A/N: The idea for this chapter came into my head while math class. (Brianna, Kathleen, Randy, Angela, Michael, and everybody else from AMS, you know who i'm talking about!) Oh, and the last bit came into my head on Friday during our run, yes, at the time, I was dreaming about you-know-who (Again, my AMS friend, you know EXACTLY who i'm talking about!) I had to transfer MY dream into Harry and Hermione. Lol. Please review, I hope you enjoy this chapter!
Fall for Hermione chapter 8
The couple raced down the twisting hallway, as far away from the ogre as possible. After about twenty minutes of sprinting down the corridor, Hermione stopped in her tracks, panting heavily.
"H...Harry, w...wait one m..minute, ok?" Hermione leaned against the wall and dropped down to the cold, marble ground.
Harry sat down beside her, a worried look on his face as he held Hermione in his arms, softly petting her whispy brown hair.
"Hermione, are you ok? If you aren't, I can wait, but we better head off again soon, i'm sure that if we're caught here, especially by Snape, then we'll get in trouble. Hermione, are you coming?" Harry hugged Hermione close to him, and wrapped his arms around her.
"Come on Harry, we better go, i'll be ok." Hermione staggered as she got up, for she was still sore from racing down the twisting corridors. Harry picked her up, and got her to her feet, as he took off down the hall, Hermione at least, 3 feet behind him. All of a sudden, the two heard a gigantic roar. Hermione jumped and lept into Harry's arms, he held her tightly, she was pretty light, and Harry found it easy to carry her. She junped out of his arms, and slowly walked towards the corner, were the roar was heard.
"Harry, what was that? I...I..." Hermione stopped mid-sentence, for at that moment, a gigantic swarm of teachers ran into the pair, knocking them down flat on their faces. Snape was in the lead of the mob. None of the teachers noticed that two of the greatest students in Hogwarts were laying on the cold ground under their feet.
"Ouch! Hey, watch where you're stepping! Ow!" Harry tried his best to get up, as well as to help Hermione. It seemed impossible to get up, until professor McGonagall stopped to help the two stunned teenagers up.
"What do you think you're doing?" McGonagall snapped. Hermione burst into tears, if she hadn't gone to the library in the first place, they wouldn't be in trouble at all. Harry turned to Hermione, McGonagall's face softened as she knelt down in front of Hermione.
"Miss Granger, what happened, Mr.Potter, if you have ANYTHING to do with this, i'll...i'll..." McGonagall was quickly cut off by Hermione, her hugged Harry tightly, refusing to loosen her grip.
"This isn't Harry's fault! It's mine, you can do whatever you want to me, just don't harm Harry!" Hermione yelled, leaving both Harry and McGonagall shocked.
"Well, I don't believe that you were the one's to release that ogre in the castle, but from what I can tell, it was you who defeated it, am I right Miss Granger?" Dumbledore stepped up from behind McGonagall and the kids.
"We don't know how the ogre got into the school, but yes, we did defeat it...is it dead?" Harry's voice was strong and confident.
"Well, we are not completely sure whether it is dead, or just knocked out, but I sugest that you two better head off towards your house towers." Dumbledore shooed the kids off, watching them until they turned a corner. After about ten minutes of straight running, they were stopped by a ludicrous voice that was none other then Malfoy.
"Well, if it isn't old Potter and Mermi...er...Granger to escort him.You two better get to Gryffindor tower, we wouldn't want our two top students to fall into the trap of the nasty ogre, now would we?" Malfoy sneered, his voice was just one big taunt of discrimination against Gryffindors. Harry's face burned a scarlet red, as Hermione had to hold him back, if she let go of him, he was going to kill Malfoy, possibly getting himself expelled.
"In fact...we...already defeated...the...ogre." Hermione struggled with her words, for Harry was dragging her with him, as he advanced on Malfoy.
"Granger, you filthy mud-blood, go back to your hime, oh wait, I forgot, your parents live in a box, so they wouldn't have room for you. Stupid mud-blood's." Malfoy shouted at Hermione, but before he could open his mouth to say more, Hermione let go of Harry. She pulled her wand out, pointing it out at Malfoy, Hermione's face glowed with rage, her eys were blood-shot with fury, her breath was uneven, her hands clutched in two tight fists, even the one the was now clutching her wand. Harry pulled out his own wand, before Hermione could put some evil hex on Malfoy, he shouted.
