperated sigh and started "I was getting tired and I asked Draco to accompany me back to our bedroom –yes, our bedroom, so stop giving me that look"
"I am not giving you a 'look'," he said defensively "and besides, why couldn't you have asked me or Harry to go back with you? Why Malfoy?"
"Because, you weren't around and I was too tired to look for Harry amongst the other students who were there"
"Yeah right" he replied sounding sarcastic.
"Ron!" she shouted, "I am not lying, so will you please stop being so doubtful and trust me? I have had enough of this from Harry and I don't need it from you, you don't own me you know, and neither does Harry, so back off and just freakin' trust me" she yelled in a higher tone getting pissed off.
Ron looked at her, not believing what he heard. Hermione just breathed deeply a few times before slowly looking up. Ron was still staring at her, his eyes slowly becoming much shadowy forming a glare. Hermione gulped and then shut her eyes, she new what was coming.
'I can't believe I just said that' she thought to herself as Ron was now getting to his feet.
"You know Hermione, Harry was right, you really have changed. In fact, I don't even think your Hermione, the real one never talked back to her best friends, and she never complained whenever somebody might be worried about her. And just right now, I'm sure your not her, either that or your under the Imperius curse. But until the real one comes back, I rather not hang around with you...whoever you are" Ron said harshly as he turned around and stalked back down the corridor.
Hermione stared at him until he turned at a corner, and then smacked her forehead yet again with her right palm.
"What the hell is wrong with me?" she said to herself as she got up and made her way towards the prefects' quarters.
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Harry had been in the Great Hall, dancing with everybody else until it was nearly 1 o'clock in the morning. The other students had only started to dance now, that the party was soon to end. He would have wanted to dance more, but his legs are not permitting him to do so. He went out the oak doors and slowly headed towards Gryffindor tower.
He was just a few corridors away until a hand pulled him back by his shoulders. He was rather shocked at this, but he still had the initiative to pull out his wand. As his vision rested on his assailant, so did his wand.
"Thought I was the Dark Lord, Potter?" a certain blonde said with a smirk. "I can't believe you're still afraid of him"
Harry glared at his archrival, then smirked at his remark.
"You can't possibly mean me do you Malfoy?" Harry said to Draco with the same smirk plastered on his face, "because I don't seem to be one who is afraid to call Voldemort, by name"
Draco raised an eyebrow and glared at him.
"Look Potter, I'm not here to play these foolish games with you"
"Really now?" Harry said sarcastically as he re placed his wand back in his pocket and started his way down the corridor.
"I'm serious Potter" Draco said as he pulled him back yet again.
"What do you want Malfoy? If you wanted Hermione and I to have fight, well, you've done that already, so stop bugging the hell out of me. I'm tired, and your not helping it one bit."
"And who ever said I was trying to help?" Harry glared at him harder with more loathing in his eyes than Draco has ever seen him show.
'To think I used to call him Saint Potter' Draco mentally snickered at his own lame joke then shook his head. "Okay Potter, I just wanted to tell you something,"
"Well, then hurry up!" Harry said as he crossed his arms, still glaring at him, waiting for whatever the Slytherin wanted to say. He doesn't know what made him stay and listen, but from the depths of his mind, he had this slight feeling that it had something to do with Hermione, and he figured it was that.
"Well, you're half right. It is about Hermione," Draco started, but hastily added "I- I mean Granger"
"What about her?"
"What happened to her?"
"What do you care?"
"She's doing something she's not supposed to, and I feel that I like it and I hate it" Draco sighed, he didn't make sense at all!
"Which exactly do you feel?" Harry said, wrinkling his nose and frowning, very confused and annoyed at the conversation he was having with Draco.
Draco glared at him.
"Something's wrong with her Potter, and don't tell me you haven't noticed"
"I have, and I wouldn't care less. If you haven't been listening a while ago, or if you were too busy staring at her ass from behind, we had a fight, Mr. I-know-everything" Draco still continued on glaring at him, getting more irritated as Harry continued with talking and mocking.
"Don't start Potter," he said warningly "I know you want to get your precious friendship back with Granger, and I want to know what's going on with her"
"And your point is?"
"As much as I'd hate to say this, I want you to help me find out what it is" Harry looked at him untrustingly.
"Your up to something"
'Can this guy get anymore daft?' Draco thought to himself as he rolled his eyes. "Obviously! I just told you. I want you to help me. It gives advantage to you as much as it gives advantage to me. You want to be friends again, I can tell"
Harry looked down and sighed. He was going to regret this and he knew it, but maybe – as much as he hate to admit it – Draco was right. He looked up again to face him.
"All right then, but you have to promise not to tell anyone, especially anyone in Gryffindor, they would think I'm a traitor, making a deal with a Slytherin, and among all of them, you!"
"Don't push it Potter, if you must know, I hate doing this as much as you do. With a choice between you and Weasley, I'd rather you help me, at least you have more brains to help me than he does"
"I'd take that as a compliment. And while we're at this, we need a truce, that is, until everything is over," he held out his hand "I don't want any mishaps to happen along the way because of the feuds we had in the past"
Draco looked at his out stretched hand then back at the Harry, disbelieving. With a very annoying feeling in him, he was right. He reluctantly took his hand and shook it.
"But remember, we still need to act as if we despise each other like in our first 4 years here, or else they'd get suspicious"
"Don't worry about that Malfoy, just as long as we don't start doing a first name basis with each other, there's no problem at all"
"Yeah right, as if I would want to" he spat back still getting irritated.
"I would also consider that as acting, since we just had a truce, I wouldn't deem that anything rude you tell me as true" Draco glared at him one last time before turning around swiftly and making his way towards the other side of the corridor from where Harry was going.
Harry stared at nothing in particular then called out to his errr...new friend? 'I wanna hurl' Harry thought. Thinking of Draco Malfoy as his friend wasn't particularly amusing. "Malfoy!"
Draco turned and looked back at Harry emotionless, as usual.
"Remember, not a word to anyone," Harry warned again. Draco smirked at this.
'Does he honestly think I'd tell anyone and risk my reputation? Now I know how daft he is' Draco thought as he turned around and walked down the corridor yet again.
Minutes later, as both boys were cleared out from the corridor..."Interesting" a female voice said quietly as she came out from behind a suit of armor, which was just near the spot where the two boys talked.
She smiled at herself for her new discovery, she knew she was eavesdropping, but she happened to be there during their conversation. She smiled even wider as she slowly walked to the way where Harry did just minutes ago.
-End of Chapter-
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Who do think it was? Try to guess! Eheheheh...and I know, Harry and Draco with the truce thing is way not right and down right impossible, but you have been warned (since the first page, to be precise).
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