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A/N: Ahh, yes. I totally forgot that Hermione's patronus was an otter. But, I do have to change it to fit the story line. Hope you guys don't mind! You'll see in the later chapters. Thanks you guys (: Also, yes you guys, it was a dementor in the last chapter. Now enjoy the new chapter! ILY! 3

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Chapter 4 ;; Research

Draco and Hermione were found later back at Hermione's summer home, pouring over books. They were in the library, the only room in the house that had been magicked to become larger than it actually was. It was a beautiful library. It was like a ballroom with hundreds of books lined up along the walls. It had been a birthday present from her best friends and her parents.

"I don't understand it. How could we have done that?" Draco thought out loud as he leafed through the pages of his book.

"I have no idea Draco. I never even knew that we could destroy a dementor." Hermione replied.

"What the hell was a dementor doing in a muggle amusement park?"

"You don't think it was sent after you, do you?" she asked. They both let the question hang in the air.

Draco shivered, "I hope not. They would never go into the extreme measure of sending a dementor after me at a place with a load of muggles. They wouldn't go that far to try and kill someone and risk an act like that. Plus, Volde—He knows he can't control the Dementors. He's been trying to figure out how to control them lately. Well, from what I've heard."

"Then what was it doing there…" she just didn't understand. There were so many unanswered questions (a/n: readers nod in agreement). Then she closed the book she was reading and stood up.

"Well, whatever it was doing there, it was clearly sent after us. I don't think we're safe here anymore Draco. We've got to leave by tonight." They both walked out of the library and up to her room.

"Where will we go?" he asked as Hermione began packing up her trunk.

"We'll go stay at the Leaky Cauldron. It'll be safer where there are loads of witches and wizards around. Then we could always look up all of this at Flourish. Anyways," she paused as she tried to remember what else to pack, "we need to go get you some new clothes."

Draco flinched at that thought, "If only I could sneak into my house…"

"Draco, I still don't know what had happened to you, but I do think that's a pretty stupid idea." Hermione pointed out. She threw in a few more necessities and then walked out with Eden in her cage.

"Didn't you have a cat?" Draco asked.

"Mother and father are looking after her at the moment. Crookshanks is getting rather old and I don't think its safe for her to travel anymore." Hermione replied. Then she looked at him. "Hold onto the other side of the trunk. You ready?" Draco nodded and they both apparated outside of The Leaky Cauldron. They walked inside and a witch sat on the counter, "Yes? How can I help you two?"

"We'd like two rooms please." Hermione said.

"Would you like the rooms to be connecting?" the witch asked.

"Yes please." She replied.

"That would be 14 sickles and 2 knuts please." Hermione took out her wallet but Draco stopped her.

"Take the money out of my account." Draco said confidently, staring straight into the witch's eyes.

"Yes, of course Mr. Malfoy." She nodded feeling intimidated. She wrote the order down and then led them up to their rooms. Both rooms had a queen sized bed with a closet, a bathroom and a few other necessities. There was also a door in between both rooms, leading into the other room. "Will this be all?" They both nodded. "If you need anything don't be afraid to ask." And then she walked back downstairs leaving the two in the room.

"Thanks for paying." Hermione thanked.

"Of course. It's the least I could do." Draco smiled back at her.

"Let's head over to the bookstore?" she suggested. Draco nodded and the two went over to Flourish and Blotts to begin their research.

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Days passed and still the two had no luck finding anything. Hermione and Draco had nearly gone through the whole bookstore.

"Hey Hermione, check this out." Draco called, pointing to an entry in a book. Hermione looked over his shoulder and read it.

In the summer of 1987, a strange occurrence had emerged from a muggle area. Authorities came to the distress call of a local muggle about her husband. 44-year-old Herbert Ford was found laying on the ground, eyes wide, not saying a word. The wife, Susan Ford had thought that he had died. It seems that Ford had been gardening outside when he suddenly collapsed. The Ministry of Magic was called in to investigate and it was shown that Herbert Ford had been a victim of the Dementor's kiss. It is still not known why a Dementor was in that area. It seemed it was attracted to the house somehow. The Unspeakables in the Department of Mysterious took up this case but soon closed it, not able to find any evidence on where the Dementor was, or where it had come from.

