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Chapter Four: Alcohol, Sex and Rock 'n' Roll; Part Two
Hermione began to stir from her sleep; her head felt like it was about to split in two. She groaned as she lifted a hand and pushed her hair out of her face.
"Hermione, are you ok?" a soft voice came from in front of her. Hermione opened her eyes, squinting slightly against the light that was being emitted by the gas lamps around her. "Hermione? We are nearly at Hogwarts now, you need to get yourself ready."
"Ok, ok, could you not speak so loudly please, I've got a bit of a headache." She said now becoming all to aware that what she had was not a headache but a agonisingly painful hang-over, everything came back to her in a rush of images; drinking in the girls toilets, shouting at Ginny, Ron. "Where's Ron?" she heard herself say as she stood up swaying slightly on the spot.
"He umm, went on patrol just after you fell asleep, I'm sure you'll see him when you get up to school." Harry said, putting on a slightly strained smile.
Hermione not noticing this nodded and tried to flatten her hair before turning to Ginny, "Look, Gin, I'm really sorry about what I said to you before it was completely out of order, you were only trying to help me out." She said smiling slightly at her friend.
"Here," Ginny said beckoning Hermione towards her, "I know this spell that will make you feel far better that you do right now." She muttered something under her breath and gently tapped Hermione on the forehead. Hermione immediately felt her head clear of all pain, "And about before, don't worry, I can't understand what you are going through, but I will try, whenever you need to talk to someone, you know I'm here ok?" Ginny added enveloping her friend in a tight hug.
"That goes for us as well." Neville piped up gesturing around to Harry and Luna.
Hermione could feel herself beginning to well up again, "You guys are the best friends I could ever ask for, you try so hard to make me feel better and then I go and treat you like that. I am so sorry, it's just that I miss him so much." She said tears falling down her face.
Harry nodded, "Really 'Mione don't worry about it, it makes sense that you are grieving at the moment, anything that you do we won't care because we will know why you have done it."
Hermione smiled weakly around at her friends before she felt the train slow down and then come to a full stop, "Come on you guys we better get out of here." She said gesturing to her friends before she exited the compartment looking around for Ron.
"Have you lost your boyfriend mudblood?" Hermione whipped around as she heard the drawling voice of Draco Malfoy behind her, "I am sure I saw him exiting the girls changing rooms with Lavender Brown a while ago both looking, how shall I put it, dishevelled." Draco looked down at Hermione with a smirk ridden with disgust.
"You're lying, Ron wouldn't do that to me, Malfoy." Hermione spat her voice full of venom.
This did nothing to deter Draco if anything his smirk grew bigger "Oh so I hit a nerve did I?" he said before walking towards the exit of the train laughing loudly, his cronies in tow.
Hermione turned around slowly to look at Harry, Ginny, Neville and Luna all of who were avoiding her gaze. "R-Ron wouldn't do that to me." She said firmly, to no one in particular she tried to meet Harry's gaze, "would he?" she whispered her hands brought to her mouth.
Harry shrugged, "I don't know what to say to you, he wouldn't have done it normally, but what you said to him. I think he may have taken it to heart." He tried to sound as if he were on Hermione's side, which of course he was, whatever Hermione had said to Ron today it was understandable, but if Ron had done anything with Lavender it would be completely uncalled for; it was common knowledge that Lavender had always held a soft spot for his redheaded best friend.
Ginny walked over to Hermione, "Come on Herms, let's get out of here, let's get up to the castle." She said in a reassuringly soft voice. Hermione nodded and allowed herself to be led off the train by Ginny, Harry and the others followed suit.
Draco stepped up into a waiting carriage that would take them up to Hogwarts from the station. He was still chuckling slightly awed by his own wit at telling the mudblood about Weasley and his whore. How Granger hadn't already found out was beyond him, everyone in the school knew that Weasley was shagging Lavender Brown behind Granger's back, only she was stupid enough not to realise it.
He sat down in the carriage and waited while Crabbe, Goyle, Blaise and Pansy filed in behind him, Pansy immediately at beside him and entwined his fingers with hers. He didn't mind that much, Pansy was quite pretty in a way and she was good enough in bed, but he couldn't stand the way she often hung on to him when they were walking through the corridors, acting as if she were his girlfriend, it put other girls off approaching him. Draco was glad that this year he had been appointed Head Boy; he had his own dormitory and his own room meaning that he could have girls coming and going whenever he wanted.
"Your smile will be bigger than that when I'm through with you tonight." Came a voice in his ear, he had obviously been smiling sub consciously whilst lost in thought and Pansy had thought it was because of her presence.
"I can't wait." Draco replied, and while Pansy embraced him he grimaced over her shoulder at Blaise who entered into a silent fit of laughter.
The trip up to Hogwarts had been uncomfortable, Hermione had been sat staring silently out of the window a sombre look on her face whilst the others shot each other furtive looks, each knowing that what Malfoy had said to the was likely to be the truth.
