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Chapter 10: The Curse and Mia's Brithday

The next morning Draco woke at exactly seven. He was now at his room. He didn't want to sleep at the Hospital Wing so he followed Hermione to their chamber. He rushes up to the bathroom to clean. After several minutes he exits the bathroom. His body was all wet and the only cloth that he was wearing is a towel around his hips. He was about to get his clothes when there's a knock on his door.

He opened it and saw a shocking Hermione standing in front of him. Seeing that he was ALMOST naked, he immediately closes the door. Oh my Gosh! He was ALMOST naked! Plus it was in front of me he was ALMOST naked! Naked! Hermione thought to herself. She was panicking but then she grins. But his body was…hot. No! She shakes her head no. What are you thinking Hermione? Don't think like that!

Draco immediately changed clothes and then he opens the door again. "I'm so sorry." Hermione smiles, "It's ok. It's not your fault being ALMOST naked." He blushed and returns a smile to her. "So, do you need anything?" Hermione thinks for a moment and then, "I really don't need anything but I'm just checking if you're ok."

"I'm ok."

Hermione nods. "I see. So are you going to attend your classes today?" He thinks for a bit. "Maybe. I don't know." Hermione chuckled. "Mr. Malfoy…I guess you haven't change. You're still lazy!"

"Be used to it!"

She chuckled again and said, "Yeah right!"

"Gin, wake up. You have to see this!" Samantha was waking Ginny. Ginny stirs for a bit and then she wakes up. "What do you need now? Cant you see I'm sleeping.", she said in a moaning voice. "Look around you…Princess." Meg enters their room from their bathroom. Ginny looks carefully around her.

She was so shock to see red rose petals around their room, from her bed to the floor. And on the trunk in front of her bed was a bouquet of flowers with a red card inserted on it. She picked it up and immediately reads the red card.

Princess,

Can we be friends?

Truly Yours,

James

Meg comes over and leans from one of the poles of Ginny's bed. "Who's James?" Ginny closes the card and place the bouquet at her bedside table. "Some friend." Meg raised an eyebrow to her. "Some friend or some BOYFRIEND?" Ginny sighs. "He's not my boyfriend. He just wants to be my friend. He's some guy who I meet at the library."

"A guy?" Ginny nods. "So you met a GUY at the library. So that means he's older than you." Ginny nods again. Meg immediately jumps on Ginny's bed. "So is he cute? Does he have a hot body? Come on. Tell me, Gin. Please?" Ginny burst into laughter when she heard Meg go crazy about James. She grins and looks at her best friend's eyes. "He's got everything, Meg. Everything that a girl wants from a GUY!"

Meg's jaw dropped. "No way! No way! No way!" Ginny laugh again. "Yeah way!" But her laughter died and she became sad. "Gin, why? Is there something wrong?" Ginny shakes her head no. "Do you think he's been too fast? I mean he called me PRINCESS. He gave this bunch of flowers." Meg rolls her eyes. "Are you crazy? Why do you think like that? He gave you these things and calls you a PRINCESS because he just wants you to be his friend then after that he will confess his love for you!"

"What! No way! He just wants me to be his friend! That's all!" Meg raises her hand. "Ok, whatever you want to say."

Harry was now exiting the bathroom when he saw a house elf sitting on his bed holding a purple letter. He approaches the house elf and asked, "Excuse me? Do you need something?" The house elf looked at him in the eye, gave him the purple letter and immediately disappears. He opened it and reads the letter.

Harry,

Let's meet up at the east wing tower after breakfast. Don't worry you're excuse for your first subject.

Zia

What she needs now? Harry shakes his head. It's true, they are really are sisters. Harry quickly dress up and heads for the Great Hall.

After breakfast, Harry heads up to the east wing tower to meet Zia there. He climbs twenty staircases and walks along five corridors. He stops on a Siamese cat standing tall and proud carved two-door. He knocks. "Come in." a voice from the inside said. He opens the door and enters a big entry room. On his right, were five sets of sofa while on his left was a marble fountain full of fish coils. The windows are long and big with a size like two-storey houses. Sun was beaming from the room. At the end of the room, was another door carved again of a Siamese cat sleeping. When Harry looks up at the ceiling he was shocked on what he had seen. There carefully painted are baby angels roaming and playing around the clouds.

