Disclaimer: I'm not even going to bother. Oh, yea hey, um, before I forget. I'm sorry for the poor grammar in the last chapter. Thanks to one of my adoring fans (cough cough), I read the chapter over again and I realized what I had done, so, sorry.
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Chapter 6: Discovery's…
"Erm, Hermione?"
Hermione turned to him. "Yes Draco." They were talking very quietly and cautiously, as for they were still in class.
"Do you want to go to a club in Hogsmade with me tonight? It could be our first official date together." Hermione was grinning happily on the inside.
" Of course I will go out with you! But, I didn't know that there was a club in Hogsmade. What is it called?"
"Oz. Not many people know about it. There is a secret entrance behind 'Madam Gifford's Dress Robes for Any Occasion." Hermione plainly nodded her head and Draco continued. "My father once told me about it in sixth year because I started to get stressed out over all of the exams. He told me to go there if I just needed to relax, get away from school for a while. Mostly Slytherin's go there. But it rare that you see more than 10 or 12 people there. It's not very well known. But it's a really good place."
"Erm, Draco?"
"Hmm?"
"Mostly all Slytherin's? Won't they know who I am? Because I mean wouldn't they have seen me around school?"
"Oh, don't worry, the club is mostly full of people who already graduated. And anyway, just to be on the safe side, wear a green shirt. And wear your hair a different way. Alright love? It will be fine. Don't worry."
"Alright. I just have to find a green shirt. I don't think I have one."
"Well then I'll just have to fly over to Hogsmade during lunch and get you one." He smiled slightly. "How about you come too? You can pick out which ever one you like?"
Hermione nodded her head. 'This will be great she thought. Their first official date! She looked behind her to see if Harry and Ron were looking at her, they weren't. The bells rang for second class and Draco and Hermione went there separate ways.
At the end of Charms, it was time for lunch. She remembered that Draco and she were supposed to go to Hogsmade to get her a new shirt for tonight. She didn't remember where he had told her to meet him, so she went to the Great Hall to see if he was there, he was. He didn't acknowledge her so she sat down by Harry and Ron. "Hi Harry. Hi Ron. What's up?"
"Can you believe all of the homework Flitwick gave us tonight?"
"Seriously Ron, I know how you feel. People do have lives to live you know." Hermione said seriously.
Harry and Ron raised their eyebrows. "Hermione?" Harry reached over and put his hand on her forehead. "Are you feeling okay?" he laughed. Hermione also laughed.
"Yes. I mean, that was a ridiculous amount to give us just on locking charms! I've only know about every single one since the first year!" Ron laughed and began to eat his food again.
"So 'Mione, what are you doing tonight?"
"Oh, er, I dunno Ron. Probably go to the library and finish all of this homework we have. Why do you ask?"
"I just wanted to know if you would like to see me kill Harry in Wizards Chess again?"
"Not this time freckle boy! I'm feeling lucky tonight." Harry added quickly.
Ron scoffed. "Right Harry. You have been saying that for almost a week now. You're still going to lose." He put on his best game face. Hermione laughed when she heard something behind her.
"Ahem." The person cleared their throat. She turned around to find who else but Draco. She was staring down at her. "Get up and let's go Granger, there is an emergency Head Boy/Head Girl meeting. Now!" he spat at her viciously.
"You are such a slimy little git Malfoy do you know that?"
"It's a gift." he smirked.
Before Ron and Harry could protest, she got up, pushed Draco aside and walked out of the Great Hall. He caught up with her a couple of feet away from the Great Hall. She was laughing in fits of giggles. He gave a laugh and said. "Good acting."
"Thank you very much." She smiled and added "We're going to Hogsmade right?"
"Yup. Ready?" she nodded and they walked outside holding hands.
"We're taking a broom?"
"Of course. How else?"
"Well, it's just me and brooms don't mix."
"Just hold on tight to me and you'll be fine. Not to worry."
"I won't have any problem holding on to you." She smiled. Draco mounted his broom and helped Hermione on the back of it. She slid her arms around his waist and held on to him tightly.
"All ready to go?" she nodded her head and whimpered.
When they we still shooting upward, she leaned her head on him shoulder and fastened her grip around his waist tighter. After only another five minutes of flying, the landed at the bottom of the hill in front of the Shrieking Shack. "That wasn't so bad, now was it?" the only response he got was her shaking hand in his. He laughed and planted small little kisses all over her cheek.
Hermione tugged on his hand. "Come on. Let's get a move on. We still have to get back to classes."
