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Repeat After Me	By : Luckycharms Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 8880 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. That right goes to the AMAZING JK Rowling. No profit is made off this story. Shout out to Scorpia11 for being my awesome Beta!!

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Thank you all so much for your kind words! I really appreciate all the love and support you have given me. It truly means so much to me! I did manage to finish this chapter last night, after a 4 day hiatus from writing anything, and I wanted my beta to read it over before posting. I have also been working hard on the new Time travel story to keep me distracted, that will hopefully be released in the coming weeks. I don’t have an exact date yet, but it most likely won’t be posted until this story is almost finished. Anyway, Thank you all again for being here in my time of need and staying patient with me. I don’t want to delay this story, otherwise I feel like I’m falling behind and that will stress me out more. So, basically you all are stuck with getting weekly updates on Sunday, lol! It might be slightly late today, but technically it is still Sunday where I am, so without further ado…I give you Chapter 8.

Chapter 8- Class is in Session
Friday October 29^th, 1999 11:20am
Draco sat frozen in his chair as he stared at Hermione in concern and despair while the brunette’s lips fell into sadness.
‘Is she serious right now? She better be fucking joking!’
“Hold on, hold on, just…wait a damn second” he began, leaning forward and holding up a hand. “You mean to tell me, that I could die? Like actually die and not come back?”
“That’s what the book says” Hermione replied gently. “You’re limited on the amount of days you can relive. The more often you die or are knocked out, the more strain it puts on your body until…until it can’t handle it anymore.”
“So, for all we know, the next time I die…I could permanently stay dead? This is what you are telling me?” he inquired as she stood up and furrowed his brows while clenching his fists tightly. “I die walking down fucking steps; like some force is trying to kill me! I can’t walk out of my damn room without something bad happening to me!”
“Malfoy, I-I’m sorry. I don’t really know what else to tell you. I-I think whatever is happening is trying to get you to go back to the right path. The one you originally took the first day. You have to figure out how to fulfill the wish without straying too far off the timeline or…”
“Or what, Granger?”
“Or it most likely wants you to take a certain route that differs slightly from the first day. Think about it, you have to apparently help all these people but still do the same things you did before. Maybe instead of hiding out in your room for hours, you can use that time to fix the situations that involve the wish.”
“Okay…that makes sense. But what if-…What-what the hell is that noise?” Draco questioned as he stopped talking and began to look around for the small growling sound he was hearing.
Hermione glanced around the room as well before crouching down to look under the table. There, tugging and pulling at the bottom of Draco’s black trousers with his teeth, was chipmunk Theo trying to get the Slytherin’s attention. However, before Hermione could stand back up, Theo nipped at Draco’s ankle causing the blonde to yelp loudly as he quickly pulled his leg back and almost fell over the chair behind him.
“What the bloody hell!” Draco shouted as he looked down at an angry chipmunk shaking his tiny fist up at him.
Hermione took out her wand and rushed around the table before pointing it at the animal and quickly turned Theo back into his normal self. For a moment though, Theo froze with his fist still out in front of him as small bits of food and candy fell from his mouth.
“Merlin, Theo!” Draco began as he brushed the non-existent wrinkles from his white shirt. “You couldn’t have found a better way to get my attention? Or better yet, get Granger’s? Salazar! Wait…Is that-did you stop and grab food from the Great Hall on your way back?”
“Maybe…” Theo mumbled through his full mouth. “I was hungry and apparently my cheeks had these pockets inside that I could store things in and-”
“Seriously?” Draco asked in annoyance. “None of us have eaten yet! We are on a time limit here and I just found out I could permanently die, but you just couldn’t wait and had to make a pit stop?”
“I had some extra time to kill” Theo replied with a shrug of his shoulders.
“Did you find out anything, Nott?” Hermione questioned gently while putting her wand back into her hair.
Theo’s eyes grew wide as a large smile formed on his lips.
“Oh, my lovely virgins…You will not believe what I found!” he exclaimed as he pulled a donut out of his robe pocket and took a large bite.
“How the hell did you manage to get a donut in your pocket when you weren’t wearing any clothes?” Hermione questioned with a raised brow.
“I alwiz cawe foo in my pawket” he said with his mouth full of powdered donut.
“That’s disgusting” Hermione claimed with a crinkled nose.
“Ayway, I-”
“Please swallow before you speak, Theo. I am sure Hermione doesn’t want to see how you digest food.”
