After Hermione showed Harry and Ron around the Head's Tower they went and sat on the couches and talked about everything and anything. Harry and Ginny sat close to each other, well that is an understatement seeing as Ginny was sitting so close to Harry she was practically sitting on him. Hermione was sitting on the other couch and Ron was sitting on the chair. Hermione and Ron had broken up just after the Final Battle.
The lounged around all afternoon and then went down to dinner. After dinner Hermione and Ron left to go to the prefects meeting.
Hermione and Ron walked into the classroom and saw everyone already sitting on old desks. Everyone that was except Malfoy.
Ron went and sat down with the other prefects from their year and Hermione sat on top of the teachers desk. They waited 5 minutes and Malfoy didn't show up. Finally Hermione slid off of the desk and everyone turned to look at her. "Okay," she said, "Thanks for coming, but it seems our Head Boy decided not to show."
"So is the meeting cancelled?" yelled one sixth year
"No it's still going to happen, so what I'm going to do is the first Monday of each month at 8:00 at night will be our meeting times. At each meeting we will figure out the schedule for patrolling. If you miss a meeting to expect to have any days that you want to patrol because we will just fill you in. Well either Malfoy or myself will be out while you are patrolling. If you have any problems please come and find us. So you know the times that you have to patrol?" asked Hermione
Everyone nodded.
"Okay then well here's the schedule. Since we have 8 Prefects from each year except 7th because we have the Head Boy and Girl that means 22 Prefects. So Malfoy and I will alternate nights and I would like 6 prefects per night and I would like everyone to patrol twice a week, but each week we will alternate and have 1 person only doing one night. Does that sound fair?" asked Hermione
Everyone nodded.
"Okay well anyone that plays Quidditch we'll try to work around that, but if you can't patrol you have to talk to myself or Malfoy or get someone to take your place. Remember if someone asks you to take their spot because of Quidditch or something please try to because it might be you next time that needs rid of a patrol duty. Okay so how about I just fill it in, in random order. How does that sound?"
Everyone was okay with it except 1 girl, "What if we don't feel like doing it?" she asked
"Well than you have a serious problem don't you," replied Hermione
Hermione touched her wand to the parchment and the schedule magically appeared. Hermione posted it on the wall and said, "If you ever need to look at any prefect information it will be in here, as well as the schedule, and remember the password for the Prefect Bathroom is…"
"We know," everyone said
"Well goodnight then. I guess I'm patrolling tonight so I'll see you guys out their and don't forget the next meeting. You are free to go," said Hermione
Everyone jumped up and walked out of the classroom. Once everyone was gone or so she thought she just sat down behind the desk and put her head in her hands.
She finally looked up and saw Ron sitting on one of the desks in front of her looking at her. She gave him a weak smile and then stood up and they walked out of the classroom.
"Have you seen him anywhere?" asked Hermione
"Who?" asked Ron
"That bastard," replied Hermione
"Well I take it you mean Malfoy, no I haven't seen him at all today. You think you would be the one to see him being as you share the same Tower," replied Ron
"I'm going to talk to McGonagoll," said Hermione
"Want me to come with you?"
"Doesn't matter. Well if you want to," she replied
They walked towards McGonagoll's office. Hermione said the password and they went up the staircase. Hermione knocked on the door and McGonagoll called them to come in.
Hermione walked in but Ron stayed near the door. He hadn't been in the Office that was formally Dumbledore's as many times as Harry and Hermione and it still shocked him every time to see the magnificent room.
Hermione sat down and Ron finally sat down.
"What do you need Ms. Granger?" asked McGonagoll
"Well I just came to tell you Malfoy didn't show up for the Prefect Meeting and I haven't seen him all day. I was wondering if he was sick or if he just plain skipped it," said Hermione
"I don't know why he wasn't there, but when I see him I will talk to him," said McGonagoll
"Thanks Professor," said Hermione
"Did you need anything else?"
"No, that was my only question," replied Hermione
"What did you need Mr. Weasley?" asked McGonagoll
"Oh, I'm just here with Hermione," answered Ron
"Okay then goodnight."
"Goodnight Professor," they both said before they left.
By this time it was time to start patrolling. Nothing exciting happened during the hour and a half of patrol time. They checked the broom closets for people snogging and they walked around the corridors. Finally it was time to go to bed. Hermione said goodbye to Ron and they went their separate ways.
Hermione walked back into the Head's Tower and walked up the stairs to Malfoy's dorm. She knocked on the door, but their was no answer. She knocked again, still no answer. Finally she pushed open the door a crack knowing full well that if she got caught she would be worse than dead. She looked around the room which was surprisingly like hers except it was green and silver and not red and gold, but saw no trace of Malfoy. She went back to her room and lay down on her bed. She fell asleep before her head even hit the pillow.
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Malfoy walked across the grounds of Hogwarts and out of the gates. As soon as he got out of the gates he apparated to the clearing where they have their Death Eater meetings. He arrived and saw nobody there yet, but upon closer inspection he saw his Aunt leaning against the tree. He pulled up his hood and put on his mask and walked over to her.
"Hello Aunt Bella," he said
"Well, well, well I never thought you had the guts to return," she said
"Well I'm here," he said
"Maybe it was the guts not to return," she said quietly
"Pardon me?"
"Oh nothing Draco, I'm glad to see you have returned and are truly loyal to us."
Slowly the clearing started to fill up with Death Eaters.
Finally Bellatrix walked into the middle of the group and they all bowed down before her. Once everyone was finished bowing Bellatrix said, "Finally we are all here. I would since many of our Death Eaters were killed at the start of August I would like any body that knows anybody that wishes to have the Mark to get them to come. We need as many of us as we can get. Next I would like to welcome back Draco Malfoy who is currently back at Hogwarts. He is their being our spy and he is trying to get as close as he can to people in the Ministry. Now I would like…"
The meeting carried on for about an hour. Finally everyone disapparated. Malfoy walked over to his Aunt and said, "I am here to do what every you need of me. I am a faithful servant and then he to disapparated. He walked back across the grounds and into the castle. He walked up to McGonagoll's office. Once in the office McGonagoll said, "You better be more careful. Ms. Granger is already suspecting something. Oh and be careful when you go into the your Tower because she wasn't very happy with you earlier."
Draco nodded and then said, "Everything is going as planned. My Aunt truly believes that I am spying for them. All I'll need is some fake information handy incase I get called at any point."
McGonagoll nodded and the said, "Thank you. I will give you some information tomorrow and be careful around Hermione. She heard you talking last night about going to the meeting and she placed two and two together to figure it was a Death Eaters Meeting. By the way was it really a Silencing Charm you put on her room?"
"What?" said Draco, "How do you know I put a silencing charm on her room?"
"Oh just Hermione thought that you put a listening spell on," replied McGonagoll
"Well does she have something to hide? Seems a bit paranoid if you ask me," said Draco
"I don't know," replied McGonagoll
Draco got up and left. He walked back to the Head's Tower and flopped on his bed. He had avoided Hermione for the time being. He picked up his wand and muttered a looking spell and the lock on his door clicked.
He then fell into a restless sleep. He tossed and turned throughout the whole night reliving that night that they came out of hiding and he was tortured and Snape was killed. He had dreamt about it almost every night.
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a/n Well I got another chapter posted before I leave. Hope you like it, and please, please, please review. Oh to those that have been harping at me about not explaining how Snape died, it will come. Maybe not right away, but it will come. I want to get a bit into the Hermione/Draco relationship right now seeing as the next chapter will be chapter 6. So do I have to say it again? Please review and thanks to those that already have.