AN: To those who read my 'chapter 16' when it first came out, I'm REALLY sorry, I'm currently updating two stories at once and I got my Harry Potter chapter and my Buffy The Vampire Slayer chapters mixed up so I'm really really sorry! Here's the next chapter, this is a REAL Hp chapter! And I promise it won't happen again...hopefully

Too Long In The Rain
Chapter 17

An hour later Oliver had a 'eureka' moment when he found a page on dream spells. Nox noctis formidonis was Latin for 'Night terror' and was banned in 1856 when a witch named Katorah Grazel used it to drive her cheating fiancée insane and ultimately causing his death because he escaped from the hospital and ended up killing himself. Luckily there is a reversal spell called 'Licentia somnium' which is Latin for freed dreams and it would reverse the spell, unfortunately it must be cast on the person casting nox noctis formidonis to be of any use and then on the victim. Oliver shut the book after writing the reversal spell on a piece of parchment.

He folded it up and put it in his pocket and sighed thinking about who would cast an illegal spell on innocent Hermione. He racked his brain and came down with three suspects, Malfoy Jr., Pansy, and Snape. He then had to delete Snape because when he left the Great Hall he was already late to meeting Hermione and when he left Snape was talking with Professor Sprout and that woman could talk. He decided on Pansy because she was stupid enough to use this spell on Hermione, Malfoy wouldn't because as much as it pained him to say it, Malfoy was smart and good at covering his tracks, he probably knew what was going on and probably told Pansy to do it and in a blind attempt to be with Draco, Pansy had started casting the spell.

Oliver, now fueled by anger, started running to Dumbledore to find out which room Pansy's (or Draco's) room was because he knew that now they were continually casting the spell and not stopping like they did before. But before he could he saw his owl Penny fly in and drop a note in his hands, he sighed and ripped it open, it read:

Dear Mr. Wood,

Since you are the only relative of Hermione J. Granger we have to inform you that she has recently escaped from St. Mungo's. We are out looking for her but currently have no leads. If you have any idea on where she could be please contact us in anyway.

Sincerely,

Robert Chase
Robert Chase, head of staff.

Oliver dropped the paper and his eyes widened before he took off in a run to Dumbledores. When he reached it he saw Draco waiting to talk to Dumbledore and Oliver grabbed him by the lapels and pushed him into a wall then yelled," Where is Pansy's room!"

Draco winced and said," Are you off your rocker Wood!"

He slammed him into the wall again and harder and said in a threatening voice," Tell me now, I won't ask again."

Draco winced and let out a yell then said," Room 324, it's the painting of the zoo, the second floor!"

Oliver gripped his tightly and said," If you're lying and Hermione dies…" He knew Draco knew what he ment and left the threat in the air then dropped Draco to the ground and ran to find Pansy's room. Once he got there he opened the door in a blast and saw Pansy sitting on the ground with her eyes closed chanting the dream terror spell, Oliver took out the paper then pointed his wand at Pansy and yelled," Licentia somnium!"

Pansy looked up in enough time to see a blinding light fly out of Oliver's wand right at her and hit her in the chest knocking her backwards and making her do a back flip. She looked up and him and asked out of breath," How?"

He smiled a bit grim and then said to her," Hermione figured it out." He kneeled down to her level and said," You ever try and come at Hermione again, I'll kill you."

He stood up again and walked out of the room then remembered Hermione and that she was still missing and ran to the broom closest and took out the fastest broom and flew around St. Mungo's close to the ground trying to find any traces of Hermione. As he flew by the forest he saw a bit of robe and hopped off his broom grabbing the robe, he recognized it as Hermione's and ran into the forest looking around for Hermione and calling her name.

Oliver looked around and cursed as it started to darken, finally he got out of the forest and saw a bundle of clothes and dark curly hair, recognizing it as Hermione he ran towards her and gently lifted her putting her back on her feet. She put her hands on his shoulders steadying herself then looked at him pausing then smiled and hugged him while saying," You figured it out…"

He grasped her tightly and said," You did, I just got the information second hand."

She kissed him on the cheek," You're the greatest."

He kissed her back on the lips passionately then said," I love you."

Hermione smiled as tears formed in her eyes and she replied," I love you too."