He was so fascinated about the place when he did not notice Zia standing behind one of the large windows just looking at the scenery outside. When Zia notice Harry, she approached him. Seeing Harry was so fascinated by the place, she snaps a finger in front of him. Harry came back to reality and was now looking at Zia. Zia wears a spaghetti strap blouse with flower petals on it, a mini skirt and some flip-flops.

Harry was now checking Zia and realizes that she, like Hermione, was hot. Seeing that Harry was checking her, she snaps again to clear his mind. "Follow me." Zia walks to one of the sofa sets and sits down. Harry follows her and sat down in front of her.

"I know, Harry you're trying to plan a surprise party for Hermione tonight. But I suggest that you should postpone it." Harry's jaw dropped. "What!" Zia sighs. "You have to postpone it." Harry protested. "But why?" This time Zia heave a long sigh. "I think it's very dangerous to celebrate tonight."

"I can't see why. Wait, how do you know I'm planning a surprise party for Hermione's birthday tonight?" Zia stands up. "Ok, I'll tell you everything but you have to promise you won't tell it to anyone."

"I promise."

"Ok. Our family has a curse. It's been running from our family for ten centuries now. This curse is only given to girls our family have and will have. It's a matter of choice. It's either fall in love or die. The early symptoms of this curse is sensing the presence of someone or something and perceiving the future ahead of us. The curse will only be effective after our family member's eighteen birthday." Harry's eyes brighten. "So you're saying that Hermione has this curse and it will be effective on her eighteen birthday. So what's the problem?"

"Harry, after her seventeen birthday that's the time the clock will start to tick. She has to fall in love before her eighteen birthday or she will die." Harry clears his throat. "Die?" Zia shakes her head yes. "But is there any way other than death?"

"There is a way."

"What is the other way?"

"Its either death or she will be a vampire." Harry was now confused. He can't understand why all this are connected to the party tonight. "But, why are trying to postpone the party?"

"Harry, tonight…Hermione will be having hallucinations, then she will faint and she will be dreaming of the future ahead of her. After a week, she will wake up as if nothing will happen. So, if I were you, I will just have to postpone her party tonight."

"I'm still confused. So, it means you too have been through this process?" Zia nods. "I suppose you fall in love?" Zia nods. "But we should not talk about who I fell in love with. If you have no questions at all you can leave now." Harry stands up. "Now, I understand." Zia smiles at him. "Ok."

"Bye."

"Bye."

Ginny and her friends were having lunch at the Great Hall when an owl dropped a letter on their table. Curious as to what the letter contains, Meg immediately grabs it. She opened it and reads it aloud.

"Ginny, can we talk…James." Ginny sighs and lowers her head while Meg frowned. She was sensing that there's something wrong with her friend. "Ginny?" She looks up to Meg. "uh?" "Are you going?" Ginny raises her shoulder. "I don't know."

"What do you mean you don't know?" Ginny sighs again. "I mean, Meg, I just don't know." Meg looks at her with don't-play-with-me eyes. "Ginny, just go talk to him…I mean…just talk for about five minutes…maybe he really just wants to be friends with you. Come on, I think this guy is great!"

Ginny hesitates for a minute. "Do you think that he's a really nice guy?" Meg nods. "Ok." She stands up and leaves the Great Hall with a smile and expectations.

"Draco?" Hermione was now at their dorm and was looking for Draco. "I'm here…" a voice calls out inside the library. She goes to the library and saw Draco sitting on the floor with tons of books around him. "What are you doing here?" Closing a book and picking another one, he said, "Reading classical books…" She frowned. "Really?" Draco nods. She sits and starts scanning the books on her left. "You never told me that you like classic books."

Being sarcastic as he was said, "I told you now." She hits him on the head for saying that and said, "Yeah, right!" "Ouch! That hurts! Why do you do that?" Hermione stands up. "What? You mean like this…" She hits him on the head again and smiles at him. Draco closes the book he was reading and stands up to face her. "Are you challenging me?"

Hermione crosses her arm. "Yeah! Do you have a problem with that?" Draco grabs a pillow behind him and said, "Yeah." and starts hitting Hermione with the pillow. Hermione runs to the nearest couch and grab a pillow and starts hitting Draco also.