They walked up one of the sides streets and walked into a shop called 'Dress to Impress' "I've been here ton's of times before. I get almost all of my clothes here, so you know that you will look good! You'll be in good hands." Hermione chuckled as Draco led her into the shop.
After only about 5 minutes of looking for a nice green shirt, and showing each one on to Draco (he begged he too), she picked a deep forest green tank top with rhinestones around the neck. There was a slash going diagonally over her stomach so part of her mid-drift was showing "I think I'll wear my black short skirt with it."
"I don't care." She gave him a hurt look. "Just as long as you wear that! You look so hot in it! Damn!" he tilted his head to the side and observed her closer. Hermione smiled and went and changed back into her school robes. They flew back to school with still some time to spare before their next classes. Their extra time was taken up by them making out in an isolated corner of the dungeons.
Later that night Hermione was getting dressed to go out with Draco. She decided instead of a short shirt she would wear pants, then she decided to wear the skirt again, then the pants. Finally, she decided on the skirt. "Slytherin's don't dress conservative, so if I am pretending to be one of them," She made a face of disgust. "I shouldn't wear the pants." Hermione pulled on the tank and slipped into the skirt. She walked over to her dresser to apply a bit of make-up.
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Back that night in Gryffindor Tower, Ron and Harry had just finished their game of Wizard's Chess. Once again, Harry had lost.
"Damn, how the in the hells do you keep beating me? Your cheating somehow. I'll find out one day." Ron just simply laughed.
"So, er, about Hermione." Harry rolled his eyes and muttered something under his breath, that sound like 'Again'. "She was acting very strange this morning. Don't you agree? And don't speak in her defense because I know you agree with me."
"Ron, I am not going to speak in her defense, for once, because I know, You are right she was acting more odd this morning that she had been the past week."
"I'm worried about her. She called Malfoy Draco twice! I never thought I would hear the day she let that word escape her lips. And she kept looking over at him during breakfast. And she didn't mind being his partner in Potion's. And they actually talked, I think. And -"
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Ron, calm down! Breath!" Ron took a breath in and let it out. "Good!" Harry said teasingly. "I'm not worried about her, well, maybe I am. I'm just really curious to why she has been acting like this lately. Do you think that we should go do a little investigation of our own?" he raised an eyebrow.
"We could sneak into the Head Boy/Head Girl Tower tonight and just snoop around for like a couple minutes. Hermione said she would be in the library, so we'll be safe. And Malfoy, well, Merlin knows where he will be. Probably beating up some ickle first years. Like he would ever do his homework when he is supposed too?" Harry laughed.
"Alright Ron. We will use my invisibility cloak to get there. We should go about 9:00 right?"
"Yea, guess so."
"Alright. It's settled then. 9:00."
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Back by Hermione, she was almost done putting finishing touches on her make-up, when Draco walked in. He was wearing a button down deep forest green shirt, with the top two buttons open exposing part of his chest. He was also wearing black slacks, which were a little snug on him (cough cough). His sliver chain was hanging loosely over his exposed chest and his hair, just like in her dream was not gelled back. It was curving around his face perfectly. Sje stared open mouthed at him for a couple of seconds then came to her sences. "Does that mean that you like what I'm wearing?" he smiled.
All of a sudden she walked over to him and pinned him between her and the wall. She pressed her lips upon his with a little force and backed away licking her lips. "You figure it out." she smirked. Hermione grabbed her pocketbook and went downstairs, still leaving Draco up against the wall in shock.
Draco finally came downstairs and said "Ooh, acting like a Slytherin already I see. I like 'em feisty." Hermione threw her head back and began to laugh. "You look great too." he smiled.
"Okay, well, ready to go?" Hermione asked.
"Wait. Not yet. First I have something to show you." Draco took Hermione's hand in his and led her upstairs to his bedroom. When they got in his room he sat her on the bed and took something out from under his pillow. "I have had this ever since the beginning weeks of school." Draco handed Hermione the photo he had of her.
"Oh, wow! I thought I had lost this old thing! But, I very glad that you have it." she went to hand his back the picture.
"No no. You can have it back." he placed it back into her hands.
"No. I want you to have it. Guys should always have a picture of their girlfriends. Shouldn't they?" she stood up and placed the picture back under his pillow and planted a kiss on his cheek.
"Alright. Now we're already to go." They walked down to the common room and Hermione went and got her bag and was about to put on her coat when Draco took it from her. "No, no. Allow me." He helped her with her coat on.