"Inccendio!" After Harry had shouted the command to his wand, flames burst out of Malfoy's robe's, soon he looked like a giant ball of flames. Hermione looked instantly better, she laughed and stepped a few feet away from Malfoy, so that he couldn't reach her. After about thirty seconds of pure flame, Malfoy lept into the water tank, steam rose from the singed robe's. Hermione and Harry burst out laughing. It was too funny not to laugh. Draco bounded down the hall.
"Just wait until I tell my father on you two!" He shouted, still steaming.
"Thanks Harry, if you hadn't done that, I would've killed him, literally, and i'd probably get expelled." Hermione hugged Harry.
"Look, I did that for two reasons, one was because I hate that Malfoy, and the other reason the fact that I love you, and ythat nobody deserves to call you a mud-blood." Harry held Hermione close, she smiled and kissed him. Again, it was a kiss so full of love, it would make a pair of love-bird weep with joy. It was a kiss so passionate, so smooth, so soft, Hermione's heart glowed with hope, maybe their love was actually real.
When they broke apart from the kiss, Hermione smiled and clutched Harry's hands, and held them in her own.
"You know I love you a ton, but I truly don't think that we can continue this, I mean, I don't want to lose you." Hermione's eyes glittered with tears, and in about two seconds, Harry's vision was cut off completly by a massive ammount of very bushy brown hair.
"Whoa, Hermione, please don't cry. Look, we've had this discussion before, please don't cry. I love you, and I want to keep up our relationship. Just please, don't cry." Harry hugged Hermione, she was shaking with misery.
"Oh Harry, you are just too good to me! I don't deserve somebody as good as you!" Hermione cried, and flung herself onto Harry, who was now at a loss for words.
"Herm,ione, you are perfect. If anything, it's me that doesn't deserve you. We deserve each other! It's always been that way!" Harry stroked Hermione's bushy hair, hugging her tightly. His head resting on her shoulders. Hermione stopped crying, and stared into Harry's eye's. She clutched his hands tightly in her own, and lept onto Harry. Almost knocking him flat on his back.
"Harry, you're just way too good. I love you so much!" Hermione leaned on Harry's chest. He wrapped his arms around her body, pulling her close to himself.
"Hermione, you are the best, you truly are." Both Harry and Hermione knew that there was some connection between them. They held each other close for quite some time before they broke apart.
"Look Harry, we better get back to the Gryffindor tower, before we get into anymore trouble." Hermione took off towards the tower, Harry following close behind. They climbed the winding staircase, both of them skipping two stairs at a time. When they reached the common room, they noticed that the fire had not yet been lit.
"Should we light the fire? I mean, would anybody mind?" Hermione shivered, and sank down into a fuzzy yellow couch beside Harry, snuggling into him.
"Sure, Inccendio!" A large red spark flew out of Harry's wand, and within seconds, a large fire was lit in the fireplace.
"Harry, please, tell me one thing, what do you see in me?" Hermione put her hands on Harry's knee's, her head gently on Harry's shoulder's.
"Hermione, you are the most beautiful, most elegent, most outstanding girl in the entire world! I don't know what I would do with out you." Harry kissed Hermione again. She pulled herself on top of him, her eye's locked into his, they had such a huge connection between each other, that the entire air around them seemed to be filled with romance.
"Hermione, I vow to protect you until the day I die. I promise, I will never leave your side, ever! Hermione Granger, you are just wonderful!" Harry rolled his fingers through Hermione's hair, she just smiled and kissed him, they felt as if nothing in the world mattered at all.
A/N: That's the end of this chapter, a little short, and totally devoted to Harry and Hermione, but that's sorta the point! Lol. Anyway, this chapter was really easy, I just took idea's from Friday's run (AMS friend's, who know what, and who i'm talking about!) and transfered my idea's to Harry and Hermione. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and please review!
