Thankyou to no one because no one reviewed but thanks to anyone who read the last chapter. Happy Summer vacation! Wait! Some one DID review! I thank you deeply!!!! also, is 'quiditch' spelled with one 'd' or two??
Chapter 12
It was the 20th of November when they had found the newspaper article (which Hermione took with her) on the ground and two days had gone by of nothing but Hermione and Vinola whispering in the Common Room about their letter. Hermione took the parchment with her every where and as much as possible, she and Vinola worked on it. They had already thrown away two copies but they thought that the third was definitely a winner.
"Hermione, we have to send it now! If we wait any longer it may not make it in time!" Vinola tried to grab the 2 and a half foot long parchment out of Hermione's hands, only to have her own slapped.
"It's not ready, Vinola. I'm still checking it for mistakes." Vinola rolled her eyes.
"You wrote most of it! How many mistakes could there possible be?"
Hermione shot her a warning look and then a look of realization spread across her tired face. "Vinola, if we're going to do this we-" She stopped because Ron and Harry had just come down the stairs from their dormitory. Hermione and Vinola hadn't told them anything about their plans but had been acting very oddly lately due to their attempts to write a crucial letter and maintain their status as Harry and Ron's girlfriends.
"Oy, are you girls still down here?" Ron sat down next to Hermione and looked at her overworked eyes. "Hermione you really need some sleep, you've been down here really late these past two days." Hermione scowled at him and Vinola came to the rescue before Hermione could blow up.
"We've already told you guys. We've been studying for our O.W.L.S., is that so wrong?" Vinola looked at Harry with sad puppy dog eyes.
"Well, no." said Harry, "But you girls really do need to sleep some time."
"If you really cared cared about us you'd leave!" snapped Vinola. Harry looked a bit dumbstruck but didn't want to get into a fight with her, considering they'd only been officially together for three days.
"Eh, exams are important but not as important as your health." he put his hand under her chin and turned her to face him. "We're just trying to look after our girls." Harry smiled cutely and gave her a kiss.
Hermione looked up at Ron who smiled and kissed her. "We only bother you because we care about you."
Hermione and Vinola smiled, they knew they were lucky.
"We're sorry," said Hermione calmly, "but we do really have to finish this and then we'll go to sleep."
"Promise?" said Ron.
"Yeah, we do." With that the boys left the girls to finish their 'studying' and went to sleep.
"I hate lying to them." Vinola whined.
"I know but I told them about something like this before and they thought it was silly. We don't need them to discourage us."
Vinola thought about this. "Mmhm."
They continued working for another hour or so before Hermione was finally satisfied. They decided to risk getting caught by Filch and ran to the Owlery anyway. They chose a pretty barn owl and attached the letter to his leg, Hermione was about to release it when Vinola grabbed her arm.
"This is what we want right? If we let that owl go there's no turning back." Vinola was suddenly having mixed feelings.
"I know it's what I want."
Vinola nodded. "Let's do it together then. On three." Vinola silently counted to three and they let go of the owl and watched it fly away in the moonlight. they stayed another moment and then went back to the dormitories and gladly kept their promise to Harry and Ron.
Thanksgiving
The fabulous foursome walked arm-in-arm into the Great Hall for breakfast on Thanksgiving morning. Hermione and Vinola were very jittery and looked as if they had a secret, which they did. Harry and Ron took no notice of this, feeling that they were probably just tired from all the studying.
They took their places at the table, Hermione and Vinola across from eachother, and started eating nervously, anticipation filling their heads with hopes that a special notification letter would arrive in the mail today. The owl they had sent had returned back but it didn't have anything with it yet, the announcing of the winner was upon them that morning.
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock.
"Merlin's beard! When is the post going to arrive?!" Harry and Ron looked up and stared at Hermione.
"Why?" Ron began, "Are you expecting something important?"
"No, no!" Vinola interjected, "Just anxious to see the Daily Profit, that's all." She made a shut-up-and-calm-down face at Hermione.
"Whatever you say. There should be some news on the Quiditch games..." Whenever Ron and Harry talked about Quiditch Hermione just blocked them out. 'Come ON!' she thought, 'What's taking those ruddy owls so long? When will they show up?' just then Hermione got the answer to her question. She and Vinlola looked expectantly up at the mass of owls that were coming in. Vinola slouched down a bit, she always seemed to hide herself when the owls came but Hermione wasn't entirely sure why.
Hermione saw a large owl fly in with a big green package. 'The Irish like green, don't they?' she thought. It flew a lap around the Great Hall and then starting swooping towards her. She stared breathing heavily. There were two options for what it could be.
1: it was a condolence prize for trying and they had lost
or
2: it was information about Cranberry Castle and they had won.
Hermione and Vinola prayed that it was the second option. It dropped inbetween them on the table. they looked at eachother and then Vinola picked it up and read the return adress.
Branbridge, Ireland.
Galvin and Quinn Brennan
Vinola's eyes widened and she put the package on her lap. She nodded at Hermione who let out a silent gasp of excitement.
"Oh!" she said, "Vinola, I've forgotten something in the dorm! would you come with me to fetch it?!"
"Yes, yes, of course1 Let's go!" The girls got up and took off running.
"Well BYE then!" shouted Harry after them. "Honestly, Ron, we have the strangest gilfriends." Harry laughed.
"Don't I know it." Ron smirked, "Oh well, at least they're pretty."
Author's Note:
Ha ha. Having fun with the cliff hangers? 'Cause I AM!!! mwahahahahaha!