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Chapter 15

Draco was walking along the entrance floor, his mind wrapped up in thought. All of a sudden, he heard the sound of a loud scream coming from the dungeon. A woman's scream; Hermione's scream.

"Hermione?" he said and ran down to the dungeon. "Hermione?" he said louder, waiting for her to answer, but nothing came. "Hermione!" he shouted, his heart beating fast, frightened about Hermione. "Damn it. Where is she?"

"Hermione, answer me please!" he shouted and walked along the dungeon halls.


Hermione and the boy stood still, too frightened to move.

-What the hell is a Lion doing here? I know this is Hogwarts but even so, this is not suppose to happen.- Hermione thought to herself.

"What do we do now?" the boy asked her.

"Don't worry. I'll think of something." She replied, even though she had no idea how to get out of this one.

"Hermione!"

Hermione and the boy turned around.

"Did you just hear that as well?" Hermione asked him. The boy nodded. Someone had just called her name. Someone was looking for her.

Hermione turned back to the lion, but it was gone.

"Where did it go?" Hermione thought to herself. All of a sudden, she felt two strong arms embrace her in a hug. It was Draco.

"Hermione! There you are. I was so worried about you. I heard you scream and I came here as fast as I could." He said after he left go of her. He looked down at the boy. "Who's this?"

Hermione looked at the boy too. "Actually, I dunno. Who are you, and what house are you from?" she asked him.

Before he could speak, Draco said something. "Are you from Slytherin, kid?"

The boy nodded. "Yes I am. My name is Conan Roberts. I'm a first year here."

Hermione looked at Draco. "How did you know that?"

"Slytherin made up a tradition that a first year has to walk the dungeon halls all night the second night of school. If they didn't then the other Slytherins would make that first year's life a living hell until they reached their seventh year. So many people are force to do it."

"Did you have to do that when you were a first year?"

"Are you crazy. No one dared to mess with me while I was in school back then. Or at least, none of the Slytherins messed with me. I guess there was one positive thing about my father's reputation. Anyways what happened?"

Hermione completely forgot about the lion. Hermione told him about the lion that they saw. When she was done, Draco gave her a puzzling look.

"So what you are saying is that you saw a lion in Hogwarts. Are you positive it was a lion?"

"Yes I'm positive. Why you don't believe me?"

"Well the idea of the matter is a little farfetched, Hermione." He told her.

"Look I know what I saw. It was big with auburn-colored fur and golden eyes and a long tail, am I right?" Hermione asked the little boy. He nodded wildly.

Draco gave them a slight frown, but turned his head around when he heard something. "Did any of you hear that?"

Hermione nodded. "It sounded like someone is coming this way,"

Draco turned to the Conan. "Now listen. You're not s'pose to be out at this time of night. If someone catches you then you will force them to take house points from Slytherin, and you definitely don't want that. I shouldn't even be letting you go, so you should take this time to go."

"B-but the dare..."

"Forget about it and go back to Slytherin House!" His voice was stern and frightening, yet at the same time, it had some care in it.

Conan nodded and ran into the darkness heading towards the Slytherin dormitory.

"Ms. Granger, Mr. Malfoy, what happened?" It was Snape. "I heard someone scream, and I came to check it out."

"It was me, professor." Hermione told him. "Something was down here and it frightened me."

"Well, what was it?"

Hermione gave a nervous grin. "Would you believe me if I said it was lion?"

Snape arched an eyebrow. "Not really."

"Honestly professor, I saw a lion. It was right in front of me."

"Did you see it as well, Mr. Malfoy?" Snape asked turning his attention to Draco.

"No sir. I only got here a few minutes before you did."

Snape turned back to Hermione. "I honestly think that your mind was playing tricks on you, but I must make you return to your dormitory. Draco I want you to go back with her. Understood?"

"Yes professor Snape." Draco and Hermione said in unison and they walked past Snape. As Draco was walkingpast him, he heard Snape mumble to himself, "You were suppose to keep a low profile."

"What is Snape talking about?" Draco thought to himself


The next day, Hermione had to wake up extra early to meet Rielly. Hermione opened the door to the DADA classroom. Rielly was sitting on the floor, her back turned to Hermione. "Good, you made it on time." She said once Hermione closed the door behind her.

"What are you doing on the floor?" Hermione asked.

"I'm just doing a little meditation, that's all. It helps keep the mind cleared and focused." She got up from the floor and looked at Hermione. "It also helps me look younger." She gave a warming smile, which Hermione returned.

"So what will I be learning?"

"Oh plenty of useful skills, but for today, we aren't going to do anything. I'm just going to tell you the basics and rule and other things like that. Okay?"

"Alright."

"Come sit down in facing me." She sat back down, as did Hermione.

"Alright, as you may know, your powers are divided into four different groups. That group has a specific element. They are Earth, which is the power of strength, Fire, which is the power of destruction, Wind, which is the power of the mind and Water, which is the power of healing and purification. I possess the power of Wind, so that enables me to use... psychic powers, if you wish to call it that. And unlike Earth and Fire, my powers are not limited by one specific power."

"What do you mean?"

"Meaning I can use my ability more than one way. They are mind reading and telepath, the ability to inflict bad memories or good memories to a person, and the ability to sense the presence of a person within the distance of you."

"So you're going to teach me all these skills?"

Rielly nodded. "Normally, I would have to work with you even longer, but it seems that you are extremely brilliant. I would assume we would be done before school is over."

"Really? That's pretty fast to learn so much. It must have been difficult to learn how to control your powers when you were just starting off. How did you do it?"

"It was hard as a matter of fact. It took me almost seven years to control them, but Tori had it much harder than I did. You would expect that it would take me longer to control my power since he only has one specific power."

