Chapter 2: Twinkling

"Peeves, get yourself in front of me right now or I swear I'll turn you into a monkey!" I heard someone yell from somewhere far away. My head felt like a hippogriff stampede had gone across it, not a pleasant feeling. My head had apparently broken my fall. To all my stupidity, my wiggling had only worsened the ache. I lay there on the ground as I let the pain subside but instead, someone threw themselves at me elbowing my stomach in the process.

I received a nose full of peach scented hair. After that, I couldn't hold back a sneeze and a moan. My head now hurt from the back as well as the front, my back would have a nasty bruise and my stomach would soon catch up to me. I removed Hermione's hair from my mouth as she lay there, on my chest, not even trying to move. I knew that travelling by portkey never sat well with her, so I let her take her time as I waited out the ringing in my ears.

If anyone were to come in right now, I would have no idea how to react, that in itself was a problem. I could carry my sister away but I was most likely more bruised than her. As the throbbing in my ear turned into a dull thudding and the fire on my back had lost its wilderness, I finally looked at Hermione's face clearly. Her eyebrows were creased because of the scrunched up face underneath. She was in pain.

I broke out of my pain induced stupor, "Hermione? Sweetie, wake up." I gently spoke into the closest ear I could reach, brushing her hair lightly with my fingers.

"Come on, hon. You can do it. See the light beyond the pain. Don't fear it, fall in love with it!" I tried to guide her out of the pain. Her face slowly relaxed and her eyes beneath her lids started moving. "Come on, babe. Open your eyes and look where we are. "

It was obvious she was listening to me. As a result, her eyes slowly fluttered open and she processed my chin. After a while, she looked up and saw my face. Her face relaxed even further.

"Oh I'm so sorry! I landed on you when we landed, didn't I?" she asked in a small rushed voice with a sheepish grin slowly making its way to her lips. She pushed herself up into a push up position, her hands planted on both sides of my head. She was looking down at me and we were sharing our famous stupid Potter grin. She bent her arms at the elbow and when she was halfway down, she pushed upwards again launching her upper body in the air and standing nimbly. Her toes never left the grown. It always confused me as to how she could achieve that while keeping her body ramrod straight. But did it really matter? I could do the same, even though there was no logic in it. We were dragons; we could do a lot of impressive things.

As I was pulling myself onto my elbows, Hermione gave 'the superior being' snort and the Draco glare towards the door facing her back. I jumped up standing in front of her concentrating on any noises I could hear. There was a bout of laughter coming from the Owlery. We were clearly on the ground floor and since Hermione was specialized in Earth, she could feel the vibrations. So could I. Peeves had done it again. Of course we didn't know what it was exactly, but from the shouts of Nearly Headless Nick, 'it' was pretty damn good (prankster's P.O.V).

Hermione turned again until her whole body was facing me and I saw the frown slowly dissolve its way into a smile.

"I think we should go see Minerva, since we obviously received the wrong key," she said her smile fading into a look of delight. After all, Minerva had been her favourite teacher. "At least now we have a good reason to miss the first day of training."

She led the way towards the way towards the door and through it. It was the same beautiful castle that we had left in our sixth year and never seen since. It brought back out exhilarating memories of this place. The cupcakes outside the doors of the Great Hall, Ginny's blood writing right around the corner. Well maybe that wasn't really the best of my memories. They made me remember our immature days when we thrived in our ignorance.

I suddenly found myself outside the Great Hall; I never knew we closed the doors during dinner. Just goes to show you, you learn something new everyday.

"So we are supposed to go through with a bang," Hermione whispered to me, a mischievous grin on her face. "Ready or not, here we come!"

We were expecting something, some knowledge of this place, some recognition of the faces on the long tables. I can not deny there was no recognition though. The first thing I noticed was sparkling blue eyes that were staring at me and Hermione. The eyes… from our dreams and nightmares, the eyes with the half moon glasses in front.

Sorry this chapter took so long to update. I didnt know how to make them land. I dont really have someone that can edit for me so if you see any mistakes, please tell me. thanks for reading this story. bye.