"Oh, you are such a gentleman."
"I try my best." he smiled. "It's 8:59, we should get a move on. The club opened about an hour ago." Hermione nodded.
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By this time, Harry and Ron had finally found the entrance to the Head Boy/Head Girl Tower, after about 20 minutes of searching. Now they were trying to figure out what the password (Pluto) might be. They were just about to give up when the portrait swung slowly open. Out walked Hermione and Draco following not too far behind. They weren't holding hands, or sweet talking or anything. So Harry and Ron just suspected they were going their separate ways at the end of the hall. But, they were a little dressed up for just patrolling the hall or going to the library, 'Where could they be going. Somewhere together?' Harry thought. But just shook that thought out of his head the moment it entered. 'That would never happen.'
Ron saw the portrait hole closing and he tugged Harry inside before the portrait could fully shut on them. When they were inside, Ron tripped over the cloak and it fell off both of them. "Come on, let's get a move on. We don't want either one of them coming back while we're here." Harry suggested. Ron nodded and gave him the okay. They began looking in the common room first. Lifting up cushions , looking under chairs and tables and peeking in draws, to see if they could find anything that might point to Hermione's mood change. No success in the Common Room. On to Hermione's room. Harry started up the spiral staircase that led to the dorms, Ron following closely behind him. "Which one do you think is Hermione's room Harry."
"Well, it's kind of hard to miss." He ran his fingers over the gold plate on one of the doors that read,
Hermione Granger
Head Girl
Gryffindor House
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
"Yea, I guess you right." Ron gave a little laugh as he cautiously pushed the door to her room open. It was very neatly kept and the desk was in perfect order, with a couple stacks of books, quills, ink bottles, some make-up and perfumes . Besides the desk being neat, the rest of the room was too. There was a great big scarlet and gold for poster bed, a rather large red armchair (probably for reading), and a dresser with tons and tons of drawers.
"Not exactly roughing it is she?" Harry said glancing around the room once more.
"Nope, guess not. But, why does she have all of this make-up and stuff on her desk? She doesn't wear make up. Does she?" Ron looked over at Harry who shrugged. The two boys went around an started to look in the desk draws, under her bed, under her pillows, in her trunk. "Have we done it all?" Ron asked as Harry was still remaking her bed.
"No, er, I don't think that we checked her draws. Cam you just quickly go through them? I'm almost done fixing back up her bed."
"Erm….her - her draws?"
"Yea."
Ron swallowed hard and began looking in her draws very quickly, from bottom to top. We he arrived at the top draw he opened it and saw all of Hermione's bra's and panties in it. He snapped it shut immediately and turned back to Harry. "Okay…let's go!" said Ron quickly and dashed out of the room with his face the color of his hair. Harry had figured out what Ron had probably found and just laughed quietly to himself and didn't comment.
"Alright Ron, now, one to the ferret's room." Harry rolled his eyes and Ron laughed.
When they arrived at Draco's door, which almost like Hermione's read,
Draco Malfoy
Head Boy
Slytherin House
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
"Now we go where no Gryffindor ever dare go before." Ron laughed at his own joke and he slowly opened the door. Before the two of them stepped in, Harry glanced around the room to make sure everything was safe, it looked it. Draco's room was almost the same as Hermione's except for a few differences. His bed was a green and silver four poster bed, he had a green armchair, his Nimbus 2001 in the corner up against the wall and a desk with books (not as many as Hermione), gel, a comb, and quills, and ink bottles. "I'll check his bed!" Ron suggested quickly, as for he did not under any circumstances want to look in Draco Malfoy's dresser.
"Alright." Harry went over to the dresser and started to flip through the clothes one by one. Ron felt under Draco's bed and lifted up his mattress and looked under it. "Find anything yet Ron?" Ron shook his head. "Well, why don't you try looking under his comforter and under his pillows. He nodded and lifted back Draco's comforter and began feeling around the sheets. Nothing. He replaced the comforter and sheets back to where they had been before. Harry was on Draco's last draw (just guess which one it was ;-D) when Ron lifted up a pillow and gasped.
Harry slammed Draco's draw shut and ran over to Ron. "What is it Ron?" Ron turned around with something gripped tightly to his chest. He turned it around to show Harry what he had found.
"Harry…why does Malfoy have a picture of Hermione?" he said sadly and very much concerned.