“Sowwy” Theo stated before swallowing the food in a big gulp. “Okay so…” he began speaking quickly. “I was roaming the rooms and I got stuck a few times, but that’s beside the point,” he took another bite of the donut without thinking, causing Draco to sigh and roll his eyes. “…and I fowd out Basie and Pans are wrealy in wove, Boot is defwinly nowt a wesron,” he swallowed sharply before taking another bite “Weswee has swelf-estweem isswues, Lonbotum had wuxeed on his fwor, Stowl woves pworn, corwells woom is welly pwik, and-”
‘I can’t take it anymore’
“Stop, stop, stop!” Draco declared with his hands up while taking a step closer to his friend. “We can’t understand a word you are saying! Finish your damn donut first or put it down before opening your mouth!”
Theo looked to his friend with wide eyes before looking down sadly at the donut in his hand and slowly putting it back into his pocket.
“Wait, what’s wrong with Ron? And what’s a wesron?” Hermione asked with a raised hand in confusion.
Wiping his lips, Theo turned to the Gryffindor with a smirk radiating off his lips.
“If I have to repeat all that then I want another belly rub in return” he requested with crossed arms.
“What?” Draco yelled as Hermione stared at Theo with shock emitting from her eyes.
“Have you never had your belly scratched before?” Theo asked innocently. “That shite is amazing! I’m telling you, get yourself a dame who is willing to do it!”
‘Does he like her? He better not fucking like her!’
“Nott, I’m not rubbing your stomach” Hermione chuckled.
“Awe, but it was so much fun! You reached places I didn’t even know could be scratched! It’s no wonder animals love it so much. All that hair really makes you itchy after a while.”
Hermione burst out laughing as Draco furrowed his brows and clenched his fists at his side in anger. A low growl emitted from his throat causing Hermione to instantly stop giggling and Theo’s smile to quickly fall as he realized he had taken the joke too far.
‘This bastard thinks I don’t know what he’s doing? He clearly thinks that because I’ve been too much of a coward to admit my feelings that he can just swoop in and try to take her from me? He’s in for a rude awakening if he thinks he can woo my girl!’
“Alright” Hermione cut in through the tension that was building as Draco began to snarl at his best friend. “Okay, let’s just all calm down. He wasn’t serious Malfoy, and I’m sure if he was, it’s not like I would really do it. It’s one thing to scratch an animals’ belly; it’s completely different when it’s a human.”
‘I don’t care what anyone says, she is mine and no one is going to take her from me!’
“He better be fucking joking” Draco declared as he crossed his arms, his glare never leaving the brown-haired Slytherin in front of him.
“It was just a joke, mate. No need to Avada me with your eyes. I wouldn’t do that to you…I wouldn’t do that to anyone.”
‘You’re damn right you wouldn’t!’
“Malfoy…Draco,” Hermione began cautiously when the blonde refused to look away. She took a few steps over to him and gently touched his arm, snapping him out of his hatred induced stare, and turning his attention to her “he was just kidding. He didn’t mean it. I am sure he wouldn’t do something to purposely hurt you.”
‘What the hell is wrong with me? Theo is your best mate, you prat, and you were about to attack him over a girl? A girl you just got to say yes to going out with you! Calm your fucking self or you’ll scare her off!’
“Why don’t we just figure out what he discovered and move on, okay?”
Theo continued to stare at Draco in shock as his chest rose and fell heavily in fear. Draco was aware his friend knew what he was capable of and the things he did for the Dark Lord. He would never actually physically hurt Theo, but the fact that he showed his defensive side, like Voldemort himself was trying to take Hermione away, apparently scared the crap out of his wizard mate. He began to feel like a complete prick for terrifying Theo the way that he did, so he relaxed his shoulders and unclenched his fists before running his fingers through his hair.
“I’m sorry, Theo…I-I don’t know what came over me.”
“It’s-It’s alright…Look, I get it, but you know I would never do something like that to you. I wouldn’t hit on a girl you fancy. I was just messing around, trying to include her. If I took it too far, I’m sorry.”
“You didn’t take anything too far, Nott. Draco is apparently just overly protective, I guess.”
“Shite, I scared her off! Fuck!’
“It’s not like that!” Draco admitted in frustration.
“I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. I’m just pointing it out. You’re loyal…I like loyalty in a person” she admitted as she smiled softly.
“Yeah?” he asked in relief.
“Yeah…” she smiled a little wider.
