Hey guys, thanks for noticing my error, cant believe I even missed it! Your right, Snape left and yes Dumbledore is still potions professor. I meant to put Trelawny's name in there, and then got it into my head that it was Snape(I was watching the 3rd Harry Potter movie at the time of writing this) and so here is the chapter as it is meant to be. Thanks again to roxyfoxnyy19 () for catching it for me! ;) Review more guys, I need you!
Chapter 4: The Night of Nights
When Hermione awoke the next morning she made sure to knock and listen at the door to the washroom to make sure she couldn't hear anything before walking in. She took a long hot shower but couldn't get Draco's body out of her head. How pale and gleaming with water he'd been. How how much muscle from Quidditch he'd gotten, his back, arms, legs. The worst of it all was how she couldn't forget his ass. She'd fought herself in her dreams not to dream about him, it was hard now thats she'd seen him. She shook her wet head wildly, begging herself to forget.
When she was done in the washroom she went down to the common room to finish up some last minute work before classes. She heard footsteps on the stairs and looked up quickly to have Draco's eyes ground into hers, only in not such a hard way.
"Look Granger, I'm not saying I'm sorry about yesterday, but McGonagal and Dumbledore are right. We need to set an example, besides, I promised the Head Master that I would be civil with you. This is has already prove to be difficult, but I'll try if you will," Draco stared her down silently, daring her to retaliate.
"Are you joking Malfoy, or have you just turned soft?" Hermione wasn't entirely ready to believe him.
"Neither, I'm repaying Dumbledore, thats all."
"I don't think so Malfoy, your not going to trick me this easily. It's time for class, you go out before me, then I know your not going to hex me. Get moving ferret head,"Hermione pulled out her wand and pointed it at Malfoy.
"Fine Granger, fine," Draco smirked his famous smirk.
This threw Hermione off guard. He hadn't tried to call her a name, hadn't said anything nasty at all, he'd let it all go. Hermione decided to remain composed and not let her guard down, this wasn't like Malfoy, she kept her wand on him.
Draco walked out the portrait hole before her. She still kept a close eye on him, ready to hex him out of the magical world if he tried anything on her.
"Hermione, I'm Head Boy, I'm not going to hex you. Now if you'll kindly stop burrowing your eyes into me can we just get to the greenhouse?" he asked.
They had Herbology, double potions and charms that day. As they walked to the greenhouse they kept a fair distance away from each other, Harry and Ron eventually joining Hermione and Pansy hanging off Draco's arm. Crabbe and Goyle had been to stupid to carry on with any classes except for potions and DADA. Those were the only classes they'd gotten good owls in. Figures, since they would one day be Death Eaters.
Draco tried his hardest not to say anything nasty to Hermione all day and he succeeded with every ounce of effort he had. He didn't know how Potter and Weasley could do it everyday for six years and not have killed themselves or her. She just had an answer for everything! By the time supper had been over and he'd done his homework, he was ready for bed. Listening to her all day had worn him right out.
"What are you doing?" Hermione asked him as he walked up the marble stairs to his bedroom door.
"Going to bed, what does it look like?" he asked.
"We've got night rounds together tonight, don't you remember?" she said, folding her arms across her chest.
"Oh common Granger, cant you do it alone tonight, I'm beat,"he slumped his shoulders and whined to her.
"No Malfoy, I wont do it alone, it's both our responsibility's tonight. You can go to bed early tomorrow, now common,"she got up out of her new favorite chair by the fireplace and walked over to the portrait hole.
"Humph..." he said and walked slowly over to her. They walked out together and then began to walk in different directions until Hermione grabbed his robes.
"Don't t- What Granger?"
Draco quickly corrected himself and tried his hardest to resist his temptation to not yank his arm out of her grasp. He wouldn't have needed to anyway. She slowly dropped her arm from his. He was going to tell her to shove off, and yet held his tung. This was deffinatly not Malfoy.
"I-I um think we should go this way, towards the entrance hall, just in case theres someone who's going to try to sneek out tonight," Hermione said quietly.
"Ya, ya ok, wait no, no, no ones going to sneak out from the entrance hall, no one except Pansey and Neville are that mindless and I highly doubt that they'd go sneaking off together, no I'm going this way to the library and the prefects bath. All the houses are up this way, we'd be bound to see someone if they were sneaking about. Well except maybe Potter," he said, walking in his direction. Hermione stood frozen for a couple seconds and then ran to catch up with Malfoy.
"W- why would you say except Harry?" Hermione asked. She worried that he knew about Harry's invisibility cloak. If he knew he could tell Voldemort.
"Oh common Hermione, I mean Granger, I'm not stupid, I've known since third year when he attacked me and the others in the snow in front of the shreaking shack that he had an invisibility cloak. Yes Hermione I knew it was him. No, I haven't told anyone and wont. So dont look so dumbfounded and worried," he told her.
"B-b-but..." Hermione tried but Draco waved her off and continued in his direction.
Ginny was making her way along the last corridor towards the prefects bath. She'd talked Ron into telling her the password to the bath. She really wanted to relax. Ron had been harassing her about her break up and summer with Harry and she needed to relax her mind.
