Disclaimer: As I have said, I don't own anything in this fic. Except for the plot.
This isn't much because I had a few distractions while I was writing this a while ago, but I hope you'll still like it. Read on!!
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-Chapter 9: Padfoot and Chess Sets-
"Y-you? What are you doing here?" Hermione asked, very much surprised that she stuttered a bit.
The shaggy black dog growled again, but not it a vicious manner, it was just...growling.
Hermione kneeled down in front of it, as it too sat down.
"Why are you here?"
The dog stood up and barked then turned around in circles in a playful manner, as Hermione just stared giving it a weird look.
"Huh?"
Since it can't bite Hermione's clothes, because she was wearing a miniskirt and a baby tee top, the dog went behind her and pushed her by her legs using its head.
"Hey! Wait a minute!" Hermione said as she started moving forward "Where are we going?"
The dog continued pushing her down the corridor then abruptly stopped. Hermione looked back and saw it now sitting on the floor, wagging its tail with its tongue out, breathing in and out. Hermione raised an eyebrow. It barked. Hermione jumped a little in shock then turned back in front of her.
"Alright fine" Hermione said as she opened the door in front of her, which led to an empty classroom.
The dog went in first, wagging its tail. Hermione rolled her eyes and followed.
"Why are you here Sirius?" Hermione repeated as she turned around to close the door behind her.
She turned back around and saw him in his human form, sitting on a chair.
"Hermione," he started "Harry owled me not a half hour ago. HE told me to come here and talk to you. I don't know why though, all he wrote in the note was 'Come to Hogwarts, I need you to talk to Hermione'. I was at the Hogs Head in Hogsmeade when I got the letter, so, I just came. I planned on seeing him first, but I spotted you down the corridor. Well, at first I didn't know it was you, but when that boy said your name, so there"
He smiled and Hermione walked forward a little and looked down, she knew Harry must've owled him, or else he wouldn't have a reason to come. But he obviously doesn't know and she decided to keep it that way as long as she can, or at least later rather than now. She breathed in deeply and looked back up to him. Sirius really has changed after the war, specifically his appearance. He wasn't that thin anymore, and his hair isn't that shaggy either. All in all, he couldn't have looked better than before.
Hermione smiled, she was happy for him. All his years in Azkaban, years of hiding, was finally paid off. Ever since the ministry let one of the Death Eaters take Veritaserum and asked if he ever was a servant of Voldemort and said that he isn't and never was, they think this was quite enough to prove that he had always been innocent. Plus, he had also helped during the war, he killed a lot of the Dark Lord's Death Eaters most of which were in his inner circle.
When the wizarding world found out about this, he instantly became famous, especially amongst the kids and teenagers, that's why he still transforms into a dog frequently when there are crowds since nobody but the members of the Order of the Phoenix know that he's an Animagus. The main reason of this – as Hermione, Harry and Ron thinks – is that because he was the Potter's best friend, he was the first to escape from Azkaban, and because he had been awarded a 1st class Order of Merlin after the war for his services for the entire wizarding world.
"Hermione?" Sirius asked curiously.
"H-huh? Oh, s-sorry" Hermione looked down again feeling embarrassed. She must've looked weird staring and grinning at him for a time. "What did you want to talk about?"
"Nothing important, only to ask you what's happening around in the castle and that why Harry asked me to talk to you" he replied as he reached into his pocket, feeling for something in it.
"Umm...why don't you talk to Harry first? I-I mean he was the one w-" she stopped as Sirius was now fumbling the tie on a little plastic bag, which contained different colors of beans.
He looked up then grinned.
"It's Bertty Botts Every Flavor Beans, the box was torn when I carried it in my mouth when I walked coming here...want one?" Hermione gave him a weird look but smiled then shook her head.
Sirius shrugged his shoulders and started back on the bag.
"Go on, I'm listening"
"Err...well, I think that you should talk to Harry first, maybe he wants to tell you something important before he wants you to talk to me" Hermione said uncomfortably.
Sirius sighed and threw the bag to the door making a slamming sound - obviously getting irritated – as he crossed his arms. He glared at the back as if it were evil. He scratched his head and looked back at Hermione, then smiled.
