chapter 4: The interview part1
Hermione, now embarrased, put her wand on a table nearby and unrolled the parchment.
"Well"she said,eyeing Harry "What do you think of life at Hogwarts?"
Harry looked at her "Do you mean Hogwarts as a whole, or south tower?"
"Um..whatever pleases you."said Hermione.
Harry sighed and said"Well, i guess it's good , At least better than at Privet drive"
"Why do you say that?" Hermione asked,suddenly curious.
"Well, at privet drive I stay locked up the entire summer"harry said.
"But aren't you locked up in here too?"asked Hermione,before she could stop herself.
Harry smiled slightly, and said "There is...a slight difference between being in privet drive and being in south tower."
"In privet drive, i have no free will, i have no control of the place. I'm just...alone and can't get out of here.
However, in south tower i can go out if i please. the whole tower is in my control, i can do whatever i want."
"I guess you like control then,"said Hermione.
"Oh, i exercise control in all things...ms. Granger"
"What, you're a control freak?" Hermione said, then she gasped "I'm sorry, i'm just-"
"Oh, I exercise control in all things, Ms Granger," Harry said now without a trace of humor in his smile.
Hermione looked at him,and he held her gaze steadily.
Her heartbeat quickened and her face flushed again.
'Why does he have such an unnerving effect on me?'Hermione wondered 'he isn't even that good looking'.
'The way his eyes blaze at me?'
'The way he strokes his index finger against his lower lip?' (Hermione wished he'd stop doing that.)
"Back to the question, yes, I quite enjoy life at hogwarts (and south tower).
The staff are kind and teach me well, also professor Dumbledore is certain that Voldemort can't hurt me here."
Hermione jotted this down and looked at the question roll.
"And do you have any interests outside your studies?"
Harry grinned as if he had been waiting for this question.
"I have varied interests, Ms granger, very varied."
And for some reason, Hermione was confounded and heated by his steady gaze.
His eyes were alight with some wicked thought.
"But if you study all day, what do you do to relax?"
"Relax?" He smiles, revealing nice white teeth, not so different to the ones of gilderoy.
"Well, to 'relax' as you put it – I fly on my broomstick, I go hippogriff flying, I indulge in various physical pursuits."
He shifts in his chair.
"I have plenty of time and money, Ms Steele, and I have somewhat expensive and absorbing hobbies."
"How do you have all this money?"hermione asked "I've never heard that you had a job"
"i don't" he said."My parents left me quite a lot of money in Gringotts before they...um...the incident happened."
Hermione suddenly felt sorry for the boy, imagining him alone, with no parents, locked up in a tower.
She glanced quickly at Ginny's questions, wanting to get off this subject.
"How do you think you survived you know who?"
Harry raised his eyebrows "Voldemort?"
Hermione nodded.
Harry sighed and said "It's...a secret ms. Granger.
Even though it's an interview for Hogwarts, I have the right to not comment on certain questions."
"That sounds like your heart talking rather than logic and facts."
His mouth quirked up, and he stared appraisingly at Hermione.
"Maybe. Though there are some people who'd say I don't have a heart."
"Why would they say that?"
"Because they know me well."
His lip curled in a wry smile.
"then why would i say that i think that's not true?"
Harry looked as if he had been caught off guard for a few seconds "I...have no answer for that ms Granger."
"Would your friends say you're easy to get to know?" And Hermione regreted the question as soon as she said it. It wasn't on Ginny's list.
"I have no friends, ms. granger. I go a long way to protect my privacy. I never give interviews," he trailed off...
"Why did you agree to do this one?"
"Because it's for Hogwarts, my true home, and for all intents and purposes, I couldn't get ms. weasly off my back. She badgered and badgered rita(you know the witch downstairs), and I admire that kind of tenacity."
hermione know how tenacious Ginny could be.
That's why she was sitting here squirming uncomfortably under Harry's penetrating gaze, when she should be finishing Snape's essay.
"Have you ever had an relationship?"Hermione asked
Harry smiled "No, like i said i almost never meet women my age you're one of the first."
"Have you seen boys your age then?"
"Sometimes in the grounds"
"Are you gay ?"Hermione was shocked as she asked it, and wrote a mental note to ask Ginny of her question sources.
Harry took a very deep breath, and said slowly "No, ms. Granger, I'm not"
"I'm sorry..."Hermione said "It's just written here."
He looked surprised"Those aren't your questions?"
"No they're ms. Weasly's."
"Oh, so all those questions before, those weren't yours too?"
"No they weren't"
"I see..."he said, and began to stroke his lower lip with his idex finger again.
"so. what are you curious about me ms. Granger?" harry asked
Hermione looked at harry, and said-
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