She would never make it there however because she ran into someone in the dark before she'd heard them and been able to hide herself somewhere. Both people went crashing to the ground with a thud. Ginny looked up into the face of her attacker and froze. Blaze Zabini. The light still emitting from both their wands glowed in his eyes and they were a sharp blue. His face was soft looking down into her eyes. Neither heard footsteps running toward them until Hermione and Draco had discovered them. They quickly broke eye contact and Blaise scrambled off Ginny. Blaise stood up and reached his arm down slightly to make to help Ginny up and pulled his arm back sharply. This was Weasley after all.
"Whats going on Zabini?" Draco asked.
"I... well I was...ummm sleepwalking?" Blaise tried. Draco growled at him. He was now going to have to deduct points from his own house, Granger would never let him pass this, he had to before she took away to many points.
"Ya, right, nice try, tw-" Hermione started.
"Ten points taken Zabini and don't be stupid again, you'll just lose us more points," Draco stuck his nose in the air but winked at Blaise when Hermione went to help Ginny off the floor.
'Perfect, I get to get a Weasley into trouble... depending on how good her excuse is maybe I can get away with putting her into detention with Trelawny...' Draco thought.
"Whats your excuse Weasley?" Draco asked. Weasley had come out of his mouth in a spit and he made it seem like the name was a dirty word, although to him it was.
Ginny ignored Draco and turned to face Hermione.
"Thanks Hermione, Ron was bugging me tonight and I couldn't sleep so I thought I'd come down to the Prefects Bath and get relaxed... I should have taken Harry's cloak..." Ginny didn't even consider Draco using that information against Harry.
"Well it would have been a lot safer had you have, but I'm aferade I have to take points, ten as well from Gryffindor," Hermione stated.
"I think that a good nights detention is in order for that poor excuse, say tomorrow night with Professor Trelawny? I think that should teach you not to disobey the rules," Draco snickered.
"Speak for yourself Malfoy," Ginny spurted back at him, then covered her mouth quickly. She had forgotten that he was Head Boy now.
"Yes Miss Weasley and I got detention as well, although I suppose in some cases it was worth it... Yes, detention," Draco said, regaining his trail of thought.
"It's only fair that Blaise gets the same amount of punishment as well then, so detention for both of you, down in the dungeons tomorrow night," Hermione said.
They both groaned. Trelawny was a nut ball, she'd have them do something really stupid and impossible like try to see the future of a certain star or something weird like that. Just great.
"You two better be heading back to your dormitories now, get going," Hermione once again stated, more then just said.
'Those eyes... Her face didn't even turn cold when she saw me, she just kept staring... Her eyes sparkled... Naw, wait, it's Weasley, all people look good and mysterious under wand light.' Blaise ran a long rough hand through his soft hair. When he'd landed on Ginny he'd been immediately engulfed by her eyes This was going to be a long detention the next night.
Ginny couldn't shake him off. It was like as soon as his eyes and touch and reached her, it was like they had engraved themselves upon her soul and wouldn't ever leave. She couldn't shake away how she'd felt and how he'd felt on her.
'Common and get a grip on yourself Ginny, your off your rocker. It was Zabini, thats all it was. Hes a stupid Slytherin git and is a royal pain in the ass, just like Malfoy. Don't even go there, everyone looks good under wand light.' Ginny argued with her thoughts. She walked back to the fat lady and stood there and said the password.
"Indeed dear, got caught did you?" the lady asked.
"Not that it's any of your business, but yes, now please open up or I'll call Sirius Black to come and scrat..." Ginny stopped there, her heart in pain. She closed her eyes and said a little prayer of forgiveness to Sirius, she missed him so much.
"Impossible dear, he's d-"
"I'm aware of that, now open up," Ginny said angrily.
The fat lady swung open, reveling the common room. Ginny ran in, almost near tears and quickly ran past the boys dormitory, thinking if she looked at where Harry slept she'd surly burst into loud crying. She needed sleep badly. She hadn't known what had made her say it, after all this time. She'd been careful not to mention Sirius's name to anyone or even to herself for a little over a year now. She was ashamed she'd used it so lightly. She went over to her bed and undressed and climbed into bed. She tried to have a dreamless sleep, but she knew this was a naive thought.
Draco and Hermione finished their rounds with only meeting one other person, that being Professor Trelawny. She beamed when Draco had told her she'd have Ginny and Blaise joining her the next night. They walked back toward their wing of the school and before long and climbed in through the portrait hole.
"I don't think they deserved detention with Trelawny, you shouldn't abuse your position Malfoy. We have a duty to be hard but fair, and I know you were just using it to get a Weasley into the most trouble possible," Hermione said.
"Get over yourself Granger, don't presume to know everything. Remember I told you it wasn't good on you. I'm the only one who can pull it off, now stop talking to me and go to bed," Draco said to her and stalked off to his room.
"Stupid Malfoy," was all Hermione could say.
None of them knew that only a little ways away Harry woke up sweat drenched and ready to scream.
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