Common Room Commotion
The weeks went by and classes were even harder now. Harry and Ron depended a lot on Hermione to fix most of their work for them. One day when after dinner one night they were coming up from the Great Hall and when they came up to the third floor, Hermione said to the two boys, "I think I'm going to read in quiet for a bit in my own common room for an hour or so, you can come down anytime if you want ok?" Ron and Harry nodded, and Hermione pulled out her wand and said "Accio Book" and in a few seconds her book came gracefully zooming down the hall and into her hand. They parted as Hermione went left and Harry and Ron kept on going up the moving staircase.
Hermione walked down the hall until she got to the picture of the two people under the tree. She muttered bixleweed and the door swung open. She climbed through the hole and walked to one of the couches. Once she was comfortable, Hermione pulled out her romance novel that she was reading and opened it up to the page where she last left off, putting the bookmark on the coffee table.
Around two chapters later Hermione was starting to feel a little bit sleepy so she lay the book on her chest and closed her eyes. 'There's no harm in taking a little nap' she thought as she started drifting off.
Ten minutes into Hermione's peaceful sleep, Malfoy entered the common room with one of his closest companions I should say, but every one knew that he was Malfoys crone, Goyle. They were in a deep discussion and didn't notice Hermione sleeping on the couch. "I can't see how Crabbe could have put a jelly legs jinx on himself, I mean how stupid can you get?" He stopped, finally seeing her. "Now what do we have here?" He walked up to her and grabbed the book off of her chest and looked at it, he raised his eyebrow. "Romance?" he said to Goyle. He snapped it shut, Hermione's eyes flew open right away, and as soon as she saw whom it was she jumped to her feet. "What are you doing here?" She said to him. He laughed. "Last time I checked I was a head boy and this common room is for the heads, now what did I say about you being in my way?" He asked her. "How am I in your way?" she asked, "if anything your in my way, I was in here first" she continued. "Well I just remembered what I say and your in my way so there's going to be consequences, Goyle grab her!" He yelled and Goyle lunged at her and she dodged but just barely. Hermione got out her wand and shouted "EXPELL-" but was cut off by Malfoy who also had his wand out and shouted the same spell before Hermione did so her wand went flying across the room. She tried to run and grab her wand but Goyle was right there and he grabbed her. She tried to twist out of his grip but he was too strong. He twisted her arms around her back, she yelled out in pain but quickly bit her tongue. If anything she didn't want to give the satisfaction of knowing that she was in pain. Malfoy walked up to her and laughed. He pulled out his wand and a piece of fabric came shooting out of it and he swirled his wand around her head and the fabric gagged her and tied itself in a not at the back of her head. He did the same for her arms and feet. "Time to have a little fun" He said and reached for one of the buttons of her shirt.
"Hey Harry what's the password again?" Ron shouted to his friend who was a few paces behind him. "Bixleweed" Harry said as he reached Ron who was standing in front of the door. It swung open and Harry climbed in and Ron right after him. After they climbed in the portrait hole, what they saw shocked them. Harry stood there for a second with his mouth wide open, watching Goyle holding a ferociously struggling Hermione and Malfoy taking off her shirt. They must have not heard Harry and Ron come in, but they defiantly heard them now because they were running towards them at full speed. Ron jumped on Goyle's back and was trying to strange him while Harry went towards Malfoy and punched him so hard in the jaw that he fell backwards stunned for a second. While Draco was kneeling on the ground Harry kneed him in the stomach and then again, he fell back writhing on the ground in pain. Ron had successfully gotten Goyle's attention away from Hermione but now he was trying to dodge deadly blows from his massive fists. Harry went to help Ron and in less than a minute both Slitherens were fleeing out the door as fast as they could.
Hermione had gotten her hands from behind her to in front of her but that's it. Due to the sufficient amount of cloth used she was unable to untie them. Harry rushed over to the shirtless Hermione and untied the gag, her hands and her feet for her. She was now wiping tears from her eyes. Harry pulled her into a big hug and didn't let go. When he finally let go of her he helped her up and asked her how this happened. She recalled the whole event from when they parted on the third floor to when they came and rescued her. Harry gave her a scolding look as if saying I shouldn't have left you alone. He then said, "Well your defiantly not coming here anymore unless you've got one of us with you" she felt like rolling her eyes but she didn't because even though he sounded very much like her father she knew that he was only concerned for her.
