Bloody Mystery's (Chapter 4)
Professor Mcgonagall follows Draco to the room where they had found Ron. Mcgonagall follows closely behind as Draco leans into a shaking Hermione's ear and whispers "Quit shaking, we did nothing wrong. Why are you feeling guilty?" She just looks at him in the eyes with tears in her eyes.
Draco was literally shocked. 'Why is she acting this way?' He looks forward and keeps walking. "This way, follow me" He turns his walk into a jog as Hermione and Mcgonagall try to keep up with him.
Mcgonagall heaves heavily "Draco…. S-slow down pl-please" she speaks leaning her hand up against the wall.
Draco stops slowly in front of the room where Ron had laid coldly and limply on the floor. "Here it is". Mcgonagall steps slowly into the room, lighting her wand up so she can see. It's very damp and stuffy inside the old room.
"Could it have been a Basilisk again?" Draco asks concerned as he watches Hermione sink to the floor, her head in her lap.
"No" Mcgonagall replies, "It couldn't have been because only one was ever inside the school and born inside the school. As well as it was a male. it couldn't have reproduced" Mcgonagall retorts. "Than what could have done this?" he asks peering back over at Hermione. "The only other possibility would be…." Hermione interrupts.
"A student"
TIME SKIP"So what your saying is that a student is going around paralyzing other students?" Harry asks through chews.
"Yes, how many times do I have to repeat myself" Hermione says leaning over the table, looking Harry right in the eye. Draco, sitting next to her, keeps eyeing Harry. 'Watch your mouth Potter around my girl'. Harry swears that he has an I'm going to kill you look on his face.
Harry glares Draco back and than faces Hermione with a straight face. "Well, what can we do about it? Where will we begin?" he asks while raising an eyebrow, frankly Harry was quite done with the bullshit for a while considering his best friend is now in the hospital… again. "Well first things first. Enough with the attitude you twit" Draco says with a grunt. He isn't in the mood for Harry's stupid poor attitude. Harry glares Draco down with angry eyes saying 'Stay out of this you snake'. Draco just smirks and continues. "Second of all. You're talking to Hermione Granger, super genius. I'm pretty sure Hermione wouldn't have suggested this if she didn't have even the slightest idea of what she is doing" Harry was dumb founded.
Hermione sticks her hands over the boy's mouths to quiet them down. "First of all, quit fighting. Your acting like children, second of all we need some clues. Evidence so that we can narrow down the suspect" Harry stares at her with a blank face as Draco keeps eyeing Harry angrily. Draco turns and looks Hermione in the eyes, those beautiful brown eyes, He than smiles. "Well then we should start back up where you guy's had found Ron. But first we need to go see Ron and ask him if he remembers anything" Harry suggests thoughtfully, Draco groans internally about the idea but decides that it was the best course of action.
"Good idea Harry" Hermione says with a bright, shining smile as Harry smiles back lightly.
(TIME SKIP!)
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(Ron's P.O.V)
I wake up, not sure where I was. I stare around the room then realizing that I was in the hospital wing, I look to my left and see something on my side table. I pick up the container and smell the substance.
'Hey… this is the stuff that they had used to un-petrify Hermione and the other's… Speaking of which where are they? And how the bloody hell did I get here in the first place?' Just at that moment Madame Pommfrey walked into the room and strutted over to the bed I was in. (I hope that's how you spell her name…XD)
"Goodness Ronald, it's good to see that you are all right." She says with a smile.
I smile back "Well yeah of course I'm okay, but what happened?" I ask with suspicion.
"Dear, do you not remember anything?" She asks sitting down at the end of my bed.
"Not much. I remember running away from… uh something and than I was walking, I had felt like I was being followed. I ended up in this old storage room or something; there was a dusty old mirror in the room. As I was looking into it I see my tear stained face and then someone come up behind me… I don't remember anything after that" I reply sadly.
Madame Pommfrey sighs and looks at me.