"I dunno." Harry replied shocked. Ron was staring blankly at the picture now and Harry was looking at him very concerned. "We better get going Ron! We can talk about this back at Gryffindor Tower. Either one of them might come back soon. Put back the picture and let's get lost!" Ron nodded, placed the picture back and they left under Harry's invisibility cloak.
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At Oz, Draco and Hermione were working it on the dance floor. "Your really a good dancer Draco!" she announced loud enough to make her voice heard over the music.
"Not as good as you! Your wonderful!"
"Thanks. Erm…do you mind if we sit down? I'm getting a little tired."
"No problem, so am I." they walked back over to a little table that was lit by a candle in the middle of it. "Phew!" Draco wiped his brow. "I am so hot." Just then a cocktail waitress walked over to them and asked if they would like anything to drink. "Yes, er, can I have a 'Pain In The Ass'?"
"A what?" Hermione asked.
"It's a drink." he laughed.
"Oh! Erm…I'll have a, Peach Margarita"
"Very good." the waitress said. And went to go get the drinks.
Draco took Hermione's hand in his from across the table. "I have something I want to give you Hermione." he opened her hand and took something out from his pocket. He placed a silver locket in her hand.
"Oh my!" Hermione gasped. "Draco! It's so beautiful! But why are you giving it to me?" Right then the waitress appeared with their drinks.
Draco looked up at the waitress and went to hand her the money for the drinks. She turned the money away. "No that's alright."
"Thank you." he smiled, as did she and then walked away. "See? My good looks and charm get me places."
"Hmm…I bet." Hermione joked.
"Well, my mother, she said that when I find that special someone, to give it to her. And…I think that I have found that special someone."
"Thank you. So, so much!" she pulled him into a deep kiss. "But…there's just one tiny problem though." Draco gave her a puzzled face. Hermione took out her wand and waved it at him, then the locket. A picture of him appeared in one side of it. Then, she waved her wand at herself and him again. She waved it at the opposite side of the locket and a picture of Hermione and Draco together appeared. "Now it is perfect."
"Your right. Good thinking." Hermione yawned and asked what time it was. "It's almost 1 o' clock. We should get going. Filch closes the doors at 1 on school days." He helped Hermione up and helped her with her coat on.
"Aww….thank you!"
"Well, I try my best. Are you ready?"
"Yup, let's get going." they walked out of the club hand in hand.
They got into the castle just in time before Filch could see them coming in too late. They hurried up to their tower and got ready for bed. When Draco realized he had forgotten to do his Charms essay.
"I've already done mine. We have the same one right?" Draco nodded. "Well, alright then. I'll help you do it. Then we'll sleep."
"With each other?" Draco added and looks at her hopefully.
"Well…hmm…let me think." she placed her index finger and thumb on her chin. "Well, how about…no!" she laughed.
"Well, it was worth a try!" he looked down at his folded hands, then looked back up at Hermione and laughed along with her. They cuddled up on the couch under they blanket. About an hour later, that's to Hermione, he had finished his entire report. They were too tired to drag themselves upstairs to separate rooms, so they just flopped down on the couch and fell asleep. I guess Draco partially got his wish!
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In the Gryffindor common room, just about 2:15 am and Ron and Harry were still discussing their recent discovery. "Ron can we please get so sleep? I am so freaking tired! And we have been talking about this for hours now!"
"Er…yea. I need to write something anyway."
Harry was too tired to ask Ron what he was going to write and only responded with a "Good." They dragged them selves up into their dorm. Dean, Neville and Seamus were already fast asleep. Harry and Ron changed and while Harry sunk into his bed, Ron sat down at his desk and took out a notebook, a quill and an ink bottle as he began to write something.
A half an hour later, Harry awoke to the scratching of a quill on a piece of parchment. He peaked out of the hangings of his bed to find Ron writing furiously in his notebook. Concentrating very hard on his work. Harry just stared at Ron for what felt like an eternity. But, it was actually only just a minute or two. He heard Ron whispering to himself, Harry couldn't make out what he was saying because it was barley audible. He glanced around the room to find that his other roommates were still soundly asleep. Harry looked back over to Ron who was still writing and whispering to himself occasionally. He popped his head fully out of his hangings and finally heard what Ron had been repeating to himself. Harry's eye's widened at what he had heard his friend say over and over again. "He…is…going…to…pay!"
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A/N- Alright, well, after re-reading this chapter, I think it's kinda boring. But still important. This chapter turns the whole story around. Dun Dun Dun (suspense music) lol. The chapters coming up are going to be more interesting. Sorry that this one took so long to come out. Oh, yea! And before I forget, the coming chapters are going to take a little longer to come out, because I have to go back to school on the 3rd Boo-Hoo. Kay!!!!!!!! Review!