"Well lets go to the Gryffendor tower then" Ron said to them and Hermione nodded and grabbed her book from the floor. Then she walked over and got her wand. "Ready?" she asked Harry, because Ron was already over by the portrait hole. "Ummm your not" he said to her. "Why?" she asked quizzically. "Well you don't have a shirt on," he said smiling. "I mean if you want to keep it off that's fine with me but I'm just telling you" he said. Hermione smiled and hit him on the chest. She found her shirt laying a few feet away and put it on, buttoning it up as they left. Harry glanced at her before they left through the portrait hole and caught one more glance of black before they left. That night in the common room Harry, Ron and Hermione were all sitting by the fire on the couches talking casually. Hermione was wrapped in a blanket and leaning on Harry's legs on one of the big couches, while Ron was sitting in one of the arm chairs facing them. Ron stretched and yawned and then said, "Well I'm beat, and I think I am going to hit the hay, see you guys in the morning." Harry said goodnight to him as he climbed up the staircase to his dorm and Ron just waved to him as he went up, which meant that he acknowledged that Harry had said goodnight but he was too lazy to say it back to him.
There was a moment of silence between Harry and Hermione for a second but it was soon broken by Harry saying, "So are you sure you are going to be alright?" But there was no answer. "Hermione?" He asked but again, no answer. He shifted his leg and Hermione fell gracefully onto his chest. She was dead asleep. Harry moved himself so that he was in a comfortable spot and then closed his eyes. When he opened them he looked down at the peaceful face of his sleeping friend and realized for the first time that he may feel a little more than friendship for Hermione.
Hermione woke up to find that she was laying on Harry's chest, and found that she didn't want to move. It felt so comfortable just lying there and she was so comfy, but then soon remembered that there was classes today and she needed to get up and get ready. She slowly and quietly removed the blanket covering the two and quietly got up from her position. When she was up she put the blanket back on Harry and went up the stairs to go and have a shower.
After she had her shower, put on her school uniform and did her hair and makeup, she got her bag and put in all the books that she might need for the day.
Harry woke up around forty-five minutes after Hermione had left him (but he didn't know that) and he looked down to find that the blanket was resting on top of him but no Hermione. "Where's your lovebird?" Harry heard Ron ask as he was folding up the blanket. Harry looked up at him and asked, "what do you mean?" while he was putting the blanket back on the couch. Ron rolled his eyes. "You and Hermione all cozy on the couch last night. Harry could feel his face going red. "How would you know about that?" He asked trying to occupy himself with straightening pillows. "I came down to see if you guys needed and blankets or anything, on separate couches," He said. "Oh" Is all Harry said.
Hermione came down the stairs at this point with her book bag slung over her shoulder. Harry was watching her as she came down and noticed that the two top buttons of her shirt were undone and he was trying not to look but it was too hard, that was possibly too much skin to be showing off. 'Bloody tease' he thought to himself. She walked up to Harry and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "What was that for?" he asked, raising his eyebrow. "For being there for me last night." She said and strutted off through the portrait hole to go eat breakfast. Harry watched her all the way and then looked at Ron who was making out with himself, saying "Ooh Hermione I love you Hermione, Snog me Hermione!" "Shove Off" Harry said angrily to him and went upstairs to have a shower.
"Cozy on the couch were you" Ginny asked her friend as she approached the Gryffendor table. "Shhhh! How do you know about that?" Hermione asked shushing her friend. "Well I came down this morning at around 5:30 to send a letter to mum and guess who I saw on the couch together?" She said scooping eggs and putting them on Hermione's plate for her. "Well I guess we fell asleep like that because I was terrified about what Malfoy did to me in the Head room" She said and Ginny's face turned concerned. Hermione told her and when she was done Ginny said, "When I get my hands on him." "Ginny its ok Harry and Ron dealt with them so I'm pretty sure they wont come back and attack me for a while." Hermione re-assured her friend. "Speak of the devils right now, here come the two stooges." Ginny said rolling her eyes as Ron and Harry came through the double doors and sat down at the Gryffendor table. Neville, Dean and Seamus came right behind them and Neville sat beside Ginny. Ron and Harry beside Neville and Dean and Seamus by Hermione.
They ate breakfast quickly and rushed to their first class of the day which was potions, and lucky for them it was with the Slitherens.