Sunday, January 20, 2008
Continue story (I copy and paste from internet) - Chapter 11 - 'DOES SHE REALLY CARE?'
CHAPTER 11
It was Christmas and the Malfoys and Grangers sat next to the tree unwrapping presents.
Draco was surprised to see that he had more than one present, not as much as Hermione of course, but much more than he had expected. He had gotten a chocolate frog from Dumbeldore, a bunch of galleons from his mother, a sweater from Mrs. Weasley, an apology letter from Ron, a potion from the twins and the last present was from Hermione. The box was small but very heavy. He turned to face her when he read the name tag. “This is from you?” She nodded and watched him as he opened it. It was a glass orb the size of a tennis ball he looked into it and saw his father smiling at him. He widened his eyes. “It’s a Glarer, the orb that shows you the one you miss most of all! Where on earth did you get it? They are very rare!” She didn’t answer. It was as if she didn’t want to. “Thank you,” he stated simply and smiled at her. It was a smile, not a smirk, but a smile, and a real one at that.
“You’re welcome,” she said smiling back.
Hermione had gotten many things from her muggle friends and family, a poster with Victor Krum flying on a broomstick from Ron, the book “How a Wizard Becomes a Wizard,” from Harry, the book “Spells, Charms and Curses” from Dumbeldore, a scarf from Mrs. Weasley, a handmade necklace from Ginny, the same type of potion from the twins, chocolate frogs from Neville, a weird bracelet from Luna and so on and so forth. But her favorite present had no name on it.
It was a necklace, not a handmade one like the one Ginny had given her. It was diamond necklace. That’s right, a diamond necklace. Everyone who she thinks would give her presents already did, so who could it be from. She knew the answer when she saw Mrs. Malfoy open her present from Draco.
It was a diamond bracelet, wrapped in the exact same paper and in the exact same box.
“The necklace was from you!” she said when she saw the bracelet.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he said trying his best to hide it.
“Draco, I’m not that thick. I know it’s from you. Admit it!” He said nothing. He knew he won’t be able to do anything more to hide it.
“Fine,” he finally said, too embarrassed to look at her.
“Draco, its beautiful!” she hugged him tight. “Thank you so much!”
“You’re welcome.”
They all enjoyed their presents. Draco couldn’t keep his eyes off the Glarer. He kept looking at the smiling face of his father. Hermione couldn’t keep her eyes off the necklace which is now the most precious thing she owns.
It was near dinner and the Weasleys were on their way to the Malfoy Manor for dinner.
Draco and Hermione were waiting for them in the living room. They were sitting alone. Hermione was wearing the scarf Mrs. Weasley had given her, the necklace Ginny had given her and the diamond necklace. Draco was also wearing the sweater Mrs. Weasley had given him.
“The sweater looks good on you,” she told him. He also liked it, even though it wasn’t made from the rich material he always wore. The sweater was black with a snake on it.
“Thank you,” he replied. “What’s weird is we’re still acting like friends when no one’s around. It is a pretend friendship.”
“It is weird,” she agreed.
“Do NOT tell them that I gave you that,” he said pointing at the necklace.
“As long as you don’t tell them I gave you a Glarer.”
“Fine. We also agreed to never speak of yesterday night,” he said referring to the night they danced together.
“I know, and you won’t tell anyone about when we were trapped in the room and what I did to get you off the couch.”
“Right, and you won’t tell anyone about the pretend friend thing.”
“Got it,” she said. She realized that there are a lot of thing that had happened between them both that they don’t want to tell anyone.
“That’s a lot of things,” he stated looking at her in a way he had never done before.