"Well at least you remember something. But do you remember any features of the person that had attacked you?" She asks with hope in her voice.
I sigh inwardly and look at her. "I'm sorry to say but I don't remember a thing. All that I had told you was all I remember" She sighs and stands up. "Okay well, you can leave in a couple hours. So get some rest." She smiles and walks away to what seemed to be the nurses "Office".
I lie there for what seemed forever until I hear the doors open and slam shut. I turn around to see Hermione, Harry…. and Who in the hell is that?! IS THAT MALFOY?! I squirm angrily and remember why I had been running again. I quickly turn around before they glance at me as Madame Pommfrey walks out to greet them. She had pointed to where I was lying.
I could hear footsteps nearing my bed, I pretend to be asleep. Closing my eyes lightly, hoping that they don't notice. "Ronald, I know your not sleeping. Get up" I hear Hermione say in a harsh voice as I slowly sit up and turn around to face the three.
Harry sits on the edge of the bed as Hermione and excuses my language 'shit head' stand at the side of my bed. "Nice to see you too 'Mione" I say with a sarcastic tone, in which u earn a slap on the head from none other then Granger herself. "We came to talk to you and see if you were all right. We had been informed that you were cured with the last bit of medicine that was left over from the attacking a couple years ago" Hermione explains. I interrupt her. "Wait, so they used the last bit they had on me?" I ask with concern in my voice "Why waste it on me?' She sighs and looks at me in the eye. "Yes. I am afraid so, but at least we got lucky this time. Didn't we?" She says with a light smile that I had grown very found of over the last few years. Harry smiles and nods in agreement. I can see Draco glare daggers at me as Hermione sits on the edge of the bed, taking my hand in hers.
I look at him with a smirk then look back at Hermione.
"We need to ask you about… what had happened" Hermione says trying desperately not to stutter on her words.
"I figured that's why you were here to begin with" I reply with a frown. Harry shakes his head and smiles "We were worried about you Ron. That's the main reason why were here. Right 'Mione?" He says glaring daggers at her and she nods and smiles back at me. 'That's really confusing…' I just shake the thoughts out of my head as I hear "Shit head" scoff at what they had said. "I'm only here because I am with Hermione and Potter, That's all" he says with an annoyed look on his face as Hermione kicks him in the shin with a smile on her face as he falls onto the bed behind him. I laugh almost hysterically.
Draco groans in pain as Harry and I keep laughing as Hermione checks to see if Draco was okay, frankly I really didn't give a bloody crap if that girl stealing jerk ass was all right.
"Anyways, obviously you saw this question coming but we needed to know. What all do you remember before you were petrified? Any little details could help us." Hermione says sitting back on the edge of the bed. I groan internally and sit up slowly looking from Hermione to Harry back to her.
"So I suppose that were up to no good again eh? And Malfoy is helping us this time?" I say in reply, irritation visible in my voice.
"That doesn't matter. But yes we are working on the case, so tell me please. What all do you remember?" she looks at me with those beautiful pleading eyes, I just couldn't resist but tell her what had happened.
(Time Skip about 6-7 Minutes)
"…Then all I remember seeing in the reflection of the mirror was black hair and what looked to be blood-red glowing eyes." I finish as all three of them stare at me, lots of interest in their eyes. Even Malfoy, which was to my surprise.
"That's it? Nothing else?" Hermione asks with the sound of a pout in her voice, as if she was a three-year-old child that you had said no too.
"Yes 'Mione. That's all I honestly remember," I say with a sigh as Harry was standing up staring out the window.
"What now?" Harry asks lightly enough for only the other three to hear him. Harry turns around looking at Draco and I, then over at Hermione who was kneeling at the edge of my bed. Draco pips up, much too my surprise yet again. "Next, we go back to the crime scene." Draco says looking at all three of us, with those very intense green eyes (Or gray? I can't remember XD)
All three of us nod, as I stand up and start to fix my uniform, we make it for the door.