“Uhhh…So if you two are done with this very special moment I’m sure you’re having,” Theo interrupted “can we talk about why you women have bright, vomit inducing, colored rooms? First Lavender’s looks like a fairy shat all over it and Cornwell’s looks like a pink Pygmy Puff exploded on the walls!”
“My room is nothing like that” Hermione insisted as she turned her focus to Theo, making Draco suddenly feel different inside.
“Oh, I know! I took a peek in your dorm as well. Not bad by the way…the red is subtle and the gold isn’t half bad.”
“You went into my room!” she yelled as she smacked him in the arm.
“I told you, I had some time to kill!” he chortled as he recoiled. “I didn’t snoop, I only stuck my head in for a second.”
“Well did you find anything in Sadie’s dorm?” she asked after smacking him playfully again.
“Just a lot of pink, oh wait! I did find some copies of some tests but I don’t know if they were new or old or how she even got them. I did also find some interesting things in everyone else’s room as well. Blaise and Pansy have really creepy pictures of each other being all lovey dovey, Stoll apparently has a large and very interesting magazine collection…I think I might have to ask to borrow some. Wait, no; I don’t want to find pages stuck together because he missed a spot with a cleaning charm.”
“Oh, gross, mate!” Draco claimed with a curled lip.
“Hey, I’m not the one sticking the pages together with my love juice!”
“Please stop” Draco insisted as he rested his forehead in his hand.
“Anyway, um…oh, I found a pair of women’s knickers in Boots room so we know he’s definitely not a virgin, Weasley apparently has a self-help book titled ‘How to woo your Witch; Ten easy steps to make her fall in love.”
“You memorized the book title?” Hermione questioned with a raised brow.
“I memorize a lot of useless things” he replied in a serious manner before chuckling softly. “K, what else…Potter didn’t really have anything fun to look at but I did find traces of Fluxweed on Longbottom’s floor. Wasn’t that the ingredient you said was added to Granger’s potions?”
“Wait, you found Fluxweed in Neville’s room?” Hermione asked in surprise. “There has to be some mistake! Neville would never do something like that to anyone, let alone me!”
Draco looked to Hermione who took a seat in shock and thought strongly about marching down to the common room to give Neville a piece of his mind. Though, her sadden features made him realize that Hermione was absolutely distraught over the news, making him want to comfort her instead of beating the bloody pulp out of her friend. He knew however, that Neville was too caring of a person to pull something so heinous; even if it was to get back at Draco for making his life hell, and there was no way the Gryffindor Herbology lover would ever harm a hair on Hermione’s head.
“I’m sure there is a reasonable explanation for this, Hermione. Longbottom doesn’t seem like the type, something’s not right about it.”
“Well, all I know,” Theo continued, “was that it was there on his floor in front of his bed. So he either has a great excuse, someone planted it there, or Longbottom is the culprit. By the way,” he turned his focus to Draco “completely off topic, but did you know Brown has a thing for you?”
“WHAT?” Hermione and Draco both shouted in unison.
“Oh-my-Merlin…do I have a story for you!”
XX
“THAT NO GOOD CHEATING SLUTTY SLAG!” Hermione shouted as she stood up in anger; her fists clenched at her sides as her cheeks turned a fiery red. “She knows how I feel about Draco! I’ll hex her! I’ll hex her into oblivion! This whole time she’s been hoping to get with him, ruin Ron, and pay me back for embarrassing her in sixth year!”
“Don’t forget that she is blackmailing Theo too” Draco cockily added.
“Draco!” Theo expressed in surprise. “What the hell, mate?”
“You told her about my boner…It’s only fair” he shrugged with a smirk.
“That…That…” Hermione began as the boys watched her try and think of an insult fitting for Lavender Brown while her hair began to crackle in fury. “Ugh, that daft…worthless…BITCH!”
Theo and Draco both looked at Hermione in shock as they stood motionless with their mouths slightly open. Theo slowly turned his eyes to Draco whose arms were now crossed, and glanced back and forth between the two in utter disbelief, while confusion filled every inch of his mind.
‘What…the…hell? She curses?’
“I-I think Granger might actually have you beat in the overly protective department” Theo stated, still in awe from hearing Hermione’s tirade.
‘I don’t know if this is hot…or terrifying…or both’
“Uhh…Yeah” Draco replied in bewilderment as his brow arched and his wide eyes continued to stare at the witch who was still yelling about Lavender. “Yeah, I’d have to say so…”
“So about that wedding…”
“Oh shut-it!” Draco snapped while Theo began to chuckle into his hand before walking to the other side of the table and placed himself in front of Hermione.