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Chapter 6: Discovery's…
"Erm, Hermione?"
Hermione turned to him. "Yes Draco." They were talking very quietly and cautiously, as for they were still in class.
"Do you want to go to a club in Hogsmade with me tonight? It could be our first official date together." Hermione was grinning happily on the inside.
" Of course I will go out with you! But, I didn't know that there was a club in Hogsmade. What is it called?"
"Oz. Not many people know about it. There is a secret entrance behind 'Madam Gifford's Dress Robes for Any Occasion." Hermione plainly nodded her head and Draco continued. "My father once told me about it in sixth year because I started to get stressed out over all of the exams. He told me to go there if I just needed to relax, get away from school for a while. Mostly Slytherin's go there. But it rare that you see more than 10 or 12 people there. It's not very well known. But it's a really good place."
"Erm, Draco?"
"Hmm?"
"Mostly all Slytherin's? Won't they know who I am? Because I mean wouldn't they have seen me around school?"
"Oh, don't worry, the club is mostly full of people who already graduated. And anyway, just to be on the safe side, wear a green shirt. And wear your hair a different way. Alright love? It will be fine. Don't worry."
"Alright. I just have to find a green shirt. I don't think I have one."
"Well then I'll just have to fly over to Hogsmade during lunch and get you one." He smiled slightly. "How about you come too? You can pick out which ever one you like?"
Hermione nodded her head. 'This will be great she thought. Their first official date! She looked behind her to see if Harry and Ron were looking at her, they weren't. The bells rang for second class and Draco and Hermione went there separate ways.
At the end of Charms, it was time for lunch. She remembered that Draco and she were supposed to go to Hogsmade to get her a new shirt for tonight. She didn't remember where he had told her to meet him, so she went to the Great Hall to see if he was there, he was. He didn't acknowledge her so she sat down by Harry and Ron. "Hi Harry. Hi Ron. What's up?"
"Can you believe all of the homework Flitwick gave us tonight?"
"Seriously Ron, I know how you feel. People do have lives to live you know." Hermione said seriously.
Harry and Ron raised their eyebrows. "Hermione?" Harry reached over and put his hand on her forehead. "Are you feeling okay?" he laughed. Hermione also laughed.
"Yes. I mean, that was a ridiculous amount to give us just on locking charms! I've only know about every single one since the first year!" Ron laughed and began to eat his food again.
"So 'Mione, what are you doing tonight?"
"Oh, er, I dunno Ron. Probably go to the library and finish all of this homework we have. Why do you ask?"
"I just wanted to know if you would like to see me kill Harry in Wizards Chess again?"
"Not this time freckle boy! I'm feeling lucky tonight." Harry added quickly.
Ron scoffed. "Right Harry. You have been saying that for almost a week now. You're still going to lose." He put on his best game face. Hermione laughed when she heard something behind her.
"Ahem." The person cleared their throat. She turned around to find who else but Draco. She was staring down at her. "Get up and let's go Granger, there is an emergency Head Boy/Head Girl meeting. Now!" he spat at her viciously.
"You are such a slimy little git Malfoy do you know that?"
"It's a gift." he smirked.
Before Ron and Harry could protest, she got up, pushed Draco aside and walked out of the Great Hall. He caught up with her a couple of feet away from the Great Hall. She was laughing in fits of giggles. He gave a laugh and said. "Good acting."
"Thank you very much." She smiled and added "We're going to Hogsmade right?"
"Yup. Ready?" she nodded and they walked outside holding hands.
"We're taking a broom?"
"Of course. How else?"
"Well, it's just me and brooms don't mix."
"Just hold on tight to me and you'll be fine. Not to worry."
"I won't have any problem holding on to you." She smiled. Draco mounted his broom and helped Hermione on the back of it. She slid her arms around his waist and held on to him tightly.
"All ready to go?" she nodded her head and whimpered.
When they we still shooting upward, she leaned her head on him shoulder and fastened her grip around his waist tighter. After only another five minutes of flying, the landed at the bottom of the hill in front of the Shrieking Shack. "That wasn't so bad, now was it?" the only response he got was her shaking hand in his. He laughed and planted small little kisses all over her cheek.
Hermione tugged on his hand. "Come on. Let's get a move on. We still have to get back to classes."
