Chapter 11: Duplicating.

Hermione woke with a start. She looked around. She was back in the girls' dorm, and the clock said 7:45. All the girls were sitting around her bed.

The first thing she did was pinch herself. Thank god, this was real.

"Hey, are you okay?" It was Ginny.

"Huh? Oh, yea, um…. Pass me my journal." Hermione said.

Ginny reached over and got Hermione's dream journal. After Hermione had finished, she asked "What was your dream about? I know I was in it." She smirked a little.

"Uh, none of your business."

"Oh, please, tell us, Hermione! Please?" Lavender was begging.

Hermione smirked a little herself. "No."

"Oh, why not?"

"Well, my dream journal is my dream journal. It's just like a regular journal, and I intend to keep it private."

"Well, I think that's stupid. C'mon, Hermione. Can we just read what your dream was last night? Please? Please, please, please, please?"

"Well………. No."

"You are so mean!"

"I know." Hermione smiled and got up. She went into the bathroom to get ready for another day.

When the door was completely closed, all the girls looked at the journal lying on the bed. Ginny picked it up, and opened it. ((Unlike in Hermione's dream. ) )) She flipped to the last page. It was a long description, and Ginny knew they wouldn't have time to all read it before she came out of the bathroom. Ginny cast a duplicating spell on the journal, and another journal, just like it, appeared on the bed. She cast a bunch more, for all the girls, and handed them out.

As soon as the last girl had hidden her journal, Hermione walked out. "What are you all still doing around my bed?"

"Duplicating your journal." Ginny knew that if she told the truth, Hermione would think it was a lie.

"I don't believe you." See?

"Well, I tried to tell you, but you didn't believe me. Right girls. We all have a copy, don't we?"

"Yea." They all nodded their heads.

"Then show me."

"Aww, you caught us in a lie. Drat!"

Hermione smiled to herself. Sometimes Ginny could be so daft. She walked over and put her hand out. "Where's my journal?"

"On the bed. See?" Ginny pointed and Hermione's original journal was right where Hermione had left it. Well, where Ginny had tried her best to make it look that way.

"Riiiiiiiiiiight." Hermione was getting suspicious. They hadn't duplicated her journal. If they had, they wouldn't have told her. ((She's a smart witch, but she's not that bright when it comes to lies and all that stuff)) "How much did you read?"

"None. We duplicated it, so we could read it later."

"Stop with the whole 'I duplicated it' thing. It's annoying." She scrunched up her nose in thought. "So. How many pages did you read."

"Fine. We read your first dream."

"NO! Not the one with Mr. Fuffle-bunny!"

"Yup, that's the one."

"You liar. My first dream was about me going to the mall with my mom. Boring dream, but it still needs to be recorded."

"Oh…. Okay. We read the one where you wanted to go out with Ron."

Hermione's jaw dropped open. "You read THAT ONE?" She screeched.

"Well, yea. You know, when you kissed him and you guys went to Hogsmeade and stuff."

((A/N: okay, let me explain. Ginny knows Hermione wants to go out with her brother, and figured she knows Hermione would have dreamed about this stuff, and she knows it's somewhere in her journal, so, she's saying this stuff, and she knows it's true. So, I hope that cleared things up. ) ))

Ginny was almost making herself sick saying this, but she knew she had to get out of this one alive. "Uhm. I kinda also sorta maybe read the one about, well, you know. You and, well, Harry."

"No." Hermione's jaw dropped open. "But. That was- and-,"

"You know, you really need to make up your mind, chicka."

"Oh, shuttup." She turned and sat on her bed. "Ginny. I don't understand. Why would you read my private journal?"

"Well, I'm a girl. And it's just dreams. It's not real. Now, if we read your real journal, then we might be in some serious trouble." Ohh, idea! She thought.

"But-,"

"OH! Is that the time? Well, we really must be going. Classes and all that, you know."

"But it's the holiday."

"Well, then I must study. You know me, just the little busy-bee." Ginny ran off and the other girls followed, leaving a very puzzled Hermione behind.

"Well, I've never known Ginny to study." She said to herself, then went about with her daily business. Well, what she does in the morning.

In…………… the……………… meantime………….

Ginny had run to the room of requirement. She had paced three times, desperately pleading for a safe, secure, private place to read. When she walked in, she was in a dark room, with a lamp in the corner, above a desk. She ran over, closing the door behind her, sat down, and opened the book.

Okay, so it might be a bit short, but I want your opinion.

A: Should the next chapter be her important dreams or,

B: should the next chapter be a normal chapter, and me just throwing in bits of the journal, like Ginny saying "But in your journal-," or what?

So, gimme ideas people!