Disclaimer: As I have said, I don't own anything in this fic. Except for the plot.
Hope you'll enjoy this chapter, not that long though. And be warned, lots of the parts in this chapter has the phrase: '...rolled his/her eyes'. Too much of it in fact, I just couldn't help myself...Eheheheheh!!
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-Chapter 8: Surprises-
"What do you want Brown?" he asked irritably, as Lavender was getting closer.
"About our bet on H-"
"Shut up Brown" Draco said hastily as Hermione stepped out of the portrait.
"Huh?" Hermione turned her head "Oh, hey Lavender! What did you say about a bet?" she asked suspiciously.
"Uhh...w-we" Lavender stuttered. Draco glared at her again then faced Hermione.
"Don't tell anyone, okay Hermione?" Hermione still looked suspicious but then nodded. "I bet Brown here that Goyle could get Abbott into bed with him"
Hermione made a face.
'Eww...that is totally disgusting...and just plain wrong!"
"I know, and Goyle was just about to-" Hermione placed her hand in front of her face.
"Disgusting Draco, too much information, don't need to know more if you mind," she said as she started walking to where Lavender came. 'Hannah and G-Goyle?' she thought as she stuck out her tongue while walking.
'Good one, I'll just tell you later then' Lavender mouthed to Draco as she ran ahead of him and past Hermione.
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"What is it you wanted to tell me about the bet?" Draco asked Lavender impatiently who was now accompanied by Parvati inside the library just by the door.
"Nothing, forget about what I said." Lavender replied "Anyway, Harry told me he wanted to tell you something about a book or something, I for one didn't believe it but he sounded serious, so I decided to just tell you. He said to meet him at the Room of Requirement after dinner."
Draco rolled his eyes and swiftly turned and walked out of the Library.
"How rude!" Lavender exclaimed.
"Shhhh!!" Madam Pince said from behind her, who was glaring at her direction.
"I told you, you shouldn't have bothered to tell him" Parvati said in a whisper.
Lavender rolled her eyes.
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"Why is she doing this Harry?" Ron whispered to Harry who was across from him on the table.
"Uhh...because we had a fight?" Harry replied sounding sarcastic then rolled his eyes. Sometimes he just can't believe how daft his best friend gets sometimes.
Hermione was sitting beside Lavender and Parvati and across from Dean and Seamus, not too far from Harry and Ron, just enough to hear their conversation.
Harry shifted on his seat and leaned a little towards their direction.
"So Hermione, what's going on with you and Malfoy?" Parvati asked suspiciously.
Hermione blushed and poked her steak with a fork.
"Yeah Hermione, why are you hanging around with that Slytherin scum?" Lavender agreed.
"W-we're just friends that's all" Hermione replied as she blushed even harder.
"Right, and Dumbledore is my grandfather" Parvati said sarcastically and rolled her eyes.
"That is possible you know" Hermione said hopefully.
"What's possible?" Seamus asked as he looked up from what he and Dean were looking at under the table.
"That Dumbledore could possibly be P-"
"Oh stop it Hermione," Lavender cut in "stop changing the subject. Now, tell us, why are you hanging around with the git?"
"Well, he is rather nice than before and-"
"Nice?" Parvati asked sounding unconvinced "Are you mad? Malfoy's only nice because of the way you look now, haven't you noticed that?" Lavender nodded.
"Malfoy?" Dean asked as he chucked a piece of his fish into his mouth. Hermione made a face looking disgusted.
'Ewwww!!!' Hermione screamed inside her head. It strongly – and unfortunately – reminded her of Noby and his moldy fish. She was vomiting in the inside...if that were possible.
"I don't know," Dean said as he continued chucking pieces of fish into his mouth "he seems different. He actually seems much more civilized than before, but of course I'm not saying he's nice or anything"
Hermione was still listening to him but can't help feeling sick.
"Yeah right, after we heard his plan on..." Parvati's voice trailed off as she glanced one look at Hermione then back at her food.
"Plan on what?" Hermione asked curiously.
"What plan?" Parvati asked innocently.
"I dunno, you just said a plan about Draco and-"
"Parvati!" Lavender suddenly exclaimed as she stood up "We have to go, you know the new dress I told you about? My mum just sent it in a while ago, c'mon!"
Lavender pulled Parvati from her seat as they jogged towards the oak doors and out to from the Great Hall, leaving a curious yet suspicious looking Hermione.
Both girls leaned back on the wall as they snickered uncontrollably.
"Good acting Parvati!" Lavender said as she started gasping for breath.
"You weren't bad yourself," Parvati replied also gasping for breath "it would have been obvious if you didn't speak up"
Lavender smiled, proud of herself. Parvati rolled her eyes.
"Well, I knew you were having trouble, and I really did get it a while ago, mum owled it to me"
Parvati grinned as both girls headed up the magical staircases.
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"Potter!" Draco hissed as she poked his head inside the room "Are you in here?"
Draco entered the Room of Requirement fully now and walked around.
"Malfoy?" a voice said from the door.
"About time" Draco replied in a dull and impatient voice.
"Oh stop it, I saw you come in here just now" Harry replied snappily.