The Gryffindor raised her fierce hatred filled eyes to him, making Draco a little scared himself as to what the bookworm would do the girl once she laid eyes on her. Without thinking, Draco raised his hands and cupped both sides of Hermione’s face, forcing her to focus on him.
“Hermione…It’s okay. We’ll find a way to get her back, but there is no need to hex the girl” Hermione began to open her mouth to continue her rant but Draco simply shook his head to stop her. “In case by some miracle, we fix my problem today, we don’t need you getting in trouble because of her. I have a plan to out her so don’t worry, alright?” she nodded her head but Draco could still see the anger emitting from her brown eyes. “If it helps, even if you weren’t in the picture, I would never want her. But you are in the picture…and I only want you, okay? No one else…Just…you.”
Hermione’s gaze began to soften, making Draco smile as he melted into her. He leaned down to kiss her, to seize the moment where she would willingly kiss him back, when Theo decided to interrupt.
“Sooo cute, but we have class in like ten minutes so if we can figure out what to do about Longbottom, that’d be great.”
“Seriously, mate?” Draco demanded in irritation while removing his hands from Hermione’s face.
“You’ll have plenty of time for a third first kiss after we fix this mess! I don’t know about Granger here, but I would very much like to remember today for once, thank you!” Theo replied throwing his hands in the air. “And I’m preeaatty sure she would like her first kiss with you to not be in the Restricted section of the library with me watching, so let’s get a move on mates! We’ve got people to do and things to see!”
“Don’t you mean people to see and things to do?” Hermione asked with a raised brow.
“No…No, I like my way better. Seems like more fun” he chortled.
12:33pm
After Professor Slughorn finished his speech, the class stood up to collect their ingredients. Draco looked to Theo who nodded his head before looking to Hermione taking in a deep breath. Quickly winking at her, causing her to blush, Draco walked over to the closet to collect his and Hermione’s ingredients so she wouldn’t have to leave her station. He watched carefully with his arms crossed as the students filed out of the small room and studied each and every one of the contents in their hands before walking in to gather what he needed.
Once he was finished, Neville turned his head slightly and smiled at Draco as he reached up to put the vile of Goblins Blood back on the shelf, but the blonde smirked when the dolt once again, spilled the contents all over the floor. Taking that moment, Draco scanned the room for the Fluxweed powder and surprisingly noticed that none could be found. He raised a brow in confusion before turning around and stepped over the blood.
Quickly putting the ingredients on the table, he handed Hermione the Nightshade she was to spill later while leaning in to whisper to her.
“There’s no Fluxweed in the closet. Slughorn must have it stored elsewhere.”
“It makes sense…After I made the Polyjuice potion in second year they probably locked away all ingredients to make it. Also, you can only collect it under a full moon, otherwise it’s useless, so unless they buy it, it’s rather impossible to procure.”
“You made Polyjuice in second year? But I thought you were terrible at potions?” Draco whispered with a furrowed brow.
“I’m only a few points behind you, Draco! Give me some credit!” she retorted.
“You know, I like it when you say my name” he winked causing Hermione to bite her lip in retaliation. “Stop!”
“Stop winking at me then!”
“No-”
“Guys!” Theo cut in with a whisper as he leaned over his table. “Focus! You can get it on later; right now we are on a mission!”
“Why are we friends?” Draco asked with a shake of his head. “You have no filter.”
“Because you love me; I’m the closest thing to a brother that you have, so you’re stuck with me.”
“I don’t know” Hermione interrupted with a chuckle “I like that fact that he’s not scared to say what’s on his mind” she shrugged.
“Says the one who’s not been on the receiving end of his jokes since we were five” Draco admitted with an eye roll while he leaned away from the Gryffindor.
“Are you done with this very awkward threesome?” Blaise interjected in annoyance. “If so, I’d like to get back to my exam, please. Some of us are actually trying to pass this class.”
“You don’t need to get an O on this exam to pass this class, Zabini” Hermione said as a matter of fact. “Your grade is just as good as mine and Draco’s.”
‘She is right’
“So then why do you keep getting upset when your potion gets ruined?” Draco whispered so only Hermione could hear him.
The bookworm tilted her head and furrowed her brows as she gave Draco a confused look.
“Have you met me?”
The Slytherin Prince licked his lips before folding them in when he realized who he was talking to.
