Chapter 2: Hogsmead Disasters
"A Hogsmead Trip! Tomarrow! Great! I need candy!" Ron said with joy.
"A HOGSMEAD TRIP!" Hermione shrieked with sheer horror. How is she supposed to see them there? The mirror only watches them through Hogwarts walls! How is she-
Wait a second.
Here she is, one of the most brilliant magical minds ever, and she is wondering what she can possibly do to follow them around Hogsmead.
Brilliant? Try thick.
A plan formulated in her head, as she dashed off towards Hogwarts, using her mirror as a Marauder's Map, showing anyone near, trying to make it to the library to find the right spells.
But of course, as fate would have it, just as she stopped looking...
"So, Ron, are you going to ask Hermione?" Ginny appeared out of nowhere next to him.
"I-I-I-I-I- Uhm... No, because we are only friends, and I most certaintly have NOT fancied her since the second year!"
"Oh. Okay then."
"Really?"
"No."
"Well,your not going with anyone."
"Not going with anyone? Try Harry." Ginny said happily. "Oh shoot. I'm a blabbermouth, aren't I? I mean sometimes I'm not but then I reveal too much and I get nervous and I talk talk talk talk talk away just like I'm doing right because you seem to be turning red and... Bye Ron!" Ginny said abruptly.
Hermione snuck into the Library and grabbed at least 7 books. After all, it's not like anyone would miss them... She left the library and heard someone yell, "HEY! THIEF! I WAS READING THAT!" Panicking, she ran until she could no longer. Winding up by the Gryffindor common room, as she heard voices...
"I am not going to ask her!" Ron said.
What? He likes someone! HE LIKES SOMEONE AND HE DOESN'T EVEN GIVE ME THE TIME OF DAY?
"But you fancy her!" Harry said.
Yep, looks like it.
With only one idea in her head, she ran into the common room and up into the boy's dorm where Harry kept his firebolt.
"Sorry Harry..." She said and flew through the window.
The Next Day
"Off to Hogsmead!" Ron said happily, and Hermione's mirror fogged out.
"Yes, off to Hogsmead..." Hermione said, using a spell to make herself appear older, and blonde. (the horror!) She slipped on an infite purse (A purse that you can use and put all this stuff in but it never get's full) and left. As she walked, she decided that the blonde seemed really unnatural and decided to turn it brown again.
"Hey! Hey Hermione!" She heard someone call, and she stiffined.
"Hey Hermione, I thought- oh, sorry, I thought you where my friend.." Neville said, as Harry and Ron past her without a second glance.
"Grr.. Oh, it's not problem really." She said and marched off. Following them into Zonko's and determined to find out who Ron was after, she dropped a love pill into Ron's hands.
"Hey, I could use this on-"
"Hello Ronnikins!" Lavender shouted and positivly jumped onto him.
"Oh, hi Lavender, I was... just thinking about you.." As Ron said these words and Hermione felt her heart break into tiny, tiny pieces, like bread crumbs.
Running outside, Hermione let out a terrible wail that shook the whole town and made people shriek, "The shrieking shack really IS haunted!" (like any of them really had the guts to go up there and check...)
Ron heard it and automatically knew something was wrong. (no dip, sherlock.) He turned around and heading outside, then followed the tracks that lead around a corner. Hearing another noise, except this one more like a terrible shriek of pain and horror, then another yell of agony that sounded like a cry for help, then silence.
Harry and Ginny caught up with him and together they rounded another corner.
Someone was there, but it was not Hermione. Her skin was a pale green, and she was floating above the ground with her arms held out as if being carried by them. She was wearing a white gown that fluttered in the harsh winds that had started up. Her hair was flying everywhere whilst her eyes where closed.
"Hermione!" They called out.
"I don't know you." Her voice was a deep, rasping version of it's old self.
"Hermione it's us!" Harry called.
"Your friends!" Ginny joined.
"I have no friends. Did you ever think I was there to do anything but do you homework? I think not. You never cared for me."
"Hermione of course we did!" Ron yelled, his hair flying about wildly.
"No, no one did, and you all broke my heart. Expecially you, Ron. You never even figured out that I fancied you, whilst all the time you liked Lavender."
Ron was dead silent.
"Hermione, that don't care about you!" Ginny stated.
Something within her snapped more then it had before. She opened her eyes to reveal blood red, glowing, piercing eyes that striked each one of them with so much hatred that even Harry shrieked with pure horror, and they were paralyzed to the spot.
"NO ONE CARES!" She yelled, as the wind grew stronger. "I DON'T MATTER!"
"But you do matter!" Harry yelled, still trying to get through to her.
"OH, YEAH, THAT's WHY YOU NOTICED WHEN I HAD BEEN GONE FOR SO LONG WITHOUT A TRACE!" Silence met this statement.
Only confirming Hermione's-- or Mutant Hermione's hypothesis. She yelled as the wind forced them all to grab onto something rooted to the ground, lest they be blown away, and storm clouds gathered. Soon rain was pelting them all. Without another word, Hermione turned around (still in mid-air) and was gone in a second. Instantly the winds died down a bit, so they didn't have to grapple to stay alive, although it was still harsh.
"She's going through the forbidden forest..." Ginny noted how the tress were bending in a straight path through the forest.
"We have to go get her." Harry yelled. "Come on!" Ginny and Harry ran off. Then they came back.
"RON! Come ON!" Harry pushed him down the hill. Ginny was about to go too, when Harry stopped her.
"Ginny..."
"Yes?"
"Uhm... Be careful.."
"Okaay..." Ginny said, a bit disappionted.
And then they ran off, trying to save their friend from whatever had happened to her.
Yes, a cliffie. Now please review! Or no more updating!
-Dun dun dun dunn-
-looks around- Ookay...
E.T.
(Note, E.T. does not stand for Extra Terrestrial.)