Ginny was reading a spell book on the library while waiting for James when a voice called her name behind her. "Ginny…" She turns around and saw James. "Hi…" She smiles at him while James was approaching her. "Hi…" Ginny smiles again. "Hi, would you want to sit?" She offers the chair behind her to him. James accepted it and sits beside him. Ginny followed him and sits.

"So…what do you want to talk about?" James shakes his head no. "Nothing. I just want to talk to you so that I could know you better."

Ginny nods. "So can you tell me about yourself?"

"mmm…about?"

"About…anything!"

Ginny thinks for a bit. "Well, I have six brothers and I'm the only girl. My brothers have all graduated except for Ron because he died a year ago."

"Sorry…"

"No…it's ok. Anyways, let's just forget about it."

"Ok."

"So…I love rock music. I love to go to parties. I love the color black."

"I could tell I'm lucky." Ginny wonders. "Why?"

"Because I've meet a Punk Princess."

Ginny chuckles on what he had said. "Yeah, whatever. Anyways, you…can you tell me something about yourself?"

He thinks for a bit and then said, "Well, I'm the only child. I love the classics…movies and sounds. When it comes to colors I prefer dark colored ones."

"That's it?"

James thinks again and said, "Yeah. What do you want to know?"

"Well…how many girlfriends did you have?"

"Honestly, none." Ginny's jaw dropped on the sudden revelation. "Are you serious?" James chuckles and then he nods. After that, all she could do is lay back on her chair and thinks over on what he had said.

Draco and Hermione were hitting each other with a pillow for about 15 minutes now. They were keeping on hitting each other when Hermione stepped into a book and was immediately thrown to Draco. Draco being a gentleman as he was saved her and they fell to the floor. Hermione was at the top while Draco was at the bottom. And instantly they made eye contact.

It feels like a lifetime when there was a knock on the library door. Hermione stands up and held her arms to Draco so he could stand up. After Draco had accepted it, she runs to the door to open it.

She was shocked when she saw Harry holding some balloons with a 'Happy Birthday' on it and a bouquet of pink tulips. "Oh my gosh, Harry. You shouldn't have. Come in." She took the balloon and the bouquet from Harry and place it to the nearest couch. "I thought I could be the first one to greet you. Happy Birthday, Hermione." She moves towards him and gives him a hug. "Thanks, Harry."

Seeing that today was Hermione's birthday, Draco was shock because he didn't know that it was her birthday. He came to Hermione and said, "I didn't know it was your birthday today." Hearing Draco's words, she separates from Harry. "I'm sorry if I didn't tell you. I'm just not in the mood to celebrate right now if it wasn't for Harry." She looks at Harry and then she looks back to him. Draco smiles and said, "Anyways, Happy Birthday."

Hermione smiles back at him. "Thanks."

"Your welcome. So I better be going because I have some things to do. Bye, Hermione." He leaves the two of them and exits the library.

After seeing Draco leave, Harry excitedly said, "Mia, I've got a surprise for you." Hermione chuckles. "I knew it." Harry grabs her hands and leads her to the common room.

There she saw Zia standing in front of the fireplace holding a gift. "Zia!" She immediately runs to her and hugs her. "Happy Birthday! I've got a present for you." She handed Hermione a gift. It was a rectangular box wrapped with a shiny red wrapper and some gold ribbons around it. Hermione sits on one of the couch and starts to unwrap the gift Zia gave to her.

After unwrapping it, she opened the box and saw a tropical dress. Hermione picked it up and she smiles. "Zia, are you sure you want to give it to me? I mean…yeah, this is my favorite dress…and your favorite dress also…but are you really sure?" Zia rolls her eyes. "Of course, I'm sure!" Hermione smiles and hugs her again. "Thanks, Zia."

Her smile fades when she felt a painful knock on her head. She immediately sits again and soothes her head. "Mia, are you ok?" She looks up at her sister and stands up. "Yeah, I'm ok." And with that, she fainted.

A/N With the curse...will Hermione be able to conquer it? And what will happen to Ginny and James? You will find out...on the next chapter! REVIEW PLEASE!