Title: Helping Her
Genre: Humor/Romance
Category: Harry Potter
Summary: Draco Malfoy is always the center of attention, not the attention giver. When he and Ron Weasley accidentally turn Hermione into a five-year-old, Draco will have to give all the attention he has to the small girl.
Crys: This is a vital chapter! This has got to be the shortest update ever, but I promise the next one will be at least decent sized! It's based on the feelings of the characters after Hermione's disappearance. This is 613 words.
Chapter 16: The Confession
Pansy was the most upset out of all of them. Little Hermione had been playing as well as everyone else, runnin around, screaming, and having a good time. Thn, when Pansy had come to close her arms almost playfully around the small, brunette, five-year-old, she disappeared in thin air. It seemed like she apparated, but that was impossible. Pansy could only wonder helplessly where she had gone in front of her face.
Draco was put-off. Sure, he hadn't been there--not like Pansy had, but he missed Hermione as bad as everyone else did. She brightened them up and started the whole game in the first place. He remembered how she had been gone for a few minutes earlier but assumed nothing of it. He felt horrible for Pansy, to just have something so important to you to disappear in front of your eyes. He was kneeling next to Ron and Pansy, clasping and unclasping his hands in his lap.
Ron sat next to Pansy, holding her in his arms gently and rubbing her back. He had been wary to accept Pansy, but until that recent event upon being locked in a closet, he had learned what he wanted and to comfort Pansy in her time of distress. If he had seen Hermione disappear himself, he would be far from consolable and angry as hell. He was upset. Hermione had been his friend for six years, despite their many fights and disagreements.
Ginny was upset as well as everyone else. She stood in Blaise's arms, crying softly. She couldn't believe it. After all of this--after finally getting closer to the smaller Hermione, talking with her, playing games with the small girl and being there throughout the arguments between the five-year-old Gryffindor and the Slytherin Head Boy. She wondered slightly if anything had happened earlier that day to cause her friend's disappearance, but couldn't find anything that could possibly link them.
Blaise leaned against the wall, trying to stay strong for his girlfriend. He knew that Ginny was distraught and surprised by Hermione's sudden leave, but he had been too. If it was left to him, he would be out trying to find out exactly what had happened to his small friend. It seemed just yesterday that they were arguing over Draco, and just in that same day she had announced him "it" during an exciting game of tag that landed him in the shower with his girlfriend. He missed her to death.
Harry felt guilty. Although he was having fun as well as the rest of his friends, he couldn't help but let the gnawing of guilt and sorrow ear his stomach to bits. He knew exactly what happened to his small friend. It was his fault. Exactly how was he supposed to reveal this information to the rest of his friends when they believed him to be closer to Hermione than even Draco himself? Maybe they didn't have to know for a while--what was he thinking? He couldn't stand to refrain from speaking about it, so he stood up.
"I have a confession to make." He said quietly.
Chapter 16: The Confession
