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The Great Hall - Harry
The moment that we finish eating, well the moment Hermione and Neville finish eating and I finish pushing food around my plait. We get up and go to finish our escorting duties.
We meet at the hall's door and I offer my arm to Daphne, Neville as his seized by Tracy and Markus collects Hermione. After a quick farewell, Markus leads Hermione off towards Gryffindor tower and Neville and I lead Tracy and Daphne toward Slytherin.
Once the four of us had walked for a bit I whisper to Daphne, "W- would you like to go to… H- Hogsmeade with me," I wince at my stammering, but she doesn't seem to notice.
"I'd love to go," She whispers back and her small smile morphs into a grin for a moment before she could schools her features.
"You- you would," I stammer out, a little shocked at her response.
Daphne looks at me sideways for a moment before she said, "Why wouldn't I want to go to Hogsmeade with you Harry? Your chivalrous, smart and kind. Whats not to like?"
Using all my Gryffindor courage I said, "Ya, I guess I am pretty awesome, but I will definitely outshine me." Her smile grows and we finish the walk to the dungeons in silence.
We look into each others eyes for a long moment before I lean in and whisper, "I'll see you later." then I give her a quick kiss on the cheek before we part ways, but just before she enters the snakes den I see a red tinge on her cheeks. Is she blushing? No, I couldn't have done that, I must be imagining it.
Outside Gryffindor Tower - Markus
The two of us finally reach the entrance to Gryffindor tower and I pull her over to the side. "What's bothering you," I whispered, "you've been very quiet."
"Why, did the Slytherin's react like that," Hermione snarls, "its almost like you were a- a Death Eater."
"Not a Death Eater," I whisper, trying to calm her down, "they just think I am going to become the next Dark Lord, because of my family name."
"I have never even heard the name Deivus, why would they think you would become a Dark-" Hermione rants until I cut her off.
"You should read up on Canadian history, long story short my family has a partly deserved reputation of being Dark." I said fiercely to cut off her objections.
"What do you mean," Hermione whispers, "are you a dark wizard."
I couldn't help myself, I just started to laugh, but the sudden look of fear on her face kills the laughter in me and I whisper, "The last Deivus who truly went Dark was lynched by the rest of the family and if I would have been old enough, I would have joined in. My uncle endangered our family so he needed to be put down."
"Your family murdered-" Hermione starts to say but I cut her off again.
"It wasnt murder, NO lisen to me, it wasnt murder. My family has been on and off Dark for almost a thousand years and we have finally gotten out of it. When my uncle chose to name himself a Dark Lord, we had no choice but to take him down." I could see she disagreed but at least she was listening.
"Well, will I see you tomorrow," I finally break the silence that had fallen over us.
"Maybe, I will see you," She whispers before she runs through the portrait hole. How is she still available, but my reminiscing is cut off when I hear a very distinctive voice scream out from the Gryffindor common room.
"You trator," the redhead bellows and he steps menacingly toward Hermione and raises his fist.
"Weasel, you are mine," I whisper just as the door closes and then scream Bombarda Maxima the door to the Gryffindor common room explodes in a shower of rubble and I charge in. The Gryffindors shocked into stillness, but I have eyes for only Hermione. Hermione, who is lying on the ground, bleeding from the cutting hex that Ron had hit her with the moment the door had blasted open.
"You-," I start but cut of my curse words for a real curse. Inflecto Telum and three arrows appear and fly at Ron. The first servers this new wand in half. I will kill the person who gave him that new wand. The second hits him in the right shoulder and the third hits him in the left knee cap. As Ron falls to the ground I summon Hermione to me and then cast Protego Maxima, Fianto Duri and Repello Inimicum, just as the Gryffindors start to react.
Someone screams Stupefy and the resulting explosion teaches them never to attack such a powerful shield. I quickly heal Hermione's wound before I turn back to the Gryffindors and shout, "When Harry gets back, he is going to be pisses. Do you idiots realise that you just allowed Hermione Granger, Harry Potters best friend to be sliced up by that Weasel? He is going to kill you if I don't do it first."
"You called Markus," the black haired himself walks through the door.
