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09-10-2007, 11:41 PM
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| Moke
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Kaitlynn Hopsisk Second Year | Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. I loved it it just got funnier every second a person walked in.I cant wait for the second half it must be interesting.Hope your feeling better.PAMS
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09-10-2007, 11:54 PM
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| Veela
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In a fairytale
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Jillian McGuffin Sixth Year | Gryffindor Goddess great chapter!!! *wants more D/Hr action* haha...Heab Boy got ticekd off!!!:lmo: *pets you* feel better okay? |
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09-11-2007, 01:24 AM
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| Fwooper
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| aww cool!
PAMS!! PAMSOID!!
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09-11-2007, 01:40 AM
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| Keeper of Dan’s Grace Puffskein
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lmao. poor Anthony.
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09-11-2007, 01:45 AM
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| Puffskein
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Canada
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*wants more D/Hr action*
Why do you think I cut it off where I did? 
Lol, it's coming soon, I promise! The next few chapters are more D/Hr as well so you'll be very happy then
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09-11-2007, 02:46 PM
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| Puffskein
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There's a bit of D/Hr... not much really. It's more in the next chapter and on 
And yeah, near the end when I mentioned... what I mention, Draco is forgetting the beginning of 7th year (aka an early chapter). I decided not to change it cause it was my small mistake...
****** After Anthony gave a short lecture, Hannah inputted a few things and let everyone go once they got their schedules. As Ron grabbed his and turned around to give Hermione hers, his eyes fell on the chair that was semi-hidden under her hair.
“What’s that?” he asked and he handed the schedule to her.
“It’s called hair, Ron,” Hermione responded sarcastically as she took the piece of paper.
“No, that... is that a chain?”
Hermione’s eyes widened – she didn’t want Ron to see the necklace, he’d know full well Draco gave it to her, and with that known he’d beat him up, since it would mean there was more to this ‘plan’ than pretending, and he didn't seem to understand when she and Ginny told him before.
“Yes, Ron, it’s a chain,” Hermione responded quickly as she turned around. As she left, she saw the curious look in Draco’s eyes as they followed her out of the room.
“What’s on it?” Ron pushed.
“A pendant.”
“What’s the pendant?”
“A pendant is the small part that hangs off a chain, usually a design like a cross, na animal, etcetera, which in this case is called a necklace...”
“I know what I pendant is!” Ron responded indignantly. “But what... is it exactly? Shape-wise...”
“It’s a shape,” Hermione responded simply.
“What kind of shape?”
“Why do you want to know?”
“I have a right to know.”
Hermione stopped and spun around to face Ron.
“You do not need to know what my personal belongings are all the time, Ronald Weasley!” she snapped. “There’s something called privacy!”
“Malfoy gave it to you, didn’t he?” Ron asked flatly.
“No,” Hermione scoffed, trying her best to lie. She swore she heard a snort of quiet laughter in the distance. Ron’s eyes narrowed on her.
“What did he give you? A pure diamond necklace?” Ron asked, spitting the words. Hermione understood why without a moment's hesitation – it was something Ron’s family could never afford, let alone him. He took it as an insult.
“Granger has a point, Weaslebee; you don’t need to know what she has and what she doesn’t.”
Ron turned around and faced Draco. Draco’s arms were crossed across his chest, his eyes looking down on Ron with a hard gleam.
“Stay out of this, Malfoy.”
“Stay out?” Draco scoffed. “I’ve been in on everything since the beginning of the year, Weasley.”
“Not everything, you ugly git,” Ron snapped. “You got your point across, now leave.”
“He doesn’t need to, Ron,” Hermione said quietly. Ron turned around and looked at her, shocked.
“Wh... what?” he stammered.
“Draco’s right, he has been in on nearly everything...”
“Exactly!” Ron cut in and spun around to glare at Draco. “Nearly everything – this isn’t one of those things you can butt into. You butted in Hermione’s situation enough, you can butt back out.”
“You know what, Ron?” Hermione snapped. Ron turned around again and looked at her, an angry expression planted on his drastically-reddening face. “You can leave if you can’t stand him being around.”
“Bu...”
“And the necklace is from me, Weasley,” Draco said. “It was Christmas after all.”
