The next day bought disaster for the Slytherdors; as they had dubbed themselves late into the night, not getting to sleep until around half past three in the morning. They all woke up in a state of panic at around 6:30 when then sun invaded the room, well that was when Pansy got up and sneaked into the bathroom to use all the hot water, then she woke everyone up with a start when she screamed at the top of her voice.
Pansy backed into the corner of the room and slipped on the water on the bathroom floor, falling back and banging her head on the wall. A look of pure terror etched into her features.
"NO! HELP! YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME! ARGHHHHHHHH!" Harry, with his hero complex and his soul expression jumped out of bed and ran into the bathroom slamming the door open to find Pansy (in all her glory) crying in the corner.
"Pansy, what's…?" Harry spun around as a cold bony hand rested on his shoulder, the room got colder and Harry's breathing increased and memories washed through him.
A high pitched scream echoed in his mind. 'Not, Harry, anything but Harry!' Harry's body shook silently as he fell forward leaning against the wall in horror, he reached to his pocket instinctively as he tried to find his wand. It was on his bed side cabinet. Distantly he could hear Pansy screaming for help.
"Draco! Draco! JUST Draco come here! Help, its Harry! Draco!" Pansy cried hysterically, trying to crawl further into the corner as Harry dropped to the floor and the dementor closed in on him. Draco ran into the open door, everyone following but soon disappearing as they saw Pansy crying her eyes out on the floor. Blaise stood shocked behind them at the sight of Harry in such a state.
"Please, no kill me instead! MUM!" Blaise ran forward and started shaking him pointedly not looking at the dementor; Harry looked up eyes blood shot, tears pouring down his face. "Happy… memories… Blaise… first kiss…" He fell forward onto Blaise, body going limp as he passed out. Complete terror broke loose.
"HELP HIM DRACO!"
"PARKINSON STOP SCREAMING!"
"HELP PLEASE SOMEONE HELP!"
"WHAT DO I DO?"
"GOYLE MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL!"
"RON GET HOT CHOCOLATE!"
"WHERE FROM!"
"DOBBY!"
"Now everyone calm down…"
"SHUT UP!"
"Harry, WAKE UP!"
"Draco, DO SOMETHING!"
"EXPECTO PATRONUM!" A silver dragon erupted from Draco's wand but soon vanished into thin air. "Why isn't it working?" He felt someone shove him out of the way and he hit the side of the door. The creature turned its focus on Draco and immediately shifted into his father.
"Draco, I think we need to have a little chat, there's been an accident, quite unfortunate… " Lucius said, walking closer to Draco who backed away. Draco raised his wand warily as his eyes filled with tears. Hermione stared confused at Lucius Malfoy; Draco was scared of his dad? She came back to her senses when Blaise yelled.
"GRANGER! PANSY, SHUT UP!" While, trying to lift Harry the whole time.
She raised her wand immediately. "RIDDIKULUS!" Hermione yelled, instantly Lucius was dressed in a clown suit and then disappeared. Draco fled from the bathroom humiliated and Hermione grabbed a towel from the cupboard that obviously had contained the Boggart. She wrapped it around a shaking Pansy.
"Are you okay?" Hermione whispered. Pansy nodded slowly sniffling and still dripping wet from her shower. She led her slowly into the room again and sat her on the bed. Hermione looked up to see Blaise crying and carrying Harry bridal style out of the bathroom.
Ron came bolting back into the common room followed by Dobby; he too collapsed on the nearest bed, breathing hard.
"Dobby, we need eight hot chocolates and three big bars of chocolate right away."
"Yes, Miss Hermione Granger." Dobby disappeared and reappeared a second later, carrying a large tray of chocolate cakes, bars of chocolate and hot chocolate, bowed and then disappeared. Hermione grabbed a bar of chocolate and opened it snapping it into pieces. She picked up a hot chocolate and a few squares of chocolate and handed them to Pansy. She grabbed the same again and moved from Pansy over to Blaise who was crying holding a still out cold Harry.
"Blaise, move please." She whispered calmly. He shifted a little and let go reluctantly, she handed him the chocolate products and whipped her wand back out pointing it at Harry's chest. "Ennervate." Harry gasped, sitting up abruptly.
"Boggart?" He questioned rubbing his eyes, he was still shaking. "Is Pansy okay?" he leaned onto Blaise who instantly started fussing over him and shoving the chocolate into his mouth.
"Pansy's fine."
"And Draco, didn't Draco get hurt?" Hermione's eyes widened, he'd ran out the bathroom. She stood up alarm and sighed relieved to see him sitting in a chair in front of the fire. She walked back over to the last two cups, grabbed a plate of cake, some chocolate and held them walking as steadily as possible over to Draco. She gingerly walked to the side of him, listening to him singing softly under his breath. She put the food on the floor concerned.