They walked up one of the sides streets and walked into a shop called 'Dress to Impress' "I've been here ton's of times before. I get almost all of my clothes here, so you know that you will look good! You'll be in good hands." Hermione chuckled as Draco led her into the shop.
After only about 5 minutes of looking for a nice green shirt, and showing each one on to Draco (he begged he too), she picked a deep forest green tank top with rhinestones around the neck. There was a slash going diagonally over her stomach so part of her mid-drift was showing "I think I'll wear my black short skirt with it."
"I don't care." She gave him a hurt look. "Just as long as you wear that! You look so hot in it! Damn!" he tilted his head to the side and observed her closer. Hermione smiled and went and changed back into her school robes. They flew back to school with still some time to spare before their next classes. Their extra time was taken up by them making out in an isolated corner of the dungeons.
Later that night Hermione was getting dressed to go out with Draco. She decided instead of a short shirt she would wear pants, then she decided to wear the skirt again, then the pants. Finally, she decided on the skirt. "Slytherin's don't dress conservative, so if I am pretending to be one of them," She made a face of disgust. "I shouldn't wear the pants." Hermione pulled on the tank and slipped into the skirt. She walked over to her dresser to apply a bit of make-up.
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Back that night in Gryffindor Tower, Ron and Harry had just finished their game of Wizard's Chess. Once again, Harry had lost.
"Damn, how the in the hells do you keep beating me? Your cheating somehow. I'll find out one day." Ron just simply laughed.
"So, er, about Hermione." Harry rolled his eyes and muttered something under his breath, that sound like 'Again'. "She was acting very strange this morning. Don't you agree? And don't speak in her defense because I know you agree with me."
"Ron, I am not going to speak in her defense, for once, because I know, You are right she was acting more odd this morning that she had been the past week."
"I'm worried about her. She called Malfoy Draco twice! I never thought I would hear the day she let that word escape her lips. And she kept looking over at him during breakfast. And she didn't mind being his partner in Potion's. And they actually talked, I think. And -"
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Ron, calm down! Breath!" Ron took a breath in and let it out. "Good!" Harry said teasingly. "I'm not worried about her, well, maybe I am. I'm just really curious to why she has been acting like this lately. Do you think that we should go do a little investigation of our own?" he raised an eyebrow.
"We could sneak into the Head Boy/Head Girl Tower tonight and just snoop around for like a couple minutes. Hermione said she would be in the library, so we'll be safe. And Malfoy, well, Merlin knows where he will be. Probably beating up some ickle first years. Like he would ever do his homework when he is supposed too?" Harry laughed.
"Alright Ron. We will use my invisibility cloak to get there. We should go about 9:00 right?"
"Yea, guess so."
"Alright. It's settled then. 9:00."
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Back by Hermione, she was almost done putting finishing touches on her make-up, when Draco walked in. He was wearing a button down deep forest green shirt, with the top two buttons open exposing part of his chest. He was also wearing black slacks, which were a little snug on him (cough cough). His sliver chain was hanging loosely over his exposed chest and his hair, just like in her dream was not gelled back. It was curving around his face perfectly. Sje stared open mouthed at him for a couple of seconds then came to her sences. "Does that mean that you like what I'm wearing?" he smiled.
All of a sudden she walked over to him and pinned him between her and the wall. She pressed her lips upon his with a little force and backed away licking her lips. "You figure it out." she smirked. Hermione grabbed her pocketbook and went downstairs, still leaving Draco up against the wall in shock.
Draco finally came downstairs and said "Ooh, acting like a Slytherin already I see. I like 'em feisty." Hermione threw her head back and began to laugh. "You look great too." he smiled.
"Okay, well, ready to go?" Hermione asked.
"Wait. Not yet. First I have something to show you." Draco took Hermione's hand in his and led her upstairs to his bedroom. When they got in his room he sat her on the bed and took something out from under his pillow. "I have had this ever since the beginning weeks of school." Draco handed Hermione the photo he had of her.
"Oh, wow! I thought I had lost this old thing! But, I very glad that you have it." she went to hand his back the picture.
"No no. You can have it back." he placed it back into her hands.
"No. I want you to have it. Guys should always have a picture of their girlfriends. Shouldn't they?" she stood up and placed the picture back under his pillow and planted a kiss on his cheek.
"Alright. Now we're already to go." They walked down to the common room and Hermione went and got her bag and was about to put on her coat when Draco took it from her. "No, no. Allow me." He helped her with her coat on.
"Oh, you are such a gentleman."
"I try my best." he smiled. "It's 8:59, we should get a move on. The club opened about an hour ago." Hermione nodded.
