At Rainbows End

At Rainbows End
Chapter 1.

It had been storming outside for most of the morning and now that it was finally finished she staired at the magnificent rainbow that was shining overhead. As she watched it sparkle in the light she thought back to the story of the rainbow princess that her mother used to tell her as a bedtime story. It was of a beautiful princess who had spectacular powers that were strengthened by the rainbow. She would tell her of how the girl could do wonderful or horrible things with her powers, but she would always do good. She told her of how if the rainbow was ever taken from her then she would lose her powers and be defeted by the evil that was always trying to capture her.
Her mother would always end by saying that her mother and friends would never let any harm come to the princess but that wasn't the end of the story. Everytime that she would ask her mother how the story would end her mother would always look at her with a little bit of sadness and say that she didn't know yet but would let her know when she did.

Now as Hermione Granger sat on the Hogwarts Express on her back to school for her seventh and final year, she was looking at the most beautiful rainbow she had ever seen and thought about the story she was always told about as a child. She used to wish that she was the rainbow princess with powers beyond anything she knew, she would dream that she saved the world from war and violance with the powers. Now that she was a very powerful witch she didn't need to pretend anymore but still wondered about the ending to the story. Would the princess find love and have babies or would she get captured and die a horrible death going through rape and torture, maybe she would be forced to use her magic for evil.

Hermione was pulled from her thoughts when the door to their compartment was pulled open and in walked Draco Malfoy. She was surprised that he had come back after the death of Dombledore last year. She knew why he had come back of course, to spy for the dark lord. It was the talk of everyone who had returned, no one knew if it was realy true or not but it seemed to be the most likley of reasons for his return. As she looked at him wondering why he would come to their compartment she thought that he reminded her of the evil guys in her fairy tale. He was tall, lean, muscular, and even handsome. She did not feel bad about thinking him handsome, most people did. She was so lost in her own thoughts that she didn't even hear him speaking to her.

“Granger, did you hear me?” He asked while snapping his fingers in her face bringing her back to reality.

“Hmmm, what? Sorry I didn't hear you.” She answered and she could see the hate shine in his eyes for the brifest of moments.

“I was saying that McGonagall wants to see us in the head compartment to brief us on what we will be doning this year.” He snarled and then left leaving her sitting there shocked.

Malfoy was head boy? How could they let him be head boy after what happened last year? She couldn't believe it, something must be wrong. He couldn't possible be head boy, he was a death eater. She couldn't spend the whole year sharing a common room with a killer for her final year. Her seventh year was supposed to be her best but being in close proximity to Malfoy was going to be horrible, not wonderful. After a moment she got up and headed for the head compartment.

As Hermione entered the head compartment she could see the irritation on Malfoys face and the worry on McGonagalls. When they heard her enter Malfoy sneared at her and McGonagall tried to smile but it faltered. Hermione quickly took a seat across from Malfoy and waited for the speech to begin but nobody said anything for a few more minutes until Snape came strolling in and then Malfoy smiled and McGonagall looked at her seeming to try and tell her something with her eyes.

“Thank you Minerva, I think I can handle it from here though if you don't mind.” Snape said and she just shook her head and left.

“Now as I am sure you are confused miss. Granger, I am the new head master at the school and so there will be some changes. Now as you were the head of your class I couldn't really replace you as head girl but there were some changes to the prefects. Now on to what you two will be expected to do this year: there will be a Halloween dance, a Christmas Ball, and a New Years dance. You will have to make out the parole scheduals for the prefects and yourselves and if I think of anything else throughout the year I will let you know. Oh and seeing as you came back to school this year miss. Granger I am guessing that you haven't heard but we have some new professors as well and I don't think you will like them much.” With that he left while smirking and laughing at her.

“What does he mean new professors that I wont like much?” She asked not really expecting an answer.

“Death Eaters.” Was the only reply she got before Malfoy also left the room while smirking at her. She just sat there in shock until they reached the platform at Hogsmead and made her way out the train thanking it was a good thing that Harry decided not to come back to school this year for he would have been dead by now.