“Yeah okay, you’re right”
‘Again’
Hermione rolled her eyes in amusement before turning her focus back to her potion. Theo chuckled softly and went back to dividing his ingredients, please by the progress in the two’s relationship. Blaise raised a brow at the pair in front of him before leaning in to whisper to Draco.
“Since when does she call you Draco?” he questioned in shock, but Draco simply chuckled and shook his head before turning back around.
‘Just wait until you find out I asked her on a date…AND she said yes.’
01:42pm
Over the next hour and a half of class, the plan to watch Neville went relatively smooth. Theo watched the Herbology lover like a hawk as Hermione purposely knocked her Nightshade to the ground and bent down to clean it up. Draco bent down to help her, which was something he hadn’t done the first two times, when something green caught his eye above Hermione. He looked up to see grounded Fluxweed falling from thin air into the Gryffindor’s cauldron. To anyone else it was almost invisible but due to his keen eye from being a previous seeker, he could see the small flecks clear as day.
Quickly looking around the room he studied every student, each of whom were all nose deep in their own potions, before his eyes landed on Neville looking dejected at the disaster in front of him. Hermione stood up and dusted off her hands before stirring her potion clock wise.
‘There’s no way he did it…But then why did he have Fluxweed on his bedroom floor?’
“Hermione stop” Draco uttered as he rose from the floor and grabbed her wrist.
He covertly pointed to the green traces around her station making her eyes go wide and her lips part slightly before she whipped her head to him in surprise.
“Ho-how?”
Draco discretely pointed upwards before leaning over and whispered to her.
“Someone charmed it to sprinkle in from above you, but I don’t think it was Longbottom. He’s terrible at charms and that was a precision drop; plus he’s almost in tears at his mess of a potion” he claimed while quickly pointing to Neville with his chin. “And I know what you’re gonna ask and the answer is I don’t know. Either someone is setting him up or…or he’s working with another person.”
“What should we do?” she questioned after taking in a deep breath.
“I say we confront him, but in front of Slughorn. If we get a Professor to witness it, then it prevents us from having to explain and provide proof later all while putting him on the spot.”
“Draco, that’s a long shot and I really don’t think Neville is working with anyone. He wouldn’t do this, let alone have someone else do it to me.”
“He didn’t do it” Theo muttered softly, making Hermione and Draco turn their heads to him. “I was watching him the whole time. He hasn’t even touched his wand or bothered to look up at anyone.”
“We can’t confront him, Draco. That would embarrass him and I know he’s not responsible.”
“I’m doing it” Draco stated firmly but kept his voice low. “We’re going to get to the bottom of this whether you like my methods or not. I am sick of repeating this stupid day and I really don’t want to have to convince you to go out with me again because it turns out, I really fucking like you. And if I’m going to continue to be honest, I’m scared shitless that one of these echoing days you’re going to change your mind while I am stuck caring for someone who only liked the idea of being with me.” Theo, Hermione, and Blaise stared at Draco speechless with wide eyes and open mouths as he spoke his confession with determination. “We’re doing it!” he finished before turning back to his potion while ignoring the gawking gazes from the three people surrounding him.
Having had enough of the staring, Draco set his stirring stick down and walked away from the table up to Professor Slughorn at the front. After a brief discussion with the Potion teacher, both Slughorn and Draco came walking back to the table. The blonde Slytherin crossed his arms as he stood behind the Professor who was now examining Hermione’s potion.
“Ms. Granger,” the sweet elder man began gently “Mr. Malfoy here, has told me that he witnessed a tampering with your draught…May I have a look?”
“O-of course, Professor” she exclaimed before giving Draco a curious look.
“Ahh…It seems Mr. Malfoy is correct. There was an extra ingredient added to this recipe.
“What?” Hermione replied, pretending to act shocked. “I-I don’t understand.”
“Not to worry Ms. Granger, we will sort this all out shortly” Slughorn collected a sample of Hermione’s potion before addressing the rest of the class. “If I could have everyone’s attention please; class is officially over for the day. Please drop off a sample of your draught at the front and make your way back to your common room. No dawdling now…Oh, and Mr. Longbottom, if you could stay after with Ms. Granger and Mr. Malfoy, there is something we all need to discuss. Class dismissed.”
Draco looked at Neville who raised a brow in confusion before the students began to disperse. Once the room was clear, the three remaining students stood silently in front the professor's desk as Theo waited patiently, leaning up against the wall in the back of the room with his arms crossed.
