Chapter Six: Did Somebody Say Draco Malfoy?
"Mercedes! Drop it!" Kurt said exasperatedly. Mercedes hadn't dropped the whole you-have-a-crush-on-Blaine thing.
She sighed, "Fine," as they found seats in the Great Hall. The smell of bowls of eggs and platters of sausages filled the room, making her stomach rumble. "I don't think I'm going to lose weight here."
Kurt laughed, taking as seat and scooping some fruit onto his plate.
"Hello," Hermione joined them.
Mercedes smiled, taking a bite of the eggs, after swallowing she said "Hey."
"Morning! I thought you'd be hanging out with Harry and Ron," Fred said, sitting next to Kurt and taking a generous helping of eggs from the bowl.
"They've been ignoring me ever since they met that Blaine guy, I suppose it was only a matter of time," Hermione sighed.
Footsteps came from behind them, "Did somebody say Draco Malfoy?"
"Nobody said that, Draco," George said exasperatedly, sitting across from his brother.
Draco ignored him. The Slytherin was so blond his hair was nearly white; he was surrounded by four goons. "So where's Potter?" he asked, squeezing between Hermione and Kurt, "I hear he's ignoring you, Granger." Draco slipped to the floor, and then pulled himself back onto the bench. Kurt moved a little further away from the blonde.
"What do you care, Draco?"Hermione asked, also sliding a few inches away from him.
"Oh I don't know," Draco rolled off the bench getting to his feet in front of his goons, "just confirming a rumor. Come on, Crabbe, Karofsky, Azimio, Goyle. Let's go cast a slushie spell on Neville Longbottom." He flounced off, leaving the Great Hall, blonde hair bouncing slightly, his goons traipsing along behind him.
"That was weird," Kurt said as Draco walked away.
Hermione sighed, "Draco is weird. He's always been like…"
"Students," Professor Dumbledore used a spell to send sparks into the air to get everyone's attention, "there's been an… incident, in the dungeons. Please return to your dormitories."
"Professor," a Slytherin student shouted, "our dormitories are in the dungeons!"
"Return to your dormitories," Dumbledore repeated.
The students all abandoned their food, getting up and following their House Prefects to the dorms. Halfway back, Hermione stopped, her eyes wide.
"What? What's wrong?" Kurt asked.
"Ron and the guys don't know, they'll be going down to the dungeons now for Potions!"
"We have to warn them!" Mercedes said.
Kurt nodded, and he and the two girls headed back down the way they had just come. Hermione took lead, as it was Kurt and Mercedes first day and they had never gone to the dungeon before. "Wands out," she said, as they neared the stairs to the dungeon. She wasn't sure what the "incident" Dumbledore had mentioned was, but she was sure it involved something dangerous or he wouldn't have sent them to their dorms.
"We don't know any spells," Kurt pulled his wand out of his back pocket anyway.
"If your in danger, its better to have your wand, just in case, even if you don't know any spells," Hermione whispered as they snuck down the stairs.