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Chapter 7: Laughter and Ideas

The day was warm and potions had been canceled due to the fact that the dungeons were now overrun with tiny red globs that were eating through all of the desks and chairs like acid. The story as to how the red globs had come to be was now so jumbled and varied that no one quite knew who had done it or what had happened. Hermione was quizzing Ron and Harry as they lay with their eyes shut under the shade of a tree near the lake.

"What are the uses of Dragon's scales?" said Hermione.

"I don't know," said Harry.

"How can you not know? I just told you."

"Medicinal purposes?" said Ron.

"You're just guessing, Ron," said Harry.

"Good guess though," said Hermione.

Harry looked at him with an eyebrow raised and Ron smiled triumphantly back.

"What are the rest of its uses?" she asked, succeeding in making them both stare blankly at her. Hermione sighed and began listing the many uses of the scale, teeth, horns, and other parts of the dragon and their uses in the magical world. Nearby Kelly was listening half-heartedly to Hermione teach as she lazed in the sun with some of the other girls. What to do about Hermione was beginning to be a regular question on her mind. She wasn't that innocent, but she tried to keep that fact hidden. She had always been the good girl who made excellent grades and knew everything. It really could get annoying after a while. The wind ruffled Kelly's hair slightly and she sighed, content, and she decided that the subject of Hermione was to be left to a day when it wasn't so nice to be alive and on the green grounds of Hogwarts

A few feet away sat a group of Slytherins. Draco was among them and he was watching the "golden trio" study. Or at least, watching Hermione try and make them study. She tried to hard and needed to loosen up a bit sometimes, but other than that she seemed to have blossomed over the course of that year. She was tall and slender, no longer the girl whose teeth he had made grow too larger for her now delicately featured face. She laughed as one of the two boys at her feet said something in reply to her question about nightshade and why it did occasionally have uses. Her face lit up, eyes twinkling like stars in the daylight. It was a full laugh that left her clutching her stomach and gasping for breathe. The boys were rolling on the ground. What idiots, thought Draco before returning his attention to his friends. Why should he be bothered with what they were doing?

It was after dinner that night when Hermione was sitting with Kelly in the library going over transfiguration homework that Draco came upon them. He was listening to
Kelly whisper angrily to Hermione about something that seems to have nothing to do with transfiguration.

"Hermione, stop being so stubborn. What's the matter with Dean? He's Dean. He's cute."

"That's just it, he's Dean. I can't go out with Dean; he's my friend. I know he's cute, but I can't date Dean. I can't date anyone, Kelly. I wouldn't know what to do on a date."

"But Hermione-"

"This conversation is over. Drop it, Kelly. As much as I love you trying to help, please stop trying so hard. Now, I have to go study for my classes." With that Hermione gathered her books and left the library as Draco sat down in her seat.

"Have a project, Kelly?" he said, smoothly.

"You could say that, Draco," said Kelly with a slight smile in her lips.

"May I be of service?"

"Possibly."

"Well, tell me what you need and I will tell you if I can help."

Kelly laid back into her chair, lifting it off onto two legs and holding her hand to her hand. "I guess that my main goal is to get my sweet little virgin friend laid. I think it would do her some good to know what it's like to be with a guy."

"Doesn't sound too hard," said Draco.

Kelly sighed. "Easier said than done I'm afraid. She's stuck under the notion that she grew up under. You know, the one that all the schools preach, the one about no sex until marriage. My mother tried to teach me that too, but you already know how well that worked," said Kelly, trying very hard not to glare at Draco as she remembered something.

"You have just entered my level of expertise, Kelly. Shall I try my hand in your little "experiment"?"

Kelly laughed a full-hearted laugh and fell backward out of her chair. She swiftly picked herself up and looked at Draco with immense humor dancing in her eyes. "Draco, sorry to break this to you, but Hermione wouldn't touch you with a ten foot pole. No, make that a fifty-foot pole. I'm going up to bed now. Thanks for the laugh, Draco, I needed that." Chuckling softly to herself, Kelly left the library.

Draco watched her retreating back with his hands balled into fists. So she thought he couldn't get Hermione to do what he wanted? Well, he'd show her. When he was done "courting" Hermione, she would be putty in his hands. Smiling, Draco left the library for the sanctity of his own room where he could afford to let his thoughts wander.

A/N: Hello again my wonderful readers. If you see any mistakes in this chapter then please, feel free to point them out so I can fix them. It bothers me to have grammatical errors. I usually don't, but because I haven't reread anything I've written in this story, I don't know what kind of mistakes I might have accidentally overlooked.

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