DMM CH.14

Draco crawled along the many halls of Hogwarts. It was around lunch period, so the halls were completely empty, minus a few random drifting ghosts. His destination was simple, find the exit that leads toward the Quidditch Pitch to relax on the grass, like when he was older. Easy enough, right…

(crawl down north hall, turn, crawl down stairs,) How did I end up in the dungeons? (crawl back up stairs, turn right, crawl to end of hallway) When did the Dueling Room get moved to this part of the castle? (turn right again, crawl to end of hallway, look up) Wait a second… I'VE BEEN CRAWLING IN CIRCLES!!!

Letting out an annoyed and frustrated sigh, Draco went in the opposite direction and continued this pattern for Merlin knows how long, with him not noticing that he had made yet even more full circles.

Hermione's breathing sped up immensely in just a matter of seconds. Horrid images of Draco being trampled by any of the Quidditch Teams, eaten by whatever creatures meant for the Care of Magical Creatures class, or even worse, trapped in the Divination Class with Professor Trelawney! Within moments, Hermione's quick breathing morphed into hyperventilating, causing the healer before her to take immediate action.

"Hermione, deary, calm down now. We'll find him. I'll floo call all of the professors and have them search their sectors of the school. I'll search the area around here and the Great Hall. You start searching the main floor corridors. He couldn't have gotten far in such a short amount of time." Madam Pomfrey said, already dashing into her office near the fireplace.

Hermione practically flew out the door, eyes scanning the hallways left and right. She walked down the corridor to the other end, and found nothing. She slowly walked along, until she heard something. She paused, looking in all directions, and saw nothing and no one. Continuing her search, she heard the same sound again, paused, then looked in every direction again. This time, however, she was hit on the head by a shoe. "Ow! Ronald!" Hermione groaned, picking up the shoe and setting it on the window ledge. She turned to walk again, then stopped and her head shot straight up and stared at Ron. "RON! Did you see Draco go through here? Please tell me you did!" Hermione pleaded. Ron only rolled his eyes at her. "ANSWER ME RON!" Hermione was becoming more furious by the second.

Ron mouthed 'Silencing Spell 'Mione'.

…… Hermione mentally and physically slapped her forehead. With another flick of her wand, both spells placed earlier were undone, causing Ron to fall to the floor, face first. A loud groan came from the red headed boy.

Draco turned the corner (same one as before) to come across a very peculiar sight. In front of him were a falling Weasel, a wide eyed Mudblood, and the healer opening the infirmary doors. Seeing the falling 'rodent' brought a very high-pitched laugh to the newly toddler's lips. All eyes turned in the infant's direction, wondering what had been the source of the shrill laughter.

Just as Ron hit the ground, a squeal of laughter erupted farther down the corridor. Hermione turned around in time to catch sight of an extremely amused tot, who was practically bouncing with giggles and clapping his hands at Ron's misery. If the child in front of her wasn't the one who had left the infirmary earlier, she would have conjured a camera and taken a few pictures of his first laughing fit, but that was not the case. Hermione all but flew over to the child and quickly scooped him up into her arms, holding on to him tightly as the mirth ended abruptly.

Draco could not contain his amusement any longer, and went all out in laughing at the red-head's pain, unknowingly adding a series of claps to the mix. Just as fast as the urge came to him, it left with being lifted once again into the annoying Mudblood's arms and nearly being squeezed to death. "Honestly, I will never understand this girl! Is she trying to kill me by suffocation? Not the noblest Gryffindor thing to do, killing a person while the person in question can't even contemplate defending themselves. There has got to be a way out of this and back to getting to the Quidditch Pitch." He began to shift around in her arms, trying to get himself free of her grasp, though yet again, without any luck. Suddenly, he was being carried back into the confounded infirmary by the ever annoying witch, and his fighting only increased with a passion.

Hermione made her way back into the infirmary, toddler in arms and med. witch following not too far behind. Sitting back down on the bed, the same one as earlier, she wrapped her arms around the child securely, not leaving him with any room to escape. "Now that we have the little escape artist back, is there anything else we need to discuss Madam Pomfrey?" Hermione said.

"None at all, Ms. Granger, though I do suggest that you find Severus and see if he has found anything that can be of use to you, and possibly a child leash to keep track of your charge while you are at it." The healer said with a playful grin on her face. Hermione smiled and nodded her thanks, glanced down at Draco, and headed off toward the Potion's Classroom.

Hey everyone ^^', um... well you're probably wondering why it to so long to update this relatively short chapter. Reason why = grounded. end of story.

Now, the answer to the last riddle was......... SILENCE!!!

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Same rules apply as before.

I will be posting the first chapter of a new story I've been working on for a while, called 'Marauder's Era Chat'. Check it out when I post.

Now, for the moment you have all been waiting for (drum roll) THE RIDDLE!!!!!!

: What goes around the world, yet stays in a corner?

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