Of Fangs and Fur
Chapter Nine
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Chapter Nine
Hermione, Pansy,
and Blaise sat in the Slytherin
common room, talking quietly. They were
waiting for Harry and Draco to come down from their
room.
“Well, it’s
Friday. They haven’t killed each other
yet. That’s a good sign, right?”
“Yeah.
they manage to keep up the progress they’ve made, they may actually admit to
how they feel about each other,” Pansy replied, filing her nails as she spoke.
“It’s always been
so obvious. I mean, sometimes when they
fight, I want to scream at them to just kiss and get it over with,”
Ginny walked into
the common holding a piece of parchment closely to her chest.
with mischief as she approached her three friends.
“I just got a
letter from Mom. She’s pissed at
Ron. The whole family is.
anyways. Mom says to expect a few
Howlers to show up for Ron,” she told them excitedly, “I’m going up to tell
Harry and Draco.”
She turned and
almost ran to Harry and Draco’s room in her haste to
tell him the news. She raised her hand
to knock on the door and stopped when she heard raised voices.
couldn’t hear what was being said, but she did recognize when Harry raised his
voice.
“Damn it,
Potter! We’re going to miss
breakfast! Hurry up!”
“You don’t have
to wait for me, you know. You can go
without me.”
“I don’t trust
those stupid Gryffindorks to not ambush you somewhere
again.”
“Why do you even
care, Malfoy?”
“I though we were
friends now, Harry? Friends care about
each other.”
“You care about
me? Don’t bullshit me,
“How the hell
would you know? You’ve never given me a
chance. So how dare you presume to know
anything about me!”
Draco’s voice raised as Harry’s comment caused
an ache in his chest.
cared? He had no time to think on it as
their argument was interrupted by a knock at the door.
and opened the door to reveal Ginny Weasley.
She grinned at him and then slipped through the door when he stepped
aside for her.
“Harry!
she told him, uneasily trying to break up the tension stifling the room.
Harry smiled at
her and grabbed his bag, checking it to make sure he had everything.
“That’s great,
Ginny. I’m glad they aren’t mad at
me. We’d better get to breakfast if we
want to be there when he gets his Howler.”
Harry left the
room without even glancing to see if Draco was
following. He walked through the common
room without even seeing Hermione, Pansy, and Blaise.
for his friends. Once they had all
caught up with him, he continued on toward the Great Hall.
Gryffindors standing outside the Great Hall doors.
protective positions beside him. The
Gryffindors finally noticed them and turned, en masse, to face the Slytherins.
“Well, look who’s
here?” Ron sneered.
Before anyone
could react, Professor Dumbledore stepped into the hall.
“Good morning,
Students. Shall we continue into the
hall for breakfast?” he said calmly, stepping between the two glaring groups of
students.
The students all
put their wands away and quietly went into the Great Hall and took their
seats. Ginny bounced anxiously in her
seat waiting for the owls to come. She
flashed Harry a mischievious grin and looked up with
an evil-looking sparkle in her eyes as the owls came in with mail.
carrying a red envelope. He watched the
owl over to the Gryffindor table and land in front of Ron, who nervously
removed the red envelope. He winced in
embarrassment when it started to yell at him.
“RONALD WEASLEY!”
Molly Weasley’s voice bellowed out into the silent Hall, “I can not believe
you! How can you turn your back on your
sister and your best friends? Not once
has there ever been a Weasley in Slytherin, and now
there is because you are too childish and immature to accept what has happened
to Harry! I am ashamed of you!
WILL come home for the remainder of the year.
Grow up!”
As Molly
Weasley’s voice echoed through the silent hall, Ron lowered his face to his
plate in embarrassment. He silently
fumed that his entire family was against him.
He vowed silently to himself that he would get with Harry-the-evil-traitor-Potter,
one way or another.
After breakfast,
everyone went to classes as usual. The
talk of the day was about Ron’s Howler and how the Gryffindors had turned their
backs Harry Potter. Harry ignored
and pushed his food around on his plate.
He didn’t understand why he was so upset with Draco.
head. One minute he wanted to smack the
smirk off Draco’s face, and the next he wanted to
kiss him senseless.
Draco
the way he was. He glanced at his friend
whenever he had the chance. He frowned
while he tried to figure out what to do.
He saw Blaise frowning in Harry’s direction as
well and knew that he had no idea either.
He had seen Hermione and Pansy whispering furiously to each other in
class and knew they were trying to figure it out as well.
were in their room that night.
After dinner,
Hermione and Pansy grabbed Blaise by the arms and
dragged him off into an empty classroom.
He looked at them in surprise.
“What are you
doing?” he asked.
“We need your
help. We have a plan,” Hermione started,
she looked to Pansy for support and saw her friend nod her head, “We are going
to lock Harry and Draco into the Room of
out. It’s Friday night, so know will
think anything of them disappearing.
We’ll disappear tonight too, so everyone in the House will think we are
all just hanging out together somewhere.”
“How do you
propose we do this?” Blaise asked,
worried about how this plan could backfire.
“Well,” Pansy
started, “I’m going to lure Draco up to the Room, and
we need you to lure Harry up there.
Hermione is going to get the room all set up for us, she’ll be there
when we get there. We get them in there,
and then shut the door and leave before they can get away.
can make a door appear, then they have no way of getting out.”
“You do know that
they will be pissed at us, right?” Blaise said.
“We know.
really need to talk. The only way they
will is if they have no choice. I’ll set
the room up so that they have everything they need for the night, and they
won’t be able to leave until Dobby tells me that they are getting along
again. He’ll help, he may be a
house-elf, but he will do anything for Harry,” Hermione said, trying to
“Okay, I’ll
help. On one
condition. When this over, they
need to know that this was all your idea.
You came up with it and convinced us to help,” Blaise
said, looking at Hermione.
“Alright.
it. I’ll go get the room ready, you two
go get the boys.”
With that,
Hermione set off for the Room of Requirement and Pansy and Blaise
headed to the Slytherin common room to find Harry and
Draco.