Draco shrugged and headed towards one of the desk chairs. He pulled a white handkerchief from his pocket and used it to strike a wipe one the chair to see if it was dirty.
Seeing no dust, he sat himself down. Harry rolled his eyes as he closed the door behind him and started pacing in the room.
"Well? What do you want to tell me?"
"I really don't want to tell you this but, as I've been told by Hermione herself, she..." Harry's voice trailed off.
"Told you what?" Draco asked getting more impatient.
"Will you please be a bit patient about this?" Harry snapped as he stopped his pacing, "If you must know, I'm about to tell you something private and I'm not nor do I want to be a snitch, especially on my friends"
It was Draco's turn to roll his eyes.
"Anyway," Harry started again as he glared at Draco "Hermione has a plan in store for you, I don't know what, but it has something to do with her being so nice to you"
Draco's eyebrows furrowed as he slowly looked down. He almost believed that maybe the girl started to like him, because he feels that he likes her too.
"But, there's something else." Harry started again. Draco looked up at him. "Hermione – unfortunately – sounded serious when she told Parvati and Lavender that you are..." Harry acted as if he was about to vomit "nice"
Draco smiled as he heard this piece of news, but then frowned.
"Patil and Brown? What do they have to do in any of this?" he asked suspiciously.
"How should I know? I just overheard them d-" Draco raised and eyebrow and Harry glared at him "fine, I was eavesdropping, not intentionally though, I happen to be close when they started talking about you. Parvati and Lavender was asking Hermione why she hangs out with you, that was when she said you were nice. But then Parvati said something about you having a plan for her"
"What plan?" Draco asked curiously as he stood up from his seat.
"How should I know? After that both of them ran out of the Great Hall and Hermione looked suspicious at what they said. It seemed like she was suspecting something, but I'm not sure"
Draco nodded and tapped a finger on his forehead repeatedly, thinking about what those two might have told Hermione. Then it clicked. Draco glared at the ground, then at Harry.
"What?" Harry asked.
"Nothing, but – I can't believe I'm saying this – errr...thanks" Harry sent him a suspicious look but nodded in return.
Draco then walked pass him towards the door frowning and looking ready to kill.
"Malfoy," Harry started again. Draco turned to look at him. "Remember our deal, bring Hermione back to me and Ron. You know as much as I do that I hate fighting with another person, especially if that person is or rather was my best friend"
"Don't worry Potter, let me figure out a few things first, then I'll convince Granger to kneel down in front of you, begging for your forgiveness" He said as he turned around once again and left through the door.
"Don't forget Malfoy, or else you'll regret it" Harry said warningly as he too went out of the room.
Both looked at each other and nodded at the same time, then left in opposite directions.
'I can't believe I just told him that, if Hermione ever finds out, I'm dead for sure' Harry thought regretfully until something came into his mind, and it involved a certain friend of his 'I think it's better if I tell him now rather than later, or else he'd get mad at me too' Harry smiled then ran to the direction of the Owlery.
'Patil and Brown will pay for this, if their going to play dirty, then so will I' Draco thought evilly as his frown turned into an evil smile.
'This ought to be good' Garnet told herself as she came out from one of the empty classroom across the Room of Requirement.
She had followed Harry when he separated from Ron in the Great Hall, and hid inside an empty classroom, which she left open slightly open in case she might hear anything in their conversation...but unfortunately, she didn't except for the short conversation they had when they came out of the room.
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A few minutes later, somewhere in the castle...Hermione was walking down the corridor slowly, deep in thought.
'What the hell were they talking about?' Hermione was really disturbed by what Parvati said at the Great Hall 'I mean, surely they were just j-'
"Hey Hermione!" a voice said ahead of her, cutting off her thinking.
"Hello..." Hermione gave a small smile at a 7th year Ravenclaw who was looking her over from head to toe...and who she never even saw before.
'Ugghhh...what was it they were talking about?' Hermione thought, she was getting very irritated not knowing something that someone does.
"Hermione," another voice said but now came from behind her.
"Hello" Hermione replied absentmindedly without even looking back.
"Hermione," the voice said again, getting closer.
"Hi" Hermione replied absentmindedly again, still not looking back.
Then, a growl sounded in the corridor. This time, Hermione stopped, then turned around...but saw no one. She sent a suspicious looks around her, then turned back around, and was met by a surprising sight.
-End of Chapter-
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Reviewers yet again...
Lothliana: Lol!! Poor smelly fishy...I hate eating fish!! But I do enjoy fishing, I go fishing every summer with my cousins since I was 8 or was it 9? Either way, I first thought about the smelly part, and when it comes to stenches, I hate the smell of fish, dead or not dead, plus Noby is a pirate, so I decided on the fish as the smelly thing...Eheheheh!!
dramaqueen72: Honestly, I was planning on it to be Harry, but my mind had other decisions, so I decided it to be Lavender instead.
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Hi!!! Hope you liked this very short chapter...the last one was longer because I wrote it early yesterday, which was a Sunday. So, more time to write it, but today is Monday and we have an exam tomorrow for Chemistry and I haven't studied yet!! And it's almost 8:30...so, must keep this short. And since it is short, decided to put up another cliffie. I kinda enjoy doing it...Eheheheh!! Please, Read and Review!! Toodles!!
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