A/N: Hello. I'm back!! After an unacceptable period of 5 months!! I AM SO SO SO SO SO SO SO sorry about the wait. I had some major Writer's Block and my family went through some serious crap. Please accept my apologies!
Disclaimer: Did you honestly believe for a SECOND that I had rights to the wonderful Harry Potter?? I thought not. If you did….well there's a nice place with men in white coats just for you! hehehehe
Note: I have decided to switch this story to General POV. When I was writing this chapter, I just forgot to switch it back, but I like it like this better anyway. Sorry.
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XXXXXHermioneXXXXX (still that night)
Hermione rushed back to the Common Room blindly, not wanting to mull on the disturbing fact that she was Malfoy's soul mate. As she passed the wrought iron Library doors, she skidded to a stop. 'Maybe I could just get that book I had earlier about the Powerful Magical objects and look up more on the Mirror and soul mates.' She quietly pushed open the doors and slipped in. Remembering where she found the book, she headed to the isle and ran her finger along the row of books she was positive it was in. Success! There it was, right where she had left it.
Hermione looked over her shoulder to make sure that nobody was behind her and quickly duplicated the book with a spell. That was against the rules, but at this point, she couldn't care less. She bookmarked the soul mate page in the book that she was going to keep, and stowed it in her bag for further research. Then she hurriedly packed everything else up, and put the other library books back on their shelves.
Hermione silently tip-toed the rest of the way back to her dormitory, with the "stolen" book in her bag. Opening the door to a cacophony of snores she sighed in relief. Nobody was awake to witness her coming back in past curfew. She set her bag down onto her bedside table and wearily collapsed on her bed and falls immediately asleep; not even bothering to change into her night clothes.
XXHarry and RonXXXXX (the next morning!)
6am on Saturday morning….Harry's alarm wailed loudly, waking up everyone in the boys' dormitory.
"Harry!! Shut that damn clock off!!" he quickly got up and turned it off before waking up Ron, who could probably sleep through anything.
"Ron...RON!! Wake up! We have to see where Hermione went, remember? It was your idea in the first place, so you better get up now!!"
"Eh? Wazzdamatter?" Harry shook him awake roughly. "Come on!!" Harry paused for a second before bellowing, "Oi! Ron, there's a spider in your bed!!!" Ron bolted up and ran into the bathroom screaming at a very high pitch. Every male in the room started laughing hysterically and a red faced Ron emerged form the bathroom.
"Dammit Harry! Don't do that!!" He groaned in frustration, "Let's just go so I can get back to sleep!!" Harry mock saluted him and exited the dormitory and headed down to the Common Room to find the Hermione's foot imprints.
"Ah-HA!" Ron yelled triumphantly. He had found them, and indeed, there they were, a set of bright purple footprints leading out of the Gryffindor portrait. The guys followed the footprints carefully for about 10 minutes straight before they came to a door, Harry hesitated.
"Oh come off it Harry! She'll never know anything. Besides we are doing this because we are concerned for….her health." Ron reasoned. Harry nodded affirmatively and pushed open the heavy door. They hurriedly scampered in and quietly closed the door behind them. Looking around, they saw nothing. Just an empty classroom, with desks covered in dust except for one that was broken with wood scattered around.
"Well this vacuums!" Ron sighed, "There's nothing in here but some books and desks, with a broken one. There's no proof that she's done anything in here. She could have just wandered in here and…"
"Broken a desk?" Harry supplemented. "Not likely. You know Hermione; she doesn't go into random classrooms and vandalize school property. Maybe it was inadvertant, like she set too many books on it at once."
"Or maybe she was snogging some guy and they were on the desks, getting really serious and it just….broke." Harry looked disgusted at Ron's train of thought.
"Get your mind out of the gutter! DO you really think that that's what she did? Hermione. Hermione Granger?" Ron smiled sheepishly.
"Yeah, you're right. And besides it's not like there's a-----GREEN AND SILVER TIE BY THAT MIRROR!!!" Harry's head whipped around so fast he got whiplash. "WHAT?"
"Look, look!! See?" Ron gestured like a little 9 year old at a zoo watching a red howler monkey throw poop at a ducky. Their eyes widened. "Ok Ron…maybe it's not as it seems. After all, some Slytherin could have just been looking at the mirror and being narcissistic, and dropped his (or her) tie."
"Wait a second. They couldn't have been looking at their reflections in the mirror!!"
"Why not?"
"Because Harry," Ron said impatiently, "Isn't this the Mirror of Erised?" Harry gasped as it dawned on him.
"Merlin's beard Ron, you're absolutely right! So if this is where Hermione has been going, then maybe she saw something she didn't like and is trying to…trying to----"
"---prove it wrong!" They chorused, and then grinned at each other.
"So she's NOT off snogging someone!" Ron crowed happily. Harry just rolled his eyes. "That wasn't really a probability in the first place."
"Good." Ron rubbed his stomach. "Now that that's solved, let's go eat breakfast. I'm hungry." Harry rolled his eyes again and grudgingly followed his best mate down to the Great Hall.
TBC…
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A/N: Hehe, Ron seems to be stuck on the idea that she's out snogging some guy. Loll. Please read and review!!!!! Ok, chapter 7 should (keyword: should) be up later this week, so do not despair!! As for anything past that…well I'm gonna have to contact my beta! Hey! Maybe I can get up to at least 55 reviews before I post the next chapter?? PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!
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Amanda
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