"Which power does Tori possess?"

"He has the power of earth, strength."

"So how is he going to teach me?"

Rielly smiled. "You're only going to have to wait to see. Now let's get back to the lesson.

Hermione nodded. "Alright."


A few hours later, Hermione was sitting in the Great Hall, along with her Harry and Ron. She waited patiently for dinner to be over.

Tori had told her to come back down to the Great Hall an hour after lunch was over. She tuned in and out of the others conversation.

"Hey, did any of you hear a scream last night?" Harry asked everyone who heard. Hermione looked up at him. Everyone but Hermione shook their heads.

"No, why do you ask, mate?" Ron asked, a bit curious.

Harry looked down at his food, his fork playing in it and furrowed his eyebrows. He gave a sigh. "No reason. Forget about it."

Hermione frowned at her friend. She wondered why he was so disheartened. She'd never seen him frown so many times in just two days.

What's up with you, Harry?- Hermione thought to herself.

As if Harry read her mind he looked at her. "Did you say something Hermione?"

Hermione gave him a confused looked but then suddenly realized what had happen. She drew closer to Harry and whispered to him so that no one else could hear them.

"Sorry. I was thinking something and my powers slipped and you heard them."

"Is that one of your powers you were talking about, you're able to communicate through the mind?"

Hermione nodded.

"That's wicked, Hermione."

"Yes it is but I have to try to contain all my powers I'm capable of."

"Aw do be so modest, Hermione. You know you can learn all your skill. You're brilliant!"

"You don't understand. Most of my powers I can't use because there is no one to teach me."

"But who's teaching you the other stuff?"

"Rielly and Tori."

"Tori? Who's that?"

"He's Professor Perry. Anyways, it's a long story to get into any details."

"I have time."

"Hey what are you guys talking about over there?" It was Ron who interrupted their conversation.

"Nothing. Hermione was just telling me something. It's not that important."

Ron stared back and forth between Harry and Hermione, and then threw a glare.

"You guys aren't getting together and not telling me right?" His voice lows, as if they given him the wrong answer, he would kill them.

Both Hermione and Harry were wide eyed. "WHAT!" They both say in unison.

"No way!" Harry said.

"We were just talking, you know that what friends do. Especially if they been friends for seven years." Hermione informed him, but looked in disbelief.

"Oh sure, that's how it starts off. And then you both pronounce your undying love for each other, and you'll get married and have kids and you'll forget all about me because I'll be all alone, with no one and I'll be a lonely nobody."

Harry and Hermione were still wide eyed, amazed as his theory.

"Uh..." Was all Harry could say.

"Ron, did you cast a spell that back fired on you, and now it's making you delusional?" Hermione asked in a worried voice.

"Mock me if you will, woman, but I know. I know it's going to happen. And all you happy couples can just kiss my bloody ass." And with that he left out the great hall.

"Um... What just happened?" Harry said, finally finding his voice.

"Ron just told us off for an action we weren't doing. He stormed out before I could even tell me what we were talking about. Harry I'm really worried about him. This is the second time he flipped out on us. It was funny the first time, but now,"

"Yeah I know what you mean. I won't follow him just yet. He might bite my head off, but I'll try to talking to him later, to see what's up."

Hermione nodded. "Alright."


Hermione came back down the stairs with a pair of sweat pants on and a t-shirt. She put her school robes over it. She opened the Great Hall door slightly, peeking inside to see if anyone was in there. Sure enough, Tori was standing in the middle of the Great Hall. He turned his head when he heard the large door creaked open.

"Hello Hermione."

Hermione opened the door enough were she could get in and then closed it back again. She looked around. The four large house tables were set to the side, leaving a giant clearing in the middle. Hermione pulled the robe over her head to take it off.

"Hello Tori. What-AHHH!" Hermione let out a frightening scream.

Coming right towards her was Tori. His hand was in a tight fist ready to hit her and he was moving incredibly fast. Hermione just dodge it, feeling the wind of the blow hit her face.

"What the-" But she didn't get the chance to finish her sentence, for Tori was aiming another hit at her.

Tori, what are you doing?" she exclaimed as she dodged each of his attacks.

"Either hit back, or defend. Don't just run away." Tori finally told her, but she was too busy trying to dodge his attacks to listen to him.

"Tori, what the hell has gotten into you!" Hermione backed up more and more, running in circles. She weaved past every attack that tried to hit her face.

The next thing she knew it, she had lost tract of Tori and so he was beside her ready to hit. Fortunately she seen him at the last second and put her arms up to block. His fist made contract with her arms and it sounded as though someone was breaking through wood. Hermione slid back some from the force almost falling over. Her heart was racing, surprised at what just happened. A few seconds later, a sharp pain was felt in both her arms. It streamed from her elbow to all her fingers.

"Ow!" She cried out and fell to the ground. She watched as her fingers twitched from pain.

"Hermione! Are you okay? I am so sorry."

Hermione looked up. Tori was kneeling in front of her, concern was in his chocolate brown eyes.

"What the hell was that for? You know I have the right mind to tell you off right now! You could've killed me!" She exclaimed. She felt some of the pain go away.

"I would've maimed you a bit, but never kill you." And he gave a smile. "Sorry. I just got a little excited. It's nice to finally challenge someone who can match their powers to mine. That and I start to get more aggressive if I keep missing my target."

Hermione glared at him but it eased up a bit. She sighed. "I s'pose there's a reason why you can't start a lesson like a normal teacher, like you did yesterday."

Tori chuckled. "I guess I love to do things the difficult way." He said and placed his head out for her to grab.