“What Christmas spirit you have, Malfoy – take this diamond necklace, forget the poor, I can afford more,” Ron yelled as he turned back to Draco, whipping out his wand.
“I never said that, did I?” Draco responded, shrugging. “And put it away, we’re not 12 anymore.”
Ron’s face paled at the memory of 2nd year, when Draco first called Hermione a mudblood...
Draco smirked. “We don’t need anymore slugs on the grounds, let alone the train. Now put it away, be a big boy, and walk away.”
Ron’s grip on his wand tightened. A light came out of the end of his wand and shot Draco 10 feet backwards, landing on his back on the floor. As soon as the hard thump of Draco’s land hit Ron’s ears, he put his wand away.
“It’s away, and I’m leaving,” Ron snapped. He turned around and looked at Hermione. He said in a hard tone, “I thought you were my friend, too.” Ron then walked around Hermione and stalked away, leaving Hermione speechless.
She heard Draco grunt as he got up. She started to walk towards him, but she heard a shriek in the distance. Squinting, she saw Pansy running down the corridors, stopping in front of Draco. She tried to help him up, but he pushed her off. Pansy looked down the hall, her big eyes locking onto Hermione.
“YOU!” Pansy pulled out her wand and sent a spell at Hermione. Hermione jumped off to the side and did a non-verbal Expelliarmus. Pansy flew back, her wand dropping to the ground, and she hit an unfortunate person that just happened to leave their compartment when she was flung back.
Draco stood up once Pansy was clearly on the ground and on top of the unfortunate passer-by. He wavered on the spot and blinked hard.
“Are you ok?” Hermione asked as she slowly neared Draco.
“Yeah... that floor is hard!” Draco exclaimed as he rubbed the back of his head.
“Your wand could’ve stopped it from being so hard, you know,” Hermione pointed out, crossing her arms across her chest indignantly.
“Yeah, yeah...”
“Well... I just want to say thanks,” Hermione said slowly, trying to pick her words carefully. “For the gift you gave me – I honestly never thought you could be so thoughtful.”
“Gee, thanks,” Draco responded sarcastically.
“Well being called by the term for ‘dirty blood’ for 5 years doesn’t exactly scream ‘thoughtful’,” Hermione said pointedly.
“4 years,” Draco corrected quietly. Hermione’s eyebrow rose, and then she silently told him they should start walking instead of clogging the halls of the train. “Do you even remember seeing me last year?”
“No, you were to busy planning Dumbledore’s death,” Hermione said scathingly. Draco sighed, but didn’t respond. After a few minutes of awkward silence, they passed by the compartment Hermione had been in originally. As soon as they neared it, the compartment door slid open and Ginny nearly ran into them.
“Sorry... anyways, you might want to change into school robes before the lines at the bathroom pile up,” Ginny said quickly as she pushed between them.
“Well I may as well do the same. See you later,” Hermione said flatly as she walked through the compartment door and slid it shut.
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09-11-2007, 06:06 PM
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| Romanian Longhorn
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Shannon 'Shan' Parker Fourth Year x2
| JGL ♥ | Wifey + SexyCPR = RAWR. | Co-Inceptor♥ | CHLOCHLO! | Rollie = My Ship I probobly would have fawned all over Draco LOL
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09-11-2007, 08:22 PM
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#208 (permalink)
| Fwooper
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| Great!
PAMS!! PAMSOID!!
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09-11-2007, 09:47 PM
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#209 (permalink)
| Imp
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Antigone Michaels Second |
i hate ron... urgh, remind me to kill him...
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09-12-2007, 12:49 AM
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| Moke
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Kaitlynn Hopsisk Second Year | Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. I love it.Draco's memory go bye bye noooOOOoooOO.Good Post.PAMS
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Heather
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09-12-2007, 12:51 AM
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#211 (permalink)
| Veela
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In a fairytale
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Jillian McGuffin Sixth Year | Gryffindor Goddess woah...If that was me I would've fussed and took care of him...then get a brilliant comeback to his "That floor is hard!"  this is so cute!!! yay! D/Hr-ness! brava to Hermy for standing up to Ron...although, Ron must've been kinda hurt though.. *is happy* *D/Hr craze* |
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09-12-2007, 03:26 AM
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| Puffskein
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Canada
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then get a brilliant comeback to his "That floor is hard!"