When they entered the Great Hall the truth of the situation became apparent to them, Ron was sat about half way down the Gryffindor table, Lavender Brown perched on his lap looking as if she had always been there. Hermione saw them but instead of any emption such as sadness or hurt a boiling, bubbling anger erupted in her chest. She walked towards the couple her fists clenched by her sides. "How could you!" she hissed at Rona s she reached them "How dare you, ok so maybe I said some things but to do this to me, I didn't think you had it in you!" she drew back her hand to slap Ron but somebody had pushed her roughly out of the way.
"Please Hermione allow me." The voice was deep, a boys voice, she looked side ways just in time to hear the sound of fist on face. Harry had hit Ron square on the jaw. Lavender squealed and extracted herself from Ron.
"What the fuck, Harry!!" Ron yelled clutching his jaw.
"She was your girlfriend and your best friend, how could you do that to her, you complete idiot!" Harry spat at Ron shaking his head.
"Yeah I was, up until she ended it on the train, you were there you heard what she said to me."
Harry was still shaking his head, he could not believe how dim-witted his friend was being, "She is grieving Ron, and she had been drinking, you have to understand that."
"I don't want to understand it, I've spent most of my summer trying to understand but not anymore." Ron said grabbing lavender by the hand and dragging her off to the other end of the table, people staring at him as he did so.
"Harry, calm down, come on sit down." Came Hermione's voice from beside him, her voice sounded cam but when he looked at her Harry noticed that pretty much all of the blood had drained from her face.
When they had sat down he put his arm around her shoulders in a brotherly embrace, "Don't worry Hermione, you now he's an idiot, I just wish that he didn't have to exert t by being one to you."
The rest of the feast passed without any great action, Hermione continued to glower at Ron down the table who had the decency to look guilty as he ate his food.
At the end of the feast Professor McGonagall moved her way up the table, which was unusual for the first night of the year. "Can all seventh years please stay behind please? Miss Weasley you to, along with Mr Creevey please. Miss granger if you could please make your way up to the staff table, Professor Dumbledore would like to speak to both you and the Head Boy.
Hermione nodded and smiled gravely at Harry, "I'll come and see you later." She mouthed at him before rising from the table and walking up to the staff table.
When she reached the staff table she stood in front of Dumbledore, Malfoy was standing next to her but she did not even glance his way.
"Miss Granger, Mr Malfoy, congratulations to both of you on becoming our Head Girl and Boy this year. Over your six years at this school you have shown extraordinary merit in your academic -and extra-curricular activities- Mr Malfoy is something wrong?" Dumbledore had paused because at the mention of 'extra-curricular activities' Malfoy had snorted, Hermione knew what he was thinking and rolled her eyes.
"Oh uh nothing sir, I just have something caught in my throat." Malfoy said quickly, a faint blush had tinged his porcelain cheeks.
"Ok then I will continue. This year the teachers and myself have decided that since the downfall of Voldemort the object of house unity is of more importance just in case another dark wizard pops up." Dumbledore was talking with the airiness of discussing the weather, "so in light of this we have decided that along with you two sharing a dormitory, every seventh year and a handful of selected sixth years will also share dormitories. Gryffindor and Slytherin will share and Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff will share. You two will have a separate dormitory which adjoins onto the Slytherin/Gryffindor one." He paused and smiled at the two Heads, "now if you have no more questions will you please go and join Professor McGonagall who will show you to your dormitory.
Hermione nodded and turned briskly walking over to where the Transfiguration teacher was stood waiting for them. "Mr Malfoy, please do hurry up." Hermione turned and could fee herself rolling her eyes again, Malfoy was dawdling along his hands in his pockets when he reached them McGonagall said, "ok I will now show you to your dormitory. As Professor Dumbledore has just explained to you your dormitory is adjoining to that of the Gryffindor/Slytherin dormitory. You will be able to gain access to there's at any point during the day or night. You are 100 in charge of that dormitory, do you understand?"
They both nodded and followed McGonagall as she led them out of the Great Hall and towards the Marble staircase, but instead of continuing up the she took the door to the left that leads down to the kitchens. She led them down the corridor the silence pressing deeply between the odd trio. Hermione found relief from the uncomfortable silence when McGonagall stopped in front of a statue of a stool on top of that was a replica of the sorting hat that sat in Dumbledore's office. "This is the entrance to your common room, both your rooms are password protected in order to give each of you your privacy. The password for the statue to get in is Unity. You set your own passwords for your rooms. Good night to the two of you."
"Good night Professor McGonagall." Hermione said brightly her excitement mounting as she stood on the threshold of her new home. Malfoy did nothing more that tilt his head into a small nod. Professor McGonagall set off back up the corridor leaving Hermione and Malfoy alone standing in front of the statue. So as not to spend any more time in Malfoy's company Hermione immediately said, "Unity." The statue immediately moved out of the way to make room for a large wooden door. Hermione pulled on the handle of the door and pulled it open and walked into her new common room.