“I did not ask that you stay Mr. Nott. You are free to go” Slughorn stated with a smile.
“I think I’m fine right here, thank you” Theo remarked with a fake grin.
“This is a private matter, Mr. No-”
“That involves Draco thinking that Longbottom tampered with Granger’s potion. Trust me, I already know everything. I’m the one who found the extra Fluxweed on his dorm floor.”
“What?” Neville asked in surprise. “What do you mean you found Fluxweed on my floor? You went into my room?”
“Don’t worry Longbottom,” Theo chuckled while his upper lip turned into a half-smile “it’s not like you or I are going to remember tomorrow that I was turned into an adorable chipmunk and snuck into everyone’s room to try and find the culprit that is out to get my best mate and his girl.”
‘My girl?…huh…Theo may be an insufferable git but he does have a way with words. My girl…I like it.’
“His girl?” Neville questioned, interrupting Draco’s thoughts.
“Did you two finally become…official? In public?” Professor Slughorn asked in an overly pleased tone.
“You too?” Draco inquired in shock. “Does everyone in this damn school seriously think that we were already dating?”
“Oh, yes” Slughorn chuckled. “We figured it was only a matter of time before the two brightest students at Hogwarts found their way towards each other. Now, are you official, official? Because I have a few galleons up fo-”
“Professor!” Hermione exclaimed in surprise. “You bet on us?”
‘Seriously?’
Slughorn slowly shrugged his shoulders as he lifted a hand partway into the air.
“Well, Headmistress McGonagall made the wager worth getting in on and it’s not just me, all the other Professors placed bets as well. It gives us something to look forward to since the war. We all picked a month that we thought it would finally happen.”
“Let me guess” Draco asked, crossing his arms in disbelief. “You picked October?”
“Can we get back to why we are here, please?” Neville requested “I don’t understand what is going on? Why were you in my room?”
“Of course, you wouldn’t” Draco claimed sarcastically. “It doesn’t matter how Theo got into your quarters, what matters, is why you had the one ingredient that happened to fall from the ceiling into Hermione’s potion. Who are you working with?”
“I’m not working with anyone!” Neville expressed in anger. “I wouldn’t tamper with Hermione’s potion! I would never hurt her!”
“Then why did you have Fluxweed on your floor?” Theo demanded as he removed himself from the wall and walked up to the front of the room.
“Guys, stop” Hermione pleaded while Slughorn stared in confusion.
“No Granger, I won’t” Theo stated in indignation. “This shite has gone on long enough and like I said before, I would like to actually remember this day, so I’ll ask again” he continued as he turned his gaze back to Neville. “Why…was there Fluxweed…on your floor?”
“I don’t know! Some must have spilled when we were making the Polyjuice potion for extra credit!”
“Polyjuice?” Hermione asked with a raised brow. “I thought that potion was banned from being made in this school?”
“It is” Slughorn chimed in, making everyone in the room look to him quickly. “But that specific draught is extremely difficult to make. This is why I acquired permission from the Headmistress herself to allow Mr. Longbottom, Ms. Cornwell, Mr. Boot, and Mr. Stoll to use the potion as an extra credit assignment. They were to take only the necessary ingredients required and they already turned the project in.”
“Well then one of them took more than they should have!” Draco negated. “And if it wasn’t Longbottom then it was one of the other three!”
“Just because they all made that potion together doesn’t mean that one of them messed with my exam, Draco.”
“Uh, yeah it does” he retorted.
“How?” Hermione questioned while crossing her arms.
“Granger, you said it yourself earlier, those ingredients are locked up. The only other way to get them is if a professor opens the case.”
“He’s right” Slughorn added “and I personally monitored the amount taken.”
“I don’t know who tried to sabotage Hermione, Malfoy, but I would never do something like that and neither would anyone else who worked on the Polyjuice with me.”
“And we are just supposed to take your word for it?” Draco demanded after running his fingers through his hair in frustration.
“Draco, please…Please just…stop” Hermione begged with sadden eyes as she gently touched his chest, making Draco soften his features and release a deep sigh.
“Fine…But you better understand this, Granger; I am solving this and I am solving this soon” he replied with dissatisfaction in his voice. “I’ll be damned if I have to repeat…this…any more than necessary.”
‘I-I just got her. I don’t want to lose her now’
“Okay,” she agreed, nodding her head softly “I get it.”
