Tainted Love

* Tainted Love *


Harry looked up from his Knarl (not that he was getting much observations done anyways), while Crabbe continued to poke and prod the Knarl in question. He looked over at Hermione, who was scribbling on a piece of parchment as she sat cross-legged at the edge of the forest.
\'She\'s so beautiful,\' Harry thought as he watched Hermione tuck a loose strand of hair behind her ear. He suddenly had the biggest urge to nibble on her ear. \'You\'re so beautiful Hermione. You don\'t know what kind of feelings you\'ve awoken in me. I\'d be lost without you.\'

All of a sudden her face changed. She seemed to be scolding Malfoy for something, because she had a deadly rage flushed across her face. Harry chuckled to himself. \'I hope she’s giving that bastard hell.\' He was snapped out of his train of thought as he noticed Hermione and Draco trudging off into the forest. Harry rose to his feet and walked briskly over to Hagrid.

“Um, Hagrid why is Hermione walking into the forest with Malfoy?”

“Ah right, well their Knarls run off an’ I don’t got another, so I told ‘em they’d ‘ave ter’ go an’ fetch it.”

“But Hagrid! Don’t you think it’s a bit dangerous for Hermione to be in the forest?”

“Nonsense ‘arry, there isn’t a charm our ‘ermione can’t do. Besides yer’ 6th years now, I think she can ‘andle ‘erself. Now get back ter’ yer’ Knarl, before that ruddy Crabbe kills it.”

Sulking off back to his Knarl, Harry was clearly not happy about the fact that Hermione was now heading into the Forbidden Forest with Malfoy. \'If he hurts her in anyway, I\'ll Avada Kedava him myself. If, of course, Hermione doesn\'t do it first,\' he thought to himself.

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Due to the spell Hermione had cast, they couldn\'t hear the centaurs clearly. But looking out the window, they could see them clearly. Draco broke their silence first. \"They\'ve stationed themselves around the cabin.\" He then turned to her, his eyes narrowed. \"Just wait until my father hears about this. I\'ll make sure you\'re thrown out of Hogwarts, Mudblood.\"


With an air of arrogance about her voice, Hermione retorted.
“Somehow Malfoy, I don’t think your father, is going to do anything about this.
He is a wanted Death Eater isn’t he? Or did you forget he tried to kill off a few of your peers?”

While she smirked with triumph, Draco merely scowled maliciously toward her. After finally getting over mouthing off at one another (mainly due to Hermione deciding to ignore him and busying herself about inspecting the cabin) they had both discovered that the cabin they had stumbled across belonged to none other than the founders of Hogwarts.

There were four separate rooms, each door carrying the symbol of each house back up at the castle. The rest of the cabin held all the essential amenities such as bathroom, toilet, kitchen and was surprisingly roomy. There was a spacious lounge area with a beautiful mantle piece over an open fire, where there was a luscious looking fur sprawled out across the floor in front of it.

Draco decided that he didn’t like the idea of the centaurs being able to see him, so he went around the cabin closing the shutters. While closing the shutters in the room marked with a snake, he saw a serpent engraved on the floor panel at the foot of the bed.
He noticed that the engraving was deeply grooved around its edges. \'That’s odd why would Salazar engrave a snake into the floor.\'

BANG thud, thud, thud, thud, thud.

“What the fuck was that?”
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Harry thought that had been one of the longest sessions of Care of Magical Creatures he\'d ever sat through, due mainly to the fact that he had been attempting to work with Crabbe. Hagrid asked all the students to bring their Knarls back. Since Crabbe refused to touch their Knarl because of all the cuts and scratches he\'d recieved, Harry brought it back.

\'I can’t see Hermione anywhere.\'

“Hagrid have you seen Hermione anywhere?”

“Ah, no actually. Come ter’ think of it, not since I sent ‘em ter’ get their Knarl back.”

“What? Well, I think we\'d better go and look for them. They’ve been gone nearly two and a half hours.”

Looking off towards the forest Hagrid said, “ ‘Yer right ‘arry , I’ll go ‘ave a look fer’ ‘em now.”

“I’m coming with you.”

“No ‘arry, I don’t think that’s a good idea.”

“I’m not waiting here, she’s in there with Malfoy!\"

“Alright then, come on. You might wanna fetch Ron too. Best ter’ ‘ave another set ‘o’ eyes anyway.”

Harry ran toward Ron at full speed and grabbed him by the arm.

“Ron, Ron! Come on, we have to find Hermione.”

“Hermione? Why? Where is she?”

“She’s in the forest with Malfoy. They’ve been gone for the whole lesson and they haven’t come back yet. I swear if he’s done anything to her, I’ll kill him.”

\"Shit, we\'d better go.\" Pulling out thir wands, they headed to the edge of the forest where Hagrid was waiting. He\'d already dismissed the remainder of the class. The Slytherins hadn\'t been too happy about this because they noticed Draco (Malfoy) hadn\'t come out of the Forest yet, but did as they were told anyways to avoid dentention or points being taken from their House.

“Right then, shall we go?” Harry and Ron nodded as the three of them headed off into the forest.