An Undiscovered Love
Hey everyone. I know, I know. I lied. I just got so busy that I didn't have time to write. I hope you all can forgive me, and I also hope that you like this chapter. I'm going to try and post the next one soon (I have promised someone not to wait 3 months or however long it was again).
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Chapter 7-Waking Up and Classes
Hermione's POV
I felt sunlight pour in through the windows. I felt a warm, muscular chest under my head and an arm wrapped loosely around my waist. 'Wow. I never knew Ron was this muscular.' I though, slowly opening my eyes to look up at Ron. What I saw, however, shocked me...
Draco's POV
I woke up to someone shifting in my arms. I knew it was a girl by the nice curves that I felt under my hands. I suddenly became alert. 'Wait one minute. The last thing I remember before falling asleep was watching a movie at Granger's movie night thing. I'm positive I didn't bring a girl to my room.' I opened my eyes to stare straight into the honey brown eyes of one Hermione Granger.
No One's POV
Hermione and Draco looked at each other for about two minutes before hastily removing themselves from each other. Draco looked around to see everyone still sleeping where they were last night. Hermione was mumbling under her breath as she ran her fingers through her hair, much to the amusement of a certain Slytherin.
Hermione's POV
'Oh Merlin. I was sleeping in ferret face's arms? OMG! Someone please shoot me now. What happens when Ron finds out, he'll think it was on purpose. No he won't, because he's not going to know about this. Dear Merlin, help me...' I thought, not realizing I was speaking aloud the whole time.
"What Granger, afraid for Weasel to find out your secret?" Malfoy drawled. I snapped my head up in shock. I had completely forgotten he was there.
"What on earth are you talking about Malfoy?" I said, making sure to keep my voice to a loud whisper even though I was screaming on the inside.
"Why! You know what I'm talking about! You know...How you have a crush on me and that is why you curled up to me in the middle of the night so that you could tell all of your friends about how great it was. You probably had it planned all along..."
"You despicable, evil, disgusting bastard! Why of all people would I want to fucking cuddle with you?" 'Although it was pretty comfortable-WAIT! What am I thinking? Of course it wasn't. God if Ron knew about this...' I shuddered at the thought,
"Well...looks like someone has a potty mouth all of a sudden. Don't worry. I won't mention anything to your boyfriend." He smirked.
"Wow. Thanks Malfoy. Maybe you really aren't that bad." I said, not believing I just said that aloud or that Malfoy would do this.
"Don't worry about it Granger. We'll just keep this our little secret." HE said, winking at me. I just blushed.
I looked around at everyone not believing some of the pairing. 'Aw they all look so cute.' I left a note near everybody and said to come down for breakfast if they wanted to when they woke up. After that was done I looked for Malfoy, thinking I would try to get along with him and was going to ask him if he wanted to help make breakfast for everyone. 'Oh well. I'll just go take a quick shower and then cook.' I thought as I made my down the stairs to the floor below.
I walked in my room to grab some clothes. I then proceeded to the end of the hall into the bathroom. I took a shower, letting the warm water run over my body, washing all of the stress away. I went back to thinking for a few minutes. 'I had a really good sleep last night, I was so warm and comfortable...wait a second I was sleeping on Malfoy! How could I forget that MAJOR detail? Maybe because he is so sexy...NO HE IS NOT!' I thought as I got out of the shower and cast a drying spell over my body and hair.
After getting dressed I headed down to the kitchen where I met up with the object of my thoughts.
"Malfoy? What are you doing?" I asked as I looked at him at the stove. He was frying something that smelled like bacon. I looked at the table and noticed that it was covered with plates and dished filled with food already.
"Well...I figured people might want breakfast when they woke up mud...I mean Granger." He replied quickly correcting his mistake once seeing the look on my face. I sat down and gathered some food on to my plate. I ate quickly hoping to get out of there as soon as possible. Malfoy was being civil, or at least trying to, and that was just too much for me to handle right now.
