Elemental Love

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Hermione arrived to find the dark mark already floating above her house. She didn't want to believe it. She ran inside to the living room where her parents spent most of their time. Both of them lay on the floor with blank, staring eyes that would never see again. Hermione fell to her knees and let go all control. Air rushed around her, the earth around her rose and joined the air, the water in the taps turned on and joined them and suddenly sparks were dancing around with them. There was a giant dome of every element around their house. When it faded the house and her parents' bodies were gone replaced by a mass of flowers and trees like a large garden. In the middle of the garden were two oak trees whose branches twined together. With one more wave of magic the memories of any muggle who had seen this display of magic were modified. Hermione hugged each tree and shifted back to Hogwarts.

She arrived to find all the Gryffindor students gathered in a circle around Harry and Ron who were reading her notebook aloud like an angry sister might read the other sister's diary aloud spilling all her secrets. Hermione used air to summon it to her and a ripple of earth to send Harry and Ron into the wall.

"Hermione those songs are amazing why do you hide them?" Ginny Weasley asked. Hermione burst into tears and fled the room. She ran to the heads' quarters and into Draco's rooms. She threw herself onto the bed next to him and hugged him. Slizor huffed and slithered away. Hermione sobbed. Draco began to wake up and realize that Hermione was sobbing into his chest.

"Hermione I'm alright." Hermione continued to cry. "What's wrong?" He asked. Instead of answering Hermione used her mind to show him the memories of the last half hour. Her parents, and her notebook being read aloud although she did not show him what it contained. "Oh god Hermione I'm so sorry. I'll take care of you now." Hermione stopped crying but only held onto him tighter. Draco in turn wrapped his arms around her. Slowly, from the stress, Hermione lapsed into the Loralya sleep right in his arms.

It took Hermione a week to accept her parents' death. She told no one about it and refused to talk to anyone but Draco although several people had tried to approach her to ask her something. The next Monday Hermione was in a foul mood. It was the day that she had finally realized that she had no home, no relatives, nothing. It was this, unfortunate time that Harry and Ron chose to approach her.

"Hermione we're really sorry. What you said was true about you being able to make your own descisions," Harry started, "It's just that why did it have to be Malfoy?"

"He's a slimy git Hermione. Oh yeah, we're sorry about reading your diary aloud too."

"AND YOU SHOULD BE!! NO ONE WAS EVER SUPPOSED TO READ THOSE SONGS. THOSE ARE MY THOUGHTS AND MY HEART AND YOU HAD NO RIGHT TO SHARE THEM WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!! AND DRACO IS NOT A SLIMY GIT HE TAKES CARE OF ME, HE HAS TAKEN CARE OF ME WHEN YOU HAVEN'T HE WAS THE ONLY ONE I WAS ABLE TO CONFIDE IN WHAT WAS WRONG WITH ME!!" Although they were intimidated Harry and Ron were curious. Unbeknownst to them the whole great hall was listening with great interest.

"What is wrong with you Herms?" Ron asked. Hermione's eyes flashed and the boys found themselves thrown against the wall. Several teachers started to get up but Dumbledore stopped them explaining that they needed to work this out on their own although he said nothing about the enormous amount of power she had just exibited.

"YOU HAVE SOME NERVE ASKING ME WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME! EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD IS WRONG WITH ME AT THE MOMENT, YOU QUESTIONED MY JUDGEMENT, YOU READ MY SONGS OUT LOUD, AND MY PARENTS HAVE BEEN MURDERED!" Angry tears were streaming down Hermione's face as she told them this and then she turned on her heel and fled whith every eye in the hall following her. Draco glared once at his arch enemies and followed her.