Draco followed Granger into the common room and looked around, it was nothing spectacular to him, it was about as big as his bedroom in Malfoy manor and the décor or furniture was nothing to shout about. "I'll be in my room if you need me." He said with a smirk moving towards a door with a painting of himself embossed upon it. As he approached the door the painting opened its eyes, "Password" Draco thought about it for a moment, and smirked, "Mudblood" he said the painting was a mirror image of him, the smirk was exactly the same as was the glint of his eye "Good choice." He said before swinging forward to admit Draco.
"Hermione Granger get your butt out here right this minute!" Hermione heard a muffled shout calling her. After she had entered the common room she was in awe it was far bigger and grander than she had seen before, as was her personal room. She was now sat on her bed cross-legged in black short shorts and a red tank top, reading a book from the shelves in her room. She got up off her bed and moved towards the door; placing her ear to it she heard the same muffled yell "Hermione!!!" she opened the door and walked out into the living area. A large floor to ceiling painting depicting a lion with a serpent for a tongue covered one wall and the shouting was coming from behind it. As she walked towards it Malfoy came out of his room "What the hell is all that noise Granger I'm trying to read?" he shouted, he two had gotten dressed for bed and was in black jogging trousers and a white wife beater. Hermione ignored him and smiled as the painting opened and Ginny, Harry and Parvati fell through it.
"What are you guys doing here?" she asked them laughing slightly.
"Well we wanted to invite you to a game of spin the bottle that us and the twats are playing." Harry slurred slightly, Hermione noticed that there was a half-empty bottle of Firewhiskey hanging from his hand.
"Harry James Potter are you drunk?" Hermione said finding the situation more and more amusing as time went by.
"What he meant to say is: would you like to join us for a game of spin the bottle that we are playing with the Slytherins. Draco you can come and join us if you like." Said Parvati fluttering her eyelashes at Malfoy.
Draco swallowed as he looked at Parvati she was wearing a short satin nightgown that was cut surprisingly low, he was sure Hermione would reprimand her for it any second. But Hermione noting Draco's silence guessed why and did nothing of the kind, "Parvati that is a beautiful night dress so ummm, what's the word; provocative." She said winking at her friend.
Parvati grinned "Oh I know isn't it lovely?" she said smoothing down the front which made it tighter across her bust, "so Draco would you like to join us."
Draco could do nothing but nod as he made his way through the portrait hole and into the adjoining common room. Pansy, Blaise, Crabbe, Goyle, Daphne Greengrass, Hannah, Ron, Lavender, Seamus, Dean and Neville were all sat on the carpet an empty Firewhiskey bottle in the middle of them. Hermione followed the rest f them into the room and sat down next to Parvati who quickly said "Who first? Oh and by the way we have changed the rules a bit, the first time is not just a peck it is a full on French kiss." She said with a smirk, "oh and seeing as you two are still sober you have some catching up to do." She said passing the bottle to Hermione who drank some of it down quickly her throat stinging, she passed the bottle to Malfoy who took it with a look of disgust, and taking out his wand he said "Evanesco." So that the bottle top cleaned itself he then took a few swigs of the amber liquid.
"Ok I'll go first then shall I." Draco said leaning forward and spinning the bottle it landed on Parvati. Smirking he crawled over to where she was sitting and kissed her passionately their tongues massaging each other for a minute or two before he pulled away cocked his head slightly to the side and said, "not bad for a Gryffie." Parvati looked at him with disgust and said "Pig!"
The game went on with Ron and Lavender kissing more and more while Hermione glowered. She had already kissed Seamus twice, Dean and Harry obviously none of them doing anything for her but she did for the fun of the game. Everyone was getting steadily more drunk as they went through 2…3…4…5 bottles of the whiskey.
"My go again then." Hermione slurred kneeling and bending over to spin the bottle "who will it b-" she stopped abruptly as the bottle end landed on Malfoy, "You've got to be kidding me." She finished, "that isn't happening!"
"It has to 'Mione or you owe us ten galleons, and we all know you don't have ten galleons." Came Neville's voice.
"What's wrong Mudblood, scared you'll enjoy it?" Draco drawled from his place on the floor.
"You wish!" Hermione spat, "Let's just get this over with." She said crawling over to where he was sitting and kneeling before him. Draco put his hand on the back of Hermione's neck and pulled her face down to his, their lips touched uncertainly at first until they both became more adventurous Draco's tongue went along Hermione's lower lip and she opened her mouth for him. They began to kiss more passionately and Draco was just getting into it when Hermione pulled away, cocked her head to the side and said "not bad, for a Slythie." Which brought laughter from the Gryffindor students, Hermione moved back to her place and said, "Go ahead ferret it's your go."
Ok that's chapter four, it's quite a lot longer than I have done before but well there you tell me what you think x x x x