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Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or anything else recognized. The plot is mine and my sister's.
As if We Were Meant to Stay Together:
A Harry Potter Fanfiction
Chapter 2
Hermione sighed in content as she reached out to Ron with a stack of papers.
"Here Ron, quiz me," Hermione said with a smile.
Ron raised an eyebrow at Harry who could only shrug at their friend's moodiness.
Ron took this as a sign to start quizzing Hermione, but no words were able to leave his mouth. This was due to the arrival of a pale girl with a faded, blonde, pixie cut.
"Hermione," The girl said.
Hermione glanced up to her with a sigh.
"Hello," Hermione said with a forced sense of enthusiasm
"Not a good time," Ron murmured to Harry.
"Can you come with me?" The girl asked, her eyes shone with a sense of worry and hope.
"No kidding," Harry murmured back.
"To do what exactly?" Hermione asked impatiently.
"I need to talk to you about…important school things," The pale girl continued growing more desperate.
"If you haven't noticed," Hermione said gesturing towards her book and the papers in Ron's hands. "I'm in the middle of 'important school things.'"
The girl frowned and glanced around as if this would help her to come up with an alternative way to get Hermione to leave.
Harry peered at the girl, sensing something familiar about her. He then turned to address Hermione.
"Maybe you should go with her," Harry said.
"Are you kidding me?" Ron asked glancing at the mysterious girl and back to his friends. "She's a Slytherin."
"Just for a few minutes," Harry said with a shrug. "She seems upset."
The girl smirked as she thought to herself. Thanks for the help, Potter.
"No way! Are you…mad?" Ron said as he shook his head furiously.
Hermione sighed. "Fine…but I expect you two to be studying while I'm gone."
"Come on then," The girl called as she motioned to Hermione.
"Coming," Hermione said with a sigh.
Ron desperately looked after Hermione before sighing.
Harry looked after them until they rounded the corner.
"Come on, Ron," Harry called.
Ron glanced at Harry in confusion. "Where are we going?"
"We're going to follow them."
~HP~
Meanwhile, the Slytherin girl had taken Hermione into a quiet corner of the library.
Hermione glanced around. Why did she bring me here?
"…Look," The girl began. "I know something that might bother you."
"What is it?" Hermione asked.
"It's just that…s-someone…"
"Someone what?" Hermione asked, growing impatient.
"A person here needs you to do a big favor," The girl continued.
Hermione frowned in confusion.
"Would you…do a favor?" The girl asked, displaying that she was worried.
"Well…" Hermione hesitated. "It depends...What's the favor?"
"Don't act crazy with your powers for one!" The girl cautioned. "I mean…don't be so threatening."
"You're not going to tell on me are you?" Hermione asked nervously, referring to the earlier scene in the Common Room.
"Oh…um…well, no not if—"
"I do the favor," Hermione concluded with a sigh.
"Yes," The girl answered simply.
"Well…are you going to tell me what it is…?" Hermione asked.
"…Have you been…I don't know…drinking something weird?"
"What?" Hermione asked, a frown forming on her face.
"You give off a strange…like…you make some people feel, like, this disgusting tingly inside…" The girl continued, growing uncomfortable.
"What?" Hermione asked, shaking her head and growing uncomfortable as well. "…Tingling?"
"Yes…" The girl confirmed with a sigh. "Too powerful perhaps?"
From a few bookshelves away, Harry and Ron listened to the conversation.
"Hiding something, Granger?" The girl darkly inquired.
"What's going on?" Ron mumbled to Harry.
Hermione scooted back causing her to bump into the bookshelf behind her.
"Shush!" Harry reprimanded Ron as he strained to hear.
Ron frowned, but obeyed, trying to hear as well.
Only one person calls me by my last name… Hermione thought, making a connection in her mind.
"It's starting to scare some of us," The girl continued, her grey eyes slanted.
"I…I need to…get back to studying," Hermione said desperately.
"Why so sudden?" The girl asked growing irritated.
"My friends…they're probably…I need to go," Hermione continued as she moved towards the side of the book case.
"They aren't worried about you, trust me," The girl said in a low, but quiet, tone.
"I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help…" Hermione began, the girl's words not yet transferring to her brain.
"You have to talk to me, I beg you!" The girl called out to Hermione who was almost around the bookshelf.
"Wait…" Hermione started whirling around to glare at the girl. "They don't miss me? What is wrong with you? How could you possibly know that?"
The girl sighed as she pleaded with Hermione.
"It…it hurts when you're gone! Besides they're just…studying!"
Hermione stared at the girl growing scared and nervous along with more confused.
"Hurts?" She whispered.
"Wow! This is getting good!" Harry whispered to Ron.
Ron nodded in agreement.
"Um…just…loo—" The girl stuttered.
"What's wrong? You look a little…pale…" Hermione asked, despite that the girl was already fairly pale in complexion.
"I…I have to go," The girl said quickly. She tried to maneuver around Hermione but Hermione blocked her escape.
"Why the rush?" Hermione asked somewhat mockingly.
"This. Is. Different…" The girl said pushing past Hermione too late.
"That chick is—" Ron exclaimed, his eyes widening.
"What the…" Harry gaped.
Hermione gasped as Draco ran out of the room.
"What did I say about him being mental?" Ron said to Harry.
Hermione started to scream, causing Harry and Ron to run to her aid.
"Hermione, are you all right?" Harry asked with concern.
"I have to go…to the nurse…" Hermione said wearily.
"What did he do?" Ron asked.
"Nothing…nothing," Hermione mumbled.
"Come on then—" Harry began.
"He had to have done something," Ron said, disbelief evident in his voice.
"Actually…" Hermione said, blinking her eyes a few times. "I'm feeling quite better now."
Harry and Ron glanced at one another not believing what had occurred.
"He definitely did something," Harry argued.
"Yeah," Ron agreed.
Hermione sighed.
This is going to be harder to go after Draco than I thought.
Hermione had hoped that convincing her friends she was fine would get them to leave her alone.
"Hermione…?" Ron asked.
"You two were supposed to be studying anyways!" Hermione whisper shouted in frustration, breaking from her thoughts. "Not…spying on me!
"Hermione…" Harry tried.
"Just…" Hermione began before she cut herself off with a dismissive shake of her head. "I have to go."
"Hermione!" Ron called out to her.
"Ronald," Hermione whispered, whipping her head around. "Don't scream in the library."
Hermione quickly exited the library with a very flustered Ron looking after her.
The librarian, Ms. Pritchard, known for reprimanding students, glared at Ron and Harry for their outburst.
"How about we talk about this…somewhere else?" Harry said as he began to walk towards the exit.
Ron looked down before glancing at Harry.
"Good plan."