"That's interesting." Hermione finally said, after rereading the passage a few times. "That's just like what happened the other day."

"But they closed the case. We won't be able to find anything." Draco sighed, closing the book. Hermione shook her head.

"No, there's still the Hogwarts Library. We'll just have to wait until we get to the school." She declared. The two sat in silence, thinking about everything.

"I'm really worn out." Draco stood up and stretched. Hermione yawned.

"Yeah, me too. Let's head out." Hermione and Draco waved goodbye to the shopkeeper, who had grown accustomed to their long days at his shop, and walked back to the leaky cauldron. They had bought Draco new clothes earlier that day and Draco was slowly turning back to normal. That is—normal in appearance.

They walked into Draco's room and Draco sat on the bed. "At least we found something today." He gave a thoughtful smile.

Hermione sighed, "I just hope we'll be able to find out more information about this."

"Maybe it was just some random Dementor that had separated from their colony." Draco shrugged. "I don't know."

She rubbed her temples, "I just thought after a week of researching, we would find at least one entry about our patronus'." She took out her wand, "Expecto Patronum." Again a ruby phoenix emerged from her wand. Draco followed suit and their patronus' danced around the room, lighting the room up with blues and reds.

"It really is beautiful." She whispered.

"Takes your breath away." Draco agreed. The patronus' slowly faded away and left the two students breathless.

"Have you ever seen something like that?" she asked.

"I don't think so. Has your patronus ever taken that form before?" he asked.

Hermione looked down, "That was the first time I have ever successfully conjured up a patronus."

Draco looked at her, "Me too."

"I thought patronus' were supposed to be silver." Hermione scrunched up her face, thinking.

"I did too. That was pretty interesting." Draco looked at his wand. "Do you think anyone else is able to do that? Conjure up a different colored patronus?"

"I have no idea. We'll just have to—" There was a tapping on the window. Hermione walked over to the window and opened it, only to have a tawny owl swoop in and drop two letters on the bed. Each letter was pretty big, and it had the Hogwarts emblem on both envelopes. Hermione opened the envelope only to have a Head Girl badge fall out.

"Draco! I'm head girl!" she yelled happily. Draco gave her a hug, their first hug, and congratulated her. Then he opened his own letter to find a Head Boy badge. Hermione saw and gave him another hug.

"This is great, we can work together all year." She cheered. Draco grinned loving how she looked so beautiful when she was happy. He knew now that he wanted nothing more in the world than to make her as happy as he could make her. He just wanted to reach over and kiss her but he knew he couldn't. She's the only one that cares about me. I can't make things awkward between us like that. That would just hurt me so much.

"Don't you want Weasley or Potter to be Head Boy?" he asked.

"Well of course I'd want them to be." She replied. "But first of all, Dumbledore isn't stupid enough to let Ron be head boy. The school would go into complete chaos. And Harry has too much going on to be head boy." Then she smiled at him and Draco felt his heart beat a little faster, "And now that we've become such good friends, you're a great choice to become head boy." Then she gathered her letters and stood up. "I'm getting kind of tired. Good night Draco." She smiled and kissed him on the cheek. Then before he even processed what had just happened, she was gone through the other side of the door.

Draco touched the place where she had kissed him. He felt a blush creeping up his cheeks and smiled. Merlin, she's beautiful.

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A/N ;; and there you go ! Chapter 4 ! I'm on a roll (: I'm hoping to have chapter 5 up by tonight, but you never know what obstacles come my way. Rawwr. actually , i was supposed to post this up yesterday at 12pm BUT fanfiction was being mean to me . i dunno what was up but yeah . (:

So Draco finally admits to himself that he likes Hermione. OOOHHH WEEE! But does Hermione like him back? And will they ever figure out what was going on with their patronus' ? well find out in the next chapter! Well maybe they wont find out in the next chapter, but still! (: yay. I'm like totally high right now, please excuse me for any mistakes (: Also in the last chapter I did put my myspace up, but it didn't show up. Just go on my author page & it should be my homepage. Alright now…

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