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Spontaneous Combustion	By : astartelydianna Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 16780 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Author’s Notes: OK, so most of this was typed one handed while breastfeeding my new daughter to try and get this story rolling while the ideas are in my head so please forgive me if I’m not at my best. Hopefully thanks to my beta JenJenSon you won’t be able to tell how badly affected my brain is from lack of sleep!

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Spontaneous Combustion

Chapter One: Admitting one’s faults...

It was only a week before the students would be arriving at the school and Hermione was taking her chance to explore the restricted section while no one was around. She could probably get permission to peruse the restricted section if she asked but she didn’t really want to ask for permission to browse the restricted section for any information she could find on sex.

The closest thing to it in the normal Hogwarts sections were brief overviews of love potions and contraception potions and spells so she was hopeful that she could find something in the restricted section. The first books she found were more love potions and some lust potions that she’d already tried or eliminated if they were too strong, then there were more contraceptives and books about dark arts practises where they could make a woman’s cycle change to make conception a guarantee if the male was fertile and practises to make a woman permanently infertile. She quickly turned the page from the illustrations of a poor witch being pinned down to be made forcibly infertile to make her an adequate plaything.

Finally she found a book that looked more promising, “The Magical Art of Sex and Sex related charms and potions”. That definitely sounded more like what she was looking for. She quickly opened her bag and tucked it inside before making a swift retreat from the library and headed back to her room.

After returning to her room Hermione dutifully composed her letter to the Burrow to update them on her first week and reassure Molly that she was eating enough, Ginny that she would keep in touch with any and all gossip and Ron and Harry that she missed them. This was followed by her doing some of her coursework for her wizarding degree until dinnertime.

The Great Hall was nearly empty so people were sat in random small groups throughout, mostly it was the staff table that was full but there was the occasional student, presumably the ones with no parents or home to return to after the events of last year. Hermione went and took a seat besides Luna who sat alone at the top of the Ravenclaw table. The two spent the mealtime comparing notes on their NEWTs and filling each other in on any recent gossip that they had missed out earlier. Hermione found that despite the blonde’s near constant dreamlike state she did in fact make for very interesting and intelligent conversation.

Finally Hermione found herself back in her room for the evening. She sat on her bed and opened her borrowed book to browse the contents. The first section mainly explained the act of sexual intercourse in an almost medical way; this wasn’t what she was looking for. The next section was dedicated purely to orgasms, both male and female which she made a mental note to read since although that wasn’t strictly her problem at the moment it was the overall destination, this was followed by a section on self pleasure for witches and wizards respectively...not exactly what she was after but it could still be useful. The sections that followed were how do guides for foreplay on both wizards and witches manual and oral, again not really the part she needed to find right now. A section on the act of sex followed that and the last few sections compromised of; contraceptive charms and potions for witches and wizards, sex spells that really work, potions to fix your bedroom bothers and lastly sexual rituals in the magical world.

She decided that at least this book should have something helpful and perhaps she should take some notes for future reference. After all she couldn’t keep the book for long in case someone noticed that it wasn’t in the library. Hermione got some parchment and a quill to copy down anything useful for future reference and dived in at the very beginning of the book, perhaps starting from a medical angle and working her way up to the rest was the best plan. So Hermione did what Hermione did best, she read.

Imagine her surprise when she was awoken the next morning by someone knocking on her door. Leaping out of bed to make herself decent she hurried to answer the impatient knocking.

“Hey babes, surprise.” Ron greeted her as she opened the door.

“Ron!” she gasped in surprise, moving to the side to allow him in. “You surprised me.” He leant over and kissed her, making it obvious he would have wanted more had she not hurriedly stepped back. “Just let me freshen up a bit, morning breath.” She grabbed some clothes hanging over the back of her desk chair and some clean underwear from her chest of draws and darted to the en suite bathroom and hurriedly got freshened up.

When she returned to her room she froze upon finding Ron flicking through the book she had been reading last night and immediately flushed, cursing herself internally for not remembering to hide it before answering the door.