"Harry-" someone tries to shout but is interrupted by a well placed Bludgeoner from Neville throws them over the couch.
"You know what," Harry said slowly, "I think I just might let Markus slaughter you all, he could do it easily to. But I have a much better punishment for you for letting Hermione get hurt by Weasel," I almost flinch from the venom in that statement, "instead you can find two new Gryffindor's, I'm done and I know Hermione is."
"So am I," Neville shouts, "when a Slytherin is a better Gryffindor then the whole of Gryffindor house… well I don't want to be a part of it." Hearing that pronouncement of judgement, most of the Gryffindors could do nothing but stare in shock, but it seemed that idiocy ran in the Weasley family.
"Harry you won't get away with this," One the twins said as they drew their wands.
"May I, Harry," I said quietly, "fight them in your stead, they aren't worth your notice if they stand by their useless brother."
The twins almost drop their wands in shock when Harry said in a cold dead voice, "Don't kill them, they aren't worth the trouble."
In one fluid motion I jump through my shield and cast Ossis Effergo at the twins, shattering their hands, before summoning their wands toward Harry, who easily caught them.
"I must say that your loyalty is commendable, if misplaced," I said to them as they wither in pain of the floor and turn to the youngest Weasley, "do you have any misplaced loyalty that you need to fulfill."
She almost jumps out of her skin, before she bolts up the stairs to the girls dorm.
"I guess thats a no," I walk over to my shield and disable it before I walk over to Hermione and pick her up, bridal style, "lets get going, we're going to need somewhere else to sleep," before I turn to the still stunned Gryffindors and then down at the three Weasley's and say, "you should get them some medical attention," and the four of us walk out of the half destroyed common room, in search of some new quarters.
Abandoned wing of the Castle - Harry
We ended up spending most of the night searching before, Markus went and got Daphne and Tracy to come help us search. Sure enough, Tracy knew of a room that would suit our purposes.
Markus set a password for the entrance and showed us the masonry spells to actually build rooms in our new home. Behind the door we set up a gate house and another door, that lead into the common room. By the time we have finished our rooms and Markus had password protected those, it was very late and, unknown to us, the professors were in a panic trying to find us.
After six hours of work it only took me a few moments to fall asleep…
The Fifth Common Room - Hermione
I wake up slowly, not remembering the night before. I admit I panicked for a moment before I remembered where I was and then started panicking again when I remembered why I was here and not in Gryffindor.
I get dress and hurry out into our new common room, planning on going to the professors and explaining what happened as quickly as possible. But the common room is already full of my partners in crime, Markus sitting by himself on one couch, Daphne leaning against Harry on another and Neville and Tracy are quietly talking on the last.
"Hermione, thank goodness, I was getting worried, you never sleep that late," Harry jokes. He is going to get it.
I round on him and say in my best Mcgonagall impression, "Well Mr. Potter, maybe you should have woken me up, I wasn't in any sort of condition to set an alarm last night."
Harry smirks and then starts stammering, "I-I I'm s-s-sorry M-Mrs. G-G-Granger, I d-didn't t-t-think of i-it."
Daphne makes him upside the head and said, "Lay it on a little thick much."
Harry puts on his best shocked face at Daphne's 'betrayal', while I said in a slightly louder voice than necessary, "Have any of you told anyone where we are."
Markus stood up slowly and said, "Well, it's kind of a mad house out there. We decided it would be better to stay in here until morning to see if it would blow over."
I raise my eyebrow and question, "Did it?"
Harry grins, "Not at all, everyone is going crazy wondering where we are. The Slytherins have been attacking Gryffindors, looking for revenge and the Weasley's have been completely isolated by the Gryffindors. Its quite fulfilling to see a plan come together."
"So are we going out now?" I said, in a sickly sweet voice.
"Yes we are," Markus said quickly. To quickly. "but we were planning on making a statement.
"And how are we going to do that?" I ask in genuine curiosity. It's going to be something really stupid isn't it?
Markus leans over and whispers, "This is the plan. Now you and me are going to…"
As Markus explains what we are going to do my frown slowly turns into a smirk that would have sent Malfoy running.