Hermione Granger; A Vampire Chapter 5
The walk back to the castle was a silent affair. Dumbledore had to cast the shield to protect Hermione from the sun. When they got into he shade of the castle he lowered his wand and the shield vanished.
"Miss Granger, whatever you do…do not walk into the sun. If you walk into the sun you will catch fire and die. Do you understand me?" Dumbledore looked into Hermione's eyes. She nodded her head.
"Now you will be going to the prefects sleeping quarters. We have made a bed up for there because it would be a risk to let you sleep with your house-mates just now. The prefects are going to be sleeping in the normal dormitories."
"I can control myself! The urge was stronger then, I needed to complete the transformation thats why I fed!" Hermione was angry…no more than angry she was furious. She was shaking with anger. It was weird, she never got angry like this…never, she was a very calm person.
If Dumbledore was surprised by Hermione's sudden outburst he didn't show it.
"Miss Granger, your emotions are heightened at the moment, every single emotion you fell will blur into one feeling…Hunger, which in your case means blood lust. This is why we have to keep you away from everyone at the moment."
Hermione felt the anger slowly leak out of her until she felt relatively normal again. This blood lust thing was really getting on her nerves. The mood swings were almost the same as when she had her period.
"I need to pee…why do I need to pee, I thought I'm dead?" Anything to get out of an awkward situation, she thought.
"Your body is confused right now, it will eventually stop."
Hermione trundled of to go the the bathroom. As she stepped in, the giggling girls in front of the mirror quickly ran out. Hermione smirked to herself…she could get used to this. She hated using the bathroom when other people were in the room too.
Turned out it was a false alarm…she didn't have to pee. How weird.
She decided to go back into the dining hall, she was determined she wasn't going to break down again and feed. All she wanted was something real to eat. Something that wasn't blood. She just wanted to fell normal.
The dining hall was almost empty, except for a bunch of Slytherins, the well known twits for making everyone in Gryffindors life miserable , Draco Malfoy, Pansy Parkinson, Blaise Zabini, Gregory Goyle and Vincent Crabbe.
She swept pass them in hope that nothing they said or did, would make her angry. For their own sake.
But you don't get everything in life.
"Well well well, the mudbloood is now a vampire. Gonna bare those fangs are you Granger?" Malfoy sneered, Goyle and Crabbe on either side of him.
Hermione retorted. "Go ahead and say that to me without your brainless side-kicks Malfoy…we all know your a wuss without them."
Malfoy's eyes narrowed and he took a step forward.
"Go on then, bite me. I dare you." He stood close to her, his arms folded. He looked serious.
Hermione's fangs threatened to make an appearance. She could fell the sharp pain in her gums, the cracking below her eyes. Malfoy and his gang must of seen it to for they took a step backwards, looking weary.
I mustn't feed, I won't, just ignore them, walk away. She kept saying in her head but she couldn't resist. She wanted to scare them, show them they can't mess with her anymore.
She was behind Malfoy in less than a second. She snapped her head back and was about to bite, when an untouchable charm was put on Malfoy, and it was impossible for Hermione to hold him. She let go with frustration, her fangs slowly disappeared. She shoved him away from her.
Dumbledore slowly walked forward. He beckoned Hermione to follow him, and the turned around and walked the other way out of the dining hall. Hermione gave one last glare to Malfoy, who was being pulled up from the floor by Pansy, who he pushed away irritably, and followed Dumbledore.
She didn't take any notice of where they were going until they came face to face with the gargoyle that guarded Dumbledores office.
"Sherbet Lemon." Dumbledore said to the gargoyle. It sprang to life and moved aside to reveal a moving staircase, quite like a muggle escalator but one that twisted around.
Dumbledore moved forward to stand on it and the staircase moved upwards and soon Dumbledore was out of site. Hermione followed.
The room looked just as Hermione remembered, her last being here after she and Harry had save the Hippogriff, Buckbeak, almost four years ago.
"Miss Granger, I'm going to say this one last time…you need to learn to control yourself. I said I won't have you feeding on the students."
"I couldn't help it! And Malfoy provoked me!"
"Even so, I'm going to make sure you don't anymore. There is a herb that grows in the woods that is poison to vampires. All students will drink this every day at breakfast, diluted in their drinks…that will keep you from being able to compel them and feed on them."
Hermione didn't know what to say…she wanted everything to seem normal, but on the other hand, being able to compel people was something she defiantly wanted to try, and also she wasn't ready to give up the taste of human blood just yet.
But she agreed.
"Now, I'm sure that you haven't seen what happens if you are exposed to the sun yet." He moved over to the window and opened the curtains. Sunlight pored in but the light didn't fall anywhere near Hermione.
"I suggest you test it and see what happens. I think it will be good for you to know your weaknesses." He beckoned to her with his finger.
"You want me to stand in he sun?" She asked felling a bit nervous. "Won't it kill me?"
"If you stand in it for over 10 or 20 seconds, then yes it will kill you…just put your hand out and see what happens."
He seemed serious. Hermione was sure that if it would hurt her badly, Dumbledore wouldn't let her do it, and also she thought it was a good idea to know her weakness.
She gingerly made her way across the room and over to the sunlight that was pouring through the window. She stretched her hand out into the sun.
"AAH!" She screamed. Her fingers had red angry blotched on them and were blistering and burning. It hurt like hell. Then they blisters faded and her fingers were good as new.
She got her breath back. "Professor, why do my injuries disappear so fast?" she asked. She noticed this when she fed on the Ravenclaw girl and Dumbledore had put the untouchable charm on her and again with Malfoy.
He didn't answer but waved his wand and a pointed darning needle was produced out of thin air. He slowly took the needle in his hand.
"Hold out your finger."
Hermione did as she was told and held out her index finger. Dumbledore stuck the pin in her finger and dragged it across producing a thin cut. Hermione stared at it and before her eyes the cut disappeared.
She looked up at Dumbledore with a puzzled look on her face.
"Your blood has healing powers Miss Granger…if a human drank a small amount of your blood, they would be healed of all injuries." He said his eyes staring into hers.
Hermione looked at her finger. It was pale pink again and there was no sign of he cut.
"Now there is something else we need to discuss. You cannot stay out of the sun for the rest of your life, and so as we discussed earlier, we will find a piece of jewellery and I will bewitch it to keep you safe. Do you have a piece of jewellery that your wear often?"
Hermione reached under her jumper and took out a locket from around her neck that she kept hidden there. It was something she had had since she was three years old. It had a picture of her parents in it. She handed it to Dumbledore.
Dumbledore walked over to his desk and lay the locket on it, in direct sunlight from the window. He closed his eyes and muttered something under his breath and tapped the locket. He opened his eyes and handed the locket back to her.
"That's it? Nothing dramatic or anything?" She thought there would have been a flicker of light or odd whisperings. She put the locket on, and walked over to the sun streaming out of the window.
She stretched out her hand and felt the warmness of the sun, and thankfully, no horrible burning. She moved further into the sun and felt the warmth radiate over her body.