“Wow ‘Mione, I didn’t realise you were this keen...maybe we should try some of these right now?” he said suggestively, placing the book down and approaching her. Hermione let him embrace her, let him kiss her; kissing was good. She did care about Ron and this was nice...it just wasn’t earth shattering. All the while they were making out she was fine but it was when things started to go further that her lack of passion became a problem.

Ron’s hands gripped her waist, fisting in her top and tugging her with him towards the bed, she wound her arms tighter round his neck as they moved keeping them fused together at the lips. Then just as she was beginning to dread any further actions her door knocked again.

“Leave it ‘Mione” Ron mumbled against her lips.

“Ronald!” she tutted, disentangling herself from him. “They’re at my door I can’t just ignore it!”

“Hey Granger!” Malfoy’s voice called from the other side. “I know you’re still in there!”

“See!” Hermione gestured to the door. “I’m most certainly not going to be able to enjoy myself in here with Draco Malfoy on the other side of the door shouting at me.” Ron sighed and sat down on the bed while Hermione picked up her book and took the chance to hide it quickly before answering the door.

She swung the door open to face a smirking blonde, noticing that he was staring at her rather ruffled appearance she quickly pulled the door shut so that only her head stuck out. She cursed herself for not noticing sooner, her top had dropped off one shoulder hanging low enough for the top of her left bra cup to be visible and it had ridden up to expose most of her stomach so all in all she looked like she’d been busy shagging before coming to the door.

“Busy morning Granger?” he asked.

“Can I help you?” she asked, ignoring his question.

“Well, it was nice of you to offer but we’re needed elsewhere.” He replied. Hermione just glared at him in response. “McGonagall wants us in the Hospital Wing.”

“Hospital Wing?” she asked, dropping her short tone immediately. “Is someone hurt?”

“Well, if you make yourself decent we can go and find out can’t we.” He replied impatiently.

“Two seconds.” She replied, quickly shutting the door to straighten her clothes and check in a mirror to make sure she was decent. “Sorry, Professor McGonagall needs me in the Hospital Wing. I’ll owl you, OK?” She pecked him on the lips and then dragged him out of the door with her. She didn’t really want to leave him in her rooms alone with that book...he might get ideas. Draco raised an eyebrow but said nothing for a change as he and Hermione headed in the opposite direction leaving Ron stood outside the entrance to her room and Hermione only offering him a quick wave as they left.

“Go on, I know you’re going to say something insulting so out with it now.” She sighed.

“Actually...well; I’m not sure whether to be repulsed at the thought of you and Weaslebee or impressed that you of all people had a boy hidden in your room.” He smirked.

“We weren’t doing what you think we were.” She replied primly. “Not that it’s any of your business anyway.”

“It’s my business when I end up seeing you half dressed as a result.” He snorted.

“Half dressed? Come one Malfoy that wasn’t half dressed, I was fully dressed just a bit...scruffy.” she said defensively. “Did Professor McGonagall say what she wanted at all? No hints?”

“We’re nearly there, you can ask her yourself.” He muttered. Clearly their almost pleasant, though somewhat embarrassing banter was over and they were back to barely tolerating each other again.

On reaching the Hospital Wing Hermione’s concerns were put to rest, no one was injured. Madam Pomfrey and Professor McGonagall were waiting for them in Madam Pomfrey’s office and all the beds remained empty.

“Ah, marvellous!” Madam Pomfrey exclaimed, as they arrived.

“Good Morning, Mr Malfoy, Miss Granger.” The Headmistress greeted them.

“Good morning Professor.” Hermione replied politely.

“I have a favour to ask of you both.” The older witch said, leading the way from the office into a store room. The store room was full of boxes and crates, the shelves however were practically bare. “As I’m sure you can see, recent events have left our medical supplies in need of replacing. Madam Pomfrey has acquired many of the new supplies as you can see. Bandages and splints are affordable enough but readily made potions are expensive. Therefore she was only able to buy a small supply of each of the necessary potions we need. Being apprentices rather than students and having been the top two students in your potions class we were hoping you would be able to spare some time to brew some of the necessary potions. The potions store cupboards are still very full so you should have most of the ingredients you need to get started and buying ingredients to brew the potions is considerably cheaper than the potions themselves so if there are ingredients missing we would be able to get them for you of course.”