"Well, if you say so" he said as he stood up and looked around the room. He re placed his hand back in his pocket and pulled out his wand "I'll just call on you later"
He smiled at her as he waved his wand and the chair disappeared. He then walked pass her and bent down to pick up the bag he threw.
"I'll see you soon Hermione"
"Okay," Hermione replied as Sirius now walked out the door and turned right.
Hermione sighed then her head snapped up. She then ran out the door, catching Sirius – who is now in his Animagus form - just before he turned another corner.
"Sirius!" the shaggy black dog turned its head, now facing her "Just, don't come to conclusions to whatever Harry tells you, okay?"
The dog – if possible – looked curious at this statement, but nodded in return. Hermione smiled then turned to walk the opposite way.
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"Where were you?" Draco asked as Hermione entered their bedroom.
"Why do you ask?" she asked right back.
"Can I help it if I was worried?"
"Now I know that the world really has gone mad," she said as she flopped on her bed.
"What?" he asked incredulously.
"Nothing," she said dully as she pushed herself up from her bed "I'm taking a shower"
Draco looked at her half suspicious, half worried as Hermione slowly made her way out the door and into bathroom.
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Meanwhile, in the other side of the castle..."Ron, could you get that?" Harry asked the red head, not looking up from his book, they were the only ones in the 6th year boy's dormitory at the moment.
"Sorry Harry, I wish I can but I can't. I'm tied up" Ron replied said indistinctly.
Harry looked up from his read. Ron was on his bed waving his wand in front of his chess set and saying nonsense spells – which Harry never heard of before – and then whacking his wand on it. He rolled his eyes, he had been doing this ever since they came from the Great Hall. Although his attempts on making his chess set play against him was futile.
Another knock came from the door.
"Oh fine, I'll go get it" Harry got up from his four-poster bed and walked to the door. He slowly opened it and his eyes grew with shock and delight "Sirius!" he exclaimed.
Harry moved forward and hugged his godfather. They last saw each other on the 1st of September, and it was only the 3rd of September, but Harry still missed him. After the war, which started and ended during the half of his summer, he had been staying with Sirius in Number 12, Grimmauld Place. It was better living there than how it used to be especially when they spent much time cleaning it during the summer of their 4th year.
The Dursleys were absolutely filled with joy when they found out that Harry wouldn't be coming back, they even sent him a good-bye card together with a pack of toothpicks – better than a a string of floss which they gave him for before.
"Harry!" Sirius exclaimed just the same.
"Hey Sirius!" Ron said from behind Harry, who was still waving his wand around.
Sirius looked at Ron then sent a curious look at his godson.
"Ron is trying to make his chess set same as Professor Lupin's. He just played with his chess before dinner and is utterly jealous"
Ron looked up and glared at Harry.
"Remus' chess set?" Sirius asked as he looked up, looking like he was trying to remember something – which he actually was currently trying to do.
He suddenly snapped his fingers.
"I remember now, James and I charmed the chess set we gave him for his birthday a year before James married Lily...I can't believe he still has it until now" Sirius said thoughtfully.
"What? You mean, you enchanted his chess set?" Ron asked disbelieving.
Sirius gave him a questioning and weird look but slowly nodded.
"Yes!!" Ron exclaimed all of a sudden "My savior!" he exclaimed again as he knelt down on the floor raising his hands and lowering them repeatedly like he was worshipping.
Sirius raised an eyebrow at Harry.
'He's really desperate' Harry mouthed to him. Sirius nodded and looked back down at the redhead.
"I'll charm it later Ron, okay?" Ron grinned and stood up then headed for his bed. He took his chess set and set it on the nightstand beside his bed. He fixed his quilt and abruptly dropped down on top of it and started snoring.
Sirius continued looking at him then shook his head. He then turned to look at Harry.
"So Harry, what's the matter? Why did you let me come here?" he asked as he sat himself on Seamus' bed, which was the closest to him.
"It's Hermione, she-"
"Oh yeah, I spoke to her a while ago," Sirius cut in "all she told me is that I should talk to you first. So, what is this all about?"
"It's Hermione, I talked to Professor Lupin about this but he thinks differently from me and Ron. Anyway, on the first day, Hermione told me and Ron that..."