As Hermione made her way to the castle she could hear whispers from people talking about having death eaters as teachers and she guessed that everyone probably knew by now. She could see the horror and fear in some of their faces and madness and anger in others, while in the faces of the Slytherines she could only see triumph like they had been planning this for years, and they probably had.

When she entered the Great Hall she stopped in shock as she saw who some of the new teachers were. The one that got her the most worried was the new DADA teacher, Lucias Malfoy. The others she wasn't sure their names but she was sure that she would find them out soon enough. She wasn't sure how the ministry could let this happen but she was going to write to Mr. Weasley as soon as she could to try and figure it out.

There weren't as many new students this year as had been expected but it seemed that most of them went into slytherin house. It didn't really surprise anyone that the only new students would most likely go there after everything that had happened. The begining of year speech had also gotten shorter as Snape only said welcome and anounced the head boy and girl to everyone. When dinner was over Hermione went to the heads dorm to find Malfoy already there waiting for her, again looking irritated.

“It's about damn time you showed up, Granger. I was about to set the password and just leave you out here all night.” Malfoy growled and turned towards the door.

“Dragons skin.” He said without even asking her if she had any ideas. He then climbed into the dorm and headed to his room with her following behind.

When Hermione stepped into their dorm she had to stop and stair in aw. The walls were painted the colors of their houses and mixed together beautifully. There was a huge fireplace against the far wall surrounded by two huge chairs, a couch, and a table. There were bookshelves along another wall full of books for them to read and a couple chairs sitting around there. The most beautiful of it all was the double glass sliding doors leading out to a huge balchany, she couldn't stop looking around.

When she finally tore her gaze away from the room she headed to her room to start getting ready for bed. When she entered the room she spotted the huge fourposter bed and smiled, it had been awhile since she was in such a big bed. She went to the closet to find that her things were already there waiting for her. She grabbed a light blue sleeveless shirt and a pair of loose fitting pants and headed to the bathroom, which was connented to Malfoys' room also, to take a shower and get ready for the night. She was happy to find that it was empty and locked both doors before starting the water and getting undressed to step into the nice warm water that ran down her slender body helping her to relax.

Hermione was so relaxed that she didn't even hear the door open and someone walking in, until she opened her eyes to get out. At first all she saw was a shadow and thought that maybe she was imagining it. She grabbed her towl and wrapped it around herself and stepped out of the tub, then she saw him. Malfoy, Lucius Malfoy. She was to stunned to even think so she just stood there letting a puddle of water form around her feet. Then everything seemed to happen at once, her mind yelled at her to run and as she turned to run he grabbed her hair pulling her to the floor and she screamed out in pain.

As she lay there on the floor wondering what she was going to do as he smiled down at her all she could really think of was keeping herself covered. Then suddenly the door flew open and in came Draco. 'Great,' She thought, 'Both Malfoys here to torture me.' But instead Draco yelled at his father.

“What the hell are you doing? You can't do this.” He said and they huddled in the corner talking in whispers before Lucius turned back to her.

“You got lucky tonight mudblood, but soon I'll get you.” He snarled and then smirked before they walked back out the door and she cursed herself for not locking the door with a stronger spell.

After a few minutes of just lying there on the floor Hermione finally got up and ran into her room locking the doors with about five different charms, reaplied the conselment charm on herself that started to fade, got dressed and slipped into bed. She thought about the days events and of the events that were to unfold during the rest of the school year. She was head girl and Malfoy was head boy, there were death eaters taking over the school, and she was supposed to keep things in order. On top of everything it seemed that Lucius wanted her in more ways then she really wanted anyone to want her, her past at home was the reason she wasn't around many boys or guys and the reason for the conselment charm on her body.

At home she lived with her uncle after sending her parents away from the war and he wasn't the nicest of uncles, truefully he wasn't even her real uncle. He was just someone she had to stay with while away from Hogwarts, she was told to say he was her uncle. She wouldn't ever tell anyone but he was a monster, he would abuse her and rape her when he got the chance. It hurt her to even walk but she wouldn't show it, he told her that if she told anyone then he would kill her the next time he saw her, which was to be at Christmas, in a few months.

All of that was on her mind as she fell asleep to get rested up for the first day of classes.
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