A/N: I LOVE writing this story, it is so much fun! I hope you guys like this story too, it's just awsome. Please, forgive me if I don't update for a few days, i won't be home. I'm taking paper, but not my computer,so live with it! lol. Bye, and remember, please review!
Fall for Hermione Chapter 7
By now, Harry was pretty comfortable around Hermione, well, he was before, but now, whenever he was around her, he just seemed to relax a bit more. The only thing that ticked Harry off the most, was the fact that whenever Harry and Hermione were together, Ron did nothing more then glare at the couple. It did no real damage to them, but Ron's cold, hard eyes were digging a hole in the couple, making them feel uneasy. After their studies were over the next day, Harry went up to the Gryffindor tower, just because he wanted too. When he reached the tower, he saw Hermione, reading a thick, hard-covered book, he went up behind her, and gently placed his hand on top of Hermione's soft, bushy brown hair.
"Harry, is that you? Is it my saviour who rescued my heart from being ripped to pieces?" Hermione clapped her hands, and kissed Harry, causing the book on hermione's lap to fall to the ground. She didn't care, she was entranced by Harry's soft kiss. When they broke apart, Hermione wrapped her arms around Harry's neck, pulling him onto the chair that she was sitting on. Harry sighed, and picked up Hermione's book. She smiled, and kissed Harry, well, it was more of a peck, but a kiss, never the less.
"Harry I don't know how to tell you this, but..." Hermione started to say, before Harry cut her off.
"Hermione, I know. I love you. You are the angel of all angels. You always have been, and you always will be." Harry gazed into Hermione's deep, dark brown eyes, wrapping his arms around her protectivly, making sure that she felt safe in his grasp. Hermione leaned her head against Harry's shoulder, ignoring the book that was sitting on her lap. They broke apart shortly after that, for they saw that the other Gryffindors started to file into the vast tower. Hermione grabbed her book, and started to read .were she left off, Harry, on the other hand, just stood there, not saying much. About thirty seconds later, Ron burst through the tower, his face furied with fury and gloom.
'Smart move Harry, smart move.' Hermione thought, as she watched Ron's face brighten with glee as he saw that Harry and Hermione weren't doing anything that involved the other. Hermione turned around and smiled at Harry, making sure that Ron wasn't watching.
"Look, Ron doesn't really seem to care about us anymore." Harry whispered and put his hand on Hermione's shoulder.
"He might just be tired, or he just gave up on trying to break us apart." Hermione whispered back, eyeing Ron as he slowly stumbled up the stairs up to the boy's dormitory. The couple smiled, and just, well, they really didn't do much. Hermione pointed to her book every now and then, only to show Harry some interesting potion, or something along those lines.
"Hermione, there's something I want to ask you." Harry stumbled with his words, as he gazed into Hermione's eyes, looking quite serious.
"Harry, what?" Hermione, stared back at Harry, her eyes sparkling.
"Would you, I mean, do you, I mean..." Harry stumbled with his words, Hermione grinned, as she watched Harry blush, and try to pick out the exact words.
"Harry, next time, please, think before you want to ask me something." Hermione laughed, before pulling Harry on top of her, entrancing him with her soft kiss of love. The next thing they knew, they were lost in a world of love, where only they existed at this moment. During this time, Harry forgot what he wanted to ask Hermione. When they broke apart, Hermione's eyes were sparkling with joy, and Harry was just to stunned to speak.
"Harry, I love you more then anything in the entire world. I would give my life to you." Hermione leaned down to put her head on Harry's shoulder.
"I know Hermione, and the same goes for me. I love you." Harry spoke in a whisper, and put his hand on Hermione's shoulder, and sighed, he loved her a lot.
"You know Harry, I never really thought i'd say this, but, when I first saw your face, I knew that there would be something special between us." Hermione smiled, and buried her head into Harry's chest. She smiled, and stayed that way until the dinner bell rang it's high-pitched wail through the tower. She jumped up with a shock, and sneered, as she watched Harry laugh at her fright.
"Hermione, that was hilarious!" Harry laughed, and hugged Hermione tightly.
"However, no matter what, i'll always love you." Harry kept Hermione in that protective hug, until she struggled free, and started to head towards the dining hall. Harry raced after her, Hermione laughing all the way. When they reached the hall, there weren't too many students in there. Hermione smiled, and sat down beside Harry and Ron.
"Hermione, I thonk that this is a start to a great relationship." Harry grinned, and whispered in Hermione's ear.
