Saturday, May 31, 2008
Continue Story (I copy and paste from internet) - Chapter 5 - 'IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN LIKE THIS'
CHAPTER 5
But nothing seemed more interesting than what was happening to Hermione. Hogwarts had only been in school for not even a full day and barely anyone has seen the third member of the ‘magical trio’. She hadn’t eaten anything the night before at dinner, she didn’t come down for breakfast, and the only time anyone had seen her was when she would make her way to Snape’s office. Only Malfoy had seen her really, but no one fully knew that. Slytherins were ecstatic that she didn’t show her face, Gryffindors were worried, Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws couldn’t figure out why she wouldn’t talk to her friends at all and they were worried about her as well. What was going on with Hermione Granger, a student who had been so well pulled together and who did nothing but try to live her life fully to make her family proud, was heart breaking to anyone who knew her and cared about her.
Surprisingly, Draco Malfoy was worried too. But it wasn’t just because of how a student that he secretly admired because she was so together, it was also because of how Professor Snape had drawn himself into, for lack of a better word, an obsession over her. He was worried that Snape would try to do something terrible. Whether it was take her away and use her against Harry and Ron or whether it was because he was falling for a student. It was creepy and scary and Draco wanted to try to protect her from that. Why would he want to do that; because deep down inside, Draco Malfoy had a soft spot for ‘mudblood’ Hermione Granger. That was why he accepted Snape’s offer on trying to help her open up to someone. That and he wanted to try to keep her safe but that was for a totally different reason.
Draco grabbed his trunk and began to leave the Slytherin Common Room only to be stopped by Pansy Parkinson. He stared at her for a second and then started to walk past her. He didn’t want to talk to her about why he was taking Snape’s offer. That would just go into the deal he made with Potter and Weasley before they had left. They wanted Hermione safe and they believed that maybe, just maybe, Draco Malfoy would be up to the challenge. Draco was on his way to Azkaban pretty much unless he could turn a new leaf. So, he took the challenge and wanted to make sure that he could still make his family proud while helping two people that he had hated out of jealousy.
“Why did he ask YOU to do it, Draco?” Pansy asked as he made his way past her. “Why couldn’t he ask one of THEM to do it?” Draco looked at her, glaring, knowing that the ‘them’ that she was talking about were the Gryffindors. She recoiled at his glare. “Draco, you’ve changed over the summer. What happened to you? Where did the Draco Malfoy that I’ve grown to love go?”
“It’s either help Snape and actually because a good person or go to Azkaban and rather die than ever live,” Draco said as he opened the door to leave. “I’d rather live and actually change the way that people look at my family then go to Azkaban and not be able to help change the mindset of ignorant people.” With that being said, Draco left the Slytherin Common Room. People tried to stop him to ask where he was going but he just brushed past them. He didn’t want to let his friends down the way that he knew that he was slowly letting them down but he didn’t want to live knowing that he couldn’t change the future for himself and his family.
After what seemed like eternity, he found himself in front of the portrait of an angel. “Godric,” he said to the angel who moved to the side and let him in. When he walked in, he found Hermione lying on the couch, her legs bent at the knees behind her up in the air, reading the magazine. She didn’t turn when he entered. He guessed that she was used to people coming in by now and assumed that it was either him, Snape, or McGonagall. “Hi,” he said softly as he walked past her. He looked at her for a moment and saw that she was staring down at a page in the magazine. He could see the top of Harry’s head and knew that she had probably been staring at that page the moment that that magazine had fallen into her hands. He walked up the staircase furthest to the right and made his way up to his new room. Throwing the trunk down on his bed, he made his way out of the room and back downstairs to where Hermione was laying. He took a seat in a plushy arm chair that was to the side of Hermione.
After about ten minutes of sitting in silence, Hermione spoke. “Why did you take this challenge when Snape offered it to you?” she asked in a very monotone voice.
Draco didn’t know what to say. He had promised Potter and Weasley that he wouldn’t tell her about their agreement to keep her from possibly hating them. “I want to try to turn a new leaf,” he said. “I want people to see that I’m not this terrible guy who doesn’t care. That and I wanted to help keep you safe.”
Hermione just shook her head and rolled her eyes. “Way to sound like Snape,” she said. Draco bit his lip lightly, fighting the urge to tell her his concerns about Snape. But she poked at him about it. Looking over at him, locking her empty eyes on his cold ones, she asked, “What’s going through your head about this? I can tell that there is something else behind it.” When she caught him glance down at the page she shook her head. “What did they ask you to do?” she asked.
Letting out a sigh, Draco spilt everything. He told her how they asked him to do it because they knew that he didn’t want to go to Azkaban and that maybe this could help him. They had asked him to help keep her safe, protect her in every way possible. They wanted her to be as safe as she could be and if Draco Malfoy, one person who they all despised, was the one who could do it, then they wanted him too. He also told her his concerns about Snape. “His obsession over you is somewhat frightening and I don’t want him to do something that is so despicable! I don’t want him to fall in love with you or use you against Harry and Ron.”
Hermione shook her head and closed the magazine. What Draco was saying to her was actually scaring her. Snape wasn’t the only one obsessed with her. Draco Malfoy was slowly growing obsessed with her. She stood to her feet and began to make her way to her room. “Malfoy, I can take care of myself,” she said before climbing the stairs, afraid that she was either falling for Malfoy even more since he was showing a side to her that she had never seen before or because she just didn’t want to seem weak.
# posted by Sek Koon @ 7:50 AM 
