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Author's Greeting: Hi everyone! Christmas is coming up! Are you all excited? I am. I'm going home to see my parents and friends. I haven't been home in 3 months. I had made a list of ideas for this story and forgotten about it. And then I found it last night. How exciting! So I have a few story twists and turns. I'm happy with where the story is going. And life in general is going well. I've just finished my first term in college. I can't believe I actually did it. It went by so fast. And guess what? There is this guy I like. He seems quite nice. Although I've heard some things about him and a few of my friends don't think he's worth it. But I really like him. I suppose I'll just have to wait and see won't I? Well, onto the story. The stage is set….
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Jameth: Haha. Well, I can't send you a real cookie for that. But thanks for filling me in. I've been wondering about that for a while. Wow! You searched for ages? It's so surreal to hear that people like my story so much and get all the awesome reviews.
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Draco finally stopped pacing and walked down to the main floor doorway to the dungeons.
As he stepped off the staircase, something large and furry brushed over his legs. What?
"Lumos," He whispered into the dark. The tip of his wand lighted up. It was Crookshanks, the ginger colored cat staring up at him with glowing eyes like lamplight. He had seen that cat before. It belonged to Hermione. It had a squashed face and was often slinking around the castle.Draco didn't know what to do. He didn't think it would attack him. But it kept staring. He decided to ignore it.
He stepped around it and headed for the doorway. The cat followed him.
"You can't come down here." Draco said and tried to brush the cat back through the door. But it slipped through his hands and ran down ahead of him.
Then it stopped and looked back at him, it's eyes glowing in the dark, as though the cat were waiting for him.
Draco wondered at the cat's strange behavior but kept on after it.
The cat went down without hesitation to the Slytherin common rooms. It seemed to know the way perfectly.
Draco was rather surprised that the cat knew it's way around so well. But then, it was able to roam freely and had probably been nearly everywhere in the castle.
Draco said the password and stepped into the common room. It was empty.
Crookshanks went in after him and went to the boy's dormitory door. Again he paused and looked back.
Draco, curious now rather than surprised, went to the door and opened it. This was obviously a smart cat who was up to something. He speculated as to what.
Draco followed the cat to his dormitory. He opened the door and followed the cat in, being careful not to wake his fellow roommates.
He stood there and waited to see what Crookshanks would do next. The cat went over to his book bag and started pawing at it.
Draco went over and unzipped it. Inside were a few books, a quill, ink, and some parchment.
Crookshanks pawed at the paper and quill. Draco frowned and picked them up.
The cat watched him, almost expectantly.
"What do you want me to do?" Draco asked the cat, feeling foolish for talking to a cat. But then remembered that this was no ordinary cat.
Did the cat want him to write something? But what?
Draco stood wondering. This was Hermione's cat. But what did the cat want? To have him write her a note?
"Do you want me to write Hermione a letter?" Draco asked the cat, again feeling foolish for talking to the cat.
One of his roommates grunted in his sleep. Draco looked uneasily around. Then back at the cat.
"Well?" Draco asked again.
The cat simply continued to look at Draco.
Draco wondered what he would write if he wrote Hermione a letter. It must be what the cat wanted. It was pawing at the parchment and quill.
Draco took a sheet of parchment, quill, and a bottle of ink and sat down to write.
Pause. Think. Write. Pause. Think. Write.
Ten minutes later Draco was finished with the letter. He folded it and sealed it with his wand.
Draco looked at the cat. Then he took the letter over and set it in front of the cat.
Crookshanks sniffed it and picked it up in its mouth, hopped off the bed, and went over to the door. He looked back at Draco expectantly.
Draco went over and opened the door. Crookshanks walked out and headed into the common room and over to the door.
Draco, following the cat, opened the door. Crookshanks walked out into the hall and out of sight. Draco knew he was taking the letter to Hermione.
Draco walked back to his dormitory, undressed, and put on his nightclothes. He got into bed and thought over what had just happened.
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Hermione had finally fallen asleep. Now, however, she awoke to a soft flump. Something had jumped onto her bed.
Hermione looked up. It was her cat Crookshanks. He had something in his mouth. It wasn't a mouse. It was a piece of paper.
Hermione took the paper from Crookshanks' mouth and realized it was a letter.
"Where did you get this, Crookshanks?" Hermione absently said to the cat.
Hermione opened it and saw at the bottom it was from Draco. Hermione looked questioningly at her cat.
Looking back at the letter, Hermione began to read.
Hermione-Your cat followed me down to my dormitory. He was acting rather strangely and seemed to want me to write a letter.
Hermione looked up again at Crookshanks. How odd. She'd always known he was quite a strange cat though.
Hermione looked back down at the letter and continued to read.
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That is where we'll end it. I like it. Pretty good chapter. I had no idea what I was going to write about when I began it. Then some ideas came to me voila!