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By this time, Harry and Ron had finally found the entrance to the Head Boy/Head Girl Tower, after about 20 minutes of searching. Now they were trying to figure out what the password (Pluto) might be. They were just about to give up when the portrait swung slowly open. Out walked Hermione and Draco following not too far behind. They weren't holding hands, or sweet talking or anything. So Harry and Ron just suspected they were going their separate ways at the end of the hall. But, they were a little dressed up for just patrolling the hall or going to the library, 'Where could they be going. Somewhere together?' Harry thought. But just shook that thought out of his head the moment it entered. 'That would never happen.'
Ron saw the portrait hole closing and he tugged Harry inside before the portrait could fully shut on them. When they were inside, Ron tripped over the cloak and it fell off both of them. "Come on, let's get a move on. We don't want either one of them coming back while we're here." Harry suggested. Ron nodded and gave him the okay. They began looking in the common room first. Lifting up cushions , looking under chairs and tables and peeking in draws, to see if they could find anything that might point to Hermione's mood change. No success in the Common Room. On to Hermione's room. Harry started up the spiral staircase that led to the dorms, Ron following closely behind him. "Which one do you think is Hermione's room Harry."
"Well, it's kind of hard to miss." He ran his fingers over the gold plate on one of the doors that read,
Hermione Granger
Head Girl
Gryffindor House
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
"Yea, I guess you right." Ron gave a little laugh as he cautiously pushed the door to her room open. It was very neatly kept and the desk was in perfect order, with a couple stacks of books, quills, ink bottles, some make-up and perfumes . Besides the desk being neat, the rest of the room was too. There was a great big scarlet and gold for poster bed, a rather large red armchair (probably for reading), and a dresser with tons and tons of drawers.
"Not exactly roughing it is she?" Harry said glancing around the room once more.
"Nope, guess not. But, why does she have all of this make-up and stuff on her desk? She doesn't wear make up. Does she?" Ron looked over at Harry who shrugged. The two boys went around an started to look in the desk draws, under her bed, under her pillows, in her trunk. "Have we done it all?" Ron asked as Harry was still remaking her bed.
"No, er, I don't think that we checked her draws. Cam you just quickly go through them? I'm almost done fixing back up her bed."
"Erm….her - her draws?"
"Yea."
Ron swallowed hard and began looking in her draws very quickly, from bottom to top. We he arrived at the top draw he opened it and saw all of Hermione's bra's and panties in it. He snapped it shut immediately and turned back to Harry. "Okay…let's go!" said Ron quickly and dashed out of the room with his face the color of his hair. Harry had figured out what Ron had probably found and just laughed quietly to himself and didn't comment.
"Alright Ron, now, one to the ferret's room." Harry rolled his eyes and Ron laughed.
When they arrived at Draco's door, which almost like Hermione's read,
Draco Malfoy
Head Boy
Slytherin House
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
"Now we go where no Gryffindor ever dare go before." Ron laughed at his own joke and he slowly opened the door. Before the two of them stepped in, Harry glanced around the room to make sure everything was safe, it looked it. Draco's room was almost the same as Hermione's except for a few differences. His bed was a green and silver four poster bed, he had a green armchair, his Nimbus 2001 in the corner up against the wall and a desk with books (not as many as Hermione), gel, a comb, and quills, and ink bottles. "I'll check his bed!" Ron suggested quickly, as for he did not under any circumstances want to look in Draco Malfoy's dresser.
"Alright." Harry went over to the dresser and started to flip through the clothes one by one. Ron felt under Draco's bed and lifted up his mattress and looked under it. "Find anything yet Ron?" Ron shook his head. "Well, why don't you try looking under his comforter and under his pillows. He nodded and lifted back Draco's comforter and began feeling around the sheets. Nothing. He replaced the comforter and sheets back to where they had been before. Harry was on Draco's last draw (just guess which one it was ;-D) when Ron lifted up a pillow and gasped.
Harry slammed Draco's draw shut and ran over to Ron. "What is it Ron?" Ron turned around with something gripped tightly to his chest. He turned it around to show Harry what he had found.
"Harry…why does Malfoy have a picture of Hermione?" he said sadly and very much concerned.
"I dunno." Harry replied shocked. Ron was staring blankly at the picture now and Harry was looking at him very concerned. "We better get going Ron! We can talk about this back at Gryffindor Tower. Either one of them might come back soon. Put back the picture and let's get lost!" Ron nodded, placed the picture back and they left under Harry's invisibility cloak.