I would've put something as a comeback (for Hermione), but I couldnt' think of anything witty enough... so I left it as is. Quote:
If that was me I would've fussed and took care of him
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I probobly would have fawned all over Draco
Of course you would  He's too cute to leave in pain.
You'd be like, crazy if you didn't make a fuss about how much it must've hurt to hit such a hard floor anyways
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09-12-2007, 07:51 PM
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#213 (permalink)
| Veela
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In a fairytale
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Jillian McGuffin Sixth Year | Gryffindor Goddess haha! so true!^ PAMS! *stalks this FF* |
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09-12-2007, 09:22 PM
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| Puffskein
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LOVE IT!
OHHHHH MY GOSH
This is definitely my favorite fic. Like...no joke. Love it love it love it
Pams
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09-12-2007, 10:22 PM
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| Puffskein
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This is definitely my favorite fic. Like...no joke. Love it love it love it
 (still can't help it). Thanks
But yeah, it goes on for a little while longer (this F.F). And there will be a sequel thanks to a song I found in the beginning of August that would've originally made a great but hard one-shot (it's more suited for a F.F). And with my plans for Harry... and Draco and Hermione, I came up with a sequel.
And I'll totally update soon 
(bleh, still crazy around here with my mom's... interesting family making big issues, mainly one of my aunts so it's not big enough to call a crisis but it's rather big, and... still kinda depressed in different ways now  They said you feel depressed when on Accutane sometimes, and I sometimes did feel depressed, but it's not like how it was for the past few weeks or still is now... it's weird *stops rambling about problems and goes back to getting hyper off of pop*).  STALKER!
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09-12-2007, 11:52 PM
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| Formerly: DanFan4eva  Billywig
Join Date: May 2006
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When is there going to be a Hermione,Harry,adn Jamie scene?
Anywho. PAMSie!
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09-13-2007, 04:57 PM
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| DA News Officer Puffskein
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Sylvannas Quickspeed Sixth |
I'd be all over my Dracikins, making sure his poor elbow didn't get too hurt! He can't use his wand with a hurt elbow! MY POOR BABY!!!! *wails* PAMSIOD!!
Katie
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09-13-2007, 06:44 PM
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#218 (permalink)
| Veela
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In a fairytale
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Jillian McGuffin Sixth Year | Gryffindor Goddess *giggles* you should take my stalking as a copliment! I only stalk the FFs I actually like! |
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09-13-2007, 08:13 PM
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| Keeper of Dan’s Grace Puffskein
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A sequel!? YAY!
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09-13-2007, 10:23 PM
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| Puffskein
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Canada
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you should take my stalking as a compliment! I only stalk the FFs I actually like!
I never said it was a bad thing, did I?  I shall rephase I suppose (cause I'm bored).
STALKER! But that's AWESOME! YAY, I HAVE STALKERS! 
There, that how it should've been Yep. 
It's based on the song Let Me Go by Doors Down. (the song was originally written for... Spiderman 2 or the 3rd one, so it sounds like something that would suit that movie). The story summary is kinda long cause I skipped a few years (I find it easier to do that. It starts with Harry's 22nd birthday, I can say that). So it'll probably be a few weeks (AFTER this is done) until you see the sequel (it will be called 'Let Me Go' obviously), but it'll be up eventually afterwards
P.S: I'll update tomorrow most likely
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09-14-2007, 01:12 AM
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| Veela
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Jillian McGuffin Sixth Year | Gryffindor Goddess ^haha...AWESOME!!! I'll be looking out for that sequel too!! *stalks more* |
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09-15-2007, 02:50 AM
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| Puffskein
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well it's Friday, and I feel like updating...
Here's an update!
I like this chapter honestly 
Pre-written message:
Ok, there’s more to this chapter than Draco... in fact you don’t really see him... it starts out with Hermione (and Harry... and Jaimie a bit...) more than anything.
Song I used in the end of this chapter is called All I Need by Within Temptation. It’s the song I’m using for my other F.F and it’s a total Draco song I think! When you see it, you’ll know... (I haven't started that story like I did with What Have You Done, which is the story where I gave a sneak peak for the first chapter)
Enjoy!
