Beauty and the Beast: Hogwarts Edition
Chapter One- During the Rounds
By Kalison A.
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Disclaimer- I only own what my mind comes up with.
A/N- I will take this opportunity to mention that this is a mystery. I will not be revealing the identity of the Beast until I feel ready no matter what you ask. Harry and Ron will not be playing much of a part in this story.
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Hermione was doing her first rounds as Head Girl, and she was anxious to go to bed. It was about 12 in the morning. She had already caught Harry in his Invisibility Cloak, trying to sneak down to the Kitchens. There were also a bunch of 3rd and 4th years sneaking about.
Hermione stopped prowling around the whereabouts of the Gyffindor portrait hole and looked at her watch, with a sigh. 'Only 1 hour and 55 minutes before I can go to bed.'
Hermione looked up when she heard the barely audible swish of a cape coming from the direction of the far end of the corridor. She ran down the hall to find a door, one that was normally locked, swinging slowly closed.
Hermione crept up the staircase as quietly as possible. She found, at the top, a door hanging slightly ajar and, so, she slipped in.
Inside the room there was a room with wrecked furniture, and at least 5 doors leading out of it. One of these doors was slightly open and a white glow was softly emitting from it. Hermione crept towards the room.
SLAM
The door that she had just come through had been shut. She spun around to see what the cause was and came face to face with, well, with a monster.
He stood, proud and fearless. His clothes had once been presentable, but now hung ragged. He was covered in brown fur. His eyes were the color of the sea before a thunderstorm. His ears sat on top of his head, behind a pair of twisted horns. He was bare foot, his feet and hands like those of a dog, yet strangely humanoid.
"Why are you here?" he thundered.
"I…I heard a…a cape and I th…thought that it w…was a stud…student so I came to in…investigate," She replied.
"Who are you?" he asked, with a little less thunder this time.
"I am Hermione Granger, the current Head Girl of the school below."
"Do you wish to leave?" he asked in the same tone used for the previous question.
"Yes."
"Do you swear on your life never to tell a soul about me, until I am ready for the world to know?"
"I swear on my life, to never tell a soul about you, at least until you are ready for the rest of the world to know. May I come back tomorrow night to tend to your wounds properly?" she asked that due to his attempt to lick them clean.
"Yes. Now GO!"
Hermione fled. She ran all the way to the 4th floor, this year's location of the Head's suite.
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Malfoy woke up with a start. He had another nightmare involving The Dark Lord and his father, both standing, laughing at him as he lay, screaming and writhing, on the floor under the Crucio curse.
SLAM
'What the bloody hell was that! Oh, it's Granger, wonder what her problem is… not going to ask.'
And he went back to sleep.
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