Turns of Time

A/N: i placed the two parts together so now its one!!!

Disclaimer: don't you dare look at me!

Chapter 9

Tactics


Draco was about to open the door to the head's common room when it suddenly burst open. A flurry of brown hair flew past him, causing the stacks of paper he was carrying to scatter all over.

"Watch it, Granger!" he said.

She stopped in her tracks and turned to look at him, she found Draco kneeling down picking up the scattered papers. She hesitated for a moment before she turned around and started to run again.

"Gee, thanks!" he called after her. She stopped yet agian and turned around. "I'm so sorry, I promise, I'll make it up to you later." Her hands were pressed together in front of her.

"Where are you going anyway?" he asked, standing up.

"To the Hospital Wing, Harry's there right now. I really got to go." Shooting him an apologetic smile, she turned around and ran out of his sight.

"I just had to ask." he muttered to himself, entering their common room.


The Hospital door banged open. "Ms. Granger!" excalimed Madam Pomfrey, who was tending a younger student, who accidentally turned his nose into a wooden stick, very much like the fairy tale character Pinnochio.

After hastily muttering a proper apology, she turned to walk towards Harry.

"Hermione." he greeted, patting the space on his bed.

She sat down and stared at Harry as she raced after her breath.

"I'll be going now, seeing that I'm being ignored already." said Ron, standing up from his chair and going out of the wing, but not before both of them heard him singing: "Harry and Hermione, kissing under the tree..."

Hermione turned back to Harry, blushing.

"How are you?" asked Harry, propping himself up with his hands.

Hermione helped him up, "I should be the one asking you that." she retorted.

Harry just smiled up at her, "I'm sorry if I made you worry."

"Nah, that's ok."


Draco was sitting on the armchair in front of the fire. He was staring at it intently, watching Hermione tend to the golden boy as he lay on his bed.

He knew he shouldn't be doing this, cause no man in their right mind would want to intentionally break their own hearts. He doesn't know why he's doing this, but as he watched, his heart was slowly being crushed by the scenes unfolding in front of him in the fire.

Draco peeked into the hospital wing, it was already dark and Hermione s


till hadn't returned.

Nothing was stirring.

He silently walked inside and sure enough he found her sleeping on the bed with Harry. He walked towards her sleeping figure. If she wanted to sleep here, who was he to deny that to her?

He conjured a blanket and laid it on her body. He raised her head a little bit and gently pulled her hair from beneath her head and piled it on the pillow.

Then kissing his index finger, he placed it on her forehead.


Hermione found herself being gently shook awake.

"Ms. Granger, its getting late. I think it will be best if you'll return to you dormitory now."

"Madam Pomfrey?" she asked sleepily as she sat up.

"Can you do it on your own?" the nurse asked her, helping her to her feet.

"Yes, thank you." Leaving the infirmary, she trudged up the stairs to her and Draco's dorm. Entering it, she plopped herself down to the nearest couch and fell asleep.


Draco jolted awake. He was sitting by the fire, sorting out papers, when he fell asleep. He looked around and found Hermione sleeping on the couch.

Smiling, he crept towards the sleeping girl. He kneeled beside her and started to rub her cheeks gently.

She opened her eyes and found Draco smiling down at her.

"Hello." she said sleepily, she was struggling to keep her eyes open, but she couldn't.

She could faintly hear him chuckle. She then had a vague feeling of being carried.

She opened her eyes and and saw that Draco was carrying her to her room. She smiled and placed her arms around his neck and cuddled closer to him, inhaling his scent.

Draco smiled as he entered her room, this will be the second time he'd done this.

After gently laying her to bed, he was about to starighten up, when Hermione pulled him towards her.

"Thank you..."she said, whispering the words to his ears and then kissing him gently and passionately on his lips, before losing consiousness altogether.

Whispering "goodnight", he left the room, smiling goofily.

Score!


"What are you doing?"

Harry looked up and found Draco leaning against the door frame of the bathroom door. He looked back at Hermione, who was sleeping soundly on her bed. He placed a teddy bear on her bedside table before standing up.

"Why don't you mind where you stck your nose?" said Harry as he left the room.