~Sarah Chapter 19
All Draco Needs
Weeks passed quietly – Hermione occasionally passed by Harry and Jaimie, but she acted as though they weren’t there. She watched their ‘relationship’ grow, she would see them throwing magical snowballs when professors or prefects weren’t around, they would chase each other through the forests around the Black Lake, they would just walk through the halls together, talking. Hermione felt a stab to her heart each time she saw them together, because she knew they had something she never had with Harry; happiness. His controlling act seemed to have diminished when she left, and that’s what hurt the most.
Snow kept falling through January and February, and a week before Valentines Day, the day Hermione dreaded the most, a notice was put up that nearly made her cry; there was going to be a couple’s Valentines Day dance in the Great Hall on February 14th.
“Hermione...?”
She turned around slowly and saw Harry. Her eyes widened slightly in surprise – she hadn’t heard from him since he (possibly? Hermione wasn’t sure) found out about her and Draco’s ‘plan’.
Everyone who had surrounded the billboard spun around to watch what would happen.
“What?” she asked flatly.
“W-would you go to the dance with me?” Harry stammered.
A quiet chorus of gasps ran through the group, who knew everything that had happened between the two. Hermione’s mouth opened in surprise... she couldn’t believe it! He was...
“What about Jaimie?” Hermione spat.
“We aren’t really serious or anything...”
“And we are?” Hermione cut in, surprised. “I haven’t heard a word from you since Draco sent you to the Hospital Wing! Did you want to make our first conversation memorable or something?”
“No... It’s just... a reason to talk to you and I do want to go with you,” Harry responded honestly. Hermione’s eyes narrowed suspiciously.
“Excuse me?”
Hermione looked towards the source of the voice. Jaimie came pushing through the crowd, looking rather shocked.
“What?” Harry asked.
“Why’re you asking her? What about me?” Jaimie snapped.
“Well you never really made a move...”
“You snogged her, Harry,” Hermione cut in, an evil smile forming on her lips. “She snogged you back – does that not live up to your intentions?”
Harry’s mouth opened and closed jerkily, the words that seemed to be on the tip of his tongue didn’t seem to come out. Jaimie’s arms crossed across her chest and she glared at Harry.
“I thought I left jerks like you back in Russia.”
“You said you were French!” Harry snapped, finally using the ammunition Jaimie gave him.
“You never listened to my story, did you?” Jaimie asked, shocked, her blue-green eyes flashing angrily.
“I heard most of it,” Harry responded indignantly.
“What was the name of the school I went to?”
Harry opened his mouth for a moment, but then closed it.
“Don’t know?” Jaimie sneered. “Whatever you thought we had is over!” She then stormed off.
“No, look... Jaimie! I was going to ask you, but...”
“I thought you wanted to go with me,” Hermione cut in with a sickeningly-sweet tone, a smirk starting to form on her face.
“Well...”
“Make up your mind, Harry. It’d be nice if you did that more often,” Hermione cut in, glaring.
She then stalked off and ran up the stairs leading to her dormitory, tears starting to leak from her eyes. She ran into her room and slammed her bedroom door shut angrily. She jumped onto the bed and buried her face into her pillow, screaming angrily into it. After many minutes, she stopped, and as soon as she did, there was a knock on her door.
“Go away!” Hermione yelled through her pillow at the person behind the door.
“I just heard what happened, are you ok?” Ginny’s voice bounced into the room.
“Oh yeah, I’ve never been better!” Hermione snapped sarcastically, sitting up on the edge of her bed.
Ginny opened the door and said, “I gave Harry a wicked Bat-Bogey Hex just for you. I swear he’ll never go you near you again without the fear of what’ll come from me. Even the people watching from the landing that looked down on the Common Room were freaked out!”
“Thanks, Gin,” Hermione mumbled. Ginny sighed lightly and sat on the bed across from Hermione.
“Don’t let him get to you – you did that perfectly before. Why are you breaking now?”
Hermione scowled, pursing her lips stubbornly.
“Come on, Hermione. It was Malfoy being there, wasn’t it?”
Hermione didn’t respond. She tried her best not to betray anything but stubbornness in her expression.
“Look, you haven’t talked to Malfoy since coming back... you should make up your mind about him soon - he’s getting worse.”
Hermione looked up at Ginny, curious.
“What do you mean? He seemed fine...”