"Only a start? Harry, you've known i've loved you since, well, forever it seems." Hermione laughed, and tussled Harry's dark hair. Harry smiled, as Dumbledor stood up to speak.
"May I ahve your attention everyone?" Dumbledor's calm, but strict voice bellowed through-out the great hall.
"Never!" Draco shouted back at Dumbledor, making the old professor frown with great dislike for Draco.
"As I was saying, I have noticed that the majority of our students are taking great pride in their work, and are working hard to complete their homework on time." With these words, Dumbledor, and quite a few of the students turned to Hermione, her cheeks going bright red.
"However, their are those students who do not work at all, and are slacking behind in quite a few of your studies. I believe that with a great amount of effort, and the helpfulness of actually paying attention in class, Mr.Malfoy, I hope you're listening to this." Dumbledor paused in his sentence, to give students a few seconds to laugh, and sneer at Draco, who was yelling at the top of his lungs for everyone to shut up.
"Mr.Malfoy, please do settle down. As I was trying to say, you students who are slacking behind should really take care to complete all of your school work, or you will not pass the school year, and will be expelled from Hogwarts, permanently. That means you Mr.Malfoy." Dumbledor's eyes sparkled with excitment, and glee, as he watched Draco explode with rage. Hermione, Harry, and Ron just doubled over in laughter, and howled in joy.
'So, Malfoy finally got his long awaited revenge. I can't believe that Dumbledor would actually allow that. Wait a second, actually, I can. This is just priceless!' Hermione, and Harry thought together. However, neither of them knew that the other person had thought it. They only knew about themselves.
"Anyways, even though the Hogwarts teachers are cursed with slackers, there are still some students who are literally, the brightest withes, and wizards in their year." Dumbledor, and the majority of the the students, looked directly at Hermione, who was blushing with great pride.
"Ms.Granger, there is no need to be embaressed, Mr.Pooter and Mr.Weasley are going to be getting some stares themselves in a few seconds." Dumbledor's eyes shone as he said those words. That was a night to remember.
"I can't believe that Dumbledor would actually do that! I mean, we aren't that great, are we?" Ron asked, he was now in a better mood then he was that morning.
"We aren't, but Hermione is. She was the one that Dumbledor was mentioning, really." Harry laughed, he put his arm on Hermione's shoulders.
"Well, we did fight off an ogre, and discover the Sorcerer's stone in only our first year. Then, we opened the chamber of secrets, and saved Ginny from death, the year after. We also saved the innocent lives of Buckbeak, and Black, and escaped a werewolf the year after that. We ARE amazing! You may not realize it, but we are truly, some of the bravest wizards in our time! Dumbledor, and i'm quite sure the majority of professor's know us for our bravery and skill. We are gifted, not just with magical ability, but with skill, and bravery!" Hermione seemed confident in what she was saying, as if it were an essay that she had been studying for.
"Somebody obviously actually keeps track of this stuff." Ron groaned, and grinned.
"Hermione, I don't think you comprehend with this stuff. It's more complicated then that, sure, we did all that stuff, but we are nothing more then mere wizards in training! Dumbledor was only comenting on the smartest wizards, and witches. Not the bravest." Harry put his arm on Hermione's arm, Hermione's eyes filled with tears of anger.
"Exactly! If you were like Malfoy, could you have done all those things? If you didn't have the brains you had then, could you have accomplished those tasks! Harry, Ron, you guys don't seem to understand!" Hermione rushed down the hall, Harry groaned, he was tired of chasing her all over the castle.
"She's been running all around the school for the past two weeks, and who else has been chasing her? Only I have. It's getting tedious. I think she likes to be followed, then sniffed out. I mean, why else has she been running about the school like it's a gym?" Harry groaned, he forgot all about the good things that they had done together, he forgot all their conversations, everything.
"Harry, I thought that you loved her? Why are you complaining. It's obvious! She wants to be alone, don't you get it?" Ron's face was dead serious.
"Ron, you have issues." Harry said, and as he said that, he ran down the hall, hoping to find Hermione. The other times that he had to chase her, she had been in the Gryffindor tower, that was the first place he looked.
"She wants to be alone! What part of that don't you understand?" Ron shouted down the hall, all of a sudden, all eyes were on him.
'We'll see, when he gets dumped, we'll see who's laughing. I can't believe it! I'm the one who has all the siblings! I have the most knowledge on girls! Why won't he listen to me?' Ron thought, his mind brewing with devious plans on how to get revenge on Harry.
Meanwhile, Harry was trying to hunt down Hermione. So far, no luck.