Draco looked at the teddy bear sitting on the table.

He sneered, teddy bear?


When Hermione woke up, she walked towards the bathroom, barely noticing the bear sitting on her table.

Finally, when she got out of the bathroom, she noticed it. It was brown and cuddly, carrying a wooden placard saying: "Follow me"

She looked around and found another bear on her door. She grinned, she grabbed the first bear and the second then proceeded out of the room.

A bear was sitting on the floor infront of the door leading out, grabbing this too, she stepped out.

She followed the bear all throughout the castle: up the stairs, through corridors; picking them up as she came across them.

Finally, she stopped in front of a door. Recognizing it as the Room of Requirements.

She entered the room, first it was dark, then slowly the room began to lighten up.

It was overflowing with bears: from the ceiling to the floor, wall to wall, on the ceiling and on the floor.

Her mouth dropped open as her eyes feasted on them, all of different sizes, colors and cuteness.

She smiled as she heard Harry's voice bihind her ear.

"Well?"

She turned around, unable to suppress her grin. "You really got a knack for these things."

Harry shrugged and pretended to nonchalantly look around the room, admiring his handiwork.

She threw herself against him and happily kissed him. Bears lay frogotten on the floor.


"THE SLYTHERINS ARE REALLY OUT TO WIN IT THESE YEAR!! LOOK AT THEIR CHASERS GO!!" shouted Dean Thomas. The Slytherin crowd cheered as they watched a green blur shoot towards the Hufflepuff goal posts.

It was the first match of the season, three teams will get themselves in the semi-finals. The two teams with the highest score, will find themselves competing with each other for the quiddidtich cup, which Draco had an eye on since last year.

He looked around the field barking out directions to his players, while he kept a keen eye out for the snitch.

"AND THAT WAS A GOAL FOR HUFFLEPUFF!!! HUFFLEPUFF SCORE 10-40!!!"

Draco zoomed around then field. He spotted the ravenclaw seeker frantically scanning the pitch for the little piece of flying gold. Draco spotted it a few meters above the yellow seeker.

Draco grinned. He readied himself and shot past before the other seeker, faking a look of concentaration. He sneered at he felt the Hufflepuff tail after him. He was heading straight for the Hufflepuff stand, then at the last second he pulled upwards, leaving the Hufflepuff seeker crashing towards the stand.

Harry winced as he watched the boy crash with a sickening crunch.

"Harry? What happened?" asked Hermione, peering through her fingers.

"He crashed." said Harry, he was scanning the skies once again for the snitch. He watched as Draco's eyes shifted from the snitch and his players. Harry could see that he was making some calculations.

Hermione and Ron followed Harry's line of sight and also saw what Malfoy was doing.

"What's he doing, Harry?" asked Ron squinting up at the small green figure.

"He's trying to secure his position for the semifinals." said Hermione. Draco had changed the scoring of the game himself, she was wondering why had he done it, now its all clear.


Harry was staring at the small figure of Draco. He was flying above the field, barking down orders while he kept the snitch in his sight.

Harry was finally getting what he's playing at. Harry's eyes shifted to Crabbe and Goyle, both hitting the bludgers as hard as they could towards the Quaffle, shooting the Quaffle towards the Slytherin goal hoops or to the arms of their chasers.

"--AND THAT WAS HUFFLEPUFF CHASER CLARK GOING FOR THEIR THIRD GOAL, HE'S RAISING HIS ARMS, AIMING THE QUAFFLE--WAIT--WHAT'S HE STOPPING FOR?"

Crabbe was right in front of Clark, barring his way. Harry watched as he saw Goyle hit a bludger and knocked the Quaffle out of the Chasers hands. A Slytherin Chaser zoomed upwards and caught the flying Quaffle while Crabbe hit the bludger towards the Slytherin chaser, at the last second the Slytherin threw the quaffle up and it hit the Bludger. The force of the impact sent the Quaffle hurtling towards the goal post.

"--WHAT WAS THAT? THAT WAS ANOTHER GOAL FOR SLYTHERIN! 100-20."

Harry smirked, this was certainly new. He looked up again and saw Draco sneering at him. "Afraid?" he mouthed.

