Chapter 4
Hermione's POV
Well, it had taken her a week, but she did it! She made a necklace that the boys could wear to communicate with her. The hard part was making it so that all of them to transmit. In fifth year, all she needed to do was make it so that the other gallions matched Harry's. That was just a simple copy charm. The copies changed to match the originals. But unless she wanted the communication to be one way, that wouldn't work. Eventually, she decided to make one gem on the necklace for each person. Green for Harry, Red for Ron, Blue for Neville, and Yellow for her. Each necklace had their owners original, and could receive messages from the others. The sad part was she did all the research for nothing, because she had the spell all along.
Any way, she was so excited to show it to them, even though it meant that they were finally going. She wished that she hadn't finished it so late, now her head girl duties were going to prevent her from showing them for a few hours. For the first time in a while, she wished that she didn't have to go and sit there with Draco. It was strange how she wanted to tell him about her ideas. Maybe it was because she finally saw how smart he was. Maybe he was the only person smart enough to get it.
Woah.
What was that? It kinda felt like she liked Draco. But she didn't. He was smart, and someone she felt like she could talk to . That's all.
She entered the head room, and was shocked to find Draco already there. He was almost always 15 minutes late, so she was normally stuck with the first years who came as soon as they could. They seemed to think that their problem was so big that it would take all 3 hours to fix. But there he was, helping a boy wearing Ravenclaw colors with what looked like potions. Well, looks like she had some free time, now that she wasn't the one who needed to help everyone.
Well, that didn't last long. As soon as the next person saw that she was there, everybody began to want her help. Even a few of the younger Slytherins came to her instead of Draco. When there was a lull, she finally snapped. She HAD to show this to Harry, Ron and Neville. The anticipation was killing her. She looked over at Draco, then pulled out the necklaces. She really hped that they weren't to girly. That was the one problem. Putting 4 gems on a necklace for a guy was hard. She had just put the 4 gems together, about a centimeter apart. On her's, she had done them all in a chain falling down from the necklace chain. She hoped that they were different enough that no one would notice.
"Draco, can I leave early?" It was about time for Harry and Ron's detention to be out.
"Uhh, why?"
"I have something to talk to Harry about something."
"Don't they have Detention?"
"Yeah, but its out now. It gets out before us. So you gonna let me leave without turning me in or not?" She really hoped that he would let her go. But he hesitated for longer than she would have liked. "There's hardly anyone coming for help anymore, please?"
"Fine."
Yess. She left the room in a hurry. As she walked away, she saw a group of girls dragging a boy down the hall towards the Head room. She almost felt bad for Draco, having to deal with them.
She got to the common room, but Neville and some younger kids were the only ones in there.
"Hey, Neville! Where is Harry and Ron?"
"I dunno, they usually are back right about now. I bet they come soon though. Whats so important that you skimped on your Head Girl duties to come talk to them?"
"I have those things" She looked around but nobody seemed to be listening in. "I have to be careful, I don't want people to know. Tell Harry and Ron to meet me in Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom when they get back, and you come too. We need to talk."
"Uh, ok. See you then."
At that she ran out of the common room towards the bathroom.
She had to wait a while, but they finally showed up.
"Hermione, whats this all about," Ron was the first to speak.
"I think I figured out the communication necklaces."
"Great" Harry stepped forward. "How do they work?"
"Well, each necklace has one original gem and three copy gems. The copy gems change to mimic the originals. So if Harry changes his, the green one, all the others will change to look like his."
"Ok, so whats the signals that we are going to use?"
"Well I've got a few basic ones, but there is some other more complicated ones that we need to work out."
"Well, what do you have so far"
"Just some of the basics, mostly. Orange when you get one of the Horcruxes. Heat it up when you need help. Then color the gem something that will help me find you. And if you get caught or something, and you don't think I can help, blink it purple and heat it up as many times as Horcruxes you destroyed. Just in case."
"Uh, that kinda seems like everything. What are we missing" Classic Ron, not seeing the obvious.
"What if you need research? Or help with spells, or potions? I can't help you out there!" She was really scared. How could they be so optimistic. They could die. So easily, so soon, they could be gone.
"We will be fine, we will bring all our text books if that makes you feel better." She guessed that was a good idea, but she was still so worried.
"Fine, but if you get in too much trouble, or it's to hard, you had BETTER tell me to come and help you. Deal?"
"Deal. Remember, we all know stuff to though. And, I'm getting the half-blood prince book. That will help us a lot too."
"Fine, I will show you where Ginny hid the book. Next order of business. How are you going to get out of the castle?"
"Easy, Hogsmead this weekend. Talk about perfect timing, huh?"
"Yep. Is there anything else you guys need help with?" She needed to do something to take her mind off of what she was letting her friends do. She knew it was what they had to do, but it was hard.
"I think that this is good, but we will diffidently tell you if we do. Thanks for letting us go, we were kinda afraid that you would stop us." Harry stepped forward to hug her.
"Yep, but even if we did have to fight our way out, we would soo beat you." There was Ron, always ready to make her laugh. He could always tell when she needed it. That might be what she was going to miss most.
"Well, you guys had better get back before curfew, if you have detention during hogsmead, you can't leave."
"Ok," They turned to go, "are you coming?"
"Yeah, I just have to make it look like I am coming from the Head room. See you tomorrow."
"Ok, night Mione."
"Night."
A/N: Sorry that this took such a long time. I had school, and all sorts of stuff was going on since Christmas Break is over :(
Please please please review. I takes about 20 seconds, and it would make me sooo happy. Just something to think about.