"My insides are turned to ash, so slow, and blew away as I collapsed, so cold, the black wind took them away from sight, and now the darkness over day, that night. And the clouds above move closer looking so dissatisfied, but the heartless wind kept blowing, blowing. I used to be my own protection, but not now. Because my path has lost direction, somehow. The black wind took you away from…"
"Draco, snap out of it." Hermione said as she sat on the arm of the chair, passing him the drink, but he just stared numbly in front of him.
" …And night, and the clouds above move closer looking so dissatisfied, and the ground below grew colder as they put you down inside, but the heartless wind kept blowing, blowing,"
"I bought you some cake,"
"My mind has lost…"
"Draco!" SMACK! Draco snapped out of his daze and looked startled at Hermione crouched down in front of him and he realised he was holding a hot drink and Hermione was waving a plate of chocolate cake in his face.
"I'm sorry." He muttered.
"It's fine, now eat up. It's chocolate, our favourite see?"
Silence…
"I think I love you, you're so nice."
"Don't say what you don't mean Draco."
"But I want to love you."
"I know, now eat up."
"But I haven't even brushed my…"
"EAT!" Draco grabbed the cake and took a bite, the colour starting to run back into his cheeks. Hermione stayed sat at his feet drinking her chocolate, keeping an eye on the others.
Crabbe and Goyle had took the liberty of making sure Blaise, Pansy and Harry ate the left over cake, and Crabbe was currently wrestling Pansy (still clad in a towel) trying to ram some into her mouth, she was yelling something about calories. Hermione smiled, everyone was getting on so well and it was great. Hogwarts was really starting to unite, kind of… If she was told this would have happened last year she would really think the person was mad or she was mad in the future. Which she wasn't… at least she thought she wasn't. Hermione's stream of thought was broken when Draco pushed her forward a little, holding on to her shoulders. "What are you…?"
"I think I'm in love,
with his sweet but bitter touch,
I'm driven by the passion,
and his slick but stuck up fashion.
A look sends a shiver;
a smirk makes me swoon,
And I love the way he feels,
and hehow he understands my needs…"
"Draco! Stop reading my expression!" Hermione had realised she must have wrote on her back last night, how she managed to do that she didn't know but she could practically hear the smirk.
"His sophistication drives me crazy
and it's all because of him,
I find myself tossing and turning at night,
how can something so wrong,
feel so right?"
Draco smiled as the poem ended there, what he didn't know was it continued on her stomach. "Aww… Granger, I didn't know you felt that way!" Hermione blushed.
"Yes well, I'm very smitten, okay?" Draco smiled at her honestly and pulled her up and then into his lap hugging her.
"It was my sister." He whispered into her ear, holding her tighter, her arms hugging his.
"What was?"
"Who I was singing about. I'm not scared of my dad, Hermione, I'm scared of a conversation we had. When she died, when he told me, I'm just upset about the funeral I think and the Boggart dragged up memories, I wanted to forget."
"I'm sorry, I didn't even realise."
"It was very recently, don't worry, not many people of the public have noticed to be honest, she enjoyed a peaceful life, and was ill for a very long time and we wanted her to have a peaceful death."
"Oh."
"Thank you." Hermione turned around looking questioningly at him. "For listening." He elaborated.
"Anytime, now chop chop! Breakfast in a minute! I want you all to eat something apart from chocolate! Everyone check there homework and get dressed, we're leaving in half an hour!" Hermione said springing up out of her chair and grabbing her school clothes, she walked into the bathroom mumbling about McGonagall, checking over assignments and a something to do with Runes.
"Is she like this every morning?" Crabbe asked looking horrified at the prospect of it all.
"No, she's much, much worse…"
Upon arriving at breakfast they all separated onto their respectable tables. Seamus, Dean and Neville whispering as they arrived.
"Where were you last night, Dumbledore keep you up all night did he?" He asked sarcastically.
"We're not really allowed to talk about it, Seamus." Hermione replied without looking up from serving eggs onto Harry's plate from the fresh trays that had just appeared. He was still a little pale. "Discussion over."
Seamus gave her a dirty look and took a bite out of his egg and Ron looked alarmed as Seamus screwed his face up and started coughing, only a second later to stand up and pull his wand out pointing it straight into Hermione face.
Draco who had been watching from across the room stood up, sneer in place and ready to go Gryffindor bashing. That was until Pansy started talking on and on trying to get his attention while pulling on his robe, and until a fire broke out at the end of his table, several Hufflepuff's burst into song. A first year started tap dancing, Ravinclaws all started reciting out loud from there text books, and about four fights broke out abruptly.
Dumbledore stood up alarmed as a food fight started to break out between all of the students. "Stop eating, don't drink! It's poisoned!" He hissed at the staff and they all dropped their cutlery and spat there food out. "STOP! SILENCE! ALL THAT ARE NOT AFFECTED! STOP EATING IMMEDIATELY AND DON'T DRINK!" The effected students didn't stop, everything continued and the fire was spreading rapidly up a tapestry. Dumbledore stared wide eyed as he realised what was happening. The rest of his students had just been fed a Soul Expression. And he didn't have the cure.
"Valentine's Day" is a song by Linkin Park.
Fanfiction is by Faith Valconbridge. This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