Harry looked at Draco straight in the eye as he stretched his arms and caught the snitch immediately. Draco waved his arms around, calling everybody's attention.

"--DRACO MALFOY CAUGHT THE SNITCH! SLYTHERIN HOUSE WIN THE GAME 250-20!!"

Draco zoomed towards the Gryfindor stands, still holding the snitch. "Cup's mine, Potter." he said.

"Only in your dreams, cause that's the last time you're going to feel the snitch in your hands." Harry snapped back.


"Hermione, could I borrow your third year Muggle Studies book?" asked Harry, without looking up from his parchment.

"What do you need it for?" she asked, catching the book in her hands as it hurtled towards her from her dormitory. She handed it to Harry, looking over his shoulder.

It was after dinner, and they were all in the Gryffindor common room.

"That's a quidditch field diagram!" she exclaimed. Harry opened the book and started flipping through it.

"Yeah, yes it is." he said, marking various pages, he then sat up and stretched his arms. "Its getting late. Aren't you going back yet?"

"The Slytherins are having a victory party in our common room. I don't want to go in there, while they're in the middle of the party." she said, dropping to her knees, she placed both her hands and chin on Harry's table and proceeded to look over his notes.

Harry rolled his eyes and stood up, "Here." he siad offering his chair to Hermione.

She gladly stood up and sat on the chair, flipping through his notes. "Action and reaction formulas? Pool trick shots? Velocity?" she laughed, staring at Harry's complex calculations. "I wish you'd put this much work on your homework."

Harry smiled and gently rested his cheeks on top of her head, loving the was her brown strands were tickling his face.

"What are you doing?" she asked, placing her hands on top of his, which he placed on her shoulder.

He straightened up and pulled his hands away from her shoulder.

"Harry?" she asked, bewildered. She turned her head around to look for him when she felt his lips graze the side of her cheeks. She froze, she felt his lips curve into a grin. Slowly, he pulled back.

Hermione stared at him, her blank expression turning to a blush and then laughter. "How dare you, Harry James Potter!" she said, in mock outrage. Harry shrugged and slowly backed away from her, still smiling.

She grinned, mischievously, then tore after him across the common room. Harry startled, began running away from her.


A/N: next week i'll combine these two... i was thinking of something else for Draco to do, but... i'll save those for later chap.....

Leonora Christina Karlsson: they will be clearer in the future...i like to mess your minds up a bit! anyway what note?? the note winky found? or the note that says "meet me at the D.A.D.A. classroom."? and for Harry.... the thin line between reality and dreams are blurred. and um...well? the boy at the start of chap11? just read on... you'll find out morew about him....

Bbychick: ok ok! ::raises both hands up:: i will! i will! ::begins to type furiously::

estelstar: yay! i found my new best friend!!! thank you!!! i sincerely thank you from the bottom of my heart!!! i love you!!! thanks!!!

The "perverted guy" can't just leave hermy alone right now. maybe when it nears the end, when they uncover his mask. hehe!! The ghost? do you hate him that much? i think i love that bloody ghost... there's more to him !!! I already told you guys a little bout him!! ::mental note add more big clues::

LikeViol3nce: yes sir! or ma'am! i will! don't ya worry ma'am! or sir! (thank you by the way!!! glad you liked it!!!)

Claire/Granger-gurl-rox: so is ur real name.. Claire??? please tell me more bout yourself! Please????no!!! the "pervert"guy inside hermy's dream is not the same as the "bloody"ghost... or maybe yes... oh i don't know!!! just read!!! so you didn't ask any question concerning the first parts of the chap11...so maybe that means you get it? do you get who the boy is???

lola: ha! glad you're addicted to it!!! you love it so much you're addicted to it!!! hahaha! i made another victim!!! BWAHAHAHA!!!(wait.... you're not confused??? that's different!!!)

Are you guys that confused??? i've already planted some clues in there!!!! three of them i think.....think you guys, think!!!!

kitty

A/N: hah! who said i can't do cheesy and fluffy stuff!!! idk why but i sorta like Harry to be that way.....very sweet...