"Follow me." Hermione called out to Draco. He began to run after her, catching up and grabbing onto her hand.
"Where are we going?"
"I have just thought of something." She yelled back at him and continued to drag him across the grass towards the whomping willow. When they reached it Draco began to edge back.
"What are you doing?" he asked. "I had no idea we had made a suicide pact."
"We haven't." she laughed and began searching in the bushes near by. Hermione picked up a long stick and began crawling towards the thrashing tree.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" Draco screamed trying to drag her back.
"Wait!" she pushed the stick into the knot at the base of the tree and the tree became calm and just gently swayed in the wind. Hermione grabbed hold of Draco's hand guided him under the roots of the tree.
They could hear the wind whistling though the tree from below the ground. The passage was getting darker and much smaller. Draco was really confused as to where they were going, and how Hermione knew how to pass the beast of a tree.
"Lumos." He heard Hermione say and then he saw the light from her wand lighting up the passage ahead. Within a few minutes of crawling there was another light in view, it was the end of the dirt tunnel. Hermione crawled out first and the turned to help Draco out.
When he emerged he realized he was in the hallway of a house. He could see the living room on his left and a staircase not too far in front of him. The house they were in was dusty and most of the furniture was broken. Nail marks were covering the walls of the living room and the sofa had a chunk out of it, as if it had been bitten out by some wild beast.
"Where are we?" Draco asked, trying to mask the terror in his voice.
"Hello Crookshanks!" crooned Hermione as she picked up the large ginger cat that was walking along the floor towards them. "Oh, we are in the shrieking shack." Draco flung himself against the wall and began to shake.
"Are you mad?" he asked. "This place is haunted, look at it. I bet people have been murdered by the things that are in this place!" Hermione laughed and sat him down on the sofa and explained how she knew about the tunnel and why the place seemed like it had been haunted.
"…and that is why I thought this would be the perfect place for us to, be together." She smiled.
"This place is a dump." He stated.
"We can do it up. Watch. " Hermione took out her wand and began moving furniture around the living room, she used a cleaning spell, (which had been taught to her by Mrs Weasley) to remove the dust from the floor and the surfaces.
A week later Draco was crawling through the tunnel and emerging the familiar room the shrieking shack. He headed straight up the rickety staircase, which was now polished and dust free. He walked into the room to the right of the stairs and there was his project. He had been working in this for the past week. He had blew Hermione off so many times now she was getting suspicious.
In front of his was a four poster bed, gleaming brass poles draped in red silk. The bed had been covered in a luxurious blood red cover and black red rose petals. Candles floated around the bed and also lit a walkway to the bed. He moved to the cabinet by the side of the bed placed the bottle of wine in the bucket that was there. He had been back and forwards all week making this room perfect. He had even snuck into Hogsmead and stolen a bottle of Rosmerta's most famous wine.
She would be here in a few minutes, he added the final touches of candles up the stairs and then he lay down on the bed with a single red rose in his hand.
Hermione found the stick exactly where Draco said it would be, and did the normal procedure for going to the shrieking shack. When she came out of the tunnel the light for the candles burned her eyes for a moment, until she could adjust to the light. She smiled to herself and headed up the stairs. The door ahead of her was slightly ajar, light was flooding out of it and she reached forward and opened it fully to see the sight before her.
Draco got up off the bed and walked towards her, she was stood shocked in the doorway.
"Hello my angel." He said walking towards her.
"Wh… wha…" she stuttered. As Draco approached her he smiled and then lowered himself onto one knee. "What are you doing." She was shaking now and her eyes were wide.
"Will you marry me?"