Had you? II Harry Potter II Part 1

Chapter twenty-two

Hermione

I was overwhelmed. I never thought that Draco could be in love. It wasn't easy to see Celia so heartbroken, but she would never be able to talk about that with someone and I totally understood why she never told us. Harry was her boyfriend, Ron would have made fun of him and I hated him. I was honoured that she told me, I wouldn't. Celia was my closest friend and I would ever be there for her, so would she.

But why her? She was incomprehensible beautiful and smart, she was loyal and kind and sometimes even I thought that I was in love with her, but she was the complete opposite to Malfoy.

"I'm sorry" I said.

She wasn't crying anymore which was a good sign. If you would ever see her cry you knew it must be something really bad that happened.

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The next day I gently opened my eyes and I could see no one in the room instead of me and Celia. I sat up on my bed as I suddenly realised that we were late for class. No one woke us, because they enjoyed every time I wasn't in class.

"Celia!" I yelled.

Celia just flinched and ignored me.

"Cecilia!" I yelled again.

I ran through the whole dormitory to get myself ready for the day. After two minutes Celia was still sleeping. How can such a wealthy and caring girl be such a morning grouch? I had enough. Getting educated is such an important thing and she was just sleeping. I pushed her out of her bed.

"Hermione!" She yelled.

"We are late!" I yelled back.

She rolled her eyes and slowly started to get herself ready. I never understood why she was the third-best in class. She didn't care about school.

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10 minutes later she was ready. Every day we had time she was in like 5 minutes ready and then we overslept once she took twice as long.

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As we were in front of the potions classroom we had an argument.

"You say why we are late" I said.

"No, no, no you know I'm afraid of talking!"

"I don't care. He's your father"

"I'm also afraid of him"

"Not only you"

I opened the door and everyone was looking at us. This was so embarrassing. It was the first time in my whole life I was late.

"It was her fault" I said.

No matter how much I loved her, school will always be at the very top of my priorities. She just looked at me with a frightened look.

"You two obviously overslept. Fifty points from Gryffindor, each" Snape was emotionless.

As we went to our seats every Gryffindor was complaining about us. Lavender, Parvati and Padma had no right to complain, they didn't wake us. I was sitting next to Harry who was daydreaming. After a while he looked at me.

"Is she angry?" He asked.

"No, she wasn't even upset or anything. She only felt uncomfortable" I lied, but I won't tell him the truth.

While Harry and I were talking I didn't realise that Celia was in a problematic situation. She had to answer a question and she obviously didn't know the answer.

"Professor Snape?" I asked.

I tried my best to save her from getting embarrassed and she turned around to me and formed a thank you with her lips.