“Do you?” he questioned crossing his arms. “Because I don’t think you do. You’re not the one stuck in a time-loop battling every single painful death o-or knock out!” he claimed as he uncrossed his arms and threw a hand in the air with displeasure. “You’re not the one wh-who will have to convince the person you really like that you’re not playing them when you tell them how you feel, or fight the urge to kiss them every second you see them...You had your chance, Hermione. You had years of waking up every morning to a different day to figure out your feelings. I…” he scoffed lightly “I have the same morning…every damn day, where I have to explain myself over and over again t-to Theo and-and now to you as well, to even get either of you to help me. I’ve lived through this day twelve times now. Twelve! I’m tired, Hermione…I am so tired. I just want to get to the bottom of this so that I can take you to the stupid dance and live out the rest of my life without worrying about if I’m gonna die walking out my bedroom door.”
Neville and Hermione stared at the blonde Slytherin stunned and speechless, while Theo and Professor Slughorn smiled gleefully at the pair before them. Draco knew he basically just confessed his feelings for the Gryffindor in front of everyone again, but he didn’t care. Usually he was very good at compartmentalizing his thoughts and feelings but there was something about Hermione that just made him forget everything he learned in his upbringing. All he cared about now was finding a way to free himself of the curse and not have to convince the Golden Girl every day…that he truly liked her.
‘Oh Merlin, this is really bad.’
“I-I’m sorry for interrupting” Neville began perplexed “but uh…did you say you were repeating the same day? Like that muggle movie?”
“Yes, Longbottom” Theo cut in “just like Groundhog Day.”
“How is this possible?” Slughorn asked intrigued.
“Your-your potion, sir” Hermione answered, finally taking her eyes off Draco. “He…I mean I, interrupted him when he said the closing spell. It caused him to say repeat on his wish.”
“So, you can’t get out of the loop until you fulfil the wish…”
“What the bloody hell did you wish for that you would have to repeat twelve days in a row?” Neville questioned while taking a seat.
“We are not diving into that” Draco replied quickly. “Point is, I’m stuck until I find the culprit responsible for messing with your friend and essentially causing me to get blamed for it. And if I don’t figure it out soon I…I could die.”
“Permanently…” Hermione added with a sullen face.
“Okay, so how do we figure out who’s guilty?”
“My money’s on Boot” Theo claimed as he leaned up against one of the long desks.
“Mr. Nott,” Slughorn chimed in “you can’t just point fingers because you don’t like a certain student.”
“I don’t think it’s him because I don’t like him; although, it is one of the reasons. No, I’m accusing him because there is no way a Hufflepuff did this. He is a Ravenclaw after all; they’re most likely the only ones I can think of, besides a Slytherin that could pull something like this off. I mean think about it…they’re incredibly smart, creative, talented, motivated by-”
‘What is it with him and lists?’
“Are you going to keep talking about the house like you’re in love with it, or can we move forward?”
Theo stopped speaking and looked at Draco with disappointment written on his face while dropping his shoulders and released a scoff in irritation.
“Alright,” Slughorn began “I am going to go and alert the Headmistress; see if we can try and figure this mess out. You four, go back to your common room and stay there until we arrive, do you hear me?”
“Yes, Professor” the students claimed in unison before watching the short elder man walk out into the dungeons’ corridors.
“Well I don’t know about you guys,” Neville declared rubbing his hands on his thighs once the Professor was out of view and Theo closed the door “but I don’t think we can really do anything without proof. Also, what about the rest of the students in the class? How do we know they aren’t responsible?”
“Why do you keep saying ‘we’ like you’re a part of this, Longbottom?” Theo questioned with a raised brow. “The only way you can really help anything is to tell us who Brown is sleeping with.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about and even if I did, I wouldn’t tell you!”
“Neville,” Hermione cut in gently “please…She’s hurting a lot of people, Nott included. Just tell us who so we can out her.”
“I can’t Mione…I wish I could, but I can’t.”
Draco’s lips parted slightly when he realized what Neville was trying to say.
‘Fuck! Please say no, Salazar, please say no!’
“You made an unbreakable vow…Didn’t you?” he asked as he lowered his arms and took a step forward.
Neville nodded his head before slowly lowering his chin into his chest in humiliation.
'Fuck!'
“Oh, Neville…Why?” Hermione questioned wistfully. “Why would you do that to yourself?”
“I didn’t have a choice, Mione!” he claimed as he lifted his head with tears forming in his hazel eyes. “If I didn’t, she was going to make up a lie about me and I couldn’t have her do that!”