I speedily ate my food and then washed my dishes. As soon as I was done I sped past Malfoy, who was on the way to the table and got a shocked look on his face as I ran past. I guess from seeing me run out of there as if he had a disease. 'I really shouldn't have run out like that, especially with how hard he was trying to be civil. Which was just beyond creepy.' Once I got to the common room I accioed a pair of flip flops and put them on. I ran out of the portrait and towards the library.
When I finally arrived I relaxed. I had reached my sanctuary. No matter what happened throughout my years of Hogwarts, I always felt safe and comfortable in the library. There was always a book that matched my mood,. Always a book that I could get lost in. I grabbed a book, checked it out and headed to the lake. I leaned against a tree and started reading.
I was jolted out of my reading by someone calling my name. I looked up to see Ron running towards me. I realized that I had been reading for a long time. It was almost dinner time in fact.
"There you are!" Ron said, sitting next to me while I marked my page. "I've been looking for you for almost an hour! We have all been worried about you. Malfoy said you ran out of the room after gobbling down a plate of food. Don't worry we didn't beat the crap out of him for hurting you." He said wrapping an arm around my waist. I just stared at him.
"Why would you beat him up? He didn't do anything to me!" OMG. What if Malfoy told them about how we woke up...
"Well...he said you two were in there alone and when he went to sit down you ran past him. Harry and I thought he did something to you because he had this smug look on his face. Stupid git. Did he hurt you? Tell me what he did to you-" He didn't get to finish that statement though because I cut him off.
"Ronald! You're the stupid git. Malfoy didn't do anything to me, besides trying to be civil. Think about what we know about some Slytherins now! They don't want to be death eaters. Their fathers are the ones who want them to follow in their footsteps. They were trying to be nice to us. This could help our cause out a lot. I cannot believe you and Harry. Almost beating up Malfoy when all he did was be civil! I ran out because I really needed fresh air and I wanted to read a book." I said, out of breath from the tirade against Ron. He looked shocked.
"Wow. I'm sorry we jumped to conclusions about Malfoy. You are right, as usual. 'Mione, honey, talk to me. I really am sorry." He gave me puppy dog eyes that I just couldn't resist. I smiled at him, silently forgiving him. "Can I ask you a question?" He asked me after he realized I had forgiven him. I nodded. "Why the bloody hell was I hugging a pillow when I woke up?" He said, laughing.
"Um...well...you see," I mumbled. 'Shit shit shit shit. What the hell could I tell him? C'mon girl. You can think of an excuse. You are supposed to be the brightest witch of your lifetime!' "Um...you just looked so cute when I woke up I didn't want to wake you. So I gently slipped out of your arms and...uh...put the pillow there." I looked up at him and laughed nervously, hoping he would buy my excuse.
He looked at me and laughed. 'Yessss...he bought it. Thank Merlin.' We continued laughing for a few more minutes. Come on, let's go to dinner." Ron finally said, helping me to my feet. I gave him a kiss on the cheek and then we started walking towards the castle, holding hands.
When we got in the great hall we sat down next to 'the gang'. We were all laughing and talking about how much fun we had last night.
"I can't believe this is our last year at Hogwarts! We have to make sur it is the best ever, you guys." I said. Neville raised his glass mockingly, and said, "To the best year ever! Cheers." We all mimicked him, laughing. We clinked glasses and laughed even harder at the looks that people were giving us. We continued to laugh and joke until dinner was over and then all headed up to the common room.
Monday Morning
I awoke feeling nervous. Today was my last first day of classes. I had a feeling something good was going to happen. This was going to be the best year ever. I rolled out of bed and took a quick shower. I came back to my room to look for clothes to wear that day. I wanted to look good. 'Hmm..what to wear...' I thought as I looked through my closet. After 15 minutes of looking I finally picked out some clothes.