“Oh Merlin, have you even seen him outside of class? He might be all fine in class for all I know, but all I see is him in the corridors, library...”
“The library?” Hermione cut in, surprised.
“He’s been glancing at the occasional book as he walked down the shelves. I don’t think he’s been there for the books, Mione,” Ginny responded, emphasizing the last bit. “That and he looks rather beaten each time he enters the library...”
“Beaten? Like...?”
“Well, Ron has come back from class with the occasional bruises, scratches, groaning... and I know Harry was flung into a tree and out of nowhere a coconut - a coconut of all things! - fell and hit him in the head...” Ginny replied slowly, noticeably thinking about what happened to each of them as she spoke. Hermione’s eyes grew wider with each word Ginny said. Ginny saw this and said, “You really should talk to Malfoy. He wouldn’t have sent you a necklace with your birthstone and his made out of diamond if he didn’t care, you know.”
Instinctively, Hermione started to toy with the petite pendant hanging in front of her shirt. She chewed on her bottom lip lightly, thinking.
“Do I have to drag you there, Mione?”
Ginny looked beyond Hermione and swore she saw a light blonde head disappear, but it was gone before she could even blink. She got up and opened the window and looked down and saw nothing. She looked from side to side – nothing. As she started to look up, she heard the soft swoosh of a broomstick. She chuckled, shook her head and came back inside the bedroom.
“Was that Draco?” Hermione asked, surprised.
“Probably,” she responded. Hermione’s eyes started to widen as she looked at the window, and Ginny turned around and nearly fainted; writing was starting to appear on the window, written so they could read it from the inside even though it was obviously written on the out. Open the window.
Ginny edged towards the window and pushed it open quickly. As she did, she heard music.
“Odd...” she looked up on the upper mantle of the outdoor part of the window and saw a muggle contraption of sorts glued up there, the quiet music coming from it. She reached up, grabbed hold of it and muttered a spell without her wand. The thing came down at once and into Ginny’s hand. She looked at its screen and saw the words ‘All I Need’ and under it, ‘Within Temptation’, and a song playing. She came closer to Hermione and she turned the volume up using what she called the spinny-thingy on the shining silver contraption. Hermione recognized it as an iPod automatically. I'm dying to catch my breath
Oh why don't I ever learn?
I've lost all my trust that I'm sure we try to
Turn it around
Can you still see the heart of me?
All my agony fades away
When you hold me in your embrace
Don't tear me down
For all I need
Make my heart a better place
Give me something I can believe
Don't tear me down
You've opened the door now
Don't let it close
Here on the edge again
I wish I could let it go
I know that I'm only one step away
From turning around
Can you still see the heart of me?
All my agony fades away
When you hold me in your embrace
Don't tear me down
For all I need
Make my heart a better place
Give me something I can believe
Don't tear it down
What's left of me
Make my heart a better place
I've tried many times but nothing was real
Make it fade away
Don't break me down
I want to believe that this is for real
Save me from my fear
Don't tear me down
Don't tear me down
For all I need
Make my heart a better place
Don't tear me down
For all I need
Make my heart a better place
Give me something I can believe
Don't tear it down
What's left of me
Make my heart a better place
Tears had fallen from Hermione’s eyes throughout the entire song. She looked at Ginny and saw even she had tears shining in her eyes.
“Give him a chance, Hermione,” she said quietly. “He deserves it.”
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09-15-2007, 03:08 AM
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| Formerly: DanFan4eva  Billywig
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| To think I thought Harry and Jamie had it going on,
Then Harry and Hermione,but Jamie ruined that including Harry himself.
Now all over again with Draccoand Hermione. 
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09-15-2007, 03:15 AM
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| Puffskein
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Whats Draco did was cute. *huggles our Darling Mr. Malfoy*
Yep, he found the perfect song for himself 
And you find out where he got the iPod in the next chapter (it's not that it's important but... well it kind of is cause it leads to more ). Quote:
To think I thought Harry and Jamie had it going on,
Then Harry and Hermione,but Jamie ruined that including Harry himself.
Now all over again with Draccoand Hermione.
Yep, it's just a continuous circle...
Or is it?
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09-15-2007, 03:25 AM
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| Keeper of Dan’s Grace Puffskein
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AAWW! i love Draco! If Hermione wont have him....I will.
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