Hidden

~Dueling Dragons~

Hermione ripped the sheets from her bed in a blind fury, with a flick of her wand a whirlwind of bottles and garbage went smashing into the back of the hearth. She gathered up her sheets and threw them on top of the pile igniting it with another enraged flick of her wand. Hermione spun around and stalked across the room towards her four poster, she pointed her wand, which was now growing warm in her hand, at the bed and new sheets crawled across then the curtains flying shut with a loud “SNAP”.

Hermione breathed deeply through her nose as she turned and kicked open her, trunk taking out clean clothes and a new light blue cloak. As she began to put up her hair the dormitory door flung open with a loud bang and Lavender stumbled through breathing heavily and falling to her knees attempting to catch her breath. Hermione rushed over to her friend and lifted her back to her feet,

“Lavender did you run all the way up here?” she asked her face traced with worry.

Lavender nodded and gasped for air holding onto Hermione’s forearm.

“Why what’s the matter?”

“Harry. . .” she began licking her lips and failing again

“Harry? Harry what?” Hermione said shaking Lavender slightly

“Harry and Draco are gunna . . . “” Lavender closed her eyes and took in a deep breath, “Harry and Draco are gunna duel again, they will get kicked out if they do you know that right! You have to help you’re the only one who can!”

Hermione didn’t have to be told twice she stuck the chopsticks she was holding in her hair securing it and fled down the stairs taking them three at a time.

“THERE IN THE MAIN LOBBLY” she heard Lavender yell behind her. Before the portrait door slammed shut and the fat lady mumbled “My word child”

~*~

“Malfoy why do you have to be such a prick?! Huh?” Harry was yelling across the lobby at Draco Malfoy who in turn had a smug self satisfied look on his face.

Ginny was at Harry side wand drawn face flushed, and rocking back and forth on her toes. Draco had a much smaller Magenta by the arm and was looking at her hungrily; his eyes left her sway-full body for a second and moved back to Harry and Ginny.

“What’s the matter Potter, you gunna let little Weasley do all your fighting for you?” he smirked and threw Magenta towards them with a snide laugh. Magenta stumbled and fell sliding across the short distance between Harry, Ginny, and Draco. Harry reached down a hand to help the trembling girl up. She took it and stood between them Ginny besides her strongly fighting the want to slip her hand into Magentas.

Harry slowly advanced on Draco, Ginny silently behind him, leaving Magenta in Ron’s arms. Hermione had reached the top of the main stairs when she saw Ginny and Harry advancing on Draco and Pansy, who barely ever left his side anymore, both with grimaces and hate on their faces and in their eyes. Hermione flew down the last steps and skidded between the two groups, her cloak flying out behind her giving the sight as if she was floating instead of sliding. Her wand was drawn and her face was flushed, strands of her deep brown hair hung in tendrils about her face. “What is going on here!’ she said her eyes racking from one group to the other.

For a moment they all remained silent and stared at one another, Ginny was the first to break the quiet,

“Malfoy” she said his name with such venom that even Dracos smirk faltered for a moment “grabbed Magenta and refused to let her go!” she spat with her wand rising slowly in his direction.

“WHAT?” Hermione spat swiveling in Draco’s direction so quickly that it seemed she had been facing him the entire time. “Is this true?” she asked her voice raising several octaves.

Draco laughed “What’s it to you mudblood?” he oozed, and then spit in her direction. Hermione sidestepped his spit and raised her own wand, but someone was faster,

“PETRIFICUS TOTALUS” “STUPEFY”

A voice run out behind her both Pansy and Draco hit the floor hard, Ginny stepped forward her face blood red with fury her wand poised high, she stepped right past Hermione and hovered over Draco her wand pointed right at his belly and she spoke softly

“Stupefy” the crazed look in Draco’s eyes was gone and he fell limp as he could under his body bind.

Hermione walked up to Ginny and placed a hand on her shoulder; Ginny flinched under its weight and blinked looking up at Hermione. “Come on lets go.”

Hermione’s eyes had left Ginny’s face and were now focused on the large group of Slythren’s coming up from the dungeons looks of confusion and slow realization crossing their faces.

Ginny nodded and aloud Hermione to steer her back towards Harry, Ron, and Magenta.

