Monday, December 31, 2007
Continue story (I copy and paste from internet) – Chapter 24 - 'LOVE IS THE CLOSEST THING WE HAVE TO MAGIC'
CHAPTER 24
“Try Hermione, just try.” Ron said. She knew Ron was trying to comfort and aid her out in this situation but it wasn’t helping at all.
“Look Ron, I’m just want some alone time, okay?” Ron looked hurt, but he understood. He nodded and kissed her on the cheek then left. Hermione walked around a bit, trying to get rid of that feeling. The feeling called loneliness. She ran back to the common room and up to the room, passing Malfoy on her way there.
Hermione thought it over that night. She was going to make a potion. It included a lot of ingredients and spells she never heard of but it was worth the shot. Of course Madam Pomfrey and Hagrid should have the ingredients. Perhaps even Professor Sprout that was the easy part. But how in the heck was she supposed to conjure the spells. She wasn’t that advanced even if she was good in all her classes. Hermione needed to practice, practice, and practice.
Hermione spent days on her little ‘project’. Most of her time was at the library, checking out a lot of heavy volumes of books. Madam Pince watched every move obviously.
“What are you at girl? I’m watching you.” She whispered over Hermione’s shoulder. Hermione didn’t flinch already used to it, since that was her third time doing it that day. Everybody was used to Hermione been in the library 24/7 so no one put any thought into it.
Except Malfoy. He knew something was up. Hermione wasn’t the type anyone to be hanging out in the library where she could be doing other stuff.
The potion was called Ever lasting happiness. It was a potion that created a person to be happy for a certain amount of period. Hermione desperately needed this, especially when she felt like crap most of the time. No one was really there for her, and all the people she thought were her friends were just backstabbers or haters.
Ron tried to keep her happy, and she felt gratitude toward him. Hermione realized that she indeed did love Ron and he did love her. So she was determined to make their relationship between them work perfectly. No one can mess it up. Not even Malfoy. To her Malfoy was just history from the past, she’s over him now. To Hermione, he’s just, well, nothing. She passes by him and doesn’t seem to notice him. Or she ignores that fact that he exists at all.
This bothered Malfoy. He would say a snide comment or call her mudblood but she would not speak. She completely ignored him period. It bothers him too, her not replying. But she took it so calmly. Any insult and she would just brush it away.
On Thursday Malfoy watched Granger’s retreating back, he just said a very rude comment about her but she avoided the insult and smiled pleasantly at him. Then she walked away.
# posted by Sek Koon @ 6:49 AM 
