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The Music Box
By : missbja
Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione
Views: 5392 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, nor any of the characters from the books or movies. I do not make any money from the writing of this story. - Chapter List
Now that she had been discharged, Hermione was talking to all the teachers, she could catch up on the work she had missed whilst in the infirmary. After each class she would talk to them and make quick notes in her notebook, scratching page numbers, names of books, missed homework and not learned spells. Almost a week-and-a-half of sleep in the infirmary made her head sleepy, but she was gaining speed again.
Two days had passed and now Hermione knew exactly what she needed to study, the problem was to accomplish, the promise she had received from Malfoy of helping her. Hermione noticed he crossed the hall, staring at her sometimes. But she knew what she had to do. Catch Malfoy in an empty corridor - which wasn’t going to be an easy task, since he carried his gorillas (Crabbe and Goyle) to every place.
In the next day, Hermione entered the Great Hall when she saw Malfoy and threw a piercing look at him. He stopped, and between the crowds she heard him say to Crabbe and Goyle “Go on, I’m going to the bathroom” he flung a quick glance at Hermione and she followed him.
It was Saturday, so he entered a free classroom and she closed the door behind her. They changed an imperishable look but then she decided it was silly to continue like this, “Hi… Draco.”
“Why did you call me by my first name?” Malfoy scowled
“Imitating you leaving the infirmary. And after all, we are working together, I hope we treat each other cordially… for now.” She seated herself in a nearby chair and watched Malfoy do the same with an unachievable look. “So… let’s start?”
“What, now?”
“Well, I don’t know what Mud… Muggle-borns do, but we magical folk usually have breakfast first,” Draco said with a sarcastic tone. “But I think that the sooner we start, the quicker we’ll get rid of each other.”
“I think you should go ahead… Hermione. I don’t want people to think I’m helping you. Be back in this classroom in fifteen minutes.”
Hermione opened the door nock and dashed to the Great Hall. She quickly sat besides Ron who was looked at her with a startled look “Where have you been?” he asked watching her eat like she was angry at the food.
She drank a cup of mil quickly and grabbed a piece of toast and put it in her mouth.“Doen’t matter.” And in five minutes she had ate a satisfactory breakfast. She got up, leaving Ron and Harry staring at her with a scattered look across their eyes. “I have to catch up with my subjects remember?” And she left, walking rapid steps.
While rushing through the corridors she began to realize what she was doing. “What have I done? Malfoy helping me with my studies?” She began to lower her pace “I hope that the rumours that he is with remorse are true. I don’t want to get jinxed.”
Once she reached her dormitory, Hermione started to toss everything into her school bag. As her eyes flew the room searching for something she could have missed, her pupils stopped at the wooden box placed on her bed-side-table. “There’s no time for that now.” And she zipped once again through the corridors, returning to the empty classroom.
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Once she entered the room, Malfoy lifted his wand. She opened her mouth in shock, but only felt a rush of air cross her waist and a clicking sound behind her. “Don’t need to be startled Hermione.” He pressed his teeth when pronouncing her name. “I was just closing the door so we won’t be disturbed, or worse, discovered.”
He began to throw his stuff on a desk and sat down to a chair. Hermione was staring at him uncertain. “What are you waiting for? We have much stuff to do.” He was very serious, talking like a professor.
Silently, she sat down in front of him and placed her stuff on the table. “You will see Mal… Draco, that I won’t have any difficulty understanding everything, so I expect you to treat me with some respect. The moment you mistreat me, I will leave.”
“Really?” He smiled sarcastically.
She lifted her eyebrow and sighed, beginning to flick through her notes, thinking which subject they would begin with. “What do you suggest?” she asked Draco, since at the corner of her eye she could observe him watching her every move carefully. Surprisingly, he seemed quite startled but managed to answer, “I think we should start with the one that has more content.”
Hermione searched for the one with more content and found an entire parchment of Transfiguration annotations. “I guess Professor McGonagall really likes you.” said Draco reading through her tiny letters. “That’s about the double of what we studied in class.”
“She said it’s additional work to improve my knowledge,” said Hermione sceptical.
“It’s slave labour,” he said and then he turned his face to his own appointments and searched for his Transfiguration notes.
As the morning passed by, Hermione learned that Draco could be an excellent teacher because his methods of study were very organised and logical. It took them all morning to complete her Transfiguration studies, what was quite good since for an average student it would take almost a week.
Not once did Draco criticise her way of studying. Besides, she noticed that sometimes he copied her little schemes and ways of organising ideas.
In the middle of the study they even decided to make a break, and he made two glasses of water appear. “Thank you Draco.”
His jaw dropped and he moved, uncomfortably, looking down at his cup he nodded.
They were silent for about two minutes and Hermione couldn’t contain her curiosity anymore. “How is your house?”
Malfoy was a bit surprised at the question but quickly changed to his cocky trace of personality and began to talk about its majestic size, and how albino peacocks roam the lawns.
Hermione devoured every word with immense interest, willing to know more about the wizard way of living. She whined a little at the reference of the elves, but otherwise Malfoy spoke of it like a majestic place she truly would like to get to know, even though it belonged to the Malfoy family.
When they finished their study, they said goodbye to each other much more friendly than when they’d started.
Late at night, before going to bed, Hermione silenced the space around her bed and, in a very particular moment, opened the music box and heard its beautiful music over and over again.
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