The five of them walked through a parted crowd of whispering students, the yells of the Slythren’s echoed in the main lobby behind them as they and the other houses filed back into the dining hall.

Ginny sat down her breathing slowing and a small smile flicked onto her lips, Magenta and Ron sat on both of her sides and Hermione and Harry took places on the opposite side of the table, not a moment had passes before Snape and McGonagall had pressed upon them. McGonagall’s lips were press into a line so thin she looked as though she had been born with out them at all, and Snape seems as if he spoke a word at all flames would shoot from his mouth and burn them all to piles of ash flecks.

“WHAT?!” McGonagall cleared her throat and her voice returned to its usual octave “What just happened?!”

“Professor” Ginny began

“I have never, in all my years! First that party that you all took upon your self’s to throw now fighting in the main entrance! I am so astonished, I am beside myself, and I thought you Gryffindor’s would know better. I am tempted to leave your punishment to Professor Snape.”

All of their eyes slid to Snape standing behind McGonagall who looked as if he had just gotten laid.

“Explain” her shrill voice echoed over the absolutely silent hall, all eyes were on the five of them.

“Professor Malfoy was. . .” Ginny attempted to explain when Magenta rose suddenly at her side and stood her head hanging.

“Professors” she began in a small voice “Draco, though he will deny it, attempted to have his way with me when I was walking past the hall that lead down towards the dungeons I heard someone call my name” beneath her hair her eyes flicked to Ginny who was looking up at her jaw dropped slightly “so I went and Draco was there he grabbed me and I managed to scramble out into the Main Entrance, where he pursued me and grabbed me again that’s when my friends found him still holding me.”

“Well,” McGonagall adjusted her robes “We will just see what Mr. Malfoy has to say when he wakes up and can freely move again, and for you Miss Weasley, 25 points from Gryffindor and detention along with Miss. Parkinson, Mr. Potter, Miss Granger, Mr. Malfoy if he is up and about, and yes you to Miss. Fawna. All of you will meet in my office Friday 8:30 sharp. We will no longer tolerate house duels unless they are supervised and known by all parties!” she turned on her heal and stalked away Snape swayed on the spot looking them over one last time and followed after her. They seemed to be heading towards the Hospital Wing.

“Wow Ginn I didn’t know you had that in you.” Harry said finally as Magenta took her seat again. “That was a pretty powerful spell.”

Ginny shrugged and dragged her eyes away from Magenta, under the table her tiny soft hand had slipped into Ginny’s and was giving it a tight squeeze.

Hermione seemed lost in though and was gnawing on her lower lip, “I know he is not telling me something. . .I hope it doesn’t rain anytime soon. . . how can I find out what he isn’t telling me. . .rain please don’t let it rain” she thought racking her brain for how she could find out what she wanted to know.

“HERMIONE?!”

“Yeah what. . . “

“Come on we have to go to Potions now.” Ron said slinging is bag over his shoulder hand smiling down at her

“Oh ok” she said standing absentmindedly and following him out.

~*~

Draco slowly opened his eyes an achy pain was raging through his body and he felt as if a cauldron had been dropped full of bricks onto his abdomen. He rolled over on his side and tried to remember the great dream he was having. “A girl yes there was a girl in it and . . . no I don’t remember” he said with a sigh “Just her hair . . . long ringlets of hair . . . but that could be anyone.” He rolled back onto his back and fell into an uneasy sleep.

~*~

“Pansy?”

“Yes?”

“What are you doing?”

“I . . . I don’t know? Where are we?”

“Here”

“Where is here?”

“The in-between?”

“Why are you showing me this?”

“Because you need to help them, and him.”

“No they would never understand, I cant it would never work you have to understand that.”

“Make it!”

“I . . . cant.”

“Yes you can, you must try there is no other choice, you must make him see. He will help turn the others. Once that is done the path will show itself and they will follow down it eagerly.”

“I will try”

“Good girl now it is time to wake up.”

R,R,& E

Hey everyone sorry about how long it took but life beckons and I must respond or else I will die or pee myself. No but I hope you ENJOYed this chapter please READ and REVIEW it, and tell all your friends and fans about me and have them READ AND REVIEW it also. I started work on the next chapter, but I really only write when the mood strikes me, or if I get enough reviews so w/e REVIEW