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At Oz, Draco and Hermione were working it on the dance floor. "Your really a good dancer Draco!" she announced loud enough to make her voice heard over the music.
"Not as good as you! Your wonderful!"
"Thanks. Erm…do you mind if we sit down? I'm getting a little tired."
"No problem, so am I." they walked back over to a little table that was lit by a candle in the middle of it. "Phew!" Draco wiped his brow. "I am so hot." Just then a cocktail waitress walked over to them and asked if they would like anything to drink. "Yes, er, can I have a 'Pain In The Ass'?"
"A what?" Hermione asked.
"It's a drink." he laughed.
"Oh! Erm…I'll have a, Peach Margarita"
"Very good." the waitress said. And went to go get the drinks.
Draco took Hermione's hand in his from across the table. "I have something I want to give you Hermione." he opened her hand and took something out from his pocket. He placed a silver locket in her hand.
"Oh my!" Hermione gasped. "Draco! It's so beautiful! But why are you giving it to me?" Right then the waitress appeared with their drinks.
Draco looked up at the waitress and went to hand her the money for the drinks. She turned the money away. "No that's alright."
"Thank you." he smiled, as did she and then walked away. "See? My good looks and charm get me places."
"Hmm…I bet." Hermione joked.
"Well, my mother, she said that when I find that special someone, to give it to her. And…I think that I have found that special someone."
"Thank you. So, so much!" she pulled him into a deep kiss. "But…there's just one tiny problem though." Draco gave her a puzzled face. Hermione took out her wand and waved it at him, then the locket. A picture of him appeared in one side of it. Then, she waved her wand at herself and him again. She waved it at the opposite side of the locket and a picture of Hermione and Draco together appeared. "Now it is perfect."
"Your right. Good thinking." Hermione yawned and asked what time it was. "It's almost 1 o' clock. We should get going. Filch closes the doors at 1 on school days." He helped Hermione up and helped her with her coat on.
"Aww….thank you!"
"Well, I try my best. Are you ready?"
"Yup, let's get going." they walked out of the club hand in hand.
They got into the castle just in time before Filch could see them coming in too late. They hurried up to their tower and got ready for bed. When Draco realized he had forgotten to do his Charms essay.
"I've already done mine. We have the same one right?" Draco nodded. "Well, alright then. I'll help you do it. Then we'll sleep."
"With each other?" Draco added and looks at her hopefully.
"Well…hmm…let me think." she placed her index finger and thumb on her chin. "Well, how about…no!" she laughed.
"Well, it was worth a try!" he looked down at his folded hands, then looked back up at Hermione and laughed along with her. They cuddled up on the couch under they blanket. About an hour later, that's to Hermione, he had finished his entire report. They were too tired to drag themselves upstairs to separate rooms, so they just flopped down on the couch and fell asleep. I guess Draco partially got his wish!
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In the Gryffindor common room, just about 2:15 am and Ron and Harry were still discussing their recent discovery. "Ron can we please get so sleep? I am so freaking tired! And we have been talking about this for hours now!"
"Er…yea. I need to write something anyway."
Harry was too tired to ask Ron what he was going to write and only responded with a "Good." They dragged them selves up into their dorm. Dean, Neville and Seamus were already fast asleep. Harry and Ron changed and while Harry sunk into his bed, Ron sat down at his desk and took out a notebook, a quill and an ink bottle as he began to write something.
A half an hour later, Harry awoke to the scratching of a quill on a piece of parchment. He peaked out of the hangings of his bed to find Ron writing furiously in his notebook. Concentrating very hard on his work. Harry just stared at Ron for what felt like an eternity. But, it was actually only just a minute or two. He heard Ron whispering to himself, Harry couldn't make out what he was saying because it was barley audible. He glanced around the room to find that his other roommates were still soundly asleep. Harry looked back over to Ron who was still writing and whispering to himself occasionally. He popped his head fully out of his hangings and finally heard what Ron had been repeating to himself. Harry's eye's widened at what he had heard his friend say over and over again. "He…is…going…to…pay!"
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A/N- Alright, well, after re-reading this chapter, I think it's kinda boring. But still important. This chapter turns the whole story around. Dun Dun Dun (suspense music) lol. The chapters coming up are going to be more interesting. Sorry that this one took so long to come out. Oh, yea! And before I forget, the coming chapters are going to take a little longer to come out, because I have to go back to school on the 3rd Boo-Hoo. Kay!!!!!!!! Review!