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Hermione walked outside the bathroom wearing a crimson bathrobe while wiping her hair with a crimson towel, feeling refreshed. She stepped inside the bedroom to see no one.
"Draco?" she called out to his side of the room with was – obviously – empty "Draco?" she repeated but still found no answer.
She stayed on her spot by the door, continuing on wiping her hair until someone's arms –which she doesn't doubt one bit - wrapped her around her waist.
"Draco, what are you doing?" she asked coolly, as she stopped wiping her hair.
"Taking in your fragrance?" Draco replied innocently as he smelled Hermione's hair from behind.
"Really?" she asked as she turned around to face him.
He nodded. Hermione raised an eyebrow at him, as their discussion with Parvati and Lavender just came back into her mind.
"Your up to something aren't you?" she asked suspiciously.
"What made you think that?"
"Nothing," Hermione said with a sigh as she took Draco's arms away from her waist "I'm going to bed, classes start tomorrow you know"
As Hermione went to her bed, Draco grabbed the drape that divided their room and pulled it to the other end, now completely covering each other from view. He then walked back to his bed, glaring at everything.
"Patil, Brown, wait until I get me vengeance on you" Draco threatened to himself, not meaning to say it aloud.
"What did you say Draco?" Hermione called out.
"Nothing, go to sleep Hermione" he called back in a polite tone.
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"I better go Harry, don't worry, I'll talk to her if I have the chance. It's getting late," Sirius glanced at his wrist watch "and since I'm here now, I guess I'll go pay Remus a visit, maybe even stay here at Hogwarts for a while too, I'll go ask Dumbledore later"
Harry grinned then nodded. Sirius smiled equally back at him then ruffled his godson's hair more than it usually did.
"I'll be off now, as what I've heard, your classes start tomorrow, and its nearly 10 o'clock, so of to bed you go. Your other friends may be coming now, so I better leave"
Sirius stood up from Seamus' bed and stretched.
"I'll see you around Harry," he paused "and be good in your classes" said jokingly.
"Like I will," Harry replied.
One of the things he likes about Sirius is that, even though he's older than Harry, he doesn't act like any of the adults. He's still as mischievous and blithe like he used to be when he was young.
"Bye now" Sirius said as he headed towards the door.
Harry waved and closed the door. He moved towards his bed and flopped down on it, then gave a long sigh.
-End of Chapter-
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Reviews!!!
midnite-goddess: (For chapter 8, page 9) This is and will be a Dm/Hg fic. I will never change that. This fic. will turn out very long, so for now, their romance bit isn't that obvious. I will always update, and won't ever stop (until the ending that is...lol)
Lover Del Dragon: Thanks!! I'll try to check it out if I can, but I have less time now because of school (only have time to write), but I will surely try!!
kk: I Read the past chapters thoroughly, you'll know. She's the 'mystery girl', I now call her Garnet since I won't be revealing who she really is until later.
shexy-cleva-yollop: Thanks for the lollie and the compliment!!lol. I write a new chapter every night after I see the reviews from the last one, that's why I have to do it so fast so I can post everyday. I try my best to write as fast as I can and at the same time trying to keep it good...so far, my way is doing good, so I'll try to keep up.
dramaqueen72: I think it wasn't that obvious that it was Sirius, but I placed the word 'growling' and Harry's last thought as a hint for you all. I was supposed to replace growl with bark, but it would be VERY obvious if I did. So, decided against it.
Pranks Are So Siriusly Padfoot: Glad I brought you to the edge of your seat. I hope you enjoy this one...and for your review on the 7th chapter (page 8), your right, I made it Malfoy instead of any other name because I know most of the students call him that.
winterytwinkle: Mare!!! Eheheheheh!! Okay ra d.i?? And, Michael is different baya from the story to the real thing. Actually, only the name is the same...Eheheheheh!!!
crazee: Thank you!! And I did and will...
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Hey guys, hope you liked this ion. Padfoot returns!!! Weeee....lol. I can't help myself, anyway, this isn't that ong either, but I was talking to a friend of mine (winterytwinkle) through YIM, she distracted me from my writing, so, I'm sorry if this chapter doesn't give much!! Read and Review. Bye now!!!
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