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"Of course, Mr. Malfoy." said Hermione, following the blonde man to the drawing room. Also sitting there was Mrs. Malfoy and Bellatrix, with her snake draped on around shoulders.
"Have a seat, Ms. Granger." said Mrs. Malfoy, waving her hand toward the seat facing all of them.
"You're not pureblood." said Bellatrix quietly.
"So what if I'm not?" asked Hermione, raising her chin imperiously.
"My question is how you've been sorted into Slytherin. There hasn't been a Muggleborn in Slytherin in decades." said Mr. Malfoy, examining Hermione as if she was some sort of new thing to be examined.
"The Hat said I would be more powerful in Slytherin. I chose power, instead of knowledge." said Hermione.
"Power can corrupt you, Ms. Granger." said Mrs. Malfoy.
"I'm aware of that. But I am tired of pretending to be something I am not. If you look at me and see my blood status, before what I can do, then you are small minded." said Hermione.
"I thought you were on the good side." said Bellatrix, mockingly.
"There is no good and evil, there are only arbitrary human perceptions of it. You think you are justified in killing an ant, the ant thinks you are evil." said Hermione.
"I like her." said Bellatrix, grinning manically.
"I'll be sure to watch out for you, Ms. Granger. Dumbledore might try to recruit you for his cause sooner or later, might think you're running with the wrong sort. You're free to leave." said Mr. Malfoy.
"Thank you." said Hermione, getting to her feet. On her way out, Bellatrix spoke.
"You're right. About good and evil, I mean. There is no good and evil, only power and those too weak to seek it." said Bellatrix. Hermione said nothing and walked back to her shared room with Pansy.
"What was that about?" asked Pansy as Hermione pushed opened the door to their room.
"Nothing important. Where are the boys?" asked Hermione.
"Outside, playing Quidditch as usual." said Pansy.
"And Tom?" asked Hermione.
"Library. Said he wanted to do some research." said Pansy.
"Thanks." said Hermione. It was a confusing walk to the library, the Manor was so large, Hermione got lost twice. On her third try, she found it. The Malfoy library was opulent and clearly very very old. Tom was sitting at the top of a ladder reading a large tome.
"Find something interesting?" asked Hermione suddenly. The boy didn't start and didn't actually give any inclination that he had heard Hermione enter.
"Why are there restrictions on magic?" asked Tom flipping the large book closed and climbing down the ladder.
"The Ministry is afraid of wizards becoming too powerful, exposing the Wizarding World. But you know this already." said Hermione.
"That I do. But, did you know that Wizards aren't allowed to even produce food for themselves? In a world where you can conjure almost anything, why can't you conjure the most basic resource?" Tom asked rhetorically.
"The Principal Exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration." read Hermione off the cover of the tome.
"There are five of them. Food, money, intentional curse damage, human reanimation, and then the other one is missing, I can't find it anywhere in this book." said Tom.
"Makes sense. You shouldn't be able to conjure absolutely anything you want. There would be no holds on what someone could do." said Hermione
"But why. There's some root cause to magic that no one knows about, magic could've come from an ancient God as far as wizards know, but we just accept random happenstances of magic that appear. There are barely any records of wizards before Hogwarts was founded, magic had to come from somewhere, someone had to find it first or have it first and I intend to find out who." said Tom resolutely.
"Are you two going to sit in and read all day?" asked Draco poking his head inside the library.
"You say that like its a bad thing Draco. There are very interesting texts in here about magic and everything else you could think of. In fact if you looked hard enough you'd find a book on how to finally not do your homework at the last minute." said Hermione, smugly.
"You wound me Hermione, honestly you do." said Draco clutching his chest. "My mum wanted to come get you both for lunch." said Draco.
"We're coming, Draco." said Hermione. Draco turned on his heel and walked out of the room.
"Coming Tom?" asked Hermione.
"In a second, I found something interesting." said Tom.
"Suit yourself. I'll be with the others." said Hermione walking out of the library.
"Adolfo Abraham's Guide to Dark, Light, and Gray Magic, I'll make sure to keep track of you." said Tom, placing the book down and walking out of the library.
"Finally you come! I'm wasting away here, Tom." said Blaise.
"My apologies for being late, Mr. Malfoy, Ms. Malfoy, Ms. Black. I was doing some research in your library." said Tom sliding into his seat beside Hermione.
"What book?" asked Mr. Malfoy curiously.
"Adolfo Abraham's Guide to Dark, Light, and Gray Magic, sir." said Tom.
"It's a very good book, lots of useful spells. We have at least 5 copies of it in the library though, would you like it?" asked Mr. Malfoy.
"I would be honored, sir, thank you." said Tom, graciously.
"You're quite welcome, Tom. Now, has everyone done their shopping for presents?" asked Mr. Malfoy.
"Of course they haven't dear, it's only their first day away from school." remarked Mrs. Malfoy.
"Very well, we'll all go to Hogsmeade tomorrow so we can all shop for gifts." said Mr. Malfoy, decidedly.
"Wonderful. In the tradition of Malfoy gift giving, we will all break off in pairs and shop for presents together, we'll switch off every few rounds." said Mrs. Malfoy. "Great. You children are dismissed if you're done eating." said Mr. Malfoy. Hermione and Tom went back to the library and Draco, Blaise, Theo, and Pansy most likely went to go play Quidditch again.
"Show me that book that you were looking at." said Hermione.
"Adolfo Abraham's Guide to Dark, Light, and Gray Magic? It's over here." said Tom.
"Interesting. What do you want to start studying first?" asked Hermione.
"Studying?" asked Tom, questioningly.
"Before practicing a spell, I like to learn the history of it, the in and outs of it, how it works, etc." said Hermione.
"Wonderful. But we're not going to just study the spells, we're going to practice them." said Tom.
"But you can't do magic outside of school!" exclaimed Hermione.
"Silly girl. I thought you were smarter than that. Remember the conversation we had a few weeks ago?" Tom said patronizingly.
"Cast a spell, Hermione. Nothing will happen." said Tom.
"Wingardium Leviosa." said Hermione and the tome hovered in the air. Tom waited a few beats before speaking.
"See? Nothing. Now let's get to work." said Tom.