“Of course I’d love to help. I’m already brewing the wolf’s bane for Professor Lupin so it wouldn’t be much trouble.” Hermione replied automatically.

“Why both of us? Hermione isn’t even a potions apprentice.” Draco asked.

“Because there are a lot of potions needed, both of you have your own work to do already so sharing the load will be easiest Mr Malfoy.” The Headmistress told him matter of factly. “I’m confident that after everything you’ve both been through working together will not be a problem.”

“No, Professor.” Hermione said quickly, cutting off what was sure to have been some snide comment from Draco’s open mouth. “Or at least...I’m sure we could split the list down the middle and work out a schedule or something.”

By the time they left with a list of potions in hand Draco was looking incredibly fed up. Hermione was delighted to be able to help but not overly looking forward to any more time with Draco Malfoy than necessary. Still if they worked out a schedule and split the list down the middle they could try to avoid each other as much as possible.

“Why couldn’t you have either just said no or offered to do the lot?” Draco demanded as they left.

“Why didn’t you?” Hermione countered. “It’s not like we’re going to have to be best friends Malfoy!”

“Thank Merlin for that!” Draco huffed.

“Look, how about we each pick a potion or two to start with and then take turns to use the brewing space so that we don’t have to see each other?” she suggested.

“Fine with me.” He agreed, snatching the list. “I’ll start with the top two then.”

“Alright, and I’ll do the next two down. Did you want to start today or shall I?” she asked. “Well...actually we’d better check that all the ingredients for these are actually there first hadn’t we?”

“Whatever.” Draco replied. “Can we hurry it up though because I’d like to spend some time with people I actually like today?”

The two made their way down to the potions stores and after some quick assessments decided they were only missing a handful of ingredients, so Hermione wrote down a small list of what was needed.

“If that’s all, then I’ll leave you to it.” Draco announced the second they were done. “I have better things to do than spend my day in a grubby cupboard with you. Later Granger.” With that, he left.

His comment hadn’t been an innuendo at all but Hermione for some bizarre reason flushed at the thought of her and Draco in the cupboard...then again getting down and dirty in a cupboard of any kind, with anyone was embarrassing enough...let alone in a potions store cupboard in the dungeons with a Slytherin! It was just so wrong!

It was the evening meal by the time Hermione reappeared from the potions classroom and cupboards. She’d spent most of the day brewing her potions, one of which was finished and now filled several vials on the infirmary shelves and the other required being left overnight before the finishing touches and bottling.

“Good evening Hermione.” Luna smiled, as she took a seat next to Hermione. “Have you had a lovely day?”

“Oh it’s been very productive.” Hermione smiled. “I’ve been brewing some potions for Madam Pomfrey.”

“That’s nice of you.” Luna smiled.

“Well, I love brewing so it’s not really any trouble to do it.” Hermione replied. “How has your day been?”

“It’s been lovely thank you.” The blonde smiled. “I went for a long walk around the grounds. I thought I’d make the most of it, it’s going to rain tomorrow you know?”

“I’ll remember to stay inside then.” Hermione commented.

“Ron didn’t look very happy this morning. I thought perhaps he couldn’t find you.” Luna said thoughtfully.

“No, he found me this morning but then I got called to the Hospital Wing about the potions.” Hermione explained.

“He said he saw you in the morning, but he went looking for you after that I think.” The younger witch replied.

“Oh...well then no, he didn’t find me.” Hermione told her.

“You sound relieved.” Luna said.

“No, well...a little maybe.” Hermione mumbled. “I was a bit busy.”

“Maybe you should tell him that it isn’t right?” the blonde suggested softly.

“What isn’t right?” Hermione asked guiltily. Surely Luna didn’t know about her and Ron’s problems...how could she?

“You relationship.” Luna shrugged as if it were obvious. “You don’t love him do you?”

“No,” Hermione admitted quietly, “at least not in that way...I tried Luna, I really tried but it just...doesn’t click. Merlin Luna, what is wrong with me? Ron is perfect for me and he’s a safe bet and he cares about me and I him...why does it feel so wrong? So forced?”

“Maybe you would love someone who wasn’t so safe?” the oblivious blonde suggested.
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