A cute jean skirt that showed off my legs, a deep purple t-shirt with silver stars on it, and a cute pair of black, stiletto sandals. I braided my hair into pigtails and put on mascara, lip gloss, and a little bit of purple eye shadow. I put on a purple rose necklace along with the matching bracelet and dangling earrings.
"I looked at myself in the mirror and silently approved. I grabbed my bag, dyed it purple with silver glitter with a simple spell and filled it with my school books, I headed down to breakfast.
As I walked into the great hall, I noticed how empty it was. I sat down at the table and grabbed a bagel. As I started to put cream cheese on it, people started coming in. Ron, Harry, and Ginny came in looking tired, dragging their bags.
"Morning everyone." I said smiling at their annoyed glances.
"Why are you always so chipper in the mornings?" Harry said, plopping down next to Ginny across from me.
"Oh, wake up you three! We start classes today! I wonder what we'll have today..." Just as I said that our timetables appeared next to our plates. I picked mine up at looked at Monday's schedule.
Granger, Hermione 7th year
8:00-9:00 Advanced Transfiguration (Gryffindor/Slytherin)
9:05-11:00 Advanced Potions (Gryffindor/Slytherin)
11:05-12:00 Muggle Studies (Gryffindor/Hufflepuff)
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:50-2:00 Free Period
2:05-3:00 Advanced Ancient Runes
'Easy day today' I thought. I glanced at everyone else's time tables. They had about the same schedule, but Ron and Harry still had Divination when I had ancient runes. 'How can they take that class? With that crazy bat of a women? I don't even know why she is teacher'
"Looks like our day is a Slytherin-filled morning. At least we're all together." I said. I looked at the time. We had 10 minutes to get to Transfiguration. C'mon you guys, we need to head to class." We all got up and headed towards the door.
We walked in the room just in time for class to start. We sat down at two tables. Me next to Ron, and Ginny next to Harry. The Gryffindors and Slytherins were on opposite sides of the room as usual. Professor McGonagall walked into class and the chitchat stopped.
"Good morning class. As you all know this is Advanced Transfiguration. You all will be working your hardest if you wish to pass this class. This is also the year you will all be taking the N.E.W.T.S which means you will be having a lot of work to do to prepare you for these examinations, Now I have a great surprise for you all today, Who can tell me what an Animagus is?" Professor McGonagall asked, looking at the class. Hermione of course raised her hand, but so did a few other students.
"Mr. Weasley?" McGonagall asked.
"It is where a person can turn into an animal at will."Ron said, surprising a few people.
"Very good. 5 points to Gryffindor. Now..." McGonagall went on to explain a few more things and to do a demonstration.
"See, I listen to you 'Mione!" Ron whispered to me. I just smiled.
"Anyways, the surprise I have for you all is this, I will be calling you up, one by one, to see if you have the skill to become and animagus." Professor McGonagall smiled at all the whisperings that started. "In the meantime, while you wait to be tested, please open to Chapter 1 in your books and take notes." McGonagall finished, sitting behind her desk and drawing out an orb.
20 minutes passed before I heard my name. I walked up to the professor's desk. She told me to put my hand on the orb. The orb waited a few seconds before changing to a royal purple color. She said I could go back to my seat.
With 10 minutes left of class, Professor McGonagall finally stood up. "I have the list of students who have the skill to transform. If I call your name, please stay behind. If you do not hear your name, you are free to go." She unrolled her parchment, and opened her mouth, "Those with the skill are..."
I hope you liked the chapter. Sorry for the cliffie. Promise I will try and update soon. Thank you for all the wonderful reviews, I'm surprised I have as many as I do. By the way...My friend and I are going to start a story together. Hopefully some of you will check it out, though I'm not sure when it will be posted. It's going to be under our pen name SilverTiger-PurpleMonkey. I think we're gonna call it A Love to End All Loves but I'm not sure yet. So please review and check for the new story coming soon. Thank you all again.