“Are we sure this bitch isn’t a Slytherin?” Theo asked while scrunching his eyebrows together. “She is worse than us when we were kids.”
“I wouldn’t necessarily say that, Nott” Hermione scoffed. “Draco was one hell of an arrogant bully.”
“Okay, well maybe not compared to him, but she’s up there.”
“I…am right here!” Draco stated while waving a hand in the air.
“Sorry” Hermione expressed with remorse.
“Salazar, you people think that just because I was going through something and refused to speak to anyone that you can just talk about me behind my back…in front of my face…Shite!”
“What?” Theo inquired confused.
“I’m freaking quoting Hermione now! I need to get out of this mess!”
“Well, I think we should do what Slughorn says and go back to the common room.” Neville continued softly while standing up. “I just wanted to help, but I can’t say anything to anyone who has any sort of care for Ron, so it’s pointless. I’m out of here.”
“Neville, wait!” Hermione called out tenderly as Neville began walking out of the room before deciding to chase after him, leaving Theo and Draco alone.
‘Wait a second…’
“Did you hear what he said?” Draco asked while looking to Theo in excitement.
“Yes. He can’t help us…so its whatever. What I want to know is what has gotten into you?” Theo asked as he and Draco began walking towards the classroom door.
“Me? What are you talking about?”
“I’m talking about your little speech earlier, mate. Geez, she says yes to one date and suddenly you’re shouting your feelings to the world not once, but twice in one day” he replied as the pair stopped in front of the wooden barrier.
“What the bloody hell are you getting at?”
“Draco, mate…Do I have to spell everything out for you? You don’t like Granger.”
“Excuse me? How the fuck are you going to try and tell me wh-”
“Merlin’s beard, you can be daft sometimes, you know that?” Theo claimed as he chuckled slightly and shook his head. “You admitted that you’re scared to lose her; that you’re afraid she will wake up one of these repetitive days and change her mind about you. You want to apparently snog her every time you see her, you bicker with her like she’s your girlfriend, and you actively keep trying to protect her; not because it will help stop what is happening to you, but because you genuinely care about her. I mean come on, when is that last time you went a full day without thinking about her? What she’s doing, if she’s okay, if her stomach is doing flip flops like yours whenever she sees you?...You don’t like Granger, Draco…You love her. You my dear friend are head over heels. You have finally learned to love someone other than yourself.”
“I…I...What?”
‘That’s not possible! It’s hasn’t been long enough! I can’t!’
“There’s no time limit on how fast you can fall in love, mate. I know that’s what you’re thinking. Muggle royals do it all the time; you and Granger are just the magical equivalent. The Prince and Princess of rival houses with so much in common, yet so many differences. She balances you just as much as you balance her. Good and redeeming evil, light and dark, sun and moon, Gryffindor and Slytherin, fire and ice, yin an-”
“I got it!”
Theo held up his hands in defeat but with a smirk resting on his lips as he began to cross his arms in confidence. Draco turned away from his friend and began to open the door to walk away from the brunette when it suddenly hit him.
‘What if he’s right?’
“You okay, mate?” Theo questioned and he tilted his head to get a better look at the Slytherin’s pale face, however Draco ignored him as he put the pieces together.
‘I do think about her a lot, even before this bullshite happened to me. I didn’t really like her then but for some reason she still always crossed my mind. Is that why I used to single her out when we were kids? I subconsciously had a crush on her but my mind hid it away because of my upbringing…what I was taught to hate? I mean it’s not like she wasn’t pretty back then. She just didn’t know how to style that mane on her head. And that smile…She always had a tender smile that could light up a room when you were feeling down…’
“Draco?” Theo asked while waving a hand in front of the blonde’s face.
‘Oh…my…Gods! He is right!’
Staring unseeingly in front of him, Draco’s breath began to grow heavy as he thought of every little thing he liked about Hermione. His lips slightly parted in shock and his grip on the door handle tightened when he realized the unimaginable.
“I love her” he muttered softly.
“What?”
“I love her…I’m in love with Hermione Granger” he repeated.
However, before Theo could get a word in, the door suddenly burst open, smacking Draco straight in the nose. He cried out in pain as he hunched over and held his hands up to the bloody mess on his face as Theo quickly shut the door to prevent any more damage from occurring. But as soon as the Slytherin released his hold, the door swung open again to reveal Neville’s confused face as he tried to push the wooden barrier hard; hitting Draco directly on top of the head…knocking him out.
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