'Well, no luck in the tower. Where could she be? If I were Hermione I would be...probably getting 'doing' something with Harry, however, she's not here, so no luck Harry. Why does she have to do this? I mean, she's not ususally like this, ever! Not even when, Harry, stop thinking! You're only getting sick thoughts into your head, and THAT'S not helping us any! Come on Harry, think! Where could she be? She could be ing the bathrooms...NO! NOT EVER am I going into those towers ever again! That ghost is getting on my nerves! I can't believe i'm even saying this...or rather thinking this, but she might have left the castle grounds, or gone to the library...wait! The library! That's it, it has to be! Where else whould Hermione be?' Harry grinned, and raced around to the library, when he heard a blood-curdling scream, coming from the library.
"Hermione!" Harry shouted, and ran even faster.
"Harry! Help! Harry!" Somebody shouted from inside the library. Then, a loud crash came from inside the library doors.
"Harry! Help me!" The voice shouted again, anybody could tell you that it was Hermione.
"Hermione, i'm coming! Harry screamed, and burst through the library door, there stood a huge, towering ogre, a lot bigger then the one they had fought in their first year. This one was over 50 feet tall, and had already torn up half the library.
"Oh my god, Hermione?" Harry was shocked beyond belife.
"Harry, help!" Hermione shreiked, Harry looked up, she was on top of the troll's shoulder.
"Oh...my...god...HERMIONE!" Harry yelled, and started to climb the pile of rubble, swerving to avoid the ogre's spiked club.
"Harry, be careful!" Hermione shouted, the ogre swung it's huge club right at Harry again, this time, it hit Harry's shoulder, knocking him down.
"No! Harry!" Hermione looked as though she was going to jump down off the tall ogre's shoulder, however, she knew that it would be totally stupid, and she would die if she did that.
Harry just lay on the ground, no movement what-so-ever.
Hermione picked up her wand to use it, but then, the ogre roared. The roar was so loud, that Hermione fell off the shoulder by the strong wind of it's breath.
"AGHH!" She screamed, and tried to sheild herself the best she could, her wand was already on the ground, so she couldn't use magic. She screamed again, and reached out for the ogre's clothing, so she could at least hang on to something, to slow her fall. However, she was one unfortunate witch. She sheilded her body with her srms, and awaited the terrible fall that would follow her death, however, she never did die. She never heard the bone-shattering crash that would kill her. Instead, she fell on top of something, or rather, someone the broke her fall.
"H...Hermione...p...p...please, get off of m...me!" A muffled voice said, from under the pile. Hermione was still stunned from the fall, and just lay on top of the person, not doing anything, she couldn't. The ogre was lumbering towards the two people, Hermione was stiff in shock. All of a sudden, the person under her moved, and sat up. Hermione screamed in fear, for one thing, the ogre was now about 10 feet ahead of her, and a second thing, she was just laying on top of Harry, the love of her life.
"Oh, i'm so sorry, Harry, I didn't realize...look out! The ogre, it's right behind you!" Hermione screamed and lept into Harry's arms, she blushed as she realized what she had done. Harry just took out his wand, he had a bit of difficultly doing so, for Hermione was still in his arms, clutching his shoulders.
"I don't know any spells that are strong enough!" Harry yelled, pale with fear as the lumbering monster advanced to them.
"Neither do I...and the spell I know doesn't work on ogre's, only demons. Goodbye Harry, i'll miss you!" Hermione kissed Harry, and started to whack the beast with a metal pipe that had come loose from the ceiling debris. However, there was little effect on the ogre. All of a sudden, Hermione and Harry heard a deafening thud. Hermione jumped, and wrapped her arms around Harry's neck, he pulled her close to himself, and made sure she was safe. He treasured her so much. When the entire room stopped shaking, Harry cautiously looked up at the ogre. The ogre's grey skin was barely visible through the huge mountain of debris that covered it.
"Hermione, it's alright, the ogre, well, it's either dead, or knocked completely out of it. It's ok." Harry whisperedto Hermione, who was shaking with fear. She did, however, eventually get up to look around. The library was a mess!
"Harry, let's get out of here, it's getting creepy!" Hermione grabbed Harry's arm, and raced out of the library, Harry was forced to follow.
A/N: Ok, so it might have been a bit lame, but I guess that's it. I, myself, really enjoyed writing it, so there! D lol, I won't be home for a few days, so i'll probably update againby next Friday. I'm taking paper with me, but I won't be taking my computer. Please review while you're waiting! Thanks to all my faithful friends, who have been with me all the way! Oh, and thank you to all my active reviewers, I will NEVER forget you guys!
